Although Li Rumei was already very honest, Guo Dan still went to the ranch in person, and ordered someone to conduct a strict inspection of each horse.

If you are so serious, you will inevitably be disgusted by others.

This is really shameless, you don't even have access to the door when you send horses here.

Li Rumei's general complained to him: "Young General, this businessman inevitably takes himself too seriously, we have already explained the situation, but he is still here to be more serious, and he is looking down on him to make things difficult for us." ”

Li Rumei smiled bitterly: "He is such a person, don't talk about us, he also has such an attitude towards the Ministry of War, don't worry about him." ”

"Bing... The book of the military department? ”

The general was stunned, "Isn't he a small tooth merchant?" ”

Li Rumei shook her head, and said with a confused expression: "I don't know this very well, it's really the first time I've met a tooth merchant like this, let's not treat him as a tooth merchant, it's good for us." ”

Although he had only been in contact with Guo Dan a few times, Guo Dan's every move surprised him, when did the businessman have this status, but if he had come a few days earlier, it is estimated that he would not have felt so, just bumped into Guo Dan's outbreak period.

And Liu Xinmou over there also felt very embarrassed, and said to Guo Dan, who was seriously inspecting: "Our people have already seen it, and most of them are good horses, and you are so serious, it will only make everyone unhappy." ”

Guo Dan wrote lightly: "They will slowly get used to it." ”

Liu Xinmou was stunned for a moment, and snorted: "It seems that you still think that you have not offended enough people, and if you want to continue like this, I don't dare to stay here." ”

Guo glanced at him lightly and said with a smile: "Do you think I got it on purpose?" ”

Liu Xin conspired: "You weren't like this before. ”

"How not."

Guo Dan said: "I used to just say that when facing the old man, grovel, but I have always been like this when it comes to buying and selling." ”

As he spoke, he sighed and said, "Actually, I don't want to do this, I also know that this will be annoying, but I must insist, if I don't insist, they will definitely intensify and eat away at my interests step by step, so as to force me to save money, shoddy, because I can't lose money, and if I get that, my life will be in danger, you know, many people are staring at me, hoping that I will make a mistake." ”

Liu Xinmou nodded thoughtfully and said, "You seem to have some truth in what you say, but in this way, your business is really difficult to do!" ”

"Hard to do?"

Guo smiled lightly: "You can't help but underestimate them, I secretly sent someone to the Liaodong region to inquire earlier, their Li family bought horses from Mongolia, and the good horses were only eight taels and one horses, but the price they gave me was fifteen taels and one horses, which was almost doubled, after deducting the related costs of transportation and storage, two thousand good horses, they could earn at least seven or eight thousand taels, which is already a lot." ”

Liu Xinmou frowned and said, "Then you still agreed?" ”

Guo smiled lightly: "This is the trade, if you don't make money, who is willing to work this god, I take the cotton nail business, also to make money." In addition, the cost of breeding a good horse is about 25 taels, and the subsidy given by the imperial court is converted, although it is only about 20 taels, deducting the annual expenses, I can probably protect the capital, and I am making money because Marseille can make money. ”

It can be seen that it is not easy for the Ming Dynasty, the cost of selling horses from Mongolia is about three times more than raising horses by yourself, as a businessman, of course, you choose to buy horses, but as far as the imperial court is concerned, this Mongolia is the enemy, it is impossible to completely rely on Mongolia to fight horses, you must raise them yourself.

But trade can't be broken, if you want to cut off trade, the Mongols will definitely come to rob it, and the war continues, which is a waste of money and labor.

The Mongols also knew in their hearts that they were often shoddy, and the good and bad were about half and half, however, when the good horses crossed the border, they had to be shoddy again by the border generals, so the imperial court could not buy too many good horses.

But now this is a private transaction, if you want to be shoddy, Guo Dan has to advance money into it, and the same is true for Li Chengliang, he bought a horse with the Mongols this time, and he also had to check it clearly, Guo Dan will not accept it, and the loss will be his money.

If you don't give it to Guo Danma, Guo Dan won't give it with a cotton armor, and he will die as his soldier.

Liu Xinmou nodded, and said, "By the way, when will this Marseille start?" ”

Guo Dan said: "I will open it after the Qixi Festival, but I may have gone to Weihui Mansion at that time, and Marseille will still be handed over to you." ”

Liu Xinmou said depressedly: "If you want to be in ......" ”

"You can do it, just open it as usual, and it's your love to buy and sell this thing."

Guo Dan interrupted him with a smile, and said, "By the way, why haven't you seen the little uncle recently?" ”

"Locked up at home."

