The door was already crowded with people early in the morning.
Although there were a lot of people, they were still very harmonious, and they all said hello to each other.
Of course, the people who came to line up were all domestic servants.
After all, their respective owners are all at the same level, either businessmen or officials with considerable wealth in their families, or even several noble families that have declined.
It is this kind of person who needs the carriage most to support the scene.
Like ordinary merchants, they usually travel in a soft sedan chair, which is obviously shorter in front of the tall carriage.
Officials with assets also show their strength so that their colleagues and superiors can see their value.
As for the declining noble family, they could not afford to build a carriage worth thousands of taels of silver. Buying an ordinary carriage could be regarded as a sign that their family's former glory was still there.
When the door of the shop opened, the slaves who had just said hello to each other suddenly changed their faces and rushed into the shop one by one, holding banknotes in their hands and shouting that they wanted to buy a carriage.
Although the shopkeeper was prepared in advance, he did not expect it to be so intense. Two waiters were even pushed out of the door by people buying carriages.
But soon, the crowded crowd changed their formation and surrounded all the waiters in the middle, like ants carrying rice grains, and they were tightly surrounded.
The guys had no choice but to hold up the car purchase contract in their hands and ask everyone to sign the contract.
Some illiterate slaves were immediately dumbfounded. What kind of contract do you need to sign to buy a carriage? Can't you just give money?
Then the guys explained the after-sales service.
These slaves who could be sent by their masters to buy carriages, although illiterate, were very bright. When they heard that not only the carriages were cheap, but also the follow-up services were so considerate, they pressed their fingerprints one by one.
There was nothing they could do. If they didn't press their fingerprints, the carriage would be snatched away by others.
So, within half a day, all the forty-five carriages were sold out.
As for the luxury version, if Yang Xuan hadn't insisted, it would have been almost bought at twice the price.
However, even though the carriages have been sold out, there are still many people gathered in the shop. These people came late and didn't get one. They all looked sad. After all, they had not completed the tasks assigned by the owner, and they would definitely be punished when they returned home.
If you don’t know how to spend money, what else can you do?
However, Yang Xuan quickly took out another contract and asked the guys to distribute it to those people, and told them that this was a predetermined contract, and a new batch of carriages would be sold in half a month.
Now, the scheduled carriage was scheduled to go two months later.
There are only two people left in the shop who are still discussing the configuration of the deluxe version.
Among them was a person who wanted to buy the show car for twice the price. Yang Xuan asked the clerk to quietly tell the person that as long as he paid more, he could pick up the car faster.
In the end, the owner, who was not short of money, spent 900 taels to order a luxury carriage that was originally priced at only 600 taels.
At closing time in the evening, I did some calculations and found that 30 units of the basic version were sold out, with an income of 6,000 taels, one convertible version was sold out, with an income of 350 taels, and an income of 5,250 taels, and two customized luxury versions were sold, with an income of 900 taels.
, 650 taels per car.
In addition, there are a total of 112 scheduled carriages, of which the convertible version accounts for 70%. The advance payment for each scheduled carriage is 100 taels, which is another 11,200 taels.
The total income was twenty-four thousand taels of silver.
It is said that it is sold at cost price, but there is still a certain profit for each car. Although it is not much, it is still 10 to 20% of the profit.
Not counting the pre-orders, the profit from the finished carriages sold today was more than 1,800 taels.
Shopkeeper Fang and His Highness Prince Chun calculated it three times and found that, yes, it was a profit of more than 1,800 taels.
"Master, pinch me to see if I'm dreaming."
Compared to Shopkeeper Fang, His Highness Prince Chun seemed calmer: "There is no need to doubt that Mr. Yang has the ability to turn stone into gold."
"Master, this is a profit of more than one thousand taels. Today, it is nearly two thousand taels of silver."
"Well, the shopkeeper can't calculate like this. We have been busy for a month. Besides, this is just gross profit. The rent of the shop and the wages of the clerks must also be taken into account."
The shopkeeper nodded, held the abacus for a while, raised his head and said: "This shop and the horse farm over there are both owned by the owner. There is no rent. The workers are all their own slaves. The wages are not high. The two hundred
A month's wages for many people is only more than two hundred and sixty taels."
Hearing this, Yang Xuan was also a little stunned. Labor is really cheap these days.
After all, you are just a slave. You are raised by your master, and you should do whatever you are asked to do. Paying you wages is a favor. There are so many workers, and only the craftsmen's wages are a little more, but they are only more than one tael of silver a month. Those ordinary workers,
That’s three to five hundred articles a month.
"No, no, this is wrong." Yang Xuan shook his head and said, "I think those craftsmen should be paid more."
His Royal Highness King Chun waved his hand generously: "That's natural. They have worked hard during this period. Each of them will be rewarded with another five hundred coins."
"No, no, no, Brother Lu misunderstood me." Yang Xuan waved his hand: "There is no problem with the reward you mentioned, but we need to set up another bonus for these craftsmen. If they come up with a new technology, as long as it uses a carriage
Those who do make improvements will be rewarded generously."
When His Highness Prince Chun heard this, he knew that Yang Xuan had another trick up his sleeve, and he cupped his hands and said, "Sir, please tell me the rules."
"The prize money for this heavy reward starts at one hundred taels, and there is no upper limit."
"Hiss..." The shopkeeper on the side took a breath of cold air: "A reward of one hundred taels?"
"If we people want to make progress, we need new technological inventions and new tools. Let's talk about Shopkeeper Fang's abacus. If there was no abacus, it would not be so easy to calculate accounts today. Who invented this abacus?
What about the creation?”
Yang Xuan's words made both Shopkeeper Fang and His Royal Highness Prince Chun fall into deep thought.
Yang Xuan didn't wait for them to think about it carefully. After all, this proposition was a bit big and he might not be able to comprehend it in a while, so he continued: "Our carriage only has two wheels after all, so it can't carry enough things."
"For example, the luxury version of the carriage is so big that it would be difficult for ordinary horses to drag it, so good horses are needed. But what if our carriage has four wheels? Then the weight of the carriage does not need to weigh on the horses.
It’s on me.”
His Royal Highness Prince Chun interrupted when he heard this: "It's not that there are no four-wheeled carriages. It's just because it's inconvenient to turn, so people don't use them. The army uses four-wheeled carriages for baggage."
"Brother Lu is right. It is because of the inconvenience of steering that four-wheeled carriages are not popular. If the carriages carrying heavy baggage in the army encounter inconvenient roads, they will not have to rely on manpower to move them. If there are skilled craftsmen to create
With wheels that can be turned, can the transport speed of baggage be speeded up a lot?"
"hiss……"
This time it was His Highness Prince Chun's turn to take a breath of cold air.
"If someone creates a wheel that can turn, how much does Brother Lu think it would be worth?"
"If there is such a creation, its effect cannot be measured in money."