Villager of Daming

Chapter 797: Meat Sauce and Mushrooms Talk about Selling Goods

When talking about beef sauce, it was beef sauce. He brought a glass bottle over, scooped some into a small cup, and Zhu Yuanzhang used chopsticks to eat it.

Really good beef sauce, this one is spicy with a little cornel sauce mixed in, and there is also a non-spicy version.

Just as cattle are born every day, cattle die every day. The birth rate is now greater than the death rate, which proves that the number of cattle is increasing.

In Yingtian Mansion, including the surrounding prefectures, some cattle are too old and cannot move. The owner will ask someone from the government to come and see them. If they meet the requirements, they will sell them and let others kill them. They can't do it themselves.

Not only cattle, but also horses, mules, and donkeys. If the buyer can't hold it, the owner will take the animal away, take it to a deserted place, tie it to a nearby tree, and blindfold it.

The person who bought it in this way took someone there and either killed it on the spot, or tied the hooves and carried it away and transported it to other places for sale.

Prices in Nanjing are high, and surrounding places are willing to send animals for slaughter, including sick ones.

Although treatment methods are provided for the sick animals, some of the diseases are too complicated and cannot be treated, so they can only be brought over and sold at low prices. If no one buys them, they are killed on the spot to see if anyone eats the meat.

When encountering such a situation, Zhu Wentian would take a stroll to the market, or directly buy it back at a low price from the purchasing staff of Xiaqiu Village.

If it can be cured, treat it. If it costs too much, kill it. Dozens of treatments are not worth saving.

This allows Xiaqiu Village to make extra money. Hanhan is very skilled. After treatment and strengthening, he throws it back to the market and sells it as a good livestock.

So the cattle were bought and slaughtered in a special slaughterhouse. If they couldn't sell them for a while, they would make beef sauce with some sesame seeds, soybean or broad bean in it, without adding a lot of oil.

Putting too much oil is a scam. No one likes to eat a lot of oil. It’s just that sometimes the people responsible for coming up with ideas are so careless that they ruin their own brand.

Beef sauce is rarely sold in Xiaqiu Village. People in the village love to eat it. There are so many people in the palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang always comes to give it to the ministers.

Occasionally, an extra batch of small pottery jars containing hundreds of pieces of pottery are made, and when they are placed in Jubiqi, they are sold out within half a day. Some merchants even want to buy them all after finding out, and take them away to sell.

"We have eaten Jubiqi's mushroom meat sauce. The second brother gave it to us and let us try it. Have you tried it, Yichang?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of beef sauce with chopsticks and thought it tasted good, so he brought up the mushroom sauce.

"Your Majesty, are you talking about shiitake mushrooms? Mushrooms." The chief thought of what Zhu Xiangju Biqi sold, mushroom meat sauce, which contained shiitake mushrooms.

What Hanhan said was recorded in the agricultural books of the previous dynasty, but at that time most mushrooms were called mushrooms.

Sure enough, I saw the book later, and it did describe how to grow mushrooms. You just need to have a hillside with a certain kind of tree growing there, and then you can plant them.

What a waste, just file the mushrooms into powder and throw them in, then wait for them to grow.

"Yes, the village was named Shiitake." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"Your Majesty, the original planting method was too backward. The village has improved it so that the yield is high. The growth cycle is short and the growth is good. We use it to make sauce first. The mushrooms are fresh and the shiitake mushrooms are non-toxic.

In the future, when the production is increased and the scale is expanded, it can be sold to everyone in the market, cheap and delicious.

There are currently six types of mushrooms being grown in the village, and more types are being added. These things grow naturally infrequently, unlike mushrooms such as gray mushrooms.

Shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, king oyster mushrooms, and Hericium erinaceus, these six species do not include bamboo fungus, white fungus, and fungus.

Hazel mushrooms and pine mushrooms cannot be grown. They are too difficult, require high investment, and have low returns, making them uneconomical. "

Seeing that His Majesty was interested in knowing more, the head of the village talked about the current situation of fungus cultivation. It would be cheaper to cultivate it on a large scale.Among them, Enoki mushrooms are cultivated, but the method is still relatively primitive and the yield is low. After years of war, many things have come to a standstill.

The village has new cultivation methods that can use limited space for large-scale, high-yield cultivation.

While Li Chang was talking, Zhu Yuanzhang took a big mouthful of porridge and sipped a chopstick head of beef sauce into his mouth.

"It's delicious. It's spring. After it rains, there will be mushrooms everywhere, especially in Jiangnan. Do you want to ask the local government to help harvest the mushrooms?"
Our department store needs manpower. Wait...it seems we can't wait any longer. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we will send out the soldiers.

By the way, I would like to help the people look at farming. Let’s ignore the winter wheat area. There are no mushrooms there and it’s too cold.

In the place where rice was to be planted, the people happened to be idle, so they could only pick and choose fertilizers and send them to the fields. Now it was time to retamine the fertilizers. "

Zhu Yuanzhang talked about beef sauce and asked the people to pick more mushrooms and then purchase them.

Mushrooms are delicious, and people are willing to pick them and dry them. Some of them are eaten by themselves and some are sold, but they cannot be sold at a high price and are worthless.

When there are mushrooms in a place, everyone goes to pick them. There are a lot of them, and they sell them at about the same time. After a hard day's work, it's okay to sell them for five or six cents.

Then some merchants charge low prices and store them, waiting to sell them when there are less mushrooms.

The people obviously suffered a loss, but they were still willing to sell, thinking that they should make more money quickly to prepare for the time when there was a shortage of money.

If you switch to official payment, you can give a higher price. It is best to go to a department store. Yamen is not a place for business.

The head of the village also took the opportunity to eat two more bites of food and agreed: "In this case, the village needs to prepare some things, and buy them for the people first, such as fermented bean curd, stinky tofu, pickles, soap, scented soap, rouge gouache, matches, candies, needlework , cotton and other daily necessities.”

"Is it in time?" Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make sure.

"We have been preparing for a long time. Ever since we announced that we would open department stores in every county, the factories have been producing, and soon we will bring sickles, kitchen knives, scissors, thimbles, hoes, picks and other iron tools."

The head of the village nodded and said there was no problem, the village was stable!Then you can wait to make money. Department stores are the profit-making department.

The department store had to invest in the early stage to distribute goods, and Luoyang happened to produce a large amount of cotton cloth, which helped.

This year, businessmen will look for places to grow more cotton without delaying normal food planting.

"I always ask you to worry, but there are officials who want to take over the department store. We don't worry. They don't know anything. If the department store is put into their hands, we will lose everything.

I thought we didn’t know!Don’t you just want to use your power to benefit your own people?When department stores collect items, prices and grades fluctuate.

At that time, there was a lot of confusion, and it was difficult to check even if you wanted to. They classified the third-grade items as second-grade items, and then sent them to other places to be sold as second-grade items. Others bought them without knowing it, thinking that was it.

When we wanted to check, the goods were gone and the money was divided among them. Yichang, do you think this kind of thing can happen? "

When Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned that there were officials in the court who wanted to help, he didn't believe it!

The manager of Xiaqiu Village will never make money, because Xiaqiu Village has many ways to make money, but they control how little money is given to the village.

If someone can easily earn millions of guan a year, will he try his best to earn those tens of thousands of guan?

(End of this chapter)