Father He chose the eldest son, and his other two sons were naturally able to make a living on their own. The two second sons eventually chose to immigrate and start a new life in Kuli!
However, he is still not satisfied!
After immigrating to Kuli, it seems that you will have a large piece of land and your life will be stable, but so what?
There is no future for you to be a farmer honestly!
His two sons, no matter how hard they work in farming, they can only have enough to eat, but not much better.
But the future is limited.
If this continues, even if He Xihua gives birth to a son in a few years, he will still be unable to confess his son.
Father He knows very well that it is not easy to support a child in school. Even primary school is not cheap. For a family like theirs, it requires gritted teeth and support.
He Xihua is now immigrating to cultivate in Kuli. It seems that the future is good, but in the opinion of He's father, it is just satisfactory. In fact, what he hopes more is that He Xihua can make it in a big city, learn a skill like the boss and then work in the big city.
Establish a foothold in the city.
The boss studied hard for several years, and this year he went to work in Shanghai and became a steam engine repairman. He already has a salary of more than ten yuan. After a few years, if he does well, he can earn twenty or thirty yuan.
That's an income of three to four hundred a year, which is barely considered the empire's middle income.
With the job of the boss, their He family has great hope of becoming a decent family!
The second and third children, on the other hand, would not be able to earn such a high annual income even if they work hard for a year.
However, people have their own opportunities, and skills are not so easy to learn. Since He Xihua has chosen to immigrate to colonize, He's father will not object. After all, people have to live.
When He Xihua's wedding was approaching, He's father once again called He Xihua, who was also the third child, to his side. This time he said in a very cautious tone: "Since you two have established a foothold in the library, you must work hard."
Get on with it!”
"I don't need to tell you how to do this kind of field, but you know how to do it, but what I want to say is the future. When you have children in the future, you must let them study, at least finish elementary school, so you can sign up to join the army.
Only when the time comes can I be successfully selected. According to what I say, maybe in ten or eight years, you will have to have at least an elementary school education to become a soldier!"
Father He was still very resentful that none of his three sons could join the army!
He also blamed himself for the failure of his three children to study well, but he was really poor at the time.
If you can't count on this son, you can count on your grandson!
He Xihua's wedding went smoothly. After He Xihua's wedding, He's father even got on the train to return to his hometown.
He didn't know that after he left, the chickens and ducks raised by He Xihua began to be released from the cage in large numbers, and several other pigs were also successfully sold.
After selling these animals, he not only paid off the loan from the bank, but also saved more than fifty yuan.
Then he used the capital to purchase more than ten Central Asian horse foals and also raised a group of sheep.
He had calculated that although raising pigs was profitable, it was too troublesome to raise, and he and his wife could not raise many pigs.
And because there are more people raising pigs, prices have begun to fall.
As for raising sheep and horses, it is a little simpler. You can raise them directly in any place that is large enough. As for the local area, you don’t need to spend money. You can directly apply to the government to say that you want to herd, and the government can directly give you a large piece of pasture!
This is because the Kuli government is encouraging farmers to raise horses and sheep.
Raising horses is not only due to the needs of the military, but the empire's demand for horses has always been extremely high, and the supply exceeds demand all year round.
Sheep can produce wool, which can be used to develop the textile industry, so wool has always been in short supply.
He Xihua has calculated that although the couple may be extremely busy raising horses and sheep, plus chickens, ducks, and farming, they should be able to save more money.
By then, I can’t say how much it will take after a year, but I can still save about a hundred yuan.
Note, this is not income!
But the money saved!
Even his eldest brother's annual income in the past few years is only more than one hundred yuan. After a few years, his income will only be three or four hundred yuan at most, but it is still unclear whether he can save a hundred yuan.
In fact, He Xihua's life is better than He's father imagined!
But even if He's father knew about it, he probably wouldn't be satisfied. He still firmly believed that it would be best to join the army and become a non-commissioned officer and then retire and eat public food. Even if he was unlucky, he should work in a big city and become a decent person.
Farming in the countryside is futile, whether you farm in your hometown or in Kuli.
He's father's idea was extreme, but He Xihua's father-in-law Wu Laosan didn't think so.
Wu Laosan was very serious. He watched He Xihua raise chickens, ducks and pigs, and then saved a large amount of property.
When other new immigrants could only plow the fields manually, he had already used heavy-duty draft horses. When other immigrants also took out loans to buy heavy-duty draft horses, they had already paid off the heavy-duty draft horses.
of loans.
This draft horse already belongs to him.
Not only does he draft horses, He Xihua now also raises a large group of livestock!
These days are getting better and better.
In fact, many neighbors also want to learn from He Xihua's model, including him, Wu Laosan.
But it is difficult to learn. This is not due to lack of effort or lack of breeding skills. In fact, the government provides comprehensive technical training, and most of the immigrants who come here are honest and willing to work.
