NOVEL NEXT Chapter 78
Chapter 78: Shot
Jinhua Fu has a prosperous economy and is even more prosperous than Guangzhou Fu, so Li Baolu can’t take his eyes off the city as soon as he enters the city, typical of a countryman entering the city.
Even Gu Jingyun was also attracted by the liveliness of Jinhua Mansion, and several times he simply dragged Li Baolu to the side to watch the liveliness.
On the other hand, Li An and the four are used to seeing the prosperity of the capital, so it is not new.
Li An and the three of them all stood aside with smiles and waited for them to watch the excitement before leaving, but Peng Yu couldn’t help but rolled his eyes with disdain.
But he dared to roll his eyes, and dared not speak the same sarcasm as before.
The two children are too small, if he mocks Li Baolu, Gu Jingyun can use words to run him to death, but he can’t talk about others; if he bullies Gu Jingyun, it will be even worse, Li Baolu will make him do the most tiring work and eat the worst Food, and even going to bed at night may be the last. You must know that he was the most injured among the four. Not only did he not receive preferential treatment for the injured, he was even abused.
Peng Yu’s heart was shattered, but Young Master Li Baolu’s arrangements made him have no chance to resist.
Peng Yu followed the two children around the street with a suffocated expression, seeing them go to the store after watching the juggling, and even bought a lot of snacks and stuffed them in their mouths…
When his legs were about to break, they finally stopped in front of a small inn.
Since they are poor people, they naturally cannot afford to live in a good inn, and even if they live in a small inn, they can still only book a room for eight people.
Peng Yu, who clearly has a lot of money but can’t use it: …
“You guys are waiting in the house, Baolu and I are going to buy something.”
Seeing Gu Jingyun pulling Li Baolu out, Peng Yu breathed a sigh of relief and lay spread out on the kang.
Tao Wu smiled and patted his chest, “Zi Qing has finally learned to be smart.”
He complained long ago.
Peng Yu rolled his eyes, “Do you think I’d like to do this? Both of these people hold grudges too much, so if one fights the other, they make up for it. Wubi is no match for others, and Wen is no match. What else can I do other than keep my mouth shut? ”
Li An said with a smile: “You do have self-knowledge, but you should use your heart. Just look at the actions of those two children. Whether you inherit the family business or become an official, it will be very useful in the future.”
Peng Yu was confused, “What’s the use of watching them go shopping and play?”
Li An shook his head and laughed, looking at Wei Yingjie.
Wei Yingjie smiled and said, “Young Master Gu and Miss Li have indeed seen a lot of things they haven’t seen before, and they do look like people from the countryside who haven’t seen the world, but do you think they went this way just to see something strange?”
Wei Yingjie said seriously: “This way, we followed them not only to know that there are three big security bureaus in Jinhua Mansion, but also that weaving workshops and embroidery workshops are mostly concentrated in the east of the city, but the ones with the highest raw silk prices are not those with the most output. They want raw silk but have no access, so the price is fair and higher than those of the big weaving workshops, the disadvantage is that they want less.”
“In addition to the fine silks and satins that Jinhuafu sells overseas, there are also porcelain, tea and ham,” Wei Yingjie added: “People in the northern regions also like these four things. I think the next time we will import goods from Out of these four.”
Li An nodded, “You must know everything before making a decision, so that you can make the most accurate decision. They are still children, but they have such considerations and wisdom. Isn’t it worth our study?”
Peng Yu got up and straightened himself up. After thinking for a while, he nodded and admitted his mistake, “Young Master, it’s my fault. I lost my temper due to prejudice.”
Li An patted him on the shoulder and said, “Knowing your mistakes can improve a lot. There is still a long way to go from Jinhua to the capital, and we still have something to learn.”
Tao Wu nodded again and again, “I just want to learn her disguise from Miss Li now. If we know this from the beginning, why can’t we get rid of the pursuers?”
