The four of them were discussing there, when suddenly a guard came running and said, "My lord, someone has come to visit with a name card at the entrance of the official hall!" ”

Li Zhi opened the post and saw that it read "Foolish Brother Xu Mince knocked", and knew that Xu Mence was coming, so he said to the four of them: "You continue to organize training, I have guests here!" ”

Li Zhi came to the second hall of the Baihu Official Hall and saw that Xu Mince was already sitting there drinking tea. The few subordinates hired by Li Zhi www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion were very clever, and they saw that Xu Mince had an extraordinary bearing, and they were already serving tea.

Li Zhi walked up and arched his hand and said, "I haven't seen you for many days, Brother Xu is fine!" ”

Xu Mence stood up and saluted back, and said with a smile: "Brother Xian's new official hall is so magnificent!" ”

This is located in the center of the new Fanjiazhuang 100 official hall is Li Zhi newly built, there are four before and after, the layout is exquisite, the materials are solid, and it looks very magnificent. The Ming people have a tradition of not repairing the yamen, and ordinary civil and military officials will not build new yamen when they are in office, Xu Mince saw that Li Zhi broke the convention, and couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks.

Li Zhi replied lightly: "It's okay!" ”

Xu Mice said directly: "Jianxin Yamen's reputation for the virtuous brother is not very good, and the virtuous brother is not afraid of others smacking his tongue?" ”

Li Zhi is not a submissive and obedient character, as a traverser, he did not pay so much attention to the rules of this era in the late Ming Dynasty, and said with a smile: "I don't care!" ”

Xu Mince smiled, didn't know what to say, and shook his head.

Li Zhi beckoned: "Brother Xu, sit!" ”

The two sat down separately, and Xu Mince said: "Brother Xian, this is in full swing, building houses and building city walls, and half of the masons in Gyeonggi have been hired by you!" I see you've built a lot of single-family houses, who are they for? ”

Li Zhi said: "Those villas are all for the workers in my factory!" I built a new Fanjiazhuang, planning to live in 7,000 households, and after it is built, it will be a prosperous trade town! ”

"Seven thousand households? That's a big county! ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, Xu Mince took a breath, and felt more and more that Li Zhi was unusual, this is to build a city out of nothing! How can there be a small hundred households who do this? Even a businessman like Li Zhi, who owns several factories and workshops, I am afraid that he will have to exhaust his financial resources to launch such a large project, this Li Zhi's courage is really great! The future of this son is limitless.

Xu Mince secretly said that fortunately, he has been carrying Li Zhi, and now he is Li Zhi's brother, and on the day Li Zhi leaps into the dragon gate in the future, his benefits will be indispensable.

Xu Mince was thinking in his heart, but he didn't speak for a while. Li Zhi glanced at Xu Mince and asked lightly, "How is Brother Xu's soap selling?" ”

Hearing Li Zhi talk about soap, Xu Mince said with a smile on his face: "Soap is very popular in Jiangnan, and the goods will be sold out in less than ten days as soon as they arrive!" ”

Li Zhi now employs 2,000 households, and his monthly expenses are extremely high. The price of cement is cheap and the freight is too high, and the supply to nearby counties and towns is OK, which is not suitable for long-distance trade. Too much cotton cloth production will hit the small-scale peasant economy of male farmers and weavers, and it is the soap workshops that can expand for the time being. He has the heart to sell more soap to Xu Mince. However, Xu Mince has to open his mouth to buy soap, otherwise Xu Mice will definitely have to bargain on the price. Li Zhi was a little gentle about the soap, and then shut up and stopped talking.

Seeing that Li Zhi stopped talking, Xu Mince said loudly: "I came to visit Brother Xian today for two things, one of which is for soap. I want to buy more than 300,000 pieces of soap with Brother Xian every month and ship it to Jiangnan for sale, I don't know what Brother Xian wants! ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "Brother Xu helps me everywhere, the younger brother is grateful, since Brother Xu wants to buy more, the younger brother will make up the quantity and sell it to the eldest brother no matter what!" Starting next month, I will deliver 500,000 pieces of soap to Brother Xu's warehouse every month! ”

Xu Mice was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "What about the price?" ”

Li Zhi said: "Just follow the previous price. ”

Xu Mence thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's fine!" ”

Xu Mince has now almost become the Jiangnan general agent of Li Zhi's soap business. The soap business is a monopoly trade, and the market demand is extremely hot. Xu Mice bought soap from Li Zhi at a price of 18 yuan, and sold it for 25 yuan a piece when he transported it to Jiangnan, with a difference of 7 yuan in the middle, and he could earn more than 6 yuan in addition to the freight. Now he buys an extra 300,000 yuan, and he will have an extra profit of 2,000 taels a month, which is 24,000 taels of silver a year.

