Villager of Daming

Chapter 768: There are rules in all walks of life
The cherries seemed really big to Zhu Yuanzhang, bigger than those he had eaten before, and the director also thought so.

It's just that this kind is not big enough. At least Zhu Wentian knows that there are bigger cherries, but they are not very delicious. They buy them for hundreds of pounds per catty, and they are not as sweet and sour as the cherries he used to eat when he was a child.

"Your Majesty, a total of nineteen cherry trees in the village have been successfully made to bloom and bear fruit. The others may not be able to do this this year."

The manager didn't say how much the cherries would be sold outside, because if they didn't sell in that quantity, it wouldn't be enough for everyone.

The cherries are ripening one after another, and they grow big because they have good nutrition.

In summer, cherries are not valuable. People who have a yard can plant them in their own yard. After planting, they don’t need to take care of them, and they will have cherries to eat every year.

Due to geographical restrictions, a large number of cherries can only be eaten by oneself and cannot be sold unless they are close to the county seat.

Otherwise, if every family has cherry trees, why would they buy them from outside?

They are sold here in Nanjing, usually for one penny per bamboo cup, and the good ones can be picked out and given to brothels.

"You want more varieties next year?" Zhu Yuanzhang understood immediately. If you order cherries, you really can't take them out. You can eat them in the village, and the palace will also help you eat them.

"If you plant more, you will see more flowers and fruits. If you sell it in Nanjing in the future, you will have to sell it for five guan per kilogram."

The manager is already considering the price. Cherries are trees and it is difficult to plant them out of season. The cherry trees are transplanted the year before and then a greenhouse is built around the trees.

There were no cherries last year. They fruited earlier in the spring. This year some of them bloomed in the winter.

This thing is not for ordinary people to eat. It would be good for ordinary people to eat cucumbers, lettuce, chrysanthemum, eggplant, cowpeas, etc.

Fruits include watermelon and cantaloupe, which are equally expensive at four to five hundred yuan per pound. They are cheaper than before. You can plant more and produce more.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to catch the spit out cherry pit, and he slurped down all the pulp on it.

"Yichang, we remember that during the war, we sent them cans in bamboo tubes and oil paper, with fruits in them."

"Yes! The quantity is small, for the generals and the sick and injured soldiers to eat.

There are some now. It was made this summer. Your Majesty wants to produce it on a large scale and then sell it to the people in the winter?

How many clay pots will be made in the village next year? They are made of big pots and sold by the pound. Because there is rock sugar in them, one pound will cost forty or fifty cash. "

"Forty or fifty cents per pound, you can afford it with one or two days of work, and there are canned peaches. People can eat some fruits in winter to supplement vitamins and so on, right?"

"Your Majesty has preserved fruits, but not fresh cherries. There is no shortage of dried cherries. They are also cheap. They cost more than ten cents a pound and can last for a long time."

"The second brother didn't say anything!" Zhu Yuanzhang recalled it and was sure.

"It is sold in the candy store of Xiaqiu Village, not in Jubiqi. Jubiqi is firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea." The head of the village emphasized what Xiajubiqi sells.

Stores in Xiaqiu Village sell preserved fruits, dry goods, and dried fruits. People can buy them and eat them soaked in water or chewed dry.

In the past, ordinary people couldn't afford dried fruits because they had poor circulation. Who would stock up on so many dried fruits?It is inconvenient to store and prone to insects.

Now, Xiaqiu Village places orders at convenience stores, merchants bring dried fruits back from various places, and Xiaqiu Village itself also collects fresh fruits and hires people to process them.

Where there are department stores, merchants do not collect dried fruits because they are too expensive, so the stores bear the price.

They go to other places, collect a penny per catty, transport it back, sell it for four to five cents per catty, and exploit the people elsewhere.

Those people are still very happy!Especially in places with a lot of wild fruits, you can make more than a dozen cash a day after going up the mountain to pick them and come back to dry them.

The harvest weighed more than 100 kilograms, and that's the amount after drying. Those that require shade drying can only be strung together with strings and hung in the house or under the eaves.

However, merchants can't make more money even if they want to. Xiaqiu Village keeps prices low, so there is no shortage of people to deliver goods.Excluding transportation costs, labor costs, and taxes, a businessman would be considered good if he could earn one penny per kilogram, which is [-]% pure profit.

Xiaqiu Village earns a gross profit of [-]% to [-]%. Because there is a lot of goods and labor is required, it is difficult to store the collected dried fruits.

Now is the best time to sell. After spring, wild vegetables will appear, and in summer, fruits will appear.

It doesn’t matter if the dried fruits can’t be sold anymore, they can grind them into powder and make snacks for the children. There are a large group of children in the library living in various ways.

Some go to school, some live temporarily, and some parents leave their children here and just give them water and make snacks.

Coupled with the almshouses and the army, Xiaqiu Village only needs to make a profit by selling dried fruits.

The head of the village told Zhu Yuanzhang what had happened. Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a few breaths: "The merchants have doubled their profits, but they have made all the money?"

"Other people who work hard also make money, and the people who provide dried fruits will not be compensated. At least the fruits will not rot." The chief corrected His Majesty's thinking.

Otherwise, it would be easy to increase taxes, thirty to one tax, which is the same ratio as the people's most basic land tax.

The increase in taxes will only increase the government's fiscal revenue. It will not be cheaper for the people to buy dried fruits, but more expensive.

As long as it is bought and sold among the private sector, all taxes and other fees will eventually be passed on to the people.

Of course, goods that are not necessary for survival will not be eaten. For example, dried fruits, people can not eat them. That will harm the people in the places where dried fruits are produced.

They make less money. Anyway, someone has to pay for it, and Xiaqiu Village will bear it. The price must be lowered so that more goods can be sold.

Children in libraries, people in almshouses, and people in the military eat less free food.

"Can't the merchants transport the dried fruits themselves and sell them?" Zhu Yuanzhang still had questions.

“Nowadays, many businessmen do not do a separate business. They just buy and sell whatever they see to make money. It is not enough for them to open a separate store.

Merchants who specialize in selling preserved fruits and dried fruits will not lower their prices. They are cheating themselves. If they dare to lower their prices, Xiaqiu Village will dare to sell them at a price lower than their cost.

The dried fruits sold in Xiaqiu Village are more expensive than those sold in Yingtianfu's dried fruit shop, but the quality is good. The bad ones in Xiaqiu Village are ground into flour or soaked in water for others to eat.

They know these situations, so everyone works together to maintain the market.Including those who do hard work for people, everyone has a bottom line on price. "

"Doing business is just like going to court." Zhu Yuanzhang realized, and everyone worked together to maintain a balance.

"Isn't that what herding cattle is?" Li Chang joked.

Zhu Yuanzhang curled his lips: "I'm really being bullied! That son of a bitch Liu De, and Lao Tang who is always sneaking up on us, hehehehe..."

Zhu Yuanzhang never felt ashamed that he had let cattle go, but was always willing to share his experience in raising cattle with others.

Whenever he mentions things in the past, he is very proud. We are just a cowherd boy. Look at what we are doing now?

The "Laotang" in his mouth refers to Tanghe. When the two of them herd cattle, they were always in the same place, and that was the best place.

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At noon, Zhu Yuanzhang got up after a short sleep and was full of energy. Except for Wei Su, Zeng Lu, and Liu Bowen, all the ministers ran home.

The meals for the day had been received, and they brought back fruits, just in time to have lunch with their families.

Liu Bowen's Liu Lian is not here either. Even though he is Xiu Mu, he comes to join in the fun but has to go to work for fear of something going wrong.

(End of this chapter)