Chapter 167: Money Makes Money
Now there are two more people in the hunting team, even if the three of them live in one room, this room is not enough, and the two new team members are still working on the floor for the time being.
Not to mention the number of rooms, although the courtyard of the Xue family is large, it is also a little crowded with more than 40 people.
As the number of team members continues to increase, their accommodation needs to be considered, and the matter of building a new house should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
It's not just a matter of housing.
Over the past few days, the Xue family has saved a lot of things.
Like the earliest hickory pu shells, as well as the extremely large amount of firewood grass cut from clearing the mountain forest, as well as the sunflower plate and tens of thousands of catties of oil sunflower cakes left over this time.
There are too many stocks, and the Xue family's yard is going to hold classes, so it can't be put in the slightest, and it is impossible to put these in a small firewood room, so they have to pile them up layer by layer, temporarily blocking the waterproof with an oilcloth.
But covering it with a tarpaulin is not a long-term solution after all.
And you have to prevent others from stealing it outside, even if they guard it tightly, they will always lose this and that from time to time, and the loss is all money.
If you want to stay longer, you have to build a few sheds and put all these things in it.
Actually, that's a lot.
Jiang Qianyue and others have been contacting the vendors some time ago, and they have already sold most of the firewood and pu shells.
It's just that after all, it is firewood cleared from thousands of acres of mountainous land, so don't think about cleaning it up in a short time.
Now there are more, just the sunflower plate is two or three hundred thousand catties, and there are tens of thousands of catties of oil sunflower cakes.
So many things, especially the oil sunflower cake, can be sold for at least a few dozen taels of silver, and it is really unsafe to put it outside, even if you build a shed, the number of squares required is not small.
If you build a new house, by the way, the shed and the new house will be built together, then the accommodation problem of the team members and the storage of items will be solved, and a lot of expenses can be saved.
In other words, if this oil sunflower cake is some ordinary fertilizer, it is fine, and it can be directly used as fertilizer in the fruit forest.
But they are more suitable for base fertilizer, and now that the seedlings of this orchard have been planted, they are not suitable for use anymore, after all, the base fertilizer should be used before planting.
If you wait for the next season to plant again, then the storage time will be too long.
Others can be used as firewood, but if this oil sunflower cake is used as firewood, it will be too damned.
Therefore, Xue Langjing discussed with everyone, either to use them as fodder to raise livestock, or to sell them, and put them at home to occupy space, this thing should be easy to sell.
In fact, she tends to sell it directly and exchange it for silver.
If it is to be used to feed livestock, it cannot be used as the main feed, and it has to be mixed with other feeds.
However, it costs a lot of money to buy fodder such as bud grain, soybean meal, wheat bran, and rice bran, and to build a farm to store livestock.
It's just that after a period of discussion, most of the people in the Xue family prefer to build a pig farm to raise pigs.
They think that since they have money in their hands and they don't plan to buy land for the time being, they just put it away, and it happens that there is so much feed at home, and it is not bad to build a pig farm, so that they can make money and not let the money be wasted.
Anyway, now that the fruit forest has been built, it is enough for Xue Shanjing to take care of it alone.
Others are idle again, and there is nothing else to do except study, and it is good to help raise pigs and contribute more to the family.
But Xue Langjing still has to save money to buy equipment, and this farm will cost hundreds of taels of silver.
Also, in this way, this oil sunflower cake will not be used in a short time, and it is necessary to buy feed, so it needs more places to store it.
The stall is too big, and it costs money.
When they heard her say that they would spend more than 2,000 taels of silver to buy equipment, the Tang clan felt incredible, what kind of equipment is this, it costs so much silver, and it is only a hundred taels for one person!
Although the potion is expensive, it has obvious effects, and most importantly, it was bought with the wages of the team members, and this equipment can be paid for by their Xue family, where can they give it up.
Isn't it just armor, it's good to let the team members be careful, as for the weapons, their original ones are not unusable, and the grade and one person also gave a dozen taels of silver equipment, how long has it been used, it's too wasteful to just change it down.
After discussing for a few days, under Xue Langjing's good words, everyone finally agreed to her to buy equipment, but she had to build a farm first and buy more assets.
As for the equipment, no matter how slow it is, there is no hurry, and there is no shortage of these few days.
At this point, Xue Langjing has two major expenses.
One is to build a pig farm, and the other is to build a new house.
The problem of the house is easy to say, what kind of house will cost about how much silver, and they have a good idea of how much it will cost in their hearts.
But how to build a pig farm, how much money is needed, etc., they are blind to this, and have no experience at all.
Not to mention that this pig breeder also has to be experienced people, they themselves must have a general understanding of the market, so that they know it in their hearts.
This is not Xue Langjing's responsibility, how to come, everyone will discuss it themselves, and she will give a silver.
The next day, Xue Langjing led the team to hunt as usual.
There are two new team members joining, and now there are exactly twenty members of the hunting team, plus Xue Langjing, the captain, a total of twenty-one people, and the daily harvest is more.
As for matters related to pig raising, Jiang Qianyue led Xue Kejing, Xue Zhujing, and Liu Huining early in the morning, as well as Zhang Xingyuan, who was driving the car, to the town to inquire about the news.
In fact, it is not so difficult to find someone, just go to the market and find a few vendors who sell piglets, and they will help thread the needle.
After all, the vendor who sells piglets must have something to know about pig raising.
Bringing Xue Kejing was naturally to give her more experience, and bringing Xue Zhujing was purely because of her drawing ability.
Xue Langjing had bought her several drawing-related books before, and she had also studied for a long time, and she had drawn topographic maps for so long, and her drawing ability was already there. The drawing ability is already quite good.
At that time, how to plan, how to design, etc., the drawings of this pig farm will depend on her.
And Liu Huining, of course, is because she has experience in raising pigs, which makes up for the lack of other people who are laymen.
Under the guidance of the traders, everyone also contacted many farmers and had some understanding of the aspects, but they did not dare to draw conclusions too hastily.
The next day, he went to the county under the guidance of a vendor to find out the situation.
Based on the situation after two days of inquiry, Xue Zhujing quickly drew the general appearance of the pig farm, and they also contacted two pig farmers with rich experience, and when their pig farm was built, they had to ask someone to help breed.
According to the situation they inquired, everyone also had a good idea of how the income and expenditure of pig raising were.
Take the Xue family's existing oil sunflower cake as an example.
Their batch of oil sunflower cakes is matched with other feed according to a certain ratio, which can probably be matched with more than 600,000 catties of feed, excluding the oil sunflower cakes, the cost of other feed is about 450 taels of silver.
It takes more than 500 catties of feed for a piglet to feed an adult pig, which means that this batch of feed can feed 1,200 pigs.
It costs about 150 taels of silver to catch 1,200 piglets.
In order to raise so many pigs, this pig farm has to be about 50 acres in size, and the construction cost is about 250 taels of silver, and if you choose a mountainous area, 50 acres of land will cost 50 taels of silver.
That is to say, to buy piglets, mountainous land, and build a pig farm, it costs at least 450 taels of silver, and with the addition of feed, it is 900 taels of input.