North and South groceries

A chili seed is worth a penny. This money came so quickly and easily. Even those who came from a family that had never been short of money since childhood were a little shocked.

It's true that they are rich themselves, but their money has been accumulated by generations of their ancestors.

Luo Coffin Baner has only been in Chang'an for a few days, and he was still farming in the countryside a few years ago. Now, he has bought two houses in less than a year since he came to Chang'an City. If he is allowed to go at this speed If it continues to develop, won't it be time to step on them?

Some people have no reason to talk about. They just want to beat you and be superior to you. Once you catch up with him or even have a tendency to overtake him, then you are his enemy.

Although not all people in this world are like this, as long as there are one or two out of a hundred, it is enough to drink a pot.Luo Yong's current situation is very bad.

At the beginning of September, after Du Xi returned to Chang'an City after traveling abroad, he heard his friends talk about the big and small things that happened in Chang'an City in the past half a year. aggressive.

"Now that the situation is like this, can I still take back those pepper seeds and not sell them?" Luo Yong said with a smile: "According to the current speed, it should not be long before they are sold out. There will be some relief."

"You're not someone who values ​​money, why would you push yourself to the forefront?" Du Xi said helplessly.

"How do you know that I'm not someone who values ​​money?" Luo Yong could tell him that he would work hard to save money and change the world: "Is there anything in this world that is as interesting as making money?"

"Of course it's money." Du Xi lifted the wine cup and said with a smile.

"It's not bad." Luo Yong also laughed.The two drank and ate food, and the atmosphere was brisk.

The reason Du Xi disappeared for so long this time was because he went to Laizhou, Hebei Province, to look for his cousin Du Gou.

This day, Du Xi brought Luo Yong some local specialties of Laizhou, the most conspicuous of which were a few cans of canned fish.

I heard that Du Gou and his team successfully extracted a batch of Eucommia gum last autumn and winter. After a winter of pondering, they finally made canned jars. After the spring of this year, they began to study various canned fish.

According to the opinions of some locals, since it is something to be sold, it is natural to use the best and most precious sea fish for canning.

Du Gou didn't think so, those precious sea fish were limited in quantity and hard to catch, even if they managed to open up the market, they couldn't supply them at all, so it was better to use their brains on those needle beam fish.

Over the past few years, the seaside of Laizhou has been flooded with needle beam fish. They not only attack other fish and occupy a large area of ​​water, but also pose certain safety hazards to fishermen in the sea.

When Du Gou was suppressing bandits in the coastal waters of this area, his left hamstring was broken by a needle beam fish.

The needle beam fish meat is quite delicious, and it can tonify deficiency and fatigue, nourish yin and eliminate deficiency fire, so it is also a very suitable fish to eat.

But it also has a problem, that is, the fish bones are many and sharp, and there are barbs on them. There is hardly any market.

Around that time, Du Xi went to Laizhou.

Du Xi is a man with lofty aspirations. Almost everything he does now is to prepare for his future success.

It's just that in such an era, if a person wants to gain a firm foothold in the undercurrent and turbulent court, the help and support of his family is very important, but their Du family is not united, and they will fight to the death at every turn. When people come down, they have accumulated a lot of hatred.

Du Xi's trip to Laizhou this time was naturally to win over Du Gou.

Originally, his cousin had no intention of going to court, stayed away from Chang'an City, and settled in Laizhou, so the Du family almost forgot about him.

Until the beginning of this year, it was said that he had planted many Eucommia trees in Laizhou and extracted Eucommia gum. Someone from Du's family wrote to him, but he didn't even reply.Du Xizhang thought that when he was traveling around, he also visited him in Laizhou, so he went to Laizhou himself, and it turned out that he went there for more than half a year.

They visited many restaurants and guest houses in Laizhou that are good at cooking eel fish, and combined with their richer food experience than the local people, the canned eel fish they finally made was placed in front of Luo Yong at this moment.

The needle beam fish has a lot of fish bones, even if they have removed the fish bones as much as possible during processing, it is inevitable that there will still be omissions.

But now the canned fish in front of Luo Yong almost tastes without any thorns. Du Xi said that these fish meats have been carefully processed, fried in a stone pot, and added with scallion, ginger and wine. Vinegar, a little sauce, simmer for about an hour, the vinegar has the effect of softening the fish bones, and after a long time of simmering, at this moment, even if there are a few fish bones, they are basically soft .

"This method is not bad." Luo Yong picked up another piece of fish with his chopsticks and ate it.

Speaking of which, there is no shortage of fish in this era. There are many fish in rivers and lakes. What is lacking is fishing and preservation technology. In addition, the taste of sea fish is somewhat different from that of freshwater fish. The local needle beam fish resources in Laizhou are so abundant. , want to come to this business or do it.

"If you're interested, I'll let someone vacate a place in Nanbei Groceries. This canned fish can be put on sale at any time." Luo Yong said to Du Xi.

"Thank you, Saburo! In this way, my cousin's canned fish should not worry about selling." Du Xi said happily.

In Chang'an City, no one knows that the North and South groceries business is doing well, and there are countless customers who come in and out every day. If this canned needle beam fish can be placed on the shelves of North and South groceries, then they will not be able to sell it. I know how much trouble I can save.

