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Chapter 155: The First Million Industry

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that the bearded guest in front of him with a stubble mouth was actually Yang Sichang.

He naturally knew about this person. Although this person who proposed the "four straights and six corners, ten sides of the net" strategy in Chongzhen Dynasty was later forced to commit suicide by Zhang Xianzhong, he was also considered one of the few capable ministers and officials in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

It can be said that someone gave him a pillow when he wanted to sleep. Zhu Youxiao is now trying to expand his army. It is said that he needs important officials with military talents to share the task of Lu Xiangsheng. Now, Yang Sichang suddenly comes, which makes Zhu Youxiao secretly happy.

He naturally thought about rehabilitating people like Yang Sichang and Yuan Keli before, and even asked the Dongchang to search for them. But strangely, Yang Sichang has never heard of him since he was dismissed, but Yuan Keli is still recuperating at home.

Now, Zhu Youxiao did not expect to meet Yang Sichang here.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to reveal his identity in this inn and had a conversation with Yang Sichang for the monarch and ministers.

After all, this inn is full of people, and there is Wang Guo, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, here. He doesn't want everyone to know that he has spring here and the current emperor is here.

Zhu Youxiao stood up and ignored Wang Guo, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture. Instead, he glanced at Wu Jin and pointed at Yang Sichang: "Take it down and take it back to the East Factory!"

Yang Sichang was also shocked at this time. He thought that the people from Shuntian Mansion could make these Zidong Factory men restrained themselves, but he, his cousin Wang Guo, who had always been the name of integrity, actually saluted the young master.

Moreover, after the young master gave the order, Wang Guo, the dignified Beijing parent, flashed aside automatically and said nothing.

This made Yang Sichang feel more and more that this person's origin is not simple. However, just when he was confused, the Dongchang man had already controlled his shoulders and put shackles on him directly.

Yang Sichang then reacted and couldn't help but shout, "Why do you take me? I am Yang Sichang, a Jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli. You can't just take a scholar in broad daylight!"

Yang Sichang's shouting became less and less until he disappeared completely. Zhu Youxiao turned around and returned to the room. Seeing Xu Fo still lying on the bed, he asked, "Can't you really get up?"

Xu Fo did not answer Zhu Youxiao, but gritted her teeth and prepared to sit up. However, the torn pain came from the place that made her teeth bit harder, and she couldn't help but groan a few times.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao walked over and half-squatted in front of Xu Fo: "Climb me."

"I dare not," Xu Fo replied, and was picked up by Zhu Youxiao, then stood on the bed, held her hips and carried her back: "What's there to dare? If you are in a hurry, follow the power. Moreover, this is all caused by me, but when you go out, you have to put your mouth tightly. We are now out of the palace in a very intimidating manner. We cannot easily discover it. Do you understand?"

Xu Fo bit his thin lips, endured the dishonest hand under his buttocks, and nodded heavily: "Yeah."

Wang Chengen, Wu Jin and others saw Zhu Youxiao coming out with Xu Fo on his back, and even though they were surprised, they couldn't speak out. After Zhu Youxiao and Xu Fo got on the carriage, Wang Chengen, who was like a thief, hurriedly sat on the carriage with Wu Jin and urged Wu Jin: "Go back to the palace quickly!"

...

The next morning, Gong Yonggu and Chen Shizai entered the palace to report in detail to Zhu Youzhai what they experienced and the amount of silver they ordered last night when they went to Wei Ge Lao's mansion.

Zhu Youxiao was not surprised that he received an order worth more than 500,000 taels at once. After all, such practical and beautiful things are rare objects, and the Ming Dynasty's folk wealth is extremely wealthy, so it is naturally reasonable to attract countless big merchants to order.

A total of more than 540,000 taels were added. Apart from the 100,000 taels of reserve funds of Royal Industrial Company, Gong Yonggu and Chen Shi took out 60,000 taels, Zhu Youxiao himself got more than 370,000.

This is just the money for the first order.

When Yin Jing's order comes, he naturally has to start working and rush to do it. This is naturally the responsibility of Chen Laitou.

However, Chen Laitou was not in a hurry to start construction, and only started construction after one month of short training for the recruited apprentices.

Within this month, Gong Yonggu contacted the person to build the factory according to Chen Laitou's drawing requirements, and continued to actually pull the glass order.

Regarding the glass order, Gong Yonggu first spent thousands of taels of silver to ask Chen Laitou to exchange all the windows of his son-in-law's mansion with glass, and then invited all the major and wealthy merchants in the capital that night. The same method also brought nearly one million orders.

As a result, before the Royal Industrial Company had fully started construction, it earned Zhu Youxiao hundreds of thousands of taels of funds. In addition, the order income of the first batch of Yinjing was directly earned by one million taels in less than a month.

This is also the first time Zhu Youxiao has gained benefits after spending money on the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Sciences in nearly half a year.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and we really have to admit that this sentence has certain correctness. Moreover, this is the first batch of orders. In the future, as long as these merchants open the market, the demand specification will increase exponentially.

What's more, Royal Industries also conducts retail itself, and according to Zhu Youxiao's idea, Royal Industries must directly sell high-end glass silver mirrors, and must build the Royal Industries brand.

Zhu Youxiao believes that the industry of glass manufacturing and silver mirror manufacturing alone can make more than millions of taels of profit per year.

To this end, Zhu Youxiao also personally designed a brand trademark for Royal Industrial Company. The trademark is a symbol of sun and moon shining with the same color. It contains the meaning of manufacturing in the Ming Dynasty and will engrave this logo in the future. The products directly sold by Royal Industrial Company, which have added the four words "Royal Monopoly", will be three times more expensive than those sold to merchants, and will be sold in limited quantities.

Although Gong Yonggu was able to bring in a large number of orders, he did not understand why His Majesty had to make a trademark item, and he also asked himself, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who was originally a false position, to be in charge of the matter.

However, when Zhu Youxiao personally explained a series of modern marketing concepts to him, Gong Yonggu understood a little. He also made a gorgeous turn around the direct sales store of the Royal Industrial Company. Even the tables and chairs were top-quality yellow rosewood, and there were various famous poems and paintings hanging around them. At the same time, each silver mirror and glass were carved by craftsmen, including flowers, birds, insects, fish and other art products, and they were all wrapped in high-quality Su silk.

But the price is indeed not cheap. A small mirror the size of a palm is sold directly for 100 taels, while a dressing mirror with an average size of a door is as high as 5,000 taels.

A few months later, merchants who received the first batch of orders from Royal Industries have started to sell them. In order to seize the market, they have adopted a policy of small profits but quick turnover. The sales price is controlled within 550 taels. Even if they are shipped to other places such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, they only have a few taels of silver travel expenses, and some even directly count the travel expenses in the cost. In short, they only add a few dozen taels of profit margin than the 500 taels of money ordered from Royal Industries.

As a result, most middle-aged families could afford it. Soon, a situation of supply exceeding demand occurred, and some merchants even directly asked Chen Laitou to add orders.

In this way, the better these merchants sold, the more and more silver the Royal Industries received.

However, the stores sold directly by Royal Industries, which Gong Yonggu spent a lot of money to decorate, were deserted.
Chapter completed!
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