Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 20 The Sister and Brother's Plan

"Brother Xiu, this is a good opportunity for our family to get out of the predicament. Don't let the third person know, not even your father."

Wang Xiu stared at Wang Qingzhu with her eyes wide open and her mouth wide open. It would be his turn to drop his jaw in shock. He didn't expect his sister to say such words.However, his surprise was nothing more than contempt for Wang Qingzhu. This sentence revealed a lot of information and made him understand that Wang Qingzhu knows how to measure, is thoughtful and has a business sense.

Before Wang Xiu could react, Wang Qingzhu asked again: "Brother Xiu, how much candy can you make at one time?"

Wang Xiu came back to her senses, licked her lips, and said, "It's convenient to buy brown sugar directly, but the profit is much lower."

"How do you say that?" Wang Qingzhu frowned slightly, seeming to understand a bit, and said hesitantly: "Do you still want to make sugar?"

Wang Xiu didn't hide anything, nodded and said: "That day, my father and I discussed with He Laodao at Wanshixing, and we had the idea of ​​using Wanshixing to improve sugar production technology. Unfortunately, others took the lead, and I couldn't recover."

Wang Qingzhu stared at Wang Xiu with strange eyes, and said, "Brother Xiu, why are you so human?"

Wang Xiu was startled, for fear that Wang Qingzhu would see something strange, she pursed her lips and said disdainfully: "I have read too many miscellaneous books, so I naturally figured out something."

Wang Qingzhu smiled. She didn't care why Wang Xiu knew so much. After all, he was his brother, who neither stole nor robbed. She immediately asked, "Can you really lower the cost of sugar production? How sure are you?"

"Ninety-nine percent sure, as long as there is some mechanism." Wang Xiu didn't have the slightest sense of humility.

A joke, it is just a simple roller sugarcane machinery device. Two large wooden rollers are set up side by side. There are wooden gears on the rollers connected to each other. The cattle are driven to pull the sugarcane cart. Put the sugar cane between the rollers to squeeze and grind the sugar juice, and then introduce the sugar cane juice into a large tank to boil the sugar. The rollers are best to use stones.

Wang Xiu ran over, took out a piece of paper from the cabinet, and handed it to Wang Qingzhu.

What Wang Qingzhu saw was the light in her beautiful eyes, her delicate body trembled slightly, and she said to herself: "Brother is really enlightened."

Wang Xiu rolled her eyes directly, and was about to refute, but she heard Wang Qingzhu say again: "I'm afraid these things cost a lot of money, just the money of those craftsmen is not something ordinary people can afford. How can our family have so much money now? Besides, there is no place to make sugar. Why don’t you buy brown sugar first, save enough money little by little, and then get involved in the sugar business, and the cost will naturally come down.”

Wang Xiu nodded, earning some money to get out of the predicament is the right thing to do, and said: "That's what I mean too, so we can unite with He Laodao to stabilize the situation first, and then use sugar to reverse the situation, but I don't want the Zhang family to be so ruthless. Shop, buy the debt directly with the principal and interest." As he spoke, the resentment in his heart was beyond words.

Wang Qingzhu rolled her eyes at Wang Xiu, and said: "The Zhang family is bound to win my shop, and I would do the same, but you can contact He Laodao again."

"This villain?" Wang Xiu was taken aback. He was very angry with He Laodao. If He Laodao supported the Wang family at that time, even if the Zhang family took the big debt, they could still overcome the crisis by opening a fragrant bathhouse.

Wang Qingzhu rolled her eyes at Wang Xiu, and said calmly: "Brother, you can't be too biased in dealing with people. As He Laodao, he has his own way of doing things. He is a veteran of the warehouse, and he is used to doing things that add icing on the cake. If you want him to take risks Possibly. He was benevolent and righteous, and he was very benevolent and righteous if he didn’t make trouble at that time.”

Wang Xiu was very reconciled, but he had to admit that what his sister said was right. In fact, he also thought the same way. They make money, but you have already fallen, so why take risks to invest in you?At that time, the Wang family was in extreme embarrassment. If He Laodao used forty strings to talk about the matter again, I am afraid that the whole family would really drown in the river. A businessman is a businessman and cannot be judged by ordinary people. .

In a word, He Laodao is a profiteer, but he is considered a kind person.

However, he still marveled at his elder sister's wisdom, and couldn't help laughing: "Eldest sister, I never saw it, you are really hiding everything."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Qingzhu rolled her eyes at Wang Xiu, and then said: "Sister reads as many books as you do, but unfortunately she is a woman." After speaking, she sighed softly, looking very helpless.

