Fight the Giants

  Seeing his eyes, Huo Xi nodded at him: "I bought a lot."

  Gong Ziyi opened his mouth wide, this virtuous brother, is his brain flooded? What a pity for his virtuous brother, I'm afraid it's innocent, he was coaxed and deceived.

   "The property in the north cannot be bought," with a heartbroken expression.

"Not to mention that the land is not fertile and the water is not abundant. The grassland tribes outside the customs are still looking at the tiger. Why can't you figure out to buy land in the north? If you can't buy it near the capital, I will take you to Pingjiang, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places to buy it. "

   Which place in the south of the Yangtze River does not produce more grain than the north?

   There was a pain in the face like the money was in the water.

  Huo Xi originally wanted him to buy more land in the north, but after hearing what he said, he had no choice but to shut up.

  Moving the capital is now confirmed, but no one knows when the capital will be moved.

   According to the history in Huo Xi's memory, it has been more than ten years since the capital was moved. If you can't get food from growing, and you can't make money if you leave it for nothing, it's better to buy land in Jiangnan and other places.

   However, as Emperor Yongkang chose an auspicious land in Changping, as soon as the news spread back to the capital, many people would be moved by the news. At that time, I am afraid that the good land property will not be bought by myself.

  Even if you can't move the capital for a while, as long as you make a good plan, you won't lose money.

  Huo Xi made up his mind.

   "I got some news, so I bought some more properties in Beiping."

   "Is it the news of moving the capital?"

  Huo Xi nodded.

  Gong Ziyi didn't take it seriously, "Moving the capital is related to the fate of the country. This matter is too big, and it cannot be decided by the emperor alone."

  Iron-clad aristocratic family and a dynasty with flowing water, it is not that their palace family has not experienced dynasty subversion.

  Now the Zhu Wei Dynasty is only three emperors, the Taizu was born in mud legs, he has no background, and he did not inherit the treasury of the previous dynasty. Now the court has so much money to move the capital.

  It is so easy to build a city and a palace. A huge amount of money was spent on this.

  Seeing that he had plans in mind, Huo Xi didn't say much. Just talk about some recent developments and listen to him talk about going to the grassland to trade.

  Gong Ziyi couldn’t enter the city a few days ago. For some reason, the city’s merchants, who came back from the grasslands for business, interrogated them severely, causing him to sleep outside for several days.

   Now that he returned to Beiping, he saw his virtuous brother whom he hadn't seen for two years. He was very happy and wanted to take Huo Xi to live in his house.

  Huo Xi refused to go, so he had no choice but to run back to his home to settle down, and then came to Huo Xi's house with his luggage.

   "You refused to go to Brother Wei's side, so Brother Wei had no choice but to come to you. It's rare for me and my brother to meet each other, so it's time to hold a candle all night and talk together."

  Who will sit down and talk with you.

  Anyway, the house is very big. How about Wu Jin? He wants to live wherever he wants, but just talking? Forget it, thank you for the invitation, no talk.

  Gong Ziyi was not able to sit down and talk with the good brother, so he was not too sad, anyway, he just stayed at the good brother's house. He transported the goods from the prairie dealers to Peiping and handed them over to the shopkeeper to take care of him, and he became a hands-off shopkeeper.

  Seeing that Huo Xi wanted to see Zhuangzi, she excitedly wanted to follow.

  Seeing that he would not leave, Huo Xi had no choice but to let him follow.

  The two went out of the gate, got into the carriage, and went out of the city towards Zhuangzi.

  Mu Yanle stopped in the dark with his horse, his eyes were calm, and he watched her carriage drive away calmly.

  Kan Er glanced at him cautiously, "Miss Huo also has acquaintances in Beiping? That young master is from a rich family at first glance."

   Either rich or expensive. He is also so close to Mrs. Huo, and they seem to know each other very well.

   Li glared at him. Kan Er touched his nose and pursed his lips tightly.

  Mu Yanle turned his horse's head and left in the opposite direction.

  In the interrogation room, everyone watched Mu Yan enter with a gust of cold wind.

   With a cold face, he went straight into the dark room. There are several hidden stakes in the grassland that abducted the emperor's eldest grandson.

  Those people included people from the grasslands, people of mixed blood from the grasslands and Han people, and some were Han people. Several hidden stakes who worked for the grassland khanate were hung up for twelve hours for non-stop interrogation, and eighteen instruments of torture were used in turn.

