When Li Yongcai got into the carriage, he glanced at the French barracks in the distance, showing a satisfied look, he could finally put his mind at ease now. Before, he had been worried that his eldest brother would choose to act brutally once he couldn't get along, and poke out a big basket, but now seeing this formation backed by the barracks, it is estimated that the eldest brother will no longer be able to afford such an idea.

As for whether the business is unsuccessful, it is inevitable, who would be so stupid to give up the matter of making money to others. He didn't expect to succeed in this matter, but the eldest brother insisted on going his own way.

The eldest brother is good at everything, but his ambition is really big, although if he didn't have this ambition at the beginning, the eldest brother would not have been able to go from a mere son-in-law to the current status, but time has passed, and the status is different, and people should have corresponding changes. The property accumulated by Guangrong Lin is enough for the two brothers to eat for a few lifetimes, at this time, they should live a small life behind closed doors, and shouting and killing all day long to create a big career, is it really necessary?

"Brother, do you really want to come again the day after tomorrow?"

Li Yongcai asked after getting into the carriage.

"Of course!" Li Yongfa seemed to be surprised that his younger brother would ask such a question, glared at him and said, "What, your second master Li is now developed, and you can't stand it after eating a closed door?" So soon to forget the time when you used to beg for a living? ”

"What's the matter," Li Yongcai was a little sneering, "I just think that the next time I come will not end up with any good results." Although we didn't understand how this surnamed Gao made a fortune, he still lived in a small inn half a year ago, and there were more than 100 acres of land after half a year. We're going to partner with him now, isn't that going to his bowl and shaving food? How is it possible to talk about it? ”

"That's not necessarily, my opinion is just the opposite of yours, his shipping channel can't even be inquired about by us, what does that mean? It shows that his business is very small, so small that we can't detect it. Our stall is big, his stall is small, and this business has to be discussed. If he can earn him a year's worth of money in partnership with us, why wouldn't he do it? ”

"Humph! Not necessarily. Who is the main and who is secondary, why don't you say? No matter how small the business is, it is good to be in your own hands, although it is a small profit at the beginning, but with the continuous increase of capital, the business is naturally snowballing bigger and bigger. Partnering with you means giving up your business to others. It's easy to say if it's a person with no wealth and no power, but now that the surname Gao is rich and powerful, it's only a matter of time before he can spread the business, and the ghost will agree to partner with you. Li Yongcai snorted heavily in his heart, but he didn't announce it.

"Foreigners, what they pay attention to is the word 'profit'," Li Yongfa continued, "as long as it is beneficial, anything can be discussed." Have we had less dealings with foreigners in recent years? Our house on Seymour Road was not allowed to be bought because the land in the concession was not allowed to be leased between the Chinese, and then we didn't find a foreigner to buy it under our name? We open cigarette stalls in various places, and there are so many overt and covert taxes and miscellaneous taxes, what should we do, it's not like we have found an Italian guy and played his signboard. It's the same this time, as long as it's favorable, it can always be negotiated. ”

"How can it be the same, the people I used to deal with were poor white people, can it be the same as the directors of the Shanghai General Association?" Li Yongcai continued to slander, but he did not fight with his eldest brother, but nodded obediently in agreement.

The older the elder brother gets, the more he becomes more and more self-dictated, and everything he does lately is all about thinking and wishful thinking, and his younger brother's advice is becoming more and more difficult to follow. Anyway, as long as he doesn't mess around, when the time comes, it's just to accompany him to eat one more deflated, and it shouldn't be a big deal.

After Li Yongfa finished speaking, the carriage fell silent, and the brothers did not talk about anything more, but remained silent until they were home.

When the carriage passed through the intersection of Barracks Road and Baochang Road, no one noticed that there were two carriages parked across the road, and a woman's face poked out of one of the carriages, but the size of a fist, looking at the French flag fluttering at the end of Barracks Road and Gao Yi's small building thoughtfully.

