Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 221 Contract

I also have some shops, but I only look at the account books at the end of the season and the end of the year, and I have never personally gone to the shop to worry about it. At this time, I saw Hualei, a little girl, doing everything by herself, and I admired her very much.

By the time Hualei had sorted out the bookstore, marked the prices of all the items, and told the bookstore's clerks and shopkeeper what to pay attention to, it was already 2:45 in the evening. Gu urged Hualei to go back to the government office.

Hualei went to wash and rest for a while. Pei Jingxuan came back from the front yard of the government office at the end of the evening hour. He was also exhausted. After changing into casual clothes, several people sat at the table and prepared to eat dinner. The dinner was very rich. After dinner, the servants cleared the dishes and several people sat down in the main hall and started to talk about things.

Hua Lei also told Pei Jingxuan about her plan to develop the rice-shaped grid and the field-shaped grid. While Pei Jingxuan agreed, he couldn't help but be impressed by Hua Lei's vision. This little girl, while she was in the capital, was already thinking of developing business hundreds of miles away.

Then, he spread out the civil map of Yongjia Prefecture and pointed out some specific building locations to Hualei, who wrote them down one by one. While talking, Hualei also thanked Pei Jingxuan and his wife for helping her buy a boat and crew. Pei Jingxuan smiled and waved his hands, saying polite words that were not worth thanking. Compared with Hualei passing on information to him, helping him get the agency rights, and helping him open a bookstore, sending someone to help buy a boat was a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning.

Several people chatted in the main room until very late. Finally, Hua Lei asked Gu to help her look after the toothbrush and soap business after the bookstore's affairs were stabilized. Gu agreed immediately.

The next day, at the end of the Mao hour, Hualei had already eaten the breakfast that Gu had specially prepared, and took Qingying and others on the carriage to the dock. Pei Jingxuan sent his long-time attendant Lushui to follow Hualei on board to complete the handover of books for the next nine states.

Lushui is the servant who has been with Pei Jingxuan since he was a child. He is also a non-staff member of the Zhuangban under Yongjia Prefecture, similar to the contract workers in various public institutions in the previous life. He has no establishment, but his treatment is not much different from other staff members in the Zhuangban. He often goes out on patrol and is in charge of field work. The most important thing is that he has special uniforms for the Zhuangban staff. Hualei thanked Pei Jingxuan. Some things do not need to be said explicitly, smart people understand.

At 4:45 in the morning, the ship left the west dock of Yongjia Prefecture and headed for the next state. Basically, it takes two days to complete the handover of each state, including the time on the road, and it can be completed by the end of the next morning. After the handover, the ship supervisor Gu will take his subordinates to the post station arranged by the state capital to rest.

In the next few hours, Hua Lei was free to move around. When she encountered the state capital where Pei Jingxuan had the agency, Hua Lei asked Lu Shui to take her to Pei Jingxuan's bookstore to help take a look and organize the things, and also to pass on some experience to the clerks and the manager of the bookstore. Anyway, with Lu Shui following her around, Hua Lei's words were very useful.

When the bookstores didn't need help, or when Pei Jingxuan didn't have the agency rights in the state capital, Hualei would take Lushui and Manager Liu to rent a carriage to travel around the various academies and bookstores in the state capital to promote the Tianzi grid and Mizi grid. Mizi grid and Tianzi grid had been fermented in Shangjing City for two years and were already very mature.

But it was still very new in the local area, and the price was not much higher than blank exercise paper. Therefore, the presidents and teachers of many academies in the state capital were very receptive to the rice-grid and field-grid patterns. Moreover, there was the temptation of the county and prefectural examination papers, and the blessing of Lu Shui, the long-time attendant of the prefect, so Hua Lei's business of making rice-grid and field-grid patterns went very smoothly.

Hua Lei was also very shrewd. She asked Lu Shui to wear the uniform of a yamen runner and follow her. He didn't need to say anything, just stand there. However, this made the group of deans and teachers of the academy who were originally skeptical feel much more at ease.

In addition, Hualei would come to deliver goods every quarter as soon as she showed the official documents for the imperial examination, so there were many academies that signed contracts for rice grid and field grid. Of course, this time when she came to Yongjia Prefecture, Hualei prepared a lot of exercise papers in addition to the number of exercise papers that Pei Jingxuan needed, for sale.

When promoting the rice grid this time, even if the academy was still hesitant and had not signed a contract, it would first buy some rice grid and Tianzi grid practice paper for trial. So Hualei only went to five or six states and sold a large number of rice grid and Tianzi grid.

After visiting ten states in Yongjia Prefecture, the grid practice papers on Hualei's boat were almost sold out. Fortunately, she was smart and prepared a lot of spare practice papers. The amount sold on this trip was enough to match the sales and delivery volume of her bookstore for most of the year. She also got a lot of contracts. It can be said that she left with a full load and returned with a full load in another way.

After all the books were handed over, it was already mid-July. Hualei said goodbye to Lord Gu and the others, and asked Lushui to take a letter to Pei Jingxuan and his wife, then set off for Yongsheng Prefecture, which was adjacent to Yongjia Prefecture.

Before coming, Liang Xiangyi had told her that his servants in Yongsheng Mansion had helped Hualei find similar fabrics that could be used to make down jackets. However, Liang Xiangyi himself had not seen the specific fabrics.

This time, Hualei only needed to turn a corner to reach the fabric workshop in Yongshengfu, so she decided to go and have a look. If she couldn't find fabric for down jackets, her duck and goose feathers would become waste, and Hualei couldn't bear to part with them.

During the two days of sailing on the ship, Hualei calmed down and carefully sorted out the grid-shaped contracts she had collected. After putting them together and calculating, she found that she had collected about 40% of the grid-shaped contracts in Yongjia Prefecture, which was very good. After carefully recording the quantity and category of each contract to be delivered next time, Hualei put the contract matter aside.

On the third day, Hua Lei found the fabric shop according to the address Liang Xiangyi gave her. She stood in front of the fabric shop with Pei Zhongsheng and Qingying, and handed the letter Liang Xiangyi gave to the old man at the door. Soon, a middle-aged man who looked like a manager came out of the fabric shop.

After reading Liang Xiangyi's letter, Hualei was warmly welcomed into the fabric workshop. The fabric workshop was very large, divided into several different areas, and should be used to weave several different fabrics.

The textile industry in Su City, Liang Xiangyi's hometown, produces mostly cotton and silk. The fabrics are relatively light, thin and soft, and more suitable for use in spring and summer. They are also targeted at the underwear used by wealthy families and are considered mid- to high-end fabrics.

The fabrics produced by this fabric workshop called "Sha's" are relatively dense and thick. Hua Lei was standing in front of a pile of cloth at this time, pulling up a piece of fabric to look at it carefully.