Travel to the mountains and make a fortune in silence

Wang Qing'er never expected that the scented soap she originally planned to sell at a stall outside a brothel would turn out to be...

Before long, it became a rare item that noble ladies in the capital and various prefectures were willing to spend a lot of money to get their hands on.

Although there are more than 10,000 soap bars, only half of them can be sold immediately; the rest need to be saponified for a period of time before they can be sold.

Shang Congjian then distributed these scented soaps to the capital and various prefectures for sale, so the quantity in each place was not large.

In particular, the prices of white magnolia flowers, peach blossoms, and herbal shampoos and soaps have been driven up to exorbitant levels.

Anyway, all Wang Qing'er knew was that there were three thousand pieces of scented soap, and Shang Congjian later gave her sixty thousand taels of silver notes. As for how much he could earn, she had no idea.

The scented soap being transported was quite valuable, so Shang Congjian and the others left the Mu family along with the carriage carrying the soap.

When they returned, they not only took the scented soap with them, but Wang Qing'er also gave them tea, white fungus, skin-softening cream, and several colors of lip balm as return gifts. Even Yun Kai received some.

When Shang Congjian saw the lip balm and skin cream, his eyes seemed to be filled with money, and he talked to Wang Qing'er about making a reservation.

Wang Qing'er wasn't unwilling to do this business, but she was troubled by the current shortage of raw materials. She could only shake her head with a wry smile and say:

"If Young Master Shang can help us find a large quantity of beeswax and various kinds of rose petals, then these can be produced in large quantities."

The wild rose is the same as the rose flower; she learned the name from the original owner's memories.

Upon hearing that these two items were needed, Shang Congjian looked at Mu Nan and then at Yun Kai.

Yun Kai immediately understood and said, "I have beeswax and fresh flowers at home, as many as you need. We have a wide variety of fresh flowers that we can provide."

Upon hearing Yun Kai's words, Wang Qing'er immediately understood why the Mu family had been hesitant to speak about needing large amounts of beeswax. It was because the Yun family had some, but they couldn't buy it themselves, which put them in a difficult position.

The Yun family also runs a fabric business. They grow flowers to extract pigments for dyeing fabrics, and they also raise bees to extract honey and beeswax. Honey can be sold at a high price, and beeswax is also a raw material needed for dyeing fabrics.

The Yun family not only has flowers, but also orchards and locust groves, where many bees are raised.

Wang Qing'er looked at her husband standing beside her, wanting to ask for his opinion. Mu Nan reached out and held his wife's small hand, saying, "Yun Kai, if your family's amber and flowers can be sold, then let's cooperate."

Upon hearing Mu Nan's words, Yun Kai happily cupped his hands and said, "Senior brother, I can provide as many as you need. I can also sell you flower seedlings and seeds. Once the flowers are in bloom, you can also raise bees yourselves."

Since his senior brother agreed to cooperate with him, it means that his senior brother has put aside the past and wants to start afresh with him, which naturally makes him happy.

Over the years, the guilt in his heart has never stopped. From the day his sister did something wrong, even after they got married, he always felt speechless towards his senior brother.

Later, the two divorced, and his sister returned home, which relieved him.

Therefore, no matter how outrageous his younger sister was at home, he would turn a blind eye, as long as she stopped bothering his senior brother, he would be fine with it.

"Brother Yun Kai, may I go to your flower garden to choose fresh flowers and seedlings?" Wang Qing'er asked happily.

Yun Kai hurriedly replied with a smile, "Of course, my senior brother knows where it is. He can take you there, and you can choose whatever you like."

Wang Qing'er then asked, "Are there still any wild roses in the garden now?"

At this moment, she was like a curious child, wanting to know everything. Countless questions were already swirling in her mind, and she only asked the ones she most wanted to know.

"Of course we have them, all kinds of colors." Yun Kai answered every question without the slightest impatience, and was actually very happy to serve his sister-in-law.

When Wang Qing'er heard Yun Kai say this, her eyes lit up. She imagined herself wandering through a sea of ​​colorful roses, gently inhaling the fragrance of the flowers.

"Yun Kai, do you have an aloe vera patch at your house?" Shang Congjian suddenly remembered the aloe vera he had seen on the back mountain of the Mu family's house. He also seemed to have seen it in the Yun family's orchard.

Yun Kai thought for a moment and said, "It seems there is one. It grew on its own, not cultivated."

"Then, sister-in-law, I saw you have some aloe vera on the back mountain too. Do you need it?" Shang Congjian asked Wang Qing'er.

"It works. That skin-softening cream contains aloe vera." Wang Qing'er told the truth. She didn't care about revealing the secret formula now, since the other person had what she wanted.

We should hurry up and find a large quantity of raw materials to produce more products and make a profit first. We don't need to worry about what happens after that.

In business, how could she possibly dominate the market forever? She doesn't have the ability to monopolize the market either. She still needs to develop more new products.

Yun Kai said, "Then you can use any part of my orchard, sister-in-law. Or should I send someone to dig it up and bring it over to you? This stuff is endless; it reproduces very quickly."

Wang Qing'er was too embarrassed to ask someone to help her dig, so she asked with a smile, "Brother Yun Kai, when we go to the county town in a few days, would you mind visiting your orchard?"

"No problem at all," Yun Kai readily agreed.

The group agreed to visit the Yun family's flower nursery and orchard together when they went to the county town in a few days.

Wang Qing'er went to select flowers and buy beeswax. If possible, she also wanted to buy some seedlings and aloe vera to plant.

In any case, she had no conflict of interest with the Yun family's business. As far as she knew, the Yun family mainly dealt in silk, cotton cloth, and linen, and also had orchards.

Unlike the Lin family, his family didn't seem to have a clothing shop, while the Lin family's best fabric was cloud-patterned brocade.

The Yun family were not only imperial merchants, but they also distributed unearthed fabrics to neighboring countries.

The Yun family's brocade and silk threads were not only supplied to the royal family, concubines, and noble families of the Eastern Liang Kingdom.

They were also sold to royal families in neighboring countries, as well as to the homes of the powerful and wealthy.

This time, Yun Kai sent five bolts of Yun brocade as a wedding gift for their newlyweds. Although they were the cheapest ones, they were still worth several hundred taels of silver.

Furthermore, the cotton and linen fabrics from the Yun family are sold throughout the entire Eastern Liang Kingdom.

The Yun family's business is truly one of self-production and self-sales from the source.

The silk business started with mulberry planting, silkworm rearing, and weaving; the cotton business started with cotton planting, spinning, and weaving; and the linen business started with hemp planting.

The raw materials for the Lin family's weaving and brocade production were all provided by the Yun family.

The Yun family is just one branch of the family; it is the Yun family branch, represented by Yun Jing, that is the foundation for the Yun family's business to remain strong throughout the entire Eastern Liang Kingdom.

Yun Jing's grandfather was one of the chief ministers and cabinet members of the current dynasty.