Chapter 165: Return
"Then why did Pan Dainine go in such a hurry? Maybe he'll rub it out for a while, and I'll take over his mess with a hot head! ”
On the way back, Liu Mingxuan sighed. Although he was not optimistic about the pearl oyster business, he had calculated that even if he took over his stall of 30,000 taels of silver, even if he started from scratch and did some seafood processing trade, he should be able to fully return to his capital.
Before, he saw that Sun Chen had intentions and was embarrassed to cut off his beard, but in the end, he found that Sun Chen really didn't plan to take over, so he moved his mind. Unexpectedly, Pan Daining, who had been thinking about throwing the stall out in the end, left in such a hurry, he was really disappointed.
Alas! You can't just say that you're not interested in people, and then rush to talk to someone, right? Anyway, there are many places like that, so let's talk about it later!
The party who was nagging by Liu Mingxuan at the moment is now busy with his feet not touching the ground.
He returned to his beach as fast as he could, called a few workers, and asked them to dig a few more small shallow holes next to the bead field.
After draining some of the seawater, he had the workers place 300 carefully selected pearl oysters in each of the shallow depressions. He's going to start experimenting today to see if he can 'grow' pearls in pearl shells.
When the workers heard the strange demands of their boss, they were all stunned, and they thought that he had been driven crazy because he had been unable to make ends meet for the past few years.
However, the boss has never been in arrears of their wages because of poor management, and some of them are directly slaves bought by himself, and the master has orders, and of course they must obey.
They carefully put the oyster in the water, tried to make the oyster open its hard shell on its own, and stuffed it with all sorts of big and small messes. Stones, seaweed grains, broken crab shells, gravel, etc.
After a few days, no matter what the boss asked them to stuff into it, they were no longer surprised, but took it for granted. Gradually, they found a way to properly put foreign objects in the oyster without harming it as much as possible. As for the location of the pearl, there are strict regulations, and it must be in the place where the pearls are most likely to be found during pearl diving, that is, the edge of the mantle is cut and stuffed from there. In the whole process of placing foreign objects, we should do it as quickly, accurately and steadily as possible in order to improve the success rate.
However, the pearl oysters, which had been stuffed with foreign substances, continued to die. Although Pan Daining was a little disappointed, he still insisted on letting the workers do it. The dead pearl oysters have not yet grown, and there is no way to sell the shell meat, so they can only eat it themselves. The whole bead field, so I ate the same meal for two months in a row.
In the end, they really found a pattern, and put pebbles and gravel pearl oysters inside, with the lowest mortality rate, and placed by skilled workers with quick hands and feet, even more so. And the situation in the shallow depressions, which are close to the beach and have a daily supply of fresh seawater, is much better than those that have not changed the water for several days.
The dug shallow depressions were filled with pearl oysters with foreign objects, and Pan Dinin dispatched a few workers to change the water frequently for those shallow depressions.
Because it takes at least one or two years of hard work for pearl oysters to produce pearls, Pan Daining's move will not be effective in a short period of time. The daily camp made him gradually forget about these specially processed pearl oysters, and sent a few workers to wait on them, and also sent him to other places, even if these pearl oysters were left in the shallow depression to fend for themselves.
It wasn't until two years later that he couldn't hold it anymore, and when he wanted to roll up and roll up after processing all the pearl oysters on his bead field, these pearl oysters that he had almost forgotten gave him a real big surprise, which is all for later.
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Sun Chen followed Liu Mingxuan to stay in Fenghai County for another ten days, and then he slowly tossed back with the harvest of large bags and small bags.
He bought two carriages in Fenghai County at his own expense, not only pulling him back to give gifts to his family, but also some rare things that were transported by foreigners with Liu Mingxuan. Although the quantity is limited, he has made a lot of money by buying and selling along the way. Not only did he earn back the gift money and the carriage money, but in the end he also bought a cart full of cloth in Zezhou, and when he went home to settle the account, he didn't even spend a penny he brought out.
Even his cousin Li Yicong, when he came, he asked for five hundred taels of silver from his family, and after buying a gift, he only had three or four hundred taels of silver left, and he made a lot of money by tossing like Sun Chen. Originally, he admired Sun Chen's cousin very much, and now it is even more so, everything Sun Chen has said, he takes every sentence as a guideline and strictly follows it.
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"Okay, you Sun Chen, this is better than blue! Not only did I not spend money on this trip, but I also made so much money! Liu Mingxuan said with emotion. What a hand! ”
Liu Mingxuan watched carefully along the way, Sun Chen didn't simply draw a scoop based on the gourd, and followed him to buy and sell, but he didn't involve all the things he decided to sell. Because of this, Liu Mingxuan just admired his shrewd business acumen, but because of his 'knowledge of current affairs', there was no trace of disgust and avoidance of peers.
"Haven't you heard such a saying, it is called, 'The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach'! Boss Liu, if you don't accept it, you can't do it! Sun Chen chewed the monkey in his mouth, and he was struggling there.
During this time, although he ate well and gained some weight, he always felt that something was missing. It wasn't until he knew the monkey in his mouth and tasted the familiar taste again that he felt that he was complete.
"Cut, look at the beauty of you!" Liu Mingxuan glanced at him, and without showing weakness, he stretched out his chopsticks and put a monkey in Sun Chen's plate, put it in his mouth, and chewed it fiercely. It was like treating Sun Chen as a monkey, and he couldn't wait to chew it.
Sun Chen shuddered at his indiscriminate analogy.
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The gifts brought by Sun Chen took three or four days to distribute, and everyone who received the gifts was very satisfied with the gifts.
Just kidding, except for a large bag of dried seafood, Sun Chen sent out all the things shipped by foreigners, in a small place like Taikang Town, but money may not be able to buy it.
"Brother, why do you think the mirror made by the Gentiles looks so clearly? I can even shine a few strands of my hair! ”
The second girl took the mirror to look left and right, and took the trouble to follow herself in the mirror, doing a game of squeezing her left eye and squeezing her right eye.