Late Tang

"Don't be in a hurry!" Li Jing shouted and was about to go back to expand the brewery and recruit Zhang Hong, the worker. "Just now we only talked about the baijiu workshop, and then we have to talk about how to deal with our batch."

"That's right, after talking for a long time, the general hasn't told me how to further process this batch of goods." Zhang Hong finally remembered this, and turned back. "Does the general have any other good ideas that can turn stones into gold like this brewery?"

Li Jing smiled smugly, and he was still willing to impart some new ideas to Zhang Hong, the big housekeeper.The so-called commodities are the same in any era. The more raw materials they have, the less valuable they are, and the more they are processed, the higher their added value will be.Just like brewing wine, a bucket of rice costs only two hundred yuan. If it is just brewed into ordinary rice wine, it costs three to five hundred yuan per bucket. If it is famous wine, it is worth a thousand yuan.

Now that Li Jing has such million-dollar commodities in his hands, since he is unwilling to hand him over to Li Rui to sell, he really does not have a suitable shipping channel.Then it's better to simply re-work these products. As long as they are unique products like Wang Liangye, then he doesn't need to find a way to avoid the waves and transport them to foreign countries. There are a lot of people who come to buy his products.

Of the goods in Li Jing's hands, the most valuable ones are textiles, including a large amount of silk and cloth, as well as high-value textiles such as silk and mirror flower silk.These things are the most difficult to reprocess.

The only way to increase the added value of fabrics is to make them into clothes.

The clothing of the late Tang Dynasty became more and more gorgeous for both men and women, and it was a reversal of the Hu style in the early and mid-Tang period.Li Jing thinks about it, he can open a printing and dyeing workshop to print and dye those cloths with bright colors and add some beautiful patterns.Finally, I gave Li Huier and their quilt workshop some design drawings of many beautiful dresses in the Song Dynasty, and asked them to make some ready-made clothes for sale.You can even sell more intimate and comfortable underwear such as boxer shorts, women's briefs, and tube tops.

After discussing with Zhang Hong for a while, this time he was not very optimistic about Li Jing's idea of ​​the added value of silk fabrics.Although there are clothing stores at this time, in most cases, ordinary people may never go to a clothing store to buy a piece of clothing or a pair of shoes and socks. Most of them are sewn by their wives and mothers at home. Clothes and footwear.Ready-made clothes are mainly bought by middle-class or even wealthy families.This market is not big, and it is impossible to have too much profit.

"Let's try it first. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you keep these silks or cloths and don't sell them. Even if you keep them, you can use them directly as money." Li Jing didn't care too much. In the future, there will be a great demand for clothing and quilts for the soldiers and civilians on the island.

"Don't be discouraged, in fact, I have already thought of a few very profitable deals." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Make money like selling wine?"

"Selling wine is at most ten times the profit. I think it is possible to break through this number."

"Is this really the case?" Zhang Hong looked at Li Jing now as if he was looking at a god, and he completely understood him.At the beginning, he was the one who went to Wangli Village to recruit solidarity soldiers, and it was he who personally brought Li Jing, a country bumpkin, out of the mountain village.Who would have thought that in a short period of time, Li Jing now has a territory that is completely his own.Even more than that, there are always those weird ideas in his mind, such as the crown bastion built on the island now, and even the hand-pressed water well dug by the craftsmen in the city according to his requirements.There is no need for a wheel at all, a closed well platform, even the mouth of the well is invisible, just pour a little water into the water pipe, and then press the handle hard, and the hand will pop out by itself. Some children fell into the well for playing.

He can make ten or twenty times the profit with just one idea, grain wine making.Now that there is a more profitable transaction, he feels that he is no longer excited.It seems that no matter how many miraculous things come out of Li Jing's mouth, it will be perfectly normal.

"Is it pepper or tea?" Zhang Hong asked.In his mind, among the remaining goods, there were a lot of pepper and tea leaves, and the prices of both items were not cheap.

Li Jing shook his head, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and slowly opened it.Inside was a small porcelain vase and several small stones as white as ice cubes.

"what are these?"

Li Jing smiled and handed those transparent pieces like ice cubes to him, "Lick it!" Zhang Hong stuck out his tongue and licked it dubiously, and then his face suddenly changed color, and his eyes were full of tears. It's incredible.He stuck out his tongue and licked it a few more times, and finally stuffed it into his mouth and bit it with his teeth.With a click, the small stone shattered, and Zhang Hong started to chew it, chewing it all away in a short while.At the end, he stuck out his tongue and licked his lips with some interest.

"What is this, why is it so sweet? It tastes like icing sugar, but even the best icing sugar is like fine sand. How come this is as pure as a jewel?"

"The one you ate is indeed refined from frosted sugar, which I call rock sugar. It looks whiter and clearer than brown sugar sand and frosted sugar, and it can be stored for a longer period of time without changing color. How? So, do you think this rock candy has a sales prospect?"

