Since Li Gu has always been there, Weiqing County will open a duck shop and fried chicken shop sooner or later anyway, so it is better to open them now.
Therefore, when he wrote to Li Gu at this time, he wanted the farmers in Qiu'an Prefecture to raise chickens and ducks.
Qiu'an Prefecture borders Dongshan Province. Whether Qiu'an Prefecture's chicken and duck defense line can resist locusts depends on fate. He really ran out of good ideas.
Halfway through writing the letter, Li Dao came.
Li Dao routinely reported Gao Zhiyuan's developments to him.
Gao Zhiyuan has not returned from the border town yet, but Li Zugen, one of the believers to whom Gao Zhiyuan gave the envelope, went to the branch outside the city to sell cotton today.
Li Dao knew the content of the letter written by Gao Zhiyuan, so he was naturally very concerned about the believers who had the letter.
Last year, Li Zugen rented the Li family's land, and he immediately reported it to Li Qiao.
This year, Li Zugen's eldest son and second son entered the school branch, and he also let Li Qiao know about it in time.
Li Zugen had new news today, and he immediately came to report to Li Qiao.
"I know, keep staring at them and get down." Li Qiao's expression didn't change much after hearing this.
This coincidence was not intentional on his part.
He didn't interfere with anything.
Although Li Zugen was a follower of Gao Zhiyuan, he was actually a poor peasant with a difficult family situation, so he would not embarrass Li Zugen.
Let nature take its course.
As for Gao Zhiyuan, he didn't let Li Dao and the others go to the border town, so he didn't know what Gao Zhiyuan did in the border town. But with Gao Zhiyuan's ability, there will definitely not be any trouble - if there is a trouble, Sheng Hong has already received the report.
Now Sheng Hong attaches great importance to the border town and has to take care of everything.
It has been cold early this year, and the barbarians will definitely have a hard time. Today, Sheng Hong specially dispatched manpower to the border town to strengthen the defense of the border town.
The border town is now impregnable, and the Sixth Prince has no intention of going to the front line. Gao Zhiyuan should have stayed in the border town for a short time.
After Li Dao went down, Li Qiao quickly finished writing the letter, folded it, and stuffed it into the envelope. Then he handed it to Li Man and asked Li Man to send an express to Royal Logistics after he went to work tomorrow.
After finishing his business, Li Qiao returned to the main room. The room was very hot. After entering, he first took off his cloak and then entered the inner room.
The two little guys were sitting on the kang playing with the nine-ring chain. When they saw him come in, they called out daddy in unison. After he responded loudly, they lowered their heads and continued to play with the toys in their hands.
Tao Zhu was sitting at his small desk reading his account book.
"Is the letter finished?" Tao Zhu turned to look at him.
"Yes. How is your settlement?"
Li Qiao walked over and sat down on the chair, his body next to Tao Zhu's. He put one hand around Tao Zhu's waist and held the table with the other to look at the account book in front of Tao Zhu.
"We're almost done. This month's expenses are a bit more than last month's."
Tao Zhu said.
The extra money is mainly used for purchasing cotton and Shantang Academy and branch libraries.
Not to mention buying cotton, you will definitely have to spend money.
The reason why the expenditures of the two schools have increased is because the students in these two schools are now extremely skilled in making keel waterwheels. As proficiency increases, there will be more finished products.
To make a keel waterwheel, the labor cost is 500 yuan, as well as the related raw material expenses. The total amount of these money is nothing to the Li family's huge family property, but compared with last month's expenses, it has indeed increased a bit. .
After hearing Tao Zhu's words, Li Qiao immediately said: "This is a good thing. If the people of Shengjing can't use up so many keel waterwheels, then give them to the farmers of Jibei Province."
His family has 90,000 acres of farmland in Jibei Province.
"I think so too, and it's a good thing."
Tao Zhu nodded.
Then, remembering that Mingxi had come today, he turned to look at Li Qiao: "Mingxi tasted our lotus root starch and was full of praise. He said that Beihu Province is rich in lotus root. If our family has more hands, we can go there to make lotus root starch." . The Ming family will try their best to help us. In this way, not only can we get money, but the people over there can also increase their income."
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Gao Zhiyuan’s pseudonym is Li Cunzhi~
Chapter 215 Trivial matters, the situation in Peng County Li Yuning does not go to Dongshan Province, Tao Zhu opens a cotton warehouse
Ming Xi traveled frequently to the Li family. The reason he came to Shengjing this time was for a blind date, and since he respected Li Qiao from the bottom of his heart, he was thinking about the Li family affairs all day long.
He was full of praise for the Shantang in Shengjing, but he did not have the ability to imitate it in Beihu Province. He was now just a small official.
However, there are many lotus roots in Beihu Province. If the Li family can send people there, both parties will benefit.
This is the season when lotus roots are ripe. When the Li family snack shop first opened at the beginning of this year, it missed the lotus root ripening season, so there were very few finished lotus root powder products.
People who don't like lotus root starch think it's slimy and don't want to take a bite, but there are also people who like it, and those who like it have been urging Li's snack shop to quickly introduce new ones this year.
