This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 279
Hou Junji didn't know what to say for a moment. He originally thought that a small workshop like Wang Dong could produce tens of thousands of cigarettes a year. up.Unexpectedly, Wang Dong opened his mouth and reported such an exaggerated number.

Wang Dong was also embarrassed. He said this leisurely. He didn't consider that Shanzhou's tobacco leaves were ripened twice a year, so he set a target for the factory to produce [-] million cigarettes a year, and found that Shanzhou's tobacco output may be higher than his. After it was as high as imagined, there was no way to increase the production line, so in addition to [-] million cigarettes, he could also produce about the same amount of shredded tobacco and tobacco every year, and it would be no problem to poison the entire Datang.

Hou Junji, on the other hand, felt that it was difficult for him to boast about Haikou just now. It seemed impossible for him to purchase [-] million cigarettes no matter how cheap they were. "I can't afford this," he could only say vaguely. Embarrassed, Hou Junji couldn't help but ask Wang Dongdao when he thought of the terrifying figure, "How much do you plan to sell for a cigarette?"

Wang Dong hurriedly called the steward of the workshop and asked him to bring a plate of four packs of cigarettes.

Hou Junji saw that the packaging of the four packs of cigarettes was different. The simplest cigarettes were just roughly packed with a kind of wide leaf. The packaging of the dim sum sold on the website just looks rougher.

Hou Junji picked up the cigarette curiously, and saw a piece of torn yellow paper pasted on the seal of the big leaf, with the red seal of "Xining Xiang" on the yellow paper.

Wang Dong said: "Simply packaged cigarettes like this are aimed at the hardworking mass market, so [-] cigarettes are sold at a price of [-] yuan."

Hou Junji picked up the pack of cigarettes and looked at it. It was quite heavy in his hand. Thirty cents was probably the daily income of laborers in the city at this time. The whole family, especially the women in the family, will not go out to work. Most of a man's daily income is used to purchase firewood, rice, oil and salt for the family's expenses. Thirty cash a day for coolies can't save much money every month.Hou Junji thought for a while, if they were asked to buy fifty cigarettes with a day's salary, and they could smoke for a month, these people would probably be willing to do so, and it would be impossible if the price was higher.

He couldn't help nodding his head and said, "This item may be sold."

Then Wang Dong picked up the second type of cigarette, and Hou Junji saw that it was a kind of tobacco wrapped in white paper, a bit like the cigarette Wang Dong gave Hou Junji before, but the packaging was not so delicate, and the white paper The bag was carefully sealed with paste, and a seal was pressed on the seal. Hou Junji saw that there were three words on the seal: Xiningxiang.

"Xiningxiang is an interesting name." Hou Junji couldn't help laughing when he saw it.

Wang Dong said with a smile: "One cigarette of this kind is sold for one penny, and a pack of ten is ten pennies. For us, the cost is only around five pennies."

Hou Junji nodded, the price of ten cents a bag obviously corresponds to the middle class in the city at this time.

A middle-class person who has studied and worked in the city spends ten yuan a day on a pack of cigarettes. This kind of recreational consumption is not too extravagant for them, a wealthy and leisure class.

Then Wang Dong picked up a pack of more beautiful cigarettes on the steward's tray. Hou Junji took the cigarette, and saw that the cigarette was wrapped in a hard paper case. A layer of oiled paper is waterproof and moisture-resistant.He went back to look at the surface of the cigarette box, and found that the paper case containing the cigarettes was also very delicate. After touching it carefully, there were shallow patterns printed on it.

Hou Junji put the paper shell to his nose again, and found that there was a fragrance of flowers on the paper shell, and when he turned it over, he saw three large characters written on it: Kunlun Mountain.

Hou Junji, who had roughly figured out Wang Dong's sales routine, couldn't help laughing: "This kind of cigarettes must be more expensive with such exquisite packaging."

Wang Dong said with a smile: "This kind of cigarettes is aimed at the wealthy class. Not only the packaging is exquisite and elegant, but the shredded tobacco is also specially processed. We have mixed some spices in the shredded tobacco, so that it has a unique flavor when smoked. Different spices can be added according to different people's tastes."

"You are really smart." Hou Junji couldn't help but smile and said: "Such a pack of cigarettes must not be cheap, right?"

Wang Dongdao: "For a pack of cigarettes like this, our wholesale price is [-] Wen, and the price will be doubled when it is shipped to the customs."

Hearing this, Hou Junji couldn't help but also took a deep breath. Fifty cents a pack of cigarettes was already close to the income of an ordinary person for two days. In his opinion, it was obviously too expensive, and he was a little afraid of the cigarette king. Don't sell it.

However, Wang Dong still feels that his price is a bit low. He only gave the wholesale price of 50 after considering the transportation cost of Fan Yun to the whole country. Why don’t you buy a pack of it for two to three hundred yuan? If you don’t have a little money or something to do, who will smoke Kunlun Mountain?
Hou Junji looked at the last cigarette on the plate, and couldn't help feeling very familiar, so he reached out and picked it up with a smile, "This is the cigarette you gave me?"

Wang Dong nodded, "That's right." I saw that the packaging of the cigarettes was obviously much higher than the previous three. It was not packed in a paper shell, but a copper plate was bent directly, which looked a bit like the iron biscuits of later generations. The box comes in a small box.

What Hou Junji got before was the white version without engraved patterns. At this time, the packaging boxes trial-produced by Wang Dong have already been mass-produced. The packaging boxes made directly from copper plates are embossed with various landscape patterns. The packaging is so delicate that Hou Junji couldn't help falling in love with it the moment he picked up the box.

