Fight the Giants

  Chapter 191 Buy it

   Sticky rice? Yang Fu frowned thinking about the stock in the shop.

  But the store has too many varieties of goods, and Yang Fu really can't think of the item of glutinous rice.

  Looking at Huo Xi, she felt that Xi'er was careful, and could discover details that others couldn't.

   "The yield of glutinous rice is low, and the selling price is naturally a few cents more expensive than rice. Farmers grow less." Huo Erhuai said.

"It's okay, let's just ask casually. Parents, please ask the farmers who share our land. If they are willing to plant, our family will take care of the harvest, and the price will follow the market. If the price is low this year, it will not be lower than last year. receive."

  Huo Erhuai nodded in response.

  Mr. Yang asked her with a puzzled look: "Why did the glutinous rice suddenly rise so much?"

  Huo Xi wanted to inquire why the price of glutinous rice continued to rise in the past few months.

  In the past few years, the weather has been good and the weather has been good. All parts of the south of the Yangtze River have become more fertile. The output of various grains has increased year by year, but the price has dropped. But glutinous rice has risen quietly.

   It's hard for Huo Xi to think about the reason.

  Glutinous rice played a very important role in ancient times. In addition to being used as grain, it is also indispensable for wine making. The capital can't stop drinking now, and breweries can be seen everywhere in the countryside. The demand for glutinous rice is not small.

  In addition, in ancient times when there was no adhesive, glutinous rice mortar was often used as an adhesive. Glutinous rice paddles are used to build houses, repair city walls, build pagodas, and build mausoleums.

  Glutinous rice mortar should be made of pure glutinous rice with lime and alum. Huo Xi has read some documents, saying that to build a section of a kilometer, that is, two miles long city wall, it takes 50 tons of glutinous rice, or 850 shi.

  Since Emperor Yongkang came to power, he has made frequent moves.

  First, in the first year of Yongkang, he sent his trusted and important minister Ping Jiangbo Chen Xuan as the chief soldier of water transportation, stationed in Huai'an, to manage water affairs.

  The General Soldier of Water Transport is in charge of the transportation of grain and water along the 3,500-mile canal, and the seven provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Henan and Shandong are under his jurisdiction.

  At the same time, the Twelve Guards of the Cao Mansion Guards began to form.

   It is said that there will be thousands of tank boats along the canal. Cao's army will reach tens of thousands, all of which will be dispatched by Ping Jiangbo, a trusted minister of Emperor Yongkang.

  In the past few years, except for the year when Emperor Yongkang first came to the throne, the boats of all fishermen were recruited to transport grain, and the following years were all voluntary and not compulsory.

   There is also a selection of ships transporting grain, not all voluntary fishing boats are recruited.

  The Huo family's boats are new and have a large transport capacity. In addition, the Huo family intends to do business along the road. These years, they have been transporting grain to the north every year.

  But I heard that fishermen’s boats will not be used this year.

  He Feng also said that he would be transferred. As for which guard to transfer to, he didn't tell Huo Xi, only that he was still in the capital.

   Now that the price of glutinous rice has risen, is there any action from the DPRK and China?

  It's a pity that she is just a small person. The matter of the court had to be made public before she got the exact news.

  However, large companies can get a head start ahead of others through some channels. If others take the first step, they will be able to lay out the layout first. If the news is late, there will be no chance of picking up the leak.

   "Uncle, tell shopkeeper Shen that he should pay attention to the price of glutinous rice, and charge some from everyone."

   Seeing Yang Fu nodding, he said to Huo Erhuai: "Father, when you go to the countryside with your mother, you should also go to the village to ask. If the farmers have surplus glutinous rice, you and your mother will also collect some."

   "Okay, Dad understands."

  In the days that followed, Huo Xi, Yang Fu and Shopkeeper Shen quietly inquired about prices in the outer city and inner city, and went to the grain shop to inquire about the price of glutinous rice.

   He went out to socialize again and wanted to inquire about some news.

  The news was heard, but there was no useful news. I only heard that there is a grain shop that collects glutinous rice and transports it to the north.

