Chapter 138 Small Workshop
The people in the countryside are frugal, and each family charges at least 1,800 kilograms of cabbage, which is more or less. If you can't eat it yourself, you have to take it to the town or county to sell it. As long as you pay, you will not have to worry about not being able to buy cabbage.
"In our village, we can almost buy enough. If our village is not enough, we can buy 1,000 kilograms of kilograms in the surrounding villages." Lian Man'er said.
When you go out to buy cabbage and pickled sauerkraut, the cost is naturally slightly higher than using your own cabbage. However, it is inevitable to sell cabbage in large quantities.
Buying cabbage is originally a very simple latest chapter. But even Shouxin and Zhang have never done any business, so they didn't expect that Lian Man'er immediately followed Lian Man'er's idea.
However, the source of cabbage is not a problem, but it takes more than a thousand kilograms of sauerkraut to pickle in three days, and the Lian family is obviously short of staff.
"We can ask for help." Lian Man'er said, "I mean, let's spend money to hire people."
If you don’t have enough staff, you have to ask someone from outside. The help of the villagers in the village is also very important. Now, Lian’s family has to make money by pickling sauerkraut, and of course, they also have to pay the corresponding rewards to the helpers.
The family discussed how to spend money to hire people.
"Dad, mom, now the sauerk Wu ordered from us, and it costs 1,500 kilograms of sauerkraut in three days. I guess if the business in his store is good, he will have to ask for more." Lian Man'er thought about it and said, "In our town and the county, not only the boss of Wuhan University has restaurants, restaurants, and other restaurants. If the restaurant sees the business of sauerkraut, he might also buy them from us."
"In addition to restaurants and restaurants, others sometimes have to buy a few kilograms of food at their own homes, and they have to buy it here. Look, we were selling it at the last market, and the first time we sold it, we sold it dozens of kilograms." Zhang nodded and said.
"No, we can't visit these restaurants and restaurants. I think we don't have to go out for retail sales, wholesale to vendors, and let them sell them everywhere. This is also a big business..." Lian Man'er said.
The more the family talks, the more they feel the more business it is.
"That's all included. How much pickled vegetables should we pickle a day." Lian Zhier sighed with emotion
"It must be quite a lot." Lian Man'er said, "Dad, mom. I think we'd just set up a workshop and just use other workshops to hire people to work."
"Open the workshop..." Lian Shouxin pondered.
Lian Shouxin and Zhang are honest farmers. They have no economic minds. Moreover, the small peasant economy is self-sufficient and self-produced and sold. Lian Man'er's step-by-step guidance is to enable them to broaden their thinking and realize that they are going to open workshops to do business, and they will not be too ruthless when doing things like managing workshops in the future.
Opening a workshop is a big deal in the eyes of the family.
"We don't have much money now and don't have much time to prepare. Just come and do it without delaying your work." Lian Man'er said.
"There is definitely not enough in the house, why not? Let's build a shed in the garden below and two more stoves?" Lian Shouxin said.
"It's OK." Zhang nodded. "It's a little more sturdy, and it will get even colder in two days."
"We want to hire someone, how much wages should we pay?" Goro asked.
"It's not worth it." Zhang said.
"How much is appropriate to give?"
"I heard that the helpers hired in several workshops in the town only cost a few lots of money every day."
"Man'er, what do you say?" Zhang turned his head and asked Lian Man'er.
Lian Man'er was calculating in her mind.
The pickled sauerkraut they pickled for one cent per pound, and the cabbage costs four cents per pound. Just calculate it by pickling one pound of cabbage, pickling one pound of sauerkraut can make three cents.
"Cabbage, artificial, firewood, vinegar..." Lian Man'er calculated based on her fingers.
Calculate based on pickling 500 kilograms of sauerkraut every day, it takes 500 kilograms of cabbage, about ten labor, 100 kilograms of firewood and 5 kilograms of vinegar.
"How about we give a penny of salary for every ten kilograms of pickled cabbage?" Lian Man'er discussed with everyone.
"Give one cent to ten pounds of sauerkraut, fifty pounds is five cents, and five hundred pounds is fifty cents." Zhang said to himself.
"Mom, if you were you, would you like to do this job?" Lian Man'er asked.
The most laborious thing about pickling sauerkraut is the two steps of cutting cabbage and grinding cabbage. The salary is settled according to the pounds. It is fair and can inspire everyone to work hard.
"If it were me, I would be willing." Zhang thought for a while, "This price is OK. I can pickle dozens of kilograms of pickled vegetables this day and earn six or seven cents a day. In this month, it's more than two hundred cents. It's not too old or young, so I can buy a lot of things."
"Mom, if you think it's OK, then the aunts in our village must think it's OK, too." Lian Man'er said.
