Qin Bai has been from the industrial age. So in his eyes, such primitive mechanical efficiency is extremely low, but it only makes those people in Cangzhou have something to do, so they don’t care at all.

But Qin Bai was really shocked when he heard that he could earn more than 100 taels of silver. Don’t be misled by matches’ profits. Because so far, the mill has only been in operation for more than a month, so even based on the current profit, he can earn thousands of taels every year. In this era, thousands of taels are already the annual income of the landlords. It can fully meet the level of 50 families achieving a well-off life, that is, they have new clothes during the Chinese New Year and often eat meat.

Seeing that Qin Bai was suspicious, Wu Lisong called a roar next to him and asked him to explain in detail to Qin Bai. Unexpectedly, white flour was a necessity in this era. Poor families could not afford it at all, and small families only bought it occasionally, and the ones they often bought were large families and medium and high-end restaurants. Therefore, the price was quite high.

Now one stone is one tan (the stone and tan are pronounced the same as the tan, and then they are unified as tan). Wheat is basically about 150 jin, which contains bran and is not threshed and ground into powder. The current season is green and yellow, so the price of grain is relatively high. Then it is calculated based on the price of the ordinary season. Generally, each tan of wheat costs about 5 cents of silver.

If peeled and ground into white flour, you can basically make more than 120 kilograms. The packaging is 20 kilograms per bag, which means you can make 6 and a half bags. And each bag of white flour can actually sell for 1 yuan and 6 cents of silver? Just counting the price difference here, you can earn more than 5 yuan per burden of wheat. It is completely cost-effective!

In addition, the remaining things are not waste. Poor customers don’t care so much about it, so bran can still be mixed in and eaten together. Therefore, it can be sold for some money. In addition, you can raise pigs and chickens as feed.

Then why is there such a big price difference? The key is that it is very inconvenient. Grinding things either uses manpower or animal power. It is still good for the rich families to be short of mules, horses or slaves at home, so it is very laborious for small families. This little wife pushes the mill, and the big men feel sorry for them. Anyway, small families buy at most two bags of white flour every month. If you can afford it, you don’t care about this little money.

Unexpectedly, I came up with an idea casually, but it actually had such a good effect?

Qin Bai was also very happy. Maybe this is the charm of time travel. As for those emperors, generals and beauties of poetry and essays, it was played by high-end people. This is the technological driving force in ordinary life, which makes Qin Bai have the same sense of accomplishment.

Qin Bai continued to ask with a smile: "So, can you get 200 pounds per month?"

The Ranger said, "Mr. Bai, if you can get 3,400 dan, you have to count the wages and foot money. In the first few days, we were all new. If we get it mature in the future, there may be more."

"That's good."

"Master Bai, there is another thing I want to get your nod."

"Oh? Tell me? Haha."

"After the pier in Shanglin Village is repaired, we want to buy a separate boat and can be transported directly to Jingjiazhuang and Laizhou City."

"Haha. If you want to buy it, go buy it. If the money is not enough, you can borrow it from the public account." Qin Bai agreed immediately.

This is true. After Shanglin Village has a wharf, transportation will be much more convenient. However, it is necessary to transport white flour more cleanly, so it is best not to mix it with the ships transporting iron ore.

"And Master Bai." The Ranger seemed a little embarrassed, "Can you make more of this machine? One water wheel can drive three and four mills. There are three water wheels in Shanglin Village."

"It's okay to make a few more units. But can so much white flour be sold?" Qin Bai had a question, "There are more than 10,000 people in Jingjiazhuang, and the annual grain needs about 40,000 dan. The annual business volume is only 20,000 to 30,000 taels, and the price difference is even smaller, at most a few thousand taels. Even so, there are more than a dozen grain merchants of all sizes. If Laizhou City is added, there are five Jingjiazhuangs. It's almost tens of thousands of taels of silver. Do you want to eat half of it all at once?"

In this era, transportation was the biggest cost. Therefore, it radiated to Jingjiazhuang and Laizhou City at most, and other places were sold in scattered areas. The technology of hydraulic mills was not complicated, so people would soon imitate it. Therefore, they could not compete with those local imitators.

Unexpectedly, it was replaced by Wu Lisong this time and replied: "Big cabinet, we haven't started taking out yet. All the white noodles we used to eat were eaten by our Yongsheng."

"Ah? Haha, haha..."

Qin Bai once again didn't expect that his group purchases could have such a large amount, and he could easily digest more than hundreds of bags of white flour. Since that's the case, he wouldn't have much trouble. Anyway, this group of people were originally private salt salt owls, how to sell? How to compete? How to make appropriate concessions? How to plan the market? They are also familiar with each other.

Wu Lisong continued to explain: "You don't know that the big cabinet is a bit too. The grain merchants actually don't earn the hard money. They lend to those hard-earned money in the current season. Once they don't pay it back, the land, wife and children in the family will be gone."

"Oh?" Qin Bai really didn't know about this. He thought that grain merchants were just businessmen. Unexpectedly, the big money earned was usury loans of nine out of nine out of three out of three, which also facilitated the big bosses to purchase land. And the big grain merchants are generally powerful landlords.

What’s even more amazing is that the year of disaster is that the grain price can be sold at an exponential level. Therefore, in ordinary years, they don’t care about the small amount of money in the grain stack. They just wait for the year of disaster to open and can eat for three years as soon as they open!

In the end, as a thank you, Wu Lisong represented the decision of the people of Cangzhou that Mofang would deduct some shares in the future, give Yongsheng some public accounts and Qin Bai's private personal accounts. In addition, those Cangzhou people would also draw one of the five-degree people, and usually serve as Qin Bai's private guards. If there is an emergency, they can send additional personnel.

To be honest, Qin Bai didn't care much about the increase in private property. What he cared about was the private guards. Because Yongsheng lacked people with superb riding skills here, especially if they might encounter a horse in the future.

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After a brief rest, the whole body entered a state of rapid marching. In order to ensure that he could keep up with his own speed, Qin Bai even lent a few mules and horses to the small caravans.
Chapter completed!