Chapter 267: Big Profit Again

One hundred thousand taels is a lot, but it’s not particularly scary.

He just helps to earn it back.

Aya is right. Once the sins are redeemed, it will be much easier to do things in the future.

When one hundred thousand taels of silver were dropped into the county government office, County Magistrate Yin was surprised but not too surprised. He did not dare to play tricks or be greedy. He followed the rules and quickly completed the process.

He was now certain that Zhao Xiang's connections were still very useful in the court. Needless to say, the person who was threatening him must be an old friend of Zhao Xiang's.

He secretly sighed, thinking that he was so naive in the past, thinking that Zhao Xiang had to obey his supervision because he had fallen to his current state. Little did he know that a first-rank official was a first-rank official, so how could he not have a few reliable and useful connections?

Once someone gets serious with you, you won't even be able to fight back.

Look at the speed at which they make money, it is even more amazing!

The mysterious boss behind the scenes might also be someone Zhao Xiang used to manage.

Because we don’t know or understand anything, we are even more fearful.

Magistrate Yin wanted to pretend to be deaf and blind and not care about these things anymore. As long as they didn't provoke him or cause him any trouble, he would turn a blind eye to everything.

I have to say that County Magistrate Yin really made up too much of himself.

After spending 100,000 taels of silver, Zhao Liya still had about 11,000 taels left.

Lin Mo was unwilling to take advantage of everything, so after discussing with Shu Yan, he kept only a small portion of his family savings of more than 6,000 taels of silver, and Zhao Liya must keep the remaining 6,000 taels.

Zhao Liya had no choice but to accept it, and her assets now amounted to 17,000 taels.

Even without counting the profits from the air routes, a hot and sour noodle shop makes a net profit of at least two hundred taels a month, and a restaurant in the provincial capital makes a net profit of at least four hundred taels a month. These two shops alone make at least seven or eight thousand taels a year.

She seems to be quite wealthy.

As the news that the sugarcane fields in Zaihu Village were about to be harvested spread, Zaihu Village and Yan Village suddenly became lively again.

There were even merchants who rushed over from the provincial capital to build relationships and place orders in advance.

Uncle Hu and Manager Xiao Liang are in charge of reception.

The deposit will definitely not be collected. We will just draw lots and buy based on our luck.

A lot of seeds need to be saved, so there shouldn't be too much sugarcane used for sugar production, so everyone can be mentally prepared.

More importantly, brown sugar would only be a small portion of the total sales, with the majority going to white sugar. And white sugar, currently, was absolutely impossible to sell openly to merchants, but would only be sold secretly to Jiangnan via the Guangzhou-Zhanjiang route.

Make a lot of money.

At least it will take a few years, until they have all redeemed their sins and Zhou Hansheng is no longer so short of money, and then find a suitable time to make this matter public.

Therefore, so many merchants who come to the store are destined to be disappointed.

Because the amount of sugar each person can get is definitely limited. Some people may even return empty-handed.

"Everyone, please be patient. Next year, the plantations will be much larger, and many villages will start growing sugarcane. The sugarcane yield next year will definitely be huge, and the amount of sugar produced will be much greater than it is now. So don't be impatient, just wait a little longer."

Although it is good to be fair in transactions, there are so many merchants. If too many people cannot buy, they will inevitably feel resentful, which is not appropriate.

It is naturally better to be able to make money through harmony.

Everyone is happy.

When the sugarcane fields in Zaihu Village were bustling with activity, other villages were inspired and the registration lists of each village were finally finalized one after another.

Zhao Liya and the others did a summary statistics and calculated that fortunately, they could barely provide enough for planting. If they didn't have enough here, they could purchase a batch from Suixi County through Zhong Jing.

As long as the first batch of supplies is available next year, things will be easy in the future.

Each family will pay attention to preserving seeds.

But this is not a solution. She has to formalize the process in the future. She plans to build a breeding base and do a good job of breeding in order to produce better varieties in the future.

Those villages asked Zaihu Village to come and help when harvesting sugarcane, without asking for any money, and treating it as a learning opportunity.

The same applies to planting after harvesting.

Zhao Liya agreed and asked each village to nominate reliable villagers who were quick learners based on the size of their plantings to come and learn. The number of people from each village ranged from five to twelve or thirteen.

Every village agreed, and with the village head and clan leaders making the decision, the candidates were quickly chosen. They arrived in Zaihu Village at the beginning of the harvest. They simply found relatives, friends, or relatives of relatives of friends in Zaihu Village and stayed with them until the work was completed.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to harvest sugarcane, and Zaihu Village suddenly became extremely busy again.

Sugarcanes are cut down one by one, bundled into bundles and sent to the sugar-making workshop. Everyone in the workshop is full of energy, busy from morning to night every day, producing pieces of brown-yellow sugar.

Zhao Liya, Shu Yan, Qu Yutao, Aunt Hu, Widow Qu and others soon became busy. Zhao Liya also watched from the sidelines and selected four more reliable and capable servants from the servants she bought. Together, they processed the yellow sugar and boiled white sugar in a small courtyard in a remote corner of the sugar-making workshop.

All external affairs were handed over to Uncle Hu, Leader Hu, Manager Xiao Liang, and the managers of Zaihu Village.

Nowadays, everyone is much more familiar with doing things than before. There is no need for Hu to lead his team like a fire brigade, busy all day long giving instructions and preaching everywhere. For many things, the managers and even the villagers who do the work are very skilled.

Know what you should do.

Besides, Uncle Hu is an old and experienced man.

With him around, Zhao Liya felt more at ease.

It's worth mentioning that the villagers of Zaihu Village are basically good people. Even if there are occasionally a small group of people who have some different ideas in their minds, they dare not say it out loud, let alone put it into action. Instead, people from other villages come to help.

A mix of good and bad.

Some, inevitably, were jealous, greedy, selfish, or simply curious, or deliberately looking to stir up trouble, stirring things up. They even lingered near the sugar mills, attempting to infiltrate, or pulled the workers aside to ask curious questions. Or they would slack off while working in the sugarcane fields, or try to secretly hide a few stalks of sugarcane.

In short, there are a lot of small actions.

This kind of people is not all, only about 20% of the people who come.

But even so, it is disgusting enough.

Uncle Hu was ruthless towards them. All the workers working in the sugarcane fields were divided into groups. There was a clear number of people in each group and what tasks they were responsible for. It was easy to keep an eye on them, right?

(End of this chapter)