Jia Rui took a sip of tea and made a solemn appearance.

"Xingshan, I really want to go, but at present, I still have to preside over the affairs of the provincial villa, and I can't leave at all."

"Actually, there are already a lot of people who want to go there. At the beginning, Wenchang Xingjun also told me that you should become famous as soon as possible, oh, you must get rich as soon as possible, and you will not come again when the opportunity is not lost. ”

"My plan is that when you go back, you will take Paul to the shipyard in Wangjiang and hand it over to Jia Yun. Then Paul stayed there for a while. ”

"There was a cannon cast, just to ask him to participate. When the ship was built, the guns were loaded onto the ship. ”

"Artillery on board, what are you going to do? Do you have to go out and be a pirate? ”

You're a second product, what kind of brain circuit is this?

"Can we do such a thing? Naturally, it's business. ”

"I told you that our porcelain, tea, and silk are very popular in Europe. I mean, when the ship is built, you and Jia Yun and Paul will take a shipload of goods to Europe and sell them. ”

"You and Paul stayed there and learned how to make gunpowder and artillery. When Jia Yun returned, he brought back the chiming bells, looms, spices, artillery, and gunpowder to sell. ”

"Everything else is fine, I'm afraid artillery can't do it."

"Artillery may not necessarily be brought back to Dade, but it can be sold to Nanyang and the areas of Champong, Qiongzhou, Dongyang, and Ryukyu."

"Tianxiang, I don't know much about porcelain and silk, but I still know a little about tea. Nowadays, although tea is very popular in the West, it is far away from the ocean, and the sea is humid, and the tea is moldy and spoiled before it is transported to the West. ”

"In the past two years, a Western merchant bought more than 1,000 boxes of tea, all of which were moldy and spoiled. Later, the people found it back, and the tea merchants in the thirteen lines of Yangcheng had no choice but to return the goods to others. ”

"That's because the moisture-proof is not done well, as long as the moisture-proof technology of tea is solved, the transportation and sale of tea is a profiteering business."

"My family knows that, but they can't do anything about it."

"I have a way."

"Do you have a way?"

"Actually, it's simple, just use lime. I'll show you how to do it, and when you get home, you can experiment with it. ”

The method Jia Rui said was to wrap the tea leaves in cotton paper and then put the tea leaves in a large vat.

Put some lime blocks at the bottom of the tank, see the degree of moisture absorption of the lime bag, and change the lime blocks once every two or three months.

With this method, the tea leaves can be guaranteed to last about a year and will not spoil.

From Dade to Europe, if it goes well, it can be reached in more than two months, and three months at the latest.

Therefore, in the process of sea transportation, the problem of maintaining the quality of vegetable leaves can be solved.

"This recipe is actually very simple, you have to keep it secret and not be known by others."

Hu Xingshan stood up excitedly.

"If I can transport tea to the West, my family's tea business will be my final say in the future."

Jia Rui sighed.

"Alas, Xingshan, you are really useless, you still raise people because of you."

"I'm a cheater who cheats, and I can't count."

"I mean, you should aim high, if you can get through the Western business, your little tea business, by the way. We're going to do bigger business. ”

"Tianxiang, it's still your foresight. Yes, we're going to do bigger business. However, my father may not be able to agree to me taking the risk, and I am afraid that he will not give me much capital. ”

"You don't have to worry about the cost, I have my own way."

"How much money do you have?"

"How about 100,000 taels?"

"So much? Enough is enough. ”

Jia Rui once calculated that a shipload of goods to Europe is actually enough for 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver. The 100,000 taels of silver currently left with Jia Yun can solve this problem.

However, now that he has Paul as the leading party, Jia Rui wants to make a big one, rent another boat, and bring more goods over.

As for the capital, he wants to pull Miaoyu into the gang. Not using this little rich woman is simply a waste of resources.

