kingnovel Chapter 957: The Mountain Goods Shop No One Cares About
Chapter 957: The Mountain Goods Shop No One Cares About
The most I sold in a single day in the past few months was more than two strings of cash, and on the worst day I made no money at all!
The shopkeeper was optimistic. "Master, it's okay. Places like Nanhe will get better sooner or later. The county here is not much different from the big county under Yunzhou. Maybe there will be more people by then. In the winter, the big county under Yunzhou can sell more than 40 strings of cash a day. I think this place is not much different. Anyway, this shop is ours and we don't have to rent it. We can just keep it for a long time."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "You are quite open-minded and not panicked at all."
The shopkeeper said cheerfully, "It's no use for me to panic. No one will come to buy even if I panic. Do you have any solution, Master?"
Zhou Guo laughed. She had no other choice for the moment. She could only think of ways to make everyone's life better so that she could sell her goods.
The situation in large counties is similar.
There are no mountain product shops in the county yet, and there are not many grain shops either. Even if there are some that are open, the most they sell is only five or six strings of cash a day. Most of the products they sell are brown rice and black flour, while refined rice and white flour do not sell well.
There are many people in each village now. After planting wheat, the small villages have started to ferment fertilizer.
Because not much fertilizer is needed and it is all used on their own fields, now those who make the fertilizer are all their own people, and no one, whether they are permanent or temporary workers, is allowed to get close to the place where the fertilizer is made.
Now the heads of the village are all their own people, and every person coming out of the village, regardless of gender, age or status, has been fermented into fertilizer.
Things like making compost are very small things for them.
Everyone was very happy to see Zhou Guo. Beidi, Cangshan Village was their second home.
They left home and traveled a long way to come here, where they were unfamiliar with the place and although they were capable, they still missed home very much.
Seeing Zhou Guo at this time was like seeing my parents and relatives, and I almost cried.
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "What's the matter? Who made you angry? Are you so wronged?"
"No, Master, we were just too excited. We didn't expect to see you at this time."
"It's so far here, I just miss home a little bit."
Zhou Guo was silent. Many of the people here were married, and their children and wives were all in Cangshan Village. But Cangshan Village would be in trouble now. If they all followed them south, the family business would be paralyzed and unable to move.
I could only comfort them: "It's okay, you can go back when things are back on track. I'll give you a month's vacation during the Chinese New Year so you can go back and reunite with your wife and children."
Several people were so happy.
"So long? We didn't have such a long vacation in the North in previous years."
"It's nothing if you think about it. I don't go home that often in the North, but this place is too far from home."
Erpang opened his mouth several times but held back. He thought that it would take more than ten days to go back from here, and even if he rode at full speed, it would take more than half a month to go back and forth, so he would only have a few days to stay at home.
It may seem like a month is a long time, but if you calculate carefully, most of the time is spent on the journey.
Don’t some of you understand?
How could that be? But the fact that Zhou Guo let them go back was already a pleasant surprise. You know, the farm was planted with winter wheat this year, and even during the New Year, the farm was not very busy.
It took another month, but the wheat grew a lot.
Zhou Guo asked them if they were used to living here, and several people chattered for a while.
Although I feel a little uncomfortable leaving the North, here the land is flat everywhere and the roads are wide. Horse carriages and ox carts can go to every corner, and the work efficiency is much higher than in the North.
Such a place is indeed more suitable for human habitation than the North.
No wonder it has been a prosperous place since ancient times. It won’t take many years of peace for the population here to catch up with the North, and it will be even more prosperous than the North.
The group walked towards the field while talking.
This is a farm of only a few dozen hectares of land. The wheat has been planted. There are not many people working in the fields now, all of them are making fertilizer.
"Everywhere is busy now. Only our farm is fermenting manure. The fermented manure is continuously transported to various fields. Although there are many fields, it is barely enough to supply our own fields. But in the spring of next year, if we want to supply other fields, it will not be enough. The other farms will definitely have to start fermenting manure as well."
Nanhe is a vast area and requires much more fertilizer than other places. One farm is far from enough.
Zhou Guo said, "After the spring, the other farms will also start to ferment manure. You guys who are fermenting manure now will have to divide it among the farms. We are short of manpower here, so we will have to recruit long-term workers. You will have to do the same as in the north and pay attention to this recipe so that it doesn't leak out."
Although each step of composting is not complicated, it involves many steps, a variety of things and a long time.
Each process was broken down into smaller parts and assigned to each person. When there were too many people involved, the work became too complicated. The farmhands were illiterate and just focused on their work. Over the years, this method had not been leaked out.
There are so many people in the North eyeing fat, but I haven't heard of any big family not wanting fat.
It won’t be leaked out for a while.
Of course, it is also possible that no one dares to even think about this thing. Everyone knows that the Xu family army in the front still relies on this thing for their livelihood. Who dares to touch this thing?
Now that she has figured it out, she dares to hire not only permanent workers but even temporary workers.
Several people nodded, "Master, don't worry, we know about this. We knew what to do when we were in the North. We promise not to let anyone spread rumors."
"Most of them just work hard. We pay them the same wages as other families, but the food is better. They all say they want to work on our farm for the rest of their lives. After a few years, life will get better and better."
"Some families have many people, and the whole family lives in our farm, farming, transporting and fermenting manure. They can earn more than a hundred coins a day, which is more than three strings of cash a month. In one month, the family's annual food expenses are all paid out."
Zhou Guo said, "There is no discrimination in the work done in the fields, and some jobs are done better by women than by men. Children can also do some easy work. Even if they don't earn as much as adults, they should be given something. We will take care of their three meals a day. By the beginning of next spring, they will earn a lot, and then they can buy seeds and farm tools themselves."
Several people clapped their hands, "That's not their plan. They said they wanted to make money to buy seeds and farm tools for next year. Master, you are amazing."
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "It's nothing magical. If you are careful, you can see it."
As they were talking, the group arrived at the field.
At this time, the wheat has sprouted green sprouts. At a glance, it looks green everywhere, like a green blanket.
Zhou Guo squatted down and took a look. The color was dark and the seedlings were strong, so they were all good seedlings.
He asked, “Where did the seeds for this piece of land come from?”