Chapter 236 10. Since Ancient Times, No One Gets up Early without Profit.

The persimmons needed for persimmon lacquer are those wild persimmons that are too green to eat or of poor varieties, which are even less valuable.

Many people may have seen persimmon trees with many fruits, which are big and plump, and the fruits are sweet and soft. But in this era, persimmons are the same as all crops. Without large-scale artificial breeding and breeding of fine varieties, there are not many edible persimmons on a tree.

Although this is good news, Xiao Pingtai will not be happy about it. At most, the raw materials are sufficient and there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient upstream supply.

What is the biggest problem with persimmon lacquer? It takes too long to make lacquer!

How long does it grow? The persimmons are mashed and placed in sealed wooden barrels, and deep pits are dug or warehouses are built to be stored in a cool place. The starting time for opening is twelve months. However, the quality of twelve-month persimmon lacquer is very general and not very usable. At most, it can be applied to the floor. If you want normal all-round use, you need to store it for more than thirty-six months, and if you want perfectly mature persimmon lacquer, you need to store it for sixty months.

After Xiao Pingtai finished speaking, everyone present knew that persimmon lacquer was indeed a difficult thing to start with.

If calculated based on the three-year production period, the first three years were completely out of pocket, with no profit at all. It also requires a large amount of materials and equipment, and a large storage space. To use a modern phrase, it means huge investment, extremely long payback period, and uncontrollable risks.

Everyone's interest in this thing has greatly decreased. One pound of persimmon lacquer is worth one hundred coins, which is indeed very expensive, but including the preparation period and pre-sale promotion period, it will take at least four years to start making a profit. Before that, it is completely out of pocket. Now Xiao Pingtai has invested more than a thousand kan, nearly two thousand kan, and the coffin of Tsunayoshi's uncle has been emptied, and Xiao Pingtai's wife's money has also been emptied.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wondered why Korean merchants could produce persimmon lacquer? Do they have some secret to ripening or other unknown methods?

Xiao Pingtai knew that Japan at this time seemed to be in an era of intense collision and exchange with the world, but in fact, it still knew very little about the outside world. To the extent that Toyotomi Hideyoshi later did not even know the existence of Europe and America, and thought that India was the end of the world.

Although Korea is a country close to them, in fact, these samurai groups who belong to the literacy class still know very little about Korea. Even if they have some knowledge, it is obtained through old books such as "Kojiki" and "Mi-na War Chronicle".

What can Xiaoping do? He can only popularize geographical knowledge to these big guys in the blind spot of knowledge.

The biggest specialty of Korea, everyone knows it, is Korean ginseng! But is Korean ginseng wild? Of course not! Wild ginseng is in the deep mountains and forests of Northeast China and Russia. Most of Korean ginseng is grown in the fields like radishes.

It was called Korean white ginseng in the early days. Due to the poor steaming technology, it is easy to corrupt, so the sales were not good at the beginning. But later, by improving the steaming technology and cultivating good varieties, Korean red ginseng was developed. This thing is amazing, with sufficient medicinal effect and durable preservation.

Subsequently, the Xuanhui Hall, which was in charge of the allocation of commercial shares in North Korea, began to allocate the foreign sales shares of Korean ginseng and various Korean specialties. Longwan merchants, who were powerful in trade with China, rose first, and then Donglai merchants, who engaged in smuggling trade, official trade and even armed robbery with Japan, also rose rapidly.

These merchant groups accumulated a huge amount of wealth through foreign trade. At the same time, the time for Korean ginseng to mature was as short as eight years and as long as thirty years. You compare patience with them who grow ginseng? Is this a joke? Therefore, Korean merchants were able to prepare persimmon lacquer on a large scale with patience and funds, and they could carry it to China to sell if they couldn't sell it in Japan.

There are always people who know the goods of this thing, and they are not afraid of not being able to sell it. There are even Jiangnan merchants who sail directly from the Yangtze River to North Korea to purchase persimmon lacquer. If there are readers from Wenzhou, you can ask the elders in your hometown carefully. Wenzhou used to produce fans and umbrellas with persimmon lacquer skin. I still remember the price very clearly. In the 1950s, the official purchase price was RMB 2.4 persimmon lacquer skin fan. It earns much more than the farmers who work in the fields, and it is very famous. It has even been exported.

Now the problem is clear. Persimmon lacquer is a good business. There is no problem with sales. The quality is not much worse than raw lacquer. The sales price is very pleasant and the profit is very large.

But the cycle is long!

Hosokawa Harumiya has been listening carefully to Kobayata's various stories. Now the pros and cons are in front of everyone.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu also listened to it and turned around. He always thought that things were made and sold, and it was a question of how much profit to make. He has never done a business like this that has no return for at least four years, or even six years. With such a long time, you can go out to buy soy sauce after having a child.

If you have 100 or 200 kan, it's fine. There are no poor people here. Although it hurts, they won't die. But just now, nearly 2,000 kan have been spent before the stall is fully opened. Such a huge sum of money is enough to bring thousands of reinforcements to fight a battle.

"Koyata, you don't have much money left, do you?" Hosokawa Harumiya finally spoke.

"Is it enough to continue the persimmon lacquer business?" "Just barely enough, after all, the candles and Yongle coins bring in a lot every month." Koyata calculated in his mind.

"How about this, I still have 1,000 kan in my coffin book, how about I buy some shares?" Hosokawa Harumiya was so shocked that she wanted to give Koyata 1,000 kan on the spot.

Hosokawa Cainu, who was sitting below, almost jumped up in shock. How could he not know what level their family was at? Although the Hosokawa family tree elders, the father and son had nearly 3,000 kan of knowledge and deeds, but the expenses were also high. His father's 1,000 kan might really be all the coffin book, plus Hosokawa Harumiya was 60 years old. In this era, how many years can he live? Maybe he won't even get dividends.

"Koyata is so smart, how could he fail?" Hosokawa Harumiya looked at his son and said with a smile.

Yes, when did Koyata fail? To put it bluntly, there are 9.6 million writers on the entire Internet, and there are many people who traveled back to the Warring States Period in Japan. Koyata is the only one who has investigated so many local specialties from the Warring States Period to the Edo Period in such detail.

What they developed and purchased are all very profitable, promising, and proven by history. The facts show that they can definitely make money.

Now people are old and savvy, and even Hosokawa Harugu, who has eaten tens of thousands of bowls of white rice, has placed a bet.

Are there still people who are hesitant?