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Chapter 10 Install, continue to install!

It is impossible to throw it into the river, and the armed slaves of the Wang family cannot catch Yang Xin.

The old housekeeper turned a blind eye to this.

He would definitely not worry that Yang Xin seduced their ladies. After all, the identity gap between the two sides was large enough to block any abnormal contact. The latter probably also liked to play at home. After all, their master was the most rebellious thinker disciple in the Ming Dynasty...

True rebellion and detachment.

He can be said to be a rebel of a feudal dynasty and a contempt of Confucianism.

The Wang family’s family style is not too pedantic.

Besides, he is not available.

Huang Zhen was fully acting like a dog-legged person. He quickly hired sedans and donkey carts at the dock, and even a large cart with manpower. Then he loaded all the luggage unloaded from the boat. The maids and mothers got on the donkey cart, the old housekeeper hired a donkey to ride, and Miss Wang got on the sedan. There were more than 40 miles from Zhangjiawan to Beijing. They had to go to Tongzhou first and then cross Bali Bridge west, and rushed into Chaoyang Gate a few days before dark. The Wang family's mansion in Beijing was in Mingshifang...

There was a curfew in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, cities in various places are in the yard, which is a step backward compared to the Song Dynasty.

In fact, the Song Dynasty also had a curfew.

However, the Song Dynasty started from the third update, and it was meaningless to be unable to help at that time. The designation of running around at this time was not a good citizen, and the ban was lifted at the fifth update. It can be said that the curfew was as short as no one, but starting from Hu Yuan, the curfew returned to the first update and continued since then...

It continued until the Xinhai Revolution.

So I'll smile when I watch a handsome man and a beautiful woman parading in the middle of the night in the braid show.

After eight o'clock in the evening, I dared to go out if I didn't ask the baojia chief to get a night stroll. Be careful to be caught in and have 50 boards first. As for the night market, I don't even think about it. Unless on the Lantern Festival, even Beijing is silent at other times. Similarly, the Wang family and his party must start a curfew at one point and enter the city and the yard. In this way, the two families quickly parted. Miss Wang specially invited Huang Ying to her house. By the way, she took a look at her savior, then snorted and walked into the sedan chair, and hurried to Tongzhou for lunch under the protection of the armed slaves.

After seeing them off, Huang Zhen began to work on their own affairs.

Their rapeseed oil has a special partner in Zhangjiawan who can carry goods. It is enough to unload the ship and transport it directly to the latter's warehouse. Yang Xin and the sailors act as porters, each carrying a pole, and carry these oil barrels to the warehouse in Zhangjiawan City. Of course, it is also possible to hire a porter directly, but if you can save a small business, you can save it.

But Yang Xin doesn't know how to use a shoulder pole.

Who can use this thing? It's not as simple as picking two ends. If he can't master the balance well, he won't be able to walk. He simply held it in shock with an oil barrel in one hand.

The shopkeeper who collected the oil gave him a trolley speechlessly.

Then he won't push.

This kind of trolley is not a pallet truck.

The first thing is the wooden wheel, and the shaft becomes thinner due to wear and tear all year round, and it is not smooth but twisting when it rotates. The second thing is divided into the left and right sides. The cart not only needs strength to move forward, but also has to work hard to maintain balance. The two barrels on one side are theoretically the same heavy, but in fact there are errors, especially the oil in the oil barrel is still flowing, which means that with a constant twisting fulcrum, maintaining the ever-changing center of gravity balance between the two sides, and pushing forward.

Cart?

Trolling a cart also requires technology!

Yang Xin must have known this body, but the problem is that he doesn’t!

"Come on that!"

Yang Xin said angrily.

He refers to a two-wheeled cart pulled by manpower.

"Uncle He?"

Huang Ying looked at the shopkeeper next to him who was collecting oil.

The latter smiled and waved to the back. A friend of hiss immediately ran to a familiar shop nearby and then pulled back a two-wheeled cart. Yang Xin tried it and was quite satisfied with this thing. This is a double wheel that does not require the left and right balance. As long as you pull the rope cover in front with your shoulders and put your hands on the handlebar, you can control the front and back balance. If there is no big problem with going up and down, going up and down will be a tragedy, especially when going down, it is easy to lift him up.

"Pack!"

He said, holding the handlebars in balance.

Huang Ying picked up the oil barrel and put it on for him, and soon eight were placed underneath.

"Add another layer!"

Yang Xin said.

"Stop making trouble!"

Huang Ying said speechlessly.

Huang Zhen next to him smiled and continued to load the oil barrels for Yang Xin. He soon loaded another layer of six, which totaled more than 700 kilograms.

"Can you install it any more?"

Yang Xin said.

"Yes, put it on the top and fill it with a thousand pounds!"

Manager He said.

The guy and Huang Zhen carried four more barrels, and finally added two more barrels to the top floor, standing like a pyramid, with amazement around him, Huang Zhen quickly tied the ropes to him.

"One thousand pounds, I will treat you to the city to eat meat!"

Manager He said.

