"Why did you go to bed today?" Qian Xiaoxia looked back and forth at Huo Xi and Yang Fu suspiciously.
"I want you to take care of it."
Yang Fu ignored him, got into Huo Xi's side of the boat, and asked her about the situation.
"It's okay, I took a nap and I'm fine."
Yang Fu breathed a sigh of relief. Qian Xiaoxia looked at them suspiciously, always feeling that these two people were too mysterious today.
Seeing Qian Xiaoxia looking them around, Huo Xi said, "My family is going to open a grocery store. Please help us and let everyone know, and we will reward you with a few candies later."
Ah? Open a grocery store?
"Your family doesn't fish anymore? Didn't you just buy a big boat? You don't want it now? You're going to open a grocery store in the city? Can you sell your big boat?"
Qian Xiaoxia also wants a boat of his own.
"Even if I sell it, you can't afford it!" Yang Fu scolded him.
As soon as the money shrank, yes, he couldn't afford it.
"It's not about opening a shop in the city, it's about opening a mobile grocery store on the boat." Huo Xi explained.
Then he said to Yang Fu: "Uncle, take him to see what we have added, let him open his eyes, and then take him to tell everyone, so as to help our family promote it."
"Okay." Yang Fu responded, hooking Qian Xiaoxia, who was still looking dumbfounded, to look at the goods they had prepared.
At this sight, Qian Xiaoxia's eyes widened and he almost fell off.
It’s only been two days since I bought my new boat, right? So many goods have been prepared? A floating grocery store?
Qian Xiaoxia's head was still numb, but Yang Fu had already arrived at the bow of his boat, promoting his floating grocery store to everyone one by one.
What? A floating grocery store?
Hiss, the Huo family can do it. They built a big ship and built it as a grocery store!
Yang and Huo Erhuai stood at the bow of the boat and answered everyone's questions: "We still need to fish. We are fishermen to begin with. What will we eat if we don't fish?"
"We started the grocery store because we felt that it would take time and effort to go to the city to buy things. We originally thought that we should prepare more for ourselves, but then we thought that if our family needs it, other families should also need it, so we should prepare more.
There are some. Everyone can come on board and take a look. There are grains and vegetables, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar, bowls, dishes and chopsticks, baskets and dustpans, hemp ropes, lighting oil, lamps and candles..."
Before he finished speaking, everyone got on the Huo family's boat and entered the cabin to watch the excitement.
Hiss, so many cloths are prepared? The cabin is almost full.
"From the Huo family, how much does this kudzu cost?"
"A horse costs one hundred and sixty cents, and a foot costs four cents. You can buy it with copper coins, or you can exchange it for fish, shrimps and crabs."
so cheap?
"I want one!" "I want two!" "Leave three for me."
"Everything is available."
Yang responded with a smile while getting cloths for everyone. She knew that kudzu was easy to sell, and even if she only made ten cents per piece, she would not suffer a loss.
A piece of kudzu, if made into narrow sleeves and short brown clothes, can make two clothes for an adult, and there is still some fabric left to make one for a half-grown baby.
To change and wash, each person needs at least one horse.
There are about twenty boats docked at Taoye Ferry.
As soon as everyone bought it, most of the kudzu and hemp were sold. Some people cut fine linen, coarse linen, cotton and linen by several feet, but they didn't buy much.
Some people also bought other groceries, but what was short-sold was four jars of ten kilograms of wine!
Huo Xi really didn't expect it.
She spent a lot of time in the inner city and the outer city, and knew that the wine industry in the Wei Dynasty was very developed. Regardless of the inner city or the outer city, there were many restaurants and restaurants in the capital, as well as wine-making workshops and cooking pots in every town and village.
When Emperor Taizu first established his dynasty, food was in short supply, so he adopted a policy of banning alcohol and planting glutinous rice. Everyone had been holding back for many years. Later, when the political situation stabilized, the ban on alcohol was lifted.
He also learned from the lessons of the Wu dynasty's harsh taxation that led to the downfall of the dynasty, and adopted low taxes to encourage economic development.
