Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty Mountain Goods Village
Bang Chui Qi is back, and the crops in the field are almost finished. From now on, he can just make goods with peace of mind.
On the morning of the 16th, Xu Shiyan went to work as usual. Su Anying picked out a 168-pound hammer in the morning and went to the village with Xu Chenghou to hand in the task.
Yu Shouguang was also the secretary of Donggang Village. When he saw the mallet sent by the Xu family, he found it to be a good one.
Yu Shouguang was very satisfied and had to chat with Xu Chenghou for a while and praise Xu Shiyan.
What Xu Chenghou loves to hear most now is people praising his son and grandson, which makes him smile from ear to ear.
While Yu Shouguang was chatting with Xu Chenghou, the village accountant had already registered the tasks handed in according to the grade and weight.
After registering, Xu Chenghou and Su Anying pressed their fingerprints on the book before leaving.
After handing in the task, there is nothing left to think about. Just brush, steam, and dry your mallets as soon as possible.
Su Anying, Zhou Guilan, Han Cai'e and Su Anyu also came to help.
These people are responsible for brushing the ginseng. Xu Chenghou watches the pot steam the sticks and makes them as soon as possible to avoid the sticks becoming pulpy after a long time.
The Xu family's 37-foot mallet weighed more than 1,200 kilograms in total. After deducting the tasks, there were still 1,000 kilograms left.
The Xu family's mallets have a high output, so they are naturally quite large in size, with a large proportion of them having large heads.
Su Anying followed her mother-in-law's wishes and picked out a dozen large trees to keep.
I just scrubbed the soil, then came back with some wine and found a place to soak it in first.
Keep this as a gift during the New Year, it is rarer than anything else.
The rest are cleaned, steamed in a pot, and then dried.
In the past few years, we have mainly been selling red goods. Market entities also purchase more red goods, and the prices are higher than white goods.
The Xu family only had these sticks, and it wasn't worth setting up a basket to steam ginseng, so they used a big pot.
Every time the stick is picked out from the basin, there will be some viscous, yellowish liquid left at the bottom of the basin.
This is a good thing, it can be reused and poured in again the next time you steam ginseng.
Steamed ginseng has less white skin and is more beautiful and oily.
When the last pot of ginseng is steamed, the liquid is already very viscous. You can add some brown sugar, or you can leave it alone and boil it in the pot.
The water evaporates out and becomes a dark brown paste, which is ginseng paste.
It weighs about a thousand kilograms of sticks, and the cleaning is quite fast. It was finished in two days.
Steaming ginseng takes a lot of time, especially the big ones, which require wrapping strips of cloth around them, which is quite laborious.
But hard work always pays off. The mallet wrapped with cloth strips is quite complete without any flaps.
They look really round and plump when exposed to the sun, so it's worth the effort.
Su Anying makes goods at home and goes to the market from time to time to check on the situation.
Some of the southern customers invited to the market for its opening left, but most of them stayed. Many of them were at the market to receive their goods.
Although the purchase price of the southern merchants is similar to that of the ginseng and antler company in the county, they are not so strict in pricing, so those who are almost the same will accept it.
So Shenhu was happy to sell it to them.
This spread from person to person, and whenever the goods at home were dry enough to be sold, someone would go to the market to sell them.
Donggang Town listened to Xu Shiyan's advice and did not collect fees directly at the market gate. Instead, they collected money through scales.
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After the transaction is successful, both parties go to the designated weighing area to be weighed.
The people in the town are here to guard the place and charge a certain fee based on the transaction amount, which is not too high.
The fee is collected here, and the ticket is stamped directly at the other end. The person receiving the goods will take the ticket and go to the county to exchange for the transportation certificate.
In this way, some people will avoid running out to find a scale in order to avoid the fee.
The person receiving the goods can also rest assured that the scale is notarized and there will be no shortage of pounds.
After the merchants received the goods, they could store them in their own rooms or in the warehouse. The large warehouse in the south of the market was prepared for them.
The warehouse charges separately on a daily basis, which is not expensive and affordable.
The information from these merchants is also shared with each other. Some people didn't know that there was a market here before, and they didn't catch it when it opened.
After hearing the news later, I had to come over to see the situation in person.
When these people come, they will definitely stay and eat at the hotels and hotels north of Canshi, so the hotel business is also pretty good.
For hotels and restaurants, the main managers are Zhou Lirong and Su Anyu.
The two of them had at least a junior high school degree, and they had gone out for training and had management experience.
Zhao Jianshe and Huang Shengli's wives originally thought the hotel was very good and wanted to participate in the management, but Su Anying vetoed it.
No matter what kind of enterprise or business, too many shareholders cannot be involved in management, let alone shareholders’ family members.
Otherwise, the seven heads of the house and the eight in charge will each have their own ideas and abilities, and the people below will not know who to listen to, and no business will be done well.
There are more than 20 large and small stores in a row on the west side, and the company has its own largest office.
In addition, there is a place left for each family. Su Anying doesn't care whether they do it themselves or rent it out. Anyway, as long as each family does not participate in the management of the hotel and inn, it will be fine.
The rest are directly advertised for rent.
As someone with a lively mind, seeing that the business in the market is doing well, I feel that the stores outside will also be very good.
So I found Su Anying, negotiated the rent, and rented it to do some business.
About half a month after the market opened, all the remaining stores were rented out, and not a single one was left.
"Shi Yan, we visited these stores in the east end of the market, and almost all of them have been rented out. Originally, we were thinking of leaving one place for the fourth and fourth couple to set up a snack bar.
I see that many people have this idea. If you think about it again, what else can you do?"
The Xu family also kept a store of their own. In the evening, Su Anying went to Xu Shiyan to discuss what their store could do.
Xu Shiyan laughed when he heard it, "Then what else are we going to do? Let's build a mountain goods farm.
You ask Xiao Ji to go around to collect all kinds of wild goods when there is nothing to do, while the fourth sister guards the store and sells takeaways.
We have all kinds of local medicinal materials, such as Gastrodia elata, Ganoderma lucidum, Fritillaria, Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Brassica miltiorrhiza, Schisandra chinensis, mushrooms, fungus, pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts and so on.
Those merchants from other places don’t just sell ginseng, they also sell goods from the north and the south and specialties from various places.
When people come over to take a look, they buy it easily, right?
The deer products from our breeding farm can also be sold here.
This thing doesn’t make more money than a snack shop? It’s not tiring.”
So, this is because the idea has not been developed yet. When this area develops in the future and all kinds of mountain products are available, the business will be better then.
When doing business, you can't all rush into one project, otherwise you won't make money. You have to think of something that others can't think of.
It is backed by the market and the passenger flow is not small. Why not cover the whole mountain goods store? It is definitely possible.
"Look, I'm just going to discuss it with you, right? This is really okay, but isn't it a bit hard to make the trip this year?"
Su Anying was a little hesitant. Is it too late to do it now?
"Look, you didn't tell me earlier. Why don't we prepare earlier?"
"What you said is as if I could predict that our market will be so prosperous as soon as it opens."
Xu Shiyan glanced at his wife, thinking that he had eyesight before and after, he was not a god.