"It's still closed!"

"Huh!"

Liu Xinmou gloated: "You are so high-profile now, can your uncle not be afraid?" ”

Guo Dan shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Hasn't the Ma Bao recently launched a report on Li Shouqi, you can send a copy to the little uncle, so that he can be happy." ”

Liu Xinmou said: "Have you done this a little, Li Shouqi is the eldest son of Xiangcheng Bode after all, and he doesn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "When Li Shouqi targeted me, Uncle Xiangcheng would definitely not think so, I am settling old accounts with him, I must let him be discredited, and next time he wants to do anything lacking in virtue, he has to weigh how many catties and taels he has." ”

In response to the punishment of Li Shouqi, Guo Dan is also meticulous, and he did what he said, first launched a column in the Ma newspaper, explaining the matter clearly and clearly, as well as the punishment of Li Shouqi, the portrait has been prepared, and the Marseille race will be directly posted at the door.

Guo Dan clearly wants to kill chickens and monkeys, from the perspective of the buyer and seller, the cost of offending Xiangchengbo alone will definitely not be higher than 100,000 taels.

At this moment, a man in his thirties came up and saluted, "Proprietor." ”

"Immortality is here."

Guo Dan nodded with a smile.

This person's name is Duan Changsheng, and he is a tooth man dug by Guo Dan from the four official teeth, and he is best at screening textiles.

After chatting a few words, Guo Dan took Duan Changsheng to Li Rumei's side.

"Major General."

Guo Dan first bowed his hand, and then said to Duan Changsheng: "Don't hurry up and salute the young general." ”

Duan Changsheng hurriedly said, "The villain Duan Changsheng has seen the young general. ”

Li Rumei just looked at Guo Dan suspiciously.

Guo Dan introduced: "This is the after-sales manager of our Yinuo Yaxing, he will be in charge of the area around Liaodong, if there is any problem with the cotton armor in the future, the major general only needs to find him." ”

Before Li Rumei could speak, the generals around him couldn't help but say: "How about the after-sales manager, I'm afraid it's sent to monitor us." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "This big brother is serious, about this, the contract is written, this is because we have always pursued excellence, maybe in the eyes of others, this batch of cotton armor is already very perfect, but we think we can do better, any flaws, is the driving force that motivates us to progress."

At the end of the day, they will also track the use of cotton armor in real time, and send the soldiers' feedback to the capital, and we will make improvements according to the soldiers' feedback. ”

In fact, the current economic situation of the Ming Dynasty, the service industry is difficult to rise, there is food, there is clothing, it is good, but Guo Dan believes that the army is very special, related to everyone's interests, so he will first use the concept of the service industry to the army.

Li Rumei first glared at the general, and then smiled lightly at Guo: "Regarding this matter, my father once mentioned it to me, and he praised it. ”

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "But there are also many people who think I am troublesome and don't hide it from the young general, so I offended a lot of people because of this." ”

Li Rumei didn't know that he meant something else, and said with a smile: "In that case, why are you still so persistent?" Isn't this trader flexible? ”

Guo Dan shook his head and said: "This is really not attachment, but money has to be a lesson." ”

"Money has a lesson?"

"Hmm."

Guo Dan nodded, and said: "I didn't do this before, but then I found that once I mix favors with trading, I will only offend more people, how much is a favor worth, the standards in everyone's hearts are different, more, I lose money, less, and the other party is unhappy, it seems that it is not appropriate to do anything."

If you put people first, you will get off to a good start, but most of the results will be bad.

Frankly speaking, this kind of transaction is very unfavorable for me personally, because I am just a tooth merchant, and if I suffer a loss, I can only swallow it in my stomach, but if the major general suffers a loss, I will never give up.

Therefore, I changed the way I did business, spoke with integrity, and used better products to gain everyone's recognition and respect. Of course, I can't deny that I was able to do this because of His Majesty's favor. ”

Li Rumei categorically didn't expect Guo Dan to be so honest, but she was a little respectful, and said with a smile: "Now it seems that the result is good." ”

"But I haven't been approved by the major general." Guo smiled lightly: "But don't worry, because I believe that it won't be long before I will be recognized by the major general, because I am sincerely willing to produce armaments in Liaodong." ”

Li Rumei laughed: "I've got it." ”

After all, he was born in Jiangmen, and he didn't like those hypocritical literati, he liked to make friends with bold people, Guo Dan's words really impressed him.

Having said that, some things have become simpler, what is what it is, everyone follows the rules, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about.

