Chapter 14 Soybean Oil Extraction
Sun Siyuan has always been obsessed with the oil of this world, especially when she sees the soybeans piled up in the house. The use of soybeans in this world is really to the extreme, and there are soy products on the earth in the world, but no one has thought of using them to extract oil.
There is only lard in this world, so the price of pigs is the lowest for bones, the internal organs are slightly higher, and the price of meat is expensive, but the lean meat is not popular with women, and the fat is the most expensive and the best to sell.
The women who couldn't buy lard at the meat stall could shout and curse in the street, buy fat or lard, go back and squeeze the oil and put it in a jar for later use, and the remaining dregs can also be stir-fried and eaten.
The Ji family in the village is a big family, with many children and grandchildren, and earns a lot of silver every year by selling soy products in the town, and the main house in the village is a big brick and tile house, and there are also houses in the town, because the price is fair, the people in the village sell soybeans to his family every year. Sun Siyuan thought, why don't you talk to his family about soybean oil!
took out a copy of "Ming Dynasty Oil Extraction Record" and asked Zhao Youqian to change it, and then copied a copy, and she took it and went to the Ji family in person.
Although the Ji family looks a little beautiful, in fact, life is not very easy, there are a few bean businesses in the town, their beans are cheaper than their own, so they sell cheaper than their own, and their own family is also supported by old customers, but when it comes to price reduction, they can't say it for a while. In the long run, I'm afraid it won't be able to support it.
When Sun Siyuan arrived in the town and saw those shops, she was more sure in her heart, and directly found Ji Sifang, the second brother of the Ji family who had the most right to speak, and explained that she was from Baguan Village and came to discuss business with the Ji family.
Although Ji Sifang had never seen Sun Siyuan, he had heard of the name, so he invited her into the main house.
Sun Siyuan bluntly pointed out that the Ji family's business should not be good now, and he didn't know if he was willing to change. Ji Sifang smiled bitterly, "My Ji family has been making money on these beans for decades, and now it is not easy to talk about change, just the work in the field, no one in the family will be able to do it." What can be done? “
"What if I could offer a new way?" Sun Siyuan smiled and handed the booklet in his hand to Ji Sifang. "Second Brother Ji, take a look, if this method is feasible, the Ji family's business will only be better!"
Ji Sifang took the booklet, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, this is a field that no one has ever set foot in, there is nothing to refer to, but with the value of lard alone, if this "soybean oil" can really be as stated in the booklet, I am afraid that the business will not be weaker than the official salt!
"Rich lady, how can you hand over this booklet to me so easily!" Ji Sifang felt that Sun Siyuan really didn't have any sense of defense.
Second Brother Ji laughed. Sun Siyuan still chuckled, "The Ji family is really doing things, and everyone in the village knows it, don't I still believe Second Brother Ji?" What's more, it was originally a method for Second Brother Ji. You look at what is written in the booklet, oil extraction requires labor, and my family is just me and the rich, and I am reluctant to let him suffer like this! ”
After carefully reading the booklet a few times, Ji Sifang admitted that he was moved. In the end, he reached an agreement with Sun Siyuan, and this method was given to the Ji family, but it had to be kept secret, and in addition, if the oil was squeezed out, Sun Siyuan would have to eat a dividend for three years. Ji Sifang replied and felt that Sun Siyuan was at a loss, after all, without this booklet, the Ji family couldn't think of such a way anyway.
When the Ji family squeezed out the oil and sold it, and saw the prosperous scene, Ji Sifang realized that Sun Siyuan only ate one percent of the profits, and it was really a big loss!
Sun Siyuan didn't want to fight for any interests in the Ji family, after all, the oil extraction method she gave was indeed very tiring, I am afraid that the Ji family's family will work harder than now, and she took out this oil extraction method in order to live a healthier life, although the lard is delicious, it is not good for the body to eat too much.
Sun Siyuan's house has more than a dozen, in addition to the kitchen, bath and bedroom, there is a pile of soybeans, a store of sundries, the rest are occupied by chickens and rabbits, Sun Siyuan has long been dissatisfied with half of the family's chickens, the house has a smell every day, this summer is too irritable.
Finally waited for the castrated chicks to grow almost, Sun Siyuan grabbed them and sent them to the chicken coop. At first glance, the environment changed, the chickens were very obedient, Sun Siyuan put the chickens in the green brick house, but did not close the door, the bold ones in this group of chickens went out first, and ran out one after another.
The growth of the tree is very good, but after all, the planting is sparse, and it is not enough to stop the chickens after these days, so Sun Siyuan surrounded the chicken coop with a net of hemp rope, which is actually not weather-resistant, and it will be rotten in a short time, but Sun Siyuan mainly let the chickens remember that the chicken coop in the net is their home.
In the first three days of putting the chickens in, Sun Siyuan and Zhao Youqian endured the heat and stayed outside the chicken coop, and the chickens wanted to run out to drive them back, although the ground was full of all kinds of vegetables, but Sun Siyuan still put a sink in the blue brick house, and went in regularly to add some water.
After a few days, the chickens finally got used to returning to the chicken coop at night, some liked the green brick house, some liked the adobe house, and some rested in the wooden house bamboo pavilion, these Sun Siyuan didn't care.
The castrated rooster is honest and difficult to move than the other roosters, but the meat grows much faster. Sun Siyuan can't help it, the rooster is aggressive, and ordinary people don't raise many roosters, so they emasculated it faster and saved trouble. As for the rest of the roosters, they are all kept as breeders and must be well raised.
There is a family in the village whose surname is sparse, I heard that the ancestor committed a crime and was removed from his family name and exiled here, and now, there are only three single sons and a bedridden father in the family, a hard-working grandmother, and the eldest son is in his thirties, and he can't marry a daughter-in-law.
His family is heavily taxed, and the three brothers work hard every day, except to earn some money for medicine, the rest are handed over to the public, although others can't bear it, but in peacetime, the family does not have to worry about food and clothing, who wants to marry their children to suffer.
Sun Siyuan knew about this family when she was chatting with Aunt Gu, and she was very sympathetic to the family, and she always wanted to help if she could, but she heard that the family was punished heavily, and she couldn't study, be an official, or do business, so she could only dig in the field, and the emperor couldn't pardon his family several times.
It is said that this punishment will not end in four years, and if it remains unchanged, the three brothers may only have to slowly save money and buy a few women to inherit the family in the future.
"If you have money, I think, let the Shu family go to work in the chicken coop, what do you think?" Sun Siyuan brought up this matter during dinner.
There are only more than 500 chickens in the chicken coop now, but there will definitely be more in the future, hiring people is inevitable, she doesn't want to work too hard, and she doesn't want to detain Zhao Youqian between the fields, Zhao Youqian has a strong ability to learn, she hopes that Zhao Youqian can have more time to study the books she took out.