I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The Chen family began to hold a wedding ceremony, and the news that the second daughter of the Chen family was getting married soon spread.

"Father, Chen Yuyan of the Chen family is about to get married, and to marry that warrior Wu Changqing, I'm really mad at me."

When Tang Yu's son Tang Jinxi heard the news, he found his father angrily. His father had promised him that he would help him tell the marriage.

"Shut up, I think you're trying to piss me off."

Tang Yu angrily rebuked that Wu Changqing had the final say in Suzhou now, and if the words that Wu Changqing was a warrior were spread out, then Wu Changqing would have an excuse to harass them.

Tang Yu was also very helpless for this unsatisfactory son.

"But Dad, you promised me..."

"Go to the study and think about it behind closed doors, Ah Fu, take the young master down."

Tang Jinxi wanted to argue again, but Tang Yu put him in confinement directly and did not allow him to go out. Otherwise, going out and talking nonsense will only bring disaster to the family.

After driving away his son, Tang Yu began to digest the news of Chen Daolin marrying his daughter.

He knew more than Tang Jinxi. Not only did he know that Chen Daolin was going to marry his daughter, he even knew that Chen Daolin had donated 500,000 catties of grain and 100,000 taels of silver to Wu Changqing.

The strength of this support can almost be regarded as bankruptcy.

You must know that although the assets of the Chen family are in the millions, most of them are fixed assets and some capital. The working capital that can be taken out is almost only a few hundred thousand.

This one-time donation of 100,000 yuan, and another 500,000 catties of food, will affect the business of the Chen family.

Tang Yu couldn't understand why Chen Daolin did this. He contacted a few friends and sat down to discuss.

"I think Shopkeeper Chen is probably trying to gamble on Wu Changqing."

Liu Shizao said with a sneer, this thought is not difficult to understand, but what is difficult for them to understand is why Chen Daolin is optimistic about Wu Changqing.

At least, in their view, Wu Changqing could not be an opponent of the Qing court at all.

"Could he have got some inside information, such as Daming is going to call back or something."

said another businessman.

"How is it possible, Daming is already rotten and hopeless. If they can be in a corner of Fujian, they should be snickering, and there is still room for a counterattack."

Tang Yu looked down on Daming very much, and the others were similar, and felt that Daming had no chance of cheering up again.

"Perhaps, it's just that Chen Daolin is confused and wants to gamble on Wu Changqing. It's a pity, this time he has to lose money and pay for his daughter."

Liu Shizao laughed.

The crowd burst into laughter, and his view was recognized by everyone.

They all felt that Chen Daolin was old and confused, and if they wanted to bet, they should also bet on the high officials of the Qing Dynasty. Betting on a rebel, isn't that courting death?

"It seems that we can try to do a food business."

Tang Yu put forward a suggestion that made everyone drool. For a long time, the grain business in Suzhou has been controlled by the Chen family. It is extremely difficult for others to enter the industry, and it is easy to be suppressed and excluded by Chen Daolin.

But now, Chen Daolin's big gamble will cause him to lose the strength he used to have, and the opportunity for them to enter the food industry has come.

The next day, a new shop opened in Suzhou City, called Chen's Saponin Shop.

There are two kinds of goods in the shop, one is soap and the other is soap.

When it opened, the Chen family invited a lion dance team to add to the fun, attracting a large number of people to watch.

After the performance, an eloquent shopkeeper began to introduce these two new products.

"Folks and fellow villagers see clearly, this is not a trick."

The shopkeeper took out the soap and demonstrated the decontamination ability of the soap.

Seeing that the substance on the dirty clothes quickly faded away, leaving behind a basin of dirty water, the people couldn't help but be amazed.

"This thing is called soap, and everyone must have seen its function clearly. This thing is more than a hundred times more convenient than pancreas. Buy a bar of soap and go home, and you will no longer have to worry about washing your clothes and wearing them out and losing your dignity."

"This soap must be expensive."

A commoner asked, something so easy to use must be expensive, can the common people afford it?

"It's not expensive or expensive. There are two specifications in our store. The high-end boutiques only need one or two silvers, which can be used by a family for one or two months. The low-end ones only need 200 yuan, which is enough for a small family for half a year. as long as."

In the Ming Dynasty, silver taels, copper coins and treasure banknotes were mainly used, but the treasure banknotes of the imperial court were only responsible for issuance, but not for recycling.

Today, there are basically only silver and copper coins in circulation on the market. One tael of silver is about equal to 1,000 to 1,200 copper coins, and the exchange rate varies in different places.

A tael of silver is a lot for the common people, almost enough for a common person to live for a year.

Therefore, that kind of high-end boutique is specially sold to those wealthy families. For the wealthy and big families, only one or two silvers a month is completely acceptable.

For ordinary people, the low-end goods of 200 yuan are still a little expensive, but if you bite your teeth, you can still afford them.

Chen Daolin set this price after careful consideration.

At the current price, he can get maximum sales and profit.

The cost of high-end boutiques is only 100 yuan.

The low-end ones cost about 40 yuan, which is more profitable to sell high-end boutiques, but the low-end market is larger and can be small profits but quick turnover.

One is ten times the profit, the other is five times the profit, this kind of business is simply profiteering.

He used to do grain trading, and the profit was only about 20%. This all depended on some means of buying low and selling high.

Compared with this soap business, selling food is really boring.

Of course, the premise is that these soaps are sold.

"200 wen is very expensive."

A commoner sighed, this soap looks so good, if you buy one, the mother-in-law at home will definitely smile.

The common people think it is expensive, but for those big families, they don't think the price is too expensive at all.

The housekeeper of the Li family happened to be passing by and looked around. Curious, he tried the effect of the soap himself, and then decisively bought ten pieces of high-end boutique soap in one go.

For the big family, decency is the most important thing.

Last time, a maid was almost beaten to death for not washing the master's clothes.

With this thing, the master at home will no longer have to worry about losing his dignity in the future. It's only a tael of silver a month, which is trivial.

"Butler Li, don't leave. Besides soap, we have something better here, soap."

The shopkeeper of the Chen family took the opportunity to take out the soap, smelled it to the people at the scene, and showed how to use it at the same time.

"Have you seen it, this thing contains an infinite fragrance. I bought a piece for my wife to use when bathing. After bathing, my whole body smelled fragrant. And after using the soap, mosquitoes would shy away and dare not bite."

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