Brother Bao finished learning how to speak and was praised by Lu Fenghe again, so he was very satisfied.
"Mom, please go ahead and get busy. I'm going to find my grandma. Grandma said there is whitebait soup today." Brother Chen said hurriedly.
Lu Fenghe looked at Brother Ba'er's look and felt like Ming Jing'er, he was going to his grandmother to learn how to talk again.
"Go ahead and come back when you're done. Don't disturb grandma's rest."
Brother Bao had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard and turned around and shouted, "I understand."
Lu Fenghe looked at the figure running out and thought to himself, he was overthinking it, this was obviously a child.
Lu Fenghe ignored the matter and continued to look at the samples of goods that Jinbao had brought in in the morning. Not only tea, but also various silk cloths, and even cotton and dried vegetables, all of which were placed on the long table.
In the morning, Jinbao and Liu Rui came in together to answer the question.
The main thing is to transport tea there and pick up some other things along the way.
Silk doesn't have to be transported. Silk is precious. If it gets bumped on the road or gets caught in the rain, the silk will be wasted.
You can bring some coarse cloth, but let’s take a look at the cotton. Cotton takes up too much space and is not easy to squeeze, so not much can be transported in one trip.
As for the fresh seafood from Wanhe, it is just for freshness and incidental. It is impossible to expect this to become a business.
Lu Fenghe looked at what they brought and realized that these two people were quite ambitious.
Lu Fenghe's original plan was to put out half of the capital first, form a caravan, and walk around to explore the situation. However, the movement of these two people seemed to indicate that they were not ready to put all the capital in.
It seemed like enough. She even calculated clearly how many people the caravan would need and how much expenses it would cost on the road.
Lu Fenghe read the list they made and calculated the account in detail. He was a little shocked. How could they talk about such a big business so calmly?
After throwing away the list, Lu Fenghe felt that his position was still too small.
"Girl, Mr. Ba Lang is here." Qing Ling came in to announce.
I was really tired when I came back yesterday. Lu Balang went to the academy again in the morning. Lu Fenghe could only leave a message for Lu Balang. No, Lu Balang came over just after returning home and getting the letter.
"Brother, did you come directly?" Lu Fenghe saw that Lu Balang didn't look like he had gone back and changed his clothes.
"I heard you were looking for me when I walked in. I was worried that something happened to you, so I came right over."
Lu Fenghe hurriedly asked someone to bring snacks and fruits again, while he sat down and lit tea.
When Lu Balang saw Lu Fenghe like this, he started to care. He was either doing something wrong or asking for something. He had been like this since he was a child. He was always extra attentive when he felt guilty.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Lu Balang got straight to the point.
Lu Fenghe was not in a hurry anymore, "Let's have some tea first and talk slowly."
"You'd better talk about it first, otherwise I won't be able to enjoy your tea." Lu Balang smiled.
Lu Fenghe glared at his brother, "Should I give you less tea?"
Lu Fenghe kept moving his hands and his mouth was not idle. It was just a matter of one sentence.
"I really don't understand what he means."
Lu Balang swallowed the snack, wiped his hands, and drank some warm water to calm down.
"Hey, is that all?"
Lu Fenghe nodded.
"Isn't it obvious how big of a deal I take it?"
Lu Fenghe was really confused. What was so obvious? Why didn't she see it at all? Did she seem like a fool in Lu Balang's eyes?
Lu Balang stopped talking. Let's talk after we've had enough to eat and drink.
Lu Fenghe became anxious and urged Lu Balang, "You should say so."
"If you think about it again, it's time to finish it off."
Lu Fenghe followed Lu Balang's words and thought about the whole thing again.
"Are you trying to push the Lu family to the opposite side of the Shen family?" Lu Fenghe asked.
Lu Balang nodded at the tea table, "Aren't you stupid, why do you want to ask about this? I thought you had been in Kyoto for a few years."
"Ba Ge!" Lu Fenghe scolded.
Lu Balang begged for mercy again and again. Lu Balang didn't like Lu Fenghe and Lu Jiulang calling him Bage. They had been doing this since they were young. They usually didn't call him Bage, but if they were unhappy and Lu Fenghe was upset when Lu Fenghe was offended, Lu Fenghe would...
He chased and shouted "Myna" repeatedly.
Lu Balang quickly changed the subject, "If you think a little more about everything, you have already thought of Wen Xiang's group. Why don't you think that across from the Shen family, things in this world are not just right and wrong, but there are many possibilities in between."
"We just don't seem to be with the Shen family. We don't mean... to conspire with Wen Xiang."
Lu Fenghe frowned, "But, will anyone believe it?"
"It doesn't matter whether anyone believes it or not, as long as someone thinks so, it's enough."
"What exactly does Shen Nanxun want to do?"
"The Wen family has already begun privately casting ironware."
"Has it started?" Lu Fenghe exclaimed.
"What do you know?"
Lu Fenghe shook his head repeatedly, "I don't know, I don't know, what can I know."
"Xiao Shi, why are you panicking?" Lu Balang asked coldly.
Lu Fenghe pursed his lips and said nothing, and Lu Balang didn't ask any more questions.
"Then the matters in the other courtyard will be left to Shen Nanxun's arrangement?" Lu Fenghe asked Lu Balang for advice.
Lu Balang said nonchalantly: "Just listen to him. It's not a good idea, but it's not bad either."
Lu Fenghe pouted. This brother is still so conceited. He always feels that there are no smart people in the world except his father and brother.
Then he talked about the border market, "It was too scary and too risky."
"For such a long trip, food and drink are all money for the people. If I don't take more goods with me, the money I make will not be enough to cover the expenses on the road. I think I either don't go or make it bigger."
Lu Fenghe still couldn't make this decision, but Lu Balang's words reminded her that she had to calculate how many people would transport how many goods, which would make the most money.
It does not necessarily mean that more people and more goods are better. The cost of a caravan of a hundred people making a trip is not the sum of ten caravans of ten people, let alone a hundred times the cost of a person making a trip to the border.
Lu Fenghe wanted to ask more, but Lu Balang interrupted her, "Don't ask me about business matters. If you ask me, you might as well ask your mother or uncle as soon as possible."
"Then...what about sea trade?"
"Things have to be prioritized, and they have to be taken one by one. You can't become a fat man by taking just one bite."
Lu Balang put down the tea cup and said, "Okay, I'm going back first, I have to go to the academy later."
After Lu Balang left, Lu Fenghe really went to see Zhao, but the question was not about business.
Lu Fenghe rambled here and there for a long time without getting to the key point, but he didn't think that there was no need for her to talk about the other courtyard.
Various states have begun to prepare for it a long time ago. No one made a big fanfare, but the officials in charge of the administration all understood it tacitly.
The news spread all the way around Kyoto, and now it has reached Jiangnan. Although there is no formal order, there is such an uproar and no one can stop it, so everyone can only take it as true.
At this time, no matter whether the officials in charge wanted to do it or not, they had to do it.
Although the football game is good, staying up late is killing me