Fulang's family has turned things around

Chapter 301-320

　In the imperial city, no one talks about "Sugar King". All they talk about is "two capable husbands".

　　Among them, Xu Cheng was the most discussed, because he was the commoner whom Lin Geng wanted to marry even though he had a falling out with the royal palace. The emperor granted the marriage, but he was a "shameful thing" to be a concubine.

　　I didn't expect that he had such ability.

　　The sales of fruit candy have greatly reduced the economic pressure on the sugar factories.

　　The first is the raw material expenses of each factory. This year, fruit candy accounts for the largest part. After the inventory is converted into silver, they pay the fruit farmers in batches.

　　The second is the processing fee of the jam factory.

　　The fruit needs to be boiled down into syrup before proceeding to the next step of processing.

　　This step is simple and can be completed by sugar mills. However, if sugar mills take over all of it, the shipment volume will be reduced by half.

　　By cooperating with the jam factory, we can have an extra batch of goods.

　　Brothers should be clear about accounts. Xu Cheng took Song Yuan with him to discuss the payment for this batch of goods with Jiang Zhiwei and his wife.

　　The jam factory has already achieved a break-even in jam sales. After deducting all expenses, the account is zero.

　　Once the payment for fruit pulp processing arrives, they can purchase the fruit in cash for production, without having to postpone and wait, which would make both parties anxious.

　　The business further south was negotiated by Jiang Zhiwei himself. This year is the first year, and he has to go there in person to settle the payment for the goods and communicate with the local county officials to ensure cooperation next year.

　　He also wanted to propose afforestation, and on the basis of making money, talk about long-term development so that people would accept it.

　　At least this is the case in Jinkou County. Last year, Jinkou residents were not enthusiastic about tree planting, and this year they are making dried fruit again, but they don't have enough firewood.

　　The forest area is huge, but the forest area is a gold nugget. Can they cut down the mature trees that can bear gold and silver and use them as firewood?

　　It's okay for one or two years, there are still miscellaneous woods that can be used in the forest area.

　　Where would we get so many miscellaneous trees to cut down in order to make dried fruits every year?

　　Planting trees and afforestation is imperative.

　　There are many wastelands here, but the grass is thick and there are few trees. There is no large-scale farming like in other places, so they can burn wheat straw and rice straw. They have to make plans for the future.

　　After the payment was settled, it was almost the end of the year and Song Yuan was going to return home.

　　Xu Cheng's belly was obvious and could no longer be hidden. It was freezing outside and he couldn't send her far away. He expected to give birth in February and couldn't go home this year, so he asked Song Yuan to bring some things home.

　　This year, I made some more leather boots, jackets, and fur coats. The Xu family has some, so I'll give some to the Jiang family.

　　This time Song Yuan came over and deepened their cooperation. They also became closer to the Song family and brought some things back with them as a gift from Xu Cheng to his uncle.