The marriage of the Jin and Li families is definitely a major event in the Northland.

Jin Mantang is now undoubtedly the richest man in the Northland, and many people even think that he must be the richest man in the world.

Jin Mantang is no longer a salt merchant, but his Shenglong Qianzhuang is the minions of the imperial court's Wuwei Qianzhuang, in which Jin Mantang owns forty percent of the shares, which in itself is a terrifying wealth. In addition to this, Jin Mantang also has the largest ocean-going fleet in the world, and what he gained after returning from this voyage is a wealth that many people will not be able to earn back in ten lifetimes.

And the Li family, do you need to talk about it? Although it is said that there is a court and an emperor in this northern land, who knows? Everyone only knows Li Xiang. There are many people in the deepest part of their hearts, who will belong to this world in the future, and they can't say for sure?

The marriage of the richest and the most powerful is naturally a matter of course.

This time, in order to meet the daughter of the Li family, Li Xiang's only sister, Jin Mantang sent a total of five million yuan from this ocean voyage into the Li Mansion as a dowry, and Li Xiang transferred all the five million yuan into the treasury.

This incident was naturally greatly exaggerated by the Datang Weekly, and it was a big book. Not only introduced the overseas wealth and the huge profits of ocean voyages to the Tang people in detail, but also publicized to everyone Li Xiang's righteous deeds of serving the country and the people and treating money as dung.

In addition to this unprecedented dowry, Jin Mantang also put a flowing water banquet on a straight road about ten miles long in the outer city, no matter who it is, as long as you put a copper coin at the entrance, you can go in and have a big meal, and such a flowing water banquet is held for three days.

In order to charter this ten-mile straight road, Jin Mantang also paid 50,000 yuan to Wuyi Mansion for the venue.

Of course, this is also the marriage between Jin Mantang and the Li family, and it is possible for Wuyi Mansion to agree to such a thing, if you change someone, you are afraid that you don't even think about it, if you have money, you will not be satisfied.

This grand wedding is destined to become the talk of Wuyi for countless years in the future, ten miles of red carpet, ten miles of flowers, ten miles of red silk, ten miles of wine banquet, the entire Wuyi and even the surrounding area are caught in the carnival because of this wedding, businessmen, hawkers, farmers, because of this wedding, earned a lot of silver taels, and also ate a free banquet for three days.

"It's too extravagant, in-laws, it's too extravagant!" More than ten days later, when Jin Mantang sat with Li Anguo, Li Anmin, and Li Ze, Li Anguo was still shaking his head and said, "It's too eye-catching." ”

"It's not a big deal." Li Ze said with a smile: "The money that Uncle Jin Shi made is clean, and all the expenses this time are earned from overseas." As long as the money is earned cleanly, the court vigorously encourages the spending, and luxury is nothing. If Uncle Jin Shi is not so luxurious, those merchants, hawkers, and farmers, whose money will they make? ”

"I'm afraid that some people will gossip!" Ang Lee National Road.

"Father, just the five million guan that Uncle Jin Shi donated to the imperial court this time, whoever dares to gossip, I dare to scold him to the blood." Li Zedao: "Besides, the price of chickens and ducks in our north has fallen sharply this year, and this marriage has immediately pulled up the price of chickens and ducks, by the way, there are also eggs, ducks and eggs, and the price has returned to the normal level." I don't know how many people thank Uncle Jin Shi! ”

As soon as he said this, everyone laughed.

"Li Xiang, these five million guan are not donated by me to the imperial court, this is the dowry of my family who does not exchange for marriage, but you are the one who donated the money!" Jin Mantang shook his head again and again. "This is your high style, but it's not me, I'm just a businessman."

"Now it's the opening of the Tang Dynasty." Li Ze said with a smile.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's a monkey." Despite saying this, Jin Mantang still smiled, and as a businessman, he felt that he had reached the pinnacle that a businessman could reach.

"This marquis, you deserve it!" Li Zedao: "Do you know that Haixing Shipyard has received orders for hundreds of sea vessels? The date of delivery of the ship has been scheduled for five years. There are still many orders that cannot be received, and they have been handed over to Yangzijin Shipyard and Jiaozhou Shipyard in Yangzhou to do. And how many upstream and downstream industries can be driven by building a large sea vessel! And this is the cascading effect of Uncle Jin Shi's return this time. ”

"Ocean voyage is a sea voyage where risks and opportunities coexist!" Jin Mantang sighed: "Along the way, we not only have to fight with God, but also with all kinds of pirates, Li Xiang, the ships of those exotic pirates we captured this time are very different from us, but they also have their own characteristics!" ”

"This is exactly where Uncle Jin Shi is clever, these ships are now being studied by the masters there in the Haixing Shipyard, and they are shortened by me." Li Ze nodded and said: "As for those who want to follow the trend and make a fortune overseas, we still have to vigorously encourage them, Tang people, to go out, even if the outside is full of risks, but also full of opportunities." When there are our Datang ships everywhere on the sea, some pirates are afraid that they will flee from the wind. Uncle Jin Shi, I heard that you made a lot of money just by selling sea charts this time! ”

"Of the 100,000 copies of each chart, I sold a total of fifty copies." Jin Mantang was unabashedly in front of Li Ze.

