Jia Qiang smiled and said: "Don't worry, Brother Lang, soap of this quality is not expensive even if it costs one tael of silver, not to mention that you only plan to sell it for one-fifth of the price. I can guarantee it."
No matter how much I sell to you, they will be sold out immediately."
At this time, he made a rough calculation in his mind. If he sold ten thousand pieces of soap, he would already have an income of two thousand taels of silver. At least half of the net profit would be comparable to the income of a fine farm.
But the territory of Middle-earth is so vast and the population is so dense. Let alone 10,000 pieces, even one million pieces can be sold out in an instant.
In this way, that is a profit of one hundred thousand taels of silver!
"Oh, my God! It's amazing!"
When Charlie heard this number, his face was full of amazement: "Orientals are too rich! My motherland is also a rich country in Europe, and the Marseille soap there can only sell for 500,000 yuan a year..."
Jia Qiang smiled and said: "Southern Province is an idyllic place with famous cities popping up one after another and rich families gathering there. It is not unusual to see millions in number."
Jia Lan shook his head: "Actually, one tael of silver and five pieces of soap are expensive enough. If the production increases in the future, I will continue to lower the price, and strive to make this kind of soap available to every common person.
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We can actually divide this soap into several types. Ordinary soap only adds some spices such as mugwort leaves and wormwood, and on top of that, we produce various soaps that add other precious spices."
Jia Qiang's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this: "This is really a good idea!"
The two discussed the sale of soap again, and Jia Qiang's optimism about the prospects of soap also gave Jia Lan a lot of confidence.
Jia Lan spent more than a year thinking about the soap thing.
The prosperity of cultivators is the foundation of all other wealth. For China, whether it can maintain a considerable proportion of self-cultivating farmers is the cornerstone of national stability.
We are now in the Little Ice Age, and the weather is extremely unstable. If we want to avoid the situation where refugees are everywhere, we must stabilize production. It is not easy to have land for those who can cultivate it. We must find another way and create a new industry to absorb the displaced people.
The significance of industry lies in stability. It can provide people with more sources of income, improve their basic lives, and enhance their quality of life.
If possible, Jia Lan actually prefers to buy fields along the way to cultivate wasteland and farm with peace of mind. This is the simplest. There are countless fertile black lands outside the customs waiting for people to cultivate them.
It's just that the ideal is beautiful, but when compared with reality, it seems very awkward, and it is always inconsistent with hopes or imaginations.
What has to be admitted is that in the absence of the support of modern chemical fertilizers, relying solely on classical farming technology has a bottleneck in the yield of acres. These technical difficulties need to be overcome one by one through time and technology accumulation. Jialan
I have no knowledge, and I don’t carry any glass bottles filled with grain seeds. It’s not reliable to say that sweet potatoes and corns were flourishing. Corn and sweet potatoes had been introduced to China as early as the Ming Dynasty, and other potatoes and peppers were also introduced.
Likewise, Jia Lan has seen all of these ingredients.
Even Western wine can be found in the declining but undefeated Rongguo Mansion, and corn and potatoes are not uncommon.
The introduction of crops does not necessarily mean that high yields will come soon. In fact, it requires a large number of trial plantings, improvements, and experience summarization until a variety suitable for growing in the middle soil is successfully cultivated; and, whether it is corn or sweet potato,
, don’t overestimate their role. Jia Lan has seen sweet potato and corn planting areas in Guangnan. Local people mostly plant them in hilly areas that are difficult to level as the main food for mountain people. In plain areas
, rice still occupies an absolutely dominant position.
What he didn't know was that according to research, even at the beginning of the 20th century, the combined planting area of corn and sweet potatoes only accounted for about 10%. The so-called sweet potato boom was actually far exaggerated. However, although the sweet potato boom was eliminated,
Myth, it has to be admitted that corn and sweet potatoes have indeed enriched the content of intercropping in China, and at the same time, as supplementary rations, they are of great significance in famine relief.
Yield, the key is grain yield.
