After farming, I opened a family tree

Chapter 119: Renting out Land

Something else?

Everyone was puzzled. What else could people grow besides food?

"Everyone who works in the workshop must know that our Tangji soap not only launches different soap products with the change of seasons, but also launches different special soap products according to the different customs of Daqi.

To be honest, the soap in our shop has long been in short supply. However, we still have to buy the raw materials for making soap from you.

Quickly and intelligently turned the corner.

"What the boss wants us to do is plant some flowers or seasonal fruits on the land and sell them to the workshop for making soap?"

Shen Tang nodded appreciatively.

“In the past, as everyone knows, some of the flowers, fruits, and spices in the workshop were purchased from outside.

Since workshops need these things, why don’t everyone grow them themselves and then sell them to the workshops? "

Jingui, who was in charge of purchasing for the workshop, lit up her eyes when she heard this.

After the summer, the demand for soap increased, so Shen Tang asked Jingui to be responsible for purchasing for the workshop and asked an aunt to help her.

She naturally knew how much purchasing demand the workshop had on a daily basis.

"Boss, what should we plant? Flowers or fruits?"

Someone couldn't wait to ask.

"So, I need you all to go back and calculate how much land you can spare for farming, but please keep this a secret for now. Once we have the figures, we will let you know."

Therefore, after work today, every household is calculating how much space they can free up at home.

Shen Tang has been in the new workshop downstream these days.

The new workshop was recruiting workers, and Shen Tang was present with several young girls from Shenjia Village.

The model adopted is on-site recruitment, and the people selected are mainly women and girls from the village where the workshop is located.

The workshop is large and employs many people.

In addition to recruiting some female workers, the workshop also needs to recruit some young and strong men to protect the workshop.

Although almost everyone knows that the soap industry is under Shen Tang's name now, it is always better to be prepared.

In addition to the work area, all workshops also have a restaurant and are equipped with cooks.

There were no families in the village who could recruit, but Shen Tang was willing to purchase vegetables and fruits from them.

Basically, one workshop revitalizes an entire village.

Shen Tang also tried his best to satisfy every household in the village first.

Even if a household meets the requirements, it will first hire one person, unless there are not enough people, then recruit a second time.

Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality.

The ones who have changed the most are Shen Daya and Shen Shuier.

The two followed the twin sisters and were now more composed and cautious in their actions.

The first workshop was a wood ash workshop. After recruiting people, Shen Tang asked Shen Daya to stay in the workshop as a manager.

Shen Daya was shocked when she heard Shen Tang appoint her to be the manager.

"Boss, I, I can't do it!"

She is just a young girl, she is not capable of managing such a large workshop.

"You can do it, Daya. We've all seen your growth these days. You don't have to do any work in the workshop, just help keep an eye on the people. You can work with Aunt Zhang, she'll be in charge of guiding the workers, and you'll be in charge of management."

People always need to experience hardships, and Shen Daya is the most honest person.

The wood ash workshop was the easiest to run, so Shen Tang handed it over to her.

With the successful start of the first workshop, the second workshop was also successfully started.

In just a few days, these workshops have started operations.

After the wood ash is produced by the first workshop, it is sent to the second workshop...

The assembly line-like production model has greatly improved the efficiency of the entire workshop.

As for the soap base, Shen Tang had it placed in the workshop in Shenjia Village.

She would just pretend to go to town to purchase some confusing things every once in a while, and then take out some soap base from the system and put it in the workshop.

With the establishment and start of production of the new workshop, the price of soap was adjusted accordingly.

Basic soap now only costs one or two taels of silver per piece, which is much cheaper than bath beans.

Therefore, gradually, some families with a little extra money were able to buy one to use.

Use it sparingly; one bar of soap can last a family quite a while.

However, the price of high-quality soaps has not been adjusted, after all, Shen Tang relies on it to make money.

Three days later, each family counted the remaining land in their home.

There are nearly one hundred acres of vacant land in Shenjia Village, plus the clan land that Shen Tang had given to the clan before, the total area is nearly two hundred acres.

As for what to plant, Shen Tang looked at the sales of various soaps over the past six months.

The best-selling products are still those with floral and fruit scents.

Among them, plum blossom and peach flavors are the most popular.

This is also thanks to the marketing results of "Yizhichun".

What to plant?

Now she has no shortage of fruit seeds, but some fruit trees take many years to grow before they bear fruit, which is a more tricky issue.

The only solution for now is to temporarily plant some annual flowers and then cultivate perennial fruit trees.

Of the fifty acres of land in the clan, Shen Tang took twenty acres and planted litchi trees, and took another twenty acres to plant orange trees. The remaining ten acres would be used to plant rice next year.

Shen Tang inspected all the things in the hands of the farmers.

I found that the land vacated by the villagers was almost all next to each other, and most of them were dry fields.

This gave Shen Tang a bold idea.

If peach trees were planted in all these fields, the peach forest would be in full bloom in spring, which might bring a different landscape to Shenjia Village.

Other flowers can also be planted under the peach forest, such as begonias, irises, azaleas, and even camellias.

Shen Tang narrowed his eyes, as if he had already imagined such a scene.

Just do it!

The fifty acres of clan land were all given by Shen Tang. Naturally, the clan would not say anything and let them use it however they wanted.

When the villagers of Shenjia Village heard that peach trees were going to be planted in the fields, they had no objection.

"Shen Tang has two ideas. One is to rent your dry fields to plant peach trees and flowers. I will hire you to help me plant them. I will pay you five taels of silver per mu of land per year.

Another option is for you to grow your own peaches, and I'll buy them at market price. However, it takes time for the peaches to bloom and bear fruit, so you'll have to bear the costs of those years.

I will provide you with peach tree seeds, so you can consider it."

Shen Tang said that this method also takes into account that it takes time for peach trees to bear fruit, and the people will need to bear the cost of the few years in between.

Shen Tang's words also made people feel confused.

One mu of land costs five taels of silver. If you have a lot of land, you can earn dozens of taels of silver a year.

If you grow it yourself and sell it to workshops, you will produce more fruits and sell more, but the price of the fruits will be different every year.

Not to mention that we didn't make any money in the past few years and even had to lose time.

But no matter what, the workshop earns a few hundred coins a month, which is still a few taels of silver in a year.

But now all I have to do is help take care of the fields and plant flowers and trees.

Those with many people and land have already thought about it:

"Boss, we choose to rent out the land and help you farm!"

Some people were still counting when they heard someone say:

"What if there's a drought or flood, and the crops don't bear fruit?"

"If there's a natural disaster, I'll cover the cost of renting the land, but if you sell it to a workshop, you'll have to bear the cost yourself."

Shen Tang replied.

"Master, I want to plant peach trees! Please rent my land!"

"Boss, I'm also willing to rent out my land!"