Lu Jing was finally shaken when he heard the last sentence, "How old do you think these two ginseng plants are?"
Wu Han picked up the slightly larger one and said, "This one is almost a hundred and twenty years old. The other one is a little less old, but it should be over a hundred years old. Plus, it's wild. Take it." If you sell it in a drug store outside, well, you should be able to sell it for three hundred taels, maybe two hundred taels.
"If you know the way and take it directly to those princes and wealthy merchants, the price should be higher. After all, century-old ginseng is still easy to sell in the capital, or you can also sell it to the alchemists in the valley, and the price will be higher. Pharmacy shops have to pay a little less, because they can also grow it themselves, but it costs a lot of secret energy.
"So they still buy most of the medicinal materials directly from pharmacies. Only the more expensive ones like ginseng are grown by themselves."
Lu Jing couldn't help but feel excited when he heard the price. A ginseng plant cost upwards of two hundred taels, which was definitely a sky-high price.
Because he also dispenses medicine himself, he also knows the price of ginseng on the market. Ordinary ginseng usually only takes a few years, or at most more than ten years to grow, and costs about thirty to forty taels per kilogram. If it is artificially grown, it will be cheaper.
But ginseng also has a special feature, that is, there is no upper limit.
Depending on the vintage and quality, the price often varies greatly. The most expensive 3,000-year-old ginseng even sold for a sky-high price of ten thousand gold. It was sold by Shen Chong, the richest businessman in the southeast, and was later dedicated to a man who was preparing to spend eighty years. The Queen Mother's birthday.
The Shen family has since then prospered. Not only has no one dared to touch the Shen family's business, but his two sons who studied at the Imperial College and a nephew later became officials, and his youngest son even became an official for a time. He achieved the position of Minister of Rites.
Of course, this is all a story for later.
However, it is amazing how a small ginseng plant can change the fate of so many people.
Unfortunately, due to the limited fertility of the land, Lu Jing could not use lush green ginseng to grow unlimitedly, otherwise he would kill one by one. With his current skill proficiency, he could grow a thousand-year-old ginseng in ten days. It would take him three months to come out, but it would not be a dream for ten thousand years.
At that time, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of taels of debt owed to Chi, Chi would probably have to ask for hundreds of thousands more taels from him.
Fortunately, once ginseng reaches a hundred years old, the price will not be much lower.
Three hundred and two hundred and two per plant, well, if you take the middle number, it will be two hundred and five. Let's not talk about this magical number for the moment. If you multiply it by five hundred, it will be one hundred and twenty-five thousand taels.
Of course, the above is purely Lu Jing's own opinion. He actually knows very well that with his Darwinian planting method, there is no way that the 500 seeds he throws can grow into ginseng.
Coupled with the germination rate of the seeds themselves and the loss during the growth process, Lu Jing estimated that a hundred ginseng plants in his medicinal field would be considered highly incense.
Well, in this case, he can earn about 25,000 taels from this field. This figure is actually not bad. Don't forget that he also has a field of Polygonum multiflorum. The price should be cheaper than ginseng, but he can probably make tens of thousands. .
But now that it has been tested that ginseng is more profitable, Lu Jing plans to grow ginseng full-time, and he plans to double the size of the medicinal field, so that the production capacity can be doubled. In addition, don’t forget that his lush The proficiency is not comparable to what it was at the beginning.
Lu Jing estimated that he could squeeze out the fertility of a piece of land in just twenty days. In other words, with a cycle of twenty days, he could earn about one hundred thousand taels of silver.
This rate of making money is simply terrifying. If things go well, all the debts can be paid off in two months. Of course, considering the influx of so many century-old ginseng in the capital, it will probably have a certain impact on the market price.
Although this thing is good, only a small group of people at the top of the pyramid can afford to enjoy it, and among this small group of people, not many can chew century-old ginseng as Yida every day when they have nothing to do. .
Hmm... Maybe you can consider selling some to the south. Take Wujiang City, where Lu Jing was before, as an example. There are many wealthy merchants there, and that place originally belonged to Lu Jing. As a local leader there, he doesn't care. It's easy to sell it to Baicaomen or entrust someone else to sell it on his behalf.
As for selling to the alchemist in the valley, Lu Jing thought about it but gave up the idea. He felt it was too painful, because according to Wu Han, their bid was the lowest, and in the capital, he could also let Gu Caiwei Find a way for him.
However, in just a short while, Lu Jing had already thought about the issue of ginseng sales. He felt that his whole body was full of energy. He raised his head and said to Wu Han, "Give me another two thousand ginseng seeds!"
When Wu Han heard this, his expression suddenly changed.
He had made big claims before, telling Lu Jing that he could not worry about the seeds and letting the latter take them as he pleased, because in Wu Han's opinion, how much secret power could Lu Jing, a newcomer who had just completed a hundred days of foundation building, have to use to cast spells?
For young academy disciples like them, there are too many places that require secret power. To say the least, even if Lu Jing has a headache and uses all his secret power to practice Lush, he can still use it. How far have you practiced this spell?
Wu Han himself has been cultivating lush greenery for more than ten years, and he still has a good say in this aspect. In his opinion, Lu Jing's plan to find a place to plant medicine was just a whim. At most, he could only get a piece of land the size of a palm. , planting eight or nine ginseng plants and making some pocket money would be a big deal.
Unexpectedly, Lu Jing was not polite to him at all and took away 500 seeds for the first time, which made Wu Han feel very distressed.
You must know that he didn't just pick up the ginseng randomly, but he spent countless efforts to cultivate it bit by bit. Otherwise, the ginseng grown by Lu Jing would not be so good in quality and so easily sold at a high price.
But just over a month had passed, and Lu Jing actually asked him for seeds again, and the amount was quadrupled.
Wu Han said distressedly, "Where are the ones you took before?"
"It's all used up." Lu Jing said matter-of-factly.
"Just these two plants?" Wu Han's eyes widened.
"Of course not. I opened two plots of land in the back mountain and sowed all the seeds. I only pulled out two and came to you to help me estimate the price first. The rest are still in the ground and I haven't had time to harvest them."
"What, you sowed all the seeds in one go?" Wu Han found it unbelievable, "There are so many seeds... can you handle them?"
"This...actually I don't care too much." Lu Jing scratched his head.
