Man Bao was startled, "Pearls? Does our family have this capital?"
Zhou Zhoulang laughed and said, "Of course there are. Last year those cows and medicinal materials made a lot of money, and I have been keeping them with Lijun."
Man Bao frowned, "Why did you think of starting a pearl business?"
Such precious things are not easy to touch.
Zhou Zhou Lang said: "Bai Wu proposed that he wanted to cooperate with the two companies, but I declined."
He smiled and said: "I know what they are thinking, but they just want to take advantage of your position to catch up with other people in the palace, so as to make this business more solid."
Man Bao looked at him suspiciously, "You don't want to bring them with you?"
Zhou Zhou Lang shook his head, "No, I don't think their family is very authentic. It's okay for everyone to drink, eat, and help each other occasionally. This kind of deep money exchange is unnecessary."
Zhou Lijun drifted past, paused after hearing the words, and said: "Besides, our family is not well-off, it's too unsafe to get mixed up with them in this kind of business."
Zhou Zhoulang nodded, "That's right, I'd rather suffer myself than give so much money to others."
Zhou Lijun simply stopped and said to Zhou Man, "Sister-in-law, I don't agree to fourth uncle's business of pearls now. Pearls are too expensive and the risk is too great."
Zhou Zhoulang hurriedly said: "Do you know how much a hu pearl is worth? If it is of better quality, it is almost comparable to our ten carts of goods. The cost of…”
"But if you encounter danger on the road, one of the ten cars may return, and you may not return any of the pearls you want to bring."
Zhou Zhoulang smiled and said: "You have never traveled far when you hear this. If you encounter a horse thief, they will let you get out of a carriage?"
"Pearls are easy to carry, and you can run away with them. Even if you can't run with a dendrobium, if you carry good-looking pearls close to your body, as long as you run back, you won't suffer a lot."
Zhou Man raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhou Zhou Lang, and asked, "Fourth brother, how much money do you plan to spend on pearls, medicinal materials, furs, cattle and sheep?"
Zhou Zhoulang rubbed his nose and said, "You know, our family doesn't have a lot of money. The reason why I want to change it to pearls is that pearls are easy to carry, and second, pearls can make a lot of money, so I think 80% of them will be worth a lot of money." Pearls, the remaining 20% will be replaced with medicinal materials."
Man Bao directly refused, "I don't agree, you have to do it the other way around."
Zhou Zhoulang: "...it is said that the pearl earns a lot..."
"Fourth brother, in terms of making money, is there any business in this world that is more profitable than gold and copper mines?" Man Bao interrupted him, "But do you dare to do it?"
Zhou Zhoulang choked.
Man Bao said solemnly: "In addition to gold and copper mines, there are also salt and iron and grain transportation. Do you dare to earn this money?"
Zhou Zhoulang said: "What is there not to dare?"
Man Bao said to Zhou Lijun: "Have you finished reading the "The Richest Man in Ming Dynasty" that I showed you last time?"
Zhou Lijun immediately lifted his spirits and nodded again and again, "I've finished reading it a long time ago, sister-in-law, and I have made a lot of annotations. Would you like to help me check where I am wrong?"
Man Bao replied, "I'll show you the book when I get back. You first give the book to the fourth brother and let him read it."
Zhou Zhoulang shrank back, swallowed his saliva and asked, "I, do I read?"
He can read a lot of characters, and he can write some simple basic characters, but reading...
If he could read, would he need to carry Zhou Lijun or Zhou Lizhong and Zhou Liwei everywhere
Zhou Lijun had already rushed back to the house, and took out a book. She hugged it to Zhou Zhoulang very preciously, and said: "Fourth Uncle, you have to be careful, a book is very expensive."
Zhou Zhoulang held the book in his arms, neither pushing it for a while, nor closing it.
Man Bao said: "When you finish reading this book, you will know why I didn't agree."
She sighed like Mr. Zhuang, then raised her head and said earnestly: "Fourth brother, I'm doing this for your own good."
Thursday Lang: ...
Although Zhou Lijun, who had already read the book, agreed, but seeing his sister-in-law so unpredictable, he couldn't help being silent for a while with his fourth uncle.
She didn't have the patience of my sister-in-law, so she directly revealed the answer, "Fourth uncle, sister-in-law, this is to save the lives of you and our whole family."
Zhou Zhoulang hugged the book tightly and said, "I, I just want to try the pearl business, do you need to scare me like this?"
Bai Shan, who had been reading in silence, suddenly said meaningfully: "Brother Zhou, people's desires can't be satisfied, so people need to be satisfied."
Man Bao nodded, and said: "At first, because you were poor, our family sold things in the county to pay off your debts."
Zhou Zhoulang was so exhausted, he didn't deny the latter point, but the first point, how would he tell Man Bao that their family was not rich before.
Why did she always assume that their family was rich before he lost the bet
"When I started growing vegetables to make tofu at home, I never thought about buying a shop in the county, let alone expanding my business to Yizhou City and other counties and towns," Man Bao said, "You started selling wheat seeds. , have you ever thought about coming to the capital to do the medicine business in the future?"
"When you brought the medicinal materials to the capital, did you think that you would do fur business in the future, and would you sell cattle and buy medicinal materials on the grassland?"
Thursday Lang was silent.
Man Bao said: "It's like last year. Have you ever thought that you will be in the pearl business this year? So today you can't think of what business you will be in the future."
Zhou Zhou Lang couldn't help but muttered, "Of course we can do whatever business makes money."
Seeing Man Bao's staring eyes, he was afraid that she would mention gold, copper, salt and iron again, so he hurriedly said: "Of course I will do business that I can come across. If I have the ability to do salt and iron business in the future, you said I will make money from it." Is your business being pushed outward?"
Bai Shan frowned. They had just discussed business matters not long ago. He glanced at the choked Zhou Man, then put down the book in his hand, got up from the stone bench and walked over, "Fourth brother, I think that the There are four types of people, one is the one who can only see a square inch, only sees his own feet, lives day by day, and has the most simple wishes."
"The second type is to be able to see inside a room, think about it, and think about the future for themselves and their families. It's just that they don't know much, so the thinking is not deep."
"The third type is to be able to see the relationship between a county and a prefecture, and to think about the country and the livelihood of the people."
"And the fourth type is the sages of the past and the present. What they think and think is the whole world. A word today may benefit people in a thousand years."
Zhou Zhoulang thought for a while, and felt that what he said was quite right, so he asked enthusiastically, "Then what kind do you think I am?"
"Brother Thursday is the first type."
Thursday Lang: ...