Chapter 66: Four Seas Firm 3

"Li Fumin, what do we ask you to do."

Wei Zhongxian's tone was full of anger, and he looked at Li Fumin with fire in his eyes.

In ancient China, merchants had a low status.

During the Qin Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to wear silk clothes even if they were very wealthy; During the Tang Dynasty, merchants could not enter the court as officials; It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that the status of businessmen changed, from the rich businessman to the wealthy businessman.

It is believed that the merchant does not produce and does not pay attention to benevolence, but he earns more than the peasant. Naturally, it will hinder the credibility of his doctrine, and the images in early Chinese literature have always been mostly negative, such as Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", "businessmen value profit over reputation". This can be said to be either a cause or an effect.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian here did not look down on businessmen, but felt that if Zhu Youxiao really went to be a businessman, how would this matter be viewed by the people of the whole world, after all, Shinong Industry and Commerce had been firmly implanted in the minds of ordinary people.

When Li Fumin heard this, his mind suddenly seemed to be clear.

"Hey, it seems that I am going to persuade the emperor. What's going on"?

Li Fumin was stunned and recalled the scene when he entered the Warm Spring Pavilion, and slapped himself twice from time to time, as if these two slaps could help him recall what happened before.

After thinking about it, I found that after entering the Warm Spring Pavilion, I only said two or three words.

"The servant Huangzhuang steward and young eunuch Li Fumin see Your Majesty, and wish Your Majesty a healthy dragon."

"Oh, Li Fumin, you're here."

Zhu Youxiao's originally cold face suddenly smiled when he saw Li Fuming's arrival.

Li Fumin was so happy to see Zhu Youxiao, there are not many people who can make the emperor remember and still say his name. Moreover, the expression on Zhu Youxiao's face changed, and he felt that he was valued by the emperor even more.

"Look, look at the emperor who was happy when he saw me, how many people can be like me."

At the same time, he is more confident about Wei Zhongxian's task.

Although Li Fumin is now a eunuch in the palace, he is also a scholar and has a meritorious reputation. For the city's agriculture and industry and commerce, he kept it in mind, although he has now become a eunuch, but he still looks down on businessmen from his heart.

"Do you know what I'm looking for you this time?"

Zhu Youxiao also knew that what he said was equivalent to saying it in vain, and Wei Zhongxian would definitely tell Li Fumin what he wanted to discuss. And for this point, Zhu Youxiao had already expected it, and had already thought of a perfect strategy, a reason why Li Fumin couldn't even speak.

"The minions already know what Your Majesty means. Your Majesty, Emperor Taizu ......".

Li Fumin just wanted to quote the scriptures, and even planned to move out of Zhu Yuanzhang to suppress Zhu Youxiao, so that Zhu Youxiao would give up his naïve thoughts in his heart.

It's just that before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Youxiao, just like a man who took off his pants, but the other party came to the eldest aunt. But you can't be angry yet, you have to be angry and please the other person.

"I remember that you once said that your father also worked as a businessman, but because he was not good at business, his family fell into the middle of the road, so you had no choice but to enter the palace."

"Forehead ......".

Li Fumin's mouth opened wide, and he didn't know what to say.

If you say that you look down on businessmen, then your father also used to be a businessman, and now you look down on businessmen, isn't it equivalent to saying that you look down on your father, in this era of heaven and earth monarchs and teachers governing the country with filial piety, if you dare to really say this, you will definitely be sent to the 18th layer of hell, and you will never be able to be reborn, and you will be blamed by the people of the world.

But if you don't look down on businessmen, then why did you persuade the emperor not to be a businessman, is there some contradiction?

KO。

If this was a game, Zhu Youxiao's words could already knock out Li Fumin.

"What should I say? What should I say"?

A question flashed through Li Fumin's mind, and he couldn't stop asking himself.

"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.

Now that the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to His Majesty, why should His Majesty compete with the people. What's more, businessmen value interests and are credulous, if Your Majesty wants to do that business, the people of the world will inevitably follow suit, so that my Ming will have no credibility at all.

What's more, Emperor Taizu .........".

"That's why I asked you to be the chief treasurer of the firm."

