Chapter 133: Plans
Although Lu Yishou is a businessman, he has always felt that doing business is not such a glorious thing, and he still thinks that farming is the right thing in his bones, and Ye Xiaoyu is the daughter of his brother Ye Qing, and now that Ye Qing's family is gone, there is only such a lone seedling left, so he can't let Ye Xiaoyu go out like this. So as soon as he heard that Ye Xiaoyu was about to start deviating from the right track at a young age, he clearly expressed his opposition, and said that there was no shortage of food or clothing in the Lu family, so why make himself so tired. However, Jiang Ping is more civilized, seeing that Ye Xiaoyu looks like she has made up her mind, she began to persuade Lu Yishou, in fact, Jiang Ping is very shrewd, from her starting point, anyway, Ye Xiaoyu is now eating and living in the Lu family, if she is allowed to do some small business, she can support herself if she earns money, and it will have no impact if she loses the Lu family, at most she will be able to raise her like now. And the girl is someone else's person, when she grows up, she will have to accompany a lot of dowry money, if Ye Xiaoyu can save some money by herself, then her Lu family will be able to contribute less. Thinking about it this way, Jiang Ping has to persuade Lu Yi to keep this old stubborn no matter what.
Although Jiang Ping is a peasant woman, she doesn't read much, and she doesn't know a few big characters, but she follows Lu Yishou all the year round, her eloquence is unusually good, and the most important thing is that Lu Yishou is a thorough wife, and she is afraid that Jiang Ping will die if she is afraid, so although he expressed clear opposition to Ye Xiaoyu's proposal at the beginning, he couldn't withstand Jiang Ping's persuasion, and later, even if it was still a little unsmooth, he still reluctantly agreed with Ye Xiaoyu's idea. Since he agreed with Ye Xiaoyu's idea, Lu Yishou went to get 20 taels of silver for her to be the family fund, although Jiang Ping felt that Lu Yishou was too generous. But when he thought about it, "I can't bear the child to trap the wolf", I acquiesced to Lu Yishou's approach.
It is precisely because there has been such a stubble before. Ye Xiaoyu only now dares to blatantly start doing her own work in the courtyard of Nanyuan. Of course, this is only the first step, and I will go to the capital this time. Another idea came to mind.
Quanxiu Village is located in the plain, and the land is fertile, which is very suitable for planting. It is precisely because of this that even if some people in the village do not own much land, because of the good harvest every year, it is no problem to maintain a basic life by holding a few acres of land in a down-to-earth manner.
Blessed with unique geographical and climatic advantages, the village not only grows rice, wheat and other grains well, but also fruit trees on several low hills. The growth is also very gratifying. Needless to say, the orange grove on the mountain behind Lujia, and the pear trees on the other side of the wasteland bear good fruit every year. There are also jujube trees planted in the yards in front of and behind the villagers' houses, and these fruits are too many to eat when they are ripe. Just like last year, every time Ye Xiaoyu passed through the village, she saw a lot of dates rotting under the tree, and no one cared about it. Although Quanxiu Village is very close to the capital, it takes more than an hour to take a carriage, and such a distance plus the round-trip fare. As a result, many people are reluctant to go to the capital without important matters. Even if they have ox carts at home, they are not willing to run to the capital without anything, and the peasant family is conservative and likes a stable life. It is enough to be self-sufficient in the village, and a trip to the capital is troublesome and expensive. No one wants to go unless it's a last resort.
So, not to mention the fruits and vegetables that can't be eaten are taken to the capital to be sold. The annual harvest of grain in the village is sold. But this so-called sale is that Li Zheng brings people from the official office to the village to buy it regularly every year. It is to reserve the food for one's own family and sell the rest to the state. This kind of buying and selling is of a mandatory nature, just like paying taxes. Therefore, this kind of buying and selling, although it can make money, is not a real trade.
Even if he is a "business expert" in the village, he only transports some flour to the southern cities to sell after the autumn harvest every year, and carries some reserved rice with him. And every time he goes south to do business, he always keeps a low profile, and he always feels a little disgraceful. In the era when transportation is so underdeveloped, the transportation of materials not only consumes a lot of transit time, but also requires a lot of money, coupled with the people's conservative farming ideas, there are really not many people who do business.
What Ye Xiaoyu wants to do now is "real business", so she doesn't have the backward thinking of "land first", and the concept of a businessman with a low status has no impact on her at all. Being able to make money and make yourself rich is the key.
