Chapter 357: After more than two months of hard work, I finally got some income

One thousand four hundred taels is seven hundred and forty taels per month. After deducting the cost of two hundred taels, the profit is a full five hundred and forty taels!

This is the profit of the brush workshop before the expansion. Now that the brush workshop has expanded, won’t we make more as long as we can sell the brushes?

Shen Qing was probably expecting this number. After all, there were clear records of how many brushes entered the warehouse every day, and how many of each type of brush were made of which material, and there were also records of when they were shipped out of the warehouse.

But I was still very happy to be able to sell them all and bring back a lot of silver.

With an income of more than 1,000 taels of silver, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief and no longer have to worry too much about money for the time being.

Oh, right, there's more than a thousand taels of silver. "How much did the soap sell for?"

Jiang Xiangbei quoted the figures without hesitation: "Sesame oil hair soap is 3,000 pieces, 120 wen per piece, a total of 360 taels;

The lard one was two thousand pieces, one hundred and ten wen each, for a total of two hundred and twenty taels;

The lowest price for sheep fat is 800 pieces, and each piece is 110 wen, which makes a total of 88 liang.

The total is six hundred and sixty-eight taels."

Jiang Xiangnan, who was in the same compartment, opened his mouth wide. "Fourth brother is too amazing! He can remember everything without even looking at the account book!"

However, it was also the first time that he had a concrete understanding of the income from this trip.

My God, they actually earned more than two thousand taels of silver in just one trip?

He said happily, "Mom, are we rich? We earn over a thousand taels of silver a month!"

After deducting several hundred yuan in costs, there will always be a loss, which was unimaginable in the past.

The key is that the cost is quite good. For example, the wages are shared by the whole village, and everyone earns money together, so the benefits are kept within the family.

Part of the money from the wool materials went into the pockets of the Lei family. They became richer and could also own rare wool materials. You know, brushes made of rare wool materials are very valuable. One brush can be worth dozens of ordinary ones. Moreover, the officials are scrambling to get them. They are too lazy to even look at ordinary wool or rabbit hair.

Those who are suffering from drought will die of drought, and those who are suffering from flood will die of flood!

Lard and mutton fat are even better for making soap because there are edible oil residues that can be eaten at home and in the workshop, so there is no waste at all.

Shen Qing smiled and didn't say anything to suppress him. He said that they did make money. It was the result of the whole family's hard work and it was worth being happy about.

But no words of praise were given, because the third brother was a lively person and easily became arrogant. If you said a few more words to him, he would become proud. The most taboo thing in doing business is to become arrogant and proud.

She smiled and said, "I'll make you something delicious when we get back. You've worked hard on this trip."

When Jiang Xiangnan heard that he had worked hard, he scratched his head embarrassedly.

This time he went out with them, actually he just ate, drank and drove the carriage, so he was not really tired. The brushes were made by the people in the workshop, and the soap was made by his sister-in-law and cousins.

If you think about it carefully, he actually didn't contribute anything useful...

Shen Qing looked at the fourth brother again and asked, "How much silver do you expect to spend on this trip?"

The men who deliver goods are also paid. They bring their own food, so they don’t have to worry about it. However, the wages are correspondingly higher than those in the workshop. After all, they have to leave their hometown and sleep in the open air, and there are risks, so the wages are naturally not the same as in the village.

You don't have to worry about food. Once you enter the city, the host will have to treat you to a few meals, and the money for accommodation in the inn will also be paid by the host.

All the miscellaneous costs have to be included in the cost.

Jiang Xiangbei reported swiftly: "The wages for the whole team are 600 coins a day. After 16 days of work, the total is 9.6 taels.

In total, I treated him to nine meals, spending three taels of silver.

The cost of accommodation is two taels of silver, making a total of fifteen taels of silver."

Shen Qing nodded.

A dozen taels of silver accounts for a very small proportion of two thousand taels, and this cost is almost negligible.

Jiang Xiangbei added, "By the way, mother, Uncle Qingshan said they're also shipping the sugar, so they'll cover the delivery costs as well. What do you think is a suitable amount?"

Shen Qing understood what the fourth brother meant.

If they are not asked to pay, Jiang Erye and the others will definitely not be willing to do so. Besides, they are all delivering goods, so it will be convenient to talk and make decisions later if they pay the fee in proportion. Therefore, even if they don't want this fee, Jiang Erye and Xie Qingshan will definitely ask them to pay for it.

It would be better to come up with a clear ratio so that it would be convenient to act in the future.

"We deliver a lot of heavy goods, and most of the goods we deliver back are also ours, so they should give us 10% or 20%."

It won’t be too high, and it won’t count if it’s less than 10%.

"Okay." Jiang Xiangbei responded, knowing what was going on.

After everyone had finished talking, the carriage returned to silence.

Jiang Xiangnan wanted his mother to find a way to make money, his sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law to make it, and his fourth brother to sell it and bring it back for silver;

He also wanted to contribute his own efforts to help his family earn some extra money.

Jiang Xiangbei thought that good wine needs to be hidden in a remote alley. For example, the Sumu family's ranch is very large, with many cattle, horses and sheep, but if they can't sell them, everyone is living a miserable life.

The same goes for his own family. He must find as many sales channels as possible so that no matter how many brushes and soaps he makes, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to sell them.

What Shen Qing considered was not enough, far from enough.

In the past, a monthly income of more than one thousand taels of silver was really great in the countryside!

But they will go to the capital to open a shop in the future, buy a big house to live in, and maybe later they will buy their own shop and form a caravan... Only when they are strong will they not have to worry about Aunt Qiu doing something bad again.

He also has the ability to fight back when she attacks him, instead of just passively resisting like the previous two times without the ability to fight back.

So the business needs to expand.

The brush workshop has added a lot of people, and with the current output, it is no problem to earn eight or nine hundred taels a month.

The soap business can be expanded... The market in Chenzhou alone has not been fully opened up. In addition, there is sufficient sheep oil and milk, so we can increase the variety of products to be sold to the capital.

In this case, the production in a small workshop with only a few people is far from enough, and we need to expand the manpower.

The brushes are used by the elders in the village, and the soap can be used by one's own servants. They all have signed a contract to sell themselves, so it is safe to use them.

The monthly income of the expanded soap workshop is estimated to reach two thousand taels, and the mutton and lard residues are more than enough to supply the workshop and the entire village.

No need to worry about lack of oil and water anymore.

The matter of opening a hot pot restaurant in Beijing can also be put on the agenda, and the delivery matters can be discussed with Su Mu;

Beef, mutton, and offal were sent to the capital, while mutton fat and wool were sent to the villages;

It is not easy to open a hot pot restaurant and make it a hit. Location selection and decoration are secondary. The most important thing is the preparation of dipping sauce, various pastries, cold dishes, etc.

Fortunately, it’s only the beginning of the year. The best time to open a hot pot restaurant is late autumn and early winter, so there’s still time.

The urgent matters before us are, first, clearing the land to plant sweet potatoes and medicinal herbs;

The second is to build a soap workshop.