After time travel, he devoted himself to helping his father with his career.

On the second day, Dong's body recovered a lot, and Mingjia brought over the list of Dianzhou specialties and mountain products.

After breakfast, Mrs. Dong took Mingjia to look through the list of New Year's gifts from previous years, and together with Mingjia, they made a list of New Year's gifts to send to various places this year.

"This is the first year that your master has moved out and opened a mansion. Your brother is still living in the original house. This gift list is at least 30% thicker than in previous years!"

Mingjia wrote and copied the gift list while Dong chatted with Mingjia.

Mingjia suddenly stopped copying, and continued copying the gift list after being stunned for a moment. Dong naturally noticed Mingjia's little move just now and asked Mingjia worriedly.

"Did you think of something? Or did I forget something?"

Ming Jia remembered that she seemed to have forgotten to prepare a gift list for her "senior brother" in Beijing. In the past years, she had not formally met him, so she could pretend not to know that there was a senior brother there, but this year it seemed that it was not possible.

"It's okay, mother! I just remembered a few friends in the capital. I'll just prepare a gift list later."

Dong nodded and said nothing.

The accounts of a large family are usually divided into the middle-aged man's money and the money of each house, and the annual gifts are also clearly divided.

It stands to reason that the Xiao family has a simple population, and both of their children are underage, let alone married. The Xiao family should have only one account book, but the Xiao family is really special, so the Xiao family's accounts are also separated.

The New Year's gift purchased this time was all paid for by Dong, but Mingjia said that she wanted to prepare a New Year's gift for her friends, which meant that she had to pay for it herself.

Mrs. Dong had always ignored Mingjun and Mingjia's money and gifts. Mrs. Shui and Mrs. Yan were surprised at this. There was actually a mistress who completely delegated power to her underage mistress.

Mingjia helped her mother handle the family's New Year's Eve ceremony, had lunch with Mr. Dong, and then returned to the study to handle her own affairs.

Mingjia already has some knowledge about Dianzhou's special products and medicinal materials, but the Prince's Mansion is definitely not short of these things.

“It’s better to give gifts that suit your needs!”

Mingjia sat at the desk and considered the gift list for the prince. Of course, Mingjia was also thinking about another thing, whether it was better to give this new year's gift to his senior brother or his wife.

There is a blank gift list on the desk, but Mingjia has not yet written it.

"Master, your letter has arrived!"

Mingjia looked up and saw Shuang'er standing at the door of the study with a letter in her hand. She had the illusion that she couldn't tell the difference between today and yesterday.

"Sure enough! It's still Xu Honglei!"

Mingjia looked at the sender on the envelope. If it weren't for the fact that there was a letter from Xu Honglei in the desk drawer, Mingjia would have felt that her time was messed up.

The same afternoon, the same frost, and the same thick letters.

Ming Jia looked at Xu Honglei's letter and told him directly that he would get married next summer and that he must prepare gifts to send to the capital.

This sudden topic made Mingjia a little confused, but Mingjia still kept it in mind and would prepare gifts in advance.

There was obviously a lot less nonsense in Xu Honglei's second letter. He briefly introduced the shop where the General's Mansion allowed him to practice, and also mentioned his own thoughts about the shop.

Finally, he did not forget to ask Mingjia for his advice and told Mingjia to write a reply to him.

Ming Jia sighed and had to put aside the gift list for the prince, took out the letter paper and wrote a letter to her brother and Xu Honglei.

While writing a letter to Xu Honglei, while thinking about Xu Honglei's shop, Mingjia's thoughts drifted away for a while.

Mingjia has handed over all the business of Zhiqulou to her brother. After all, she doesn't take the imperial examination, and her brother is most familiar with many marketing related to the imperial examination.

In Dianzhou, Mingjia had her own affairs to be busy with, and Mingjia had already had a preliminary idea.

No matter what happened to the caravan, planting medicinal materials in Dianzhou and developing them into medicines was what Mingjia himself had to do.

Originally, Mingjia was considering whether to use this patent medicine business to cooperate with the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.

Especially after learning about the support given by the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion to Yang Tingxuan, Mingjia believed that the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion would be very interested in the patent medicine business, as it not only represented merit but also represented a large amount of wealth.

Mingjia needs to borrow the connections of Dingyuan Houfu in various places to open patent medicine shops all over the states. To this end, Mingjia is even considering plans for the next five or ten years.

Of course, if Dingyuan Hou Mansion is not interested, then there is General Xu Mansion! The Xu family's connections in the capital are as good as those of Marquis Dingyuan.

Mingjia carefully counted the people she could cooperate with and found that she now had many choices. Of course, the best choice was Chen Shao'ang.

As long as Xuzhou's port is built, there will be many ships coming and going, especially those going out to sea. This kind of patent medicine that can be packed in porcelain bottles will definitely have a huge market.

In this way, Mingjia's business superficially grows some medicinal materials and sells some medicinal materials.

However, all privately produced patent medicines are directly exported to the sea, and the medical clinics and pharmacies in Daliang will not be affected. Unless Mingjia takes the initiative to pay taxes, a lot of tax revenue can be saved.

The biggest advantage of working with Chen Shao'ang is that you can make a fortune silently.

Mingjia thought more and more deeply, and finally began to write down his ideas one by one. This could no longer be regarded as project planning.

"This is simply my life plan for the next few decades!"

Mingjia couldn't help but sigh while holding a few pieces of fluttering paper. It's a good idea, but Mingjia can't even do the most basic thing right now!

That is to buy a village first!

When Ming Jia took Cheng Si and others to Cang'er County, Cheng Wen stayed behind and ran between Dianzhou City Pier and Renyaozi Market.

Mingjia wants to buy a large village outside Dianzhou City first, with at least 800 acres of land, and preferably with both fertile farmland and mountainous land.

In the two days since he returned to the city, Mingjia had not seen Chengwen. Thinking of this, Mingjia called Cheng Si.

"Uncle Cheng, please send someone to look for Brother Cheng Wen. From now on, Brother Cheng Wen won't have to go to the dock or the medicinal market."

After personally visiting Cang'er County and observing Vajra Dorje's caravan for a few days, Mingjia already knew what kind of medicinal materials the people in Dianzhou usually picked and what medicinal materials the caravan collected.

The main thing is that Mingjia and Mr. Ye have this plug-in!

Cheng Si also felt that Cheng Wen could really become the leader of water transport if he continued to mess around.

"Okay! I'll go get Chengwen back right away."

Cheng Si turned around and was about to walk out, but Mingjia suddenly stopped Cheng Si again.

"If there is a reliable and capable person on Brother Chengwen's side, you can pay attention! That Yanwen is pretty good!"

If Mingjia wants to grow medicinal materials in Dianzhou, he must use local villagers, but the situation in Dianzhou is too special.

Mingjia wanted to hire some people from other tribes as managers from the beginning, which would reduce a lot of trouble.