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Chapter 15 After Getting Rich Overnight

Not everyone can understand the feeling of getting rich overnight, especially the sufferings of this era.

Chu Yu had never seen so much money, so many silk cloths and pigs and sheep in front of her, so she was a little worried again, and in the end, she placed all the money and grain in Xu Chang's hands, preparing to go outside the city to ask Huo Hai before dealing with it.

As for why the Yuan family and the Zhen family made so much effort to compete for a glass bottle, it was a matter of another class, and it had nothing to do with a little fool like Chu Yu.

When they walked out of the city, Chu Yu and Baoer were calculating the value of these things with their fingers. However, until they found Huo Hai who had slept in the car for a long time, they could not figure out how much these things were worth.

The math level is limited, so it’s not their fault for any of their teachers, because they have never had any teachers at all.

However, when Chu Yu talked about the scene in the city, Huo Hai was not infected by the excitement released from her face. He just lowered his head and bit his mouth, and said, "It seems that Wuji Zhen wants to seek promotion in the court and get rid of the current class identity of a wealthy merchant. If nothing unexpected happens, this beer bottle should be sent to a certain attendant."

The term "class identity?" was obviously something that Chu Yu and the others didn't understand, but she roughly understood that Zhen bought this beer bottle at a high price to give gifts.

Huo Hai was too lazy to tell them that the reason why the Yuan family competed with Zhen family for this beer bottle was because they didn't want to see someone sharing the power here with them.

In addition, through this barter, Huo Hai also truly understood the social status of the world. The gentry and powerful are rich, the family has money, food and live a luxurious life, but the people are in a desperate situation and have eaten but not served.

No wonder when the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the rebellious Yellow Turban Army would not starve to death. They would only starve to death after being surrounded by the imperial army and robbed them, because these gentry and powerful families had stored too much food.

Analyzing the current social situation and pattern of things is too difficult for a girl like Chu Yu who has never read a book. Huo Hai also knew that it would be impossible to make them smart all at once, so the topic returned to normal.

"Since you have so many fellow Taoists in the city, please let them bring silk, cloth, sheepskin and fifty stones of food here before dark!

In addition, you can directly share half of the grain and copper coins with them as a thank-you gift, and let them help us keep the remaining grain, livestock, and the other half of the copper coins, let them buy them all into fur or fabrics for us." Huo Hai made the arrangement.

"Half of the grain and copper coins are used to give them a thank-you gift? That's too much!" Chu Yu couldn't believe his ears and looked at Huo Haidao.

"You have delivered grain in the city, and you should know how much grain is for one thousand stones! The wheelbarrow we built can only take two or three stones at most, and one thousand stones will be taken away, which will cost hundreds of cars. We don't have so many people pushing carts, nor so many cars. If it weren't for considering that we would consume some food recently, I would give them more grain." Huo Hai explained to Chu Yu.

"But five hundred stones of grain and three hundred thousand yuan are too much! They just helped run errands." Chu Yu still couldn't accept it.

Huo Hai smiled and said, "When what you give to others exceeds other people's imagination, others are willing to help you do things and make friends with you. In this world, if you make more friends, you will definitely not suffer any losses. Later, I have many places to use these fellow Taoists."

"So, next time we want to sell good things, we can come to Zhending County to find them for help?" Chu Yu said half-knowingly.

"You can think so too, but don't sell beer bottles next time, Zhen Ping will be angry. If your brother becomes enemies with the Zhen family, his life in Hebei will be very sad." Huo Hai nodded.

Chu Yu didn't understand why Huo Hai always thought things so far. Perhaps only people like him could deceive those powerful families!

The matter that Huo Hai gave was Chu Yu's current task. When Xu Chang in the city knew that he had received 500 stones of grain and 300,000 yuan in vain, he almost jumped up from the ground happily and had to say that he would go outside the city to thank Chu Yan in person.

Chu Yu didn't know why he told him that Chu Yan was not outside the city at all, but he still asked him to take the people and escort Huo Hai the things designated by him to the forest outside the city.

Originally, Huo Hai had no intention of showing up, so he just asked Lin San and Chen to come out to pick up the things, but Chu Yu brought Xu Chang into the forest alone. In order not to let him see the car, he had to show up and see him.

"Young Master, this is Xu Chang, the Taoist priest in charge of the Zhending area of ​​our Taiping Sect. I think you should meet him because he can mobilize a lot of people to help the villagers go to Heishan." When Chu Yu saw Huo Hai, he walked from the woods to where he and Xu Chang were. He knew that he didn't want Xu Chang to see the truck, so he stopped and said to him.

However, after hearing Chu Yu's name, Xu Chang asked in surprise, "Young Master? Which family is this?"

Seeing Huo Hai's strange costume, Xu Chang's tone of speech slowed down a little, and his face was full of confusion.

"Don't worry about my identity. As long as you know, I will let you get better and better in the local area. You can call me Mr. Huo like them, or Mr. Huo. Thank you for your help to Chu Yu today. I believe that you have received my return gift." Huo Haiyun smiled lightly and said to Xu Chang.

