Chen Xi really didn't know that the toffee sold by Zhen's family had words on it before. When passing by today, he saw an old man holding a candy and asking his grandson what the word was. After the child recognized it, the old man gave the candy to the child.
Chen Xi then ran to the store to buy candy.
After going there, Chen Xi discovered that this candy was recently produced by the Zhen family. It is a thousand-character version. Each candy has one word on it and is divided into a thousand varieties. Twelve pieces are packaged in a long paper and sold for one penny. Really
In the sense of pure milk plus pure nature.
Anyway, according to the shopkeeper, this candy has been selling well for a long time. There were no professional candy shops in the past. Since the Zhen family came out with this candy, there have been shops specializing in selling candy. People buy candy for their children to learn literacy.
I often buy this kind of stuff.
By the way, this thing is really effective for literacy. Anyone who remembers what to eat should at least recognize the word on the candy after eating it a few times. Sugar is still very expensive these days, even if Chen Xi is in the south.
The plantations worked hard to produce cane sugar, but they could not withstand the consumption of the Central Plains.
"How is this candy made? There is such a clear word in the middle." Liu Bei was very surprised when he got a candy from Chen Xi's hand, with a clear word "Y" in the middle.
"I do know how to do it, but I haven't thought about this aspect. The Zhen family's brains may really be all about business, and they can't do anything else." Chen Xi threw the candy into his mouth and said with a smile, he could
It tasted like this candy contained a lot of condensed milk.
To be honest, this is also a way to preserve fresh milk, but the method is a bit weird. It probably took a lot of effort for the Zhen family to come up with it. This family has many problems, but it is indeed very good in business.
"I can taste the very rich milky flavor in the sugar." Liu Bei frowned and said.
Liu Bei doesn't like the taste very much, but after hanging out with Chen Xi for a long time, Liu Bei knows very well that the shelf life of sugar is very ridiculous, and at most it becomes ugly, and the shelf life of dairy products is really bad, and these two
After combining, it turns out that the shelf life of sugar is longer. This is also a very magical technology.
"Well, this is also a way to preserve fresh milk, but the method is a bit weird. The Zhen family doesn't know what they are studying, but the general idea is okay. Although the internal voting has indeed hindered the Zhen family, it seems that,
They are still developing as a whole." Chen Xi said with a smile, "Business development also requires technology."
In fact, from this piece of candy, Chen Xi knew that the Zhen family at least had a condensed milk processing factory, a syrup factory, and a sugar manufacturing plant. Because they could produce this level of handmade sugar, most of the sugar was not available to the Zhen family.
It's not difficult at all.
Because this kind of sugar with characters is obviously made by hand. It is made into long strips in a semi-solidified state and then rolled into cylinders and cut out. This process can ensure that the sugar and condensed milk are maintained at a standard temperature without being hot.
It's too cold to start, but it won't be cold enough to turn solid. This is a skill in itself. Coupled with all kinds of messy flavors, the Zhen family almost always makes various kinds of jams.
This means that behind the Zhen family's creation of such a thing, there are pastures, farms, plantations, fleets, dairy processing, syrup processing, seasonal fruit processing, jam processing, etc.
Just thinking of this, Chen Xi felt that the Zhen family was really excellent. If they were asked to engage in development, they would be useless. If they were allowed to engage in production, they would learn how to extend upstream and downstream without any teachers. It should be said that among the five wealthy merchants, only the Zhen family was really conscientious.
When it comes to development, other things have other ideas.
For Mi Zhu, the Mi family's business is just a capital for advancement. He actually doesn't have many ideas about doing business. Being an official and growing the family are the essence.
Not to mention Chen Liuwei and Hedong Wei. For these two, business is just a cover, and the family is the most important.
Needless to say about the Wu family, they only engage in business as a auxiliary, and they only rely on cross-border trade to deploy their manpower at home and abroad, waiting for opportunities.
In the end, it seemed that only the Zhen family was doing this as a career, and they were doing it to a very high level, even a little scary.
"Wait a minute, tell me again, how many supporting facilities are needed for such a candy?" Liu Bei almost swallowed the whole candy. Are you trying to scare me?
“Pastures need to provide enough fresh milk, plantations need to provide cane sugar, farms need to provide maltose and seasonal fruits, and large-scale condensed milk plants that process fresh milk and syrup production bases are needed, and fructose seasoning requires some spices and fruits rich in sourness.
, which can only be provided from the south, plus jam..." Chen Xi repeated it casually.
Liu Bei began to calculate money. Liu Bei actually didn't like calculating money, but he felt that he really needed to calculate whether the Zhen family was not good at expanding and only wanted to make money.
"Forget it, just running these factories and fleets, as well as manpower to make handmade candies, requires at least 20,000 people. If the Zhen family wants to save trouble, even the candy wrappers and so on..." Chen Xi stopped as he spoke.
