The Royal Expo that Zhu Houzhao wanted to hold was not just auctioning luxury crafts, but also the purpose of attracting investment.

After all, the fundamental purpose of the World Expo in history and the World Expo later was to trade. Zhu Houzhao opened the Royal Expo to allow merchants other than Bahu to develop trade relations with the Royal Industrial Company.

Although the current Royal Industrial Company's main products are only soap, glass products, and soap, Zhu Houzhao believes that these three products can establish a huge industrial scale in the Ming Dynasty and the entire world, just like tea, porcelain, and silk.

Zhu Houzhao felt that only in this way could he have more wealth and make the Ming Dynasty a powerful empire.

Therefore, after the luxury crafts ended, Zhu Houzhao asked Liu Jin to announce that the next expo would enter the Royal Industries new product ordering stage.

And the first product is naturally soap!

Soap is now a household name in the capital. Most people also know that the beauty of soap is not only cleaner and cleaner, but also cheaper.

Many merchants actually had the idea of ​​ordering soap in batches to sell to other regions, but unfortunately the soap was made by the emperor, and the supply of goods in the early days was basically monopolized by eunuchs such as Wei Bin, so these merchants had no ordering channels. After all, not everyone could contact eunuchs like Wei Bin.

The role of the Royal Expo is to provide a bridge for communication between merchants and the Royal Industry. Now Zhu Houzhao has used the Royal Expo to give merchants an opportunity to order Royal Industrial Company products, because Zhu Houzhao gave soaps the words "Royal Industry" from the beginning, which also made many people know that this was produced by Royal Industrial Company, although they are not clear about what the company is.

But gathering so many merchants can only get the one with the higher order price, that is, bidding.

It is naturally more beneficial to Zhu Houzhao's Royal Industrial Company for mass sales through bidding.

Although bidding is beneficial to the supplier of Royal Industries, merchants are still motivated. As long as the price is not so high that they think they will lose money when bidding. After all, Royal Industries' products are cheap and practical, but are not available on the market today.

Bahu's shop, Xu Jing and other merchants participated in the competition. Zhu Houzhao allowed Bahu to participate in the competition, but they did not allow them to open a green channel for their stores because they were the founder of Royal Industrial Company. Bahu had no objection, after all, Royal Industrial Company is also their industry.

Because of this, the soap product alone received orders worth more than 20,000 taels of silver on the same day, and it will be calculated monthly in the future, which means that the orders are more than 20,000 taels of silver every month.

In addition, there are orders for glass products, including glass bowls, glass cups, glass plates and other glass products, which were taken out to exhibit one by one, and the order was provided by merchants. The deposit for glass products alone on that day led Royal Industries to earn more than 70,000 taels of silver.

Then there is soap. It is not difficult to make soap. It is nothing more than soap and spices. Therefore, the price cost is different from soap, and the cost is higher, and high-end spices are needed, so the price is naturally higher.

But after Liu Jin conducted an experiment to prove that the soap was indeed more fragrant after washing his hands, it still made many merchants purchase, and also allowed Royal Industries to earn orders worth more than 20,000 taels of silver that day.

Together, on the first day of the Royal Expo, Zhu Houzhao's Royal Industrial Company received more than 500,000 taels of silver, while he himself earned more than 300,000 taels of silver. Even if the cost was reduced, it was more than 300,000 taels, and it was more than 200,000 taels of rice owed by the regiment battalion and the injunction.

Liu Jin and Bahu were also very happy. After all, this time they all made about 10,000 taels of silver. This was the income they had to save several years before, but they didn't expect to collect so much silver in a day at the Royal Expo.

"Emperor, it's really cost-effective to open the Royal Expo. How did you think of it? If we open it every day, it means we have so much income every day?" Liu Jin couldn't help but ask.

"How is it possible? The purchasing power of the people in the Ming Dynasty is limited. Do you really think that silver grows on trees? Who can spend tens of thousands to buy things every day? This Royal Expo is enough. As long as the merchants participating in the Royal Expo make money, more merchants will come next year. Then we will make more money. The merchants who work with us are more polite and promote them. In addition, we have to prepare in advance next year. At that time, we will also recruit more merchants from North Korea, Japan, and South China, and Western countries to sell our things farther away to make more money."

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

The Royal Expo is not over yet. According to Zhu Houzhao's intention, it will be held for three days. After all, more businessmen will come to cooperate with Royal Industries after hearing the news.

What's more, a series of products such as glass goblets and glass bowls have to be exhibited. After all, it is an expo, so people have to see it.

However, before the first day of the Royal Expo was over, the city censor Qin Dongyi learned about the Royal Expo that His Majesty the Emperor had opened the Royal Expo on Qipan Street outside the Daming Gate due to people's discussions.

Although Qin Dongyi, the Censor of the City, did not know what the Royal Expo was, he knew that it would be a serious incident if His Majesty the Emperor was on the street, and he, as the Censor of the City, could not ignore it.

So, Qin Dongyi hurriedly brought his soldiers to Qipan Street that day, and saw Zhu Houzhao doing business with his own eyes, but because there were too many people, he couldn't squeeze in.

The city censor Qin Dongyi had to find a scholar to inquire about the reason, and then he learned that the emperor wanted to hold a Royal Expo to sell his royal treasures because he was poor, and he also asked the people to bid for the auction. For a moment, Qin Dongyi couldn't help but beat his hands and stamp his feet:

"Isn't this a nonsense? Now the Ming Dynasty is in power, and the country is prosperous and prosperous, but the emperor is forced to come out to sell goods. What does this mean? This simply throws away all the faces of my Ming officials!"

After realizing the seriousness of the problem, Qin Dongyi, the censor of the city, ordered people to strictly guard the area and prevent accidents, he rushed to the Ministry of War and informed the Minister of War Xu Jin. Xu Jin was naturally surprised when he heard about it, and at the same time he cried:

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Why do you do this? How can we be so polite to the civil servants? The emperor of the Great Han Dynasty worked hard for eighteen years to govern, but how could he reach the point of selling your imperial property? Take me to the cabinet quickly!"

Minister of War Xu Jin and Censor Qin Dongyi rushed to the cabinet. It happened that the Minister of Revenue Han Wen was also discussing matters here and was about to leave. Minister of War Xu Jin directly grabbed the Minister of Revenue Han Wen:

"You happen to be here too, so don't leave! How did you become the Minister of Revenue? You actually asked His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to sell royal goods on the street! And it was just to marry the queen and bury the emperor of the Daxing! You are shameless, we are shameless!"
Chapter completed!