Lord of Rot

Chapter 182 Finally Starting to Make Money
Grand bought 40 pounds of honey, and he could clearly feel that Joe's attitude was not right.

With a hot face, Grand admitted that he was bragging, a little... but he really thought that Baron Porcupine was just a village baron who accidentally got a swarm of wild bees.

The keg of honey was loaded into the wagon, and the rest of the space was empty.

As long as this bit of honey is sold, Ge Lang can earn dozens of silver months, which is more than what he has earned from doing business in Lintawan for several months.

Seeing that the loading was not finished in the distance, Grand came to Joe's side.

"My friend, what did they buy at the porcupine collar?" As a businessman, thick skin is the first point.

Joe answered, "Porcupine Beer, Porcupine Liquor, Porcupine Soap, they come from East Point."

"The caravan of Donggang City!" Grand was surprised.

At the same time, Grand captured the key information. The porcupine collar was very good, and even the large caravan from East Harbor City made a special trip here.

"What are those wines and soap?" Grand was only attracted by the honey, and his information channels were not at the same level as the caravan.

Joe smiled: "Come here, let's talk slowly."

After a while.

The caravan in Donggang City hadn't left yet, but Grand had already left in his carriage.

"Really expensive!"

He bought a small barrel of wine and a dozen pieces of soap, the price of which was almost as high as honey.

At the same time, he was also looking forward to making a lot of money. Even if he couldn't make a lot of money, honey would be enough to make up for all his losses.

"It turns out that the porcupine collar has so much honey."

As for negotiating terms with the porcupine baron, and contracting the entire porcupine collar's honey?Just think of yourself farting with your mouth.

"However, I can find a group of people to work with. There is honey, soap, and fine wine here." Although Ge Lang hopes that he can enjoy the secrets here to himself, but looking at the large caravans in Donggang City, he knows that this is impossible.

Besides, he was used to big business, so he might look down on his small business. He had to find a group of merchants to avoid being rejected next time.

When Li Qi learned that the businessman from Lintawan had arrived and left after buying a small bucket of honey, he was stunned for a moment.

"Just a caravan of one person?"

"Yes." Joe was also very helpless. He didn't expect to be fooled by someone. He also thought it was the Lintawan caravan.

If it wasn't for the soap that attracted the merchants of East Point City, then the porcupine collar would definitely make a joke.

"You did very well"

Li Qi said: "The porcupine collar needs a channel to sell it to the outside world. We welcome all businessmen, big or small."

If you brag, you can brag, you don't spend your own money anyway, as long as you come to buy things from yourself, it doesn't matter if you brag that you are a Sishen projection.

The porcupine collar welcomes all lads with money in their pockets.

The 1 yuan soap has not yet been made, but just wine, honey, and cheap pottery are enough to fill Claude's caravan.

He will send another caravan in the future, and will also bring the magic materials Li Qi needs.

In particular, the materials for making magic gunpowder are much cheaper to buy in large quantities through caravans.

Pigtail Bay.

Li Qi took a walk with the puffy and panting Claude, and he was very friendly to the merchants who gave money.

Just this time, Claude contributed 80 gold-days to him, because the soap has not been produced yet, so he can only take part of it. After the follow-up 1 yuan is produced, Li Qi can harvest another 200 gold-days.

Li Qi spends about 3 gold days in the construction of the territory every day, mobilizing all 2000 people, spending money every second. It can only be said that he has just changed from a negative income to a profitable state.

Finally started to make money, although not much.

Li Qi spends money to pay salaries to civilians, civilians build territories to produce goods, and then civilians spend money to buy things from merchants, and merchants spend money to buy goods from Li Qi, a cycle that has begun to take shape.

The money walked around and returned to the pocket, and everyone earned it.

"My lord, haven't you considered building a port in Pigtail Bay?" Claude asked standing looking at the brig in the distance.

Li Qi nodded: "My father once thought about building a port in Pigtail Bay, but the war delayed everything, and I really want to fulfill his wish during his lifetime."

The porcupine collar was trapped by the pig's spine valley, and wanted to go out in a circle, and there was an iron stone city guarding it outside.

But if a porcupine can be built in Pigtail Bay and take the waterway, the porcupine collar will reverse the embarrassing situation of being trapped in a corner in one fell swoop.

Claude immediately said: "If there is a port in Pigtail Bay, our merchant ships can reach Porcupine Collar from East Harbor City in at most two or three days."

If the port of Porcupine Collar is built, the transportation cost will be greatly reduced, and there is no need to bring a carriage to travel hard.

"But we lack artisans." Li Qi sighed.

Of course he has craftsmen, and he recruited a group of craftsmen in Shujiandi, but he was busy with other constructions, so he never had time to build the port.

It does not prevent him from wanting more craftsmen, more talents and population, which has always been Li Qi's first choice.

