"I can make twenty of them in an hour. The cost of each one is three yuan, and the material cost is two yuan, which means the labor cost is one yuan per piece." Xiang Yang asked.
"Yes, that's right." Grandpa Fu nodded a little embarrassedly. He felt a little embarrassed, even sorry for Xiang Yang. Grandpa Fu had not seen the huge profits that burning pagodas could bring. He felt that Xiang Yang and Zhang Qicheng unconditionally supported him in holding the burning pagoda event, and they spent tens of millions without asking for anything in return. However, he even asked for money for making a few blessing lanterns, which was very unfair.
But that's the market situation. Xiang Yang asked for 100,000 prayer lanterns. If he didn't pay for the labor but only for the materials, who would be willing to help Xiang Yang paste them for free? So Grandpa Fu felt very embarrassed.
Xiang Yang turned around and asked Zhang Qicheng, "Brother Zhang, how much are those Kongming lanterns outside?"
"How would I know? I don't sell this stuff." Zhang Qicheng shrugged and took out his cell phone and said, "Wait, I'll send someone to help you investigate the market."
"Forget it then." Xiang Yang quickly took out his cell phone and checked the Internet. He found that the cheapest kind of Kongming lanterns online, the wrinkled ones shown in the pictures, were about two yuan each.
The ones that look a little better are about five yuan each, and the thicker ones are about ten yuan each. These are the prices online. If you buy them directly in a scenic tourist area or physical store, the price will definitely be more expensive.
After Xiang Yang thought about it carefully, he immediately realized that this prayer lantern was actually profitable.
"Can we invite some people over, the one who cuts paper will be responsible for cutting paper, the one who makes lanterns will be responsible for making lanterns, and the one who burns peanut oil will be responsible for burning peanut oil. Will this speed up the process?" Xiang Yang asked.
Grandpa Fu hesitated and asked, "What about the wages?"
"I don't care about the wages. Anyway, I just want 100,000 prayer lanterns. I'll give you 300,000 yuan and you can arrange it however you want. You can pay the wages however you think is best, and you can keep the rest." Xiang Yang said.
Grandpa Fu suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Xiang Yang, "Yangzi, you mean, as long as I give you 100,000 blessing lanterns, you will give me 300,000 yuan, and I can do whatever I want with the 300,000 yuan?"
If calculated separately, the materials for a prayer lamp cost two dollars.
But then we can count it separately.
If calculated based on the quantity of 100,000, the cost of raw materials can actually be saved by more than half.
This means that the material cost of 100,000 Kongming lanterns is actually at most 100,000 yuan, and the wages that Grandpa can use are nearly 200,000 yuan.
Grandpa Fu calculated it carefully.
If there are special people responsible for cutting paper and burning peanut oil, then the people who make the prayer lanterns only need to make lanterns. In this way, it will take a little over a minute to make a prayer lantern, and about fifty prayer lanterns in an hour. If one person works ten hours a day, he can make about five hundred prayer lanterns.
As for wages.
Cheap.
Nowadays, the people who still know how to make blessing lanterns in Huhai Town are all elderly people. Most of them don’t have jobs and are very happy if they can earn a hundred yuan a day.
As for those who are responsible for paper cutting and burning peanut oil, there are even more of them, because these are not very technical, old men and women can do it, just pay a few dozen yuan a day, I believe there will be a lot of people rushing to do it,
"Okay, Yangzi, I'll take care of this matter." Grandpa Fu said excitedly.
Xiang Yang smiled and nodded. The older generation in the village were very firm in their beliefs. Since Grandpa Fu said that he would take responsibility for this matter, then it would definitely be his responsibility.
"Yangzi, do you have anything else to say?" asked Grandpa Fu.
Xiang Yang looked at Zhang Qicheng.
Zhang Qicheng shook his head.
"That's okay." Xiang Yang said.
Grandpa Fu quickly stood up, picked up a walking stick and walked out, "Then I have to go out for a while, I have to call all my old friends over, and then go to the town to buy some wine and food, and let my old woman cook more food at noon."
Xiang Yang smiled. He admired this point of Grandpa Fu very much. He would do whatever he said immediately, with vigor and determination, without any ambiguity. If Grandpa Fu was fifty or sixty years younger, Xiang Yang would definitely bring him to his ship for intensive training.
soon.
The news spread throughout Huhai Town.
After sixty years, Yanlong Village in Huhai Town will hold the pagoda burning activity again in Qinglongwan.
The residents of Huhai Town were discussing this matter:
"Have you heard? The pagoda is going to be burned on Qinglong Bend."
"Burning the pagoda?"
"What pagoda are you burning?"
"Is there a pagoda on Qinglong Bend? How come I didn't know about it?"
"I can tell from the first glance that you are a loser, you don't even know how to burn a pagoda."
"Let me tell you, this pagoda burning is an old tradition in our Huhai Town and is an intangible cultural heritage."
"Ah? From our Huhai Town?"
"It's an old tradition in our Huhai Town. Why do we have to burn it at Qinglong Bend?"
"Yes, since it is an old tradition of our Huhai Town, it should be burned in the town, or at least in Kuhaiwan!"
"Huh, what do you know?"
“That’s not fair.”
Some people who were not aware of the situation were outraged.
There were also people who knew some inside information who sneered. It was said that this time the pagoda burning activity was not only initiated by someone from Yanlong Village, but also by someone who sponsored it. His name seemed to be Xiang Yang, and he was said to be the captain of an ocean-going fishing vessel. Both the initiator and the sponsor were from Yanlong Village. Why don't you let people set the location for the pagoda burning at Qinglong Bend
As for those who really understood the whole story, none of them said anything. They were all shocked by Xiang Yang's generosity.
In fact, burning pagodas is no secret among some older people in Huhai Town.
As early as ten years ago, someone proposed to resume the activity of burning the pagoda. Several times, the planning scheme and activity approval were approved, and twice even fundraising was started throughout the town. However, in the end, it had to be cancelled because the funds raised were too far from the money needed to burn the pagoda.
Ten million!!!
Those who really understood the whole thing were almost shocked when they heard the funds that Yanlong Village had estimated for the burning of the pagoda.
In the past few times when we raised funds, we failed to raise even 100,000 each time.
This time, they raised 10 million in one go. Don’t you think it’s scary
At that time, everyone thought they had heard fake news, but it took a lot of effort to digest the news.
At the same time, the name Xiang Yang really spread throughout the upper circles of Huhai Town. Everyone in the upper circles of Huhai Town knew that there was a person named Xiang Yang in Huhai Town.