Chapter 270: Hands-off Shopkeeper
After this incident, the situation in Jixiang County has stabilized.
The relationship between Xia Daohua and Wang also became much closer.
Eunuch Wei sent a steady-looking middle-aged man to buy a small shop near Daohuaxiang and start a business selling dried fruits and roasted nuts.
The so-called fried nuts are fried melon seeds, fried chestnuts, fried walnuts, etc. Add some seasonings and fry until cooked, and then make snacks.
The prices are generally not cheap, but not particularly expensive either.
During the Chinese New Year, every family with children will buy some fried food to bring home, firstly to entertain guests, and secondly to comfort the children.
However, that person's main responsibility was not to make money from business, but to run errands and pass messages between Xia Daohua and Eunuch Wei.
Eunuch Wei is illiterate, and he always feels that for many things, writing on paper carries the risk of being stolen, which makes him unreliable. He thinks it is better to discuss things face to face.
On the first day of opening, the owner of the snack shop sent Daohuaxiang to visit Xia Daohua and explained to her that he was the person sent by Eunuch Wei.
If you have any questions, you can ask him to pass on the message. There's no need to be polite.
Xia Daohua accepted this "kindness". She knew that this godson of Eunuch Wei was not only to run errands and pass messages between her and Eunuch Wei, but also to shoulder the "mission" of monitoring and supervising her.
Although Eunuch Wei did not dare to offend her openly, he also did not dare to let her power be displayed there to tempt others. Wouldn't it be a great loss if her power was used by the enemy?
So he had to look at her with fear and trepidation, trying his best to ensure that she was on his side.
Xia Daohua could understand this kind of concern and didn't mind whether the other party would use any means against her. She just smiled and congratulated Wei Jizu on the opening of his new store and wished him a prosperous business.
Wei Jizu didn't understand why his godfather sent him here in person to keep an eye on this little girl. After all, whether it was passing messages, running errands, or secretly monitoring, he could ask one of his subordinates to do it.
Wouldn't it be a waste of talent to let him do it?
But although my godfather is illiterate, he has never made any stupid moves. Since he has arranged for me to do this, I have to do it well.
Wei Jizu never expected that he would get the mission just a few days later.
The little girl unceremoniously asked him to pass the message to her godfather.
What’s even more terrifying is that after receiving the news, godfather came over in person!
The two of them went to Yang's Teahouse to drink tea, which lasted for a whole incense stick of time. Afterwards, they even invited the county magistrate's wife, Wang, to join them!
Wei Jizu was full of questions, but he didn't dare to ask until his godfather spoke. He just pretended he didn't see it!
Wei Jizu honestly stood guard outside the door. Even when the waiter came to serve tea or water, he took it personally and brought it into the house himself, not allowing others to approach.
The effort was not in vain.
After finishing the tea, his godfather came out with a rosy face, patted him on the shoulder happily, and gave him a ten-liang gold ingot to pay the bill.
Even if they drank the best tea in the store, they couldn't spend all the ten taels of gold!
Why is godfather so generous today?
Wei Jizu bowed and saw off his godfather, Eunuch Wei, who had a smile on his face, and the county magistrate's wife, Mrs. Wang, as they left the teahouse. He stood up and watched the smiling little girl Xia Daohua follow the two of them out. He wondered what good thing had happened to his godfather while staying behind to clean up the mess.
Wei Jizu calmly put the gold ingots in his arms and took a purse to pay the bill. In the end, he only spent two taels and eight cents of silver, which was enough.
Ten taels of gold ingots are equivalent to one hundred taels of silver.
I made a lot of money on this trip!
Wei Jizu returned to the snack shop happily, but the more he observed the summer rice flowers, the more he couldn't suppress his curiosity.
Wei Jizu's curiosity was soon satisfied.
Eunuch Wei instructed him, "Ask Xiao Qi to pick a few people to help. There must be two managers and two guards. As for the rest, let him handle it himself."
Wang was also telling Si Xi, "Bring up the list of all the servants in the family. I'll see if there's anything useful."
Xia Daohua happily became a hands-off boss.
However, she still contacted Xia Youtian and Erlang, and after discussion, she decided to ask her fifth uncle Xia Youliang and fifth aunt Cheng what they thought.
Xia Daohua planned to open a red brick workshop and a cement workshop. The red brick workshop had a meager profit, so Eunuch Wei and Mrs. Wang did not think much of it.
But for the Xia family, the profit from the brick kiln is much higher than that from farming.
Previously, County Magistrate Yang and Wang had dealt with several grain stores in a swift and decisive manner. They also selected a portion of the confiscated real estate, put it together with the convicted female relatives, and arranged for it to be sold by the official teeth of Jixiang County.
The women were sold quite quickly, but the real estate was not in demand.
Firstly, the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkey was too good, and the local merchants were frightened and planned to wait and see; secondly, because the land was previously designated as government land and allocated to refugees for cultivation, these local merchants did not dare to take action.
Not only are they afraid to sell, some merchants with shady backgrounds are also trying every possible way to cover up their past mistakes, and are even slowly and secretly selling some land to prevent being held accountable in the future.
After Xia Daohua inspected around, she took a fancy to several locations.
She bought a small farm covering an area of less than 30 acres, right next to the southern suburbs of Jixiang County and closer to Kyoto.
Although the place is small, it has everything.
There is a naturally formed hill with many wild trees and grasses, as well as many small animals.
There are three or four sloping plots that have been reclaimed, but the yield is not very good. There are about twelve acres of good farmland. There are six acres of sandy land.
There is also a half-acre lotus pond.
Two deep wells were dug in the village, and both were covered with high covers, so even if children ran around the village, they would not fall into them.
What Xia Daohua was most satisfied with was a well-built water diversion canal.
During the dry season, this canal makes irrigation very convenient, and during the rainy season, this canal can also divert water and discharge floodwater.
In addition to this small farm, Xia Daohua also bought two plots of land in the countryside northwest of Jixiang County, intending to use them to set up a red brick workshop and a cement workshop.
The red brick workshop was fine, Wang and Eunuch Wei didn't take the hard-earned money seriously. But the cement workshop made their eyes light up.
They knew that Xia Daohua had many good things, but they didn't expect that they would have a chance to get a piece of the pie and make a fortune together.
Eunuch Wei and Mrs. Wang politely kept their distance. Both sides regarded the other as Xia Daohua's backer and were polite to each other.
The summer rice flowers are laughing secretly.
She naturally saw that the two people were wary of each other, and laughed in her heart - smart people think a lot, you don't even need to say anything, they will already have thought it through in their minds.
In fact, she was too lazy to take care of specific matters, so it was not difficult to bring these two people together and find some management talents from each of them.
She only needed to provide some technology. Moreover, she also bought two plots of land, which was a bigger investment than just providing technology.
It shouldn’t be too much to be a hands-off boss!
Today I accidentally dropped a bottle of fat house happy water on the ground, and then stupidly did not react. The moment I unscrewed the lid, I saw what a cola fountain is... I was soaked to the bone. ^_^ Good night, sweet dreams, see you tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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