I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 280
Whether it is soap or soap, under the vigorous publicity of Li Tian and the queen, it became popular in the whole capital almost within a day.

It's not even night yet, and the specific sales data has not yet been reported.

But just one morning of sales has almost consumed about half of the workshop's inventory in the past half month.

Zhang Yongri, as the person in charge of the workshop and the queen's younger brother, personally delivered the good news to the queen.

It just so happened that Li Tian was there at this time.

Li Tian was listening to Zhang Yongri's report while helping the queen with a sore back and back to beat her legs after being busy for a long time.

"Your Majesty, empress, fire, soap fire!"

Li Tian seemed to have guessed the result a long time ago, and asked with a smile,

"How about the specific sales situation, but the inventory can still be satisfied!"

Zhang Yongri shook his head excitedly and said,
"Not enough. In just one morning, more than half of the workshop's inventory has been consumed. I estimate that all the inventory will be consumed before it gets dark."

The queen was also very happy to hear that, but she had never been to the workshop in person, nor had she witnessed the hot scene of sales.

I just have a vague impression in my heart, but I don't know what it means.

Finally, Li Tian asked,
"How much money do you get!"

Zhang Yongri has long memorized the data by heart.

"Since the start of work half a month ago, the workshop has produced a total of about 15 pieces of soap and soap, including 13 yuan for soap and 5000 yuan for soap!"

"According to ordinary soap fifty yuan a piece, and soap two taels a piece, it is estimated that you can get silver today, 670 fifty taels."

When the queen heard this number, she was a little disappointed and said,
"Not so much!"

Hearing what the queen said, both Li Tian and Zhang Yongri had wry smiles on their faces.

Li Tian hugged the queen tightly, and patiently explained to her,

"Things like soap are daily consumables, and no matter how sparingly an ordinary household uses them, it may be enough to use them up in a month.

And because it is something for ordinary people, the price is set very low. "

"Of the more than 3 taels of silver, only a fraction of it was earned from selling to the common people.

Most of it comes from the soap part. "

The queen nodded and sighed,
"Your Majesty said that this thing was not intended to make money. To earn this money and feed thousands of homeless people, it can be considered that the strength of my concubine was not in vain."

Seeing her, Li Tian still couldn't understand the way.

So went on to say,

"According to half a month's production, it can sell more than 3 taels of silver, and the workshop can earn almost 2000 taels a day!
This kind of profitable business can't be found even if you search all over the capital! "

"Soap is a kind of thing with small profits but quick turnover. There are more than 200 million people living in the capital city alone, about 50 households. Our workshop has not even reached the recent one box per household."

"This is just the capital city. If you look at the whole world, especially rich places such as the south of the Yangtze River, it is possible to increase this number by seven or eight times or even ten times."

"This is a big business with an annual income of nearly [-] million yuan!"

3 taels is still not taken seriously by the queen, but ten million taels is five or six times more than the national treasury income. How can she not be tempted.

But she is not stupid, and she also knows that it is basically impossible to achieve this goal according to the current situation.

But she finally smiled sweetly,

"Your Majesty, stop joking. How could there be so many?"

Li Tian did not give an explanation, because this is indeed currently unattainable.

In order to achieve the goal of earning tens of millions of dollars a year, the workshop will have to lose more than ten times its current size.

Judging from the current situation, the production capacity of a workshop can almost meet the needs of the capital and surrounding areas. If you want to expand, you can only choose those cities in the south that are richer and more populous to open branches.

It's just that there is no rush for this matter, at least we have to wait until the situation in the capital has stabilized and the normal sales situation can be evaluated before a decision can be made.

Li Tian had a brief conversation with Zhang Yongri, told him about his future plans, and then drove him away.

Wait until only the queen is left in the room.

Holding her tightly in his arms, Li Tian couldn't help but said distressedly,
"Ling'er, you've worked hard today!"

The queen smiled and said very sweetly,

"It's a concubine's blessing to be able to share the worries of His Majesty. No matter how tired or hard it is, the concubine will still feel that she is happy."

With such a virtuous wife sharing troubles for him, it is impossible to say that Li Tian is not moved.

Although the matter of the workshop was just a whim decision on his part, he never put it behind him, instead he was paying close attention to his development all the time.

The significance of the workshop is not actually how much money they make for Li Tian, ​​but Li Tian wants to use this method to subtly cultivate a group of working-class workers who are completely out of production.

Only when they grow stronger can the gradually expanding bureaucratic and gentry groups be restrained and the various reforms of Ming Dynasty can be further promoted.

The soap and match workshop is just one of the smallest projects in his mind.

But it was also because there were more and more things around him, so he had to let the queen manage part of it for her.

But he couldn't bear to see her working so hard to get the workshop done.

"If Ling'er feels tired, I can ask someone else to manage these two workshops for you at any time."

When the queen heard this, she screamed as if she was suddenly scratched by a cat.
"No, no!"

Then he squeezed out a pitiful look and said to Li Tiandao,

"The concubine finally found something interesting to do, and she is enjoying it. Your Majesty, please don't take it away from the concubine."

Seeing that she was so excited, Li Tian couldn't help laughing bitterly.

In the past, you yourself complained about making less money, and you were too tired. Now let you let go, but you are so excited to oppose it!

It's not that I feel sorry for you, it's not that I don't feel sorry for you, what exactly do you want!
"Okay, okay, if you don't change people, I'll leave it to you to deal with it, let's go to the head office now!"

In fact, the queen is really tired, all her performances are just to get more attention from Li Tian.

There are not many businesses with a daily income of 2000 taels of silver in the entire capital, even after deducting labor and costs.
There is still more than 500 taels left. How could she not understand such a profitable business.

With this daily income of more than 1000 taels, not only will the entire Royal Society live better, but there will also be a lot of money left over to help Li Tian with other things.

And all she needs to pay is to look at the account book every few days. How could she be willing to let go of such a multi-tasking task.

(End of this chapter)