  All kinds of torture, just to die quickly.

   I have said everything that should be said, and there is nothing more to say. Unexpectedly, half an hour after Mu Yan entered the interrogation room, he dug up some information.

   hurried out of the city again with a group of people.

   Within a few days, as the city was cleaned up, several strongholds outside the city that he didn't even know about the hidden piles were also dug out by Mu Yan.

  Peking City, a piece of wind is clear and sunny.

  Huo Xi also felt that the sky was high and the clouds were wide, and that the climate in the north was very different from that in the south of the Yangtze River, and the sky and the earth seemed to be wider. Is it because of the small population of Shuntian Prefecture?

  The group first went to the three Zhuangzi that Shen Qianzhong bought before.

  The three Zhuangzi all have servants, and they also sent servants from Jiangnan. After two years of operation, they are already in good shape. In the past two years, they have been able to supply a lot of grain to the grain shops in Beiping City.

  The mulberry seedlings were also transported with the ship earlier, and now they have been planted on Zhuangzi for a year. This time, Huo Xi brought two women who were good at raising silkworms from the Zhuangzi on Jiangjun Mountain, and arranged them in the Zhuangzi. He led people to build a silkworm house, and raised the silkworm seeds he brought. .

  According to the weather in the north, it should not be a problem to raise silkworms twice before winter.

   In this way, in autumn and winter, raw silk is sold in cloth shops in Beiping. When the production of silk cocoons is stable in the future, it will be possible to recruit a few weavers in the north to weave cloth in Zhuangzi.

   "My dear brother, you want to raise silkworms in the north?"

  Huo Xi nodded: "Silkworms can also be raised in the north."

  Gong Ziyi sighed with emotion, his good brother raised silkworms to the north.

   Li Neng also said that his good brother is not like a fisherman, but rather he was raised in a merchant family. But if you want him to see, his virtuous brother must have been raised by the villager's family since he was a child.

  Look, those who bought and cultivated fields have all planted to the north. There is not enough land in the south of the Yangtze River for him to grow. Ran all the way north to farm. Tsk.

  Huo Xi ignored him, thinking he was very idle. Don't stay in the city, as if you have nothing to do, and run with your own Zhuangzi.

   There is no time to pay attention to him, only busy with Zhuangzi's affairs.

  It is estimated that the field in the north cannot grow grain for two seasons. She wants to interplant some mulberry seedlings to increase the output of one mu of land.

  Sangtian has a high income, but there is still a shortage of food in the north, so we still have to find ways to increase food income. The farm servants and tenants are frightened of hunger, and no amount of money is as good as being able to eat.

  Be full before thinking about eating well.

  So Zhuangzi in the north still needs to grow more food. If you can’t plant two seasons, let’s see if you can plant some short-cycle crops, such as soybeans and other miscellaneous grains, after harvesting one season’s grain.

  While thinking about it, he called Zhuangtou to inquire about Zhuangzi's situation. Seeing that Zhuangzi took care of it well, he encouraged them.

  After checking the three original Zhuangzi, they went to the newly bought Zhuangzi one by one.

   Of the six newly purchased villas, except for the three hot spring villages, there is not much lack of servants, and the other three Zhuangzi only have one or two servants, and the head of the Zhuangzi also left with the original owner. Not even anyone in charge.

  No one collects rent from the tenants who used to farm in the farmland.

  Huo Xi re-signed the contract with these tenants. He wanted to promote someone from the remaining servants to be the head of the village, but he couldn't pull out a tall one from the short ones. Had to find another way.

   Zhuang Pu can wait for Ji Fengshi to find someone, or she can go to Yaren to buy it, or buy someone from Jiangnan and send it over, but it can't be done if there is no one in charge now.

   I had to promote a few people from the original three Zhuangzi's servants to take care of them.

   There are many and complicated affairs on Zhuangzi, and I have been busy for more than ten days and have not sorted them out. The main reason is the lack of management and manpower, and there is no one to implement many things.

   There was nothing I could do, so I had to go back to the city to find someone.

  As soon as he entered the city, he saw a general leading thousands of eight hundred soldiers out of the city. Huo Xi followed the flow of people to avoid the gate of the city, and followed everyone's gazes. Seeing this, she was stunned.