Before getting off the boat, Huo Xi secretly grabbed Yang Fu.
"Mom asked you to go back to Zhuangzi, why are you taking your time?"
Yang Fu opened his mouth, thinking that Huo Xi also knew his secret, so he didn't hide it from her: "I want to give something to the Qin family."
Huo Xi tilted her head and looked at him: "It's not for the Qin family, but for the Qin family's sister."
Yang Fu immediately turned red.
After seeing him go out for a trip, he has become much more capable and tactful due to his experience, but when it comes to this kind of thing, he is still thin-skinned.
Then she stopped teasing him and said, "Don't worry, sister Qin said she would go to the hot spring village to celebrate the New Year with us this year."
"Really?" Yang Fu's eyes lit up, "Mr. Qin also agrees?"
"If Mr. Qin doesn't agree, can she go out?" This uncle must have been so happy.
"That, that..."
"Then what? They just think our hot spring water is nourishing and they plan to take a dip. What are they thinking?"
When Yang Fu heard this, he immediately became speechless.
Huo Xi shook her head. Sure enough, once people fall in love, they become stupid.
Qin Huaiyu has reached the age of proposing marriage. There is a man of the same age in the student's family. Can they avoid it? I agree with this. Isn't Mr. Qin's attitude loosened?
"Let's go. It's New Year's Eve, and I still have a lot of things to do when I get home." Without explaining, she pulled him off the boat holding his things.
Back at Zhuangzi, Huo Nian stopped teasing his younger brother. He took Bao Kang and ran to see the cows his uncle had brought back.
They were very different from the cows in the Wei Dynasty, which were either black or yellow. The two cows were actually covered in flowers, one white and one black. They were wilted when they were brought back. When they were put on the grass in Zhuangzi, they were very energetic. few.
It attracted many children from farmers' families to come and see it.
"What kind of cow is this? It's nothing like our cows."
Huo Nian glanced at his friends and said with a proud expression: "This is called a cow. It specializes in producing milk. My uncle brought it back from overseas!"
"The milk-producing one? It hasn't given birth to any babies, so who will give the milk to it?"
A child stared at it, puzzled. He crouched down and moved forward a few steps to take a closer look. No wonder it was a cow that specialized in producing milk. That place was bulging. He couldn't even blink his eyes.
A child thought that the farm owner had bought a dairy goat to milk for the young master. He tilted his head and asked Huo Nian: "Did your family buy it to milk for your little brother?"
Some of the servants came around to watch.
I heard that the owner of the family had specially transported two cows from overseas just to feed the young master. I secretly sighed. Sure enough, the life of a wealthy family is not something ordinary people can understand.
Huo Xi also stood far away and looked at the two cows, wondering what Yang Fu was thinking.
"Uncle, did you buy these two cows to give An An milk?"
"I saw everyone gathered around to watch, and there were many people who wanted to buy it. I heard from the person selling it that it can produce dozens of kilograms of milk a day, and eating it is good for your health. At that time, I thought about my sister's lack of milk. I bought several children because I was afraid that my sister would have no milk to feed them."
"There's no need to buy a male. Bulls don't produce milk."
And did this stupid uncle forget to hire a wet nurse? He brought back two cows from a long distance, not to mention the weight, but he brought a lot less goods.
"But without the bull, the cow can't give birth. If she doesn't give birth, she won't produce milk."
Huo Xi looked at him blankly.
Yang Fu touched his nose. Did he buy the wrong one?
He bought a cow, and the other four families laughed at him. But firstly, he thought about bringing it back to produce milk, and secondly, he thought that if he couldn't feed it, he could kill it for meat on the ship. It would be difficult to eat fresh meat on the ship. ah.
Besides, if you can't raise it after you bring it back, you can sell it as beef. The beef in the capital is very expensive. You can get a lot of money from it.
Nowadays, the focus of the imperial court is on crops, and now the imperial court does not trade with the other ethnic groups in the northern grasslands. There is a shortage of cattle and horses. Unless the cattle die of illness and old age, they cannot be killed for food.
After he buys it, he can sell the meat no matter how hard it is.
Huo Xifu asked, how much can the meat be sold for? One family can only carry one thousand shi, or 60 tons of goods, and these two cows can only carry two to three tons. How much less goods can be loaded.
Huo Xi was so heartbroken that she felt so distressed.
But seeing how her mother was so happy and praising everyone she met, after thinking about it, I decided to forget it.
Well, it can produce milk, and it can also give birth to calves, and the calves can produce milk again, and even if the milk is not finished, it can be sold. Well, that's good. But do the next generation of young dairy cows need to buy another bull for breeding?
Huo Xi had another headache.
Seeing that Yang Fu had already gone to explain to Qi Da how to feed and express milk, he returned to the yard with a headache.
When she returned to the yard, she saw that her mother was also holding Zuo's hand. Grandma Zou and others were talking about the cows. With smiles on their faces, they hurriedly went forward to hug An An and hid in their house.
She poked his fat little face and said, "Little An'an, you are not short of milk now. If you get fatter, my sister will not be able to hold you. My sister feels so sorry for you, that stupid uncle of yours...
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Talk to An An.
An An smiled at her and danced. Huo Xi put him on the bed and watched him crawl and play.
After a while, Vanilla and Xia He ran in: "Miss, those two cows have a place to live. Qi Zhuangtou has led people to build a shed for them."
Huo Xi closed her eyes and fell down on the bed. An An thought her sister was playing with him, so she giggled and crawled towards her.
On New Year's Eve, after the New Year's dinner, everyone watched Huo Nian and his servants setting off firecrackers outside, while Huo Xi, Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong settled accounts in the room.
The goods he brought were exchanged for 360,000 taels of Japanese silver, and the one thousand gold coins he brought were all exchanged for goods.
Black cane sugar was bought for 200 shi for fifteen cents per catty. These were transported back to Zhuangzi and refined into white sugar and rock sugar. They would be sold to Fanshang in the future and could be exchanged for tens of thousands of taels of silver.
I bought five hundred stones of red copper, and one hundred stones each of sulfur and flame salt.
The price of red copper is good, and other stores have also bought a lot of it. But except Langguang Pavilion, which also bought sulfur and flame salt, no one from the other three stores bought them.
Flame saltpeter is cheap, two pounds and three cents, and you can get twenty times the profit if you transport it back. But even if you buy a thousand stones of flame saltpeter, it will cost less than 200 taels of silver. After working hard to transport it back, you can only sell it for three or four thousand taels of silver.
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Far from enough to offset the cost of the trip.
Pei Jiawanjia and Xin Jiutong didn't even want to buy them to account for the weight.
But Huo Xi has his own plans.
Sulfur, flame, salt, and red copper are all in short supply for the military. As long as they are sold to the army, they may be able to get a lot of help and get some benefits in exchange.
Guangfeng Shui started out as a fisherman and needs to build more connections. Only by clearing the road can he make more money.
Moreover, two hundred stones of sucrose can make Guangfeng Shui a lot of money.
In addition, Yang Fu also spent a thousand gold to buy a lot of tin utensils, tortoiseshell and other handicrafts, Japanese knives and fans, various knives and cooking utensils, Korean furs, thick paper, ginseng, yellow and white wax, pepper, and spices.
That’s a lot of profit. If we sell them all, we’ll probably make tens of thousands of taels.
Including the goods shipped out and the goods shipped back, it is estimated that the profit from this trip will be nearly 500,000 taels.