Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 626 Business Economics

Zhao Hu was so angry that he patted his head and taught a lesson, "Idiot, idiot, why did I choose such a stupid thing as you to manage the store? The store is so big that there are not even a few pieces of linen, and the linen is still scattered from the local area. Since you know that there are people who weave linen here, why don't you let the guys go to the countryside to buy it? How good is it to buy in batches? You buy it at a low price in front of the guests, then turn around and raise the price and put it on the shelf. Is the guest a fool, is he a fool?"

   Zhao Hu said "idiot" and patted his head. The steward was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again and repeatedly admitted his mistakes: "I know I'm wrong, the boss, I, I'll change it now?"

   Zhao Hu took his numb hand, looked at him blankly and said, "Are you asking me?"

   The steward was agitated and shook his head again and again.

Zhao Hu stared at him gloomily and said: "Also, use your pig brain to think more, since there is a lack of cloth here, and there are few cloth merchants, can you open a veritable cloth shop and store this All the hemp from up and down the county is collected, hired to weave, and then sold to other cloth houses?"

   "Can you invite people to plant mulberries and raise silkworms and weave silk for me next year!" Zhao Hu shouted the last sentence directly.

   If it wasn't for the lack of manpower he brought this time, he had to take it to Luoyang, and he wanted to replace the manager directly.

   Zhao Hu angrily returned to the county governor's office.

   When he returned to the county governor's mansion, he paused for a while, then turned around and went to find Zhao Ming.

   Zhao Ming has always been fast in handling government affairs. He has extensive knowledge and strong memorization, and has strong work ability. He can basically handle the official documents handed in at a glance, and there is no need to think over and over again, so he works half a day every day.

   So he's sitting in the garden pavilion right now... filial piety.

   is filial piety, he is playing chess with his father.

Zhao Hu strode into the pavilion, disgusting, "Zinian, your county governor is too simple, not to mention my yard, it is your hall, there is not a single beautiful ornament, not even calligraphy and painting. One."

There were    before, but since Zhao Ming decided to advocate frugality, he has put them away.

   He said coldly: "I am poor, not richer than Seventh Uncle."

   Zhao Hu sat next to Zhao Song, and gave him a friendly smile, and then said, "It's Chen County that is poor, and no matter how bad your father is, it won't shorten your expenses."

   He said: "Chen County is poor, just sell the land."

   Zhao Hu only opened his head, Zhao Ming knew what he wanted to do, he lifted his eyelids and glanced at the other party, but he was not surprised, just curious: "What does Uncle Seven want to buy land in Chen County?"

   Zhao Hu said: "I want to buy some dry land, just level it up, plant hemp and mulberry trees, and then find someone in a nearby village to distribute the silkworm seeds to the villagers, and let them raise silkworms and peel the hemp for me."

You don’t need to open a workshop, you can directly cooperate with the nearby villagers. Children and the elderly can also do things such as silkworm raising. For things such as hemp peeling, they mostly work during the slack farming season. They only need to hire short-term workers, which is better than raising long-term workers. It's much more cost-effective to buy someone.

   Even the twisting and weaving of linen can be directly contracted to the farmers. It is enough to cooperate with the local Lizheng. When the time comes, the Lizheng will be given some money, and there will be no need to appoint a steward.

   But linen can be simpler, because most women can spin linen and weave linen, but silk and satin are different. Silk is very valuable. At that time, we have to get a workshop and hire a weaver to do it.

   "I have to buy a few more fertile fields," Zhao Hu said. "At that time, these people have to eat and drink, so they can't buy it from outside. It takes too much effort to transport the grain from Xiping, and the travel costs are also high, so I have to grow it myself."

   He said: "Since it's all planted, let's plant a little more. Isn't Luoyang short of food? Well, the output here can be sold to Luoyang, and I'll open a grain shop here..."

   It was very well planned.

   Zhao Ming nodded again and again and couldn't help but boast: "Seventh Uncle is still thoughtful."

"However, there is one thing to remind Seventh Uncle, Hanzhang ordered that all the refugees who are gathered, whether male or female, as long as they reach the age of fourteen, can be divided into five acres of fertile land and five acres of dry land. You buy the land and return the dry land. You can hire nearby villagers for hemp planting and silkworm farming, but cultivating fertile fields requires people from start to finish, so where do people come from?”

   Zhao Hu snorted: "If you want me to say, Sanniang is too soft-tempered, how can she be so good to the refugees?"

   "But you don't have to worry about this, I can invite someone."

   Zhao Ming narrowed his eyes, "Seventh Uncle, if you forcefully buy slaves, once it is verified, the yamen will bring people over for free to restore their good status."

For example, if Shi Le, who had been turned into a slave by Liang, met Zhao Hanzhang at this time, once it was verified that the slave traded was a good citizen and was sold after being kidnapped, no matter who the buyer was, as long as it was under the jurisdiction of Zhao Hanzhang Within the scope, then you can directly cancel the slave status and restore the good status.

   Then you can choose to return home, or you can choose to settle down on the spot.

   At present, most of the rescued slaves choose the second type, because the first type, they do not know whether they will be captured as slaves on the way back to their hometown.

   Zhao Hu used to buy such slaves because they were cheap.

   He has cooperating people, some soldiers in the garrison, or gentry, they will team up to go to the road to capture the refugees who pass by, and then sell him as slaves, which is much cheaper than buying people on the road.

  Unfortunately, this business is now yellow.

   Zhao Hu hummed: "Don't worry, I won't let your yamen take advantage of this, I can recruit people myself."

   He glanced at Zhao Ming, and said a little complacently: "Not everyone is willing to lead your yamen's five acres of fertile land and five acres of dry land."

"There are still more fools in this world. There are always some people who can't see the long-term, and don't want to suffer so much ahead," he said. "Doing it with me, apart from being a slave, is there anything better than being a slave? I You will provide them with two meals a day to prevent them from starving to death. There are monthly events every month, and your yamen, except for the first ten days of food relief, if you want food and cloth for the remaining days, you have to go to the Relief for work, land reclamation, water conservancy digging and road building, are much harder work than farming for me.”

   But as Zhao Ming is a good citizen, he only needs to endure half a year, and the first crop of grain will come down after half a year, and his life will gradually improve.

   And the accumulation of being a good citizen is getting better and better. As long as there are no wars and natural disasters, the days will be better and better. Unlike slaves, it may be the same for decades, and you can see the head at a glance.

   But Zhao Ming glanced at Zhao Hu and had to admit that he was right, there are always fools in this world who can only see a little bit of their toes, and everyone has their own good fortune.

   Zhao Ming is not the type of parent who feeds every mouthful into the mouth of the child, so he is very open and said, "Since the seventh uncle has decided, let's go to choose the land."

   (end of this chapter)