Xu Yin feels a lot more relaxed when she has a capable and diligent person like Xu Kui helping her.
If it weren't for the government's monthly salary increase regulations, she would have wanted to directly increase him to one hundred taels. One person could be used as three people, but she wouldn't mind giving him three times the salary?
Later, Xu Yin thought about it and decided that it would be okay if the monthly payment could only be increased by twice at most at one time, and the rest would be regarded as his shareholding.
She plans to turn Xu's Fragrance Industry into a group company. At present, besides her, Xu Kui is the first senior executive to invest in the company.
I took the time to sort out Xu's current projects and found that in addition to the Qizhen Pavilion and ordinary spice business in Beijing, in just two years, the group's business had expanded to three more businesses, namely fragrance, wine, and greenhouse vegetables.
...emmm, the last item feels a bit confusing.
It has nothing to do with the system tasks she wants to complete.
But I have to deny: In the winter when root vegetables such as cabbage, potatoes, and radishes are mainly stored in cellars, it is such a blessing to have fresh and tender green vegetables to eat!
Although at present, with the planting volume of Greenhouse Base No. 1 and No. 2, plus the Lin Mansion, it is estimated that it can only barely supply the rich and powerful in Luo City.
But as greenhouse technology becomes more and more sophisticated, businessmen see business opportunities and invest in growing more and more greenhouses. Sooner or later, green vegetables will be on the tables of ordinary people in winter.
As she expected, this winter, there were a few fresh greens on the dining tables of Luo City's powerful families.
If these powerful people only display seven or eight dishes of green vegetables during important festivals such as Laba Festival, on ordinary days, they can only eat two or three dishes of green vegetables at noon, and they are only available on the dining table of serious masters. Those unpopular concubines, concubines or concubines, it would be nice to have one.
It is really snow-covered winter, and the fresh vegetable market is so popular.
You can't buy anything with money.
Lin Mansion, who grew along with Xu Yin, did a great job this winter: even for breakfast, you can see the long, refreshing green melons.
"I really admire the idea of a good niece!"
Since the beginning of winter, Mr. Lin has eaten the green vegetables provided by his own farm and praised Xu Yin every day.
I don’t know if Xu Yin kept sneezing or not, but Mrs. Lin’s ears felt like they were getting numb.
She smiled and said, "I'm talking about this, even the magistrate praised her! If it weren't for the filial piety period, the magistrate's wife would have wanted to invite her to the wedding banquet on her birthday."
"The days go by so fast. I'll be filial piety in three months, right?" Mr. Lin counted the time and sighed, "Unknowingly, Xu Ningxiang and his wife have been gone for almost three years. Things really are unpredictable!"
Mrs. Lin thought of another thing: "After the filial piety, the Xu family may not be able to live in peace. Yinyin is also at the right age to talk about marriage, and all the young men of the right age in Luo City may want to marry her. "
Marrying her would be equivalent to marrying Xu's huge family property!
Not to mention the filial piety queen, even in the past two years, when she attended some tea parties and flower viewing parties, she could hear several voices inquiring about Xu Mansion and Xian's niece.
"It's a pity that our son has a family, otherwise even I would be tempted." Mrs. Lin smiled mockingly to herself.
"The situation of the virtuous niece..." Mr. Lin analyzed slowly, stroking his beard, "The most suitable thing is to recruit a son-in-law."
"Same as her mother?" Mrs. Lin shook her head. "My thoughts are different from those of the master. Those who are willing to marry into a wife are often from poor family backgrounds and are forced to move into the girl's family. Who from a good family is willing to marry into a wife?" But how many people from poor families have great potential? Let’s not talk about others, let’s talk about Yinyin’s father. He is a good person, kind and responsible, neither greedy nor lazy, but what about others? After studying with the old man for many years, he is still lacking. After a while, isn't it Xu Ningxiang who takes care of the business? I think that Yinyin should find a young and promising husband with a similar family background. After getting married, she can still take up the family business and have more children in the future. , let a child named Xu inherit the Xu family business, just like my maternal cousin-in-law, she is also an only child, and has three sons and one daughter, and the second son will take her surname."
"Madam, what you said is wrong." Mr. Lin shook his head, "If you marry into a husband's family with a similar family background, you will have to deal with all the affairs of your husband's family after you get married. How will you have time to take care of your mother's family's business? As for the children, there is even less certainty. If, like the Xu family before, there is a single generation, will the in-laws' family allow their only grandson to be named Xu?"
Mr. Lin hit the nail on the head: "I dare to judge: Those who know the situation of Xian's niece, but still diligently seek marriage but are unwilling to marry her, are obviously coming for the family property behind Xian's niece. How can they agree that their grandson's surname is Xu? If the surname is Xu, Cheng If the Xu family is gone, what does everything about the Xu family have to do with them?"
Mrs. Lin was stunned by the master, and then she quickly figured it out, and stood up anxiously: "Then I have to go and say a few words about Yin Yin."
"Hey! Madam, she's too anxious again, and she hasn't even made her filial piety yet!"
"……"Too!
Xu Yin had no idea that someone was worrying about her life-long events right now.
She was warming herself by the fire comfortably, eating cucumbers grown in her own greenhouse, and looking through the account books sent by shopkeepers including Xu Kui.
As the new year approaches, each store begins to take stock of this year's revenue, and after the stocktaking is complete, they present it to Xu Yin for review.
This year, the Xu family's business has hit a new high. Whether it is traditional spices or newly launched fragrances, sales are good.
It’s hard to say yet how profitable wineries and greenhouse vegetables will be.
The former was just acquired, and it mainly supplies vodka alcohol stock for flavoring, and occasionally makes some ordinary wine.
Moreover, what is being sold out this year is the aged wine left in the winery.
Otherwise, Xu Kui was lucky. For only five hundred taels of silver, he not only purchased a winery with complete wine-making facilities, but also bought several large jars of aged wine for free.
After the facelift, it was given the auspicious name of "Zhuangyuanhong", attracting scholars as long-term customers, and launched a wave of advertising for Xu's Winery.
There is such an effect in the early stage. As long as you maintain stability in the later stage, old masters, old men, and old equipment, the wine produced will be as good as ever. Is it still far to make money every day?
Let’s talk about greenhouse vegetables. Even though the rich and powerful are rushing to buy them, the initial investment is quite substantial.
Base No. 1 in Xujia Village uses the original rafters and columns of the nunnery. It is relatively small in scale and the cost invested is mainly labor.
But the Zhuangzi in Nanlu Mountain was built from scratch. The entire Zhuangzi was converted into greenhouses. How big is the scale? The foundation, rafters, roof... If you want to withstand the winter snow, you must build it extremely solidly.
After excluding this large expense and subtracting various labor and trivial costs, the loss will not be lost, but the profit is really not much.
However, a good start is half the battle. If you invest mainly this year and you have not lost money, will it be any worse if you just wait for dividends next year?
After Xu Yin flipped through the account books, she gave red envelopes to the shopkeepers, stood up, stretched, and walked out of the courtyard to admire the sunset that was so close.
Everything is going in a good direction, which is great!
