Chapter 646: Preparing to Sell Chilled Food
"Can you freeze a little bigger?" Ao Yu shook his hair and put away the ice, he would be able to use it if he couldn't use magic. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This magic can freeze twice as large as the target, and if it is larger, it will require a little more advanced magic, and the consumption of time and mana will be more. There are seven or eight cubic cubes of ice that are just the right size and weight, and no matter how large they are, they are not conducive to storage and handling. Ding Kui said with a sigh.
"I'm afraid Ao Yan won't do such a boring thing. Ao Yu touched his nose.
"Whatever she wants, I can use it as a magic practice, and the ice cubes I make in a day are enough for a long time, and I can be completely self-sufficient if I don't sell them. Let's go, there's a lot to do back to do. ”
The most critical step of chilled aquatic products is completed, the only one in this world who can compete with Ding Kui for business is the magician, unless it is a poor magician, no one will make ice cubes to make money, so Ding Kui can be regarded as finding a unique business.
"Chilled fish? Isn't that dead fish, I'll eat what I caught." ”
Well, Ao Yan didn't think about helping, she just wanted to eat.
"It's not for you to eat, when you want to eat, you can go to Tongyuanjiang with Ao Yu, okay, forget it, change the question. Can you set up an enchantment to cover up the fluctuations in mana within a certain range?" Ding Kui scratched his hair.
"It's not okay to fluctuate too much mana. ”
"It's not big, two or three levels of magic. ”
"Oh, it's easy, but it costs me a little material. ”
"I'll give it to you, or I can buy it from you. ”
"The materials I want are all over our place, but they don't have them here, so you can exchange them with me. Ao Yan picked up a pen and wrote down a piece of paper, "You can exchange any three things with me if you find any three things here." ”
Ao Yan is much more generous than Ao Yu, and the list of items listed is not much more expensive than the materials she consumes, which is a more reasonable price in Ding Kui's opinion.
It may be that with the protection of the country's sailors, more and more fishermen in Juyang City go to the river to fish, and the restaurants in the city have begun to appear precious fish as ingredients, and the price is not very high. The population of Giant Sheep City has only recovered to half of what it used to be, and the rich do not save one out of ten, and no matter how valuable the fish is, someone must be willing to pay for it to be valuable.
The first brigade lost the big war ship, and could only use the fishing boat to train for water warfare, and also tried to fish in his spare time, Ao Yu, an overseas person, became more and more important, and the fishing efficiency without him was not the same. He seemed to be able to see where the fish were, and if he cast a net at his command, he would surely have a rich catch.
Ma Duping looked at the boatload of fish and shrimp and said excitedly: "Now that there is a supply, there is only enough ice." ”
"There are ice cubes and you have to renovate the carts that pull goods, and in two months the weather will be hot, and there will be heavy rain often, and those flatbed carts are not easy to use. It is rare for Lao Wangjue to put forward a more pertinent opinion.
"Well, we need shelter from the wind and rain and the temperature, so we can use a flatbed truck to cover a large box in which ice and fish can be stacked. Ding Kui remembered the popsicles stuffed in the quilt box, as long as they were kept warm, the ice cubes could not melt for a long time.
"Unfortunately, there is no foam, which can greatly reduce the weight of the packaging. He thought to himself.
"You can weave a large box with hay and rattan, which is strong and lightweight, and is not afraid of water, but you don't understand what you said about insulating the temperature. "Lao Wangjue is worthy of the skill of a tinkerer.
"Okay, you're responsible for weaving more big boxes, and I'll figure out how to do it for waterproofing and insulation. "Ding Kui is overjoyed, the weight of the vehicle has been solved, and the rest is easy to handle.
The common fish in the Tongyuan River is about a few copper plates a catty, and the relatively rare ones are worth more than ten copper plates to one or two hundred copper plates, and they can be sold several times when they are pulled down in cities far away from the rivers, but a cart of goods generally costs one or two hundred copper plates a day, and the heavier ones even cost hundreds of copper plates.
It can be said that the profit of selling common fish is very low, and the slightest carelessness will lose money, and the more expensive the fish, the higher the profit, as long as you sell most of it, you will have a considerable income, compared to ordinary fishermen.
On the same day, he returned to Yongsheng Base and began to study insulation and waterproof materials.
The fur of the monster was naturally the best choice, and he found that the skin of the Earth Turning Dragon was the best to use.
"It's a pity, the cost of using the skin of the earth dragon is too high, how many chilled aquatic products do you have to sell to return to the cost? He looked at the fifth-level earth-turning dragon skin and felt a little heartache.
"Don't you say who knows it's a dragon skin, anyway, it doesn't cost money, and you don't sell it, why don't you use it?" Ao Yu's values are different from Ding Kui's, but if you want to use his things, it's different.
"Crooked, do you know how much this leather armor is worth? I remember that there were several herds of buffalo near the base, and catching them all was enough for us to build a huge convoy. Ding Kui knew Ao Yu's virtue.
"Cut, you dispatched so many masters to catch buffaloes, isn't it called a waste?" Ao Yu caught Ding Kui's loophole.