Most of the big girls and young wives in the village are the same as Zhang. They work hard all year round and rarely get silver in their hands. Even if they are diligent and have the strength, they have nowhere to make money. For them, they have a lot of money every day, but they have a lot of money to earn. After saving up, they will pull a few feet of flower cloth, buy a piece of fragrant panic, a box of rouge, or supplement their household expenses, and add some oil and water to their homes. They are very nourishing.
"I'll go find someone now, they will definitely rush to come." Zhang said happily.
"We buy cabbage and spend money to hire people. Can we still make money?" Xiaoqi said hesitantly, looking a little pitiful.
No, it’s busy and busy. If you don’t make money at all in the end, then it’s going to be wasted?
"It should be possible." Lian Shouxin said, "How about you invite our father over and calculate it with your calculations?"
"No," Lian Man'er said, "I've calculated that we can make money."
Lian Man'er roughly explained the result of her mental calculation.
One pound of sauerkraut is sold for one cent, of which the cost of cabbage is one quarter, the cost of labor is one tenth, and the cost of zero-income such as firewood and vinegar is calculated as one tenth. Then, the net profit they can obtain for one pound of sauerkraut is about 0.55 cents. If 500 pounds are marinated every day, then their profit per day is 275 cents, three days is 825 cents, and one month is 30 days, which is 8,250 cents.
At first glance, the profit seemed to be very small, but in a month, I could make eight taels of silver, and it was a pure profit. These eight taels of silver may not be anything in the wealthy family, but in ordinary rural families, the money is quite large.
Lian Man'er had read some novels in his previous life, which often cost hundreds of thousands of silver. But she has lived in this world for several months, and here, silver is very valuable. Of course, it does not mean that there are no nouveau riche, but that is very unique. Most people will never encounter such opportunities in their lifetime. More families will slowly accumulate money, and even several generations can truly get rid of poverty and become rich.
Lian Man'er can't break out all of a sudden, but after thinking about it, it's not a good thing to be able to save money step by step, and live a down-to-earth life.
"This is the business of the boss of Wuhan University. With more business in two days, we can make twice the amount of money." Lian Man'er said confidently.
The family discussed for a while and then began to act separately.
Lian Shouxin found Lian Shouli, and the two brothers were just under the west wing and started building a shed. Because the dozens of jars of wine had not been sold, they simply built two sheds, one shed specially stored wine, and the other shed was a workshop for pickling sauerkraut.
Wuro took the money from Lian Man'er and set out to Zhaojia Village to buy a few large jars of pickled sauerkraut.
Zhang was not idle either. She dressed up neatly, so she took Lian Man'er and Xiao Qi out and picked those who had a lot of cabbage to buy cabbage. Many of the cabbages were originally planned to be sold to the town. Now, seeing them coming to buy them, it saved a lot of trouble and the price was fair. Naturally, they were very happy. They agreed that they would definitely pick the best one to send to Lian's house.
Zhang not only had to order cabbage, but also had the task of hiring someone.
Even Man'er and Zhang discussed what kind of people they want to hire. The first thing they need is to choose a clean, neat, good knife skills and diligent young daughter-in-law. Zhang is familiar with the big girls and young daughter-in-law in the village. After thinking about it, he has already selected several candidates.
This is an opportunity to make money. Of course, Zhang first looked for the best friend to her, either someone else or Chunzhu's wife next door. Chunzhu's wife heard Zhang talk about the matter and agreed without any tricks.
"What's the salary that doesn't work? Anyway, there's no work in the field now. I just do this little work at home. I'm idle, so I'll just treat it as helping my fourth sister-in-law." Chunzhu's wife said with a smile.
"This is not a day or two, and the work is not easy. How can you do it in vain? I tell you, I will take on this business. I thought, no matter what, our good sisters can earn a few cents a day, which is better than staying at home." Zhang said to Chunzhu's wife, "You and I know that you can make two cents a month. If you have a money for activity, what can you do?"
"No, Sister-in-law, thanks to you thinking about me." Chunzhu's wife said, "Sister-in-law, how many people do you want? Look, how is Guangyuan's wife? She is more capable than me and she is cleaner."
Guangyuan’s wife and Chunzhu’s wife’s mother’s family are in the same village. They met before they got married. Now, from her in-laws’ family, they are considered sisters-in-law.
"Guangyuan's wife? I know her, she can, even if she is the only one." Zhang said, "We have to invite a few more. I plan to invite Yuchang's wife, Erdan's wife, and Qingyun's sister-in-law..."
Zhang told Chunzhu's wife a few people, who were all the best capable daughters-in-law in the village, and they had a good relationship with Zhang. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and the people Zhang likes are also disgusting.
Chunzhu's wife is an enthusiastic person. While sending Chunzhu to the Lian family to help build a shed, she volunteered to follow Zhang from door to order cabbage and ask for help.
By the evening, everything was ready to stop and just wait for work to start.
Chapter completed!