Chapter 768: There are rules in all walks of life
The cherries seemed really big to Zhu Yuanzhang, bigger than those he had eaten before, and Li Chang thought so too.
It’s just that this kind is not big enough. At least Zhu Wentian knows that there are bigger cherries, but they are not very delicious. He bought them for hundreds of pounds per catty, and they are not as sweet and sour as the cherries he used to eat when he was a child. .
"Your Majesty, a total of nineteen cherry trees in the village have successfully bloomed and bear fruit. The others may not be able to this year."
The mayor did not say how many cherries were sold outside. Money, because I don’t have that amount to sell, it’s not enough for me to eat.
The cherries are ripening one after another, and they grow big because they have good nutrition.
Cherrys are not valuable in summer. People who have yards can plant them in their own yards. After planting, they don’t need to take care of them, and they can eat cherries every year.
Due to geographical restrictions, a large number of cherries can only be eaten by oneself and cannot be sold unless they are close to the county seat.
Otherwise every family has cherry trees, why would they buy them outside?
They are sold here in Nanjing, usually for one penny per cup, and the good ones can be picked out and given to brothels.
"There will be more varieties next year" Zhu Yuanzhang understood immediately. If he ordered cherries, he really couldn't take them out. He ate them in the village and the palace also helped to eat them.
"If you plant more, you will see more flowers and fruits. If you sell them in Nanjing in the future, you will have to sell five guans per pound."
The manager is already considering the price. Cherry is a tree, and it is difficult to plant it out of season. The cherry tree must be transplanted the year before, and then a greenhouse should be built around the tree.
There were no cherries last year. They came into fruit earlier in the spring. This year some of them bloomed in the winter.
This thing is not for ordinary people to eat. It would be good for ordinary people to eat cucumbers, lettuce, chrysanthemum, eggplant, cowpeas, etc.
Fruits include watermelon and cantaloupe, which are equally expensive at four to five hundred yuan per pound. They are cheaper than before. They plant more and the yield is higher.
Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to catch the spit out cherry pit, and he slurped down all the pulp on it.
"Yi Chang, we remember that during the war, we sent them cans in bamboo tubes and oil paper, with fruits in them."
"Yes, the quantity is small, and it is given to the generals. Eat it with the sick and injured soldiers
It is also available now. It will be made this summer. Your Majesty will make it on a large scale and sell it to the people in the winter.
How many clay pots will be used in the village next year? It’s made in big jars and sold by the pound. Because there’s rock sugar in it, it costs forty or fifty cents per pound.” There are also canned peaches. People can eat some fruits in winter to supplement vitamins and so on."
"Your Majesty has preserved fruits, but not fresh cherries. There is no shortage of dried cherries, and they are cheap, costing more than ten yuan each. It can last a long time.”
“Lao Er didn’t say that.” Zhu Yuanzhang recalled it and confirmed.
"It is sold in the candy store in Xiaqiu Village, not Jubiqi. Jubiqi is firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea."Chang emphasized that the next residence must be sold by seven.
The shops in Xiaqiu Village sell preserved fruits, dry goods, and dried fruits. People can buy them and eat them soaked in water or chewed dry.
In the past, ordinary people could not afford dried fruits because they had poor circulation. Who would stock up on so many dried fruits? It was inconvenient to store and easy to get bugs.
Nowadays, Xiaqiu Village places orders at convenience stores. Merchants bring dried fruits back from various places. Xiaqiu Village itself also collects fresh fruits and hires people to process them.
In places where there are department stores, merchants do not collect dried fruits because they are too expensive, so the stores will bear the price.
They go to other places, collect a penny per catty, transport it back, sell it for four to five cents per catty, and exploit the people elsewhere.
Those people are very happy, especially in places where there are many wild fruits. After going up to the mountains to pick them and come back to dry them, they can make more than a dozen cash a day.
The harvest is over a hundred kilograms, and that’s the amount after drying. Those that require shade drying can only be strung together with strings and hung in the house or under the eaves.
However, merchants cannot make more money even if they want to. Xiaqiu Village keeps prices low, so there is no shortage of people to deliver goods.
Excluding transportation fees, labor costs, and taxes, a businessman can make one penny per pound, which is a 100% pure profit.
Xiaqiu Village earns a gross profit of 150% to 200%. Because there is a lot of goods and labor is required, it is troublesome to store the collected dried fruits.
Now is the best time to sell. After spring, wild vegetables will appear, and in summer, fruits will appear.
It doesn’t matter if the dried fruits cannot be sold, they can be ground into powder and made into snacks for the children. There are a large group of children in the library living in various ways.
Some go to school, some live temporarily, and some parents leave their children here and give them water and make snacks.
Coupled with the almshouses and the army, Xiaqiu Village only needs to make a profit when selling dried fruits.
The head of the village told Zhu Yuanzhang what had happened. Zhu Yuanzhang remained silent for a few breaths, "The merchants had doubled the profits, and all the money was made by them."
"Other people who worked hard also made money. , the people who suffered from the dried fruits will not be compensated, at least the fruits will not rot." The chief corrected His Majesty's thoughts.
Otherwise, it would be easy to increase taxes, thirty to one tax, which is the same ratio as the people’s most basic land tax.
The increase in taxation will only increase the fiscal revenue of the court. It will not be cheaper for the people to buy dried fruits, but more expensive.
As long as it is bought and sold among the private sector, all taxes and other fees will eventually be passed on to the people.
Of course, products that are not necessities for survival will not be eaten. For example, dried fruits can be eaten by ordinary people. This will harm the people in the places where dried fruits are produced.
They make less money. Anyway, someone has to pay for this money, and Xiaqiu Village will bear it. The price must be lowered so that more goods can be sold.
Children in libraries, people in almshouses, and people in the military eat less free food.
"The merchants can't sell the dried fruits themselves if they transport them back." Zhu Yuanzhang still had a problem.
“Nowadays, many businessmen do not do one kind of business alone. What do they see?Just buy and sell whatever they want to make money, not letting them open a separate store.
Businessmen who specialize in selling preserved fruits and dried fruits will not lower their prices. They are cheating themselves. If they dare to lower their prices, Xiaqiu Village will dare to dump them at a price lower than their cost.
The dried fruits sold in Xiaqiu Village are more expensive than those sold in Yingtianfu’s dried fruit shop, but the quality is good. The bad ones in Xiaqiu Village are ground into flour or soaked in water for others to eat.
They know these situations, so everyone works together to maintain the market. Including those who do hard work for people, everyone has a bottom line on price. ”
“Doing business is like going to court. "Zhu Yuanzhang realized it, and everyone worked together to maintain a balance.
"Isn't it better to herd cattle?" There was a joke in it.
Zhu Yuanzhang curled his lips and said, "You are really being bullied, you son of a bitch. Liu De, there are also old soups that always sneer with us, hehehehehe "
Zhu Yuanzhang never let go of the cow as a shame, but is always willing to communicate with people to raise cattle.
< p>Whenever he mentions things in the past, he is very proud, we are just a cowherd kid, look at nowThe old soup in his mouth refers to Tanghe. When the two of them herd cows, they are always in the same place. It was a good place.
At noon, Zhu Yuanzhang got up after a short nap and was full of energy. Except for Wei Su, Zeng Lu and Liu Bowen, all the ministers ran home.
p>The meals for the day have been received, and they have brought back fruits, just in time to have lunch with their families.
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