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

Ever since Xiao Mingjia arrived in Minzhou, the royal spies have followed him and have been reporting almost every ten days.

All the news that flew back to the capital was directly delivered to the desk of the retired emperor through Shen Zhi's hands. Liang Shengrui had high expectations for Mingjia.

In the early days, there was really nothing to pay attention to about Mingjia’s daily life, but recently Mingjia’s actions were a bit big, which aroused the curiosity of the emperor.

[What is this going to do? I'm really looking forward to it! ]

Shen Zhi had no idea of ​​his son's little thoughts, and the spy did not report these things because he mistakenly believed that Commander Shen knew the truth.

At this time, Shen Qing exchanged a few days of vacation with other colleagues and went into the mountains again with gifts.

"Shen Qing? Why are you here again?"

Li Xue looked at her son who suddenly appeared. She seemed to have seen her son many times this year, and why did this son come?

Shen Qing felt a little embarrassed because this time he came for Uncle Xu, who was the spy who was responsible for making and repairing weapons.

"Mother! Uncle Xu is always in the camp, and we need to transport materials from outside into the mountains. It's really inconvenient! I want to pick up Uncle Xu from the mountains. Is there a suitable place..."

"Last time you came here you took a female guard with you. This time you plan to take my swordsmith with you?"

Li Xue raised her voice. Her son was really bold!

……

"Ming...Jia, what you just said was just a joke, right?"

Xiao Qingshan stuttered a little bit because Mingjia's idea was so shocking that Xiao Qingshan was unable to accept it.

"You're kidding! We live by the mountains and eat by the mountains, and we live by the sea! We face the sea, so we sell seafood!"

"Then why did you say you were going to the capital to open some... some... flagship store?"

“It’s the Minzhou Seafood Flagship Store!”

Mingjia discovered that Minzhou’s seafood products were very diverse and of high quality, but they could not be sold at a high price, mainly because of poor sales.

It's like playing a puzzle game, working backwards step by step to solve the problem, because Mingjia just wants to expand the sales of Minzhou seafood.

Then the place with the largest market and the most wealthy people is either Jiangnan or Beijing.

As for Jiangnan, Sun Jun is in Jiangnan, but... Jiangnan has no shortage of seafood, and there is also a lot of river fish.

So Mingjia focused on thinking about how to sell seafood to the capital.

The Minzhou government invested in building an ice storage to freeze and store all the high-quality seafood such as fish and shrimp. In winter, they could be shipped north to Tianjin Port by sea and then transported by land to the capital.

In the summer, some dried seafood can also be sold. Although people in the inland may not know much about cooking, seafood contains salt.

At worst, we can open a store in the capital in the name of the Minzhou government and hire a cook in the store.

In this way, every time new seafood is available, the chef can prepare a dish with this seafood on the spot. As for distributing it to the people for tasting and then rating it for a food ranking, that is just a small trick.

But with so much, the initial investment would be too huge, and there is no money in the accounts of the Minzhou government!

So, the problem Mingjia faced became how to find money?

In fact, when it comes to the issue of money, Mingjia's first thought is to ask Chen Shaoang to borrow money, no...it's the Minzhou government going to the Xuzhou government to borrow money.

As long as the imperial court allowed and the Xuzhou government agreed, borrowing between prefectures would not be a big deal.

Xuzhou's economy no longer relies on the sale of seafood, and some of Xuzhou's capable fleets have now successfully transformed and no longer bother to deal in seafood.

However, as long as the ships from Minzhou want to go north, they must stop in Xuzhou for supplies, which can bring other benefits to Xuzhou.

However... Mingjia felt a little embarrassed to cheat Chen Shaoang because the loan amount would be very large and the usury would be difficult to repay!

[In fact, it is better to borrow money without interest! ]

Is there anyone in the world who is more suitable to borrow money from than the emperor or the Daliang court?

"Dad! You have to remember that we are requesting cooperation with the Jingzhao Prefecture in the capital as the Minzhou Prefecture. They need to provide us with free warehouses and shops in the capital."

"What can we provide to Jingzhao Prefecture?"

Xiao Qingshan felt confused. It was the first time he heard about doing business with the government office, and... was it so justified?

"Taxes! Jobs! We can hire a lot of workers in the capital!"

"Why do we have to go to Jingzhao Prefecture? Can we change to another prefecture?"

"Then it can only be the palace! However, I don't dare to discuss cooperation with the palace. How about you go to the capital again?"

Xiao Qingshan: "..."

Mingjia noticed that his father's face changed, so he quickly put away his teasing smile and explained seriously the reason for choosing Jingzhao Prefecture.

"We can sign an exclusive agreement with Jingzhao, and Jingzhao Prefecture will ensure that we are the only large seafood store like this in the capital!"

There are many provincial capitals along the way north to the coast. If other provincial capitals see that Minzhou is making money, they will do the same, and Minzhou will have no advantage.

The people in Jingzhao Prefecture usually live a very frustrating life. After all, it is located in the capital city. Jingzhao has no need to take care of minor matters, but it cannot take care of major matters.

However, if companies from other provinces wanted to open shops in the capital, the Jingzhao Prefecture would be able to control them. Even shops owned by aristocratic families in the capital would not dare to offend the Jingzhao Prefecture easily.

It's a very simple truth. The county magistrate is not as good as the current manager. No one can tell where the patrolling yamen runners of Jingzhao Prefecture will patrol and inspect!

In the past, the biggest headache when doing e-commerce promotions every year was how to make the two major platforms fair, but at the same time make the waiters on both platforms feel that the discounts on their own platforms were greater.

Back then, Mingjia really hated the lowest price exclusive agreement, but now he feels that it is most suitable for use in Jingzhao Prefecture.

"But... Jingzhao Prefecture is not stupid. Why would they sign such an agreement?"

"Either give enough benefits, or prepare the cooperation agreement and submit it directly to see if the emperor will agree to this cooperation!"

Mingjia was afraid that Xiao Qingshan might misunderstand, so she quickly added another sentence.

"If the emperor agrees, and Minzhou takes the initiative to seek cooperation from Jingzhao Prefecture, then Jingzhao Prefecture will become a cooperative under the emperor's order!"

Xiao Qingshan sat down slowly, seemingly thinking slowly about how feasible what Mingjia said was.

In fact, as long as this flagship store can be profitable and bring benefits to both Jingzhao Prefecture and Minzhou Prefecture, Xiao Qingshan feels that it should be successful.

But... it's only selling some seafood from such a long distance...

"Mingjia, is seafood really that profitable?"

Mingjia has prepared all the data and information, just waiting for his father to ask this question.

"Here are the current prices of various seafood in Minzhou, as well as the tax ledgers of several large seafood shops in Minzhou over the years!"

Mingjia said as he started moving the account books from the bookshelf next to him.

"Here are also the purchase lists of seafood from previous years that were found for me by the stewards of my master's mansion and Uncle Li's mansion by several noble houses in the capital!"

"These are just daily purchases. If we make a seafood gift box, we can also say something like 'a must-have gift for the Chinese New Year.'"

"Dad~! Think about it~!"