Huo Bao, who ate a meal of "Supreme Eight Treasures Banquet", was satisfied, which also made Xue Xiao despise it before putting it away.

When the two of them got out of Wangjiang Tower, the cruise ships on the Qinhuai River were weaving, and their eyes were full of red lanterns.

Huo Bao is here, even if Xue Xiao has calculations, he doesn't dare to really take him on the flower boat.

The two of them wandered around and went out of the city again.

Huo Bao was calm, Xue Xiao was somewhat uncomfortable thinking about the situation, and said with a little show: "The ambassador of Jinling Guancang has an old relationship with our master. ”

"Uncle Seven's old grain was obtained through this ambassador?"

"Well, that's him. He is an eight-rank official, but his cousin is a general judge. ”

The general judgment, also known as the "sub-government", is an auxiliary official of the prefect, who is in charge of salt, grain, and public security.

Huo Bao glanced at Xue Xiao.

This is because he said earlier that he would calculate the cost for Xue Biao according to the market price of ninety percent, and he wanted to get more food, right?

The Xue family's grain was stored half a year ago, and the market price was lower than now, so the cost was naturally lower.

This is still the part of the new grain, and the old grain that is scooped out of the official warehouse has a lower cost.

According to today's market price, ninety percent is transferred to Huo Bao, which is definitely a doubling of the profit.

Although Xue Xiao is arrogant, he also knows the importance and will not act behind Xue Biao's back.

These words were revealed by Xue Biao to his adopted son.

The summer grain will come down in a month, and then the price of grain will come down.

The ambassador of Guancang released the old grain at this time, and he made a difference, and he was definitely willing.

Huo Bao smiled.

"Don't be afraid of more food, more is better! Brother Xiao has made up as much as he wants, but the silver money will be made up here after a while. ”

"How much? This is the largest official warehouse in Jiangnan? ”

"Yes! Put as much as you want. In the north, the crops are harvested in September, and there are three or four months of hard work to transport grain to make the difference! ”

Xue Xiao looked at Huo Bao, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

I'm afraid this is a big fool, right?

Do you really expect this to make a fortune?

You won't make much money by transporting grain for hundreds of miles, and if you spend a lot of money on the way after a thousand miles, you can't say that you will lose money.

"On paper" children, how can this business be so easy to do!

Xue Xiao despised it in his heart, but he didn't open his mouth to dissuade him.

Regardless of whether Huo Bao loses or not, the Xue family is here to earn it anyway.

Huo Bao is also counting the time, Huainan and Huaibei are in chaos, are other places still far away?

Even if the summer harvest is harvested and the autumn harvest is harvested, the price of this grain will not come down.

When the time comes, there will be more forces that want to stock up on grain, and grain prices will only rise again.

In the three items of "grain, salt, and iron", Huo Baoyuan didn't expect food to make money, and supplying several people and military supplies was a success, but he didn't expect great things to wait here.

As a result, the grain trade has become a big head, and someone has to keep an eye on it.

Zhu Qiang and Du Laoba went to Songjiang, Hou Xiaoming went to Changzhou to play the front station, Quyang left Huo Bao and Liang Zhuang, and Zhu Gang by his side.

Nowadays, the carrying capacity of mule carts is limited, and 100 stone requires 22 carts, and one cart can carry up to 5 stone of grain.

One hundred stones at a time costs twenty mule carts.

Huo Bao still has to be transferred out to take charge of this matter.

As for the more than 800 child soldiers left, it was just right to rotate the food.

Back to the grain store, there is a place vacated by the steward, Huo Bao and Xue Xiao have one room.

Both of them asked someone to send pen and paper, and the lights were on for half the night.

The next day, Huo Bao sent Zhu Gang to personally go back to deliver the letter, and Xue Xiao also sent his henchmen across the river.

Xue Xiao didn't know what to do, Huo Bao was not idle, and went to the city.

He walked a few blacksmiths and inquired about the price of pig iron, which had doubled to 15 wen a pound last year and now doubled to 30 wen.

The price of grain will rise due to the famine, and the output of this pig iron will not decrease with the weather, how can it also rise?

This Jiangnan is not very peaceful, and some people are privately hoarding pig iron.

The knives and guns are made by the official iron bureau, and the street iron shops only buy and sell civilian iron tools, iron pots, woodcutters, kitchen knives, hoes, sickles, etc.

"How much does a woodcutter cost? A handful in a few days? Huo Bao asked, chopping the woodcutter in his hand.

