"Do you want to sell them while they're still cocoon?"
Xu He looked at the silk cocoons and didn't say anything else. He asked the villagers directly about their sales methods. He was more inclined to buy the cocoons directly. If he collected silk, the prices varied and paying was also troublesome.
he thought the villagers had also taken this matter into consideration. Although the price of reeled silk was much higher than that of silk cocoons, it was also extremely time-consuming and laborious. If the skills were not good, a lot of good silk might be wasted. So the villagers planned to sell the cocoons. They would start to reel the silk and sel it after raising silkworms for long time.
Seeing that the villagers also had the same idea, Xu He told them the price: "The price for one catty silk cocoons is 60 copper coins. If you think the price is suitable, we can pack the cocoons and send them to my house."
The market price of silk cocoons was approximately between 80 and 120 copper coins, but that was the retail price. Naturally, there were also negotiated purchase prices within this range.
Xu He didn't offer a high price. If his family was in the cloth business, they could have made an extra ten copper coins per catty. But the cocoons they collected now had to be sold to merchants. If the purchase price was too high, they wouldn't be able to make any money, and their work would be in vain.
The quality of silk varies. Two hundred to two hundred and fifty silk cocoons made up one catty, and it took about six catties of silk cocoons to produce one catty of silk. If the silk was sold directly, the price would be six or seven times that of the cocoons depending on the length and quality.
The villagers were somewhat hesitant when they heard Xu He's offer. Although they could sell them all at once and get the money, the price was not high after all.
A village woman said, "Can the price be raised a little bit? It's not easy for us to take care of these silkworms every day. Each family can only sell a few catties of cocoons at a time. When the time comes, we have to pay 10% of the income to you, and there will be very little left."
Hearing this, Xu He quickly said: "Oh, I forgot to tell you. The cocoons are bought whole at a low price, so they don't have to be sold in the shop. The fish are priced directly by the merchants, so we charge 10% of the profit. The silkworms are not priced by the merchants, so you don't have to pay that 10%."
"That's great! Can we send the cocoons over this afternoon for weighing?"
Xu He agreed.
A villager rubbed his hands and said flatteringly: "Then can I get the money as soon as I send the goods?"
Xu He knew that some small merchants who received goods would first give part of the money, and then gave the rest to the villagers after they sold the goods. Many villagers were worried, because if the merchants couldn't sell the goods, they would delay paying them, and some even ran away.
Although they know that the Zhang family's property was in the village and it was impossible for them to run away, who didn't want to get paid after selling things? This This way could make them feel at ease. But in the end they still had to follow the merchant's wishes, otherwise the merchants wouldn't buy their goods and they wouldn't get any money.
Zhang Fangyuan had encountered this before when he was selling pork. Therefore their family had always paid for goods as soon as they received them, which was why they had a good reputation. Although they have to bear the risk after paying all the money after receiving the goods, it wasn't comfortable to be asked to pay by villagers every day. Xu He said directly: "Pay after receiving the goods."
The villagers were even happier when they heard this, and they immediately went to find baskets to collect the silk cocoons and send them to the Zhang family's house.
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