The next day, Sun Fugui arrived with his caravan. Chunxiao gave him 30,000 kilograms of cotton and paid him the full amount in silver. When he was leaving, Chunxiao suddenly stopped him and said, "Master Sun, I need you to do me a favor this time."
"Miss Yan, speak your mind." He was now very happy with his caravan loaded with cotton.
"The weather will soon turn cold, and so many people in my village need to make winter clothes. Do you have any cloth that needs to be processed? Please help me transport some and sell it to me. I know that Master Sun must have selected some good ones for me last time. I am very grateful. You don't have to be picky this time. Just give me the cloth that is not easy to process. Just name me a price and we will trade fairly. If it is inconvenient, then just ignore me."
Sun Fugui waved his hands and said, "It's not inconvenient at all. I brought it to you on the way. How about we sell it to you at 400 coins per horse? I can also make some money back."
"Okay." Chun Xiao was happy. "It's just 400 wen. Thank you, Master Sun."
"No thanks, no thanks. I'm leaving now. You have to keep our cotton and don't give it to anyone else."
"No, then I wish you a safe journey."
After Sun Fugui left, someone came to see her every day. This time, Chunxiao did not mention selling anymore, but told everyone that it was okay to sell, but they had to wait until she finished harvesting to see the quantity, and the price would be discussed then.
Yan Dashan came along, and Chunxiao introduced the client to him. Then they went to talk to his elder brother. Now that he was busy in the fields and had to deal with the visitors, he was a bit overwhelmed.
On September 10th, the well diggers arrived. However, since the farm was busy and they had no time to attend to the well, Chunxiao arranged to meet them in early October. As agreed, she gave each of them 10 kilograms of cotton.
Mr. Zhou from Jingzhou also came that day and happily took away the remaining kilograms of cotton. Then came Mr. Wang. On the 15th, Sun Fugui came and really brought her two full carts of cotton cloth. Chunxiao asked someone to help put all the cloth back to the warehouse. Finally, she counted it and found that there were 370 pieces in total. She took a look and thought that this time it was probably processed cloth. It was obviously a grade lower than last time, but who said it was cheap.
After putting the cloth away, she loaded all the remaining pounds into his car. When Sun Fugui left, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of cooperation in the future.
When people came again in the next few days, Chunxiao did not receive them herself, but asked Xingfu and Meiman to deal with them directly. She was busy visiting several yards, checking the situation of the cotton in each place and doing quality control.
On September 20, almost all the cotton in the field had been harvested. In addition to the 170,000 catties sold, the farm still had a total of kilograms. After deducting the tax, the reserved 60,000 catties, and the 160 catties given away, there were only kilograms of cotton left. Many people were interested in buying it, but she didn't expect that so much cotton was not enough to sell. She found Xingfu and asked her to go to Linye Village to inform Yan Dashan to pay taxes together tomorrow.
When Xingfu returned, she told her that Yan Dashan's farm had harvested a total of 100 kilograms of cotton this year. Except for the tax and a few hundred kilograms he kept for himself, the rest had been sold. The price was the same as hers, 130 wen per kilogram. Finally, she added that Yan Dashan laughed so hard that his eyes disappeared.
Big brother is happy this time, he has earned several thousand taels of silver.
On the second day, all work stopped and 30 ox carts were dispatched. It took two trips to deliver all the tax crops to the township government.
Like his brother, Chen Tingzhang was laughing so hard his eyes were blurry. Chunxiao alone had donated a pound of cotton, so how could he not be delighted? Chunxiao also gave him and the government officials a separate gift of 200 pounds of cotton, asking them to look after him in the future.
The policemen had already had a good impression of her, and now that they had harvested the cotton, they were full of praise for her, saying that she was efficient.
After Yan Dashan returned, he returned a silver note of 1,000 taels to her, muttering to himself that he would use the remaining money to buy a farm.
"Brother, I just want to remind you not to be too aggressive in this matter. You haven't trained capable people to manage the manor yet. If you continue to expand, it will easily cause chaos if it is not managed well. However, the decision is up to you."
"You're right. Since I have a lot of money, I thought about buying more land. I haven't considered anything else. We're going back soon, right? Let's talk it over with Dahe first."
Chun Xiao nodded and said, "Next year I'll see how to train some capable people. We're never afraid of anything when we have money."
After returning, Chunxiao asked Meiman and the others to keep 1,200 kilograms of cotton for themselves, and prepare to sell the remaining kilograms together when buyers came.
As a result, on the second day, several people came to buy cotton, and at the same time, a group of soldiers came as well, which scared everyone staying in the village.
Chunxiao was extremely surprised when she saw the person, "Dongsheng, why are you here?"
Dongsheng was also very happy to see her, "Sister Chunxiao, it really is you!"
"Come in and sit down." Chunxiao called them, but several buyers did not dare to come forward.
"We have bought the cotton here. Please go back." A soldier next to Dongsheng spoke. The people who bought cotton left dejectedly, regretting that if only they had come a day earlier, they would not be able to win the fight with the soldiers.
A group of people entered the yard. Zhao Shitou and others bravely wanted to follow them in, but were stopped by the soldiers. Xingfu called them and said that the people who came were the young lady's fellow villagers. Only then did they leave.
Everyone else in the village hid in their own courtyards, secretly peeking into the main courtyard.
"Dongsheng, how did you find this place? Did you go back to Qingzhou? Last year, a general named Hu came to my place to buy cotton and said you were a general now."
"Lord Xu is no longer the commander of the army, but the accountant." A soldier-like man beside him suddenly spoke with a serious expression, which scared Chunxiao.
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