Chapter 182 Your Highness, please respect yourself

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 182 Your Highness, please respect yourself

Earning money was something Zhu Houzhao never dreamed of. All the eunuchs in the East Palace had been plundered, and they were all poor, with no money to exploit.

If there is no more money coming in, he will have to deal with the royal chef in the palace all day long.

But the problem is

"Where is this source of wealth? How to make money?"

"It's your luck. I happen to have a way to make a fortune here. Come on, let's talk over there."

Seeing that the other people's ears were pricked up to prevent the leakage of business secrets, Xia Yuan took the prince to find a secluded place to sit on the ground and told others to stay away.

"Your Highness, do you still remember the secret recipe that I put in when we were making firecrackers years ago?"

"of course I remember."

Zhu Houzhao became excited when he mentioned this, and immediately said with joy: "Who would have thought that the secret recipe of the master is actually granulated sugar. I didn't believe it at first, but later I made it myself in the East Palace according to the proportion of the formula you gave to my father.

I made a firecracker and put some sugar in it.

It’s not very big, so I made one out of a piece of thin bamboo.”

Seeing that this guy was getting more and more enthusiastic as he talked, Xia Yuan stretched out his hand and made a pause gesture, "Stop, we are talking about making money now."

"Yes, yes, make money."

Zhu Houzhao nodded repeatedly. He did not want to talk about the consequences of that firecracker, as it would easily cause bad memories.

"Your Highness, what is the color of the sugar in the palace?"

"Yellow."

Hearing these two words, Xia Yuan felt excited. Although he vaguely remembered that white sugar only appeared during the Jiajing period, he had never seen white sugar on the market since this era.

But there is always a shortage of white sugar. After all, the Jiajing period was only a few decades away.

Therefore, white sugar may have already appeared, but it was not promoted to the public, but was reserved for the royal family and those nobles.

Now that we know that the sugar in the palace is all yellow, doesn't it mean that selling white sugar in this era is a monopoly?

Is there anything more profitable than monopoly in this world?

No.

Taking a deep breath, Xia Yuan barely suppressed his excitement and asked again: "Then do you remember the color of the sugar I used?"

"It's white, like snow particles."

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Xia Yuan's brows furrowed because he found that Zhu Houzhao's expression remained normal, as if he had not thought of the business opportunities at all.

"One is sugar as white as snow, and the other is yellow sugar. What didn't you expect?"

What comes to mind?

Zhu Houzhao was startled, thought for a moment and asked: "Which white sugar will be sweeter?"

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Let’s face it, this unfortunate kid is mentally retarded.

According to historical records, Zhu Houzhao was extremely smart, talented in military affairs, and extremely talented in languages. He was proficient in several languages.

But there seems to be no mention of business talent. It may be that the talent is really stretched, and I am still young at the moment, so I seem to be mentally retarded.

However, despite being mentally retarded, Xia Yuan still did not give up on this business partner.

After all, the reason why we approached him to cooperate was not because of his business acumen, but because of his status as the prince. Since he had a monopoly, he would definitely make a lot of money.

Once the money is too much, countless people will get pink eye, covertly and covertly. If these people get pink eye, they will inevitably cause trouble.

With this giant Buddha taking over the scene, many things will be out of the question.

After thinking wildly in his mind for a while, Xia Yuan spoke again, and in a more persuasive tone, "If there were two types of sugar on the market, one as white as snow and one as yellow, which one would you buy?"

"Which one is cheaper?"

"The yellow ones are cheap, while the white ones are relatively more expensive, but the color is pure white."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao made a decisive decision: "I'll buy the yellow one."

"Then it's cheap if it's white"

"Buy white."

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It can be seen that poverty has changed His Royal Highness beyond recognition and made him betray his own class.

At his level, what matters most when buying something is not to be the best, but to be the most expensive.

However, under the instigation of the devil of poverty, he went down the wrong path of buying whatever was cheap.

I haven't seen him in just over two months, and he has fallen to such a low level.

Xia Yuan was filled with emotions.

"You are very poor now. It is not surprising that you have such thoughts. Let's talk about the market prospects now.

The white granulated sugar, if nothing else, looks great just for its appearance. It is as white as snow and looks clean and hygienic.

Although the price is a bit more expensive than brown sugar, sugar is a luxury product, and poor people basically don’t buy it. They may only buy it during the New Year and festivals, so people who usually buy sugar are almost always rich or expensive.”

"These people are not short of money and are very picky. They don't care about the price when buying things. Don't say it's just a little more expensive. It doesn't matter if it's ten or a hundred times more expensive. They will still choose white sugar."

"And I have a secret recipe for making this kind of white sugar. It's an exclusive secret recipe that no one else has. That means we are the only one selling white sugar on the market. In other words, if you want to buy white sugar, you can only come to us.

Not to mention places like Jiangnan that are rich in wealthy households, the capital alone has more dignitaries than dogs. Do the math for yourself, how much money can you earn from this?"

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Zhu Houzhao seemed dumbfounded. It might be that the complicated calculations caused a brief freeze. After a while, he suddenly slapped his thigh hard, his whole face turned red, and he kept murmuring excitedly, "It's done."

, it’s made, I’m going to make it”

"You didn't do it, we did it."

"Yes, yes, we are going to send it."

"Yes, we are going to launch. According to the business plan I envisioned, we will first allocate a piece of land, build a few large workshops, roll out production lines, then hire people to buy brown sugar in large quantities, and then decolorize it.

Buying sugar cane directly can save a lot of costs.

After production is completed, we will open a few shops in Beijing to sell it. When we have funds, we will start to expand sales and become bigger and stronger. When our sugar blooms all over the world, then we will truly make a fortune. Hundreds of thousands

It is not impossible to earn two, several million taels, or even tens of millions of taels of silver."

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An unprecedented piece of cake was drawn, and Zhu Houzhao was so stretched that he felt confused. He was excited, shocked, and disbelieving. All kinds of emotions rushed into his forehead. He didn't know how to vent them for a while.

go out.

I was pacing back and forth in the library excitedly, rubbing my hands back and forth like flies.

He only had three hundred taels of silver per month, and he had no idea about such huge sums. The amounts that made him dizzy made him feel unreal, like he was dreaming.

But Zhu Houzhao also knew that it was true that he could make money. He didn't have much pursuit. Let alone tens of millions, millions or hundreds of thousands, he would be happy even if he could earn thousands or tens of thousands of taels.

The opportunity to make a fortune was right in front of him. The more Zhu Houzhao thought about it, the more excited he became. Then he rushed over excitedly, opened his arms and hugged Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan was careless and did not dodge. He was hugged tightly. After a brief moment of daze, he quickly pushed Zhu Houzhao away and said seriously: "Your Highness, please respect yourself. I am a man with a family."
Chapter completed!