Chapter 333: Agreement (2)
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Lin Xiaoyue smiled and extended her hand to Liang Yu. “Young Master Liang, please.”
Only then did Liang Yu retract his gaze from the row of chairs.
“Ms. Lin, Brother Li Xiao, please sit!” He cupped his hands and replied before taking his seat.
Zhao Fu quickly brought tea over and refilled everyone’s cups.
Then, Lin Xiaoyue chatted with Liang Yu and Third Master Zhou.
After a while, she began to talk business with the two of them.
Before lunch, the business discussion went smoothly.
It only took two hours for them to decide on the final plan.
They also discussed the problems that might arise and the corresponding solutions.
In summary, Liang Yu and Third Master Zhou would each give Lin Xiaoyue 5,000 taels of silver and a manor of no less than 300 acres as investment funds. The money and the manors were all privately given to Lin Xiaoyue and were not included in the business account.
In terms of money, since Ruyi Restaurant had already paid Lin Xiaoyue 1,000 taels, Liang Yu only gave Lin Xiaoyue 4,000 taels this time. Third Master Zhou gave her 5,000 taels.
As for the manors, Liang Yu gave Meng Manor in the east of Qingshi Town to Lin Xiaoyue. The manor had a total of 384 acres of land. It was one of the largest in Qingshi Town.
When Third Master Zhou saw that Liang Yu was so generous, he was too embarrassed to give Lin Xiaoyue a manor with little land, so he gave the Mao’er Manor next to the Zhou Village to Lin Xiaoyue.
Mao’er Manor had a total of 358 acres of land. Although it was not as large as Meng Manor, it was adjacent to the Zhou Manor.
Third Master Zhou also suggested that he could arrange for people to get nearby villagers and those from the government office to merge Zhou Manor and Mao’er Manor.
Together with the newly bought land, the area would be larger than the Meng Manor.
Lin Xiaoyue was naturally delighted after hearing this and was extremely grateful to Third Master Zhou.
The second was management.
On Liang Yu’s side, he had arranged for Manager Liang of Ruyi Restaurant to come over to the workshop to collect the share of profit and discuss important decisions.
At the same time, the guards that Liang Yu arranged were also under Manager Liang’s command.
Apart from that, Manager Liang did not participate in the other management of the workshop.
As for Third Master Zhou, he would temporarily be in contact with the workshop and participate in major decisions. He would also dispatch the guards he had arranged.
As for the profit, the portion that belonged to Third Master Zhou would go directly to the Zhou Trading Company. Moreover, Zhou Shi wanted to manage it together with Lin Xiaoyue.
Thirdly, they discussed the penalty clause.
The three parties agreed that the right to grow chilis would belong to Lin Xiaoyue.
They were not allowed to take the chili seeds, privately grow chilis or even make chili products.
Of course, Lin Xiaoyue herself was not allowed to plant chili peppers in any place other than the three manors.
She was required to plant chilis for three seasons every year.
Moreover, Lin Xiaoyue could only plant other crops that did not affect the chilis in the manors.
This was, of course, Lin Xiaoyue’s suggestion. It was not cost-effective to plant only chilies in the field. If other crops did not affect the chilies, she wanted to plant sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes and chili peppers could coexist without affecting each other.
At that time, these sweet potatoes could be used to feed pigs and other livestock, and the livestock could produce fertilizers.
Besides, sweet potatoes could also be made into dried sweet potato, sweet and potato powder. These could all be sold.
As for potatoes, she had no place to grow them.
However, there was still time before the start of spring. She would ask Hei Gang to help her. She just needed to buy a manor before spring.
If she really couldn’t, she could ask the village chief if she could buy some land.
She only needed about 20 mu of land to produce enough ingredients for the eatery for a few years.
If she wanted to open a new chain store, she wouldn’t have to worry about not having enough potatoes.
In short, Liang Yu and Third Master Zhou only wanted to make sure that she grew the chilis well. Moreover, she was not allowed to sell them to anyone else. Apart from that, they had no opinion about her other plans.
If any of the three parties violated the agreement, they would have to pay two million taels of silver to each of the other two parties.
Of course the penalty was high. The reason why it was set this way was to prevent anyone from betraying each other..
The three of them had also recorded a lot of other details in the contract..
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