Li Xiao is a man of action, he does it when he thinks of it.

Except for a small part of the cash left in the wine shop, the medical hall, the restaurant, and the medicine and wine shop, the rest was pulled out by Li Xiao.

The shopkeepers in several places personally brought the men back with the money, and boxes of money were moved into the hall of the village and placed on the ground.

Mr. Yang and Dr. Zhao counted the accounts, while Wan Niang and Li Zhen kept the accounts separately.

Li Xiao has been a little hot these days, and is drinking the herbal tea made of Houttuynia cordata and honeysuckle, these two herbs are added with a little licorice and sucrose, and they taste cool and sweet, no worse than Wang Laoji Jia Duobao.

"I can't think of so much money."

The guys at home were busy pouring out boxes of money and re-counting them. Every 1,000 copper coins were re-strung with a new string and stacked.

The stringed copper coins are yellow and clear, and they are stacked like a hill.

Mr. Zhao was also amazed, last year they didn't even have a string of money, eating and drinking on weekdays became a problem, and they were forced to go into debt all day long, and they were very worried.

And now, the money can be piled up into a small mountain.

This is just a sideline of the Li family, after all, the Li family is a serious landlord, and agriculture is their identity.

"Business has been getting better and better lately." Li Xiao was amazed, but quickly calmed down. While the piles of copper coins may look spectacular, they aren't really much.

A thousand copper coins are a lot of money, six catties and four taels, but that is only the usual money, and it takes several strings of money to buy a cow.

For people who are accustomed to using bank cards and even mobile phone payments in later generations, money has actually become a string of digital symbols, and there is very little intuitive impression. On weekdays, there is little cash, and no one will be burdened with a large bundle of money to buy a house and a car, hundreds of thousands or millions, all of which are bank transfers, just a string of numbers.

"How many are there?"

"Nearly two thousand, it should be true." Doctor Zhao looked at the ledger. Now in the Li family, Mr. Zhao is not only the shopkeeper of the medical hall, but also the housekeeper of the outer courtyard of the Li family, while Mr. Yang is the head of the academy and the bookkeeper of the outer courtyard. The two have their own division of labor, and the money is basically Mr. Yang in charge of the accounts and Mr. Zhao in charge of things.

Wan Niang and Li Zhen in the inner courtyard are equivalent to internal stewards and accounts, and are equivalent to cashiers and safekeeping.

The Li family's money and goods have to go through Dr. Zhao and Mr. Yang, but in the end, they have to go through Wanniang and Li Zhen in and out of the warehouse.

Li Xiao is more of a hands-off shopkeeper, just look at the account book, no matter the specifics.

"More than 2,000 is a bit less." Li Xiaodao.

Mr. Yang listened to it with sore teeth, this is still less, how long has it been, this is completely the Li family's extra money sideline.

In such a short time, I drew 2,000 yuan, and that's not all.

"It's a little little, I'm going to buy more cattle, since I've promised the princess, then I have to do this thing well." Eight hundred households were closed, and there were very few cattle, and there were no cattle. I want to buy more cattle and distribute them to each household to feed. ”

"At the very least, you have to buy 500 cows, and if you have enough money, it's better to buy 1,000 heads."

Hearing Li Xiao's generous strokes, Mr. Zhao and they all inhaled a little.

A thousand cows, still cattle that can farm.

Even if they were to use the cheaper cow instead of the bull, one would now cost at least three thousand five hundred dollars. 1,000 heads, that's 3,500 heads.

Three thousand five hundred, there are not many people in Lanxi Township who have so much property, let alone take out so much money to buy cattle at once.

"San Lang, buy so much?" Mr. Zhao hesitated.

"Now that spring ploughing is imminent, I am afraid that the price of cattle will rise again."

Spring ploughing is coming, this is the time when the demand for cattle is the largest, and the rise in cattle prices is inevitable. Judging from the cattle and horse market in recent years, it has not risen every year, and this year has risen by almost two or three hundred dollars compared with last year.

"Cattle are productivity, and without cattle, there is no yield in cultivating the fields by manpower. Investing some money, buying cattle, raising horses, plowing the fields, and collecting more grain is actually zoned. The money we make from doing business is also put away, and we can't follow the example of other landlords and use it to collect interest from usury, and I don't do that kind of thing. ”

Lending money to collect interest is an important economic means for the vast majority of landlords and even high-ranking families in these years.

However, although the interest rate of usury is high, it is also a matter of bad character. After all, many people who borrow money are often unable to repay their loans, and in the end they are not allowed to sell their land, houses, or even their wives and children to repay their debts.

The landlords were happy to accept this method of repaying loans, and used them to annex a large amount of land and acquire slaves. But Li Xiao didn't want to do this, he didn't give birth to a son like this, and modern people still can't see such a cruel way.

If you want to make money, there are ways.

For example, right now, the money earned by the Yaojiu Medical Pavilion and Hotel is still put in anyway, and buying land is not something that can be bought by buying it, and there is no knighthood and fame, and there are restrictions on buying land.

In these years, there is no better way to manage money, and even the temple is engaged in a pledge bank, that is, a mortgage loan. There are neither stocks nor bonds, and there will be no P2P, capital disks and other leek-cutting things.

If you have money, in addition to lending, you are buying land, or you are enjoying it.

In the era when there were no banks, people kept their money at home, and when they had more money, they dug holes and buried it.

In this way, Li Xiao feels distressed, cash is king, you have cash and actually bury it instead of money to make money, isn't it too stupid.

Of course, now is the Middle Ages, it is the Tang Dynasty, and it is not appropriate for a family that is not a famous family or a family of honorable relatives and eunuchs to engage in lending and doing business.

The best way to make money from those businesses is to invest it in agriculture, which is relatively safe and safe, and can avoid killing pigs.

But it is not easy to buy land and buy land, and it is relatively convenient to buy cattle.

While developing some cooperative breeding, while engaging in management contracting, Li Xiao feels that it is a way.

This can also be regarded as money laundering in the Tang Dynasty in disguise, which can make the money earned by the Li family through business safer.

Mr. Yang felt that it was too hasty to make a move on a thousand cows.

"Why don't you buy a few dozen heads and try it first?"

"This path is good, and since you know that it is good, there is no need to be afraid. The money almost doesn't matter, anyway, these businesses are now making a lot of money every day, and they can continue to turn around. A thousand cows are only 3,500 yuan, but this cow, I am afraid that I will not be able to buy so many at once. ”

1,000 ploughing cattle, even if you go to Chang'an to buy it, it is estimated that it is a top order.

He remembered that Cheng Yanjin's family had a strong relationship with Longyou, and he heard that the cattle and horses who entered the customs from Longyou basically had the shadow of the Cheng family.

Maybe go to the next Cheng Lao Wu by yourself, I guess he can do a favor. If you can't get it, you can also get a group purchase discount.