The Chu Palace is outside Chang'an City and covers a much larger area than the Chu Palace on Zhuque Street. Especially after Li Kuan started the "buy, buy, buy" model, all the tens of thousands of acres of land from the original courtyard to the Weishui River were

It belongs to the Prince of Chu's Mansion.

Although it was winter, Li Kuan was sweating on his face as he directed several craftsmen to constantly stir the sticky substance in the iron pot.

It's a mixture of boiled lard and caustic soda, so I won't add the spices.

"It's almost done. Put all the contents in the pot into the mold and compact it. Let's see the result tomorrow."

Li Kuan didn't bother much. Compared with the current family business of the Chu Palace, soap is not that important anymore.

The main reason is that it's too expensive, so rich people can afford it, but it's too cheap, not to mention the limited production, and you can't make much money.

It would be better to fiddle with something that can make a lot of money from the grasslands or overseas. This is what Li Kuan is most interested in and what he finds the most meaningful.

…

"Your Majesty, the structure of this device is not very complicated, but the sealing you require is a bit high and may not be fully achieved."

Dai Quan arrived at the palace early in the morning, but Li Kuan was busy trying soap at that time, so he waited for a while.

"A little leakage doesn't matter much, but if it leaks too much, it means nothing."

If Li Kuan wants to make high-quality wine, a distillation device is indispensable.

"Your Majesty, I have an idea. Can you let the glass workshop bake some of the accessories? The porcelain workshop will also bake some, and finally combine them with the wooden components and iron components?"

When Li Kuan drew pictures, he only drew a very simple schematic diagram, and then verbally stated what purpose he wanted to achieve.

Now that I heard Dai Quan mention it, I thought I might give it a try.

"You go and make arrangements. Anyway, I have told you my idea. All you have to do is get it done as soon as possible. However, this device must be kept secret and cannot be leaked."

Li Kuan also planned to exchange high-strength alcohol for supplies from the grassland, so he naturally did not want this method to be copied by others.

After arranging these things, Li Kuan was free again, so he simply went to the Prince of Chu's Mansion to give lectures on elementary school.

The newly built elementary school is located in the northeast corner of the courtyard near the Weishui River. There are already hundreds of students in it.

However, Li Kuan did not give lectures to students, but to the masters of Meng Xue.

Whether it is Arabic numerals or the "Datang Dictionary", these are all things that have only begun to be used in Dengzhou Huzhu Primary School. Before Xu Jingzong and Shangguan Yi were transferred back, only Li Kuan knew these best.

If you have nothing to do, you have nothing to do, so you might as well get on the horse yourself.

…

The soap production was very successful, and it was so successful that Li Kuan felt that there was no challenge.

However, the soap was successfully made, but Xiang'er found it very challenging to sell it.

As the leading female shopkeeper in Chang'an City, Xiang'er felt that the less the prince paid attention to soap, the more she had to use good results to let him see her ability.

"Miss Xiang'er, these rosewood boxes have been made."

"Put all the soap in and put it at the entrance of Zhenbao Pavilion." Xiang'er thought for a moment, "and put a bucket of water and a piece of soap at the door for guests to try."

Soap is a consumable product. You can't tell whether it's useful or not just by looking at it. After all, it's not like a mirror, so Xiang'er felt it was necessary to give people a chance to try it.

Although I was involved in the sales promotion of various stores in the past, I did not make independent decisions.

This time, Li Kuan fully authorized Xiang'er to do it, and she naturally responded with great vigor.

"Miss Xiang'er, the situation of the soap that you asked me to investigate has been confirmed clearly. In the entire Chang'an City, the Cui family powder shop is the largest soap seller, and other soap sellers are basically powder shops. In terms of price,

It ranges from one yuan for two guan to one yuan for five guan."

The main raw material of pancreas is pig pancreas. The pancreas of a pig is not very big and cannot be used to make a few pieces of pancreas. In addition, there are some secret preparation processes in the middle, so even if it looks dark, it is sold

But it's extremely expensive.

Anyway, it is not for ordinary people. It sells for 500 Wen and 5 Guan. It seems that ordinary people cannot afford it, so it is no wonder that the price has never come down.

There is no motivation to go down.

"Okay, then our soap will be priced at three dollars per dollar."

Xiang'er thought for a while and chose a middle price.

…

Cui Family Powder Shop.

Ever since the scandal about the poisonous makeup powder came out, it can be said that my vitality has been greatly damaged.

Fortunately, Shopkeeper Cui's methods were disgusting enough, and he used the same method to destroy other powder shops in Chang'an City.

My powder is poisonous, and so is yours.

Everyone is poisonous, so don’t sell them.

In this way, the Cui family's powder shop finally had time to breathe. As for offending his colleagues because of this matter, shopkeeper Cui no longer cares.

Colleagues are always enemies.

Nowadays, the powder in the Cui family's powder shop uses rice flour as raw material, and with a series of secret preparation techniques, it has slowly regained acceptance by the women of Chang'an City.

There is no other way, unless you don't use powder anymore, otherwise Cui's powder shop is still the best choice.

"Shopkeeper Cui, this is a new batch of soap. I saw that the color is much better than before, so I bought more."

Shopkeeper Cui picked up a piece of soap and looked at it. He thought it was really good, "Is it shipped from the south?"

"Yes, they are all shipped from Jiangnan. It is said that this time the production that has been in stock for several months has been shipped to Chang'an City at once. Finally, we don't have to worry about running out of soap to sell."

"The quality of this one is better than before. Have other companies started to purchase it too?"

"Not yet, we are big customers, today is reserved for us to choose."

"Anyway, this soap won't go bad. It's rare that Chang'an City is out of stock recently, and the quality of this soap is good. You go and buy all his goods, don't leave them to others."

Shopkeeper Cui felt that after waiting for a long time, he finally got a chance to make a comeback.

"Shopkeeper, there are nearly 10,000 yuan of soap. If I buy them all, it will cost more than 10,000 yuan. Can I just buy part of them?"

"You don't understand this. Yazi is already out of stock in Chang'an City. If only our family sells it and no other stores sell it, regardless of whether we raise the price or not, even if the price is the same as before, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

People are very strange. If you can buy soap everywhere, then everyone will buy it when it is used up. If it can only be bought in our shop, then many people will think about buying a few more at once. Anyway,

It needs to be used. Don’t worry if the price goes up or you can’t buy it next time. So, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell it.”
Chapter completed!