"That's training, and it's the best of both worlds to show their value while training, and then nonsense doesn't give you beef to eat. Ding Kui was a little annoyed.
"Hmph, you're more powerful. Ao Yu squinted at Ding Kui, and clearly said that the next sentence was "You are far behind in terms of strength."
In the end, the inner lining of the carriage researched by Ding Kui was two layers of buffalo leather, with thick cotton sandwiched in between. He also made samples for a small experiment, lighting several fires around the insulated compartment to raise the outside temperature of the insulated compartment, and it took a long time for the ice inside to melt.
"That's right, such a carriage can hold about 300 catties of ice and fish, ten cars can transport 3,000 catties, and 100 cars are 30,000 catties. "Liang immediately calculated the capacity.
"Don't be in a hurry, get ten or twenty cars first, and make it bigger little by little. "Ding Kui's plan is gradually being realized.
"Now that we have the fish and the trucks to transport it, we are left with a long-term supply of ice and the people who manage the business. Feng Liang said on the side.
"I have prepared for both things, the ice cube is available at any time, the magician who has contacted him does not want people to know who he is, and will secretly help us make ice cubes, so you don't have to guess; there are two aspects to the people who manage the business, on the one hand, I ask the family to send someone over, and on the other hand, I ask people to contact the group of comrades who have been discharged from the army due to injury, and they will take it if they are interested. For now, let Tao Mu and Ding Cai take care of it. "Ding Kui is in the chest.
Hearing Ding Kui's invitation to his comrades-in-arms who had retired from the army due to injury, Liang Chong couldn't help but sigh: "Captain Ding is really a person who values love and righteousness, those comrades-in-arms are similar to wasters, you haven't forgotten them, we should all do this well." ”
"yes, yes. "Everyone in the room felt the same way.
"Don't talk about them, I can help the families of those fallen comrades if they are in trouble, don't say that they have something to do, I must not let them go hungry for a day. Ding Kui said it categorically.
Liang Chong nodded vigorously, even if Ding Kui was talking about the scene, the purpose was to inspire his current comrades-in-arms, and it was rare to dare to express his position in public.
The next day, Ding Kui rushed back to Juyang City, and Tao Mu sent news from Lu Ji that the land near the dock was bought.
Lu Ji led Ding Kui and others to a piece of land between the wharf and Juyang City, the plot is about one acre in size, next to the road, as long as the business of Juyang City is prosperous, this must be a good plot.
"Hehe, it is estimated that the new city lord is in a hurry to use the money, and this land has cost a thousand gold coins. Lu Ji introduced Ding Kui.
"A thousand gold coins to buy a piece of wasteland on the edge of the city, if it weren't for the proximity to the dock, it would definitely not be worth the price. "Ding Kui often buys houses and land, and is a person who understands the market.
"You have to be in a hurry, otherwise you can also lower the price. Lu Ji thought Ding Kui was too expensive.
"It's okay, don't blame the city lord for being in a hurry, he even has to rebuild the place where he lives, and there are still many places where Giant Sheep City will cost money, and when the price rises here in the future, it is estimated that he will regret it and die." "Ding Kui can accept this price, and when he doesn't buy chilled food, he can sell it at a higher price, and he won't suffer a loss.
"I don't know what the adults want to do? If you can, the villain wants to participate in a share. Lu Ji didn't know Ding Kui's plan yet.
"I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, I don't plan to cooperate with anyone else in this deal, unless," Ding Kui paused, "You can find a magician to help me with the work." ”
Lu Ji swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Uh, hehe, how can the villain be able to call the magician, I can only blame the villain's lack of ability, but if there is an opportunity to cooperate, I hope the adult will be the first to consider the villain." ”
"Okay, you can come over when it opens and see if there's anything you can work with. "Ding Kui did not completely close the door to cooperation, and the Lu Chamber of Commerce has such a huge sales network, which is a good platform for cooperation.
"My lord, my subordinates have contacted the craftsmen in the city, and they are always willing to serve you. Tao Mu didn't know what kind of house Ding Kui wanted to build on this land.
"After a while, I called them over and dug me a cellar, a very deep cellar. Ding Kui stomped the ground hard.
Ice cubes need magicians to make, if Ao Yan refuses to make a move, then only Ding Kui will do it himself, it is unrealistic to want to go to the Giant Sheep City Magic Guild to invite people, not only expensive but also owe favors, and for a long time, it will be a loss-making business. Therefore, Ding Kui first had to build a cellar to store ice cubes, so that he could make a large amount of ice cubes in advance, and even if he was not there, he could use them for a while.
There is no technical content in digging the cellar, any experienced craftsman can calculate the support point, not to mention that Ding Kui also asked a nengling earth magician to strengthen the top of the cellar.
There is no way, the cellar he needs is too big, unlike the cellar of ordinary families, which is at most one hundred or ten square meters, he asked people to dig at least six or seven hundred square meters in size, and the height of the cellar alone is five meters, which shows how deep it is.
"You don't want your subordinates to hide inside, do you, if you want to hide in the city, what are you hiding here?" Huan Qiao was curious and came to see.