The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 125 The Time to Cut In

Ping'er and Qingwen are also back,
Jia Min sent the two of them to investigate the market, and Jia Min was also looking forward to the conclusions they came to.

"Fourth Master, the two of us looked at that lock. It's not good at all. No one will buy it."

What Ping'er said was decisive and full of confidence.She actually came to the completely opposite conclusion to Feng Sanniang's.

Jia Min was not surprised by Pinger's conclusion, but how she came to this conclusion.

"Oh? How do you know that you can't sell it?"

"Qingwen and I went to more than 20 shops, but we didn't see any of them for sale. I told you a long time ago that this item can't be sold. If you still don't believe it, you will know this time."

Seeing the things that Ping'er and Qingwen brought back in big and small bags, Jia Min knew that the two of them must be only focused on shopping and not paying attention to the market at all.

According to Pinger's logic, as long as there is nothing in the market, it cannot be sold.If we push it any further, we will come to a terrible conclusion: all new products cannot be sold.Therefore, since ancient times, there will be no new products.

So, where did all these things come from?
Pinger, do you know that there is such a saying as opening up the market and cultivating the market?

You are all free people now, why did your concept fall back to the level of a maid once you got together with Qingwen?
Alas, although the identity has changed, the concept is still the same, it is really a long way to go.

Jia Min didn't tell Ping'er any more, so she asked Nan'er to take Feng Sanniang to the dental shop to make an order, and then went to find Mrs. Wang herself.

Today's dental firms are not just organizations like housing agencies, they are also goods intermediaries, which are actually wholesalers.They all have their own fixed business channels and customers, and the efficiency will be much higher if the locks are handed over to them for distribution.

Not only the market in the imperial capital, they can also use their own business network to distribute the scorpion to other places.

The Imperial Capital is the largest commercial center in the north. If it is done well, the sales volume cannot be underestimated.

Since this matter involved people in the mansion, Jia Min had to obtain the consent of Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang.

The reason why he went to Mrs. Wang first instead of Mrs. Jia this time was because Jia Min thought that Mrs. Wang might be more easily persuaded.

The reason is that Mrs. Wang ordered Zhou Rui to poison him, but Jia Min didn't investigate further, so she let Mrs. Wang go.

Second, Mrs. Wang is not as shrewd as Jia's mother, nor is she as far-sighted as Jia's mother. She can't see Jia Min's real intentions and pays more attention to immediate interests.

The third is that Jia Min is in the limelight now, so coming to Mrs. Wang at this time is to give her face and increase her sense of existence.Besides, Mrs. Wang belongs to the legal head of the Rongguo Mansion, so it would be really inappropriate for this matter to bypass her.

The lock project is a long-term business, if Mrs. Wang agrees, it will go smoothly in the future.Without her support in advance, even if she didn't stop her, it would be easy to create some friction and trouble in her capacity.There is no need to add cost on this.

There is another reason, which is more obscure.As long as Mrs. Wang agrees, two people in the three-person group agree, and in the end there is only one old lady, who is in the minority, so it is not easy for her to directly deny it.

If it doesn't work, Jia Min will implement a vote, and it will naturally pass.This is the decision-making mechanism of the three-person group that Jia Min had discussed with the old lady.At this time, Mother Jia has to weigh it carefully.

At Mrs. Wang's place, Aunt Xue, Li Wan, Baochai, and Tanchun were all there. Jia Min roughly explained the situation to Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang fell into deep thought.

Jia Min's plan was to use the maids and wives in the mansion to start a fight.

In this era, women basically wear locks, which is part of female red.

However, the previous locks were all typed out and used as small decorations, most of which were hung on the body and the head of the bed.None entered the market as a commodity.

Jia Min wants to use this little thing as a commodity, implement large-scale mass production, enter the circulation market, and commercialize it.

Of course, in terms of color and variety, he asked Ping'er and Feng Sanniang to develop many new products before, and also opened up many channels for uses.For example, as decorations for horses and carriages, as decorations for shops and houses, etc.

There are also many auspicious lotteries, such as "No. [-] Scholar", "Sanyuan" and "Zhong" for students.For merchants, "good luck in opening", "making money every day" and "longevity" for children and so on.These are all things that didn't exist before.

There are many maids and women in the mansion. Many times, they don't have much to do in a day. When they are free, they just wander around, or chat, play cards and drink.There is time.Technically, after simple training, you can adapt quickly.

In order to advance this project, the choice of timing is very important.Although there was economic pressure in the mansion before, it was not obvious.Now facing the affairs of public transportation and horse carriages, the economic pressure is very high, and it is a long-term pressure.It is necessary to increase financial resources.