"Is this rock candy still sold elsewhere?" Zhang Hong grasped Guan Jian's question very keenly.

Li Jing shook his head: "No, this is only one family, there should be no one else in the world who has this rock candy anymore."

Zhang Hong let out a long breath, stretched out two fingers and held a piece of rock candy in front of his eyes to watch carefully, as if appreciating a beautiful crystal gem. "Well, it really deserves the name of rock sugar, it's really the same as ice. Compared with frost sugar, it's more perfect. Compared with brown sugar, frost sugar is actually just a little more beautiful, and it has become a favorite of the upper class. When you look at many aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, even the royal family, they only use frosting sugar instead of brown sugar. In fact, there is not much difference between brown sugar and frosting sugar, but in the eyes of the upper class, brown sugar is something that ordinary people eat, while frosting sugar Because sugar is difficult to refine and expensive, it has become a special item for wealthy families."

"However, if the frosted sugar is compared with the rock sugar, the difference is too far. I dare to bet the general that if this rock sugar is born, it will immediately become a hot commodity in the upper class."

"Of course, brown sugar is refined from sugar cane, frost sugar is refined from brown sugar, and my rock sugar is refined from frost sugar. Think about it, and you will know how valuable this rock sugar is. I have already made the process of refining rock sugar The secret recipe has been written down, and you can set up a rock sugar workshop when you go back. We happen to have hundreds of stones of frost sugar right now, and we can directly refine it according to the secret recipe. At that time, we will just sit at home and wait for other merchants to come to our door Just buy our rock sugar, and you don’t have to worry about selling frost sugar to Bohai or Silla.”

Now Zhang Hong's eyes are full of strings of copper coins, and his face is flushed with excitement.With the two successful products of liquor and rock sugar in front of him, he is now very curious about what is in another small bottle in Li Jing's hand.

"This is a perfume. It is a perfume with a strange fragrance that is secretly made from the spices in our batch, alcohol and distilled water. Depending on the formula, there are various fragrances, not only for women, but also for men. The effect is stronger than ordinary incense and spices." Li Jing opened the small porcelain perfume bottle, and suddenly a strange fragrance permeated the air.

As soon as Zhang Hong heard that the ingredients of this perfume included spices and alcohol, two extremely expensive things, he immediately guessed that this must be a more profitable commodity.Even the ingredients are so luxurious, can it be sold cheap?

"Wow, what a smell, it smells so good." Li Jing and Zhang Hong were discussing the sales method and price of the perfume, when Li Huier and the others suddenly smelled the fragrance from nowhere.In particular, Li Hui'er was like a puppy, with her eyes half closed, her upturned nose moved, and she smelled Li Jing's hand directly.

"What is this?" Li Huier grabbed the perfume bottle and stared at the small bottle curiously. At first he thought Li Jing was burning incense in the small bottle.When I finally saw that there was a fragrant liquid in the bottle, I was very surprised.Zhang Hong proudly offered treasures to several nobles, explaining the magic of this perfume.

"I've seen perfume when I was in the capital. The barbarians from the Western Regions brought it to Middle-earth. But their perfume doesn't have such a fragrance at all, it's completely different." Li Huier had already put the bottle of perfume It was hacked into his own purse.

Seeing the two women, Yu Youniang and Xiao Yulou looking at him with a pitiful look, Li Jing had no choice but to take two more bottles from his bosom and hand them to each other.Fortunately, when preparing, he prepared a few bottles according to various spices and researched the proportions. Otherwise, if he gave this and didn't have that, if he didn't have Guiniang, Wan'er, and Fifth Sister and his sister-in-law at home, Li Jing estimated that it would be difficult to deal with.

While several women were laughing and trying out several perfumes with different flavors, Zhang Hong said with a wretched smile, "General, give me a bottle too, so I can give it to my yellow-faced woman when I go back. "Took the porcelain bottle that Li Jing threw to him, and hid it in his arms like a treasure. "Is there any profitable business for the general, let's talk about it all at once."

Li Jing glared at him angrily, "Your idea of ​​making money is like raining in the sky. You are really dissatisfied. Now let's start with these few. If you can get it right, the money you can earn But it’s a lot. In the future, it can even become the expenditure for food, clothing, equipment, soldiers and horses to buy food and grass in our Shamen Town. Now that you go back, draw up a plan immediately, expand the liquor workshop immediately, and build a rock sugar workshop and a perfume workshop I remember that the most important thing about these two workshops is to keep the formula secret. I think the workers in the workshop should use the slaves brought back from Liaohai first. Then let Lin Wei send someone to guard them strictly, and never leak the secret. . Once the formula is leaked, we will lose money in this business."

Zhang Hong straightened his face, and said seriously: "I will definitely handle this matter well, and I will never let the secret of the formula be revealed. If something goes wrong, the general will cut off my head."

Li Jing patted his arm, "Can't you believe me? Let's do it well, maybe we will rely on these few transactions for all our money in the future."

(To be continued)