Li Xiang sent Ma Rulan away, went down to the secret room, and knocked on Cheng Jianghai's side, Cheng Jianghai quickly jumped down and startled a room of smoke and dust. Li Xiang glared at him, waved his hand and told his sister what he did, Cheng Jianghai was the first time he heard of such a kind person, so he sincerely patted his ass.

Listening to Cheng Jianghai gushing there, Li Xiang flipped through the latest information one by one, and actually saw about Ma Rulan, so he frowned and said: "The Great Zhou Taizu released the military power with a cup of wine, and now the nobles who can be regarded as the number one are also Zhang Li, Wangfan, and Ma Wujia, Ma Chaobei's father and Sister Lan's deceased husband are actually the Ma family?!" ”

Although Li Xiang had doubts, he didn't ask too much, and he didn't expect that his sister's deceased husband was also from Jiangmen. There is no reason, if my sister has such a background, why was the Ma family so embarrassed before?

Cheng Jianghai explained: "Some market news, because it cannot be confirmed, so the subordinates did not write it down. It is also a scandal, Ma Chaobei's grandfather and the current grandfather of the Ma family were also cousins back then, and when it came to the position of the family property and the head of the family, the most outstanding young man of the Ma family had a fight......"

"Ma Chaobei's grandfather started another stove in a fit of anger, and Ma Chaobei's father was even known as a horse in Bianjing, but unfortunately he died in Yanjing City a few years ago, and it is rumored that the cause of death is very strange."

"The descendants of the Ma family withered a few years ago, and the old lady Ma wanted to bring Ma Chaobei back to the Ma family more than once, but Ma Rulan refused to separate her flesh and blood, and she didn't want her son to inherit someone else's incense, so she ...... Mrs. Ma's wife was embarrassed by Ma Rulan, and then suddenly stopped, which should be Mrs. Ma's intention. ”

"The wife blocked, many people in the clan disagreed, and Ma Chaobei's frailty seemed to be incurable, so Mrs. Ma gradually let go of her thoughts."

Li Xiang felt a sense of nausea watching the whole bloody drama in one go, and he was a little dizzy, "Xiaobei's body is getting better, the master of the Ma family won't come to snatch the child again, right?" ”

Cheng Jianghai didn't dare to answer such a question, it would be bad if something went wrong, so he said vaguely: "My subordinates are not sure, the Ma family has added a few juniors in recent years, according to common sense, Mrs. Ma's mind should be lighter, not to mention that Xiaobei is over ten years old...... But I can't say, my subordinates are brave, and I also ask the owner to pay attention to the braised pork restaurant that is about to open. ”

Li Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, it's really unpleasant to have to cover up everything you can to make money, where is the scenery of becoming a youth idol in the original time and space? But there is no help, the sister who is worshipping by herself has to cover herself, "Inform the good hands arranged in the Ma family's braised pork restaurant, let them sleep indefinitely, and I will compensate their relatives in the village, and let them pay attention to the signs of danger." In addition, I strictly control the time of day to limit the scale, and maybe leak the secret recipe again. These few actions are okay, right? ”

Cheng Jianghai thought about it seriously for a while, "It should be okay, Sister Ma is really blessed to have a younger brother like the owner of the village to protect her." But the owner of the village had better make some preparations to face the Ma family, his subordinates always feel that the owner of the village and the Ma family are indispensable to intersect, and the master of the Ma family is an old fox. ”

Li Xiang's heart moved, he had thought of this, "Then so be it, sooner or later you will have to deal with these big shots, it's really annoying......"

"It's really troublesome...... Wu Xiaoling, nicknamed "Widow Liu" or "Widow of the Liu Family" by people she knows, is attending a banquet held by merchants in Shuzhong in Mingyueji, although she is bored, she can only respond, after all, it is related to the sales of her workshop.

The building complex of Mingyueji is expanding every day, and the expansion of sewers, the construction of buildings and the workshop dock have absorbed a large number of displaced people, which has actually relieved a lot of pressure on Mingyuezhuang. With the support of Li Xiang, the bereaved families of the martyrs of Mingyuezhuang collected the money and grain saved by each family, and borrowed tens of thousands of copper coins from the people in the village, and built the Mingyue Restaurant in Mingyueji into a three-story wooden building in one fell swoop.

The huge plaque of Mingyue Restaurant can be seen from a few hundred meters away, and more than 50 lanterns are lit together at night, which is very eye-catching. Many guests complained that the stir-fried vegetables and meat of the Moon Restaurant were a must, but they were too tired, so Li Xiang wrote out a few vegetarian dishes, soup and pickles in his memories and sent them to Mingyue Restaurant.

