Chapter Seventy-Seven: Price Increases
This year, Yipinju also sent a New Year's gift to their family.
Of course, in the past, Yipinju would also send New Year's gifts to their family every year, but this year it was thicker than the previous gifts, and she thought it might be because of this cooperation with the noodles.
In her opinion, the business of this vermicelli must be good, otherwise their order volume would not have risen again and again.
At the beginning, they said that they would have 5,000 catties of vermicelli per month before the autumn harvest, and the amount after the autumn harvest would be another matter.
Therefore, after the autumn harvest, their order volume began to slowly rise from 5,000 catties at the beginning to 7,000 catties now.
Originally, they wanted to raise it to 10,000 catties per month, but she couldn't give it, so it was finally set at 7,000 catties.
There are two reasons why she can't give it, one is, as I said before, her raw materials are not enough.
Although she had already told the people last year, they would harvest sweet potatoes from them this year and even in the next few years.
Those people also believed that they had indeed planted a lot of sweet potatoes this year.
However, as she thought and said before, she didn't want to let those people use all the land to grow sweet potatoes because of her sweet potato harvest, which would affect her normal life.
Therefore, even if those people really grow a lot of sweet potatoes, the amount is not very large.
But fortunately, she planted sweet potatoes around the factory this year, more than ten acres of land, although it is not a good land, but it is much better than wasteland.
Therefore, her own harvest this year is also good, and she has produced more than 10,000 catties of sweet potatoes.
She also planted sweet potatoes in the fields at the foot of Xiaoqingshan, and the harvest was quite good.
What's more, although each family doesn't grow many sweet potatoes in those people's homes, it adds up to a lot of money for each family.
Moreover, she not only bought in Miyang County, but also expanded outward and bought from the people of other counties.
Therefore, their dazzling two can supply a maximum of 9,000 catties of vermicelli per month from Shangpinju, and no matter how much she can't provide, she really can't provide it.
Another reason is that there are not enough people.
At first, she didn't expect that Yipinju would need such a large amount, so they didn't recruit so many people.
The factory is not so big, and it is just a small workshop.
However, she didn't want to give up such a good business, after all, the income of this noodle factory was still very considerable.
As I said before, the price they set for Yipinju is 30 wen per catty.
In this way, according to their monthly shipments of 7,000 catties, she will have an income of more than 200 taels of silver a month.
Although this money doesn't sound like much, it is too much worse than her previous Barilla business.
However, you must know that her raw materials are very cheap, two catties of sweet potatoes are a penny.
The other is the salary of the worker, as I said before, a worker has 50 wen a day, which is more than one tael of silver a month.
Later, because of the increase in the number of orders for Yipinju, she also increased the number of employees to forty, and the monthly income was more than sixty taels of silver.
Therefore, calculated in this way, she can still earn more than 100 taels of silver per month with the monthly salary and the money from buying sweet potatoes.
Seven months have passed since the vermicelli factory first started shipping, and she has earned back the money to buy land and repair the factory, and she has also made some money.
Therefore, she also doesn't want to give up such a good business.
Fortunately, she is currently the only one who has the production method of this vermicelli, and she still has the relative initiative.
Because of last year's business, she wanted to expand the scope of the factory, such as opening a branch factory or expanding the scale of the factory.
The reason for opening the branch factory is mainly because of raw materials, they buy sweet potatoes from other counties, and it will take a few days to pull them back.
This time she went back and forth, and it would take a lot of energy and money, so she wondered if she could open a vermicelli factory in other counties.
It's just that their vermicelli factory has only been open for less than a year, and the matter of opening a branch factory may be a little anxious.
Therefore, the matter of opening a branch has not been decided for a while, and it has been put on hold for the time being.
In addition to opening a branch, all she can think of is expanding their current factory.
It's just that this matter has not been implemented quickly, because of the comparison between the two boxes, she still thinks it is more cost-effective to open a branch.
Because neither plan has been decided, this is the New Year, and she knows that she has to settle this matter.
Otherwise, it will be a little late after the Chinese New Year.
There is also the matter of raw materials, at the beginning, she was afraid that the business of vermicelli would not be good, so she counted sweet potatoes for two catties of pennies.
However, now it turns out that the business of this noodle factory is quite good.
Therefore, it also led to the fact that she needed a lot of sweet potatoes, but there were not many people who planted them, and the sweet potato yield was not enough.
In addition to what she said before, she doesn't want to affect the normal planting of the people because of growing sweet potatoes.
However, now it is different, sweet potatoes do not have enough raw materials, and she also needs a lot of sweet potatoes.
She wondered if she could think of another way to meet her needs for sweet potatoes and keep the people fed.
The best way to do this is to raise the price.
That's right, it's a price increase, an increase in the price of sweet potatoes.
Before, her price of one penny or two catties was at most so that those people could earn more money, but the others could not solve much.
The land on which they grow sweet potatoes now is not a good land, and the output is just like that, at most, they can produce three or four hundred catties of sweet potatoes without one acre of land.
In this way, they can only earn about 200 yuan per acre of land.
It's really not very useful, but maybe better than the other corn they grow on a regular basis.
But who can say for sure, the price of corn is at least higher than that of sweet potatoes, but it may be said that it is more tiring.
So now, she has also calculated, if she raises the price of sweet potatoes to a penny, then she is actually making money, but she will make less money than before.
And if it rises to one penny, those people can also make some money, if they plant it well, it is much better than they plant corn, and they can earn hundreds of wen per mu.
And she calculated, even if five catties of sweet potatoes produce one catty of vermicelli, the cost of one catty of vermicelli is about ten yuan, and she can still earn twice as much.
So, she thinks it's possible.
Therefore, she began to discuss with Li Bokang about the price increase of sweet potatoes.
In addition to the price increase, she also told him to encourage the people to open up the wasteland, and now the country's policy has a policy of encouraging the people to open up the wasteland, and they are just a little more attentive.
For this reason, she believes that the people will grow more sweet potatoes, so that the problem of her raw materials will be solved.
Speaking of which, this is also mutually beneficial, both sides can make money, and they can also achieve their original intention: to develop the sun, so that the people can live a better life.
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