Villager of Daming

Chapter 41 Cost Estimation

Zhu Biao studied from an early age and was educated by Confucianism.

Responding at this moment, he dragged the boxes by himself and opened them one by one.

"Song Zhifu wrote a letter to Hai'er, asking the village to give 100 yuan of soap to the palace and [-] yuan to Ningguofu.

Another 5000 yuan of soap was sold to the palace for [-] Wen a piece.

He also said that soap needs oil, if you trade with foreigners, you need as much oil as possible..."

Zhu Biao explained to his parents that he sold [-] Wen a piece in Xuancheng and [-] Wen in Nanjing.

It's wholesale for the palace, two hundred cash, and then the palace sells it out, remember to have oil.

This soap is made of oil, and the oil can be eaten.

"Cheonghachi, that person is testing us."

After listening to her son's words, Queen Ma thought of many things in an instant.

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed: "He depends on what we want to do. He said it was for the palace, then mentioned the foreign trade, and finally said oil."

Empress Ma answered, "Should we change the oil or not? We will follow his arrangement. If we don't change it, what will he think?
We can't buy from him, four hundred yuan a piece of soap, resell it in Daming, five hundred yuan a piece, earn money in Daming, right?
According to this person's thinking, we buy village soap for [-] yuan, and sell foreigners to change the oil at a higher price. "

Zhu Biao felt aggrieved when he heard that, a soap maker still forced and tested his parents?

"Mother, shall we go over and tell them in person? There is a layer in the middle, and no one will trust anyone."

Zhu Biao didn't choose to arrest people, he wanted to go over to see the expert, if there was anything to talk about in person.

He didn't know yet that he hadn't considered temptation and persecution at all, it was just that it was inconvenient to show up.

"Don't worry, ask foreigners first to see how much they are willing to pay. Like rock candy, foreigners are not allowed to sell the same thing in Daming."

Empress Ma looked at the stacked soaps in the box and was in a good mood.

Foreigners are not allowed to sell back to Daming what Daming sells to foreigners, because the price is lower than the retail price.

"Buy oil, what price will the oil sell to the village... Eh? They are also surnamed Zhu?"

As Zhu Yuanzhang talked, he remembered the main surname of Xiaqiu Village. The head of the family was Zhu, and his name was Zhu Yichang.

"I just said who is so capable of getting advice from an expert? It's from our old Zhu's family.

It is estimated that the people behind it also think so, and show us through the village surnamed Zhu. "

Zhu Yuanzhang found another support point and made up his own mind.

A family of three eats in a good mood and the food looks delicious.

Zhu Biao drank with his father, and Zhu Yuanzhang drank a small cup: "In the past, we got a lot of jewelry, silver, gold and medicinal materials from foreigners, and we needed to add oil.

This oil... how much oil does it take to make a bar soap?How much does the village earn for two hundred yuan of soap? "

He began to calculate the production cost of the village. If a piece of soap was made with [-] cents of oil, wouldn't the village earn twice as much?
"Two taels of soap for a piece of soap. I don't think it's much, and I can earn a lot of money."

Zhu Biao thought that it was so expensive to sell it elsewhere, and the profit should not be too high if it was lowered by three hundred Wen in the palace.

Empress Ma glanced at her son, "Who would have thought that the price of brown sugar would be so low when the rock candy sold for [-] renminbi? Maybe the soap would cost [-] renminbi."

"If you earn fifty coins, you will earn fifty coins. Bingtang is considered to have robbed him. If he makes money, he also buys livestock and meat for the village."

Zhu Yuanzhang is magnanimous, and I will give you a profit of fifty Wen.

The three of them didn't know how to calculate the cost at all, only Zhu Wentian understood.

Depending on what oil is used, the saponification value of different oils is also different.

After that, you will know how much limestone is used, and the limestone lies in the cost of labor and noodles.

The cost of salt and spices is added to it, and finally the cost of the whole soap is obtained.

The village uses rapeseed oil, which has a saponification price of [-]. One gram of oil uses [-] soda ash, which is not pure enough.

Add water to it, and water also accounts for weight.

How much water to add can be calculated by the amount of soda ash, but the impurity can only be calculated by the weight of the oil, which is about 40.00%.

The price of rapeseed oil is [-] to [-] yuan per catty, and the price is different in different places.

Some places don't grow rapeseed, so it's even taller.

When the rapeseed is harvested, the price of rapeseed oil will be low.

After the comprehensive calculation, the cost of a piece of soap is [-] fen, including labor cost, [-] fen.

Unscented soap costs [-] cents, and you can buy two catties of rice with shells on.

The spices bought there are expensive, and next year Zhu Wentian plans to adjust the spices himself, such as making essential oils of various flowers and dry distillation.

Coupled with the expansion of scale, better tools are manufactured, and the cost is further reduced.

But the price of adding essential oils is not the same. It takes a lot of flowers to produce a little essential oil.

It looks like a simple saponification reaction, but Zhu Wentian calculated a lot of data to reduce the cost of trial and error.

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"Soak, soak, um! Hehehe!"

Another morning, the villagers slaughtered the pigs first under Hanhan's command. The pig's blood was not used for food, so it was put in a pot.

Soak four fishing nets inside. This is called a blood net. The steamed hemp and cotton nets soaked in pig blood can last for a long time.

The net also has the smell of pig blood, which can attract more fish.

The two fishing nets were new, leaving a boat about two feet long, and four fishermen did hard labor.

The four of them were not happy at first, because one month was for nothing, and if they didn't come, they had to pay food.

Zhu Wentian didn't want to see the bad face for a month, and his mood was affected.

The boats are idle and wasted there, and the hired men are not in charge of fishing for transporting things to Nanking.

If they are forced to do it, they have to agree to work without any effort!
The head of the village discussed with four people, and gave each person three catties of rice a day, three meals and a place to live.

The other party needs to obey the orders of the village, such as fishing.

I also bought a new fishing net from one of their homes, which had stock in it.

Give them food for 30 days at a time, send a car to take them home, and fetch them from fishing nets.

The fishermen happily agreed, is there such a good thing?made money.

Today they helped with the blood net, and at the same time learned how to soak the net in pig's blood to see if it works.

If it works, go back to your own home... Pig blood is not easy to get, see who kills the pig to get it, or exchange it.

The villagers firmly believe in Hanhan, and the village guards say yes, and they must do it.

After the blood is finished on the net, hang it up to dry, and it's lunch time.

The four people looked at the food and felt uneasy. A man named Zhao Li came to Li Chang's table: "Li Chang, when shall we go fishing?"

"Wait for the fishing nets to dry for two days." The head of the village reminded the other party that the nets had just been steamed.

"Is there anything else to do?" the man asked again.

"Eat first, let's talk after eating." The head of the village understands that the other party will feel guilty if he sees the food is good and doesn't do anything else.

"Oh!" Zhao Li went back and repeated to the other three companions.

The three sighed and bowed their heads to eat.

The head of the village took a look at Hanhan: "Fishing saves money and buys fish to eat. It is getting more and more difficult to tie a rope now."

Zhu Wentian grabbed a pig's trotter and gnawed it. Hearing that he was chewing, his nose made a humming sound.

"Are you still catching crabs and selling them this year?" When the village chief talked about fishing, he thought of crab pots again.

Last year's fishing and selling crabs were an emergency for the village.

Zhu Wentian swallowed the food in his mouth: "Catch, ah! Eat, basket, borrow, hey! Uh!"

"Lend it to villagers in other villages, and teach them to weave crab baskets, hehehehe!" The chief of the village helped to say.

"Yeah!" Zhu Wentian nodded and continued eating.

(End of this chapter)