Chapter 344: Acquisition of Silkworm Cocoons
"Second brother, how many orders for sachets have not been sent?" Huang Zisu thought of this and asked her second brother.
"There are only over 10,000 sachets left to be delivered.
Hu Li went to a nearby county and town before, and reached a cooperation agreement with several cloth shops to buy a large number of sachets.
After this wave is over, there will be no shortage of sachets in our house." Mai Dong reassured his family Su Su.
"There will definitely be a shortage of empty sachets this year, if it is a few days later, the richest man Shen Wanqian knows that the sachets are selling hot, and he will definitely get the goods from our house.
As soon as he gets the goods, at least 50,000 yuan is the base, and this amount will only be more and not less.
Even after the season of selling sachets this year and the off-season in winter, the speed of purchasing sachets cannot be stopped, and a large number of sachets are purchased in winter for use in the summer of the following year, which is the speed of use in the following year." Huang Shisu explained to her second brother.
"Su Su, although the medicinal materials in the sachet have been ground into powder, those who are familiar with the medicinal materials will soon be able to analyze the recipe of the sachet.
When the time comes, someone will follow suit, and they will definitely grab business with our family, and if we order so many sachets in the future, and we can't sell them, we will lose a lot." Huang Zhang said with some concern.
"In the future, there will definitely be people who will follow suit and grab business with our family.
But with my reputation, I can still occupy most of the market, and when we eat meat, we will leave some soup for others to drink." Huang Shisu also has no way, and there is no patent in this era, so she has to do brand awareness.
Therefore, whether it is on the porcelain jar or the sachet of customized rouge, Huang Shiso makes people get their yellow characters on it.
After people buy it, when they see the yellow characters, they know that this is a product of the Huang family, and it must be a high-quality product.
The next day, early in the morning, the villagers of the three villages sent the raised silkworm cocoons to the Huang family one by one.
The Huang family finished eating breakfast early in the morning, and as soon as the villagers came, they began to count out the number of silkworm cocoons, and then weigh the number of settlements, for example, after a thousand silkworm cocoons weigh three catties.
They use weighing instead of counting, otherwise, the number of silkworm cocoons, so many people, a few days and nights can't be done.
Rao is like this, the Huang family arranged for more than a dozen people to weigh and transport, and it took nearly a morning for them to weigh this batch of silkworm cocoons.
Those who raise less silkworms can earn more than one or two taels of silver, and those who raise more silkworms can earn more than two taels of silver.
The villagers who got the silver smiled happily, and after thanking the Huang family, they left separately.
After all, silkworm raising, three times a year can be raised, a time to raise silkworms for more than a month, no more than two months, silkworm work is simple and not tired, the family of men, women and children can do it, and make a lot of money, these villagers are naturally very grateful to the Huang family.
This also led to more and more people raising silkworms for the Huang family in the future.
made silk quilts for the Huang family.
"Susu, you're going to start making silk quilts this afternoon?" After eating lunch, Mai Dong asked his family Susu.
"Sooner rather than later! Second brother, how many cocoons have come up this time?" Huang Zisu asked.
"I don't know, I haven't calculated it, it's a lot anyway!
After all, this time we have purchased silkworm cocoons from three villages, and there are forty or fifty households in one village, and there are seventy or eighty families in a village, and a family can buy four or five thousand silkworm cocoons, and there are more than this number, and those cocoons have piled up our warehouse." Huang Maidong said a little excitedly.
With so many silkworm cocoons, how many silk quilts can be made, Huang Maidong has no bottom in his heart.
"In this way, I'm afraid there are millions of cocoons!
It takes 1,500 cocoons to make two or three catties of silk quilts, and if there are millions of cocoons, then we can make seven or eight hundred beds of two or three catties of silk quilts." Huang Zisu thought about it in her heart, and she was also a little surprised.
I didn't expect the productivity of silkworm farming to be so great.
If you can buy silkworm cocoons three times a year, you can make two or three thousand silk quilts in a year.
But this quantity is far from enough to meet the needs of the market, and even the silk quilts to be covered in winter must be heavier than those covered in summer, and they have to make some silk quilts weighing five or six pounds for winter covers.
"Second brother, we still have to let the villagers vigorously breed silkworm cocoons, the more the better." Huang Shisu instructed her second brother.
"I'll take care of this."
Immediately, starting in the afternoon, Huang Shisu and Huang Zhang's took fifteen people who bought them back, and began to work on the steps and processes of how to make silk quilts.
These dozen or so people are worthy of being good at work, with great strength, and they are quick and diligent in their work, and after Huang Shisu only taught them a few times, they can quickly start making silk pockets.
More than a dozen people worked all afternoon, making silk pockets that seemed to be many, but in reality, they only used a tenth of the cocoons.
At this rate, it will take at least ten days to make all these cocoons into silk pockets.
After another five days, half of the cocoons had been made into silk pockets.
The silk pockets that dried a few days ago have been dried.
Seeing this, Huang Zhang's arranged for a few little girls to guard their great-grandchildren.
Huang Zhang called his four granddaughters-in-law, Su Su, Aster, and Bai Peony sisters to come over to draw silk and start the final step of making silk quilts.
The cover that contained the silk quilt before, Huang Zhang's took advantage of the past few days to sew it.
Eight people divided into groups of four, and began to draw the old with the new.
At first, I was not very familiar with the drawing, and a group of two silk quilts could be drawn a day.
After the wire drawing is becoming more and more proficient, and after the tacit understanding of cooperation, after this speed comes up, I can pull four or five silk quilts every day.
In less than three days, the Huang family covered the silk quilt as they wished.
And there are still surpluses.
The time slowly came to May, and now the Huang family is very busy.
Grinding medicinal herbs, making sachets, making silk pockets, drawing silk quilts, making rouge, picking flowers, developing new rouge colors, collecting medicine in the morning, and teaching apprentices in the afternoon.
Everyone's affairs are arranged clearly and clearly.
After the shortage of people to work, the Huang family bought some people from the town to go home to work.
A large courtyard was also built for these people.
Now there are 50 people in the Huang family who have bought them back to work for their family.
Among the fifty people, they were all young and strong, and there were equal numbers of men and women, so that they could solve their life's problems internally in the future.
With the manpower to do the work, the head of the Huang family can roughly grasp the general direction of the matter.
As for those who ask people to work, they basically can't be invited, because the villagers all raise silkworms by themselves, and at the same time, they have a lot of income, and they are not tired and relaxed.