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Time, two days passed without any alarm.
Wang Shouzhe spent the past two days in Changning's other courtyard cultivating his body, drinking spiritual tea, and practicing. It is rare for him to live a relatively comfortable life.
However, in the past two days, the situation in the outside world has changed suddenly. As the wheat grain filling intensified, the first wave of insect disasters spread across the entire Changningwei area with lightning speed, causing all the families to panic.
Due to the inevitable reduction in production, except for the staple food that is strictly controlled by the government, the prices of other agricultural and sideline products have begun to rise. Even the salted and smoked fish business of Wang's fish stall has suddenly improved a lot, and the price has also increased significantly. In the absence of staple food, salted fish and smoked fish that can be preserved for a long time can also maintain the continuation of life.
All commercial rice shops have stopped selling grain to the outside world. The rice store in the Dagan official camp started to sell in limited quantities. There was a long queue in front of the official rice store, and the city guards had stepped in to maintain order.
Wang Shouzhe was drinking tea and listening to the news gathered from various sources, his heart was full of turmoil. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Luojing had such a baby bump in the family, it must have already started to burn out, right
How can we look at the turmoil in a leisurely way like now.
"Fourth brother, Qian's Commercial Bank sent someone to deliver the letter." Wang Shouyi personally delivered the letter in the backyard, and at the same time his brows were furrowed. Half of it has been sold. I see that several fish stalls from other families have already started to restrict purchases or increase their prices significantly. Should our fish stalls also increase their prices?"
Salted fish is also restricted
Wang Shouzhe frowned after taking the letter. It seemed that the news of a large-scale reduction in grain production had already caused panic. He is no stranger to this scene. On Earth, he has seen too many times when ordinary people face disasters or rumors, panic buying in collective panic.
And the salted fish and smoked fish are selling too fast, right? The inventory that has been shipped over several times has to be about eight or nine hundred tons. Before the price increase, the price of salted and smoked fish ranged from 20 to 30 dimes per catty depending on the quality of the fish, and the price of a load was usually between 20 and 30 dimes.
Now the price has risen to 30 to 40 copper per load, but it is selling faster.
"What about live fish and fresh fish?" Wang Shouzhe asked.
"Live fish has not increased, but fresh fish has generally increased by 20%." Wang Shouyi reported, "Many people buy fresh fish and go home to marinate or smoke them, or eat more fish to reduce the loss of staple food, so salt and firewood have also increased. price."
Sure enough, one hair can move the whole body.
The outbreak of drug-resistant aphids has instantly affected all aspects. Once the prices of basic materials such as salt, firewood, and carbon increase, everything will follow.
"Second brother, you can just increase the price as you go." Wang Shouzhe said, "As for the sales limit, salted fish and smoked fish are sold at a limit of 20 tons per day, but they are actually sold at 50 tons internally."
"Fifty dan? That's a full five thousand catties..." Wang Shouyi said in surprise, "Can Uncle Six keep up? Even if Uncle Six can, Dingpu's warehouse has no time to smoke and pickle."
Now is the peak fish season. If Wang Dinghai’s fishing brigade operates according to previous years, if ten boats work hard to catch a few thousand catties, it will be stable. On average, one fishing boat can only catch hundreds of catties of ordinary fish.
Most of them will be pickled or smoked in the Dingpu warehouse. Under normal circumstances, the monthly limit of the fish drying and smoking workshop there is only 800 tons.
But Wang Dinghai has fully copied the fixed moving zither, and that kind of thing can be operated by ordinary people. The daily output will continue to increase. During this peak fish season, it is not uncommon for the entire fishing brigade to add up to tens of thousands of catties.
"Increasing the manpower and venues for fish processing, we can use the empty space in Fenggu Farm and Xingsheng Farm. Also, I will take care of all the family servants and family servants who are free. I must ensure that the production of smoked and salted fish exceeds 2,000 this month. Take charge." Wang Shouzhe ordered, "Second Brother, you can fully preside over this work."
"As long as Uncle Six can keep up, I'm not afraid." In an instant, Wang Shouyi's fighting spirit also burned up, and he wanted two thousand dans of smoked and salted fish a month. At least three or four thousand dan fresh fish can be produced, and the weight of the fish will be greatly reduced after slaughtering and smoking.
