Seeing Yang Fu waiting for her to make a decision, Huo Xi also weighed it in her mind.
After thinking about it: "The money we earn now is used to buy shops and warehouses in various cities and recruit workers. There is not much money left in the account now. To buy a boat, we have to train boatmen and sailors."
"My brother-in-law and I are both capable of training boatmen and sailors. It's not difficult to ask the people at Taoye Ferry to help us take care of them for a while. As for the money, we still have money in our account."
Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong both tend to buy ships and form their own fleets. They have different ideas from Huo Xi. They feel that it is easier to control people by having a physical bond and holding them in their hands.
"With that money, I want to buy some land."
"Buying land? We already have three hectares of land in Jiangning and Liuhe. Do you want to buy it?"
"The business will fail, but the land will always be there." Fields can maintain their value and can be easily cashed out. Huo Xi likes to leave a way out in everything.
"But the land near the capital is too difficult to buy. The three hectares of land we bought are all scattered, and it will take several days to collect the rent."
"I like collecting rent! Mom said she would take me to collect rent in a few days!"
Huo Nian was lying limply on Yang Fu's back. When he heard them talking about rent collection, he immediately became energetic and stood up from Yang Fu's back.
Huo Xi glared at him: "If you feel energetic, come down and take a walk. Uncle is already tired of carrying you."
Pi Xiaozi lay down again: "My feet hurt."
"Then you are not allowed to come out with us next time."
"It's still out. I'll go back and take a nap, and I'll be fine again tomorrow." He blinked at Huo Xi.
Hey, you little brat who deserves a beating.
Yang Fu laughed and bumped him up: "It's okay, Nian'er's feet hurt, just carry him on his back and it'll be fine."
"Uncle is the best, I like uncle the most!"
Huo Xi rolled her eyes.
After walking a few steps, Huo Xi talked about buying land again: "I want to buy a village. My parents have always wanted to build a big house in the country, with several acres of fields, where they can be content and self-sufficient. I want to be satisfied."
This is their wish."
Thinking that it would be difficult to buy land near the capital, he said: "There are few densely populated areas in the capital, so we will look for nearby places. Pingjiang, Jingkou, Jiahu and other places are suitable. Any place that can be reached by a light boat in half a day or a day can be considered."
Yang Fu also thought of the life that his sister and brother-in-law cared about, and nodded: "Okay. Then I'll ask people to pay more attention to it."
"Well, if people pay more attention to the middle and lower fields, I want to create mulberry fields."
"Sangtian?" Yang Fu paused.
Huo Xi nodded. She had wanted to buy Sangtian for a long time.
In the four years since Guangfeng Shui opened its doors, the two most profitable businesses among all the goods are grain, rice and cloth.
When it comes to grains and rice, she can't compete with the big stores. But she also has her own transformation potential.
Over the years, she has made friends with a group of boatmen, sells goods along the villages, and goes into the villages to collect vegetables and various native products. She has maintained a very good relationship with farmers. After farmers harvest grain, they are willing to sell their surplus to her.
Perhaps the poor are more willing to help the poor, and those of the same class are more willing to help those of the same class. Huo Xi, they go to the villages to collect grains, so it is easier for them to win the trust of farmers than other big businesses.
She doesn't care much about small gains and losses, and she never finds fault with others. Not only she, but also the people under her, treat farmers with an extremely humble attitude, never being as arrogant as other big business houses.
It is relatively easy to harvest grains and rice in the countryside.
However, ordinary farmers do not have much surplus grain, so they are not as good as rich households with large amounts of land. The rich households have a wide and abundant supply of water and cannot get in for the time being. Huo Xi is currently only picking up the leaks.
In addition to the grain and rice business, another profitable business is cloth.
Just like grain, they go to the countryside to collect scattered fabrics from the hands of weavers in the countryside. They are not comparable to those shops with weaving mills. They are just picking up the missing fabrics.
Therefore, if you want to prevent the supply of goods from being manipulated by others, you must have your own goods.
