Now Empress Zhou is a good businessman. She was born into a family of merchants and has heard and witnessed the way of merchants since she was a child. After careful consideration, she felt that this matter was a big deal.
The feces of more than one million people and millions of livestock are very huge, and a composting factory can be built.
She was preparing to collect all the animals of military, civilians, officials, businessmen and people's shit and urine, and monopolize their operations.
Now the supply of cotton is in short supply, and the civil servants and nobles outside the city planted a large amount of cotton in the manors, requiring a large amount of fertilizer. Now only the overseas bird droppings of the Hou family in Dingyuan is supplied with one kind of fertilizer.
But the Yang family’s bird droppings are not cheap. After all, they are shipped thousands of miles away.
How could I let go of so much manure in the capital? It was a totally unsubstantiable deal.
At that time, 50% of the military personnel will go to the streets to catch urination and defecation, and if they catch them, they will be fined and if they don’t pay, they will be beaten. It will force these troublemakers to go to public toilets. In this way, will all these manure be returned to the royal family?
According to the composting plan provided by the Yang family, manure is just a raw material for farm manure. It is a waste to use manure purely. Other materials do not cost money. For example, collecting dead branches and leaves on the street is also the raw material for fermenting fertilizer.
The Empress of Zhou usually works in the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qianqing Palace. The Jiaotai Hall is the place where the Empress usually manages politics.
There are many things that the queen needs to deal with. After all, such a large Forbidden City, so many people, as well as a large number of farms, industries, shops, etc. Now she needs to manage the wool mills, garment factories, spinning mills, etc. outside the city.
In principle, she was also in charge of the affairs of the royal family. The clan mansion must report to her, and the phoenix seal can only take effect after she agrees.
She picked up the plan of Xiao Niangskin, studied it carefully, and looked at the Yang family’s farm fertilizer recipe. This is a secret recipe!
Her good friend Tu Shanyue was very happy to take it out and pull her to make money together.
Of course, it is impossible to monopolize all the feces, urine and livestock feces in the capital, without the cooperation of the royal family. This is a big business. The government, civilians and civilians in the capital, plus the camps and soldiers, have a population of more than 1.5 million, and there are at least one million animals in the city.
The shit and urine produced in one day were very huge. Why didn’t she think that this was a big business?
Farmhouse manure refers to various organic fertilizers collected, accumulated and planted in rural areas, such as human manure, manure, compost, green manure, mud fertilizer, wood ash, etc. It can generally provide a variety of nutrients for crops and improve soil properties.
The characteristic of organic fertilizer is that it contains a relatively comprehensive nutrient. It not only contains nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, but also calcium, magnesium, sulfur, iron and some trace elements.
Most of these nutrients are in an organic state and are difficult to be directly absorbed and utilized by crops. They must undergo chemical and physical effects in the soil and fermentation and decomposition of microorganisms to gradually release nutrients, so that the fertilizer effect is long and stable.
The manure and urine are taken to the composting plant outside the city by car. It is wasteful to compose urine directly. You must first use urine as a nitrogen field to obtain the important raw material of gunpowder.
The thing about nitrate is precious. In the plan, this part of the revenue accounts for more than one-third of the project.
After finishing the nitrogen field, the waste soil was dug and composted.
In addition to feces and urine, add a large amount of wood ash, crushed dead branches and leaves, and seal and ferment. This produces a huge amount. Mix the fermented farm fertilizer thoroughly with 1/3 of the fine soil and 2/3 of the farm fertilizer and use it. You can sell it.
Xiao Niangpi introduced that this fertilizer has many benefits. The application of organic fertilizer is conducive to promoting the formation of soil pellet structure, coordinate the ratio of air and water in the soil, loosen the soil, and increase the ability to retain water, keep heat, breathable, and fertilizer.
Queen Zhou realized that such good fertilizer would definitely be in short supply.
She carefully calculated the output based on the amount of feces, urine and composting technology of the people and animals in the capital. Then she calculated the appropriate price, as well as the land in the manors around the city, and the demand for fertilizer.
The profit she obtained surprised her. In the past year, her net profit was no less than 300,000 taels of silver. This was a huge sum of money.
Now the inner court is as short of money as the Ministry of Revenue’s Bank of China. The emperor is worried and wants money everywhere.
She can't underestimate the 300,000 taels of business.
However, this kind of business investment is not small, and it requires recruiting tens of thousands of people to participate in the work. The toilet managers in the city need a thousand people. Some of them are responsible for the hygiene of more than a dozen public toilets, while others are responsible for putting manure bags on cattle, horse, camel, donkeys and other people are responsible for putting manure bags on cattle, horse, camel, and donkeys entering the city.
The manure-cutters also need thousands of people. Because they are not only responsible for digging manure, but also transport it to the composting factory in Dongbalizhuang by ox carts or donkey carts. The composting factory requires at least two thousand people. Composting is a physical work.
Finally, there are many people who sell manure, composting plant managers, and farm fertilizer transporters. A rough calculation can solve the employment of tens of thousands of people.
The little girl did this just to give the refugees who were established a way out. It is recommended to recruit workers from refugees. Men and women, both over fifteen and under fifty years old, can be hired.
Queen Zhou calculated that she had to invest 500,000 taels of silver before she could start. It was impossible for the inner court to take out so much. She could use up to 200,000 taels of treasury.
She thought about it and paid 100,000 taels herself, and asked the Yang family to pay 100,000 taels, and the remaining 300,000 taels were listed on the exchange and issued bonds to the market for financing.
Now she is familiar with capital operations. She knows that when issuing stocks, she has to share profits. If you issue bonds, just give interest. The equity and income are still in her hands. So, she now issues bonds to finance when making good deals.
After she and Xiao Niangpi agreed on the details and equity distribution, they began to recruit people. Aunt Tao and her people set up a long table outside Dong'anmen Square and started recruiting. This caused a sensation in the capital.
At most, there were more than 100,000 refugees in the city. Now the Qing soldiers retreated and many people returned to their hometowns. However, there were still 20,000 to 30,000 people stranded in the capital and did not leave because they were tenants and could not survive when they returned. Now it is not the farming time, and they cannot rent land.
When I went back, there was no place to find food in the countryside and I was looking for work. Could it be that the family starved to death?
Wang Zhuer and his wife are from Dongba Village, Xianghe County. His family originally rented forty acres of dry land from Wang Juren in this village, which could be considered as a way to support their lives.
The couple, with an eight-year-old son, a six-year-old daughter, and old parents, a man farming and a woman weaving, barely making a living.
It was also maintained in Xianghe for half a year. The husband and I weave cloth, and my father and Wang Zhuer farmed. Every day before dawn, the two children would go out to pick up manure. At dawn, they would take horse, cow, donkey, and eggs home, and then go out to pick up firewood.
Chapter completed!