The ancient farming life of liberal arts scum

Shen Ge intends to leave the first duvet for him and Xun Feiguang to cover, so the color is very light, the overall color is moon white, the side is locked, and a white plum is embroidered with white silk thread on it to distinguish the front and back.

There are no mediocre people around Xun Feiguang, even if it is just an ordinary embroiderer who followed to Nanguan, the craftsmanship carefully presented is still amazing.

For such a beautiful and warm new quilt, Shen Ge had guessed that the price would be very high, but he didn't expect it to be so high.

An ordinary family with three generations living under the same roof only spends about a dozen or so taels a year, and 1000 taels is enough for such a family to spend 90 years, but Bai Liyi easily throws out the 1000 taels to buy a quilt.

The main material of the quilt is duck feathers, and a few copper plates can buy a lot.

Seeing that Shen Ge was taken aback, Bai Liyi thought that he thought the price was low, and explained: "I am a businessman, and the businessman's habit is to buy low and sell high. If you ask me, I would like to pay 1000 taels. But this is a little lower. Some, if I sell it in Kyoto, I believe someone will buy it at an asking price of 5000 taels. If it works properly, even [-] taels should not be a problem.”

The rich and powerful like to show off the most. If such an exquisite, light and warm quilt is sold to the capital, the people who snatch it will probably have their heads broken.

Seeing that he misunderstood, Shen Ge shook his head and said, "I don't think the price is low, but I think the price is really high." Shen Ge exhaled, "The most expensive thing in this quilt is the quilt core and the quilt cover. For the two pieces of silk cloth used, the craftsmanship of the embroiderer is also expensive, and the rest are worthless."

"This kind of eiderdown quilt is difficult to make clothes. It is not very good-looking to make clothes with narrow sleeves, and it is not very warm to make clothes with wide sleeves. I have to think of a new look. For convenience, I made one first. A quilt is ready to be sold, and it is far less cost-effective to make quilts into clothes and cloaks. If it is really managed, such a small quilt may be sold at a sky-high price."

Shen Ge has been looking at the account books for the past few years, and he is also running a bank. His vision and so on have long been different, and he has a certain degree of confidence in the minds of customers.

Things like quilts are soft and thin, but they are kept in the room for oneself to see. Even if they are expensive, no one outside will appreciate and envy them. This kind of quilt is hardly worth the money.

If it can be made into clothes, no one in the whole city has them, and it is undoubtedly a very face-saving thing for a certain customer to buy and wear them for the world to see.

Down is so valuable that it can be made into clothes or cloaks and sold outside.

And the place of sale cannot be placed in ordinary clothing stores, but in silver buildings and other places where the price can be known at a glance.

In addition, one has to gain fame. Duck down is not difficult to obtain, and it is not difficult to make duck down into bedding. The hard part is to get rid of the strong odor.

Before selling duck down clothes, one has to be prepared. Once imitations appear on the market, they can release news, implying that those are inferior products that smell like ducks. It is best to ask literati to write poems and essays, Influence expands.

How to sell this duck down, and what to sell it to make the most money, almost instantly, Shen Ge thought clearly, and also thought of the next seven or eight steps.

Although he was a serious Jinshi, he didn't despise the copper smell.

Raising soldiers requires money, fighting wars requires money, and building an academy requires money. No matter how much money you have, you won't bite your hand. For these things, Shen Ge has always held the view that the more the better.

Shen Ge pondered, "Brother Baili, how about I make the next batch of duck down clothes into duck down clothes and sell them in various silver houses?"

Bai Liyi's mind also turned very fast, almost instantly, he guessed Shen Ge's thoughts clearly.He asked with a serious face: "Second Master's method is very good, I don't know which prefectures Second Master wants to sell in?"

"Kingdu must be sold. Huaiyang Mansion is the richest, and there will be more supply. In addition, Daoning Mansion, Qiandong Mansion, Nanguan Mansion, etc. can sell some, and the mansions on the border with Beiman will not be sold for the time being."

Duck down is not easy to come by, even if the Beiman knew that it was filled with duck down, they couldn't get so much to make clothes, and if it spread to that place, it wouldn't have much impact on the situation between the two sides.

Shen Ge didn't want to sell the duck down clothes there, but because Xun Feiguang had fought bloody battles there for many years, Shen Ge didn't want to see barbarian nobles wearing the duck down clothes they made in the royal court of the Northern Man. The head is panicked.

Bai Liyi nodded, "Second Master, don't worry, as long as it can be made, I guarantee that the duck down clothes will be sold to the most powerful people."

Shen Ge said: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I will have people collect duck down to make a batch of clothes to see if I can make it in time for the New Year. If it is not in time for the Chinese New Year, I can make it in time for the Lantern Festival. I will draw a picture of the clothes later. You can find someone with a high skill The embroiderer from here, see if you can make it into the pattern I drew."

Shen Ge intends to make this batch of down into the style of Hexi clothing, not necessarily as bright as Zhenghong, but the waist must be narrowed.

The biggest advantage of duck down clothing is that it is light and thin. If it can make girls bid farewell to bloat, and show their graceful figures even in severe cold, it will be very popular for the New Year.

Men's clothes don't need to have so many tricks, as long as they are made more expensive and show people's spirit as much as possible.

Shen Ge's painting skills are good, he follows a realistic style, and the paintings he draws are very easy to understand.The expert Bailiyi found came over to have a look, and immediately said that the clothes could be made.

