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The price of the wine was very high, and the wine was very expensive.

Whether it is perfume or the two drugs, they are high-end luxury goods in this era, and ordinary people can't afford them.

It is indeed very appropriate to promote perfume and aphrodisiacs from brothels.

On the one hand, those who can come to brothels to consume are generally rich people, who can at least afford Jin Gun Pills.

On the other hand, brothels are also places that merchants like to come to, and they can also quickly promote goods to other places here.

It has to be said that this brothel has a rich family background. The first batch of fifty bottles of perfume produced by Lu Cheng were directly bought by Zuihonglou.

The income of fifty taels of silver directly exceeded the total sales of Huichuntang in the previous month.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng ordered housekeeper Sun to buy a piece of land outside the city and prepare to build a farm outside the city.

The land can be used to plant and cultivate some Chinese herbal medicines, or to plant some flowers, etc. Provide a relatively stable raw material base for Huichuntang.

With a farm, it is also convenient to raise some tenants, farmhands, and servants, so there are more people available.

In fact, in ancient times, whether it was an official, a businessman, or someone engaged in all walks of life, after having money, they would generally take out part of the money to buy land.

In many cases, the amount of land owned can be directly used to measure the wealth of a person or a family.

The reason is also very simple. The productivity in ancient times was extremely low. There were no fertilizers and pesticides, and no good seeds. The food that the land could produce was extremely limited. If a family owned too little land, the food grown was not enough to feed the family.

In addition, the resistance of ancient agriculture to natural disasters was also very weak. Droughts, floods, pests and diseases, and locusts could cause a large reduction in grain production, or even a grainless harvest.

Once a natural disaster occurs, resulting in a large-scale reduction in grain production, the price of grain will naturally rise.

Moreover, the ancients did not have many ways to invest, and land is also a resource that can be inherited and can produce relatively continuously and stably.

For various reasons, land has become the most stable reliance in people's hearts.

Of course, the problem of land annexation has always been one of the important reasons for the demise of dynasties and the replacement of dynasties.

Steward Sun took people to the yahang to understand the situation, and then went to the fields to take a look. In the end, he bought 100 acres of good land at the price of 10 guan per acre. He bought 100 acres of medium-quality land at the price of 6 guan per acre.

Lu Cheng also directly became a small landlord with 200 acres of land.

After spending 1,600 guan at once, Lu Cheng's deposit shrank a lot in an instant, but this was just a change from liquid funds to real estate, and the family assets were still the original family assets.

The land purchased by the Lu family is located five or six miles south of the city. Basically, it is a piece of land connected together, which is also convenient for management.

Then, Lu Cheng asked Butler Sun to find a group of craftsmen to build a manor next to the field according to the drawings he had drawn.

The newly purchased land also needs to be planned, where to plant what flowers, where to plant what herbs, where to plant grains, vegetables, fruit trees, etc.

Fortunately, it was summer and the wheat harvest season had just passed, which was a good time to re-sow.

While building the manor, Lu Cheng specifically asked Butler Sun to fence off some good fields near the manor, and personally guided the tenants to sow some seeds they had never seen before in the land.

These seeds were the fine varieties that Lu Cheng had specially stored in his cross-border backpack before, and after subsequent improvement and cultivation, including corn, potatoes, peanuts, sweet potatoes, peppers, etc.

After experiencing the world of "Embroidered Spring Knife", Lu Cheng specially stored some of the best fine varieties in the future in his cross-border backpack in order to deal with the situation of crossing into the ancient world again.

In this era, these grains and vegetables have not yet spread to China, and many are still far away on the other side of the ocean, so it is not easy to find them.

Now, Lu Cheng can directly take them out for planting and cultivation, which can definitely save a lot of trouble.

Lu Cheng attaches great importance to these seeds. He only takes out a small part of the cross-border backpack for planting and cultivation, and temporarily keeps the rest to deal with emergencies, so as to avoid any accidents at that time and destroy all the new crops planted.

Lu Cheng watched the farmers sow various seeds with his own eyes, and reminded them that these are important Chinese herbal medicines, many of which are poisonous, and asked Steward Sun to arrange people to patrol regularly.

While the manor was being built, the land where various new crops were planted would be surrounded by a wall.

While the construction of the manor outside the city was in full swing, the business of Zuihonglou in the city became more popular because of perfume, Jinqiang Pills, and Longhu Pills.

Especially the Jinqiang Pills, which were soon recognized by many brothel regulars and bought from the girls.

Although the girls worked harder and harder than before, they could earn double the income just by lying down, and they were tired and happy.

As for the high-end elixir such as Longhu Pills, only a few wealthy people in Yuncheng County and several big businessmen who passed by were willing to buy it, and only the popular girls in Zuihonglou could sell some of it.

However, high-end products take the high-end route, and the profit of a bottle of Longhu Pills is more than 10 bottles of Jinqiang Pills.

As the products were recognized by the market, some businessmen took the initiative to come to the door, wanting to buy perfume and two kinds of medicines in bulk and resell them to other places.

These merchants who traveled all over the country to do business all had extremely keen business sense and were best at discovering commodities with commercial value.

While Lu Cheng asked Manager Liu to recruit more people and expand production, he also contacted medicinal material suppliers in several nearby counties to stabilize the supply.

Due to the current limited production, the orders of those merchants have been scheduled for two months later.

However, Lu Cheng was not in a hurry, which was just in line with the hunger marketing.

Early in the morning of this day, Lu Cheng had just finished his exercise when the servant Lai Fu came to report the news: "Master, Mother Wang from Zuihonglou is here to visit. Do you want to see her?"

"Of course, let her wait in the front hall."

Lu Cheng washed his face, and dressed neatly with the help of the maids Xia He and Qiu Lan, and then walked to the front hall.

"What's the wind that brings you here today, Madam Wang?"

"Mr. Lu, I'm here for no reason. I want to talk to you about our business again."

"Oh? Please go ahead, Madam Wang."

"I heard that Mr. Lu is going to sell Golden Gun Pills, Dragon and Tiger Pills, and Hundred Flowers Jade Dew to other merchants. I wonder if you can sell a batch to me? To be honest, I know some friends in Bianjing, I have my own channels, and I also want to do this business."

"Of course, no problem, this good stuff will be sold to anyone. Zuihonglou is also the first partner of Huichuntang, so it's no problem to sell it to you."

"Thank you, Madam. But I heard that the production of this medicine is limited now. Can you give it priority to us?"

"Mama Wang is a little late. The orders we have received now are already scheduled for two months later."

"This..." Madam Wang hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and the two young girls behind her came out.

"Mr. Lu, these two girls are daughters of wealthy families. They were sold to me because of something wrong at home. They can read and write, and after being trained by me, they can also play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. I just brought them here today. If Mr. Lu likes them, give them to him. They can be your companions, speak softly, make the bed, and serve tea."

The two girls looked up at Lu Cheng, and then lowered their heads shyly.

The two girls knew their fate. As women, they fell into such a situation. The best result for them was to be sold to a rich man as concubines.

If they were lucky, they could be sold to a young man who knew how to love people. If they were unlucky, they might be sold to an old man, and they would be outnumbered. They might even be given away as gifts and eventually return to the brothel.

If they could be sold to a young and handsome nobleman like Lu Cheng, they would definitely be willing to do so.

Seeing that Lu Cheng did not agree immediately, the two girls raised their heads at the same time and looked at Lu Cheng with their big watery eyes.

In this era, the status of concubines was very low. They could be bought and sold as commodities, and sometimes even used to entertain guests.