If the sixth uncle can really supply the production, this is a great opportunity to make money, how can he, Wang Shouyi, hold back
The catch during the fish season in previous years is the cheapest, so a large amount of ordinary catches will be made into smoked fish and salted fish, and then kept and sold slowly. In previous years, the combined production and sales of smoked fish and salted fish were only two thousand or hundreds of tons. The total sales volume of fresh fish and live fish is about 2,000 tons a year.
It is difficult for the overall turnover to exceed one thousand gold, and about half of it has to be allocated to the books of the fishing brigade.
But it's different now.
If it is possible to produce more than 2,000 tans this month and sell 1,500 tans of smoked fish and pickled fish, after the price increase of forty coppers per tan, there will be a turnover of 600 dry gold.
This does not include selling fresh and live fish... This month is very likely to reach a normal year's turnover.
That's why Wang Shouyi felt that the blood was burning! If you don't fight now, when will you work hard
"Okay, then everything is up to Brother Lao to go back and forth." Wang Shouzhe wrote a patriarch's order, signed it, stamped the patriarch's seal, and handed it to him, "By this, you can mobilize the generals and servants of the family, and serve as servants from the family. Withdraw dry gold from the account room."
"I don't need the dry gold for the time being." Wang Shouyi took the order letter and said excitedly, "This time the salted fish in stock is sold too fast. I still have a small two hundred dry gold in my account, which is enough for operations."
"Second brother, it's time to be busy, but don't make mistakes in your busy schedule and make mistakes in the accounts." Wang Shouzhe warned casually.
Wang Shouyi's body shook, his eyes became serious and he said hastily: "Fourth brother, don't worry, as a member of the family, I will never violate the family rules. Every month I will hand over the accounts with the accounting office run by my fifth aunt. I dare not There is an omission."
"Second brother, you've worked hard." Wang Shouzhe saluted him solemnly, "Such a golden opportunity comes once in a thousand years. Whether our Wang family can get rid of the fate of decline requires the whole family to do their best."
Wang Shouzhe is still very satisfied. Although his second brother's cultivation talent is mediocre, he is very dedicated to the family business. Compared with the big bastard sixth uncle Wang Dinghai, he is much more careful and steady.
"Fourth brother is serious, these are all my duties." Wang Shouyi hastily bowed his hand to return the gift, and said, "Since that's the case, Brother Yu will retire first and go to deal with various matters."
After he left, Wang Shouzhe regained his composure, opened Qian Xuean's letter, and asked him to meet at Jucai Village outside Changningwei City. Through the secret mark left on the letterhead, it showed that Qian Xuean had completed the agreement.
However, although he believed in Qian Xue'an, he didn't dare to take any risks this time, focusing on safety in everything.
Immediately, he dressed up a little and left the city directly. Instead of going to Jucai Village first, he rode a black horse towards Shanyang. After walking for a while, I saw Wang Zhong outside a small manor a few miles outside the city.
"Wang Zhong, how are things going?" Wang Shouzhe asked.
"Patriarch, fortunately, the patriarch Gongsun Shao has come as promised and is waiting in the manor." Wang Zhong said slightly excitedly, he had been waiting outside the manor for seven or eight hours.
Most of the Wang clan's influence is on the south bank of the Anjiang River. If they want to find more transport carriages on the north bank, they can only rely on the Shanyang Gongsun clan. Now that his relationship with Gongsun's is in the honeymoon period, his little request will not be refuted.
Entering this small leisure manor outside Changning City belonging to the Gongsun family of Shanyang, met with Gongsun Qiang, cupped his hands and said: "Shouzhe has seen uncle, I have been waiting for a long time."
"I haven't waited long, but Shouzhe, you mysteriously asked to call twenty carriages this time, or heavy-duty carriages for transporting ore, did you do what you wanted?" Gongsun Qiang is a low-emotional and quick-tempered person, and he was curious when he met. .
"It's nothing special." Wang Shouzhe said calmly, "It's just transporting 50,000 to 60,000 tans of old grain." Since he was involved, naturally the quantity cannot be concealed.
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At this moment, Gongsun Qiang's eyeballs almost popped out, "Cheap nephew", don't you know that food is hard to find now? You still have 50,000 to 60,000 tons in one breath...
That's all
He had the urge to swear, and compared to this nephew patriarch, he felt that the thirty-eight-year-old "young patriarch" had lost all his age.
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