Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 299 Magistrate
There was a funeral in the palace, Lu Yange went to Dongyang County, Li Guangming stood in the courtyard of the Gaoyou County Government under Yangzhou, half-closed his eyes and stared at the flowing clouds in the sky in a daze.

The king of Qin actually ascended the throne as the emperor. Chen Quan, who was physically strong, became seriously ill first and became the empress, and then became a great queen. The good generation of heroes just went like this.

Years ago, before the first emperor's grand visit, he followed Mr. Shen into the palace to meet the emperor.

Li Guangming told the emperor all the money he had earned from the restaurants, restaurants and teahouses in the capital that had been expanded over the years.

He saw that the emperor wanted to hand over the capital and the teahouses in various places, a total of nineteen shops, including houses, title deeds and staff to the emperor.

The most convenient thing about these stores is that it is more convenient to grasp the flow of news everywhere.

Obviously these shops were created by Princess Huaiping with great effort, but Princess Huaiping asked him to hand them over to the emperor himself.

Because of these shops, the emperor thanked him for his contribution to the country, and awarded him the seventh-rank county magistrate to serve in Gaoyou, Yangzhou.

Before taking office, he deliberately took his family back home to worship their ancestors.

No one expected that Li Guangming would have the luck he has today.

When asked, Li Guangming only smiled and said nothing, and when he asked too much, he only vaguely said that he had a great opportunity to get to where he is today, and refused to say a word about the rest.

Li Guangming felt that his life had been fulfilled. He was a shopkeeper of a small restaurant who used to work for his boss, but one day he was able to enter the palace, sit down and drink tea with the emperor.

Sure enough, Xiao Si didn't lie to him, even if he was doing business, as long as he did a good job in business, he would still be able to climb the dragon and become the phoenix.

The luckiest thing Li Guangming did in his life was to meet Lu Xiaosi and treat him as kindly as possible.

Now he finally got rid of his identity as a merchant and became an ordinary seventh-rank sesame official in the Great Shang Dynasty.

But don't look at these seven-rank sesame officials who are not big, and they are also not popular in the court.But all of a sudden, his Li family jumped from a low-level merchant to an official family.

Li Guangming stood in the yard for a long time before he patted the non-existent dust on his body, turned around and beckoned Li Taoshan to follow him out.

The princess of Huaiping said that Gaoyou has a vast land and few people, rich in water conservancy resources, full of rivers and ravines.The most famous local duck is the local hemp duck. The marinated double-yolk eggs are all oily, fresh and salty, with a strong fragrance and a dense and sandy taste.

Princess Huaiping gave him a note that if he wanted Gaoyou to develop and attract more people's attention, he had to find a way in the sideline business.

For example, Gaoyou's characteristic double-yolk eggs were sent to the palace as a tribute.

This time, when Li Guangming went out, he didn't bring his guards and servants with him like ordinary officials.

He only rode a little donkey, and Li Taoshan led the rope in front, and walked slowly on the field path in the countryside.

Li Guangming's hometown is not too far from here, and his accent hardly changes much.

When passing by the village, he used the excuse of drinking water to rest, and chatted with the local old farmers.

After the father and son walked for half a day and entered a village downstream from Gaoyou Lake, he discovered that the Shang Dynasty had changed to a new emperor, and the local people didn't even know about it.

If it weren't for the local yamen servants who come to urge tax payments every year, they might not even know that the dynasty they are in has changed.

"You've never left the village?" Li Guangming was shocked by the conservativeness of the locals even though he was well-informed.

"Even if you grow grain at home and have vegetables in the field, you still need to eat salt, right? You also need to buy and repair farm tools, right?"

"We eat very little salt. The salesman will come several times a year to buy two taels of salt, which can be eaten for a long time."

As if he was afraid that Li Guangming would not believe what he said, the man actually asked his wife to show Li Guangming the salt jar in the kitchen.

Salt jars made of clay pottery, only the bottom of the jar is some coarse salt.

Perhaps it has been used for a long time, and the salt has agglomerated, and a thin layer of pot ash has fallen on it.

"There is no need to cook at home, not to mention the lack of salt, we also lack oil. We rarely cook throughout the year. This salt is also used for pickling vegetables or duck eggs."

Speaking of this, the old farmer scratched his head in embarrassment, "Even if the duck eggs are marinated, we still don't want to eat them. We still have to save them and wait for the street peddlers to exchange them for something more practical."

The person talking to Li Guangming was a loyal and honest old farmer who looked about 50 years old.

It wasn't until a five or six-year-old boy in crotch pants ran over to call his father that Li Guangming found out after asking that the man in his fifties was a few years younger than him, and he was only in his early thirties this year!
Looking at the old-looking younger brother, the expression on Li Guangming's face cannot be described as wonderful.

Although his family is not rich, but because the Li family in Yangzhou is huge, he was able to study in the Li family when he was young. Because of his talent and intelligence, he was favored by the main branch. He became a clerk first and then a shopkeeper.

Li Guangming always thought that he was already a kind of poor people, but he didn't expect that in this countryside, there would be days that were poorer and more hopeless than he imagined.

Li Guangming hastily changed the subject: "Then how much do you sell these marinated salted duck eggs to the shopkeeper?"

"My daughter-in-law's pickled eggs are good. They are guaranteed to be yellow and taste good. A double-yolk egg can be sold for a penny. If it is not a double-yolk egg, you need two to sell for a penny."

"One penny for a double-yolk egg?" Li Taoshan looked at Yue Zhang in disbelief. He often went to the market to buy vegetables with him in the capital.

The selling price of salted duck eggs in the capital is four Wen a piece, and if it is double-yellow, it costs eight Wen a piece.

Selling it in the store is of course more expensive, but the account cannot be calculated that way.

The purchase price of a double-yolk egg is one penny, and the selling price in Beijing is eight pennies.The difference in the middle price reached seven cents!A double yolk egg is equivalent to being made more than seven cents by the businessman in the middle.

Li Taoshan's calculations became hotter and hotter. He realized that he was a frog in a well before. If he collects salted duck eggs from Gaoyou now, and then transports them to the capital for sale...

Li Guangming glanced at Li Taoshan calmly, then put on a smiling face and said, "My fellow, do you still have marinated duck eggs for sale? I want to buy some for my family to taste. I'll give you double yolk eggs." Two pennies each, not Shuanghuang's one penny, is there?"

The man was very excited when he heard it: "Yes, yes, how much do you want?"

Li Guangming: "Two hundred of Shuanghuang, not one hundred of Shuanghuang."

"My family doesn't have so many, can other people's houses do it?"

The man rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "Our village is in the lower reaches of Gaoyou Lake. There are many ditches and ditches, and we raise a lot of shelducks. Almost every household can pickle duck eggs. Brother, if you want to buy them, I will introduce you to some good ones. , you must be satisfied."

Li Guangming nodded: "Yes, but you pack them separately for me. I want to see if there is a big difference in the craftsmanship of each of your families."

The man doesn't understand why they have to be packed separately. Aren't all salted duck eggs the same?

However, if he could sell it for double the price, of course he wouldn't ask too much.In a hurry, he first found out the preserved duck eggs at his own house, and then went to his brother's house to fill in the missing ones.

When Li Guangming and Li Taoshan left the village, the bamboo baskets on both sides of the little donkey were already filled with preserved duck eggs.

He wanted to send the duck eggs with the best taste to Dongyang County, so that Princess Huaiping in Dongyang County could taste them.

If the princess agrees, then the post kiosk in Gaoyou may really become famous all over the world.

(End of this chapter)