The sudden increase in food prices in Jiangdu was a big event for Jiangdu, but when it spread to the capital, it was just a trivial matter.
But by the same token, it is difficult for major events that happened in the imperial court to reach Jiangdu.
Even if it falls on Jiangdu, it will fall on the officials of Jiangdu, and it is difficult to fall on the heads of small people.
To put it bluntly, it is difficult to blame Shen Yishen who is preparing for the exam.
Wu Fei Rabbit walked away, the sun rose and the moon set, and soon time came to September of the fifth year of Hongde.
At this time, four months have passed since Shen Yi came to this world, or in other words, the new Shen Yi was "born".
During this period, in addition to preparing for the exam, Shen Yi also successfully brought his brother Shen Heng to study at Ganquan Academy, making Shen Heng one of the youngest students at Ganquan Academy in the past thirty years.
However, Shen Heng's reading talent is indeed very good, even better than Shen Yi himself. After he entered the academy, he quickly gained the favor of the gentlemen of the academy. Even Chief Lu Anshi and Lu Shan would occasionally seek out Shen Heng. A few words from Professor Shen Heng.
Now the gentlemen of Ganquan Academy are already discussing whether to let Shen Heng participate in next year's county examination, so that Shen Heng can be called the youngest scholar in Jiangdu in recent years, and even be promoted to a scholar!
You must know that Shen Heng will only be thirteen next year. If he can really become a scholar at the age of thirteen, then not only will he, Shen Heng, become famous, but also Ganquan Academy will also become famous.
Of course, Shen Heng is not that evil. It is not very stable to ask him to take the scholar examination this year or next year. What Master Lu means is to let Shen Heng take advantage of his youth to calm down and read more. In the future, I will accumulate more experience and strive to pass the Jinshi examination at the age of twenty.
A twenty-year-old Jinshi is enough to make Ganquan Academy famous.
As for Shen Yi...
Although Shen Yi was also actively preparing for the exam, in addition to preparing for the exam, he often ran to the city from time to time to teach the six little kids how to do business.
Now, although the stall selling pancakes and fruits is still open by the Yudai Lake, only one of the six little guys takes care of the stall on weekdays. The remaining five people follow Shen Yi's method and start other businesses. After a month, although the six little guys didn't make much money, they added up to nearly a hundred taels.
The reason why they don't make much money is because they have too little capital to do things that make big money. In addition, the six little guys are too young, so they can only do small things and cannot do any big business for the time being.
In this era, if you want to make a lot of money, in addition to food, you need gold, silver, copper, iron, porcelain, cotton, yarn, and silk. However, most of these businesses are official specialties. Shen Yi has no ability or ability to get involved. As for the other The traditional industry in China is basically in a state of saturation. Shen has no background and no capital, so it is difficult to get involved.
Therefore, if you want to make a lot of money, you must create a new industry yourself and overtake others in a corner.
Originally, Shen Yi wanted to do retail in this era. After all, he had been doing this in his previous life, and he was well versed inside and out. However, after some research, he found that in this era of low urbanization, opening a "supermarket" was not practical. It's too far-fetched.
You want to open a farmer's market. In this day and age, there are markets and there are also vegetable markets in the city, so it's not very realistic.
After several months of hard thinking by Shen, he finally thought of a good way to accumulate money.
It was September of the fifth year of Hongde, and there was less than half a month left before the county examination.
While all the students in the academy, and even all the students in Jiangdu, were actively preparing for the exam, Shen sneaked out of the academy and came to Jiangdu City. In the yard of six little guys, he met the young Xu Fu.
At this time, Xu Fu was no longer the sloppy look that Shen Yi saw for the first time. Instead, he had put on clean clothes. After washing off the mud on his face, his appearance was still average. In Jiangdu City, he can already be said to be a handsome young man.
However, after Xu Fu saw Shen Yi, he was still very respectful. He stood in front of Shen Yi and bowed to Shen Yi in a formal manner.
"Sir."
Shen Yi found a random place to sit down in the small courtyard, then glanced at Xu Fu and stretched out his hand to motion for him to sit down too.
After Xu Fu sat down, Shen Yi smiled at him and asked, "I have been studying for exams in the academy recently, and it takes several days to go to the city. How are you guys doing?"
Xu Fu lowered his head and said with gratitude in his tone: "Thanks to the young master, we are all fine."
Shen Yi turned around and looked in the yard. Seeing Xu Fu alone, he asked, "How is the business?"
"I was just about to tell the young master about this."
Xu Fu glanced at Shen Yi and said, "According to the master's arrangement, we brothers and sisters opened several stalls by the Yudai Lake, and the business was pretty good. However, I found that if all six of us went to the stalls, it would be a bit busy. But come here, the four of them are going to set up the stall now, and my little sister and I will help with the shopping and prepare ingredients for them."
As he said that, Xu Fu looked at Shen Yi. After seeing that Shen Yi was not angry, he continued: "My little sister is going to the morning market to buy vegetables. She will be back soon."
Shen Yi glanced at the young man in front of him with admiration.
This little guy named Xu is indeed a talented person in business. Before he had time to teach him, he figured out the two positions of "logistics" and "purchasing" on his own.
However, after all, you can't make a lot of money by running a stall in Yudai Lake, and Shen Yi doesn't plan to do this forever. Just when he was about to speak, Xu Fu took out a large bag of broken silver from his arms, handed it to Shen Yi, lowered his head and said, "Master , this is the money we have earned in the past few months. The last time I gave it to you, you didn’t take it..."
Xu Fu paused and continued: "Don't worry, the money I left is enough for the few of us. I agreed at the beginning that it would be fifty-fifty, and I can't miss you, young master."
Shen Yi smiled and shook his head.
"I don't have anything to use money for right now. You just need to keep the money yourself."
Having said this, Shen Yi took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Xu Fu.
Xu Fu knew some characters originally. In the past few months, according to Shen Yi's instructions, he was studying hard. Now he could recognize some common characters. He opened the white paper and looked at it, and saw that it read There are four or five kinds of medicinal materials such as ferntail grass, white hair vine... etc. The dosage is also noted at the back of the medicinal materials.
Xu Fu recognized that these were herbal medicines. He stretched out his hand and scratched his head and said, "Sir, do you want me to get some medicine for you?"
"Yes and no."
Shen Yi glanced at Xu Fu and said: "If you want to continue doing the business in Yudai Lake, you can continue doing it for the time being. But it's just a small profit, so you don't have to get into it. You can go to the drug store later. , grab a dozen or twenty copies according to this recipe, and then..."
Shen Yi glanced at Xu Fu and whispered: "Then I want you to work hard."
"Take these medicines and go to remote places as much as possible. If there are children who have a fever that cannot be treated by a doctor, give them a packet of medicine and let them cook it themselves."
Xu Fu stared at Shen Yi with wide eyes, and was stunned.
"Sir, how can this be done? If one person gets sick, the other person will die if he eats it..."
"I have already eaten."
Shen Yi looked calm and said: "I took twice the dosage of this recipe for three days, and nothing happened. I also read the medical books. There is no toxicity in these medicinal materials. It will not kill anyone..."
Speaking of this, Shen Qi glanced at Xu Fu and whispered: "Brother, I should have done this myself, but I have to prepare for the county examination and it will be difficult for me to come out again. I can only do it for me." .”
"This thing is done, not only do our brothers..."
“Not only can you make money, but you can also do a lot of good deeds!”
