Chapter 171 Malachite bezoar
This chicken prostitution was just an accident. Li Qi did not come for chicken prostitution. He had a lot of things to do here, in addition to hot pot, there was also soda, so he had to find a way to solve the problem of soda.
"Li Qi, what good things do you have to ask me?"
Beibei looked at Li Qi with a little excitement.
Now Li Qi is really a hot commodity in the eyes of their traders.
Li Qi smiled and said, "If it can succeed, it may be a good thing."
Beibei's eyes lit up and she said, "What's the matter?"
Li Qi took out a drawing and handed it to Beibei.
Beibei took it and saw a bottle pattern on it, and some requirements were written, which were very simple. This made him a little unbelievable and asked, "Is this a bottle?"
Li Qi nodded and said, "Yes."
Beibei said: "You want us to help you produce this bottle?"
"I have this plan, but." Li Qi coughed and said, "I hope you can help me produce this kind of bottle while controlling costs."
Beibei frowned and said, "How much control is?"
Li Qi said: "A bottle can only have thirty shells at most."
Beibei is the lowest unit, one hundred Beibei is a pearl shell, one pearl shell is about eight yuan, and thirty Beibei is just over two yuan.
Beibei dared not believe it, "Thirty Bei?"
Li Qi nodded.
Beibei shook her head and said, "This is impossible."
The price is really too low. It is better to make glass than to do this.
Li Qi seemed to have expected it, and said calmly, "So I'm just asking you, not talking to you about a deal."
Beibei said curiously: "But I don't understand why you have to keep the cost so low."
Li Qi smiled and said, "It's very simple. My customers mainly buy wine, not bottles. If the price of the bottle is the same as the price of the wine, do you think this will help my deal?"
"But this price is too low." Beibei shook his head helplessly.
Li Qi said: "But there is a key here. My customers buy wine. They don't care whether the bottle is good or bad. Maybe they throw it away after drinking it. What I care about is that the bottles that can hold wine. Look at the bottles I designed are very simple, they don't need to look very good or the quality is good. So, I'm looking for you today, mainly because I hope that your red pigs can produce a very cheap bottle."
Beibei was silent when she heard this.
Li Qi continued: "If you research it, the profit is huge, because in the future, I will use bottled wines. You can think about how many bottles will be needed?"
Beibei was silent for a while and said, "Will you really put all the wine in a bottle?"
Li Qi said: "I can guarantee that at least 50% of the wine will be bottled. Even if you don't agree to me, I will find a cheap bottle to hold the wine."
Beibei said: "Why?"
Li Qi smiled and said, "This is mainly for the convenience of customers. Look at the design of this bottle. If you uncover the lid, you can drink it in your mouth. In the future, customers can buy a bottle of wine in a street shop and drink it happily when standing on the street. In addition, this bottle is only part of it, and I have to find a suitable lid. I don't know if you know that some wines cannot be stored for a long time once the lid is opened. This design can ensure that I will sell more wine in the future. In other words, what I said is not 50% of the current wine production, or even a hundred times or a thousand times now."
Beibei said: "But the price of wine is so expensive now..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Qi said, "You are a trader. You know that the price of wine cannot always be so expensive. It will definitely be cheap in the future. Just like your mirrors, I think when you first produced the mirror, it must be much more expensive than it is now. Of course, there are also expensive wines, and of course that kind of wine will be filled with expensive bottles. If your technology in this area is mature, I will hand over those expensive bottles to you at that time."
Beibei pondered for a while and said, "I can't give you a reply yet. I need to go back and discuss with the owner."
Li Qi smiled and said, "Of course."
If it was true as Li Qi said, he would put 50% of the wine in the bottle, and the profits in it were huge. Now all races know that the potential of wine is huge. As long as it can develop peripheral products, the profits will definitely be very considerable.
Moreover, this design can definitely boost the sales of wine. A very important point of the product is to facilitate customers. If you have to go to a high-end hotel, some people want to drink it and are too lazy to go this way. If you can buy it downstairs, sales will definitely skyrocket.
Therefore, although the cost required by Li Qi is very low, it is impossible for Beibei to give up this opportunity easily.
In fact, Li Qi can produce glass by himself, and he also has detailed technology in this regard. But to mention that he can build factories by himself, he can also make pens by himself. In fact, he can do everything by himself. Why do he still buy others? It's very simple. He doesn't have enough manpower. He doesn't rule an empire of 100 million people, he just controls a loose alliance of 30,000 people.
Textile, food, planting, and smelting are all shown how lacking manpower in the Chinese Alliance, let alone the army.
He is also a businessman. The businessman's thinking does not have to do everything by himself. The businessman always considers the cost issue. Of course, some core technologies have to be done by themselves and cannot always rely on purchases. For example, if Li Qi can get the white tree seeds, he will definitely plant them by himself. No matter how much the price is spent, this is a lifeblood. Although food is very profitable, he would rather make less money. Unfortunately, he cannot get the seeds, and he dare not. If this is caught, the consequences will be very serious, because it will harm the core interests of the kingdom.
