Chapter 334
"This is great, Brother Su, you have helped me a lot!"
Wu Haogu was on the morning of the third day of the September 19th. He learned from the Republic Headquarters, which was the original Christie's headquarter store that the Su family was planning to invest 50,000 yuan in Jiehe Market.
This is the second large private investment obtained by Jiehe Commercial Market (excluding investment in Jiehe Chamber of Commerce), and the first investment was Yan Po'er's brothel... It's really a bit embarrassing for capitalism! Fortunately, capitalism is profit-oriented, and shameless.
"Why is it just a help?" Su Dalang smiled, "My family invests in Jiehe Commercial City to make money... This Jiehe Grain Store will not lose money, right?"
Loss should not be enough. Wu Haogu thought: But it may not be easy to make money. Maybe he has to lose money for three or five years first. Only when the operation of Jiehe Commercial Market is on track and the population increases will the grain bank make money.
Of course, Wu Haogu himself plans to make a few such long-term investments in Jiehe Market.
First, the Jiehip Horse Farm is a place for raising horses and improving horse breeds. It is probably a project that costs money and lose money for ten or twenty years!
The second is Jiehe Iron Field, which is actually a "test iron field". It is impossible to make money at all. It is opened to overcome the "cold forging armor" technology. Wu Haogu is preparing to import iron ore from three places including Liguojian in Xuzhou, Longyan Tieshan in Youzhou and Tiezhou Tieshan in Liaodong, and then experimentally smelted with charcoal or coke. The reason for importing iron ore from different places is that the iron material refined by different iron ores has been mentioned in "Mengxi Bitan" that the iron material refined by different iron ores is different...
In short, Wu Haogu is an artist who doesn’t understand any science and technology, and can only take the path of testing the truth in practice and slowly try and make mistakes.
The third is Jiehe Boatyard, which is also a "testing ground", but Wu Haogu is not aware of shipbuilding. Well, he has never built a ship, but has painted a ship. He has painted sailboats and galleys, and has also painted the keels of the ship - all thanks to the comic company he worked in later generations.
However, relying solely on these foundations, Wu Haogu could not build a powerful sailing battleship, and experiments and explorations are still very necessary.
In addition, Jiehe Boatyard can also be used to create stone-launched devices. In order to be loaded on the ship or used to defend the city, this thing should have some effect when used with "gunpowder incendiary bombs".
When conditions are ripe in the future, you have to open a gunpowder factory and a gun casting factory - if the technology can keep up.
However, as a profit-oriented capitalism, we cannot all engage in high-end activities that we don’t know when we can make money. Otherwise, if we lose all our capital, we will lose our ideology! Therefore, Wu Haogu still plays his true nature as a profiteer in the operation of Jiehe Commercial City.
He will definitely make a living by making dirty money, and he has already arranged several!
The first is of course the "Erguotou" wine. In the long run, Panlou will provide technology to open a distillery, but in the short run, they will directly use distilled liquor to buy some raw material sour liquor to make money first. Wu Haogu plans to take out the first batch of products before Song Huizong ascended the throne, and then offer it to Song Huizong as imperial liquor, and then ask Song Huizong to give him a good name, so that he can show off and sell it successfully at a high price.
The second is to find money from the tile. In the Song Dynasty, the tile was a "place of entertainment and commercial distribution" and of course it could also include brothels and brothels. Wuhaogu planned to build a super-large tile in Jiehe Commercial City, named Wanda Wazi - "Wanda" means everything and everything. Wanda Wazi will be the center of the entire Jiehe Commercial District, and Yan Niangzi's brothel will be located in a corner of Wanda Wazi. In addition to brothels, Wanda Wazi also has six major selling points such as performance, wrestling, casinos, horse racing, food and shopping.
Among them, horse racing is a project tailor-made for the Khitan nobles coming from the north! In Wu Haogu's plan, there will not only be horse racing that wins at speed, but also polo competitions and equestrian performances that pay attention to skills. It will also award the winners quite high bonuses! The victorious horses will also ascend the throne at the Wanda Jockey Club and become a famous horse. If the mares want to "hold their hooves" to find them, the owner will have to pay!
Of course, horse racing and polo competitions must be bets! Moreover, the Guardian will also open a branch in Jiehe in the future, which will specifically focus on the "Wanda Jockey Club" and "Wanda Puw Wrestling Club".
But Wu Haogu hasn't thought about the one that is so big and a thousand big wazi to operate. He has a very full vision of the wazi, but it is not easy to realize it.
"Brother, who will take care of your grain store transaction?" Wu Haogu asked again after thinking of this.
Su Dalang himself cannot leave Kaifeng Prefecture, he is the boss of the Republican Affairs Bureau!
"Give it to Sudashan." Su Dalang said, "He is one of my clan brothers, who is in charge of the Su family's vinegar store granary. He is very familiar with rice and grain."
The vinegar in this era was 100% brewed, without chemical blending. The raw materials for making vinegar are grain, glutinous rice, wheat, sorghum, bran, and rice. Therefore, the Su family is not unfamiliar with grain trade.