******

Gao Yi looked at the list in his hand, and the silverware alone cost 4,107 yuan, and the rest of the big heads had furniture 3,500 yuan; clothes, just a Scottish suit cost him 650 yuan, and all the clothes and accessories add up to more than 3,000 yuan; What's even more outrageous is that bed sheets, tablecloths, curtains, etc. actually cost 1,500 yuan; and a carriage with silver harnesses for everyday use—he did not necessarily continue to use the carriage borrowed from the Rida family—for 1,400 dollars, but fortunately the two horses and the one riding horse were given by Keswick, and the three English horses together were more expensive than the carriages; The remaining 500 bottles of various liquors consumed 2,500 yuan for him, as well as some miscellaneous decorations, and another 1,000 yuan.

A total of 17,000 yuan, plus the 20,000 yuan for the construction of the house he had just settled with Youheng Yangxing, as well as the 10,000 yuan for buying a car and a drill, 47,000 yuan was consumed in just two months. In addition to the 20,000 yuan reserved for equipment, he only had 8,000 yuan left to use. In other words, he is once again on the verge of bankruptcy, and he is ready to smash the pot and sell iron if he is not careful. And the point is that he doesn't have a stable income now, and the money he consumes can't be effectively replenished.

Ding Ganren has contacted him several times, hoping to get another batch of Nake Ding pear paste candy, and Gao Yi is indeed seriously considering whether he needs to start refining it again.

Throwing the list aside, Gao Yi opened the information about Guangrong Lin sent by Inspector Wilson and read it. Yesterday, he made a phone call to Wilson to learn about Guangrong Lin and the relevant progress of the case, but the other party came to visit in person, and this morning he packed all the files related to Guangrong Lin in the arrest room and sent them over.

Two o'clock and five points, Guangrong Lin's carriage arrived at the gate on time. There were two cars in total, and the back one was probably a bodyguard, which stopped at the door and didn't come in. The first carriage drove straight to the porch and stopped, and three people got out of the car, the first two knew that they were brothers by looking at their faces, and they should be the main owners today, and the one who followed behind was probably a translator. Mahan, who had been waiting under the porch for a long time, greeted him.

Gao Yi left the blinds, sat back on the chair behind the desk, picked up a piece of paper and pretended to look at it.

With the sound of shoes, Ma Han pushed open the two-headed doors, and reported: "The two Mr. Li who are cold in the light." With that, he moved out of the way and let the two behind him in.

Gao Yi stood up from behind the desk and greeted him, shook hands with the three of them, exchanged names, and sat down on the sofa.

"The house is cooled by a water cooling system, pumping water from a deep well and using a machine to pump it into the pipes laid on the walls and roofs to take away the heat." Seeing that the two of them seemed quite surprised by the coolness in the room, Gao Yi took the initiative to introduce.

"Mr. Gao really enjoyed it." Li Yongfa praised, he paused and said: "Mr. Gao's official words are really authentic, it seems that our Sun translation is useless today." As he spoke, he had a childish accent in his accent.

Gao Yi read the resumes of the two brothers, a person from Tongzhou outside the Fifth Ring Road, but he passed it on to a Fujian traveling businessman, and later became a son-in-law of a Cantonese person, and then usurped the Yue family's industry, and his life can be described as quite legendary.

After the greetings, after drinking two sips of iced black tea, Li Yongfa said straight to the point: "I am here to apologize to Mr. Gao." I don't know if Mr. Gao already knows that the robbery case of your robbery on December 31 last year was done by the shopkeeper surnamed Guanghe Fengliao in collusion with outsiders. Guanghe Feng is a branch of the small Guangrong Lin, our name is unknown, there is a crime of negligence, today I came to apologize. After Li Yongfa finished speaking, he looked at Gao Yi's face covertly.

Gao Yi had a poker face and listened quietly, as if the other party was talking about something completely irrelevant to him.

