Chapter 80 Money is not enough
In the morning, the air is fresh.
The golden sunshine spread all over the banks of the Lushui River.
After getting up early to train with his servants for an hour, Shen Lin took a shower.
As he walked, he wiped his wet hair with a towel.
The welfare in Shenjiabao is very good.
Not to mention three meals a day, there are meat buns for breakfast.
West of the workshop.
The original martial arts training ground was reduced by half, and a large canteen with a two-story cement building was built.
The second floor is a warehouse.
There is a specially built gentle slope, and horse-drawn carts can drive directly up it.
Eat on the first floor.
More than three hundred people gathered here, but it seemed a bit empty.
Once the deserted grassland is completely enclosed, this place will be completely turned into a warehouse area.
There are still a few more big houses to be built.
Cement, grain, cloth, cotton, etc. are not resistant to moisture and must be placed on the second floor.
Iron ore, ironware, wood, etc. cannot always be stored in the open air.
There is no special warehouse and management is divided into categories, making statistics very troublesome.
Shen Lin's own small kitchen usually does not open fire.
Even the second uncle and the third uncle and their whole family are used to coming to eat in the big canteen.
First, it was crowded and lively, and second, the cooks in the big canteen were getting better and better at their crafts.
Shen Lin is a tricky person.
He looked down upon the simple stewing and boiling of this era.
Frying, stir-frying, deep-frying, and cold cooking are all indispensable.
Usually a small family eats.
It's a little oily and has a light salty taste, but it's considered well-off.
Shen Lin no longer takes any advantage.
Recently, carpenters trial-produced two 50-ton boats and hooked up primitive trawl nets.
Running back and forth in the Lushui River every day, I could almost eat all the fish, shrimps, turtles and turtles I caught.
Even the rural soldiers, who had heavy opponents, also benefited.
As long as you are willing to spend money to buy it, anything is easy to say.
At this time, fishing technology was backward, and there were many good things in the river, which were fat and big.
Other meats are too expensive.
People are reluctant to kill chickens, ducks and geese, so they keep them to lay eggs.
Pork costs 20 cents per catty, and good mutton costs 30 cents.
The price of salt is relatively stable, but it is equivalent to the best mutton.
Shen Lin presses cottonseed oil himself, which is low-cost.
But there is no hope for salt.
Other meats are too expensive to sell, so we can only sell them occasionally.
so.
The Shen family's free river delicacies have almost become a staple food.
It also saved a lot of rice.
For example, breakfast, steamed buns, flower rolls, noodles, not to mention.
Southern rice is cooked into vegetable porridge, which is Shen Lin's favorite.
Others prefer local millet, which is golden millet porridge.
Have you ever seen fish buns?
The catfish meat has no spines and can be eaten one bite at a time.
A large basin of turtle soup is served on each table.
Green green onions are sprinkled on the carapace that almost covers half of the mouth of the basin.
It looks intimidatingly big, but it tastes really delicious.
Shen Lin picked up a few fish and meat buns and asked the second aunt in charge of the canteen disappointedly.
"No pork filling?"
The third aunt came over with a plate and scolded with a smile.
"Brother Lin, you're the only one who's so naughty, why don't you eat some meat?"
"No, I'll give you two hard-boiled eggs. They're from my wheat chicken. They're old and tender."
Is this a benefit you brought from home?
The big cafeteria can't supply that many eggs.
Wheat hens hatch their eggs in March and April and run around when the wheat is ripe.
In autumn, they immediately become the main force in laying eggs.
Shen Lin took the hard-boiled eggs and came to a few stewards, leading the table.
I found that everyone has a share.
I thought my third aunt was taking special care of me, but it turned out...
Drinking rice porridge and chatting about business matters.
Third uncle Shen Zhonghe was a little worried.
"Brother Lin, Master Qi has ordered more than sixty good horses in Anding and Chanzhou."
"The average price is forty taels..."
Chen Feng and Lady Hong were so happy that they high-fived each other across the table.
"Great!"
Finally, I no longer have to take turns bullying those dozen old horses.
What kind of old horse? He's still in his prime, okay?
This is a good horse that my family bought one after another in the past.
Sixty more horses were added, and three hundred servants came in turn.
Equestrian training is completely guaranteed.
Shen Lin was in a good mood. He looked up and saw Shen Zhonghe's sad face and asked in surprise.
"Third uncle, the average price is forty, which is only more than two thousand silver."
"There's nothing missing from the account, right?"
Shen Zhonghe took a big bite of the big steamed bun.
It's like he has a grudge against the steamed buns.
If you don't become a householder, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are.
"It's bad, who says it's not bad anymore?"
"In the past two months, we have made a profit of more than eight thousand taels in our account."
"Mainly due to the new store opened by Qi Ye, there has been a rush to buy Jingtie farm equipment."
"We will be thankful if it stabilizes in the future and can reach one-third of the net profit!"
"Brother Lin, the money in the account is indeed very tight!"
The second uncle Shen Zhongyuan is in charge of the workshop production and usually does not care about money and food.
He asked curiously: "Lao San, eight thousand taels of silver? God? Isn't this enough?"
"Didn't Brother Lin say that we will buy horses in batches? Why are you so nervous?"
"This month, one and a half million kilograms of cement were sold. Why, it's almost a thousand taels of interest, right?"
Shen Zhonghe pointed at Shen Lin in distress.
"Ask him!"
"Buy everything and reserve everything."
"The wheat that has been put into the warehouse this month alone is three thousand tons."
"The situation is tense, the price of wheat has skyrocketed, the average price is one or two, and he still wants to eat it!"
"That's three thousand taels, right? There's also salt."
"It's a thousand dan. It's cheaper to buy in larger quantities. Another three thousand taels of silver are gone."
"For more than sixty horses, do you have to pay Master Qi's advance payment? Just do the math."
hiss!
The dozen or so people at the big table all took a deep breath.
Brother Lin, you are too... too crazy.
On the other hand, how unfavorable are you about the future situation?
Three thousand tons of grain is enough to feed more than 300 people for a year.
Eat fish every day, it’s full of meat and fish, and your food consumption is getting lower day by day.
A thousand pounds of salt?
A full 120,000 kilograms.
How long and how long will we eat?
Shen Zhonghe continued to complain.
"He also wants to buy and reserve beef tendons and cowhide."
"We are also planning to buy a lot of pigs, cattle and sheep to raise first, or to kill them and make them into dried meat."
Oh oh, now everyone understands.
Isn’t the endless fish that can be eaten every day marinated, dried, and smoked?
Between five mouths, one pound of salt per month is enough.
The biggest expense is definitely making smoked bacon.
This thing is very salty.
Hang it in a dry and ventilated place and it won't go bad for a year or two.
Wheat has a longer shelf life and can be stored at room temperature for three to five years.
If we don't have any money, this won't work.
Shen Lin said in a deep voice.
"Everyone, if the bandits attack this year, there will be no chance of the autumn grain designated."
"Maybe there's no hope of next year's summer grain."
“Is the price of one tael per quintal a piece of shit?”
"The situation is not good. You have no place to buy the high-priced grains worth three to five taels of silver."
"Transportation is interrupted, why don't you eat salt?"
The red lady rolled her eyes, feeling a little surprised.
"According to your statement, now that you are saving salt, you are making money by buying and selling it?"
Shen Lin chuckled.
"Absolutely! In troubled times, food and salt are more useful than silver."
"Of course, the same goes for iron, but we don't need to save this thing."
"Hahaha!"
The atmosphere was relaxed.
This chapter has been completed!