Man Bao was surprised, "Pearl? Does our family have this capital?"
Zhou Lang smiled and said: "Of course, I made a lot of money from those cattle and medicinal materials last year, and I have always kept them with Lijun."
Man Bao frowned, "Why did you think of starting the pearl business?"
It's not easy to get your hands on such valuable things.
Zhou Lang said: "Bai Wu proposed it. He wanted the two families to cooperate together, but I refused."
He smiled and said: "I know what they are thinking. They just want to use your influence to catch up with other people in the palace so that this business can be more solid."
Man Bao looked at him suspiciously, "Are you not willing to take them with you?"
Zhou Lang shook his head, "No, I don't think their family is very authentic. We usually drink, eat, and occasionally help each other a little. It's okay. Such deep financial transactions are unnecessary."
Zhou Lijun passed by. Hearing this, he paused and said, "Besides, our family has very little financial resources. It would be too unsafe to get involved in this kind of business with them."
Zhou Lang nodded, "Yes, I would rather suffer a little more than give so much money to others."
Zhou Lijun simply stopped and said to Zhou Man: "Sister-in-law, I don't agree with my fourth uncle to do the pearl business now. Pearls are too expensive and the risks are too great."
Zhou Lang hurriedly said: "Do you know how much a handful of pearls is worth? If the quality is better, it is almost as good as our ten trucks of goods. The cost of escorting ten trucks back and forth is compared with only bringing one bunch of pearls.
The expenses..."
"But if you encounter danger on the road, one of the ten cars may come back, and you may not be able to bring back even one of the pearls you want to bring."
Zhou Lang then smiled and said: "When you say this, it means you have never traveled far. If you encounter a horse thief, can they let you escape in a carriage?"
"Pearls are easy to carry. You can run away with them. Even if you can't run away with a handful, if you carry good-quality pearls close to you, you won't lose much as long as you run back."
Zhou Man raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhou Lang, and asked: "Fourth brother, how much do you plan to spend on pearls, how much do you plan to spend on medicinal materials, furs, cattle and sheep?"
Zhou Lang touched his nose and said: "You know, our family doesn't have a lot of money. The reason why I want to change to pearls is that pearls are easier to carry and earn more money from pearls, so I think I can buy them 80% of the time."
Pearls, the remaining 20% will be replaced with medicinal materials."
Man Bao refused directly, "I don't agree, you have to do the opposite."
Zhou Lang: "...I told you that these pearls make a lot of money..."
"Fourth brother, when it comes to making money, is there any business in the world that is more profitable than gold and copper mines?" Man Bao interrupted, "But do you dare to do it?"
Thursday Lang choked.
Man Bao said with a solemn face: "In addition to gold and copper mines, there are also salt and iron and grain transportation. Do you dare to make this money?"
Zhou Lang said: "What are you afraid of?"
Man Bao said to Zhou Lijun: "Have you finished the book "The Richest Man in Ming Dynasty" that I showed you last time?"
Zhou Lijun immediately became energetic and nodded repeatedly, "I've finished reading it, sister-in-law. I also made a lot of annotations. Do you want to help me check where I think wrong?"
Man Bao agreed, "I'll show it to you later. You give the book to Fourth Brother first and let him read it."
Zhou Lang shrank, swallowed his saliva and asked, "I, I read a book?"
He knows a lot of characters and can also write some simple basic characters, but he can read...
If he could read, would he need to carry Zhou Lijun or Zhou Lizhong and Zhou Liwei with him everywhere?
Zhou Lijun had already run back to the house and pulled out a book. She held it very dearly to Zhou Lang and warned: "Uncle Fourth, you have to be careful, a book is very expensive."
Zhou Lang held the book in his arms, neither pushing it nor putting it away.
Man Bao said: "When you finish reading this book, you will know why I didn't agree."
She followed Mr. Zhuang's example and sighed, then raised her head and said seriously: "Fourth brother, I am doing this for your own good."
Thursday Lang:......
Although Zhou Lijun, who had already read the book, agreed, seeing how enigmatic his sister-in-law was, he couldn't help but follow his uncle in silence for a moment.
She didn't have the patience of her sister-in-law, so she directly revealed the answer, "Fourth uncle, my sister-in-law is trying to save the lives of you and our whole family."
Zhou Lang hugged the book tightly and said: "I, I just want to try the pearl business, do you need to scare me like this?"
Bai Shan, who had been reading quietly on the side, suddenly said meaningfully: "Brother Zhou, people's desires cannot be satisfied, so talents need to be satisfied."
Man Bao nodded and said: "At first, because you were poor, our family went to the county to sell things to pay off your debt."
Zhou Lang was extremely tired. He did not deny the latter point, but how could he tell Man Bao that their family was not rich before?
Why did she always assume that their family was rich before he lost the bet?
"When my family started growing vegetables and making tofu, they never thought about buying a shop in the county town, let alone expanding their business to Yizhou City and other counties and towns." Man Bao said: "When you started reselling wheat seeds
, have you ever thought about going to the capital to do medicinal materials business in the future?"
"When you brought the medicinal materials to the capital, did you ever think that you would be in the fur business in the future, or sell cattle and buy medicinal materials on the grassland?"
Thursday Lang was silent.
Man Bao said: "Just like last year, have you ever thought that you would be in the pearl business this year? So today you can't even imagine what kind of business you will be in the future."
Zhou Lang couldn't help but muttered: "Of course, whatever business makes money is what business it is."
Seeing Manbao staring, fearing that she would mention gold, copper, salt and iron again, he quickly said: "Of course I will do business that I can come across. If I have the ability to do salt and iron business in the future, you said I will make money from it.
Is your business going to be pushed out?"
Bai Shan frowned. They had just discussed business matters not long ago. He glanced at Zhou Man who was choked, put down the book in his hand, stood up from the stone bench and walked over, "Fourth brother, I think in this world
There are four types of people. One type can only see a small area, with only their own feet in front of them. They live day by day and have the simplest wishes."
"The second type is able to see inside a room, think deeply, and consider the future for themselves and their families. However, they don't know much, so their considerations are not deep."
"The third type is those who can see one county and one prefecture and think about the country and people's livelihood."
"And the fourth type is the saints throughout the ages. What they think about is the whole world. A word today may bring blessings to people a thousand years from now."
Zhou Lang thought for a while and felt that what he said was quite right, so he asked enthusiastically, "Then which type do you think I am?"