I was the richest man in Da Song

Chapter 73 Lu Yijian
Nowadays, the proportion of people in Kaifeng who eat pork has skyrocketed, and the pigsty of Suoerfang has been expanded and expanded, so there is a large pigsty of several thousand square meters in front of He Shao!

"Old Ji, why are there so many?"

"Master, you said that as long as you have money, you will expand the pigpen, and the number of people buying pigs in the pigpen has increased every day in recent months."

The reason why the pigs in the pigsty are white, fat, round, and can grow a finger of fat is that apart from using old grains as feed, the most important thing is that each pig will be castrated, and He Shao has no secrets.

Unlike raising sheep, raising pigs does not have too many requirements on the environment. Some leftovers, vegetables, fruits and grains can be fed, so many people in Kaifeng City have started to raise pigs.

But the big ones are Li's House, Xiang's House, and Wu's House. Even so, the three houses together are not as big as Suoerfang's pigsty.

"But I haven't been expanding since this month"

Ji Zai is also very shrewd. More and more people raise pigs in Kaifeng City and even spread to many counties near Gyeonggi. When the common people know that a pig can earn four or five pennies, they follow the trend and join the trend of breeding. At this time, Suoerfang continues Expansion doesn't make much sense.

Outside the pigsty, many butchers in Xiuyifang were selecting suitable meat pigs, and a fat pig was dragged out of the pigsty and tied up for loading.

"Feng Lang? Why are you here?"

"This is our young master," Ji Zai said with a smile.

He Shao didn't expect to meet Wu Yong here. He used to buy the meat from He Anwen Xiangbutcher's shop.

"I used to only know the surname of the shopkeeper here, but I didn't expect it to be you."

"How is shopkeeper Wu's business now?" He Shao asked with a smile.

"Of course, the price of pork last year was less than 180 renminbi, but now it has risen to [-] renminbi, and the price of mutton has dropped from [-] renminbi to [-] renminbi.

In the past, except for the two pieces of white meat, the other corners of the slaughtered pigs can only be thrown away, but now not only the pig's head and pig's feet can be sold, it is said that some authentic shops are already using pig intestines and stomachs for cooking."

Wu Yong laughed so hard that he couldn't see his teeth. Who would have thought that in less than a year, the scale of Xiuyifang's pork shops has grown from three or five to now accounting for half of the scale, and the business is even more booming.

"Old Ji is an old friend, take care of him in the future"

"Of course" Ji Zai laughed.

Such words make Wu Yong very useful, and he knows whether he will really take care of anyone. Being friends with the shopkeeper of Suoerfang Pigpen is enough to make the bosses of the butcher shops next to him envious. Only a fool would take a polite word seriously. .

The original Solfang was just a place where beggars gathered, the law and order was chaotic, the environment was dirty and smelly, and now these flowers are no longer seen.

Ji Zai has stayed in Suoerfang for many years and has a lot of affection for the people here, as long as they are able to do active work, they are hired in the pigsty, ranging from [-] to [-] yuan a day.

"Master, there has been a person staring at Solfang for a whole day these days. I saw that he was dressed as an official, so I didn't dare to offend him. I even gave him some wine and meat."

"Is it from the Metropolitan Tax Court?"

Except for tax collectors, almost no one who is an official runs here.

"The Dushang Taxation Court has run around a lot, and I know the heads inside, so it shouldn't be"

"Take me to see"

This man in official uniform was very young, only two or three years older than Li Jianzong, sitting cross-legged under a tree outside Solfang, holding a pen and paper in his hand, not knowing what he was writing down.

"Your Excellency should be a court official," He Shao asked.

"I was in Lu Yi's bamboo slips, but now I am appointed to know the imperial edict"

Zhizhigao is only a small official of the seventh rank in the court, but even the fifth-rank courtiers dare not provoke him. Zhizhigao is responsible for drafting edicts for the emperor. He is a real close minister of the Tian family. Serve as Zhizhi patent.

Second, Lu Yijian has a great background, and He Shao was shocked when he heard the name.

His uncle was the well-known Lv Mengzheng, the prime minister of the Taizong Dynasty. Now Lv Mengzheng is telling his old age to return to his hometown to take a free job in Luoyang. Instead of recommending his own son, he recommends his nephew Lv Yijian to the emperor.

"He Shao, I don't know what business does brother Lu come here for?"

He Shao didn't dare to be careless, this Lu Yijian was the longest-sleeved and good dancer in the Song Dynasty!

"I'm not on business. Recently, I suddenly found that the number of Hanako in Kaifeng City is much less than in previous years. I was curious, so I came to Suoerfang after some inquiries."

"I don't know what brother Lu can gain?"

