bayedsolid Chapter 265 Competent
Chapter 265 Competent
"How much does a middleman earn?" Lu Guan didn't think she would be willing to accept this.
Shen Xiaoye said, "I don't do things that would tear down the corners."
He turned around and this time left without looking back.
Lu Guan lowered his head, looking at the noodles in the bowl, and sighed and shook his head.
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On the other side, Shen Xiaoye went on to invite the neighbors, but what kept turning around in his mind was not the horse market, but paint.
There are still 8,000 kilograms of madder at home, which will not be enough to weave new cloth in the future.
She has sent a letter to Taixu Temple, hoping to find the merchant from last year who was willing to deliver goods to the ferry for 40 cents.
As for woad, even though my fourth uncle placed an order for 8,000 kilograms of woad from Lingshan Temple last year, my eldest uncle saw that the temple had a bumper harvest of woad this year, so he was excited and harvested all of their first batch of 15,000 kilograms of woad at the price of three taels per kilogram.
However, one thousand kilograms of indigo can produce 300 to 350 kilograms of indigo mud. Taking the middle number of 320 kilograms, plus the indigo grass from my great-grandfather and minus the one I have used today, we now have more than 4,000 kilograms of indigo mud at home.
Even though she carefully controlled the amount and mixed it with other mordants, one pound of indigo was enough to dye three pieces of cloth, but there was still a gap in the woad.
Do I have to go to Lingshan Temple to beg for a few thousand kilograms of indigo?
Shen Xiaoye was so focused on his thoughts that he almost bumped into someone when turning a corner.
Fortunately, it was my cousin's eldest uncle Shen Changshou who was holding him. He asked with concern, "Xiaoye, why are you still distracted?"
"Ah, ah..." The five-month-old cousin has started to recognize people. When he saw Shen Xiaoye, he reached out for a hug.
Shen Xiaoye brushed off the dirt on his body, which he didn't know whether it existed or not, and hugged him and said, "Uncle, I want to go to Lingshan Temple to buy some indigo again.
Do you think they will sell it to us again?"
"Of course." Uncle Shen Changshou thought it was something else, "Why can I buy more this year? Because they planted a few more acres.
Don’t think that we wouldn’t sell it if it exceeded a certain amount last year. We can earn nine taels of silver for three thousand catties of rice per acre. Only a fool would not sell it. They still helped to harvest and deliver the blue.
But the masters were very smart and asked me to sell all the indigo I made to them."
Seeing her surprised expression, the uncle continued, "Let me put it this way, when I went to learn how to grow indigo from them, I had already revealed that you would hire the villagers to grow indigo for a large sum of money in the future.
The land of Lingshan Temple is tax-free and is managed by tenant farmers. Planting beans on reclaimed land is not as profitable as just planting some indigo and selling it.
I have already agreed with them that I will need at least 12,000 kilograms of indigo every year."
In fact, it was my wife who decided to buy more than 10,000 kilograms of indigo to make indigo. She once said that dyeing tens of thousands of pieces of cloth every year would become a common practice in the future.
The dye issue had to be prepared early, so she discussed with her parents and wanted to take back three acres of the eight acres of rented land and use it to grow indigo.
"Ah!" As expected of a strong man running a pawnshop, Shen Xiaoye found that he had underestimated his business attributes.
Her dazed expression pleased her little cousin, and his tender white claws scratched her face and then covered it.
The eldest uncle patted her head, motioned for her to follow him to another invitation, and said: “I mentioned it to you before, the villagers want to grow indigo.
I know you are being cautious and are afraid that some households might not plant well and lose money, so I said that each household only needs to plant one acre.
But you see, business will get better and better, so we need to prepare more ingredients.”
"Uncle, you used to be very cautious." Having been a bodyguard for a long time, her uncle had some professional characteristics, which was to be cautious in everything and not to act rashly.
Shen Xiaoye thought about it and thought, "Did you take on some new business?"
"Haha, I can't hide it from you. A few days ago, a newly opened cloth shop in the county came to our door and wanted us to dye 2,000 pieces of red printed cloth, and 1,000 pieces of brown as well.
I have also decided on the pigment with Doctor Ge. He has a lot of lotus seed shells.
I went to Wuli Village and asked Chief Lin to buy lotus shells, and he was willing to do so.
Our Jiuli Village didn't catch up with the good land, but the villages near the county town are rich in water, grass, and river fields. "Wuli Village has a big lake, and every summer there are lotus leaves and lotus flowers. Although the job is not as big as the one his niece took, Shen Changshou is still very happy. He went to her house to make friends with her first, and unexpectedly, they reached an agreement two months later.
The key is the printing and dyeing. There is no large dyeing factory in Linghe County. If it is sent to other counties for dyeing, the cost of transportation back and forth will increase the cost.
Of course, Xiaoye was not told about the hardships involved.
But how could Shen Xiaoye not know that without his uncle's proactive development in the early stages, no one would have come here. After all, Jiuli Village is on the side of a mountain and the road is really difficult to travel.
Speaking of roads, she decided that after everything went smoothly on the trip to Datong, she would repair the road from the village to Tangjiaji.
She asked, "Should we bring the cloth over? Will it coincide with Derun's work?"
Uncle Shen nodded and said, "Well, you can take the experienced people from the village with you without any worries.
Dyeing these three thousand pieces of cloth is not difficult. I can find a dozen people from the two villages of Shangtian and Xiatian to do it."
"My uncle has made very good arrangements." Shen Xiaoye lifted up her little cousin and gave him a kiss. Her family members were really capable.
"Ah, boo...boo..." The little cousin sent her a series of bubbles on her face in return.
Uncle Shen Changshou pinched his youngest son's face and said, "It's all thanks to your aunt's careful consideration."
"Aunt is so awesome." Shen Xiaoye rubbed it with her sleeve and said with a smile: "Uncle, why don't we go to Lingshan Mountain after inviting this family and put the things in the bag for safekeeping."
At this time of year, we can just catch up with the fresh harvest of woad in autumn. After some time, we can only buy dried ones, but the effect of dyeing cloth...sigh.
Shen Changshou completely agreed with her idea. In fact, even if she didn't mention it, he would go to Lingshan Temple when he picked up his brother early tomorrow morning.
Once things are settled, it's easy to act. There are very few problems in this world that can't be solved with money, and people outside the world are no exception.
At Lingshan Temple, Master Jiechen came to her after he had negotiated with her and said, "I heard that my friend Changsui passed the imperial examination. I congratulate you."
"Master, my family will host a banquet for relatives and friends tomorrow. In order to take care of those who have been vegetarians for many years, we have specially prepared a vegetarian meal. Please be sure to come and honor us.
By the way, come with Dr. Ge to diagnose my grandpa's pulse." Shen Xiaoye invited sincerely. The master chef opposite was a master who loved food.
Jie Chen nodded in agreement without thinking. He didn't need vegetarian food, he just wanted a place to eat alone.
But this was not the main point of his search: "Fellow Daoist Hengxi, how long will it take for you to come back?"
Shen Xiaoye thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."
It depends on the quality and quantity of the ore. The best ones will take longer to mine.
It is easy to find ore but difficult to mine it, especially in the area south of the desert. If it were not for the newly victorious power of the emperor, the Taoist priest and his group of one or two thousand people would be in danger of being killed by the northern barbarians at any time.
Jie Chen let out an almost invisible sigh. His old friend was a very active person and didn't want to stay in one place all the time. He hoped that everything would go well for him and that he would return home safely.
At the same time, at the foot of an unknown mountain in the distant south of the desert, Hengxi and his senior brothers sent off the first batch of mined gold, and they also wished: a safe journey.