That night, in the old lady's study, an old servant in Tsing Yi went in and said something to the old lady, and the old lady nodded to indicate that he knew. The old servant bowed and retreated.

After Li Jing finished eating, while drinking tea, he watched the four maids reconcile, the sound of the four beautiful maids planning to plate was pleasant, Xiaomei calculated for a while and said: "Young master, according to the current output of ten oil presses, if the raw materials are sufficient, the output of manpower can reach 100,000 catties of rapeseed oil in the previous month." The cost of one pound can be compressed to nine cents to one penny of silver, if the process continues to strengthen management, the follow-up continues to expand production capacity, bulk purchase of rapeseed, the cost may continue to reduce to seven cents of silver. However, we don't have so much money to buy rapeseeds, and there are about 10,000 catties of rapeseed in the family's current inventory. ”

Li Jing was silent for a while, tapped the table lightly with his knuckles, and said, "Xiaolan, how much silver do I still have in my account?"

"Back to the young master, the young master still has less than eight hundred and fifteen twenty-nine dollars and six cents of silver in his account, and there are one hundred and twenty copper coins and five hundred and twenty-six dollars."

"Now there is a month and a half to the Spring Festival, which is the peak season for sales, Xiaomei, you send a message to Lao Wu, in my personal name, the purchase of 1.8 million catties of rapeseed can meet half a year's inventory."

"Young master, the current market price is one tael of silver, and a bag of fifty catties of rapeseed. One million catties cost 36,000 taels of silver, and the maid didn't know the account of the public middle school, but I am afraid that the entire Li family did not have so much money. ”

"You said that if in the name of the Li family, the purchase price is increased by half a percent, that is, a penny per catty, and the form of credit purchase is adopted, and the payment is made after three months, it is not feasible."

The maid thinks that rapeseed is a bulk commodity, and it is a great thing to raise a penny, but it is an increase in net profits, and many small and medium-sized rapeseed traders will be willing, because this rapeseed is mainly sold twice in winter and spring. A few months later will not affect the acquisition of the second season. I guess a lot of people will do it. However, the maid felt that the old lady should still be in charge of such a big matter. ”

"Well, let Lao Wu send someone to load the more than 3,000 catties of vegetable oil produced yesterday, and transport it down the river to the second uncle of Chaozhou Mansion, and settle the account with the second uncle, the oil price of Chaozhou Mansion is estimated to rise to two and a half cents of silver before the year, let's make a profit, and the rest of the profits will be given to the family. Overnight on the ship to bring back the silver, during this time production could not be stopped. 1,000 catties are supplied to Chengxiang County every day, and the rest is transported to the second uncle for storage. As for the sale on credit, I'll go see the old lady. ”

"The servant knows, I'll go and inform Lao Wu."

An hour later, Li Jing was already in the old lady's study, Li Jing stood with his hands tied and finished reporting the situation to the old lady. He didn't believe that there was something in this house that the old lady didn't know.

The old lady was silent for a long time, but the slightly trembling beard betrayed his excitement at this time. After a deep sigh, he said slowly, "Jing'er, originally grandpa was just playing with you as a child, but I didn't expect you to have a big hill in your chest, this matter was done beautifully, and my Li family has a successor." ”

"It's all taught by my grandfather and father, and Jing'er is just a fluke, and I don't dare to take credit."

The old lady waved his hand and said, "You don't have to be modest, you can tell the young master about your achievements."

Behind the old lady stood an old man in Tsing Yi, with a thin face, a slender body, and a gray goatee, this person is the old lady's personal adviser Chang Ning, this person has served the Li family for more than 30 years, and has a special status in the Li family.

"Li Jing has seen Uncle Ning," Li Jing hurriedly gave a deep salute.

"The eldest prince doesn't have to be polite, and the old man will give the eldest prince a separate talk. At present, the output of 100,000 catties in a month seems to be a lot, and the output can be around 33,400 catties a day, that is, the daily purchase of 200 bags of rapeseed can maintain production, and the cost is only 200 taels of silver. Although the output is larger, but the Chaozhou capital is open to the sea, there is a shipping terminal, merchants from all over the country gather, the local digestion can not be digested, and it can also be wholesaled to other businesses to transport away, and fifty percent of the profits are still there. ”

Hearing this, the old lady nodded, "This is the old man's words."

Uncle Ning continued: "But the young master will not think of such a prudent strategy, do not take this strategy, one is that vegetable oil to Nanjing can get a huge profit of one catty and two coins of silver, which is four times the sales in Chaozhou, and the other is through credit purchase, order in advance, and gather a large amount of silver in the short term in his hand. But no matter how you plan, how to make the sailboat go north against the wind this season, please solve the confusion of the old decay. ”

After speaking, he took two steps back behind the old lady and continued to stand with his hands tied, and the old lady also looked at Li Jing with blazing eyes.

Li Jing nodded, and took out a scroll from the sword backpack, which was the design of the schooner that was completed overnight, which was actually drawn from the three books he bought from the light curtain, "Sailing Ship Manufacturing and Navigation Technology". Li Jing handed the picture to the two Tsing Yi maids in the old lady's room and slowly opened it, one holding one hand. A beautifully drawn schooner clipper leaps onto the paper.

The scroll was two feet high and twenty feet long. There are not only three views, but also planing drawings, as well as local detailed drawings, as well as detailed drawings of equipment such as saillock pulleys, as well as fly-headed small letters, and the size and specifications of the recorder, the old lady just thinks it is novel. Unexpectedly, I only heard Chang Ning exclaim behind him: "This is the schooner of the Taixi people, young master, you got it there." ”