Chapter 119 Assignment of Recruits
Lu Bu calculated and found that the only technological content here was the iron lid on the porcelain bottle, which was pressed on using the gland press machine invented by Lu Bu.
A bottle of chili is about one and a half pounds of chili peppers, two taels of garlic, a small amount of pepper, and it sells for fifteen cents. The net profit is still considerable, at least one bottle is more than eight cents, and a large part of this is bottle money and labor money. The cost of chili peppers is very low, and the output of this thing is high.
"How many bottles can I produce in a day now?" Lu Bu asked.
Diao Chan reported: "There are 60 female workers in total, working for five hours a day and can produce 1,200 bottles of hot sauce. Now I am just worried that the pepper production will not keep up, because the early peppers will be about to go down, and the new peppers have not yet grown."
The monthly wage of female workers is only more than 200 cents, and the labor wage is very low.
I still earn a few thousand chunks of money every month, but it’s still very good.
"Mrs. I did it well, but don't be too tired. The workers also have to arrange a few days of rest every month. Don't be afraid of the peppers when they go down. You can make pickled beans and sour cucumbers."
A female worker in her forties said, "General, we are not tired. We only need to count money by day, so we can't bear to rest."
The yield of this slender pepper is actually quite high, and there are still thousands of kilograms per mu, which is much more cost-effective than growing grain.
"Madam, don't worry about the peppers. I will arrange for Qin Yilu tomorrow and let them plant another 2,000 acres of peppers. At that time, the output will be expanded. Those that cannot be sold must be stocked. We must not forget our original intention. Making money is good, but the food safety of the soldiers is equally important."
Lu Bu now regards soldiers as more lives than their lives, and the truth is only within the range of the bow and arrow.
There were only a dozen female workers in the yard next to them, some were responsible for washing shrimps, some were responsible for pumping shrimp lines, some were responsible for frying shrimps, and finally bottled them and decorated hot oil in.
This ceramic jar is relatively small, only a prawn high, and one jar contains about ten big prawns, but the shrimps are quite large, all of which are fished in the sea.
Xiang Yan was lying on a lounge chair under a big tree, eating grapes while humming a small song, still in the same manner as a hotel owner.
Cough cough cough, cough cough cough.
When the female worker saw that Lu Bu was coming, she quickly sent a secret code.
Xiang Yan stood up and was very happy to see Lu Bu coming.
"Oh, the general is here. Sit down, I'll fan you."
My mother said that you should be diligent as a concubine, but Xiang Yan learned it.
Lu Bu frowned. Shrimps are not expensive these days. The purchase price of such a large shrimp at the beach is more than 2 cents per kilogram. The cost of transporting it in a large wooden barrel truck is acceptable, but the rapeseed oil is always expensive.
When tens of thousands of soldiers eat, they will boil them in water and add some lard at most.
"Where did this vegetable oil come from?" Lu Bu asked.
Xiang Yan said: "This is given by my father. In addition to fishing, my family also planted more than a thousand acres of land, and harvested a lot of rapeseed seeds. My father said he would give me 100,000 kilograms of vegetable oil to make a dowry."
Lu Bu was shocked and didn't say anything for a long time.
Being handsome is so important.
When Lu Bu gets married, he gets a lot of dowry every time.
Yan's family gave the capital to start a family. Cao's family and Cao Bao gave Xuzhou to his son-in-law. He originally planned to give it to three thousand Danyang soldiers, but unfortunately Zhang Fei was disturbed. Xiang Yan's father was also a rich man, giving him 100,000 kilograms of vegetable oil.
Lu Bu said: "That swallow, look. I will arrange to plant thousands of acres of rapeseed this fall and return the oil to you next year. How about transferring 50,000 kilograms to the military camp now?"
Xiang Yan burst out laughing: "I am all generals, so how could I care about this little thing outside of my body?"
Lu Bu was overjoyed: "Okay, I understand the righteousness. Not bad. Since you can't stay idle, then expand the scale, just like next door, with 60 people. It's not just prawns, hairtails, small yellow croakers, and sardines."
"Yeah, my husband is so nice."
Xiang Yan jumped up and kissed Lu Bu on the forehead and ran away.
In this year, rapeseed has begun to be planted on a large scale, but it is generally sprinkled with a sprinkling of the water, so the oil yield is also low.
Lu Bu decided to start teaching the people to grow rapeseed well in autumn and cultivate carefully so that the people can also eat rapeseed oil.
Lu Bu walked around the house and found that the mansion had not yet turned around and had returned to the camp.
As soon as he arrived at the camp gate, he was intercepted by Chen Gong, with an anxious look on his face.
"Lord, why are there five hundred cavalry missing? Are you defeated?"
"Thank you for your concern. This trip was restored to Dongguan. I appointed Zhuge Jin, a famous local scholar, to be the prime minister of Dongguan. I was worried that he would not be able to conquer the situation, so I left five hundred cavalrymen."
Chen Gong said, "I'm relieved this, and I'm telling me that I'm very jealous when I heard that our Xuzhou was rich, and I thought the Lord had disclosed some big holes. I appointed several magistrates to rob the tomb with all my might. It's so terrible. If he dug a wealthy cemetery and recruited tens of thousands of soldiers at once, we would be in danger."
Lu Bu pondered for a while and said, "There is no need to worry about the public platform. He can rob tombs, but we have Wenhou rice and Wenhou melons. When autumn comes, we will get millions of stones of food and grass. What are you afraid of Cao Cao?"
"We are not afraid, but these big families in Xuzhou have fences, so they need to be shocked." Chen Gong suggested.
"Just just say something about the office. I'm still busy."
"I see that 20,000 new recruits have been trained almost. I pulled them out and came out to perform a large army outside the South Gate to let the rich people in the city see our strength."
Lu Bu touched him and said that the generals were thinking about the new recruits and wanted to separate them. It was time for him to do so.
"Okay, I'll take the time to divide the 20,000 new recruits in the past two days. I'll start a big show in half a month and write a letter to Liu Bei and Yuan Shu and ask him to send someone to participate."
"Okay, go and write."
On the training ground, 20,000 new recruits are training in full swing. The recruits who have been training the longest for more than three months, and the average one is two months old. It’s time to continue to be divided. As for how to allocate, Lu Bu has already planned.
In the evening, the generals of the army who stayed in Xuzhou came to the camp, and Lu Bu sat in the middle.
Each of them was holding a tea cup and drinking tea there, which was somewhat boring.
Zang Ba looked bitter and said, "Lord, this is too stingy. I'll get some sorghum wine."
Lu Bu looked serious: "Drink, drink another day. I'm afraid you will start a fight later if you drink today."
"Oh, why is this? Not that, we are all good brothers." Zhang Liao said in confusion.
Chen Gong coughed twice: "I'm going to divide the troops today. The new recruits have been practicing for so long, so I'm going to divide them."
When he heard this, Hao Meng rolled up his sleeves and said, "No one wants to compete with me, otherwise I would be anxious."
Chapter completed!