Chapter 118 One year later
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"In the town of Mayfly, the Great Heat is busy, and people are busy. They are panicked, and they have no food and clothing. They all starve to death. The sky is cold and the sky is cold. Fortunately, there is a Hu Bolang. Hu Bolang, who comes raining. After the rain, the autumn pond rises. The grass grows and the cows are vast. It is easy to work after the world. The sun is busy with harvest. This year is a good time. Fortunately, there is a Hu Bolang!"
The children were holding candied haws, three or five together, and in groups of about ten. In the town of Mayflies, where the fog had not yet dissipated, they were already busy, happily singing nursery rhymes over and over again, running around the streets and alleys.
"Hey, these kids!" On the stall next to Longtan Building, the boss wiped the table and handed the noodles to the guests who had been waiting for a long time.
"I don't know which gentleman made this up, it's quite interesting." Zhao Ritian sucked the noodles and praised him with a thumbs up. The noodles here still tasted like this.
"This is made up by Mr. Su who came last year." The boss Wang said, and sat down.
"Mr. Su?" Zhao Ritian felt that the name was familiar, so he spoke, "Can it be Su Wenyu?"
Seeing Lao Wang nodding, Zhao Ritian was even more surprised: "Why would Su Wenyu come here too? He is a scholar and has fame. He and I were classmates."
Lao Wang smiled, shook his head, poured himself a cup of cold and white. After taking a sip, he felt comfortable in his stomach and then put down his cup and said, "What's so strange about this? Don't forget that a year ago, the drought was severe, and many people were displaced. It's better for our Mayfly Town. Before the White Lotus Sect was in trouble, the three towns in Hunyou County basically came to us. I remember a year ago, the mayor also counted that the population of this town is about 2,200. You can only count it three months later. How many are there in our Mayfly Town alone?"
"How many?" Zhao Ritian asked hurriedly.
Lao Wang didn't say anything, stretched out his palm and shook it in front of him.
"Five thousand!" Zhao Ritian was shocked.
"This is still in our town. The total number of the four surrounding villages is now 3,000, and the entire Hunyou County is only about 18,000. Think about it, there are now 8,000 people in our Canfen Town! Moreover, there are countless businessmen and other things coming every day and every month..."
Speaking of this, Lao Wang smiled and looked at Zhao Ritian and said, "I'll show off my skills when I tell you this. Zhao Ritian should know the best of these."
Zhao Ritian said three times that he didn't dare to do so, and he seemed respectful to the owner of this small noodle stall.
In fact, he was forced out of the severe drought a year ago. His Zhao family was a merchant family. Although he had some family background, he was not very good. His father, who died in the drought, named him Ritian, which means he was at the peak of his life. I hope he could revitalize his family. However, it is a pity that when his father was alive, he took over the business. Not only did he not make any profit, but he almost lost his family's fortune. During the drought, as soon as his father died, he brought his family to this Mayfen Town.
However, I did not expect that the town of Mayflies was not affected by drought at all, and the rivers were still rolling and the mountains and rivers were beautiful.
The crops and the like in the fields grow better than anywhere else.
Due to drought in other places, rice and flour prices have risen like something. Once the price is high, the supply is still in short supply. However, here, the price is not only lower than the average price, but also the quantity is extremely large.
At that time, he had a thought to sell rice and flour, but found that the town had a strange rule that rice, flour, grain, and other things were not allowed to leave the town.
Later he realized that if there were such huge resources here, everything was protected by Hubo.
The reason for such a regulation is that the oracle under the Hubo was afraid that this place would become the source of looting elsewhere, making life here uneasy.
"Forget it, it's great to be able to live a peaceful life." So he didn't have much extravagance.
But later he found that he was living with the family he brought out and was about to spend the rest of his life, so he started to do some small business. However, the business was average, until someone saw that his child was pitiful, so he asked him to go to Hubo Temple to burn incense and bless him. After he went there suspiciously, he had a strange dream that night.
In his dream, he came to a palace with crystal bones and saw a dragon-headed man who called himself a god.
The gods told him that because of his piousness, he pointed out his way to make a fortune, but after he became rich, he could not forget his roots. He agreed repeatedly. After Meng woke up, an old man came to him and said that the river clams raised in the lake in the village already had beads, but unfortunately he had nowhere to take action. Hubertomeng asked him to come to find him.
pearl?!
When he heard this, he felt strange that although pearls could be sold at a good price, there were only one good pearls in a thousand, and most of them could only be used as medicine beads. It seemed that they could not make a lot of money. And they had been since they became pearls for at least two and a half years, and it took too long... Later, after he went there, he realized that the pearls produced in this place called Xiangliu Village are really of high quality!
What surprised him the most was that the number of pearls was extremely large, and it only took one year to become a pearl!
The matter afterwards was very simple. He relied on his previous path to sell pearls. This sold for a year. He went from being a small businessman to the entire Hunyou County, and even further away, he was the richest and most famous businessman.
Because he sells many pearls, high-quality, and real price, unparalleled!
Of course, this is also related to Zhao Ritian's iron-fisted means in the business world. Who doesn't know that Zhao Ritian is a ruthless character when doing business outside?
However, everyone in the Mayfen Town knows that Zhao Ritian is very polite to the village.
Because Zhao Ritian knew that he could achieve this today was entirely due to the words of the local residents of the Mayfen Town. No matter how he was, he could not be rude to the countryside.
After the business grew, the first thing he did was to renovate the four villages of Mayfly one by one, from the village land, houses, fences, Hubo Temple, etc. It can be said that his annual profits were made, except for a part of his family, and the rest were built in the town of Mayfly and four villages.
Of course, no matter how much he invested, he never lost. He attributed all this to Lord Hubo's blessing.
People like Zhao Ritian are just one of the twenty wealthy businessmen that have added to the Mayfen Town in the past year.
"Old Zhao, I said that our Fast Town is becoming more and more famous. Look at the beggars coming in, and more and more disasters are being suffered from outside the country. Can you afford to build a salted porridge shed alone at the entrance of the town? I don't know, but you know that in the first half of the year, you spent half of your property to build a village outside our Fast Town. You also hired people to dig up all the rivers and ditches around Fast Town. The expenses are unbearable." The boss Wang said that Zhao Ritian had no airs in front of him, and he was happy to treat him as a friend.
"Old Wang, you have a narrow sense of knowledge when you say this. Think about it, let's stabilize these outsiders here, so that the population here continues to increase. Once there are more people, will the surrounding area become rich? Everyone goes to worship Lord Hu Bo, and Lord Hu Bo will naturally be happy. The many people worship him will naturally have a contribution. Lord Hu Bo is clear in rewards and punishments, so it is natural to see everything."
Zhao Ritian finished eating the last mouth noodles of Yi, put down the bowl and said, "Old Wang, I'm busy today, so I'll leave first, and I'll talk tomorrow."
Say Ba, turn around and leave.
In fact, he is indeed very busy. The latest batch of wood, bricks and tiles are to be transported. He also has to go to see the salted porridge shed, and then go to four villages to collect pearls in the afternoon. In addition, he also has to go to see the mountain outside Lijia Village.
A mosquito followed him quietly...
Chapter completed!