diskusbooks Chapter 194 Whose credit is it?
Chapter 194 Whose credit is it?
Sure enough, when Bai Jingzhou heard him ask this, he was almost immediately attracted.
He looked at Gu Wenxuan, who nodded slightly.
Bai Jingzhou smiled and turned his gaze back to Mu Hanzhi, "We do intend to buy some, but unfortunately, we have never come into contact with this kind of thing. If we act rashly, it is very easy to be cheated and lose all our money."
Mu Hanzhi immediately said: "If you trust me, I can sell you some at a low price. I can guarantee that what I sell you are all good things with good quality and low price."
Seeing Bai Jingzhou's puzzled expression, he added with a wry smile, "I think you can guess the situation of our Mu family. Before I came to your place, that person..."
He pointed to the sky and said, "He sent his trusted eunuch to the Mu family and asked me for 100,000 taels of silver. I tried every possible way to bribe the eunuch, took out the account book, apologized, and cried poor. In the end, the eunuch still took a stack of deeds and 30,000 taels of silver from my house and left."
Just this one time, the castrated dogs took away a full 70% of the profits from the Mu family's shops.
If it weren't for the fact that their Mu family has always been very low-key, so that those bastards have no idea that their Mu family is actually much richer than everyone thinks, if it weren't for the fact that their father and son had been secretly transferring property and shifting the focus of their business since a long time ago because of those bastards' unscrupulous behavior, over the years, their Mu family would have been ruined by those greedy parasites.
But even so, Mu Hanzhi could not bear to see his father's life and the Mu family's rich wealth that had been displayed on the surface being looted by those bastards.
If they dare to treat the Mu family as fat sheep to be slaughtered, then don't blame him for directly overturning their platform and making it impossible for them to dominate the fate of the Mu family from a high position.
Hearing him say this, Bai Jingzhou almost immediately guessed why Mu Hanzhi was in a hurry to make money but was reluctant to sell the antiques and jade he had hoarded. He was not afraid that Mu Hanzhi would cheat him. After all, Mu Hanzhi was a smart man, and he and Gu Wenxuan had also demonstrated certain strength in front of him.
He nodded, "Then I'll have to trouble you to help me. Our budget is thirty thousand taels, so please help us pick out some good things."
Thirty thousand taels of silver is indeed not a small amount, especially for people like them who have become rich from poverty.
Mu Hanzhi was very surprised. He said, "Don't worry, my dear brother. I will personally deliver the things to you tomorrow."
He was determined to win the cotton deal. Although he had no money, he had already quietly transferred enough expensive items to his house in Liulin Town.
According to the current market conditions, it would be no problem for him to sell that batch of goods for 60,000 taels. Now Bai Jingzhou was planning to order goods worth 30,000 taels, so he only needed to estimate and pick out half of the goods and send them over.
"Then I'll have to trouble you, brother." Bai Jingzhou handed him two booklets. "This is a manual for growing cotton and lotus roots. I've written down the cotton picking method, subsequent processing steps, common uses, and the method for storing lotus roots over the winter."
"Of course, this is just the little experience we have accumulated over the past year, and it may not be all correct. If we find other better planting and storage methods in the future, we will try to pass on the message to brother again."
Mu Hanzhi was overjoyed. He carefully took the two booklets and said, "Thank you for your trouble, brother."
After leaving Zhuangzi, Mu Hanzhi privately sighed with his confidant, "My brother is really a great man. He gave me such a valuable thing as soon as he said so. In addition, my brother's wife is also sensible and generous. With their broad minds, they will definitely not be ordinary people in the future."
The long-time attendant understood that Mu Hanzhi meant to make good friends with Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan.
The next day, Mu Hanzhi not only selected antique jade worth thirty thousand taels and sent it over, but also selected two pieces of seal seed material, a box of oriental pearls, and a box of rubies as thank-you gifts for Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan.
Although the thank-you gift he gave was heavy, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou could totally afford it. After all, these two people were so loyal when dealing with him.
Just for cotton and cotton seeds, the two helped him save a lot of money, so even if he only exchanged 30,000 taels of antique jade, he no longer had to worry about raising money for military rations.
Mu Hanzhi was in a good mood and had more money thanks to Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan, so he thought of buying the newly harvested lotus roots from Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan as well.
In addition, he also bought the newly brewed wine by Bai Jingzhou and his family, as well as the fresh fish and shrimp that they raised in the ponds on their other two farms.
After seeing Mu Han off, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou transported the reserved cotton back to Baijia Village.
When the family asked about their experiences during the past few days, Bai Jingzhou gave most of the credit for growing cotton to Gu Wenxuan.
"Wenxuan and I learned the planting method from our master. The lotus and cotton seeds were provided by the head of the Mu family. He wanted to thank Wenxuan for saving his brother's life."
"During this period, Wenxuan and the farmers basically did all the heavy work, and I was responsible for helping to keep records and calculate the weight."
His mother scolded him, saying that he didn't know how to be considerate to his future wife. He just listened with a smile and didn't refute. But he also didn't say that he would change in the future, or do more heavy work and not be lazy.
After his mother had finished scolding him, Bai Jingzhou continued, "Master Mu wanted to present this method of growing cotton and lotus roots to the nobleman. Sister Wenxuan knew that I wanted to take the imperial examination, so she asked Master Mu to submit this method in my name. I am really benefiting from Sister Wenxuan this time."
Bai Chong couldn't help but frown when he heard this, "This, this is not good, right? How can you take all the credit for such a great achievement?"
Bai Jingzhou said: "Sister Wenxuan said that she is not going to take the imperial examination, so the appreciation of the nobleman means nothing to her."
Bai Chong disagreed, "Then you can also bring her second brother along!"
Bai Jingzhou smiled, "Her second brother didn't participate in the whole process. Once the noble asks, it will be exposed. Don't worry, if the opportunity is right, I will repay Sister Wenxuan's kindness to the Gu family."
This was exactly the purpose of Bai Jingzhou bringing up this matter. He needed to lay the groundwork in his parents' minds for him to take care of his brothers-in-law in the future.
After resting for a night at home, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou went to the three cotton-growing farms the next day.
They were going to settle money with the farmers, and the other two also arranged people to transport a lot of grain over.
More than half of this batch of grain was last year's old grain, and its quality and price were the same as those they exchanged with other farmers. The remaining small half was new grain produced on their other farms, and its quality and price were slightly better than those of the grain stores in the town and county.