Fight the Giants

  Chapter 101 Uniform distribution

   "Can we deliver the money tomorrow morning?" Huo Xi stared at Huo Erhuai with rounded eyes.

   "The **** officer said so."

Very good. This is really good news. They arrived at the wharf at Shenshi yesterday, but they hadn't unloaded the grain, and today they were delayed for another day, and they still didn't unload the grain.

   They have been out for five days. I thought it would take four days to go back and forth.

   This should not only be due to the slow speed of manual grain transportation by the porter, but also the speed of deposit and exchange at the wharf.

   It took more than a day to deliver more than a hundred ships. Behind this is a steady stream of tank boats coming to Huai'an, stopping for dozens of miles along the banks of the river.

   Connected end to end, you can't see the end.

   It is heard that the number of tank ships in the former dynasty amounted to tens of thousands. Cao grain delivery lasted for several months.

   No wonder the cities along the canal were born and prospered because of the canal, and it is not unreasonable to be so rich. Just look at the Huai'an Wharf, tens of kilometers along the line, Huai people on both sides of the strait, street vendors, merchants trade, bustling every day.

   Diligently cook some meals and sell them, which can supplement life.

   "Father, I heard that Huai'an wine is very famous. After we unload the food, I will accompany dad to buy a few jars, and let him drink slowly."

   "Okay, then dad will take advantage of our Xier, and buy a few jars to drink slowly. Let's see how the Huai'an wine is different from our Jiangnan wine."

  Huo Erhuai now has confidence. I have some silver at home, and now I can buy some wine that I thought was expensive. I just feel happy in my heart.

  Father and daughter were talking happily, Yang Fu and Yu Jiang took each other back to Huo's boat.

   "Little Huo Xi, I borrowed ten taels of silver from your family, so I want ten taels of linen."

   "Uncle Yu, don't you buy other things?"

  Yu Jiang shook his head, "No, other things cost a lot, and you can't buy much. It's not as good as linen."

  Huo Xi nodded, and helped him calculate how many horses would be needed for ten taels, "Then you will get one hundred and twenty-five horses."

   "Okay. Thank you, Uncle."

  One hundred and twenty-five horses, and I have to share 20% of the profit. I am afraid that I will not earn much.

  Yu Jiang also wanted to change to a bigger boat to bring his wife and daughter. Huo Xi thought for a while, then said to him: "Uncle Yu, do you want more?"

  Yu Jiang understood what she meant, and smiled at her, "No, this is all I need. I'm worried that I won't be able to sell the taels, and it's hard to bear the debt."

  Huo Erhuai then said: "It's okay, I won't rush you, I will pay you back slowly when you have the money."

  It is difficult for others to say this, but Huo Erhuai knows Yu Jiang's character. He is a very responsible person. I usually live frugally and spend money at home to make up for it. People who have a bottom line in doing things and being a person will not fail to pay back the money.

  Yu Jiang smiled at Huo Erhuai: "No, I can't load any more on the ship. If I go back and sell well, I'll get the goods from you."

  Huo Xi nodded, "Okay, then my family will leave you ten taels of silver. If you sell quickly after returning home, then I will get the goods from my family."

  Yu Jiang nodded, and after agreeing, he went back to his boat. He needs to rest first, and will come to replace Huo Erhuai's vigil in the middle of the night.

   "Brother Xiaoyu also wants ten taels of linen." Yang Fu said.

   "Didn't he borrow twenty taels from us?" Huo Erhuai asked, "Does he want to buy other things?"

  Yang Fu shook his head: "He didn't say. It should be."

  Huo Xi smiled, "The two brothers can't decide. His mother has an idea."

   "Xi'er, are you not angry?"

"Why should I be angry? It doesn't bother us. I don't worry about the two thousand bolts of linen left to our family. If we can't sell them in a month, we can sell them for half a year. They won't break if we leave them alone. Keep it and sell it slowly."

  Huo Erhuai nodded: "Yes. Others have their own ideas, it's normal. It's very normal to come here after all, everyone wants to follow their own ideas. Let's not block other people's money."

