Wang Jinghui came to the lobby and there were still a lot of people coming. He had set up two tables of banquets. He didn't expect that there would be so many people. He was stunned for a moment. Manager Li next to him whispered in his ear: "Instead, in addition to the Hangzhou merchants who sold real estate to you, there are also some Hangzhou merchants who are active in the news. Their property is also large in Biandu. In the future, the bigger the soap shop, the better. I will make the decision to find all these people. Anyway, one is willing to beat the other and the other is willing to be beaten, so you don't have to be polite!"

Wang Jinghui almost fell down after hearing this. He didn't expect that Manager Li, who had always been very majestic, had such a cute side. He thought about it and felt that it was nothing. At worst, he could have a soap alliance like in Chuzhou and spread the business out of the country at the first time. Anyway, he originally planned to borrow a chicken to lay eggs, and Manager Li did this in line with his original idea.

Wang Jinghui also knew that he was "notorious" to be "loving" and so he was probably the most relaxed time for the merchants. He didn't say much. He walked to the master's seat and picked up a glass of wine and toasted the wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou. After three rounds of wine, he asked his servants to present the soap cut into pieces in the afternoon and distributed it to all the merchants and said, "Although I am the prince consort of the Song Dynasty, I am also a businessman. Everyone here is my seniors, so there is no need to be polite here, don't call me the prince consort, just call my watchword! Hangzhou is a brilliant person. I built a house here with great help, so I have so much money to do, but it also makes everyone spend more money. So today I am summoning all the seniors from Hangzhou to the banquet. First, thank you for your love. Second, I am doing a business together!"

These local wealthy businessmen in Hangzhou have sufficient homework, and the son-in-law was in charge of military affairs in Chuzhou. When the son-in-law was in charge of military affairs in Chuzhou, they had close contacts with the merchants of Chuzhou. They were impeached by the censors and criticized by the scholars. Naturally, these rich businessmen would not have known the rumors, so they understood Wang Jinghui's "ridiculous words". However, when they saw the soap in their hands, although they knew that the wealth was relying on this little thing in the future, no one could guess what this thing was for. They all knew that the son-in-law was easy to talk to, so someone asked this question soon.

Wang Jinghui made a gesture to Manager Li. Manager Li naturally understood that he asked his servant to bring in a washing basin with dirty clothes. Anyway, the lobby for the guests was very spacious, and even if there were two or three times more guests, they would not feel crowded. Both tables of guests wanted to see what the prince consort wanted to do. When they saw that the servants actually washed the clothes clean with soap, they all understood what the function of the soap was.

Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "I'm sure you can count the cost of this soap for less than ten cents. It can be used to wash hands or wash clothes. Even if it's sold for twenty or thirty cents. But because of the huge demand, a family of four uses two yuan a month, let alone a wealthy family. If you gather your armpits and make a fur, you don't have to say much about the profits in it. How about it? If you are interested in this transaction, stand up and let's make a big deal together and make a fortune together!"

Everyone knows that the prince consort does not hide his virtuous words, but his speaking is so explicit that the business owners here can't help but feel a little strange. But they like the prince consort's words very much. It was like this. When the real estate market was sold at a low price, it was for money, and the prince consort's dialect was more in line with their meaning.

However, even if this soap is sold for twenty or thirty cents, it is still a bit thin compared to the real estate it sells.

A merchant in his fifties stood up and said, "Mr. Concubine, how do you calculate the profit sharing?" Although the money is less, these merchants in Hangzhou also recognized it. After all, for them, being able to take the line of the prince's concubine is to achieve the goal. In contrast, the officials they made friends with at least were still doing business with them and did not tend to annex their property.

Wang Jinghui said: "Don't worry, I never make money from my partners when doing business in Xia. The Xu family and I invest 40% of the capital. You invest 60% of the capital. Whoever pays more will make more profits? Think about it, it is far from enough to produce soap in Hangzhou. If it is not cost-effective to rely on transportation, this business can be relied on the industries under Xiahe Xu family. In various towns with a population of 50,000 in the Song Dynasty, we will set up branches of soap manufacturing workshops. I believe that even if we own 10% of the shares, the dividends in that year will be a big number!"

Wang Jinghui knew that they might look down on the profits of the soap transaction, but as long as you carefully calculate, you can know that there is a very amazing market in the middle - a town with 50,000 people. Even if five people use two pieces of soap a month, each piece of soap will be sold for 20 cents, the net profit will reach two or three thousand guan in a year. Of course, the entire Song Dynasty town with a population of 50,000 is too hot. A huge city like Kaifeng, Biandu has more than one million people. If it goes well, it will not be difficult to achieve a profit of 170,000 to 180,000 yuan per year. Once the entire commercial network is running, the total profit here may even be tempted by Wang Anshi!