"Okay!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "This is the best." He paused, "I will entrust you here in Kaifeng Republic. I still have a book to draw today... It's a erotic guy named Yan Xixi."
"Savory?"
"You know?"
Fatty Su smiled and nodded, "Why don't you recognize me?"
Wu Haogu thought to himself, it turns out that you, a fat man, have sex with someone else.
Su Dalang looked at Wu Haogu and said, "Dalang, don't you know that Brother Gao and Liu Xiaoyi are helping to save Xixi?"
"I don't know." Wu Haogu shook his head, looking confused.
Fatty Su smiled and said, "No wonder, you are very busy now. Let me tell you, Yan Xixi used to live with her father. Her father was a young envoy of the imperial guards. When he was ordered to escort Gang, he met a bandit. He was afraid and abandoned Gang and fled, so he violated the military law. He was so tired that his daughter was not in the prison. He was so tired that his daughter was not in the sect and became an official sect... This was two or three years ago. Later, her mother Yan Po'er's mistress, your good brother Liu Xiaoyi became prosperous, so the way was to Gao Shiyan. Gao Shiyan came forward to redeem Xixi's life, but she did a folk sect with her mother."
The official crafts of the Song Dynasty were actually a worse thing than private crafts. In theory, it was not as good as private crafts that were sold. Because the official crafts were not business-oriented, but were similar to the art troupe, which served the government, performed singing and dancing to entertain, and was prohibited from holding hands with officials.
I can only see, not be attached, but I really think that the civil and military officials of the Song Dynasty are all gentlemen!
Moreover, the income of the official genius cannot be compared with that of the same talented private genius. It is better to meet a generous official, otherwise it would be a situation where you cannot eat enough and starve to death. It is impossible to make a lot of money like Li Shishi, who can live a comfortable retirement life.
"So that's how it is." Wu Haogu nodded and said to Su Dalang, "Then she is lucky to meet me... I will draw thirty-six pictures for her and arrange for the album to be released in December, which will always make her famous."
Su Dalang smiled and said, "Okay, let's arrange it like this."
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Originally, Su Dalang wanted to take Wu Haogu to have a drink of practice wine, but Wu Haogu refused.
The day after tomorrow he was about to leave Kaifeng Prefecture and head north, but there was not much time to waste, so he said goodbye to Su Dalang and left with Lin Wancheng.
After leaving the Republic Headquarters, Wu Haogu was in an especially good mood.
Lighthouse City (Jiehe Commercial City) seems to be able to succeed. This is a city of its own! No matter how many "mother-in-law" there are in the Lighthouse City, the people who are responsible for building the city are always themselves... This "building city" is not "building a city", but turning a wasteland by the Jiehe River into a vicious bourgeois free city!
By then, Wu Haogu will be the father of all evil capitalism! Maybe he can become a villain who resists the southward movement of ethnic minorities... It is really exciting!
Thinking of his evil appearance in the future, Wu Haogu became more and more proud, and he unknowingly reached the Wu family mansion on the banks of the Jinshui River.
When he arrived, a carriage was parked outside the door of the mansion, and a tall horse was tied to the tethered pillar in front of the door.
Wu Haogu's "follower", Wu Haomou, a village scholar from Bai Bowu's family, was standing at the door. When he saw Wu Haogu, he greeted him: "Brother, there is a distinguished guest coming."
When he heard the other party call him "big brother" Wu Haogu sneered in his heart. In fact, he was not the leader in the Baibowu family, but the original boss was already dead, so Wu Haogu was promoted to the eldest brother of the good generation - if he is rich and powerful, he will be the eldest brother? The family rules of the Baibowu family are very up-to-date!
"Disciple? Who?"
"There are three distinguished guests," said Wu Haomou, "two of them are wives with the surname Yan."
Yan Po'er and Yan Xixi were considered very distinguished guests? Wu Haogu got off the horse's back and threw the reins to Lin Wancheng, "Who else is there to say?"
"There is another surnamed Zhang, who is from the seventh rank Xuan Fenglang."
The seventh-rank civil servant named Zhang? Who? Wu Haogu thought about it and didn’t know him. But if he didn’t know him, he had to deal with him. He was a dignified civil servant.
"You ask the Yan family's mother and daughter to wait in my inner hall first." Wu Haogu ordered, "Is that Zhang Xuanfeng in the middle hall?"
Wu Haomou smiled and said, "Brother, the two Lady Yan have been taken by the starling brother to see his sister-in-law's wife..."
"Mrs. Sister-in-law?" Wu Haogu was shocked when he heard this, "That sister-in-law's wife?"
"It's Madam Pan."
"Pan... Pan Shiba has entered the city?"
"Yes, it's just a moment earlier than the two Lady Yan. She went to Pan's home to eat the full moon wine of Prince Pan's young master Pan, and then came to the house for a short rest."
Wu Haogu felt a little crying in his heart. They are really two brainless nerds! Even if Pan Qiaolian is at home, you can't take two ladies to find her!
Chapter completed!