Chapter 251: A Special Sense of Joy_1
Speaking of how the money was made, Wang Youbao immediately became excited and said, "In Hecheng County and the towns within it, there are a total of forty rice shops. I had people urgently make forty-one grain rice mills, one of which Daming delivered to you, and the other forty were sold to those rice shops, three hundred taels each."
Three hundred taels each...
An Jing looked skyward: "So expensive, would those rice shops actually buy them?"
Wang Youbao honestly replied, "At first, they weren’t willing, but I told them a grain rice mill could last ten or twenty years. Compared to hiring lots of workers to mill rice, it actually comes out cheaper each year. Then, the owners of those rice shops all bought one."
An Jing: "..." It’s a good thing that it was sold to the rice shops—if they were sold to farmers’ sons, absolutely no one could afford them!
Even at one tael of silver each, she was worried that not every farmer’s son would be willing to buy one, let alone three hundred taels...
Fortunately, Shi Xiaolan and the others had donated the grain rice mill to the village; if they had known it could sell for so much, they definitely wouldn’t have accepted it and would have sent it back to her instead.
"The structure of the Stepping Dehusking Machine is simple," Wang Youbao continued, "Just one look and the owners of the rice shops knew how to make it, but those owners didn’t want to bother making them themselves, so they also bought the machines, half a tael each. For a shop, owning one machine isn’t really useful, so those owners each bought at least three or more. And the money made from selling the machines was just enough to cover the cost of making the grain rice mills, which allowed me to share a full six thousand taels with you."