Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 759 The Third Investment Attraction Owner

With sorghum, Peng Dong’s winery began to recruit a large number of people.

As a result, many young and strong villagers in Changlanzhou entered Peng Dong's winery and started working there. They were provided with food and accommodation, had a day off every ten days, and were paid 850 wen a month, which was 50 wen higher than that in Mobei.

However, in order to prevent the wine-making recipe from being leaked, Peng Dongjia asked Hua Lei for help and asked her to act as a guarantor and sign a confidentiality agreement with the villagers.

Hualei agreed without hesitation and spent two days to go to the winery to solve the problem. After the sorghum was harvested and the winery was running, Hualei realized that she could also open her dyeing workshop.

Because Hualei discovered that before Peng Dong's family used sorghum to make wine, they had to shell all the sorghum they purchased, and the sorghum shell was a very useful dye.

There are also the sorghum ears cut earlier, plus the sorghum husks now, which are dried and crushed, and then added with appropriate amount of water to boil.

After the cooking is completed, filter out the sorghum residue and the resulting liquid is the sorghum husk dye. Adjust the concentration of the dye according to your needs.

And add an appropriate amount of fixing agent to improve the fastness of dyeing, and use it to dye cloth. The red series dyed is very beautiful. Of course, the customer of the dye, Hualei, has also thought of it.

When Liang Xiangyi finishes weaving the linen, I can sell the dye directly to her. I can also buy pure linen from her, dye it myself and sell it. Or I can become Liang Xiangyi's dye processor. All are possible.

The sorghum residue that is boiled and filtered is the best field fertilizer. Pour it into the field and it can directly change the soil structure, which has many benefits.

Mixing it with sedge and composting manure is also a good choice. After careful consideration for a few days, Hualei decided to set up a small dyeing workshop in Xichang Prefecture.

She became the third investor in Xichang Prefecture. So, Hualei found the two sisters Qingxia and Qingqiu and asked them to start the operation. Of course, everything was done according to the rules, and Hualei did not dare to play tricks.

In recent years, Shangjingcheng has kept its own dye shop open to dye its own wool sweaters. Now, many families in Shangjingcheng have opened dye shops and make their own wool sweaters.

So, the business is a little bit worse. But this is normal, everyone makes a living by their own ability. The method of dyeing the flower buds is only in my hands and is not made public.

However, due to the entry of competitors, it has become difficult to get dye raw materials for free. In many cases, you need to spend real money to purchase them.

In recent years, labor costs in Shangjing City have also increased a lot. Therefore, it is not bad to open a dye shop in Xichang, at least the labor costs are cheap and the raw materials are not expensive.

After the fabrics are produced here, if Liang Xiangyi’s fabrics are not dyed enough and there is excess dye, he can also send some back.

After handing over the dye shop business to the Qingxia and Xia sisters, Hualei no longer worried about it.

Of course, before that, Hua Lei still went to the winery, found Peng Dongjia, and signed an agreement with him to purchase sorghum husks.

Peng Dongjia was of course very willing to accept Hualei's initiative to come to his house and sign a contract with him for sorghum husks. In his Jiangnan family, these sorghum husks were generally used as food for livestock.

However, he did not raise any sorghum in Xichang, so the sorghum husks would be a pity to throw away and would be tasteless to eat.

Hualei came to purchase, so of course he was willing. So, at a very low price, they reached an agreement and signed a five-year contract.

After the sorghum was harvested, Hualei arranged people to plant more than 300 kilograms of peanuts in a hurry. This matter could not be delayed.

Next, the late rice was to be harvested. Harvesting was no longer a problem, except that Emperor Shengwu had issued an imperial decree.

After the late rice is harvested, a certain amount of rice needs to be sold to the neighboring Xining Prefecture, so Hua Lei does not dare to take it lightly.

Especially the quality of rice, Hualei was worried that some people would mix inferior rice with chaff, so when the people from the household went to purchase, Hualei specifically took care of them and asked them to pay attention to the problem of chaff.

However, despite Hualei's warning, the rice harvest still had problems. It was not that there were chaff mixed in, but that many people did not dry the rice thoroughly in order to weigh it.

When collecting tax grain, these yamen officials strictly abide by Hualei's requirements, so the collected tax grain is thoroughly dried in the sun.

However, this time there was no need to pay taxes on the grain, but instead it was sold to the neighboring Xining Prefecture, so many government officials relaxed their inspections.

As a result, some opportunistic people took advantage of the situation and put the rice that had just been harvested and dried for a few days directly into sacks and weighed them.

Rice that is not thoroughly dried will easily become moldy and mix with other rice, thus affecting the other rice as well.

When she discovered this problem, Hua Lei was very angry. She not only reprimanded the officials who neglected their duties, but also reprimanded Feng Shuangxi.

Take care of him and strictly control the subsequent acquisitions. If something similar happens again, let him bear all the losses himself.

Then, all the rice that had been collected was poured back to the threshing ground to dry. This drying directly reduced the amount by 700 to 800 kilograms.

This loss had to be borne by the government office itself. Fortunately, the rice harvested later was fine. Therefore, the loss that the government office had to bear was limited. Therefore, Hualei no longer cared about it.

However, the trouble came again. Originally, Emperor Shengwu intended to let Xichang Prefecture purchase rice and then hand it over to Xining Prefecture at the border between the two prefectures, Changyou Prefecture.

At that time, one hand will hand over the grain, and the other hand will hand over the money. However, when Hualei delivered the rice to the handover point in Changyouzhou, no one from Xining Prefecture came to take over as agreed.

After waiting for ten days, no one came. More than 1,500 dan of grain was piled at the border of Changyou Prefecture and Xining Prefecture, and it took a lot of people to guard it.

If you wait for a day or two, it's possible that the other party was delayed on the way by something. If there is no one for ten days and no news, then it's intentional.

You know, it takes at most ten days to get from Xining Prefecture to the border of Changyou Prefecture. Hua Lei was a little angry when she heard the message Feng Shuangxi sent over at full speed. She hated people who were not punctual the most.

So, she asked Feng Shuangxi to wait for another ten days. If the other party did not send anyone, he should take the food directly back to the government office of Changyouzhou and store the rice.

Ten days later, no one came from Xining Prefecture. Feng Shuangxi deposited 1,500 dan of rice in the warehouse of Changyou Prefecture and returned first.

Hua Lei, who was working in the government office, also received a belated letter from Xining Prefecture Governor Cheng, which was forwarded from the official post station.