Rimbaud's girl

Charles is one year older than Gabriel and graduated from college this year.These aristocratic children don't have to think about finding a job. They have nothing to do after graduation and have to be busy playing.Thinking that Gabriel will probably be like this in the future, life is really simple.

People who don't have to worry about work and salary have a leisurely temperament. They can be calm and indifferent to everything. They act very free and easy. The common problem is selfishness, self-centeredness, and no sympathy. Social etiquette, different treatment.

For example, even a gentle young man like Gabriel knows the names of the servants at home. At most, he knows who should work where. Will care, this is due to the environment and education, they have not become the kind of young masters who randomly pull young maids into bed, so they can be regarded as moral.

It can be said that it is common for noble gentlemen to occupy young maids at home and produce illegitimate children, but most of the wives can only choose to endure in silence. I don't think it's necessary.Albert did not have an illegitimate child, probably because he spent his wife's money.Mrs. Oran said in a more cryptic way that in the future, she will take good care of her husband and not wait until her husband has a troublesome illegitimate child outside to pay attention to this issue.

She thought that it was really not easy for these noble ladies, they all endured and turned into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

They drink the best Chinese black tea, add sugar and milk, and the tea set is also made of Chinese porcelain. They just pay attention to that style, and they also pay attention to the expensive black tea and the exquisite tea set. Rich people only choose the expensive ones and not the right ones.

Charles chatted with Gabriel about what to invest in.

"Uncle wants me to go to India for a few years, I'm still thinking about it."

"To India? The East India Company?" Gabriel asked.

"Something like that. The East India Company controls most of India, and I hear the cows there wear gold on their heads."

Vitaly thought, it should be the sacred cow that was offered in the temple or something.Europeans always think that the east is full of gold. They made a lot of money by bloody plundering in the American continent before, and they have always wanted to replicate the process of bloody plundering in Asia.

"Can you get used to it? India is hot and prone to disease outbreaks."

"It's better to bring more servants, and hire some local Indian servants." Charles looked indifferent, "My family has always had shares in the East India Company, but it is too small, and I don't want to make money. In the future, I will not even have my wife and children. They can’t even support them. Living on land rent alone,” he shook his head, “it’s not enough.”

The nobles are all landlords, and their titles come with fiefs, so they will have a lot of land. Most of the nobles still live on land rent. Some small nobles with low titles have to work hard to manage their manors and their fields. The road of class, and started to do investment business.

The major shareholders of the East India Company are some big nobles. Of course, the companies operating in the Near and Far East are not only the East India Company, but also some small and medium-sized companies. They transport silver coins from the Americas and exchange them for silk, spices, tea, etc. There are no products to guarantee the luxury enjoyment of the rich.Doing business is accompanied by plundering. Relying on the advancement of weapons, they unscrupulously plunder wealth and cultural heritage from various countries. This is the primitive accumulation of capitalism.

Vitaly showed little interest in the subject.Rather than going to a foreign country to oppress local people to make a fortune, she pays more attention to opportunities to make a fortune without harming the interests of others.

"If you just want to make money, you don't have to go to India. It's okay to travel for a few months, but if you stay in such a hot place for a few years, you can only eat curry and chicken-you know Indians don't like Beef, huh?—you can't take it in a month."

Charles was a little surprised, "Tell me, what do you think can make money?"

"The matter of making money depends on what your small goals are. If you want to earn tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pounds at once, you can only do stocks."

Charles made a face, "I don't understand stocks."

"Either do business and invest in industrialized companies."

"for example?"

"If you are not afraid of trouble, you can use your family's field to operate it."

"How do you say it? Tell me well."

"Gabriel doesn't have many fields now, and it will be about 20 years later, so I haven't considered using the fields to make money. Your family is renting out the fields now, right?"

"That's right. The Oran family and the Boldwood family also do the same, subletting it to the surrounding villagers." This is the practice of traditional landlords, and almost every noble family does the same.

"Do you know how many potatoes and tomatoes and flour are sold in London in a day?"

"I don't know, do you know?"

sp; Vitaly smiled, "I don't know, but London has millions of people, no matter what kind of food they consume, right?"

"Correct."