At present, he only hopes that the royal family will not force him to hand over the wine, so where can he do it to hurt the royal family's interests?
Moreover, Li Qi asked Beibei to produce bottles not mainly for the purpose of filling wine, but for the purpose of filling soda. If this wine is actually not very needed, both jars and wooden barrels are fine, so it is not suitable to use sodas.
However, even if Beibei can produce bottles, it cannot produce bottle caps, let alone cans.
In this regard, we must find the largest weapon owner of the Niu Tuofeng, and almost monopolizes Niu Tuofeng's metal trade.
"You...you said you want to find a metal stone that is worse than black iron?"
Taurus Qianren looked at Li Qi in disbelief. He usually looked for better ones, but there was no reason to find worse ones.
In fact, it is not worse, but the royal family’s requirements for metals are that the harder the better, so Li Qi can only describe it this way, nodding and said, “Yes, I want to make a metal wine can for wine storage. The black iron is heavy and hard, and the production cost is too high, which is not suitable.”
"Jar?"
Taurus Qianbian said: "My Taurus family mainly produces weapons. Do you want me to help you produce jars?"
Li Qi smiled and said, "I can produce this myself, but I mainly want to buy the raw materials."
Taurus Qianbian said: "But black iron is the worst metal in our kingdom."
At this time, a yellow cow beast beside him suddenly said, "I don't know how much metal you plan to buy?"
This yellow cow beast is called Niu Chengqi, and it is a trader around Taurus Qianren.
Taurus Qianren looked at Niu Chengqi in surprise.
Li Qi said: "If the price is cheap, I will buy a lot, because in the future I will pack 50% of the wine in this metal can."
A light flashed in Niu Chengqi's eyes and said, "Li Qi, can you be outside the house for a moment?"
Wow! What's the thing? It's so mysterious? Although Li Qi was full of doubts, he also stood up and smiled and said, "Of course."
Niu Chengqi immediately called a long-distance to come in and took Li Qi to sit outside.
As soon as Li Qi left, the Taurus Qianren said, "Cultivation, what do you want to do? Where do we have this kind of metal stone?"
Niu Chengqi said: "Has the owner of the big producer forgotten it, actually... in fact, there is a kind of metal stone that can hardly be used in our kingdom."
Taurus Qianren wondered: "Is that so? Why don't I know?"
Niu Chengqi said with a depressed look on his face: "It's that peacock fecestone."
"That's peacock dung, not metal stone." Taurus Qianren said angrily.
Niu Chengqi said: "Master, have you forgotten that a long time ago, a beast melted a very bad metal from the peacock fecestone, but that metal was of no use, and the smelting cost was higher than that of black iron, so it did not attract everyone's attention at that time..."
Before he could finish his words, Taurus Qianren said, "Yes! That thing is not useful at all. It is as fragile as paper, but it cannot write, so it is fecestone, not metal stone."
Niu Chengqi said: "But Li Qi is worse than black iron."
Taurus Qianren said with disgust: "How can our Taurus family trade manure stones? This is a disgrace to my reputation as Taurus family."
Niu Chengqi said anxiously: "Master, have you not heard Li Qi say just now? If we can find suitable raw materials, 50% of his wine will be filled in this kind of jar in the future. Dabao should know that his wine is afraid that it will not be enough to sell it, not afraid that it will not be able to sell it. What a big deal this is, and peacock fecestone has accumulated in our kingdom, and now I don't know what to do. If you can make money, the profit here will be very large."
Taurus Qianren frowned and said, "You have some reason, but you use fecestone to fill wine, this..."
Niu Chengqi said: "This is Li Qi's business, as long as he thinks it's appropriate."
Taurus Qianbian said: "But we are drinking!"
Niu Chengqi stomped his feet in a hurry, yelling with his eyes bulging, "Did you invite me to come here to drink? You invite me to help you make money. If it is appropriate, the profits here will be huge."
"You... don't be excited first!" Taurus Qianren looked a little weak when facing Niu Chengqi published. The trader he hired must be very powerful. The trader and the owner are not a master-servant relationship. He laughed and waved his hand, "Okay, you ask Li Qi to come in, you can talk to him."
His tone was still a little reluctant. He monopolized the black iron transactions of this generation and didn't care about this little money.
"yes!"
Niu Chengqi was relieved.
After a while, Li Qi walked in again.
Niu Chengqi said: "Li Qi, we can help you find the raw materials you want, but we have a requirement."
Li Qi said: "What are the requirements?"
Niu Chengqi said: "That is, you must keep this confidential for the time being."
Li Qi said confused: "I don't quite understand."
Niu Chengqi said: "You can't leak this matter for the time being."
"This...can I know why?" Li Qi said curiously.
Niu Chengqi said: "All you need is raw materials."
Li Qi pondered for a moment and said, "But what if you can't find it?"
Niu Chengqi said: "I just said that for the time being, you only need to give us thirty days."
Although Li Qi didn't understand, he wanted the raw materials. He didn't care about the others and nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you."
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Chapter completed!