"It's not that everything will be fine if you put it up." Luo Yong said with a smile: "The sales of various items will be counted every quarter in the shop over there. If the sales volume is really low, it is likely to be taken off the shelves to make room Come and give something else."

Especially in the food area on the first floor, the competition is quite fierce.

After all, the shops for groceries in the north and south are only so big in total, and there are many people who want to sell their goods here, from merchants from all over the world to Hu merchants from all over the world, and even some aristocratic families.

The goods provided by these people are also various.The words of the aristocratic family members are basically the products of their own family, ranging from the agricultural products of the manor to the items produced by various workshops.

The types of goods provided by those Hu merchants are even richer. Luo Yong has never even heard of many things before. Not very willing to accept it.

Earlier, there was a Hu merchant who wanted to sell ivory chopsticks in North and South groceries. When Luo Yong's disciple told Luo Yong about this, he refused without thinking.

After the Hu businessman learned the result, he was very unconvinced. Speaking fluent Chinese, he came to Luo Yong for a theory. The chopsticks were also used for eating and daily necessities, and asked Luo Yong why he refused to let him put them on the shelves.

Luo Yong told him that it is too cruel to hunt and kill elephants for these two pairs of chopsticks, and their shop refuses such products.

"Your sheepskin boots are also made of sheepskin, and my ivory chopsticks are made of ivory. What's wrong with that?" Hu merchant argued with him.

"After we kill the goat, the mutton is used for food, the suet is used to make soap, the cashmere is used to make sweaters, and even the water is not wasted, and everything is used. This is the respect for life. How do you treat it? What about those elephants?" Luo Yong asked him.

The white Hu Shang blushed, he didn't know whether he was ashamed or angry, and left in a hurry, and Luo Yong never saw him again.

"But it's still divided according to [-]?" Du Xi confirmed to Luo Yong.

"That's right, it's still [-]% to [-]%. I get [-]% and you get [-]%." Luo Yong said.

"In the future, I will rely on Saburo to take care of me!" Du Xi solemnly bowed his hands to Luo Yong.

"Why does Fifteen Lang need to be so ignorant?" Luo Yong can probably guess that Du Gou makes canned food in Laizhou, and although the part of the canned food shipped to Chang'an is sold on the shelves of groceries in the north and south, Du Xi, the middleman, must also have to Earning money, people like them who often go out and do their best to pretend to be handsome, how can they play around with little money in their hands.

Anyway, for Du Xi's return, Luo Yong is very happy, this girl is really a romantic person, this time she has been dormant for so long, and she finally came back, she will definitely not be too low-key.

Luo Yong now hopes that Chang'an City will be as lively as possible, and there will be more romantic people, rare and exotic objects, to help him share some firepower, so that those people don't just stare at him all day long.

Sure enough, Du Xi did not disappoint Luo Yong, this guy made a big news in Chang'an City just a few days after he came back.

It is said that when he came back from Laizhou this time, in addition to various local specialties, he also got some Eucommia gum from his cousin. Guess what he used for this Eucommia gum?

——This girl invited more than a dozen young people from aristocratic families, took the Eucommia gum, and went to the Wang family to exchange canned lychees.

The Wang family has been developing the canning business in the south for the past two years. For them, the purchase of Eucommia gum is absolutely urgent.

This time the Wang family saw that Du Xi and others had brought Du Zhongjiao to exchange for canned food. Regardless of whether it was for the sake of Du Zhongjiao's face or the face of young people from these aristocratic families, they exchanged it readily. They were given two large jars of canned lychees.

Take these two jars and cans back. Guess how they eat them?

——Ten people, sixty catties of canned food, within half a day, they were all eaten up by them, with an average of five or six catties per person.

What kind of insanity is this!

Do you know how much the canned lychees of the Wang family sell in Chang'an City now?

Some people in the court also impeached, saying that these few families did not discipline their young people well.

However, this kind of impeachment is not necessarily a bad thing for those young people, especially Du Xi, who has played a leading role, has made a name in front of these bigwigs early, and it will be more helpful when he becomes an official in the future.

In fact, these bigwigs are often more tolerant of these innocuous and absurd things.

Everyone from the same family, who didn't come here like this, people don't waste their youth, those sour officials, love ginseng for them.

Du Xi and the others are also very open about being recruited. There is no such thing as a so-called romantic person who doesn't make a little mistake or make a little trouble.

Can you read a romantic person by just reading honestly at home?Other dynasties may still have a chance, and the early Tang Dynasty didn't have to think about it at this time.

Ever since Du Xi and the others created the lychee feast, Luo Yong felt a little relieved.

The pepper seeds have been sold out smoothly, and the cold storage has already started work. I will send another batch of money to support the road construction team on the Guannei Road, and calculate whether I have paid off the money I owed for the saplings two years ago...

Everything is fine, but after he has done all the things he should do, there is not much money left from selling chili seeds.

Hengzhi got a blueprint used by Luo in the past few days, and is frantically investing in the research and manufacture of the hand crane.

