Chapter 494 New Procurement Channel
"Taohua, find some time to go to the Lian family and talk to Miss Lian about Gu Ruinian."
Tong Huaqiong ordered Gu Taohua to find Miss Lian Er.
Before leaving Jufulai, Miss Lian Er told Tong Huaqiong that if she needed to go to the Lian family to find her for something, she just needed to let them know through the corner gate.
Gu Taohua, who already hated Gu Ruinian, hated him even more now.
They are all girls. If Gu Taohua were to be plotted against in this way by another man, she would want to pick up a knife and chop him.
Gu Ruinian has the nerve to covet Miss Lian Er.
Gu Taohua rushed to the Lian family. Miss Lian invited her to have dinner with her. It was already dark when Gu Taohua returned to her own house from the Lian family.
"Mom, Hengruo thanked us for reminding her. She said she knew what was going on and could handle it." Gu Taohua said to Tong Huaqiong.
Lian Hengruo is the second Miss Lian.
Tong Huaqiong learned the name of Miss Lian Er from Gu Taohua's face.
It seems that Gu Taohua has gained another business friend after Lu Zhaozhao.
"It's going to be interesting next." Tong Huaqiong said with a smile.
She had no doubt that Lian Hengruo could handle it.
Lian Hengruo, at such a young age, was able to enter the Lian family's pearl business as a concubine's daughter and snatch a piece of meat from her half-brother. If such a ruthless character knew that Gu Ruinian was plotting against her, she would definitely not let Gu Ruinian have an easy time.
Tong Huaqiong is still busy with the affairs of Jufulai Supermarket.
After staying in Pingchuan County for two months, she really missed her home in Qinghewan.
Tong Pandidi had already taken the children back. She was really worried about leaving Tong Pandidi under Wu Ji's nose, so she let her go back first. Anyway, the pig farm at home also needed Tong Pandidi.
She had originally planned to go back in the next few days, but the supply of wool blankets in the shop always made her worried.
A Hu merchant who had worked with Tong Huaqiong before saw that Jufulai's business was so popular, so he raised the price. Tong Huaqiong calculated that if she followed Hu merchant's purchase price, she would make almost no profit.
Tong Huaqiong had no choice but to stop supplying goods from Hu Shang, leaving a small section of the shop empty.
It doesn't have much impact now because of the hot weather, but it will be a big impact in winter. Tong Huaqiong wants to make money from woolen fabrics, but the old Hu merchants will never cooperate with her unless she is willing to compromise on the price offered by them.
Therefore, we have to find new supply channels.
Gu Baishuang volunteered to go to the provincial capital with Gu Dashu. After staying in the provincial capital for ten days, they actually negotiated a new source of goods.
The new merchant was from Fucheng, and had been doing business on the border. He bought the best wool in Mobei, made it into textiles and sold it to the Central Plains.
Wool textiles of such high quality are exactly what Tong Huaqiong wants.
Gu Baishuang won the first battle and became more confident in the supply channels of the shop.
When the new woolen fabrics were placed on the containers, the Hu merchant panicked.
He originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to control Tong Huaqiong, but he didn't expect that Jufulai had found a new channel, and the wool fabrics from the new channel were of better quality and lower price than his.
Hu Shang couldn't bear it any longer and finally turned to Tong Huaqiong to buy his goods.
Shopkeeper Tong is so generous. Every time he purchases goods, he buys a whole shelf full of goods, so that he doesn’t have to sell them bit by bit. If he had known this, he wouldn’t be so greedy.
Tong Huaqiong received Hu Shang with a smile and never mentioned the matter of purchasing goods. Hu Shang had to leave with great regret.
Originally, Hu Shang was certain that Tong Huaqiong would not be able to find a new supplier in such a short time, so he had a lot of goods in stock and planned to sell them all to Tong Huaqiong after making some adjustments.
In the end, his plan backfired on him.
Seeing Hu Shang's regretful look, Tong Huaqiong felt refreshed all over as if she had just read a refreshing novel.
Tong Huaqiong asked Gu Baishuang: "How did you find the source of goods?"
She was very satisfied with this batch of goods, and she was even more satisfied because the other party was willing to cooperate in the long term and promised not to raise the price. They were also willing to bring Jufulai’s people to the border to cooperate with real Hu merchants.
