The second update is here!

The village is filled with the fragrance of fried rice.

There are more than 30 soldiers in Zhangjiagou. Except for more than a dozen on duty, the remaining twenty are now at home. This time, they all received military orders to prepare for the expedition.

Military orders are like mountains.

Every family started to prepare, and the soldiers stopped working for the Zhang family. When they went home, they took out their equipment as they polished their swords and checked the bows and arrows. The women also took leave to go home, sewed robes for their husbands, and fryed dry food.

The newly bought mules are also tightened and the saddle is prepared.

The Zhang family's noodle shop and engineering team were affected. Most of the soldiers in the government work in the engineering team or sales team. Now they have to send troops to fight and all have left. Their wives are all working in the noodle shop. They have not been interested in doing things these days and have gone home to prepare for their husbands.

Fortunately, Zhang Chao had prevented it and had recruited so many apprentices.

The engineering team had to reintegrate, because there were not only the soldiers from Zhangjiagou, but also from other villages in the engineering team, so more than half of them left in the end, and Zhang Chao finally retained ten construction teams.

The new kang and new stove finally failed to keep it confidential. Maybe there are craftsmen who are stingy outside, or maybe there are other craftsmen who are smart and can only see. In short, there are many new kang teams in Chang'an, competing for business with the Zhang family, and setting up price wars.

This time, many soldiers from the government went to war, so Zhang Chao simply retained only ten construction teams and began to transform their business. While continuing to take on some kang business, the Zhang family now works on the floor kang business. This is a business tailor-made for the wealthy families in Chang'an City.

Lay a flue on the ground floor of the room and then lay the floor on it so that the whole room can be warm without a kang.

However, such floor heating costs more, and the cost of burning firewood is much higher. However, wealthy families are rich and have money. New businesses are still very popular when launching. This project is much more technically difficult than ordinary kang stoves. There is no need to be afraid of copying for the time being.

As for the noodle shop sales team, Zhang Chao simply canceled the team.

Now the noodle business has entered a stable period. The Zhang family has its own eleven direct stores, and there are more than 30 restaurants and restaurants that cooperate with the Zhang family. In addition, the business of delivering takeaways to Chang'an Fugui family has also opened. The noodle business has also entered a market saturation period, so Zhang Chao withdrew the sales group.

In addition, Zhang Chao also withdrew the retail teams that carried carts and went to the street to retail.

Now only doing store business, there is still a considerable amount.

Due to the decline in grain prices, Zhang Chao's pasta has also dropped, and the profit has been reduced a lot. At the beginning, when the yellow buns came out, one could sell five cents, and the profit was two cents. Now, one only sold one cent, and three yellow buns can make a penny.

The same is true for buns, steamed buns, and fried buns, as profits decline.

Ma Zhou and Zhang Chao posted a statement that if the sales and retail teams are removed and only do direct store sales, takeaway and restaurant delivery businesses, they can maintain a ten-month profit a day. This is still meat buns, and the profit of raw fried buns is higher than that of steamed buns. Selling steamed buns and steamed buns is no longer very profitable.

Although the profit is not high, it is net profit, and the profit is still good in the market today. After all, the Zhang family not only can earn 5 jin of dividends a day, but also provide hundreds of employees with opportunities to make money by work, which is also a very important influence.

In addition, the expenses of eleven stores have been included, so the Zhang family sold soy products and braised meat to reduce the store. The manual expenses are calculated separately.

Now the Zhang family's soy products and braised pork business has gradually begun. These are all aimed at the middle-class and even the rich. The sales volume is not as good as selling pastries, but the profit is much higher.

According to Ma Zhou's calculations, sales of soy products and braised meat are increasing, and profits are also increasing. Now it has exceeded 5,000 yuan in daily profits.

As the sky is bright and dark, the Zhang family's catering business can make about 10,000 yuan a day, and can earn 300 yuan a month. Even if some additional donation fees are deducted, there will still be more than 200 yuan. If nothing unexpected happens in a year, there will be nearly 3,000 yuan a day, which will accumulate a lot, which is a huge profit.

Market size and product renewal are very important. You can sell whatever you make money, and give up if you don’t make money.

Although the pastry is not very profitable, it still has hundreds of people. Therefore, Zhang Chao does not intend to give up this business, but he does not intend to expand it anymore. Just maintain the current scale.

Perhaps after a while, when the supply of soda stone comes, Zhang Chao can simply supply dough alkali directly to merchants in Chang'an. After all, dough alkali has higher profits.

After making some adjustments to the workshop, the impact of the troops going to the expedition was minimized, so Zhang Chao returned home to help his father prepare for his expedition.

"Take my dark horse with you and be a horse prepared." Zhang Chao and his father brushed the hair of the yellow-fat horse together.

"It's enough to have a horse, don't I take the lead in the mule."

"Take it with you. Huang Feima is eight years old and a little old."

Zhang Chao was reluctant to let his father go to the battle, and Qi Niang couldn't let him go, and her eyes were swollen from crying.

She brought the newly made fur, for fear that my father would be cold outside.

"I have prepared a straw raincoat for you. You must remember to bring it with you. Otherwise, when it rains and snows, it will freeze your body."

Of course, it is not suitable for umbrellas when marching and fighting. The straw raincoat is made of miraculous grass or brown clothes from palm trees, which can protect against rain. But it is too bulky. The brown clothes must be weaved very thick to protect water. A straw raincoat can be filled with a large bag when folded.

