Chapter 128
Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao arrived in the capital soon.
However, the two did not contact Liao Xuelin and others rashly. Instead, they first found someone to inquire about the information. Of course, this 'person' refers to Liu Changmiao's eldest brother Liu Changyan, who has lived in the capital for a long time.
Although Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao knew Liao Xuelin and others, they didn't know much about their families and their character. Since it is a partnership to do business, of course you need to find out these things clearly, which is the same reason why Fu Wenyu chose to cooperate with Liu Changmiao after considering it for a long time.
I would rather not cooperate than find a terrible person to cooperate with.
So the two went straight to Liu's house.
Liu Changyan was a little surprised by the arrival of the two people.
Of course he knew about his younger brother's partnership with others, and he had no objection to his father's transfer of the hot spring resort and amusement park to Liu Changmiao's name.
After all, his mind is on his official career and he has little interest in these general affairs.
But what he didn't expect was that the so-called "amusement park" not only attracted people from Liuzhou, Jiangzhou and other places as well as some people from the capital, but also opened it to the capital.
So after reading the plan written by Fu Wenyu who stayed up late on the boat, he seemed extremely surprised, "This amusement park has nearly a thousand people, or even more than a thousand people, going to it every day?"
Fu Wenyu corrected, "There were more than a thousand people in winter, and many people in winter were attracted by the hot springs. But now that spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, more and more people are there."
Not so much. He made a rough estimate and added: "Usually there are only three to five hundred people, and only Mu Xiu will have more." "
But this is the data for the last six months. According to Fu Wenyu's calculations, the situation will be better in the second half of this year, and it is estimated that the number of people will increase to about 2,000 per day. After all, the circulation of information in ancient times was too slow. Many people only learned that a hot spring resort had opened in Liuzhou when the Chinese New Year was approaching.
This is also the reason why Fu Wenyu said before that he would only start making profits in the second half of this year.
But even this surprised Liu Changyan.
He even calculated subconsciously, "Liuzhou City only has more than 100,000 people. According to you, most of the people who went there in the past few months were from Liuzhou, and not many from Jiangzhou and Anzhou. But even so, every day There are hundreds of people, and there are millions of people in the capital, so wouldn’t there be thousands of people going there every day?”
Liu Changyan flipped through the plan, and then he saw that the plan in his hand said that in just six months, the hot spring resort and amusement park had already recovered half of its capital.
This includes money from ticket sales, rent from various stores, and money earned from some shops.
If this amusement park is opened in the capital and the number of guests increases tenfold, wouldn't it be possible to earn 20,000 taels in half a year?
With more than 20,000 taels in half a year, it's not an exaggeration to say that "every day makes a fortune".
For a moment, Liu Changyan felt a little unstable.
Fortunately, he has been determined since he was a child, and the Liu family is not short of money, so he just sighed in his heart for such a large sum of money for a while, and then forgot about it.
He thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to know the details of some of them?"
"Yes, that's what we mean."
Fu Wenyu nodded, "I discussed it with Chang Miao on the way to the capital and thought it would be a good idea to open an amusement park near the capital, but only if they don't have any evil intentions."
Liu Changmiao also said: "Yes, brother, we are not familiar with the capital. What if we are cheated if we cooperate rashly? So you can help us find out. If some of them are unreliable, Mr. Fu and I will refuse." "
This is not difficult, Liu Changyan readily agreed.
Within a few days, Liu Changyan found out the news through various channels.
Fu Wenyu was not idle either. He went to the General's Mansion to visit Li Xin and his daughter, conveyed the greetings of his mother and sister, and asked Li Xin if he was interested in the amusement park project.
Li Xin and her daughter have changed a lot compared to when they were in Liuzhou.
This not only refers to changes in their clothing, but also changes in their entire temperament. If Lady Li and Li Xin were just wealthy ordinary people in Liuzhou, when they met again a year later, Fu Wenyu could already feel the so-called 'nobility' from them.
But their attitude has not changed much.
Madam Li asked warmly, "How is your mother doing lately?"
"I remember that she did a lot of embroidery in her early years and her eyesight was a little hard to use. I happen to have a few prescriptions here given by the Imperial Hospital. You can take them back and let her try them out."
Fu Wenyu thanked him gratefully, "Thank you very much, aunt."
Li Xin asked curiously: "Are the hot spring resorts and amusement parks you opened in Liuzhou called these two names? How are these two places? I heard that people from the capital also go there to play."
"Originally, I wanted to take my mother back, but my father didn't agree."
