Iron smelting is indeed a good business. After the iron factory began to supply iron ingots to the blacksmiths, the atmosphere of the entire city became somewhat different.
Considering that most blacksmiths don’t even have their own houses, they can only rely on themselves and their relatives and friends to build furnaces and forging platforms. Moreover, they are short of coins, so the iron ingots from the iron factory are supplied on a first-come-first-served basis.
The blacksmith gets the iron ingots first, and only pays the last payment when he goes to the iron factory to purchase goods next time. This form of delivery has a limit. You can only buy one iron ingot at a time, which is twenty kilograms per furnace of a small broken furnace in the iron factory. If you want to buy in excess, you need to change it to the money and goods clearing method. However, the iron ingots The current production capacity of the factory simply cannot exceed the supply.
The ex-factory price of 20 kilograms of iron ingots is 20 yuan. It is also another anchor point for Phoenix Coin in addition to the Wangtingshu house tax, and is relatively closer to ordinary people.
If you use it sparingly, you can make forty to sixty hammers, chisels and other tools. In this regard, the blacksmith has the freedom to set prices, because it is an absolute seller's market in the short term. If you use up an iron ingot, you can get at least one hundred yuan back. !
It looks like a 400% profit, but it doesn't work out that way.
First of all, the blacksmith's furnace is also consumed. In addition to getting some fuel during the preparation period, they have to find someone to buy it later when they are busy. This has also spawned a group of people who specialize in making charcoal and selling it.
Then there is the salary of the apprentices. As the iron factory ships, there is also a rule specifically restricting the blacksmith. The apprentice's salary must reach 1 coin per day. Once those who are below this number are confirmed by the report, they will be hanged inside the west city gate tower together with the people who secretly harvested the ice and forest cold. Each person will be hung for one day for each month they owe.
Take the three apprentices as an example. If they were reported below the minimum standard for three consecutive months, they would have to hang the blacksmith in the gatehouse for nine days. They would put them down twice a day to drink sugar water and invigorate their blood. But if they were really hung for nine days, it would be very difficult for their hands. I continue to work hard, and if I don’t smash my hand, I’ll be recovering well.
Blacksmithing is a very time-consuming and laborious task. It takes several days to use up an iron ingot, and there is no reward even if it is faster. Because the iron factory has insufficient production capacity, His Highness the Special Envoy said that all blacksmiths must have iron available in the short term. The distribution of such a small amount of goods among three hundred blacksmiths means that it will take seven days before it is the second turn to collect iron.
The last item consumed is water.
Dozens of bridge piers leading from Wangtingshu to the city wall can provide water. Water is free, but you have to find people to line up.
The bulk of the cost is sewage treatment, but it is still the same. Once it is discovered that private sewage is discharged by hanging the door of the building, someone must be hired to transport the water to the designated sewage outlet in the square on the ground.
After these few expenses, the basic cost for blacksmiths to consume an iron ingot is about fifty to fifty-five yuan, and they have to use part of it to replenish various tools for the blacksmith shop. If they sell it for one hundred yuan, they can keep three yuan. ten yuan.
Of course, even if it really only sells for 100 yuan, the net income of 30 yuan is a weekly salary. Calculated on a monthly basis, it belongs to the high-income group. It can even be said that the two groups have the highest income after arriving in the dark land.
Of course you have to spend money. According to regulations, blacksmith shops cannot be opened in trees...Normal people would not think of doing this. Therefore, the blacksmiths have a strong need for real estate on the ground, and they can also spend enough money to hire help.
To provide initial working capital for blacksmiths, apart from those who made a small amount of money from selling obsidian, they mainly relied on orders from workers and ironworks.
But as the blacksmith runs a few rounds, the circulation chain spreads a little further.
For example, in order to further reduce costs, a blacksmith actually came up with the idea of stealing ore!
The person was directly arrested by the outpost city defense army and was released only after reporting to Wang Qi.
Unlike the people who specialized in salt and iron in the farming era, Wang Qi was not from ancient times after all. He knew the power of scale effects. How could privately smelting iron ore compete with the cost of iron factories?
The iron factory is still using the first-generation furnace, but it will be updated soon, because a month after the iron factory shipped the goods, the exploration team found china clay.
China clay is not a high-end thing.
The dark land is a typical product of volcanic activity. The main component of obsidian is silica, and the largest content in porcelain clay is silica, but it contains a higher proportion of alumina. Volcanic activity areas are rich in various oxides. Coincidentally It’s not surprising at all that it comes out with a lump of porcelain clay.
It took half a month before the finished product was placed in front of Wang Qi, a plate.
The color of the porcelain is earthy gray, and there are cracks, but they are not really cracked.