If we open a shop at the border in the future, it will be a big business again.
Tong Huaqiong originally wanted to open Tong-branded businesses throughout the court.
She is not familiar with the border and might now consider going there to explore the route.
Before Tong Huaqiong came to Pingchuan County, Gu Daqiao had already figured out the drawings of the cotton textile machine. Perhaps by the time she returned to Qinghewan, the new cotton textile machine would have been ready.
This fall, she is going to start a cotton textile business.
At that time, cotton textiles will be sold to the border, and wool textiles from the border will be brought to the Central Plains.
Gu Baishuang smiled and said, "It was introduced by a merchant Lai Fu met in the capital."
Introduced by Su Chengmin?
Tong Huaqiong's heart moved.
Although Su Chengmin's identity has always been kept secret, Tong Huaqiong could guess that Su Chengmin was either a general or a soldier of the prince.
In the past few years, there were occasional frictions on the border, so it was normal for Su Chengmin to be transferred to the border.
The person introduced by Su Chengmin must be very reliable.
Tong Huaqiong thought that she had adopted Xiaolong, the male protagonist in Tong Dajiao's previous life, for so long, and she was finally illuminated by his aura as the male protagonist.
Su Chengmin is Xiaolong's loyal warrior. Su Chengmin found a source of goods for her at the border, which is equivalent to Xiaolong's halo of being the leading man.
With such a male protagonist's halo sweeping over her, Tong Huaqiong believed that her Tong business would be spread all over the court in the near future.
Tong Huaqiong was happy to have found a high-quality source of goods, and suddenly thought of the melons of Gu Ruinian and Miss Lian Er.
Tong Huaqiong asked Nie Xiaofeng to keep an eye on Gu Ruinian and tell him any movements. Nie Xiaofeng watched him for a few days and found that he did not do anything other than hanging around Lian's house.
I don’t know how Lian Hengruo will deal with Gu Ruinian.
Speaking of melons, one of the protagonists of the melon, Lian Hengruo, the second daughter of Lian Lian, came to the door.
Lian Hengruo came this time naturally for the pearl stall. Tong Huaqiong had already negotiated a profit share with her and was just waiting for the pearls to be sold in the supermarket.
"Aunt Tong, can you take a look at the quality of the pearls?"
Lian Hengruo ordered someone to carry a basket of pearls and place it in front of Tong Huaqiong.
When the lid was opened, the whole room was instantly filled with light. Tong Huaqiong's eyes were dazzled, and round and plump pearls of high quality came into her sight.
Tong Huaqiong picked up a few pearls and played with them.
Although she didn't know much about pearls, she knew that the quality of pearls depends on their glossiness. The surface of a good pearl should be as bright as a mirror and be able to clearly reflect the shadow of an object.
From this point of view, Lian Hengruo's pearls meet this requirement.
"And the Black Pearl."
Tong Huaqiong was amazed when she saw a few black pearls among the pink and white pearls.
"I asked my pearl farmers to grow them." Lian Heng said complacently, "My pearl farm is the only one in the world that can grow black pearls."
Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but look at Lian Hengruo with admiration.
She only knew about Tahitian black pearls, which are known as the Queen's Pearl and the Queen of Pearls.
From an aesthetic point of view, white pearls and pink pearls are more beautiful. The reason why black pearls are expensive is that they are rare. It is said that you have to open nearly 20,000 oysters to find a natural black pearl. Therefore, before they were artificially cultivated, they were very expensive because of their rarity.
Once something becomes rare, people will flock to it.
Lian Hengruo cultivated the rare black pearls. It must be said that she not only regarded pearls as a business, but also as a weapon to establish herself.
Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but sigh that no matter whether in ancient times or modern times, anyone who can stand out in business must have some core competitive advantages.
Lian Hengruo said: "This is the first time that black pearls have been released."
It was first launched at the pearl stall in Jufulai.
Tong Huaqiong knew that this was Lian Hengruo's indirect way of expressing his sincerity in cooperation.
Tong Huaqiong smiled and said, "It seems that this is our blessing from Jufulai."
Lian Hengruo had a smile on his face.
She cultivated the black pearls but did not tell anyone else in the family except her mother. She felt that her family members did not deserve the black pearls that she cultivated with all her efforts.
Naturally, she would keep such a rare pearl to pave her own way.