At this time, Wang Jinghui suddenly realized that the soap industry is the labor-intensive industry he really yearns for. It can be said that a piece of soap in his hand can be easily solved with a job of tens of thousands of people. This is much better than the problem that the profit-making glass industry can solve in huge profits!

What Wang Jinghui has been struggling to find is how to create more "jobs" and solve the problem of jobs for more people. The textile industry once made him ecstatic - it was not because textile could bring him much profit. He didn't care about the money problem, the key was how many jobs he created!

In his opinion, as long as there are continuous employment positions, the negative impact of land annexation can be greatly alleviated. Before the land in Nanyang and other places is fully developed, farmers who have lost their land should be turned into industrial workers as much as possible. This can greatly alleviate social conflicts in the Song Dynasty and reduce the possibility of peasant uprisings caused by land annexation.

In Wang Jinghui's view, although peasant uprisings can reshuffle the land across the country through dynasties, it will not be possible to solve the old problem by changing dynasties. It won't take long for the population to increase, which will become a social disaster again. At the same time, the social harm caused by the land is extremely serious - a dynasty will reduce the population by half, which is really terrible in his eyes! The problem of land annexation has promoted the progress of dynasties to some extent, which has caused China to keep circling in the vicious circle of history.

Wang Jinghui did not have any deep feelings about land annexation, but the growth of the population who lost their jobs brought harm to social stability, which was deeply touched by him - in later generations, whether a country's political situation is stable, the "unemployment rate" is an important indicator.

In later generations, China continued to dig out its brains to reduce the social unemployment rate and ensure stable social development during the reform and opening up. In this era, the "unemployment rate" is synonymous with the number of farmers who have lost their land. If the "farmer unemployment rate" continues to rise or remains high, it will not be far from the time when the peasant uprising broke out!

In this era, China only had the budding of capitalism and was far from reaching the level of industrialization. Wang Jinghui suddenly had an idea in his mind - to transform the "peasant unemployment rate" into "industry". In fact, what Wang Jinghui didn't know was in this era. The productivity level of the Song Dynasty had far exceeded that of Britain on the eve of the industrial revolution. Whether in steel, mining, textile and other handicrafts, it surpassed that of Britain in later generations. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty had always relied on "its own domestic demand" to drive the economy and did not expect to expand outward. The steel output exceeded that of Britain several times, but it was used to make weapons, and it was rarely used for people's livelihood, and it could not effectively promote social development.

The domestic market of the Song Dynasty was difficult to tolerate the already highly developed handicraft industry. The products could not be sold, and whether the overseas market was fully valued. The traditional land trading route - the Silk Road - was interrupted by the evil relations between the Dangxiang and the Song Dynasty. At this time, the Western understanding of the East was synonymous with the Khitan as China. The most prominent expression was that China in Russian was the transliteration of "Khitan". The land commercial exchange channels were blocked and the eyes were not turned on the sea, which would only cause handicraft products to be unable to sell, and even survival was a problem, let alone accommodate farmers who lost their land. In the end, the empire economy would still be dragged down by a large number of farmers who lost their land. Perhaps fate played a joke with Wang Jinghui and sent him to the Song Dynasty. Now he discovered some of the methods of completely changing this ancient land. Although it was still a little blurry, a glimmer of light had appeared in front.

Another Hangzhou businessman said: "Mr. Concubine, this is a small business after all. Is it possible to set up workshops throughout the Song Dynasty?!"

Wang Jinghui felt particularly comfortable after realizing the links of the soap industry. Although the businessman said something a bit ugly, if he hadn't been concerned about his identity as a prince consort, he might have left on the spot. He smiled and said, "It is precisely because soap is a small business, so if you want to make a lot of money from it, your only choice is to open workshops in the central cities of various prefectures in the Song Dynasty! I want to ask you how much money you have to make in a year to be considered a big business?"

The Hangzhou merchants at the banquet were cursing the businessman who raised this mentally retarded question in their hearts. Isn’t this a shame for the prince consort to lose face? If you make money by soap, put it aside first. As long as you can get the line of the prince consort, you will still worry that you will not be prosperous? As long as you get a piece of the order of the Song Dynasty Royal Shipping led by the prince consort, you will also double your family property! However, when you see the prince consort and hear such harsh words, you are still in such a good mood. It seems that the prince consort is easy to speak far beyond their imagination. So when Wang Jinghui asked them what a big business was, he put aside his doubts and discussed with the left and right what a big business was.

