Fight the Giants

  Send off Huo Sanhe and his son, Yang babbled while holding Huo Xi's hand.

"It's hard for you. Mother knows that you are doing it for your parents' sake, and you don't want to make things difficult for your parents. In your father's family, mother thought you, the third uncle, were a good person, but she didn't expect to be so embarrassing. "

  Huo Xi smiled, "It's okay, mother. The third uncle just wanted Huo Cang to be able to read a few words. The three of them, father and son, can understand clearly, so they probably wouldn't tell others."

   "Hey, who knows what will go wrong again. Mother will tell them from time to time." What a pity.

  I also thought that Huo Sanhe just wanted his younger son to recognize a few words, so he begged in such a low voice. Parents are willing to give up their lives to beg others for the sake of their children.

  If it were her, she would be willing to beg for a few children.

  The next day, Huo Cang changed into a new suit, and Huo Xuan brought him here, with a shy smile on his face.

  Huo Xi led the brothers to the workshop, told the workshop manager, and asked the workshop to arrange Huo Cang's residence and let him live with Yuan Qing.

   He also told Chuyi and Youqing to watch him, and report to her if something happened.

  Chuyi and Youqing were very clever, and immediately responded with pats on the chest. Huzi also volunteered to help watch. Huo Xi encouraged the children a few words, but he didn't care.

   took Huo Xuan to see Shen Qianzhong again, and asked him to sign an employment contract for Huo Xuan. On the same day, it was arranged for him to **** the ship to Ningbo.

   After finishing this work, he returned to Zhuangzi with the grinder. Yang Shi also followed An An in her arms.

   Xi'er wouldn't talk to Erhuai about Huo Sanhe and his son, but she wanted to go back and tell Erhuai, so that he could remind his brothers and sisters not to make things difficult for the children.

  After hearing about this, Huo Erhuai sighed.

   Said to Huo Xi: "Just do what you want, don't worry about me and your mother. Although they are siblings with their parents, they are not as close as you and Nian'er."

  Hearing this, Huo Xi felt ironed in his heart, "Okay, I see."

  Mr. Yang was a little annoyed: "If Sanhe leaked his words, in the future your elder brother, fourth younger brother, and Wu Niang will all come to beg and send the child, we are afraid that we will be annoyed to death."

   "If they are willing, they will also sign a ten-year life contract. Except for the Sanhe family, they will never agree. Then why should I break this exception?"

  After Huo Erhuai finished speaking, he thought about it, and then said: "Otherwise, you should move to the inner city."

  Mr. Yang disagreed, "Why did I move to the inner city? It seems that I have done something shameful."

  She likes chatting and joking with the women in Qionghua Lane. Although the houses in the inner city are big, when you stand outside the gates, you can only see the servants of each family going in and out, and you can’t see a single person for a long time.

  Everyone stayed in their own homes, and they didn't even want to talk to anyone, and others didn't look down on their identities.

   What's the fun. She doesn't like living in the inner city.

   "Father, it's okay, I'll just push it to shopkeeper Shen in the future, and let him refuse it."

  Mr. Yang glared at Huo Erhuai, "You still have to make an agreement with them, don't come up and beg for nothing, and embarrass the child." After saying a few words, seeing An An struggling to get off the ground, she took him to play in the Zhuangzi.

  Huo Xi followed Huo Erhuai to the sugar workshop, and then watched the making of the grinding cylinder.

  Assemble the drive shaft and grinding ring brought back from the blacksmith shop. Seeing that the assembly fits well, I am satisfied. Put the pepper in again, turn the grinding cylinder, and the fine pepper particles fall out of the grinding ring.

  Huo Erhuai opened his eyes wide in surprise.

   "This thing is used to grind pepper." It's amazing that there is no need to use a mortar to grind it in advance.

   "Xi'er, in that case, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

  Huo Xizheng picked up the peppercorns to see the thickness.

