Fight the Giants

  Huo Xi set off from the capital this time, bringing two boats of food and cloth.

  In Huai'an, another 100 stones of pepper were exchanged for 2,000 bolts of Shu brocade, 2,000 bolts of cotton cloth, and 10,000 bolts of linen and earthen cloth each.

  Now she sold 5,000 bolts of cotton cloth for six cents and five cents a bolt, 10,000 bolts of linen cloth for two cents a bolt, and 5,000 bolts of homemade cloth for one cent and a half.

   Two thousand pieces of Shu brocade were not shipped, and they were left in Huai'an for the shopkeeper Niu to send back to the capital. Only a thousand pieces of silk and satin were brought over, and all of them were sold to Lu Shun for seven taels.

  In this way, plus the inventory in Lu Shun's warehouse, and the cloth he has recovered at a high price these days, it is enough for him to deliver.

  After Huo Xi sold it, there were only 5,000 bolts of cloth left on the boat. This time, he made a net profit of 5,750 taels.

   All are happy.

  Lu Shun held Huo Xi's hand and said, "It's really thanks to you. Otherwise, my family's vitality will be seriously injured this time, and I'm afraid I will close the shop and return to my hometown to be a farmer."

  This young man was very benevolent, he didn't take the opportunity to threaten him, asking him for too high a price, and he sold all the goods to him at a price that was 10% higher than the market price.

  In the past few years, Huo Xi knows the importance of building a good relationship.

  This Lu family has been operating in the north for decades, so it is not considered a local snake, but it is also considered to be deeply rooted locally.

   Make friends with such a person, and your own shops in Tianjin and Beiping can also get some care from him. It's better than giving away half of the shop's dry stock and looking for shelter.

   "This is also a good relationship for me. Our boss is beyond reach in the capital. If the shop in the north is in trouble, we can get some good business friends to take care of us. That is a fate that is hard to come by."

  Lu Shun patted his chest: "Young Master Huo, don't worry, as long as my Lu family is here, whenever Guangfengshui is in need, I will do my best, and it is my duty."

   "That's really thanks to Shopkeeper Lu."

  Seeing off Huo Xi and his party, Lu Shun repeatedly sighed while facing Huo Xi's back, and educated the grandson beside him.

   "Min'er, you need to remember that being kind to others may save your own life at a critical moment. In business, you must be kind to others, otherwise it will be difficult to turn over if you get tripped up."

  His son’s misfortune has affected the whole family, and almost ruined the family business. Now that the siege is over, the family will be able to recover when the ordered cloth arrives.

   Lu Min nodded in resignation.

  If it wasn’t because of the good relationship my grandfather made a few years ago, seeing that he was young and it was not easy to earn money, and he didn’t suppress the price too hard, how could he be rescued by the other party today?

  As the so-called icing on the cake is easy, it is difficult to give charcoal in the snow. After going through this incident, I know who is sincere and who is fake. If Guangfengshui needs it in the future, I will do my best to help.

  After delivering the goods the next day, Lu Shun took his grandson and invited Huo Xi and others to have a meal at the biggest restaurant in the city.

   "Little Xi'er...can Uncle call you that?"

  Huo Xi nodded: "I'm young, uncle can call the boy by his name. It's so kind."

  Lv Shun really treated Huo Xi as a nephew, with a grateful expression on his face.

   Only Lu Min gave his grandfather a sad look. In this way, wouldn't he be a generation shorter than others? But grandfather looks young, calling uncle is better than listening to the other party call uncle, right?

   Instantly accepted it calmly.

   "Little Xi'er, you didn't see the face of the other party. Seeing that I was able to deliver the goods according to the quantity, his face is so drawn that it is longer than a donkey. I am really relieved to see it."

   "Just solve it."

  As for why they planned to harm him, and whether they will harm him in the future, this is not what Huo Xi cares about.

   Solving his siege by himself can be regarded as repaying the kindness given to him by the other party when he was young.

  Seeing that he was quite familiar with the local area, Huo Xi asked him a lot of things, and Lu Shun also knew everything, and Huo Xi understood a lot.

  After Xi finished, Huo Xi took Tayue and others to the dental office.

  Zheng Ze happened to be in the dental office, and he didn't expect to see the nobleman who gave him one or two fees yesterday again after a day. I was so happy that I was about to take someone out immediately.

  Today, no matter where the nobleman is going, he will not complain, even if his leg is broken, he will accompany him to the end.

  But Huo Xi had an idea in mind, so he only asked him to take out the map to see which shops and houses in the city, and which open spaces at the docks, and let him circle them.

   Zheng Ze felt that he might be dreaming, otherwise why would it be so unreal.

  In the blink of an eye, the nobleman bought not only ten shops in the city, but also five large houses in the middle of the city. Not to mention that, I bought two shops and two large warehouses at the South Wharf. Before I finished, I bought another 300 mu of land north of the wharf.

   Not to mention how much silver the nobleman spent, he only earned 35 taels today for the middle-class money!

  Thirty-five taels!

  This is a huge amount of money for him who only has five coins a month!

   With a few taels more, he can buy a five-room courtyard in the city. I couldn't suppress the smile on my face.

   It also attracted all the dentists in the dental clinic to look at him with green eyes. If they had known that the young man in front of them was the money lord, could they push this man to that boy Zheng Ze?

  Huo Xi bought a large amount of property in Tianjin City, and sold a hundred stones of pepper to a merchant from North Korea, and got 20,000 taels of silver.

  After the matter here, he took 5,000 pieces of homespun cloth, grain, and various local products bought along the road, and headed for Peiping.

   One day later, we arrived at the end of the North Canal section, Tongzhou Wharf.

  When he arrived at Tongzhou Wharf, Zhu Ji was already waiting at the wharf with his people.

   "My boss has worked hard all the way."

   "Thank you for a long time."

   "It should be. I knew my boss was coming, and I was so happy that I didn't fall asleep for several nights."

  Since Zhu Ji fooled Wu Youcai with Huo Xi, his admiration for Huo Xi is like a torrent of water. Knowing that she was coming, I hired carriages and horses to wait in Tongzhou yesterday.

  There is no shop in Guangfengshui, Tongzhou. This place is less than a hundred miles away from Beiping City, which is very close. There is no need to open a shop here. Merchants just drop their sails and stop their ships here, and transit by land. There are many passers-by.

   On the contrary, inns, restaurants, foot shops, and carriage and horse shops are doing very well.

  It was just after noon at this time, and a restaurant was chosen, and a group of people ate while waiting for the unloading and loading of the car.

   After loading the goods from Peiping, Huo Xi gave generous rewards to the man who came with the ship, the boatman and a group of sailors, and asked them to go back to Tianjin. We loaded the goods from Tianjin, and then went all the way back to the capital.

   "My master doesn't leave a boat, but stay here?"

   "I don't know when I'll return to Beijing, so it's useless to delay them waiting here. It's better to send them back to load the cargo. Our ship will come again. If it doesn't come, it will be very convenient for me to go back by boat."

  All post should be. He took Huo Xi and the others into the carriage and headed for Beiping.

  Since entering Beiping, Ji Chuyi has been very excited.

  His father told him that he came to Peiping to find a job. To build a city in Beiping required a lot of labor, so his father left with many people from his hometown. Now that he has come to Peiping, he must be able to meet his father, right?