Chapter 48: Preparing for New Year's Goods
Is there any patent medicine in the Song Dynasty? There are many types, such as golden sore medicine, hemostatic powder, ointment, and pills, but they are all used in a pharmacy and rarely promoted on a large scale. What Wu Song wants to do now is not the patent medicine for humans, but the patent medicine for large animals such as cows, horses and mules.
Liang Cheng immediately wrote three most commonly used prescriptions, the first one is called Zhixiewan, which is used for diarrhea in animals. The formulas are mainly Houttuynia cordata, Dijincao, Chen Yin, etc.
The second is called Stress Astragalus Pills, which use Astragalus and sugar as raw materials, and are mainly used for symptoms such as livestock inability to adapt to the water and soil, gastrointestinal discomfort, and not liking to eat grass. The third is called Qingwen Baidu Powder, which uses isatis root, earthworm, dandelion, and large green leaves as raw materials, and is used for clearing the verge of the devil, removing fire and reducing inflammation.
Liang Cheng carefully wrote down the formula and precautions. Wu Song said: "The drug production must be rigorous and serious. A veterinary medicine production workshop needs to be established. You should be the chief manager of this veterinary medicine workshop. Anyway, there are not many things in the early stage, just run around at both ends."
Liang Cheng said: "No problem. I don't have to work on the grass feeding here. Mules and horses are less sick, so I'll go if I go."
Wu Song was so resolute and cleaned a clean room. He bought 100 kilograms of herbs from three recipes. The yard was equipped with a guillotine, stone mill, stone mortar, mill, and large iron pot. Two young and strong male workers and two older women. This is the veterinary pharmacy shop under the supervision of Liang Cheng.
Although it is a veterinary pharmacy shop, there are still many rules. Every day when you come to work, you have to change into work clothes, wear a white hat, and mask. The herbs are matched according to the proportions, crushed with a mill, then made into pills, dried, then put them in a made-up ceramic bottle, plug the bottle, seal it with wax, and then indicate the product name and purpose. This bottle of medicine is completed.
Liang Cheng is mainly responsible for the proportion of dispensing medicines. If these workers do not know the medicine, it is okay for you to let him process and crush it, but he does not know it. Therefore, Liang Cheng's work is relatively easy and the output is not large. Four workers get up early to work and get off work in the evening, and can only process 100 bottles of pills a day. Most of this time is wasted on crushing. If there is a crusher, the yield will be greatly increased.
Seeing that the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Song went to Wu Dalang's cake shop in the city. Dalang's cake shop has also expanded well, with two helpers, and now it sells more in a day than in the past three days.
"Brother, I'm still busy." Wu Song said.
When Dalang saw that it was Wu Song, he put down the guy in his hand and said, "It's Erlang, have you eaten?"
"I've eaten it, and the Chinese New Year is about to be over. This cake shop is about to close for a few days. I'm buying New Year's goods. What do you want to order?" Wu Song asked.
Dalang suddenly said, "The year is almost over. I suddenly remembered what happened in the past few years. That year, you were still young, only fourteen years old. I wanted to eat meat during the Chinese New Year. My brother had no money to buy it, so you asked Wu Zhuang to go and fight pheasants. As a result, you met a wild wolf. Both of your pants ran away. Haha. My brother didn't have any special requests, just prepare some fish, meat and so on."
Wu Song said, "Yes, I'm already over twenty in a flash, and my brother is almost thirty. Since you don't have anything to do, I'll prepare it. Remember, brother, I'll close the door and go home to rest for a few days in a few days."
"Don't worry, Erlang, my brother will go home in a few more days." Wu Dalang said.
Wu Song Dalang's cake shop took Shi Tiehan and Mao Hai to Lijiazhuang on horseback. This Lijiazhuang was introduced to the Li Yuanwai Village where Wu Song was the Baozheng, which was only six or seven miles away from Wujiazhuang.
The hawkers selling candy and toys are the most lively time of the year. One of them is selling toys for monkeys. There is a wheel under the monkey's feet. When the wheel is pushed forward, the monkey's arms hit the drum in front of him, making the children giggle, and there is also a bamboo dragonfly that can fly into the sky with a gentle rotation, and a toy crossbow that can fly out of a toothpick when pressing the trigger.
Wu Song said: "This man who sells toys costs more than one."
The man knew Wu Song and said, "If Baozheng wants it, I will not take you one if I don't want it."
Wu Song said: "There are hundreds of children in my farm, let's talk about the price."
"My pocket sale costs seven or eight cents per person, and you can guarantee that you will get four cents more than that." The man said.
Wu Song took out one or two big silver: "Make one or two hundred, and I will send it to my house tomorrow."
"Thank you Erlang for taking care of the business, I will send it tomorrow." The man said.
Mao Hai said: "Does your brother plan to share me with a toy?"
Wu Song smiled and said, "As long as you want, I'll give you a slingshot."
The group soon arrived at Lijiazhuang. Mr. Li was called Li Xing in full and was the owner of the village.
When Li Xing saw Wu Song coming, he was very happy and said, "How could Erlang have time to come? It's a glorious place for his humble house."
Wu Song smiled and said, "Mr. Li is polite. Wu Song is here to buy some fat pigs. You have a good fat pig and sell me twenty. I have a car dealer. There are many people in the workshop. Everyone gives me some meat during the Chinese New Year."
Li Xing said: "It is their blessing to be able to have a boss like you. Don't worry. I will arrange someone to grab you and send it in a big cart, so Erlang doesn't need to get started."
Seeing that Li Xing seemed a little unhappy, Wu Song asked, "When I came, I saw Mr. Li a little frowning. I don't know what happened?"
Li Xing said: "It's nothing big. In the autumn of my farm, I harvested sorghum and planted 3,000 acres of carrots, and collected 5 million kilograms. I originally agreed to a businessman who drove Tokyo to sell it. Unfortunately, this man had something to do at home this year, and the carrots were delayed. We have many plantings in our local area and can't sell them at all. I don't care, but I just pity these farmers in the farm."
The things grown by vegetable farmers cannot be sold, and they will be thrown into the ditch in vain. This is not uncommon, but the main reason is that the information is not smooth and transportation is a problem. Five million kilograms is not a small amount.
Wu Song said: "You should say earlier that I will arrange a fleet to send you to Jeju, Yunzhou and other sales, but now that the New Year is over, the business is much worse. Why not do this first? I will buy 100,000 kilograms tomorrow, and I will use some of them in my own village, and take the rest to Yunzhou to try my luck."
Li Xing said: "Okay, thank you so much, Erlang. I will arrange for you to acquire the farmers in the village first. It doesn't matter if my own."
In the afternoon of that day, dozens of carrots and more than twenty fat pigs came to Wujiazhuang. The New Year's goods festival of Tongda Big Cars was about to begin. The coachman, servant, and guards who had not gone out set up bonfires on the open space of the Big Cars, slaughter pigs in the kitchen, and pigs went into the water to make rice. The pork was distributed according to the types of work of the car. The squad leader of the guard team was the highest, and one was divided into twenty kilograms of meat and twenty kilograms of fish. The same was true for Zhang Blacksmith of the Ironware Floor. Other ordinary craftsmen distributed ten kilograms of meat and ten kilograms of fish. As for ordinary chores, they were five kilograms of meat and five kilograms of fish. Those who worked in Tongda Big Cars, even the servants who were responsible for cleaning the horse shed were rewarded. In short, they were all happy.
At this moment, Hu Cheng arrived with a look of anxiety, not knowing what was going on.
Chapter completed!