Chapter 89: The Sugar Business
If you want to say that the biggest business in the Lingnan area is naturally crude brown sugar.
Lingnan is located in the south, and the climate is relatively dry throughout the year, so it is not suitable for wheat or rice cultivation, and most of the farmland is planted with sugar cane.
Many counties are mainly engaged in crude brown sugar, but this business is not looked down upon by Fu Ruan, the son of the richest man in Jiangnan.
Although the price of brown sugar is not very low, the profits are really limited, not to mention that most of them are in the hands of officials in various counties, so he doesn't need to offend a group of people to get a piece of the pie.
Even if Fu Ruan doesn't do anything for the rest of his life, he can still live without worrying about food and clothing, this is the confidence given to him by the family!
When Mochizuki Tower was opened, it was entirely because Fu Ruan had heard that his mother loved to eat since he was a child, and he had thought about opening a restaurant.
It's a pity that the Fu family has a wide range of knowledge, but there is no restaurant alone.
There are many delicacies in the Jiangnan area, and the restaurants are all independent and have their own characteristics, and they can't make a lot of money from them.
Now that his mother has unfortunately passed away, he came to Lingnan with the intention of being at ease with what happened, and he wanted to fulfill his mother's last wish.
If it weren't for Mochizuki Tower, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to get to know the person in front of him.
After receiving the other party's affirmative reply, Ye Hao smiled and put her hand into her arms.
Pretending to be digging something, he actually took advantage of this opportunity to quickly take out the more elaborate brown sugar decolorization recipe that he had exchanged before from the system space.
"I'll tell you the truth, the recipe I gave to the county order at the beginning was actually quite crude."
The yellowed paper looks relatively old, and I don't know if it is because the system is in order to adapt to the current background of the times, basically all the papers produced are very old.
She placed the recipe on the table, one hand lightly covering it, but her eyes were looking directly at Fu Ru'an.
"Brown sugar is decolorized into white sugar, in fact, this gimmick alone is enough to buy the local county order. Therefore, I have kept a hand to preserve the more subtle recipes."
Her voice was not loud, but it made Xie Yunshu beside her sound a little strange.
When talking about this time, if he remembers correctly, the other party only came up with two plans.
One is the yellow mud decolorization, and the other is the egg white decolorization. And because the former is more convenient and cheaper than the latter, they chose to dedicate the former to the county order.
Now the other party says that there is a new and better formula?
Despite all the doubts in his heart, he did not interrupt the other party's words, but listened quietly.
Ye Hao had the intention to take the sugar business back into his own hands, and he already knew it.
If it were in the past, this prime minister, who has always been noble, would definitely look down on such a love of money.
But after going through so many things, he also realized that his ideas were too stupid sometimes.
If it weren't for Ye Hao's various whimsical ideas and hard work to earn money to support his family, he wouldn't know where his bones would be now.
In the past, Xie Yunshu, who only knew that he had read poetry and books and was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, had already died on the day his house was raided, and at this time, he had already transformed.
"What does Mrs. Xie mean?"
When he heard the other party take the initiative to say that there was a more subtle formula, the corners of Fu Ru'an's eyes couldn't help jumping, and a bold idea was born in his heart.
His body is recovering, at least not as much as he used to, and he lives every day.
When his body is better, there are naturally more thoughts in his head, and Fu Ruan is not as weak as he seems.
Because of the Lingnan region, there is no shortage of brown sugar. However, no one in China has been able to develop a more refined white sugar, so it has been purchased from neighboring countries at a high price all these years.
This is also why, Ye Hao can change the lives of the two with just a small formula.
Although there are some impurities in the frosting in the glass pot, it is enough to amaze Fu Ru'an, a young brother who has seen all kinds of rare treasures, not to mention the purer white sugar in Ye Hao's mouth.
Fingers gently slid on the paper on the table, Ye Hao thought for a moment, and then the corners of her mouth hooked slightly.
"I mean, if Fu Gongzi has a heart, let's
We can continue to work together."
There are already many cooperation projects between the two, not only seasonings, but also medicines that Fu Ru'an now relies on to survive.
Ye Hao knew that if she relied on herself, it would be impossible to hold the sugar business in her hands now.
She and Xie Yunshu Lin Bin are both criminal ministers, even if the local county magistrate is just a petty official and can't be named in the court, they can still be suppressed after all.
Therefore, if you want to control the sugar business in your own hands, you have to rely on others.
And Fu Ru'an is the best candidate in front of him.
In fact, Ye Hao is not very clear about the details of the other party, she is an ancient person who became a monk halfway, and the family of the original owner probably can't recognize it all!
But since crossing over, the most reliable person around him who can eat this large piece is only Fu Ru'an in front of him.
"This business, we can cooperate. I'm here to make sugar, and you're in charge of selling it, and the profit is fifty-fifty, how about it?"
Ye Hao's words were obviously giving profits to the other party.
The recipe is in her hands, and she makes the finished product, and the other party only needs to sell it to get half of the profit, which can be said to be a good thing for pie in the sky!
Fu Ru'an could naturally see this, and looked at the other party in some surprise, not understanding why the other party chose it this way.
As early as when the other party intended to cooperate, he guessed in his heart that the other party would probably take dividends in addition to selling recipes at a high price, just like selling recipes before.
