The whole family travels through time: escape from famine! No cheat codes yet!

Chapter 383 Ecological Industrial Chain

Shen Zhiqiu released the method of making starch mainly because they really didn't have enough manpower!

Even though there were nearly 300 of them, which seemed a lot, the sale of shoe soles and hairpins began in one prefecture-level city and four county towns.

Grocery stores, clothing stores, simple cloth shops, jewelry stores, and small vendors have too many orders.

Now they don’t go out to set up stalls because everyone comes to the village to buy goods.

Even the boys stopped going out to set up food stalls. After all, the weather was getting colder. Some people were still eating steamed cakes, but not many were eating jelly.

Shen Youyou also gave the method of making steamed cake to the old man Yu who used to dig bamboo shoots. His family's conditions have improved a lot after reselling jelly steamed cake these days.

She always remembered that when she first saw the old man, although he looked tired, he could not hide his kindness and gentleness.

Mr. Chen from Guangyuan Building in the middle also came to Tangjia Village in person to give Shen Zhiqiu a share of the profits. He said that the mutton skewers and various vegetable skewers were very popular. In one month, Shen Zhiqiu received more than 300 taels of silver.

However, when Chen Dongjia saw the yard where Shen Zhiqiu and his family lived, he didn't show anything on his face, but he was very surprised in his heart. He didn't expect that the Shen brothers actually lived in a thatched hut.

He even decided in his heart that he would make careful plans next year and would do everything he could to help Brother Shen.

As a result, after seeing that they were also doing business in shoe soles and hairpins, Chen Dongjia was completely relieved. After all, as the owner of the largest restaurant in the capital, how could he not know what was the most popular thing in the capital right now.

Nowadays, no matter whether it is the common people or the dignitaries in Shuntian Prefecture, it is estimated that everyone knows about this new type of hairpins and shoe soles.

In terms of food, what attracted everyone the most was the grilled lamb skewers, which was also related to his brother Shen.

Thinking of this, he sighed inwardly: "Brother Shen is a man who has stirred up the business situation in Kyoto. Who would have thought that such a person is still living in a thatched hut?"

However, Butler Chen still brought some bad news, that is, someone had set his eyes on their hairpins and shoe soles.

Originally, he didn't know it was Shen Zhiqiu and his friends' business, so he didn't take it seriously. But now that he knew, he had to remind them. He also told Shen Zhiqiu that when he returned, he would ask someone to find out who was planning to attack his brother Shen.

However, Mr. Chen knew that Shen Zhiqiu had the support of the Duke's Mansion, so he was not too nervous.

Shen Zhiqiu did not tell the truth to everyone in the Nine Clans, but only told his wife and daughter to avoid making too many people worry.

Everyone is still busy, and the women no longer make starch because the sweet potatoes they harvested earlier are all gone.

If starch is needed in the future, we will have to wait for Mr. Meng and his team to produce it. Although they have just started digging the foundation, Mr. Meng has already rented two other empty courtyards in Tangjia Village and had them renovated, one for making starch and the other for making vermicelli.

At this time, in the Nine Clans cafeteria.

Several women who were in charge of cooking today said with a smile while sniffing the aroma of the pork ribs stewing in the pot:

"Recently I feel that our lives have been quite fulfilling. As soon as we open our eyes, we work, and after work we eat. There is also a constant stream of people coming to buy goods. I should be able to make a lot of money."

A woman replied, "In my opinion, it's just that our daughter is too smart. Which girl can have such a brain to make something like plastic? Although we have taught others how to make starch, and others know that we use starch to make plastic, they probably won't be able to guess what we add to it."

Shen Mazi's wife also smiled: "I asked, and they said that although we buy soda ash and vinegar from outside, and we also buy a lot of oil, but the oil must be made into the glycerin that Yoyo makes to be useful.

Now only Yoyo can make it herself, and they just try to make it based on what we buy but can’t make it.”

Yes, their guess was right. Now many people who are interested have already found out 100% of the things they need to purchase when making plastics.

Many experiments have been done, and some people have even figured out how to mix these things. Also, since plastic will melt when burned with fire, some people have mixed the ingredients together and cooked them directly, but still no one has been successful.

Because of this, as long as they don't try to snatch it by force, Shen Youyou doesn't care at all and lets them experiment.

She has recently pushed back all the tasks on hand and is basically a hands-off boss. She only makes some for storage when she is short of glycerin.

She even left the production of dyes to her brothers who didn't have to set up shop.

The older brothers are now responsible for making dyes and straw paper. These straw papers are not only used for wiping but also for writing with bamboo paper made from bamboo.

Thin materials such as grass, rice straw and wheat stalks are used to make small strips, write the shoe numbers on them and tie the soles together. Two pairs of soles are tied together into one strip.

We also made a kind of thick paper, similar to cardboard, which is used to fold paper boxes for jewelry.

They are now trying to form an ecological industrial chain and are not afraid of anyone using non-violent means to compete with them.

The somewhat distressed Master Shen asked Shen Zhiqiu: "Little Third Son, when are we going to divide the money? I can hardly count all the money!"

Shen Youyou also asked her grandmother: "It's been more than a month, when are you going to give money to everyone?"

Mrs. Hua said: "When they send it, we will send it, and then we will let them see it."

The old man who was smoking a pipe at the side also said with a smile: "San'er, send it down. I'm afraid your mother has been watching your actions for a long time!"

Shen Zhiqiu had just taken a sip of water. He said, "Okay! Give it to me, but Grandpa, you can't count the money, so you have to count it every day. When you're done, put it in a paper box, one hundred taels in one box, and then you can count the boxes after a while."

He was right. Ever since we started making money, the shoe sole group has basically made some money every day. After all, those who come to buy goods don't make an appointment to come together.

The old man would count the money every day. As time went by and he saved more money, his eyes became bloodshot from counting the money.

Mr. Shen was still unwilling to admit that he was wrong. He said, "Ahem, ahem, I'm in charge of the money. It's all the hard-earned money of all of us. I have to count it every day. Have you counted it wrong before?"

Shen Zhiqiu had no choice but to stroke the old man's back: "Okay, okay, count if you like. Anyway, we don't sell them in small quantities now, at least we charge real money. If they were sold by penny, I guess you don't have the energy to buy them even if you have the money."

But giving out money is not something you can do just by saying it, so he directly asked his daughter to go to Old Man Shen's room to settle the accounts.

Grandpa Shen and Old Man Shen also came over. The four of them sat on the kang and poured out the silver and money from the paper box, piling them up like landmines.

It wasn't enough to just put everything on display, the two old men pointed at piles of things and told them.

"Xiao Sanzi, these are so much, I'll buy vinegar, oil, and soda ash later.

These are kept at home for circulation, and these are to be divided.”

While Shen Zhiqiu was calculating the accounts, he looked up. He had been busy with production, expanding the market, and building the most basic industry in the industrial chain, the starch workshop, so he had no time to take care of the money.

As a result, my great grandfather and my father misappropriated all the money.