Chapter 105 is simply a huge profit
What?
Set up a stall to collect crayfish?
The villagers were stunned when they heard this, and for some reason, they had a bad premonition in their hearts.
Baitao continued: "Find a board and write ten pounds of crayfish for one pound of grain."
"By the way, the food replaced is dried sweet potatoes or corn kernels."
After a pause, she added: "For corn, it costs twenty kilograms of crayfish for one kilogram, and for rice or flour, it costs twenty-three kilograms of crayfish for one kilogram."
This exchange ratio has been carefully considered by Baitao.
If the exchange ratio is high, ordinary people will have nothing to worry about. When the government intervenes, ordinary people may have to pay the crayfish tax.
With such an exchange ratio, whether it is people fleeing and passing through Qingzhou or ordinary people in Qingzhou, if they pick up 180 kilograms a day, they can exchange it for several kilograms of grain, saving enough to last three to five days.
One hundred and eighty kilograms can be exchanged for a few kilograms of corn. Those with money and power also look down upon it and will not send people to enclose the land and snatch it from the common people.
Only when the rich and powerful people look down upon this food will it fall into the hands of ordinary people.
Picking up crayfish is effortless. People as old as fifty or sixty can do it, and children as young as six or seven can do it. It can be said that it provides everyone with a way to support themselves.
After Baitao finished speaking, he saw that the villagers were all in pain and couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
"Were you not full just now?"
"No."
"Auntie, why do we need to use food to find someone to collect crayfish? It's not like we can't pick them up ourselves."
You can pick it up casually on the street, and even pay for food to be collected. If the person who said this was not Baitao, the villagers would probably say that they have been kicked in the head by a donkey.
"Yes, grandma, we don't have any urgent work now, so we can definitely pick it up ourselves."
Baitao blinked: "I don't want you to be too tired."
Of course the people in your own village should feel sorry for them and use them.
Of course, the main reason is the lack of people and low efficiency.
When the villagers heard this, their hearts warmed up, and they spoke one after another while being moved.
"Auntie, we are not tired."
"Yes, aunt, we are not tired at all."
"Auntie, if we are tired, we will rest."
"Auntie, this kind of work is not half as tiring as farming."
As he said that, everyone couldn't wait to pick up a few big sacks and run back and forth for two or three rounds to show her.
Baitao waved her hand quickly: "There is strength in numbers. The crayfish breeds seasonally. What if they disappear in a few days?"
"Auntie, don't worry, we will hurry up and pick up more."
"That's right, grandma, we made an appointment with people in the morning. They just put the crayfish from their homes and shops into sacks, and we will pick them up in the evening."
After all, it is because of the flowers and grain harvest that everyone feels pain.
Baitao shook his head: "That's still not enough."
No matter how hard the villagers work to pick it up, they can't collect it as fast as the stalls set up.
Seeing this, the villagers couldn't help but look at Bai Dashan. Village chief, please give me some advice.
Bai Dashan thought for a moment and said, "Auntie, can you set up a stall again tomorrow?"
Baitao thought that the villagers were tired, so she agreed: "Okay, let's go tomorrow." Delaying one night is not a big problem.
"Village chief..." A villager tried to think of something to say.
"Listen to my aunt, don't delay my aunt's affairs." Bai Dashan made the villagers obedient with just one sentence. Then he explained to Baitao: "Auntie, I'm going a day late because we all made an agreement with everyone in the city today."
"It would be inappropriate if we carried the crayfish with our front legs and set up a stall at the city gate with our back legs to collect grains."
After hearing this, Baitao complained in her heart, is it appropriate to set up a stall to collect crayfish tomorrow? !
Complaints remain complaints, but Baitao agreed to the villagers' request.
"Okay, then let's set up a stall at the city gate at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"But, grandma, your price..."
Baitao coughed twice and said, "Do you feel you are low?"
"No." Bai Dashan shook his head: "It's too high."
Carrying a large sack at the dock for a day only costs thirty-five or six cents. When there is a slack season, everyone works hard to get the job, and the price is still thirty-five cents lower.
Before the price of grain went up, for thirty-five or six cents, you could buy two kilograms of grain and have seven or eight cents left over.
At present, crayfish are overflowing and they are ownerless things. In Qingzhou, you only need to lower your head and pick them up.
It's really too high to pay this price under such circumstances.
Baitao: "Uh..." She felt a little guilty when setting this exchange ratio. After all, it was sold to the mall for twelve coins per catty.
Twelve coins can buy six or seven kilograms of dried sweet potatoes, which is a huge profit.
"Then increase the amount of crayfish by two or three kilograms?"
Bai Dashan: "Adjust five pounds."
"Auntie, if you take it too easy, I'm afraid you'll make people jealous."
My aunt is still too young, so Bai Dashan and others think it is best not to let her know about some things that are too bad.
However, no one in Peach Blossom Village knew that Baitao knew better than them the cruelty and oppression of social classes.
"Okay, just do as you say."
That night, people in Taohua Village went crazy picking up crayfish.
Everyone is holding back their energy to pick up more, and then pick up more, so that they can save more food tomorrow.
The next day, except for those who were singled out by Bai Dashan and arranged to set up a stall at the city gate to collect crayfish, others continued to work hard to collect crayfish.
The main idea is that if you pick up an extra pound, outsiders will pick up one less pound, which is equivalent to taking advantage of one pound.
Besides, it is rare for such an easy job to be done to honor my aunt. Any delay in taking a breath would be disrespectful to my aunt.
Zhou Yang heard yesterday about the Baijiabao caravan picking up bugs after entering the city. Although he didn't know what the Baijiabao caravan wanted these bugs for, they were all over the ground and it was easy to pick them up.
A few large sacks of bugs can exchange the Baijiabao caravan for some good fortune, which is not a bad thing for his family.
So, early this morning, while he had nothing to do, he took a few members of his family to pick up a few large sacks.
Zhou Yang said with some embarrassment: "Boss Bai, I heard that your caravan is interested in this bug. My family picked it up today. I hope you don't dislike it."
Bai Duojin looked at Zhou Yang, then at the big sacks behind him, and said to himself, this old Zhou Zhou is a nice person, but the stall has been set up for a while.
"I won't collect it. You can transport it outside the city gate. There is a stall there specifically for collecting it."
Zhou Yang's younger brother Zhou Qing couldn't help but mutter when he heard this.
These eight big sacks are not light. Besides, it costs money to go into the city. How could their family have that kind of money to waste? If they had known earlier, they might as well not have picked them up.
But the next second, Bai Duojin's words made Zhou Yang and others' eyes widen.
"These are not bugs, they are called crayfish. Fifteen pounds can be exchanged for one pound of grain."
(End of chapter)