In the study room of Mu Mansion, Mu Yan did not speak after listening to Qian San's reply.
Li Yikaner was shocked: "What kind of girl did this Madam Huo save?"
"Master, since Madam Huo is a concubine, we don't need to go to Juyuan Tower. Wanxiang Tower is much bigger than Juyuan Tower," Li Yi suggested.
Mu Yan was silent.
He had only been on duty for a few days when the emperor sent him to inform all the officials and asked him to serve as an ear to report back to God. I don't know whether he trusted him or was testing him.
Mu Yan was disgusted.
But now that I have surrendered to the emperor, I am afraid that such orders will continue in the future.
Mu Yan ordered Gan San: "You should stay with her these days."
Gan San responded and left.
Mu Yan just wanted to see what this little liar wanted to do. Did he still want to detain him?
Just when I thought about it, I suddenly felt my hands itching. I couldn't sit still, so I took Li Yikaner out of the house.
The fat-bellied official was coming out of Xiangliyanli, staggering drunkenly as he was being helped into a sedan chair to return home.
Suddenly the whole world went dark. Then he was beaten awake and howled in pain.
Mu Yan took Li Yikaner and beat him and his two followers with a basket. He made you cynicize me in the palace, said that I was a noble son of the Marquis and was working as a pawn of His Majesty, and said that I was disgraceful. My grandfather's face.
Beat! It must be beaten hard! The fist hits the flesh and makes a loud bang.
Let you face me with a pig's face tomorrow. How dare you laugh at me!
After letting out a deep breath, Mu Yan and the other three stepped away as the other party repeatedly begged for mercy.
Kan Er felt refreshed and refreshed. As expected, the best way to vent his anger was to beat someone up or something. In this capital, he was neither this nor that. He had to be restrained in everything, which made him choke.
That's right, the props are a bit awkward and a bit off his face.
Looking at Mu Yan: "Master, can we not use the basket next time? Tomorrow morning I thought there was a ghost in the kitchen and stole the basket without stealing anything. It would be better if we use a sack."
"Sacks are expensive." Mu Yan replied calmly.
Well……
Master, do you still feel sorry for a sack?
"Silly, what if the sack has a mark? Wouldn't it be a disaster if someone found it? It's better to have a basket." Li nodded and agreed with the prop basket.
However, jumping up and down with a basket really affects the image.
However, after fighting for a long time, the young master just refused to agree. Kan Er had no choice but to give up.
As for Huo Xi, ever since he met Wu Youcai and heard that he had joined Shibo Division, his mind has been spinning.
How to cure him? I really don’t want to be cured. Seeing my enemy getting better and better, it feels like frying in oil.
Wu Youcai has joined the Shipping Department. He is in the Shipping Department.
People like Wu Youcai who are new to the shipping industry probably want to make meritorious deeds first and make money second.
Shibo Division... wants to buy... Huo Xi has had this word in his mind these past few days.
Why are everyone vying for sea trade business? It’s nothing more than huge profits. For example, if a few pairs of pieces of silk are shipped overseas, the profits can be several times or ten times higher.
Another example is the red copper from the Japanese country. The market price in Japan was only more than ten cents per catty. When it was shipped to the Wei Dynasty, the market shipping department paid it three hundred cents, making a profit of more than ten times.
There is also sulfur. Huo Xi remembers that it has always been an important military supply for the Ming Dynasty. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to its scarcity, it had to be purchased in large quantities from the Japanese country. A pound of sulfur in the Japanese country cost only a few cents a pound, but when it was shipped to the Ming Dynasty, the price was always the same. Really huge profits.
Brimstone and flame salt were usually used to make firearms in the army, and there were already firearms in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang had already used fire blunderbuss when he fought with the Yuan Dynasty.
That's why Huo Xi felt that the hundred stone flame salt in the warehouse was a hot commodity.
If Wu Youcai could be tricked into selling it and then exchange it for other in-demand items, would that work?
It's just that this flame salt was collected from merchants of the Wei Dynasty. If it came from the Japanese country, the profit could be dozens of times higher if it was sold. But if it was sold to the Shipbuilding Company, the price would have to be lowered, and in the end it would have to be paid back.
Even if you don’t post it upside down, what should you replace it with?
When buying ships from merchants, they usually don’t give you any money, they are all barter for things. A bunch of foreign businessmen are asking for copper coins from the Wei Dynasty? I’m afraid they are crazy. The Wei Dynasty is also short of gold and silver, and there won’t be much of it.
Pay gold and silver to foreign merchants.
Like the Japanese country, there is usually a lot of raw silk exchanged. A load of copper weighs 270 kilograms, and usually eight to ten kilograms of silk can be exchanged. Shipping it back to the Japanese country will be four to five times the profit.
But Huo Xi exchanged flames and salt for raw silk?
Not to mention whether the flame salt can be recovered at the cost price, how much money can be made if it is replaced by raw silk and sold within the Wei Dynasty?
