Villager of Daming

Chapter 1084: Shipping goods from the south to the north does not make money

Zhu Di didn't care about eating or drinking. He flipped through the pages, flipped twice, stopped, and then turned to the previous page.

The fifth brother, Zhu Ju, stretched his neck and waited to see what was written. The second brother's and third brother's places were given brochures, and now it is the fourth brother's. I don't know which one is better.

Zhu Di watched for twenty minutes. If there were no singing and dancing, no one would be able to eat or drink well, and all the attention would be on him.

The officials were all nibbling. Today's meal was delicious. There were a lot of normal hot dishes, not mutton skewers.

"Brothers, take a look." Zhu Di read it himself and handed the booklet to Zhu Fang. Zhu Fang took it and read it as fast as he could. It took about five minutes and then handed it to Zhu Fang.

"I won't watch it. You can just tell me after you finish it. The same goes for us to watch it after dinner."

Zhu Fan took the book without reading it, put it aside, picked up his chopsticks and continued to deal with the sizzling mutton in front of him.

Some of them had iron plates in front of them, while others only had plates in front of them, with the mutton placed on the plates. No one prepared small iron plates for the officials, let alone a large iron plate for each person.

“Beiping Prefecture is planting a lot of onions this year!”

Xu Da said as he thought, making money is more than 600,000 guan. A few years ago, the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue was only more than 3 million guan.

Some have already started to reserve watermelons and cantaloupes for winter, and want more cucumbers and eggplants.

Zhu Fang was not busy talking about the things in the booklet, but looked at the onions on the iron plate.

“Only part of it can be eaten, and the rest must be kept to produce seeds and sent to other places for planting. In addition, other planting and seed collection methods must be tried.

The onions were obtained from Yi merchants according to the strategy given by Xiaqiu Village. They were harvested several times in a row, and then worked hard to propagate them and put them in several important places.

Xu Da came to take charge of things and was most attentive to matters specially arranged by the court.

Zhu Di was stunned, turned around and looked around: "Where are the people in our house?"

Henan gets some seeds, Shandong also has them, plus the two lakes, Sichuan, Dingliao Duwei, Zhejiang, Guangzhou...

However, the representative ones should be given some, planted first, and the selected ones will be continued to be sown. The unsatisfactory ones will be eaten by local officials and then sold to relatively wealthy local families.

As long as Beiping Prefecture does it well, it means that a large area can use these methods to optimize seed selection, seedling cultivation, and planting.

What we eat now is not very good, and what has been eliminated is suitable for everyone to eat. It cannot be stored for too long. The harvest in summer will be finished in a month.

Nowadays, there are greenhouses to help with sowing and raising seedlings. Many crops are tried to be planted in advance and then transplanted outside to see if they can freeze to death. "

It won't be worth it until it can be planted all over Daming in the future. It's like green onions, but not as easy to grow as green onions. You can just get some seeds and plant green onions around the fence.

"General Xu, how much money did the greenhouse make this year?"

"Your Highness, there are detailed accounts, and the total number has changed. The main reason is that some restaurants have said in advance what they want to buy, and we will grow it for them.

When Zhu Di heard his future father-in-law Xu Da mention the greenhouse, he remembered that he had one in his Beiping Mansion.

Beiping belongs to the North China Plain, so it must be there, and Xi'an belongs to the Guanzhong area, so it must be there.

The sales were good from last winter to this spring. I remember in the previous book that the account given by the people in Prince Yan's mansion was 630,000 yuan. "

He felt there was a problem. When the king came here, where were the people in the mansion who were sent before? Do you want to rebel?

At this time, the voice of the bell rang: "Your Highness, the account is in our hands. I took some people here to ask for the money. I told him not to ask for the money yet. He said that he didn't have the money and didn't dare to see Your Highness. "

"You want money?" The four princes wondered together. "I just need money." Ling'er nodded: "How can Beiping Mansion sell so much for more than 652,220 yuan? The local people can't afford it.

The people from Prince Yan's Mansion who manage the greenhouse sell them to merchants who go to Beiping Prefecture for business in the winter, wrapping them in quilts. If the merchants are fast enough, they can send them outside.

This side of the Grand Canal freezes over in winter. As the Yellow River reaches its dry season, the water level of the Grand Canal in the south drops.

But it does not affect the merchants' use of the frozen river to transport supplies, which is very fast!

Some merchants came over with goods to sell. They had no cash and could not buy greenhouse vegetables, so the people from Prince Yan's Mansion allowed them to pay on credit..."

Ling'er knew the situation. No one from Prince Yan's Mansion dared to go to Zhu Di, nor did they go to the officials of Prince Yan's Mansion, nor did they go to the eunuch, who was also a eunuch.

The eunuch in charge can help with advice. In this case, Xiaqiu Village is most useful.

So the other party went to Xiaqiu Village and handed over the account books. He ran away, saying that he was going to get the money back.

The goods of those merchants were not sold, otherwise they would have made money, and they were not paid for the vegetables they took away. The caravans all left people here, while others went to sell vegetables and have not returned yet.

The people from Prince Yan's Mansion went to talk to the people left behind, asking them to find a way to raise money to settle the debt, otherwise...

"How can you do things for me if you are so cowardly? Can I still kill them? Who knows where they are? Call me here."

When Zhu Di heard this, he had such a problem. As for going to someone else's place and asking for payment?
Unless the businessman loses all his money, there is nothing he can do. He cannot force him to death, and it is useless to force him to death.

Otherwise, as long as we know where the caravan is, we can run away from them?
Someone immediately looked for horses, and a team of four men and four horses set off to bring the people over.

"Sister Ling'er, what can't be sold?" Zhu Ru, the fifth child, looked curious.

"Wang Guangyang, the businessman in Guangzhou Prefecture, went there to become the province of Guangdong and participated in politics! He asked people to form caravans as much as possible to sell local things north.

Except for Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province is already far south. The southernmost places sell local specialties to the northernmost places. There is a big difference between the north and the south, and things are rare and expensive.

Wang Guangyang encouraged them to sell, and the people gathered together the things, selected them, loaded them on ships and trucks, and shipped them over.

In fact, the things delivered are very useful. They contain kudzu, spices including agarwood, and kudzu powder.

There are food, clothing, medicinal materials, and works of art. In the Tang Dynasty, they were brought as tribute to the rattan mats.

A large fan made of rhino horn, ivory, rhino skin, elephant skin, and peacock feathers is called a screen. "

Ling'er introduced the goods and situation of the outstanding caravan, which came from Guangzhou, and Wang Guangyang encouraged them.

officers:"……"

They were not as curious about the goods as Ling'er called Wang Guangyang by his first name! After all, he had been a prime minister.

Even now, Guangdong Province is participating in politics, what a big official! Take charge of a large area.

How big is North Parallel Province? Guangdong is bigger than here.

"These things... at least rhino horns, ivory, rhino skin, and elephant skin are easy to sell, right?"

Zhu Ji analyzed the goods and found that it was indeed difficult to sell. There were a lot of medicinal materials. Ming Dynasty did not specialize in buying medicinal materials. Who would you go to Beiping to sell to?
Huimin Pharmacy was purchased by the imperial court and then used by the people for free. The purchase price was not high. Look at the Jurchens. How much does ginseng cost? Selling by the pound.

Gebu is also worthless. Nowadays, cotton is grown in large quantities, and ramie is planted in rotation.

But there are still valuable things, why don’t we sell them first to raise money?
(End of this chapter)