Liu Yan, Chen Xun, and Wang Yue came to the open space inside the pier, and saw that Liu Dayu had already packed his luggage. After seeing the three of them, he came over and said, "This is to be reported to the commander, this subordinate wants to take leave and go back to Wangjiazhuang for a while." time."
At this time, Liu Yan had heard Wang Yue talk about Liu Dayu's plan to transfer away, and now he naturally understood what Liu Dayu was thinking, so he followed suit and approved the leave. Liu Dayu didn't say anything, glared at Wang Yue, and left with his luggage. Got the big trick.
When Liu Dayu packed up his things and left Dapan Dun, except for Liu Yan, Chen Xun, and Wang Yue, no one else came out to see him off. Liu Dayu left Da Pan alone with a gloomy face and his luggage on his back in the cold wind. Pier.
Liu Yan then placed the four Dunjun troops under Liu Dayu under his own command.
In early March, the market was tough.
"Today is a day to remember!"
Liu Yan stood in the open space in the pier in a happy mood. Chen Xun was carrying the finished soap with his four Dunjun soldiers. Chen Jiang and the other five Dunjun family members stood aside with pride, and the rest of the Dunjun soldiers around them The family members were surrounding a few people, chattering and asking questions. Their words and expressions were full of envy and compliments, which greatly benefited the Chen Jiang family.
After a month of production and placement, the first batch of finished products in the soap workshop was produced. A total of 1,200 pieces of soap were produced in this batch, all of which were cut into small pieces of the same size, about the size of a palm.
Liu Yan sent people to buy some high-quality kraft paper and package the soaps, which not only made the soaps look better, but also ensured that unnecessary losses would be avoided during the transportation of the soaps.
Wang Yue looked at the enthusiastic crowd and felt sour in his heart. Making soap was already well-known to everyone in the market. Except for Wang Yue's team, almost everyone else was involved. This made Wang Yue I felt that I was still being treated alone by Liu Yan, and I felt very uncomfortable.
It's just that there is no regret medicine in the world. Wang Yue never imagined that Liu Yan would become so capable one day and that the situation would become what it is now.
Soon, Chen Xun and others finished loading the vehicle. For safety reasons, Liu Yan had several people fully armed, and each of them took a long gun. Chen Xun even brought his own three-eyed gun.
Today is the first delivery and the first transaction with Wang Wenzhen, so Liu Yan is going to go with Chen Xun and his party. After the first transaction is successfully completed and both parties have a basis for cooperation, Liu Yan will Now I can let Chen Xun deliver the goods alone.
Two days ago, after Liu Yan sent someone to notify the team officer Wang Wenzhen, he set the delivery time for today.
At this time, Liu Yan called Wang Yue to him, and saw Wang Yue running over with a smile on his face.
"I will go with you this time, and you can take someone to stay behind."
"Yes, don't worry, Commander A. Your subordinates will definitely take good care of our family."
Liu Yan nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered the four Dunjun soldiers under him to cooperate with the Chen Jiang family to collect hay and other materials to prepare the plant ash needed to make soap this month.
After all arrangements were completed, Liu Yan, Chen Xun and their entourage set off in the ox cart. The group of people arrived at Wangjiazhuang before noon, and after entering, they went straight to the Baihu Official Hall.
Wang Wenzhen heard Jia Hongyu's report and said in surprise: "What? Liu Yan brought that soap!"
Jia Hongyu said with a smile: "The shipment has arrived. Sir, please go to the main hall and take a look. General Liu Qi has already brought the soap in and is waiting in the main hall."
"Ha ha."
Wang Wenzhen said while changing his clothes: "It's been a month. I thought Liu Yan had been deliberately delaying it. Who would have thought that it was delivered today."
After changing his clothes, Wang Wenzhen called to Jia Hongyu and said, "Let's go and see what the final product of this soap looks like."
After a while, Wang Wenzhen and Jia Hongyu came to the main hall. Liu Yan and Chen Xun stepped forward to salute, and the other Dunjun soldiers also saluted one after another.