In order to increase production, Jia Lan continued to build farms and open up new fields. But where are there so many wastelands in Gyeonggi? The real wastelands in this era were either outside the customs, or they were in extremely poor natural conditions like Zhuangzi in Hejian Prefecture.
The poor location makes reclamation very difficult.
So money and food are not enough.
Regardless of the numerous industries in Jialan, the liquor of Zui Qionglou is even more famous in the capital. It is not an exaggeration to say that the daily income is huge. However, for several years of continuous relief to the refugees, the money and food are also scattered like water. Now it is even more important.
When opening up new Zhuangzi, the pressure on money and food becomes even greater.
The troubles don't end there. As Charlie said, the two villages in Hejian are in a suitable location and have good surrounding resources. However, they are low-lying and the lake next to them is located in the lower reaches of the Yongding River. They are plagued by floods all year round. If not
So, how could the local people sell the land to themselves so easily? In addition to the 300 taels of tax, the local people's inability to do anything about this land is also an important reason.
Jia Lan couldn't help but feel a little sad when he thought about the huge amount of manpower, money and food that would be needed to drain and level the land.
Seeing Jia Lan's serious expression, Jia Qiang asked, but he had no good solution.
"In fact, even the old farmers in Beizhuang are not sure. Although they have experience in building water conservancy projects, they are not completely sure about such a huge project. They can only cross the river by feeling the stones... Therefore, Mr. Charlie, I hope you can preside over it at the same time."
Build a construction workshop and first produce mortar for construction."
Charlie nodded: "No problem."
The so-called mortar stone is the predecessor of cement. Although China also has Sanhe soil, a very excellent building material, it is expensive because it uses glutinous rice as the main ration. Except for royal buildings or frontier fortress walls, it is generally very expensive.
Use less. After Charlie learned Chinese, he also read many Chinese technical books with the help of translators, such as "Tiangong Kaiwu" by Yingxing of the Ming and Song Dynasties, "Mengxi Bi Tan" of the Song Dynasty, etc., and he was very familiar with Sanhetu.
Have a certain understanding of this technology.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Indeed, the ancient Sanhe soil is extremely strong, but it requires a lot of manpower to shape, while concrete only takes less than half a day to reach initial setting.
In such a state, it is almost indispensable to cooperate with steel bars.
Jalan currently cannot make steel bars, but he can use bamboo or hard wood instead.
With the new technology of concrete, Jia Lan has the confidence to solve the flooding problems in the two villages.
"Sir, actually, I have some suggestions in this regard..." Charlie said at this time: "I think this kind of drainage project can be achieved by building a Western building..."
He took out a piece of white paper and drew a sketch with the charcoal pen he brought with him. Jia Qiang looked at it with a confused expression, but Jia Lan knew what he was doing, and he recognized what Charlie drew at a glance.
"This is...a windmill used for drainage!?"
Charlie was greatly impressed: "Young Master is so knowledgeable! He even knows this, Windmill? It is indeed a good name!"
Jialan's eyes were full of excitement, and he had to say that Charlie really gave him a big surprise.
Windmill! Why didn’t he think of it?
As an artifact used by the Windmill Country to reclaim land from the sea, the windmill is not only a mill, but also a particularly effective drainage system that can be used to dredge the large lake between the two villages.
Seeing that Jialan also knew windmills, Charlie turned his pen and pointed at the map and said: "The map indicates that the deepest point of this area is only eight feet, so we can first enclose this area and build a row of windmills on the edge, and then do this
in this way……"
Jia Qiang was also very perceptive and knew that this was a drainage building. After being reminded of this by Charlie, he immediately understood his design, but he still looked at Jia Lan hesitantly: "But, is this really feasible?
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"It's feasible." Jialan nodded, and Charlie then added: "I have seen people build forty-two such windmills in my hometown, covering an area of more than a thousand acres in three years.
The water in the lake is pumped up to a height of one foot above the ground, and it is pumped up layer by layer."
"What a magical ingenuity!" Jia Qiang praised: "Mr. Luo is indeed a great Western sage."