bookrandom Chapter 339 Selling the Recipe, Xie Ying's New Idea
Chapter 339 Selling the Recipe, Xie Ying's New Idea
In fact, not only the coal merchants in the capital are anxious, but coal merchants in other places are also anxious.
People from all walks of life gathered in the capital, and after honeycomb coal came out, someone spread the news.
Later, imitation honeycomb coal appeared, and the news spread like wildfire.
So outside the capital, some places have already followed the trend and started using honeycomb briquettes.
However, without the formula of Taiping Coal Mine, the quality of these imitation honeycomb coals varies, and none of them are as easy to burn as the honeycomb coals from Taiping Coal Mine.
So after the princess released the news that she was willing to sell the honeycomb coal formula, the news took off again and spread quickly to all places.
The coal merchants who received the news did not dare to delay and immediately arranged for people to go to Beijing to purchase the formula of Taiping Coal Mine Company.
The coal merchants in Beijing had already guessed that someone would buy it, but they were hesitant and worried that the Taiping Coal Mine Company would ask for an exorbitant price, so they didn't dare to ask.
This time, when they saw the special price coal offered by the princess, they could no longer sit still.
After everyone sat together to discuss, they decided to immediately go to Taiping Coal Mine Company to purchase the formula of honeycomb coal, to get ahead of those foreign coal merchants!
However, when they ran to Taiping Coal Mine Company to ask, they were stunned!
The price of the honeycomb coal formula is not expensive, and you can buy it for only one hundred taels of silver.
The problem is that after they buy the formula, they cannot sell it to anyone else or leak it, otherwise they will have to bear all the losses caused to Taiping Coal Mine Company by the leak.
Moreover, Taiping Coal Mine Company does not accept multiple people to purchase a formula together. It can only be purchased by a single person, and leakage of secrets is strictly prohibited, otherwise the losses caused in the future will be borne by this person.
As a result, the larger coal merchants don't care, but the small coal merchants are a little stretched.
They didn't earn much, and one hundred taels of silver was a huge sum of money for them.
Unexpectedly, just when they were discouraged by the price of the formula, Taiping Coal Mine Company actually pointed out another way for them - to act as peddlers, buy honeycomb coal from Taiping Coal Mine Company, and then sell it to the people.
In this way, they do not need to spend a lot of money to buy the formula, nor do they have to worry about losing money if the formula is leaked.
You don’t even have to make your own briquettes.
All you need to do is find some people, buy honeycomb coal from Taiping Coal Mine Company, and then sell it.
These small coal merchants hesitated for a short time before agreeing.
It's nice to lean against a big tree and enjoy the shade. Anyway, we are selling coal, and it's much easier to resell it directly than to produce it ourselves and then sell it.
By the time major coal merchants from other places received the news and rushed to the capital, glass and glass products were already being sold in the capital.
Situ Yuan not only opened a specialty store, but also wholesaled these glass and glass products to some merchants.
It’s just that the products sold in specialty stores are all high-end products, while most of the products sold wholesale are ordinary goods.
If merchants want to get high-quality goods, they can only buy them in specialty stores.
Some top-quality goods will even be auctioned directly, and you won’t be able to get them if you don’t pay enough.
However, merchants are not stupid. After buying high-quality goods from specialty stores, they will take them directly to other places and then resell them at high prices to make a profit from the difference.
Luo Hongwang and the Zhu family manager started the reselling business.
The Luo and Zhu families' roots are not in the capital, and their families are not in the coal mining business, so they did not buy the recipe for honeycomb coal.
I just sent a letter to a coal mining businessman I knew to do him a favor.
But the situation changed after the glass factory opened a specialty store.
The store sells not only small pieces of glass and colored glaze, but also small items that don't take up space but are very valuable.
Buy a box and take it back, you can definitely sell it for a high price!
Even before the glazed plaque was hung at the headquarters of the Taiping Coal Mine Company, astute businessmen in the capital had already noticed the huge profits from glass and glaze.
Someone went to the glass factory that day to inquire about the price and wanted to buy it.
The glass factory received many orders at that time, but there were not many goods, so it could only produce slowly and then deliver them in batches.
Fortunately, the glass factory had just opened, and the glassware and colored glazeware produced were quite expensive, even if they were just ordinary goods, so merchants could not buy more.
Otherwise, with the current production efficiency of the glass factory, it would be impossible to finish the work even if it worked itself to death.
Not only did merchants take a fancy to the glass and colored glaze produced by the glass factory, but the dignitaries and wealthy families in the capital were also very envious and sent their servants to inquire about them.
The glass factory had to recruit more workers and expand the factory and kilns, otherwise it would not be able to handle the work.
In order to prevent these people from going too crazy, the glass factory dares not even launch too many new products, for fear of too many orders and being unable to produce them.
When coal merchants from all over the country rushed to the capital and went to the Taiping Coal Mine Company headquarters to purchase the honeycomb coal formula, they were immediately shocked by the glazed plaque hanging above the gate and were stunned on the spot. They hurriedly asked someone to inquire about the situation.
After learning that the plaque came from the glass factory, they bought the honeycomb coal formula and rushed to the glass factory store, where they were once again amazed by the plaque hanging in the store.
When they walked into the store and saw the exquisite samples displayed in the glass display cabinets, their eyes were burning with excitement and they placed orders crazily!
Buy and buy!
I must buy it and take it home to show off!
Then sell it at a high price!
The eyes of these big coal merchants were wide open, and they seemed to be emitting bursts of golden light. It was as if they saw not colored glaze, but huge golden treasures!
Xie Ying and Situ Yuan did not disappoint their enthusiasm and held several auctions specifically for them.
During the first auction, Emperor Taihe and Prince Consort Situ saw the transaction price on the list, their pupils trembled and their hearts trembled!
After watching it so many times, they became numb.
But he always had a strange smile on his face for no apparent reason, which made people feel uneasy.
Situ Yuan was also very thoughtful and gave glass pendants, ornaments, and glass beads to the eldest princess, Prince Situ, Queen Mother Zhao, Emperor Taihe, Concubine Jiang, the little prince, and the grandmother.
It is convenient for them to change.
So every day when the civil and military officials went to court, they could see Emperor Taihe wearing a glass ring on his hand, a glass belt around his waist, and a glass pendant hanging on the belt, for fear that they would not see it.
Not only did all the officials become more and more envious, but even the palace maids and guards who served her were extremely jealous.
So as soon as the glass factory's specialty store opened, these people tried every possible way to buy colored glass to show off.
So much so that the whole capital was swept by the glass craze.
The store had only been open for half a month, but its sales were enough to put many wealthy businessmen to shame.
Xie Ying flipped through the account book, her face ablaze with smiles, and she shamelessly said to Situ Yuan: "See? This is the power of idols!"
Even her father, Xie Xiu, had become an idol to the scholars. He wore the glass pendant given by Situ Yuan everywhere every day, and who knew how much business he had brought to them.
Suddenly, Xie Ying had another idea: [Oh right, I can also make a splash with the glass brush! Let my dad use it every day in the Imperial College, and it's sure to be a big seller!]
Situ Yuan: “…”
Suddenly I felt a little sympathy for Xie Xiu.