In addition, the Fangji grocery store in the town also sold dried chili peppers, so Song Qiu went and ordered a lot of them so that he could supply them for making red oil.
The price of Fang Ji’s dried chili peppers is about the same as hers last year, sixty cents per pound.
It was busy for several days one after another. Du Chuanfu and his people delivered the goods for large and small orders. There were many mule carts at home and there were enough people to drive them. The delivery was door-to-door, so there was no pressure.
There were people who asked Song Qiu a lot: with such a good business, why not just open a shop in the town?
It also saves them from having to come all the way to the village to place an order, right?
How convenient is it to just go to the shop and buy as much as you want today and tomorrow?
Song Qiu just smiled and said nothing.
Just open a shop in Panshi Town, how much can you sell?
She doesn't have the human and financial resources, so it's better to cooperate with others for this kind of thing.
The more she sells, the more money she can make.
Song Qiu was looking forward to Fang Hui's visit.
But after three days, no one came.
When I went to Fang Ji's grocery store to order dried chili peppers, I specifically asked the shopkeeper, who said that Fang Hui was still in Beijing and hadn't come back yet.
Song Qiu listened and thought that this dried chili pepper had come out, and Fang Jie bought the recipe last year. He must be busy making a lot of money with it this year.
There is no need to rush, as soon as Fang Hui comes back, he will definitely come to your door.
In the past few days, she has already sold a lot of large orders from Panshi Town, some merchants from Dongling County who came after hearing the news, and Xianfulai from Fucheng.
Orders are slowing down now, so we are stepping up stocking up and waiting for Fang Jie to come back to discuss business. She also has the goods to bring out, right?
After all the orders were delivered, Du Chuanfu sent money and ledgers to help Song Qiu reconcile the accounts.
At Shen's place, one hundred jars of bean paste plus two large jars is a total of forty-six taels, and fifty jars of red oil is a total of forty-six taels.
At the Fan family, three hundred jars of bean paste cost one hundred and twenty taels, and one hundred jars of red oil cost eighty taels.
Mr. Lu’s fifty-pound jar of bean paste is four taels per jar, one hundred jars is four hundred taels, and one hundred jars of red oil is eighty taels.
Xian Fulai Restaurant is also very generous. Fifty jars of bean paste cost two hundred taels, and a hundred jars of red oil cost eighty taels.
These are all big purchases. Other merchants and some wealthy families buy them for their own consumption or as gifts. There are two jars here and five jars there. The total number of zeros and zeros adds up to a huge amount.
In total, there are more than 600 jars of bean paste and more than 300 jars of red oil.
Finally, the general ledger was settled, totaling one thousand five hundred and ninety-four taels.
After excluding all material costs, the final surplus was one thousand one hundred and fifty taels.
Equivalent to her efforts this month, she made a net profit of one thousand taels of silver!
After this calculation, Song Qiu smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed to a slit. Old Yuan who was listening to this calculation also opened his mouth wide, first in surprise, and then in laughter with wrinkles all over his face.
"Oh my god! How much time do you have in a few days? How can you make so much money?"
Song Qiu was happy for a while and then calmed down, "To put it into perspective, it's not just a few days. Our workshop has been in operation for a month. It's so busy every day that everyone doesn't even get a break. It's just me and Uncle Du leading the people."
Running around collecting red peppers, everyone loses a layer of skin in the sun, how hard is it?"
"As for the one thousand taels of silver, except for the Fan family, my sister-in-law, and some wealthy families who may continue to place orders in the short term, the rest, such as Mr. Lu and Xianfulai Restaurant, are estimated to not be available for at least half a year.
Even if you order it, it will be enough.”
"So to be fair, this one thousand taels of silver can only be earned in half a year at most. With so many manpower and hard work, you can only earn one or two hundred taels a month. How is that much?"
She still has so many people to support, and this is far from enough.
So it is better to discuss business with Fang Jie as soon as possible, that is the big deal.
