Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 886 The Joyful Bidding of Harvest
In recent years, the large-scale planting of tung tree and Camellia oleifera in Shuangliu County has naturally attracted the attention of the county gentry. Soon, the news that tung tree enters the fruitful period can bring high profits spreads, and it also makes people Big families who are accustomed to making money are jealous, but no one dares to try to get a piece of this matter.

Anyone who wants to reach out to pick peaches at this time has to weigh whether he can bear the anger from Shoufu.

The young county magistrate's efforts in the past four years are aimed at laying a deep and solid foundation for his official career. Now that he is about to accomplish his great achievements, anyone who doesn't have the vision to get a share of the pie will die when the time comes.

The magistrate of the broken family and the magistrate of the extermination of the family, Yin, this sentence is not a joke, let alone this person is still a person with a strong background.

In October of the 24th year of Chongzhen, the first batch of more than [-] mu of tung tree and Camellia oleifera planted in Shuangliu County entered the harvest period, and the final result surprised everyone.

After learning that a large number of tung oil trees were about to be produced in Shuangliu County, dozens of tung oil merchants from all over the country came one month in advance, fearing that they would not receive the best products because they came too late.

Tung oil is a scarce commodity right now. Not only are the two shipyards in Jinzhou and Jiangnan in great demand, but with the strong social and economic development of Ming Dynasty, the demand for furniture in the market has also shown a blowout momentum, and making furniture is inevitable. A large amount of paint is needed for anticorrosion, and tung oil is an irreplaceable thing for the production of paint.

There are very few areas in Daming where tung trees are artificially planted. Currently, only a small amount of them are planted in some prefectures and counties of Hubei and Yunnan provinces, and the output is not too high. Daming is the only one in Daming that has planted such a large area in Shuangliu County.

Some merchants who arrived early had nothing to do, so they hired local guides and took them to visit the tung tree plantation. When they saw the tall and dense tung trees all over the mountains and plains, everyone was shocked. Overjoyed.

In the eyes of these merchants, this is not a tung tree, the fruits on it are obviously gleaming gold coins.

After learning the truth about the planting of tung oil in Shuangliu County, and seeing so many colleagues gathered here, the merchants secretly colluded and decided to lower the price when the tung oil was picked and produced, and purchase it at a price of no more than two cents per catty, so that Get more profits after transporting it out of Shu.

I have to say how insightful the ranking of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce left by our ancestors is.

These non-productive businessmen are the most unscrupulous.

If it were a few years ago, Sun Kedi would take it for granted when he knew that the merchants offered the purchase price of two cents per catty, but now if he knew that the merchants offered such a price, he would definitely turn the tables and scold his mother.

Because the price of tung oil on the market has reached [-]% per catty, which is double the previous [-]% per catty, and this price increase trend is still continuing. A pound of silver.

In other words, these tung oil merchants are bullying the inconvenient communication with the outside world in Shu and the prices are much lower than other places, so they resorted to the usual tricks of discerning people beating blind people, and their consciences are really bad.

But what these businessmen didn't expect was that their tried-and-tested tricks were miscalculated this time.

For a whole month in October of the 24th year of Chongzhen, several economic crop planting areas in Shuangliu County were full of busy and lively scenes. Farmers who had just finished their busy autumn were organized and began to pick tung tree and camellia oleifera. There are crowds of people on the hillside, laughter and laughter everywhere, and the farmers are working hard and hoping for an extra rich income.

Except for a few chief officials, most of the scribes and servants in the county government were sent to these few lands to maintain order, urging the farmers to pick the tung tree fruits, and then put them into boxes and carry them down the mountain, and then put them into sacks , transported by horse-drawn cart to the government-run oil-pressing workshop in the city for processing.

At the place where the picking started, Sun Kedi, together with Yang Zheyuan and Zheng Yuandao, went to the nearest place to observe the scene and then returned to the county government office. In control.

Sun Kedi had already learned about the plans of the merchants who came to purchase tung oil. After getting over the initial anger and disgust, he immediately sent someone to Chengdu Mansion to inform the chief shopkeeper of the Chengdu Mansion Branch of Sihai Commercial Bank.

Ten days after the picking, under the attention of countless eyes, the first batch of tung oil was squeezed out, and the data was reported to the county government immediately.

The 25 acres of tung trees planted in Huayu Village have all been squeezed out of the tung oil produced, and the total oil output is more than 320 catties. On average, the yield per mu has reached [-] catties, which is lower than the original estimated output. But this is already a very good result for a new variety planted for the first time.

As for the amount of oil produced by the tung trees in the following villages, it is still unknown. Judging from the current planting area, the entire oil extraction process will last for half a year to complete.

After hearing the news, everyone in the county government was overjoyed. After all, this is the result of four years of busy work by the magistrate and the magistrate, and the magistrate has said beforehand that he will take part of the profits from this oil production. Come, it will be distributed according to the individual's performance in the past few years for motivation, so everyone is still very concerned about this matter.

According to Sun Kedi's previous valuation calculation, 320 catties, two cents per catty, six silver coins and four cents per mu of land, and one yuan for thirty taxes, about two cents per mu. Huayu Village's [-] mu The tax can be as high as sixty silver coins, which is dozens of times higher than the tax for the same amount of grain.

Now that the tung oil has been released, the next step is to sell it.

According to the previous tradition, Sun Kedi arranged a bidding for tung oil. Any businessman can participate in the bidding with a business license issued by the Ministry of Households, and the one with the highest price will win.

The bidding was held in the square in front of the county government office. The person who presided over the bidding was the clerk of the county government office. Sun Kedi and other officials did not show up.

After all, this is the behavior of merchants in the market, and court officials often value their social status and will not get involved.

The foreign businessmen who received the notification from the county government came to the meeting with high spirits, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of getting rich soon.

Well-informed businessmen naturally know that the price of tung oil has been rising rapidly recently. As long as they succeed in lowering the price this time, after shipping a large amount of tung oil out of Sichuan, the price they sell will be even higher.

Since tung oil is scarce throughout the Ming Dynasty, merchants will naturally stock up and sell it reluctantly, so as to drive the price to continue to rise.

In addition to food, the imperial court has not yet made any regulations on the sharp rise of other commodities.

In other words, merchants have absolute dominance over the price of a scarce commodity.

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