The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

They were eager to empty the pockets of foreigners as soon as possible.

Gan Minglan couldn't wait for the perfume bottle in the jade carving workshop to be completed.

It took me a whole night to create what I consider to be the four best-smelling women's perfumes and four best-smelling men's perfumes.

After selecting the fragrances and recording their mixing ratios, she put each of the eight perfumes into a 10ml plastic spray bottle, the same one she used to use for toner in her previous life.

The small, transparent plastic bottle has excellent sealing properties.

One press, one spray.

This is absolutely amazing!
As dawn broke, the head manager of the Guanxi Trading Company's Bagua City headquarters was notified by Lu Ye to come and appreciate the new products.

The head steward rushed over in a hurry.

As soon as he entered, he caught a whiff of a unique fragrance.

The aroma is like orange blossoms at dawn, bursting with the crispness of dew on the tip of your nose, as if someone were pouring honey-soaked tangerines and crushed ice into your palm at the same time, sweet but not cloying and with a cool sensation.

I couldn't help but take another deep breath.

The scent at the tip of my nose has changed.

The fragrance of roses quietly appears, carrying with it the damp moss of a mountain temple after the rain, making one feel refreshed and relaxed.
The aftertaste was so profound that even the head steward couldn't discern the source of the fragrance.

Just as she was enjoying herself, Gan Minglan came out carrying a wooden tray.

"Head Steward, how does the perfume that was just sprayed in the living room smell?"

Upon hearing this, the head steward snapped out of his reverie and exclaimed in surprise:

"These are the scents perfume should have! Master, why didn't you bring out such a treasure sooner? Our trading post has almost been overwhelmed by the smell of foreigners these past few days."

"I just couldn't remember it for a moment. If I hadn't come to Bagua City, I wouldn't have known that foreigners have such a strong body odor, let alone that they use spices in such a simple and crude way! I have these unique methods of extracting fragrances, and no one can mix these flavors."

The implication is that our business is unique.

When the head manager of the business had smelled all seven remaining perfumes, he couldn't contain his excitement.

He just pounded his chest loudly.
"Please rest assured, Master, such a fine product will not be hard to sell!"
All the products sold by our Kansai Trading Company can truly withstand the test of consumers in any country.

Milk candy, dried fruit toast, milk biscuits, and milk powder—each sold over 3,000 jin in just three days.

The Cistanche deserticola wine is sold out.

You wouldn't believe it, but the hundreds of foreigners who drank Cistanche deserticola wine the night before almost came to blows over with a fight at our shop the next day.

Even when I eventually raised the price of the wine to one hundred taels per jar, they bought it without batting an eye.

Yili Wuliangye and Xuelian Beauty Wine have also seen their prices multiply several times over. The managers of the two wineries wrote that only 10% of the newly brewed wine this year remains.

Among textiles, our plant-dyed cotton fabric is the most popular.

Thirty thousand sweaters each were ordered for men's, women's, and children's styles!

There were also silk quilts. After experiencing the softness and comfort of silk quilts at the inn, they couldn't stop fighting over them at eighty taels of silver apiece.

Oh, and there are also orders for 60,000 pieces each of mutton fat soap (five taels of silver per bar) and toilet paper (one tael of silver for three rolls).
But that wasn't all. The foreign merchants seemed dissatisfied with the quantity of these orders, and every day as soon as the trading company opened, they would rush in, begging to place more orders for them.

It's just that our communication with foreigners is still somewhat difficult right now; otherwise, we don't know how much trouble they would have caused us.

"My lord, these perfumes you've purchased smell far better than the ones foreigners wear; they're sure to be bestsellers."

The head steward genuinely thinks these perfumes smell wonderful.

He especially wanted to keep a men's fragrance with a cool, pine-like base note for himself. Gan Minglan rolled her eyes inwardly.
"Master Steward, what I want is not for the perfume to sell, but for it to be sold at exorbitantly high prices! They can easily charge thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver for a single piece of jewelry or a glass item. You should learn from them and be bolder in your pricing!"

She was truly disappointed in him.

Look how smug this head steward is!

One hundred taels of silver for a jar of wine—that was the ceiling of his exorbitant prices.

Hearing her say that, the head steward swallowed hard.

"Master, how do you plan to sell these perfumes? Could it be that they can sell for tens or hundreds of taels of silver per bottle?"

He heard that the jade perfume bottle ordered by the general was only the size of an egg, less than the amount of medicinal wine.

Gan Minglan, however, said:
"I plan to select a foreign merchant as the exclusive agent for each fragrance type, and let them bid for the agency rights of these perfumes through an auction. Finally, I will give them a quote based on the quantity of perfumes they order during this trip."

"hiss"

The head manager of the business gasped. Was this not what he had understood?

"Exclusive agency? Does that mean they have to pay money to buy the right to sell the goods?"

"You got it right, but there's no prize! Steward, I'm not afraid to tell you, those foreign nobles are all adventurers and wealthy merchants, even more so than those thousand-year-old families in Jiangnan!"
Their royalty and nobility have a habit of using perfume to mask body odor. Just imagine, if this were transported back to their capital, what kind of astronomical price would it fetch?

"If you buy the distribution rights for these fragrances, you'll be the sole distributor for these scents for three years. Would you buy them?"

"Buy it! We absolutely have to buy it!"

The head manager of the business was beaming with joy.

No wonder these foreigners are so generous; each one of them is even richer than a thousand-year-old family in Jiangnan!

If they didn't fleece their master, they would be doing a disservice to his scheme.

The two of them did what they said.

The third floor of the business is a VIP reception room, with an area of ​​about 300 square meters.

At this time, it was requisitioned.

Some of the foreign merchants in Bagua City who got up before lunch today received an exquisite invitation from the Kansai Trading Company.

It's no wonder that some foreigners can't get out of bed in the middle of the day.

In order to ruthlessly plunder their pockets.

The restaurants and eateries in Bagua City are open all night.

Especially in chain restaurants like Bashu-style restaurants, Zuixiangju, and Ganweixian, the kitchens are kept burning for twelve hours a day.

Foreigners who are still eating bizarre and unappetizing food, how could they resist the temptation of these delicacies?
Especially after these restaurants launched late-night delivery services, everyone eagerly stayed up all night to wait for them.

When the hot late-night snack arrived and the wine was opened, the accompanying female slaves sang and danced to entertain them.

After a hearty meal and drinks, how can one still act like a saint while surrounded by alluring female slaves and concubines?

Those who have drunk Cistanche deserticola wine, in particular, have experienced an unprecedented energy and have repeatedly savored this wonderful taste.

They won't stop until the wee hours of the morning.

There are indeed many people who can't get up before lunchtime.

Unbeknownst to them, a chance to become rich overnight slipped away while they were indulging in pleasure. (End of Chapter)