Chapter 356 It’s better to talk to Su Mu in person
If converted to the selling price in Beijing, wouldn’t it be at least twenty cents or more?
The profit of the catering industry is at least over 50%, and the profit of hot pot is even higher...doubling it is no problem.
I earn fifty or sixty coins per catty, five or six hundred coins per ten catties, and five or six taels of silver per hundred catties. If I sell hundreds of catties for two meals at noon and in the evening, I can earn dozens of taels of silver a day.
Combined with drinks, homemade specialty cakes, and cold dishes...it's not impossible to make over a hundred taels a day...
Shen Qing suppressed her surging emotions and asked Jiang Xiangnan, "Beef is also sold in different cuts, right? When you said it's not as expensive as fat, did you mean the most expensive cut or the cheapest cut?"
The gap between them is too big.
Jiang Xiangnan had been waiting for his mother to ask for the price!
He coughed to clear his throat and listed the corresponding prices he had inquired about one by one: "It depends on the price! But this is the price of the most expensive part. If you add the internal organs, it will be even cheaper;
Mother, you don't know how difficult it is to sell beef and mutton over there. After all, there are so many of them that poor people can't afford to eat them. Rich people can buy them whenever they want, so they can only sell them at a low price.
There are also people who go from other places to purchase, but they think the journey is too long. Not only is the trip tiring, but it also costs money. So won’t they bargain down the price?
Oh, and the most fatal problem is transporting goods! A car can only carry a few hundred kilograms at most. To carry more, how many donkeys and how many cars would be needed?
Besides, the cost of wages, food, drink and accommodation along the way is quite high!"
As he spoke, Jiang Xiangnan himself hesitated.
These problems happen to other businessmen as well as to them!
He looked at the two people in the car and asked in fear, "Mom, Fourth Brother, we have fifteen cars on this trip, excluding the drivers, so at most we can only carry seven or eight thousand kilograms, right?
We also need to transport sheep fat and wool. Will the time, animals, vehicles, and manpower required for the round trip be sufficient?"
They don't even need to calculate wages. After all, they always have to deliver goods when they go there, and the wages are included in the goods. But is their transportation capacity enough to just transport cattle and sheep?
If that's not enough, do we need to buy more donkeys and vehicles? But donkeys are not cheap! Especially if we have too many, feeding them is a problem.
There are already a lot of donkeys in their village.
Jiang Xiangbei opened his mouth and fell into deep thought.
Indeed, they could afford to buy donkeys, but they needed people to drive them, and too many people would affect the progress of the village workshop;
Secondly, the number of livestock is too large, and raising them is very tiring, especially since they have no problem with the amount of arable land they have now. No matter how many more livestock there are, their only use is to transport goods. And goods are only transported every few days, so they don't need that many.
Shen Qing heard that offal was cheaper, and thought about it, the same is true for pig offal. Compared with meat, offal is difficult to clean and requires a lot of seasoning or spices to taste good.
The poor are reluctant to use expensive spices to marinate cheap offal, and the rich have no need to do so.
However, beef tripe, beef throat, and lamb tripe... although the Old Beijing hotpot is not suitable, the Sichuan hotpot is suitable.
Beijing is such a big city that there are people who like sesame hotpot and naturally there are also people who like Sichuan cuisine. But you don’t have to choose only one between the two, you can switch the taste from time to time.
She didn't answer the question, but instead asked, "You just said that Sumu and the others came out to find a way to sell more beef and mutton?"
Jiang Xiangnan nodded blankly: "Yes, there are too few merchants going to Chenzhou to purchase cattle and sheep, far from enough, so they want to come out and see if they can find more merchants to go and buy;
We are, as you often say, potential customers, so he came with us and went to Beijing to check out the market conditions."
Why did his mother suddenly jump onto Su Mu?
No matter what, he will answer whatever his mother asks!
"You said that the Sumu family's ranch is very big. How big is it?" Shen Qing continued to ask.
Jiang Xiangnan thought for a moment, then realized he couldn't gesture. He frowned and said, "It's very large. The grassland over there stretches as far as the eye can see! And it's not all in one place. They have to move from place to place from time to time. They usually store fodder and return to Chenzhou in winter."
Shen Qing asked more specifically: "I mean, roughly how many livestock are there, for example, how many horses are there?"
Jiang Xiangnan knows this issue best!
After all, it was because of the large number of heads that Su Mu was worried. The two of them often talked about this issue, and he replied seriously: "Not counting the cubs, there are 5,000 to 6,000 cattle, tens of thousands of sheep, and not many horses, but there are also several hundred."
Horses are expensive and rarely eaten. However, not many people buy horses. Merchants are afraid of losing money on the horses after bringing them back from far away, so only specialized horse dealers come to buy them.
However, there are very few professional horse dealers, and the number distributed among sumu ranches is even smaller.
Shen Qing originally thought about raising a large number of livestock and selling them to make money. He bought some books on the subject from the mall and read them. Although he later found that it was not feasible, he had a general understanding of it.
This number of Sumu Ranch is quite large!
They are mainly young pigs, most of which can be sold within a few months or a year, and they can produce piglets continuously. However, there is less grass in winter, so it is impossible to raise too many pigs, so a batch needs to be sold;
Only by selling them would they have enough money to buy the necessary salt, cloth and daily necessities, or exchange them for cheaper food to feed more people.
All the workers on the ranch depend on the money from selling livestock to make a living. If they can't sell them, there will be insufficient fodder and the livestock will only get thinner and thinner, and they won't be able to exchange them for other supplies they need...
Shen Qing had a general idea in his mind, but it was useless to tell his two sons about it. It would be better to talk to Su Mu in person.
If the negotiations are successful, it will be a mutually beneficial thing in the future, which will be great for both parties!
Even the sugar mills of Mr. Jiang and his three families will benefit from it, their income will increase, and the village will become better and better.
She then asked, "How much silver did you bring back this time?"
Jiang Xiangbei took a deep breath and blurted out as he handed over the account book: "Sixty-seven coins for each brush wool, seven thousand eight hundred pieces, which is five hundred and twenty taels of silver after rounding off.
Seventy-five coins a piece of rabbit hair, five thousand five hundred pieces, after rounding off the remainder it comes to four hundred and ten taels;
The wood used for wolf-hair brushes is good, and they cost three hundred coins each. There are five hundred of them, and they cost one hundred and fifty taels.
Other rare and valuable brushes were sold at a price each, bringing the total to approximately 400 taels, bringing the total revenue from brushes to 1,480 taels."
It’s more than one thousand four hundred taels.
The brush workshop produced nearly two months' worth of brushes, especially at the beginning when everyone was still unskilled and had many days of annual leave during the Chinese New Year. Even so, the brushes they made were still sold for 1,480 taels at a low price!
Before the expansion, the monthly labor wages in the workshop were about seventy or eighty taels, the food cost for lunch was five or six taels a month, and the cost of raw materials was over one hundred taels.
All in all, the workshop's average monthly cost is around two hundred taels.
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