Huo Xi saw him and nodded at him: "I bought a lot."
Gong Ziyi opened his mouth wide. Is this good brother out of his mind? It's so miserable for his good brother. I'm afraid he was tricked and deceived without any incident.
"You can't buy the property in the north," he said with a sad look on his face.
"Not to mention that the land is not fertile and the water is not plentiful, but the grassland tribes outside the pass are still eyeing it. Why can't you come to the north to buy land? If you can't buy it near the capital, I will take you to Pingjiang, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places to buy it.
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Which place in the south of the Yangtze River does not produce more grain than the north?
His face felt like his money had been wasted.
Huo Xi originally wanted him to buy more land in the north, but after hearing what he said, he had no choice but to shut up.
It is now confirmed that the capital will be moved, but no one knows when it will be moved.
According to the history in Huo Xi's memory, it would have taken more than ten years to move the capital. If you can't grow grain, and you can't make money by leaving it in vain, it's better to buy land in Jiangnan and other places.
However, as Emperor Yongkang selected auspicious land in Changping, once the news spread back to the capital, many people would be afraid that they would not be able to buy the good land.
Even if the capital cannot be moved for the time being, as long as you make careful calculations, you will not lose money.
Huo Xi made up her mind.
"I got some news, so I bought some more properties in Peiping."
"Is it the news about the capital relocation?"
Huo Xi nodded.
Gong Ziyi didn't take it seriously, "Moving the capital is related to the fate of the country. This matter is too big and cannot be decided by the emperor alone."
It's not like the Gong family has never experienced dynasty overthrow.
Nowadays, the Zhu Wei Dynasty has only experienced three emperors. Taizu was born in mud and has little background. He has not inherited the treasury of the previous dynasty. How can the imperial court have so much money to move the capital now.
It's not that easy to build a city or a palace. It costs a lot of money.
Seeing that he had a plan in mind, Huo Xi didn't say much. He just talked about the current situation and listened to what he said about going to the grassland for trading.
Gong Ziyi was unable to enter the city a few days ago. For some reason, the city began interrogating merchants like them who had returned from doing business on the grasslands, causing him to sleep outside for several days.
Now when I returned to Peiping, I saw my wise brother again, whom I had not seen for two years. I felt happy and wanted to drag Huo Xi to live in his house.
Huo Xi refused to go, so he had to run back to his home to settle down, and then ran to Huo Xi's house with his luggage.
"You refused to go to my brother's place, so my brother had to come to you. It's rare for my two brothers to see each other. It's time to hold candles all night long and talk."
Who is talking to you?
Anyway, the house is very big, Wujin is here, he can live wherever he wants, just chatting? Forget it, thank you for the invitation, no need to talk.
Gong Ziyi was not able to talk to Xiandi, and he was not too sad. Anyway, he stayed at Xiandi's house. He transported the goods from the grassland seller to Peiping and handed them over to the shopkeeper to take care of, so he became a hands-off shopkeeper.
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Seeing that Huo Xi wanted to see Zhuangzi, he eagerly followed him.
Seeing that Huo Xi couldn't chase him away, she had no choice but to let him follow.
The two of them walked out of the gate, got on the carriage, and headed out of the city towards Zhuangzi.
Mu Yan reined in his horse and stopped in the dark, with calm eyes, watching her carriage drive away calmly.
Kan Er glanced at him cautiously and said, "Mrs. Huo also knows someone in Peiping? That young master seems to come from a wealthy family."
He is either rich or noble. He is so close to Mrs. Huo, and they seem to be very familiar with each other.
Li Yi glared at him. Kan Er touched his nose and pursed his lips.
Mu Yanle turned his horse's head and left in the opposite direction.
In the interrogation room, everyone watched Mu Yan enter with a gust of cold wind.
With a cold face, he went directly into the dark room. There were several hidden stakes in the grassland where the emperor's eldest grandson was kidnapped.
Those people included people from the grassland, people with mixed blood from the grassland and Han people, and some Han Chinese. Several hidden stakes who worked for the grassland khanate were hung up for twelve hours and interrogated non-stop. Eighteen kinds of torture instruments were used in turn. Read it again.
