novelaction Chapter 915: Acquired a Lot of Industries
Chapter 915: Acquired a Lot of Industries
Let Erpang go and meet up with Wu Jiang and others.
They have been here for so many days, but I haven't reunited with them yet. Now that I've finished my work, I'll see how they are doing.
That night, Wu Jiangquanzi and Dapang and their group all came.
As soon as they saw Zhou Guo, they were all excited and asked, "Master, why are you here?"
"I thought Erpang was lying to us, but it turns out it was really you. But when did you come?"
Zhou Guo smiled and waved his right hand towards the hall, saying, "Thank you for your hard work, the wine and food are ready, come in."
"Ah, there's something delicious!!"
A group of people shouted loudly. They had just returned from down below and rushed to the capital city as soon as they received the news. They had not eaten anything yet and were indeed tired and hungry.
Zhou Guo sat at the top and picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and ate it.
When the people below saw her eating, they hurriedly reached for their chopsticks.
Zhou Guo was actually hungry too, so he ordered this meal from a restaurant, which included chicken, duck, fish and meat.
It was already past dinner time, and she didn't even have any snacks in order to eat with everyone.
Once I started eating, I had no time to talk. I just buried my head in my food like everyone else.
These days this group of people go out early and come back late. Every day they are either running around in the fields or in various counties or even villages, looking for suitable shops and farms. They don't have much free time and don't have much time to sit down and have a good meal.
Often, steamed buns, meat patties, and noodles are enough to get by.
The feast prepared by Zhou Guo was just the right thing to satisfy their cravings.
We were all familiar with each other, so we didn't care about our image when eating. We had food piled in our mouths and in our hands, and our eyes kept looking around to see which one we wanted to eat.
The eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and hands are all busy.
When eating excitedly, food even spurts out of my mouth, and the food flies into other people's bowls.
The other party couldn't see it and just ate it along with the food.
Zhou Guo was eating and watching at the top, and felt that he was very wise. It was absolutely right for him to have a table alone and not squeeze with them.
She finished the whole table of dishes by herself. There were a lot of dishes but she didn't eat much rice.
After the meal, everyone sat on the stools with bulging stomachs and didn't move.
"It's really enjoyable, Master. How about you let me stay with you and ask the fat steward to come down and take a walk."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone shouted and said, "You're kidding! Of course it's good to be with the master, you can eat and drink well, and you can be valued. But how can it be the same if you hang around her every day?"
Er Pang laughed and scolded, "Why, you want to be lazy? You don't do your own work properly all day, your eyes are looking around everywhere, be careful to get pecked blind by an eagle."
Zhou Guo supported his chin with his hand and watched them laughing. Seeing them laughing like that, things must be going well.
Sure enough, when it came time to report the results, everyone was smiling.
There are eighty-six counties under Nanhe Prefecture, including forty-six upper-class counties, twenty middle-class counties, and twenty lower-class counties.
But the medium-sized counties here are richer than those in Yunzhou. At least the terrain is flat, and the large tracts of land cannot be compared with those in the upper-class counties, but they can be compared with those in the north.
The lower-level counties are also much better.
Therefore, they let go and opened shops in every county, at least two, one selling mountain products and the other selling grain.
Some large and upper-class counties even bought more than ten at once. Even if they cannot use them all themselves, it is still cost-effective to rent them out and collect rent.
What's more, they were thinking about what they had at home now, and there were not many of them in these shops.
Crabs, fish, ducks, and all kinds of fruits. According to Zhou Guo's temper, he might come up with something new by then. The clothes, silks, tea, and wine brought back from the south are all good things and they all need a new shop.
Everyone nodded as they listened. If you counted it this way, it wasn't a lot.
Although they did not bring much money, the shops were cheap nowadays, and those in the county town were even cheaper. For forty or fifty taels, one could buy a good shop, and for a little over seventy or eighty taels, one could even have a second floor and a backyard.
Everyone counted the money they had and used the 40,000 taels to buy a lot. If there was not enough, they asked the house team for 2,000 taels.
The house team bought a five-story house in Nanhe City, spending 1,200 taels, which was very expensive!
The main thing is that there is everything in it, including furniture and even some ornaments that were not taken away. These ornaments should not be worth much if they were not taken away, but when they think about Zhou Guo’s study at home, there is really no ornaments except books, a few pots of flowers and lamps.
Not to mention the expensive ones, there isn’t even a cheap one.
It was the first time I saw treasure pavilions of various shapes, with big bottles and all kinds of strange things on them.
Although they didn't think it was pretty, when they thought of Zhou Guo's bare study, they felt that such an arrangement was not bad. A wealthy family should look like a wealthy family. Even if it wasn't beautiful, it had to be there.
There is also a back garden, rockery, corridor, pavilion, and the house has carved beams and painted rafters. It is beautiful everywhere. Their master just needs such a house!
So everyone agreed to decide on the house.
This is the house Zhou Guo wants to live in, and he put a lot of effort into it.
The house for the escort agency was much easier to find. It had to be big, and there was not much concern about the furnishings in the house. As long as the house was big enough for them to live in, it would be fine. This was much quicker to decide on, and also cheaper, because it was not exquisite and had nothing in it. It was bigger than the main house, but it only cost more than 700 taels.
Several houses were also purchased in other large counties, and even the house of the escort agency was ready.
Speaking of this, everyone lowered their voices, fearing that Zhou Guo would blame them for spending money recklessly.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "What's wrong? This is good. Nanhe is not like the north. It is a rich place. The large counties under it are even half as big as Ningping. It would be good to have a branch office. It can be used when things get better here. It is much more useful than nothing."
She was thinking of opening good fruit escort agencies all over the world, with one in the provincial capital and even better with one in the big counties. It wouldn't be a waste if she bought too much, and at worst she could just rent it out if it didn't work out.
Then there is the farm and the land, which has always been the responsibility of Wu Jiangquanzi and others.
Wu Jiang said: "The land around the city is expensive. Anyway, we have shops and houses in the counties below, so we thought it would be good to buy a farm there. Now there is a lot of land, so we bought four farms at once. The smallest farm has more than ten hectares of land, and the largest one is more than fifty hectares. The distance to transport fertilizer to each county in the entire Nanhe is about the same."
Quanzi said: "With four farms in this mansion, we won't be too busy when it comes to spring ploughing or autumn harvest."
"I checked the surrounding areas of these villages. There are quite a few in other counties that are not far away. The products can also be sold to those counties. Then, they can be sold to the nearby territories." Big Fat added.
Zhou Guo nodded. This was the best solution. When she first started selling fertilizer, she only sold it in a few nearby villages. But the next year, everyone in the entire county got the news, and no village was left out.