Originally, Wang Dong wanted to make a thin iron box to hold cigarettes like the high-end iron box cigarettes of later generations, but after coming to this era, he found that there was no galvanized tinplate in this era, and ordinary tin boxes were easy to produce. Rust, there is no way to make containers at all. If you want to make stainless steel, the cost is not affordable for Wang Dong. In desperation, Wang Dong can only give up the idea of ​​​​iron packaging and use copper packaging with a higher price .

In order to make the packaging more high-end, Wang Dong specially built an etching tank, using the principle of primary batteries to etch a layer of landscape patterns on the copper skin.

The cost of this thing is not high. Wang Dong sketched out the landscape patterns casually, and then carved them into wax paper, and then brushed them one by one on the copper skin of the whiteboard with the help of wax paper molds, and put them in the original battery slot. That's fine too.However, the handling method of the original battery time is surprising enough in this era, which directly creates a technical threshold. Others just want to imitate his cigarettes, but they can’t get the copper skin packaging. Wang Dong asked Liang Shu to deal with this. As soon as Liang Shu came into contact with the original battery tank, he became fascinated by it. In the past few days, he took the initiative to undertake the work of etching the copper plate.

Hou Junji stroked the copper box lightly with his hands, and found that the bas-relief desk had no unevenness when touched with his hands. The whole box was covered with patterns but was still very smooth. He couldn't help but be amazed.

"Just this box alone is worth a price of one or two hundred Wen."

Hou Junji said with a fond smile.

After looking at the landscape pattern on the back of the box for a long time, Hou Junji turned over the front, and the moment he saw the name of the cigarette, he couldn't help being taken aback.

Seeing Hou Junji's surprised expression, Wang Dong was a little puzzled, and quickly followed his gaze, and then broke out in cold sweat.

I saw that the place where the name of the cigarette should be written on the box was empty, and only a yellow paper was pasted on it. On the paper, the words "Yipin, Hou Shangshu" were scrawled.

Wang Dong instantly wanted to curse.

"The name of this smoke is Yipin Hou Shangshu?" Hou Junji asked strangely.

Wang Dong hurriedly said: "My lord, this is..."

Wang Dong's batch of copper-packed high-end cigarettes was originally named "Yipin", and the preset price was very high. Therefore, Wang Dong did not plan to sell this cigarette publicly now, but decided to use this high-end cigarette to make friends with the government and open up channels.The special agent version of the General Manager's Mansion is also a good way to enhance the brand value of your own cigarettes.

Therefore, Wang Dong specially made a yellow note in this batch of products to paste the names of each yamen, so that people don’t get confused when people subcontract and give gifts. He directly took a pack of copper-cased cigarettes that he was going to send to Hou Junji, but he didn't even tear off the yellow paper.

Now that Hou Junji mistakenly thought that he was going to use his name to sell cigarettes, it was obviously easy to break the taboo, Wang Dong was instantly nervous, hesitating how to explain it to Hou Junji.

[Ding dong, system task]

[Mission Option [-]: "My lord, the name of this cigarette is Yipin, not Yipinhou Shangshu." Option reward-intermediate tobacco planting skills. (Level [-])]

[Task option [-]: "How do I get my name, my lord?" Option reward: Add one random base attribute point]

Wang Dong felt stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but look a little serious.

Wang Dong really didn't expect that Hou Junji would like the name Yipin Hou Shangshu.

Making cigarettes with this name, if they were sold nationwide, would obviously give Hou Junji a lot of limelight, but this kind of limelight is not something everyone is willing to provoke.

Although Hou Junji is an extremely personable minister, his rank should be only a third rank in Wang Dong's memory. Now Wang Dong sells cigarettes through Hou Junji's channel, so if the tobacco is sold in this way at that time, it will be very difficult. It is easy to feel that Hou Junji himself asked his subordinates to plant tobacco and sell it. If his high-end tobacco is named accordingly: Yipin Hou Shangshu, it will be interesting.

Wang Dong felt that if he was in Hou Junji's position, he would definitely not be so arrogant.

But since the system gave the wrong task, it was impossible for Wang Dong to do it against Hou Junji's temperament.

After thinking for a while, Wang Dong could only whisper: "I didn't ask your lord's opinion before choosing this name, so it was presumptuous... How about your name?"

I saw Hou Junji looked at the box of cigarettes with a playful smile on his face, and then suddenly clapped his hands and laughed, "This name is excellent, excellent, so what if it's called Yipin Hou Shangshu?"

Wang Dong quickly nodded in agreement, Hou Junji waved his hand again and said, "What's the matter? It's nothing more than a cigarette name... Yipin Hou Shangshu, haha..."

Wang Dong repeatedly nodded and said yes, he peeked at Hou Junji's expression when he looked at the first-rank Hou Shangshu, and he was quite smug, and he finally understood in his heart that this person's character is really a bit too ostentatious, and he didn't know how to ask him to be himself His backing is a blessing or a curse.

At this time, Hou Junji was thinking for a while, patted the table and said, "Don't sell all your Xining incense in the pass, the first batch produced will be sent to the Tang army first, and it will be thirty cents a piece as you said." Bao, our Longxi Tang army will purchase [-] of them first."

Wang Dong wanted to rely on the tobacco trade to earn 1 taels of silver directly into his pocket. The scale of his business made Hou Junji have to pay attention to it.

It's not that Hou Junji is not greedy for money, it's just that he is not greedy for small money, and money as large as ten thousand taels of silver is something worth caring about for him, especially with his status and after getting so much silver , not only for his own needs, but more importantly, it can add a lot of help to his entire interest faction.So at this time, Hou Junji had already decided to join Wang Dong's business. Before, Hou Junji didn't want to compete with people with huge interests in the supply of military supplies in Longxi, but now he had the tobacco business in his hands. It's not so polite to start.

(End of this chapter)