The first stop is naturally the base of money - Haitan Island.

Speaking of money, the acquaintance of Jinbao father and son and Cai Dao, it is a bit legendary.

At that time, Cai Dao got some money through the fields under Cai Xi's name, so he thought about how to find another business that could make money quickly.

"But which business should I choose to make money?"

At that time, Cai Dao, who was ambitious and ready to let go and make money, felt really ashamed of his identity as a traverser.

Because, most of the things that the crossing giants use to make money, he himself has only seen and used them, but he doesn't know how to make them.

Without start-up capital, the distant-water fishing vessel alone will soon be unsustainable. The money from the two seasons of the year has already been spent in the process of enclosing the ranch.

There was no way, Cai Dao had to find the fourth housekeeper Cai Xi to come up with an idea.

Halfway through, he came up with an idea, selling illicit salt was a very lucrative business.

However, as soon as Cai Dao mentioned this idea to the fourth housekeeper Cai Xi, his old man was immediately so frightened that he covered Cai Dao's mouth, looked around, and whispered in his ear: "Third son, don't say this in the public in the future." Do you know who the biggest salt merchant in our Xianyou County is? ”

"Who is it?" Cai Dao was a little confused by the solemn attitude of the four housekeepers, and asked subconsciously, but as soon as he answered, he thought of the answer - the Cai family's power in Xianyou County is NO.1, and the only thing that can make his family jealous is not the county order, but another Cai family.

I really didn't expect that Cai Xuan's old fox was actually a salt monger.

"It seems that you must have guessed it, Third Prince. However, you don't know, the patriarch is the only salt merchant in the whole of Fujian. In addition to Fuzhou and Quanzhou, the land of Fujian, five states and two military states are their territory. We cook some salt and eat it ourselves, it doesn't hurt. The patriarch doesn't care about this trivial matter, but once the third prince has a slight tendency to get involved in the salt merchants, the patriarch will have to ask the teacher for guilt. When the time comes, even if the eldest master is here, he won't be able to protect you. Although Cai Xi said this, he also sighed in his heart.

With just one sentence of his own, he can guess the exact answer immediately. The third prince is too smart.

At this moment, Cai Dao is even more difficult.

It's terrifying to want to write a novel like that and let a three-year-old doll make money from this. If you take it yourself, you don't have to let the guys in the bookstore drive it out, you have to let the owner of the bookstore light a pillar of fire as a demon boy.

It's the same with catering.

Xiaocili is a poor and remote country, even if it can be sold, it can't make a lot of money after a month of hard work, and whether it is Xianyou County or Xinghua Junzhou, it is a small place. In the land of Fujian, only Quanzhou and Fuzhou can make a lot of money from catering, but Cai Dao can't leave Xiaocili at all now, and Cai Xi doesn't have the courage to open a shop in these two places.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, and the ancients did not deceive me!

Do you really have to rely on distilled spirits to earn this start-up capital?

Cai Dao couldn't help but complain: If only there were banks in this era.

"That's right! Borrow money, I can borrow money! As soon as Cai Dao thought of the bank, he thought that since the patriarch Cai Xuan was a big salt merchant, if he could give him a reasonable plan, he could borrow money from him.

Thinking that he was going to do it immediately, Cai Dao immediately instructed Cai Xi to bring the model of the small trawler in the Ming Dynasty, prepare another gift, and go to the patriarch's house to borrow money. Many people are not to blame.

Cai Xuan left a good impression, maybe he could lend more money, Cai Dao is here Han Xin's soldiers - the more the merrier. As long as the interest rate is not too high, higher than one hundred and lower than five hundred, if Cai Xuan is willing to use this money to buy shares, Cai Dao is not impossible to consider.

However, if the patriarch is willing to borrow less than a hundred, then give it a gift, just as my brother is just paying a return visit to him.

Cai Xi, the fourth housekeeper, set off in the morning, and it stands to reason that if things go well, he will be able to come back in the afternoon, but Cai Xi didn't return home until the next night, with two fat men, one big and one small.

Cai Xi now arranged the two of them to the guest room, and then went to Cai Dao's room to report his itinerary.

Things really didn't go as smoothly as Cai Dao imagined.

The patriarch Cai Xuan cordially received Cai Xi, but as soon as he heard the intention, he categorically refused.

It's not that Cai Xuan doesn't have money, the reason is very simple, the Cai family doesn't have a master now, Cai Dao is just a newly weaned doll, although Cai Xi is a housekeeper, but in the final analysis, he is just a subordinate. After borrowing more than a dozen times, Cai Xuan can lend them even if he doesn't count the interest.

What's more, Cai Daojia can come up with this money himself, so why do you want to borrow money from him?

There was no way, Cai Xi had no choice but to send the gift and prepare to rush home overnight with the model.

Halfway down the carriage road, the wheels were broken. There is no shop in front of the village or behind it, and seeing that it is getting dark, it is quite dangerous for a group of people to stay in the wilderness.

Fortunately, after waiting for about an hour, I met the father and son. Cai Xiyi introduced, and Cai Dao learned that the father and son's surname was Jin, and they were sugar merchants in Xinghua Army, and their hometown was in Putian County.

Xiaocili has been the main rice and sugarcane producing area since ancient times, and is a famous land of fish and rice in Xianyou County. Cai's family also grows a lot of sugarcane in his field, so Cai Xi naturally knows the father and son.

As soon as the other party saw that it was Steward Cai, he immediately warmly welcomed Cai Xi to them as a guest.

On the way, when the two were talking, money, and the name of the big fat man, naturally asked about the Cai family's rice harvest, which was not a secret, and Cai Xi told the other party everything he knew.

Then, he asked about the purpose of Cai Xi's trip.

Originally, Cai Xi was reluctant to tell him about this matter. However, when the wheels of the carriage were broken just now, the model of the trawler on the cart leaked.

As a sugar merchant who has been in business for many years, he has seen a lot of markets in the north and south, and he even went to sea with people when he was young. Although the thing I saw just now was just a model, and the style was very strange, anyone who knew the goods knew it was a sea ship at a glance.

After repeated inquiries, coupled with the fact that this guy usually gets along well with Cai Xi, Cai Xi told Qian the purpose of his trip.

As a result, the craftsmen of the Qian family had already repaired the carriage of the Cai family overnight.

After a night of consideration and preparation, the next day, Qian took his son and a large cart of silver and followed Cai Xi to Cai's house.

"So what is the plan for this money, and how much money can his family give?" Cai Dao was overjoyed when he heard this.

What Cai Dao lacks now is the start-up capital in the early stage, as for whether the other party is a businessman, as a traverser, this is not in his consideration at all.

"Specifically, he wants to talk to you face-to-face, the third son. However, he said that as long as he was allowed to invest in shares, he was willing to invest no matter how much money he had. Cai Dao didn't care, but Cai Xi was a little concerned.

It didn't matter to him himself, a steward and a merchant had a proper relationship.

However, the three sons are different, Cai Xi, who watched him grow up, naturally understands this little son, he is so smart when he is young, it can be said that in addition to calligraphy, he is smarter than the two masters in the family when they were young.

Although he has a disability, but with the smart material of the third son, he will definitely be able to enter the office in the future, so if he befriends a businessman now, once this matter is rumored, it will not be a good thing for the third son's bad reputation!