After thirty years of drinking, the show began on the stage next to the main table. Some excellent people www.biquge.info pen "Fun" Pavilion went up to sing operas, all of which were legendary operas of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Zhi didn't know what he was singing, so he just babbled and listened to a lively one.

After singing for a while, they went down, and a very beautiful young woman came up to the stage with a lute in her arms. After bowing to the chief officer, she sat down in a chair.

The woman had a melon seed face, a pair of red phoenix eyes embedded in her face, and a straight little nose underneath, which was very gorgeous. Even Li Zhi, who came from later generations, had to admit that this woman was among the top ten in terms of beauty among the women he had ever seen, and he was fascinated by it.

When they saw the woman come out, everyone stopped drinking and eating, and they all watched the woman perform. The woman sang with her pipa in her arms, and her voice was full and curling, which was very good.

Seeing that Li Zhi's eyes were straight, Xu Mince smiled and said, "Little Brother Li, this is the daughter from Yangzhou!" ”

"Daughter-in-the-Spirit?"

"The women in the brothels in Goulan in Yangzhou paid for the good-looking girls in poor families to buy back, teach them to play the piano and blow the flute, chant poems and write, draw and play Go, play double-back, wipe dominoes, and do all kinds of obscenity. When he grows up, he can sell it to rich and noble families as concubines. This first-class with the most outstanding appearance can be sold for more than a thousand gold, and it is called a thousand gold queens. ”

Li Zhi smacked his tongue secretly when he heard this, lamenting the development of the Ming Dynasty's goulan industry, and heard Xu Mice say: "Junior Brother Li is rich now, why don't you also buy a daughter as a concubine?" ”

Li Zhi smiled: "I don't have such plans for the time being. ”

Xu Mince looked at Li Zhi, nodded, and stopped talking. In the middle of the ring, he drank so much that his stomach swelled, and he went to relieve himself.

As soon as Xu Mince left, someone immediately came up to find trouble with Li Zhi.

Seeing Xu Mince walking away, Lu Huarong, the owner of Xianjin Firm, who was sitting at the main table, walked over and walked straight to Li Zhi.

"You are Li Zhi?"

Li Zhi was stunned, not knowing why Lu Huarong found him. He remembered Xu Mince's evaluation of this Lu Huarong just now, and he was vigilant, nodded and replied, "It's me!" ”

Lu Huarong smiled and asked again: "You did the soap business in Tianjin City?" ”

"I did it."

Lu Huarong stared straight into Li Zhi's eyes and said fiercely: "You make a price and sell me the soap formula!" ”

It turned out to be a soap recipe.

Hearing this, Li Zhi's heart tightened. Just when the chief military officer went upstairs, he saw the power of the Ming Dynasty, and with Xu Mince's allocation these days, Li Zhi knew that he was helpless, and he had no strength to fight against these officials and businessmen with deep backgrounds. The Tongzhi of the Tianjin Qing Military Department is in charge of Tianjin's civil affairs, and Lu Huarong is the younger brother of the Tongzhi, if he uses force to rob, Li Zhi is powerless to stop it.

The so-called asking Li Zhi to sell the formula at a price is just a rhetoric, and it won't give Li Zhi much silver at all.

The other party is not good, and it is obvious that he has already planned. Li Zhi secretly said that the person who peeped at the soap factory in the alley these days was also sent by Lu Huarong?

Could it be because the voyeurism has no results, this Lu Huarong wants to come hard, and directly asks himself for the formula.

Li Zhi didn't move on his face, pondering in his heart, and suddenly said with a flash of inspiration: "I have already shared the recipe of soap with Brother Xu Mince." If it is sold to you, I will discuss it with Brother Xu. ”

Li Zhi can't stop this Lu Huarong by himself, but Xu Mince obviously has a background and can block it. Lu Huarong even chose the time to attack himself when Xu Mince was away, obviously because he was afraid of Xu Mince. Li Zhi was in a hurry, so he said that he had given the formula to Xu Mince, and used Xu Mice as a shield.

Hearing that Li Zhi took Xu Mince to push himself, Lu Huarong stared at Li Zhi's eyes fiercely, as if he wanted to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of Li Zhi's words. Fortunately, Xu Mince valued Li Zhi before, and everyone saw it, but Lu Huarong was deceived by Li Zhi. After looking at Li Zhi for a while, he snorted in disbelief, said no more, turned around and walked back to the main table.

Obviously, Lu Huarong's coming to face Li Zhi today is also a temptation. Seeing that Xu Mince attached so much importance to Li Zhi, he wanted to try the relationship between Li Zhi and Xu Mince.

Seeing Lu Huarong walking away, Li Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said that it was dangerous. With Xu Mince's name in the way, Lu Huarong didn't dare to do anything to himself for a while.

Li Zhi secretly said that the officials and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty were really sinister, and the inventions and creations they engaged in were all about making wedding clothes for others in the end. But Xu Mince is not bad, he does business with himself fairly, and he also mentions himself everywhere.

He was pondering his future countermeasures there, and Xu Mince had returned.

Wiping his hands with the towel on the table, Xu Mince said: "Little Brother Li's beauty is not moved at the moment, and I also admire my brother." With such no distractions, in time, Brother Li's business will definitely become even bigger. I'm afraid it won't be long before Tianjin will have the ninth largest business. ”

Li Zhi smiled: "Brother Xu is laughing. After a pause, Li Zhi said: "Li Zhi has no background, how to make a big deal." I'm afraid that in the end, I will be occupied by other doves. ”

When Xu Mince heard this, he smiled and said, "Little Brother Li is enlightened!" ”

Li Zhi looked at Xu Mince and secretly said How can I not understand? Lu Huarong has come to the door, can he still not realize? These eight major businesses are all big in the background, and they are powerless for ordinary people to resist.

Bowing his hand to Xu Mince, Li Zhi said, "Please also ask Brother Xu to show you a clear path." ”

Xu Mence smiled and said lightly: "Junior Brother Li, don't worry, Lu Huarong doesn't know your details, and he won't do it for a while." ”

It turned out that Xu Mice had already seen Lu Huarong's behavior, but he didn't say anything about it just now, and he was gagging with himself. Li Zhi has a new understanding of this official and merchant city.

Flicking his fingers on the table, Xu Mince said, "In a few days, you prepare a gift list, and I will take you to see my uncle!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned and asked, "Who is Brother Xu's uncle?" ”

Xu Mence smiled and said lightly: "Tianjin Governor He Shishou." ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, only to understand that Xu Mince's backstage was the hardest. The governor is the head of the civil and military officials in a place, no wonder Xu Mince didn't take the other seven businesses seriously, and ran to the deputy table to sit with him.

Xu Mince's so-called gift list, which is implicit, is actually to let himself prepare silver to send money.

Li Zhi gritted his teeth in his heart, leaned over to Xu Mince and asked in a low voice, "Brother Xu, is one thousand taels enough?" ”

Now Li Zhi's soap industry makes a profit of more than 3,000 taels a month, and he can still afford to send 1,000 taels to the governor.

Xu Mince nodded with a smile and said, "The first time we met, it was barely enough." ”

Li Zhi smacked his tongue, gritted his teeth and said, "Make a good impression on the governor, then I will prepare two thousand taels!" ”

Xu Mance smiled: "This is decent!" ”