One hundred stone flame saltpeter, bought for just over 200 taels, can be exchanged for 600 jins of raw silk. One jin of raw silk can be sold for half a tael of silver in the market, and only 300 taels of silver can be obtained.
Is she in trouble? She took a big risk and deceived Wu Youcai, but got less than a hundred taels of silver?
Huo Xi is so worried.
Over there, Wei Ling had recovered and left the hospital. She thought about it for a few days but couldn't figure out how to operate it.
As for Huo Erhuai, Mrs. Fang pestered him that day and only got a hundred copper coins. She was unwilling to give up and insisted on following him if she refused to leave.
Huo Erhuai also risked his life, but did not return to the ship or the small courtyard of Qionghua Lane.
He went straight to the dock in the outer city and worked as a porter to move goods.
Mrs. Fang followed him and saw that he had been moving goods at the dock for a whole day and had only received twenty or thirty copper coins. Finally, he sat on the ground and ate gray steamed buns with the movers and porters.
How could this old woman endure it? She plundered the coins she got and ran away.
Huo Erhuai then returned to the ship. For several days, he, Yang and Huo Nian went out to collect and sell goods, but never came near the waters of the capital.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu breathed a sigh of relief. Huo Erhuai and Yang could handle it clearly, which would save their children a lot of trouble.
It’s not that they don’t give pension money. Huo Erhuai gives him fifty taels every year when he goes back at the end of the year. If you spread it out, the pension money you give each month is almost one tael, which is more than most people. Still not satisfied?
It's not like the money he and his wife earned came from strong winds. It's okay to adopt parents, but the Huo family has no separate family. They have houses and fields, and they live together. There is no reason for him to support his brothers, nephews, and the whole family by himself.
That day Wei Ling recovered from his illness and was about to go home. Huo Erhuai went to the medical clinic and paid for his medicine. He also paid money and received some nourishing medicine for him to take home to strengthen his condition.
Because Mrs. Fang came to make trouble, Wei He only stayed on the boat for one night, thinking about his second uncle's boat.
I chatted with Huo Wuniang in the hospital every day.
Huo Wuniang was so upset by her talk that she asked Huo Erhuai: "Second brother, how much money does a boat like yours cost?"
Huo Erhuai glanced at her: "If you are willing, I can help you, help you buy a smaller boat, and lead you out of the way. But now that you have not separated, it is mostly just
It’s all in vain. No matter how much I earn, it won’t fall into your hands.”
Wei He lowered his head, and the light in his eyes dimmed.
Wei Ling recovered from her illness but was still a little weak. She leaned against Huo Wuniang's legs and looked up at her second uncle.
Huo Erhuai liked him, so he smiled and touched his head. Seeing Huo Wuniang's look of loss, she couldn't bear it.
Sighing: "If your family separates in the future, you will come back to find your second brother. For the sake of my two nephews, my second brother can't just watch you live a hard life."
This little girl is nearly ten years younger than him. When she was a child, he carried her wherever she went. He fed her and raised her. He couldn't bear to see her suffer.
He took out two silver tags from his arms and said, "These are given to your two children by your second sister-in-law. Please help them keep them."
Huo Wuniang was still stunned, but Wei He took it and quickly put it on his brother, and then put it around his own neck.
"You kid!" Huo Wuniang wanted to snatch it back and kept it herself.
Huo Erhuai was very pleased and stopped her: "This is for the two children, so they can keep it themselves. If there is an emergency in the future, it can be used as money."
Looking at Wei He: "Xiao He, can you keep it away so that no one else knows?"
Wei He nodded fiercely: "Yes. I'll hide it well and won't even tell my father." After saying that, he looked at Xiaoling: "My brother won't tell me either!"
Wei Ling nodded her little head, put the silver tag into her lapel, and held it tightly: "Uncle, Xiao Ling didn't say anything either."
Huo Erhuai felt a little sad and stroked the heads of the two children one after another: "Be good."
After buying some food cloth for the mother and son, and hiring an ox cart for them, Huo Erhuai sent them off.
Wei He looked back, reluctant to leave, and leaned into Huo Wuniang's ear: "Mom, can't we separate our families?"
Huo Wuniang didn't answer. She took the tags between the two children's necks and looked at them. She held them in her hands and weighed them. She felt they were heavy. This one was twice as scared. Her eyes were so sore that she wanted to shed tears.
Asked the two children: "Do you like your second uncle?"
"I like it!" The two children nodded in unison.
Huo Wuniang felt quite sad after hearing this.
These days, the two children did not mention their father at all, but only thought about their second uncle. Huo Wuniang looked back and saw that her second brother was still standing there. The ox cart gradually moved away until he could no longer see it.
To explain the terminology, this is the import tax, which is equivalent to the tariff. Bobuy means that the shipping company purchases from foreign merchants. Drawing points means classifying the foreign merchants' goods into different thicknesses and grades, and the shipping company then extracts them in proportion.
A certain amount of goods. Regarding the points draw, I think it is like the current customs random inspection? But in ancient times, the points draw was to take away the goods and not return them. I don’t think it is the same.