It's because they lack capital.
Raising chickens and ducks requires capital, let alone raising horses and sheep.
Many of them even need years to pay off the loan for their draft horses!
He Xihua, on the other hand, relied on large-scale loans for breeding in the early days when the prices of chickens, ducks, eggs, pork and other meats were the highest in Kulicheng, and this was how he made his first pot of gold.
But now, the prices of chickens, ducks, pigs and other meat have returned to normal. Although it is profitable to continue raising them, it is no longer a huge profit.
The more profitable thing is to raise horses and sheep, but this thing requires a huge amount of capital. Without hundreds of dollars in your pocket, you can't get started.
Not everyone can rely on early opportunities to complete capital accumulation like He Xihua.
He Xihua, who had completed capital accumulation, had already begun to upgrade and transform, and began to raise horses and sheep on a large scale, but others could no longer keep up with his pace.
He Xihua, as one of the first immigrants to come to Curry City, found his own opportunity and completed the initial accumulation of capital.
Zuo Chengsheng, who also ran to Curry City to look for opportunities, now also tastes success!
In the first three months after the West Sea Trade began, their West Sea Trading Company almost monopolized more than 70% of the trade volume in the West Sea Trade.
During those three months, apart from necessary short-term maintenance, the Shengyuan ran almost non-stop on the West Sea, traveling between Curri and Baku.
Even because it only takes a few days, the Shengyuan has become a regular flight from Kuri to Baku. Many people go to Baku or return from Baku and choose to take the Shengyuan.
Three months later, although other ships began to join the Xihai Trading Company, the Xihai Trading Company relied on the sales channels established in the past few months and paid a large price to successfully grab the Kuli vessel.
A 500-ton offshore cargo ship assembled and produced by the shipyard.
Therefore, it still maintains its leading position in West China Sea trade!
After half a year, Zuo Chengsheng discovered that his assets had skyrocketed from more than 500 yuan to more than 30,000 yuan!
Huge profits!
This is the biggest impression left by the Xihai trade on Zuo Chengsheng!
It is a pity that this kind of huge profits has ended. In the past six months, ships have gradually joined the West Sea trade. Now, there are dozens of large and small ships in the West Sea.
If these ships were running with full power, the cargo capacity would be very terrifying.
The Ottomans in the Caucasus could not handle such a large volume of cargo.
When prices tended to be normal, although profits were still quite good, the other four shareholders of Xihai Trading Company were not satisfied. They were more adventurous than Zuo Chengsheng.
Boss Zhang and Boss Xu have proposed several times that they should not be limited to the West Sea, but should expand their business scope, move the company headquarters to Shanghai, and then go to India for trade. I heard that India is full of gold, the natives are stupid, and the money is easy to make.
Very!
The two of them used to engage in sea trading, but they suffered heavy losses due to storms and other accidents.
Now that I have finally made money, I still want to continue doing business overseas, and I still want to engage in Indian trade and form an armed caravan. When I hear that, I want to go to India to cause trouble!
As for the other two shareholders, because they purchase goods every day, they are now very interested in industry. They have always wanted to invest in building a factory, want to go to Shanghai to set up a large enterprise, and are ready to dive into the big hole of the textile industry.
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They are both ambitious and very ambitious people, and they are also very courageous people.
Relatively speaking, Zuo Chengsheng is much worse!
Engaging in maritime trade, especially those preparing to trade in India, is not something small businessmen like them can participate in. Those who can participate are dozens of domestic companies with strong strength and overseas trade licenses. These companies generally
Having multiple armed merchant ships of its own and sailors ashore are the Marine Corps.
Stronger overseas trading companies can easily defeat the indigenous kingdoms!
If you don’t have the strength to go to India to trade, the Indian natives will ignore you!
If you open a factory directly, the risk is even greater.
How the Zuo family collapsed was because they opened a factory.
Nowadays, although industry and commerce throughout the empire are becoming more and more developed, it seems that opening a factory is very profitable, but the prerequisite is a successful factory.
There are many new factories opening every year, and there are also many factories closing down.
It is possible to open a factory, but what to do and how to open it are more important to him. Zuo Chengsheng is not willing to repeat his father's path, and finally commits suicide by bankruptcy!
What's more, he has already initially opened up the situation in the Baku area and even established a relationship with Datang Petroleum Company.
Nowadays, although the profits are not that high, they are more stable.
Zuo Chengsheng wanted to be safe, but the other four people all wanted to make a lot of money. For this reason, they were all ready to lose all their wealth again!
Therefore, Xihai Trading Company cannot continue to cooperate.
In the end, after everyone discussed it, Zuo Chengsheng paid for the acquisition of their shares, thus ending the cooperation between the five people.
From now on, Xihai Trading Company will become Zuo Chengsheng's industry!