The next day, Kan Er brought Huo Xi a stack of books and told his young master what he had learned.
"The young master agreed to 20% of the shares and asked you to send someone to the house to look for him if anything happens."
Huo Xi thanked him and took a large stack of history books over.
"Records of this Dynasty", "Historical Records of Wei", "Historical Records of Wei", in addition to the historical records of this dynasty, there are also historical records of previous dynasties.
Huo Xi locked herself in the room and quickly read through all these history books.
I was shocked after reading this. This Wei Dynasty is probably the original Ming Dynasty. Except that Guan He went to Nanyang a year late, so far, they are highly coincident.
In the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di proposed to build the city of Beiping. It took fifteen years until it was completed in the eighteenth year of Yongle, and the capital was officially moved on the first day of the first lunar month in the nineteenth year of Yongle.
Does Emperor Yongkang of the Wei Dynasty also plan to build Beiping City?
More than just repairs?
Does anyone think that the emperor who has just ascended the throne for four years will move the capital? Or do you just think that Beiping City is the former fiefdom of King Yan and the land of Longxing. As a companion capital, His Majesty will make some repairs?
Huo Xi walked around in the room.
Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty moved the capital, which cost a huge amount of migrant workers and millions of soldiers.
Countless people from the south of the Yangtze River were moved north, and wealthy households from the south of the Yangtze River and merchants from Shanxi and other places moved to Beiping City. They also moved countless refugees into the city to fill the population of Beiping.
If the historical trajectories of the Wei Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty highly overlap, then the current Beiping City and Shuntian Prefecture are still extremely poor and sparsely populated compared to Jiangnan.
Once the people move to the capital, Shuntian Mansion will have a huge need for supplies!
Huo Xi couldn't sit still anymore, took the banknote and ran out.
In the backyard of Guangfeng Shuiwai City Shop, Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong were shocked when they heard Huo Xi's words.
"Are you going to Peking?"
"Yes, I want to go over there to buy land and a shop. I also want to buy a house, but that's not urgent."
Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong were speechless for a long time.
"Xi'er, sit down. How did you come up with the idea of going to Peking to buy land and a shop? Didn't we agree to buy some land in Jiangnan and plant mulberry trees and grow food?"
Huo Xi sat down and nodded: "Yes, I want to buy it."
"Then you still have to use money to buy land and shop in the north. We made more than two thousand taels from spices this time, but it's not enough."
"We have money. The young master of the Mu family gave me his share of the money, along with the ten thousand taels of capital. I promised to give him 20% of the shares. If anything happens to our shop in the future, he will help us settle it."
"Really?" The two of them couldn't believe it.
Seeing Huo Xi nodding, Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong cheered: "If the Mu family of Xiping Hou is willing to help, our shop will be considered safe in the capital."
The two were overjoyed.
However, they were still a little confused about what Huo Xi said about buying land in the north. The two of them wanted to make more plans in the south of the Yangtze River.
Huo Xi then said: "The young master of the Mu family told me some news. Do you know why the price of glutinous rice has increased?"
Shen Qianzhong said: "I heard some news. I just don't know whether it's true or not. It's all there."
Huo Xi said cautiously: "It must be true that Your Majesty wants to build the city of Beiping. As for the purpose of the construction, let's not worry about it for now. Let's just say, do so many migrant workers, craftsmen, and soldiers need food, food, shelter, and transportation?
, the consumption of materials will increase. If we collect grain and transport it to the north, it is definitely not as convenient as having our own fields in the north to produce and sell grain."
After listening to this, Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong frowned in thought.
"Besides, sea trade will definitely be popular in the future. If we have a shop in Shuntian Mansion and sell the goods there, we will make even greater profits."
Seeing that their faces were slack, he added: "Besides, we have fields in the north and we have obtained grain. If we can transport it to the border and exchange it for salt, we can also think about the salt business."
Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong looked at her in astonishment.
Xi'er, boss, are you so ambitious? Do you even dare to think about the salt business?
Who doesn’t know that selling and selling salt can be very profitable, but is this something ordinary people dare to think about?
Seeing that the two of them were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths, Huo Xi smiled. She had been thinking about selling salt since Gong Ziyi stuffed her with a load of salt four years ago.
It's a pity that this kind of business is not yet her turn.
Even if we know that there is a law to open up salt, we can't implement it. Without money, there is no one.
But if she had a field in the north and could grow a lot of food, she would dare to think about it.
The Kaizhong Salt Law of this dynasty actually meant that the court would monopolize the salt industry and give part of the profits to private merchants in exchange for private merchants supplying military rations to the frontiers.
There are a total of nine border passes in this dynasty, commonly known as the Nine Borders. They are located along the Great Wall. The geographical environment is harsh, and the local garrison cannot meet the military food needs.
The government's grain transportation and supply front line consumes a huge amount of money. It not only has to assemble a large amount of materials, but also bear the manpower and material consumption of a huge grain transportation force.
So there was the "Kai Zhong Salt Method".
Encourage capable private merchants to transport grain to the border and exchange it with the local military depot for salt leads. With the corresponding salt leads, you can go to salt-producing areas to collect a corresponding amount of salt for sale.
Huo Xi explained it to the two of them, but they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
"This is just a superficial idea of mine. As you know, I want to make money, and the profit is huge, so I can't help but think more about it. But it's just not possible to implement it yet. We don't have any land, and we don't know how to produce food.
The third main thing is that there is no one. I just think about it."
Seeing the pity on Huo Xi's face, Shen Qianzhong looked at her intently. He didn't expect that his boss would be able to seize such business opportunities from other people's news at such a young age.
He could also plan something about it. Listening to her plan, although she said it was superficial, it didn't sound unrealistic to him.
Shen Qianzhong's heart began to beat rapidly, and finally he slapped his hand on the table: "Then let's go north and buy land!"
Yang Fu was startled by Shen Qianzhong's excitement.
When he came to his senses, he hesitated: "But we don't have the manpower."
"While land is cheap in the north now, let's buy it first and then talk about it. I'll think of a way to deal with manpower later." Huo Xi had an idea in mind, but it still took time.
The three of them discussed the matter and settled on it.
It was decided to allocate 10,000 taels of the money from the young master of the Mu family to buy land in the north, and the remaining 6,000 taels to buy some land in the south of the Yangtze River.
Huo Xi thought that if the business failed, Mu Yan's investment money could be used to offset the land to him.
"Then our sea trade business will be discontinued?"
Yang Fu benefited from Songjiang's purchase of foreign goods and was a little worried when he saw that Huo Xi didn't spend the money on it.
"Let's do it. Buying land to grow grain is not as fast as sea trade and our current business. We still have two thousand five hundred taels for spices, and I think we can get two to three thousand taels for those foreign goods.
It should be enough to use five thousand taels to operate it."
After the agreement was reached, both Yang and Fu disagreed with her going to Peking in person.
"My boss, it's better to stay in the capital to provide support. You can't do it without your shop. Let me go north. The rattan and bamboo we bought with the fans are still in the warehouse. I just happened to take him north to see the market."
Huo Xi thought about it for a while and then agreed.
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