Chapter 280: Buying Land Plot
The Glazed Ware Company should originally have been in the midst of bustling renovations, during which Uncle Dong sent people to find her several times, as some merchants were urgently wanting goods.
Because they closed their doors to customers during renovations, for some reason they suddenly became extremely eager to get new goods, leading to them having no suppliers to get goods from other places, this place was still a small glazed ware workshop that had been at odds with them before, and these were still major clients from out of town!
The sudden loss of customers made Dong Wen heartbroken, and she pondered it over and over.
Her own renovation plan required demolishing the original factory site and rebuilding, and the site didn’t seem that large anyway, so since they wanted to become the largest glazed ware processing factory, why not buy a land plot and replan and build anew!
This way, they wouldn’t have to trouble finding a site again and replanning later!
She and Dong Wen decided to keep the old factory of the Glazed Ware Company here for now, maintaining the current situation to produce glazed ware for supply, and wait until the new factory was built before carrying out renovations!
Speaking of this, they would need to spend silver to buy a land plot again, Dong Wen was a bit hesitant, they had earned some silver over these years, but maintaining the current situation required a lot of silver for expenses, plus buying Li Xi’er’s colored glazed ware secret recipe had cost a lot of money.
He couldn’t bear to take out all the silver he had on hand anymore, in case the Heng Can Glazed Ware didn’t succeed, he would still have a fallback!
He naturally couldn’t tell Li Xi’er about this!
Li Xi’er was also a shareholder herself and knew of course that she had to put up the bulk of the silver!
Li Xi’er told Dong Wen to first look for a site, and it was better in the suburbs, first because the land plot was cheaper, second because land plots in the city were worth gold, and her savings couldn’t buy much!
Dong Wen found a good land plot in the southern suburbs of the city, she personally saw that it covered more than two hundred mu, it was previously a wealthy family’s private summer villa.
Now they urgently needed silver and sold it, the land plot was good land, but the price was really too expensive! It required two thousand taels, in gold!
No wonder land plots in the Imperial City were worth gold!
She had earned one thousand taels of gold from selling the generator patent to Feng Qingcheng, but spending it all still wasn’t enough, thinking of the deed issue after buying the land plot, she went to knock on the door outside Feng Qingcheng’s study!
“Who is it?”
“God of War Senior Brother, it’s me!”
“Come in!”
Feng Qingcheng seemed to know what she wanted to do, his gaze cloudy as he looked at her, “Speak, what do you want Senior Brother to do?”
“Uh… I want to borrow money!”
“How much?”
“One thousand taels… of gold!”
Li Xi’er had no other choice, she thickened her face and came to beg him treating a dead horse as a live one!
She ran to Huirui wanting to mortgage a loan, that old Glazed Ware Company factory could at most mortgage her eight thousand taels of silver, which was far short of one thousand taels of gold, and this old factory wasn’t solely hers, it was single-handedly created by Dong Wen, his expression could be described as aggrieved!
“On what basis?”
Li Xi’er was slightly stunned, as if she hadn’t expected Feng Qingcheng to say that!
He gazed at her, stood up, approached, his face pale, “Junior Brother, on what basis do you think I will definitely lend you one thousand taels of gold?”
Feng Qingcheng’s rough breathing came like a storm, hitting her cheek, he used his hand to grip her chin to make her meet his eyes.
“Senior Brother, are you in a bad mood? Why have you been drinking?”
“I, I’ll come again tomorrow!”
Li Xi’er raised her hand to push him!
“Don’t evade, answer me!” In the afternoon he received an express item, the Si Kingdom Princess would arrive in Feng Lan Kingdom in two days, and after she came, they would prepare for the pre-wedding matters, just waiting for the grand wedding!
His mood suddenly became very bad, very helpless!
“Because, because I feel that in this world, only Senior Brother you treats me the best!” Li Xi’er gazed at his bloodshot eyes and said seriously!
Feng Qingcheng pulled at his slightly pale lips and chuckled lightly, “Heh heh, really? Is that truly how you feel?”
Li Xi’er nodded, gently stroking the wrinkles furrowed between his brows, “Senior Brother, although I don’t remember what happened before, but ever since I woke up, it has been you constantly protecting me, caring for me, encouraging me, I, I don’t know any other powerful people besides you, that’s why I came to borrow silver from you!”
Feng Qingcheng raised his hand to stroke her head, “My Xi’er, tell Senior Brother what I should do with you?”
“Prince, I…”
“Heh heh! Senior Brother knows, Senior Brother will have Bu Wei send the silver to you shortly, alright!”
“Mm! Senior Brother, I will definitely repay you within three months!”
Li Xi’er left the study door, her expression on her face changed, from relaxed to heavy, she must borrow the silver, earn big money to develop her own forces and leave immediately!
After she left, Feng Qingcheng called Bu Wei and had him take the ivory carving ornament from his storeroom to Huirui to exchange for money!
“Master, this was something you exchanged with your life for a victory!” This was what Emperor Your Majesty rewarded him with after he fought the Ryukyu Kingdom that time and turned them into a vassal state of Feng Lan Kingdom!
This was exchanged with his life, the most valuable item, a tribute from another country, how could the Prince bear to part with it?
The Prince originally had no powerful maternal relatives due to his birth circumstances, Consort Li’s wealth wouldn’t be inherited by him either, he himself had no great private property besides the rewards from the previous old Emperor!
What he had now were rewards from the Emperor for his repeated battles!
“Heh heh, it’s just a material possession! Go!”
Feng Qingcheng flicked his sleeve! If Junior Brother wanted it, he would give it, even the stars in the sky he would willingly pluck!
That night, Bu Wei sent the banknote, holding a ticket for such a large amount made her feel heavy, the next day she went to sign the deed, this time it was all her silver, so naturally the deed was in her name, Li Xi’er!
After signing the contract, this land plot was a farm with no buildings, so no demolition was needed! The trouble was that there were dozens of households of tenant farmers still living inside, all previously servants who managed the farm’s fields and affairs for the wealthy family!
That wealthy family sold the land and no longer cared about them, the old ones were born as slaves and their children continued to inherit their lowborn status, now developed to more than two hundred people! The master said to leave and just left without restoring them to normal status, now they had nowhere to go and were staying inside just squatting and refusing to leave!
“A new factory is to be built here, your master has already sold the land, you should leave quickly!”
Dong Wen sent some fierce-looking servants to persuade them.
“No, please, don’t drive us away, our children grew up here from young, leaving here they won’t survive!” said a slightly older man!
“Yeah, with our status, no one dares to hire us outside, and there’s nowhere to live, it’s just death, us old women and old men die then so be it, but these children are still young, some still needing to be nursed, please have mercy and let us live here!”
“What are you thinking, this is land plot bought by our master, a new site is to be built immediately, you living here affects the planning, how to build the factory?”
“Your life and death should be taken up with your master, not our master’s business!”
“You’re trying to force people to death, slaves’ lives are cheap but we are still people, Heavens open your eyes and see, this Glazed Ware Company boss Li Xi’er is utterly heartless and for money wants to force people to death!”
“Child, when Mother dies, you beat the gong and drum, go to the street to seek justice for Mother!” The old woman from earlier saw there was no room for turning things around, really went to seek death and ran toward the river!