"Haha, let's all get up. We are all our own people, so we don't need so many etiquettes."
Then Wang Wenzhen's eyes were attracted by the ten wooden boxes and asked: "General Liu, is this the soap you are talking about?"
Liu Yan said: "Master Guan Mingjian, this is soap."
With that said, Liu Yan opened the nearest wooden box. Wang Wenzhen and Jia Hongyu both came closer and saw a lot of soap neatly stacked in the box. These soaps were all wrapped in kraft paper and seemed to be as big as the palm of their hand. Bricks in general.
Jia Hongyu counted and saw that there were twelve pieces of soap on one layer of the wooden box, so he asked: "Mr. Liu, how many pieces of soap are in this box?"
Liu Yan said with a smile: "Returning to Brother Jia, one layer of this box contains twelve pieces of soap, making a total of ten layers."
"One box costs one hundred and twenty yuan, so ten boxes are worth one thousand two hundred yuan!"
Wang Wenzhen and Jia Hongyu were both surprised. They didn't expect that the output of this soap was really large. Liu Yan secretly laughed in his heart: "This is because I have too little capital to buy too much soybean oil and rosin. Otherwise, I would try my best." Production, let alone 1,200 bars of soap a month, even 12,000 bars can still be produced!"
Jia Hongyu opened the boxes one by one and looked at them. Sure enough, each box contained neatly one hundred and twenty pieces of soap, and each piece was exquisitely packaged. After all the boxes were opened, these 1,200 pieces of soap exuded bursts of pine scent, which smelled very good.
Wang Wenzhen is also a human spirit. With such quantity and quality, if the soap is really as easy to use as Liu Yan described, then the value of ten boxes of soap will be too great, and he can really make a lot of money from it. Special profit!
So Wang Wenzhen smiled and said to Liu Yan: "Well, very good, Mr. Liu Qi is really good at it. But are all the soaps the same?"
Although Wang Wenzhen had already used soap, it was a semi-finished product. Seeing these beautifully packaged finished products, he still felt a little hesitant.
Liu Yan laughed and took out a piece of soap. After unpacking the kraft paper, he looked around and saw an oil stain on Wang Wenzhen's cuff. He pointed to the oil stain and said, "Please order someone to take it away, sir." Get some water."
Wang Wenzhen raised his left hand and smiled, and then ordered someone to get some water.
I saw Liu Yan first wet the soap and the oil stains on the clothes with clean water, and then started to apply soap. Soon a layer of white fine powder appeared on the oil stains on the clothes.
The homemade soap made by Liu Yan is actually very rudimentary and cannot be compared with the industrial soaps of later generations. Naturally, it does not have the rich foam of later soaps. At this time, there is only a thin layer of white fine powder, but the decontamination effect is not bad. The oil stain on Wang Wenzhen's sleeves quickly melted away after Liu Yan gently rubbed it. After a few times, It will be as tidy as ever.
"ah!"
Wang Wenzhen and Jia Hongyu were shocked when they saw this. The cleaning power of this soap was indeed outstanding, and it seemed to be better than the previous half-finished soap. If you use soap locust to cleanse, the effect will never be so good.
"It's indeed a good thing!"
Wang Wenzhen ignored the wet cuffs and raised his hand to smell it. A faint pine scent still remained on the cuffs, which immediately made Wang Wenzhen happy.
"OK!"
Liu Yan also smiled when he saw this, and at the same time he rewrapped the used soap and put it back in the box.
What a joke, such a piece is priced at three cents of silver. Even if it is a tried one, it will still be charged to Wang Wenzhen.
At this time, Wang Wenzhen couldn't care about this. He took Liu Yan's hand and sat down. He said with a smile: "Okay, these soaps are really easy to use. They can definitely be sold for a big price."
Liu Yan said with a smile: "In that case, there is a labor management team leader. I will rush back after collecting the money and seize the time to prepare this month's soap."
"Haha, you, what can I say about you?"
Wang Wenzhen laughed loudly and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Liu, the things we agreed on will never go wrong."
