Half a month after Yang Fu left, Li Yu came to the capital.
"What? Uncle Yu, you want to go to sea?" Huo Xi thought she heard it wrong.
She was looking for someone to go to sea, but she never thought of letting Li Yu go.
"Granduncle, great-uncle, and aunt-in-law agree?" I'm afraid they didn't come here secretly?
"They agreed." Li Yu said lightly, but Huo Xi could tell that it was probably because he proposed to go to sea and did a lot of work at home.
"The main reason is that your aunt disagrees. Your maternal uncle hopes that I will visit more while I am young."
Seeing Huo Xi's surprised look, Li Yu smiled.
"Xi'er, you know that I'm not good at studying, and I haven't gotten any honors in these years. After running the shop for you, I ran around and fell in love with this kind of life. The year before last, I followed you in Songjiang to exchange goods with Fanren to do business. , I fell in love with dealing with fan merchants again."
The year before last, Huo Xi took Tang to Songjiang to find a fan merchant, and Li Yu followed her to watch her do business with the fan merchant. After coming and going, he fell in love with dealing with the fan merchant.
As long as you go to Songjiang to check the shop, you will bring the goods and trade with Fanshang. He also taught himself some words.
Hearing that Huo Xi was going to go out to sea with others this year, he was immediately moved. What man doesn't want to walk around and have a look. He happened to have the opportunity to visit overseas. He wanted to go out, and he also talked to his family.
"Don't worry about the shop in the south, my father will take over. He has more experience than me. He took care of general affairs for your grandfather when he was young. He is more accurate than me in seeing people and doing things. Don't worry about entrusting the shop to him."
"Of course I don't worry about handing over the shop to my uncle. It's just that he's getting old, and I'm afraid he won't be able to bear the burden of running back and forth."
"It's okay, he has taken care of himself well in the past few years. He will also bring two stewards to train by his side, so that he can train some people for you in the future."
Since Li Yu wants to go to sea, and has done the work at home, of course he is the best candidate.
Huo Xi immediately asked shopkeeper Shen to take him to meet with the other four managers, and asked him to participate in the discussion about going to sea.
The person who will **** the goods to sea has been selected, and the staff and managers have also been selected. Huo Xi and Shen Qianzhong were busy for another month, preparing the goods to take.
The ship going to Nanyang this time has 3,000 tons of materials, but the journey is long, there are many boatmen and sailors, and there are also many supplies to be brought. In the end, the family can only carry 100 tons of goods.
Half of Guangfengshui's goods are sugar, and the other half are silk, cotton cloth, porcelain, tea, and various handicrafts.
At the end of June, the five families prepared all the goods and loaded them on the ship. On the first day of July, Xianggong led the group to worship the God of the Sea, offered fragrant fruit tea, and set off firecrackers. The ship set off from Taicang Port and headed for Nanyang.
Li Shiwu came to see off his son. Watching him board the boat and leave at the wharf outside the capital city, he didn't move for a long time.
"Uncle?"
Li Shiwu turned around and said, "My uncle is fine. A good man is everywhere. If my uncle hadn't gotten older, my uncle would have wanted to go there in person. I won't get that kid. Didn't you see the corner of his mouth twitching when he left? With anticipation of the unknown in my heart, I may not be so happy."
Huo Xi saw that Li Shiwu didn't feel too much sadness, and he looked relieved, and his heart was relieved.
Li Shiwu turned his head and quietly relieved Huo Xizai, and said with a smile: "Silly Xi'er, don't worry about it. Even if his trip doesn't go well and he doesn't come back in the end, it's his fate. He made his own decision. It has nothing to do with others. When I came, your uncle and grandma told me that they should forgive you, don't ask you to think too much. "
Huo Xi smiled at him.
I hope that Uncle Li Yu's trip will be safe, otherwise, I will not be able to get over this hurdle in my heart.
At first, I thought I had quite a lot of silver in my hand, but I didn’t expect that two hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver would be gone when the two ships went out to sea, and I lent another hundred thousand taels to the Ren family, and the money in the bank shrank by half.
After sleeping in a house in the inner city for a day, I came out to wander the streets of the inner city, planning to see if there were any business opportunities.
Wandering around the city with two maids and Tayue, he ate a stomachful of street food, and before he could swallow the food, someone slapped him on the shoulder.
Turning around to look, Niangle, Wu Youcai!
Is the road so narrow?
Want to pretend not to know her, but Wu Youcai has already recognized her.
Seeing that Tayue was about to step forward and pull Wu Youcai's hand away, Huo Xi hurriedly gave him a wink, so Tayue had no choice but to stand beside her.
Wu Youcai glanced at Tayue, then looked at Huo Xi: "I almost didn't recognize you. Why, is your lord looking for you again?"
Huo Xi rolled his eyes, swallowed the food in his mouth, and smiled obsequiously at him: "That's not true. I'm leading people around the street, looking for noble people."
The candy last time made Wu Youcai a big hit.
He gave it to various nobles, but he got a lot of benefits.
Now, although he has not been promoted in the Department of Shipping, he is no longer an idler. Although he didn't have any fame, he had a firm foothold in such a hot office as Shibosi.
Any nobleman wants to put someone in, even if he is crowded, he cannot be squeezed out.
Now Wu Youcai is getting fatter and fatter, and his whole body is rounder than last time. If he goes to Meihua Mountain and wants to take a soft sedan up the mountain, the two bearers may not be able to carry him.
Tsk tsk.
"What good things does your lord have?"
Uh... Huo Xi's mind was spinning quickly, "He has good things, but I don't know what adults can exchange them for. He doesn't look down on frivolous things."
"Let's go, let's talk in another place." Wu Youcai dragged Huo Xi to the tea shop.
Hearing that Huo Xi didn't have sugar in his hand, Wu Youcai was disappointed for a while. But I heard that there is a kind of sugar like ice, and my eyes lit up again.
But he didn't see the real thing, and he didn't bid.
The next morning, when Huo Xi brought him rock candy, Wu Youcai immediately nodded in response.
After a bit of bargaining, he exchanged 200 stones of pepper, 2,000 bolts of silk, and 3,000 bolts of cotton cloth from Shibo's treasury in exchange for 100 stones of rock sugar in Huo Xi's hand.
Huo Xi asked for three taels for a catty of rock candy, and her goods were worth thirty-six thousand taels. The current market price of pepper is six yuan a catty, and two hundred shi is only less than fifteen thousand taels. The total value of silk and cotton cloth does not exceed 30,000 taels.
Wu Youcai felt that he was an official, and Huo Xi was a businessman with the noble master behind him, so of course he wanted to take advantage of it.
Seeing Huo Xi's pained face at the end, Wu Youcai was in a good mood. The two parties agreed on the delivery time, and Wu Youcai left happily.
Huo Xi used sucrose worth less than five hundred taels to refine one hundred shi rock sugar, and exchanged it for Wu Youcai's nearly thirty thousand taels of silver.
Hearing that Empress Xu is still in the Linggong Palace, and that no mausoleum has been built near the capital, Huo Xi's heart skipped a beat, she knew where to hide.