Before getting off the boat, Huo Xi secretly grabbed Yang Fu.
"Mother asked you to go back to Zhuangzi, why are you dawdling?"
Yang Fu opened his mouth, thinking that Huo Xi also knew his secret, so he simply didn't hide it from her: "I want to send something to the Qin family."
Huo Xi tilted his head to look at him: "It's not for the Qin family, it's for the sister of the Qin family."
Yang Fu immediately blushed.
Seeing him go out for a trip, his experience has made him a lot more capable and tactful, but when it comes to this kind of thing, he is still thin-skinned.
So he didn't intend to tease him anymore, "Don't worry, sister Qin said that this year she will go to Hot Spring Zhuangzi to celebrate the New Year with us."
"Really?" Yang Fu's eyes lit up, "Mr. Qin also agrees?"
"Mr. Qin doesn't agree, can she go out?" This uncle must be so happy and silly.
"That, that..."
"Then what, people just think that our hot spring water nourishes people, and they plan to take a dip, what are they thinking?"
When Yang Fu heard this, he immediately withered.
Huo Xi shook his head, sure enough, once people fall in love, they will become stupid.
Qin Huaiyu has reached the age of marriage, there is a man of the same age in the student's family, can he avoid it? It's all agreed, isn't Mr. Qin's attitude relaxed?
"Let's go. It's New Year's Eve, and I still have a lot of things to do when I get home." Without explaining, she pulled him off the boat with his things in his arms.
Back to Zhuangzi, Huo Nian stopped teasing his younger brother, and took Bao Kang to see the cows brought back by his uncle.
It is very different from the black or yellow cattle of the Wei Dynasty. The two cows had flowers on their bodies, one was white and the other was black. When I brought it back, I was stupefied, and when I put it on the grass on the Zhuangzi, I felt much more energetic.
A lot of children from farmers came to see it.
"What kind of cow is this? It's not the same as our cows at all."
Huo Nian glanced at a few friends with a proud expression: "This is called a cow. It specializes in milk production. It was brought back from overseas by my uncle!"
"Milk? It hasn't given birth yet, so who will it give milk to?"
A child stared blankly, puzzled. He squatted and moved forward a few steps, and took a closer look. No wonder it is a cow that specializes in milk production, that place is bulging. Without blinking.
A child thought that the owner bought a goat to milk for the young master, so he tilted his head and asked Huo Nian, "Did your family buy it to milk for your little brother?"
Some servants also gathered around to watch.
Hearing that the master's family brought back two cows from overseas, just to feed the young master, he secretly smacked his tongue. Sure enough, the life of a wealthy family is not something ordinary people can understand.
Huo Xi also stood far away and looked at the two cows, unable to figure out Yang Fu's brain circuit.
"Uncle, did you buy these two cows to feed An An?"
"I saw everyone watching, and there were many people who wanted to buy it. I heard from the person who sold it that it could produce dozens of catties of milk a day, and eating it was good for your health. Then I thought about my sister's uncultivated milk. A few children, afraid that my sister will not have milk to feed, so I bought them back."
"Then you don't need to buy males, because bulls don't produce milk."
Besides, did this silly uncle forget that he could hire a nanny? He transported two cows all the way back, not to mention the weight, and brought a lot of less goods.
“But there are no bulls, and cows can’t give birth. If they don’t give birth, they won’t produce milk.”
Huo Xi stared at him blankly.
He bought a cow, and the other four families laughed at him. But firstly, he was thinking of bringing her back to produce milk, and secondly, he was thinking that if he couldn't feed himself, he could kill and eat meat on the boat. How difficult it is to eat fresh meat on board.
Besides, if you can’t raise it when you bring it back, you can also sell beef. The beef in the capital is extremely expensive. It can be sold for a lot of silver.
Now the court focuses on farming, and now the court does not trade with the ethnic groups in the northern grasslands. There is a shortage of cattle and horses. If the cattle do not die of illness, they cannot be killed for food.
He buys it back, no matter how bad it is, he can sell the meat.
Huo Xi asked how much he could sell meat for. A family can only carry one thousand shi, or sixty tons of goods, and these two cows can only carry two or three tons. How much less can be loaded.
Huo Xi was so distressed that he throbbed.
But look at her mother's way of boasting when she meets everyone, think about it, forget it.
Well, it can produce milk, and it can also give birth to cubs, and the cubs can produce milk again, and they can be sold if they can’t finish the milk. Well, that's pretty good too. But is it necessary for the next generation of young cows to buy bulls and come back for breeding?
Huo Xi had another headache.
Seeing that Yang Fu had already gone to explain to Qi Da about how to feed and how to milk, he went back to the yard with a headache.
Backing back to the yard, seeing that her mother was also holding Zuo Shi, Aunt Zou and others were talking about the cow, with smiles all over their faces, they rushed forward to hug An An and hid back in their room.
poked his chubby little face: "Little An'an, you are not short of milk now, and if you grow fatter, my sister will not be able to hug you. My sister is so distressed, your silly uncle..."
Talk to An An.
An An oh oh smiled at her, dancing, Huo Xi put him on the bed and watched him crawl and play.
After a while, Xiang Cao and Xia He ran in: "Miss, those two cows have a place to live, and Qi Zhuangtou took someone to build a shed for them."
Huo Xi closed his eyes and fell on the bed. An An thought her sister was playing with him, giggling and crawling towards her.
On New Year's Eve, after the New Year's dinner, everyone was outside to watch Huo Nian lead the servants to set off firecrackers, while Huo Xi, Yang Fu and Shen Qianzhong settled accounts in the room.
The goods brought back were exchanged for 360,000 taels of Japanese silver, and the one thousand gold brought back were all exchanged for goods and brought back.
Bought two hundred shi of black cane sugar for fifteen renminbi a catty. These were transported back to Zhuangzi to be mellowed into white sugar rock sugar, and sold to Fan merchants in the future, which could be exchanged for tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Red copper bought 500 shi, sulfur and flame salt 100 shi each.
The price of red copper is good, and several other companies have also bought better ones. But except for Langguangge, which bought sulfur and nitrate, no one from the other three bought them.
Flame nitrate is cheap, two catties and three wen, if shipped back, there will be twenty times the profit. But even if you buy a thousand stone flame salts, you can't spend two hundred taels of silver, and if you bring them back after hard work, you can only sell them for three or four thousand taels of silver.
is far from enough to cover the cost of this trip.
Pei Jiawanjia and Xin Jiutong didn't even want to buy them to account for their weight.
But Huo Xi has his own calculations.
Sulphur-flamed red copper is in short supply for military supplies. As long as they are sold to the army, they may be able to hold a thigh, not to mention, and exchange for some benefits.
Guang Fengshui started out as a fisherman, and he needs to gather more contacts. Only when the road is smoothed can we make better money.
And two hundred stones of sucrose can make Guangfeng Shui a lot of money.
In addition, Yang Fu also used a thousand gold to buy a lot of handicrafts such as tinware, tortoise shells, Japanese knives and Japanese fans, various knives and cooking utensils, Korean fur, thick paper, ginseng, and yellow white wax. Pepper, spices also bought a lot.
This is a lot of money, and if they are all sold out, it is estimated that there will be tens of thousands of taels.
The goods shipped plus the goods shipped back, it is estimated that this trip can earn nearly 500,000 taels of income.
This calculation stunned Shen Qianzhong.