In fact, when Gao Yi heard the news from Wilson yesterday, he was very shocked, because Wilson had warned him from the beginning that there might be something wrong with the shopkeeper Liao, and he didn't believe it at all, but he didn't expect that the leader who planned the robbery was really surnamed Liao, which had to make him almost drop his jaw.

"The shopkeeper surnamed Liao and a group of people involved in the case, etc., we have dealt with them first. As for the remaining ones who slipped through the net, such as the coachman Huang Aliu and others, our number is still being traced, but a reward has been offered, and it will be rewarded in time, and Mr. Gao will definitely be given an explanation when the time comes. ”

As he spoke, Li Yongfa carefully observed the changes in Gao Yi's face. Seeing that he always looked indifferent and noncommittal, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at his second brother Li Yongcai, and both of them couldn't help but show a wry smile, as if to say, the foreigner in front of him, did he understand what he was saying, it was like a chicken and a duck.

Gao Yi didn't have any interest in the life and death of Shopkeeper Liao and Huang Aliu, and to him these people were like mosquitoes. was bitten by a mosquito, if the mosquito happened to fly in front of you, then of course it would be slapped to death, but if it had already escaped, was it worth rummaging through the boxes and cabinets to find it?

"Two?"

Gao Yi finally spoke, but the two brothers were a little stunned when they listened to his question, and they didn't know what he was asking.

"As soon as you apologize, the apology has already been said, so what is the second one?"

If the other party continues to say some nonsense about unnutritious apologies or something, Gao Yi will have to serve tea to the guests, which is a complete waste of time.

"Well...... Li Yongfa opened his mouth and stammered for a while, and it took a while before he turned around, "This is the case, isn't Mr. Gao selling us a batch of medicines before, and this batch of medicines is widely ......"

Gao Yi's fingers tapped on the armrest of the sofa, and his voice became more and more urgent, and he seemed to be getting more and more impatient.

When Li Yongfa saw it, he simply put his heart sideways, and said directly: "I want to buy Mr. Gao's pharmaceutical method, but I also know that the value of this method is immeasurable, and Mr. Gao will definitely not sell it, so I want to partner with Mr. Gao, and we have more than 200 branches in various cities and towns, and 3......,000 cigarette shops."

"How much are you going to pay?"

Gao Yi's fingers stopped, his eyes were shining, and the good thing of drowsiness and pillow had come.

"What?" The brothers didn't know why.

"I sell the method of pharmaceuticals, and I only sell them, not partners. I'm not interested in doing business. Now it's up to you how much you can afford, so I'll sell it to you if I like it. ”

"Really?" The brothers, even the interpreter who was listening, exclaimed.

"Sure, how much?"

"This, we really haven't thought about the money, we just thought about the partnership before, or you can give me an estimate." Li Yongfa's eyes flickered, and the businessman's side overwhelmed the shock and played a role.

"That's the number!" Gao Yi stretched out his palm and split his five fingers.

From 5,000 to 500,000, he doesn't care, how much he can get.

"Five...... 500,000 taels? Li Yongcai asked tremblingly.

Gao Yi secretly laughed, it seems that the other party's valuation of his technology is still quite high, and the bottom line of the starting price of 100,000 taels of silver is not able to run.

"Five million taels!" Gao Yi seemed to be very disdainful of Li Yongcai's offer.

The brothers immediately withered, especially Li Yongfa, who seemed to be a year older suddenly, and there were two more wrinkles for a while.

"Then how much have you prepared, so you dare to ask me the price of the secret method?"

"Alas! To tell the truth, the trumpet can get a maximum of 250,000 taels of silver, which is thousands of miles different from Mr. Gao's offer. Li Yongfa looked deeply shocked, and sighed.

"I didn't say I wanted you to pay five million taels at once!"

"Huh?" The brothers, along with the interpreters, were shocked again.

******

"Big brother, this is it?"

"yes, second, that's it. But why am I not happy? ”

"Me too." Sun Translator said beside him.

The brothers came out of Gao Yi's study, still looking confused.