NovelPantry Chapter 148 Big money!
Chapter 148 Big money!
Chapter 148 Big money!
Li Hao was very satisfied with his meal, and was resting on the rocking chair with his stomach in his arms.
The servant came over and said:
"Master, the Cui family asks to see you!"
Li Hao chuckled.
Sure enough, these aristocratic families finally couldn't hold back and came to find themselves.
Li Hao said:
"Let them in."
soon.
Three family members walked in.
The leader among them was a rather shrewd and capable middle-aged man, dressed as a scribe, walked up to Li Hao, saluted, and said:
"Cui Xian met Mr. Li Hao!"
Li Hao returned the gift smoothly, and then said:
"What do you want me to do?"
Cui Xian cupped his hands and said:
"I'm ashamed to say that, on behalf of the Cui family, I'm asking Mr. for the qualification to raise ducks."
"Our aristocratic family urgently needs to raise ducks. The master knows that it is the time of the locust plague. Our aristocratic family really has to raise ducks for food security. Please also ask Mr. Li Hao to raise your hand so that we will not starve to death."
This Cui Xian's tone is very polite, he no longer has the domineering vigor of the aristocratic family.
Li Guanying, who was standing behind Li Hao, couldn't help shaking his head when he saw this.
It seems that even this group of aristocratic families with a strong sense of superiority will humble themselves in the face of things that they can do nothing about.
This kind of low profile is too rare in front of the aristocratic family. After all, this group of aristocratic children don't even pay attention to His Majesty, let alone those important officials in the court, they don't pay much attention to them.
Now he is respectful to Li Hao.
"Yes, you can raise ducks, of course, I have conditions." Li Hao was too lazy to negotiate with Cui Xian, and said:
"One, you have to hand over the pig raising business."
"Second, you can raise ducks, but you must buy them from me. A duck costs a lot!"
"Three, starting from this year, within ten years, you will give me one-tenth of the food your family grows every year!"
When these three conditions were mentioned, Cui Xian and other family members were immediately stunned!
The first two conditions are actually good.
Cui Mingan didn't expect Li Hao not to take this opportunity to get back the pig raising business.
As for the price of a duck, although it is very expensive, but now only Li Hao has a lot of ducks, so he had to buy it from Li Hao, and it was a loss, but there was no way.
But the third condition is very harsh!
One-tenth of the annual harvest, what is this concept, we must know that this era is still the era of agriculture after all.
Cui Xian would not hesitate to take one-tenth of the commercial commission, and probably agreed directly.
But one-tenth of the grain harvest, after ten years, is equivalent to a year's grain of the family!
Seeing Cui Xian hesitate, Li Hao said with a smile:
"Last time, you had to choose between raising pigs and ducks. You chose to raise pigs, and I gave up the business of raising pigs. The price you paid was half of the family's grain, which is actually about one year's grain."
"This time you have to choose again, and naturally you have to pay the same price."
"It's just that I didn't ask you to pay in one lump sum. After all, you should have no food now. It will take ten years to pay. It shouldn't be difficult!"
Cui Xian hesitated for a long time.
But there is no way.
The bottom-line price given by the senior executives of the family, represented by Cui Mingan, is about one year's grain storage.
Li Hao's ten-year installment payment is indeed considered a discount.
Cui Xian finally agreed to the request.
Li Hao didn't talk so much nonsense with Cui Xian.
After writing the contract, from then on, Li Hao opened the duck raising business to all the big families.
Li Hao regained the franchise rights to raise pigs.
At the same time, the family needs to spend one-tenth of the grain harvest to Li Hao every year.
Li Guanying watched the signing from the side, and couldn't help being dumbfounded.
She had never seen Li Hao doing business like this.
First, he squeezed a lot of money from the family with the pig raising business and got a lot of food.
Then the aristocratic family had to beg to come to the door and return the pig raising business!
In order to be able to return the pig raising business, the family even had to give food again.
The sum of the food given these two times is almost equal to the harvest of the family for two full years!
One must know that the aristocratic family owns the land and population of the entire core area of the Tang Dynasty, and the harvest in the past two years can cover the entire treasury of the Tang Dynasty!
This Li Hao really made a lot of money!
Among other things, just the income from the harvest in the past two years can be said to be an incomparable wealth!
But Li Guanying looked at Li Hao, but found that Li Hao didn't pay much attention to this matter.
In fact, asking the aristocratic family for food is just Li Hao deliberately disgusting the aristocratic family. In fact, with Li Hao's current family background, why does he care about such a little food.
Even if the aristocratic family sent it here, Li Hao still didn't know how to store the food.
After thinking about it, I decided to send it to the disaster victims in Hedong Road.
They had experienced a drought before and barely survived on potatoes. Now they have encountered a plague of locusts, and even the potato seedlings have been eaten up. Now is the time when they need food.
Li Hao thought of the sallow and emaciated faces of the victims, and felt compassion.
He has already picked up the brush and issued an order to Zheng Liwan, asking Zheng Liwan to assist in the distribution of food.
After finishing this matter, Li Hao wondered if he should get a few more roast ducks. The taste of these ducks is very good. After all, they are raised with protein like locusts, and they can be eaten again at night.
what.
correct.
Li Hao suddenly remembered a delicious food. He had eaten it in the modern city, but he never thought of it again after he came to Datang.
After thinking about it, Li Hao immediately added a line to the letter to Zheng Liwan, asking Zheng Liwan to send over the raw materials of this delicious food.
Li Guanying was on the side, looking at Li Hao mysteriously, and didn't know what Li Hao was doing.
……
Even though Li Hao has made a lot of money from the family, Cui Xian is quite satisfied.
This time the task was considered completed, although the price was not killed much, the family paid a relatively high price.
However, with the qualification to raise ducks, the aristocratic family has gained the ability to resist risks against locust disasters, which will be very beneficial for future development. At least for now, there is no need to worry about the locust plague in the Hedong Dao area, which will have a great impact on the aristocratic family.
Cui Xian went back to report.
After discussion, the senior management of the family accepted Li Hao's request.
Although the harvest in one year is quite a lot, they can still afford it in installments of ten years.
Several days passed.
The family's food arrived in Puzhou as scheduled, and with the help of Zheng Liwan, the food was distributed to the victims.
Because Li Shimin bought tens of thousands of ducks from Li Hao, through these tens of thousands of ducks, he devoured the locusts all over the disaster area.
Although the locusts could not be wiped out, the number of locusts has been greatly reduced, and it is difficult to form a terrifying scene where they fly and eat.
The locust plague was finally brought under effective control.
Although it was Li Shimin who bought the ducks to control the locust plague in Hedong Road.
But the people in Hedong Road all know who is responsible for the locust plague.
That is Saint Li Hao!
Only Puzhou in the entire Hedong Road was not affected by the locust plague, and everyone knew that it was done by the miracle of the sage Li Hao.
It was also the sage Li Hao who gave this method to His Majesty today, which relieved the locust plague in the entire Hedong Road area.
Speaking of the root, it is Li Hao's credit!
Not to mention that Li Hao also delivered food for emergency.
(End of this chapter)