Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Chapter 159 The first merchant to settle in

The days passed slowly, and at the end of July, Zhang Xinbai said someone was looking for her.

Zhao Yuanzhen was curious, looking for her?

Went to the cafeteria and took a look.

He was dressed as a businessman.

"Hello, it turns out that you, the genius doctor, are the owner of this ferry. You have a really good eye."

The businessman originally told Zhang Xinnian that he wanted to find the owner of the ferry, but it turned out that the person who came was the miracle doctor Zhao Yuanzhen.

"I wonder what's going on?"

"It's like this, I want to rent a shop, I don't know if the owner is willing to rent it out."

Rent a shop?

He has a good vision and knows that his side will become popular in the future.

"What do you want to rent a shop for?"

“I want to open a cloth shop and sell cloth and ready-made clothes.”

Well, the cloth shop is fine. It doesn’t conflict with my home, so it’s fine.

"I can rent it to you, but my rent is not fixed. I want 10% of the profit of the cloth shop."

It is impossible to fix the rent.

"Is this too much?"

“You should know that the construction of this ferry terminal consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and its future development is limitless. I can’t rent out such a prime place for just a few taels of silver.

And I can assure you that you are the only cloth shop in this ferry, and there will not be a second one in the future, which is equivalent to you monopolizing the market in Henan and Hebei."

She is serious about this and only keeps one shop of each kind so that everyone can make more money.

The businessman thought for a while and agreed.

This is considered a new market. If we do it well, it will sell better than the shops in the capital, and we are the only one there.

I don't want to go to Beijing, the competition is too fierce.

"Okay, then I'll do as you wish, Madam."

Zhao Yuanzhen rented the adjacent drink shop to him and signed a contract.

He paid for and helped build the backyard and house.

The backyard is not very big, with three rooms built on it: a warehouse, a bedroom, and a main room.

He didn't mention the kitchen, probably because he thought it would be more convenient to eat in the cafeteria.

As long as you pay, you are the boss. Zhao Yuanzhen quickly asked the craftsmen to build it for him.

The area chosen by Zhao Yuanzhen is relatively open, but this has a disadvantage: it is too empty, there are few trees, and it is sunny and hot.

I transplanted some trees from the woods nearby. I don't know if they can survive. I'll just water them frequently. It's hard for trees to survive in summer.

At the end of the month, Zhao Yuanzhen returned to the capital again to deliver the items needed by the bookstore.

The shopkeeper chose the owner of the Huaben Shop, and the Huaben Shop let the servant who had been in training take over, and transferred another servant over to continue the nesting doll training.

Another long line of cars.

After arranging all the items, Zhao Yuanzhen compiled a price list to facilitate sales.

The bookstore has a complete range of books, not only the common books on pens, ink, paper and inkstones, but also a miscellaneous book section, various storybooks, auxiliary tools such as abacus and so on.

Except for books and paper, everything else was bought by Zhao Yuanzhen in the mall. After all, it was too cheap to buy things in the mall.

Especially the brushes, which can cost hundreds of them per point.

It's a huge profit.

After staying for about another ten days, it was already mid-August.

All shops and canteens were fully stocked with goods.

The construction team was left with another task, which was to build a breeding area, or to raise some small animals themselves.

After almost two months of operation, the market has grown to a considerable scale.

People often cross the river early to set up stalls, and the canteen will buy some of the good products.

The inn was handed over to the newly trained servant, and the canteen was handed over to Zhang Yu.

All matters concerning the ferry were handed over to Zhang Yu.

Including ferry rafts, canteens, inns, grocery stores, clinics, markets and so on.

Zhang Yu was considered the supervisor of the ferry.

Zhao Yuanzhen also left medical books, prescriptions and herbs to the maids, and gave them instructions again and again.

Let them study well.

If you are not sure, do not prescribe medicine. Let them go to the town or the capital for treatment. Never use medicine recklessly.

Several people have no problem with common diseases, including Lan Ying and Zhang Yu.

Zhao Yuanzhen took Zhang Xinbai back to the capital.

The two daughters-in-law are about to recuperate after childbirth, and it’s not good for the grandmother and father to be away.

The two of them went back.

Both of them are due in late August. I took their pulses and found nothing wrong.

Just wait patiently.

It’s autumn, the season of harvest.

All kinds of fruits in the orchard are basically ripe.

Various pickings.

Fruits that are easy to store, such as apples, pears, oranges, etc., are selected and picked before they are fully ripe and stored in the cellar.

Those that cannot be stored are dried, made into sauce, and distributed to various shops for sale.

The rice has been harvested.

When the crops were finally weighed and stored, everyone was shocked to find that the yield per mu was over 1200 kilograms, which was over 1000 kilograms more than in previous years.

The output of one acre of land is equivalent to the output of 6 acres of land before.

The farmers simply couldn't believe it.

What kind of seedlings did Madam give me? The yield is too high.

The modern yield of this hybrid rice is about 2000 kilograms per mu, but now it has decreased by 800 kilograms, probably because various chemical fertilizers are not used.

But this one wins in taste.

The output of 1000 acres of land reached 120 million jin.

There are about 760 people in the family shop and the ferry. Assuming 1.5 kilograms of food per person per day, more than 40 kilograms of food are consumed in a year.

The rice grown for one year can be eaten for three years.

Yes, self-sufficient.

