The young eunuch was noncommittal about Li Ke's words.
How do you know they will come back soon? Is it possible that you can figure it out?
But Li Ke didn't care, but looked at the more than two hundred pieces of soap that had been divided in front of him.
To make more than two hundred pieces of soap, a total of twenty pounds of lard, two pounds of caustic soda and five pounds of peonies were used.
Among them, lard is thirty cents per catty, and twenty catties of lard cost a total of six hundred cents; quicklime and soda ash to make caustic soda cost a total of fifty cents. The remaining five catties of peonies were picked by Su Xun, which cost only The labor cost is ten cents.
In addition, there are more than ten labor costs, totaling more than 200 yuan.
In other words, the total cost of making more than 200 pieces of soap is less than one thousand cash, which is less than one tael of silver.
So how should you price it?
Ten articles? Twenty cents?
After carefully weighing it in his mind for a long time, Li Ke finally came up with a price that was generally acceptable to both himself and the buyer: thirty coins.
With about thirty pieces of soap, I can recoup all the costs, and the remaining one hundred and seventy pieces is my pure profit.
Six times the profit, this is already a huge profit. As long as I use full power to increase investment in production in the future, it will be difficult not to make money.
And the price of thirty cents is obviously acceptable to ordinary families.
Just when Li Ke was thinking about this, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps and excited shouts coming from outside the door.
"It's really useful, it's really useful, Your Highness!"
The voice sounded from far away. When Li Ke looked up, he saw Su Xun with a surprised look on his face had barged in from the outside, holding most of the pink soap left in his hand.
"Your Highness, I didn't expect that this soap is as you said. It can not only remove the odor of sweat on the body, but also add fragrance." As he spoke, Su Xun sniffed his body and said excitedly, "I feel like I have been doing this for dozens of years. My body has never felt so refreshing in years, it’s so refreshing! It’s wonderful!”
"It is true that I had some doubts about His Highness's words before, and felt that His Highness might be exaggerating. But now, I am sincerely convinced that Your Highness is truly a god and can actually create such a treasure..."
Seeing Su Xun's reaction, Li Ke was secretly happy, but he was not surprised at all. If he was not so surprised, it would have surprised Li Ke.
Moreover, Su Xun was once a third-rank official in the imperial court. What rare treasures in the world has he not seen?
Now this soap can shock him so much that it can conquer other people, not to mention it.
Thinking of this, Li Ke couldn't help but feel a little more confident.
Then he smiled and said to Su Xun: "Mr. Su, in that case, do you think if this thing is sold, will it sell well?"
When Su Xun heard this, he burst into laughter and said firmly: "Not only that, I can say today that once this soap is launched, it will definitely attract tens of thousands of people to buy it."
Hearing what the other party said, Li Ke couldn't help but feel more confident.
After discussing the details, Li Ke and Su Xun sent people to take the first batch of more than 200 soaps to the market in Kunyang City that afternoon to sell them.
The whole process was pretty much what Li Ke expected. Although some people paid attention to this pink jade-like thing at first, they were eventually dissuaded by the selling price of 30 yuan.
But then, under the personal test of the salesman, many people began to get ready to take action, and more and more people watched.
Finally, in order to demonstrate the effect, the salesman simply found a slovenly beggar on the roadside and asked him to walk into the curtain nearby to wash himself on the spot to test the real effect of the soap.
This demonstration immediately attracted the people in the market.
Only a quarter of an hour later, when the beggar who was originally filthy, slovenly, and smelly appeared in front of everyone present, he suddenly transformed into a refreshed, clean body, and even had a bit of odor. Light floral scent.
Such a contrasting test directly shocked everyone present, and instantly made those who were still doubtful lose their worries.
Suddenly, the entire stall was noisy, and onlookers began to rush to buy.
In just a moment, half of the two hundred soaps he brought had been sold.
Seeing this situation, both Li Ke and Su Xun on the side were full of joy.
This was just the beginning, but it was already having such an effect. Li Ke simply couldn't imagine what the sales of this soap would be like in the future.
But at that moment, a voice came into Li Ke's ears.
"What's more, such a good thing can be sold for such a small amount of money. If you leave this to me, I guarantee that I can sell it for ten times more!"
Hearing the sound, Li Ke and Su Xun looked at the person who was speaking, and then they saw a slender young man in coarse clothes, chewing the grass stems in his mouth, and talking to the people next to him. .
But as soon as the man finished speaking, he was immediately scorned and refuted by the people around him.
"Haha, just brag. You only have the ability to brag. Why don't you say you can sell this soap for a sky-high price of one tael of silver?"
"That's right. You are young and have nothing to do all day long. All you can think about is unrealistic things. Are you afraid that you have forgotten how your father died? If you still don't want to repent, are you worthy of your father!"
However, listening to the words of the people around him, the young man didn't take it seriously. He spat out the grass stems in his mouth and said with a smile: "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan? How do you know that I can't sell this soap for a sky-high price of one tael of silver? You guys?" Just watch, one day, my Ma Sanhui will rise with the wind and soar thousands of miles!"
After saying that, the young man turned around and walked away.
the other side.
Looking at the back of the young man, Li Ke frowned slightly. After thinking for a moment, he said to the little eunuch beside him: "I'll take that man back to my house later. I want to have a chat with him."
"With that person?" The young eunuch sneered and tried to dissuade him, "Your Highness, I think it's better to forget it. Didn't you just listen to what those people said? That person is just an uneducated person. What's the point of being with such a person? What to talk about?”
Li Ke glanced at the young eunuch coldly, and reprimanded in a low voice: "How about you do this prince?"
The little eunuch was suddenly frightened and trembled all over. He quickly knelt down and said in a hurry that he should die.
An hour later, in the backyard of Prince Yong's Mansion.
Li Ke looked at Ma San, who was kneeling in front of him, and asked with a smile: "I heard you say at the market before that you could sell the soap for ten times the price? Are you telling the truth?"
Ma San's head was buried deeply, and he did not dare to raise it even half an inch, and his whole body was trembling slightly.
After taking a few deep breaths, he seemed to muster up the courage and said loudly: "Back to your highness, what the villain said is true. If you let the villain sell the soap, I can guarantee that it will be sold for ten times the price. If not, I will raise the price." See you first!"
