Chapter 46 The Cost of Growing Wheat Soon
Sally brought Levin over.
After seeing Duke, Levin was happy, but a little embarrassed. He scratched the back of his head and didn't know what to say.
"You're fired, right."
"Yes, boss."
"Then come and work for me. The salary is still the same as in the store. The monthly salary is 6 silver dragons. If you perform well at the end of the year, you will get a bonus." "
Yes. !" Levin nodded vigorously.
Duke smiled and asked: "I heard from Sally, you don't live at home now, right?" "
They rented out my room." Levin replied that his parents were not kind to him. They've been trying to kick him out since he was an adult.
Now that all the rooms have been rented out, Levin can't go back, he's been expelled, and he doesn't even have a place to live.
Fortunately, Aunt Abi took him in and let him stay at home for a few days.
"Go to Aunt Abby's house and move all your things over. You will live here from now on. There is a utility room next door. You can clean it up yourself." "Yeah!" After Levin had packed up his things,
Duke
said Take him out for lunch.
With some money in his hand, Duke didn't want to treat himself harshly. He went to a restaurant when he needed to. After all, he only had to spend a lot of money to eat. The main reason was to buy spiritual beast meat in private to practice the blood refining method, which cost a lot of money.
After lunch.
Then I took Levin to Little Duke Farm.
The civilian construction team hired with money did not have any puppet assistance and relied entirely on the workers' own hands and feet.
However, the construction speed is not slow.
In a few days, the foundation has been dug, the wall frame has been erected, and the pouring of reinforced concrete has begun. Of course, they are all ordinary steel bars, without any spiritual gold added. The main reason is that spiritual gold is too expensive. The parts to cast the sand eagle cost several golden dragons' spiritual gold, which makes building a house very expensive.
"Boss, what am I going to do on the farm?"
"You are a resident worker on the farm. You have to do all kinds of chores, but our first task now is to hire a group of farmers to complete the autumn sowing of this hundred acres of land." "
We What to grow?"
"Wheat."
Duke took Levin with him to supervise the construction team for a while, and then went to hire farmers without stopping. There are a large number of farms outside Sheshou Town, and there are many fixed farming teams that can be hired at any time as long as you spend money.
After negotiating a price of 50 silver dragons, they contracted all 100 acres of Little Duke Farm to a farming team.
The captain's name was Old Joseph. He had a big beard and carried a pipe wherever he went.
"Don't worry, leave it to us. My old Joseph's reputation is as reliable as this big crab!" Old Joseph patted the giant crab-shaped puppet behind him and said loudly to Duke.
This farming team has three dilapidated "crab-shaped puppets", which are civilian puppets specially developed by Erxue Tower for farms, integrating plowing, sowing, fertilizing and harvesting. The farming team relies on three crab-shaped puppets to sow fifty acres of land in one day.
It only takes two days to cover one hundred acres of Little Duke's farm.
"Then when will you go to my farm?" Duke asked.
Old Joseph took a puff on his pipe and blew out a large cloud of smoke: "In a week, it's all gone in the past few days. You specialize in growing wheat, right? Don't worry, you'll have enough time in a week... You have to go now If you buy wheat seeds, you can get 20 kilograms of wheat seeds for one acre of land!"
If you buy 20 kilograms of wheat seeds for one acre of land, you can get 2,000 kilograms of wheat seeds for one hundred acres of land.
Duke wrote it down and asked: "I want to mix spiritual planting wheat. How much spiritual planting wheat is suitable?" "
In this case, you'd better ask a spiritual planting envoy to help you arrange it, but we grow it on other farms. Wheat is mostly grown from ten acres of land mixed with one pound of spiritual wheat. You can buy ten pounds, or less, five pounds will do. Any lower will have no effect." "I understand." Duke nodded
.
"You also need to buy fertilizer. I've seen the land here in Xiaohewan. The soil fertility is not very good, so you need a lot of fertilizer." "How much do you need
to buy?"
"For sowing and fertilizing one acre of land, you need about 20 kilograms of special fertilizer. Later, You need to add two more fertilizers, so you need to apply at least 50 kilograms of fertilizer to one acre of land."
Spiritual plants can not only resonate with the spirit plant's sea of breath, but can also breathe with other plants of the same species.
Therefore, most farms grow Lingzhi wheat, and not all acres of land are covered with Lingzhi wheat seeds. That would be too expensive. One pound of Lingzhi wheat seeds costs 30 silver dragons on the market, and planting one acre of land requires twenty pounds of seeds, which no farmer can afford.
Relying on the breathing resonance ability of Lingzhi, it is completely possible to mix a little Lingzhi wheat with ordinary wheat.
The spiritual plant user can use the breathing method to guide it, which can make the quality of ordinary wheat better, and even have a chance of evolving into a new spiritual plant.
Negotiated cooperation with the farming team and paid a deposit of 20 Silver Dragons.
Duke went to the seed store in town.
Only ordinary seeds are sold here. One pound of wheat seeds costs about four or five copper dragons. He bought two thousand pounds of wheat seeds at one time. In the end, the boss sold them at the price of 4 copper dragons, for a total of 80 silver dragons.
Then go to the fertilizer store.
Fertilizer is not much cheaper than seeds, and two pounds of special fertilizer costs one copper dragon. Duke did the math and was reluctant to buy fifty kilograms of special fertilizer for one acre of land. He first bought ten thousand kilograms of fertilizer needed for sowing. The total price was 50 silver dragons.
Duke then went to Shenjiao City and went to a spiritual plant store that he had visited before.
"Come and take a look, young man." The boss was still enthusiastic.
"I'm here to buy Lingzhi wheat seeds, five pounds."
"Chenghui 150 Silver Dragons."
"Cheaper, boss. I have my own farm. I will definitely come to your store to buy seeds from time to time." "
Oh, Xiao Ben." Business...Young man is already a farmer at a young age. Please take care of my business from now on. This small packet of Qi-enhancing fertilizer can be considered as a gift from me." The boss gave me a pack of 3 Silver Dragon Lingzhi Qi-enhancing fertilizer, which is a discount. .
Wait until all requirements are ready.
Duke settled the score.
Fertilizer costs 50 silver dragons, and the subsequent cost is 2 gold dragons; wheat seeds cost 80 silver dragons, and spiritual wheat planting costs 150 silver dragons; asking the farming team to sow seeds costs 50 silver dragons.
"You have to hire people to take care of the wheat seedlings in the middle, and you have to hire a farming team to harvest it in the later stage... Added together, this kind of wheat costs at least 7 gold dragons!"
If the rent of 20 gold dragons for ten years is spread out , , based on the calculation of planting two crops of wheat in a year, the cost of one crop of wheat will increase by 1 gold dragon.
"The cost of 8 gold dragons, I wonder if I can sell it to 20 gold dragons after next year's harvest... If I can sell it, I can say that I can make a net profit of 12 gold dragons in half a year, which is equivalent to the income of 2 gold dragons a month. This is no better than Little Sam's card repair shop Make less money."
But 20 gold dragons is an ideal return. The planting industry is greatly affected by the climate. If there is a disaster, you may have to pay compensation.
"It's better not to think about making money yet, as long as you can protect your capital."
Duke does not necessarily rely on the farm to make money. He is a card repairer, and refurbishing second-hand cards is his main income at the moment.
in this way.
By the beginning of October, Old Joseph came with the farming team to sow seeds, and the roof of the house on Little Duke Farm was also built, just waiting for the interior decoration.
(End of chapter)