The tens of thousands of kilograms of candy produced in the workshop over the past month were all taken away by more than a dozen traveling merchants within a few days.
They bought hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of goods and planned to sell them in major cities along the way.
It's Chinese New Year, and the candy business is booming. Every grocery store is stocking it. Once this stuff is sold to the grocery stores, dozens or even hundreds of kilograms are guaranteed to be left behind.
It’s a pity that the goods are too limited, and some customers who want to buy more are not able to buy more.
Some customers can only place orders and agree to pick up the goods next month.
In addition to candies, a northern merchant, under Xingnong's introduction, also visited the sauce workshop.
I heard that this sauce was specially supplied to the Yingke Building and Yingbin Building, and then they tried the chili sauces on the spot and immediately bought all of them again!
I even placed a large order for various seasonings and will pick them up next year.
Now that winter has arrived, the seasoning workshop is also equipped with hot pot base soup, boiled fish soup, boiled beef soup, and golden soup sauerkraut fish soup. Large jars of these soups are supplied to the Yingke Building and the Yingbin Building every day.
The villagers in the seasoning workshop no longer work from sunrise to sunset. Every day, everyone is so busy that they are willing to go home and sleep only around midnight.
I am still too busy!
Because all the soy sauce, bean paste and other ingredients brewed previously had been taken, they were snapped up by Yingkelou and Yingbinlou!
There is still a large number of orders that have not been brewed.
Xingnong took some time today to calculate the money earned from the snack workshop and planned to pay wages and dividends to the villagers.
The profit of candy is low because it is sold wholesale. After deducting the cost, the profit is about ten cents per catty. In total, the profit of weighing tens of thousands of catties of candy is only ninety-eight taels.
Those handmade lollipops were difficult to make and were high-end, designed specifically for wealthy families, so one could earn ten cents for each lollipop. A total of 5,000 handmade lollipops were made, and the profit was fifty taels.
As for the customer's deposit, a total of thirty taels were collected.
In other words, the snack workshop earned one hundred and forty-eight taels this month.
One hundred and forty-eight taels of silver could earn enough for a day's profit if placed in many shops in the capital, such as Yingbinlou and Yingkelou.
It's really not a lot of money.
But for the villagers of Taohua Village, this is really a huge sum of money!
Xingnong can get half of the dividend, which is seventy-four taels, and the other half of the profit is divided among seventeen households, and each household can get more than four taels of dividend.
In addition, the villagers also received wages, which, including bonuses, amounted to about three taels per person. There were at least two people from each family working in the workshop, which meant that every household had earned more than ten taels of silver in the past month!
It’s enough to buy an acre of good farmland!
This is just the snack workshop, and the dividends from the seasoning workshop have not been counted yet.
The villagers of Taohua Village all feel that they are about to become rich!
Xing Nong thought that the New Year was coming soon, so he distributed dividends to everyone in the next two months so that everyone could have a prosperous New Year. He said to the villagers, "The New Year is in two months, so I'll distribute some dividends to everyone. To make calculations easier, I'll first distribute four taels of silver to each family, and the remaining six taels will be distributed together with the dividends next month. Do you have any objections, uncles and aunts?"
Village Chief Gu waved his hand upon hearing this: "Xingnong girl, this dividend cannot be distributed. It should be used as capital to buy raw materials and pay workers! If the dividend is distributed, the workshop will have no capital to buy raw materials! We can't always ask you to use money as capital! Besides, the New Year is coming soon, and the candy season is about to end. I think we should use the money we earn to buy more sugar and fruits to make candy, and make another fortune during the peak season before the New Year! Don't you agree?"
Now Village Chief Gu also understands some modern business terms.
The other villagers also nodded: "Yes! We now have about three taels of silver in wages a month, which is enough! There is no need to pay this bonus!"
"How can a workshop pay out dividends every month? This dividend should only be paid out once a year!"
"Use the money as capital! If all the money earned is given to us, won't the workshop have no capital?! We can't let you, Xingnong, pay for the capital every month!"
"That's right. There's no need to pay out the dividends. There are only a few dozen taels in total, which is not enough to buy materials for the workshop..."
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Seeing everyone's insistence, Xing Nong said, "Then we won't pay out this month's dividends for now. We'll use them as capital and continue to make more candies. We'll see how much we can earn next month, and then I'll give everyone some for the New Year. Every household in our family will have a prosperous New Year this year!"
Village Chief Gu said, "Okay, it's settled! But from now on, when you distribute dividends, you have to set aside the capital for running the workshop!"
"The village chief is right. We should set aside the capital before paying out dividends..." The other villagers nodded and expressed their willingness to set aside the capital before paying out dividends.
Xing Nong smiled and said, "When we have regular customers, they will need to pay a deposit when placing an order. We do have the capital, but we do need to keep a portion for turnover! I have already bought a shop in the city. When our workshop has more kinds of snacks, we will open a snack shop in the city to facilitate customers to place orders. We can also sell them ourselves. The unit price of retail in the shop is higher than the wholesale price. When we have snack shops in every city, we will earn more money from retail."
"In the future, we will try to control the retail sales in the big cities of Chu State in our own hands, and then other countries and small cities will take the wholesale route..."
The villagers swallowed subconsciously as they listened to Xingnong's analysis.
Their vision is too narrow! They only think about doing business in Futai County, and only rely on the Yingke Building and Yingbin Building to help attract customers.
I didn’t expect that Miss Xingnong actually planned to expand the snack workshop business throughout the entire Chu State, and even the other three countries!
The size of the cake was huge, but they were not surprised. After all, they now knew that Yingkelou and Yingbinlou did business in all four countries.
With the support of these two big restaurants, how long will it take for the candies, snacks and condiments from their workshop to be sold throughout the four countries
If their workshop didn't have too few people and the amount of raw materials they purchased was not too small, they would not have enough goods. If they did have goods and had a wide variety of snacks, they believed they could sell them all over the four countries.
Xingnong naturally knew that the snack workshop and the seasoning workshop could make money in the first month, relying on the support of the Yingke Building and the Yingbin Building.
When doing business, as long as you take advantage of the favorable conditions and seize the opportunities, you will be able to soar to success.
They earned more than one hundred taels in the first month, and the villagers’ enthusiasm became even higher!
In order to seize the New Year peak season, candy remains the main product of the snack workshop this month.
But after the New Year, candy entered the off-season, and Xingnong began to plan what snacks to make in the snack workshop next month.
While Xingnong was leading the villagers in making candies and seasonings briskly, Tianxing Money House gradually opened in several major cities in various countries. At the same time, Qian's Money House encountered a cash crisis. All the cash in Qian's Money Houses across the Chu State was withdrawn by customers, but many people still went to the money house to withdraw cash every day, and some even made a fuss because they could not withdraw cash!
Some people withdrew cash from Qian's Money House and immediately deposited it into Tianxing Money House.
When people from other countries heard that the Qian's Bank of Chu had no silver to give to its customers, they also took their jade tokens or silver notes to get their silver back.
Qian's bank is in chaos! Panic!
The Crown Prince of Zhao had just returned to Zhao and was in the process of selecting his troops to attack Chu with an army of 100,000 when he heard the news.
Qian Wanfu, the uncle of the Crown Prince of Zhao, anxiously found the Crown Prince of Zhao and said, "What's going on? What's wrong with the people of Chu? Why are they taking money out of the bank one by one? Now not only the banks of Chu, Jin, and Yan have a large number of people coming to withdraw cash every day. There is even news that Qian's bank is going to close down! What is going on?"
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