Zheng Ruoying's Taobao store was opened, but all the food and accommodation were in Liang Chuan's store. As soon as the store door closed, she and Liang Chuan became a family. Even if they said they didn't sleep in the same bed, no one would believe it.
She is not afraid of others' criticism. Shen Yuzhen has lived with Liang Chuan for so long, and she is not afraid of others gossiping. She doesn't care. What Zheng Ruoying was thinking was that she would never marry anyone other than Liang Chuan in this life. She didn't want to marry anyone else anyway, so she might as well use Liang Chuan to block the bad luck.
He Baozheng transported the three goods to Qingyuan, hired a dozen carriages, and transported a large amount of bamboo baskets and charcoal that had been accumulated in Fengshan for a long time. Now the store is neatly stacked, and it was empty before. The store suddenly became crowded.
Brown sugar has also been put on the shelves in Zheng Ruoying's store. The two stores, one on the left and one on the right, are particularly conspicuous in Chengtian Alley. It stands out because the products sold in both stores are particularly unpopular. One sells charcoal and the other sells sugar. They are both rare businesses. The names of the two companies are also weird, Wanda is okay, but with the name Taobao, there are no treasures in the store, so it is better to call it a sugar store.
He Baozheng came and left in a hurry. They had a meal together and went back to Fengshan without even spending the night.
After sending He Baozheng away, Liang Chuan looked at Zheng Ruoying and asked, "Has anyone come to your store since it has been open for a day or two?"
"There are quite a few patrons, but as soon as they ask me the price, they immediately turn around and leave."
Liang Chuan didn't understand what she meant. People in Qingyuan were knowledgeable people, and there were many rich people. How could they turn around and leave after seeing good things that seemed too expensive?
"how?"
Shen Yuzhen and Zhao's mother put away the tableware and made space for the two of them. They wanted to discuss business matters, but they couldn't get a word in. After finishing their work, they went back to the house to practice calligraphy, reading and playing the piano. It was much more comfortable.
Zheng Ruoying said: "When the customers came into the store and tasted it, they all said it tasted great." At this point, Zheng Ruoying herself laughed, "But as soon as they heard the price I quoted, they were immediately scared away."
"What price did you quote?"
Liang Chuan felt something bad when he saw the treacherous look on this little girl's face.
"One pound of brown sugar is forty guan, and one pound of white sugar is 200 guan."
Zheng Ruoying spoke lightly, looking at the scenery outside the alley with her little eyes, and said casually.
"Huh?" Liang Chuan's eyes went straight, and he didn't know how to respond to Zheng Ruoying's words.
He clearly remembered the shocked expression on this girl's face when she heard his quotation. It was all an act, but now the price she quoted was double his own!
"You... do you know what the concepts of forty guan and two hundred guan per pound are? Do you think that the people in Qingyuan are all pigs raised in your family? Who gave you the courage to sell it for such a high price?"
Zheng Ruoying said nonchalantly: "The freight and labor costs along the way and the rent of our store add up to seven or eighty-eight dollars. It's not too much to sell for twice the price."
Liang Chuan was about to argue with her when she raised the silk in her hand and said, "I walked around Qingyuan County, and I didn't see any major grocery stores or pharmacies selling sugar. That means we We are the only ones in Qingyuan, there is no other semicolon, so why don’t we sell it a little more expensively? Good things will be hard to come by if others need them, so don’t worry.”
Liang Chuan was about to jump up, and his forehead was full of veins: "Can I not be anxious? I will get half of the dividends from my aunt's candy. Don't lose the business!"
Zheng Ruoying pursed her lips and argued: "I heard that people here will buy the pairs on the wall with you for 2,000 guan. If the people here are not stupid, what is the point of having too much money? I'm just Two hundred dollars, okay? You’re getting angry now. You’ve made so much money and you still feel bad about it, right?”
"You...who did you listen to?"
Liang Chuan didn't expect that this matter would reach this woman's ears. The news came so fast.
"What Yuzhen said, I didn't expect money to be so easy to make now. If I had known that I would study hard, I would have made money much faster than growing sugar cane on any land."
"Okay, Yuzhen's elbows are turned outward now. Let's look back and see how I deal with her."
Women are just weird, two people used to be incompatible, but now they can talk about anything.
"Take me to your store and have a look. If your goods are so expensive, other preparations must be made to keep up."
Zheng Ruoying led Liang Chuan back to his store, where there were several wooden counters and several boxes of candies in rough white porcelain, giving people a boring feeling.
"You opened this store without renovating it?"
"furnish?"
Zheng Ruoying didn't understand what decoration was at all, and looked at the clerk in her shop with confusion.
"It's just that our store has a certain style. Since you want to sell our sugar at a sky-high price, you can't sell it in the vegetable market together with green vegetables and beans, otherwise the price will drop!"
People in this era probably don't have the savvy marketing skills of later generations. Sales is also a profound knowledge, and there are too many ways to do it.
"That's what you said?"
"In this case, you go to the porcelain store and order a batch of high-end porcelain jars, two hundred pounds per pound of white sand, which is more expensive than gold. Have you ever seen a box containing gold and precious jewelry that only costs a few pennies? ?Hurry up and replace it with me. The jar must be luxurious and the packaging must be noble. Let others see this jar and feel it is a good deal even if they don’t buy any candy. When you take it back, everyone will feel more respectable, you know?”
