Chapter 23 Happy Harvest (5)
The business world is a place for self-decoration. It seems that he is too utilitarian when he blurts out, so Chen Wanrong will not be so stupid. He picked up an unopened piece of soap and put it in front of Li Qingquan, and smiled and said, "If the old man doesn't dislike it, please accept this part."
Li Qingquan personally tried the magic of soap, and liked it from the bottom of his heart. When he heard this, he couldn't even close his mouth. He held the soap in his hand and couldn't stop it and sniffing it. He looked intoxicated and enjoyed it tightly: "It's really fragrant. Wanrong, then I'll accept it with a shameless face." He was happy and even forgot to thank him.
His eyes were staring at the used soap, which looked a bit loving. Chen Wanrong knew that he wanted to even this piece. It was nothing to give it to him, but this piece was used and was not complete enough. It was too inappropriate to give it to him. Only Meng Lang would do such a thing and smiled and said, "Old man, this piece has been used..."
Li Qingquan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, I'm using it yet? Wanrong, thank you." Regardless of whether Chen Wanrong agreed or not, he put the soap bag together with another piece, and looked at it happily. This piece was mine, and he smiled so hard that there was only a small gap left in his eyes.
Now we have to deliver it if we don’t give it, and we have to deliver it. Chen Wanrong had to go with the flow: "You don’t dislike it, it’s yours. You have tried the soap. I wonder if it can be used as a green leaf to foil skin?"
"Enough, absolutely enough! I have never used such a good thing in my life. I heard that there is a similar thing called Panzi. The washing clothes are very effective, but this thing is too rare and I have never bought it." Li Qingquan asked bluntly: "Wanrong, how much do you have to pay? Five jin per piece, how about it?"
Chen Wanrong heard for the first time that the Tang Dynasty had decontaminated items like soap. He couldn't help but be surprised. He did not answer the question, but asked: "Old man, what is pancreatic?"
"Wanrong, I have only heard of it, but I have never seen it. It seems that it is made after treating the pancreas of pigs. I heard that it has the rose-flavored, osmanthus, and rosin. It has been used by the monks and ministers in the palace, but it has never appeared among the people. Otherwise, would it be impossible to obtain it according to Mr. Zheng's methods? I don't know whether there is soap or not." Li Qingquan explained briefly and couldn't wait to say, "Wanrong, how much does it cost?"
Chen Wanrong is particularly interested in technology. He wanted to ask about Panzi carefully. Li Qingquan knew little, so he had to give up this idea and return to sales: "Old man, is this a big loss to me if you give this thing to Wushen? Grand man, I have never seen Panzi, but I can guarantee that soap is better than Panzi, and if you need it in the future, you can get it. I promise you can get it as much as you want, unlike Panzi, you can't buy it even if you have money."
The earliest soap workshop discovered in modern archaeology was the Phoenician soap workshop. Later it was popular in France and was widely circulated. In the Middle Ages, the French king ordered Marseille to specialize in producing soap, which was the most famous for "Marseille soap". Now the Marseille soap on the market sells dog meat with sheep's head, and most of them are fake and shoddy.
Soda ash used in the Middle Ages was a natural product of salt lakes, with a small amount, which seriously restricted the development of soap. Therefore, for a long time, soap was used as a luxury product for royal nobles. It was not until the advent of "artificial soda" that this bottleneck was broken through, and soap entered the homes of ordinary people.
The first time Chen Wanrong heard about pancreatic zi, I don’t know how effective it is. This does not prevent Chen Wanrong from inferring from a technical perspective. Using pig pancreas to make it, which itself makes it extremely precious and cannot be introduced to the market in large quantities. Soap is different. It can not only be made of animal fat, but also vegetable oil. There were vegetable oils in the Tang Dynasty. Even if the alkali is not enough, it is at least much larger than the production of pancreas.
Pig pancreatic sap is an animal fat. When encountering alkali, saponification will occur. Even if it is made with soda ash, its saponification reaction is limited, and there will be no such high reaction ratio as Chen Wanrong made soap. The reason is very simple. If the saponification reaction of pancreatic sap has a very high proportion, then the soap will not be a Polai product, introduced to China from the West, but is produced locally in China.