"Isn't this another five million guan!" Li Anmin's eyes widened in surprise. "As soon as you turn around, you will earn back the dowry money. It's too easy to make this money, isn't it? ”

"It's easy to say, it's not easy to say!" Jin Shitang said: "This time I went out in more than 100 boats, and more than half of them came back, and nearly 1,000 people died." Just the settling-in allowance and pension for these people are also a lot, of course, there are dozens of boats of money, calculated down, and the final one that can be handed down is only two million yuan! But with these detailed nautical charts, those who go later will be able to reduce unnecessary losses. So these 100,000 yuan, they spent it willingly. ”

"I'm afraid that these people who buy nautical charts will inevitably lose their families and bankrupt in the future!" Ang Lee National Road.

"That's nature, the big waves are sweeping the sand, and those who survive will be the biggest winners." Jin Mantang said: "Li Xiang, Boxing Trading Company, now they are rich, they seem to be ready to do a big job." Not only did they ask me to buy this chart, but they also bought our logbook for tens of thousands, and I also gave them a sketch of the trip to Europa that you gave me. ”

"Boxing Trading Company has been investing in ocean voyages all these years, but it hasn't gone too far, and this time Uncle Jin Shishu has stimulated them." Li Ze smiled: "It seems that I want to fight big." They have this strength, they are not short of money, and they are not short of people. ”

"Yelu Qi himself can't read a few big words, but his son Yelu Fengze is a talent, polite and polite, this person has a lot of furrows in his chest! can be literate and martial, and will inevitably be a character in the future. Jin Mantang said: "This time he is the one who came to trade with me." ”

"This guy is really good." Li Zedao. The name Yelu Fengze, but after Yelu Qi defected to Li Ze, he developed it, so he changed it specifically for his son, which means that he wants to flatter Li Ze for the rest of his life. Although he is a Khitan, if he walks on the street and does not say his name, it will be difficult for outsiders to tell his race.

"In-laws, next, are you still going to sea?" Li Anguo asked.

"Go to sea, but don't run that far!" Jin Mantang said with a smile: "This life has been completed, and the rest of the things will be left to the sons and daughters of his subordinates." Next, Li Xiang arranged an errand for me. ”

"Oh, where is that going?" Li Anguo said curiously.

"I'm going to ask Uncle Jin Shi to go to the Wa Kingdom for a walk." Li Ze said with a smile: "I heard that now there are major forces fighting in chaos, and it is a good opportunity to profit from it." ”

"What is there to profit from the little Wa Kingdom?" Li Anguo said disdainfully.

"It's small, but the benefits are not small!" Li Ze said with a smile: "We can do business with them, and we can also support some forces close to us there, father, the ordnance business has always been the most profitable." At present, a large number of old ordnance, armor, swords and guns have been eliminated in our army, and they are piled up like a mountain, and it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources to destroy them, and the gains outweigh the losses. Wouldn't it be nice if you could sell them, or even sell them for a good price? ”

"That's good." Li Anmin's eyes lit up: "Xue Chong is worried about these things." His army eliminated a large number of ordnance in the warehouse, and had to send special guards to guard it, during which there were several incidents, some officers under his command guarded and stole themselves, and actually secretly got these ordnance out to sell to Zhang Zhongwu, several generals lost their heads for this matter, including a close relative of Xue Chong. If these old ordnance can be disposed of in this way, Xue Chong will save a lot of things. ”

Selling ordnance is, naturally, the most profitable business. For example, the largest income of the Wuyi Imperial Court is the sale of weapons to Tibet every year, and the largest buyer is Delhi Chinan. And from this year onwards, Tocharian also began to buy weapons from Li Ze, he followed the path of Li Cunzhong, and also bought weapons from the Tang Dynasty, while Wuyi was no matter who bought it, as long as it was a list from Tubo, it would be correct. Eat on both sides, and watch them fight to the death.

"In addition to this, there is actually another specialty in the Wa Kingdom, which is silver." Li Ze smiled and said: "So this time Uncle Jin Shi went over, but he had a great responsibility, not only to support our forces, but also to control some resources such as Yinshan there for our use." ”

"This kind of place is just right for people like me to carry forward their three-inch tongue." Jin Mantang said with a smile.

"You still have to bring enough strength to protect yourself." Li Anguo admonished.