Li Guozhu took a deep breath and said to Jiang Kui: "Your proprietor is still generous, this batch of ironware, to tell the truth, is worth more than 100,000 yuan, and the specific amount depends on the price of the Japanese people, but the price of 100,000 yuan is still a bit low." ”

Jiang Kui said with a smile: "Our proprietor wants to have a good relationship with the Li family, and the price is 100,000, so there is no need to add it." ”

"Generous." Li Guozhu was already a maritime businessman when he was born, and now he is worth more than one million, tens of thousands of subordinates alone, Li Guozhu has helped his father with some business since he was a child, and he has seen a lot of wealthy maritime businessmen, but when he comes up, he will take tens of thousands of profits less, just trying to make a good impression of a businessman, and he has not seen a few in so many years.

Li Guozhu praised and said, "I don't know if your iron tools can be supplied normally?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Kui said affirmatively: "If the eldest prince of Li can go to the area of Jingshi to inquire, you will know that we and Yusheng's ironware is not only marketed in Shanxi and Xuanda, Jingshi to the entire Beizhi, as well as Shandong, Henan area, many merchants wholesale our ironware back to their hometown to sell, we have dozens of blast furnaces in Lingqiu, day and night to produce iron, in Zunhua to open a new furnace field, in the future to produce more iron." The iron used by the Ministry of Industry is now also using our Lingqiu iron, and the quality exceeds that of Fujian iron. ”

"No wonder." Li Guozhu now understands that the proprietor named Zhang Han is indeed a super iron merchant, just like his father's status in Japan and the South China Seas.

"Get someone to place the goods." Li Guozhu said: "The silver will be given at the price you said, and we will eat other goods at the market price." If you go back and want to bring lacquerware, knives, fans, etc., we will also ship them at a low price. ”

The ship to Japan must bring the local soil back, back and forth two hands to earn more, Japan's goods are actually easy to buy, there are about three times the profit, the rest of the goods are also average, but there will always be profits, it is better than emptying the ship back.

"Also," Li Guozhu glanced at Jiang Kui and the others, and said, "Please come to the house for a drink in the evening, and we will discuss it carefully when the time comes." ”

"Thank you, eldest son." Jiang Kui looked like he couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly agreed.

……

At dusk, Li Dan was dressed on the third floor of the castle attic and watched the sun set in the west. The fiery red sun had lost its heat during the day, and the windows around it were open, and the stuffy feeling in the house was swept away, and the places near the sea were never too hot, and the temperature had begun to cool down at dusk.

A servant came over to close the window, and Li Dan made a hand gesture and told people not to close the window.

He likes to blow the sea breeze very much, and this salty taste can make Li Dan feel good. This will remind him of his youth, spending every day and night at sea, constantly fighting with the sky and people, and finally he fought for his current status.

Success is like this, of course, it is worth being proud of, but when I turned around, I found in the mirror that my back was hunched, my hair was all white, my face was full of deep wrinkles, and my body moved......

Sometimes Li Dan doesn't want to think like this, but he still can't help it.

Life is like this, when you are young, you want to struggle, you want to get ahead, when you are old, you feel that time is short, you are dying, wealth and power seem to be indifferent, nothing is better than the time of youth.

Li Dan heard the sound of pushing the door, and there was no order from him to push the door directly, only Li Guozhu came in.

Li Dan didn't look back, he still sat in place and said, "The goods have all been checked, right?" ”

Li Guozhu said: "After the inspection, it would be good if their shipload was all ironware." That Zheng Shao said that he pulled half of the goods from Jiangnan, I think they are really stupid, if only a boatload was full of iron. ”

"People also want to throw stones and ask for directions." Li Dan heard the excitement in his son's tone, this half a boat of ironware can at least make the Li family earn 50,000 or even more, although the Li family is not short of these tens of thousands of silver now, but Li Guozhu sees the business opportunities in the future, what if there are more ironware next time, and then it will be transported over in a steady stream?

Japan's iron shortage is too serious, Li Guozhu feels that this is a market of at least a few million taels of silver, at least after such a fleet comes dozens of times, after Japan's iron shortage is alleviated, profits will be reduced, but iron is a consumable product, and this silver will continue to be earned in the pocket in the next few decades.

"It's not as simple as you think." Li Dan turned his head and said to his son with a serious face: "Think more about everything, think more complicated, so that you won't panic when things come to an end!" ”

"Yes, father." Li Guozhu has a lot of power, but he is still like a naïve child in front of his dying father, which makes him feel powerless at times.

"Call Zheng Yiguan to come, I will ask him in detail, and then ask him to go to the bottom of the plate."

"Okay, I'll call him right away."

Half a moment after Li Guozhu left, Li Dan heard the sound of the stairs, and then Zheng Yiguan pushed the door and entered, bowing to Li Dan very respectfully.

"Get up and tell me more about the group." Li Dan felt happy when he saw Zheng Yiguan, he liked this young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his feelings were much sharper than ordinary people, he could feel the ambition behind Zheng Yiguan's respectful mask.

Li Dan is not afraid that the young man in front of him is ambitious, and the strength of the two sides is compared to Mount Tai compared to an ant, Li Dan just wants to cultivate a capable man, and in the future, after he is gone, the person in front of him can assist his son.

