GBP Chapter 463 Harvest
Chapter 463 Harvest
If they produce at this rate, Shen Youyou can only get sixty taels a month, and Tang Guangshen ninety taels. Of course, this is the net profit of the two after deducting all labor and costs.
According to this amount, let Shen Zhiqiu go and get the money first to prevent farmers from not having money to buy meat and causing further delays.
Two hundred and thirty taels of luncheon meat, one hundred taels of stewed meat, and one hundred taels of self-heating hot pot.
A total of four hundred and thirty taels of silver were put into Shen Zhiqiu's arms.
As for the compressed biscuits that Li Jingshu and his team were going to make this month, after discussion, the imperial court provided the grain and asked Shen Zhiqiu and his team to process it.
The processing fee for a bag of biscuits was ten cents, and even the steel ingots for making compressed biscuit molds and casting molds were paid for by the court.
But I didn’t pay you in advance. After all, they have already provided the materials, so how can I give you the wages first?
After coming out of the Ministry of Revenue, he did not go back directly, but rode Lieyan to Guangyuan Tower first.
This time, for the first time, Shen Zhiqiu felt like he was the second boss.
The main thing was that as soon as he approached on horseback, the waiter at the door spotted him and trotted straight towards him, shouting, "The second boss is here!"
The character “二” is so long that it’s hard not to pay attention to it.
Sure enough, Chen Dongjia was usually in the building. When he saw Shen Zhiqiu, he greeted him, "Brother Shen, why are you here at this time? Have you eaten? I'll ask the kitchen to prepare a few dishes and we can have a couple of drinks."
"Brother Chen, stop busying yourself. We've finished eating. Let's find a place. I have something to talk to you about."
The two went straight to the lounge, where melon seeds, dried fruits and candied fruits were placed on the table.
Shen Zhiqiu pinched a piece of dried peach and stuffed it into his mouth: "This preserved fruit itself doesn't have much flavor, it's just sweet."
Chen Dongjia picked up the teapot and poured him tea: "Isn't this what it means to make preserved fruits?"
"Not all preserved fruits are like this,"
After Shen Zhiqiu finished speaking, he did not continue, but changed the subject: "How is the business in the building recently?"
Boss Chen was happy, thinking that his brother Shen had finally realized that he was also the boss and would start to care about the restaurant's business.
He said: "No one eats kebabs now, so the dishes are still the same. Although cumin is still unique, people don't order it every day."
Shen Zhiqiu believed this. If you eat too much of anything, you will get tired of it.
"That means I'm not busy. At home, your niece has recently made a new kind of preserved fruit."
He pointed to several kinds of dried fruits on the plate and said, "They are not worse than what you have. At least they have a strong fruit flavor, and the sweetness comes from the fruits themselves. Go check them out sometime and bring them to the building to sell."
"Okay, I'll take someone there tomorrow."
Shen Zhiqiu nodded and said: "If you feel that it is good after you have seen it, you can also recruit people to buy it. We can also make some hard persimmons. There are plenty of persimmons in Fang County.
In fact, I think it would be best to sell it before the winter holidays, and the price would definitely be higher than it is now.”
"Then why do you want me to go and see it tomorrow?"
"Isn't there no place to put it at home?"
Next, Shen Zhiqiu and Chen Dongjia chatted while eating melon seeds. Shen Zhiqiu told Chen Dongjia almost everything that had happened at home recently, leaving Chen Dongjia stunned.
"Is Brother Shen so capable now?"
"Oh my god, it turns out that this meal was eaten at the Ministry of Revenue."
When I came out of the restaurant, it was already half an hour later, with some snacks packed by Chen Dongjia in my hand.
Shen Youyou from Tangjia Village was looking at the form brought by Brother Erhu. The first batch of persimmon cakes would be collected today. The best ones would be packed in square paper boxes, with 30 persimmons in one box.
The boys and girls in Tangjia Village earned between two and three hundred coins for each piece of persimmons they harvested.
The harvest can be continued for another half a month, and each person can earn at least three taels of silver, and this is when all the persimmons in the persimmon forest east of Tangjia Village are picked.
As for the fact that Shen Youyou put so much effort into it, including putting it in a box and printing auspicious words on the box, she definitely didn't intend to sell it cheaply.
Of course, she didn't plan to sell it at a sky-high price. After all, she had to be careful about the impact. This was just a snack, and she planned to sell a box for two hundred coins. Two coins of silver was about three pounds of persimmon cake, which was not expensive.
On the first day, they collected exactly one thousand boxes. After fifteen days, after paying the boys and girls in the village, they made two thousand one hundred taels of silver.
As for the price of the paper boxes, they were made of hay and were free. A maximum of 100 taels was distributed among the brothers who made the paper boxes.
I get 30%, 600 taels. My brothers, as well as Second Sister and Daya Sister, get 50 taels each. It's not bad, a month's hard-earned money.
Of course, Chen Dongjia took the persimmons back directly, and she had no control over the price at which he sold them.
However, I would suggest not to charge more than three taels of silver per box. His profit is greater than that of Shen Youyou, who earns 30%.
Erhu also told us that twenty boxes were ready to be sent to the Duke's Mansion.
This is as it should be. Shen Youyou feels that their relationship with the Duke's Mansion is like offering tribute, so they never forget to send a copy of anything new.
However, she still did not forget to remind them: "The officials from the Ministry of Industry, when they leave today, each of them will send two boxes. I saw that they have become thinner from cooking for our family."
"Okay, I'll get ready right now."
If you put yourself in their shoes, these adults are really nice. Their workshop could have been completed ahead of schedule.
But Shen Zhiqiu asked them to build an oven on the first floor of the west wing of the fourth courtyard. Isn't this for making compressed biscuits?
Even if they don’t deliver it to the army in the future, they can also sell it to those chambers of commerce that come from far away to buy their goods.
As for the east wing, it is a workshop for my brothers to make plastic boxes and paper, so a stove has to be built there, all at once.
The village has started recruiting workers these days. Some of the more prestigious elders from the Tang family are in charge. They know the character of the people in their own village well.
When women wanted to recruit workers, they had to trouble the village head's wife, Dou, and several other old ladies who had a good relationship with Grandma Hua.
Due to the tight time schedule and urgent task, the Jiuzu clan did not hold any big beam-raising ceremony, but just set off a few firecrackers.
As for those fellow villagers who were doing hard labor, we discussed and decided to do something practical. When they leave, each of them will receive five kilograms of vermicelli and two kilograms of stewed meat, and they can go home and eat.
This is not a small number, there are three thousand people, and the total cost is nearly two hundred taels of silver.
Of course, Shen Zhiqiu had to pay for this himself, because the red deed of the house was in his name.
To be honest, spending only 200 taels to get such a good workshop with five courtyards is really a great deal. Although my own people are busy with the work, they also subsidize a lot of food in the process.
But the materials for building the house were all provided by the imperial court, and they only made the plastic windows themselves, and did not spend any money on anything else.
Moreover, the Ministry of Works was very particular about this, and the yard was paved with large stone slabs, so when the work was done, there would definitely not be any flying dirt everywhere.