20demayo Chapter 164 Concept of New Store
Chapter 164 Concept of New Store
He still wants to mess with the clan once more, but Qiwu no longer wants to make them lose not only their wealth, but also their power. That is the basis for their cannibalism.
The power that the clan relies on now is firstly the local protective umbrella, the second master, and secondly the big banner of the capital, the tenth prince.
Qiwu still wanted to get rid of the Tenth Prince first. Without this cover, the group of local jackals would tear apart the clan's protective umbrella.
However, the Tenth Prince is now hiding in the palace outside the city, so Qiwu still needs to consider his next move.
Qiwu ordered seven or eight more illusion arrays and confusion arrays from Tutu, preparing to layer them one on top of the other, so that if one illusion array had problems, there would be the next layer to cover it up.
Tutu simply placed the formation on a helmet, which added physical isolation, and pulled up the mask to ensure that no one could see what she looked like.
Qiwu, wearing a helmet, took advantage of the night to find the residence of the Tenth Prince in the palace.
The Tenth Prince's residence was in a good location and was decorated very luxuriously.
There were eight people on duty in the Tenth Prince's bedroom at night. It seemed that he was frightened by a nightmare.
Qi Wu drove an illusion array and floated beside his bed on a skateboard. She put a talisman to seal the five senses on the Tenth Prince, and then fed him the blue fruit juice that she had ground in advance, which could make a person's feet twice as big. She made sure he swallowed it all before she left.
She didn't feed all of the special medicines from Muguo. She wanted to try out the effect of just one first.
After several days, there was no news from the palace. Qiwu was a little irritable, wondering if the fruit didn't work.
Tutu advised her, "Don't be so tense, let's eat, drink and have fun, relax. As the saying goes, there is a way to relax and work hard."
Qiwu took Tutu to the dowry shop first, ready to inspect it.
She obviously had no money now, so she could only go to the shop to get some.
The silver shop is already full of her staff from inside to outside.
The workshop of the silver shop is not in the backyard of the silver shop, but in another place.
The silver shop was now openly a place that only sold low-end jewelry. It originally had some small diamond jewelry, but since she needed to use charged diamonds to practice, the shop no longer sold diamond jewelry.
What is sold in the shop now are mainly ordinary jade, agate, gold and silver jewelry, most of which are practice works made by apprentices using leftover materials.
So the apparent profits are not that much.
Qiwu simply withdrew a few hundred taels of silver from the silver shop's account and left.
She secretly went to the silver shop's workshop and took away all the finished jewelry, which was made of more precious materials and more complicated craftsmanship.
There are now three master chefs in the workshop, and Qiwu has planned to gradually transfer the three master chefs to neighboring countries.
Seeing that the old emperor could not survive for many more years and the factional struggles among the princes were becoming more and more intense, she planned to transfer her assets and gradually sell off the silver shop and cloth store in the capital.
Only the embroidery workshop will be left. Most of the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop are locals and will not follow. Only the manager and the shopkeeper are locals, and they will leave last.
The embroidery workshop's warehouse is separate, and Xing'er would send the manager away every time she went to pick up goods.
After collecting all the embroidery that Tutu ordered, she inspected the cloth shop. Business was not good, and the shopkeeper was very worried.
But the lack of customers is related to the store’s poor location. Basically, only nearby residents buy things here.
Especially because before, the shopkeeper wanted to make more money during the Flower Festival, the cloth shop had a lot of inventory and a large amount of funds accumulated.
Actually, this cannot be blamed on the shopkeeper. A few days before the Flower Festival, the queen passed away. The Flower Festival, which was originally a time for all businesses to make a lot of money, suddenly cooled down.
All cloth shops have huge backlogs and are trying to sell cloth to neighboring countries. Even though the shipping costs are high, they still have to sell at a loss.
After all, every year there is a new fashion trend and old styles will lose value.
The fashion this year is duplicity, which is thicker than ordinary silk and suitable for making thick clothes. It cannot be worn when the weather is too hot.
Qiwu did think about recovering the losses, but there were so many pieces of cloth and they took up so much space that it would be too much trouble for her to deliver them to Qi State. She might as well spend the time selling glass cups.
Tutu looked at the things in the store and felt that everything was new and interesting.
Seeing Tutu's eyes sparkling, Qiwu sent the shopkeeper away.
She and Xing'er were the only ones left in the store, so she introduced Tutu to everyone.
