After dinner, Cao Xiangnan talked about business. He told Cao Gang and others about his plan and asked, "How is it?"
This was of course good. As the village chief of Caojia Village, Cao Gang was willing to help the villagers make more money. He nodded and said, "I'll go over there and talk to him later."
This meant that he agreed.
Cao Xiangnan's idea was that he could sell vegetable seedlings here and tell the buyers how to grow vegetables. As for whether they were willing to spend the money to buy vegetable seedlings and plant them at home, or whether they could grow them after buying them, he didn't care. Growing vegetables depends on one's ability. Some people are good at farming and some are not. Those who sell well get a good price, and those who sell poorly get a little less.
He didn't plan to sell the seeds, he just wanted to make some money from the vegetable seedlings, which was a quick way to earn money with little work.
The price of vegetables would be high only in early spring. After this time, when there are too many vegetables in the fields, no one would want them even if they were given away. The time to make money from growing vegetables was short, so he had to try to make some money in the shortest possible time. He couldn't grow so many vegetables by himself, and the workshops wouldn't start working until March at the earliest. At that time, everyone was idle and had nothing to do. It would be a waste to keep so many workers there, so he might as well find something for the villagers to do and make more money.
As for who makes more or less, it depends on your own ability.
However, when there are more people growing vegetables, there will always be unhealthy competition. The price of vegetables will have to be controlled by the village chief Cao Gang, and the price will be unified. If someone does not follow the rules, Cao Xiangnan will no longer sell seedlings to that person, so as to avoid some people with confused minds holding everyone back.
Later, he took everyone to see the vegetables planted in the fields. The small green vegetables looked very funny. Cao Xiangnan took the opportunity to tell Cao Gang about the details, "I will also limit the purchase of seedlings by people in the village."
However, he thought that the price of the seedlings he ordered was so high, and it was estimated that not many people would be willing to spend money to buy seedlings.
After the New Year, the days gradually became longer, the sun set a little slower, and it became dark later. At this time, it was getting dark. Cao Xiangnan and Cao Gang went to the village together and went to Li Zheng's place to find Li Zheng.
"Well, this is a good thing." Li Zheng was very happy when he heard about the money for the villagers. He pulled Xiangnan, the boy, and knew it was this boy's idea. Cao Xiangnan was embarrassed by the compliment, "Seventh Master, please stop talking like that. I feel embarrassed. This matter has not been completed yet. If something happens, don't glare at me."
"It will definitely be completed. If anyone dares to hinder Caojia Village, I will drive him out of the village." Li Zheng glared. The problem would not be with Nan boy. If anyone dared to cut off the village's financial resources at this time, don't blame him for being unkind.
Caojia Village is what it is today, thanks to Xiangnan. If it were anyone else, he would not be willing to drag others to make money, but Xiangnan definitely dragged the entire Caojia Village to make money. He is a good boy.
With Li Zheng's guarantee, Cao Xiangnan felt relieved. He knew that with Li Zheng here, no one would dare to make trouble. Even if someone dared to hinder him, Li Zheng would deal with it.
When it was completely dark, he returned home from the village.
That night, he went to distribute seeds. Qi Wanfeng coaxed the children to sleep and went to help her husband with work. Cao Xiangnan told Wanfeng one by one what to pay attention to when distributing seeds, and also told him the method of growing vegetables in detail.
Qi Wanfeng listened carefully and memorized everything.
The weather in early spring was still very cold. They went to the children's room to check on them and tucked in the corners of their quilts, fearing that they would catch a cold. They saw that the children were all fast asleep.
The little white fox sleeping beside Lele's pillow heard the eyes, raised his eyelids and continued to sleep. Cao Xiangnan reached out and touched the fox skin, thinking that it would be very warm to make a scarf with the fox skin, but it was a pity that the little fox was still so small after being raised for so long. What a pity...
The little white fox didn't even know that he was being thought of. He closed his eyes and curled up into a ball to continue sleeping. He was really careless. The warmest thing on this day is the quilt. The two of them slept in the same quilt to keep each other warm. Cao Xiangnan held his wife in his arms. It is the happiest thing in the world to have a wife and child in a warm bed.
The two of them put their hands together on his belly. Qi Wanfeng lay in his husband's arms, wondering if he was pregnant with his husband's child. However, there was no news for such a long time, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart.
"Why are you sighing?" Cao Xiangnan heard the sigh, kissed his wife, and asked.
"I was wondering why there was no news for so long?" Qi Wanfeng squinted, enjoying the kiss of her husband, and turned his head to respond to her husband. Hearing Wanfeng's words, Cao Xiangnan couldn't help but smile, and touched the man's belly with his hand, saying, "The baby will come when it's time, let's just let it go."
"Yeah." Qi Wanfeng understood, and he responded softly.
The next morning, people from the village came to the door, and they were acquaintances, Chen Hong and Li Mei came together.