Soap was introduced to China from the West, which shows that there are serious technical defects in the production of pancreatic seeds.
Chen Wanrong has a very good technical mind. In just a short while, he has guessed so many truths. Soap is better than pancreatic zi, and Chen Wanrong has no doubt at all, but he is still very interested in pancreatic zi. He wants to see what extent our ancestors' technology has reached in this area and secretly record the name of pancreatic zi.
Before I heard about Li Qingquan's good news, Chen Wanrong's psychological selling price was three guan. This thing was extracted from wastewater, and it took only a little effort, and there were also a few lime soda ash. If it was sold for three guan per guan, it would be sold forty-eight guan for a total of sixteen yuan. This was a huge profit, and Chen Wanrong was very satisfied.
Although the fur making matters were not completed, it opened very well. Li Qingquan was extremely happy and exposed the agency. Chen Wanrong decided to raise the price. He originally wanted to mention five slogans, but he didn't expect that Li Qingquan's offer was five slogans. In this case, only fools would agree to sell it at five slogans, and Chen Wanrong decided to kid the price again.
Li Qingquan pondered for a moment and said, "Wanrong, why not like this, six pillars are a piece. I am making furs now, for good luck, six and six luck."
"Old man, I have a little opinion, I don't know if I can say it." Chen Wanrong's thoughts changed and immediately had an idea.
What Li Qingquan wanted to hear the most now was Chen Wanrong's opinion. When he heard this, he couldn't help but say, "Wanrong, please speak."
Chen Wanrong complained and then said, "My master, please think that your fur is not only smooth, but you want to make big fur. You have to make hundreds of guans for one piece of fire fur, and you have to make more than 1,000 or 2,000 guan. What is this big fur? So, this soap is sold to you eight guan. It's eight guan. It's big. I don't say ten guan." If you want to speak with Jiyong, I have to say something, and I'm not afraid that you won't agree.
After thinking about it, Li Qingquan nodded and said, "Okay, I want two."
Two yuan is only 16 guan. Although it is not too much, it is far from Chen Wanrong's expectations, so I wouldn't have been willing to give up. I smiled and said, "Mr., look, I took a total of ten yuan and gave you two yuan. Now there are eight yuan. If you want all of them, it will be eighteen, big and good luck. If the old man pays two more yuan, it will be six and six, big and good luck. I don't know that the old man will be happy today. This is why the old man has such a lucky thing."
Chen Wanrong initially wanted to give Li Qingquan one at most, but he didn't expect that he had to ask for the used one, leaving only eight. This number is a bit coincidental.
Each piece of eight stakes is sixty-four stakes, plus two stakes is sixty-stakes, double 8 double 6, which is a great number. Li Qingquan is making furs now, which is equivalent to changing careers. He encountered such auspicious numbers just after he started doing it. Although he felt a little sorry for the money, he still gritted his teeth and agreed, "Okay, then double 6 stakes, I'll have them all."
People who do business like to seek good luck, which may not be superstitious. Good luck sounds like a person who makes people feel relieved from the heart. This is the same in ancient and modern times. In modern society, those moguls always go to burn incense and worship Buddha, invite a Feng Shui master to see the appearance, fortune-telling, etc., and there are too many. The Tang people went further than us modern people in this regard. Chen Wanrong's words made Li Qingquan very happy. The wrinkles on his face suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly became twenty years younger.
Li Qingquan opened the wooden box, took out a fifty tael of silver ingot, and gave three or five taels of silver ingots, plus a one-six-six tael of copper coins.
So much money was heavy in his arms, which hurt Chen Wanrong's chest, which was extremely comfortable. Chen Wanrong originally thought it would be good to sell it for thirty cents, but he didn't expect that he had sold so much, which was really unbelievable.
Li Qingquan carefully put the soap into the wooden box and locked it. He turned around and smiled before he could speak. The smile on his face was different from the past. The smile used to play the show, but now he was sincere and invited Chen Wanrong to say, "Wanrong, I am very happy today. You have to accompany me to have a few drinks. Wanrong, I sent someone to buy the same delicious taste from Ning County and come back for you to taste it."
Chapter completed!