Sometimes it's easy to draw a cake, but to make a cake you need real materials, and the construction of such a large project as water conservancy in the West Lake can be regarded as a national key project in the early years of Zhenguan in a fashionable word.

Xiao Zheng didn't worry about the money at all, and now the money collected every day on Guangguan Road is enough to support the daily expenses of rectifying the West Lake this time.

Three days later, Xiao Zheng gathered the people of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce in the large conference room of the academy.

As soon as the picture of the Yan brothers was hung, after finishing the matter of preparing to build water conservancy in the West Lake, Xiao Zheng continued: "By next spring, these tasks will be ready to be done, you can imagine what a beautiful scenery it is to be in the twilight of spring, the smoke and willow yarn of the six bridges, and the chirping of a few warblers." This bridge repair and embankment repair is not to raise a penny from you, but this lake I separately set aside some beautiful places, these places we asked Yan Dadao to design into gardens and residences, we call it another villa, and after the completion of the construction you can see before buying, but the highest price gets."

A merchant stood up and said, "My lord, I'll wait and see, and then we'll see what good things come out of my lordship, but can you sell these paintings to me first, one is two thousand, and the villain wants them all."

"You're so beautiful, I still want Yan Dao's handiwork, three thousand pieces, I want them all," the other person stood up and said.

"Everyone, don't argue, you can't buy these paintings, and you have to make money with these things, if those two brothers know that I sold their paintings for so much money and didn't give them a penny, then the two brothers will find me to pick up the knife."

"Haha......".

After sending off the merchants, he had just returned to the conference room of the academy when he saw Pei Mingli walking in with someone. Seeing that this person's face was a little thin, but his complexion was very good, and his shoulders were high and his back was bent and he looked a little hunchbacked, but this person did not have any inferiority complex because of his hunchback, but there was an atmosphere between his gestures.

I saw Pei Mingli step forward first and said to Xiao Zheng: "My lord, someone has come to see you."

Before Xiao Zheng could speak, this person hurriedly stepped forward and gave a deep salute and said, "Zou Fengchi, a grass citizen, has seen the Duke of Yuguo."

Zou Fengchi? Xiao Zheng was stunned, he had heard of this person's reputation many times when he was in Chang'an, and he was also a giant businessman in Chang'an.

In the past, when I was chatting, I heard Pei Mingli and Samai talk about him, this person was a leader in the silk weaving business, and people at that time called him Zou Camel. But people can't be good-looking, Pei Mingli said that this person's family is very rich, so that Chang'an businessman Pei Mingli said that the rich master will definitely not be worth much. Some people privately rumored that his family had too much gold, silver and jewelry to count, and that there were shops all over the world, and the servants in Zou Luo's family were all wearing brocade clothes and eating delicious food.

It is also rumored that during the Wude period, he once boasted to Li Yuan that every tree on the South Mountain was hung with a silk, and the mountain trees were hung all over the house, and there was still surplus silk. Thousands of guests came to congratulate his daughter on her wedding. At night, a banquet is held, and a tent is provided for the guests to rest. When the bride appeared, there were hundreds of maidservants around her, and everyone was stunned for a while, and everyone was stunned and couldn't tell which one was the bride.

Xiao Zheng smiled after hearing it, the folk rumors are credible but I don't believe it, if this guy really tosses like this, that is, if he meets a big-hearted emperor like Li Yuan and Li Shimin, if he meets a small-minded emperor, he would have been raided a long time ago.

"I wonder what Mr. Zou is looking for?" Xiao Zheng asked curiously.

It turned out that Zou Fengchi was a big silk merchant in Chang'an, and many of the silk sold to the northwest was sold to the Hu caravan through his hands and then transported to the countries of the Western Regions, but in the spring of this year, Zou Fengchi was very surprised.

It turned out that many old Hu merchant customers did not place orders for him, but when I inquired about these people's caravans with silk, they had already gone on the road with silk, and when I asked these Hu merchants all the goods in Jiangnan, the news came from their own shop in Jiangnan that the purchase price of raw silk had risen by 20% compared with last year and that there was a trend of rising.