Yang Xin smiled with a honest face and then walked forward, accompanied by the amazement on both sides, walking on the stone-paved street. Four layers of pyramids were stacked behind him, and he also moved forward with his steps...

"This won't make much money!"

Sitting on the low wall of the garden in the garden in the yard of Manager He's house, Yang Xin used the lamb leg he earned with the other wooden stick, and calculated their income on the ground.

"What kind of talisman are you drawing?"

Huang Ying said in confusion.

Arabic numerals had already entered China during Hu Yuan's time, but no one used them. Chinese people were more accustomed to calculating and adding Chinese characters. As for the ten accounting numbers, it is said that they were invented by Sister Mei Niang, and Zhu Yuanzhang promoted the prevention of officials for forging accounts. Looking at the wisdom of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, what happened to people who were begging for illiteracy, they could still think of tricks that made modern accountants helpless. But at least at present, it is difficult for them to see Arabic numerals among the Ming Dynasty. I guess some scholars will understand it, but it is impossible to count on Huang Ying to understand it.

What's more, Yang Xin is still calculating vertically.

"123456789, this is zero, one plus zero is ten, two plus zero is one hundred, three is thousand, four is ten, add one plus one zero, add the first nine numbers is ten, this is the symbol of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. If you don't have abacus, use this to calculate. If you wash my clothes in the future, I will teach you step by step!"

Yang Xin said thiefly.

"Bah, wash yourself!"

Huang Ying said.

"But our business can't make much money. In the end, it's better than Miss Fang smash my bag!"

Yang Xin said as he looked at the result.

Miss Fang was rich and of course, she might be confused. In addition to a few Spanish double-column silver coins, there was also a 100-talle silver note, which made Yang Xin very rich all of a sudden. It has to be said that the rich lady is different. She can use silver note to smash people. Next time she must visit her to see if she can smash another bag.

This time they brought a total of 20,000 kilograms of rapeseed oil. The current supply of this thing is only 0.01 taels per kilogram, but not 0.02 taels per kilogram, and 20,000 taels per kilogram, and 20,000 taels per kilogram, and even retail is only 0.02 taels per kilogram. The prices in the late Wanli period were simply outrageous. After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, a man in Guangdong lamented that the prosperous era of Wanli will never return. In the 47th year of Wanli, in this year, his family only had less than 20 cents per kilogram. When the old dog of the Qing Dynasty was in full swing, it would cost ten cents per liter of rice, which was five times that of the 47th year of Wanli. Even if the rice price in Beijing was calculated, it was much higher, because the retail price of rice was still 0.02 tael per shi.

The oil ship in Huangzhen is worth about 300 taels.

And these are the value of the goods, not the profit. Even if it is twice the profit, it will only make more than 100 taels.

But it is impossible to double the profit.

Their oil was sold from Hejian. Huang Ying's family was located in Wuguan, which is the north of Renqiu to the east of Baiyangdian, and belonged to the junction of Hejian Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture.

This is not far away.

Such a distance will not have too high profits. If you really can easily get twice the profit, a bunch of merchants will flock to this distance. There is no information difference. From the small sampan in the Wushidian, you can go through the Hunhe River, that is, the Lugou River to Beijing. However, this time, the old housekeeper helped, the expenses of crossing the Hexi Wuchaiguan and hiring a boatman were exempted, and the taxes in Zhangjiawan were also exempted. After all, the tax officials did not know the real relationship between them. Giving the old housekeeper face was to give the minister a face, which saved Huangzhen a lot. But in general, the profit was still meager. You should know that this kind of business can't be done several times a year, and it will be a total of nine months of navigation. Just going back and forth will take more than one month.

This trip was a special situation. If he hadn't followed the Wang family's boat, he would have to wait in line for several days just at Hexi Wuchao Pass.

Also, I don’t know when I can be docked at the pier in Zhangjiawan.

And you have to add the time to stock before you come.

His goods are his own.

These goods must be collected from vendors who specialize in collecting oil from private people.

He also had to pay the sailors for labour. A total of six sailors were indispensable. He had to spend all kinds of money along the way, and he had to pay taxes in Yuanjiakou, and faced difficulties and extortion from officials from all over the country.

It's only a few dozen taels to earn.

There are risks.

Because there must be robberies on the road, Triangle Delta is a vast area of ​​water, and the length of the east and west is almost equivalent to the modern North Canal to Shengfang, with a circumference of more than 200 miles. In addition to water, there are swamps, and there are no water bandits in such a place. By the way, this water net swamp can extend all the way to Baiyangdian, with hundreds of miles of rivers connected by lakes and swamps of large and small, except for water, reed marshes. If there is no water bandits in this environment, it would be a ghost. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army had no choice but to use the guerrillas here, let alone the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It is no wonder that there were a bunch of weapons hidden in the cabin of Huangzhen.

This business is not easy to do!

At least this serious business is not easy to do.

"Do you think it's so easy to make money? Besides, dozens of taels are not enough, it's enough to buy a house in this capital."

Huang Ying said angrily.

"In other words, I can afford a house in Beijing?"

Yang Xin weighed the purse that Miss Fang smashed him with a shocked look on his face.
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