inspire-indiana Chapter 1217: Money is not spent
Chapter 1217: Money is not spent
Zhou Guo said: "Don't worry, everyone. The reason why the fertilizer I sell to you is cheap is because the cost is here. The cost can't increase much even if we want to, so the price of this fertilizer won't increase easily."
The cost is low, and the rest is labor. Most of the fat money is labor.
Everyone was very happy to hear her words. If this was true, their future life would not be so difficult.
Zhou Guo said, "In fact, we have several kinds of fertilizers in our fertilizer farm, but the prices are different. The one we sell to you is the most suitable for you. If you want to try other fertilizers in the future, you can also buy one or two acres of land to try. If you can afford it, you can add more fertilizers, which will be better for the harvest in the fields."
These fertilizers mixed with horse manure are now very popular in the north. After so many years of accumulation, every northerner has a little food reserve, and even the poorest have never starved to death.
This new fertilizer not only makes the crops in the fields grow better, but also seems to taste a little different. Of course, ordinary people cannot tell these subtle differences.
This word came out from a wealthy family, and when the people below heard about it, they also wanted to try it.
For ordinary people who don't have much land at home, the cost of adding fertilizer with horse manure is high. Although the crops in the fields grow better, if the extra money can be used to buy more basic fertilizer, the effect will be the same.
Because of this, Zhou Guo did not remove the basic fertilizer even after the new fertilizer came out. Now that the new fertilizer is more popular, she still does not plan to remove it.
Although this fertilizer sells less, there are still some people in every county who specifically ask for it every year. As long as there are people buying it, she will continue to produce it.
The south has been at war for years and is worse than the north in previous years, let alone the north now. Most people still want basic fertilizer, and this fertilizer is enough.
Horse manure fertilizer is mainly sold to wealthy families. Rich families have no shortage of food and have sufficient supplies. They are more concerned about the taste, so it is more appropriate to sell it to them.
Someone asked: "Why are there so many different kinds of fat? What are the differences?"
Yes, fertilizer is just fertilizer, and it is applied to the fields.
Before Zhou Guo could answer, someone with a bright mind said, "Of course they are different. People are different. In your home, the fertility of chicken manure and cow dung is also different. How can you not make such a small change?"
Everyone was stunned.
Some people who want to get to the bottom of things asked: "Boss, these fertilizers have different fertility, are the prices very different?"
They want to see if they can afford it. It would be good if it can increase the grain yield in the fields by half a bushel. Anyway, the fertilizer can be paid for with the extra grain in the fields, so they don't have to pay extra money.
Zhou Guo said: "The price difference is about 50 or 60 wen per load, which is quite big."
“It’s so expensive!!”
Everyone shook their heads, it was too expensive. One mu of land required three or four dan of grain, which was two hundred coins. Such a large sum of money was enough to support a family's food, oil, salt, and needlework for several months.
Zhou Guo said: "This fertilizer is enough for you at the moment. If you use the money, you can buy two more loads of this basic fertilizer. Maybe you can produce more grain."
After all, the effectiveness of fertilizers is not that different.
To put it bluntly, this fertilizer with horse manure is developed for wealthy people who pursue taste, and this is much more useful to them than basic fertilizer.
Everyone nodded, thinking that what Zhou Guo said made sense.
In fact, if they can get this much harvest from their fields every year, everyone will be satisfied.
After paying back the fertilizer money, the harvest was more than in previous years. Even a fool can figure out the math.
Zhou Guo traveled to many places during the autumn harvest. Seeing the happy faces of the people, he couldn't help but smile. With the foundation laid this year, this piece of land will really be stable next year, and by the year after next, everyone will be able to live and work in peace on this land.
The Haoguo Escort Agency had just arrived in the south and had not yet established a firm foothold. Just like in the north, they carried the escort agency's banner and transported grain back from the mountains and plains in carts, and transported fertilizer in carts. After two rounds of this, everyone in the streets and alleys in the surrounding area knew about the Haoguo Escort Agency.
The escort agency showed up once, and from then on they had a lot of orders.
Zhou Guo began to allocate money to various places to take care of several things, which led to a serious shortage of vehicles for the escort agency and various places had to buy livestock.
In the past year or so, we have only raised a few thousand heads of cattle on our own pastures in the north, and most of them were brought south, but the supply is still insufficient to meet the demand.
She could only look in the south, hoping to build a pasture there so that she wouldn't have to go far away.
Of course, the pasture doesn't need to be too big.
She picked out three medium-sized pastures and set up one in the east, west and east.
They also spent a lot of money to buy horses, cows, donkeys and mules. Within a month, there were more than a thousand livestock on each pasture.
These two things combined cost her one hundred thousand taels in just a few months!
As she took out the money, she sighed, "This money is so easy to spend. In the blink of an eye, 100,000 taels are gone. No wonder both the poor and the rich are complaining that they don't have enough money. My mother is right. If we spend money this way, even if we have mountains of gold and silver, it won't be enough."
She didn't have much money to begin with, and it was fortunate that Hu Zi brought some money back from the south this time, otherwise she would not have had the money to run the three pastures.
Xiaoshu said, "Master, you are too generous and spend too much. Didn't you say before that you would only open one pasture? But when you saw it, you wanted this and that, and bought three in one go. Isn't that too much to spend?"
Zhou Guo said, "If we only buy one, the world is so big that it won't be enough. We might as well build one in each of the east, west and south. Fortunately, these pastures are not very big and the cost is not much. If we don't spend this money, the escort agency will gradually become busy and there will not be enough vehicles. This money will still need to be spent, and it will continue to be spent, and the cost will only be more."
She said this to Xiaoshu, and also used this method to comfort herself.
After saying that, he felt that what he said made sense, and nodded, "That's right, this money should be spent, it's worth it!"
More than a month passed, and by September, all the grain had been stored in the warehouse.
Zhou Guo stayed in his house looking at the account books submitted by various places. Of course, the grain collected in so many prefectures in the south was much more than that in the north.
Especially in the rice-rich areas of Jiangnan, the purchase rate of fertilizer by ordinary people has not exceeded 50%, but the fertilizer harvested is already enough for several Yunzhous. She dare not even think about waiting until next year, there is so much grain.
The most important thing is that in Huguang, the harvest this year is still good.
After several months of bloodbath, the powerful were basically wiped out, the common people got land and money, they were happy to give fertilizer, and the harvest was good.
Nearly 70% of the people collected about 1.2 million shi of grain. At the beginning, the four prefectures in the north could only collect this much together.
This is because the population of Huguang has decreased in the past two years.
If the population was at its peak, we might be able to collect 1.8 million shi.
No other city in the north can compare to it.
She spent more than half a month summarizing the accounts.