Later, Mr. Zhang's business expanded, and the people he knew hid and helped send many customers. The friendship between the two sides became deeper and deeper with these business contacts.

When Ji Wei arrived at Zhang's house, Nie Junqi had chatted with Mr. Zhang for more than half an hour. On the table in front of Nie Junqi, there were several plates, a lot of delicate snacks, and cookies with circular patterns.

Seeing him coming, Mr. Zhang beckoned and urged him to come.

"Xiao Nie has been waiting for a long time. You are so young, your legs and feet are so slow." Mr. Zhang smiled and scolded Ji Wei.

"Don't you know that Mr. Nie is coming, don't you have something ready, so you rush to get it? Look at me sweating profusely." Ji Wei apologized with a good temper, and Mr. Zhang asked for a handkerchief for Ji Wei After wiping away the sweat and serving refreshments, he finally began to talk about business.

"I told Xiao Nie about you." Mr. Zhang, who was nearly twenty years older than Nie Junqi, let out Xiao Nie's voice.

"The old man should save me some face." Nie Junqi complained half-truth.

"Okay, I'll save face for you."

"Let's get down to business." Nie Junqi cleared his throat and glanced at the stack of drawings on the table, "Young Master Ji just went to get the drawings, it must be related to the next thing to be printed, can Nie take a look? "

"Of course." Ji Wei got up and brought the drawing to the two of them for their appreciation.

"What's the difference between these sheets?" Nie Junqi took a piece of paper in each of his left and right hands, and looked at the two in Father Zhang's hand. They are all common patterns on the Mid-Autumn Festival, such as Chang'e, the full moon, lanterns, etc., as well as poems, in short, I can't tell the difference.

Ji Wei took out the drawings in their hands and placed them on the table in different categories, pointing to the few on the left, "These simple small pictures and short greetings are used as inner packaging. And this complex long poem , including the story-like pattern of Chang'e flying to the moon, which is used for the cover of the outer packaging."

Ji Wei's concept of inner packaging and outer packaging made Nie Junqi's eyes shine.

Although the concept of packaging has emerged in this era, it is just a single layer of packaging, and the only difference is the price of the packaging.

And this inner and outer packaging, it is Nie Junqi who traveled south and north, and heard it the first time, it is inevitable novelty.

"What about the inner packaging? What about the outer packaging? What's the difference? What's the role?" Nie Junqi explored curiously, waiting for Ji Wei to explain.

"I don't know if there is paper in the house, the thicker the better."

Ji Wei only had this request, so Mr. Zhang told the housekeeper Zhang Quan to look for it. There is a lot of paper, but thick paper is rare.

Zhang Quan couldn't make up his mind, so he found some different styles of paper and brought them to Ji Wei to choose. The left and right sides are not too different. Ji Wei randomly took a few sheets of the same size, put them together, stacked and torn them, and finally put them together into a small square box.

"Look, the two of you, this small box is the inner packaging. When the moon cakes are packed in it, they will be wrapped in the outer packaging, and the patterns and blessings will be printed on the cardboard, so it's perfect for gift-giving."

Nie Junqi and Mr. Zhang looked at each other, or Nie Junqi picked up the small box and looked around, and said, "How to print this box?"

"Simple, now print on paper, and then fold it into a carton style. Mr. Nie's printing workshop only needs to be responsible for printing and cutting, just like I did just now, cut the opening and send it to me at that time, unified Fold." Ji Wei had already planned everything, and a printing workshop was just short of the packaging printing.

Nie Junqi raised a few more doubts, and Ji Weiyi answered them. When it comes to graphics and color printing, Nie Junqi said that the project is huge and extremely difficult. It requires experienced craftsmen to carve out the template first, and then color and dye it. Which step is wrong, the finished product will be ruined.

In other words, the price is not cheap.

Ji Wei had already thought about this.

This mooncake gift box is originally a high-end market, it doesn't matter if it is more expensive, the most important thing is to get it.

As for cheap snowskin mooncakes, you can just sell them in bulk. It is simple, convenient, fast, and easy to store. You don’t need such delicate wrapping paper.

Therefore, Ji Wei calculated a box of six moon cakes, tentatively tentatively planned to pack 1,200 pieces inside and 200 pieces outside. However, to take into account the wear and tear, add 10% to each item, that is, 1,320 sheets in the inner packaging and 220 sheets in the outer packaging.

In addition, the printing workshop is closely related to the papermaking workshop. Ji Wei also has strict requirements on the selection of paper skins, and requires that the paper produced has high hardness, smoothness, whiteness and few particles.

Even with the affection of the old man Zhang, it would cost 27 taels of silver for a 10% discount, which is ridiculously expensive.

"This price is already the lowest, it can't be cheaper anymore." Nie Junqi looked at Ji Wei calmly, raised the tea cup in his hand to take a sip, and praised the sweet aftertaste of the tea.

Gao Ding is not cheap. Although Ji Wei knew it early, he was still taken aback by the price.

However, the cost is here, and the final price is not cheap. A box of six moon cakes costs one hundred and thirty-five cents per box, not including sugar, flour, lard, fillings, labor costs, and so on.

That is to say, a box of moon cakes costs two hundred yuan. Then at least half a tael of silver must be priced to make a profit.

All the calculations flashed through Ji Wei's mind between the counts. He quickly smiled politely, took out the money bag, and poured out a few ingots of silver from it.

The transactions below the city use copper coins as the currency of circulation. After all, silver is precious, far more precious than copper coins of the same value. Therefore, only in the large-scale transactions between the city and the government, the silver is more circulated.

Ji Wei carries 10 taels of silver with him, which is very surprising in itself.

"I don't know if these are the deposit, but it's enough?" The deposit was originally charged for half of the total transaction amount, but this time the cost was beyond Ji Wei's guess, and the money was not enough.

It's a little embarrassing.

Ji Wei thought that if Nie Junqi refused, he had to ask Mr. Zhang to borrow some money first.