Chapter 119 Employee Benefits
Listening to the excited chatter of several people, Zhao Liya also smiled and said, "Let's work hard and try to refine more white sugar. Then I'll talk to Brother Zhou and General Zhong Jing and ask for their help. They must have channels to transport this white sugar to big cities and sell it to wealthy people. We will definitely make more money. I'll give everyone a bonus and keep it safe!"
Qu Yutao and the others all laughed and said, "Even if there's no bonus, we still have to work hard! Of course we have to earn money if there's any!"
The few of them had a tacit understanding and were busy removing impurities and refining every day, enjoying themselves very much.
There is no problem except that the amount of charcoal used is relatively large.
It happened that this time was the peak season for burning and selling charcoal, so Zhao Liya asked Hu Ling to purchase 50,000 kilograms of charcoal in batches and store it in the warehouse of the sugar-making workshop.
This thing can be kept for a long time, just in case.
It's needed now, and it should be needed in the first half of next year. Sugarcane can be grown twice a year. Otherwise, hiring someone to make charcoal would be too conspicuous.
Zhao Liya just wants to keep a low profile.
If you really can't keep a low profile, then shift the blame elsewhere, for example, blame everything on the mysterious boss behind the scenes.
In the blink of an eye, it is the twelfth lunar month.
The sugar-making workshop is still busy every day, and the villagers of Zaihu Village work in shifts in an orderly manner.
Part of the yellow sugar produced flowed into the market, and the other part was secretly taken by Zhao Liya to refine white sugar.
Originally, Zhao Liya was planning to expand the sales of yellow candy, but who knew that she didn't need to worry about it at all.
As the only large-scale sugarcane grower in Gaolian County, countless people have paid attention to it since the beginning of planting.
The workshop had just started making sugar when merchants came to the door and wanted to buy it.
Zhao Liya did not agree immediately, but asked the other party to taste it and make an offer. Then they had to ask the "big boss" for permission before they could sell it.
This made the merchants dare not underestimate it, and they were more serious and sincere when quoting prices.
Those who had been planning to brag and deceive had basically given up. The one or two who hadn't given up had a few words with Zhao Liya, but were frightened out of their motives.
Through these merchants, half of the yellow candy was sold, and Zhao Liya claimed that the boss would keep the other half for himself. This half was sold to everyone because of the face of the local merchants. If there is wealth, there will be wealth together. Otherwise, he would not sell a pound.
None of the merchants doubted this.
If the big boss is not strong, he cannot create such a large industry.
The big boss is such a sensible person, so it is obvious that he is someone worth making friends with. Everyone has a very good impression of him. They use all kinds of methods to ask Zhao Liya, Hu Ling and others about the big boss's background, give him gifts, and even want to treat him to a meal.
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling were happy in their hearts, but they had to politely decline.
It's not a solution to keep going like this. Otherwise, when should I ask Brother Zhou to impersonate me?
Brother Zhou could even say a few words to everyone through the screen without showing his face. If he wanted to be more extreme, he could just show everyone his back.
Brother Zhou has a strong aura. Zhao Liya feels that even if he only shows his back, he can convince everyone.
With the mysterious blessing of the "mysterious boss", no one dared to do anything to the sugar-making workshop. Besides, there was Zaihu Village and Bajiao Village, which were closely related to Zaihu Village. These villages were numerous and powerful, and they were particularly united, and they were definitely not to be trifled with.
It's not worth it to do anything for a little bit of sugar.
After all, sugar, although the production in this Lingnan area is not much, it is still a lot. It is relatively rare, but it is definitely not a rare commodity in the world.
The yellow sugar produced by Zhao Liya's workshop is of very good quality and is sold at a price of 32 wen per pound.
Their sugarcane also grew very well. It was normal for others to have a yield of about 3,000 kilograms per mu, and 3,500 to 3,600 kilograms per mu was very good. However, Zhao Liya roughly estimated that their sugarcane yield per mu was about 4,600 to 4,700 kilograms per mu.
It’s half more than others!
The hard work of fertilizing, watering, weeding and fertilizing the soil was not in vain.
Their sugar yield is also slightly higher than others, and with so many layers of support, they produce quite a lot of sugar.
Because everyone was very motivated and worked overtime, by the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the work was basically finished, and there were still five or six days left to complete the work.
When they counted the sugar they had squeezed out, they found that there were about 184,000 kilograms of sugar.
Among them, about 100,000 jin were sold to eight middlemen of various sizes at the price of 32 wen per jin.
Just from this one item, he earned three thousand two hundred taels.
There are also about 84,000 kilograms that we plan to refine into white sugar.
Zhao Liya and her colleagues have already refined tens of thousands of kilograms of sugar. The warehouse is filled with bags of sugar, neatly arranged, and they are all worth money.
When it’s time to finish, it’s time to give everyone the rewards they deserve.
In addition to their wages, everyone working in the workshop received a bonus of 200 coins. If anyone wanted to buy candy, every household in Zaihu Village could purchase two pounds of it at 20 coins per pound.
Even if this sugar is sold to middlemen, it still costs 32 wen per pound. It is more than 20 wen per pound cheaper. Buying two pounds means you only need to spend a little more than the price of one pound in the market.
During the Chinese New Year, we steam some sugar cakes and rice cakes at home to eat with them. Children and adults like it too. If you bring half a pound back to your mother's house, it will give you face, right?
So almost every household lined up to buy two kilograms.
After all, I earned so much money in the workshop, so I wouldn't feel bad about buying two kilograms.
For some families, two catties were not enough, so they bought one or two more catties and sold them to merchants at 32 wen per catty.
This price is still cheaper than the market price.
There were also a small number of people who were not satisfied and wanted to buy a few more kilograms at the price of 20 wen. "We have a large family, and two kilograms is too little."
There were quite a few people who made such requests, and some of them reported it to Zhao Liya, who politely declined.
The two kilograms of discount were a welfare benefit for the whole village, similar to bonuses and red envelopes, regardless of the number of people. If you wanted to buy more, the price you paid to the middlemen was already very cheap on the market.
When the village head and clan leader found out, they reprimanded those people and told them to stop talking nonsense. Two kilograms is already a lot, and you are still not satisfied?
In previous years, there wouldn’t even be one or two!
Most of the villagers thought so too. Of course, the Zhao family and the mysterious boss behind them were already very kind. Who would give such treatment to any other boss?
If you make any more excessive demands, you will be truly ungrateful.
Zhao Liya had her own ideas, which she only told Hu Ling, Qu Yutao and others in private.
(End of this chapter)
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