Li Teng and his entourage returned to Ezhou City when they arrived.

Prior to this, Guo Yuanjun also finally negotiated a solution, Hongjiong Shipyard was the first to participate in the factory, and Li Zhi confirmed another government-run shipyard called Changlong.

The specific price is not high or low, and it is better to ensure that the construction period is interrupted, there are many people involved, and the quality is full of confidence.

In fact, Li Zhi also secretly promised a few small speedboats, but the relevant design drawings have not yet been developed.

This made the other two families scold him for being too cunning, and in order to lower the price, the means were very despicable.

Of course, this is only the result of Li Zhi's quiet exploration, and in front of him, the three responsible persons dare not show it.

However, Li Yi didn't care at all, these ship repair factories with a strong sense of official status were still a little vague about the concept of businessmen for a while, and he could be regarded as teaching them a lesson in advance, and sooner or later they would wake up.

Li Teng's arrival also made the dinner party official, and it was obvious that at this time, Shao Yin Bei was Bei Taiqing, showing signs that he was getting closer and closer to Li Zhi.

Guangdong also has their Pei family's shipbuilders, and Pei Zheng took advantage of this introduction to start close exchanges with him: "It is a major event that the first official office of the city was established in Guangzhou, and the port of Guangzhou was a sea passage from Guangdong to Tianzhu and Ceylon through the South China Sea opened up by the former dynasties and the Romans, and entered the Tang Dynasty, and the Arabs opened up a route from West Asia to the port of Guangzhou. However, at this time, most of the officials in Guangzhou still only attached importance to inland farming, and could not see the far-reaching impact of maritime trade, and they could not think of setting up a customs office in Guangzhou. And our imperial court could not think of sending a senior member of the imperial court to Guangzhou to be in charge of customs duties, so the maritime trade in Guangzhou was in a state of laissez-faire. ”

Li Zhi knew that he was alluding to the fact that the local merchants had different foreign trade policies from the imperial court, so he smiled and said: "No, the policy formulation of the imperial court and the full authority of the tariff revenue and expenditure are handed over to the municipal envoys. In this way, those who are officials in Guangzhou will be fat. ”

He looked at him from the left, and did not follow the meaning of Pei Zheng's words, but deliberately mentioned the welfare of Guangzhou officials.

Pei Zheng didn't seem to understand Li Zhi's plan, and continued to guide in depth: "The treasures of overseas countries are transported to the east coast of the South China Sea of our Datang Dynasty. Therefore, the local merchants in Guangzhou have a deep friendship with overseas merchants, just like our Bei family, which not only undertakes most of the silk purchases of foreign businessmen, but also is responsible for the repair of their long-distance ships. ”

Li Zhixin smiled secretly, "As far as I know, most of the foreign procurement channels are still in Chang'an City, such as the production and export of porcelain, or more in the mainland, and Chang'an City is a natural international ceramic distribution center." At the same time, it is also the final foothold of clothing and specialties from all over the world, more often, Guangzhou Port only plays a simple port significance, and I Datang this port port is not only a port in Guangzhou, such as Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Quanzhou, Yangzhou and other places, and then will set up a city shipping division, after all, it is also near the sea and the river, and it is closer to Chang'an City. ”

These words did not come out of nowhere, Li Zhi had already received internal information about the further plans of the imperial court, and that the Guangzhou Municipal Envoy was only the first pioneering experiment, and if the results were significant, the Municipal Envoy would be launched immediately.

Historically, the real establishment of the city envoy was more than 200 years later in the Song Dynasty, because of the emergence of Li Zhi, only the city envoy was established in advance, and the original nature of changing the grade of the city envoy was too low, the authority was too small, and it did not constitute an effective constraint on the local officials.

At this time, the Lingnan Road was still in charge of the Jiedu Envoy, and there was no future situation in which the history of Guangzhou thorn dominated the local power, and in the future, with the huge role of Guangzhou Port, there was the history of Guangzhou Thorn and the five provinces of Guangzhou, Gui, Rong, Yong, and Zhennan.

Especially during the time of Gaozong, the Jiedu envoy was a military attaché, mainly in charge of the military and defending against foreign enemies, and he did not have the responsibility of managing the civil affairs of the prefecture and county before, and his real power was far greater than the assassination history of the exclusive management of civil affairs.

In short, at this moment, Pei Zheng is trying to guide Li Zhi to realize the importance of the future Guangzhou Port, and then show him the indispensability of the Guangzhou Pei family.

