After Su Wan explained, Mrs. Li finally lost some of her anger, and finally gave Su Luo a few words before letting Su Wan take Su Luo away.
On the way back, Su Wan reached out to touch Su Luo's head and smiled helplessly.
Although she liked Su Luo hanging around her, she couldn't steal someone else's daughter. She thought it was time to find an opportunity to send her back, lest her father come to Jingpingyuan to settle the score with her.
Even if you got married and left home, you actually kidnapped your sister. This is a bit too much.
Her father would probably be furious if he stayed here any longer.
Su Luo happily returned to Jingpingyuan, and then went to play with Zhang Fu'er, not realizing that her sister was planning to send her home.
In the afternoon, the chief steward came to report on the shop's business in the first half of the year, and Su Wan received him in the guest garden of the outer courtyard.
The Yue family left behind a rich dowry, including sixteen shops, three houses, and six farms.
As for this shop, there were eight when the Yue family got married. Later, when the Yue family ran it, five more were added, making a total of thirteen stores. The latter three were later jointly managed by the Jinning Palace and the Zhenguo Palace. When she added them, she has now transferred these three families to the Zhenguo Government.
Each of these thirteen shops has its own business, and the business has been pretty good over the years, with a lot of income every month.
At that time, these shops were jointly managed by one person from each of the Jinning Palace and the Zhenguo Palace, together with the big manager Lin Guanshi. The managers were all managers, and the people sent by the two governments were responsible for reconciliation. .
Now that Su Wan is married, she also needs to review the accounts, but the two people who arranged it have not withdrawn. In the future, if Su Wan is not here, those two people will still need to keep an eye on it.
"The business in Baochai Building has been very good recently, but the business in the Hairpin Shop is a bit sluggish."
There is a shop in the shop that buys hairpins. That shop is not as good as a silver shop like Baochai Building. They buy ordinary items, such as gold hairpins, silver hairpins, or silk and velvet flowers.
It's not a noble business, but ordinary girls and wives still like to patronize it. It looks a bit inconspicuous, but in fact they make a lot of money.
Baochailou has been acting very strangely recently.
In the past, silver buildings such as Baochai Building were all engaged in the business of nobles. Even a silver hairpin had to be made very exquisitely. The purchase was very expensive, and few ordinary people could afford it. Therefore, they all had to get one. Zhibaochailou is proud of its jewelry.
In recent times, Baochailou has not only produced a lot of lovely new products in precious jewelry, but even small businesses such as ordinary small silver hairpins, small silver bracelets, silk velvet flowers, etc. have to be snapped up. , and the sales are not expensive, which has a great impact on the surrounding shops.
People are not stupid. At the same price, it is naturally best to buy well-known brands.
Su Wan thought of the Seven Fairies bracelet she bought for Su Luo and Zhang Fu'er that day, and squinted her eyes slightly, wondering if the incident at Baochai Tower might be related to Su Ran.
Speaking of which, she hadn't heard about Su Ran for a long time.
"How does Manager Lin think this matter should be resolved?"
Manager Lin said: "I have two ideas. One is to wait and see what happens. Although the news in Baochai Building will indeed hit the business of small shops, there are also disadvantages."
"In the past, everyone in the world was proud to get jewelry from Baochai Tower. The noble ladies and ladies from various houses also liked to go to Baochai Tower to buy things. They felt that it was worthy of their noble status."
"But for a long time, ordinary people have been able to wear Baochailou's jewelry, so what's the point of being noble? All ladies and gentlemen will definitely not like it, and they will never buy Baochailou's jewelry again in the future."
"Which side makes more money, Baochailou will naturally come back to its senses. When the time comes, it will definitely give up the ordinary jewelry business, and this business will naturally come back."
"If that's the case, this shop won't be able to make much money in the past few months."
"And there is another bad thing. Recently, Baochai House hired a master from somewhere and produced a lot of beautiful jewelry. If Baochai House keeps producing new jewelry and wins the favor of all the ladies and ladies, this will It won’t have much impact on business.”
Su Wan finally understood that Baochailou was taking a high-end route, while his own shop was taking a low-end route. Now, it doesn't matter that Baochailou has made money from nobles, ordinary people also want to make money.
Su Wan's eyes fell on the tea soup in the tea cup. After a while, he asked Manager Lin: "What is your second thought?"
Manager Lin said: "The second thought is to ask the owner if he wants to make this shop bigger?"
Su Wan let out a sigh in her heart and looked at the manager with slight surprise. Manager Lin was over forty this year. He was neither tall nor short, neither thin nor fat, and his appearance was ordinary. He just smiled and seemed to be easy to talk to.
"Do you want to make this shop bigger?"
Manager Lin nodded: "I did. Before my boss didn't take charge, I could only operate according to the original business method. But now that my boss is in charge, I really want to mention this matter."
"There are many powerful people in the Imperial City clan, and there is always no shortage of rich people. And with the name of the owner, there will definitely be no shortage of customers. My subordinates are thinking of changing the shop into a place where jewelry can be customized according to the requirements of the nobles."
Su Wan was even more surprised now: "Manager Lin, are you talking about private customization?"
This was the first time Manager Lin heard this statement, but he also felt that the description was very appropriate: "This is exactly what it means. When the time comes, the shop will set the price higher, and even if it does a few businesses a month, it will be much better than now."
Su Wan began to think deeply. Although it was good for the shop to do business for ordinary people in the past, now Baochai Lou is doing this, and Su Ran may be behind it. Once Baochai Lou continues to do business for ordinary people, the shop is afraid that You can't make much money.
But if it is specially made for customization, the idea is good, but if the style is not as good as Baochailou's, it is useless.
Su Wan shook the fan in his hand, and then asked: "I don't know if Manager Lin has seen Baochailou's new styles of jewelry. If so, can you tell me whether the jewelry we made after customization can be compared to the ones we made?" Pass?"
"Of course I have gone to see it." Manager Lin said, "Baochailou's jewelry is indeed well made and the style is excellent, but it is light and light and uses less materials. It looks good, but it is easy to break. We are here It can be made into more expensive jewelry, which can be used as family heirlooms in the future."
"My subordinates have also found a good craftsman here. He has been making jewelry for more than 20 years and is particularly good at it."
Su Wan thought for a while and then said after a long time: "Write down what you think and show it to me. How to run the business, who are the customers, how much silver is needed, and what other things are needed. List them all. I’ll talk about it after I’ve seen it.”
