Chapter 1064

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1064 The price is the same?
In the following days, the Gu family was busy again.
At the beginning of March, the food street in the trading area was completed, and so were the restaurants in kun city.
The food street was managed by Gu Xin and Gu si. The people from Qing Province had learned most of the food from Gu Nian and Grandpa Gu. Some people in the city had also signed contracts with the Gu family. They learned how to cook and earned money to hand over to the Gu family for 100 taels of silver per snack. After they handed over the money, the food would be theirs.
As for the restaurant, because of Peng Yizhu’s departure, almost all of it was watched by Grandpa and Grandma Gu. Gu shouxin had no choice but to stop Cai Xiaolian from being busy.
Fortunately, there were a few people in Meng Meng’s group who were good at cooking. After coming to kun city and being trained by Grandpa Gu for a month, they were able to cook.
The seeds planted by uncle Gu in the first month of the Lunar New Year had also ripened.
In the end, the Gu family decided that the restaurants and food street would open on March 31st.
The people from the neighboring five countries hadn’t come for more than a month. They were all still thinking about the liveliness of the Lantern Festival and planned to come and take a look at the end of March.
On Gu shouxin’s side, things went much smoother with someone helping him. He had already started to get people to build the road.
It was built from the northeast gate of kun city all the way to the prefecture.
he sent letters directly to the yamen of the three places, the provincial, qingzhou, and dingzhou, asking them to send over some hard labor who had committed crimes. the condition was that they would sell the cement at a lower price.
as early as the first month of the lunar year, gu shouxin had asked gu nian to choose someone to bring cement to the capital. it had been almost three months, and the emperor had also made a decision.
anyway, he was in charge of kun city, and he planned to repair the roads.
there were many slaves of merchants from all over the place guarding the place. when the road was built for dozens of miles and could be walked, these slaves would send a message back and explain the situation in kun city to their masters.
These people had stayed here to do business. Therefore, they had good taste. Most of them asked the main family to get more goods. At the same time, the Gu family also had goods here. Should they discuss with the Gu family and take their goods?
Once the road was fixed, the trouble of going back and forth would not be big. This was definitely a way to make money!
Gu shouxin saw all of this.
Those with quick minds sent a letter asking to see Gu shouxin.
Gu shouxin knew that they wanted to discuss business, so he brought Gu Xin and Gu si to meet them.
Gu Xin and Gu si were dressed in men’s clothes, like young masters. They were now in charge of the Gu family’s external business negotiations.
After meeting a few people, Gu Xin went back to Cai Xiaolian and said, ” “Mother, I have an idea. It’s the same as when we did business with the Li family. We’ll let these merchants sell our goods, and we’ll only focus on producing them in kun city. Also, we’ll only choose one company in each state. They would be managed by the divisions. As for Qingzhou, we have a restaurant there, so we don’t need to choose anyone. What do you think, mother?”
Cai Xiaolian raised her eyebrows. This was not impossible. After all, they didn’t have many people to do business in other places, so they could be a supplier in kuncheng.
She ran through the information in her mind and asked Gu Xin, ” “Have you thought about the price? Is it still the same price we gave to the Li family in Qing Province?”
Gu Xin shook her head. that’s different. In the past, our family didn’t have enough hands. For example, we needed the Li family to produce the packaging for us.