Wang Xiu sees it clearly. My sister definitely has a talent for business. Although the Song Dynasty was open-minded, but with the prosperity of the Cheng brothers, the status of women gradually tended to be conservative. A woman who has no talent is a virtue. It has gradually spread.

In a short while, he suddenly made up his mind that he must change, he must change, and he must not let the ideological trend of "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires" in Neo Confucianism become an official theory. He already had a direction at the Wenhui, but he needed a bite Stuttering, the road has to be taken step by step, if there is no condition to work hard, that is the behavior of a fool, the most important thing is to have a full meal first.

"Sister, don't underestimate yourself. The women of the previous dynasty did a lot of great things. Don't want the Empress Dowager Liu who is the daughter of Yao and Shun in this dynasty. Take the Shuchuan widow in the Qin Dynasty as an example. They are as rich as the world, and the first emperor issued an edict to commend them. Why can't you?"

Wang Qingzhu's beautiful eyes flickered, her face changed constantly, she seemed to be talking to herself, Nuonuo said: "Brother, don't joke, how can I do it."

Wang Xiu hummed, and then said earnestly: "Why can't eldest sister do it, the daughter of the Wang family must be able to do it, I can't take care of it alone, I still need eldest sister's help."

It's an excellent reason, even for this family!Wang Qingzhu's heart is indifferent, but she was dismissed by rudeness, and she was suffocated, and her family background is so low, so don't let people look down on you if you give it a try.

Anyway, waiting for the family to be ruined is worse than fighting hard, maybe there is still a way out, so he said: "Since Brother Xiu said it, let's fight for this family."

Wang Xiu is overjoyed, he really doesn't have much business potential, Wang Qingzhu is obviously suitable, don't you see those women selling in the night market?It doesn't matter if the eldest sister makes a living, maybe she can become the richest woman in the Song Dynasty, he smiled and said: "What the eldest sister said is, let's start by processing brown sugar, He Laodao is He Laodao, and it's good to cooperate with him again. But we It can’t be hanged from a tree, no, anyway, there are too many shops on the market, and they will sell them when they have enough stock, and we don’t need a storefront or space, so we will supply and collect money.”

Wang Qingzhu looked at Wang Xiu with satisfaction, then looked at Bai Jingjing's candy, and sighed: "This candy is much better than the frosting candy on the market, and it will definitely sell well. I will go buy candy in the afternoon, and I will make a candy first." Hundreds of liters."

"Sister, how can there be so much money!" Wang Xiu shook her head helplessly. Nowadays, the price of round-grained rice is [-] to [-] renminbi per stone, and brown sugar is [-] to [-] renminbi per liter. very deep.

Wang Qingzhu frowned slightly, forced a smile and said: "Don't worry, there will always be a way."

"can have."

"Brother, do you use yellow muddy water to decolorize?" Wang Qingzhu walked to the side of the vat without waiting for Wang Xiu to speak, and said with a smile: "If people know, they can't vomit."

Wang Xiu was interrupted, and unconsciously followed her train of thought. He laughed and said, "No way, I can only come up with this idea. But, who can see it in the room!"

"That's right, yellow mud is easy to make, and no one else knows what to do, but it can be kept secret for a long time." Wang Qingzhu blinked mischievously.

Looking at Wang Qingzhu's beautiful face, Wang Xiu felt a pang of sadness in her heart. The eldest sister's worries were completely buried in her heart. Since she wanted to do it, she should do a good job to make the eldest sister a super rich woman and trample the Ge family hard. At the foot, slap the Zhang family's face fiercely, the Lu family?Forget it, it's just a clown, and it hasn't caught his eye yet.

"Sister, how about we cooperate in five or five layers?" Wang Xiu smiled, but her tone was quite serious.

Wang Qingzhu was startled, and stared at Wang Xiu in amazement, her eyes flashed light instantly, showing all the flavors of life, my brother is not a cold person, obviously he saw what was going on in her heart.

Seeing Wang Qingzhu's silence, Wang Xiu chuckled, tugged at her sleeve, and said, "That's the deal, big sister must not deny it."

Wang Qingzhu smiled with mixed feelings, looked at Wang Xiu with complicated eyes, and said after a while: "I will contribute to the second floor, but you have to agree to one thing. Otherwise, I will definitely not agree."

Wang Xiu was startled, turned her head around and smiled and said, "Okay, big sister, as long as I can do it, I will definitely agree, but you must occupy at least four floors."

(End of this chapter)