As for the wine steward, not only will the wine and wine monopoly be abolished, but there will be no dedicated management agency, and there will no longer be a separate wine tax. The wine tax will only be merged into the commercial tax, with a ratio of one in thirty.
Compared with the previous dynasties, the liquor tax was only 40 to 50%, which was already extremely low.
And because Taizu was born in poverty, in addition to the 2% koji tax, sales tax was no longer levied on the people who made wine and vinegar. This led to the booming development of the wine industry.
The wine-making process has become even more perfect, and the koji-making and distillation technologies have become increasingly mature, and the types of wine have become more and more complex. This has led to the emergence of famous wines in large numbers, such as shochu from Shanxi and rice wine from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
It was in the city that Huo Xi saw that there were many restaurants and wine shops, and there were special ladies selling wine to customers, so she thought about doing some wine business.
So he asked Huo Erhuai and Yang to search for some rice wine and rice wine brewed by the locals in the villages, collect them, and sell them.
Huo Erhuai was not willing to drink the expensive wine, and Yang did not dare to buy more, so he only bought two jars each. Unexpectedly, at the first sale of Taoye Ferry, the couple was busy carrying wine one by one, and one by one.
Packing wine, I was extremely busy.
In a short time, the four jars of wine were sold out.
The whole family was speechless.
"Huo Erhuai, why don't you collect more wine? I can't carry more than one liang of this wine, and I can't even drink it to my heart's content! Is there any of those five-jin and three-jin bottles? Collect some for me."
Huo Erhuai scratched his head: "I'm selling wine this time. I don't know if I can sell it, and I don't dare to charge more. If you like it, I will go find more for you tomorrow. If I don't make money from you, I will
Help everyone take it back."
"Thank you very much. I want a jar of rice wine!"
"I want a jar of rice wine!"
"I want two jars of rice wine."
"Okay, I'll ask my two children to write it down so that they don't forget it later." When he turned around and was about to give the order, he saw Huo Xizheng teaching Yang Fu, who had already written it down in the notebook.
"Uncles, I have remembered it all and will definitely bring it back to you tomorrow."
Everyone gave Huo Xi a thumbs up: "Your boy is the best."
Hehe, Huo Erhuai looked at Huo Xi with a smile, looking very proud.
After everyone dispersed, the family took stock of their supplies, and the only thing that was sold short was wine. Four jars of wine, weighing forty pounds, and twenty or so fishermen, one or two dozen dozen, were all sold out.
The yellow rice wine costs 15 cents a pound and has a low alcohol content. There is no entertainment for everyone at night. Some people even go out to buy some wine at night to pass the time and ward off the cold.
Huo Xi knew it could be sold, but she didn't expect it to be so easy to sell.
Ms. Yang said she found out that one stone of japonica rice can make about 80 kilograms of wine. To make wine in the countryside, you also need to buy distiller's yeast. The tax on distiller's yeast is two hundred percent, fifteen cents per kilogram, one cent per jar, and ten kilograms.
They go to the village to buy small quantities and don't have to pay commercial tax.
In the city, Huo Xi found out that the small wine, that is, rice wine, costs thirty cents per catty, and the big wine, that is, distilled wine, costs about forty-five cents per catty. Of course, various wines are also divided into three, six, and nine grades.
Yang was counting the cloth and copper plates, Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu were arranging things, and Huo Xi was thinking about wine.
Four jars of wine cost six cents, and the cost was almost one tael of wine and one penny.
Yang thought that most of the fishermen were reluctant to buy more, so they bought one or two bottles of wine in the village. They only sold three pieces of wine for two ounces.
A jar of wine sold in bulk can earn ninety cents (here calculated based on sixteen taels per catty).
It's not much. It's just a small amount of money. Everyone stopped at Taoye Ferry and knew the basics. Huo Erhuai and Yang didn't want to sell at a high price.
But if selling to other fishermen, one tael of wine would have to be sold for two cents. Liquor is a hugely profitable industry, so if he couldn't make money on wine, Huo Xi would feel a little disadvantaged.