Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 493 Qi Hou's Way of Making Money
Regarding Zhuge Jin's letter and Xu Shu's joy, Yuan Tan was much calmer.

Whether it's chairs or tables, they are selling well right now, but this is only temporary. Yuan Tan estimates that the people who really have the need and can spend money to buy tables and chairs, the upper, middle and lower classes together are estimated to be A million or so.

In other words, it's not bad if such a large profit lasts for three months.

In the final analysis, things like tables and chairs are still a steady stream of business.

But the other thing Yuan Tan is thinking about is different.

You can earn up to tens of millions by relying on tables and chairs, but tens of millions sounds like a lot, but in fact, the Xuzhou New Army's annual military salary will exceed this amount, let alone the rewards to be given to the soldiers after the war.

What Yuan Tan prepared was another real fast-selling daily necessities, fragrant soap, which is the so-called soap in later generations.

In fact, Yuan Tan had already tried a similar experiment as early as Yecheng, but he did not know the detailed process of making soap. He only vaguely remembered that plant ash could be used to make soap.

But after experimenting, he didn't know whether the oil he used was not right or the amount of plant ash was not enough. In short, after a month of struggling, Yuan Tan, who was convinced that making soap was hopeless, gave up on this idea.

It was not until he defeated the coalition of princes and defeated Runan that Yuan Tan finally had a few months of leisure. In order to find a way to make money, Yuan Tan picked up this soap making method again.

But this time Yuan Tan learned his lesson. Instead of groping by himself like before, he simply started the system lottery. There were many similar technologies in the internal affairs department prize pool, but because these technologies were too many and complicated, and Some technologies are either behind or too far ahead.

It is impossible to mass-produce it just by relying on the current Jiangzuoyuan.

In the end, Yuan Tan extracted about a dozen techniques, and the only one available was this soap-making method.

According to the books on the soap making method, the key steps of soap making are to mix alkali and oil and water to produce a chemical reaction. According to the reaction, the initial soap bar is then analyzed and washed with salt water. After finishing, further refinement processing is carried out.

After a series of complicated procedures are completed, the soap bar can really be put into the market.

Plant ash is easy to deal with. The only problem is how much to use when making alkali, which requires constant experimental calculations.

The various data on the soap making method provided by the system were vague and unclear. They only talked about simple principles. After all, it was something drawn from the junior housekeeping prize pool, and it was a simple little technology.

If you want to verify and put it into quantitative production, you need experiments to determine the dosage.

Fortunately, Yuan Tan is no longer what he was in Yecheng in the past. At that time, he did not have much available manpower. To be precise, there were not many technicians who could be used for research and experiments.

But now it was very different, Yuan Tan directly handed over the soap-making method that he sorted out and extracted from the system to Jiang Zuoyuan.

After half a month of experiments, Jiang Qi, the chief officer of the General Academy who finally produced the finished product, came to Qihou Mansion to see Yuan Tan with a happy face.

"Is this soap?" Yuan Tan looked at the white square object in front of him, which was far different from the soap he had seen in his previous life. He came closer and sniffed lightly. After seeing that there was no oily smell, he was relieved. Come.

Jiang Qi nodded and said with a smile: "This is thanks to the recipe given by my lord. Without that recipe, no matter how many experiments the craftsmen did, it would probably be difficult to come up with the finished product in such a short period of time." difficulty."

Yuan Tan smiled slightly when he heard this, and did not take Jiang Qi's compliment to heart. Instead, he directly asked Jiang Qi about the making process of the soap: "According to my previous instructions, this soap may be like a chair, with spices added. And so on, to produce various fragrances?"

Now if Xuzhou wants to say what the most popular product is, then the Taishi Chair and Table Case personally planned by Qihou is naturally the most well-deserved number one.

Jiang Qi also knew quite a lot about the various marketing ideas that Yuan Tan showed during the sale of this chair. He had already made a draft in his mind before coming here just to deal with Yuan Tan's questions at this moment. He said with a smile: "It's natural, my lord can rest assured, the last general ordered his masters to conduct experiments before coming."

As he spoke, Jiang Qi opened the soap box again. There were two layers underneath, but one was light red and the other was silver-white.

"After the masters experimented several times, they finally selected sandalwood and laurel. After adding these two spices, using them to bathe and purify the body can produce a longer-lasting fragrance."

"As long as you can do it." Yuan Tan doesn't care what kind of spice is used in the soap. What he wants is to use this unique fragrance to raise the grade of the soap so that he can steal the money of those big dogs.

Although the main buyers of this kind of daily-use fast-moving consumer goods must be those ordinary people, if the money of a big dog can be slaughtered, it is also worth a knife.

After all, the Marquis of Qi had never thought of taking money from the people of this era. Even if Xuzhou now implemented a policy of light corvee and low taxes, the commercial taxes that the people could contribute were still quite limited.

The big players who can really make a profit still have to be counted on those big merchants and high-ranking officials.

"Then, can this soap-making method be mass-produced like tables and chairs?" Yuan Tan covered the soap box and turned to Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi clapped his hands and reported back: "There should be no problem, as long as the Lord orders, Tan Kee can start work."

Tan Ji Trading Company, needless to say, is naturally a trading store specially opened by Yuan Tan after he officially manufactured the Taishi Chair to sell Qihou's various novel products. Although the name sounds like it is just a shop, in fact, in the hands of Tan Ji Trading Company There are also several workshops located in various counties in Xuzhou.

In addition to the two table and chair workshops, there are three workshops waiting to start.

Yuan Tan immediately nodded and said: "That's no problem. Distribute this soap making method, together with the skilled workers trained in the General Institute, to the remaining two workshops. In addition, this soap making method will be assigned to the remaining two workshops." Give it to the general."

After Yuan Tan finished speaking, he took out a piece of silk cloth from the slip on the desk and handed it to Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi picked it up curiously, and when he unfolded it, it turned out to be another design sketch.

Jiang Qi has been in charge of the General Academy for many years. Although he is not familiar with the skills of craftsmen, he is not able to understand the design sketches under the influence of his ears and eyes. After looking at it for a while, he realized it.

"Lord, this is...the design drawing of the coal stove and coal?" Jiang Qi finally reacted and raised his eyes to look at Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan nodded and said with a smile: "This thing is called honeycomb briquettes. It complements this coal stove. It is an object that I recently came up with. If these two things are done well, they are equally useful. You can Go to the Jiangzuo Academy and tell the masters to study hard and study hard, so as to make the finished product as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)