However, lotus root starch is more troublesome to make than vermicelli, so the output is unstable and cannot meet the market demand.
Since it is clearly intentional, it is not impossible.
Li Qiao nodded: "Okay. Beihu Province is adjacent to Yuanhe Province. Let the people from Pingcheng go there."
For specific matters, you must inform Sheng Hong so that it can be convenient for the local magistrates.
Tao Zhu also had this plan.
Shengjing is too far from Beihu Province, so I won't send anyone there. Pingcheng is close, and Pingcheng will have many foreign merchants every day from now until the end of next spring.
It is easier to bring the prepared lotus root powder back to Pingcheng for sale than to transport it back to Shengjing.
"Okay, I will send someone to the Ming Mansion tomorrow to find Ming Xi and ask him to come over to discuss the matter."
After speaking, Tao Zhu lowered his eyes and looked at the account book in front of him. He was about to continue settling the accounts when he suddenly remembered that he had received a letter from Peng County today and looked at Li Qiao again.
"Li Shangli received a letter. The snack shop in Peng County is doing well and stable. They asked us if we want to open other shops."
After Li Shilihou and the eighteen clerks from Li's shop arrived in Peng County, the second prince's people directly approached the magistrate of Peng County and asked the magistrate of Peng County to help Li Shilihou spread the Li family's snacks as quickly as possible.
The magistrate of Peng County did not dare to neglect, and personally accompanied Li Shi and Li Shou to search for shops and raw materials. He ran back and forth and informed the two of them in detail about all the conditions in Peng County.
With the help of the county magistrate, the Li family snack shop opened in less than ten days.
The main products are snacks, such as egg-filled pancakes, pancakes with fruit, steamed buns, steamed buns, pan-fried buns, fried skewers, rice cakes and rice rolls, etc.
These are not serious meals, only snacks, and they are unique in Peng County, which belongs to the south.
These snacks taste good, and Li's shop is famous, so business has been good since it opened.
These things are white flour, polished rice, meat and sugar. Ordinary people only go to taste them occasionally. The customers on weekdays are mainly local rich people.
But how many rich people can there be in an ordinary, somewhat isolated small county?
And it’s not like a restaurant, which can sell food and wine.
Therefore, in the first three months since Li's snack shop opened, its profits were mediocre, earning only two to three hundred taels a month.
But in midsummer, the ancient canal where Peng County is located is open to navigation. This canal is in Jiangshu Province and connects several prefectures in Jiangshu Province.
After the ancient canal was opened to navigation, many people along the coast took boats out of curiosity.
Coupled with the cargo ships, there are more outsiders in Peng County.
Li Qiao's reputation is so great that the Holy Emperor rewarded him with 200,000 acres of land this year. He is really the most favored minister in front of the Holy Emperor.
Many people come here because of its reputation. Although this snack shop does not have Li's signature food, it is good to come and have a look and try something new.
There were more customers from out of town, and the snack shop's turnover was rising steadily. After observing it for two months, Li Shili couldn't help but write a letter. While reporting the local situation in detail, he also mentioned that he wanted to open a new restaurant. Shop idea.
Peng County is located at the junction of Hui'an Province and Jiangshu Province. It is not really Jiangnan, so the local people are not considered wealthy.
But those people who can go boating and do business are rich.
When the Grand Canal is really opened in the future, there will be more people from outside the area.
What a big market.
If you want to make more money, you have to open other shops. The snack shops sell ordinary food, the prices are not very high, and the profits are thin.
The Li family's signature shop is the real killer.
"They said that people over there want to see our sign and have been urging them to open a duck shop and a fried chicken shop. What do you think?"
"Then let's open it. Just in time, it's the season when taro and yam are ripe, so we can make some of those assorted crisps."
"Also, taro paste is a good filling and tastes great when used as snacks."
"There are few people there, so don't open a hotpot shop for the time being. Let's make food that can be taken away instead of dine-in first."
Li Qiao is not opposed to opening more shops.
Of course, the more money, the better.
Peng County has 50,000 acres of cultivated land, and corresponding irrigation and farm tools must be arranged. These are all expenses.
Not only the cultivated land in Peng County, but also the cultivated land in other places, rivers, ditches and ponds are arranged as much as possible.
During times of drought, these rivers, ditches and ponds can be irrigated. During floods, these rivers, ditches and ponds can drain water.
There is also cotton. With the cold weather, this year he can only take care of the people outside Shengjing, but there are many poor people in other places in Dasheng.
Expenditures in this area will occur every year in the future.
This year, he has spread his stall very big, and this is just the beginning.
Next year, the test will really come.
I'm afraid there will be more money to spend next year.
Therefore, the more money, the better.
Not only is he going to open a shop in Peng County, but he has also "researched" bicycles. When the bicycles come out during the Chinese New Year, he will make a lot of money.
"Okay. I will reply to them tomorrow." Tao Zhu said after seeing that Li Qiao agreed.
"It won't take more than a day and a half. You've been so busy lately that you've almost caught up with me."
Li Qiao said, tightening the arm holding his waist, and poked the side of his face with the other hand: "Don't be tired."