Of course, these Hangzhou merchants are not incompetent. In this developed Hangzhou, although the city is far less prosperous and grand than Kaifeng, the wealthy businessmen hidden in the middle are also extremely rich, with different levels and different standards for big business in their hearts. Although the whole lobby cannot be as noisy as the vegetable market, the atmosphere is also very warm.

Seeing that they were discussing and unable to set a standard for a big business, Wang Jinghui smiled and said, "Since the industries of the seniors are different, the standards may be different, but I thought about it and set this standard as a net profit of 300,000 yuan a year. You should not have any objection compared to everyone here, right?"

"The profit of 300,000 yuan a year? Of course, this is not bad!" Although the property of the local family here has hundreds of thousands of yuan, the scale of the business it handles in life is not small. But these 300,000 yuan means this. They were still quite shocked. "Can this soap really make such money?!" Everyone was thinking about this question, which naturally included Manager Li and Xu Jin, especially Xu Jin, who secretly complained in his heart: "How is this possible? If this cowhide is blown up, I am afraid that he will have no face to be a human being on the streets of Hangzhou in the future!"

Wang Jinghui carefully explained the industrial planning he had just thought about. In the middle, he could not use the market in Kaifeng, Biandu to make an example. He dropped his chin on the spot - this little thing is so profitable?! But thinking about it, these Hangzhou merchants are all strong people who travel around the world, and they still have basic knowledge - they can count that there are no less than 300,000 cities with a population of more than 500,000. The minimum population of each household is calculated based on two pieces of soap per month, which would be an astronomical figure far exceeding the estimated profit of the prince-consort!

After simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division calculations, the "strong men" of Hangzhou business came to the most basic conclusion - soap makes a lot of money! This small thing is cheap, and even if you sell it for fifteen cents, you can make twice the profit. As long as you can sell it, no matter how small the business is, it will not be able to withstand many people. Gathering sand makes towers and gathering armpits into fur will be a true portrayal of this business. The most terrifying thing is that the young prince consort in front of him still has a very terrifying sales channel - overseas trade! Since the prince consort has been involved in this business, there is definitely something in this overseas trade purchase order. After this calculation, the little brown thing, soap, has turned into small gold nuggets in their eyes!

Wang Jinghui looked at the changes in expressions on the faces of all the guests and realized it in his heart - these guys were finally moved by themselves! He smiled and said, "All seniors here, who would like to do this business with me?"

The Hangzhou merchants below all laughed and said, "What's the point of not doing such a profitable business?!" The thank-you banquet turned into a business planning meeting, and no one wanted to eat, which also affected Wang Jinghui's appetite - this was a table of food that Xu Jian had to invite the Hangzhou chef to carefully organize, but unfortunately he could only drool.

After carefully finalizing the details of all aspects, it was almost midnight. Wang Jinghui raised his glass and said, "As long as we can survive the initial promotion stage, let the people of the Song Dynasty know that washing with soap is very convenient, it is time for us to sit and count the money. I hope everyone can exercise so that they won't get cramps when counting the money!"

Wang Jinghui quoted a "famous quote" from later generations, which caused everyone to laugh knowingly, and they all said: "This big head that makes money is enough for the prince to go!"

Faced with such jokes, Wang Jinghui only smiled mysteriously and did not answer after hearing this, while Xu Jin stood up and said loudly: "Everyone misunderstood. The 40% dividends obtained by the son-in-law and Xu's investment will be used to build West Lake Academy. Everyone may know that the son-in-law built Huaying Academy in Kaifeng, Biandu. Now the son-in-law is planning to build such an academy when he comes to Hangzhou!"

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but admire that although there were two or three people in the middle who were secretly calling the prince-consort a fool, most of them were moved by the prince-consort's righteous behavior and expressed their contributions. Now, even in the Jiangnan area where Wang Jinghui had never set foot in, they knew that the young prince-consort of the Song Dynasty had an amazing "hobby" for scholars in the school. In the Song Dynasty, which established the country with civil governance, this approach was very respected. Wang Jinghui smiled at Manager Li, and admired Xu Zheng's wit. With these local snakes in Hangzhou to help, and his student Li Shen was the highest executive in Hangzhou, what else could he not do?! With these people to help, he was confident that he would build the West Lake Academy into the largest academy in Jiangnan in the shortest time.

Manager Li didn't know why Wang Jinghui attached so much importance to running schools. In his opinion, it was just a good reputation. Even though Wang Jinghui had explained many times that this was an act of changing the status of a businessman, Manager Li still felt that the reason was far more than what Wang Jinghui said. However, this was a good thing after all, and he was not short of money. What's more, Xu and the prince-consort were grasshoppers tied to the same line, following the prince-consort.
Chapter completed!