Zhu Youxiao interrupted Li Fumin's words again, making Li Fumin want to curse in his heart.

"Holy shit, you interrupted me again.

What else is there to let me be the big treasurer, are you trying to pull me out of the top bag?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about Li Fumin's expression, but continued to talk eloquently.

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With Zhu Youxiao's words, Li Fumin's eyes became brighter and brighter, so that in the end, with a hint of admiration. This made Zhu Youxiao feel very pleased, and at the same time secretly wondered why he hadn't discovered himself before, and he still had the potential to be a pyramid schemer.

Seeing that Li Fumin had been successfully fooled by himself, he began to tell Li Fumin what the Four Seas Commercial Bank was going to do and some of the more advanced sales methods of the descendants.

"Your Majesty is simply the reincarnation of Fan Li, no, no, ten Fan Li is not as good as Your Majesty."

Li Fumin couldn't wait to kneel down at Zhu Youxiao's feet at this time, offering Zhu Youxiao like his own ancestors.

"Okay, that's all that needs to be said today, you go down first to find a place for the headquarters of the Four Seas Firm.

As for the rest of the goods, I will ask you to receive them in person in the future. Huang Zhuang, you will also serve for the time being, and then take over your shift when someone is suitable in the future."

Zhu Youxiao felt that he was arguing with Wei Zhongxian again, and he was convincing people with Li Fumin, and after this operation, it was even more tiring than doing more than ten days of work by himself.

Li Fumin is like a treasure, and the whole person is full of perseverance and fighting spirit. At the same time, I was also thinking that if my dead ghost father was as wise and brave as the emperor, he would definitely not be like this.

"Your Majesty, the slave is going to choose a good place for Your Majesty, and we want to make our Four Seas Commercial Bank the largest commercial house in my Ming Dynasty."

Li Fumin opened his mouth wide, tears appeared in his eyes, and he turned his head slightly to look at the Nuanchun Pavilion that had closed the door, I don't know if it was because of the big blow in his heart that caused his mental disorder, or what the reason was, he dared to lie directly on Wei Zhongxian's body and cry in a low voice.

Li Fumin's operation directly made Wei Zhongxian angry, as the pen-holding eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, Wei Zhongxian, who was above 10,000 people under one person, when was he hugged and cried, not to mention that he was still a small young eunuch.

As for some of the little eunuchs standing next to them, they were also dumbfounded and looked at Li Fumin, who was hugging Wei Zhongxian. Because they were so surprised, the faces of the little eunuchs unconsciously twitched.

"Ancestor, I feel bitter in my heart, and I have lived up to my ancestor's expectations ......... me."

Wei Zhongxian wanted to push Li Fumin away, but unfortunately he hugged him too tightly, so that Wei Zhongxian couldn't push it away no matter what method he used.

Listening to what Li Fumin said again, a wave of sympathy rose.

"Old, Ancestor, Slave .........".

After being sad, Li Fumin found that he was hugging Wei Zhongxian and crying, and he was so frightened that he stammered.

Wei Zhongxian waved his hand lightly, looking at the pile of water-stained clothes on his shoulders that had been crying.

"Li Fuming, you were promoted little by little by me by myself, and now you can do whatever Your Majesty asks you to do, don't embarrass me."

After speaking, Wei Zhongxian stretched out his hand as if he was in love, like a man and woman in love, and gently wiped the tears on Li Fumin's face.

"Ancestor, if you find a minion, you will definitely not disgrace your ancestor."

Looking at Li Fumin, who was gradually moving away, Wei Zhongxian wiped the tears on his clothes again.

"If you hadn't received the attention of His Majesty the Emperor now, you would have dared to cry on our clothes.........."

As for Li Fumin, who had already gone away, his heart was pounding at this time, knowing that it was definitely not Wei Zhongxian who sympathized with him.

For Li Fuming, who used to stay by Wei Zhongxian's side, what kind of person Wei Zhongxian is, he knows it clearly in his heart.

"Fortunately, the emperor values himself now, otherwise he would really have no place to die.

Alas, how could I have been inexplicably like that at that time."