Seeing that the topic naturally veered towards building a house, Shui Qing said, "This is what I meant by 'it's okay if you don't have enough money.'"
The new house was built to make a workshop. The four elders also knew that Uncle Ding had found medicinal herbs in the mountains behind my house. We have been planting them on a large scale, and the mature herbs need to be processed. This is to facilitate storage and transportation, and also to sell them at a good price after processing.
Processing medicinal herbs is a very troublesome task. Washing and drying them requires space, and there are many people coming and going, so several special rooms are needed.
Furthermore, we discussed with Uncle Ding that if it's profitable to sell the processed herbs, villagers who are willing to plant them can come to me for seeds. They can then sell their harvest to me at the purchase price offered by the pharmacies in the prefectural city. Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding's family will then process the herbs and sell them together. This way, the villagers can save time and effort while still earning money. Uncle Ding can also control the quality of the herbs, making our Shanshui Village a famous herb village in the entire Ming Dynasty, so that people will think of our village whenever they think of herbs!
Products from Shanshui Village are guaranteed to be of high quality!
His words stirred the blood of the four elderly people.
Everyone felt an inexhaustible energy, wishing they could kick the ox aside and plow two acres of land themselves!
Growing medicinal herbs is important, but creating high-quality products is even more crucial!
Then it can become a famous medicinal herb village in the entire Ming Dynasty.
"Anything produced in Shanshui Village is guaranteed to be of the highest quality." The old village chief repeated these two sentences over and over, his eyes brightening with each recitation.
He, he still wants to live on, to live until he sees the medicinal herbs grow and be sold to all parts of Mingchao, so that everyone will know about the medicinal herbs of Shanshui Village!
Master Fan, Old Master Wang, and Old Man Xu swallowed hard, feeling incredibly excited.
They originally only wanted to buy a donkey calf.
They were supposed to ease the hardship of farming at home, but how did the conversation turn into building a medicinal herb village? And they actually think there's a very good chance of success!
"The planting of medicinal herbs is estimated to be done after the busy farming season, and the harvest will not be seen until next year. However, the recruitment of people for processing medicinal herbs should be put on the agenda."
I've mentioned the processing of medicinal herbs before, and I'm sure you've heard about it. I'll bring it up again this time. Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding said that most of the work involves washing, steaming, and boiling, which is best suited for women, so they will give priority to women.
"The wages are twenty coins a day, and lunch is provided. The first batch will be selected from the households in the village to find the hardworking and efficient people. What do you think?" Shui Qing asked politely.
She was also a manager in China, so she knew the art of selecting employees and maintaining checks and balances.
The herbal medicine factory was short of workers, and the villagers were short of ways to make money. By selecting one person from each household, they could choose the most diligent and efficient one, and since every household would have one, everyone would be more balanced and would be more likely to maintain their shared livelihood.
Once the livelihood is lost, it is the interests of every household that suffer.
Income is what everyone cares about most, and it's also what unites everyone the most.
Old Man Xu nodded repeatedly.
I just felt like his brain couldn't keep up.
Twenty coins a day, plus a midday meal, and it's for women, so it doesn't interfere with the men going out to sell rabbits or doing farm work.
Old Master Wang was thinking that at twenty coins a day, that would be six hundred coins a month, and six taels of silver in ten months. A donkey a year wouldn't be a problem. No wonder Shuiqing said it wouldn't matter if there wasn't enough silver, because with this money-making business, he could use it to offset the silver or use the money he earned to buy other things!
The old village chief's hands trembled slightly with excitement.
The men in the village had a very difficult time finding work outside, but now the women in the village can earn twenty coins a day!
And each household has income. Although each household may only have one, it is rare to have an extra twenty coins a day. In addition, they can also grow medicinal herbs later.
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