If nothing else, in the sugar business, dividends must be a huge input.
Unexpectedly, the other party took the initiative to take the hardest and most tiring work, but let himself enjoy it.
Speaking of which, Ye Hao didn't really fall into the eyes of money, and if she had to win the sugar business, it was actually just for the sake of the villagers.
Not only the villagers in their own village, but also the villagers in other nearby villages.
Most of the fields in the Lingnan region are used to grow sugarcane, and only a small part of the fertile land is used to grow grain, and Manyi County is no exception.
When she found the yellow eel and the snail before, she found that the villagers in the village were all Han Chinese, and the consciousness since childhood was that food is the sky.
Therefore, the whole village grows rice, but unfortunately they themselves are not engaged in farm work, and the estimated yield is less than 50%.
Instead of watching them do useless work, Ye Hao felt that she might as well find another way for them to live!
In addition, I heard the women of the village say that the sugarcane in several nearby villages was ripe, but the price was lowered by the people who came to collect it.
She thought that she could harvest the sugarcane and hire the villagers to make sugar for herself.
In this way, everyone has earned money, and they can be regarded as doing a good thing.
The county magistrate held this good business in his hands, and not only did not give preferential treatment to the farmers who sold the sugar cane, but also intensified the exploitation of them.
This can be regarded as Ye Hao's own mistake, so it's up to her to make up for it!
"I only have two requirements, one is that the white sugar cannot be sold in the Lingnan area. After all, I also gave the county order for this formula, and I don't want to cause a fire."
Smiling helplessly, Ye Hao knew that her actions would definitely cause dissatisfaction with the county order, and in the end she had shared a piece of the pie in the other party's hands.
There is also this requirement because he wants to hide this in advance as much as possible, as long as he cooperates with Fu Ruan properly and earns money, he will have the capital to assist Xie Yunshu to make a comeback.
Now it's a troubled time, and you can get around with more money.
Ye Hao still believes in Xie Yunshu, and she is willing to fund the other party to win a seat in the troubled times.
And her first request made Fu Ru'an want to stop talking, but she still didn't speak.
In fact, with Fu Ru'an's identity background, even if he robbed the business openly, the county order would not dare to speak out.
It's just that Ye Hao didn't seem to know this, and the other party didn't confide for some reason, but nodded in response.
Transporting to the Jiangnan area to sell does increase the cost of transportation, but the same
, white sugar can also be sold at a higher price.
Jiangnan is rich, and there are many wealthy households, so they are naturally willing to spend a lot of money to buy sugar.
And one of the reasons why Fu Ru'an is willing is that his father doesn't look down on him? This time, he also let the other party take a good look at whether his son, who has always been regarded as nothing, has the ability!
Before his mother died, he left a lot of things for Fu Ru'an, and there were several shops in Jiangnan, all of which were his mother's dowry, and Fu's father never asked.
That's when these shops come into play.
The thoughts in his heart had just turned around, only to hear Ye Hao on the other side speak again:
"I am in control of the process of making sugar, whether it is the workers or the raw materials, it is all up to me. Of course, if you have any suggestions, you can also make them, these are all negotiable."
She had a smile on her face, but there was no concession in her eyes.
It was for the livelihood of the villagers that she had the idea of controlling the sugar business, and if she couldn't guarantee this, she didn't need to go to great lengths to cooperate with the other party.
Money fans are money fans, and she Ye Zhen is not insatiable!
Fu Ru'an naturally has no doubt about this, although it is the safest to have the formula in his own hands, he also believes in the other party.
Even his father wanted the sugar business, so why didn't he want to?
Even if it's just agent sales, it's extremely good.
Fu Ru'an agreed simply, and Ye Hao was even happier in her heart, but today she was still in a hurry to see the shop, so she had to make an appointment with the other party to sign a contract tomorrow.
solved this matter on her mind, and after going out, she was full of spirits.
It wasn't until he got into the carriage that Xie Yunshu asked the doubts in his heart:
"If I remember correctly, you said before that the two brown sugar decolorization methods handed over to the county order are the better, and this is today?"
Sitting in the front row of the carriage, his voice was not loud, but the words still came clearly into Ye Zhen's ears in the carriage.
Hearing his words, Ye Hao lifted the corner of the curtain and whispered in his ear:
"Naturally, I kept a hand, otherwise how would I dare to do business with Fu Gongzi? Don't worry, I promise that the sugar made by this method is purer and better than this frosting!"
The glass pot that Fu Ru'an gave was still taken away by them, and it contained a small half pot of frosting.
The sugar used at home is all local crude brown sugar, and Ye Hao really doesn't have time to spend time developing so many things, and some can be dealt with off-the-shelf.
Seeing her confident appearance, the suspicion in Xie Yunshu's heart temporarily fell.
I've been together for so long, and the other party hasn't done anything bottomless, so it shouldn't be a problem to think about it.
In addition to the county order, if he found out that Ye Hao gave the method of making white sugar to others, and even robbed him of his business, he would definitely not let her go.
Now I can only hope that this matter can be concealed for a while, or Fu Ruan's identity can suppress the county order.
Driving the carriage, Xie Yunshu thought about it, he still had to find Lin Bin and ask him to check Fu Ru'an's details.