Fight the Giants

   "Can there be so many?" Shen Qianzhong calculated several times, and couldn't believe it.

   "The bulk of the money was earned from the candy. Selling the candy earned nearly 150,000 taels of silver."

   There are also official porcelain and a hundred pieces of cloud brocade that Wu Youcai exchanged for, and they also got one hundred thousand taels. These two items are the big ones.

  Huo Xi knew it well.

   She, Yang Fu, and Shen Qianzhong calculated the supplies purchased by several other families. This time, each family can still earn 200,000 taels. If you don't have those sugars at home, your income is similar to that of other companies.

   It takes a year, two years, or even longer to go to sea. Narrow escape.

   Earn two to three hundred thousand taels, which is considered mediocre.

   During the preparation period, each family paid 50,000 taels and handed it over to the public. Later, before the sailing, each family added another 20,000 taels for the trip expenses and customs duties.

  Adding this trip to shop and buy goods, and various expenses, each family will spend at least one hundred thousand taels of silver on a trip to sea.

  Earning 200,000 taels is just gambling with your life.

  However, because of the sugar in Guangfengshui, as well as the official porcelain and brocade, the purchase price is not much. This trip made a lot of money, and these two items accounted for the bulk.

   Of course, if it is an exclusive business, you will earn more.

  But since the Ren family's boat capsized, it is estimated that going out to sea by consolidating goods will become the main way for everyone to go to sea in the past two years. Money is to be earned, but risks must also be guarded against. Going out to sea alone, if you can't come back, it will really hurt your muscles and bones.

   "Boss, can we still hide our sugar?" Shen Qianzhong was a little worried.

  Huo Xi turned to look at Yang Fu.

"Langguangge knows. The other families didn't ask me, so I guess they didn't see it. When we got there, each family went to find someone to negotiate with. I learned the Japanese dialect on the boat, and brought samples, and soon I sold the sugar. I exchanged it for silver and put it back in a box. They only saw that I shipped the money back, but they didn’t know how much it was.”

   If you didn’t ask, you probably don’t know.

  He prepared his excuses, saying that he exchanged the sugar with Westerners, and then sold it in Japan. As for why not sell it in the capital, of course it is because I want to ship it over and sell it at a high price.

   Prepared a lot of prevarication, but no one asked him.

  Shen Qianzhong also felt that Yang Fu was lucky on this trip.

   Behind the Langguang Pavilion is the nobleman who took the dry shares of Guangfeng Shui, but Shen Qianzhong doesn't know who that nobleman is. But Langguang Pavilion is also considered one of its own.

  If they know it, they will know it, and they will not tell outsiders. After all, Guangfengshui earns more, and the master of Langguang Pavilion at the end of the year will share more.

   "Anyway, let's cover it if we can. Let's make money quietly for a few years. Let's talk about it when we can't cover it anymore." Huo Xi said.

   Shen Qian nodded in agreement.

  Who doesn't want to be the first to eat a crab. Besides, don't each family have their own secrets?

  Everyone does not inquire about each other, but keeps close and keeps a certain distance, so that we can cooperate better next time.

   "Langguangge wanted to buy the brimstone and red copper from me. But I didn't agree." Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi.

  He knew that Huo Xi specially told him to buy these items, which should be of great use.

   "Langguang Pavilion is considered our nobleman, if we don't promise him, will the owner behind him be unhappy?" Shen Qianzhong was a little worried.

  The voyage went so smoothly this time because Longxing heard that Langguang Pavilion was going to go to sea together, so everyone quickly formed a group and succeeded. My family also borrowed the light of Langguang Pavilion.

  Huo Xi wasn't worried: "I'll talk to Langguang Pavilion."

Said to the two: "After the new year, shopkeeper Shen took his uncle to the guard to find He Baihu and Yan Qianhu, and asked them to take you to see Commander Ning. Sell the sulfur, flame nitrate and red copper to the guard. .As for whether the guards should be kept for their own use or as favors, that is their business."

"Although we got the business of military uniforms and quilts from the guard last year, it was only a business of the guard. I was afraid that there would be too many envious people after two years of business. If these things can be exchanged back to the guard A longer contract, and one or two more guard contracts, then we will make money."

  Shen Qianzhong suddenly looked at Huo Xi.

   Didn't expect Xiaodong's family to think so far, to win all the business of the guards in the hands of Commander Ning.

Huo Xi shook his head: "It's not necessarily possible to win all the business of the guards. But if our things can win the heart of Commander Ning and give us one or two more businesses of the guards, it will not only be the business of military uniforms and quilts in the future, Here we can earn a lot of money. Besides, we have embraced the thighs of the army, and the future journey will be smoother."

   Shen Qian nodded: "Okay, I will take Yang Fu for a trip after the new year."

  In the past two years, they have given gifts to all the adults in the guard during the holidays, and Commander Ning also got a lot of benefits there. Should be able to take care of one or two.

  Now the guards are in short supply of military supplies, and these things are bought back for making firearms.

  Although I heard that these firearms often exploded, Shen Qianzhong thought, since foreigners already have firearms, it is impossible for me not to develop these. Otherwise, wait to be beaten.

  These sulfur and flame salts can be sold for twenty times the price when they are shipped back, and the red copper is sold for nineteen coins a catty, and those who sell for more than three hundred coins are robbed.

But the goods that add up to only 700 shi, bought them back with less than 2,000 taels of silver, and sold them for only 20,000 taels of silver. Willingly.

  The three of them discussed the matter of selling the goods, and settled the accounts, and the first day of the sixth year of Yongkang arrived.

  The first day is Huo Xi's birthday, and she is one year older.

   During the New Year's Day, Huo Xi didn't run around, and her family didn't have any relatives to leave, so she didn't want to go to the Huo family. So apart from staying in the Zhuangzi to play with An An and watching Huo Nian not get into trouble, he hid in his room and read Empress Xu's "Book of Encouraging Kindness".

  The late Empress Xu, posthumously titled "Empress Renxiao", wrote the Book of Encouraging Goodness, which was originally a book compiled to exhort the prince and the other two sons, hoping that they would be good and refrain from evil.

  After the death of Empress Xu, Emperor Yongkang printed a large number of them and distributed them to the students of prefectural schools, county schools and academies in the capital, and Huo Nian also took back a copy.

  Huo Xi Nian had nothing to do, so he opened it to read.

  The book is divided into three parts: "Preface", "Text" and "Postscript". The "Preface" was written by Empress Xu herself, expounding Empress Xu's views on good and evil and the reasons for compiling the book.

The text consists of 20 volumes, which are divided into two parts: "Good Words" and "Induction". It collects the words and deeds of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in the past dynasties to encourage good and punish evil. For example, good and evil will be rewarded; Len...wait.

  Although, like some "Women's Rings" and "Women's Rules", they all require the world according to the current standards. However, it can also pass the time, discard the dross and extract the essence, right? It is also good to choose some good ones to teach Huo Nian.

   Now is the time for Huo Nian to shape the Three Views, so he can't be wronged. Her elder sister doesn't have much background, so she can only stand on the shoulders of the great man and teach him with the experience of the great man and the predecessors.

   After spending a few days idle in Zhuangzi, Yang Fu and Shen Qian returned to the capital to open a shop on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Huo Erhuai also took his family to the hot spring village.

   On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Qin Huaiyu and his family were brought to Zhuangzi to relax.

   When they got off the boat, Huo Xi saw that her uncle followed her.