Traveling through ancient times, the empress insisted on having a child with me

Liu Quan had been running Guangfeng Hao for many years, but this was the first time he was summoned by the prince, and he entered the prince's study alone. He couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

"Did a young man buy brown sugar from Guangfeng today?"

Liu Quan was puzzled for a moment, wondering why the prince would ask about such a trivial matter, but he could only reply politely: "That's right, and this person is a bit strange. He pledged ten taels of silver and said that he would buy 500 kilograms of brown sugar within a month. If he didn't buy enough within a month, the silver he pledged would be given away for nothing."

The middle-aged man was obviously not interested in these, and frowned and asked: "Besides these, is there anything special about that person?"

Liu Quan recalled for a while and said, "This guy is young, handsome, and eloquent. He is an experienced businessman. He also figured out the bottom price of brown sugar with just a few words."

Young and handsome?

A business veteran?

The middle-aged man couldn't figure out the connection for a moment, but he still ordered: "In the future, any business dealings with this person, no matter how big or small, must be reported to this king."

Liu Quan nodded quickly: "I obey your command."

King Ning waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."

"The slave retire."

……

Ling Chuan found a large vat and put all 20 kilograms of brown sugar into it.

According to previous experiments, the yield of boiling brown sugar can reach 60%, while that of boiling white sugar can only reach 50%.

In Lingchuan's opinion, brown sugar is the most suitable ingredient in snacks and there is no need to use white sugar.

At the same time, Lingchuan also asked Cao Huanchun to hire craftsmen to build a huge lantern.

Generally, shops would hang varying numbers of lanterns in front of their doors when it gets dark to indicate that the shops are open.

However, ordinary lanterns are only that big, but the lantern customized by Lingchuan is as tall as a person when standing on the ground. After dark, it is lit and placed in front of the door. It can be seen at a glance no matter where you are in the street.

A lit lantern meant it was open for business. Ling Chuan extended Yunfu Ji's business hours by two full hours, but it didn't increase revenue much. Instead, it caused some complaints from the employees.

Ling Chuan also heard it, but he didn't take it seriously at all. However, Cao Huanchun on the side looked a little embarrassed.

"What are you all complaining about? The boss is paying you so much money, so what's wrong with asking you to do more work?"

"But we have to have work to do. We are just sitting here doing nothing and no customers are coming."

"I see that you are all itching for trouble..."

Cao Huanchun was about to lose his temper, but Ling Chuan stopped him: "You're bored sitting here, right? I have something for you to do. Come and make some brown sugar with me."

In fact, Ling Chuan did it on purpose. In his opinion, these people were used to being lazy, and he had to temper their tempers first.

After twenty kilograms of brown sugar are fermented, forty to fifty kilograms of sugar water will be washed out. It is not an easy task to boil down so much sugar water.

Not only does it take time, but it also wastes firewood, so the cost goes up quickly.

However, judging from the selling prices of these dim sum at Yun Fu Ji, there is still enough profit.

The four guys worked all night and finally made more than twelve kilograms of syrup.

"Starting tomorrow, these syrup-made cakes will only be given away and not sold."

Lao Cao was stunned. The more than twenty taels of silver in the account had been almost spent by Lingchuan. He thought he could finally make a profit by making some snacks with the brown sugar, but Lingchuan said he would only give it away and not sell it.

"Why not? The snacks made with this brown sugar taste great, so they won't be a problem for sales."

Aunt Rong was also surprised: "The cost of brown sugar is not low. It would be a big loss to give it away for free."

The other guys also looked at Ling Chuan with puzzled eyes.

Ling Chuan chuckled: "I said I would only give it away, not sell it, but I didn't say it was free."

Xiao Taohong asked quickly: "Then how are you going to send it?"

"Put up a notice at the door tomorrow saying that our store has launched a new product, sweet cloud cake. Anyone who buys more than 500 coins at one time will receive 2 taels of sweet cloud cake for free. The more you buy, the more you get."

Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what Ling Chuan was up to for a moment.

Seeing everyone's confusion, Ling Chuan asked Aunt Rong: "If all of these twelve pounds of brown sugar are used to make cloud cakes, how many can be made?"

Aunt Rong thought for a moment and said, "One pound of Yunpian cake probably needs one ounce of brown sugar. If it's twelve pounds, it can make one hundred and twenty pounds of Yunpian cake."

Ling Chuan spread his hands to the crowd and said, "Look, Yunpian Gao costs 200 wen per jin, so 120 jin is 24 taels of silver. Using my method, 120 jin can be divided into 600 portions. If you buy 500 wen, you get one free, which is 300 taels of silver."

"hiss……"

Everyone was immediately shocked by the difference between twenty-four taels and three hundred taels. In fact, the account was not calculated in this way. Ling Chuan deliberately misled them.

"One more." Ling Chuan raised a finger: "This brown sugar is a new thing after all. What we need to do is to let more people know about it. If we sell it by the pound, only about 20 customers will be able to taste it. If we divide it into 600 portions and send them out, the number of people who know about it will increase many times. Once they have tasted the sweetness, do you still worry that they will not come back to buy it?"

Cao Huanchun slapped the table and said, "Great! Great! I, Cao, am convinced. Master Ling's method is simply amazing."

The guys started to flatter him, but Ling Chuan stopped them with his hands and said, "Now you should believe that I can help you make a lot of money."

"Trust, trust, trust."

Everyone nodded.

Ling Chuan held up three fingers and said, "Three months. I promise that within three months, Yun Fu Ji will be the only one in the capital."

"it is good……"

Ling Chuan gave some more words to boost morale, and then everyone dispersed.

After Ling Chuan also returned to the backyard, Cao Huanchun suddenly woke up and smiled: "This kid is not only good at doing business, but also good at bewitching people. Even I fell for his trick. He's amazing."

Early the next morning, Aunt Rong started making sweet cloud cakes, and the shop assistants opened for business in high spirits.

Cao Huanchun also wrote a notice and posted it at the door, but even though there were so many people coming and going early in the morning, few came to buy cakes.

Seeing that everyone's high morale was about to be exhausted, Ling Chuan rolled his eyes and came up with another trick.

"Aunt Rong, please cut this cloud cake into smaller pieces, half the normal size."

"Xia Miao, Tong Qing, each of you can take a tray and stroll around the street with these cloud cakes, inviting people to taste them for free."

Everyone was shocked: "Is it really free?"

"Some small costs still need to be paid. To do business, you have to attract people first. When people taste it, remember to tell them that Yun Fu Ji has launched a new product to give back to customers. This new flavor of Yun Pian Gao is free."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there was no problem.

Cao Huanchun waved his hand and said, "Go ahead. When you two get tired, come back and let He Chun and Du Feng go instead."