Liang Chuan talked so much that he was almost salivating. Zheng Ruoying asked in a low voice: "How much will it cost?"
"Money? The wool doesn't come from the sheep. You really think that when people buy it, they will make glutinous rice balls like ours. They will definitely take it back and give it away. You can add it to the price, and either sell it cheaply or sell it to others." Selling it at a sky-high price, you also said that the whole Qingyuan Scorpion Shit is the only one, are you still afraid of selling it?"
Zheng Ruoying was stunned. She didn't expect that she would act like an ungraduated student in front of Liang Chuan.
"I wasn't worried about our goods before, but now I'm really worried that we won't be able to sell them. How much will they cost?"
"This candy needs to be moisture-proof, you know? The jar you bought can't be sewn, otherwise the candy will turn into sugar water if it gets damp."
"Any other points?"
"The style of your store is too low. It feels like you can come and browse everything. Let me tell you, hang a reed curtain at your door so that people outside can't see what's going on in your store. Then All these shabby cabinets were removed and moved to my place."
The waiter heard Liang Chuan's tone getting louder and louder, and he didn't dare to express his anger, for he was afraid that he would go up to the sky to pick the stars and the moon later.
"Everything has been moved. What should I put here? Could it be that they are all put on the ground?"
While the two were talking, a man entered the store, looked around, looked at Liang Chuan, then at Zheng Ruoying, and then left with a blank look on his face.
"Look, the store's sign is up, but no one knows what kind of medicines you sell in this store. Everyone has entered the store, and your waiter didn't even say hello. From outside, I see it needs to be hung up again. A sign.”
"What sign?"
"If you write the word 'sugar', my store will have to hang it with thousands of goods, otherwise people won't know what we do for a living."
"Have you written it all down?"
Zheng Ruoying ordered his assistant.
"And what I just mentioned, my cabinets are gone, what should I put in the store?"
Liang Chuan walked two steps in the store, weighed it for a long time and said: "Put two huanghuali racks on the ancient shelves, and then hang two pairs of calligraphy and paintings on the wall. Then I will give you two beautiful poems, and get some rockery bonsai to brighten the atmosphere of the store. If Yuzhen comes to your store and plays the guzheng, I don’t believe that our store’s business will not be booming!"
Zheng Ruoying smiled and said: "Forget it, everything else is fine. Yuzhen shouldn't let her show up in the public eye. You can't understand her feeling of being out of the sea of suffering and living on the surface."
Liang Chuan suddenly thought that he was a little carried away, thinking about problems from his own side, but Zheng Ruoying still maintained an innocent heart, and did not have the superiority of Youwo to think about problems thoroughly.
"Then let's do this for now. When you make the sign, help me do it together. Just remember that I'm just a millionaire."
Liang Chuan's idea is not wrong. There are so many merchants coming to inquire about goods these days. Qingyuan Port brings together department stores from all over the world, and almost every goods can find its home.
The properties of sugar are even more special. On the one hand, the yield of sugarcane is too low, and most people regard this crop as a snack and have not moved closer to industrial manufacturing. On the other hand, the technology of sugar cane has not yet been developed, and the yield cannot increase.
Food was the most important thing for the people, and the people of the Song Dynasty had a fanatical obsession with eating. After the grain production increased, seasonings were added to the grain, and snacks such as cakes also flourished on the streets of the Song Dynasty.
Not to mention the needs of wealthy families, brown sugar can be used to nourish the body. It is recorded in many medical classics such as Qian Jin Fang and Dietary Materia Medica. Brown sugar can expel cold and detoxify, treat uterine cold infertility, and even eliminate Boils.
Although Zheng Ruoying set the price extremely high, this is only the initial stage. When the market opens in the future, even if the price is higher, rich people will want the price to be as high as possible in order to show their status!
When wandering in the world of mortals, sometimes you lose your direction and your original intention.
Forgetting the feelings of those around you is an obvious example.
The night in Qingyuan is particularly charming. It seems like a city that never sleeps, with bright lights everywhere. Other places have more or less curfews once nightfall reaches a fixed time. This is what the Xinghua Army is like now, but Qingyuan is lit up at all times, with strict inspections at several city gates, and there are patrol patrols around the city. Curfews are not So strict.
Liang Chuan unknowingly walked to the edge of the Sun River. Thousands of people were fishing on the river, and the night was already charming. Large ships on the river were arriving one after another. At a glance, the ships were arranged in an orderly manner on the endless river. Vast, boundless.
A large ship was approaching the river, and there were countless small sampans below that were rowing desperately to the ship. There are many boatmen on every small sampan. They don't know what they are talking about. One boat stays and the other boats leave.
There are countless boatmen on the pier, waiting quietly for the next big ship to arrive.
The people of Qingyuan in later generations never had the opportunity to see such a beautiful scene again. Thousands of sails from thousands of countries gathered to sail across the country, and the country was magnificent. The name of the largest port in the East in ancient times was indeed well-deserved.
Liang Chuan sat on the embankment by the river, looking at the vastness of the river, and there was a surge of intense emotions in his chest.
How many springs have the Erythrina flowers bloomed, how many people have walked across the Wan'an Bridge, and how many ships have sailed out of Sun River Bay.
I haven’t seen the east and west stone towers yet, but I can’t forget this grand occasion.
