Chapter 215 Thresher
Zhang's mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and mother and daughter were asked to leave by Xu Zhichun, and they were still in a daze when they returned home.
Mrs. Bai had been staring at it and hurried over to ask what the result was.
When I heard this, I was dumbfounded.
This is Xu.
Bai was even more irritable than Zhang. If Xu Zhichun remembered the truth about falling off the cliff one day, with her current ability, it would be too easy for her to deal with herself, and it would become easier and easier. No, no
Master Qin acted decisively. On the one hand, he hired many carpenters and blacksmiths to work on the threshers and windmills. On the other hand, he personally took his experienced and capable trusted men with samples and drawings to the provincial capital to discuss business with big merchants from other provinces.
Xu Zhichun recommended Uncle Qi Tian to Mr. Qin, and Mr. Qin readily agreed.
The drawings were all provided by Xu Zhichun, and he accepted the carpenter she recommended without hesitation, and would also calculate the highest wage.
Later, when he learned that Qi Tian's craftsmanship was top-notch, Master Qin felt more relieved.
The wages are well worth it.
Madam Xu is a reliable partner. Even the person who recommended her did not just consider personal connections.
Uncle Qi Tian was extremely grateful to Xu Zhichun, and without hesitation he put down the work at hand and went to see Master Qin.
You know, being employed by the local richest family like the Qin family is equivalent to having their skills recognized, which is extremely beneficial to Uncle Qi Tian's reputation.
This qualification will add a lot of points to his resume. It will be easier for him to get jobs in the future and it will also be easier to negotiate prices.
Aunt Zhu'er was so excited that she bought two fat hens as a thank-you gift and insisted that Xu Zhichun accept them.
Xu Zhichun had no choice but to accept it and kept it in the chicken coop. He would let it out when it was grown up, and it would produce two more eggs every day.
While threshers and windmills were being made, experienced workers sold them to wealthy families in this county and neighboring counties.
Anyone who has witnessed its use will be amazed.
The entire Qingshan County was in an uproar.
Xu Zhichun's reputation also spread.
Although things are valuable because they are rare, these are farm tools. Master Qin and Xu Zhichun both understand that Lord Lu would definitely not support selling these two things at too high a price.
So the price of a thresher was twenty taels and a windmill was ten taels.
Some families who own a lot of fertile land would order at least ten threshers and windmills at a time.
At least two or three, or four or five.
Not only in this county, but also in neighboring counties, and even in some villages, several wealthy families banded together to buy one.
It’s autumn harvest, we are racing against time with God, no one can afford to delay.
If a heavy rain falls before the harvest is finished, the loss will be much more than this little money. Besides, after buying such an item, you can use it every year. So, it is not expensive at all.
Orders came in like snowflakes, and the craftsmen were busy in the workshop temporarily vacated by the Qin family.
The total cost of a thresher is about three taels and six qian of silver, and a windmill is about two taels. The profit of each one produced is more than five times.
If each of them makes 100 units, the net profit can reach more than 1,300 taels. The more they make, the more they earn. Just work every minute and get the job done.
Many people were curious about who Madam Xu was.
Xu Zhichun had to stop setting up stalls in the city with Zeng Xiaoyan and others. There was no other way, as there were always people coming to the stall to check in and watch.
She is not used to being an internet celebrity.
Not only does it affect business, it can also easily cause traffic congestion, which is really not a good thing.
Because his partner was the Qin family, no one dared to have any bad intentions, so Xu Zhichun lived a very leisurely life.
This business can bring both fame and fortune, which is almost equivalent to picking up money. Qin Xiuhe also wants to make a name for her husband's family and get a share of the profits.
When her eldest brother went to the provincial capital, she began to coax her eldest sister-in-law into asking Mrs. Qin to have someone copy a blueprint for her so that she could send it back to her husband's family and hand over the business in Changshui County to her husband's family.
It is not so easy to make hundreds or thousands of silver coins. The net profit of her husband's family's several shops is less than 100 taels a month.
Mrs. Qin ignored her and said bluntly that this was the Qin family's business secret and should not be disclosed to outsiders.
Qin Xiuhe was almost furious. What Qin family business secrets? Without a decent heir, all this was just empty talk. One day, all this property would belong to her Tianyao and Tianrui.
Qin Xiuhe was unwilling to get what she wanted from Madam Qin, so she ran to find Xu Zhichun.
She wanted to get the blueprints from Xu Zhichun.
She wanted the blueprints but didn't want to pay for them, so she just said that her eldest brother asked her to get them.
Xu Zhichun naturally refused to give it to him, and apologized sincerely. She only had one copy of the blueprint, and it was gone after Master Qin and Madam Qin took it away. She had almost forgotten the blueprint and could no longer draw it.
After all, she had spent nearly half a year tinkering and revising the previous one before she could barely finish it.
Qin Xiuhe had no choice but to give up.
Xu Zhichun accidentally revealed this matter to Mrs. Qin. Mrs. Qin sneered, thinking that this sister-in-law was becoming more and more out of touch with propriety.
She specially sent the housekeeper to communicate with Xu Zhichun. If this happened again next time, Xu Zhichun didn't have to give her face and just let her go to them.
Threshers and windmills were delivered one after another, and they became famous. Everyone who tried them praised their good qualities.
According to local custom, the autumn harvest started after the Mid-Autumn Festival. The wealthy families who got the threshers and windmills first couldn't wait to order their servants to carry the threshers to the rice fields and harvest the rice on the spot to see how fun and awesome the threshers were to use!
It turns out that this is much more enjoyable and awesome than having strong men hold handfuls of rice and slam them hard against the wall of a wooden barrel.
Two people stood side by side behind the thresher, stepping on the long pedals rhythmically, causing the gears to turn and pushing the thresher to rotate. Each of them held a handful of heavy cut rice and put the end with rice ears onto the rotating drum-like thresher. As the thresher turned, the plump rice grains were threshed and fell into the wide-mouthed and narrow-bottomed wooden barrel below. In a moment, only bare rice stalks were left in their hands.
“Good fellow!”
Their eyes lit up as they raised the bare rice stalks in their hands.
The eyes of the onlookers all lit up and they all started to applaud.
"Wow! Incredible!"
"This thresher is awesome!"
"I dare not think how happy I should be if I had a threshing-machine at home!"
"Good stuff, really good stuff."
"This is so convenient and easy to use."
"Let me try, let me try."
“.”
The host was also watching from the side, stroking his beard and laughing complacently and heartily.
At this rate, the autumn harvest will be very fast.
What used to take three days to achieve can now be accomplished in less than a day!
The thresher became famous overnight and became popular throughout the county!
Master Zeng slammed his hand on the table, gritting his teeth and saying, "How ridiculous! This is truly outrageous! This damn girl, she really doesn't consider herself a member of the Zeng family anymore, what an ungrateful person."
(End of this chapter)
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