"I was just trying to discuss this with you." Fu Wenyu said while sighing that Li Xin still liked doing business so much and had a different focus, while telling him his purpose.
Inviting Li Xin to join was an idea he came up with on his way to Beijing. On the one hand, compared with Liao Xuelin and others, he and Liu Changmiao were in a weak position. If one of them was not good, they would suffer. They needed to introduce the other party to maintain balance. On the other hand, according to the experience in Liuzhou, some projects in the amusement park also need to be divided into men and women, and not everyone can play together, so it is not appropriate for all partners to be men. Therefore, after considering it, Fu Wenyu planned to cooperate with Liao Xuelin and others, and introduce two or three female partners to let them be responsible for the operation and management of the women's amusement park.
Among the women he knew, Li Xin was undoubtedly very suitable.
She had money and leisure, and her status was high.
If she joined Fu Wenyu's amusement park plan, she could not only help to calm Liao Xuelin and others, but also expand the market for women in Beijing, which was much more convenient than a group of men.
So after explaining his purpose, Fu Wenyu described his plan in detail.
Drawing on the experience of Liuzhou Hot Spring Villa and Amusement Park, he plans to build a beauty salon + game + salon model for the women's amusement park in Beijing. As the name suggests, a beauty salon is to collect some content recipes and then provide them for guests to experience. Games are some games suitable for female relatives, and salons are to attract interested guests by holding activities with different themes at regular intervals, such as guessing riddles, writing poems, and painting.
As Fu Wenyu told the story, Li Xin's eyes became brighter and brighter.
Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao stayed in Beijing for nearly three months in total.
During this period, they learned from Liu Changyan that Liao Xuelin and others and their families did not have obvious bad records, so the two groups of people made an appointment to discuss cooperation.
Although Liao Xuelin and others just wanted to play games at first, since they took the initiative to propose cooperation, they also thought it over carefully. While waiting for a reply, they even found out where it was suitable to build an amusement park, which was on a rocky beach somewhere in the suburbs of Beijing, only one hour away from Beijing.
As for why they didn't just leave Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao aside and make the money themselves. According to Liao Xuelin, if they leave them aside, especially Fu Wenyu, they won't be able to play so many interesting games. And it's not an easy thing to build an amusement park. Although Liao Xuelin and others have some status in the family, it is difficult or even impossible to come up with such a large sum of money.
In this case, it's better to cooperate.
After the cooperation, they only need to take out their accumulated pocket money, or ask their parents for some, and deal with some things that ordinary managers can't handle, and then play the game and get the dividends.
This is much better than working hard by themselves.
So in the end, Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao signed two contracts in total, one with Liao Xuelin and six others, and the other with Li Xin and the other two noble ladies.
After the contract was signed, several people spent time confirming the drawings of the house, venue, etc. Fu Wenyu also transferred two managers from Liuzhou Amusement Park to supervise the construction, and then the two amusement parks in the capital officially started construction.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
Because the construction of the two amusement parks progressed smoothly, Fu Wenyu and Liu Changmiao returned to Liuzhou.
Not long after returning, Fu Wenyu received an invitation.
It was sent by Ji Heyu, who passed the imperial examination with Fu Wenyu and was also the first in the academy examination.
In this invitation, he invited Fu Wenyu to participate in the literary meeting he held. And he also said that several juren from Jiangzhou and some scholars who had passed the provincial examination would be invited to the literary meeting, and everyone could exchange some experiences of taking the provincial examination.
Fu Wenyu was not familiar with Ji Heyu. One of them was the first and the other was the fifth. They only met a few times at the banquet after the examination of the scholar and exchanged name cards.
There was no contact between them at ordinary times.
But he was very interested in the exchange of provincial examination experience that Ji Heyu talked about.
Because Fu Wenyu is now a scholar, and he is only 19 years old. If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely participate in the provincial examination two years later. In this case, it is necessary to participate in the literary gathering held by Ji Xiucai. On the one hand, he can make more friends, and on the other hand, he can also listen to some valuable experiences.
This trip to the capital made him feel a little different from the previous ones. And this is because he now has a "merit", even if it is only the lowest "scholar" merit.
So this also gave Fu Wenyu some ideas, and he felt that he should continue to take the provincial examination. If he can get a "juren" merit, it will be of great benefit to him and his career.
This literary gathering held by Ji Xiucai is a good opportunity for him to improve his knowledge.
Therefore, Fu Wenyu decisively replied with a letter and asked someone to send it to Jiangzhou, stating that he would attend on time.