Chapter 85: Expanding the Village Wall
Qin Youli was stunned and said, "Master? Do you really have to take a boat to Guangzhou City to buy pigs?"
Qin Zhao nodded and said, "You go and take a boat now. Buy ten live pigs tomorrow to prepare them in the pig pen. From now on, you will go to Guangzhou City to buy live pigs every five days. Today, the soldiers ate less meat and a chicken and make up for it tomorrow."
Qin Youli took a breath of cold air.
Master Qianhu is so nice to his servants. Being Master Qianhu’s soldier is really a good business.
He quickly turned his horse's head and walked towards Qinjia Village, saying, "Master Qianhu, I'll go back to get the money and go to Guangzhou City to buy live pigs."
Qin Zhao explained: "You should pay attention to the right person when you meet the right person, so we build a pig farm and raise pigs by ourselves."
"This matter must also be put on the agenda. Find a suitable person to build a pig farm as soon as possible and raise hundreds or thousands of fat pigs."
Qin Youli nodded quickly and rode his horse to Qinjia Village.
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Qin Zhao stood on the outer wall of Qinjia Village, looking at the village wall construction team in full swing, thinking.
As Qin Zhao's career rose, the area of Qinjia Village seemed not large enough and needed to be expanded again.
Qin Zhao bought forty acres of wasteland at one time, expanded the village wall twenty feet eastward, turning the narrow and long shape of Qinjia Village into a relatively spacious rectangle.
With these forty acres of wasteland, Qin Zhao's various industrial facilities can be expanded drastically.
The original Qin Zhao's sofa factory was limited by the number of factories that could not expand. This factory had an order from the Zheng family and sold sofas to the Zheng family merchant fleet at the price of 12 taels per sofa. Sales volume was not a problem at all. This month, Qin Zhao had been looking for suitable workers and constantly expanding the scale of the sofa factory.
Up to now, the sofa factory has more than 60 employees, occupying more than 20 empty houses in Qinjia Village. This factory can produce more than 80 sofas every day and sell 60 to the Zheng family fleet. Together, it is less than 2,000 yuan per month. Qin Zhao can earn nearly 6,000 taels of silver in one month for the Zheng family fleet orders alone.
In fact, the order profit of the Zheng family fleet has far exceeded the profit of sofa sales in Guangzhou City. The sales of sofas in Guangzhou City have gradually saturated, and sales have gradually begun to decline. Qin Zhao can only sell 600 sofas in Guangzhou City every month.
Qin Zhao used 20% of the Guangzhou business's dry stocks to trade Zheng Chenggong for the low price Su Gang, but now it has achieved results. Now, the decline of Su Gang alone has made Qin Zhao earn 2,500 taels more every month. The 20% of the dry stocks in the Guangzhou business's abandonment have only 1,000 taels of silver.
Now Qin Zhao has been expanding the purchase channels of sponges, hoping to increase the production capacity of some sofas.
However, the original reserved space in the Qinjia Village wall was insufficient, and there was no empty space to build a new house.
Therefore, Qin Zhao wanted to expand the village wall.
In Qin Zhao's current plan, Qinjia Village is used as the main base. After all, the main people living here are tribesmen, and there is a certain guarantee of safety. In addition, this village is a village of Minhou, and all the things in the village are private property. As long as the owner of the private property does not sell it, others have no reason to merge the village.
If you are unreasonable, Qin Zhao will speak with his own service group.
In comparison, Qin Zhao's Jinghai Fortress is not that safe. If Qin Zhao was an official in Jinghai Fortress, he could certainly command everything. But once Qin Zhao was promoted or transferred to another place, everything in Jinghai Fortress will be owned by the new defensive officer.
Because of this, the previous defensive officer Xiao Heng, who had been operating the "private field" in Jinghai Fort for nearly ten years, disappeared after he was transferred.
Unless Qin Zhao uses huge resources to ensure that he will never be transferred.
But that would be too wasteful of resources and would be unpractical to Qin Zhao who pursues reality in his work.
Moreover, Qinjia Village has another advantage in building a base. It is close to the coast. Walking more than ten kilometers east is the seaside, and there are many bays that can be used as ports to load and load goods. Production here can be carried out by sea and sold to the coastal areas of China at a low cost.
This place is also very close to Chiyun Peak. Qin Zhao arranged the production of all confidential products on Chiyun Peak, so that it is not far from Qinjia Village, the main base.
So Qin Zhao decided to double the area of Qinjia Village.
Expanding the village wall is also a happy event for the villagers. Now it is the slack season, and they happily work according to Qin Zhao's arrangements. Qin Zhao's reward for these villagers is 60 yuan a day, white rice is full, and he kills a sheep every day to reward these villagers who help. The villagers work very hard, picking soil one by one, and ramming earth is joyful.
Of course, some rascals in the village also scrambled in, lazily and perfunctorily on the village wall, pretending to work hard. But now is different from the past. These rascals will be scolded by the villagers wherever they go, and they are scolded so hard that they can't raise their heads.
Now Qin Zhao is the head of the clan leader, and the Qin family village is very upright. Some honest and responsible villagers are favored by Qin Zhao and become more developed by their own duties. While the rogues continue to be poor and destitute, no one takes a look at them. Therefore, the villagers look up to those who do good deeds, and those who do tricky and slick things and cause damage to them.
Qin Youli walked in the village wall construction team for a while and came to Qin Zhao.
"Master, do you want to wrap a brick?"
Qin Zhao nodded: "Braught bricks, ask the brickmaker to make bricks and make an inexplicable city wall."
Qin Youli said: "The master is really a big deal. This bag of bricks costs thousands of taels of silver."
Qin Zhao said: "If you have bricks, you can prevent big thieves from siegeing the city and be safe."
In fact, in addition to guarding against thieves, Qin Zhao also guarded against the Southern Ming military officers, and even the Zheng family needed to guard against them. In Qin Zhao's world, all powerful people, including the Southern Ming military officers, are targets that need to be guarded against. Only by standing in this world with an undefeated attitude can he feel safe.
Qin Youli nodded, stood up and looked north.
He suddenly smiled and said, "Master! Your mother's family is here."
Qin Zhao was stunned and looked to the north.
Sure enough, Qin Zhao's grandfather Jiang Yutao walked over with a crutch, with Qin Zhao's two uncles and three cousins.
Standing outside Qinjia Village, looking at the rammed earth village walls that looked quite strong, and looking at the village gate with three-eaves of flying eaves on the east side of the village, Jiang Yutao exclaimed.
"Tsk tsk! Look! Qinjia Village is now built, see how grandly the brand new earth village walls are built."
Qin Zhao's second uncle Jiang Biwu said: "Being truly elegant is much more grand than the broken old village walls of our Jiangjia Village."
Jiang Yutao nodded and said, "It takes money to build this village wall? It's not that the patriarch Qin Zhao paid for it. Who has the money to raise so many labors to build the wall together? Qinjia Village is no longer the old look of being so poor! When I decided to marry our Yingzi to the Qin family, I really didn't marry wrong!"
"When Ying'er wanted to marry Qin Zhao's father, how many people opposed it? It is said that our Jiang family is a middle-aged family, how could we marry our daughter to the extremely poor Qin family village? Why? Isn't it that I am the one who makes the decision? It is said that Qin Zhao's father is a courageous young man, and our Jiang family will not suffer any losses in this marriage!"
Chapter completed!