Fight the Giants

  Chapter 98 Needs to be full of food

   "Xi'er?" Seeing that Huo Xi was not as excited as they were, Yang Fu turned his head and asked.

   "Wait a minute before building a house, I want to buy a field first."

   "Buy a field?"

Huo Xi nodded: "Well, I want to buy a field. Dad, you have also seen that this time we help farmers transport grain, and the grain tax in this dynasty is much lower than that in the Wu Dynasty. The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is good, and the grain can be harvested every year .”

  Huo Erhuai nodded. One mu of land collects three liters, three infusions and five scoops of grain tax. As long as you serve with your heart, you can have a lot of surplus every year.

Huo Xi continued: "I saw on the shore today that many grain merchants from the north were harvesting grain. We bought fields and planted grain. Not only do we not have to buy grain to eat, but we can also sell the rest to the grain in the north. Merchant. If we load one hundred shi in a boat, even if we only earn one penny per catty, we can earn one hundred and twenty wen per jin, and for one hundred shi, we can earn at least twelve taels of silver."

   "Twelve taels for a trip?"

  Huo Erhuai and Yang Fuqi both opened their mouths wide and looked at her.

  Huo Xi nodded, "That's right. What if we earn two cents per catty? Is it twenty-four taels per boat? Can we turn it over again?"

"Then let's come to Huai'an for three days, six days back and forth, even if the time is longer, half a month or one month, we can only sell it once, then can we have this number?" Huo Erhuai stretched out his hand. Palm signal.

  Huo Xi smiled and nodded at him.

  Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu immediately covered their mouths with their hands. Unbelievable joy filled his face.

   After a while, he came back to his senses, "But we can't produce so much grain per mu? How many fields do we have to buy to have a hundred shi of grain?" Yang Fu scratched his head.

  Huo Xi rolled his eyes at him, "We buy a few acres every year, and one day we can buy many, many acres of land. Besides, won't we harvest grain like cloth?"

  Yang Fu's eyes lit up: "Yes, we can still collect food!"

   Looking at Huo Xi and Huo Erhuai with his neck tilted, "In two years, when I grow up, our family can buy another boat. Just like the Qian family, with two boats, we can transport more food!"

   You can make more money. He rubbed his hands happily.

   It's almost invisible.

  Huo Erhuai was enthused by the two children: "Then let's not build a house, let's buy fields!"

   "Let's find a field to buy when we go back!" Huo Erhuai couldn't sit still anymore, he hugged the silver together in his big palm, and put it back into the box.

  He wants to save money to buy a field, buy a field to plant grain, sell the money when he gets the grain, and buy a field after getting the money.

  One day there will be a lot of fertile land at home. In this way, he and the child's mother can also wait to collect the land rent like a landlord. It's time to take good care of the child's mother.

  The house is built after the land is bought. They have a boat, and they have lived on the boat for ten years. The boat is also a home.

  Just as he was about to open the deck and hide the money, there was movement outside.

   "Father, don't keep it, we have to pay everyone's feet later, and also lend money to buy northern goods for everyone."

   "That's right, Dad forgot."

   Patted his forehead, put the money away, and when he got out of the cabin, he saw some people boarding the springboard to their own boat, and greeted them with a busy smile.

  Originally, it was agreed that I would pay 30 Wen a day for helping to bring the cotton cloth. It happened to be three days, and I had to pay 90 Wen feet in advance for a boat.

  Although it is unfair to those who ship a lot, those with a large ship will presumably have to bring more cargo and borrow more money. For one reason, after receiving the money, no one complained, and everyone was happy.

  All the money was paid to each family, and the money was lent out.

  Although Huo Xi let go of the words when he came, she could entrust the goods to her family to sell, and the Huo family had the backing, but everyone didn't dare to borrow more.

  If it weren't for the oppression of life, most people would not want to borrow money to live on.

  They are all honest fishermen, self-sufficient, and have not yet developed the skills to do business. Although seeing the Huo family sell the cloth they brought, everyone was worried about the risk.

  If the North goods cannot be sold, they will have to pay debts to live. The burden is too heavy.

   Even Huo Xi didn't even take out the bank notes, and only used the one hundred and eighty taels of cotton cloth sold today, plus the thirty taels brought from home, a total of less than two hundred taels of silver was borrowed.

  Looking at the dozen taels of silver in his hand, Huo Erhuai was a little worried.

"Xi'er, if we can't sell our silk cloth, how can we have the money to buy it? Everyone borrows twenty taels. Our boat is bigger than them, but only a dozen taels are left." Not much to buy.

  I let go of what I said before, if I want to borrow money from Taohuadu, I have to borrow it, but I don’t have much left.

  Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi and pursed his lips.

"Father, you forgot, I still have the silver I borrowed from Guanshi Huo. We spent eighty taels of cotton cloth before, and I still have silver in my hand. Even if the silk cloth can't be sold, we still have silver to receive the goods. Don't worry, Dad."

  Huo Erhuai heaved a sigh of relief.

"That's good, that's good. If we can buy a boatload of northern goods and bring them back when we go back to empty space, and earn some money, we can buy a few more acres of land. Your mother will be very happy! "

  The child's mother misses the Yang family's former farmland house.

   That's great, they will soon be people with Tianmu! I can eat the food I grow.

Huo Erhuai put a dozen taels into his purse and stuffed it into Huo Xi's hands, "Tomorrow you go ashore to see if there are any good things, so you buy them back. Dad doesn't understand you yet, so you discuss it with your uncle. Look at it Buy whatever you want."

  Huo Xi took the purse and nodded in response.

   "Father, have you asked how long we can stay in Huai'an?"

   "Father asked, and they said it should not exceed ten days."

  Huo Xi nodded. Sure enough, this dynasty restarted water transportation, and it was mostly the system of the previous dynasty.

   "Ten days, then we have enough time, we can choose slowly." Yang Fu breathed a sigh of relief.

  Huo Xi turned to look at him: "Didn't you still miss your mother and Nian'er just now? Are you not in a hurry to go back?"

  Yang Fu choked.

   "Even if we can go shopping for ten days, the rest of Taoyedu may not be able to wait for ten days. Let's go back together, so we can have someone to take care of us on the way."

  Huo Erhuai nodded: "Exactly, if you fancy something tomorrow, you can buy it, and you don't have to wait too long."

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu nodded in response.

  Tonight, all the families in Taoyedu borrowed money from Huo Erhuai, and after getting the money, the family discussed together what to buy to go back to Beijing.

   There are a few who didn't help bring the goods, and today they took all the things they brought ashore and sold them, and got some money.

  For example, Mrs. Sun also brought some cloth to sell. But she has little capital, and all she brings is linen. Although it was sold as soon as it landed, the selling price was not high.

   But this is enough for Mrs. Sun to taste the sweetness.

  Originally, I only fished in the rivers and rivers, day after day, earning some hard money by labor. Unexpectedly, this time I learned a few tricks from the Huo family boy, and started a business of buying low and selling high.

   Mrs. Sun tasted the sweetness, looked at the silver in hand, and figured out what kind of northern goods to buy, and discussed with Qian Sanduo all night.

  Although she brought the goods by herself and did not help the Huo family transport the cloth, Qian Xiaoxia listened to her and borrowed twenty taels from the Huo family.

  Including my own, I have dozens of taels of silver in my hand, and the goods bought back from Huai'an will only be more than when I came here.

   After making money, Xiaoyu will have the money to propose a kiss.

   Like Sun, there are quite a few people who have various ideas. They are all calculating the borrowed money and the money they can use at home, thinking about going ashore to buy some northern goods tomorrow.

  (end of this chapter)