All kinds of torture, just for a quick death.
I had said everything that needed to be said, and there was nothing more to say. Unexpectedly, half an hour after Mu Yan entered the interrogation room, he would find out some more information.
He hurried out of the city with a group of people.
Within a few days, as the city was being cleaned up, several strongholds outside the city that even the hidden stakes didn't know about were dug out by Mu Yan's men.
In the city of Peiping, the sky is clear and sunny.
Huo Xi also felt that the sky was high and the clouds were vast. He felt that the climate in the north was very different from that in the south of the Yangtze River, and that the world seemed wider. Is it because the population of Shuntian Prefecture was small?
The group first went to the three villages that Shen Qianzhong bought before.
All three villages have servants, and servants were also sent from the south of the Yangtze River. After two years of operation, it has become a success. In the past two years, it has been able to supply a lot of grain to the grain stores in Beiping City.
Mulberry seedlings were also transported by ship earlier, and they have been planted in the village for a year now. This time, Huo Xi brought two women who were good at raising silkworms from the village in Jiangjun Mountain and arranged for them to be planted there. In Zhuangzi, he led the people to build a silkworm house and raised the silkworms they brought.
With the weather in the north now, it shouldn't be a problem to raise silkworms twice before winter.
So in autumn and winter, raw silk is sold in cloth shops in Peiping. When the production of silk cocoons becomes stable in the future, it will be possible to recruit a few weavers in the north and weave cloth in Zhuangzi.
"Brother Xian, do you want to raise silkworms in the north?"
Huo Xi nodded: "You can also raise silkworms in the north."
Gong Ziyi sighed and sighed, his good brother had raised silkworms all the way to the north.
Li Neng also said that his wise brother did not look like a fisherman, but looked like he was raised by a merchant family. But from his perspective, his wise brother was raised by a farmer's family.
Look, those who bought the land and farmed it all came to the north. There wasn’t enough land in the south of the Yangtze River for them to farm. They came all the way to the north to farm. Tsk.
Huo Xi ignored him, thinking that he was very idle. He didn't stay in the city, and just followed him to various villages as if he had nothing to do.
He didn't have time to pay much attention to him, he was just busy with Zhuangzi's affairs.
The fields in the north are not expected to be able to grow two crops of grain. She wants to interplant some mulberry seedlings to increase the output of one acre of fields.
The income from mulberry fields is high, but there is still a shortage of food in the north, so we still have to find ways to increase food income. The servants and tenants of the farm are all hungry, and no matter how much money they have, it is not as good as having enough to eat.
Eat well first before you can think about eating well.
Therefore, Zhuangzi in the north still needs to plant a variety of grains. If you can't plant two crops, then see if you can plant some short-cycle crops after harvesting one season of grains, such as soybeans and other miscellaneous grains.
While thinking about it, they went to the head of the village to inquire about Zhuangzi's situation. Seeing that Zhuangzi had taken care of things well, he encouraged them.
After checking the three original Zhuangzi, I went to check the newly purchased Zhuangzi one by one.
Of the six newly purchased villages, except for the three hot spring villages that have no shortage of servants, the other three villages all have only one or two servants. The village head has also left with the original owner. There is no one in charge.
There was no one to collect rent from the tenant farmers who used to farm in the village.
Huo Xi signed a new contract with these tenants. He wanted to promote someone to be the head of the farm from among the remaining servants, but he couldn't find a tall one among the short ones. He had to find another way.
The servant of the village can wait for Ji Fengshi to find someone, or she can go buy it from Yaren, or buy someone from Jiangnan and send it over, but she can't do it now if she has nothing to do.
We had no choice but to promote a few people from the original three village servants to take care of it.
There are many and complicated affairs in Zhuangzi, and I have been busy for more than ten days and have not sorted them out. The main reason is that there is a lack of managers and manpower, and there is no one to implement many things.
I had no choice but to go back to the city to find someone.
As soon as he entered the city, he saw a general leading eighteen hundred soldiers out of the city. Huo Xi followed the crowd and stepped aside at the city gate, and followed everyone's gaze. At this sight, he was stunned.