Liangshui Town is the territory of the Bai Jiajun, and it is natural for the imperial court to draw taxes, in addition to the cost price, it also includes unloading, transportation, warehousing, sales and reasonable profits, these money cannot be saved, but what can be saved must be saved, why do irrelevant outsiders dare to run to occupy a name and reach out to collect money.

After receiving the letter, Bai Qing sat quietly for a long time, folded the letter as it was, spent half a day, wrote a handwritten letter after several considerations, and packed an envelope with Qi Ke's letter and sent it to Dong'an Mansion with other military information and handed it to General Bai.

His opinions are all in the letter, this kind of calculating thing, let the general have a headache.

After receiving the letter, General Bai discussed with his generals Outsiders don't know, as long as there is no news feedback to him, Qi Ke doesn't take the initiative to ask, she is busy preparing for the New Year.

Halfway through the lunar month, the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, even if there are still tens of thousands of displaced people on the county border, it does not delay the expectations and enthusiasm of ordinary people for the New Year.

Qi Ke is still staying in the factory, in addition to keeping an eye on production, more importantly, the fleet of the Ocean has come to the border waters of the South China Sea and the East China Sea, and she hopes to receive the news as soon as possible.

As for whether the fleet will encounter pirates Qi Ke doesn't matter at all, if they do, they will fight, and it is not certain who robs whom.

Siliu Village is also prosperous because of the Chinese New Year, and the fungus house ships a large number of goods every day, and Qi Ke also deliberately asked the transport plane to quietly send a trip to send the small melons that are kept fresh in the basement of the villa back to be sold as out-of-season fruits. k

This year's transplanted fruit trees deliberately control only the long branches to prevent flowering and fruiting, so there are no other fruits to eat, the maids fooled the villagers and merchants on the grounds that the melons are stored in the shady caves to keep them fresh, and it is also common sense to store grain in the caves, and it seems not strange to save the melons in summer until the winter to sell.

After people quickly accepted this reason, the price of this batch of small melons was precious, but the three important partners of Lao Fang, Ding Lin and Bai Qing, gave a basket of important golden thighs as New Year's gifts, and it was definitely more face-saving to treat guests during the New Year.

The only one who has special treatment is the officers and soldiers of Liangshui Town, because the Ocean is about to arrive, and it is on the edge of the year, Qi can send a boatload of fresh materials for the reason of the army, live poultry, live animals, chickens, ducks, geese, eggs, oil, salt, sugar and wine, dried and fresh mushrooms, two baskets of melons.

The taste of the small melon is very good, sweet and glutinous and juicy, and everyone who received the New Year's gift is not bad for money, except for the three of them who entered a batch of goods and sold them to other places, the rest were all wrapped up by the senior generals led by General Bai, and when the officials and rich people of Dong'an Mansion learned the news and wanted to buy it, there was nothing left.

Qi Ke herself also received a lot of orders to buy colored yarn, she sent so many pairs of socks out, and took a clear path for hand-knitted cotton socks.

Because of the good response, Qi Ke began to carry out the second step of the plan, through the maternity and infant hall to send a batch of white and colored yarn and colored socks of all sizes and sizes to the cotton shop under his name, and let the shopkeeper and the guy take a pair of socks as a sample and hang it above the checkout counter, as long as someone enters the store, they must be able to see it.

The price of cotton on the market has fallen slightly but is still at a high level, the price of local cotton is in short supply, and the price of Qi Ke's cotton is high, and the price is relatively not cheap, so the business of selling cotton directly in the store is really not good, and most of the time the shop is very deserted.