Chapter 203 Buying a Mountain
Wuyang Hou Annex?
Everyone was surprised, and no one knew where this Wuyang Hou Annex was.
"Little sister. I've been here for a while." Han Dalang frowned and said, "I don't even know where the Marquis Mansion of Wuyang is."
After all, the Wuyang Hou Mansion is a Yipin Hou Mansion. Such a large official residence is hidden in such a small place in Huaining County. No one knew where it was.
Han Beiqing said with a smile, "I don't know the specific location. Maybe when the plaque of the Marquis Mansion of Wuyang is hung in two days, we will all know."
In this way, everyone will have to wait.
Everyone ate the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with their own hearts, and then they all went back to their rooms.
Mrs. Han called her son back to the room to talk, and Mr. Han held his little grandson to set off firecrackers.
Wang Sanniang has long been missing, and Han Beiqing is nested in the study, calculating the budget of the restaurant with Holly.
"Girl, do you really want to decorate the restaurant like this?" Holly dialed the abacus for a while, and looked at Han Beiqing with a serious face: "Carpenter Tian is tired and half dead, and he has typed out a batch of new tableware in advance. The girl said that the big drum will take another month to make it. I'm afraid I won't need it until it opens."
"It's all trivial, it doesn't matter."
Han Beiqing waved his hand indifferently: "The smell of paint will dissipate faster when it's cold, but fortunately, it won't freeze in the next few days." It doesn't matter if the festival can open or not, the main thing is that I want to take advantage of the festival to build momentum in the paper mill."
"Momentum?" Holly looked puzzled.
"Brother Dun can only set off from the capital after the Shangyuan Festival at the earliest, and when he arrives in Huaining County, he will also have spring. Before he came, the restaurant must have been renovated, and the smell was gone. So the trivial things you're worried about aren't worth mentioning."
Hearing Han Beiqing say this, Holly breathed a sigh of relief.
He touched his head embarrassedly and smiled shyly: "I heard the rumors in the house, and I thought that the prince would arrive in Huaining on the fifteenth day of the first month. I'm worried about how to decorate the restaurant, for fear that the new paint won't get out and smoke the nobles."
"What are you worried about, the people who are really anxious are from the annex. Brother Dun came to the house to play as a guest, and it was Lord Yin and the county government who were really responsible for the reception, and those people in the annex didn't dare to relax for a moment."
Han Beiqing felt extremely funny when he thought that the courtyard next door was already in chaos at this time.
"In the past few days, everyone's mind is not on work. Although it is important to recruit people, it is only for the outside to see." Han Beiqing took out a piece of paper from the side: "There is going to be a war in the north, and once this battle is fought, the life of the common people will not be easy."
"Girl, are you going to buy food?" Holly glanced at the paper lightly, and it was not clear from a distance, but she could see a few lines listed, which should be purchased items.
"In that calamity, I only had a few thousand taels of silver in my hand, and I made a lot of money with that little bit of food. Now that I have plenty of money, I might as well buy more."
Han Beiqing handed the details to Holly: "Before purchasing, you go and do one thing first. At the junction of Beizhou and Huaining County, there are continuous mountain ranges. I inquired with Lu Tong that the mountain is ownerless. You go to the Beizhou Mansion and buy the barren mountain."
Holly had no impression of the mountain range in her mind, and the big dragon standing at the door couldn't help but come over.
"Girl, you leave this matter to me. I'm familiar with that piece." Dalong bared a mouthful of white teeth, very confident.
"You can't, you are harvesting oranges in Beizhou, how can anyone who doesn't know you? If you go and buy land, won't you be exposed?"
Han Beiqing shook his head: "Holly doesn't know the road, you can take him with you, but you can't show up about buying land."
Dalong looked puzzled: "This barren mountain is very useless, and the ones close to Huaining County are all the territory of the Lu family, and the mountains are full of wild trees. The part near the North State, but all the good ones are oranges."
The barren mountains that bordered the border were all stones, and nothing grew except moss and weeds.
"Barren mountains have the benefits of barren mountains, and after buying them, ask someone to repair the flat land and build a large courtyard. You don't need to build it beautifully, you can use it as a granary
It's good to ventilate and protect from moisture and rain."
It turned out that he wanted to store grain, and Dalong understood what Han Beiqing was doing when he bought this barren mountain.
"The soldiers are divided into two routes, Holly, you go to Beizhou to buy land, and Dalong, you go to Fanjiabao and Yang to find some idle workers. There are many tenants in these two villages, and they are all good at farming and building houses. When the deed is in hand, he will begin to build the granary."
"Dalong is in charge of building the house, girl, what am I going to do?"
Holly's face intersected: "You usually think that I want to study, and you always don't arrange things for me. I know you're doing it for my good, but I also want to do something for the girl."
"Buy food." Han Beiqing said with a smile: "When it comes to market price changes, the gold and silver shops are the most well-informed. The price of rice, the price of salt, tea, incense, these prices have increased too much, otherwise it will cause turmoil. I'll prepare some in advance, so I can take precautions in advance. My father is a county magistrate, and I don't want him to wear a black gauze hat for a few days, and if he doesn't, it's gone."
Since the prince of the Marquis of Wuyang came to the southwest, he wants to come here and not fight in the short term. Gu Fu is such a man now, and the concubine in the palace is afraid that he will not be allowed to have an accident.
It is true that Han Beiqing does not want to get involved in court disputes, but it is not false to think that he will rely on a big tree to shelter himself from the wind and rain.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Holly took the map given by Dalong, brought a silver ticket, and drove a carriage to Beizhou with Xiaocan.
According to Han Beiqing's request, Dalong went to Yangzhuang and Fanjiabao to hire more than 30 tenants.
These people entered Huaining County and first went to Ruyi Restaurant to help with the work. Han Beiqing invited the apprentice who had studied art for three years next to the chef to cook, and he had enough oil and water for three meals a day, and he fed these people to the full.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Holly came back with the title deed.
"So fast?" Dalong looked at the two of them in surprise, but he didn't expect to get things done in two days.
"Money can make the devil grind!" Holly wiped the sweat from her face: "We arrived at Beizhou Mansion, and we first went to Beizhou Mansion to experience Lord Zhu Zhi's house in charge of grain and grass. Master Zhu Zhi has just made a deal of oranges with us. When I met our people from Huaining County, it was very kind."
Han Beiqing didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain, and the resale of oranges actually made Huaining County famous.
"I told him about buying land, and Master Zhu Zhi thought I was going to buy land to grow oranges. At first, I pretended not to understand, but then I made two taels of silver. He wrote a letter and introduced him to Yanxian."
Although the government experience is only a petty official of the seventh grade, it is the same grade as the county Cheng of Nayan County. The places where they are located are different, counties, prefectures, prefectures, provinces, counties, and villages, which is a class that is difficult to cross.
Although they are all seven-rank officials, the county is above 10,000 people under one person in the county, but if you go to the government office, it is no different from the gatehouse. Chinese Net
Yanxian County Cheng saw Holly, and Holly had Zhu Zhi's letter in her hand and gave the county Cheng the benefit of five taels of silver. Within an hour, the wasteland had been carved out.
Sixty acres of wasteland on two hills, even if you buy it, it is useless.
But who would have thought that just such two mountains would be in the hands of Han Beiqing, and they would create millions of taels of value a year.