Twenty-four thousand taels of silver, even for Xu Mince, who ranks among the eight major merchants in the Acropolis, is a huge amount of money. Xu Mince did not master the core technology of soap, but he earned so much silver by befriending Li Zhi, and he was really satisfied. He secretly said that Li Zhi's friend was really not in vain, and he sat on the chair with joy.

However, this kind of trading is a win-win situation, and Li Zhi also makes a lot of profits. Another deal was negotiated, and Li Zhi had an extra profit of more than 3,000 taels of silver every month, and he was in a good mood.

The two of them were thinking about their own business, and after a long time, Li Zhicai asked, "Brother Xu said that there are two things today, and what is one more thing?" ”

Xu Mince spread his hands at this time, looked at Li Zhi and said, "There is one more thing, that is, the foolish brother came to give the virtuous brother a ride of wealth." ”

Li Zhi didn't know what Xu Mince meant, and said, "Please also ask Brother Xu to make it clear!" ”

Xu Mince smiled, and then said: "There has been a group of bandits entrenched on the salt mountain in Qing 0y County for half a year, and the plundering of the place is very rampant, and the local government is unable to clean it up, so it is reported to the governor. When the Governor was thinking about who to pacify the thief, he thought of you! ”

The governor of Tian0jin has jurisdiction over the entire territory of He0jian Prefecture, the two counties of Wu 0 Qing and Bao 0 Di of Shun 0 Tianfu, and the two places of Luan 0 Prefecture and Le 0 Ting of Yong0 Ping Prefecture and nearby islands. Kei 0y County is a county under the river 0 prefecture, and it is also under the control of the governor of Tian 0 Jin. If there are bandits, the local government will report to the governor's office, and the governor will send troops to clean it up.

After a pause, Xu Mince said again: "The governor said that it is better to send you to exterminate this gang of bandits. After the matter is completed, the governor will ensure that you will be the deputy Qianhu with the merit of suppressing bandits, and stay in Fanjiazhuang as the defender of Fanjiazhuang, how about it? ”

Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and only reacted after half a sound. After thinking about it, Li Zhi felt that the governor had accepted his benefits, and he had already regarded himself as his descendant, and promoted himself everywhere. And he is generous, He Shishou can make a lot of money by giving himself good deeds, so he naturally remembers himself.

Li Zhi arched his hand and said, "The governor has a heart!" ”

Xu Mence blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "There are three or four hundred people in that group of bandits. This matter will be suspended for half a year, and you will be exterminated within half a year. After a pause, Xu Mince said slowly: "After the matter is completed, you have to go to the governor's yamen to do some work, and you can't live up to the governor's good intentions." ”

Hearing that there were three or four hundred bandits, Li Zhi was stunned and said, "If it happens, I will naturally thank the governor again." It's just that the bandits are so powerful, how can the governor believe that the next management officer can be exterminated regularly! ”

Xu Mence blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "What a team officer!" I've heard it! You've got a thousand! That's more than a garrison! These family members should be able to exterminate the bandits after practicing hard for a few months, right? Since you are going to be this hundred households, you naturally have the ability to be an officer? Don't let the Governor down! ”

Xu Mince has intelligence, but the intelligence is not very accurate, Li Zhi recruited two thousand family members, he thought it was only one thousand. I think that most of the people in the Tian0jin officialdom get similar information to Xu Mince's. A hundred households recruited 2,000 families, and no one believed them.

However, hearing Xu Mince's words, Li Zhi felt a pang in his heart, and said that this matter is not all a good thing, there are still elements of testing himself in this matter! If he has "a thousand families" but can't defeat the bandits, maybe He Shishou and Xu Mice will no longer pay attention to themselves, and they will have a different set of responses to themselves. If He Shishou no longer supports him, Li Zhi's future career may be a little more difficult!

Bowing his hand to Xu Mince, Li Zhi said: "Brother Xu, don't worry, you will not disappoint the governor in the future." In less than a month, I am determined to exterminate this bandit! It's just that the expansion of soap production will be postponed for a month. ”

Hearing Li Zhi say that he would exterminate the bandits in a month, Xu Mince's eyes lit up, and his gaze at Li Zhi was different.