Fleeing from famine and farming: I made a fortune by relying on medical skills

Chapter 344 Acquisition of Silkworm Cocoons
"Second brother, how many orders for sachets are still undelivered?" Huang Zisu thought of this and asked her second brother.

"There are only more than 1 sachets left undelivered.

Hu Li went to a nearby county and town before, and reached a cooperation agreement with several cloth shops to buy a large number of sachets.

After this wave is slowed down, our sachets will no longer be in short supply. "Mai Dong reassured his family Susu.

"There will definitely be a shortage of sachets this year, and if the richest man Shen Wanqian knows that sachets are hot, he will definitely get them from our house.

Once he gets the goods, at least [-] is the base price, and this amount will only increase and never decrease.

Even if the season for selling sachets is over this year and winter enters the off-season, the speed of purchasing sachets cannot stop, and a large number of purchases are made in winter for use in the next summer, so that they can keep up with the speed of use in the next year. " Huang Zisu told her second brother.

"Susu, although the medicinal materials in the sachet are ground into powder, those who are familiar with the medicinal materials can quickly analyze the formula of the sachet.

When someone follows suit, they will definitely compete with our family for business. If our family orders so many sachets in the future and cannot sell them, the loss will be huge. "Huang Zhang said with some worry.

"In the future, someone will definitely follow suit and compete with our family for business.

But with my reputation, I can still occupy more than half of the market. Our family eats meat, so we leave some soup for others to drink. "There is no way for Huang Zisu, since there is no such thing as a patent in this era, she has no choice but to do brand awareness.

Therefore, whether it is on the custom-made rouge jar or on the sachet, Huang Zisu has people put their yellow characters on it.

After people buy it, they will know that it is produced by the Huang family and must be a high-quality product when they see the yellow characters.

The next day, early in the morning, villagers from the three villages brought the raised silkworm cocoons to Huang's house one by one.

The Huang family finished their breakfast early in the morning. As soon as the villagers arrived, they began to count the number of silkworm cocoons, and then weighed the settlement amount. For example, a thousand silkworm cocoons weigh three catties.

They used weighing instead of counting, otherwise, counting silkworm cocoons one by one, with so many people, counting for days and nights would not be able to handle it.

Even so, the Huang family arranged for a dozen people to weigh and carry them, and it took them nearly a morning before they finished weighing the batch of silkworm cocoons.

These villagers who raised less silkworms could earn a little over a tael of silver, and those who raised more could earn more than two taels of silver.

The villagers who got the silver smiled happily, and after thanking the Huang family, they left.

After all, silkworms can be raised three times a year, and the time to raise silkworms is more than one month, not more than two months. The work of raising silkworms is simple and not tiring, and everyone in the family can do it, earning a lot of money There are so many, these villagers are naturally very grateful to the Huang family.

This also led to more and more people raising silkworms for Huang's family in the future.

Send a sheet to the Huang family to make a silk quilt.

"Susu, have you started making silk quilts this afternoon?" After lunch, Mai Dong asked his family, Susu.

"It's better sooner than later! Second brother, how many cocoons did you buy this time?" Huang Zisu asked.

"I don't know, I haven't calculated it carefully, but it's a lot anyway!

After all, this time we bought silkworm cocoons from three villages. There are forty or fifty households in a village with fewer people, and seventy or eighty households in a larger village. A family can buy four to five thousand silkworm cocoons, and there are more than that. In terms of quantity, those silkworm cocoons have piled up our warehouse. "Huang Maidong said excitedly.

With so many cocoons, Huang Maidong had no idea how many silk quilts could be produced.

"Based on this, there are probably millions of silkworm cocoons!
It takes [-] cocoons to make a silk quilt that weighs two or three kilograms. If there are millions of cocoons, then our family can make seven or eight hundred beds of silk quilts that weigh two or three kilograms. "After thinking about it in her mind, Huang Zisu said in surprise.

I did not expect the production of silkworms to be so large.

If silkworm cocoons can be purchased three times a year, two to three thousand silk quilts can be made in one year.

But this quantity is far from enough for the market demand. Even the silk quilts to be covered in winter must be heavier than the ones covered in summer. They have to make some silk quilts weighing five or six catties for covering in winter.

"Second brother, let the villagers vigorously breed silkworms for cocooning, the more the better." Huang Zisu instructed her second brother.

"I'll take care of that."

Immediately, starting in the afternoon, Huang Zisu and Huang Zhang brought fifteen servants who had bought them back, and one by one began to work on the steps and processes of how to make silk quilts.

These dozen or so people are indeed good at work, with great strength, quick work and diligence. After Huang Zisu taught them a few times, they were able to start making silk bags very quickly.

More than a dozen people worked all afternoon, and it seemed that there were a lot of silk pockets made, but in fact, they only used one-tenth of the cocoons.

At this speed, it will take at least ten days to make all these silkworm cocoons into silk pockets.

After another five days, half of the purchased cocoons have been made into silk pockets.

The silk pockets that were aired a few days ago have dried up.

Seeing this, Huang Zhang arranged for a few little girls to guard the great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Huang Zhang called the four granddaughters-in-law, Susu, Ziwan, and Baishao sisters to draw the silk, and started the last step of making silk quilts.

Mrs. Huang Zhang took advantage of the past few days to sew the outer cover of the silk quilt.

The eight people were divided into groups of four, and started drawing with the old and the new.

At first, I was not very familiar with silk drawing, but one group can draw two silk quilts a day.

Later, the wire drawing became more and more proficient, and after the tacit cooperation, after the speed increased, I could pull four or five silk quilts every day.

In less than three days, all the members of the Huang family were covered with silk quilts as they wished.

And there's still some stock left.

Time slowly came to May, and now the Huang family is very busy.

Grinding medicinal materials, making sachets, making silk pockets, drawing silk to make silk quilts, making rouge, picking flowers, developing new rouge colors, picking herbs in the morning, and teaching apprentices in the afternoon.

Everyone's affairs are arranged clearly and clearly.

After the lack of people to go to work, the Huang family bought some people from the town and went home to work.

In addition, a large courtyard was built for these people to live in.

Now the Huang family has 50 people just bought back to work for their family.

Among the 50 people, all are young and strong, and the number of men and women is matched equally, so that they can solve their life-long affairs internally in the future.

Now that there are manpower to work, it is enough for the head of the Huang family to grasp the general direction of the matter.

As for those who hire people to work, basically they can't hire them, because the villagers all raise silkworms at home, and while earning a lot of income, the work is not tiring, and they are relaxed and at ease.

(End of this chapter)