Chen Hong didn't beat around the bush when she came, and she came straight to the point about buying vegetable seedlings. When he heard Li Zheng say that Xiangnan had vegetable seedlings for sale and ways to grow vegetables, he came immediately, and also brought with him a few brothers who usually interacted with him.
One hundred vegetable seedlings cost ten copper coins. You have to know that a bag of vegetable seeds only costs one copper coin,
and you don’t know how many vegetables can be grown. Now such a small number of vegetable seedlings are sold at a sky-high price. Some people hesitated when they heard that the price of the vegetable seedlings was so expensive. If the vegetables died in such a cold weather, they would lose money. Cao Xiangnan also thought of this situation at the beginning. He didn’t work for nothing, and he couldn’t give it to you for free.
These guys who came here all worked for their boss. They naturally believed that they could make money by working for their boss. It’s just a matter of spending a few copper coins, and they are willing to spend money to buy it.
"Xiangzi, come here." Cao Xiangnan did not respond immediately, but waved Xiangzi over. After the child came over, he put his hand on the child's shoulder and said, "Now Daddy will assign you a task. If you do it well, you will be rewarded. If you don't do it well, it will be considered as exercise." Hmm? Xiangzi's eyes lit up and he looked at his father expectantly.
"So I'll leave this matter to you. Can you do it?" Cao Xiangnan handed the matter of selling vegetable seedlings to Xiangzi. He had taught the child for a whole winter, and it was time to give the child a chance to exercise. He set the price of the vegetable seedlings. One person could only sell a maximum of 100 seedlings or three batches of vegetable seedlings within seven days. Those who made reservations would be given priority, and first come first served. Those who came later would be sold out.
Selling vegetable seedlings is not just selling vegetable seedlings. There is a lot of knowledge involved. It is to train a child's ability to deal with things.
"Xiangzi can do it!" Xiangzi replied seriously.
"Okay, you can also choose someone to help you. Who do you choose?" Cao Xiangnan asked.
Xiangzi turned around and saw Anan looking at him curiously. He turned his eyes away and said without hesitation, "I choose Xiaoqiang." He thought Anan was going to study and take the imperial examination, so he would leave the business to him. He didn't plan to let Anan help.
"Why?" Cao Xiangnan asked, "Can you tell me the reason?" He glanced at little An'an who was paying attention here, he also wanted to know the reason.
"An'an should study hard and pass the imperial examination in the future." Xiangzi said.
"Haha..." Cao Xiangnan couldn't help laughing, and blinked at his little brother, meaning whether he heard it.
An'an turned his head and wrinkled his nose. He didn't care that his father didn't let him help sell the seedlings, and Xiangzi didn't ask him to sell the seedlings together. Qi Wanfeng smiled, pulled his little brother into his arms, and kissed his little brother. His little brother has grown up so big in a blink of an eye, maybe he can really pass the imperial examination in the future!
"Well, go ahead and register a few momos first." Cao Xiangnan pushed the child and handed the matter to the child, and he became the boss. Rather than training the child, it is better to say that he wants to be lazy and not work.
This person should be lazy when he can be lazy, and let others do the work if he can. When the child is raised, it will be his time to enjoy a peaceful life. At that time, he can also consider taking his wife to travel all over the world? He doesn't have to think about making money to support the family all day long, just wait for the children to support him.
I just don't know how long it will take...
Everyone who came asked for 100 seedlings and paid a 30% deposit.
As for their boss handing this matter to a child, Chen Hong and others did not look down on Xiangzi just because he was young, and they all teased Xiangzi. Xiangzi said something to his friends seriously. His little face looked so cute, but the price couldn't be lower. After the people who came to buy the seedlings left, Cao Xiangnan asked Xiangzi to go to his uncle Liu to learn how to distribute seeds and grow vegetables. He planned to let the child do the rest.
"Is Xiangzi really capable?" Qi Wanfeng looked at the child who left, then turned to ask his husband.
"Don't worry, the child can do well." Cao Xiangnan believed in his judgment. The child was a little wolf, and he just had to wait for the day when he grew up to hold up the sky. He took his little brother over and kissed him, then misled the child, saying, "When An An passes the imperial examination and becomes the top scholar, I will open a backdoor for your brother and let your brother's business spread throughout the Feng Dynasty."
"You are in the court and in the wild, which is just right for collusion between officials and businessmen."
An An listened to his father's words, thought about it, nodded seriously, and felt that his father was right. When he passes the imperial examination and becomes a high-ranking official, no one will dare to bully his father and brothers.
"Puchi..." Qi Wanfeng laughed, patted his husband, snatched the child back and held him, and asked, "Husband, don't teach our child badly. What is collusion between officials and businessmen? This is a serious crime."
"Yes, yes, yes, I said the wrong thing. It's about taking care of each other." Cao Xiangnan changed his words immediately.
That's right! Qi Wanfeng was satisfied.
Later, people kept coming to ask about the vegetable seedlings, and Cao Xiangnan handed them over to Xiangzi to handle. Sometimes he would just watch from the side, and later he simply handed it over to the boy to do it without asking any more questions.