After entering through the back door, a person walked by.

"His Royal Highness the King of Faith forgives his sins, he was busy settling down with the merchant just now, so he came late and neglected His Highness." Char saluted.

The person who came was Char, who had been hung by Li Zhi for a while, and was sent by Li Zhi to be in charge of the Chamber of Commerce some time ago.

Li Zhi waved his hand, and there was no displeasure in the comparison, but said with a smile: "No need to be polite, by the way, Char, just now you said to settle down the merchants?" What do you mean, isn't it tomorrow that the Chamber of Commerce will be open? Li Zhi was a little puzzled.

Char hurriedly explained to Li Zhi.

It turned out that at this time, there were already many people sitting in the hall, and these people were all local businessmen in Suxi Province.

And today the Chamber of Commerce is not open, the reason why they arrived a day in advance, and sit here, is completely Chen Maosan's idea, in the words of a few people, these are their own people, is the Suxi Chamber of Commerce's mother's family, must be different from the rest of the Chamber of Commerce members, so first convene it to discuss, how to strive for greater interests after the Chamber of Commerce opens tomorrow.

After hearing this, Li Zhi did not object, after all, these were the foundation of the prosperity of his fiefdom in the future, they all made money, and the fief would naturally be rich.

After knowing the ins and outs, Li Zhi smiled, "This Chen Maosan and the others really have a lot of ideas, not bad, not bad." Then he asked Char to lead the way into the main hall.

As soon as they entered the main hall, everyone got up and said hello, for them, this was their God of Wealth, so they all said good things flatteringly.

At this time, a slightly chubby businessman said to his partner: "Well, I have heard of His Royal Highness King Xin in Zhenping County, which is graceful and graceful, and has an extraordinary temperament. ”

Li Zhi happened to pass by him, and couldn't help but laugh, these businessmen are really wearing thousands of sycophants, so he paused, turned to look at the slightly chubby businessman and asked, "What's your name?" ”

As soon as the chubby businessman Jia finished speaking to his partner, he saw Li Zhi turn around and ask himself, so frightened that the fat on his body couldn't help but tremble, and he quickly knelt down, and said in a panic: "Back to Your Highness, Caomin Duan San" looked at Li Zhi with a panicked face after speaking.

Li Zhi couldn't help but laugh, am I so terrible? He feigned anger and said, "Does this king want to eat people? It's just to ask your name, and if you make such a move, you don't know how unreasonable this king is, so don't hurry up! ”

Char stood aside and winked, "Why don't you hurry up?" ”

Duan San was like going to the underworld for a while, he was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, his heart was relieved when he heard it, and the big stone in his heart suddenly fell, and he quickly got up, standing aside with a pale face, his vest was full of cold sweat, and he said that the heavenly family was ruthless, which also had to make people cautious.

Li Zhi smiled, "Duan San, what kind of business do you have?" ”

Duan San wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said dumbly with a big face: "Your Highness, the grass people's family is engaged in the lime business. ”

"Lime business?" After listening to Li Zhi, his spirit perked up, this lime is a good thing, it is widely used in civil engineering, but in ancient times, lime was mainly used for household daily use, treatment of diseases and even funeral customs and Taoist alchemy and other activities.

For this reason, in ancient times, poems with lime as the theme were also handed down, and they were chanted through the ages.

"Thousands of hammers are carved out of the mountains, and the fire burns as if it were idle. Don't be afraid of broken bones, you have to leave your innocence in the world. ”

Yu Qian's poem "Lime Yin" in the Ming Dynasty roughly reveals the raw materials, processes and colors of burnt lime.

With lime, you can produce cement, Li Zhi is overjoyed, it's really sleepy, this pillow is coming, just now I was talking about this carriage shaking, rubber tires can't be done, but the cement road can be done, isn't there such a sentence? If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, so Li Zhi suddenly became interested, and he couldn't help but look up to Duan San a little more, and was a little more happy.

Moreover, the preparation formula of cement is also very simple, it can be obtained through the crystallization of civilization, as for the process, not to mention, now the Weihe River has been built a hydraulic forging hammer, and put into operation, and the effect is not bad, this has to benefit from the surging water of the Wei River, so it is possible to build a crusher with the same principle and hydraulic power as the driving force, to crush the ore, because the cement preparation process needs a certain proportion of iron ore powder as raw materials, so at present, the preparation of cement is very simple.

But right now, Li Zhi couldn't take the time to do these things, just thought about it in his head for a while, and then came back to his senses.

"Well, yes, we will definitely cooperate more in the future!" After speaking, Li Zhi walked straight to the main seat and sat down.

When Duan San heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and his mouth grew in disbelief, and he said to himself: "His Royal Highness King Xin said that he wants to cooperate with me? That's great! That's great! ”

The surrounding businessmen all showed envious expressions, and complained about why such a good thing did not fall on them.

Sitting on the main seat of the main hall, Li Zhi smiled and filled the room with a large number of merchants.

Among them, there are some old acquaintances, Chen Maosan sat under the hall with a smile, and there was an older middle-aged man sitting next to him, looking at his Li Zhi guessed that it should be Chen Qingshan, the head of the Chen family, as well as Yang Chengxing of the Yang family, and the old fox of the Su family also rarely appeared, and the rest were businessmen from all over the province.

At this moment, some of the businessmen in the hall were sitting proudly with smiles on their faces, but some were happy and some were worried, and some were even more worried, as for what they were worried about, Li Zhi did not know.

When the atmosphere eased slightly, Li Zhizheng shouted: "Today, since you are sitting here, you are all your own people, this king will say it directly, I think you all know that the Japanese Chamber of Commerce will be open tomorrow, and the merchants of the world can join as long as they pass the examination, but you are all merchants in the king's fiefdom, so here this king will give you a convenience, and the chamber of commerce will have new goods for sale in the future, and it will be a priority for you." ”

This is not Li Zhi using the public for personal gain, but using the private for personal gain, the entire Chamber of Commerce is Li Zhi's, how can there be any difference between public and private? Chen, Yang, and Su joined the Chamber of Commerce for their own interests, although Li Zhi will give a certain amount of dividends, but the Chamber of Commerce is still Li Zhi's word, as for Char, it is just Li Zhi's spokesman.

As soon as these words came out, the merchants below immediately became restless, which was simply good news.

"Great!"

"That's right, it's good that we are from Suxi Province, otherwise how can we enjoy such treatment."

"I didn't come in vain!"

Then, Li Zhi simply drew some big cakes for everyone, swaying his vision for a better future, and bringing the thinking of many businessmen around.

At the residence of the Chamber of Commerce, he simply chatted with everyone for a long time, leaving a very good impression on the businessmen, even Duan San, who was very scared just now, let go of the timidity in his heart at this time and took the initiative to talk to Li Zhi.

In this way, it was not until the evening that Li Zhi left the Chamber of Commerce, and Char accompanied him all the way and put him in the carriage.

After returning to the palace, at the gate of the palace, Li Zhi saw a figure shaking, as if he was waiting for something.