And Li Zhi continued to pretend to be confused, deliberately belittling Guangzhou and elevating Chang'an City, so as to imply to him that the importance of Guangzhou Port in the future depends on his personal importance to Li Zhi.

Ancient China is different from foreign countries, because the old-fashioned feudal emperor cognitive problem is that there is a customs chief first, and then there is a customs.

The establishment of the Guangzhou foreign envoy is a pioneering move to set up the customs in practice, which will directly affect the future direction of the Datang foreign trade port, which shows the importance that Guangzhou Beijia attaches to the establishment of the first customs.

As Li Zhi guessed, the next Bei Zheng was really a little anxious: "Mr. Li, Guangzhou has the benefits of the Bobo, the treasures are divergent, and the successive Guangzhou Thorn Historians are doing the law to make profits to get rich, and the Jiedu Envoy is busy with military affairs within the jurisdiction, and lacks a detailed understanding of the specific local affairs, I was close to the current Jiedu Envoy by the Pei family, so I have the intention of suppressing the current Assassin Li Xiang." ”

Li Xiang Li Fangduo, the current assassin of Guangzhou, is a member of the royal family surnamed Li, originally a line of the two kings Shaowang, after the Shao King was demoted, it is said that this person threw himself into the martial arts family of Chang'an City.

Because the imperial court did not attach importance to Guangzhou and Guangzhou Port, Mi Rui, the envoy of Lingnan Dao, made a private division of power with Li Xiang, the assassin of Guangzhou, Mi Rui still controlled the military and political power of the entire Lingnan Province, and set aside Li Xiang, who was born in Guangzhou, to be fully responsible for most of the specific affairs on the ground in Guangdong, except for the garrison power, of course.

Therefore, Li Zhi went to Guangzhou to perform his duties this time, first of all, he had to take the Guangzhou assassin Li Xiang to open the knife, otherwise he would not be able to really master the Guangzhou Customs, which was also the main purpose of his decision to make a private visit to Weifu before he took office, and its importance was still on the basis of finding a tea relationship.

Originally, it was a very confidential matter, but at this moment, Bei was trying to guide himself to the specific operation, which naturally would not cause Li Zhi's positive response.

The purpose of his perfunctory efforts to perfunctory Bei Zheng was to lure him into telling who leaked such a secret to the Bei family in Guangzhou.

"Brother Taiqing, it's rare for you to reveal some of your inner auspicious reasons to me, which shows that your sincerity can be seen, but you are not afraid that I will reveal such a secret to Lord Mi? Besides, the deputy envoy is my uncle, and he has a deep personal friendship with Lord Mi, why do you think that I will ignore the relationship with Lord Mi for the sake of your Pei family? ”

Li Zhi's words made Bei Zheng smile cautiously, "How could Lord Mi not know the intentions of the Pei family, in Guangzhou, our Bei family and Li Xiang are incompatible, it is a well-known thing, if it weren't for the Pei family's influence in the entire Lingnan Road, Li Xiang would have taken us a knife." Mi Da accommodating me is a means to control Li Xiang, because no one knows what the assassin Shi did better than the Pei family, and Li Xiang is also afraid that he will really tear his face and be seized by Mi Da Da . But all this is based on the premise that the port of Canton is not valued by the imperial court, and if the customs affairs there are valued from now on, Mi Da will make full use of my role. ”

Li Zhi was indifferent, "You also think that the role of the Bei family is too huge, you have played a part of the role of the engine before, but the importance ends here, once the court uses its heart, without any so-called handle, it can also take Li Xiang in one fell swoop, and I, Li Zhengwen, represent the court at this time!" Let's stop going around in circles, don't try to exalt the influence of the Bei family in business, use me as a knife to control several main figures of your Bei family, how much meaning do you think the so-called commercial influence still exists? ”

"Mr. Li, my subordinates will never dare to take advantage of it, you have misunderstood the original meaning of me and our Bei family!" At this moment, Bei Zheng immediately panicked.

Li Zhi was still happy, "Brother Taiqing, although I am not as old as you, even if I put aside my worth, little Li Xiang is not in my eyes, even if he colludes with Lingnan Dao Jiedu, what can he do?" Therefore, since your Bei family wants to cooperate with me, don't treat it with the use of means, as far as I am concerned, those who stand in my way will be taken strongly, even if the martial arts family treated me before, what can I do? Come one, cut one, come two, kill a pair, didn't your Bei family inquire about it? ”

Bei Zheng was even more frightened, and his legs were already trembling slightly.