Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 228 Losing money and making money?
Datang is very different from the later Song Dynasty in one thing.

That is, Datang has no shortage of horses.

Although it cannot be said that horses are as cheap as dogs, the price of horses, especially the price of rough horses, is really not expensive in Chang'an City.

In this way, as long as there is demand, as long as the price of the carriage is favorable enough, there are still many potential users who can afford to buy the carriage.

Especially in the past year, the commercial development of the eastern and western cities of Datang has been very rapid.

In fact, each shop has its own needs for carriages.

At this time, the appearance of the four-wheeled carriage immediately attracted everyone's attention.

But what makes people feel more regrettable is that the future four-wheeled carriage is too expensive.

The price is close to [-] guan at every turn, which is equivalent to a million-dollar luxury car in later generations. Naturally, not everyone can afford it.

But when the price of the four-wheeled carriage was suddenly reduced to nineteen nine hundred and ninety-nine coins, the situation changed immediately.

When the later generations of Mercedes-Benz and BMW sold millions of cars at every turn, their annual sales would be tens of thousands.

But when the prices of Mercedes-Benz and BMW dropped to the range of 20, it immediately became a monthly sales of tens of thousands of vehicles.

The level of madness makes you feel that this is the sales volume of a luxury brand in the Chinese market.

It is estimated that when Mercedes-Benz and BMW entered the Chinese market, they never thought that there would be such a day.

"Lang Jun, when I left here, I specially arranged for the guys to squat in the future carriage shop to count their sales today.

Although the data is not necessarily very accurate, but in general there will not be a particularly large discrepancy.

Today they sell about 120 existing cars.In addition, they also pre-sold more than 200 carriages.

According to the guy in the future carriage shop, all these carriages will be delivered within the next three days.

And today is only the first time they sell this economical four-wheeled carriage. According to the current trend, it is estimated that the sales situation tomorrow will not be too bad.

In this way, our life will be difficult.At that time, it is very likely that there will be no order for several days in a row. "

Gao Lei followed behind Gao Jin with a sad face, looking at the future carriage shop where there were still many people coming in and out.

These people should have gone to their shops to buy carriages.

Now it's time to donate money to others.

How could they see it without pain in their hearts?

"This economical four-wheeled carriage, obviously didn't hear any movement a few days ago, why did it suddenly appear today?

And if they sold 120 carriages today, even if it is calculated based on the scale of our own workshop, production will start several days in advance.

As far as I know, the number of craftsmen in the Qin family's carriage workshop is less than half of ours, that is to say, according to our normal inference, they can only make twenty carriages a day at most.

So the carriage for sale today has already been prepared six days ago.

But why didn't we hear any news? "

Chang Sun Chong frowned and looked at the coming and going of the future carriage shop, feeling very depressed.

The selling price of nine hundred and ninety coins for nineteen strings is definitely a very lethal price.

Although for ordinary people, this is still an astronomical figure.

But for many small businesses, this is already a completely affordable price.

After having a carriage, doing business will definitely be much more convenient.

After all, there are neither planes, trains, nor cars and ships to transport goods for you.

According to the traditional carriage loading, the four-wheeled carriage can pull down the goods of three or four two-wheeled carriages at a time.

This huge gap cannot be made up by a simple loss of money.

"Mr. Changsun, this so-called economical future carriage is actually not fundamentally different from the ones they sold before.

It's just that there is no gorgeous decoration in the carriage, and the whale skin sofa has been replaced with ordinary wooden stools.

In addition, the appearance of the carriage lacks a lot of carvings, so the difficulty of making it has dropped a lot.

I suppose they made such a simple four-wheeled carriage twice as fast as before. "

Although Gao Lei has not been in the Chang'an carriage shop for a long time, he has worked very hard and knows the situation of the four-wheeled carriage quite well.

Obviously, as soon as he uttered these words, Changsun Wuji's mood immediately changed.

Even without the whale skin sofa, he knew that his workshop would not be able to produce a lower level than the future carriage.

In this way, things are very embarrassing.

You can't expect that others would rather buy your expensive things than cheap ones, right?
It's not that your product is much better than others.

"So, this so-called economical carriage is actually a very crude carriage? Then can we make a fuss about this, and then promote it in the newspaper to make Qin Xiedao feel uncomfortable?"

Although Chang Sun Chong was in a bad mood.

But he also knew that he needed to control his emotions at this time.

Otherwise, it will be more depressed at that time.

"Brother Changsun, I think this is totally possible. In the past, their carriages were obviously sold for 99 pennies, but now [-]% of them are directly cut off. The little money left is basically only enough to buy staff and fine steel.

Can they also make these wood and steel automatically become a four-wheeled carriage? "

At this time, Gao Jin was not nervous anymore.

This is the same as an interview. Before it starts, get to know the most nervous ones.

I often can't help but go to the bathroom every once in a while, or even break out in a cold sweat.

But once the interview officially starts, because your attention has been diverted, you will be less nervous at this time.

Of course, after the final interview, you may feel tired, which is quite normal.

"The Qin family is not short of money, and it's possible that they were upset when they saw our Chang'an carriage robbing him of his ideas.

So I would rather make a profit at a loss than make us feel uncomfortable and drag us down.

At that time, everyone will accompany him to lose money.That's not how this business works. "

Changsun Wuji still fantasizes that he can lead the Chang'an carriage workshop to make a good fortune, but now it seems that it is very dangerous.

"Judging from Qin Xiedao's rather weird personality, this kind of thing is really possible.

But no matter what, we also need to buy one first and go back to study it carefully to see where the other's hole cards are. "

Chang Sun Chong felt that things could not be allowed to go on like this.

Otherwise, his own Chang'an carriage workshop will close down by then.

This is definitely not what he wants to see.

(End of this chapter)