In the lobby, Liang Xiao sat in the corner and stared at Bai He.
This Bai He was obese and sweating excessively. He was enjoying himself comfortably with eight maids holding fans and blowing the air, beating their shoulders and rubbing their legs. They didn't take him as a guest to heart at all.
"Bai He, if you have no intention of making a deal, I will go to Dingguo Hou's Mansion to negotiate."
Liang Xiao made a move to get up, but Bai He quickly stopped him.
"You said you wanted to spend a hundred taels of silver to buy the small workshop in front of your house, and then buy a large amount of sugar cane from my Bai family. Are you serious? Where's the money?"
Liang Xiao took out three hundred-tael silver notes. After the shopkeeper inspected them, he nodded towards Bai He.
"That small workshop is for sale to you! As long as you can afford the price, I can sell you the sugar cane!"
Liang Xiao was stunned: "Master Bai is so cheerful?"
Bai He said with a smile: "There is no one in or outside the capital who doesn't know that you are a business genius! Fields, rice, restaurants... any business you are interested in, no one is worthless, without exception! No one who does business with you is the same.
Guaranteed profit without loss? I have to thank you for helping me avoid lightning! I plan to sell all the workshops near your home! Do you want it?"
Liang Xiao also smiled: "Of course, but you have to give me some time until I make enough money..."
The suppressed laughter of Bai He and the shopkeeper rang out in the lobby, as if they were mocking Liang Xiao for claiming to be able to make money.
"Then you have to hurry up. Within a month, I will clear out all the workshops in that area, and I won't wait until it's too late!"
Liang Xiao nodded and said: "I am interested in your sugar cane, do you want to sell it at a low price?"
Bai He sneered: "Then you are too naive! Sugar cane is a hot commodity. If you don't buy it, there are many people who will buy it!"
Liang Xiao understood and said: "The quality of sugar cane on the market is the best and the price is the highest at your Baijia Chamber of Commerce, followed by Dingguohou's Mansion. I want to sign a contract with you to be higher than Dingguohou's Mansion."
20% of the price of sugar cane. To purchase your sugar cane, I will consume at least two hundred taels of silver every month."
Bai He suggested: "The price is higher than 20% of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion? If you can't pay it next month, you can compensate me two hundred taels and the contract will be void. How about that?"
"Wonderful!"
Liang Xiao smiled.
Bai He also laughed.
The two parties signed an agreement on the spot. Baihe sold Liang Xiao's small workshop and received a deposit of fifty taels of sugar cane. He first pre-purchased sugar cane with a total market price of two hundred taels.
After sending Liang Xiao away, the shopkeeper was very depressed: "Master, it's only 20% higher than Dingguohou's house, but this guy is still too cheap! Let's work hard and sell him at a price that's 30% higher than Dingguohou's house. It'll be fine."
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Bai He laughed loudly: "Do you think I will let him go? As long as the Dingguo Hou Mansion raises the price of sugar cane to a price that he cannot accept, these two hundred taels will be in my pocket?"
The shopkeeper exclaimed: "You are indeed a young master! He is tall, he is really tall!"
Liang Xiao returned home with the land deed and went to the old workshop ten feet away from the door.
This old workshop is bigger than Liang Mansion, but because Liang Mansion is not a commercial area and the land is not expensive, Bai He is obviously eager to get rid of it.
Jiang Fuxue, who was accompanying her, learned that Liang Xiao had left the workshop. She blinked her big, watery eyes, full of expectations, and accompanied Liang Xiao to clean the workshop with her grandmother.
In Zhenyuan Hou Mansion, after Nangong Ning learned about the situation of breaking off the engagement, her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking violently.
"Dad! You also know now that Liang Xiao dares to trample on the child's dignity like this! The child hopes that Liang Xiao disappears from this world forever!!"
Nangong Lei was startled: "Are you crazy? This is the foot of the emperor!"
Nangong Ning was unwilling to give in and gritted his teeth and said: "That child will at least have to ruin Liang Xiao's reputation! Only if he is ruined, will the world understand that it is right for the child to leave him. He is not worthy of the child at all!"
Nangong Lei gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and after a long moment, he said with a ferocious smile: "Don't worry, the capital is at the feet of the emperor and the territory of the aristocratic family. First of all, the Duanmu family cannot let him go!"
"That's right! He is still the culprit who embarrassed Brother Duanmu! Brother Duanmu is very angry now!" Nangong Ning looked gloating.
Nangong Lei sneered again: "Continue to send people to pay attention to Liang Xiao's movements, and we can take advantage of him at any time! I'm afraid he will never understand why he has always lost everything in business in the past two years! In this capital,
Will it be his turn to get a profitable business?"
Nangong Ning
The Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion and the Nangong family have a large number of properties in their name and are truly wealthy in the country.
In the evening, after Liang Xiao finished cleaning the small workshop, the three of them returned home and were surprised.
Duan Yunxiu and his attendant Feiyun were waiting in front of the door.
"How long have Mr. Lin been waiting here?" Liang Xiao asked.
"Two hours," Duan Yunxiu said with a smile.
Liang Xiao looked apologetic and quickly invited Duan Yunxiu into the house.
"You bought an old workshop? What can you do? Don't you know that in this capital, every profitable business you can think of has already been monopolized by others."
After learning about this, Duan Yunxiu looked curious.
"I want to sell candy." Liang Xiao said without thinking.
"Selling candy?" Duan Yunxiu was stunned.
Feiyun behind him reminded: "Master Liang, the sugar industry in the capital has been sluggish recently, and selling sugar is a purely loss-making business!"
Liang Xiao explained: "The common sugars in Beijing now include malt sugar and stone honey, and honey is rare. And I plan to prepare a kind of sugar, white sugar and icing sugar that has better color and taste than stone honey and malt sugar. Once it is mass-produced in the future
, the price is not much more expensive than these two kinds of sugar, so why do you need to worry about there being no market?”
"Where can I find this kind of candy?" Duan Yunxiu didn't believe it.
She was born into an imperial family, so what kind of candy has she never eaten?
Seeing Liang Xiao nodding, Duan Yunxiu became even more curious: "If there really is this kind of candy, rich people will rush to buy it in order to have a taste of it, even at the expense of driving up the price. Ordinary people may not be able to afford it!"
Liang Xiao said with a smile: "If you want to make money, make money from the rich! When sugar is mass-produced in the future and the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the price of sugar will be greatly reduced, and ordinary people will naturally be able to afford it."
Duan Yunxiu's eyes lit up: "What you said is quite interesting. Even I am looking forward to it."
Suddenly, Duan Yunxiu remembered something again and sighed: "But you have offended Marquis Zhenyuan, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to do business in the capital. As a last resort, I can recommend you to become a teacher in Marquis Dingguo's mansion."
Liang Xiao shook his head and said: "I appreciate your kindness, but I'm sorry, I have no intention of teaching."
Duan Yunxiu said: "The Zhenyuan Marquis' Mansion has been very close to the Duanmu family recently, and the Duanmu family is now at its peak. There are many important ministers in the court, and there are many party members. You are neither willing to bow to the Zhenyuan Marquis' Mansion, nor are you willing to please.
Dingguo Hou Mansion..."
Liang Xiao responded enthusiastically: "Can An Neng bend his eyebrows and bend his waist to serve the powerful, making me unhappy?"
Duan Yunxiu looked at Liang Xiao with a little more joy in his eyes: The more courageous this guy is, the more he should be brought to the officialdom!
She also believed that it was only a matter of time before Liang Xiao's business failed.
Liang Xiao suddenly smiled and said: "Mr. Lin, are you interested in making a fortune with me?"