You Miao thought about how these uncles treated him, so he went to the door in person, gave the furs to those rooms, and had a conversation with his uncles and brothers. Each business, You Miao toasted with a smile, and then talked about the matter of Jiangbo Villa.
An uncle said: "I just said that you kid is not a fool to eat and wait to die. Look at it, look at it?"
All the uncles laughed, You Miao was clever by nature, but also acted like a spoiled child.
You Miao said, "There's no human beings in the land right now. Hey, we'll have to figure out a way after the spring."
Another cousin said: "It's not easy to find people? You go to Yangzhou Mansion and tell the governor of Zhizhou's subordinates, if there is a job in the spring next year, let someone send them to your villa. What are you calling that uncle of Shaoyuan Tea House?"
"Qiao Jue." Someone said.
Several people nodded, and the cousin said, "Qiao Jue's fellow has become an adult, and he is a first-class expert in bargaining. If you come to the door to find him, he will definitely take you to the Ershi, and there are many people who sell themselves. People who are slaughtered, make some money, buy some people back, hire long-term workers, and recruit tenants, all of which are there. If you go there, it’s hard to find people? The difficulty is that you can get food and feed so many mouths. !"
You Miao nodded, and the uncle said slowly: "Since you have come out, you have to do some business to show your father. I also said that Miaozi is not that stupid."
You Miao said, "Second Uncle, write a letter for me, and I'll take it to Yangzhou and knock on the door."
"That's natural." Tang Bo said: "After the first month, I will write a letter to myself and send it directly to Yangzhou, so you don't have to worry about it."
You Miao finally calmed down and inquired about the current business. Half of Yangzhou Youfu has land, and half of it is for business. There are more than 300 hectares of good land handed down from ancestors. Hemp, plum... Some people sit on fertile fields and hire people to farm the land. The other ones who are smart, take the goods and sell them.
The green plum wine of Youfu is famous in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also such a good wine that tribute to the Middle Kingdom, not to mention Yangzhou embroidery.
The Youjia on the Liuzhou side is where You Dechuan was born. He owns dozens of hectares of salt fields. He mainly sells salt, hires people to transport fish, shrimp, and seafood, and sells imported seafood. What coral, pearls, sea shells, agarwood, etc.
You Miao just wanted to know what makes money, so he asked around, all the cousins said: These days, as long as you can do business, you can make money from everything.
You Miao said: "But I also have to choose something."
"Growing tea to make money." He joked with You Miao's cousin who had played well since childhood: "Look at your father, one tael of tea leaves and one tael of gold, and the best Jasper Green Peak, isn't it profitable? Junshan Yinwu, two taels of silver. A tea or two…”
The younger cousin said, "Miaozi wants to grow tea, so he still needs to find his father? Find Shaoyuan Tea House."
"No." Someone said: "Shaoyuan Tea House, there are good tea seedlings, but they can't be sold. In recent years, hey..."
Yu Ren signaled him not to talk too much. After all, it was also You Miao's mother's uncle's house, but You Miao's heart moved, and asked her mother's uncle's house to order tea seedlings.
"Growing mulberries is also fine." A cousin said, "Ten years ago, silk was expensive, and several landlords in Jiangnan cut down fruit trees to grow mulberries. As a result, the price of silk plummeted a few years ago. I cut down the mulberry trees and planted tea, and after careful calculation, the price of silk has to rise slowly over the past few years.”
Youmiao thought this was reliable, and said, "Where's the oil?"
"Rape." Someone said: "This is true, but the fields here in Yangzhou are foggy all day long, and it has to rain yellow plum rain, so it's not easy to plant."
"Oil has been expensive in recent years." Uncle Tang said, "Miaozi, you might as well grow some rapeseed. I will collect it and sell it for you at 28 cents."
"It's done." You Miao said cheerfully: "It's about to start spring, so I'll start planting in February. Then I'll hire a few workers. After planting this crop, I'll level the ground, and then I'll think about planting something else."
A cousin said again: "You raise some more bees, teach people to pick honey, and eat rapeseed nectar."
You Miao really admired these uncles and brothers, and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll go buy seeds after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."
"I'll tell you where to go." The cousin said again, "You passed Liuzhou and headed towards Cangzhou in the northwest, where there are many vegetables. If you don't ask anything else, just ask Yibao County, Cangzhou, and pretend to be a Liuzhou. The comprador of the state, buy rapeseed oil from the next autumn, pick the fat and firm rapeseed to buy, if you want to buy 2,000 catties, come back to dry the seeds, take one point of urine and nine points of water to soak it Two days and two nights, the soil was drained."
You Miao nodded again and again, remembering that it was also said in "Qi Min Yao Shu", and asked, "Where can beekeepers go?"
"There are everywhere." Uncle Tang said, "In the mountains where the camellias are blooming, go for a walk by yourself. There are many beekeepers who are worried that there are no flowers. You can find a few. If you want flowers all year round, keep a few in the In the villa, it is also a good thing, not to make money, it is also good to have honey to drink often.”
You Miao said: "Okay, I'll let someone find it when I get there."
After offering sacrifices to their ancestors and having a New Year's Eve dinner, the clansmen stayed in Youmiao for the night. Youmiao was thinking about her family and couldn't be busy. When she came out, the driver was setting up the car. Youmiao looked around and asked, "Where's Li Zhifeng?"
The young servant said, "Back to the young master's words, the servant said he went out after dinner, and he hasn't come back now."
You Miao waited at the door for a while, and the sky started to snow lightly. This was the coldest time of the year, and it finally snowed in Jiangnan. I just don't know how the snow on the broken bridge will make tomorrow a beautiful scene.
He wanted to go back a little bit, and wanted to hang out with Li Zhifeng in Yangzhou. After waiting for a long time, he stomped his feet in the cold with a few cousins. Some relatives teased him and said, "Hey, other families are all servants and other young masters, look at you. Young master, you have to wait for your little servant."
As soon as the words came out, all the brothers were laughing, You Miao said: "You don't know, Li Zhifeng is the same as my brother, and the name of other servants and servants is different from your little servant."
"Did you keep it in the house?" Another cousin made fun of You Miao, holding him in his arms and pinching his face.
"I think he looks like this, he must be kept in the house by the servant!" Another cousin made a joke, causing everyone to laugh, You Miao said sternly: "If it wasn't for Li Zhifeng helping me, I wouldn't be right now. I know where it is. You haven't seen Biyu Villa. My father added a brother to me for no reason. I never recognize that fellow. This Li Zhifeng is my brother. He treats me with all his heart. …”
Just as he was saying this, Li Zhifeng turned from the back of the alley, You Miao was a little embarrassed after all, and said, "Where did you go?"
Li Zhifeng showed You Miao a paper bag and said, "I'm going to buy you something fun."
You Miao said: "Well, let's go."
This time the cousins laughed even more.