The exterior decoration of Mingyue Restaurant is not luxurious, and generally maintains the simple and practical characteristics of Mingyuezhuang architecture, but the materials are very sufficient. Many villages in the Qinling Mountains cut down big trees and threw them down the Han River over the mountains and mountains, making a lot of money from the construction boom in Mingyueji.

The first floor of Mingyue Restaurant mainly receives caravan guys, guards and porters who come to sell goods, and the caravan steward who has been stationed in Mingyue Market for a long time also has to treat the people under him from time to time. The first floor of Mingyue Restaurant is priced conscientiously, and it is mainly based on hard dishes, which is the most suitable for men who make great efforts.

The second floor is a good place for caravan stewards, shopkeepers of the trading house and Hanjiang workshop owners to discuss business, large tables are far apart, and there are screens to cover them, and there are playing and singing on the stage all day long, and there are more private rooms to use. The tables and private rooms here require a few to dozens of usage fees, and the dishes are roughly the same as those on the first floor, but the second floor is a small stove for cooking, and the price is of course much higher.

The third floor is a complete luxury hall, which is a place for gentry from all over the world to discuss large business and cooperation, with the highest price, and there are also wine and food from all over the world. The rent of the venue is more than 500 yuan, but there are always people with higher net worth.

It is about to enter winter, and in order to get more goods from Mingyueji, the merchants of Shuzhong specially held this banquet, in order to get closer to many workshop owners and the gentry behind the workshop owners. The merchants of Jinghu have the advantage of geographical advantages and do not have to compete for the source of goods, and the production of Mingyueji is not very popular in Gyeonggi Province, Jianghuai, Jiangnan and other places. As for places such as Ganliang, Shaanxi and Hedong, there are even fewer merchants coming there.

Aunt Xiong, Aunt Lei and Wu Xiaoling sat at an inconspicuous big table in the corner, watching you come and go in the field, keeping a low profile in the cold. For various reasons, the male workshop owners in Mingyue Village have been very busy recently and have no time to participate in this kind of unfruitful banquet, so a group of big men shyly pushed a few "heroines" to come over and keep the courtesy. The merchants of Mingyueji all knew that the women of Mingyuezhuang were very capable of running the house, so they gradually accepted the existence of Wu Xiaoling and other female bosses, after all, it is important to get rich.

Aunt Lei ate a large mouthful of pig's head meat, and said indignantly: "I'm angry with the old lady, these gentry don't take out the things that we do, but they will use some ghost tricks to squeeze us away." The little master is too tolerant of these people, if he lets us fight, the old lady guarantees that they can't sell anything. ”

Aunt Xiong looked at her with hatred, "I said the younger brothers and sisters of the Lei family, can you pay attention to your appearance, you are a person with status...... Xiaoling, what do you think? ”

Aunt Lei put down her chopsticks embarrassedly and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, the good days didn't last long, and some habits were not so easy to change. Aunt Lei and Aunt Xiong looked at Wu Xiaoling who had sprung up together, knowing that she had always had ideas and dared to think and do, so they wanted to hear his opinion.

After Wu Xiaoling gave birth to a child, she lost a lot of weight due to her constant running around, and she was no longer the fat woman who chased Liu Laogener with a broom, and she looked a little charming. Especially a pair of strong eyes, which always give people a unique feeling of a strong woman.

Wu Xiaoling took a sip of sweet wine, "The two aunts are too polite, if there were no concubines to support them, Wu Xiaoling would be where she is today?" The little master asked us to be patient with the gentry, and Xiao Ling felt that it was a clever move. ”

Aunt Lei and Aunt Xiong will not be polite to Wu Xiaoling, so they will get closer to both sides of Wu Xiaoling and listen to this rising star speak slowly.

On the surface, it was a bad move for the owner of the village to let the villagers leave, and the big families around him rushed up to win over those people, and soon squeezed out the business of Mingyue Village. But we all know that this move has to be taken. ”

"Then the owner of the village carried out a major restructuring, after the rectification of the workshop is not an exaggeration to say that it is reborn, in the past, ten people could produce five pieces of winter clothing a day, now? Ten times more, what a bargain those who left before thought they had taken advantage of, joke! ”

Aunt Xiong and Aunt Lei also remembered the previous major restructuring, and only then did they understand that Mingyuezhuang's greatest wealth was not at all specific technologies such as iron-making furnaces, ironware and cold-proof clothing, but a complete set of methods of doing things and management.

