Chapter 216 Disposal Arrangements
Potatoes are very popular in cooking. Last year, restaurants were very popular with them. Unfortunately, there were too few potatoes available and they sold out quickly.
Since we have a good harvest now, of course we have to purchase some!
These potatoes can hold their own very well, so it’s okay to buy some more!
Everyone happily came to the Zhao family's house. The restaurant had already arranged the menu with hot and sour potato shreds, potato stew with meat, roasted chicken with potatoes, fried potato slices, and fried potato pancakes.
The vendors set their sights on the provincial capital, hoping to take advantage of the price difference as a middleman and sell the potatoes to the provincial capital and other cities.
For a time, the large mansions near the school were bustling with people and cars.
The hired stewards Xiao Liang and Uncle Hu were in charge of reception and were so busy that they didn't even have time to drink water.
On the first day of potato harvest, Zhao Liya roughly calculated the yield and estimated that the yield per acre was about 3,600 kilograms.
She plans to plant 2,000 acres for the second crop, and she needs to keep about 300 kilograms per acre as seeds. The rest can all be sold.
The second crop is 2,000 acres. We are also afraid that if we plant too much at once, it will be difficult to manage. We need to let everyone adapt slowly. It will be much better by next year.
During normal planting in the future, about a quarter of the land will be rotated each year, and so on, a full cycle of four years will be completed, planting and nurturing the land at the same time.
The potato flour workshop is very large because it not only makes potato vermicelli, but also sweet potato vermicelli, and also sun-dries potato starch and sweet potato starch.
I'm afraid these lands are not enough, and the scale will naturally be further expanded in the future.
In addition to saving seeds, she planned to send 100,000 kilograms to Zhong Jing, which could be used to plant more than 300 acres. They had already planted some, and she thought that after the harvest, they would be able to plant a lot in the second half of the year, which could also be used for cooking and improving recipes.
As a result, there are about 900,000 kilograms left. At least 500,000 kilograms should be kept to make potato flour. The rest can be used for home consumption, gifts, or sales.
Zhao Liya explained all of this to Uncle Hu, Manager Xiao Liang and the others, and they then had a clear idea of what was going on and knew how to negotiate with the various businesses.
Zhao Liya’s product is not expensive either - if it is too expensive, how can it be easily circulated?
This isn't just about making money, it's also a great way to fill the food gap! Of course, the sooner it gets around, the better.
The market price set by Zhao Liya is five cents per catty.
To be honest, even if it is sold at this price, even if there is no potato vermicelli workshop, 900,000 catties can earn 4,500 taels. How much can the cost be spent? There are still a few thousand taels of net profit, which is already a considerable profit.
Manager Xiao Liang was a down-to-earth man. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and said with a smile, "Young lady, you are so kind. You sold it so cheaply. Those guys must be so happy!"
According to him, it can be sold even at two cents of silver per pound.
Zhao Liya smiled and said, "The product is good, but the production is also huge. The price will naturally come down in two years. We don't need to make money from it."
Made into vermicelli, it can be sold all over the country and you won’t have to worry about not making money.
Uncle Hu smiled and said, "We'll all listen to Aya!" The final decision was made.
The merchants were all delighted. At five cents a pound, a plate of hot and sour potato shreds in a restaurant didn't use a pound of potatoes, but it could sell for twenty cents! Even with a discount during a promotion, it could still sell for a dozen cents. It was delicious and sold well, and the business of the store was expected to improve significantly.
You should know that although this spicy and sour potato shreds can be fried at home, the chefs in the restaurant have specially explored and researched it, and the taste of it is incomparable to the homemade one.
Because of the price, I originally planned to buy 500 kilograms, but now I bought 800 kilograms. I originally planned to buy 10,000 kilograms, but now I just ordered 20,000 kilograms.
Zhao Liya has a limit, and one person cannot exceed 30,000 kilograms.
The potatoes here in Zhao Liya were harvested at the beginning, with a very high yield and a very good price. Many villagers in various villages also had some potatoes planted at home, so they started digging them up, taking them to the city to sell, or selling them in small quantities at the market, or selling them to restaurants themselves.
Some restaurants would take the opportunity to lower the price by one cent per pound, and of course the people in the city would bargain when buying.
But no matter what, the potato yield was high, and even if it was only three or four cents per pound, the family still earned a lot of money.
Some of the potatoes could not be sold, so they took them to Zhao's potato workshop to sell them with the idea of giving it a try.
Zhao Liya and Uncle Hu discussed that they could buy potatoes from the potato workshop at three and a half cents per pound, but they would not accept damaged ones.
Many families also sold them happily.
Everyone is happy.
Even if Zhao Liya and her colleagues charge this price, they won’t make much after deducting labor costs and other costs.
For a time, even families in Zaihu Village and Bajiao Village dug potatoes and sold them to the workshop. Those who planted more could not only keep their capital, but also sell them for two or three taels of silver, which made everyone greedy!
Some of the harvested potatoes were accidentally broken, and they were picked out one by one in the workshop. Some were taken home to eat, and some were used to make potato vermicelli. The workshop also started working in full swing.
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling specially packed a sack of about 40 to 50 kilograms, added some fruits and vegetables, caught two chickens, and prepared 30 eggs, intending to send them to Yu Gongcao's family.
However, they could not go in person this time. If Mao Dexing heard about it, Yu Gongcao would probably be angered and in trouble.
No matter how greedy Yu Gongcao's wife was, she would probably be too afraid to accept it.
If she refused, not only would Zhao Liya and Hu Ling be embarrassed, but their relationship would also be severed.
Zhao Liya asked two women from Bajiaozhai to deliver it.
Yu Gongcao's wife happily accepted the gifts. When Yu Gongcao came back, she told him about it and said with emotion, "Look at Miss Zhao and Brother Hu! They are so sensible! They didn't even forget to send us gifts!"
Yu Gongcao hadn't expected them to do this, and he felt a little emotional. He secretly made up his mind that if he could say a word for them, he would. If there was any news that could be passed on, it wouldn't be a big deal to spread it secretly.
They are so thorough in their work that I feel at ease helping them.
He had a premonition that Mao Dexing would not be able to defeat Miss Zhao and the others, and if he continued to do so, he would be in trouble sooner or later.
While sending gifts to Yu Gongcao's family, Zhao Liya also quickly organized people to transport 100,000 kilograms of potatoes to the garrison camp in Suixi County and deliver them to Zhong Jing.
Zhong Jing was very happy to receive this gift. With a wave of his hand, 100,000 kilograms of potatoes were stored. They had already planted dozens of acres, which was just right. They could dig them up and send them to the canteen. They might as well keep all the 100,000 kilograms for seeds.
(End of this chapter)
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