  Yang Fu nodded in response.

   Then he said: "Brother Ma Xiang and Ma Ji said they wanted twenty taels of silver for cloth, but they didn't bring anything else. Uncle Zou wants fifteen taels of silver for cloth."

   "Your grandma Zou wanted fifteen taels of cloth? Didn't he only borrow ten taels from our house?" Huo Erhuai was afraid that Yang Fu had made a mistake.

"That's right. Uncle Zou said, buy linen with all the money you borrowed from us, and don't buy anything else, just listen to our family. In addition, take out the five taels of silver you saved, and share the five taels with us." Silver goods."

   "Uncle Zou is very courageous. All the coffins he saved have been taken out."

  Huo Xi was a little surprised. Uncle Zou and his wife are usually cautious people, but they didn't expect that this time they used all the borrowed money to buy the linen, and even put a lot of it into it.

Huo Erhuai was a little worried, and frowned: "Xi'er, you won't lose money selling cloth, right? It's not easy for your Grandpa Zou to save the few taels of silver. There are only three grandparents left in the Zou family. If there is a In case, how can the two old people bear it!"

  An honest person all his life has never done the business of buying low and selling high, and he would like to break a copper coin into two halves.

  If this loses money...

  Huo Erhuai didn't dare to think about it. Others may not know what to do, and he himself will bear a huge psychological burden.

"Dad, don't worry. We will be exempted from taxation when we return to empty space this time. I don't know about it in the future. Therefore, no matter how the linen we bring back is cheaper than the local linen, it will definitely be sold. It's just a profit. It’s a question of earning more and less.”

   "Even if it can't be sold, let's take back the Zou family's cloth and keep him from losing money."

  Huo Erhuai let out a sigh of relief, "That's fine. We can't let his old couple lose money, father can't bear it."

  Huo Erhuai would rather his family lose money than the old and the young. I'm afraid it's not easy to explain. I have a burden in my heart.

  Huo Xi looked at him and smiled.

   Honest people would rather suffer losses for themselves than others. You can't be that treacherous businessman if you spend your whole life in duty.

   In the future, if you have money, you can buy fields and villages, let your parents be landlords, and just collect rent. Don't let them worry about it.

  Talking about brothers Maji and Maxiang, they borrowed the same amount of silver as the Qian family, all of which were twenty taels. They all listened to the Huo family and used it to buy cloth.

   "Your Ma family brother is also a peace of mind. If anything happens in the future, you have to remember them." Huo Erhuai said again.

  Huo Xi nodded: "Well, there will be good things in the future, let's take them together."

  Four families asked for a total of 688 bolts of cloth. There are 1,312 horses left in my family. Enough to sell for a while.

  The next day, when Huo Xi woke up, Huo Erhuai had already prepared breakfast.

   "Father, are you sleepy? Go to sleep. I'll do it." Huo Erhuai and Yu Jiang took turns guarding the food, Yu Jiang guarding the first half of the night, and he guarding the second half of the night.

   "Okay, then dad will go to bed."

After Yang Fu woke up, he turned over from Qian Xiaoxia's boat to his own boat, took a look into the cabin, saw that Huo Erhuai was fast asleep and snoring, and whispered to Huo Xi: "Xi'er, you really don't want to be with us. Go ashore?"

  Huo Xi shook his head: "Father said, it's our family's turn to pay in the morning. I want to stay and see."

   "Then I will stay too."

   "Uncle, go ashore, take the silk samples with you, and look for cloth merchants along the way. I will go with you again in the afternoon."

   Today is the sixth day since they came out, and they have not found anyone to buy their silk, so Yang Fu is anxious.

  Yang Fu nodded: "That's fine. I'll go ashore first to look for it. Maybe there will be surprises."

   It's just this trip, there was no surprise, it actually gave Huo Xi a fright.

   Say something funny. A few days ago, I heard that a certain East Express was able to move, and my family sent me a large box of fruit. However, Shanghai was silent again, and this box of fruit has been in Hangzhou for a few days, staying still. I'll go, when I receive it, it won't be a box of wet garbage~

  (end of this chapter)