Chapter 142 The cost of buying cattle for the poor is twice that of the rich!
Liu Youfa heard his son say that grass can be sold for money, and he thought that this thing could be sold for takeout. In the past, when the family was in good times, they still raised two cows for plowing the fields. Last year, the last cow in the family was also imported into the Tatar border.
The child was snatched away. Fortunately, the man ran quickly into the mountains, otherwise he might have been killed.
Without large livestock, the excess straw from farming has no other use except for burning firewood. There is no problem in selling some for money.
Early the next morning, Liu and his son pushed two tall wheelbarrows of straw to the factory area twenty miles away.
When sending the straw, Liu Youfa was still a little sad. How great would it be if the family's cow was still there? This year, we have a lot of autumn grain, and we can still feed it. The old cow is not lucky enough to take a bite of such good grass.
The cattle that were robbed by the Tatars must have been killed and eaten by them long ago, right? How come the dog Tatars were not all killed in the pass by the imperial army last year?
I pushed the wheelbarrow to the factory area and saw that there were quite a few people selling straw. It took the father and son nearly two hours to pay the straw in line. Two wheelbarrows of straw could not be sold for much.
The total amount is less than a hundred dollars.
After selling all the straw, Liu Youfa was actually very satisfied. He still had some straw at home and could probably sell three or four cartloads of it. As long as he sold all the straw, the family's tax money would be enough.
As for what to burn at home in the winter after selling all the grass? Don’t worry about that. You can spend some time going to the mountains to get some weeds and dry firewood. By the way, I wonder if you can sell the weeds for money?
"Dad, look, there are still people coming here to pull fruits. Do they also collect fruits in the palace factory?"
"There are so many people in the palace factory, and if they eat a lot of fruits, they will naturally come here to sell them." Liu Youfa thought this was easy to understand and there was nothing surprising about it.
"Dad, we also have some pear fruits on our tree. We also picked them and brought them here to sell!"
"Selling fruit? Is this possible? Let's go over and have a look."
The fruit business is not easy to do in this era. There are indeed many fruit trees in rural areas, but farmers eat them at home. It is inconvenient to take them to the market and difficult to store, so a large amount of fruit is wasted and cannot be replaced by farmers.
Money comes in. Those who do fruit business are from around the cities and markets, and their fruits have sales markets. Liu Youfa is mainly afraid that there are not many fruits here, and if there are too many, no one will want them.
After taking a look, Mr. Liu and his son thought this could be done. The factory has a special place for collecting fruits, and the quality requirements are not high. As long as they are not extremely rotten, they will be taken away. I don’t know what they are doing with these things.
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No matter what they want to do? As long as they can change it into money. Liu Youfa was very excited when he saw it. He quickly pushed the wheelbarrow and his son home, planning to pick two carts of pears that day to exchange for money. As for the work of selling grass, you can push it later. Fruits
It will go bad over time, and grass won't go bad even after a while.
Of course, the purpose of harvesting autumn fruits is to make cans. Canned fruits can be stored for a longer period of time. If they are sold in supply and marketing cooperatives in winter, they will definitely make money from rich people. Zhu Youjian does not expect him to make cans.
The main reason for making a lot of money is to enrich the categories of self-produced products of supply and marketing cooperatives. It seems that many industries have been launched this year, but when they are actually put on the counter, they find that the products produced by the palace are not rich. Only when the products are rich can they attract people.
More people come to consume. Unfortunately, there are no glass bottles, so these canned fruits cannot be sold better.
It took Liu Youfa and his family more than ten days to finish this busy work. Not only the fruits and straws on the trees at home were converted into money, but also the wool saved by the four or five sheep at home was converted into money. Miyun is a mountainous area, and here
Most farmers raise several sheep at home, and poor households like Liu Youfa are no exception. They usually hope to sell one or two sheep at the end of the year to fill the famine.
Counting the money in exchange, Liu Youfa felt happy. Unexpectedly, without selling grain this year, he could actually collect less than four taels of silver for his family. With this money, he could not only pay the tax, but also make a balance.
At a point, life will be much better this year!
"Er Zi, you go to the market tomorrow and buy a good pot for our family. It's not a problem to keep using broken pots."
"Dad, you are finally willing to give up the money." The son complained that his father, who was holding the door to him, finally gave up the money to buy a pot.
"Your father, am I reluctant to give up money? You don't know how hard it is for us farmers to get a penny. It's just this year that the emperor will take care of our people who have been affected by the war and open a factory here. Otherwise, this year
We are having a hard time. Now that all the things that should be sold are sold out, we still have to work in the factory for a few days to earn some money."
"Dad, if we can save the money we earn from working this time, we will buy a cow. It will be convenient to farm next year, otherwise it will be very laborious to rely on manpower to farm."
"That's right, this is the right time to think about how to live a good life! No matter what, we have to work hard to buy a cow at home this year."
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"Cows are not cheap. You need at least six or seven taels of silver to sell them back on credit! I don't know if the two of us can earn enough after working for a few months. I guess there will be less factory work in winter, right?"
"Let's see how we work first and earn some. If it doesn't work out, by the end of the year, we can sell some grain and I'll probably be able to get enough money to buy cattle on credit."
Cows are now valuable commodities. The price of an adult cow is around 20 to 30 taels of silver. For ordinary farmers, it is an important family property. Even if you save money for several years, you may not be able to save enough money for a cow. Most farmers sell cows.
, you don’t buy it just by collecting enough money at once. You collect the down payment and get the cattle on credit from a local wealthy family who sells cattle. Then you pay them back every year, and it takes about five years to repay the money for the cattle. If
If the credit is for a cow, no interest will be paid during this period, and the calf born by the cow belongs to the wealthy family. If the credit is for a bull, a large amount of interest will have to be paid.
This is the case in an era of lack of money. The rich will always find countless ways to make the poor spend more money. The cost of purchasing the means of production for the poor is always much higher than the actual price. The value of a farm cow itself is twenty or thirty
Two, but the actual purchase price for ordinary people is almost fifty taels.
Liu Dafa's family was robbed of a cow by the Qing Dynasty last year, and half of his life's wealth was robbed. His family's loss was relatively small, but the biggest loss was that the whole family was kidnapped and became slaves of the Qing Dynasty.
As we chatted, Liu Youfa's son couldn't help but sigh. "Oh! Our family's life has just calmed down a little bit. I hope there will be no more war disasters after winter this year."
The wars in these years had damaged their family more than just losing a farm cow. His mother fell to her death on a cliff because she was hiding from the soldiers. His eldest brother was captured by the Qing army that entered the customs a few years ago, and his life or death is unknown.
The eldest sister and the eldest brother-in-law's family also died in the war, and now only their father, son and a little sister are left in the family. Living in troubled times, it is not easy for everyone to survive. Like Liu Youfa's family, they had no time to think about these things before.