After hearing her granddaughter's analysis, Mr. Yuan was shocked just now that she had earned so much money. Now she calmed down. After all, it was not much.
But it's pretty good.
She smiled and said: "Everyone has worked hard this month, so it's time for the workshop to pay wages, right? I see that everyone is looking forward to it. The main reason is that you said you would pay for processing, and everyone is excited!"
When Song Qiu heard this, he thought that he had to mobilize everyone to continue working hard. Now that the general ledger has been calculated clearly, okay, let's pay the wages!
Taking advantage of the break after lunch, Song Qiu held the money box in the small hall of the east courtyard and asked everyone to come in and collect their wages one by one.
Twenty people gathered in the small hall, smiling like something, looking at Song Qiu sitting at the table, waiting to receive their wages.
Song Qiu looked at everyone one by one and made some remarks first, saying that everyone had worked hard this month.
Speaking of the exciting processing money, everyone's ears were eager to stand in front of Song Qiu, waiting to hear how much he would add.
Song Qiu grinned and said: "The weather is hot this month, and everyone is working hard without taking a break. I said I want processing money, so I will definitely add it. How much should I add?
Two hundred coins per person!"
Add two hundred wen, and that’s eight hundred wen, which is just shy of one tael of silver!
When everyone heard this, everyone was beaming with joy.
After the wages of the twenty people have been paid, sixteen taels of silver will be removed.
Then Song Qiu went to Zhuangzi again in the second half of the day. Shunzi and the others had also worked hard this month, so their wages naturally had to be paid. In addition to the originally agreed upon 500 fen, another person also added 100 fen.
Small dogs like Gouzi helped pick and wash peppers and did various chores. Originally, they were not paid, but Song Qiu was satisfied that they worked smoothly, and each of them was paid fifty.
literary reward.
It's not wages, it's just rewards.
It was only fifty cents, but I was so happy that Gouzi and others almost jumped on the roof.
I also work harder.
The chopped chili peppers on Zhuangzi are made into bean paste, usually either from Song Qiulai or Du Chuanfu.
The family was left to Lao Yuan, and Song Qiu had to bring Du Chuanfu and Zou to help when he was too busy.
As for how to operate the last step and what to add, so far, apart from Song Qiu himself, only Lao Yuan, Aling, Lihua, and Du Chuanfu know.
In order to prevent this step from being leaked, no matter how busy or troublesome it is, Song Qiu does not intend to teach more people to do this step for the time being.
Therefore, I still have to wait until the evening to make all the crushed chili peppers and put them on the altar before returning to the village.
On the five acres of land in front of Zhuangzi, I have picked two crops of peppers. I pulled out the roots of the peppers, cleared the ground, and re-sown the pepper seeds. Now they have sprouted, and each small leaf has sprouted in the five acres of land.
The green color is so pleasing to look at.
When the land was being prepared half a month ago, the tenants in Huangjiacun looked at it and asked out of curiosity. Song Qiu didn't hide it and told him directly.
When everyone heard this, they gritted their teeth and thought about the money per penny. Many people also cleared out the grain fields and planted this crop of peppers.
At worst, if you fertilize the land well in the winter months, you won't be afraid that you won't be able to harvest it if you plant it next year.
They can earn a lot of money just by growing this crop. What's more, Song Qiu said that they won't be charged rent for growing this crop of peppers.
There are also many people who don’t have land to farm in Lei Shue Wan. They know that peppers can be grown for two seasons. After thinking about it, I might as well plant less than one or two ridges of vegetable seeds for the second half of this year, and then sprinkle some pepper seeds.
, if you accept a five-ten-pound one, it’s also a pound of meat, right?
When I went back to my parents' house and when I went to my relatives' houses, people in villages all over the country started planting a second crop of chili peppers.
After a few months of harvesting red peppers, we will be able to harvest a lot of red peppers, and Song Qiu is also happy to see the results.