Since she went to the capital to buy fruits, she began to put such a small calculation in her head: the capital has a large population, a developed economy, and many people come and go, so there is a large demand for fruits and vegetables, but due to the restrictions of traffic and people's thoughts, the fruits and vegetables in the Beijing market are basically purchased by a few fixed "suppliers" from dealers who specialize in selling these things, and these vegetable sellers are purchased from some farmers living in the suburbs of the capital, except for some high-grade fruits imported from abroad. Occasionally, there are villagers close to the rural areas of the capital who take advantage of the market to sell a little vegetables and dates, but this is not a regular behavior, therefore, the fruits and vegetables in the capital are basically not directly supplied by the farmers, and the prices are frighteningly high after the links of intermediary sellers. But it doesn't matter, anyway, people who can live in the capital for a long time are either rich or expensive, and a little money will not affect their lives at all.
And Ye Xiaoyu's own village is not short of fresh fruits and vegetables, between Quanxiu Village and the capital, there is just a lack of a connecting transportation link, Ye Xiaoyu's plan is to complete this transportation link, the fruits and vegetables of Quanxiu Village are transported to the capital to sell, eliminating the intermediate links, if you do not pursue such a high price, the sales will definitely be very good.
But with Ye Xiaoyu's current economic strength, it is impossible to open a fruit store or vegetable stall in the capital, even if she has this strength, she does not dare to open rashly, according to the current price level in the capital, even if it is to rent a storefront in a very remote place, it will cost at least more than 500 taels, plus the decoration of the store, fruit and vegetable shelves and other things, this whole set down, at least at least more than 1000 taels. If so much money is spent, if the business is not too good, the consequences will be unimaginable, and you will not only be beaten back to your original shape, but also in debt. Moreover, even if she has the guts, such a large amount of astronomical sum, even if she sells herself, she will not be able to take it out. So, she didn't plan to open a store of her own. Ye Xiaoyu's current idea is to be a diligent "fruit and vegetable supplier".
But ideas and practices are fundamentally different things.
Ye Xiaoyu woke up early the next morning, because she had something in her heart, she couldn't sleep at all. This idea of her own is good, but the specific operation is not so easy, the first problem is that she must contact the shops that sell fruits and vegetables in the capital. There are a lot of these shops in the capital, but if there is no one to introduce a little girl like herself, if she goes to Mao Sui alone to recommend herself, no one will be willing to accept her own supply.
And Lu Yishou is doing business in the south, although the capital is close, but he doesn't have many acquaintances, the only acquaintance Ling Dafu, now because of the unclear things between Lu Qian and Ling Yu, it has become a little embarrassing to even meet, if Lu Qian is not so noisy, Ye Xiaoyu can still ask Lu Yishou to find Ling Dafu and help introduce a few shops in the capital, now like this, this road will definitely not work. After thinking about it, the only path in front of Ye Xiaoyu now is to go to the capital to find Shopkeeper Liu and see if he can help.
To be honest, I am really not familiar with the shopkeeper Liu, except for the work of the handkerchief, I really can't find any friendship, but after a few contacts, Ye Xiaoyu feels that the person in the shopkeeper Liu is still okay, and now he can only "treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor" and try his luck.
But thinking that he had only seen him back from the capital yesterday, and that he had run to disturb him today, it seemed a little rude, so Ye Xiaoyu decided to go to Beiyuan first to find a way to guard and tell him about his plans. After all, now she lives in the Lu family, and she is barely a member of the Lu family, although Lu Yishou agreed to let her do some small business, but it is more appropriate to report everything to Lu Yishou and his wife.
When Ye Xiaoyu went to Beiyuan to find a way to guard, she brought some small cakes that she had just come out of the pot in the morning. Since the last time I started to make small cakes and they tasted good, Ye Xiaoyu would make some whenever she had time, firstly, Hong'er and herself liked to eat them, and secondly, with these small cakes in the house, it saved the trouble of making breakfast, and you can eat a little when you are hungry. If some little girls come to play, they will also give one or two to them, the cost is not high, and they seem to be polite. On the day Ling Yu and the others left, because they didn't do much, they only gave Jiang Ping three, if they knew that Lu Qian would throw the bag he gave Ling Yu on the ground, he would have taken more for Jiang Ping, but now that he thinks about it, it is really a pity that the bag of small cakes was thrown away like that. After that, Jiang Ping and Lu Yishou didn't mention the little cake to themselves, and they didn't know if they had eaten it.
The climate here in Quanxiu Village is really good, since Ye Xiaoyu came here, it is almost sunny, and it rarely rains, but because there is a big river around, even if it doesn't rain, there is no need to worry about the crops in the field without water source irrigation.
Today is no exception, walking on the road, the early spring sun shines on the body, that feeling is not too comfortable. If there's one regret, it's that although this place is located in the north, there is no snow in winter, even if it freezes outside to the point of being unconscious. However, this is very similar to the city where Ye Xiaoyu lived in his previous life. It's just that although it never snows in the winter of that city, Ye Xiaoyu's memory is full of cold feelings, cold and biting, penetrating from the heart to the outside. (To be continued......)