Chapter 148: Into the Mountains to Seek Minerals
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So, under the witness of Li Zheng and the respected old man in the village, Liu Xiaohou became the second person to be separated from the old mansion, compared with Liu Yuanshan's original ambition, he was obviously much more low-key, although he couldn't take away anything from the old mansion, but he was still very happy, after all, he went out to run a business and earned a few taels of silver, and he no longer bothered others at the moment.
In the future, if the business is good, I dare not say that I am rich and rich, but at least it is better than the old house, isn't it?
As soon as the matter was over, the old mansion made a decision that Liu Yuanshan expected, one was to send Da Lang to the Zhao family regiment to train as a regimental soldier, and the other was to give up all the thirty acres of good land in the family.
Now even Liu Xiaohou knows why the boss agreed to split the family so resolutely, because after missing a few people in their house, the land in the old house was tenanted and the grain collected was enough for the boss and the old lady to eat as a family.
Who wouldn't want to live a nourishing life without having to work?
Liu Xiaohou's separation did not cause much turmoil in Liujia Village, and the villagers' tables were occupied by another conversation. It turned out that those who represented Liu Yuanshan osmanthus soap returned from outside one after another, which brought a great shock.
For example, Wang Baozhuang took 300 pieces of osmanthus soap on credit from the mountain, went out on his back and went around the nearby village, and it took almost less than two days to make a net profit of 1,500 copper plates.
Even those second-level agents, third-level agents have a red light on their faces. Although the money is not very much at first glance, this time is short, and the profit is not known how many times more than farming.
There are even rumors that there is a wealthy family in the village who is a second-level agent, and he used an ox cart to pull three carts of osmanthus soap from Liu Yuanshan to sell it at once, and in less than five days, all the soap was sold out, and the net profit was more than ten taels of silver.
Today Wang San earned three taels of silver, tomorrow Li Si earned a thousand copper plates, and the day after tomorrow Wang Baozhuang earned more than two thousand copper plates.
In just a few days, there are more than a dozen carriages in Liujia Village, and the era of selling people who rely on shoulders is gone, and more and more families buy cars and transport them out one by one.
The productivity of the Liu family has increased, several steam engines are running at full speed, and the daily production scale has increased to 10,000 yuan.
Soon, the surrounding area of Fang County was saturated, and the villagers set their sights farther away to Xiangyang Prefecture, Gucheng County, Yun County, and even Jingzhou.
Of course, since the sales were booming, many villagers who were originally dismissive changed their minds and went to the mountains to find Liu Yuanshan to open up the joints through the relationship of acquaintances and get a second- and third-level agent.
But Liu Yuanshan doesn't eat this set, all people, no matter who they are, if they want to act as an agent for the Liu family's business, they must start from the fourth-level agent, as for whether they can be promoted to the third-level, second-level or even first-level, it all depends on their personal sales performance, and the rest is useless.
It's useless for the old lady Liu to say it!
Gradually, people are also dead, many people have joined the ranks of four-level agents, from the beginning, even if the profit is only one-fifth of the first-level agents, but also make money, isn't it?
The business was on the right track, Liu Yuanshan began to make money every day, but there was still a trace of insecurity in his heart, and in the face of the aggressiveness of the Zhao family, he finally made up his mind: enter the mountain!
The purpose of entering the mountains is not to escape the war, but to find minerals: sulfur ore is the mainstay, of course, if you can find large-scale iron ore that can be easily developed, but even if you find iron ore, there is no road in the mountain, and the probability of development is almost zero.
After packing his bags a little, he took a dozen or so people into the mountain together. I didn't bring much stuff, some water bags, some dry food, and the rest were simple tents and the like, anyway, the weather was getting warmer, and the outdoor activities were not so hard.
There is a lot of game in the mountains, and it is not a problem to bring bow and arrow weapons to find food on your own, not to mention, Liu Yuanshan also brought the only flintlock pistol in the family, the gunpowder is not very good, but after all, it is much better than the bow and arrow, and if you shoot it within a hundred meters, it is a tiger and a brown bear, and you will definitely have to lie on the ground and talk.
Although the gun was carried by Liu Yuanshan, the entire trigger assembly of the flintlock pistol was disassembled and made a model in turn, and it could be poured in batches in the future. Liu Yuanshan gave the three of them a fatal task, to make at least twenty barrels within a month.
When leaving, the family went out to send off, Liu was particularly worried, touched Liu Yuanshan's head and kept persuading: "San Lang, our family has food and drink now, why do you want to venture in the mountains, you don't know, your father is in the back mountain......" Speaking of this, her throat choked.
In the past two days, she has always been persuasive, but Liu Yuanshan is determined to go up the mountain, she is really afraid that her only son will have an accident in the mountain, after all, the back mountain is terrifying, and there are scary stories from ancient times.
"Mother, don't worry, I'm not going alone this time, don't worry, it'll be fine!"
"Yes, auntie, don't worry, even if I give it to the tiger, I will also protect the young master!" Ergua was not used to calling Young Master Liu Yuanshan, but in order to show his determination, he patted his chest and assured Liu.
Liu nodded tearfully.
Liu Yanran took out a lot of things from the house, so that Liu Yuanshan didn't know whether to bring it or not.
"Sister, I'm an adult, I'm in charge, you can rest assured." Liu Yuanshan smiled bitterly.
Second Uncle Mao also came to see him off, and specially arranged for Liu Yuanshan to take his son Maodou, but he was not worried at all, and said calmly to the child: "Don't be afraid, hurry during the day and rest early at night, and catch fire when you sleep, it's best to find a cave, if you can't find a cave, you will lean against the cliff, someone must be on duty, don't sleep to death." ”
"Got it, Dad!" Edamame's eyes showed an unprecedented glint of excitement, as if he thought Daddy was a little verbose.
Second Uncle Mao just smiled and didn't care, what he said was actually not to his son, but to Liu Yuanshan, as the leader of the team, as long as Liu Yuanshan thought clearly and arranged everything properly, there would be no irreparable consequences.
"That's it! Goodbye, everyone, we're gone! Liu Yuanshan showed a warm smile to his family and the people who saw him off, waved his hand, and led a team of more than a dozen people down the mountain towards the Shennong Mountain behind. (To be continued.) )