Lu Xu was only halfway through reading, and someone from the county government also came to him, saying that the county magistrate wanted to see him.

Lu Xu drank the soup with a bang, wiped his mouth and said enthusiastically to his peers: "It's just right, then let's go to the county government together to sign the paperwork!" ”

"No!" Humane.

Lu Xu was about to leave, and when he heard it, he suddenly paused, "Huh? ”

"No hurry!" The sleek one immediately added, "Lu is busy first, let's not worry." ”

"Huh?" Lu Xu was at a loss, they looked very anxious one by one, why weren't they in a hurry?

"We want to try the craftsmanship of Master Lu first." If it's not sleek enough, I'll say it straight away.

"Oh." Lu Xu didn't take it seriously, thinking about it, he really couldn't be too anxious! "That's right, Xiaowen, you can ask them where they came from in a while, and see if the places on our list are full, three in one county and one in one town, don't be serious."

After saying that, Lu Xu followed the official and left, leaving the chefs to be agitated.

The atmosphere that had been very friendly just now was gone, and they were wary of each other, where did these people come from, they wouldn't be competitors!

Chapter 111: Buying a Mountain

Lu Xu guessed that the county order was looking for him to buy a mountain, and there was news about it, and it was really true when he arrived at the county office.

The county ordered people to survey and measure the mountains near Lujia Village and ask him which mountain he wanted to buy.

Lu Xu held the schematic diagram and couldn't help but admire that the county order is the county order, how efficient!

Because the barren mountains are difficult to enter, and there may be wild beasts on the mountains, the officers and men who surveyed did not survey too carefully, but only roughly measured the direction, trend, and mountain conditions.

Lu Xu originally expected that the mountains would be more expensive than the fertile fields, after all, there is still an altitude, one acre of plane, and there is a slope on the mountain or something, and the surface area may not be how many acres.

However, the price offered to him by the county order was three taels of silver per mu, which was the low price in the fertile land.

He thought about it and understood.

Eighty percent of this price is also related to the surveyed stuff -

They surveyed the products and ores, including whether there were any valuable wood plants, medicinal materials, and so on.

Near Lujia Village, it is really a worthless wild mountain.

However, although the survey is not very detailed, he found that there are gold, silver, copper and iron ores under the mountain during the development process, and he still has to report to the state. Metal mines can be clearly forbidden to be privately owned, and if they are not reported, they will be killed. If you find any jade gems or the like, then it will be considered a good character and a lot of luck.

This kind of luck is also difficult to hit, he has never heard of any gem mines in Guanyang.

Lu Xu looked at the schematic diagram and didn't say where he wanted, but first negotiated the starting price with the county order.

The rhetoric is still the same as the one he discussed with Yan Junqi last night, but through his mouth, a lot of sincere fancy rainbow farts and anticipation are incorporated.

For example, he threatened to build a mountain road from Lujia Village to Guanyang, which he just came up with.

"When the fruit grows, it will be transported directly from the bottom of the mountain to Guanyang, and it will not be used to carry it back to the boat!" Lu Xu said it very heroically.

The county order was surprised, how could he not hear the meaning of Lu Xu's words, to put it bluntly, there is no money now, can you give it slowly.

He has no money, and he dares to say that he is not ashamed to build mountain roads?

The county decree said: "Do you know how many people it takes for the imperial court to levy conscripts to build roads, and how many hours it takes to build them?" ”

Lu Xu was dumbfounded, he really didn't have a concept of this.

The magistrate asked, "Do you know how much money it costs to build a road?" ”

Lu Xu shook his head again.

However, he was young and optimistic, and his heart was still wide, so he was not frightened at all, and casually answered: "Then cultivate slowly!" Anyway, it always has to be repaired, five years if it is not repaired in three years, and ten years if it is not repaired in five years, the mountain road is a bit of a foundation, and it can pass an ox cart and mule cart, and it does not need to be repaired too wide. ”

The county commander was surprised for a moment, he didn't want him to be quite persistent, and when he saw Lu Xu smiling silly, he just shook and smiled.

When it came to asking Lu Xu which mountain he wanted, Lu Xu smiled even more, "This, this, and this!" First of these three. ”

Seeing his posture of buying cabbage and tofu, the county magistrate had to remind him, "Have you calculated how many fruits you have to sell to earn back the money you can buy?" ”

Lu Xu: "It's not enough to rely on Guanyang alone, there are so many people in Guanyang County, and there are only so many people who are willing to eat the fruit." ”

The county magistrate heard the meaning of his words: "You still want to sell it elsewhere?" ”

Lu Xu nodded, and immediately peddled his plan to go north that he had not yet seen: "My lord, you see, our Guanyang water transportation is developed, there are several states and counties in the south, and we can go to the state capital and Shuozhou in the north, and there are rivers in the east and west, what a good business distribution center!" The important thing is that the north passes Shuozhou, and we are the closest to the north from Guanyang, and our geographical location is superior! In the future, there are more people who come from the south and go to the north, and there are more people who pass through Guanyang, are you still worried about selling that little fruit? ”

He will hide the key points, but the county order will listen to the key points, and when he thinks about the direction in which Qiu Hu and those people are leaving, he already knows in his heart: "Do you want to go north for commercial transportation?" ”

"Your Excellency is clever!"

Lu Xu shouted exaggeratedly, opened his mouth and was about to blow, but before the words could be spoken, he was pressed down by the county order waving his hand.

As far as his little caution is concerned, he can see it clearly from his face, and the county magistrate doesn't want to listen to his exaggerated and superficial nonsense.

Is there a trade route?

The prefectural order pondered.

Longxing County has a vast plain, rich grain production, smooth waterways, which county is not lacking in business travel, one-third of Guanyang County is mountainous, two-thirds is plain, in Longxing County business is not too prominent.

