Chapter 11 The Little Girl Selling Firewood 5 Ends
Chaisang City is famous for its wholesale of firewood and sericulture.
There are many families here who started out selling firewood, and no one family can monopolize all the firewood market. However, several families in this city control more than half of the kingdom's firewood resources.
After Meng Xiaofang disguised herself, she first went to find a remote courtyard far away from the inner city to rent.
Early the next morning, she bought a large amount of firewood in Chaisang City and had it delivered to the courtyard. By the time all the delivery people left, it was getting dark. She collected all the firewood with the storage talisman and used the magic walking talisman again.
, returned to Meng Jingcheng’s Xinhuo House.
The next day after returning, Xinhuo House was open for business as usual. The previous suspicions by the neighbors that there was something wrong with the feng shui of Xinhuo House were self-defeating.
After that, the stores in Imperial City that specialized in the firewood wholesale business felt that something was wrong when they saw that they had cut off the supply channel of Xinhuo House, but it did not affect the business of Xinhuo House at all. Moreover, no matter what they thought, they would not
I thought that Meng Xiaofang would travel to Chaisang City, hundreds of miles away from Mengjing City, in two days to wholesale firewood and bring it back.
As a result, these shopkeepers began to be suspicious of each other, thinking that some of their colleagues were secretly helping Xinhuo House in order to gain greater profits from it.
You know, the firewood business of Xinhuowu is so good that even if they only supply it, they can make a lot of money.
In this way, over time, these stores gave up their measures against Xinhuowu.
Therefore, after Meng Xiaofang traveled to and from Chaisang City several times, many firewood wholesale stores in the imperial capital began to contact her proactively, wanting to supply the firewood house, and the prices were very reasonable.
Meng Xiaofang selected several of them and supplied them to Xinhuo House at the same time.
As for the house she rented to store firewood in Chaisang City, she returned it. However, her previous actions in Chaisang City still attracted the attention of several families in the city and made them mistakenly think that someone wanted to interfere secretly.
Firewood business in Chaisang City.
However, she disappeared not long after, and several families in the city only regarded her as an ordinary firewood merchant after her disguise. As time passed, this little incident was gradually forgotten by them.
Meng Xiaofang's firewood house entered Mengjing City, which not only affected the firewood sales pattern in the city, but also caused quite a stir among the aristocracy.
After that, one more thing was added to the gifts sent by the nobles in Meng Jingcheng, which was firewood for the firewood house.
If there is any new noble in the city who does not know about the firewood in the firewood house, or has never eaten the food cooked by the firewood in the firewood house, he will be looked down upon and laughed at.
The development of Xinhuowu exceeded Meng Xiaofang’s expectations.
But when her own firewood was circulated among the nobles, she was also thinking of ways to help ordinary people who didn't know how to use talismans remove impurities from the firewood so that it could be circulated in the market in large quantities.
This matter took a total of ten years to work on, and she finally succeeded in researching it. The success of this method is also attributed to the house in the backyard of Xinhuo House.
About ten meters below the house, there is a naturally formed natural cave.
These caves circulate with each other, condensing wind, and eventually blowing towards the house above. Especially at night, the wind is very cold, which not only makes the inside of the house colder, but also improves the warmth inside the house at night.
, almost nothing.
And the time of day when people stay indoors for the longest time is often at night. Therefore, there are various rumors about this house.
When Meng Xiaofang first came here, she discovered the problem with this house, so she took a talisman to seal the air vent underneath.
One day, the talisman loosened and the floor of the room suddenly collapsed.
She went down and took a look, and found that the soil on the wall of the cave was extremely pure and free of impurities. Later, she used this as a breakthrough to solve the problem of removing impurities from firewood.
A few years later, firewood from the firewood house was circulated not only among the nobles, but also among ordinary people.
Firewood is divided into various prices, and different wood materials have different prices. In addition, there are also differences between packaged and unpackaged firewood. Packaged firewood comes in various packages, and the packaging cost is high.
, the price of firewood will also be relatively higher.
The widespread use of firewood in firewood houses gradually spread across the country.
This kind of firewood does not harm people's health, and the food cooked is more delicious. There is no reason why people should not like it. Of course, what is more important is that after the implementation of firewood, the environment of the entire kingdom has also been significantly improved.
At this stall, Meng Xiaofang, then president of the Mengjing Chamber of Commerce, proposed to the upper management the concept of planting more trees and protecting the environment.
In the past, firewood dealers mostly purchased mountain forests and cut them down indiscriminately, cutting down the forests in many places.
But this time, Meng Xiaofang proposed to plant trees while cutting down trees. If you cut down one tree, you must plant ten more trees. She even suggested subsidizing those who are willing to plant saplings and sell them. Anyone in the kingdom can cultivate and plant them.
As long as the saplings are successfully planted and successfully sold and replanted, they will receive subsidies.
Of course, she also paid a corresponding price for proposing something that was detrimental to the interests of the firewood merchant.
She promised that after a hundred years, she would give the method of removing impurities from firewood to firewood merchants who were willing to support the bill she proposed. This move mainly targeted several families in Chaisang City.
Of course, she specifically emphasized that only a part of the firewood would be delivered to each household, and to complete the entire process of firewood, they would need to work together.
At the same time, she also established a special money management agency to use her own money to subsidize those who were willing to cultivate saplings in the early stage. She also promised that after a hundred years, she would hand over the fire house to several nobles and royal families in Meng Jingcheng to take care of it in turn.
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Meng Xiaofang was seventy-eight years old when the bill proposed by Meng Xiaofang was successfully implemented throughout the kingdom and domestic firewood began to be sold to surrounding kingdoms.
Meng Xiaofang lived to be ninety years old in this life.
After her death, the royal family and several noble families in Meng Jingcheng each mastered one of the processes for removing impurities from firewood. And every firewood merchant family in Chaisang City received a complete process and method for removing impurities from firewood.
As well as information on the process and content of the royal family, nobles, and other families in Chaisang City.
The funeral after Meng Xiaofang's death was grand in scale. Many people from princes and nobles to firewood merchants and even ordinary people came to Meng Jing to attend.
At the funeral, the ones who cried the most were not her adopted sons and daughters, nor the princes and nobles with whom they were usually close, but the heads of several major families in Chaisang City.
Meng Xiaofang tortured their father and brother to death. They watched their father and brother battle wits and courage with each other to oppose the bill proposed by the other party. However, the father and brother's last wish before their death was to ask them to support Meng Xiaofang's bill and help when they could.
Give me a helping hand.
After Meng Xiaofang, the owner of Xinhuo House, passed away, all the processes for removing impurities from firewood were handed over to her family in Chaisang City, but only to a small number of the princes and nobles who had a better relationship with her.
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The two sides clearly sympathized with each other, but they also wanted to fight to the death. This deeply moved and shocked the younger generation of family heads in Chaisang City.
According to Meng Xiaofang's last wish, her body was buried in an unknown mountain forest not far from her hometown.
Afterwards, several big families in Chaisang City joined forces to buy this small forest. From then on, they took turns sending people to guard it every year. The princes and nobles in Mengjing City did not know the meaning of these families' actions. To put it bluntly,
They don't care at all.
Death is like a lamp going out. When Meng Xiaofang was alive, they made friends with each other for the sake of profit. Now that they have obtained the benefits, they will naturally not care about the aftermath of a deceased person.
Chapter completed!