Half a month after Yang Fu left, Li Yu came to the capital.
"What? Uncle Yu, are you going to sea?" Huo Xi thought she heard wrongly.
She was looking for someone to go to sea, but she never thought of letting Li Yu go.
"Can my great-uncle, great-uncle, and cousin agree?" I'm afraid they didn't come here secretly, right?
"They agreed." Li Yu said it lightly, but Huo Xi could also tell that he was the one who proposed to go to sea and had done a lot of work at home.
"The main reason is that your aunt doesn't agree. Your maternal uncle hopes that I can take a look while I'm young."
Seeing Huo Xi's surprised look, Li Yu smiled.
"Xi'er, you know that I can't study well, and I haven't gotten any merit in these years. After running your shop, I ran around and fell in love with this kind of life. The year before last, I followed you in Songjiang to exchange goods and do business with people. , I fell in love with dealing with businessmen again.”
The year before last, Huo Xi took Tang to Songjiang to find a businessman. Li Yu followed her and watched her doing business with the businessman. As they went back and forth, he fell in love with dealing with the businessman.
As long as I went to Songjiang to check out the shops, I would bring goods with me to trade with merchants. I also taught myself some idioms.
Hearing that Huo Xi was going to go overseas this year with someone else, he was immediately moved. What man wouldn't want to walk around and have a look? There happened to be a chance to go overseas. He wanted to go, and he talked to his family about it.
"Don't worry about the shop in the south. My father will take over. He is more experienced than me. He took care of the general affairs for your grandfather when he was young. He is more accurate than me in seeing people and doing things. Don't worry about leaving the shop to him."
"Of course I feel relieved to leave the shop to my uncle. It's just that he is old, and I'm afraid that he won't be able to bear the burden of traveling back and forth."
"It's okay. He has taken good care of himself in the past few years. He will also bring two stewards to train him, so that he can train some people for you in the future."
Now that Li Yu wants to go overseas and has done all the work at home, he is of course the best candidate.
Huo Xi immediately asked Shopkeeper Shen to take him to meet with the other four managers and let him participate in discussing various matters related to going overseas.
The person to escort the goods to the sea was selected, and the clerks and stewards also decided on the candidates. Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong worked hard for another month, preparing the goods to be taken.
The ship that sailed to Nanyang this time had a total of 3,000 tons of cargo, but the journey was long, there were many crews and sailors, and there were many supplies to carry. In the end, one family could only carry 100 tons of cargo.
Half of Guangfengshui's goods are sugar, and the other half are silk, cotton, porcelain, tea, and various handicrafts.
At the end of June, the five families prepared all the goods and loaded them on the ship. On the first day of July, the incense workers led everyone to worship the God of the Sea at the bow of the ship, served fragrant fruit tea, and set off firecrackers. The ship set off from Taicang Port and headed for Southeast Asia.
Li Shiwu came to see his son off. He watched him board the ship and leave at the pier outside the capital city, but his footsteps did not move for a long time.
"Great uncle?"
Li Shiwu turned around and said, "Uncle is fine. Good men are everywhere. If it weren't for my uncle being old, he would have wanted to go there himself. Who will get that boy? Didn't you see the corners of his mouth raised when he left? With the expectation of the unknown in my heart, I’m not sure how happy I feel.”
Huo Xi felt relieved when she saw that Li Shiwu didn't feel too sad. He looked relieved.
Li Shiwu turned to Huo Xizai and breathed a sigh of relief quietly, and said with a smile: "Silly Xi'er, don't feel burdened. Even if his trip doesn't go smoothly and he doesn't come back in the end, it's still his life. He made his own decision. It has nothing to do with anyone else. When I came, your great-aunt told me to be gentle with you and don’t let you think too much."
Huo Xi smiled at him.
I hope Uncle Li Yu’s trip is safe, otherwise, I will not be able to get through this hurdle in my heart.
After the two ships traveled far, Huo Xi rested for a few days. The tight string was let down.
I thought I had quite a lot of silver in my hand, but I didn't expect that after two ships went to sea, 250,000 taels of silver were gone. I lent another 100,000 taels to the Ren family, and the money in the bank shrank by most of half.
After sleeping in a house in the inner city for a day, I walked around the streets in the inner city to see if there were any business opportunities.
I was wandering around the city with my two maids and Tayue, and ate a lot of street food. Before I could swallow the food in my mouth, someone slapped me on the shoulder.
I turned around and saw, Niang Le, Wu Youcai!
Is the road so narrow?
She wanted to pretend not to know her, but Wu Youcai recognized her.
Seeing that Tayue was about to step forward and pull Wu Youcai's hand away, Huo Xi quickly winked at him, so Tayue had no choice but to stand beside her.
Wu Youcai glanced at Tayue and looked at Huo Xi: "I almost didn't recognize you. Why, another noble master is looking for you to set up a matchmaking relationship?"
Huo Xi rolled his eyes, swallowed the food in his mouth, and smiled flatteringly at him: "No. I am leading people to wander around the street, looking for a noble person."
The candy last time made Wu Youcai shine in a big way.
He gave it to various noble people, but got a lot of benefits.
Nowadays, although he has not been promoted in Shibo Division, he is no longer an idle job. Although he has no fame, he has established a firm foothold in a popular yamen like Shibo Division.
No matter how noble you want to insert someone, you can't squeeze him out even if you squeeze him.
Nowadays, Wu Youcai is getting fatter and fatter, and his whole person is rounder than last time. If he ran to Meihua Mountain and wanted to ride up the mountain in a soft sedan chair, even two sedan bearers might not be able to lift him.
Tsk tsk.
"What good things does your lord have?"
Uh... Huo Xi's mind was spinning rapidly, "He has good things, but I don't know what the adults can exchange for them. He doesn't like ordinary things."
"Let's go and talk somewhere else." Wu Youcai took Huo Xi to the tea shop.
Wu Youcai was disappointed when he heard that Huo Xi had no sugar in his hand. But when he heard that there was a kind of sugar that looked like ice, his eyes lit up again.
But he didn't see the real thing, and he didn't bid.
The next morning, when Huo Xi brought him rock candy, Wu Youcai immediately nodded in agreement.
After some haggling, they exchanged two hundred stones of pepper, two thousand bolts of silk cloth, and three thousand bolts of cotton from the storeroom of the ship's treasurer for the one hundred stones of rock candy in Huo Xi's hand.
Huo Xi offered a price of thirty taels for a pound of rock candy, and her goods were worth thirty-six thousand taels. The current market price of pepper was six cents a pound, and two hundred shi was only less than fifteen thousand taels. Including silk and cotton, the total value was not more than
Thirty thousand taels.
Wu Youcai felt that since he was an official, Huo Xi and the noble master behind him were businessmen, so of course he wanted to take advantage.
Finally, seeing Huo Xi's face full of pain, Wu Youcai was in a good mood. The two parties agreed on the delivery time, and Wu Youcai left happily.
Huo Xi used sucrose worth less than 500 taels to make 100 stones of rock sugar, and exchanged it for Wu Youcai's nearly 30,000 taels of silver. Naturally, he did not dare to stand out in the capital again.
Hearing that Empress Xu was still in the Ling Palace and that no mausoleum was built near the capital, Huo Xi's heart clicked and she knew where to take shelter.