"Those big tycoons think they have robbed us of the market and are complacent, but they don't know that our owners don't take them seriously at all. Jinghu, Jiangnan, Lianghuai and Gyeonggi Province have their own owners in Bianjing to deal with it, and we have used the relay of villages in the Qinling Mountains to open up several passages, using ironware, farm tools and cold-proof clothing to open up sales channels in Shaanxi, Gansu, Hedong and Shandong, and are ready to cooperate with the owner's big plan at any time. ”

"Now our public high school has survived and started to repay the money we borrowed from everyone before. This is the proof that the mind, insight and strategy of our owner are not at all understood by ordinary gentry and clans, how can the rats in the field be compared with the eagle soaring in the nine heavens. ”

Wu Xiaoling stopped suddenly, because she found a trembling big fat man coming, and Aunt Xiong and Aunt Lei also frowned and didn't know what this fat ball was going to do.

Shuzhong wealthy businessman Qian Jin'an is really known to everyone in Chengdu, and no one knows it. He mainly did silk business for several princes and some big clans, sent Shu brocade, medicinal materials and tea out, and brought back the goods urgently needed in Shu on the return trip.

Taking over the business of a few princes and big clans is just to make a hard-earned money, mainly to have a backer, and to bring back the things urgently needed from outside to make the difference, which is the secret of Qian Jin'an's fortune.

Qian Jin'an made a gesture, his fat face was full of sincere smiles, which made people unable to feel bad, "I have seen a few proprietors, in Xia Qian Jin'an, Sichuan passers-by, polite." ”

Wu Xiaoling and the three of them got up to return the salute, and then Wu Xiaoling invited Qian Jin'an to sit down, and asked directly: "Dare to ask the owner of Qian what he has to say, why don't you go and talk about business with the stewards of the Huang family and the Cheng family, but come to the little girl's side?" ”

Qian Jin'an coughed a few times, "The proprietor of Mingyuezhuang is really direct, then it will be more straightforward in the next, and I want to buy some ironware, farm tools and cold-proof clothes from the workshop in Mingyuezhuang, and I also need paper." And Wu Dongzhu, you are not a little woman, you are building your own workshop while raising your widow, but there is your script in Shuzhong. ”

Wu Xiaoling ignored the other party's behavior, Aunt Xiong and Aunt Lei also felt strange for each other's choice of Mingyuezhuang's workshop, they had only heard that the wall was pushed by everyone, where was there charcoal in the snow? So the two looked at Wu Xiaoling and asked her to come up with an idea.

Qian Jin'an realized that Wu Xiaoling was the one who could make up his mind, and when he saw that Wu Xiaoling was about to ask again, he directly handed over his hole cards, "Wu Dongzhu doesn't have to doubt the sincerity of the next generation, and he will pay both money and goods in accordance with the rules of Mingyuezhuang." As for why you chose Mingyuezhuang? I heard that Mingyuezhuang attaches great importance to arithmetic, and it happens that he also attaches great importance to arithmetic, so he will explain one or two from arithmetic. ”

“…… All in all, on the surface, Mingyuezhuang was indeed squeezed by the Huang family and other big households, and there were many difficulties for the officials and brokerage firms and state officials in various places. But the strange place is here, since there are not many things to sell, why does the workshop in Myeongwolzhuang on the side of the Han River work around the clock, and where do the goods produced go? Learn about the power of some of the workshops on the banks of the Han River, and the goods produced every day are by no means a small number. ”

After thinking about it, I feel that there is only one answer, Mingyuezhuang has its own market! As for how to do it, I really can't figure it out, so that the owner is really talented. Therefore, I chose to cooperate with Mingyuezhuang, and I only hope that Mingyuezhuang will have a way to make a fortune in the future. I don't know if several owners still have questions, so I would like to answer them one by one. ”

Wu Xiaoling was dumbfounded, Aunt Xiong and Aunt Lei gasped, they didn't expect to be so powerful when they looked at the obscene fat man! After a little silence, Wu Xiaoling replied: "Your Excellency can take away the first batch of goods first, and our owner will make a decision for long-term cooperation, I don't know if your Excellency is satisfied?" ”

Qian Jin'an and Wu Xiaoling made a transaction the next day, looking at the brand-new merchant logos on the ironware, paper and cold-proof clothing, Qian Jin'an's eyes froze, "Who is that Li Xiang?" I expected that there would be someone with a keen sense of smell like me, but I still have such a skill, plus a secret trade route......" Qian Jin'an touched his fat head and guessed Li Xiang's intentions, and then stood up in shock.

"Mingyuezhuang wants to completely distinguish its own workshop from others, and it is a big plan!"