Fight the Giants Chapter 353

Chapter 353 Year-end Inventory

Huo Xi nodded towards Yu Jiang: "This year our family will celebrate the New Year at Zhuangzi."

Given Grandpa and Grandma Zou a look: "Grandpa and Grandma will also go with us."

Grandpa Zou pursed her lips and smiled. Grandma Zou came over to hold her hand, patted it, and said to Yu Jiang: "Her parents told us earlier that they would take us to Zhuangzi to celebrate the New Year. Our family It's really lucky that I met the Huo family."

Otherwise, she and the old man would be floating in the river, and she didn't know how many more years she would be able to float. How would Sheng Sheng'er survive alone.

Now that the family is taken care of by the Huo family, it is a happy life that was never imagined before. Even if they left, with the Huo family taking care of Sheng'er, they could rest in peace.

Yu Jiang nodded in agreement, and took a look at Huo Xi. If it weren't for the child in front of him, not to mention the Zou family, him, Yu Jiang, and the boatmen who were mooring together at Taoyedu, they might still be floating on the water, living their lives today I don't know the day of tomorrow.

Now Brother Erhuai has to guard his sister-in-law and assign work to a group of boatmen. He is in charge of receiving and delivering the goods. Now that he can earn dozens of taels of silver in an extra month, he is the same as the Zou family. An unbelievably good day.

Maybe he will still be floating in the river alone, and his wife and daughter will still be tortured by his stepmother at home.

Yu Miao hugged Huo Xi's arm tightly, pouted: "Sister Xi'er, when will you go back to the city?"

"It is estimated that the Lantern Festival will be over. Do you want to go to Zhuangzi with us to celebrate the New Year?"

Yu Miao immediately straightened her back, and as soon as she grinned, she was slapped by Mrs. Zheng and laughed and scolded: "You crazy girl, you don't stay at your house for the New Year, but you want to go to your sister Huo's house for the New Year, is it reasonable? ?”

Yu Miao tilted her head, as if she was a little outrageous. His back was hunched, and he lay back on Huo Xi's shoulders.

Everyone looked at her and laughed.

Huo Xi has liked this little girl since he saw her a few years ago. He thinks this girl has aura and ideas.

Comforted her: "In the next year, I will ask my uncle to pick you up to Zhuangzi to celebrate the New Year together."

After finishing speaking, he took a look at Mrs. Zheng and their youngest son, and asked Yu Jiang, "Would you all go back to the countryside for the New Year?"

Yu Jiang shook his head: "I'll take Ya'er back, and Miao'er will stay in the city with her mother and younger brother."

Auntie Zou nodded after hearing this: "It should be like this. This baby is just born, so don't bother him in the cold weather."

Zheng nodded in agreement. She had been looking forward to her son for so many years, so she didn't want to torment her son. Besides, she didn't want to go back to the countryside to see her mother-in-law's face. This year just took the opportunity to stay.

Yu Miao was very happy to hear Huo Xi's words: "Really? Then when my father and sister come back from the countryside, you can come and pick me up to play in Zhuangzi."

Huo Xi smiled and agreed. Yu Miao didn't care if her parents laughed and scolded her as a crazy girl, she was very happy.

After staying at Yu's house all morning, everyone left. Huo Xi then went to the shop, and discussed with Shen Qianzhong about the arrangements for listening to the work reports from the shopkeepers tomorrow.

The New Year's Eve is approaching, and all businesses are doing accounts, and Guangfeng Water is no exception.

The shopkeepers of each shop have arrived in the capital one after another two days ago. At this time of year, everyone gathers in the capital to make accounts and report work.

In the first few years, it was Shen Qianzhong who took Yang Fu to various shops and went to check accounts.

In the past two years, Huo Xi has set a fixed date, requiring shopkeepers of each shop to bring their accounts to the capital to make accounts and report work at the middle and end of each year.

Everyone gathers together, one is to report work, the other is to exchange feelings, and the third is to get everyone together, let the shopkeepers cross-check the accounts of each shop, and also to avoid cheating.

In this way, even if there are people who do things secretly, they are all small troubles.

Shen Qianzhong admired Huo Xi's decision. In this way, even if the shopkeepers of each shop had selfish intentions, they did not dare to overdo it. Besides, everyone cross-checked the accounts, which saved him and the two bosses a lot of trouble.

After checking the accounts, listen to the shopkeepers report on this year's work and next year's plan.

Do not listen to the reports of each shopkeeper alone, but gather everyone together, each shopkeeper listens to others' reports together, and learn about the strengths of each family. And ask the shopkeepers to comment on the work of others.

In this way, it is clear at a glance who is paying attention and who is perfunctory.

All shopkeepers are very nervous at the end of the year, afraid that the boss will not be satisfied with their reports.

I don't know who the owner is. Seeing the series of actions he made, it's no wonder that Guangfeng Water has been in operation for only a few years, and has set up shops in important cities along the canal.

Outsiders only think that Guangfengshui has only two shops in the capital. How do you know that from Hangzhou, the starting point of the South Canal, all the way up, there are shops in Jiaxing, Huzhou, Songjiang, Ningbo, Jingkou, Jiangning, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Huai'an, and Beiping. .

Guangfengshui is as low-key as the mysterious owner.

Huo Xi was still sitting in the back as an observer. The meeting was presided over by the shopkeeper Shen Qianzhong and the owner's spokesperson Yang Fu.

Huo Xi glanced at Li Yu. Uncle Yu had just rushed over from Ningbo and had opened a shop there. He had just finished his work and was rushing to the capital without touching his feet.

Also take care of the shops in Songjiang and Kingswood. Really hard.

Now the shops in Zhejiang Province are managed by Li Yu, while the shops north of the capital are managed by Shen Qianzhong.

Now Shen Qianzhong is following Huo Xi's words, and plans to take over Yang Fu in the next two years, and gradually hand over the shop in the north to Yang Fu, while Shen Qianzhong will take charge of the overall situation and become the big shopkeeper of the whole country.

Huo Xi listened to everyone's report, sometimes frowning, sometimes nodding.

These shops, except for the newly opened one in Ningbo, are losing money, the two shops in Beiping are slightly worse, and the rest of the shops are making a lot of profits every year. But it was still far from reaching the goal set by Huo Xi.

Besides the two shops in Jingshi, the shops with the best business are the three shops in Huai'an, Jingkou, and Yangzhou. Some of them earn thousands of taels of silver every month. These five shops are the bulk of Guangfengshui's revenue.

The two shops in Kingswood are next.

The business of these two shops is relatively simple. They mainly produce silk, cotton, linen, silk, silk, yarn, linen and other cloth. There are not many varieties of business, but they also make a profit of 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver a year.

The annual profit of other shops is less than ten thousand taels.

Here, the Songjiang shop opened late, but Huo Xi believes that with the convenience of the sea trade, the two shops in Songjiang and Ningbo will catch up with great strides.

The weakest shops are the two shops in Beiping. Shuntian Mansion is still sparsely populated, and the country's political and cultural money is all in the south of the Yangtze River.

These two shops are mainly engaged in daily livelihood business such as food and cloth. Because they opened late, they are still in the stage of fame. This year, the two shops together only make less than five thousand taels of profit.

It is a bit labor-intensive to discuss. It takes a long time to transport a ship of supplies all the way to Beiping.

But now that the entire canal is dredged and the waterway to the north is smooth, Huo Xi believes that the shops in Beiping will take advantage of the east wind from the construction of Beiping City, and their business will gradually improve.

Huo Xi circled the two shops in Beiping in his notebook.

(end of this chapter)

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