Chapter 1295 This girl is not growing pepper, she is simply growing gold (please subscribe and vote)
Seeing the gathering of stewards from the Han and Tang dynasties, the busy pepper plantation steward hurried over to greet them.
Cheng An returned the favor, looked at the busy workers here and smiled.
"Housekeeper, how are you doing? How's the harvest? We just came here, but we saw a lot of bunches of pepper."
"After all, this is the first harvest, and the yield is not high. After harvesting and processing one acre of land, only eighty kilograms of pepper will be produced."
"Huh?" Cheng An nodded subconsciously, then raised his head again when he felt something was wrong.
"One acre of land, eighty pounds?"
"Yes, we tried to pick pepper from two acres of land before. We have dried it and weighed it. It's in the warehouse over there. It weighs a total of one hundred and sixty kilograms."
"That Ethan said that if he had planted pepper when he was in Tianzhu, the harvest would have been good.
One acre of land can produce almost two hundred catties, or even one hundred, fifty or sixty catties."
“This is the first year, so we won’t gain much. We’ll have to wait another year or two.
Only then will we be able to enter the harvest year, and by then, we will be able to produce almost two hundred kilograms."
Cheng An and the other stewards were a little calm.
The steward of the Gu family stared at Pepper.
"Thousands of acres of pepper forest, even if one acre of land can only produce 80 kilograms of white pepper, that's 800,000 kilograms."
"Chai remembers that he bought pepper for his master once. He bought one pound of pepper and spent a total of eight thousand pounds. This eight hundred thousand pounds, my mother-in-law..."
"It seems that General Chai is rich. My master is relatively simple. In order to treat my mistress' illness, he made a pot of pepper wine.
It’s only about eighty grains of pepper, and it costs four to five hundred dollars.”
"We got rich..."
A group of people in each house and government are considered to be respectable stewards, but at this moment, they all look like they are about to suffer from epilepsy with their eyes crooked and their mouths twisted.
"This girl is not growing pepper, she is simply growing gold..."
"Everyone, can you please calm down? This is our pepper, not anyone else's..."
Cheng Anqiang calmly coughed a few times and turned his head to look at the stewards who had begun to lose their temper.
Seeing the busy workers looking around with strange eyes, they finally woke up.
He quickly picked up the pie and put on a good posture, as if he had begun to regard money as dirt at this moment.
But his eyes were still staring straight at the dark red peppercorns washing in the running water.
After Cheng An said hello to the steward, everyone quickly followed him to the warehouse.
This huge warehouse seemed extremely empty at the moment, with only two large jars inside.
The steward opened one of the jars and motioned for everyone to come forward. They saw the jars were already full of pepper.
Cheng Ping picked up a few pills, rubbed them vigorously, put them under his nose and took a deep breath.
Sure enough, the familiar scent of pepper hit his nostrils, making him sneeze several times to the side comfortably.
The others were not much better, and the peppercorns in their hands were even reluctant to put back.
Seeing this scene, Cheng An helplessly asked the steward to get a dozen bags and put a pound in each steward so that everyone could take them back and "taste" them carefully.
It doesn't matter whether you use it to eat or play with it, even if you use it to sell it for money, it's really embarrassing to save one or two.
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It will take two or three days to harvest all these ten thousand acres of pepper forest, but we want to completely make white pepper.
That takes almost two and a half months. After all, there are not many manpower, and the process of making white pepper is also relatively cumbersome.
However, Ethan also gave a suggestion, that is, you can make part of the black pepper, and the black pepper production process is much simpler.
"The output of our pepper forest must be more than 100 kilograms."
"But we are really short of manpower, so the villain suggested that next year we can do it in February, when the pepper has just started to turn red and there is still some time before it is fully mature.
Just pick part of it and dry it directly to make black pepper."
"Black pepper, the price of black pepper is much lower than that of white pepper."
"No matter how low it can be, a pound of black pepper is worth four or five thousand dollars in Chang'an. It's quite a lot, right?"
After Cheng An allowed the stewards to argue for a while, he cleared his throat and spoke.
"Everyone, everyone, if it is true that next year we can collect over one million jins of pepper.
Then we can indeed pick six thousand acres of pepper to make black pepper."
"After that, the remaining 3,000 acres of pepper forest will be produced into white pepper. In this way, at least the price of white pepper can be maintained from falling too sharply."
"What do you think?"
"As for the 800,000 kilograms of white pepper we harvest this year, it will be in accordance with the previous agreement.
Take 10% of the output of the pepper plantation and distribute it to each shareholder.
As for the rest, there are about 720,000 kilograms, but this amount is quite large. One sale can easily cause the price of pepper to plummet.
Therefore, of the 720,000 jins, we will transport 50,000 jins to the Central Plains every month. When the production catches up in the future, we will continue to increase the transportation volume.
In addition, we can also sell to the south. Shopkeeper Mo also said before that Lin Yiguo also has a great demand for pepper.
We can take out some of the pepper and discuss it with Lin Yiguo.
Let’s see if they are willing to exchange some special products, such as the buffalo that is in short supply in Jiaozhou..."
When Cheng An said this, he glanced at the stewards. "Do you have any opinions or suggestions on this?"
Everyone moved their heads from side to side in unison.
At this moment, I can't wait to get the share of pepper that belongs to my master as soon as possible and transport it back to Chang'an to show off my contribution.
Think about it, when the entire Han and Tang Dynasty merchants came south, they could only collect about 3,700 kilograms of pepper.
But what about now? It’s not measured in kilograms, but in ten thousand kilograms.
Eighty thousand catties, divided into fifty-two parts, one portion is equivalent to more than fifteen hundred catties.
"Manager Cheng, Li feels that there are still a few guards in our pepper garden. Now the pepper has been harvested and started to be produced."
"If there is a slight loss, we can't afford it. You see..."
"...Well, no problem, bring fifty more guards here. Also, Brother Li, could you please go and deal with Governor Gu."
"By the way, let's send some pepper to Governor Gu and Zhizhou Deng. We are not shabby either. Governor Gu will send twenty catties and Zhizhou Deng will send ten catties."
Li Dabao stood up and saluted Cheng Ping with a confident fist.
Chapter completed!