, shook the candy wrapper, opened the package and stretched it a little, found the translucent glutinous rice paper inside, and fell into deep thought.
"At least there are two or three factories to mention. The Zhen family also made the sugar paper themselves, and it was made from sugarcane bagasse squeezed out of the sugar water. The inside should be edible glutinous rice paper made from the wheat harvested by the Zhen family and some kind of grass from the south.
." Chen Xi shook his head. These things can be made by hand on a large scale. The difficulty lies in how to develop the technology.
"In other words, the Zhen family is still very rich?" Liu Bei said with a complicated attitude.
"It's not very rich, it's very rich. Just operating these things. According to my previous understanding of the Zhen family, these things may not be jointly operated with others, but operated by myself." Chen Xi said in a calm tone.
Not to mention the value of these things, the organizational ability to operate them is terrifying enough.
The Zhen family doesn't like sharing certain resources with other families. The last time they accepted shared resources was the Grand Canal. If the Zhen family really couldn't take it, the Zhen family wouldn't have accepted it.
Generally speaking, the Zhen family will try their best to control things that they can control themselves. If they can't build one by themselves, they are not short of money anyway, although they are not very good in other aspects.
Liu Bei had a sigh on his face when he heard this. Chen Xi could call him very rich. Liu Bei didn't know how to describe it. He should say that he was worthy of the Zhen family.
"Just such a gadget is enough for the Zhen family to squeeze out the candies of other families from the market. They all buy candies. They have all kinds of flavors and the prices are the same. The candies of the Zhen family have the function of literacy. Buy them
Just take it as psychological comfort, maybe my children will also learn..." Chen Xi said with a smile, "It's very interesting."
Liu Bei had nothing to say. He couldn't accept it. He should say that Chen Xi in front of him and the Zhen family who did this were both professionals. Ordinary people really couldn't play it.
"In this case, let's not go to the Zhen family and let them continue to vote democratically." Liu Bei thought for a while. He originally went to see what the Zhen family was like recently. Now Chen Xi knew everything at a glance, and Liu Bei also
I'm no longer interested. Ren Zhen has done some homework, but I'm still living a pretty good life, so there's no need to supervise.
"This family may not be on the right track, but it's good to engage in business. Let's just go to Media Trading City." Chen Xi also expressed a sigh of relief.
The Zhen family has a guarantee. No matter what happens, there will at least be a Media trading city. Although it is a condominium area, it is a trading city. Rome has a media governor there, so Han
The room also needs to arrange a family there.
Needless to say, the location is safe. Even if the two sides fall out, Rome will not take action against Media Trading City, which is a center of international commerce. It may impose martial law in a fight, but it will not block the place unless the two sides are in trouble and must die.
To the extent of one.
The problem, whether it was for Rome or for the Han Dynasty, was that both sides were too far away, so far that it was possible to fight with each other with words, but it was impossible to take action.
"Have you made up your mind?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked, "It's been several years, and I thought you were planning to wait until the Zhen family's democratic vote was completed before taking action."
"The voting can continue in Media, and it won't affect it. According to the current situation, the Zhen family can vote down this generation of family heads, and then replace the next generation of family heads to continue voting." Chen Xi sighed and said, "They are now
The democratic voting is already a display of attitude, and if we continue to allow the Zhen family to expand the scope of voting..."
Chen Xi touched his chin. He was thinking whether the Zhen family was out of ideas or deliberately expanding the scope of democratic voting. So far, the Zhen family has attracted many people into this voting scope. From the beginning, the head of the family, clan elders, to
The branch line then expands to give birth to children at home, then further expands to become the shopkeeper of a shop, and so on.
Although the voting authority of newly entered levels is being reduced step by step, there are still too many people involved, and it looks more and more like a parliamentary system.
"Which branch is the ancestor of the Zhen family?" Chen Xi asked with some confusion.
"It reached its peak in the early Han Dynasty and was a descendant of Prince Xingong, the Taibao." Liu Bei explained casually, "The ancestors said that Emperor Shun was the emperor."
"I feel that what the Zhen family is doing now is a bit like what some people did in the Spring and Autumn Period. "Local Official Situ: The Duty of the Great Situ": 'If the state has a great cause, all the people will come to the king's gate'." Chen Xi touched himself.
His chin said with some confusion.
When Liu Bei heard this, he was also slightly stunned. After a while, the two sides looked at each other, and then pretended that they didn't know whether it was the Zhen family's ability or not the Zhen family's misfortune. The parliamentary system is not that easy, and the Zhen family's
It's quite dangerous.
In business terms, it means going public. Although the market is getting bigger, your own shares are constantly being diluted. Maybe it will capsize?
