Chapter 62 Industry
Afterwards, he could no longer sleep, so he asked Huang Wei about closing the store.
After a smooth journey, after the Cai family was destroyed, some shops directly surrendered, and the two Cai family members could not make any mistakes. After killing, they were successfully accepted.
He had already learned from Cai An about the casino that there was no business in the gambling house and no foreign population. The people in this town could not afford to gamble without money. The Li and Wang families would not come, but the Cai family owned people had nothing to bet on.
The pawn shop also has loan business, and it has made money from outsiders from the beginning. Due to the bad reputation of the Cai family, the town is more willing to borrow money from the Li family if it is urgently needed, so it is also in a semi-closed state.
The wine shop is similar, mainly helping the Cai family make wine, and transport it to the county for sale once a month. It is rare for a few people to drink in the store. It is also the Cai family's own guards, and they can't make much money.
The same is true for cloth shops. It is difficult to sell a few pieces of coarse cloth during the Chinese New Year, and fine cloth has not even been sold for a few years.
Yashang is a real estate agency, guided by merchants, and traded populations. Needless to say, the first two collapses, and the latter's population transactions are not abducting people, but poor families cannot afford to eat and sell their children. Yashang is a security guard, and recommends entering wealthy families, or looking for servants and maids who are suitable for the conditions according to the requirements of the wealthy families.
But there are only three large households in the town, and they all use good families who rent their own fields. They know the truth and are not outsiders. They usually rarely buy people at Yashang.
The same is true for small businesses and small households. Local merchants usually have some land at home, and there are only a few maids and servants in the family, so there is no need to look for them outside.
The only thing that has good business is brothels.
People who practice martial arts have strong blood and energy, even ordinary guards, and the rural soldiers are full of blood and energy, and there will inevitably be demands, not to mention that some people like fresh and exciting.
There is only a brothel in the town, with an exclusive business, so there are many people from both Li and Wang families. The Cai family itself also has many warriors and guards in the village. They can't play for nothing, they also have to spend money.
So although it is a small brothel, with a low level and limited consumption, every month, after deducting those girls, you can still have dozens of taels of silver.
Fang Chen also deliberately asked about the brothel and learned that the girls inside were bought from outside and did not care about them after he had no locals.
Although the Cai family acts domineeringly, they still have some shame. The countryside is most afraid of being poked, and the Cai family does not dare to find women from the hometown to be prostitutes.
As for the women outside? Fang Chen is not indifferent. Even if there are those who are abducted or forced to do good deeds, they cannot live without Wanghai Town if they are released, and he cannot take them all back to the house to raise them.
What's more, according to Cai An, the last batch of girls bought for seven or eight years. For such a long time, the ones that could not bear had long collapsed. Those who could endure had changed their mentality. It would be better to stay there and at least have peace of mind.
Fang Chen thought for a while and found that the six shops were not small in size, but due to environmental reasons, they were basically half-waste. Even the brothel with the best business was only a few dozen taels a month. If they were placed in the county, they might not even be as good as the trash.
However, I heard that the winemaker has good skills. He makes surplus grains into wine and transports them to the county town for sale every season. As for the quality and the income from selling wine, I need to ask Cai An again.
He had no good idea for the other four stores.
In terms of talent, the cloth shop has two good tailors, but in this era, almost every woman has good tailoring skills, which is not special at all.
There are a few eloquent servants in the pawn shop and the fang shop, a casino... there are a few thugs.
Fang Chen smiled bitterly. The Cai family's wealth is so powerful that it is just a winemaker who can barely be considered a talent.
He shook his head and said, "You can take them down to rest first. From now on, the old gang members live in the east courtyard, the new gang members live in the west courtyard, and the main leader of the hall will choose a small courtyard by yourself."
Huang Wei showed a hint of joy and responded loudly. He was also very happy to have an independent courtyard in the Cai family's mansion.
Although this kind of independent courtyard is not bigger than the one I lived in before, it represents identity and status. Just like Cai Lang, people are looked up to you everywhere.
"Also, tell the people below to hold a celebration banquet tonight and don't oversleep."
"Yes, gang leader!" Huang Wei left happily. He knew that there were many animals in the Cai family. Since it was a celebration banquet, gang leader could not bear to take out any meat, right? He didn't remember how long it took for him to taste the meat.
Fang Chen really planned to be extravagant, and won a big victory, completely turned over and got out of the predicament, and had a celebration banquet that was very exciting and improved cohesion. Moreover, he hadn't tasted meat for a long time.
I summoned Cai An and first asked about wine making and selling.
"The leader of the gang, Sun Xia's method of making wine is about 70% pounds of turbid wine. After steaming, he finally gets twenty pounds of good wine. In the wine cellar, he transports it to Fuquan Restaurant in the county. Each jar can be sold for one or five cents of silver, and 240 jars per season can be sold, which can be sold for 360 taels." Cai An was very familiar with this and answered.
Fang Chen didn't understand that as long as it was normal, he only cared about the actual income. He was slightly stunned when he heard this and said, "Why did you sell that little bit? The Cai family has more than 1,200 acres of land, and 30% of the grain collected per quarter is 180,000 kilograms. At a 100 kilograms of kilograms, there should be 1,800 jars?"
Cai An sighed and said, "The leader of the gang knows that Fuyu is just a small county, and there are only a few big restaurants that can eat so much wine. As far as the old slave knows, in addition to the Cai family, Wang and Li families are also selling wine, as well as several surrounding towns controlled by Feisha Village, and there are also several brewery shops in the county. At that time, the Cai family finally got a share of twelve cars from Fuquan Restaurant, and for this reason, the price was reduced to one tael and five cents per jar, while the normal price of good wine is one tael and eight to two taels of silver."
What else could Fang Chen say? Mu Ran said: "What should I do if the remaining wine is there? It seems that there are only a few hundred jars of wine in the wine cellar?"
"Wine is strong and has the effect of promoting blood circulation, so most of them are distributed. There is not much wine left every time. It is accumulated by the three generations of the Cai family. As early as the first two generations of the heads of the family realized that the value of wine is higher than that of grain, so they dug up the Sun family from other counties and started brewing wine since then. However, the quality of the wine is not advantageous, and the sales are still unopened. They all brew and drink by themselves, so some wines are left. It was not until Sun Xia's generation improved the wine recipe that they received in Fuquan Restaurant, but the old wines they had saved before have not moved. The longest ones have been preserved to this day," Cai An said.
Chapter completed!