Mochizuki Tower is a time-honored brand in Fuzhou City, and it is also the largest restaurant in Fuzhou City, known for all kinds of fresh seafood, and its business is very prosperous.

On this day, the Moon Tower is particularly lively, before the unitary time, the square in front of the restaurant is full of all kinds of carriages, the housekeepers, guards, grooms, handlebars are piled up and piled up, the south and the north tone, rough language, chatting happily.

It is rumored that this is a treat for the new governor, and it is said that he has been in office for half a month, so he wants to celebrate.

What is the reason for this half month and why it is celebrated, no one understands.

The guests invited by the governor were even more inexplicable, he invited not the bigwigs in the yamen, but famous merchants from all over the world!

At this time, twenty or thirty people had gathered in the largest private seat on the second floor of the Moon Tower, and the three large round tables were basically full, except for the half-empty table in the middle.

As soon as the unitary time arrived, all kinds of seafood were immediately served in turn, and soon the table was filled, and all kinds of drinks were also served in pots, and everyone placed a bottle in front of them.

However, none of the people present moved their chopsticks, most of them sat upright, or occasionally whispered, although there were twenty or thirty people sitting in the seat, it was not noisy at all.

About a quarter of an hour later, a shout came from outside: "Your Excellency the Governor has arrived." ”

Everyone present hurriedly got up and stood there respectfully.

Soon, Zhang Bin walked in with Hong Xianchun, the commander of the Fujian Dusidu, and two majestic young men.

None of them wore official uniforms, which probably meant that there was no formality, so the big merchants present just bowed their hands and said hello, and did not kneel on the ground to greet them.

Zhang Bin smiled, walked quickly to the main seat of the middle table, and greeted Hong Xianchun and the others again, and then arched his hand and said: "Thank you for your face, this official respects you a cup." ”

With that, he picked up the glass of wine that had been poured in front of him, raised it and ordered it to the three tables of guests, and then raised his head and drank it all.

After everyone had finished their glasses of wine, he raised his hand again and said, "Everyone, please take a seat, you don't have to be polite." ”

After that, he took the lead in sitting down, picked up chopsticks, and beckoned everyone to eat and drink.

The three tables of guests behaved differently, the left table was the helmsman of the major businesses of Longyou Merchant Gang and Ningbo Merchant Gang, and the right table was the helmsman of the major merchants of Huizhou Merchant Gang and Jiangxi Merchant Gang.

The table in the middle looked a little weird, Zhang Bin beckoned everyone to eat, but there was not much really eating.

The two young men are Qi Yuangong and Yu Chenglong, they have long been familiar with Zhang Bin, but they are very happy to eat.

and the helmsman of Dongshengtang, Mr. Huang, also ate very happily, because he was Zhang Bin's grandfather, and he was naturally happy that his grandson was so promising.

Hong Xianchun was embarrassed, he originally didn't want to come over, because there were rumors outside that Zhang Bin was his relative, and Wang Ruoji, Guo Xiyu and others didn't communicate with him at this time, so he naturally didn't want to run around behind Zhang Bin, which deepened the misunderstanding.

However, Zhang Bin insisted on pulling him over, and at this time he naturally didn't know what to eat, and he couldn't give up.

The other five are the helmsmen of other big businesses in Fujian, they were all invited over inexplicably, and they didn't know what they were doing here, and they all looked absent-minded.

After Zhang Bin diligently persuaded a few rounds of wine, he finally put down his chopsticks and stood up.

Seeing this, the others stood up one by one, but he raised his hands to let everyone sit in peace, and then he walked to the wall next to the table, and pulled a thick cloth hanging on it, and a map of Yuegang, which was a man high, was displayed in front of everyone.

Everyone showed shocked expressions, such a large map, no one has ever seen it.

Zhang Bin then said aloud: "There may be people here who don't know what the official invited you to do, here, the official will give you a detailed explanation." ”

After that, he picked up a wooden pole next to the map, pointed to the map and continued: "This is the Moon Port of Zhangzhou, where the official plans to open mutual markets with various countries, and the original place is naturally not enough, so the official wants to circle another 20,000 acres of land outside for everyone to build shops and warehouses and trade with various countries." However, this land is not sold to everyone but rented to everyone, if you want to rent it, you must donate a certain amount of food, because now the coast of Fujian is full of pirates, and the trade routes with other countries are basically cut off. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, the heads of the major businesses of the Longyou Merchant Gang, the Ningbo Merchant Gang, the Huizhou Merchant Gang and the Jiangxi Merchant Gang all nodded slightly, indicating that they understood, but the helmsmen of the major merchants of the Fujian Merchant Gang showed shocked expressions.

After Zhang Bin said this, he turned his head and looked at the leaders of the Fujian Merchant Gang with a smile, waiting for them to stir up trouble.

Because he has already let people check, except for his grandfather, these people have backstage, and the backstage is Wang Ruoji, Guo Xiyu and other eunuch party officials.

Sure enough, after these people were shocked, an old man surnamed Sun stood up and respectfully bowed his hand and said, "Lord Governor, you want to open a mutual market in Yuegang, has the imperial court allowed it?" We don't even seem to have heard of it! ”

This guy is Wang Ruoji in the background, it is estimated that he got some instructions, Zhang Bin snorted secretly in his heart, and then arched his hand to the north and said: "This official is under the emperor's command, you don't have to worry about this." ”

The emperor is a fart, Grandpa Wei didn't say anything, you are doing such nonsense, aren't you afraid that Grandpa Wei will clean you up when the time comes?

Of course, Old Man Sun only dared to say this in his heart, on the surface he still didn't dare to despise the emperor, he rolled his eyes, and then arched his hand and said: "The villain heard that now the mouth of Yuegang is occupied by pirates, and the business can't be done, what's the use of renting this land?" ”

Zhang Bin's face was blank, and he said seriously: "Didn't the official say that he was going to lead the army to exterminate the pirates, do you think the official is joking?" ”

Seeing the signs that Zhang Bin was going crazy again, Old Man Sun was so frightened that cold sweat broke out, but he still stubbornly continued to ask: "Didn't the pirates say that they can be exterminated, since the early days of the Apocalypse, haven't the pirates on this sea been more and more suppressed?" ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he said coldly: "Yu Long Qihu, everyone has heard of it, haven't they exterminated the pirates?" ”

Then he pointed to Yu Chenglong and Qi Yuangong and said: "This is Yu Chenglong, the eldest grandson of Yu Wu Xianggong, this is Qi Wuyi's nephew, Qi Wulie's eldest son Qi Yuangong, this official will ask them to train the Qi family army and a Yu family army again, are there any pirates who can't be destroyed?" ”

When the old man heard this, he was immediately choked and speechless.

Zhang Bin waved his hand generously, asked him to sit down, and then said proudly: "Is there any more problem?" ”

Old man Sun has picked all the things that can be picked, what else can be the problem, now it depends on whether the people here dare to donate silver to rent land.