Fight the Giants

  Chapter 261 I still have to catch the basket

  In Mu's study, after listening to Gan San's report, Mu Yan didn't speak.

  From the first hurdle, the second was shocked: "This little lady Huo saved that Pingniang?"

   "Master, since Mrs. Huo has the relationship with Pingniang, we don't need to go to Juyuanlou. Wanxianglou is much bigger than Juyuanlou." Li Yi suggested.

  Mu Yan was silent.

  He was only on duty for a few days before he was sent out by the emperor to send news to all the officials, making him an ear report. I don't know whether to trust him or to test him.

   Mu Yan felt disgusted.

  But now that he has surrendered to the emperor, I am afraid that such orders will continue in the future.

  Mu Yan ordered Qiansan: "You have been by her side for the past few days."

   Gan San responded and left.

  Mu Yan just wanted to see what this little liar wanted to do. Do you still want to detain him?

  Just thinking about it, I suddenly felt itchy. Unable to sit still, he took Li Yikan and Er out of the mansion.

  The official with a big belly was coming out of Xiangliyan, drunken and staggering, being helped by someone to get into the sedan chair and go home.

  Suddenly the whole world was dark. Then he was beaten awake, screaming in pain.

  Mu Yan took Li Yikan and beat the opponent and his two attendants in baskets. Let you ridicule me in the palace, let you say that I am a noble son of the Marquis's mansion who is used as a **** for His Majesty, let you say that I have lost my grandfather's face.

   Beat! Must be beaten hard! Fist hit the flesh, bang bang.

   Let you face with a pig face tomorrow. How dare you laugh at me!

   Heaved a sigh of relief, Mu Yan and the three of them fled away amidst the opponent's repeated pleas for forgiveness.

  Kan Er just felt refreshed, and sure enough, beating people was the best way to vent his anger. This capital, neither this nor that, has to be restrained everywhere, making him choked up.

   That’s right, the props are a bit out of hand, and it’s a bit embarrassing for him.

  Looking at Mu Yan: "Master, can we not use baskets next time? Tomorrow morning, the kitchen thought it was a ghost, and stole baskets without stealing anything. It would be nice if we used sacks."

   "Sacks are expensive." Mu Yan replied to him lightly.

Well…

  Master, do you still love a sack?

   "Stupid, what if there is a mark on the sack? Would it be difficult for someone to find it? It's better to use the bamboo basket." Li nodded and agreed with the prop bamboo basket.

  However, jumping up and down with a basket really affects the image.

  But after fighting for a long time, the young master just didn't agree. Kan Er had no choice but to give up.

   Besides Huo Xi's side, ever since he met Wu Youcai and heard that he joined the Shibo Department, his mind has not stopped.

  How to cure him? It is really not reconciled to die. Seeing the enemy get better and better, this heart is like frying oil.

  Wu Youcai joined the Shipping Department. He is in the Shipbuilding Department.

   Newcomers like Wu Youcai probably want to make merit and make money second.

  Marketing Department...I want to buy... Huo Xi has been thinking about this word these days.

  Why are they all scrambling to do sea trade business? Nothing more than huge profits. Like a few bolts of silk, if shipped overseas, the profit can be several times or ten times.

  Another example is the red copper in the Wo Kingdom, whose market price in Japan is only a dozen Wen a catty, but when it was shipped to the Wei Dynasty, the Shibo Department paid a price of 300 Wen. Ten times the profit.

  There is also sulfur, which Huo Xi remembers was always an important military supply of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was still scarce, so it had to be purchased in large quantities from the Wa Kingdom. A catty of sulfur was only a few pennies per catty in the Japanese country, but it was shipped to the Ming Dynasty, but the price was consistent. Really huge profits.

  Sulphur and flame nitrate are usually used to make firearms in the army, and there are already firearms in Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang had already used firecrackers when he fought against the Yuan Dynasty.

  That's why Huo Xi felt that the hundred stone flame salt in the warehouse was a hot commodity.

   If you can fool Wu Youcai, sell him, and exchange for other in-demand goods, wouldn't it work?

   It’s just that the flame salt was collected from the merchants of the Wei Dynasty. If it came from the Wa country, the profit could be dozens of times if it was sold. But if they want to sell it to Shibo, the price has to be lowered, and in the end they have to be paid upside down.

  Even if you don’t post back, what will you change?

   Shibo Bo buys, usually does not give silver, can be bartered. A bunch of foreign merchants taking copper coins from the Wei Dynasty? I'm afraid I've lost my mind. The amount of gold and silver is also very short in the Wei Dynasty, and they will not pay more gold and silver to foreign merchants.

  Like the Japanese country, there are many replacement silks. A load of copper weighs two hundred and seventy catties, and usually eight to ten catties of silk can be exchanged. It is four or five times the profit to transport it back to the country of Wa.

  But Huo Xi traded flames for raw silk?

   Not to mention whether the flame nitrate can be recovered at the cost price, if it is replaced with raw silk and sold in Wei Dynasty, how much money can it make?

