Bai Manshan's eyes widened as she looked at Shui Qing.
He didn't know either.
Fan Jin, in a gentle and clear manner, explained in detail the opening time of the herbal medicine shop, the types of herbs, the sales situation, and the partners Ding Heli and Qin Yilin.
The more detailed the better, to avoid Li Huyu and Bai Manshan asking further questions if they are still unclear.
Upon hearing this, Li Huyu was alright. She didn't have much of a concept of whether money could be made or not; she only knew that the herbal medicine shop was quite profitable!
Bai Manshan was secretly startled. The monthly income was about nine hundred taels, and that was under the condition that the raw materials for medicinal herbs were insufficient. In other words, the income would definitely increase after the autumn harvest this year!
These medicinal herbs are all considered high-quality. Shanshui Village has abundant land and forests. As the population increases and the area cultivated grows, the herb workshop will not lack raw materials, and its profits will continue to rise.
With money in hand and a steady stream of income to come, it's no wonder Shuiqing was thinking of buying a shop.
Buying low and selling high is a common strategy among merchants. If they don't buy shops now while prices are low, they won't be able to find good-located and cheap shops when prices rise later!
He looked at Shuiqing and told her about the current situation in Nandu: "Shops on every street are for sale. There are many shops that used to be in good demand. To put it this way, a shop that cost thousands of taels before the flood can now be bought for one or two hundred taels!"
Not only shops, but also houses and farmland are affected. Good farmland that used to cost eight or nine taels per mu (a Chinese unit of area, approximately 0.165 acres) is now worth at most two or three taels, and those being sold off in large tracts can still be negotiated down.
Shui Qing didn't understand much about Ming Chao's business, so she humbly asked, "Brother Bai, how many acres are you talking about for a 'large plot'? How many acres would be appropriate to buy?"
Bai Manshan knew these things like the back of his hand, and replied patiently and meticulously: "At least three hundred mu, but I personally think five hundred mu would be best, because five hundred mu would require one or two hundred people to manage. One or two hundred people can form a village, and they can take care of each other in life, work, etc. They also have a certain amount of armed force, so they can deal with any attacks from petty villains!"
"If there are too many, it will attract attention, the fields will be difficult to keep contiguous, making cultivation inconvenient, and too many people will increase conflicts and infighting. So, if you're going to buy, Brother Bai suggests between 300 and 500 mu."
His Baijiazhuang village has 500 mu of fertile land.
Shui checked the silver in his hand.
Previously, he had sold wine, he shou wu (Polygonum multiflorum), calligraphy brushes, yams, and the like, and had saved more than 600 taels.
The first and second batches of medicinal herbs from the herbal medicine shop brought in approximately 1,100 taels of silver.
Wen Hua's trip to Yuhang this time will likely fetch three to four thousand taels of silver for those medicinal herbs.
Bai Manshan was grateful to them for saving Ziqian. Among the gifts she gave, after deducting jewelry and other items, there was a box of gold leaves. She gave a small portion of it to Ling Ran, and the rest could be exchanged for about three thousand taels of silver.
The most valuable items in Ling Ce's thank-you gift, the calligraphy and paintings, and the vases, were sold to the mall. The rest were mostly jewelry and jade. These jewelry and jade pieces were exquisitely carved. In today's chaotic world, if they were converted into gold and silver, the craftsmanship and carving would be ruined and worthless. They were not worth selling cheaply, so it was better to keep them.
I currently have about four thousand taels of silver in my savings. I don't know how long Bai Manshan and Li Huyu will stay here. If they stay until Wen Hua returns, then I will have at least three or four thousand taels left!
Five hundred acres, calculated at two to three taels, would be between one thousand and one thousand five hundred. Adding the shop space, she would have enough money.
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