Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 224 224 What is the difference between men and women?
After sending the Qu people away, Mu Yu gave himself a day off and went to the private treasury to inspect the thousands of catties of jade.

Although they are still rough stones, it is not difficult to see their beauty and value.

She admired it carefully, and kept a few of the largest and most beautiful ones, thinking about what to make with them in the future, and put the rest of the pile into the mustard space.

She feels that the mustard space still has a lot of potential, but it has not been fully utilized. The development of the mustard space is much more valuable than this pile of jade.

After leaving the private treasury, she handed over the jade selected from the box to the housekeeper for safekeeping. The housekeeper was amazed when he saw it, and praised the jade as good.

"The quality is good, and the size is so big. Even in Jinzhou, it can be sold for a good price! Mrs. Jinyu really has a heart."

Mu Yu only knew about the huge profits in the jade industry, but he didn't know exactly how the profits were, so he asked casually, "Then tell me, how much are these pieces of jade worth?"

"Hey, master, I just know a little bit of superficiality. If I really want to say such a thing, I'm still not sure."

Mu Yu knew that the housekeeper was modest by nature, and he said he knew a little bit, but he had already done a lot of research, but he was afraid that his speculation might be different from the reality, which would make her unhappy.

"It's okay, you can just talk about it casually. I have a rough idea. These are for my own use, and I don't plan to sell them. It's about the same."

Sure enough, the butler heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and carefully looked through a few pieces of jade.

"These pieces of jade from the master's house are of good quality. If they are made into ordinary-sized jade pendants, if the carver is decent, twelve to one is definitely not a problem. No matter what, you can make hundreds of jade pendants with these jades, and there are leftovers to make some gadgets. Son, it's not difficult to sell tens of thousands of taels.

If you pay more attention, you can hire a good jade carving master to carve it into a large piece, and it is not difficult to sell it at a high price.

So I speculate that the value of these jades is between 3 and [-] taels of silver. "

"so much?"

Mu Yu was a little surprised. Although these few pieces are the best, the others are not too bad. These are only 3 to 10,000 taels, so the total is not [-]+ taels of silver?
10,000+ taels of silver can buy hundreds of thousands of catties of grain.

Perhaps her expression was too surprised, but the steward realized something, and quickly explained, "I didn't explain clearly. What I'm talking about is the value of selling the finished product. If it's rough stone trading, these few pieces of jade are at most It’s around 1 taels of silver.”

Tens of thousands of taels of silver is not a lot.

The steward continued to explain, "According to what I heard from the guard who escorted the jade business, these rough jade stones can only be exchanged for tens of thousands of catties of grain, which is still the usual price when there is no drought, so..."

Mu Yu smiled, "I understand what you mean, the value of jade depends on who owns them and what purpose they have."

"Correct."

"The people of the Qu tribe have a lot of jade. For them, jade is not a rare thing. They have few channels to sell jade, and they don't know the specific value of jade outside, so they sell it very cheaply.

Merchants bought jade from the Qu people at a low price, and resold it to those big jade shops at the market price, making a lot of money.

Jade shops ask masters to make jade into various jade ornaments and sell them at high prices, earning a lot of money. "

"That's it."

Mu Yu thought, in the future she can do jade business with the Qu people, and it will be good for her and the people of the Qu people to prevent other merchants from changing hands.

However, there is no rush for this business. The jade business is different from the grain business. It is delicate and requires a lot of preparation. The jade carving master has to find a good thread. Now is not a good time to do this.

Right now, she should take a good rest.

She has been very busy this month. In addition to the affairs of the Qu clan, she is also in charge of the business reconstruction in Huangsha City, the resettlement and management of the victims.

At the beginning, she just made a few suggestions, and Wu Zhen was very cooperative and implemented them without any objection, but it was almost impossible to do things well with just a few simple words, so they all came to ask her for advice, even I couldn't do anything without her instructions.

In the end, she became directly responsible for the management. Wu Zhen knew it and ordered them to follow her instructions.

These things are just a general direction and simple, but the implementation is full of mistakes and omissions. If one fails, all previous efforts will be wasted. She doesn't want to waste time and energy watching them go the wrong way, so she can only do things with all her heart.

It took more than half a month to do this, if it wasn't for the people from the Qu clan coming this time, I'm afraid she would still be busy dealing with affairs in the temporary government office at this time.

There shouldn't be so many things these days, and the people she trained should be able to handle it...

Thinking like this, she walked into the main courtyard and saw a familiar face waiting inside, her eyelids twitched immediately.

These people are Xiao Wu and Wang Lao Liu, the people who were trained to do things under her hands in the government office.

These people have been studying with her for so long, not to mention being able to take care of themselves, they are more than enough to deal with those routine problems. Now that they all come to her, it is likely that something went wrong, or something so big that it can stop the entire government. .

Thinking of this, she suddenly had a headache.

"What happened?"

Xiao Wu is the smartest, and has the best ability to observe words and expressions, so he reacted immediately and explained, "It's nothing serious..."

"Okay, don't lay the groundwork, just talk about the matter."

Judging from experience and common sense, she did not believe Xiao Wu's statement, but she did not expect that this time it was really not a big deal.

"The general was very interested in what the girl told us last time, about re-registering household registration, re-dividing farm houses, and rebuilding order. He asked us to do it right away. We couldn't even do it, so we had to invite the girl."

Mu Yu raised his forehead, "When did this happen?"

"some days ago."

"Then why didn't you come a few days ago?"

"A few days ago, the girl was busy entertaining the people of the Qu clan. Today, the people of the Qu clan left. We thought that the girl would be free, so we came here..."

Mu Yu: ...So this is a little time for rest and no one is left.

"These things are very complicated. Once they are set, they cannot be easily changed. They cannot be completed in a short time. It will take time. Forget it, I will go to the government office with you now."

When she arrived at the mansion, she was surprised to find that there were too many people in the mansion that day, and it took her a while to realize it.

"Are these the people you were asked to find before?"

Before, she asked Xiao Wu to choose a group of people who could read, write and have official experience from the victims. There were too few people in the government office, and some people were needed to do some chores.

Originally, she didn't have much hope for this. After all, among the nearly 1000 people in the city, only [-] were selected, and they were all just a little bit. There was not much that could be done. The normal operation of the government office , mainly supported by her and her guards.

She thought that she would choose another twenty or so this time, but she didn't expect that there were quite a few new faces now, there were thirty or forty, but she didn't know how good they were.

"Yes, the girl said it last time, so we set out to find it. It took a lot of effort to find these 41 people. Girl, let's see if there is anything that can be used. By the way, there are a few girls who can also read, girl... ..."

"As long as you can read and write, what's the difference between men and women?"

(End of this chapter)