Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "Yes, the factory officials have learned to use idioms now.
You and I, the emperor and the minister, if you don't let me down, I will never let you down."
Wei Zhongxian kowtowed repeatedly: "If this slave has any second thoughts about the Holy Master, I will strike five thunderbolts that day, and my body will not be intact."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Get up, I hope that our monarch and his ministers can start well and end well.
How is the cement matter?"
"Li Zhen has made great progress.
Now they can produce the cement mentioned by the Holy Spirit.
They are now thinking of ways to increase production."
"Go to Sun Yuanhua.
The machine he uses there can be used in cement manufacturing with slight modifications.
Then build a cement factory near the glass factory, but the firing cannot be placed there to avoid polluting the environment.
Oh, pollution The environment means dirtying the water, dirtying the air, ah, I'll tell you next time.
Before making cement, let them build a road to connect the firing and grinding places. , first make some better-looking mirrors and send them to me."
After he finished his instructions, he took the mirror to Kunning Palace, where Zhang Yan and the other three were embroidering red needlework.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "We are tired today.
Let's take a break and play some mahjong."
The three women had little interest in a low-IQ game like mahjong, so they did not respond to his suggestion.
Zhu Youxiao took out a mirror, waved it in front of the three of them, and said, "There will be a lucky draw in the mahjong game this time.
It's a new style mirror."
The reflection of the mirror immediately attracted the three women.
The three jumped up, Duan Ying rushed to the front, and Zhu Youxiao stretched out his hand and handed the mirror into her hand.
Duan Ying looked at his clear face in the mirror and couldn't help but be stunned.
Zhang Yan and Wang Wan followed, with the same expression.
Zhu Youxiao smiled proudly: "How about it, whoever wins gets the mirror, how about it?"
Soon the sound of mahjong was heard in Kunning Palace.
A few days later, in the busiest Qipan Street, next to the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, a new store opened.
The name was very vulgar, it was called the Jingshi Branch of the Ming Dynasty No. 1 Mirror Store.
Two women stood at the door.
Whenever someone came in, they would bow.
Said: "Welcome" As the name of the store says, the store only sells one thing, and that is mirrors.
There are mirrors of different sizes and shapes.
As soon as the female customer entered the store, she straightened her eyes and said, "I bought this."
Immediately, a female clerk came out and said, "Six hundred and thirty yuan."
Money, thank you.”
"Ah, I didn't bring so much money today."
"It doesn't matter, our store can deliver it to your door and get the money back, but it will cost you ten yuan more for shipping."
"My home is only one street away from here, and shipping costs ten yuan."
"I'm sorry, the mirror is a fragile item, so the ten yuan is also enough to ensure that the mirror does not break."
"Okay, deliver it to me" Such conversations continued, and by noon, all the mirrors were sold out, so the clerk politely asked customers to leave, then closed the store door and put up a sign: Sold out today, please hurry up early tomorrow.
The palace maid in the store was nervously calculating the accounts.
After a while, the palace maid trembled and said to the store manager: "Aunt Chunmei, the total is seventy-five thousand six hundred yuan."
After saying this, she couldn't believe it and started to take the paper to double check. .
Chunmei smiled and said: "The calculation is correct.
I already calculated it when I got the goods yesterday.
This is the number when all the goods are sold.
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Chunfang, later you go to the bank and ask someone to deposit the money, and at the same time, send the receipt.
Then finish the account.
Ah Hua, go and ask the glass factory to deliver the goods tomorrow at an additional 10% of the quantity, and also send a full-length mirror. " After speaking, she clapped her hands and everyone fell silent.
She then spoke again: "Your Majesty is merciful and allows us, the unwanted palace maids, to manage this shop.
Everyone has worked hard today.
I am here to thank you all and please remember."
The emperor's kindness is appreciated.
"After that, I bowed to everyone.
Everyone bowed together and said: "Your Majesty is well, we are not working hard, Aunt Chunmei is working hard."
Most of them are old palace maids who can't find their families or their families don't want to take them back.
They should have had an extremely tragic fate, but now the Emperor lets them I work as a store clerk here, and I have agreed to come and go freely.
Not only do I get a monthly salary, but I will also receive one ten thousandth of the sales as a bonus at the end of the year.
Judging from the sales on the first day, everyone can get at least more than 2,000 yuan a year, and each of the 20 people can get more than 100 yuan.
On such days, no matter how hard it is, it will become less hard.
Spending more than 600 yuan to buy a small mirror is certainly not something that ordinary families can afford.
But there were too many wealthy people in the capital, and the mirror was indeed clear and flexible, so for a while, the mirror quickly became popular among the upper class society in the capital.
The introduction of large full-length mirrors has pushed women's love for beauty to a higher level.
They can clearly see their whole body and can easily see which clothes will look good together.
Although the price of a full-length mirror is as high as 9,000 yuan, the daily quota for one mirror has been reserved for three months.
Of course, some rich people directly paid 1,000 yuan for free, and proudly took the full-length mirror home all the way.
The Nanjing branch of the Ming Dynasty's No. 1 Mirror Store also opened soon.
This branch is larger than the one in the capital, and has a larger quota of goods.
It is stipulated that three full-length mirrors will be sold every day, but the reservations have already been made for next year, and the free waiting fee has been increased to two.
Thousands of yuan later, there are still a large number of women who pay the fee without hesitation, perhaps just to get it ten days earlier.
After Zhu Youxiao got the ten-day transaction data of the two branches, he could only say that he was stunned: the ten-day transaction volume in Jingshi was 1 million yuan, and in Nanjing it was 1.5 million yuan, and there was still a backlog in both places.
There are a large number of orders for full-length mirrors, and it will take at least five months to complete them at the current sales rate.
He took out a pen and calculated.
As long as such sales lasted for two months, it would be 15 million yuan, or 7.5 million taels of silver, which was more than the imperial court's annual income.
My God, people are so rich.
If this continues for a year, my net worth will become more than 40 million taels of silver.
Of course, he also knows that luxury goods like mirrors cannot continue to have such a large sales volume.
Those who can afford it will basically buy it within a few months, and those who cannot afford it will not buy it, but it can last for a year.
He was very satisfied with getting 10 million taels of silver.
This way, he would not have to worry about the money to open a school and carry out weapons reform for at least three years.
He instructed Wei Zhongxian, firstly, to strengthen financial supervision and clear accounts every day to prevent corruption; secondly, to open branches in larger cities, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Songjiang and other southern cities, as well as Linqing in the north; thirdly, They gave Zhang Qianfang some mirrors and asked him to try selling them to Japan or trading them with the Portuguese.
In addition, he wanted to speed up the research and manufacturing of clocks and pocket watches, which could also be sold as luxury goods together with the mirrors
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