Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 195 Chapter 195

Half a month after arriving in Jinzhou, Mu Yu received a letter from Yuanshan Town.

After being busy with Zheng Cheng, Yuan Dang and their shopkeepers, stewards and accountants for several days, she finally caught a chance to sit and read letters alone in the small study.

She hoped that all the letters contained good news that would make people feel happy and relaxed, and the last thing was a normal report.

The envelope is bulging, and there is a lot of content at a glance.

She opened the envelope, and there were two stacks of letter paper inside, one thin and the other thick. After thinking about it, she opened the thin stack first.

Juanxiu's handwriting showed that it was written by Ji Xiucai.

Ji Xiucai talked about the progress of things in the village after she left, saying that the things she had arranged to build houses, expand livestock, etc. were progressing very well, and also said that the spring plowing had been successfully completed, and everything in the village was fine, so she didn't have to worry about it. .

Up to here, it was just a simple report letter, but when she continued to read it, her face suddenly became serious.

The letter mentioned that Wuzhen returned to the village once again, hoping that the village would continue to help provide food, and promised many benefits. Mrs. Wang refused to agree to his request, and only gave him two thousand catties of food to send him away.

Mu Yu put down the letter paper, thoughtful.

Wuzhen went back to the village once during the Chinese New Year, and that time she gave a thousand catties of grain, and Wuzhen left with the grain.

Then, around February before she left, Wuzhen came back again, and she still gave a thousand catties of grain, which most people in the village didn't know.

She is different from the overly cautious Wang Shi, who is risk averse and doesn't want to take any risks.

If you want to grow big with a small amount and become strong quickly, you can't do it step by step and take your time. You must take a slanted approach.

Only by being bold in thought and cautious in action can success be possible.

So she courted Wu Jin and provided him with proper support.

This is risky, and the success rate is not high, so she didn't want to pay too much for it, and she didn't want to make a scene known to everyone.

The original plan should be to continue to provide food and other assistance to Wu Zhen at such a frequency, and to see how far he can go before deciding whether to invest more.

According to what she hinted at about Wuzhen last time, Wuzhen should come back around April, and she should return to Taoyuan Village at that time, so the deal won't be delayed.

But now, Wu Zhen came a month earlier...

Could it be that something happened to the situation in Huangsha City?
It's a pity, now she is beyond her reach, she is powerless.

After thinking about it, she took up a pen and wrote a reply letter to Ji Xiucai.

The letter told Ji Xiucai that if Wuzhen went to the village to ask for food again, he would agree directly to the request if it was less than [-] catties, but he had to think carefully about other requests and make sure that he would not bring danger to the village before agreeing.

At the end, he added a few words to let him continue to expand the scale of livestock.

She thought about it and felt that there was nothing missing, so she opened the second thick letter.

This letter was written by Yang Erlang.

Yang Erlang's letter was long, and at first he was reporting the situation of the previous month.

It is said that the business of restaurants, wine shops, and grain shops is booming, with tens of thousands of taels of silver in the account every month, and the net profit is over ten thousand.

It is said that rattan weaving, straw baskets, straw mats and some other small businesses are doing well. Although they are not so profitable, they have also brought a lot of income to the villagers.

He said that there are many more fields and houses under his name, plus the previous ones, there are more than 1000 mu of land, and he invited people from the town to cultivate it. When he wrote the letter, the spring plowing had been completed.

Seeing this, Mu Yu paused and began to settle accounts.

The improved crops are harvested twice a year, and the yield per mu is about 40 catties. One thousand mu of land can produce [-] catties of grain a year.

Then there is the more than 500 mu of land in Taoyuan Village, which is 60 catties of grain a year.

Of the 60 catties of grain, [-]% is reserved for food, [-]% is stored to protect against risks, [-]% is sold, and [-]% is brewed.

Thirty percent is 18 catties, which is [-] catties per month, which is far from enough.

Not to mention how popular wine is now selling, a lot of it is sold every day. Many people buy this thing to resell elsewhere, or buy it for storage.

Now brewing wine, one catty of grain can produce four taels of wine, and the fifteen thousand catties of grain can only brew six thousand catties of wine, which is only two hundred catties per day on average.

Now the daily consumption of the two restaurants plus the number of drinks sold by the wine shop in Yuanshan Town should be about the same as this.

But the distillery in Jinzhou will open in two days, and the scale is not only a little bigger than the distillery in Yuanshan Town, because it will supply drinks from all of Jinzhou and Nandu.

Of course, the suggestion given by Yuandang Zheng Cheng and the others is to sell them in limited quantities, so that the rarest things are the most expensive, and the prices are raised.

But for such a big place, even if the total amount sold must be much more than that of Yuanshan Town.

Not to mention the others.

She thought of Zheng Cheng and Yuan Dang's thoughts when they discussed details with her and agreed on future plans with her in the past two days, and she couldn't help sighing silently.

The two people's thinking is that the more varieties of food, the better, and a few million catties or tens of millions of catties is not too much.

She said it was difficult, and the two of them threw money at her, saying that they would open up if they were short of money. Yuandang said that he could raise 10 taels of silver to support, and Zheng Cheng said that it would be less than a million taels to talk to his housekeeper directly.

Mu Yu: ...

Probably because the speechlessness on her face was too obvious, the two asked him if he had any other troubles, and if he had any, they spoke directly. The two of them knew quite a lot of capable people and strange people.

Finally, Zheng Cheng saw the problem and asked her if there were other restrictions that could not be solved.

After she nodded, Zheng Cheng asked her how much output she could guarantee, and she replied that she would try her best to do the best.

In fact, there is no problem, but she doesn't want these two people to think that this business can be as big as they want, and having a top-notch business in their hands is enough to make people jealous, especially those businessmen.

It's not bad at this time, with some luck, being cautious in doing things, and holding a similar thigh, you can be safe and worry-free, and make a lot of money, just like she is doing now.

But if people know how big and big the business wants to be, there is no limit, then it's not just jealousy, and it's not a businessman who is eyeing her...

The money you can keep is your own, and if you can't keep it, what's the use of earning it?

It is essential to be defensive, especially Zheng Cheng, she does not trust him very much.

After recovering, she looked at the letter paper and continued to look down.

In the second half of the letter, I mainly wrote about some businessmen from all over the world who wanted to do business with her, and naturally they were all big businesses.

She took a quick look and found that they needed a lot of food, which is definitely impossible now, and there were two other people who wanted to open Taoyuan Restaurant elsewhere. She took a closer look and found that none of them were reliable. Let's wait until she goes back and inspects it.

She simply wrote a reply letter, called the housekeeper and sent it out.

Tired for a long time, she casually opened a script book bought by a maid, and was about to read a book to relax for a while, when the butler came back.

"My lord, Zheng Huangshang sent a post about the guests of the Ruyi Building in three days' time."

She put down the script and sighed helplessly, she couldn't be idle for a moment.

She needs to do a lot of preparations to meet the dignitaries and businessmen who stand at the top of this era, and to get their support in the days to come.

(End of this chapter)