Li Guozhu is good at everything, but the environment in which he grew up is too rich, and the process of holding power is too smooth, Li Dan is worried that behind him, Li Guozhu may not be able to suppress those pirates, Zheng Yiguan is different, he is grassroots, ambitious and ambitious, as long as he is properly supported, he may be a powerful arm in the future.

Zheng Yiguan spoke in great detail, and also added some of his own analysis, Li Dan felt that Zheng Yiguan's analysis was very thorough, but he still commanded quietly: "In this way, it seems that the person surnamed Jiang is just a spy sent by someone to take the lead, and the people around him may be almost the same role." You can talk to them later, and it's best to find out what they do and what kind of status they have on their side. ”

"Yes!"

"Call me at dinner, and I'll meet them too."

Zheng Yiguan promised to step down, and Li Dan said with a gentle smile: "Yiguan, you do it well, and you will have a great future in the future." ”

……

In order to support the scene, Li Guozhu called a lot of well-known maritime merchants here in Hirado, Zheng Yiguan's uncle Huang Cheng was also among them, he was also a quite successful maritime businessman, and some of the leading figures in the Li family group, including some big leaders and captains, gathered together, and set up five tables in the hall of the Li Mansion before sitting down.

Jiang Kui said to Li Guozhu: "Eldest prince, I don't know if I don't come, it turns out that my Ming people still have such a huge foundation in the realm of the Japanese people. ”

"After all, it's still other people's territory." Li Guozhu said disapprerovitously: "In Taiwan, Bengang can be regarded as our own real foundation." ”

Jiang Kui had been instructed before, and said with a smile: "I heard that Yan Siqi was dissatisfied with the shogunate and wanted to grab territory on the side of the Wa Kingdom, but later he was discovered, and he ran to Bengang to settle down in desperation. ”

Li Guozhu said with some surprise: "Not many people know about this, and the respected driver is really knowledgeable." It is true that Yan Siqi has a camp in Bengang, and he also transported a lot of people from Fujian to farm the land, and Taiwan is also a transshipment port, and a lot of goods to Nanyang are transshipped from there, and there are more Dutch people over there, so it is easier to deal with. My father has to go to Bengang every once in a while to deal with some affairs, so the area around Bengang is considered to be the co-residence of my Li family and the Yan family, and it is not the territory of any family. ”

Jiang Kui said quietly: "But I heard that there are more people on Yan Siqi's side?" ”

"Well, although he doesn't have as many subordinates as his father, most of them are in Taiwan and the coastal waters of Fujian."

Li Guozhu didn't want to talk about this topic, although he didn't think Jiang Kui was making any ideas, but these things involved the division of forces between Li Dan and Yan Siqi, and also involved the Dutch, and the situation was complicated, so it was better to say less.

Next, Li Guozhu also wanted to take care of Jiang Kui's details, Jiang Kui also said something about the situation with Yusheng, these things can't be hidden, as long as you have the heart to inquire about the area of Jingshi and Zhangjiakou, you can inquire very clearly, you don't even have to go to Datong, and before that, Zheng Yiguan also came to ask, Li Guozhu asked for a long time, and later learned that Zhang Han is still an official, and he is a predator who can be fished on both sides of politics and business in Datong, and even the governor and the general army level often move around, and the governor is also on a par with the governor, after knowing this, Li Guozhu was amazed, Of course he knew that Jiang Kui was not bragging, it was useless to hide these things, and it was even more useless to brag, and with Li Guozhu's experience being much richer than ordinary people, Jiang Kui didn't have to think much about whether he was bragging or not.

At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd, and an old man between fifty and sixty walked into the hall accompanied by Zheng Yiguan, and when he saw the old man come in, everyone got up, Li Guozhu also quickly stood up, Jiang Kui looked at Zheng Shaolai, and saw that this northern captain from Fujian was also fanatical, and he knew that the person in front of him must be Li Dan.

Li Dan is not tall, and there are few Han people in the south who are tall and tall, but when this short and thin old man stood in front of Jiang Kui, Jiang Kui didn't dare to look at him.

Such a person, when he was a teenager, he roamed the South Seas, and when he was middle-aged, he enjoyed great fame among the Japanese and Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch, with nearly a thousand ships and tens of thousands of subordinates, and the Japanese people respected him like a god, even if he was not tall, his eyes were peaceful, and he couldn't see the murderous spirit at all, but a man like Jiang Kui was far inferior to the other party in terms of momentum.

Li Dan opened his mouth and said: "Brother Jiang has worked hard from afar, so I came out to have a drink with you." ”

Jiang Kui hurriedly said: "The old master must not be called like this, just call me Jiang Changming." ”

Li Dan nodded slightly and said, "Chang Ming has worked hard from afar, let's not talk about the sidelines, you and I will do a bowl first." ”

"Thank you, boss."

Jiang Kui respectfully brought the wine bowl to his forehead, and then drank it himself, and then Li Dan also took the bowl and drank a bowl, Li Dan was already old, and his body was not very good, but this painful drink did not hesitate, causing countless people around him to cheer.