Soon after Xu He arrived home, Qian Yu came to the door.
I saw him standing in the courtyard with his hands and feet tied up, completely different from the way he used to be.
"Is something wrong?" Xu He asked.
Qian Yu glanced at Xu He and suddenly said: "Xiaohe, thank you!"
Xu He was confused by this "thank you".
I saw Qian Yu saying: "My father has always hoped that I would succeed in my studies, be able to leave my business career, and become a master, but... I just discovered today that I am not that material at all!"
Xu He: "..."
"My father brings some food to Master Xie every month, hoping that Master Xie will teach me attentively, but in the past, Master Xie always declined. My father always felt that Master Xie was arrogant."
"This time Ma Fuzi accepted my father's favor and asked questions today. I thought my knowledge had improved."
"But you gave me a heads-up and woke me up. How can I improve my knowledge? I am not a student at all!"
Xu He broke into a cold sweat when he heard this, "Good guy, I didn't expect that my words would have such an effect. I don't know if Qian Jizu will settle the score with him after he finds out."
"Xiaohe, do you think people must study?"
Soul torture, many poor students also asked Xu He the same question when he was in school in his last life. In that world, studying may not necessarily lead to success, and there are too many paths to choose from in life.
His answer to these people is: "As long as you work hard, you can succeed in anything!"
This principle also applies today.
But... the difference is that if people who don't study want to succeed in this world, they are likely to pay a higher price.
At this thought, he didn't know how to answer.
But the little fat man explained himself: "What if I don't study? If I can write and calculate, I can also be a figure like Tao Zhugong!"
Speaking of this, he seemed to have suddenly found his direction in life, his eyes shining brightly.
What else could Xu He say? I can only hope that he will not be beaten by Qian Jizu, and I also wish him success!
The little fat man became more and more excited as he thought about it. He described his business experience to Xu He: "My father does make money by opening a restaurant, but I think the money comes too slowly."
"If I were him, I would gather all the money in the family and use half of it to run the government offices and smoothen relationships. The other half would be used to buy salt and sell it to Huguang. Then I would buy some rice from Huguang and hoard it. When the supply is low, I would sell it at a high price. , in just one year, I can earn what my father earned in ten years of opening a restaurant!"
Hearing this, Xu He couldn't help but look at the little fat man Qian Yu with admiration.
In this era when businessmen are suppressed and there are no big salt merchants, this guy's vision is really brilliant.
First, use the officially controlled hard currency...salt to accumulate the first capital, and then resell the grain, which doubles the profits every time.
No, it’s ten times the profit.
After all, salt and grain are both hard currencies!
Some people may say that Hailing is located in southern Zhili and is known as a land of fish and rice. Do you still go to Huguang to import rice for sale?
In fact, there is a reason for this.
As early as when the world was divided into three parts, Soochow vigorously developed farmland and water conservancy in Jiangzuo.
After so many years, the Jianghuai area is indeed very prosperous.
However, in recent years, the area in southern Zhili has been converting rice into mulberry, raising silkworms and spinning silk, so there is less and less cultivated land.
However, in recent years, with the continuous development of the Huguang area further south, the population and cultivated land area have greatly increased. There was even a child proverb in the Chinese dynasty that "if Huguang is cooked, the world will be enough".
Therefore, the price of rice in Huguang has been falling over the years, and Qian Yu's idea of using salt to free up rice can be said to be quite advanced.
But this is also a bit difficult to operate.
Salt is controlled by the government. Even if he can get through the joints and get the salt, he will definitely not get enough. After all, the transaction of bulk salt goods is still in the hands of the government. Only a few salt merchants with cabinet ministers background can get more. Salt introduction, but only [more].
There is not much salt, so it is not cost-effective to sell it to Huguang. Naturally, this business cannot be done.
Thinking of this, Xu He's eyes suddenly lit up.
There is no salt, but we have sugar. Although sugar is not a necessity in life, there is life above survival, and there is a market for sugar!
Salt is available, and sugar is also in short supply. Lao Jia Chang and his son distribute it in Nanzhili, and the Huguang and Jiangxi areas can be handed over to...
Thinking of this, Xu He took out a bamboo tube from the house, then asked Qian Yu to stretch out his hand, and tapped the bamboo tube on his hand a few times. After a while, a small pile of white crystal icing appeared in Qian Yu's hand.
"White sugar!" Qian Yu was shocked, "So much? Where did you get so much?"
Xu He smiled mysteriously: "Don't worry about it for now. Let me ask you, are you really planning to drop out of school and go into business?"
Qian Yu stared and said, "You don't believe me?"
Xu He smiled: "If you can persuade your father to do business, then when you go to Huguang, you can sell sugar from me and we will share the profits!"
Qian Yu suddenly became interested: "From what you said, it seems that you know how to make white sugar? The cost must be high, right? It's not a large quantity, and the profit is too small to be worthwhile!"
Xu He thought for a moment and said, "You get the goods from me, and I'll sell you one tael of silver for a pound of sugar!"
When Qian Yu heard this, his eyes instantly became bloodshot: "What?"
A pound of sugar on the market in Hailing County costs about two taels of silver.
The price Xu He gave him was directly halved.
After deducting the freight costs, a pound of sugar can earn at least five silver coins.
This may not seem like much, but if the quantity is sufficient, it will be very easy to earn money. More importantly, you do not need to collect funds to bribe the government to buy salt. Instead, the funds will be used to purchase goods, and primitive accumulation will be faster.
Besides, Huguang is located inland, and the price of sugar is definitely higher than that of Nanzhili. This business can be done.
In an instant, the little fat man made a calculation in his mind.
"But I have a condition. You can't sell it in Nanzhili. I'll hand over the sugar business here to Brother Peng!" Xu He added.
Qian Yu immediately patted his chest and said, "Brother He, don't worry, if it works, I will only sell it in Huguang!"
Xu He nodded. He gave the Qian family a way to get rich, and it was up to him to see if Qian Jizu could catch it.
If he didn't catch it, then he might be a small restaurant owner for the rest of his life. He might be famous for one or two dishes, but that's it.
But if he catches it, the Qian family may really be able to turn around, and the little fat man Qian Yu may be able to spend money to donate money to become a prisoner. Although he is not on the right track of the imperial examination, he can still be regarded as a glorious ancestor.
The more the little fat man thought about it, the more he felt that there was a way. He had no time to stay with Xu He, so he turned around and prepared to go to the city to find his father.
But just after taking two steps, he turned back and took out a money bag from his pocket and stuffed it into Xu He: "There are twenty taels in the bag. My father asked me to give it to you!"
Xu He knew that this was the money for the recipe agreed upon last time, so he took the bag and stuffed it into his sleeve without any politeness.
…
Here Xu He got another twenty taels of silver. He left ten taels for himself and walked leisurely to the home of the old chief.
Nowadays, Lao Jia’s family can be described as being in full swing.
Not only did their whole family join in the battle, even Mrs. Xie took the initiative to come to their house to help after hearing about this, and was responsible for lighting the fire in the kitchen with Xu Peng's mother.
Lao Jia Zhang and Xu Peng had just sold the last white sugar in the county, so they followed Xu He's instructions and bought all the brown sugar to expand reproduction.
After the next batch of sugar has been made, Lao Zhang and his father are preparing to sell it to Yangzhou Prefecture.
While everyone was working hard for the future, someone outside the hospital asked.
"Is Xu He here? Xu He! The second master asked you to come over!"