Jia Hongyu on the side also smiled and said: "Mr. Liu doesn't know something. The team leader has prepared money in advance and is waiting for Mr. Liu to deliver the goods. I just didn't expect that the output of soap would be so large, so I didn't prepare as much." Some."
Before Liu Yan could speak, Wang Wenzhen called to Jia Hongyu and said, "In this case, Mr. Jia Qi will calculate how much silver is needed for these soaps, prepare it immediately, and make up for the shortfall."
"yes."
Jia Hongyu took the order and hurriedly prepared the money, while Liu Yan couldn't help but express his gratitude.
Wang Wenzhen said with a smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Liu, I know these soaps also require costs. Besides, this is our first transaction, so we must abide by the rules of clearing both money and goods. Otherwise, how can we do business in the future?" "
After hearing these words, Liu Yan's evaluation of Wang Wenzhen also improved a bit. Although Wang Wenzhen was also a little greedy, he was a rule-abiding person who would not do anything for money and was someone who could cooperate with him for a long time. Object.
Here Wang Wenzhen, Liu Yan, and Chen Xun sat in harmony for a while, and then Jia Hongyu rushed back with his people, with two servants behind him carrying a small wooden box.
"Just put it on the table."
Two servants placed the small wooden box on the table, and Jia Hongyu opened it in front of Liu Yan. Inside was a bunch of white money.
"Mr. Liu, after counting, we found that one thousand two hundred pieces of soap were priced at three cents each, totaling three hundred and sixty taels."
At this time, Liu Yan suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and pretended to be casual. He picked up two silver ingots and looked at them. This was the first pot of gold he earned. It was the capital for starting his own business. In the future, whether it was training troops, farming or building troops. All preparations must be supported by the first pot of gold to generate money.
Chen Xun on the side was not as determined as Liu Yan, and was completely dumbfounded at this time. Chen Xun was already scared of poverty. When he suddenly saw three hundred and sixty taels of snow-white silver, his eyes were straightened and he was completely confused.
If Liu Yan hadn't noticed Chen Xun's appearance and secretly hit Chen Xun's left hand to wake him up, there's no telling what kind of gaffe Chen Xun would have done.
"Yes, there is Brother Laojia."
"Haha, we are all brothers, why are you so polite?"
Wang Wenzhen said with a smile: "I'm happy today. General Liu Qi and Chen Xiaoqi will stay for dinner. Let's have a drink. How about it?"
Liu Yan naturally knew that Wang Wenzhen was just being polite, so he said with a smile: "I appreciate the kindness of the leader. I'd better go back. There is still a lot of shortage of materials for making soap this month. I have to go back." Go back and supervise."
"Oh? I wonder what is needed to make this soap?"
Wang Wenzhen asked seemingly casually, and Liu Yan understood naturally, so he said: "It's vegetation ash, a lot of vegetation ash, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, so it takes time."
Liu Yan picked up the ashes and said it. As for the rest, Wang Wenzhen didn't need to know.
"oh."
Wang Wenzhen said with a smile: "In that case, I won't force it. Mr. Jia will send Mr. Liu and the others off for me."
"yes."
Jia Hongyu led Liu Yan and others out, while Chen Xun was holding the small wooden box containing the silver alone. Although it was heavy, it seemed to have endless strength, which made Liu Yan just laughable.
When they arrived at the door of Baihu Official Hall, Jia Hongyu said goodbye to Liu Yan. Suddenly Liu Yan remembered something, so he took five taels of silver from the small wooden box and handed it to Jia Hongyu.
"Haha, this is a little bit of brother's kindness. Brother Jia will definitely accept it."
"Oh, what's the point of this? You're not getting rewarded for your merits. Brother, you're too polite."
Liu Yan smiled and whispered: "I won't let Brother Jia take it for nothing, but if something good happens in the future, Brother Jia must remember me, brother."
Jia Hongyu understood the situation and smiled and whispered: "Brother, don't worry. I will definitely remember it. If anything happens in the Baihu Government Office, I will notify you as soon as possible."
