jdhmnovel Chapter 390: Large population, building new houses
Chapter 390: Large population, building new houses
The scale of Li Ruzhen's business was getting bigger and bigger, and Jiang Xi also received the news.
But this is a good thing for Jiang Yu, because she is in urgent need of fur to make a plush doll.
After half a year, the brothers Yu San and Yu Si improved the tanning technology, but in the end they still found someone else to do the dyeing.
Jiang Xi found a master from a dyeing workshop. It turned out that professional matters should be left to professionals.
Speaking of which, this person was recommended by Duan Yuanzhou.
The Duan family is involved in various industries, and has recently focused on developing food and diet.
Several cloth shops were closed, and the dyeing masters had nowhere to go. Jiang Xi happened to need one, so he introduced one to him.
Master Wu from the dyeing workshop had originally dyed cloth, and this was the first time he was coloring animal fur. It took him a month or two of research before he gradually found a method.
Since he had to spend so much time on it, it’s not surprising that the Yu San and Yu Si brothers failed to accomplish it.
The reason why Jiang Li collected so many rabbit skins was because good news frequently came from the capital, and the plush dolls shipped there were very popular.
After sending different types of dolls such as bears, dogs, and foxes, the store's business improved.
Chen Dafu kept writing letters from the capital, urging Jiang Li to ship the goods.
It just so happened that Master Wu had figured out a method for coloring the fur, so he spent about ten days rushing out a hundred dolls. All of these plush dolls were covered in white, furry fur.
They were sent directly to the capital without even being tried out for sale in Yunzhou City.
Now in Yunzhou City, Jiang Xi has finally developed a small doll market.
The prices are also not cheap. One shop is in the south of the city and the other is in the north of the city.
The shop in the south of the city mainly serves the daughters and wives of the powerful and wealthy merchants in Yunzhou City, while the shop in the north of the city serves the traveling merchants.
These traveling merchants look tired and don't seem to be very respectable in appearance, but they are willing to spend money to bring things back for their children.
There are also a small number of merchants who purchase goods and then resell them to other places to make some extra money.
Because they had to rush to make a batch of dolls, there were not enough people at home. There were only Aunt Zhang and her daughter. Although they were skilled, each of them could only make five or six dolls a day at most.
There was no other choice but to ask someone to do it.
There were few people in the village who were good at needlework, and it took three people from two villages five or six days to complete the work.
Jiang Li personally watched over the delivery of the goods to the dock, and only returned after watching the ship leave.
The goods from the capital are supplied, but the goods from Yunzhou City still need to be supplied.
So Aunt Zhang and the others had to continue sewing dolls.
On the way back, Jiang Xi thought about how Aunt Zhang now had to manage the kitchen affairs of the pig farm and prepare three meals a day for their family. When the doll business was not big before, Aunt Zhang could still sew dolls in her spare time.
But now that the quantity is so large, Aunt Zhang is a little overwhelmed.
After returning home, Jiang Xi suggested that they should buy a maid to take charge of the cooking and cleaning at home so that Aunt Zhang could have more energy.
The job of sewing dolls is now popular and we can start recruiting people.
Naturally, someone is needed to supervise the work and check the quality of the sewn dolls. The price of the dolls is so high and the initial investment cost is also high, so they must be carefully checked before they are sold.
How well is the doll sewn? Are the stitches tight and tight?
Jiang Xi didn't dare to say that he could check more carefully than Aunt Zhang, nor did he necessarily have Aunt Zhang's eyesight.
After much thought, she felt most at ease leaving this job to Aunt Zhang.
After hearing what Jiang Xi said, the Jiang family did not object. The only objection they raised was that there were not enough rooms in the house.
When the house was being built, the Jiang family never imagined that in just one or two years, there would be so many people in the house that it would suddenly become uninhabitable.
Jiang Songshu got married and took a wife. Suddenly, there are two more people in the family. It was already a bit tight, and now the family wants to sell someone. Where should they arrange for them to go?
"Why don't we build a few more houses?"
Jiang Xi suggested, looking at everyone.
It’s not like the Jiang family doesn’t have the ability to build a house now.
Everyone already had this idea in mind, and when Jiang Xi brought it up, everyone agreed immediately.
Especially Jiang Songshu, who has already started a family, said, "This house has only been built for less than two years. My suggestion is to buy two plots of land on the left and right sides and build a house on each side."
In this way, the family can still be close to each other, but everyone has their own private space and does not affect each other.
Jiang Songshu's family consists of three people, and Gu Xianle is now five or six months pregnant, so they will soon be a family of four.
It would be best for their family of four to have their own independent house.
No one else in the Jiang family had any objection.
Mr. Jiang and Jiang Youli and his wife still live in the current house, while Jiang Xi, Jiang Baishu and Tie Niu live in another newly built house.
In this way, the servants who serve Mr. Jiang and others will be able to live with them.
Young people like Jiang Xi don't care.
Because the matter was urgent, Aunt Zhang was too busy to handle it. If she wanted to make the doll business successful, she had to increase production quickly.
Moreover, the Jiang family themselves felt that the living space was a bit crowded, so after saying this that night, the next day Grandpa Jiang went to talk to the village chief Yu Chonghui about buying land and building a house.
With the previous experience, and now being familiar with the village, and with money in hand, the residential land was purchased in just two days.
Now that the land had been secured, we began to prepare intensively for building the house.
There are not too many requirements, just build it like the original house.
Old Master Jiang finally found Yu Zheng. Relying on the Jiang family's design drawings, Yu Zheng has won a good reputation in the surrounding area over the past year. Many people have built their houses according to the Jiang family's designs.
Although it costs a little more money, it is practical. After all, you will live in this house for decades, so you still have to live comfortably.
Therefore, when Mr. Jiang came to him, Yu Zheng agreed immediately.
He now has a lot of people under his command. When Mr. Jiang came over and heard that the Jiang family was in a hurry to live there, he immediately made arrangements for the Jiang family.
As for the family matters, with Grandpa Jiang and Zhang Sheng around, and at worst Jiang Songshu to help keep an eye on them, Jiang Xi basically has no worries.
She had always wanted to make the best use of the rice seeds in her hands, and had originally considered promoting them in Yunzhou City, but due to various factors, she gave up in the end.