It's February, and in three or four months, the big ship at the shipyard will be built. During these months, it's time to prepare cargo, train crews, and wait for the monsoon winds to change in direction in the autumn before heading for Europe.

The two studied until midnight before going to bed.

Hu Xingshan was still excited, lying on the kang and still thinking about the long trip.

I couldn't sleep left and right, so I simply lit the lamp, took out the charts, water meters, and diaries that Jia Rui gave him, and studied them. It wasn't until the rooster crowed that he fell asleep in a daze.

After dinner the next day, Jia Rui found Miaoyu.

directly pulled her into the gang, Jia Rui was afraid that she would not be able to accept it, so he had to take it step by step.

"Miaoyu, what do you think of our steamed bread business?"

"Not bad, what do you mean?"

A little bit of a small peasant mentality that is a little rich and peaceful, and he does not want to make progress.

"Miaoyu, your ideal, oh, what is your greatest wish in life?"

"My greatest wish ......."

For a while, it's really hard to answer this question.

My greatest wish is to find a husband who is affectionate and righteous, talented, husband and son, father and son, father and son, raise eyebrows, respect each other like guests, and grow old and ...... together.

But how can these words be embarrassed to say?

"Guess what my greatest wish is?"

Miaoyu smiled mischievously and smiled brightly.

Where do I guess?

"I can't guess, but can I tell you what my greatest wish is?"

Miaoyu was immediately interested.

"Tell me, what's it?"

"My greatest wish is not to be an official."

"Ouch, aren't you just like Baoyu?"

Don't compare me to his shit, it's insulting to me.

"I'm not like Baoyu. He doesn't want to do anything, he just eats and waits to die, I'm not that kind of person. I want to make a career. ”

"What do you want to do?"

"Poetry and distance, life is not just about reluctance, but also poetry and distance. I want to travel all over the world, and I can take a trip at any time. ”

"I seem to have heard this before, and it is indeed beautiful. But can you walk away? Besides, travel costs a lot of money. ”

"That's not a problem, I'm already planning it."

"I built a ship in Wangjiang, you know. This time I came to Paul, do you know why? ”

"Do you want him to help you steer the boat?"

"It's not just as simple as operating a boat, I also want to do business, and Hu Xingshan and Jia Yun will do this business for me."

Jia Rui told him what he was going to do.

"This time it was a journey of discovery, but I was able to make a lot of money. I calculated that if I invested one or two pieces of silver, I could earn at least seven or eight cents of silver, that is, seven or eight percent of the net profit. It's much more cost-effective than making steamed buns. ”

"This time the trade route has been opened, and in the future, I will build a few more big ships and do this business all year round."

"Originally, I didn't want to tell anyone about this business, but we are good friends and we do business together. With a new way of making money, if I don't tell you, I feel a little sorry for you. ”

"If I make a fortune in the future, if you blame me, I have nothing to say."

"That's natural, when you were in a small business, you partnered with me. When you do big business, you want to monopolize it, it's too unrighteous for you. ”

"No, didn't I tell you? Anyway, I told you, it's up to you whether to do it or not. If you don't do it, don't blame me when I make a fortune in the future. ”

"Of course, making money is secondary. What matters is poetry and distance, the world is so big, I want to see it. When I have money and leisure in the future, I will travel all over the world and see the scenery of the world. ”

"Brother Rui, don't talk about poetry and distance, in fact, you just want to make money, needless to say, it's so good. You just say, how much do you want me to take? ”

Hey, I can't fool her now.

But don't say it so ugly, okay, don't I have poetry and distance in my heart? I really have.

"Fifty thousand taels of silver."

"It's just a little bit of silver, and it's worth going around in such a big circle. Okay, I'll take it, let's work together again. If you lose it, you will be in vain. ”

Miaoyu, can you not be so generous,

Fifty thousand taels of silver without blinking an eye, is poverty limiting my imagination, or are you really too rich?

I really don't understand the world of rich women.