Feng Shiwen had a calm expression on his face and sat there, pretending not to understand.
But he was originally from the Wei Dynasty, how could he not understand Wu Youcai's words? After listening to his words, his face was calm, but his eyes were full of thoughts, and he felt that he should have a good deal with his master when he went back.
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Huo Xi pretending to discuss it with him, and he shook his head and frowned.
Huo Xi nodded and passed messages back and forth between him and Wu Youcai.
In the end, the two parties agreed on 500 kilograms of white sugar, saying that Fanshang only brought 500 kilograms. They would also give ten kilograms of ambergris, and they would not exchange for any more.
He only brought five hundred kilograms with him. There were not many such rare things in his country. He was already the bottom of everything. Wu Youcai had no choice but to accept it.
The two parties agreed that on the day of delivery, Wu Youcai would give the wood purchase documents to Huo Xi.
Huo Xi and Feng Twenty then left Wanxiang Tower.
It was the maid Yao Qin who sent them out, walked up and whispered: "The girl said that the young master of Zhuangzi just uses it to run the business, and there is no need to worry about paying dividends to the girl. He only wants to give the girl a place to live and bury her bones in the future."
The girl will be extremely grateful."
"Don't worry. I will do what I say when I promise her. Her money will not be missing even if she gives it to me."
Yao Qin nodded, glanced at Huo Xi, and then turned back to Wanxiang Tower.
Feng Ershi sent Huo Xi back, and then went back to revive Mu Yan.
In the study, after listening to Feng Ershi's words, Mu Yan frowned in thought.
Li Yiyi said: "Ms. Huo is not involved in the lumber business. If this quota is given to her, she will only be able to transfer it."
Kan Er glanced at the young master: "Master, can we take over this business?"
Li Yi rolled his eyes at him: "This business seems to be profitable, but it's still hard for us to show up."
"Then we won't be able to do this business?"
Both Kan Er and Feng Twenty are a little pity.
Mu Yan was not thinking about purchasing the wood for Ci'en Temple, but he was thinking about logging for the construction of Beiping City.
There are many types of timber in the deep mountains of the southwest. Song Li, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, personally went to the logging front line to keep an eye on it. In order to please the imperial court, the chieftains in the southwest would definitely donate timber to the government.
In order to compete for rare wood such as nanmu in the mountains, there will definitely be vendettas and disputes, and the situation in the southwest will be unstable.
And his biological father currently does not have the ability to unite the various ethnic minorities and chieftains in the southwest.
Once the situation changes at that time, it will definitely affect the Xiping Hou Mansion. If the Southwest Marquis Mansion is unable to mediate and balance the parties, he will be held accountable by His Majesty. If he takes advantage of the situation and sends people to take over Yunnan, the Xiping Hou Mansion will be emptied out.
"Send a message to Xunwu and Zhenliu, asking them to immediately prepare a wood shop and make Yunnan's wood purchasing business bigger. Instead of letting all parties compete for points, let's get this business done first. Let them send us
Our people went into the mountains to survey for timber, and circled them first. They kept an eye on all parts of Yunnan, and if there were any seedlings of trouble among the chieftains, they suppressed them in time."
"yes."
Li Yi was a little worried: "Master, this timber business will cost us a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and it will probably cost a lot of money. I'm afraid it will be a loss-making business."
Kan Er came back to his senses and nodded in agreement: "Yes, young master, I heard that mining in the mountains requires one thousand to enter and five hundred to leave. It is extremely difficult. Not to mention that the survey and logging stage is extremely difficult, let's talk about operation and operation.
It requires a lot of manpower and material resources, it takes a long time, and it takes a long time to transport the wood by water and travel thousands of miles up the river. It may not take several years to transport the wood from the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou to Peking. It is not suitable for us to be a wood dealer.
Bar."
Mu Yan raised his eyes and glanced at them lightly.
"Do this as I say, even if you lose money. My grandfather spent his whole life trying to pacify and govern Yunnan, which is why we have the current situation. Nowadays, although the chieftains from all over Yunnan are attached to our court, they have unpredictable ideas and there are people around them.
Yunnan cannot cause chaos in small countries such as Hongsawady, Siam, and Chenla."
If there is a chaos, the lifelong inheritance of my grandfather and uncle will be destroyed in one fell swoop.
As for Huo Xi, five hundred kilograms of sugar is easy to get, but what to do with the wood purchase quota in exchange?
In today's commercial wood harvesting, wood merchants first receive a certain amount of funds from the government, and then recruit manpower and civilian workers to go into the mountains to harvest wood. Then, the wood merchants deliver the wood to the location designated by the government. The government accepts the wood and settles the remaining balance.
payment.
This matter is easy to say but not easy to say.
First of all, the exploration stage is not easy.
It is necessary to ask experienced people to go into the mountains to select materials. Although the wood used in the Ci'en Temple is not as strict as the materials used in the palace and imperial city, it must be precious nanmu and other woods, but woods such as camphor, fir, cypress, pine, and cypress are
It’s not easy to find good ingredients either.
Next comes logging. Today’s tools are only axes and saws, which require labor and labor to cut down a giant tree with axes and saws. It may take a long time to cut down a huge tree.
Even if it is cut down, it is not easy to move it out of the deep mountains.
It's difficult to walk in the deep mountains and old forests, and you have to carry a piece of wood as big as that and open a road through the mountains. How much manpower and material resources will it cost?
The operation process involves first dragging the wood out of the felling area, dragging it to the stream, and then transporting the wood through the stream, rafting it to the river, and then hauling it all the way from the river to the capital through waterways.
The operation and analysis process in the middle is so difficult and dangerous that it is indescribable.
The amount of manpower and material resources consumed and the time required were so long that Huo Xi felt that besides not being able to afford it, the most important thing was that he didn't have any background.
The timber dealer has been doing this timber business for many years. In addition to manpower, he probably also has a lot of inventory in the warehouse.
Huo Xi thought about it all night and couldn't figure it out. The next day, she went to the shop and found Shen Qianzhong. Then she took Yang Fu and the three of them immersed themselves in discussion.
"Whether we do it ourselves or transfer it, this is a good thing." Shen Qianzhong didn't want his boss to win such a big business for the shop again.
Yang Fu was a little excited: "Now we at Guangfeng Shui have the ability to do this. We just take care of the matter and invite people to go into the mountains to survey. We don't have to do the logging ourselves. As long as we have enough money, there will naturally be carpenters and migrant workers competing for it."
To do this business, we just need to follow behind and pay for labor and materials."
Huo Xi said nothing.
Shen Qianzhong thought about it: "We don't have the manpower in this area now. Moreover, the temple built under His Majesty's personal supervision cannot make any mistakes. We'd better ask for the quota, and then let the news out, and we will have the Timber Chamber of Commerce and the
Let’s get in touch. We just need to take advantage of it and make a profit.”
Huo Xi thought for a long time and asked Shen Qianzhong: "Are you familiar with the wood merchants in the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce?"
Shen Qianzhong thought for a while and nodded: "There are a few that we can still talk to."
"Then you do this, reveal the news quietly, and let others do the business. We will only make a small profit."
Shen Qian nodded and hurriedly went out to find a good lumber dealer.
After the goods were delivered the next day, Huo Xi got the timber purchase documents from Wu Youcai. Shen Qianzhong only visited outside for a day before someone approached Huo Xi.