However, the main river of Guanyang leads to the state capital to the northwest, and the merchant ships from the south have to go to the state capital, which is still considered to pass through Guanyang, and the wharf outside the county is also quite busy.

To Shuozhou......

The county commander silently thought about the terrain map.

Lu Xu has never seen Yutu, has never been to Shuozhou, only knows that it is in the north, in fact, from Guanyang to Shuozhou can not be the state capital, but by land through Jianyang, Chongning, and directly to Shuozhou.

On this line, only Guanyang has a wharf, if this road can be opened, the tea and cloth from the south will go north, and they will be unloaded at the Guanyang wharf, so that Guanyang can become the most important goods distribution point on this line......

The county commander thought about it, and found that he seemed to be thinking a little deeply.

looked at Lu Xu, still holding the mountain map in his hand, waiting for him to make a statement.

The county order laughed, if it was easy to go, how could it be Lu Xu's turn. There is nothing to do with the eight characters, but for now, let's talk about his mountain first!

In the end, the county order promised him all the mountains that Lu Xu fancied, and promised to pay for three years, but on the basis of confiscating the three mountains if he couldn't pay the money, he added a deposit. One hundred taels for a mountain, if Lu Xu can't pay the money by then, the deposit will be confiscated and not refunded.

Lu Xu went back and scraped together three hundred taels and replaced the documents with the official seal.

The flesh hurts.

It hurts a lot.

This is a huge IOU, and he still owes more than 4,000 taels of silver to the county government.

It's not the first time Lu Xu has been in debt, an IOU swept away the laziness of the entire Spring Festival, and Lu Xu ran to the store with vigorous footsteps - to catch the fat sheep.

At this time, Lu Xu was not too late or too tired, so he went straight to the restaurant and asked if there was any duplicate place where there was no place.

When I asked, there really is, there is more than one, and Jianyang, Pingwei, and Tonghe at the junction of Guanyang are simply the hardest hit areas.

Lu Xu didn't have a clue, thinking that it was thanks to asking.

For the sake of fairness, they decided to throw the dice to compare the sizes, and finally selected the winners.

Other restaurants saw that a big restaurant in Jianyang lost to a small restaurant, and Lu Xu still let the restaurant go out and sign documents with the small restaurant, and his heart was a little relaxed.

This unreliable little boss is unexpectedly very trustworthy.

Those who are out of the game are helpless, who let them come late.

Those restaurants far away from Guanyang are easy to say, they are next to Guanyang, and they are obviously made by watching others make money by stir-frying.

If you were in a hurry, you should have come a long time ago.

Lu Xu, who was selected, was not in a hurry to take them to the county government to sign the documents, but took everyone to Guanyang Zhuyun Tower for dinner.

It is a guest from afar, and when you come, you always have to eat before leaving.

After eating this meal, I didn't choose a few regrets that I didn't choose, but it became a great regret after eating.

Regret it......

Why didn't you come a little earlier?

Lu Xu is much better than the newly learned restaurants in their local area, how on earth is this done? After studying for so many years, how can they not compare to a hairy child who is less than twenty......

The next day, those who were selected were jubilant and Lu Xu went to the county government to sign the documents, and those who were not selected did not want to come in vain, so they ate a spicy meal in Lu Ji Restaurant, and carefully watched the third aunt and their fried fritters to make pancakes, anyway, they could learn a little bit is a little, and before leaving, they also purchased a batch of sesame paste and chili oil, and organized a group to go to the Guanyang blacksmith shop to set the iron pot.

The Guanyang blacksmith shop is happy.

In previous years, except for the good business before and after the busy farming, how can there be so much business in ordinary times?

Look at now, their iron pots are getting more and more ripe and faster, and they have been sold to the state capital and sold outside Longxing!

They didn't stop for the New Year, Guanyang pot, a pot is hard to find!

Also busy is Liu Youzi, who makes sesame paste, who rushed to work a year ago, and finally saved a large amount for Lu Xu, thinking that he could finally have a brisk New Year, and he didn't want to be out of the New Year, Lu Xu sent someone to inform him that the sesame paste was used up, so hurry up and grind a new one.

Liu Youzi's eyes darkened.

Heaven damn Lu Xu, can't you save some use!

He's going to take in the disciples!

Sons, sons-in-law, poor relatives' still clever children, no one should rest, hurry up and work at their house!

The son of the Liu family no longer wants to complain about his father, he knows the documents signed by Lu Xu and his family, there is a lower limit and no upper limit on the quantity, his father can't grind it out, and Lu Xu can't do anything about them.

Isn't it so tiring that his father wants to make money?

Look at the Chinese New Year, his two sisters went back to their parents' house, and his father showed off with his two brothers-in-law.

His father had to do this, so what could he do? Grind it!

On the side of the restaurant, Lu Xu recruited such a wave of chef apprentices, which effectively alleviated the problem of no chef and no stir-fry in the restaurant. The gluttonous people are satisfied, and the happiness of the neighbors is also back - fried and old, fried and old, the heat is not right, and the seasoning is not in place...... In short, the super-cheap stir-fry is back!

Lu Xu solved the apprenticeship problem and began to arrange the eight mountain people again.

Let them all live in Lujia Village, this has to be discussed with Li Zheng. He also had to ask the government to send someone to the village to send a document to inform Li Zheng and the villagers that the three mountains had been bought by him.

Lu Xu wanted to buy a mountain, and some people in the village had already passed it on as a joke.

He mentioned it during the Chinese New Year, but no one took it seriously.

Now that he had bought it, the whole village was taken aback.

However, it was an official who came to deliver the message, and no one dared to question it in person.