Speaking of harvesting, Lu Yijian's expression was sometimes excited and sometimes puzzled, and what happened before him made it difficult for him to understand.

"Since the beginning of Kaifeng City's construction, the river from the west to the city is busy with freight, so there are many people working in the west of the city, and the north and south sides of the city are adjacent to the place where the royal palace gathers.

Only Suoerfang is the most dilapidated and has lasted for nearly a hundred years. During this period, my uncle also thought about making this place the same as other places in Kaifeng City, but with little effect, and He Langjun only spent a year to make this place appear. signs of prosperity.

There are many poverty-stricken places in my Song Dynasty. If we can be like Suoerfang, the prosperous age of Langlang will not be far away, so I want to write a memorial, so I have been observing here, but now I still have no way to write. What can Brother He do? Can you teach me? "

Lu Meng is recommending his nephew to the emperor, so Lu Yijian naturally has his extraordinary skills.

"Let's not talk about exchanging ideas with each other. Solfang has been dilapidated for a century and everyone avoids it, but here has an advantage that no other place has." He Shao laughed.

"What an advantage!"

"Land prices are cheap. A house or a piece of open land in other parts of Kaifeng City costs at least seven or eight thousand guan, but in Solfang it only costs two to three thousand guan. As a merchant, the first thing I think of is how to take advantage of this advantage."

With such a cheap price in the capital, He Shao even wanted to buy all of Solfang if possible.

"So you built your big pigsty here"

"That's right, it's because the people here don't have the means to make a living. Combining the advantages of here to do business can solve the problem of earning a living in Solfang. It's just the first step I take. The second step is prosperity. The first definition of prosperity is first. It's people!"

Suoerfang is divided into inner alley and outer alley. He Shao asked Lu Yijian to visit the inner alley. The place where the free school was originally turned into a newspaper room.

There were many bullock carts parked outside the newspaper room, stacks of tabloids were neatly placed on the bullock carts.

A lot of tea houses and restaurants have been opened around the newspaper room. Although they are just some simple sheds, the business seems to be good.

While the newspaper room was printing and loading the tabloids, these people had a rest in the teahouse drinking tea.

Seeing an old man sitting on the shaft of a car drinking a big bowl of tea and chatting and laughing with the people in the shed, He Shao took the initiative to say hello.

"This old man looked at the face, where did he come from?"

"I belong to Yongqiu"

"That's not close, it's more than ten miles away," He Shao asked again.

"What's this? Did you see that old man? He drove over from Fengqiu early in the morning at [-]. It's [-] miles away. The ones from Dongming and Fugou are all from Kaifeng City." The tabloids went back and sold them," the old man replied.

"It's so far away? How much money does the old man earn in a day?"

"To earn hard money, Fengqiu still employs seven or eight old women, and besides their wages, there is only two or three hundred cash left over every day."

"Fart, old man Hu, you are only cheating laymen, who doesn't know that you earn at least five hundred coins a day" someone in the tea shed scolded.

"That's why Yun Niang is kind. A tabloid costs three pennies and she only buys two pennies, so of course she earns more. The old man didn't expect that he would earn more than when he was young." Old man Hu smiled. A mouth full of teeth.

"There are sixteen counties in Gyeonggi, except for the farthest Xiangfu, people drive two or three hours a day to buy tabloids here," Ji Zai said in a low voice.

"Brother, last time I saw that Miss Yunniang in the newspaper office has a good relationship with you, can you tell me that you are printing more, the thousand copies of tabloids I have every day are not enough to sell.

There are still two half-grown kids to raise at home, so I can earn a few more while I can move around." Old man Hu pulled Ji Zai back and said.

"It's easy to say, I'll go to Yunniang for this." Ji Zai patted old man Hu's hand.

After earning a round in Lixiang, Lu Yijian didn't see any flowers.

"It's human instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. Naturally, there are many people who can make money here. For so many years, merchants have always been regarded as a cheap industry. They don't know that the easiest and most effective way to change the appearance of a place is business!"

If Lu Yijian instills the importance of business with empty teeth, I am afraid that many people will disdain it, but it is more convincing to have Solfang as a comparison.

"Now there are a lot of people who come to the pig shed and report to the house every day. Some households who had already moved out of Solfang have moved back, and they have changed their house into a tea shed for people to rest. The business of the restaurant is very good, and the ice house makes ice in summer. Sometimes there are more people." Ji Zai also said.

"I probably know how to write this memorial," Lu Yijian said thoughtfully.

"Give me two or three years, Solfang will become the most prosperous place in Kaifeng City, brother Lu, if you trust me, why don't you buy a house here?"

　Although the results are not very good, I still thank Brother Wanfeng Chenzhong for his daily recommendation tickets
　　


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