Chapter 168: Ring after Ring
The other major expense is labor costs.
To raise 1,200 pigs, about six or seven people are enough, and the main daily routine is to feed the pigs, clean the pig house, pick and deliver pig manure, etc.
When the time comes, it will be enough to hire an experienced pig farmer and five or six helpers in the village.
If the feed is not included for the time being, then a one-time investment in building a pig farm will cost at least 400 taels.
Of course, 1,200 heads is already her current limit, and it is absolutely impossible for her to add them.
Another major expense is the construction of a new home.
For the house for the team members, Xue Langjing will not be generous, he has to spend the same amount of money as his own big house, the house is just a place for people to live, as long as everyone lives comfortably, it is enough, not too grandiose.
But since it is going to be built, it naturally can't be too bad, otherwise it will not be good to cause too much gap in the hearts of the players.
As for the number of rooms, it cannot be counted according to the current number of people, at least about 40 people.
Such a house, and the sheds built on top of it to store such a large quantity of goods, gave her a budget of three hundred taels of silver.
Four hundred taels plus three hundred taels, a total of seven hundred taels, this is the silver she will invest in the near future, and there are four or five hundred taels of silver for feed waiting in the future.
After removing 1,200 taels of silver, she only has 800 taels left, and I am afraid that this matter of buying equipment will not be completed in two months.
Alas, silver is so useless.
Xue Langjing couldn't help but sigh.
Since it is determined that it will be built, the next step is to choose a site and contact the construction team.
Of course, the closer the new house is to the Xue family's yard, the better, and it is easy to choose the land, just find someone to buy the land after choosing.
As for this pig farm, it will have to be carefully considered.
First of all, it has to be at a distance from the crowd.
After all, ordinary pigsty will emit a foul smell, not to mention a pig farm with thousands of pigs, even if it is cleaned up in time every day, the smell is unavoidable, and it must be kept away from the crowd.
But it can't be too remote, and it's inconvenient to manage if it's too far away from the Xue family.
Another problem that must be solved is pig manure.
What should I do with pig manure?
More than 1,000 pigs can produce more than 20,000 catties of pig manure per day.
Although under normal circumstances, pig manure is an excellent fertilizer for the people, because fertilizer represents the ability to produce more food, and it is a good baby, and the baby will happily pick it up when they see pig dung and cow dung on the road.
But when the amount of it is far beyond what people need, it's not a baby, it's a hassle to deal with.
In particular, this fresh pig manure cannot be used, and it must be soaked for at least three days before it can be used as fertilizer.
And you can't use too much fertilizer, and if you apply too much fertilizer, it will burn the crops.
Even if the Xue family gave these pig manure to the villagers for free and let them benefit, they would indeed miss the Xue family for a short time.
But after a long time, when the fertilizer they need is enough, the Xue family's pig manure will not be used, so what should they do?
No matter where this thing is poured, it will pollute the environment if it accumulates too much, and the smell alone is enough to affect the daily life of the people, and it will definitely attract their disgust.
Pig manure is okay to say, buy a few pieces of land to dig a pit and store it upside down for a while, what about the manure water?
When manure is poured on the land, it seeps into the soil and eventually pollutes not only the land, but also the surrounding water sources.
Therefore, the site has to be located far away from the water source that people use every day.
However, the amount of water required for the pig farm is large, and the place where it is built must be easily accessible.
Also, even if you buy your own land and put it away, it can only be put for a while.
Tens of thousands of pounds of pig manure a day, if all stored and not treated, will accumulate more and more in the future, then how much land you have to buy to put it down, this cost is huge, endless.
And if you don't buy land, it's stacked indiscriminately, and it won't be reported.
If you don't put it in the ground, you can only pour it into the water, which will pollute the water source.
In this way, it is necessary to find buyers in advance and dispose of them in time.
Those who can receive so much manure are basically landlords who own a lot of land.
So although it is a pig farm, there are a lot of things.
I have to choose a site, find a buyer for manure, and start a new house, so many things have to be dealt with, and naturally Jiang Qianyue, Xue Yuhe and others are busy enough.
Having said that, although the trouble is more troublesome, if this pig farm is built, it will be an important asset under his name, and it is also a big thing for Xue Langjing.
When exchanging letters with Zheng Linchu, she mentioned this matter by the way.
As a result, this incidental incident made her a fortune boy again.
If she had known, she wouldn't have mentioned it.
When he saw Zheng Linchu's reply, Xue Langjing thought so at first.
However, after the 'complaining', her heart was moved by the contents of the letter, and the rich boy was decided.
What exactly is written in the letter?
That's how to turn pig manure into treasure.
If this happens, it will not only solve her troubles, but also bring her more benefits.
A good thing is indeed a good thing, but in this way, her investment is great.
There's going to be a lot of spending again, and it's far from the day when she buys equipment.
Woo woo, her poor equipment, why is it so full of twists and turns, when will it be fully equipped!
Well, she is reluctant to return, in fact, she also knows that she can't refuse to buy real estate no matter what.
Just like everyone, although everyone knows that the team members are strong, they can fight more prey and earn more silver for the Xue family, and the money spent on the purchase of equipment is valuable, but they still haven't built a pig farm to make them more excited and more secure.
So how does this pig manure turn waste into treasure?
Zheng Linchu's proposal was to build several ponds in addition to the farms, in which aquatic plants and aquatic products for fish and shrimp were planted, and pig manure was used for the fertilizer of the green plants and the feed for fish and shrimp.
In this way, pig manure has a place to go, and green plants and fish and shrimp can also bring more income to the Xue family, which can be said to be too much.
It seems very exciting to say, but how does this pig manure achieve this effect?
It's good to say that pig manure is fertilizer.
What is the matter with feed?
This is the first time she has heard that pig manure can be used as feed.
And how much fertilizer is needed for an acre of land, and how big a pond does it have to be built with so much pig manure as fertilizer!
It was capricious enough to build an entire farm in order to use up that little bit of sunflower cake.
Now it's better to build a pond to use up the extra pig manure.
Ring after ring, if she keeps doing this, she won't be able to stop even if she spends all her money!