"Uh, this, I wonder if the young master is a member of the Taiping Sect?" Xu Chang said a little confused as Huo Hai looked slightly accent.

"I come from a faraway place. If it goes well, I might be back soon. For you, I may be a passerby. I just did something for you, and it would be considered a waste of time." Huo Hai continued to smile.

"Could it be that the bottle that Miss Chu took today was also from the young master?" Xu Chang said in response.

Huo Hai nodded and said, "In the place where I live, such bottles are cheap and not worth mentioning, but on your side, such bottles are priceless, which I did not expect. But you don't have to worry that I use this to make a profit. The money and food I earn from the bottle will have no effect on me. Except for the gifts given to you, the others are used for the people who have no food to go to Heishan to gather in Heishan. I will not get any penny."

"Then, what is Mr. Huo asking?" Xu Chang asked in confusion.

"Smoothly return to the place I came, it needs their help." Huo Hai said frankly.

"So that's it." Xu Chang nodded.

As a person who often runs in the world, he doesn't believe in anything good for no reason. Even if he is a real god, you need to offer him incense to him before he can appear and bless you.

Since Huo Hai and Chu Yu and the others have something to ask for each other, he is relieved.

"Just just now, Chu Yu said that you can help Wang Dang's subordinates go to Heishan. I want to know how you can help." Huo Hai asked Xu Chang.

"In Zhending County, there are thousands of people under my subordinates, all of whom are young and strong. After receiving the gift from the young master, we can all move and prepare food, drinking water, and resting places along the way in advance." Xu Chang did not take the benefits in vain and went to Huo Hai.

"How many miles are there to get from Zhending County to Heishan?" Huo Hai asked again.

Without satellite navigation ranging, he was not familiar with the geography of this era.

"About three hundred miles north." Xu Chang replied.

"Going north? It's about a hundred miles from our gathering place, which means the whole journey is about four hundred miles." Huo Hai calculated.

"It may take half a month to go." Xu Chang roughly estimated the time.

It is already a great situation for ordinary people to travel twenty to thirty miles a day. After all, the infantry marching of the large corps is only about thirty miles a day. If the people can go so far, there are still people who have done their guarantee work in advance.

"If the road is unobstructed, it is naturally good. If the government intervenes, or there are some local tyrants who want to capture them as slaves, it is hard to say." Huo Hai said again.

"Please rest assured, my Taiping Cult has been operating in Jizhou for many years. Whether it is an official or a local tyrant, they all sell us some face. We will say hello in advance." Xu Chang said confidently.

"So, thank you. In addition, I have some questions to ask you." Huo Hai said again after talking about the main business.

"Master, please ask."

"This Wuji Zhen family is just exchanging things worth millions for my bottle. Are they really so rich? Or are they planning to buy them with the money first and then grab them back?" After understanding this era, Huo Hai, who became more cautious, spoke to Xu Chang.

"Zhen, you should not have to have a conflict with our Taiping Cult for something worth a mere million yuan." Xu Chang replied.

"Just a million yuan? Zhen is so rich?" Huo Hai said with some surprise.

Xu Chang smiled and said, "The Zhen family is the most prosperous business family in the north. Even if it is placed in the country, compared with all the big families, they can rank firmly in the top five in terms of wealth. In the early years, the managers of the Zhen family in various places said that on the Zhen family, there were at least 200,000 yuan of living money on the Zhen family's books. You don't have to worry about not being able to receive money. This is just living money on their shops, not counting the land, real estate, shops, livestock industry and so on in various counties in Jizhou."

There is no unit of billion in this era. Nevertheless, it means billion.

Zhen, who has at least 2 billion cash, spent more than one million yuan to buy a luxury product, which is nothing at all.

Xu Chang's story also made Huo Hai know why Yuan Shao could raise an army of hundreds of thousands after he entered Jizhou, because he could get a large amount of money and grain support from Zhen's family.

If Wang Dang and others want to live well in Heishan, they must do business with wealthy merchants like Zhen. However, Wang Dang and others obviously don’t know how to do business and must teach them these days. Of course, it would be even better if Xu Chang in front of them could help them.

From the conversation just now, Huo Hai had already seen that Xu Chang was much more brainy than Wang, and much better than Chu Yu.

No matter what, I met Xu Chang today. After the food and cloth were removed, Huo Hai asked them to go back first.

While waiting for darkness, Huo Hai thought a lot again, especially if he could go back smoothly, if he could travel back and forth between two worlds like in some time travel novels, he would be developed and could easily solve the problems here and turn himself into a rich man in two worlds. It is very beautiful.

"Are the incense, candle and talisman paper ready?" Thinking of this question, Huo Hai asked Chu Yu, who had been tired for a day and kept eating after getting on the car.

"Don't worry, I bought a big basket, how much is it?" Chu Yu replied.

"It cannot be more or less, we must restore it in its original form."

Huo Hai said to Chu Yu with a serious expression, and then said, "If I can freely travel to and from here and the unknowable place, do you know what this means?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yu stopped eating and looked at Huo Hai dumbly, "That means that I have such delicious food in the future?"

"You are reincarnated as a starving ghost, and you know how to eat it. You are not afraid of getting fat in the future."
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