Summary of the previous chapter: Zhang Tianhao finally reached an agreement with Ma Xiaoquan about the cooperation on "Wild Landscape"...
After Zhang Tianhao left, Ma Xiaoquan quickly held a family meeting and made detailed arrangements for the marketing of "Wild Landscape".
Ma Xiaoquan believes that the current "wild landscape" business in Beijing is approaching saturation, and some businessmen have also begun to think about pumping water. However, since the Zhang family has a monopoly on the well digging business, the price of water from other households is higher.
, or the taste of the water is not good.
Ma Xiaoquan actually doesn't know how the Zhang family makes "wild landscape water". Anyway, it is his water and it tastes very good.
For this reason, Ma Xiaoquan plans to go back to modern times for a few days to find out how the water in the Zhang family is made.
Of course, this is only something you will do when you have free time. The most urgent thing is to first spread the "Yeshanshui" brand and make money.
Since the city of Beijing is already saturated, Ma Xiaoquan's business plans naturally focus on some large and small cities and counties around Beijing. Firstly, these places are not far from Beijing and the roads are relatively easy to travel. Secondly, it is also because the regional economy is relatively good.
It also needs to be more developed.
The economic development zones in ancient times and modern times are different. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, economically developed areas were mainly concentrated in the north. As for the south, they were generally called barbaric lands. For example, northerners would always bring the south of the Yangtze River to the south.
People call them "Nanbarbarians".
Ma Xiaoquan's strategic intention is to capture the counties around Beijing first, firstly because they are relatively close and easy to manage, and secondly because he doesn't want to leave too far yet.
Ma Xiaoquan's operating model plans to continue to be an agent. In other words, he will act as a "first-way dealer", and if someone comes to buy and sell "wild landscapes" in the future, he will become a "second-way dealer" or "third-way dealer". Of course,
, as more and more people deal with it, the price of wild landscape will naturally become higher and higher.
Ma Xiaoquan has already discussed with Zhang Tianhao that the "ex-factory price" price of wild landscape water should be as low as possible, which means that the Zhang family will do wholesale according to quantity.
Zhang Tianhao is also a businessman. In addition, the Zhang family has mastered the production methods and cost control of wild landscape water, so they are naturally willing to follow the quantity. After all, for every can of wild landscape water sold, they receive a can of cash in cash. This is much better than before.
The production and sales of Ma Xiaoquan are much better, and Ma Xiaoquan's identity is much easier to use than the Zhang family. In the past, those dignitaries who always wanted to take advantage learned that the Zhang family would no longer sell wild landscapes separately.
They all expressed their regrets. Of course, sales to dignitaries had dropped a bit, but as Ma Xiaoquan's marketing area expanded, he made much more money than before.
One month has passed in the blink of an eye. During this month, Ma Xiaoquan has basically completed the sales arrangements around Beijing.
However, since there was no anti-counterfeiting and no copyright protection in ancient times, many "counterfeit goods" appeared while Ma Xiaoquan was distributing goods.
To this end, Ma Xiaoquan set up a special "anti-counterfeiting team" to patrol around all day looking for fakes and cracking down on counterfeiting.
In view of Ma Xiaoquan's status as a deacon of the Imperial Guard, the number of counterfeit merchants has gradually decreased, but similar products have gradually increased. What worries Ma Xiaoquan even more is that the level of imitation by these people is very high. Not only is the taste different from that of "wild landscapes"
"It's very similar, even the packaging is a bit rough around the edges.
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Ma's house, in the study room.
"Humph!" Ma Xiaoquan slapped the desk hard.
Next to him, Li Qinghan also frowned slightly. The endless emergence of these imitations has indeed caused sales difficulties for Ye Shanshui.
Because he blindly believed in the quality of "wild landscape", Ma Xiaoquan spent a lot of money to purchase a large amount of water from the Zhang family in preparation for distribution. However, he did not expect that the emergence of imitation products put considerable sales pressure on Ma Xiaoquan.
Although there were counterfeit products in ancient times, in terms of quality, they were not much different from genuine products. Because the production of goods at this time was mainly done by people, so the cost basically could not be reduced much.
"What should we do? Ma Xiaoquan, what should we do now?" Li Qinghan really couldn't think of a way.
Ma Xiaoquan dragged his chin, thought for a moment, and asked: "Qinghan, among the new batch of wild mountains and rivers we purchased, are there the ones with the best quality?"
Li Qinghan nodded: "The Zhang family has indeed made a batch of good water recently, well, that's what they said."
"Well, that's great. Let me try that bottle."
Li Qinghan smiled slightly, and like a magic trick, he took out a small bottle of water and handed it to Ma Xiaoquan.