"This is not a good thing at all. This is not top-grade double-palace silk. Top-grade double-palace silk is radiant, crisp and stylish. These are still a bit rough and ordinary.
Look here, the six-zhu yarn on top,
Her skin is as white as a thousand petals of jade, and her fragrance is as red as six-zhu gauze.
As light as a cloud, yet worth a thousand gold.
Let’s take a look at the gold brocade, which is woven with gold thread and is very rare. It is only for the nobles, but the location of the store is too remote and it can’t be sold. "
As soon as Qiwu waved her hand, Xing'er knew what she meant. Xing'er went out to ask the shopkeeper, and he said that there were not many pieces of expensive fabrics in stock, only the few pieces in the store.
When he came back, he packed up all the three pieces of six-zhu yarn and one piece of gold brocade in the store.
Qiwu showed Tutu the antique forging on another shelf. "Ancient satin, the patterns are mainly landscapes and pavilions, this one is suitable for you to make a wall hanging."
Xing'er went to wrap up the two pieces of antique satin.
Qiwu also asked Xing'er to pack up the three pieces of Yuguotianqing and the silver-red soft smoke silk and move them to the carriage.
The shopkeeper was asked to come back and keep the accounts. When he came back, he found that the most valuable pieces of cloth in the store were missing. He didn't say anything and started to take inventory and keep the accounts.
She asked Xing'er to send the cloth to the embroidery workshop, and to make clothes of Tutu's size according to her idea, and to make the curtains with soft silk.
Once they were finished, they were sent to Tutu. A dozen embroiderers would put down their current work and work together to complete them in a few days.
Tutu was happily waiting for his new clothes.
Qiwu took the account and chatted with Tutu.
"Well, if we want to sell this batch of fabrics to other places, we need to pay 30% to 40% for shipping. It's really not necessary to spend so much effort.
You have too few industries. Why not add a category and open a store that specializes in selling embroidered clothes?
I'll ask the embroidery workshop to make ready-made clothes for you directly, the kind that doesn't restrict your body shape, or make them in different sizes.
Your diamond cultivation center doesn't make money, your small restaurant doesn't make money either, and having only a cultural relics shop is really too monotonous.
Opening another store will provide another source of income.”
Tutu was a little embarrassed, "Oh, you keep supporting me like this, what should I do in return?"
Qi Wu smiled and held up three fingers. "Guess how much I sold the batch of glass balls I sent over last time for in Qi State?"
Tutu looked at her outstretched fingers and said, "Those few dozen I bought from the street stall last time? Thirty thousand taels?"
Qi Wu shook his head, "Not dozens of them, I only sold ten of them, three hundred thousand taels, the rest can't be sold together, I'm going to send them to Huacheng to sell a few more. Spread them out.
So, the cloth in stock in this cloth shop is nothing at all, and the total value is only two thousand taels.
Don't keep talking about rewards. My ability to detoxify and cultivate is all thanks to you. Just make more money and create more diamonds. My cultivation consumes a lot of energy."
"I feel ashamed to accept it, but it would be disrespectful to refuse it," Tutu licked her cheek and accepted the rich woman's feeding. However, she also thought of new products to prepare for Qiwu.
Qiwu also wanted to take this opportunity to close the cloth shop and invite the shopkeeper in.
"I plan to close the cloth shop, pack up all the inventory, and send it to my embroidery workshop. Xing'er, you can sell the shop after I finish packing."
The shopkeeper looked terrified and fell to his knees.
Qiwu motioned Xing'er to help him up. "It's not your fault that the business is not good. It's just that the location of this cloth shop is too bad, and we lack a bit of luck. You are one of us, so go to the embroidery workshop and wait. We will open a shop in another place after a while."
The shopkeeper heaved a sigh of relief, and finally he wiped his sweat off his face. "Then, Boss, do you still want to purchase fabrics from the embroidery workshop?"
Because the embroidery workshop also needed cloth, and the cloth shop had been sending it there. Qiwu thought about it,
"You should go to the embroidery workshop during this period and be responsible for purchasing. Many cloth shops are in a recession now and have a large backlog of cloth. You can buy some at a low price."
The embroidery workshop in Qiwu doesn't actually have much business, but there are a lot of embroiderers in the workshop who need work.
Where would the embroiderers get the money if they don't work? The world has been bad in recent years, and these embroiderers may be the only source of income for their family. Qiwu doesn't have the heart to let them fall into poverty because of unemployment.