Chapter 126: The Ancient Tea Horse Road
Hu Kui's family business is very extensive, Wanxian Lou is only one of them, because it is a joint venture with Lao Bustard and others, and it is divided equally, so it cannot be directly taken from Wanxian Lou, and the other owners will not be happy and will inevitably come forward to oppose it. Usually, Hu Kui hangs over Wanxian Building, and the expenses are all free, or deducted from the monthly profits, this time the Oiran redeems himself, as little as a few thousand taels, and as much as tens of thousands of taels, but it is a huge income, and naturally the various owners keep an eye on the news and will not let Hu Kui mess around.
In addition to Wanxian Building, Hufu family business also has pawns, restaurants, cloth, ceramics, grain and oil, etc., in addition to the suburbs there are 10,000 acres of fertile land, and the annual tenant rent collection is also a lot of money. Hu Kui has been very lucky recently, not only the harvest of fertile land, the rent is rising, the income is more abundant than in previous years, and other businesses are also very profitable, and the silver in his hand is too much to spend, and the redemption of a small Oiran is naturally like a bag.
Xing Shangrong continued to boast: "According to me, just a small Oiran is nothing, it is better for Hu Dashao to directly buy the shares of the other owners of the entire Wanxian Building, so that the entire Wanxian Building is not all Hu Mansion's, Hu Da Shaoxiu said that the Oiran has become your bag, and the other big girls and little girls are not all available for you to enjoy at any time?"
Although Hu Kui looked dizzy and stupid, he actually had a lot of experience in business, and waved his hand and said: "Brother Xing, you don't understand this, why don't I want the entire Wanxian Mansion to belong to me, now it is the silver of the three families that divide the Wanxian Building, and a lot of the silver is given to others, am I happy? Although the two of them only account for 30% of the share, and my Hu Mansion alone owns 70%, but if I take advantage of the old bustard, Her nephew snatched back the thirty percent, what the result is, they will definitely not do their best for Wanxian Lou's business, how much money they make, they don't care, I'm afraid I have ten percent of the share, but I can't earn one or two silver. Now they have set aside thirty percent of their share, and they do their best every year, not because they are faithful, but because they have thirty percent of the money they earn. β
Xing Shangrong suddenly realized, patted his head, and shouted: "No wonder Hufu's business is so prosperous, it turns out that Hu Dashao is deeply hidden, and he is an extremely proficient master in business!"
Hu Kui was proud, and said: "There are many ways to do business, do you think I will only stay with prostitutes? Every day, after I finish prostitution, it is an extremely sober moment, dizzy, full of **, where can I make the right decision, so, if a man wants to succeed, he must vent at any time, always hold back, his mind is full of women, and naturally he can't do anything!"
It seems that I have too few prostitutes, so my family's tea business has always been poor. Xing Shangrong said with annoyance on his face.
"Forget it, even if you prostitute a few more times, the tea business will still not improve, and your family will have a big problem doing business. Hu Kui was touted by him, and he actually helped analyze his family's tea business.
Xing Shangrong's face was full of seriousness, and he asked, "I don't know what the problem is?"
Hu Kui raised his eyebrows, looked like he was in his ears, and said: "In fact, this area of Jingnan is full of red soil, which is suitable for the planting and growth of tea trees, but unfortunately there is no master of tea making, so the tea in Jingnan is no different from the Central Plains, but the tea made is much worse than the Central Plains, not to mention that in recent years, Jingnan is located on the border, wars are frequent, the tea makers in the Central Plains are reluctant to come here, there is a lack of talents, and the tea-making process is backward, how can your tea business get better?"
Xing Shangrong's father suffers from a leg disease, and the tea business at home is all he cooks, knowing Hu Kui's words, he sighed: "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, how can I not know that the tea maker is difficult to find, so I will lose it, the tea in the Central Plains is sold with high quality and cheap price, if I raise the price to hire a craftsman, I am afraid that I will lose even more, the taste is slightly worse, the sales are not smooth, and the high price is expensive, I am afraid that the cost is even higher, and it is difficult to maintain." β
Hu Kui smiled: "Who said that you can't sell it if you have a bad taste, I have a trick, you don't have to compete with Central Plains tea, you can make a lot of money." β
"I don't know what Hu Dashao's clever plan is?" Xing Shangrong said thoughtfully.
"Recently, I saw a large number of soldiers come to the realm of Xianmen, a guess is that the war is urgent, the war is about to break out, this is both a danger and an opportunity, the war, the army is in urgent need of grain and grass, horses and iron tools, the imperial court salt and iron franchise, you can't beat the idea of this iron tool, and grain and grass, I have put down hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, your financial resources are far inferior to me, almost all the surplus grain near me was purchased, so you can't do this business, and finally horses. Hu Kui analyzed in an orderly manner.
Xing Shangrong was puzzled: "But I sell tea, where can I get horses?"
"Hahaha, this is the reason why you can't make money, your brain is too dead, tell you, Xianmen Mansion goes all the way to the west, through Shudi, there is an ancient tea horse road, do you know why it is called the ancient tea horse road? It is because this road is the freight road between the Central Plains and Tibet to exchange tea and horses, they have a lot of horses, we have a lot of tea, bring tea there, you will be able to exchange for good horses, Tibetans eat meat and greasy, you have to drink tea every day to relieve greasy, so you will inevitably grab this tea when you go there, and transport back the sturdy Tibetan horses, and you are afraid that no one will line up to buy it when you come back? Hu Kui said.
"I see, what a good plan!" Xing Shangrong is not ignorant of the Ancient Tea Horse Road, but it is difficult to leave his homeland, if it were not for the difficulty of the tea business at home, and the accumulation of a large amount of tea inventory, seeing that the family's business is at risk of bankruptcy, he would not be interested in this kind of long-distance trekking business.
Hu Kui originally coveted the horse business, but unfortunately the mountains in Xianmen are stacked, the horses are delicate, and they must eat good forage at every turn, otherwise they are easy to get sick and die, and the farmers who raise horses are very scarce, only a few horse farmers who use horses for large families, so they are bent on the idea of grazing horses in Tibet, and I heard that there are abundant water and grass, and the local Tibetans live by herding horses, cattle and sheep, and the horses are not only strong, numerous, but also cheap, and a few catties of tea can be exchanged for a horse, so Xing Shangrong was encouraged to go to the ancient tea and horse road to do the horse business, and he can also participate in it and make a lot of moneyγ
"Fortunately, you didn't marry a wife, so you said you would go, otherwise you would have left your wife alone in the boudoir, and you would have to worry about her red apricot going out of the wall and reluctant to travel far. Your sick father, even if you stay, our brother will help you take care of it, and when the old man recovers from his illness, maybe he still wants to go to Wanxian Tower to have some fun, and when he is a brother, he will naturally try his best to help. Hu Kui smiled evilly.
Xing Shangrong is also thinking the same way, except for his father, there is almost no big burden, tea is not particularly valuable, all the way over, as long as he takes the official road and takes four or five servants, he is not afraid of the green forest bandits robbing the road.
Zhu Wei is a man who is obsessed with martial arts all day long, he is not keen on business affairs, and he is confused about what Hu Kui says, and he does not care. Huang Danzhong was born in a medical family, and he didn't like to run a business business, so he quietly listened to the two chatting about business and didn't interject.