Now that the people in Jia's mansion are in a desperate situation, it is easier to accept this plan.

"My son has already discussed with the dental shop. According to my estimation, it can bring 8000 taels of pure silver to the mansion a year. The bus business, now it seems, is a long-term business. Once opened , that means you have to lose money every day. Now the income from those shops and land is not good, and with these incomes, the government will be able to subsidize less, so try not to raise funds from various houses."

This last sentence is a threat.It means that if you disagree, you have to take out your private money yourself.

From the above, Jia Min basically explained the idea of ​​the plan, but these alone are not enough, and there are two most important problems that need to be solved.

"Tell the maids and wives to beat her, and don't give her a quota. I just use my spare time to do it. What I should do, I still have to do, don't delay."

If the maids and wives all go to beat the slaves and ignore the master, it will not work. This is to dispel the masters' worries about the decline in the service quality of the servants.

"Those maids and wives, since they have to do more work, we can't ask them to do it for nothing. At that time, some money will be taken out and distributed to them. The money earned will be sold to the officials. The two floors are reserved for their respective masters, because the maids and wives mainly do the work, and the remaining [-]% will be distributed to the maids and wives, so that they will feel motivated and not be lazy and play tricks."

The ones that were handed over to the officials were to fill the holes in the bus carriages.The ones for the maids and wives are to stimulate their enthusiasm, and the ones for the master are to gag them.It means that you have also shared the money, and the quality of your service has dropped a bit, so you can bear it a little bit.

"Of course, this kind of thing is still the first among the big families. If we do it, maybe someone else will come out and talk about it."

"However, my son is thinking about long-term things. The matter still falls on the job of the bus and carriage. Even if the current hurdle is passed and the business is established, if it takes a year or so, it's okay to say, just I'm afraid that as time goes on, the drag will become bigger and bigger."

"There is another level, which is what my child is most worried about. I am afraid that the emperor will ask our family to expand and increase the number of carriages. If that is the case, there will be no way for the mansion to survive."

"Therefore, there is another use for this beating, which is to stage a bitter trick. For the sake of the emperor's envoys, everyone in our house relies on beating to make money to fill the carriage. It is the most merciful, maybe cancel this errand and hand it over to another family. Even if it is not cancelled, it would be good for the court to subsidize some money."

There are two key points in Jia Min's call.One is the decency of the Jia family.

This kind of thing is indeed the first time, it will inevitably attract some criticism, and may attract ridicule from other families.This is a test for Jia's endurance.

However, with the bitter trick behind, even if you endure some ridicule, it will be worth it if you can cancel this errand in the end.

On the balance, this is still the way to solve the problem and completely get rid of the burden of the bus and carriage.

Of course, Jia Min did not regard the bus as a burden.He even regarded this errand as a big gift package from the emperor.He's going to make money from it.

However, it is not yet possible to make money.If they make money now, the crisis in Jia's mansion will be resolved.Naturally, they wouldn't think about the lock plan.

Only by taking advantage of the current moment of crisis, Jia Min can take the opportunity to start the lock plan and bring in his own private goods.

Relying on government money to subsidize the carriage project was never an option for Jia Min.Therefore, it is just a pretense to subsidize buses and carriages by earning money by making money.When the Shunzi Project made money, even the bus and horse-drawn carriages also made money. At that time, Jia Min wanted to cancel the Shunzi Project. I am afraid that the people in the house would come out to oppose it.

At that time, if [-]% of the profits given to the mansion were distributed to the maids and masters, would they still object?Who would think too much money?It doesn't make sense.

It's just that it's useless to tell them these reasons now.Therefore, Jia Min had to go around in a big circle and adopt devious tactics to realize his intention.

While Mrs. Wang was secretly startled, she was indeed tempted by this plan.How much money the mansion, the master and the servants get are not the focus of her consideration.What fascinated her the most was that she could subsidize the carriage project without the temptation of personally paying her own money and finally asking the emperor to cancel this imperial mission.

"Brother Ming, have you told the old lady about this?"

Mrs. Wang had a rare smile.

"Not yet, why don't you discuss it with your mother first, and if your mother agrees, then tell the old lady."

"The old lady is still a little angry, so don't talk about it. Leave this matter to me. I will tell the old lady. I reckon she will agree."

"It would be even better if my mother came forward. Actually, I don't want to see the old lady either, lest she get angry when she sees me."

The atmosphere suddenly relaxed, Jia Min took advantage of others not paying attention, glanced at Baochai greedily, said goodbye and left.

(End of this chapter)