"I can introduce a group of craftsmen to you." Claude patted his swollen belly confidently, and the buttons of his clothes were all tightened. I was really worried that the buttons would collapse if he was not careful: "As long as you can pay enough .”

"Thank you for your help, my friend!"

Li Qi patted Claude's shoulder, but his stomach shook first.

It's like tapping a water balloon.

With the money, Baron Li Qi's heart for infrastructure construction became more and more restless. The pier and the watchtower he planned to build before were all to be built.

After asking Claude and Joe to discuss matters such as recruiting craftsmen, Li Qi became a hands-off shopkeeper.

The people under him are already very good, and I can't occupy all the opportunities to perform, but let the people under me also express themselves.

In layman's terms, he wants to be lazy.

Claude returned with a full load and left in a carriage.

Li Qi watched the caravan leave from the window of the castle.

"High-end soap must continue to be researched and developed. The effect of the aristocrats' goods is far beyond imagination. The whole society has an atmosphere of admiring and imitating the aristocrats."

This is only Donggang City, and more territories will come in later.

He didn't worry about whether the nobles would be angry when they learned that commoners could buy the same soap as him for 2-3 silver moons.

Just like on the earth, everyone knows how low the cost of ice cream and popsicles is. Some people eat tens or hundreds of dollars, and some people eat fifty cents a pack.

Not only will people who spend more money not feel that it is expensive, but they will feel that they are superior. Is that the taste of food?It is the brand!
You can even find countless reasons to persuade yourself.

On the earth, there are also woven bags, some sell for 10 yuan, and some sell for [-] yuan.

The same goes for clothes, shoes, lipstick, perfume, etc.

And the Lurea people's pursuit of nobles is far more than the pursuit of high-ranking people by ordinary people on earth.

Bring a little commercial shock to the Lurea people.

Look at the ordinary soap, it's just an ordinary square, without exquisite carvings, no exquisite box, and no fragrance, it is not comparable to the noble soap used by nobles.

I don't know, but Li Qi just wants to sell low-priced soap, with small profits but quick turnover, and the low cost is like a business without capital.

"Change a few more boxes of packaging." Li Qi's heart moved: "The nobles are rich. Although a piece of soap can be used for a long time, you can sell them in different packaging and different fragrances. Wouldn't you buy more? I'm not just doing it for Make money, otherwise it would be embarrassing to find out that everyone uses the same scented soap when they meet and party."

Li Qi felt that he was too considerate. In order to ensure the pleasant social interaction of the noble ladies, he tried his best to research more fragrances.

The study of fragrance is very simple. If he hadn't pressed it down, the little lame leg would have produced more than a dozen fragrances.

Some are interesting, some are useless, they must be screened, but at present, porcupine collars can already make soaps with new scents, and technological innovation is so fast.

Thinking of this, he went back to his study, picked up a pen and wrote a letter to Hong Qiangwei.

"To the beautiful Miss Ewengeline"

"After the master's endless research, the Porcupine brand soap has three more scents, the citrus scent with a fresh breath, the grass scent mixed with the earthy smell after the rain, and the sea scent with the sea breeze. Type, I will send someone to send the soap to Roaring Castle, I hope you like it."

"Your knight, Richie Clarence."

Li Qi rolled up the letter. He admitted that he was a little bragging and exaggerating, but the soap could really smell, and it was genuine.

For example, citrus-scented soap is boiled with orange peels, and thanks to the oranges in the goods brought by Claude, the servants and maids in the castle are a little angry because of these orange peels.

"Every batch of soap needs to be repackaged."

Anyway, each soap box is handmade, so it’s not difficult to change the packaging, and new dishes can only be created by constantly releasing new products.

"What's the name? The common one is called Porcupine brand soap, and the expensive one is called Porcupine brand noble soap."

It's not that there is no better name, and it is still possible to copy the earth and make some gimmicks, but what he wants is simplicity and rudeness, and identity differences must be made.

Not only to engage in identity differences, limited goods is the most basic.

This is the benefit of monopolizing technological power.

Establishing the brand effect of the Porcupine brand at the aristocratic level can avoid the blow to the Porcupine soap business after someone discovers the secret of the soap and successfully reproduces it in the future.

By the time someone cracked the production technique of soap and began to manufacture and sell it in a big way, the porcupine brand noble soap had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

However, in order to maintain this advantage, one must have a strong enough military force, otherwise, if a certain nobleman wants to grab business, he may not be able to bear it, and instead, he will be wiped out.

If you make money, you must invest in military construction.

"The next time Claude brings craftsmen, build the pier first."

First build a small wharf for currency, and then slowly expand it into a port. Pigtail Bay cannot reach the size of the port of East Point City, but it is still possible to use small and medium-sized cargo ships as a small port.

The good news also came one after another. The 200 soldiers sent by Shanzhangbao to Longshipbao, as well as craftsmen, food supplies, etc., have also arrived.

(End of this chapter)