"The traditional business model is that the merchants of agricultural products come to a village to buy, the wheat costs pennies per pound, and the chickens, ducks and geese cost pennies per penny, so that they are collected scattered and then supplied to shops in the city of London or surrounding towns. You have very few tenants. Some people directly deliver goods to London, because it is not cost-effective to calculate the transportation cost, but agricultural product merchants can do it because they buy in large quantities, and the average cost is not much.”

"I know this. What the merchant earns is the difference between the purchase price and the supply price sent to the store."

"Yes. So you can be a producer or a merchant of agricultural products, and send them directly from your field to the store. The cost you provide is the cost of transportation and the salaries of a few necessary employees."

Charles pondered for a moment, "This is a bit troublesome."

"I call the tenants the upstream, the agricultural product merchants the midstream, and the shops in the city the downstream. You can also set up your own shop in the city, that is, you can even do downstream sales. Your promotional slogan can be 'From the head of the field to the city of London. , to ensure absolute freshness'. You know, housewives and cooks are very concerned about whether the ingredients are fresh."

Charles thought for a while, "What you said is really interesting, and it can be operated. I know some people do it, but the land is generally located in the suburbs of London, so the transportation is faster and the cost is lower. Not much money."

"If you don't have other industries to invest in, doing this is a little harder. In fact, you don't have to do most of the things yourself. At most, you can send someone to contact the store in London."

"Too much trouble." He shook his head.

"Don't underestimate the money you make from food. You only have 100 mu of land, and you may indeed only be able to earn a little hard money, but when you have 1000 mu of land, if you say you don't want to sell it, you won't be able to buy fresh food in nearby cities and small towns. Vegetables, those shops will definitely sign a contract with you."

Charles smiled and shook his head again, "I see what you mean. What else?"

"There are others, but they require an upfront investment, and you may be more reluctant. Directly profiting from the field is what you can do now, and there is almost no upfront investment. You only need to acquire all your tenants' production, You will settle the bill with the tenant until the shop pays you the bill, and you will make money without losing money.”

In fact, the current small and medium-sized manor owners are doing similar work, collecting the agricultural products of tenants and selling them to agricultural product merchants, but the manor owners do not directly face downstream retailers.Vitaly's suggestion is actually that the landlords themselves act as middlemen for direct procurement, and then supply large quantities to retailers.But since there are no large chain retail companies now, if you want to occupy the market, you have to sign contracts one by one.But this is not difficult, just find a few salesmen who can speak well, and there is no need for the big boss to run errands by himself.

"I will think about it carefully." Who would think too much money?Charles was still quite excited.

Gabriel hugged her waist affectionately, "In the future, I will rely on you to make money to support my family."

What are you talking about?She rolled her eyes, "It's your men's business to make money and support your family."

After afternoon tea, Gabriel urged her to go upstairs to change, while he and Charles went to the stables to prepare the horses.

When she changed into her riding clothes and went downstairs, the two of them had already led the horse and waited at the steps outside the door.

The saddle now has a side-riding saddle for ladies and children, and children are fine. It is not good for ladies to ride with their legs apart. Lie didn't want to ride the saddle sideways, so he ordered the groom to bring an ordinary saddle.

Vitaly had ridden a horse when she was at the Crosval Manor, and she was not a novice at all, but she was not tall and had to use a small stool to step on the stirrups smoothly. Gabriel helped her get on the horse, and told her She pulled the rein and got on her horse.

In order to take care that she had never experienced high-intensity horse riding, both Gabriel and Charles controlled the horse so that it did not run too fast, that is, the speed was slightly faster than that of an ordinary carriage.In order to be able to ride a horse, she still wore a corset. The "benefits" of a corset are not only corset and waist, but also support her chest, so that she will not sway too much, and running slowly is still tolerable.

She wears a modified men's jacket, a men's silk top hat, and a neat braid at the back of her head; no skirt, men's breeches and boots to compliment her petite figure With a beautiful and beautiful appearance, it does not have the chic style of a beauty in men's clothing.

Gabriel thought his little fiancée was really beautiful.

Charles mentioned that the Austrian queen brought her brother's daughter, who is also a beautiful girl, but the Germanic people still look tough. The young nieces in their teens are not as beautiful as the queen in their 30s, and of course they can't match the British girls. compared.Charles thought English women were beautiful, but Vitaly, the little French beauty, was bubbling.