"It's too inconvenient to carry a straw raincoat," replied the father.

Fighting outside is not traveling. No matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, you will encounter any kind of weather. Even if it is rainy and snow in winter, sometimes you can avoid it if you can't avoid it, and you can only get wet.

It’s like the road is muddy and has to flow.

Zhang Chao frowned at the bulky straw raincoat. It would be great if there was a light raincoat, which would not increase the load, but also block the rain.

Ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty had no other raincoat to wear except straw raincoats.

There was no rubber in the Tang Dynasty, but it could still be made into raincoats. I remember that someone invented raincoats made of tung oil and cloth in the Song Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, rich people wore fur clothes, and poor people wore scarves. They could shelter from rain and snow, but they were all bulky, and there was also a kind of oily clothes.

The tung oil cloth raincoat that was popular in the Song Dynasty was already available during the Sui Dynasty. Historical records show that when Emperor Yang of Sui went hunting, someone offered raincoats. This raincoat was made of tung oil soaked in yellow silk, and its color was like amber, so it was called an amber shirt.

But this thing is very expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it and is not durable.

By the Song Dynasty, people began to make cheap raincoats with butter and linen.

Not being a problem for Zhang Chao, as long as the problem can be solved with money is not a problem.

"Dad, I'll make you a few amber shirts with you."

To make amber shirt, tung oil must be included. At this time, tung oil is very rare, but as long as there are those in the world, there will definitely be those in the east and west cities of Chang'an.

Zhang Chao immediately rode his horse to Chang'an, and ran around the things twice himself, but he still bought tung oil.

The price was very expensive, but Zhang Chao didn't even mention the price, so he gave the tung oil in the store a round bun. He bought all the hundreds of kilograms of tung oil in the store.

With tung oil and yellow silk, it is necessary to make raincoats and technology. Fortunately, this is not a high-level technology. Zhang Chao found a craftsman and dug him over with a high salary, asking him to make raincoats.

Raincoats made of silk and palm oil are lighter than straw coats made of brown silk, straw coat, etc., but the cost is higher. At the same time, they are also lighter than felt clothes and fur coats.

Zhang Chao prepared both a fur coat and a felt hat for his father, and a raincoat. This way, he could wear fur coats inside, which could protect against cold and prevent rain. He would also cover 100% oil shirts on the outside, so he would have double insurance.

"This raincoat is made into two pieces, top and bottom pants."

The function of the raincoat is of course to fold the rain. Although the long gown can fold the rain, it is still not convenient to move. Therefore, when Zhang Chao asked the man to cut and fry the processed yellow silk into a raincoat, it changed it to the style of the raincoat of later generations, one piece on top and one piece on the bottom and two piece set.

"The top has a double-breasted style, and you need to add a hood to the collar. Don't make the sleeves too narrow or too loose. The legs of the trousers can also be slightly larger, so that it will not hinder the wearing of armor and fur coats inside, and will not affect the movement."

Qi Niang’s female red girl is very good. Women these days basically learn to cut and sew when they are young, and can make homemade clothes skillfully.

Zhang Chao proposed the style of the raincoat, and Qi Niang could understand it immediately.

The oil coat is ready and hung on a bamboo pole to dry.

The craftsman of the oil-clothing also emphasized to Zhang Chao that oil-clothing must be maintained. Try not to wear it when it rains, and it is not advisable to expose the sun to the sun. After it rains, it should not be wrapped up if it is wet, and it must be dried before putting it away.

After the oil-coated clothes were dried, my dad tried them on, which was very suitable.

"It's very lightweight, and wearing it on the body is like not wearing it."

After all, it is made of thin silk with tung oil, which is light and natural, especially compared to the straw raincoat that is even more bulky than armor, this one is really good.

"Make a few more pieces with you, and it won't take up any space anyway."

"I will make some of them for you, Uncle Ke and others." The father didn't forget to explain.

"No problem, I bought a lot of tung oil anyway."

Oil-coated clothes are a good thing, but the cost is a little higher. Things that have been available in the Northern Dynasties have not been popular yet.

The key is that this tung oil is expensive.

Zhang Chao thought about whether he wanted to plant some tung trees on the ditch slope he just bought. The tung trees grow very fast and the oil yield is OK.

Tung oil cannot be eaten, but it is very practical. Not to mention that it can be made into an oil cloth raincoat, and after applying tung oil to the furniture, it can replace paint and play an anti-corrosion effect.

It can also be made of oil paper and oil paper umbrellas.

Tung oil can also be used as ink, and oil feet can also be used as soap, which is very practical.

Raw tung oil can also be used as medicine and can cure many diseases.

Of course, the most important thing is that tung trees are found in Guanzhong area and are also suitable for planting.

My father asked Zhang Chao to make some oily clothes for Ke Wu and the others. Zhang Chao simply waved his hand and did more if he wanted to do it.

All the tung oil was soaked in silk and cloth, half made of oil silk and half made of oil cloth, and then Qi Niang and the women in the village were processed and cut into oil clothes.

Zhang Chao chose several villagers of different sizes as models and made five ready-to-wear codes for oil-clothing.

Zhang Chao planned to give half of the oil-coated clothes to others and half to sell them. The soldiers in Zhangjiagou, Qin Qiong and others all gave a batch of them to their homes.

The rest are sent to the store for sale.

Zhang Chao wanted to see how the market reacted. If the reaction was OK, he would plant more tung trees next year. To be continued.
Chapter completed!