“Then you have to learn from Miss Li’s idea of disguising, otherwise it’s useless even if you show your deeds.” Li Baolu arranged all their identities and origins, and kept them from showing their deeds all the way. to Jinhua Mansion.
Li An watched them talk. In fact, he also benefited a lot from this journey. He now knows the output of the upper, middle and lower third-class fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and he knows that in addition to the land tax and Ding tax, the people also need to pay all kinds of taxes every year. Donations, so as to determine which local officials are greedy, and which local officials are petty greedy…
He also knew that although commerce was prosperous, there were not many people willing to leave their hometowns to do business. Except for those who were ambitious, they would not be able to survive…
He even knew that the soldiers in the garrison sometimes participated in the business trip. Some people made a fortune on this basis, but more people were forced to use Taoism to support their families because they had no military salary.
These are all learned from the businessmen who also smuggled through the trails on the road. Those people are not even called businessmen, because most of them are still farmers or tenant farmers, and they only take the risk of smuggling in the slack season to make some money .
The money earned by one trip back and forth is really worthless in Li An’s eyes. He thought, if the land can bring them enough income, why should they take the risk to do such a thing?
Li An was raised as a future prince since he was a child, and his responsibility is the whole world.
The mountains and rivers in the world are his land, and the people in the world are his people. Dad taught him that if he wants to be a virtuous ruler, he must be the father of the world.
A father will not compete with his children for profit. His wish is to make the children well, so he will not indulge in enjoyment and forget the original intention.
Li An doesn’t know if he can keep his original intention in the future, but now he hopes that the people of the world will be prosperous and healthy.
So what he thought was how to bring these people who have gone astray back to normal, so that they can support their families without taking risks.
Li An only had thoughts, and Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu came back. They brought back not only food, but also a set of pen and ink.
Gu Jingyun handed the letter to Li An, “Write the letter down and I’ll have it delivered.”
Li Baolu informed them: “I have already found two buyers, but they don’t want a lot of goods, so it is conservatively estimated that we have to stay in Jinhua Mansion for two days. There are many traces left, and we can’t erase them, so we try to go out as little as possible and communicate with outsiders in the past two days. Especially your mandarin has not come to the fore. Jinhua mansion is different from those small intestine trails, even if it is a running hall The guys here are also very knowledgeable, and they must be able to hear your accent, so try to speak as little as possible.”
Gu Jingyun and Li Baolu were young and grew up in Qiongzhou. Although they learned standard Mandarin from Qin Xinfang and He Zipei, there are people from all places in Sin Village, and Mandarin with accents can be compiled into a book. Books, the two are smart, and they can learn it after listening to it two or three times.
So whether you want to pretend to be a Cantonese, Fujian, Zhejiang, or Huguang, they can do it all.
But these four are different, perhaps because they have never been in contact with them, the four of them have difficulty listening to Mandarin with accents, let alone speaking, so they can only try to keep their mouths shut and pretend to be introverted along the way.
Fortunately, Gu Jingyun is good at talking. I don’t know if it was unintentional or intentional. The questions he asked when talking with people along the way were all on Li An’s itch.
This also makes Li An like Gu Jingyun more.
Gu Jingyun, who was liked, certainly couldn’t do such things as delivering letters. He handed the letter to Li Baolu and said, “Send it to the security guard on the day we leave.”
“To the prefect of Luzhou?”
Gu Jingyun nodded, “This is the hidden line that the Prince’s Mansion has exposed in front of the emperor. When things are sent to the Prince’s Mansion, they will definitely be copied and sent to the emperor.”
The corners of Gu Jingyun’s mouth twitched slightly, and said, “After we bought the car, we hurried to the capital, stopping less on the road, so that when the letter was delivered to the capital, we also arrived in the Hebei area. It was the most dangerous time, so I didn’t believe it, and the emperor came forward. To trouble them, they dare to chase and kill us blatantly!”