Wang Qi didn't know how to do this thing either. As usual, he asked Li Xiang to send a message and bring along a picture of the new furnace, so that the ironworks could use the new furnace to experiment with the ratio and firing process, and come up with usable crucibles as soon as possible.
Feeling that the time was almost here, we held a government affairs meeting and posted notices throughout the city the next day. After March, the charging system for juice trees and nut trees will be changed, and the selling prices will be made public at the same time.
Caused some commotion, but nothing major.
Nowadays, the average daily consumption of juice is more than 300 tons. That is because it is free. One kilogram of juice sells for 10 cents. Each person of the more than 80,000 sharp-edged people needs at least two servings to ensure that they do not starve to death, which is equivalent to the city's minimum demand of 20. Ten thousand servings of juice, twenty thousand Phoenix coins a day.
The current currency release intensity has only reached an average of 30,000 coins per day, and almost half of it is released based on iron ore and timber mining, transportation, and charcoal production.
He said that the problem is not big and has nothing to do with monetary policy, but that the agricultural experts who have been registered with the government department for a long time have already grown food between the West City Wall and the Ice Forest.
The ice cubes condensed by the ice trees cause the stone temperature in the entire area to be too low, which condenses all the water vapor in the atmosphere and forms streams in the edge areas. This water is used as agricultural irrigation water, and the soil is obtained from the ice forest. It's shipped out and mixed with human manure.
Seeds were brought from various settlements as they moved.
There is no obvious winter here. Mature crops can be plowed immediately after being cut, and planting can be continued after one or two months. Various crops alternate, and there are not many obstacles to growing two or three crops a year.
The current planting area is not enough. In terms of hectares, it is only about five hectares. The first batch of soybean yields are less than 3 tons per hectare. Of course, this yield cannot be compared with the industrial era, but it is acceptable. Soybeans are not originally available. Yield is an advantage, and its nitrogen fixation effect will help subsequent crops.
For these crops, Wang Ting implements guaranteed price purchase, which is 0.14 yuan per kilogram.
The numbers are ridiculously low, and it’s still a matter of currency prices. People who lack animal or vegetable oil intake will eat more. To ensure that the bean cakes bought for 1 jiao can satisfy the Ye people, it must be at least half a kilogram. One kilogram can only make four cakes, which also includes logistics costs, Of course, operating costs and profits, and the guaranteed floor price of raw materials cannot be high.
But if you refer to the pricing of iron ingots, the price is really not low.
Even calculating the labor cost, one hectare requires only two strong laborers in the absence of livestock. The production capacity reaches three tons, and the gross income is 420 yuan. In three seasons a year, the output of one hectare is 1,260 yuan, and the per capita monthly gross income is 52.5 yuan. .
The monthly gross income figure of 52.5 yuan is higher than that of urban management and close to the salary of formal guards in the city defense army, which has to protect the city with its life.
In short, the guaranteed minimum price of 0.14 coins is not a slap in the face. While protecting agricultural income, it also reserves a certain space for second-tier dealers to ensure that the market can really buy a large enough pancake for just one dime.
Of course, agriculture also has costs. Buying manure is a matter of competing with Wangtingshu for business. Although Wangting does not spend money on manure, it has the advantage of being processed nearby and does not require follow-up care. The agricultural area outside the city must also provide a suitable solution. The price will be shipped by someone else, or you can collect it yourself.
In addition, there are two risks in agricultural areas.
First, the expansion of agricultural land can only rely on artificial soil. The development of the Ice Forest has gradually been banned. The source of soil can only be obtained from wood mining in the south. The initial investment is still relatively large.
The farmers could not afford to be self-sufficient, so they had to let the royal court handle it. This was actually a new loan point. After seeing the results of planting, they planned to increase the agricultural area to 20 hectares within three months.
Calculated based on a soil layer of 30 centimeters, 15 hectares of newly added land requires the transportation of 120,000 tons of soil!
For this alone, the Royal Court would have to spend nearly half a million yuan, not counting the transportation vehicles and shoveling tools raised by the citizens themselves.
This soil thickness is actually not up to standard. For such a low yield at an advantageous temperature of about 30 degrees, the soil thickness is responsible for half of the responsibility. But adding a standard layer of 70 centimeters would cost too much money. With juice trees as a guarantee, Wang Qi didn’t want to invest all his money in agriculture. If he really wanted to farm, he could just go and settle near the outpost. .
Another agricultural risk is that crops are eaten and destroyed by monsters. There is nothing you can do about this, and it has been a problem throughout the ages. We can only subsidize farmers based on the difference in minimum wages when they are destroyed, and at the same time send people to exterminate monsters.
The intensity of releasing coins is still not enough, but as the number of private Phoenix coins increases, there are new problems that need to be solved.
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