Such a change in the market scared him a lot, if the spring silk business is not good, the annual business income will definitely be a big difference, in the face of the rise in the price of raw silk in Jiangnan is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, Zou Fengchi, who is very business-minded, found that the situation was wrong and immediately rushed to Jiangnan.

When he arrived in Yangzhou, he was stunned by the changes in the south of the Yangtze River, and three large-scale silk factories had long been established in the land of Suhu. Originally, he and Pei Mingli were old acquaintances, but the difference between the two was that Pei Mingli was born from the grassroots, while Zou Fengchi started from a high starting point based on his father's generation. When Pei Mingli brought him into the factory, Zou Fengchi was even more frightened, not because he saw anything scary, but because he saw five or six hundred silk looms in each factory running non-stop, and the output of each loom was more than ten times higher than the output in his workshop.

Zou Fengchi himself is a businessman, he knows what the market means to businessmen, if it is really Xiao Zheng and Pei Mingli who want to kick him out of this industry, that is, Xiao Zheng does not need the power in his hands, as long as the price of silk is reduced by three percent, Xiao Zheng's silk weaving factory will definitely make money, but he Zou Fengchi will face a catastrophe.

When Xiao Zheng was building a road in Chang'an to build the Tang Royal Bank, Pei Mingli also approached him and wanted to pull him into the shares, but at that time, Zou Fengchi thought that there was not much money in it, so he didn't go, and he didn't pay much attention to his contempt for the young Xiao Zheng. After the road from Chang'an to Luoyang was repaired, as soon as the tax was collected, Zou Fengchi realized that he had taken his eyes, and when he thought of Xiao Zheng's restaurant business and the textile factory he built on the edge of the Qujiang River, he no longer doubted Xiao Zheng's talent in business.

Asked privately with Pei Mingli, this silk weaving factory Pei Mingli also accounted for a lot of shares, seeing that under the leadership of Xiao Zheng, Pei Mingli's income in the bank and the income after coming to Jiangnan are getting more and more money, Zou Fengchi's status as the boss of the Chang'an merchant is going to be surpassed by this latecomer, and what is even worse is that his main business is held by others with a knife on his throat, which makes Zou Fengchi not anxious.

When he woke up and wanted to find an opportunity to get close to Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng had already taken his men to Jiangnan. When he arrived in Jiangnan, he learned that Xiao Zheng had established a chamber of commerce, which made Jiangnan's business vibrant in less than two years, which also made him regret his decision at that time.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to go to Jiangnan, Zou Fengchi found Pei Mingli and did not hide it, and directly asked him to bring him over to Xiao Zheng to see if he could join the Chamber of Commerce, and by the way, he resolved his disadvantages in silk.

After listening to Zou Fengchi, Xiao Zhengle was happy, it turned out that he was too much to toss in Jiangnan, and he hurt this guy in the pond, but since Pei Mingli said that these guys are very rich, even if they have caught a predator, they will be sorry for themselves if they don't make good use of it, although they are very happy in their hearts, Xiao Zheng still listened to this guy quietly.

"The grass people have come to make amends to your sins, I hope you will forgive the grass people for their contempt," Zou Fengchi said solemnly to Xiao Zheng.

"Mr. Zou is not guilty, he will observe others for a period of time before making decisions, which is also human nature."

"Since Mr. Zou has come to Jiangnan, I think you should not be in a hurry to join the Chamber of Commerce in Jiangnan first, we have a lot to do here, rest assured, I will treat you like Mr. Pei equally", no matter what, you have to give this guy a reassurance pill first, catch people first, and then say, as soon as the words came out, Zou Fengchi really had a grateful look on his face.

I saw him arch his hand and say, "Thank you for your understanding."

"Mr. Zou, by the way, there is no shadow of the valve family behind your business, to put it bluntly, I mean that there are no people with five hopes and seven surnames in it, you must tell the truth in this regard, this is very important to you and me" Xiao Zheng looked directly at Zou Fengchi and said.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, although these families have business dealings, they are by no means anyone's eagle dogs," Zou Fengchi said.

After thinking about it, Zou Fengchi continued: "But when I came from Chang'an to Jiangnan, I heard something related to you, I don't know if I should talk about it?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."