After three days of inspection, as Li Rumei said, a total of fifteen horses were unqualified, and Guo Dan also chose these fifteen horses to refuse, but did not deduct the cotton armor, because the number was not very large, but Li Rumei signed an IOU.

Liu Xinmou on the side was completely speechless, this is okay, the little tooth merchant dared to let Li Rumei make an IOU.

And during this period, Kou Zhuansha, a virtuous helper, was not idle, on the one hand, she was busy with the settlement of the five guns and Wanli's side, and on the other hand, she was trying to reduce her expenses by all means, because there was still a long period of time, and the tooth store would face the dilemma of shortage of funds.

They invest in real estate, not stocks, and the return cycle of this industrial is very long.

"There are only more than 8,000 taels here, which is still a little insufficient!"

Kou Zhuansha put down an account book and pondered with her eyebrows, "It seems that we have to send someone to visit the Earl's Father, hoping that they can settle some money for us in advance." ”

She raised her head and shouted to the outside, "Linlin." ”

Before the words fell, the door opened, and I saw that it was not the secretary who came in, but Guo Dan.

"Husband!"

Kou Liansha immediately stood up.

Guo smiled lightly: "I don't know what can be done for the chairman." ”

"Poor mouth."

Kou Liansha's eyes glanced at him with a smile, and he walked to the tea table again.

Guo Dan also walked over and came to the tea table, where the two wives sat opposite each other.

While making tea, Kou Zhuansha asked, "How is it on the ranch?" ”

Guo Dan said: "The handover has almost been completed, and there are currently more than 4,000 horses on the ranch, and 5,000 good horses should not be a problem." What about your side? ”

Kou Lian shook his head lightly and sighed: "The five guns can't make much money at the moment, because Jiangnan's account has not yet arrived, and at the same time, the five guns have to prepare the picture album of Qixi Festival, and only gave us more than four thousand taels, and Your Majesty's side is even more... It was more than three thousand taels. ”

Guo smiled lightly: "You can be content, this time Your Majesty has moved the principal, and it is already very good to be able to give us more than 3,000 taels." ”

Kou Zhuan Sha said: "Therefore, I plan to send someone to the Earl's Court to settle the accounts over there first." ”

Guo Dan nodded and said, "That shouldn't be a problem, if you ask for a little more, the uncle will agree immediately." ”

Kou Zhuansha was curious: "Why? ”

Guo smiled lightly: "If he doesn't agree, then I may come to the door, but my uncle is most afraid of me coming to the door now." ”

"You're embarrassed to say it."

Kou Liansha pursed her lips and smiled, handed Guo Dan a cup of tea, and asked, "When does the husband plan to go to Weihui Mansion?" ”

Guo Dan said: "If there is no accident, it should be two days later, and now Weihui Mansion can't have any mistakes, otherwise, I don't know where to put so many weapons." ”

Kou Liansha smiled: "You still have to think about it quickly, how to convince Zhou Feng and them, but I heard from the housekeeper that Zhou Feng and they have already made up their minds and will never accept this kind of deal again." ”

In fact, she also thinks so, but she can only express her worries about this kind of thing, and it is impossible to interfere with Guo Dan, after all, this involves the largest fat house in the world.

Guo Dan smiled and said, "Don't you know my skills, Mrs. doesn't understand?" ”

Kou Zhuansha remembered the previous few times when Guo Dan fooled Zhou Feng and them, and couldn't help but sneer, and said, "Tianjin Wei, what are you going to do?" We really can't come up with the money. ”

At the beginning, Yaxing invested in Tianjin Wei, and Yaxing bought a lot of workshops, because Guo Dan planned to put the workshop in Tianjin Wei, but he didn't expect that a Weihui Mansion would suddenly pop up, and now Tianjin Wei's workshop is redundant, and it is not even conducive to Weihui Mansion.

Because Tianjin Wei is relatively close to Liaodong, if it is produced in Tianjin Wei, it will inevitably impact the industry of Weihui Mansion, which is of course not possible.

"It's a real nuisance." Guo Dan frowned and said: "Tianjin Wei cannot continue to produce at present, but Tianjin Wei is very important to us in the future, and it is impossible to give up." ”

He groaned for a while, and said: "In this way, some of the skilled craftsmen of Tianjin Wei will be moved to Weihui Mansion, and as for those workshops that have been purchased, they will all be converted into warehouses, after all, the goods produced by Weihui Mansion will also have to go over there." ”

PS: Once again, I wish you all a happy new year, and you must be healthy and healthy in the new year. It was definitely the hardest year of my life, but it also made me realize how hard it is to be happy, and it also made me love writing even more because it brings joy to people.