"Qinghan, you really understand me." Ma Xiaoquan took the jug with satisfaction, opened the mud seal, raised his head and took a sip.
"How is it? How does it taste?" Li Qinghan asked.
Ma Xiaoquan frowned, then handed the jug to Li Qinghan.
Li Qinghan took the jug and took a sip.
"This water...is indeed different...it's a little different from the previous ones...this water is softer and tastes better."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "I didn't expect that the Zhang family could actually make such water. I have to admire them. Well, it also made me curious, how did they make this water?"
Li Qinghan said: "I have conducted a secret investigation and found that the Zhang family's water production place is in Beijing."
"In Beijing city? Where in Beijing city? Why didn't I know?"
Li Qinghan also shook his head and said: "I didn't see the details clearly, I just know that the place is very weird."
"Very weird? Very weird..." Ma Xiaoquan frowned slightly and suddenly remembered a very strange place, "It can't be there, right?"
"where?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and chuckled: "This is impossible. If you can create wild landscapes there, it should be a very, very precious place. But why in the era I live in, it has become a very strange and impossible place.
Where’s the explanation? What happened?”
At this point, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly asked Li Qinghan: "Qinghan, do you know how many Suolongjings there are in Beijing?"
When Li Qinghan heard this, he was startled and asked: "Ma Xiaoquan, what are you going to do?"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "If I'm not wrong, the source of Zhang's wild landscape water is probably extracted from Suolong Well."
"But Suolongjing is being watched by the court, and most people don't even get close..." Before Li Qinghan could finish his words, he suddenly came to his senses.
"They actually used water from Suolong Well? Legend has it that the water from Suolong Well is not drinkable..."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "It's a lie that I can't drink it, but we don't know how much we can drink and how much we should drink. Let's do this. I'll go back with this water, probably... um
, will be back soon, Qinghan, don’t sell this new variety of water yet, wait until I come back.”
Li Qinghan nodded: "Okay, then go and come back quickly."
Ma Xiaoquan hummed, took the water bottle, and then drew his right hand out of the air, and a light blue crack appeared in front of him.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded to Li Qinghan again, and then stepped into the crack.
...
Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Ma Xiaoquan came back, but when he came back, he also brought something else back.
Li Qinghan curiously looked at the sparkling gadget in Ma Xiaoquan's hand and asked, "Ma Xiaoquan, what is this?"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "This is a water checking device from my time, but it can only be used once. How long have I been back?"
"Three days"
"Three days? Oh, but I only have less than half an hour there, eh." Ma Xiaoquan frowned and threw the water checking equipment into the water can.
"Gulu gulu" The wild mountain water in the water jar started to gurgling, and then calmed down again after a while.
Ma Xiaoquan poured out the water in the jug, poured out the water checking equipment together, and held it in his hand.
"Sure enough..." Ma Xiaoquan glanced at the information displayed on the water checking device and frowned again.
"What's wrong?"
Ma Xiaoquan sighed and said: "Don't drink too much of this wild mountain water. There are too many minerals in it. Drinking too much is not good for your health."
"Huh? Is the water poisonous? What are the minerals?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "It's not poisonous. If I go by the words of my time, it should contain some harmful things that are beyond our tolerance. If you drink too much or drink for a long time, it will always be bad for your health.
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Li Qinghan curled his lips and said, "It's such a pity that you can't drink too much of such delicious water."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "It's not that exaggerated. When I say you can't drink it, I mean you can't drink it directly. If it's boiled, you can drink it."
"Oh" Li Qinghan didn't ask further this time. Anyway, Ma Xiaoquan said that you can drink it if you boil it.
"But I didn't expect that the Zhang family would actually use the water from Suolongjing to make wild landscape water. Hmm, it's a bit interesting." Ma Xiaoquan nodded and murmured, "This Beijing city is actually a prototype of the eight-armed Nezha. In the past, Liu Ji and Liu Bowen
Together with Yao Guangxiao, one of Zhu Yuanzhang's most effective military advisors, he was a monk who jointly wrote and drew the same picture. Now that I think about it carefully, there are mysteries in every place where those locked dragon wells are located. It's really wonderful."
Li Qinghan smiled and took Ma Xiaoquan's arm: "Don't be envious, think about how we can sell this wild landscape."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled and asked: "Qinghan, how have the sales of Ye Shanshui been during the past few days when I have been away?"
Li Qinghan said: "It's still the same as before. There are too many counterfeit products on the market, so the impact on us is a bit big."
"Hiss!" Ma Xiaoquan snorted and murmured, "It's not an option to continue like this. I just deployed around Beijing and encountered such a thing. Then as we get farther and farther away, won't it be more difficult to do?"