Fight the Giants

  Chapter 45 Good business

   "Why did you go to sleep today?" Qian Xiaoxia looked suspiciously back and forth between Huo Xi and Yang Fu.

   "I want you to take care of it."

  Yang Fu ignored him, went to Huo Xi's side of the bow, and asked her about her situation.

   "It's okay, I've had a nap, I'm done."

  Yang Fu heaved a sigh of relief. Qian Xiaoxia looked at them suspiciously, feeling that these two people were too mysterious today.

  Seeing Qian Xiaoxia looking at them from side to side, Huo Xi said: "My family is going to open a grocery store, please help us tell everyone, and I will reward you with some candies later."

ah? Open a grocery store?

   "Your family doesn't fish anymore? Didn't you just buy a big boat? That's why you don't want it anymore? You're going to open a grocery store in the city? Then can your big boat be sold?"

  Qian Xiaoxia also wants a boat of her own.

   "Even if you sell it, you can't afford it!" Yang Fu yelled at him.

   Qian Xiaoxia wilted, yes, he couldn’t afford it.

   "It's not going to open a store in the city, but on a boat. A mobile grocery store." Huo Xi explained.

   Then he said to Yang Fu: "Uncle, take him to see what we have added, let him open his eyes, and then take him to tell everyone, so as to help our family publicize."

   "Sure." Yang Fu responded, hooking Qian Xiaoxia, who was still in a daze, to look at the goods they had prepared.

  Seeing this, Qian Xiaoxia's eyes widened, and the eyeballs almost fell off.

  I just bought a new boat for two days, right? That's all there is to it? Floating grocery store?

  Qian Xiaoxia’s head is still numb, but Yang Fu has already arrived at the bow of his own boat, promoting his floating grocery store with everyone one by one.

What? Floating grocery store?

   Hiss, the Huo family can do it. After setting up a big ship, it turned out to be a grocery store!

   Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai stood at the bow of the boat and answered everyone's questions: "I still have to fish. We are fishermen, so what do we do if we don't fish?"

"To be a grocery store is because we feel that it takes a lot of work and time to go to the city to buy something, and it is too time-consuming. At first, we wanted to prepare more for ourselves, but then we thought that if our family needs it, other families should also need it, so we prepared more There are some. Everyone can go on board to see, there are cloths with food and vegetables, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, sugar, bowls, dishes and chopsticks, baskets, dustpans, hemp ropes, oil for lighting, candles..."

  Before finishing speaking, everyone boarded the Huo family's boat together and entered the cabin to watch the excitement.

  Hiss, have you prepared so much cloth? One cabin is almost full.

   "The Huo family, how much is this Ge Ma?"

   "One hundred and sixty cash for a horse, and four cash for a foot. You can buy it with copper coins, or exchange it with fish, shrimp and crab."

so cheap?

   "I want one!" "I want two!" "Leave me three."

   "It's all there."

  Ms. Yang responded with a smile, while bringing cloth for everyone. She knew that Ge Ma was easy to sell, even if a horse only made ten cents, she would not suffer a loss.

  A piece of kudzu hemp, if it is made of narrow sleeves and short brown, adults can make two clothes, and there is still some fabric left over for a half-grown child to make one.

   To change and wash, each person needs at least one horse.

  Taoyedu stopped more than 20 boats.

   Once everyone buys, most of the Gema is sold, and the fine linen, coarse linen, cotton cloth and cotton linen are also cut by several feet, but not many are bought.

   Other groceries are also bought. But the short seller turned out to be four jars of ten catties of wine!

   Huo Xi really couldn't think of it.

  She traveled around the inner and outer cities for a long time, knowing that the wine industry was well developed in the Wei Dynasty. No matter the inner city or the outer city, there were many restaurants and restaurants in the capital.

  At the beginning when Taizu had just established the dynasty, food was in short supply, so he adopted a policy of banning alcohol and growing glutinous rice, and everyone held back for many years. Later, the political situation stabilized and the alcohol ban was opened again.