The duck down clothes had to be rushed, time was extremely tight, Shen Ge immediately pushed other things away, except going to the county government office every day to deal with some chores, he just focused on collecting duck feathers and rinsing them.

It was the first time in many years that the people of Changzhou County and Feiyu County heard that someone wanted to collect duck feathers, and they all slaughtered ducks.

Shen Ge asked people to collect the selected duck feathers.

Ordinary duck feathers cost five copper coins per catty, and the long hard duck feathers on the wings have been removed for sale. It can be sold for ten copper coins per catty, and you can buy more than a catty of meat at Jishang.Even the crooked soft feathers are removed, and the rest is soft short fleece, which can be sold for two hundred and ten copper plates per catty.

Duck feathers with only short down are much more expensive and cost-effective.

There are shopkeepers who go around alleys to earn the difference. They directly collect the duck feathers, and then give them to people to choose. They sell the selected duck down to Qing Lingwei. After getting the money, they pay half of the duck feathers to the person who picks the duck feathers. .

This business is quite profitable. In just a few days, some shopkeepers have made several taels of silver.

Driven by money, more and more people would sort duck feathers conveniently. After accumulating a certain amount, they would find the soldiers sent by Chen Ge to collect duck feathers, and sell the duck feathers for a few catties of meat to eat.

Shen Ge specially sent ruthless and rigorous soldiers to collect them. The duck feathers collected are not bad, and can be used after a little processing.

All the [-] ducks previously raised in the camp became naked during this catastrophe, and all the duck down was sorted out and sent to the next processing point for processing.

Shen Ge has memories of his previous life, and has long been accustomed to the division of labor. A duck down garment will be disassembled into seven or eight steps, collecting duck down, selecting duck down, processing duck down, sewing fabric with duck down, embroidering quilt covers, etc., each step is done by a dedicated person .

Recently, a lot of pigs have been bought in the Qingling Guard Camp, and the pigs are slaughtered almost every day, and sometimes several pigs are killed once they are killed.

During this period of time, all the soldiers in the camp ate meat and drank in large bowls. Even if the work was heavy, they still went well every day.

Removing the odor of duck down is the most important thing in the whole process. Shen Ge specially sent his confidants to do this step. In the entire camp, there are less than ten people who know how to use pig pancreas, pig stomach, etc. to wash out the solution to remove the smell of duck feathers. , the news will not leak out anyway.

Shen Ge is busy with duck down clothes, and the Chinese New Year is approaching soon.

On this day, an urgent official letter was sent to Xun Feiguang's desk.

These days, Shen Ge was handling the official documents related to supplies. He glanced at the mark on the cover of the letter, opened it, and found that it was about the island of Yangyi.

Shen Ge is so busy these days that he has forgotten all about the Yangyi group. When he received the letter, he remembered that there were still people mining on the island occupied by the Yangyi.

There are a lot of things to do in Qing Lingwei, even if there are more than 3000 people, Shen Ge still feels a little lack of people.

The mines on the island didn't produce much, so Shen Ge didn't send soldiers from Qing Lingwei to mine the mines, but hired a group of people from Changzhou and Feiyu counties. But now the old miners are forced to stay, and there are more than 500 people mining on the island.

An old miner reported earlier that the gold mine here has already been dug, and the iron mine can only be dug for a few months at most, which is of little value.

The island is so big, no matter how much you dig, you can't find much. Shen Ge didn't take this mine seriously. When he heard that the mine had been dug, he sent people to pay the wages of the new and old miners, and pulled them away by boat. return.

In fact, not much iron ore has been dug out in the past few months, and the iron ore in Yangyi's stockpile has been smelted together, and there is not enough iron for each of the Qing Lingwei soldiers to equip a knife.

Shen Ge didn't want to be eye-catching, so he ordered people to smelt these iron ores and make them into agricultural tools such as plows and hoes. If they want to use them in the future, the iron can be melted and used again.

After Shen Ge annotated the letter and showed it to Xun Feiguang, he put it aside.

At dinner, Hu Naiqing, who seldom had dinner with them, gently reminded Shen Ge to go to the island to have a look.

"What are you looking at?" Shen Ge asked, "Brother Hu, do you mean that there are other things on the island that we haven't found?"

"I don't know about this, but I had a feeling in my heart earlier, and I made a divination for you. The divination shows that your fate with that island is not over."

Hu Naiqing lazily leaned back on the back of the chair, "The divination is a good thing. But since I knew you, the divination I gave you has not revealed any bad things. Just don't worry about anything. , the ending will never be bad."

"That's what I said, but what's the good thing about this small island? Could it be that Yangyi still has a treasure house there, and we didn't find it?" After speaking, Shen Ge himself denied this statement, and he murmured: " It shouldn’t be, the captured foreign barbarians don’t have many hard bones, they have already explained what should be explained, if there is any treasure house, they will definitely say it in exchange for a chance to be free.”

Xun Feiguang didn't care about it, "No matter what happens, you will know when you go. You have been busy these days, and we happened to go to sea to relax."

"Go fishing?"

Shen Ge and Xun Feiguang went out to sea once before, the two of them were on the same boat, and Shao Xin led the soldiers to follow from afar.

Xun Feiguang said that he wanted to take Shen Ge out to fish, but in the end it was Chen Ge, a poor little fish, who was eaten several times, so that now Shen Ge became vigilant reflexively when he heard this.