This time, the Yu family sold a bit more land, probably occupying forty percent of the land in Yuyao County, and almost sold all the Yu family's old bottoms. However, the Yu family immediately took the money and bought some land in Cheng County, which is not even a little thin field.

The focus has been fully invested in shipbuilding and fishing, and a stake in a seafood processing workshop under construction has been obtained, receiving a 20% dividend. As for the means, I heard that the Yu family and the Chen family had a marriage, and the object of the marriage was Chen Ying, but the Yu family used a concubine to marry this time, plus a lot of money, the Chen family was willing to give up 20% of the shares.

"The workshop has already been built?" After Li Ming went home, he inquired about the seafood workshop, only to learn that with the addition of Yu's family, the workshop had completed the site selection, the infrastructure had been completed, and it was completely ready to work.

"Originally, the Chen family and the Lu family also had enough manpower, and with the thousands of people from the Yu family working together, it didn't take much time. The processing workshop is not very technical, as long as there is a space, it can be carried out at any time. Xun Cai flipped through the progress documents on the report and pointed it out to Li Ming.

"The point is that now that the four families are working together, the whole workshop is very large, even bigger than the medicine workshop, the soy sauce workshop and the furniture workshop combined! But then again, the pharmacy can't be further expanded, mainly because of the shortage of manpower and the problem of insufficient production capacity, otherwise the money earned by the pharmacy is enough for the daily expenses of the entire counties in Huiji County. Even, it is not a problem to help Wu Jun. Xun Cai expressed a little regret.

"Have you had a problem with your home use lately?" Li Ming couldn't help but be stunned.

"It's not a husband yet, the two biggest expenses of the family recently, one of which bought a lot of livestock and poultry, put it on the side of Huiji Mountain and Fuchun Mountain. The other amount of money is unknown, and this money is also the biggest expense......" Xun Cai looked at the family's income and expenditure account books, and couldn't help sighing, "My brother bought a lot of land, although they were all purchased at a parity price, but they also spent a lot of money, and the family's money is about to bottom out, and Peng Die's sister's dowry is afraid that there will be no landing." ”

Li Ming didn't expect that his family had reached this point.

"You don't have to buy so much land, we don't need much anyway!" Li Ming considered whether to sell some of the property.

"Those are to be left for our children, and it is better to have a hundred catties of food in hand at home these years. It seems that the annual grain output is decreasing intentionally or unintentionally, and if it continues, it will become a problem in many places to even eat. At that time, even if you make more money, there is no place to buy food, which is a terrible result, do you know that now in the Central Plains, a load of wheat has been raised to 600 yuan? Si Li and Yingchuan were even promoted to 800 Wen and one stone. Xun Cai Dundun taught.

"How do you improve so much?" Li Ming remembered asking before, wheat in Xuzhou is only about 500 wen, and many places can only sell it for 400 wen.

"My husband made pastry several times in Yingchuan and Sili, and many people learned it, so many people no longer eat corn or sorghum rice, and specialize in pasta. I heard that Yuan Valve's and Huangfu's family had changed their corn fields and sorghum fields into wheat fields. There are more people eating pastry, and the amount is not up at all, so the price will naturally increase. I heard that there are already many people who go directly to Xuzhou or Qingzhou to purchase wheat......" Xun Cai looked at Li Ming with resentment.

"Then the price of rice in Huiji County has also risen?" Li Ming suddenly came to his senses.

"It's good that my husband knows! After the introduction of medicinal porridge in Zhou's restaurant, many families also began to eat rice. Zhou Ze was already planning to open branches in Shangyu and Yuji, and the consequence was that the price of rice increased by 50 wen and one stone. Xun Cai said helplessly.

Obviously, this is still an initial increase, and as the medicinal diet is gradually promoted, more people will no longer eat corn and eat rice instead. At that time, it is obvious that the price of rice in this Huiji County will increase further, and the cost of medicinal porridge will be greatly increased.

"It's not just a matter of grain prices, the Yu family is only selling the land, and the tenant farmers are not selling. In other words, we don't have a shortage of tenants who can help with the farmland, so I've sent a steward to Yuji County to recruit some of the refugees who went south, but I have to take care of the food at the beginning, right? This is another big expense......" Xun Cai sighed, he didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, and after calculating this item, no matter how big the family was, it was not enough to spend.

If it weren't for the products of soy sauce shops and furniture workshops, they had already begun to sell to other states and counties, and they had made a lot of profits one after another, and the drugs in the pharmacy had been selling well, I was afraid that the family would definitely go bankrupt.

"As a result, I have a county of land, but my family is about to go bankrupt?" Li Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"This money, can it be stopped?" Xun Cai pointed to an expense on the account book, which accounted for 30% of the total expenses, which was already very high in the total proportion.

"No, this ratio must be maintained, and it may be further increased in the future. However, when the time comes, this cost will no longer be borne by our family. Li Ming firmly rejected the proposal.

"Okay, that's what the husband said...... It's just that in this way, Peng Die's sister's dowry, the husband has to figure out his own way. Can't, let the concubine use the dowry, right? Xun Cai didn't want to force anything when he heard this, but reminded him very seriously.

"Peace of mind, it's a man's obligation to make money, and Cai'er won't be affected no matter what!" Li Ming gritted his teeth, no matter what, he had to make money quickly.

I can't make cement, I can't make glass, the problem of Titian with high wine can't be solved, and the bleaching and improvement of paper have no impression, and Li Ming is also having a headache to death at the moment.

In the end, I simply ran directly to a courtyard in the city, which was a private house purchased by 30% of the expenses, and it was a shop on the outside, but it was a hole on the inside.

The improvised basement is ready for use, and it is full of all kinds of information. This information comes from all over Huiji County, and at present, intelligence can only be collected for Huiji County.

It's not that he can't use the manpower of the Xun family and the Yu family to engage in intelligence, but Li Ming has always believed that intelligence work is the most trustworthy person who has trained and cultivated (brainwashed) by himself. If the intelligence goes wrong, it can be a recipe for destruction.

"Xun Cai complained again......" Li Ming smiled bitterly and came behind a back.

"The lord wants to engage in intelligence, and his subordinates have done their best! Of course, the initial investment in intelligence work will not be less. At present, most of them are the most basic intelligence officers, and the elite have not even been trained. The intelligence service, which lacks the ability to decapitate, is inherently unqualified. Jia Xu sighed helplessly, starting from scratch, the funds are still so small, he has made the most of it.

There are hundreds of intelligence departments in other people's homes, as long as they can inquire about information from all over the world, many of them will directly serve the caravan. Li Ming not only needs intelligence, but also blocks it, and at the same time needs to be able to carry out decapitation work.

Just based on the entire Huiji County, it costs a lot of money, and if you want to further improve, the funds are still the biggest shortcoming.

"I don't plan to deduct the expenses, or use as much as I said before!" Li Ming was helpless.

Money, money, why is this money so unspent when you come here?!