A time-travelling peasant girl becomes a wealthy woman

Chapter 199 Shipbuilding

With the endorsement of their elder sister, they came to see Huang Mulin to ask for a collaboration.

"I want to buy one too."

Zhao Guanxu immediately followed up.

Before he came here, he wrote a letter to Zhao Wenbo and Zhao Zhifeng.

Back in Bofeng County, the house where Zhao Wenbo lived actually belonged to his father. His father and Zhao Wenbo were brothers.

At that time, Zhao Guanxu was doing business outside and had no direct contact with the Huang family, but he knew about this.

In addition, Zhao Zhifeng had revealed to him that Zhao Zhifeng had obtained the help of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to take the position of prefect of Tianjing Prefecture.

This series of intricate relationships made him particularly curious about the Huang family, and he also had an inexplicable sense of trust in them.

"it is good."

Huang Mulin motioned for them to choose the shops they wanted, except for those that were already marked, "those without marks are not sold or rented out."

"I have to remind you that each shop will cost no less than ten thousand taels. This "ten thousand taels" does not mean ten thousand taels, it could be tens of thousands of taels. I will announce the specific price in three days."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of people gasping for air at the scene.

Ten thousand taels! ?

Tens of thousands of taels! ?

This is just a small town shop!

Even the three families who were about to make a decision hesitated.

Huang Mulin understood very well that people were always hesitant about unknown things, so she did not try to persuade them and just waited for them to make their own decision.

She said it was a game.

However, there is someone she really wants to win over.

"Master Qu." Huang Mulin looked at Qu Chao, "If possible, I would like to discuss cooperation with you later."

Qu Chao was delighted and said, "It's a great honor."

Huang Mulin's plan requires a ship, and Qu Chao is the most suitable candidate.

Even if he didn't come today, or was not in Linhai Town, she would send someone to find him for cooperation.

It's just that it changed from open to covert.

These two short sentences gave the others present a very important message.

Huang Mulin needs a boat!

What do you need a boat for?

Linhai Town is close to the sea, if there is a ship...

Although they really couldn't think of anything else to do besides going out to sea to fish, this information made them smell something unusual.

Wan Wenyi and Mu Ziqi remembered their sister's reminder, gritted their teeth, and said in unison: "County Lord, I want to buy a shop."

The two men pointed to the shops behind the Song and Ge families and asked for two each.

An Ran received Huang Mulin's signal and marked it with a brush.

When Zhao Guanxu saw that Wan Wenyi and Mu Ziqi had made their decision, he hesitated for a few moments. He decided to take a gamble and buy the two shops behind them, one on each side.

The others hesitated and did not move.

Qu Chao thought about it, followed Zhao Guanxu, and asked for a shop on each side.

After waiting for a long time and no one spoke, Huang Mulin asked An Ran to move the wooden board away.

"In that case, today we can be considered to have gotten to know each other." Yang Lijun picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. "Except for Qu Fangzhu, I will not keep anyone else."

Yang Lijun asked them to leave, and they had no choice but to stay any longer. Except for Qu Chao, everyone left with a lot of thoughts in their mind.

It is said that after the managers of the Song and Ge families left the Huang family, they first returned to their house and wrote a letter, then went straight to the county seat of Qiling County, found the escort agency, and spent a large sum of money to hire someone to deliver the written letter back to their family as quickly as possible.

They only prayed that their family would get the letter as soon as possible and arrange for people to be stationed in Linhai Town for a few years to completely take over this cooperation.

If Huang Mulin had not considered that they had cooperated with each other several times and the cooperation was quite pleasant, he probably would not be willing to give them only a deposit and tell them the core of the plan today.

Thinking about it now, my palms are still sweating.

If they could also have so much money to buy a shop, they would also follow Huang Mulin!

Here, after everyone else left, Huang Mulin started to discuss the shipbuilding matters with Qu Chao.

"Master Qu, I need a few large ships that can sail. I wonder if you are willing to move to Linhai Town for a few years and build them for me? Of course, the price will not be reduced by half a cent."

"this......"

Yongqing Prefecture was Qu Chao's base camp. To be honest, he was very hesitant to leave his base camp and move to a small town to live there for a few years to build ships.

The Yongqing Prefecture has the most numerous and most developed river transportation in the inland. Many materials that need to be shipped by ship, or cross-border shipping with Rong and Bao countries, are transported through the Yongqing Prefecture's rivers.

As a shipbuilding giant in Yongqing Prefecture, Qu Chao is very popular in the local area.

Where there is water, there is an essential boat.

Sea water is also water.

"Master Qu, you might as well think about it." Huang Mulin continued, "To be honest, the Inner Canal, apart from repairing ships, I think there is not much shipbuilding business, right?"

Over the years, the developed shipping industry has been saturated, and those who should have a ship already have one. As long as the ship is not sunk or has suffered extremely serious damage, most people choose to repair it.

The cost of building a large ship is too high, and it takes a lot of transportation trips to make a profit.

Although cross-border shipping does exist, it does not occur more than twice a year. Even if there are pirates, most of them will not attack the ship, because pirates also need ships!

It takes about twenty years for a large ship to be transported normally, wear out, and become too old to be used.

During this period, only repairs and maintenance are required.

In addition to Qu Chao's boat shop, there are many other small boat shops. Over time, everyone has their own boat shop that they often go to for maintenance, and the business is not all done by Qu Chao.

It can be said that you can still earn a lot, but it is all small money, and you can only save some money to maintain your living expenses.

If you want to make big money, the only way is to build big ships.

However, no one has built a large ship on the canal in Yongqing Prefecture for nearly ten years.

Huang Mulin's olive branch made Qu Chao want to accept it but also worried.

He bought the two shops in the hope of having another development. Similarly, if there were any problems with the river transportation in Yongqing Prefecture in the future, he would always have a way out.

After all, nothing lasts forever.

"There's no rush for this, you can go back and think about it carefully." Huang Mulin dropped another bombshell, "Oh, we may need dozens of small ferries, they will be of great use to me."

Huh? So many ferries?

This is... a once-in-a-lifetime big order!

Qu Chao's face was wrinkled with anxiety.

Huang Mulin and Yang Lijun both found it a little funny.

It's rare for a man in his forties to still have such a childish expression.

Huang Mulin always felt that Qu Chao could become close friends with Huang Bo and Qian Donglai.

"I'm going to go back and discuss this with my family."

Qu Chao finally decided to go home and seek advice before making any plans.

"it is good."

Huang Mulin was not surprised.

She learned from the information An Ran collected that Qu Chao was a very family-oriented man who was extremely respectful to his wife. He had three sons, and his parents were still alive. They were a very happy family.

Qu Chao went back with a heart full of thoughts.