Chapter 102 Earning so much?
Song Hui was extremely irritated at the moment and impatiently scolded him.
"What's wrong with her this time? Just say it directly, don't beat around the bush."
The shopkeeper closed his eyes and shouted, "The wife of the Marquis of Anping used her dowry to buy 10,000 shi of grain and donated it to the Ministry of Revenue, specifically for the disaster victims in Changyuan County."
I just saw that many other prominent families have donated grain, and their stewards are escorting it to the Ministry of Revenue.
Song Hui's vision went black; she was so angry her nose almost twisted.
Song Yi is such a fool. She has grain to sell, but she actually donated it for free?
Is your brain filled with mush?
After scolding Song Yi, she belatedly realized what had happened.
Huang Sheng just said that the Ministry of Revenue has raised enough grain. Could it be that Song Yi and those noble families took the lead in donating it?
hateful!
Song Yi, that bitch!
Without her leading the donation of so much grain, the Ministry of Revenue would not have been able to raise so much grain in a short time, and grain from other places would not have been able to be transported in a short time.
She could have used this time to sell the grain at a high price!
It was Song Yi who harmed her!
For a moment, Song Hui felt like tearing Song Yi apart.
The shopkeeper walked in with a worried look on his face and said, "I just went out to inquire, and what that man surnamed Huang said is true."
He was in a hurry to dispose of the grain. He not only sold grain from his granary to the people, but also sold some to grain and oil shops in Bianjing City at a lower price.
By now, his granary was almost empty.
Song Hui screamed, "What did you say? He also sold it to a grain and oil shop?"
The shopkeeper nodded, "The price of rice sold to grain and oil shops is 10% lower than that of ordinary people."
"Boss, shall we sell or not? If we don't, I'm afraid all the grain and oil shops will have grain by tomorrow morning."
Grain prices... might be even lower then.
Song Hui slumped into the chair, feeling a deafening roar in her ears.
The shopkeeper's mouth opened and closed, but she couldn't quite hear what he was saying.
She had only one thought in her mind: she had bought all that grain at a high price, but now she had to sell it at an even lower price.
A full 100,000 shi of grain!
That was all the money she and her family had, including 50,000 taels of it that she had borrowed at exorbitant interest rates!
She promised to repay the money in early September.
How much compensation will we have to pay?
Her temples were throbbing with pain, and she couldn't figure it out at all.
A rusty, sour feeling rose in her throat, which she forced down, her voice trembling.
"Sell, sell it immediately, at Huang Sheng's price."
"But...but I heard that Huang Sheng has lowered the price by another twenty coins."
"What? Another twenty coins off?"
Song Hui could no longer hold back and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Suddenly everything went black, and she almost collapsed to the ground.
"Master, are you alright?"
The shopkeeper looked worried.
Song Hui struggled to her feet, wiping the blood from her mouth, her voice hoarse.
"Go, change the price immediately, and contact all the grain and oil shops you can reach, and have them come to us to buy goods."
"We must sell all the grain in the next two days."
The shopkeeper left in a hurry.
It took Song Hui two whole days to finally finish processing all the grain.
The grain that was initially purchased cost a full 100,000 taels of silver. It was bought at a high price and sold at a low price, and in the end, it didn't even fetch 70,000 taels.
Song Hui hugged the box containing the silver notes and cried so hard she almost fainted.
After deducting the money to be repaid and interest, she only had a little over ten thousand taels left.
Half of it belonged to her mother, Zhang.
She walked home with incredibly heavy steps, and Madam Zhang rushed over to ask, "How is it? Is all the grain sold? What about the money?"
After Song Cheng was dismissed from his post, he could no longer live in his original official residence, so they had to move to Song Hui's house in a hurry.
Song Hui's eyes darted around, and she stammered. Finally, under Zhang's persistent questioning, she took out five thousand taels of silver notes.
She cried, "...Everything was fine, so how did we lose money?"
Zhang almost fainted when she saw the five thousand taels of silver notes in her hand.
She gave Song Hui 20,000 taels of silver, which was all her savings.
In just a few days, the 20,000 taels of silver dwindled to 5,000 taels. Even eating silver wouldn't have consumed it that quickly.
She was both angry and anxious, but looking at Song Hui's pale face and haggard appearance, she couldn't bear to scold her.
The mother and daughter embraced and wept bitterly, waking Song Cheng from his afternoon nap.
Song Cheng learned that Zhang had given all her money to Song Hui, but had lost everything buying grain.
In a fit of rage, he slapped Song hard across the face, then coughed up blood and fainted again.
Song Hui's family was thrown into chaos.
at the same time.
Beitao Hutong.
Huang Sheng handed two small mahogany boxes to Li Nanke, a smug smile on his face.
"Here, the one on the left is the 210,000 taels of silver you gave me, and the one on the right is the 140,000 taels I earned back."
A total of four hundred thousand taels.
Li Nanke was so startled that he almost dropped the wooden box in his hand.
Her adorable grape-like eyes were wide and round.
"You made that much?"
Huang Sheng curled his lip.
"Not even twice as much. If you hadn't insisted on donating 10,000 shi of grain, keeping some for disaster relief, and also trying to bankrupt the Song family's grain and oil business, I could have earned much more."
Li Nanke opened the box, looked at the neatly stacked silver notes inside, and smiled broadly.
"This amount of silver is already a lot for me. We bought the fine rice for 200 coins and sold it to Song's Grain and Oil Shop for 500 coins, which already made us more than half of the profit."
The price of the grain sold to the people later cannot be too high, otherwise everyone will starve to death because they cannot afford to eat it.
The feeling of being starved to death is truly unbearable.
Huang Sheng was taken aback by her ability to accurately describe how they made money, but he couldn't help but laugh when he heard the last sentence.
"You're so young and born into wealth, how could you possibly know what it's like to go hungry?"
Li Nanke's smile vanished, and she shook her head with a stern face.
"I know what it feels like to be hungry. It feels like there's a hand scratching inside your stomach, and at first it will make a rumbling noise."
Later, I experienced a throbbing pain that was so intense that I had no strength left and couldn't even lift my arm.
Huang Sheng was taken aback and looked at Li Nanke thoughtfully.
He had been kidnapped by bandits, and his whole family was abducted. Starvation was just the least of the mistreatment he had suffered.
He had experienced it firsthand, but he never expected that Li Nanke, a little dumpling born into a noble family and still speaking with a touch of childishness, would also have experienced hunger.
Li Nanke said, "You can never earn enough money. My grandmother said that people should be content and not be too greedy. We are already very fortunate to have earned so much silver."
Huang Sheng was slightly moved, unable to believe that these words came from the mouth of an eight-year-old child.
He stared blankly at Li Nanke for a long time, then suddenly looked up and burst into laughter.
Li Nanke was startled.
"Master Huang, are you alright?"
Huang Sheng's only remaining right eye shone brightly, and his face showed a hint of excitement.
"Good, good, good. At such a young age, he is already very intelligent. Most importantly, he already possesses the vision and wisdom of a top businessman."
In business, small-scale operations and calculating gains and losses are acceptable, but to become a top businessman, one must have a broad mind and a grand vision.
“Little girl, you win. I’ve decided to teach you the ways of business. I’m going to train you to become a top-notch businesswoman.”
After Huang Sheng finished speaking, he didn't hear Li Nanke cheering.
He looked down at Li Nanke and was stunned.
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