I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 263 Thoughts 1

It can be said that the price of two cents and four cents per piece, although the price offered by the Wu family was not as low as the two cents and two cents and four cents that he had offered, was already quite favorable.

After all, they transported the clothes back from thousands of miles away and asked dyeing factories to do it, so the cost must be higher than dyeing it by themselves.

Thinking of this, Shen Xiaoye's mind moved, and he said: "Boss Wu, thank you for giving me a batch of horses.

In this way, if Derun Cloth Shop needs dyed blue or red cloth in the future, my workshop can sell 10,000 pieces for 500 taels."

The young master of the Wu family and the steward Wu looked at each other. Regardless of the price of dyeing the blue cloth, the red cloth alone was dyed at only fifty cents per piece, which was ten cents cheaper than the sixty cents they had paid before. It was a truly conscience price.

He smiled and said, "How about prints?" You can't miss a good deal.

"The patterns printed are all white. If they are dyed in color, the price will be at least twice as high." For such a long time, Shen Xiaoye has not tried color dyeing. She really has no experience in it, and the high price is inconsistent with her current customer positioning.

She thought for a moment and said, "If you want to dye it, I still suggest you find an old workshop, which is safer."

"Miss Shen is really sincere. Well... I do have 20,000 pieces of cloth that I want to dye blue and 3,000 pieces of cloth that I want to dye red, but it will cost another lot to transport them to the workshop in your village." Actually, this was not the case. Thanks to Uncle Qi's operation, Derun's cloth was allowed to go to Liaodong for trade, and if it was transported by water, it would stop at the warehouse in Linghe County.

The young master of the Wu family had to say that his seventh uncle was very shrewd. When County Magistrate Tan built the warehouse, his seventh uncle donated a large sum of money.

For this reason, several warehouses in the new warehouse at Qicuo Ferry were sold to Uncle Seven, but he bought them in the name of Aunt Seven.

Shen Xiaoye immediately said: "Our craftsmen can bring materials to your door for printing and dyeing. All you need to do is prepare a place near a water source and rent fifty large vats."

You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. Labor is the least valuable thing. Only a complementary and win-win business can last.

"Really?" The young master of the Wu family was confused.

Shen Xiaoye said, "Seriously." It was nothing more than spending a dozen taels of silver to cook for the skilled workers in the village who were willing to come out to earn money.

The young master of the Wu family saw that she was very decisive and said, "That's great! The goods are in the warehouse, which is close to the river and has hundreds of water tanks for fire prevention all year round."

"Young Master." The military officer reminded him, "We need to arrive on September 28th."

"It doesn't matter. Move the inventory first, and leave the new cloth for printing and dyeing so that they can be sold in the store." The young master of the Wu family knew that he was saying that the other party's workshop was small, the number of people was small, and they didn't have time to deliver the goods.

Among the people who were scattered around and paying attention to the changes in cloth, one bought some cloth from the Shen family. He had looked at it and found that the printing and dyeing were very good.

Moreover, there is no better way to befriend the Shen family than to have long-term business with each other, so he added: "But Miss Shen must print the best for me!"

“No problem, if it’s not done well, I’ll do it again for free.

I also took your goods, do we both need to provide a deposit?" Shen Xiaoye did not give in.

Of course, the young master of the Wu family would not bother to argue any further. A fifteen-year-old scholar was valuable. He believed in Scholar Shen's potential and was willing to try out the Shen family's level.

Later that day, Shen Xiaoye and Lin's aunt inspected the blue cloth from Derun Cloth Shop.

The two parties agreed that in two or three days, when the Shen family came to dye the cloth, they would also take the blue cloth away.

When he returned to his residence, Shen Cungeng asked, "Are you planning to send 10,000 pieces of cloth to the capital?"

That's a lot of tax money.

Shen Xiaoye said: "No, only half of it, and it needs to be matched with the red cloth dyed at home.

Cousin, go back tomorrow and study hard. Your family will take care of the business.

See? It’s because my fourth uncle passed the imperial examination today that some people came to me to do business.”

"If you had negotiated with more cloth merchants before, there would be more business today." Shen Cungeng naturally understood that she was spurring herself on.

"You won't be quiet unless you have the upper hand when speaking, right?" Shen Shanyou rubbed his grandson's head and said to him with a smile, "You'll never grow up."

Shen Cungeng wanted to hide but couldn't, "Grandpa, I'm only one step younger than Fourth Uncle."

"He is a scholar, what about you?" the good grandfather asked back.

Shen Cungeng immediately held his hands to his heart and uttered in a strange long voice, which caused everyone present to laugh.

This cheerful atmosphere continued until we returned to the village.

Of course, Shen Changsui and two other classmates who passed the exam had to attend the Lu Ming Banquet and would not be back until another day.

But the county government had already received the official document, and there was a lot of excitement yesterday with the beating of gongs and drums.

Captain Qian, who was always paying attention to the results, also set off a long burst of firecrackers, but when he saw that Shen Changsui was not among the people who came back, the old man felt disappointed.

But the next moment, when Shen Xiaoye told him about dyeing cloth in Shangfu City, Head Qian immediately became energetic and said, "It won't interfere with growing wheat in the fields. Bring some women with you to wash cloth, beat cloth and help with cooking, and you can earn a living."

“Grandpa, the village head, this is my plan. We will first bring the cloth washer over to spread out the cloth.

Send some more cattle to help the people who work in the printing and dyeing industry to plough the land and plant wheat. "In the era when only manual cultivation was used, every family in the village has already vacated their fields after the autumn harvest.

After applying fertilizer, deep plowing is required to maintain soil fertility, which requires the whole family, young and old, to join in the work.

"Xiao Ye, this won't work. You won't be grateful for a little bit of money, but they will be resented for a lot of money. Next year you won't have a large number of calves, but they are still expecting to use the free livestock." The great grandfather Shen Shanxin next to him was the first to object.

He said earnestly, “Thirty-five cents per person per day is already a high price in the county.

You gave us a good idea this year, but didn't give us a good idea next year, which made everyone resentful and left a lot of friends and relatives out of their care."

"..." Captain Qian wanted to argue with him several times, but seeing that Xiao Ye acted like his grandfather was making sense, he simply didn't say anything.

Instead, Shen Shanyou said, "I can lend you the cows, but you have to pay for it.

Brother Sheng, please come with us to visit each family."

"Ring the gong to call them over!" said Captain Qian, and was about to order his grandson to get the weapons.

However, Shen Shanyu was a cautious person and did not want to let others talk about Sui Ge'er, who had passed the exam, because of his own family's behavior.

He said, "It is the most sincere to invite you to my house. Besides, we will have a buffet tomorrow, so I need your support."

Captain Qian thought about it and agreed that it made sense, so he agreed to help him out more by speaking on the side.

Several members of the Shen family quickly divided into groups to visit each villager. As expected, everyone was willing to go to the provincial capital to work with Shen Xiaoye.

Especially the women, no more than five of them had ever been to the mansion.

The Shen family happily hurried to prepare for the buffet, but some were happy while others were worried.

Yue Jinxuan felt very sad when he failed the exam, but he was not sad because he failed. Instead, he felt embarrassed to ask his parents for help to go to the capital to propose marriage because he had no achievements.

After much thought, he decided that it would be best to ask Shen Xiaoye for advice, so soon after he got home, he took a car to Jiuli Village.

Unexpectedly, halfway through the journey, I met a group of people who were obviously not villagers, and were traveling the same way as me.