Fortunately, almost all of the fields in these nearby villages have been leased to the Xue family.

Otherwise, in less than a month, it will be the rice harvest season, and the villagers will have to return the threshing buckets, so the Xue family really doesn't even have wooden buckets.

No, now I don't have this trouble.

However, due to their limited quantity, most of these threshing buckets, water tanks and other wooden barrels are used to wash sweet potato flour.

Sweet potato products are to be sold to the Zheng family, and how the sweet potatoes are distributed depends on the Zheng family's intentions.

Whatever the Zheng family needs, they will concoct.

In order to show her attention, Xue Kejing personally went to Zheng's grain and vegetable store to ask Zheng Linchu's opinion, and agreed with her on the final price.

In the end, Zheng Linchu's request was that the shredded sweet potato and sweet potato noodles accounted for half, that is, nine million catties, and most of them had to be ground into sweet potato noodles.

Nine million catties of sweet potato flour and sweet potato vermicelli, the two are eighty-two open, and only two percent of the sweet potato flour needs to be made into sweet potato vermicelli.

The remaining two million catties are made into dried sweet potatoes.

Zheng Linchu collected the finished product of 20 million catties of sweet potatoes at a price of 7,200 taels.

As for how to pick up the goods, it is natural that after the output is available, the Zheng family sends people to collect it every day.

20 million catties of sweet potatoes, the Xue family tossed for almost a month, and finally all of them were concocted into finished products.

Every morning, a special fleet of ox carts would come to Xue's house to pick up the goods that had been bagged and stacked in the first day of the Xue family.

After all the finished products were taken away by Zheng Linchu, the Xue family also exchanged for the seven thousand two hundred taels of silver set in the contract.

Of course, this silver did not pass through the hands of the Xue family, but was only deducted from the 90,000 taels of silver that Zheng Linchu had prepaid to the Xue family.

Of the seven thousand two hundred taels of silver, five thousand taels are equivalent to the price of sweet potatoes, and the remaining two thousand two hundred taels of silver are for the Xue family's processing fees and other losses.

This includes labor costs, sacks for purchase, firewood, and other expenses.

After Xue Linjing's calculations, if the firewood used by his family was also included, in order to concoct this batch of sweet potatoes, he spent about two thousand and fifty taels of silver.

also made a net profit of one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and it was not in vain that they recruited people everywhere for nearly a month.

However, the Zheng family did not take all the goods, such as the more than 4.5 million catties of sweet potato residue left when washing sweet potato flour.

Before that, they asked Zheng Linchu about the role of sweet potato residue, and the answer they got was that they could feed pigs.

But they only have 1,200 pigs in their pig farm, which obviously can't eat so much.

Moreover, this sweet potato residue can not completely replace pig food, and it has to be mixed with some other feed, and it can only be used as feed after treatment.

Xue Linjing calculated, so much feed, more than 12,000 pigs have to be fed, and in the Xue family's current pig farm, even if it is fed in two batches a year, it will take five years to feed it, which is obviously unrealistic.

If they are stored for a long time, they are fine, but even if they are treated, they can only be stored for a few months, let alone five years.

Although the price given by Zheng Linchu is indeed cheap, ten catties of sweet potato residue is only a penny, but they can't eat it.

Therefore, they gave another proposal, that is, simply raise it directly for 12,000 pigs.

It's easy to say, but someone has to raise pigs.

With more than 1,200 pigs, you have to find the county to find the next home, how to make more than 10,000 pigs?

Nowadays, many ordinary people can't even afford to eat, let alone eat meat, and it is difficult for the wealthy families in the upper class who can afford to consume meat to eat so many pigs, and they are not the only ones in the whole county who raise pigs.

In the end, it was naturally Zheng Linchu who directly accepted it.

But she doesn't want finished pigs, but asks that when the pigs are slaughtered, they are directly slaughtered and made into jerky, and she will collect as much jerky as she has.

and also settled an account with the Xue family.

Today, this batch of sweet potatoes is still the output of 4,000 acres of land.

In the future, a total of 150,000 acres of sweet potatoes will be produced.

When all of them are concocted into sweet potato noodles and sweet potato flour, there are so many sweet potato residues left.

So much sweet potato residue, ten catties per penny, plus other feed mixture, is extremely cost-effective for raising pigs.

At least in terms of feed, the cost has been greatly reduced, and even if the pork raised at that time is a few pennies a catty, the Xue family will only make a profit.

At most, labor and administrative costs are required.

In addition, they can also produce a large amount of pig manure every day, which is an excellent fertilizer, and it also saves the cost of making a large amount of fertilizer, and can also increase the yield of sweet potatoes, which is simply a lot of money.

With this remark, everyone in the Xue family was thrilled again.

Well, it seems that every suggestion Zheng Linchu makes can make everyone in the Xue family excited, and finally put it into action.

As for labor, as long as there is silver, I am really not afraid of not being able to hire labor, and now in this world, I don't know how many people at the bottom are worried that they can't find the opportunity to work and are hungry.

Just like this time, the Xue family wanted to recruit people to work, in addition to these villagers, many homeless people came from all over to join the work team.

Now there are many homeless people living in the wooden shed under the mountain of the Xue family, helping them take care of the sweet potato fields.

The wages required by the displaced people are cheaper than those of ordinary villagers, and because they are far away from home and have no land at home, they are naturally more willing to stay here and work for the Xue family for a long time, and even wish to sign a long-term job with the Xue family.

Of course, the vast majority of these displaced people are ordinary people from Fengqing County, and there are very few displaced people from other counties.

After all, you need a guide to enter and leave the city, they are all homeless, where else do you get a guide?

There are not many displaced people who can come in from outside the county, and almost all of them are people from the county.

It has been said before that the vast majority of these displaced people are now people from good families, just because since the implementation of the poll tax in the Chu State, the people have not enough land in their homes, or there are many people, and they really can't afford to pay the tax.

If you live by planting your own land, you have to starve to death, and in the end, you have no choice but to sell your land, abandon your household registration and become a homeless person, and live by renting other people's land, or working for others.

As a result, these displaced people often come with their families in tow.

The Xue family has accepted a lot of such homeless people, and now there are at least 2,000 people, and there is a trend of increasing, I think it is because of the news that the Xue family has recruited a large number of employees.

Not to mention the issue of displaced people.

Zheng Linchu's suggestion sounded perfect.

But there is a huge problem, and that is that it takes a lot of money to build a pig farm.

Because of this 150,000 acres of sweet potato land, the Xue family has now spent almost all the capital, and still owes the Zheng family more than 80,000 taels of silver, and now the income is also fed to the sweet potato land, how can they take out so much silver to build a pig farm?

The result is naturally obvious, and there is Zheng Linchu, the local tyrant financier, in his own house.