  Hearing this, he nodded: "Well, this way, you can grind it as you use it, which can better preserve the aroma of pepper, and it can also be preserved better." It's just that it doesn't seem to be ground very finely.

   "It's pretty thin. It might not be so fine with a mortar."

  Huo Erhuai was overjoyed, he assembled one by himself, ground it a few times, saw the pepper powder on the table, and was very happy.

   Xi'er made another thing, and there is no such thing in the capital.

  When Mrs. Yang came back, she also praised the grinder as good, and excitedly helped to assemble it.

  Huo Xi assembled it in the Zhuangzi, and at the same time asked the servants to speed up the production of the grinding cylinder. Tell her father that if there is not enough manpower in the village, carpenters from nearby villages will be hired to drive the work.

  She wants to send more goods to the north before the Chinese New Year.

  Huo Xi returned to the city with more than a thousand grinders he had finished. Shen Qianzhong was also shocked when he saw it. Pepper can still be ground and used in this way. It has gained a lot of experience.

"Boss, this thing is good! This grinder is not too big, and it is very convenient to carry around. And a tael of pepper can be eaten for a period of time, which is a must-have for travel. Buying a tael like this is cheaper than buying a catty of pepper, so I don’t feel bad .”

   "It can't be cheap. This grinding cylinder is cheap, but the grinding shaft and grinding ring blade are made of iron, and the workmanship is also fine. The price is cheap, and we will suffer."

  Shen Qianzhong took it apart and looked at it, then nodded: "How much does the owner plan to sell?"

   "Transport to Beiping, and ask Zhuji to find those merchants in the city who do business with the grassland. One grinder holds a tael of pepper and five renminbi of salt, and the other sells it for five renminbi of silver."

   A catty of pepper only costs five cents, isn’t it a bit expensive? "Could someone imitate it and buy pepper to put it in?"

   "There are not so many peppers in the north. Let's sell a wave first, and when there are imitation ones in the market, we will sell them together with pepper. A catty of pepper will cost one, two, five dollars. Ten catties will give you a grinder."

  There is no source of goods in the north, so what's the use of just making a grinder.

  Shen Qian nodded his head and wrote down: "Do you want to sell the capital?"

  There are many rich people in the capital, so it must be easy to sell. But it will be imitated soon. Moreover, it is not difficult to find the source of Beijing pepper.

"Let's take back the pepper in the market first, and then I will exchange silver with Wu Youcai for five hundred shi of pepper. When there is less pepper in the market, we will sell it in the capital. Before selling it in the capital, we will ship a batch to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces for sale." go."

"good."

  Wu Youcai was not happy about having to exchange silver for pepper because there was no rock sugar.

   "This rock candy is shipped from overseas countries, the price is expensive, and it is not always available. If there is next time, I will definitely leave it to Master Wu."

  It is not suitable for a large amount of white sugar and rock sugar to appear in the capital now. The rarer it is, the more people will miss it.

"My lord is willing to buy it at a price that is 20% higher than the market price. I heard that there are a lot of peppers in the warehouse of the Shibo Department. If Lord Wu can solve this problem for Lord Tiju, he will be praised by Lord Tiju. Besides. , Those civil servants and military generals may not be willing to pay pepper for their monthly salary, and not everyone likes to eat pepper, and wouldn't it be better to get the money to buy what they need?"

   These words touched Wu Youcai's heart. He also doesn't want to use pepper for his monthly salary, his family has no shortage of pepper.

  In the next year, Zheng He's fleet will return again, with dozens of large ships, and it is estimated that they will bring back a large amount of pepper. One of the most tribute goods is also pepper, and there is no shortage of pepper.

  Then agreed to Huo Xi's request to exchange silver for pepper.

  Wait until the transaction between the two of them was over, Wu Youcai suddenly said: "I asked the tributary Fanchuan, and they all said that their country does not have white sugar or rock sugar. Which country is your lord from?"