Chapter 419: Promoting New Vegetables (Part II)
"5,000 catties per mu!"
Zhao Xu jumped up from his seat in shock, and Zhao Xu smiled and nodded, "Yes, the yield per mu is five thousand catties." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
These were originally the words that Yang Huairen should have said, but Zhao Haoquan snatched them. However, Yang Huairen didn't come up with this limelight, in the surprised eyes of the Empress Dowager Gao, there were clearly more than a dozen knives hidden, since Zhao Hao was willing to stand up, let him block the knife.
Empress Dowager Gao is not calm now, at what price Yang Huairen sold these vegetables, she knows, if Zhao Hao and Zhao Jihuangzhuang have a bumper harvest of these vegetables in four months later, how much money can they make by selling them all?
She endured the excitement in her heart and silently calculated, 5,000 catties per mu of land, even if half of it is kept for breeding and the other half is sold, if there are 20,000 mu of land, there will be 50 million catties for sale, oh my God, how much is this......
If this problem were to be calculated by Yang Huairen, it would not be counted like this. Because the price of an item is still determined by the quantity placed on the market.
Yang Huairen sold new vegetables this time, not selling tomatoes and potatoes as vegetables at all, but selling them like treasures, but these treasures can be eaten.
It's not so much that he sells vegetables, it's not that he sells gimmicks, but concepts. He sold a pound of vegetables at the price of a thousand pounds of grain, which is seriously unreasonable.
But he did sell it at this price, and the reason was simple, because of the novelty, he took advantage of the curiosity of the rich.
But this kind of price is at most used to sell the first batch of goods, and when the second batch of vegetables is handed over to Zhao Hao to plant, it is not so valuable.
First of all, the freshness of the rich will not last long, Yang Huairen estimates that it will be about a month, at most no more than two months.
And more than four months later, when the vegetables planted by Zhao Hao and Zhao Ji's Huangzhuang went on the market, because of the huge supply, the price is estimated to shrink hundreds of times, of course, even so, there is still money to be made, if it is really promoted to the whole Song Dynasty next year, continue to expand the planting area, then the price is not much more expensive than the existing common vegetables.
Empress Dowager Gao is high, and she hasn't figured out the difference here for a while, what she thinks is that cultivation and planting can be left to you, but the sales link must be in your own hands.
"In this case, the two of you must fully cooperate with the promotion of this new type of vegetables, and the breeding and cultivation will be handed over to the two of you, as for the promotion and sales, the palace is afraid that the two of you will not have time to take care of it, so why don't you hand it over to the inner government to handle it."
Empress Dowager Gao said this, that is, Chiguoguo's will share the profits, but where is her position, since this kind of thing has come out of her mouth, Zhao Hao, who is a son, naturally can't refute it, and a little marquis like Yang Huairen can't refuse it.
Zhao Xu muttered in his heart, if it is really as Uncle Huang said, these vegetables are so high-yielding, then it is indeed a good thing to promote them so that more people can eat them, but why is such a thing not handed over to the household department to do, but to a group of eunuchs in the inner government?
To say that the eunuchs of the inner government are also very dedicated to their work, but after all, this matter involves agriculture, and a large amount of land is needed to promote vegetables, and these lands cannot grow food if they are planted with vegetables.
Although it is said that the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty is sufficient and the warehouse is full, but grain is the foundation of the country, how to rationally allocate and use the land, is the key point in the promotion of new vegetables, the eunuchs of the inner government do not understand these, they will definitely feel that planting vegetables is to make private money for the empress dowager, and they will definitely promote it blindly regardless of others, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among other officials in the imperial court.
Zhao Xu thought of this, and suddenly realized something. Those stubborn civil servants in the court used to be stubborn old horsemen in his eyes, they were conservative and clinging to the defects, and they never looked like they were changing the current political and economic stagnation of the Great Song Dynasty through reform.
Zhao Xu had secretly sworn that one day he would return to imperial power, and these old diehards would send them back to their hometown to farm, so that he could promote a group of new officials who supported his reforms.
But now it seems that the existence of these old horsemen is not all bad. Maybe his grandmother is what Yang Huairen called "long hair and short knowledge", and she only saw the illusory benefits of popularizing new vegetables, but she didn't see the benefits and harms.
When it comes to farming, it cannot be a trivial matter since ancient times. Even those ministers of the old school who have always supported her cannot allow her to affect the normal agricultural affairs of the entire Great Song Dynasty for her own interests, and this matter should be handed over to the household department and fully studied and scrutinized before it can be carried out gradually.
She handed over the promotion of new vegetables to the eunuchs of the inner government eunuchs, which was obviously selfish, and at that time, the eunuchs would definitely have friction with the court and local officials, which would cause them to complain.
Although these officials did not dare to make irresponsible remarks about the will of the Empress Dowager Gao, they would have other thoughts in private, as long as there was a rift within their power and interest groups, did that mean that his opportunity had come?
As the initiators of the proposal to promote new vegetables, Yang Huairen and Zhao Hao will definitely be implicated, but these are not what Zhao Xu is worried about, in order to regain imperial power, it is nothing to let Yang Huairen and his imperial uncle suffer a little grievance temporarily, and he will compensate them in the future.
Yang Huairen doesn't understand politics, but it's not as complicated as Zhao Xu thought, he just thinks that he can make a lot of money when the second batch of vegetables goes on the market, but now it seems that the old woman Empress Dowager Gao has to come out to stir up a stick, and he will definitely not be able to get the bulk of the profits, so he can only secretly complain in his heart.
If he knew that he had unknowingly stirred up the civil strife in Tubo over the past year, and that Da Liao was about to have civil strife, and even the Great Song Dynasty had planted the seeds of a great change, I don't know what he would think in his heart.
Yang Huairen is better at this, but his heart is too big, although he will personally lose a lot of income, but since he no longer has to worry about the promotion of new vegetables, it can be regarded as the first step to realize his ideals.
On the one hand, he made less money from selling vegetables when the second batch of vegetables went on the market, and on the other hand, he actually saved his own investment in promoting vegetables by himself.
After leaving the palace and returning home, as soon as he walked into the house, Yang Huairen found that something was not right at home, the maids and servants were running around as if they were on fire on their buttocks, Yang Huairen couldn't help but wonder, what was going on?