In October, the weather has turned cooler, and the original shed built by the Xue family is no longer suitable for people to live in this season.

The people in the villages around the sweet potato mountain can't live in more than 100,000 people, so the original shed must be renovated, not to mention anything else, at least suitable for people to live in winter.

Otherwise, even if they recruit labor, they will not be able to arrange their food and lodging.

But if it is to be transformed into a residence that can accommodate more than 100,000 people, even if they provide wood at home, no matter how simple the construction is, it is not enough to have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Therefore, most of the Xue family's silver, even the deposit obtained from the Zheng family in advance, was also invested in this.

But even so, the money is not enough to pay, and there is still a lot to be owed.

For example, stone merchants, brick and tile merchants and other material merchants, the Xue family is owed.

Fortunately, for these merchants, the Xue family is also a big customer, and now it is also a big business, and they are not afraid that they will not come out, and they are willing to let them pay the silver in installments.

The labor cost is also a lot, even if it is a project that has been completed, the Xue family only settles with them once every other day, the reason is naturally that this amount is too large and it takes a certain amount of time to settle.

Don't look at the Xue family's hundreds of thousands of people to work, everything is prosperous, but in fact, there is a lot of debt behind it.

Although the sweet potato stalk has an income of 72,000 taels of silver, he has already taken a lot of deposits with Zheng Linchu before, and even if he pays all the goods, he will not be able to collect much silver.

With such a little bit of silver, it is not enough to settle part of the labor costs owed before, repay part of the material costs, and leave a part of the next period, and you have to rely on the income of the hunting team, orchards, and even ponds to make up for it.

But even so, the businessmen can say that their vision is more long-term than that of ordinary people, and they know that the Xue family will not make a fortune and need to turnover.

But it's hard for the people to say, they value more immediate interests, and if the wages earned by hard work are delayed for a long time, people's hearts will fluctuate somewhat.

Now that I have such a large sum of silver, I can finally pay back the money I owe first.

On the night of getting the silver, when everyone was excited about the money, Jiang Qianyue discussed it with Xue Linjing and the sisters and decided to ask for all the debts owed before.

The labor cost of the people is mainly the cost of digging and planting sweet potatoes and picking and drying sweet potato stalks.

And the merchants, naturally, are all kinds of material money.

Why should the merchants be in a hurry to pay back their money?

Because all the money owed to them is interest-bearing, otherwise do you really think that those merchants are good men?

Moreover, the sooner these expenses are settled, the easier the accounts will be, and the more accounts will pile up, the more troublesome it will be the further they go.

The common people, in particular, are illiterate, and their wages are not calculated on a monthly basis, but on the number of hours they work or the amount of work they do.

If the amount is a little larger, it is easy for them to not be able to pay it off, and it may cause unnecessary disputes at that time.

Of course, it is better to have a sum of money.

In fact, Xue Linjing had already done this account, just waiting for the money to arrive.

The sum of the two is not much, but it is not much, only more than 40,000 taels of silver.

It's just that when there is a shortage of money at home, it is a lot of silver.

Those who dug and planted sweet potatoes totaled more than 26,000 taels. Wenxin School

Picking and drying sweet potato stalks, more than 14,000 taels.

Of course, both include expenses such as food, rent, charcoal, etc.

This is what was owed before.

Then there will be another one soon, washing sweet potatoes and baking sweet potato residue, it is estimated that it will only take two days, and you have to pay for it.

According to Xue Linjing's estimate, the labor cost of washing sweet potatoes is at least 30,000 taels of silver, and the labor cost of baking sweet potato residue is at least 6,000 taels, which is purely labor costs.

However, after these two are processed, after delivering the goods to the Zheng family, they can also get a sum of money.

It's just that I can't receive much money, so I still have to borrow a part of this huge amount temporarily.

Sweet potato flour, Zheng Linchu received it at the price of ten catties and thirty-three Wen, and the remaining sweet potato residue also belonged to her, which was said before.

And the dried sweet potato dregs, because the sweet potato dregs belong to her, the Xue family can only charge processing fees, and twenty catties of dried sweet potato dregs will be given to Sanwen.

If you calculate it this way, there will be a problem, if you can only receive the processing fee, the Xue family can completely underreport the sweet potato residue and leave more for your own use, anyway, you can only get three cents by giving twenty catties.

But the brothers still settle the accounts, not to mention that the two sides are just interested in each other, and they can't just make these small actions just because Zheng Linchu is good to them, right?

Therefore, the agreement between the two parties is that for every 100 catties of sweet potato flour, 136 catties of dried sweet potato dregs must be matched, or every 100 catties of sweet potato vermicelli should be accompanied by 154 catties of dried sweet potato dregs.

Previously, Zheng Linchu sold the wet sweet potato residue to the Xue family at a price of ten catties per penny.

And the dried sweet potato residue provided by the Xue family is ten catties of wet slag baked into three catties of dry slag, which is equivalent to three catties of dry dregs for one penny.

In the end, if the weight of the dried sweet potato residue provided by the Xue family is lower than the rated amount, one penny will be deducted if it is less than three catties.

If there is more, not only will the processing fee be calculated to the Xue family, but also a penny will be added for every three catties of dry residue.

In the agreement with the Zheng family this time, the Zheng family's request was to receive 20 million catties of sweet potato flour, and let them make sweet potato noodles with the remaining sweet potato flour and then give it.

At the price of ten catties and thirty-three wen, the Xue family can get 66,000 taels of silver for this batch of sweet potato flour.

As for dried sweet potato dregs, the fresher this thing is, the better, and it's useless to keep them at home after they make them, of course, they take them away directly to the Zheng family.

There are a total of 45 million catties of dried sweet potato dregs, and the processing fee is currently calculated at 20 yuan and 3 catties, and after the handover of sweet potato vermicelli, the excess will be refunded and the deficiency will be compensated, and there will be about 6,750 taels of silver here.

For the processing fee of 6,750 taels, the wages will have to pay more than 6,000 taels of silver, and the charcoal fire fee and other expenses, and the Xue family will be able to earn a few hundred taels.

It's true that you don't earn much on sweet potato pomace, but it's an extra income.

The Xue family earns most of it mainly on sweet potatoes.

According to Xue Linjing's budget, in addition to the benchmark price given by Zheng Linchu, that is, four catties of sweet potatoes per penny, and sweet potato stalks, the majority of the additional income is currently made of sweet potato flour, and they can charge about 4,000 taels to help with processing.

This kind of income can be said to be extremely exaggerated, and you can have an income of more than 200,000 taels in one season.

However, what they didn't know was that the Zheng family in their eyes was actually not the Zheng family, but Zheng Linchu, who used the resources of the Zheng family to make a difference between them and the Zheng family.

Zheng Linchu took it from them at a price of ten catties and thirty-three yuan, and sold it to the Zheng family at a price of ten yuan and one catty.

This batch of sweet potato flour alone can make her earn 167,500 taels of silver.