vrcanaries Chapter 916: Not much money left
Chapter 916: Not much money left
In this way, step by step, in less than two years, the entire South River became like the North River, with her fat everywhere.
This place is different from the north. Looking around, there is land everywhere. The fertilizer sold in Nanhe alone can be compared with that in Huaiyang, Kang'an and Ningping, and maybe even more.
After talking about shops and farms, the next thing was land. Wu Jiang had the most money, eighty thousand taels.
He handed Zhou Guo several land deeds and said, "Master, I didn't buy these lands in big counties, but in several small counties. The small counties are remote, the location is not good, and the land is not fertile. Fortunately, the land is wide. There are three plots of land, one is more than 50 hectares, one is more than 80 hectares, and one is more than 90 hectares. The land is not good, but only three taels per mu."
The land in those big counties is wide and fertile, which is good, but also expensive. He only had 80,000 taels in his hand. After distributing some to them, he was left with more than 70,000 taels. If he wanted to buy better land, he could not afford a few acres.
After much thought, I feel that it would be more cost-effective to buy barren land.
Although the land is barren, they have fertilizer in their hands. In a few years, they can turn the inferior land into medium land, and in another two years, the medium land into superior land. It is just a long-term issue.
Zhou Guo smiled, "Well done. I have also looked at some land these days. We got the news a little late. The land nearby can be sold for nine taels of silver per mu. If you buy it in a remote place, nine taels of silver can buy more than two mu. Besides, land is land anywhere. Although it is a little off the beaten track, it is still land and it is not eye-catching. You are very thoughtful!"
Wu Jiang laughed, he thought so too.
Zhou Guo looked at him and said, "I've always been confident in your work."
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have put 80,000 taels in his hands.
Eighty thousand taels is almost one-third of their family’s current property, which is not a small amount.
Wu Jiang raised the corner of his mouth slightly and stepped back.
After everyone settled their accounts, they returned the unused money to Zhou Guo.
After Zhou Guo counted the money, she found that there was not much money left, only about 16,000 taels. She distributed the money again, "I know that this money is definitely not enough. I have to clean up the shops and buy some things for the farms. But I took such a big step that I can't keep up.
You can use those shops if you think they can be used, and make do with what you can’t. Don’t spend money when building the manor. Wait a few months, when the crab roe, fish balls and fruit start to sell, you will be able to recover a little.”
A lot of round fish were raised this year. Except for Yunzhou, several prefectures have raised tens of thousands of them. Although they are not as expensive as crabs, a round fish is much larger than a crab.
A big one would cost around four or five hundred coins. Although the profit is not as much as that from crabs, it is still a profitable business.
The escort agency now has more and more orders, and business is gradually getting better. It can earn several thousand taels of silver a year.
After deducting the expenses for food, drink, toilet and wages of the escort agency, less than half of the several thousand taels is left, which can be ignored.
After all the calculations, she found that the profitable businesses she was doing were almost all after autumn and winter, such as mountain products, pine mushrooms, crab roe, fish balls, and fruit, all of which made money quickly.
Although the grain shop makes money, the money does not come quickly. Now we are waiting for the rice to be cooked, and we still need quick money like round fish and crabs to solve the urgent problem.
Everyone agreed. Zhou Guo had said from the beginning that the money they took was the last bit of savings of the family. Now that the shops and farms were purchased, there was not much money left, so they could only save as much as possible.
A group of people worked until midnight, and only after the things were deposited did everyone go to bed with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
According to this trend, Nanhe might be as crowded with people as Huaiyang or even Yunzhou in less than two years. By that time, it would be time to make money from the shops and farms they have bought.
In the next few days, Zhou Guo followed them to visit several counties.
Unexpectedly, there were more people in the counties below than in the capital. There were several shops on both sides of the street, at least selling daily groceries, and there were also several inns, restaurants, and pharmacies.
Quanzi said, "A few more shops have opened recently. When we came here before, we couldn't even find a decent inn on the street, let alone these grocery stores. The doors were tightly closed. I guess they heard the news and opened shops again these days."
Zhou Guo looked at the big county and said happily, "I'll send a letter to Hu Zi right away, asking him to prepare the things and have Lai Zi Tou and the others bring the things over. These shops need to be opened as soon as possible. There is a lot of work to be done. What we lack now is food and drink."
Mountain products are expensive, and most people can't afford them, but there are rich people everywhere, so no matter how much they sell, as long as they can be sold, it's fine. Even if there are only a few people selling, she will move the mountain products over. Now is the time to occupy the market, there is no better time than this.
A batch of food also needs to be transported down.
Although there was not a single grain of food left in the cave, she still left some for various grain shops, which was enough to be distributed.
Besides, the autumn harvest is not far away. We will be able to recover in two months. How much food will we need by then?
Nanhe is now in a state of disrepair and has few people. The government is recruiting people and allocating land for them to settle down.
Refugees came in batches, some of them had returned home and some were new. These people were allocated new land, but now they could not grow any food except beans and vegetables on the land.
The relief food distributed by the government was not much.
After all, all this food comes from the north, and there is war in the north every year. The food that goes south is all provided by her Zhou family. How can there be any extra food to comfort the people?
It is still easy to recruit workers at this time. Anyone will come if they are paid and provided with food.
Therefore, there is not as much shortage of people as imagined.
Zhou Guo watched the groups of people who came to Nanhe. After visiting several counties, they went back. Dapang and a few others also went back with them.
Wu Jiang and Quanzi stayed behind. Everything was just starting out here, so two people were needed to keep things under control.
When the group arrived in Yunzhou, Lai Zi Tou had already gone south with the food and mountain products.
Hu Zi said, "They just left yesterday. I guess we missed each other on the way."
Zhou Guo said, "We took the small road to get back early. Forget it. As long as the goods are transported there, you can ask each fertilizer farm to send ten people to the south. We have to start all over again over there. We have to sell our fertilizer in the spring of next year. Let these people go over there and prepare early so that we won't be in a rush."
Hu Zi asked, "So we need to mobilize fifty people?"
Excluding the one in Cangshan Village, they now have five villages making compost. The one in Huayuan County has shared at least half of the pressure with Song County.
Zhou Guo nodded, "There is a lot of land over there. Wu Jiang bought four farms at once. You need to send a few experienced people. When the time comes, Big Fatty Quanzi will have to go with him. There are many things to do in the fertilizer farm besides fermenting manure. I'm afraid that novices will not be able to get started in a short time."
The key is that I don’t have much money, so I can’t squander it.