There are too many fruits, which is a worry. People know the value of fruits, and so do animals.
Even though we sent people to drive away birds, badgers, snakes and rats every day, many of these ripe fruits and vegetables were still bitten.
These bad fruits cannot be sold, and except for a few good-looking ones that are kept for everyone to satisfy their cravings, the rest all go into the pigs' stomachs in the pig farm.
So this fruit is really not rare to the Qiao family now.
There were too many peaches. The twenty carriages of peaches were only the first ripe ones picked from twelve trees.
No wonder the old lady wanted to find a fleet and hold a trade fair. That's more than a thousand acres of peach orchard. It will be so spectacular when all the peaches are put on the market.
I heard that the peach orchard not only has early-ripening varieties, but also mid-ripening and late-ripening varieties. You can still eat peaches by the end of September!
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In Laohu Town, all the townspeople and those who used to work for the Qiao family rushed over as soon as they heard the news of the recruitment.
This time, the Qiao family hired nearly three hundred people. They no longer paid them per person or per day, but instead paid them by basket, paying one penny for a full basket of fruit.
Therefore, the leader of the recruitment team specially divided the workers into groups, including women's group, elderly group, old and young combined group, family group, etc.
Priority will be given to villagers, long-term workers and short-term workers who are familiar and have good reputation.
Those who were chosen cheered for joy, and when they heard that they would be charged by the basket, they immediately ran home and brought their children to help. The half-grown boys and girls were also half-laborers.
Don't despise the small amount of money. Those who can climb trees and have fast hands can pick 40 to 50 baskets a day. In addition, the Qiao family also provides three meals a day, and there are dozens of coins in income every day. A child can also have a bowl of egg soup and two steamed buns at noon.
It's just picking fruit, and children are allowed to do it. It's much easier than going to other masters' houses to chop wood, dig sewers, and move stones.
What’s more important is that the Qiao family pays wages every day and never delays them! When leaving, each person can get three or five fruits that have been pecked by birds.
The servant who was distributing the fruit kept telling the adults, "Wash it and eat it quickly. You can't keep this fruit for too long. If the skin is broken, it will easily grow white hair in a few days. If it goes bad, you can't eat it. Don't take it home and cover it up."
No other family was as generous as the Qiao family, allowing them to bring their children over for food and drink.
As long as the children follow the rules set by the Qiao family, the Qiao family will not make things difficult for them.
Of course, the Qiao family also had strict rules for punishment. When they were working, patrols would pass by from time to time. For those who were lazy, maliciously damaged, stole, robbed, etc., they would be punished according to the rules and put on the Qiao family's blacklist. From then on, the Qiao family would not hire this person again.
Even when such cases occur more frequently in a village, all the young men in the village will be implicated.
Even with such a desperate effort to harvest, many fruits were still destroyed by birds. Seeing the baskets of peaches being transported to the pig farm, housekeeper Cao felt very distressed.
While urging everyone to pick them quickly, he wrote a letter to the person in charge of the Qiao family, strongly suggesting that they sell them quickly!
So, the next day an expedited letter was delivered to Qiao Xin.
After reading the letter, Qiao Xin said to Qiao Yunqing, "Have everyone get ready. The fleet will set off to Laohu Town to transport the goods. As soon as the parade is finished, the fruit will be sold immediately."
"I wonder how Auntie would set the price?"
Qiao Yunqing didn't expect the fruits in the orchard to be so good. They ripened as soon as they were told.
"This is an early-maturing variety. I estimate that we can have a total of 300,000 catties. In the early stage, the maximum that can be shipped over is 200,000 catties. It will be 60 cents per catty. It will be in the peak ripening period in half a month at most. At that time, I will sell it at 30 cents per catty. I will keep 100,000 catties for myself and temporarily store them in the cellar in the Wang family's big yard. When Erlang and the shop open, I will use them to make fruit drinks to attract customers."
Qiao Yunqing was worried about another thing. "The capital has a population of hundreds of thousands, and there are many wealthy families. If they buy, they won't just buy by the pound or half a pound. By then, I'm afraid our fleet won't be able to keep up with the shipping capacity."
"Let them go to Laohu Town to transport tens of thousands of kilograms of goods themselves. The price can be a few cents cheaper. The goods shipped to the capital are mainly used to open up the market. Customers who sell goods in bulk are also very important targets."
Qiao Yunqing said with some regret, "Isn't it a pity to sell such good fruit at such a low price?"
"Don't worry, it's better than letting it rot on the tree. This stuff won't last long, and we don't have a large ice cellar to store so much stuff, so this is the only way to deal with it for now. Rather than letting it rot, I'd rather let the people of Dajing have a taste of it.
Erlang, if you calculate, even if we sell it at ten coins per pound, we won't lose money. We only spent more than a thousand taels on this orchard, and didn't invest much manpower or material resources. What's a pity? If the rich families really don't want to buy, then I will sell it to ordinary people at three or five coins per pound.
Imported goods should not be used to make huge profits, but our Qiao family should not be too unconventional. They'd better not force me, otherwise I can sell rice at three cents a pound."
If she hadn't been short of manpower and funds this year, she could have made some peach jam, canned peaches, and preserved peaches with so many peaches.
There are many ways to do it. These are all things that can fill your stomach, so there's no need to worry about no one wanting them!
Qiao Yunqing understood what Qiao Xin meant. The last time the salt mine was handed over to the national treasury, it had already affected the interests of some people. The major families had begun to resist their Qiao family intentionally or unintentionally.
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