This wood-chopping knife is one foot eight long and has a thick back, which is about the same weight as the Yanling knife, one and a half catties to two catties in the middle.

"One hundred and fifty wen, a deposit of fifty wen, two days to get it."

Huo Bao nodded, and took out a piece of silver from his purse: "Set twenty first, how long can you get it at the earliest?" ”

The blacksmith laughed twice and took the silver: "It's not a delicate job, my two sons can get it, if you work more at night, two a day, you can get it in ten days, it's too tiring!" ”

Huo Bao nodded, and handed over another tael of silver: "If you get it in ten days, this tael of silver will be for the masters to make up for supper; If it is obtained in half a month, this tael of silver is an advance deposit...... As for whether I want a sickle or a hoe next time, I'll wait until I go back and ask my father. ”

The blacksmith looked dumbfounded.

This is to raise the price by fast delivery, but I didn't expect Huo Bao to be the wrongdoer. I'd rather use this tael of silver as a reward than add it directly to the labor fee.

Huo Bao turned and walked out of the blacksmith shop.

It's not that he's stingy with the silver taels, but he doesn't want to make trouble.

Twenty woodcutters, which is not a small number, are just woodcutters.

If he is held by the blacksmith, it will seem that he is acting sneakily and cannot see the light.

Just coming to this blacksmith shop can be regarded as allowing Huo Bao to expand his thinking.

Originally, he wanted to sell pig iron, but in fact, even if he sold flowers, the profit of pig iron was limited.

What if it's not pig iron that is sold?

If you sell weapons, you will have to double your profits.

It's just that the weapons craftsmen are all registered in the government, and they have to think of finding the right one.

Coming out of the blacksmith shop, Huo Bao went to Chengshanfang again.

Here, it is the old residence of the Jia family.

At Fangkou, there are two teahouses, and Huo Bao entered the one with many people, went up to the second floor, and sat by the window.

The tea guests are all idlers in the neighborhood, talking about idle articles.

"That old man has come up with tricks to make money again!"

"What's the trick? In the past two months, I have received several times of silver, and my birthday has been done in advance, what other tricks are there? ”

"I want to celebrate my mother's birthday!"

"Huh? Didn't it say that Ding Nei had a hard time getting back up and down before, why did he celebrate his mother's birthday again? ”

"Find yourself an eighteen-year-old stepmother, this is the one who wants to celebrate her birthday."

"Tsk! It's so fresh! ”

Huo Bao took two sips of tea and also felt that this thing was new.

This prefect scrapes the ground so unscrupulously? Is he crazy, or is the person behind him crazy?

This is simply a posture of making a fortune and leaving, this term is three years, and now there are so many stories in less than three months.

The prefect of a place is a big man in the eyes of the people, but there are many people in charge.

Without a backer, where would it be so bold?

400,000 taels of money in the name of repairing the city wall, and 50,000 taels in the name of enhancing public security......

Huo Bao's heart was pounding.

Mrs. Jia began to look at each other...... This Jia family doesn't stop again......"

"Didn't the uncles of the Jia family all marry? Is this looking for a granddaughter-in-law? ”

"What granddaughter-in-law, find a house for Uncle Jia......"

"Grandma hasn't died yet, and she started looking for someone? Can the Zhen family be able to? ”

"What's the use of making a fuss at the door? That Zhen has been sick for a few months, and now he is only staying up, and he will always die. ”

"Then you can't be ruthless at this time to look for a house with great fanfare."

"Didn't you say that the brothers were disbanded? Why does Mrs. Jia still care? ”

"With Master Jia's father, he is willing to worry about his son!"

"Phew! Pro-Lao Tzu? I think my son's reputation is not rotten, and he is more ruthless than his stepfather! ”

Huo Bao took out a string of money, settled the account, and went down to the teahouse.

The news I heard here was similar to what Huo Bao had inquired about before.

The relationship between the Jia brothers and the family is like fire and water and cannot be resolved.

Even if the Jia brothers wanted to take a step back, their stepmother wouldn't allow it.

The two stepsons who were suppressed by the family and the two stepsons who were released with martial arts positions are very different.

If the two brothers return to the family, the stepmother and her children and grandchildren will be suppressed.

Jia Yuan knew the news from Chuzhou, but he still gave Huo Wuyi a car, this is the choice.

Shi Jin, under the pretext of asking Gu to take care of his cousin and cousin, gave the things, and he didn't show up, even if he prepared with both hands, it was human nature.