When she has money, she wants to buy land, grow grain, and grow mulberries.
She didn't want to grow hemp. Firstly, there was no shortage of raw materials, and secondly, the profit was low. It cost the same manpower and material resources, so of course she wanted to do a business with greater profit.
But apart from cotton and linen, Guangfeng Shui currently does not have the ability to compete with the big companies for higher-end fabrics.
But if there is a mulberry field, she can plant mulberry trees and hire people to raise silkworms.
If you have silk, you can use the raw materials to exchange for high-end fabrics such as damask, silk, satin, silk, gauze, brocade, velvet, etc. Or you can start weaving and spinning to produce higher-end fabrics if you have the raw materials.
In the past four years, she has been planning, and all the money she earned has been used to open shops and buy warehouses. She wants to buy fields, buy hundreds of hectares of land, become a big landowner, and her wish of lying around like a rice bug has only been fulfilled a little. One small step.
Huo Xi thought a lot along the way.
"You discuss with Shopkeeper Shen, put some money into your account, and buy five cargo ships first. The larger ones will have at least four oars."
"Four oars?"
Huo Xi nodded: "Yes, it must be able to carry at least two hundred stones or more of goods. Now that the layout in the south is almost complete, the next step is to go north from Huai'an and visit several big cities on the canal, Jining, Linqing, Cangzhou, all the way to We must have our shops and warehouses in Peiping."
Yang Fu looked at her in surprise. Is the layout so big?
All the way north to the last stop of the canal?
Huo Xi didn't pay attention to his expression, only thinking about the plan in her mind.
"Now the goods from the north are shipped to the wharves such as Huai'an, Yangzhou, Jingkou, etc., and what we buy are the leftovers picked up by others. If we have a shop in the north, as soon as the ship from the north docks at the wharf, we can pick it up first and buy it. We can pick up the other party's goods, arrange for a ship to be sent all the way south, distribute the goods earlier than other companies, and take advantage of the rare goods, and we can make a lot of money."
Big stores can't keep up with them for the time being, but big stores are very strict in selecting goods, and they don't care about low-priced goods. Now they mainly focus on picking up missing items.
If you have a better vision than others and make time difference, you may not be able to find a way out.
After hearing this, Yang Fu said with a little excitement: "Okay, I'm going to discuss buying a boat with Shopkeeper Shen."
Seeing that he turned around and was about to leave, Huo Xi felt helpless and glanced at his back: "Nian'er has fallen asleep. This matter is not urgent. I want to count the money in my hand at night and then make a plan."
Yang Fu paused, shook his head and laughed, forgetting about Nian'er.
The three of them walked to the ferry.
Huo Xi calculated all the way, and now he didn't have much land in his hands, and the capital was sparsely populated, so he had to look for fields in other cities to buy. Without fields, he couldn't grow grain or mulberry.
You still have to borrow land. You have to ask your parents to ask how many of the fishermen have land and can grow mulberries with the Huo family.
The surplus grain grown by the fishermen was sold to her. I wonder if anyone would be willing to use some land to grow mulberries.
Since it was still some distance from the ferry, Yang Fu and Huo Xi hired a carriage at the horse and carriage shop.
Not long after, when they arrived at the ferry, Huo Nian woke up without anyone calling him.
When I wake up, my sister gives me a blank look. This brat is a typical guy who goes to sleep in the car and wakes up automatically when he gets off.
"Sister..." He fell to the ground in a daze and put his arms around Huo Xi's waist.
Huo Xi poked him on the forehead: "I won't take you with me next time."
"I need to bring it with me." The boy rubbed against Huo Xi.
Yang Fu looked at him and laughed: "Nian'er took a nap and was energetic enough to go hunting with your father at night."
Pi Xiaozi had a clever idea: "I want to help my parents fish! Dad said he would teach me how to fish!"
The whole person suddenly became energetic and looked into the river, hoping that his boat would appear.
Thank you all for your continued support. I’m going to catch a hot spot and prepare to update it today. As for how much it will happen, it depends on your hand speed~