Chapter Eighty-Three: Preparing to Leave
The VIP building in the capital has reopened, and the business has been unprecedentedly hot, and the business of Fumanlou has shrunk by at least one-third compared with before.
The owner of the old family, who has not appeared in Fumanlou for a long time, is satisfied, and his old face is as black as the bottom of a pot.
Looking at the VIP building opposite where business is booming, and then look at your own Fuman Building, although the business is not too bad, it is different than before.
After his inquiry, the VIP building opposite, now the Qin family is running in partnership with others, and the Qin family is just a widow in his eyes, and he doesn't pay much attention to it.
Although this widow has the support of the left servant of the household department behind him, he will not take it to heart, he Liu is satisfied with the back, but Liu Zhongxian, the minister of the central government.
However, the person who cooperated with the Qin family made him have some scruples, and the other party was said to be the righteous son of the Ming prince.
Although he is the nephew of the right minister Liu Zhongxian, the Ming prince is high and powerful, and he is not a figure that can be provoked casually.
But behind his backer, Liu Zhongxian, the right minister of Great Qin in the imperial court, was in the capital of Huchu State at this time, and asked for peace with Huchu State on behalf of Daqin.
Yang Dewen came to participate in Qin Xiaotian's wedding, and now Qin Xiaotian's wedding has ended, and the VIP building in the capital is gradually on the right track, and the Yuehua Charity Fund has also begun to operate.
Soap, soap, fruit wine, and distilled spirits are all starting production and operation according to the plan, and the branch in the capital has also found a satisfactory place.
In a limited time, it is about to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and before I know it, Yang Dewen has traveled into this strange world for a year.
It has been more than two months since he left Mingzhou, and as the lieutenant of Mingzhou Kangde County, Yang Dewen should also go back.
"Big brother, have you really decided to go back to Mingzhou?" Qin Xiaotian said with some reluctance.
"Yes! The father-in-law has already returned to Mingzhou, but the eldest brother is the county lieutenant of Mingzhou Kangde, and it has been more than two months since he left Mingzhou.
What's more, it's a matter of time before you go back, and no matter how much you don't want to go back, you still have to go back in the end. Yang Dewen said.
"Then Da Ge should wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival to go back, you have come to the capital, and you haven't played much yet! I'll take you around the capital these days. Qin Xiaotian suggested.
"What are some of the fun places in the capital?" Yang Dewen asked with some emotion.
After coming to the capital, for the VIP building here in the capital and the business of leisurely living, Yang Dewen was indeed a little busy and dizzy.
Especially looking for a suitable winery, Yang Dewen always wants to find a winery that can make both fruit wine and grain wine, just like in Mingzhou.
But he searched all around the capital, but he couldn't find the place he liked.
In the end, I was forced to find a big winery that brewed grain wine.
Due to the lack of grain to make wine, and the imperial court explicitly prohibited the use of grain to make wine, so some wineries outside the capital that used grain to make wine were in the situation of stopping production or transforming into fruit wine.
There are seasonal restrictions on making fruit wine, and the very low threshold for making fruit wine has led to fierce competition.
Although it seems that the price of fruit wine has soared in the past two years, the price of purchased fruit has also soared, and in the end, the profit of the winery is still not very rich.
Some wineries that were unwilling to transform into fruit wine production stopped production and wanted to transfer it, but there was no good market.
The imperial court has banned grain winemaking, and who can these wineries be transferred to?
However, Yang Dewen knew that with the large investment in the waterwheel and the degree of drought this year, which was much better than the previous two years, the imperial court would soon re-relax the ban on grain winemaking.
The reason why the imperial court banned the use of grain to make wine was also because the disaster last year was so serious that it ordered a ban on the use of grain to make wine.
If there is enough food, of course, it is impossible for the imperial court to continue to ban alcohol, and the liquor tax is one of the most important sources of tax revenue for the imperial court, and it is the financial route of the imperial court, and no one will be willing to cut off their own financial route.
Although the summer harvest has been harvested and the food crisis seems to have passed, the current grain prices have not loosened much.
Although many grain brewing merchants also believe in their hearts that the imperial court will eventually reopen and allow the use of grain to make wine.
However, when grain prices did not fall back to normal levels, a few businessmen dared to buy grain in large quantities.
In the face of huge interests, although there would be wars from time to time on the border between Huchu and Great Qin, there were still some bold businessmen who entered the territory of Huchu and purchased a large amount of grain, which was transported into the territory of Great Qin through the Huyue State.
Although the winery acquired by Yang Dewen only brews grain wine, the area is much larger than the winery acquired by Yang Dewen in Mingzhou.
It's just that there is no wine stored in this winery. There is even less food to be stored.
This is actually very easy to understand, because next to the capital, although the price of wine made from grain has risen wildly repeatedly, it can't bear the large number of rich people in the capital.
As a result, the sake brewed in the brewery has already been sold out.
Despite some regrets, Yang Dewen decided to buy the winery.
Fruit wine can be purchased in large quantities, but it is difficult to purchase wine made from grain, but Yang Dewen thought of finding merchants to cooperate and directly purchase a large number of grain wine from neighboring countries.
Hu Ji Trading House in Beijing is the partner chosen by Yang Dewen after inquiry.
Hu Ji Trading House is a huge business house, business throughout the Yangtze River several major countries, in all countries have a strong background, rooted in Daqin, but befriended by the nobles of various countries, even the royal families of some countries, they also have their figure.
A huge merchant family that travels around the world and communicates with each other is like a large multinational corporation in the 21st century, and its wealth is naturally comparable to that of a rich country.
Although Hu Kee & Co. has a big business, his store in the capital is not prominent, because they are mainly engaged in big business, and the store is just to show the types of goods they handle, if someone wants to retail, then of course it is okay.
Yang Dewen walked into the shop of Hu Ji Commercial Bank, which is located in the prosperous area of the capital, and took a look at the situation in the store.
"What do you need to buy, this boy? We at Hu Kee & Co. will do our best to meet your needs. When a shopkeeper saw Yang Dewen who walked into the store, he immediately greeted him warmly and said.
"Really? I'm going to buy Supreme Leisurely Wine, do you have it? Yang Dewen said with a smile.
"The supreme leisurely wine, what the son said is not only in the VIP building, the kind of wine that only sells in cups, and asks for two taels of silver for a glass." The shopkeeper asked in surprise.