The next day, the group brought their own goods to the south of the city to find Zhiniang.
The two weavers who had made an appointment had tested raw silk, and they were slightly reluctant to ask: “Can’t it be cheaper? If the price is lower, we will ask for a few more pounds.”
The quality of the raw silk this time is very good. If they are careful, they may be able to weave a good brocade. Unfortunately, they have limited money and can’t eat too much.
Li Baolu thought for a while and said, “If you can introduce us to a few Zhiniangs, how about we give you twenty cents per catty?”
“We want more and introduce Zhiniang to you. Why should it be cheaper? Why is it only 20 cents cheaper?” One Zhiniang rolled his eyes and said, “How about 50 cents cheaper per catty?”
Li Baolu put away the raw silk expressionlessly and said sternly: “Sister, when we buy this raw silk, we have to pay 600 wen. The people who sleep and eat this way are earning this hard money. There’s nothing left.”
Zhiniang smiled and said, “Didn’t you still earn one hundred and fifty cents?”
She secretly thought, she earned 150 cents per catty as soon as she changed hands, what else could she not be satisfied with?
“But we didn’t count the room and board expenses, the city entry fee, and even some tolls. All these add up to a lot. You see, there are six people in our family.”
Zhi Niang was startled and asked, “Why do you have so many people here? It’s not a waste of money.”
Li Baolu said helplessly: “There is no way, there are many bandits on the road, if we have fewer people, I am afraid that we will not even have our lives and goods.”
Zhiniang pursed her lips and didn’t speak, and the other one gently tugged at her and said, “Sister, forget it, it’s good for 20 cents cheaper.”
She glared at her sister, glanced at the four big men behind the child, lowered her head and said to Li Baolu, “Okay, but you have to deliver the goods to my door.”
Li Baolu patted her chest and said, “Sister, don’t worry, my father and the others have nothing but great strength.
Zhiniang was satisfied, opened the sack and picked it carefully.
Li Baolu sold these two Zhiniangs for seven hundred and fifty cents a pound, but the Zhiniang who was introduced to them sold for eight hundred cents a catty. When a cart and a basket of raw silk were sold, they earned fourteen taels of silver.
Excluding their expenses along the way, the six people finally earned about 13 taels.
Li An sighed holding this bit of hard-earned money, “It’s really hard to make a living.”
They ate and slept all the way, but in the end, the money they earned was not enough for them to eat in the delicacy building. The four suddenly felt that they used to be extravagant, and a sense of guilt rose in their hearts.
Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun were very satisfied. They only walked from Guangxin to Jinhua for more than three days, and they made 13 taels in just three days. No wonder so many people went to do business and smuggle. It was a huge profit.
Li Baolu looked at the last basket of silk and satin, and said, “This is more valuable, let’s go, let’s sell the silk and satin.”
The silk and satin are sold directly to big companies. Although the price they give is low, it is still fair. The key is safety.
The silk and satin that Li Baolu chose were very good. The shopkeeper of the shop gave a price of 625 cents per piece after reading it, and he made more than half of the money for one piece.
Wei Yingjie was speechless, “Then we just buy silk and satin to sell, why do we need to bring raw silk that takes up space?”
“Because we have no money or force, we are just honest farmers.” Before, their silk and satin were still hidden in raw silk.
You must know that silk and satin were hard currency in ancient times. This thing is well preserved. After 20 years, it is still beautiful and beautiful, and it is still valuable.
Carrying carelessly on his back is no different from walking through the market with gold in his arms. Even if the bandits do not rob it, those who see it will not be able to bear it.
“So those who can do silk and satin business are all big companies. Look at the people who put silk and satin outside on the trail, all of them are stuffed in raw silk.” Li Baolu happily counted the money and said, “But these are all with us now. It doesn’t matter, we’ll buy a mule cart in a while, add some tea and ham, and drive to the capital immediately.”