She thought of opening a soy sauce and salt factory, specializing in the production of soy sauce, salt and vinegar for sale, which would surely sell well and have booming business.
Things like soy sauce, salt and vinegar are relatively simple and can be made by hand without using machines.
It’s just that people at that time had limited knowledge and understood little, so most of them couldn’t do it themselves, and farmers were even less likely to do it, so this was a huge business opportunity.
Don't underestimate the cheapness of soy sauce, salt and vinegar. Soy sauce is 1.5 cents per pound, salt is 2 cents per pound, and vinegar is even cheaper, only 1.3 cents per pound. However, every household needs them, so they sell well and in huge quantities.
A family should need one pound of soy sauce, one pound of salt and one pound of vinegar per month.
Take Liu'an Brigade for example. There are 157 households in Liu'an Brigade. If each household buys one pound of salt, one pound of vinegar and one pound of soy sauce per month, they can receive 48 cents from the salt, vinegar and soy sauce.
If all 157 households bought one pound of salt, one pound of vinegar, and one pound of soy sauce, it would cost 75.36 yuan.
If people from all the brigades in the city were asked to buy salt, vinegar and soy sauce from her factory, she could sell at least hundreds of thousands of yuan a month.
Hundreds of thousands of yuan is not an exaggeration at all!
I heard the team leader mention it before. This city is a big city, so not only are there a lot of people in the city, but there are even more rural areas under the jurisdiction of the city. There are more than 3,000 production teams, and each production team has at least 100 households.
So the total number of production teams in the entire city is over 300,000. Every household buys salt, vinegar, and soy sauce from her every month. So she can easily sell hundreds of thousands of them in a month!
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, the net profit is easily more than half, which means you can easily earn tens of thousands of dollars a month.
Tens of thousands of dollars, more money than selling things on the black market.
Moreover, selling salt, vinegar and soy sauce in rural areas is much safer than selling things on the black market.
Because we are now in a planned economy, everything is about supply and everything is in short supply, so everything is supplied to the cities first. As a result, farmers are given fewer tickets than city dwellers, including cloth tickets and seasoning tickets.
Therefore, even salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, which are ubiquitous in modern life and are really insignificant, were in short supply among farmers at that time.
Not to mention sauce and vinegar, salt is something that is absolutely indispensable. If you don't eat it for ten days, your body will be in trouble. However, the salt coupons in the hands of farmers are not enough to buy enough salt for a long time.
Therefore, those in the city who had connections and could get salt would bring the salt to the countryside and sell it to farmers without tickets. Even though the higher-ups knew about this, they turned a blind eye and did not issue orders for strict investigations to put an end to this kind of thing.
Sometimes, people who come to sell salt can get not only salt but also soy sauce and vinegar to sell, which is quite popular among farmers.
So when she set up a salt and soy sauce factory, she could sell salt, soy sauce and vinegar to farmers in the surrounding brigades without worrying about being reported for profiteering and arrested.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the idea of setting up a sauce and salt factory was a very good one. It would be a good business that would make a lot of money and was safe.
However, private individuals were not allowed to set up factories at that time. If one wanted to set up a soy sauce and salt factory, he had to be affiliated with the Lu'an Brigade. She wanted to talk to the brigade leader and give the brigade some benefits, and the brigade leader would agree.
But there is a problem: to set up a factory, you must have a factory building.
A factory that is going to produce salt, vinegar and soy sauce to supply 300,000 households in rural areas of the city must be a large factory with many delivery rooms.
She did have the money to build a delivery room. She calculated that the money she had earned these days should be enough. But to build a large factory like that, she would need at least four or five hundred square meters of land. Where could she get the land?
It seems that she needs to ask the team leader for help, talk to him and ask him to allocate a few hundred square meters of land for her to build a factory.
But building a factory is such a big thing, and it has to be affiliated with the brigade, and it requires such a large area. I am afraid that the brigade leader will not agree to it easily, and may even call a meeting of the entire team.
It seems that I have no choice but to spend some money. I discussed it with the team leader and told everyone in the team that I am willing to give the team 500 yuan every year. If so, I believe the team leader and everyone in the team will agree.
Five hundred yuan is a lot of money at that time. Although it hurts a bit, it is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of yuan you can earn in a month.
Thinking of this, Xu Zhixin suddenly stopped feeling distressed and decided to go home to cook lunch at noon and tell the team leader about her plan to set up a soy sauce and salt factory and build a house.
Xu Zhixin wanted to set up a salt and sauce factory. She wanted to build a factory to produce salt, soy sauce and vinegar, but she never thought of taking salt, soy sauce and vinegar from the space to sell. This was because if she wanted to sell them to all the rural areas under the city, she would need too much goods. Even if the space supermarket had an automatic replenishment function, she was afraid that she would not be able to take out hundreds of thousands of kilograms every month.
Moreover, she sells her products to all the rural areas in the city, which would cause too much noise and would definitely lead to her being investigated. If people found out that she doesn't even have a factory, they would definitely wonder where her salt, soy sauce and vinegar come from.
So she thought it would be better to build the factory honestly and produce honestly.
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