Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 609: Escorting Can Still Make Money

"We also rented four acres of land."

As they were talking, someone called them from the field.

A few people agreed and said to Zhou Guo: "Aiya, we can't tell you anymore. We have to go back to work."

With that, a group of people ran away.

Zhou Guo looked at their backs and said, "Master, this landlord has the same surname as you, and he is kinder than others. Others take 60%, but he takes 50%. Well, he is probably the biggest landlord here, but I don't know if he needs fat."

The old man took another sip of wine and said, "I heard that he only charges 50% of the rent, so you think he is a good person?"

Zhou Guo said, "That's not true. I just saw that he has a lot of land. Apart from the land he rented out, he should still have a lot left. If I can sell it to him, I will make a lot of money in a year. He is kind-hearted, so it's better to deal with him than with others."

The old man saw that she was serious and reminded her, "Then you have to find out more about it, don't get cheated later. Who can become a big landlord is stupid? Even if he didn't earn this business, it's not easy for him to keep it stable."

"I know." Zhou Guo nodded. "It's not the right time to cooperate. I have so little money that it will be gone if a few villages share it. I haven't thought about expanding yet. I've started picking flower mushrooms today, and I'll be able to harvest sheep mushrooms in half a month. I have to go out to sell mushrooms and prepare the shop. After I'm done with all this, I have to harvest in autumn, and then I have to start selling pine mushrooms. I really don't have time for the moment."

It would be fine if I didn't talk about it, but now that I start talking about it, there's no end to it. There's really too much work to do.

The old man continued, "After selling the pine mushrooms, you have to grow mushrooms again. This way, you can only take a break in the winter. The rest of the year you have to be busy all the time."

Zhou Guo took a piece of dessert and started eating. "As long as there is a gain and a visible reward, it's okay to be busy. I'm just afraid of being busy for nothing. That's the real scapegoat."

This made the old man think of how he had been busy all his life, traveling all over the country since he was young, but in the end, when he was old, the little money he had saved was earned back by his young apprentice in just one year, and even several times more.

He felt that he had been busying around all his life and didn't know what the point was. As long as he could find a way to sell the things in the mountains, it would be a sure-win business. He could earn back all the little money he had saved all his life in a year.

Zhou Guo heard him sigh, turned his head and saw that he looked strange, so he asked, "Master, why are you sighing for no reason?"

The old man looked into the distance and said, "I was thinking about what you said. I have been a bodyguard all my life, and I have only earned so little when I am old. It is more profitable to do business. I can earn my lifetime money in just half a year."

Zhou Guo said: "That's not necessarily true. If the escort business is expanded, it will be the most profitable."

The old man didn't believe it and sneered, "I've been escorting for my whole life, don't I know better than you? Where do ordinary escorts get so much money? For more expensive ones, to ensure that the escort can reach the destination safely, it needs a lot of good hands, so the wages will not be low. In addition, food, drink, and toilet expenses along the way also need money, so it all has to be deducted from here. After deducting all the deductions, how much is left?"

Zhou Guo sat for a long time, his butt hurting from the shaking, so he stood up, put his hands on his hips, and said, "Master, yours is just a small business, at most it can be considered a family workshop. If it is bigger, with branches in several large states, you can make more money. If you think it is bigger, if one day we can set up branches of the escort agency in every state and even every county in the world, and spread our escort routes across the country, then we can get more orders."

"Because we can go everywhere, we can ensure that the goods can be delivered accurately. When we become famous, won't many people come to us? When we have branches all over the country, we will have our own people everywhere. Why worry about being robbed? Then the orders will come continuously, and the money will also come continuously, right?"

The old man was stunned.

Zhou Guo continued, "Although there will be more people to support, the money earned will also be more, and so many people will be able to have a job and get paid. How great is that, don't you think?"

The old man didn't say anything. He felt that Zhou Guo's words had opened a new door for him, a door he had never seen before. If that was the case, then if the escort agency was to expand, there would really be something to do.

Zhou Guo didn't care about him and let him decide for himself. In fact, she was just moving the system from her previous life here. She knew that the environment and productivity were different, so it was really difficult to achieve the same level of success as in her previous life.

However, she didn't plan to do this job anyway, and the old man was old, so it was even more impossible for him to do this again. It was good to say it out loud to make him happy.

As she was talking, she arrived at a village in front. This village was not so crowded, with families living here and there. Even if they were crowded together, there were only three or four families. She took the gong and beat it from the front of the village to the middle, and then from the middle to the end of the village, and finally returned to the center of the village.

After such a long time, only a dozen people came out.

One of them, an old lady with gray hair and a gloomy face, looked at her and said, "You hit the gong? What are you doing? You came too early for the opera. There will be no one here until the evening."

Zhou Guo didn't care and continued to smile, "Grandma, I'm not singing opera. I'm here to sell fertilizer. I just want to tell you that in Cangshan Village, someone is selling fertilizer now. It's the fertilizer that's spread on the ground. One hundred and eighty coins per stone. You can buy it with money, or you can use grain to replace it after the autumn harvest. You can also use 30% beans and 70% grain to replace it. If any of you don't have enough fertilizer, you can go to Cangshan Village to get as much as you want. Of course, the premise is that you can afford it."

The group was stunned by what she said and looked at each other in bewilderment.

After a while, someone asked, "You said there are people selling fertilizer in Cangshan Village? Are you from Cangshan Village? Is your family selling fertilizer?"

Zhou Guo smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's our house."

"What kind of fat do you sell?"

Zhou Guo took down half a sack of fertilizer from the car, opened it, and held out a handful to show everyone, "Look, this is the fertilizer we sell."

Everyone rushed over to see. It was the first time in their lives that they heard of someone selling fat. They all wanted to see what the fat looked like.

After taking a look at it, I feel that although there are some differences from the ones I ferment at home, it is indeed fatter and not much worse.

Zhou Guo said, "If you have time, you can go over there and take a look. Just think of it as a market. There is nothing to lose by going there. If you buy fertilizer, we will be responsible for bringing it back for you, so you don't have to carry it yourself."

Everyone thought that there was such a good thing, and some of them couldn't believe it. They looked at Zhou Guo suspiciously, looking him up and down, "Are you kidding me?"