  But in previous years, all kinds of grain collected in Jiangnan were shipped out, and now she doesn't know if the shipment volume of various grain merchants has increased. They won't tell her about their business opportunities, and they won't show her their account books, so they can't judge.

   and Yang Fu squatted in front of the grain shop for several days, but found nothing unusual.

  Thinking about it, this kind of large-scale purchase and sale of goods will not be delivered to the shop, but will be transshipped at the dock.

   Still need to build a news network and make more contacts in order to get more reliable internal news. If you have been falling behind, I am afraid that there is really nothing to miss.

  Unable to find any news, Huo Xi only asked shopkeeper Shen to pay more attention.

  My own shop also began to quietly stock up.

   Besides that, Huo Xi also put the matter aside. Just focus on finding warehouses in the city.

   Shopkeeper Shen and Yang Fu went to the shipyard to place an order.

Huo Xi wanted to add a few big boats to Guangfengshui. Originally, he only planned to add five boats, but shopkeeper Shen said that there was still money in the account, so he simply added ten boats. Two boats were prepared for each shop, one in and one out, so as not to delay thing.

  If he had said it a few days earlier, Huo Xixing would have nodded.

  But now after her investigation these past few days, the prices of all building materials have quietly increased except for glutinous rice.

  Huo Xi's heart was pounding, always feeling that something big was about to happen.

  There must be some flexible living money in the account. If there is a big business opportunity, there must be enough money to stock up. Fixed assets are not easy to realize.

   Shopkeeper Shen listened to it, took the bank notes and went to the shipyard to order a ship.

  A day later, I found Huo Xi, and patted my chest in amazement: "I went to several shipyards, and the orders in their hands have been queued for several months."

What's going on here.

   Could it be that the boss's analysis is correct, is there really something big going to happen in Beijing?

Huo Xi thought about it for a while: "The shipyard's orders are probably placed by the Water Transport Department. The seven provinces have to prepare tens of thousands of water ships, and we estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of water ships near the capital. You can send people to the nearby cities. Make an order, if you have to wait for several months, you might as well go to Fujian to buy a boat and come back. Even if the journey is long, it is better than waiting."

   Shopkeeper Shen nodded: "Okay, I will arrange for people to go to Zhejiang and Fujian immediately."

  After talking about the ship, let’s talk about the warehouse.

Shen Qianzhong said that a businessman he knew sent him a message, saying that a businessman in the inner city wanted to transfer the warehouse. He went to see it and thought it was very suitable, but the other party asked to buy his two shops together. , Not just disassembled to sell.

"what price?"

   "Two thousand guan."

   "Two thousand guan?" Huo Xi frowned. It wasn't that he didn't have money in the account, but when he spent two thousand guan at once, he was a little tight on money.

"The price is double that of the outer city, but I've seen it. The location of the shop is very good. Even if we don't use it, it's not difficult to rent it out. The warehouse is also big, twice the size of our current one. And There is also a cellar under the warehouse, and it is suitable to store some precious things in the cellar."

   "Where is it?"

   "Sanyuan Lane."

   "Sanyuan Lane?" Mother's embroidery shop is located in Sanyuan Lane. The location there is good, and the price is not too expensive.

   "Okay, let's go and have a look tomorrow. Buy it if it suits you."

  The next day, the two went to see the shop and warehouse.

  The warehouse is very large, but the shop area is very small, and they are all just two-bay shops. But in Sanyuan Lane, you can buy two shops and a large warehouse for 2,000 guan, which is not too expensive.

   After paying the money and getting the red contract, Huo Xi asked Shen Qianzhong to arrange for someone to clean the warehouse and shop, and repair the places that should be repaired.

  The two shops are not rented, and they are going to be reserved for personal use. Huo Xi plans to open another Guangfengshui in the inner city. Pick some more expensive and rarer goods and sell them loosely in the inner city.

  After buying the shop and warehouse, Huo Xi turned over the books again.

  Withholding the money for the five cargo ships, there is really not much money left in the account, so worrying.

  She wants to buy land to grow grain and mulberry. But where do you get the money?

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  (end of this chapter)