  One hundred shiyannitrates, bought for a little over two hundred taels, estimated to be able to exchange for six hundred catties of raw silk, and sold for half a tael of silver per catty of raw silk in the market, only three hundred taels of silver.

  Is she out of her mind? Taking a big risk, fooling Wu Youcai, and getting less than a hundred taels of money?

  Huo Xi this worry.

  Over there, Wei Ling got well and left the hospital. She thought about it for a few days but couldn't figure out how to do it.

  Let's talk about Huo Erhuai's side, Mrs. Fang pestered him that day, but only got a hundred copper coins, she was not reconciled, and insisted on following him.

  Huo Erhuai also went all out, but didn't go back to the boat, nor to the courtyard in Qionghua Lane.

  He went straight to the wharf in the outer city and worked as a porter to move goods.

  Grandma Fang followed him and saw that he had only earned twenty or thirty copper coins after moving goods at the pier for a day. Finally, she sat on the floor and ate gray-faced steamed buns with the porters.

  Can this mother-in-law stand it? Scavenged the copper coins he got and ran away.

  Huo Erhuai returned to the boat. For a few days, Yang and Huo Nian took Huo Nian outside to collect and sell goods, but they never got close to the waters of the capital.

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu were greatly relieved. Huo Erhuai and Yang's can handle it clearly, so it will save their children a lot of trouble.

   It's not that they don't give pension money, Huo Erhuai gives fifty taels every year when he goes back at the end of the year. It is almost one or two taels of pension money per month, which is beyond the vast majority of people. Still not satisfied?

  The money earned by his husband and wife did not come from strong winds. It's okay to adopt parents, but the eldest son of the Huo family doesn't have a separate family. They have a house and a field, and they live together. It doesn't make sense for him to raise the whole family of brothers, nephews and nephews alone.

   Today Wei Ling recovers from illness and is going home. Huo Erhuai went to the medical clinic and paid him for the medicine. He also paid money and received some nourishing medicine to take home for him to strengthen.

  Because Mrs. Fang came to make trouble, Wei He only stayed on the boat for one night, thinking about the boat of the second uncle's family.

   Chatting with Huo Wuniang in the medical clinic every day.

  Huo Wuniang was so excited by her talk, she asked Huo Erhuai: "Second brother, how much money does a ship like yours cost?"

Huo Erhuai glanced at her: "If you have the heart, I can help you, buy a smaller boat for you, and lead you out of the way. But now you don't have a separate family, it's all about it. In vain. No matter how much you earn, it will not fall into your hands."

   Wei He lowered his head, the light in his eyes dimmed.

   Wei Ling recovered from his illness, but was still a little weak, leaning against Huo Wuniang's leg, looking up at the second uncle.

  Huo Erhuai liked him, he smiled and patted his head, seeing Huo Wuniang's disappointed expression, he couldn't bear it.

   Sighed: "If you split up in the future, come and find the second brother. For my two nephews, the second brother can't just watch you live a hard life."

   This little girl is almost ten years younger than him, and he was the one who carried her everywhere when she was a child, and he raised her up. I couldn't bear to watch her suffer.

  Take out two silver tags from your arms: "This is from your second sister-in-law to the two children, please help them keep it."

  Huo Wuniang was still in a daze, Wei He took it, quickly put it on his brother, and then put it on his own neck.

   "You child!" Huo Wuniang wanted to **** it back and kept it by herself.

  Huo Erhuai was quite relieved, and stopped her: "This is for the two children, it's better for them to keep it themselves. If there is an emergency in the future, it can be used as money."

  Looking at Wei He: "Can Xiao He keep it safe and keep it from others?"

   Wei He nodded sharply: "Yes. I will hide it well, and I won't even tell my father." After speaking, he looked at Xiao Ling: "My brother won't tell either!"

   Wei Ling nodded her head, pinned the silver tag into her skirt, and held it tightly: "Uncle, Xiao Ling doesn't say anything."

  Huo Erhuai was a little sad, and stroked the heads of the two children one by one: "Good boy."

  Bought some food and cloth for the mother and son, and hired an ox cart for them, Huo Erhuai sent them away.

   Wei He looked back, reluctant to let go, and leaned into Huo Wuniang's ear: "Mom, can't we separate?"

  Huo Wuniang didn't answer. She took a look at the hang tags between the necks of the two children, and weighed them in her hands. The eyes are sore that I want to cry.

  Ask the two children: "Do you like the second uncle?"

   "Like it!" The two children nodded in unison.

  Huo Wuniang felt quite sad when she heard this.

   These days, the two children didn't mention their father, but they just talked about their second uncle. Huo Wuniang glanced back, her second brother was still standing there, and the ox cart gradually moved away until he couldn't see it.

   To explain the term, this abstraction is the income tax, which is equivalent to a tariff. Bomai refers to the acquisition and purchase by Shibo from foreign businessmen. Scores are to classify the goods of foreign merchants into thick and thin and grade them, and then the Department of Shipping will select a certain amount of goods in proportion. As for the random inspection, I think it is similar to the current customs random inspection? But in ancient times, the point draw was to take away the goods and not return them. I don't feel like it again.

  (end of this chapter)