Everyone inside and outside the palace began to get busy. News came from the palace that this year the fifth prince's family would also go to the palace to worship their ancestors and celebrate New Year's Eve.
As for outside the palace, each store needs to sort out the accounts for the previous year half a month in advance.
The fine salt refined by Hua Yanxi will be on sale in the next few days.
At the same time, Hua Jintang has also sent a letter, saying that he will come back in a few days with Luoyang's accounts to check with him in person.
Hua Yanxi is busy with a lot of things. She opens her eyes to do things and closes her eyes to sleep every day.
After that night, Hua Yanxi deliberately avoided Ye Yibai, and even ate her meals in the study. Ye Yibai seemed to be very busy during this period and did not bother her.
When Ye Juechen came to the house, Hua Yanxi was so busy that she had forgotten about the day.
In the study, Ye Juechen was sitting on a chair drinking tea and eating snacks, while Hua Yanxi was making sales plans.
Hua Yanxi looked up at his carefree look and couldn't help but said: "I'm doing things here but you are enjoying it. Isn't it appropriate? Don't you have room in the Seventh Prince's residence for you to drink tea and have snacks?"
Ye Juechen raised his eyebrows: "Don't try to put the blame on me. If I hadn't reminded you today, would you have planned to wait until the day after tomorrow to sell it without any preparation?"
Hua Yanxi was unreasonable and confident: "So what's wrong? After the people know the benefits of this fine salt, they will naturally start to praise it. The aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. What do you know?"
Ye Juechen sneered.
Hua Yanxi continued to write down the plan with her head down, writing quickly with the pen in her hand.
"Okay, take it away." After Hua Yanxi finished writing, she placed her pen and threw the paper directly to him.
This was the first time Ye Juechen saw the words Hua Yanxi. When he saw it, the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch. He couldn't help but look at the paper and then at Hua Yanxi.
"What, you don't understand? What don't you understand?" Hua Yanxi said.
Ye Juechen said: "I heard that the eldest daughter of the Hua family is proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she is even better at calligraphy, but you...can even write wrong words?"
"What's wrong?" Hua Yanxi frowned, stood up and looked over: "This is not good."
"This, this, this" Ye Juechen clicked on some words, and then said: "Except for these, they are all wrong. Either the words are wrong or the radicals are missing. How did your master teach you?"
Hua Yanxi rolled her eyes: "This is simplified Chinese characters."
“What are simplified Chinese characters?”
"Can't you understand it? It's okay if you can understand it. It's too troublesome to follow your way of writing. There are many strokes and it's troublesome. This is great."
Ye Juechen couldn't talk to her, so he simply didn't say anything more. He took a look and nodded that there was no big problem.
"By the way, the fine salt you asked me to bring to the palace that day has been used everywhere. I think it is very good. The emperor also felt that it was a lot more fresh after eating it." Ye Juechen said.
"Then you go into the palace and ask for a plaque from the emperor. When the time comes, I will hang it at the door, and there will definitely be an endless stream of people buying it," Hua Yanxi said.
This can be considered an effect.
The emperor ate the food that he agreed to, but the people still didn’t rush to buy it?
Upon hearing this, Ye Juechen knew what Hua Yanxi was up to and glanced at her: "Oh, I think you want to improve your business, so you have to go do it yourself."
Hua Yanxi curled her lips: "Just be yourself. I'll get it later."
But she is not free now, she is busy.
After the two discussed it for a while, they went their separate ways.
Hua Yanxi had already given the order, and every store under her banner had already advertised that they would start selling fine salt on the 15th. Anyone who buys a bag of fine salt would get a 20% discount. The discount was limited to three days.
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And if you purchase more than 10 taels of silver from a chain store, you can go to the salt store to receive half a bag of salt.
A bag of salt is worth two ounces, and the one given as a gift is one pound.
Naturally, the salt given was paid for by Hua Yanxi herself, using the purchase price of course.
This warm-up event was said to be for selling fine salt, but Hua Yanxi was the biggest beneficiary. Not only could she sell the goods in her store, but she could also promote the fine salt.
After hearing her plan, Ye Juechen had already cursed her as a profiteer more than once.
But now that she has control over the salt merchant, she naturally needs to listen to her.
On the day of the event, Hua Yanxi and Ye Juechen went to the fine salt store in person to check out the spots.
It was still early at this time, and apart from the people in the store, there were almost no customers.
On the contrary, the flower shop just across the street was packed with people, and everyone came out with a lot of things in their hands.
When I went to this silk and satin shop and couldn't collect enough ten taels, I went to the grain store. If I add more shops, I can accumulate it for use.
Ye Juechen sneered: "I think your move will not help our store at all except making money for yourself."
Hua Yanxi said calmly: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."
The two waited for a while.
I saw a lot of people coming to collect the salt with gift coupons. As for those who bought salt, they were squeezed into the corner by those who received the gifts. There were very few people.
"Salt is given away for free. As you can imagine, this salt is enough for them to eat for a month." Ye Juechen sneered.
"Originally, I didn't expect business to be so good today, and you don't think about it. If it's a new product, it's edible. How dare you eat it? But if it's a free trial, after they eat it, they will feel that it is better and more cost-effective than before.
Do you think they will buy it? We have said that our customers are not the high-ranking nobles, but the common people."
"It's all nonsense, I only care about the results."
"Just wait and see." Old God Hua Yanxi is here.
After that, for three consecutive days, the two of them sat in the restaurant, watching more and more people buying salt, gradually becoming equal to those receiving gifts, and finally overwhelming the people buying salt.
After all, if you buy salt now, you can get a 20% discount, and if you spend more than ten taels of silver, you can get one tael as a gift.
Many people who got the gifts felt that it tasted good after eating it, and it also had many benefits such as improving immunity and replenishing body functions.
Even if you can't afford so much at once, several families will make an appointment to buy it together.
In any case, fine salt has slowly penetrated into people's daily necessities. This is a long-term plan and cannot be rushed for a while.
Hua Yanxi only opened a fine salt store in the capital to meet the daily needs of the people. As for other merchants who came to purchase goods later, they still went to the salt transportation department of the imperial court.
After three days, the price returned to the original price, and the flower shop no longer gave away any gifts. However, news came out that the emperor's ladies in the palace now eat fine salt, and they all looked beautiful after eating.
Now, the family members of the imperial officials could not sit still and sent their servants to buy them.
Then I learned that the price of this salt was the same as before, and it had many benefits. I immediately started buying it in large quantities, and even the servants in the house ate it.