The servants did not eat rice all the time. They also had to eat coarse grains together. One kilogram of rice could be exchanged for two kilograms of coarse grains. This increased the output in disguise.

Everyone in the winery was so happy that they cried. They finally got to see the lady.

Woo woo woo, it’s too difficult, it’s really too difficult to see the lady.

"Madam, the wine is ready, please taste it."

"Okay, let's go, I'll go check out the wine shop."

I even forgot about brewing wine.

The winery only kept a small portion of it, and the rest was put into storage.

I first picked the sauce-flavored type and poured some for Zhao Yuanzhen.

Zhao Yuanzhen tasted the wine. It was light yellow and transparent in color, without any suspended matter. The wine was mellow and had obvious wine clinging to the glass. It had a floral, fruity, and dense aroma, a complex fragrance that was rich and harmonious.

After taking a sip, the taste is full and the fragrance is released layer by layer on the tip of the tongue.

Very good, the degree is around 50 degrees.

Pour some more fragrant wine.

Soft and harmonious, sweet and refreshing with a long aftertaste.

Finally, he poured a glass of Luzhou-flavor liquor.

The aroma is strong, but unique and rich in layers. The first thing you smell is the rich cellar aroma. The taste is stronger, sweet at first, soft in the mouth, and clean and long aftertaste.

If the koji is chosen well, the resulting wine will taste good.

"Not bad, not bad. You are all the best. This wine is brewed very successfully. Each one has its own characteristics, with a dense taste and a long aftertaste."

"It's mainly because of Madam's good guidance."

Several people laughed.

"Have you had any drinks?"

"Madam, when it was brewed, I tasted some and it didn't feel sour or astringent. It had a good texture and tasted good. I sealed the rest."

These people are quite honest.

"Each winemaker will be rewarded one pound for each type of wine, and the others will be rewarded half a pound each for choosing their own flavor."

"Thank you ma'am."

Several people laughed even more happily. It was really a torture to smell such a fragrant wine every day but not dare to drink it.

"Zhang Shang, go and give them some wine. But they can't drink in the morning or at noon. They can only drink after work in the evening.

This wine has a high alcohol content. If you drink a little, you will get drunk. According to the alcohol content of the wine, the wine sold in the wine shop is about 25 degrees at most. Our light aroma type is 38 degrees, the strong aroma type is 45 degrees, and the sauce aroma type is about 52 degrees. So, don't drink too much."

"Yes, ma'am, I remember."

"Well, there's some wine in the cafeteria, if you want to drink, you can go buy some."

"Ma'am, how do you decide the price?"

The alcohol content of the wine I bought before was too low. It could only be considered distilled from distiller's grains, and the alcohol content was only about 10. At that time, it seemed to be 80 wen per pound.

The aroma of my wine is obvious.

The price is a bit higher. As the saying goes, good wine needs no bush and good wine needs no high price.

It takes about 4 jin of sorghum to produce one jin of wine, and the cost is 11 wen per jin of sorghum. Adding the labor of making the koji, the cost is about 60 wen.

If you sell it in the cafeteria, just give the employees a price of 70 wen per pound.

If you sell it yourself, the sauce-flavor type sells for 2.5 liang, the light-flavor type sells for 2 liang, and the strong-flavor type sells for 2 liang.

It is not sold by the bucket, but by the catty. I have ordered some wine bottles, some weighing half a catty of grapes and some weighing one catty of grapes.

The canteen also sells it this way.

"Let's just charge 70 wen per jin. I want to explain to everyone that I only charge a small amount of money as a token of my appreciation. It's a benefit for everyone. Also, you are not allowed to buy in large quantities to prevent resale."

"Okay, noted ma'am."

"Well, take 1000 jars of the wine that was recently produced in the wine cellar and seal them up. Write the date on them and make sure they are sealed tightly."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Well, bring me two jars of each flavor. Keep 20 jars after the distribution. The rest will be delivered to the wine shop by the transport team in the afternoon."

"Yes, ma'am, I've made note of it."

"Well, give them some wine. Send 20 jars to the mansion as well."

"Yes, ma'am, I'll go right away."

"Well, let's go."

I think the canteen model at Zhuangzi's place is pretty good. There are not many people at home now. There are 10 farmers, 4 gardeners, 12 cooks, 18 servants, 10 maids, and 22 servants, a total of 76 people.

The others were all assigned to live in the village.

Connect the house in the row of kitchens and the warehouse to turn it into a canteen lobby, and adopt a window-serving model. Just like in the manor, three dishes and one soup will be free, and there will be a paid window for food, drinks and more.

There were five large rooms built in this row of houses at that time, including a kitchen, a large dining room, a small dining room, a warehouse, and one room which was later used for printing.

The warehouse was expanded into a cafeteria, and a billiard table was placed in the printing room as an entertainment room.

The current warehouse is a bit small and not big enough to store things, so let's build a new one behind the kitchen.

"Xin Bai, go to the building materials shop tomorrow and find someone to build a warehouse. Just make sure the size matches the row of squares in the kitchen, and the specific style should be similar to Zhuangzi's warehouse."

"Yes, mother, I understand."

"Well, I'll go clean up the wine shop this afternoon and open it tomorrow. The manor will send some wine over soon. Give each of you half a catty and put the rest away. Be careful when you drink. Don't drink too much. This wine can easily make you drunk. Xiaohui and Zhijuan are not allowed to drink."

"Mom, I know. Don't worry, I will tell them both."

"Ah."