The number of blacksmiths in Xing Er's yard has increased from one to three, and they are clanging every day. In addition to the craftsmen's wages, they also consume a lot of refined iron and coal, which are all bought by Luo Yong.

To make a crane, the hardest part is the pulleys and gears.

In terms of gears, Changan craftsmen have some experience, because the production of Yanerfei requires gears, and some rich people will spend their own money to replace the wooden structure on Yanerfei with a refined iron structure, please. These are the craftsmen in the workshop.

The pulley is difficult. Hengzhi discussed with Luo Yong. In a few days, if they still can’t make the pulley smoothly, let Luo Yong write a letter to the Yin family to borrow someone. They have a blacksmith who can make bearings. It is not difficult to ask them to make a few pulleys.

As for the steel frame of the hoist, it is not difficult to make, but it is not an easy task to ensure its load-bearing capacity.

These blacksmiths are busy every day, and they don't know how much scrap iron is used. Fortunately, these irons can be picked up and saved, and they can be used to make other things in the future.

In a few days, when the crane is out, they'll start building the trailer.

If it is necessary to fetch ice from the river after winter, the transportation of ice cubes will also consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and some trailers will inevitably be used when leaving and entering the warehouse.

There are a lot of things I want to do, money is needed everywhere, and income channels are relatively limited. Luo Yong feels that he doesn't seem to have a good time on hand.

Everyone in Chang'an knew that Luo used this time to make money, but he didn't know which bottomless pit he used to fill the money.

Look at him going to and from work every day, he still wears ordinary clothes, and the donkey cart is the same one as before. Even the children at home don't see any new clothes.

"Where did your brothers earn all that money, why didn't you buy clothes with you?" Someone from the neighbors asked Si Niang and the others.

"It took flowers." Si Niang said frankly.

"So much, did you spend all of it?" That's too much money!

"Well, money is never spent." Qiniang repeated to everyone what her elder brother said last night.

"Tsk, your family's money is so careless, how can other people's family be like yours?"

"It's better to hold on to something, don't spend it all."

"Your elder brother is not yet married. If you don't have any savings, how can a girl from a good family marry him?"

"Exactly, even if the road of Guannei Road is built slowly and narrowly, it is also possible."

These neighbors really want to teach the brothers and sisters of this family who don't know how to save money.

In the concept of life of the Han people, accumulation is very important. Much of the wealth in their families is passed down from their ancestors. It has been accumulated from generation to generation. If there is no accumulation, where does the family business come from?No matter how big the deal is, it will eventually be accompanied by risks.

Luo Yong doesn't know that there are risks in doing business, but life is free, and there is no risk anywhere.

Like him before, he could travel through it while walking. After wearing it, he looked back and saw that the technology of the 21st century is so advanced, the city is so prosperous, and the world is so colorful, and his understanding and experience of that world But it is so limited.

"The weather in the past two days has been sunny and the autumn air is crisp. It is a good time to visit relatives and friends. I will not assign homework for you. It is good to study hard, but it should also be combined with work and rest."

Seeing that it will be the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of September, the ninth day and the tenth day are two days off, and on the afternoon of the eighth day, after Luo Yong gave an afternoon math class to the students in the two classes of Taixue, Bing and Ding, so right The students in the class said.

"What happened to Luo's coffin board?"

"Could it be out of kindness?"

"Could it be that something big happened?"

"I always feel that something is wrong."

The Taixue students who were accustomed to being oppressed by heavy schoolwork were suddenly relieved at this time, and told them that you can go and have fun, each of them is obviously still a little uncomfortable.

"I heard that in the past two days, someone went to the saint to complain about the coffin board."

"Tsk, those shameless people."

"Wouldn't the coffin board be transferred?"

"It should be impossible."

"If he leaves, who can teach this lesson?"

"Based on the teaching level of the coffin board, apart from this imperial school, those private schools outside should not rush for it."

"I, Aye, said that even if I have no hope of official career in the future, at least I can write and make calculations. He finally doesn't have to worry about me starving to death on the street."

"Hey, it's good that you don't need to do homework."

"Isn't the coffin board going to reform and start a new life?"

"If that's the case, we won't call him coffin board in the future."

"..."

At this moment, Luo's courtyard.

"Shh! Shh!"

The young women who attend classes at Luo’s house on weekdays are all busy in the yard at this time, paper cutting, ink brushing, printing, printing, sorting, sewing, and pasting covers Everyone was so busy pasting up the covers that they didn't even look up.

In Luo Yong's room, the homework received from the students last time was still neatly piled up on the table without having time to correct it.

The booklet "Chili Edible Manual" is selling very well. Although it only costs three pennies per copy, Luo Yong can earn at least one penny per copy after deducting the materials and manpower. This money is easy to come by. .

The main force of the printing work is Xing Er's side. At the beginning, Luo Yong only took it for them to try, and after confirming that they could do it, he let them start printing in large quantities.

In addition, Luo Yong also asked Si Niang to call these girls who attend classes in Luo's courtyard every day.

"Brother, the homework in your room hasn't been corrected yet, are you okay?"

"It's okay, I should make those students happy for a few days now and then."