   And learn from the lessons of Wu Dynasty’s harsh taxation that led to the collapse of the dynasty, and adopt low taxes to encourage economic development.

  As for the wine administration, not only the delicacy and monopoly were abolished, but also no special management agency was set up, and the wine tax was no longer set up alone.

  Compared to the previous dynasties, the liquor tax is 40% to 50%, which is already extremely low.

  Because Taizu was born in poverty, for the common people to make wine and vinegar, in addition to the 2% koji tax, no sales tax was levied. led to the vigorous development of the wine industry.

  The winemaking process is even more perfect, not to mention the koji making and distillation techniques are becoming more mature, and the types of wine are becoming more and more complex. This led to the emergence of famous wines, such as shochu in Shanxi and rice wine in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

  Huo Xi saw that there were many restaurants and restaurants in the city, and there were special young ladies selling wine to customers, so he thought of doing some wine business by the way.

  So they let Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi search for some rice wine brewed by the villagers in the villages, and sell them for sale.

  Huo Erhuai was not willing to drink that expensive wine, and Yang did not dare to buy too much, so he only bought two jars each. Unexpectedly, at the first sale of Taoyedu, the couple were so busy making wine and packing wine, they were so busy.

   After a while, the four jars of wine were sold out.

   The family couldn't help but be speechless.

   "Huo Erhuai, why don't you collect more wine? You can't drink more than one or two of this wine, and it's not enough to drink! Is there any kind of five catties and three catties, help me collect some."

Huo Erhuai scratched his head: "I'm selling wine this time, I don't know if I can sell it, and I don't dare to charge more. If everyone likes to drink, I'll go find some more for you tomorrow. Help everyone take it back by the way."

   "Thank you very much. I want a jar of rice wine!"

   "I want a jar of rice wine!"

   "I want two jars of rice wine."

   "Okay, I'll ask my two children to memorize it, so as not to forget it later." As soon as he turned his head and was about to order, he saw Huo Xizheng teaching Yang Fu that he had already memorized it in the notebook.

   "Uncles, I have memorized it all, and I will definitely bring it back for everyone tomorrow."

  Everyone gave Huo Xi a thumbs up: "It's still your boy who is on the road."

  Hey, Huo Erhuai looked at Huo Xi with a smile, looking very proud.

  After everyone dispersed, the family counted their supplies, and only wine was sold short. Four jars of wine, forty catties, were sold out by twenty or so fishermen.

  The yellow rice wine costs 15 renminbi a catty, and the alcohol content is low. There is no entertainment for everyone at night.

  Huo Xi knew it could be sold, but he didn't expect it to be so easy.

  Ms. Yang said she found out that one stone of japonica rice can make about 80 catties of wine. Wine making in the countryside also requires the purchase of distiller’s yeast, which is 20% of the tax on distiller’s yeast.

  They go to the village to buy in small quantities, and they don’t have to pay business tax.

  In the city, Huo Xi found out that the small wine is rice wine, which costs thirty yuan a catty, and the big wine is distilled wine, which costs about forty-five yuan per catty. Of course, all kinds of wine are also divided into grades and grades.

  Mr. Yang is counting the cloth and copper plates, Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu are putting things away, and Huo Xi is thinking about wine.

  Four altars of wine cost six dollars, and the cost is almost one tael of wine and one penny.

  Mr. Yang thought that most of the fishermen would be reluctant to buy more, so she specially chose one or two packs of wine bottles bought in the village. They sold two wines for three pennies just now.

   A jar of wine can earn ninety coins by selling it loosely. (here calculated on the basis of sixteen taels per catty)

not much. Also make a lot of money. Everyone docked at Taoyedu, knowing everything, Huo Erhuai and Yang's didn't want to sell too much.

  But if you sell other fishermen, you need to sell a couple of wines for two cents. Liquor is a lucrative business, if you can't make money from liquor, Huo Xi feels a bit disadvantaged.

   Thank you for your support and encouragement these days.

  (end of this chapter)