After walking out of the restaurant for a while, Xu Jingzong suddenly sighed and said: "My lord, Yu Yi's official conceit can be written along the way, I have read several of your masterpieces before, and I still had the idea of competing with you at that time, but today I saw that you taught these people a few breaths between two good letters, and I realized that talent is far from adults."

After finishing speaking, Xu Jingzong's face showed a hint of decadence, and it seemed that he was hit hard.

"I dare to say, my lord, these two poems will spread all over Hangzhou in a few days," Wei Qingquan also said with a smile.

"Lao Xu, when it comes to writing chapters and official texts, I'm really inferior to you, I just wrote a few poems casually, you don't need to be like this, don't believe it, I copied these poems" Xiao Zheng smiled and patted Xu Jingzong's shoulder and said.

Xu Jingzong gave him a look of trust, and he left by himself.

The next day, just after arriving at the lobby, the official came in and reported that several businessmen had been waiting outside the gate of the mansion for a long time, asking to see Xiao Zheng, and after making a request, several people in their forties and fifties walked into the lobby.

After seeing Xiao Zheng, the older man bowed down and said: "The villain Tai Jiuchuan has seen the adult, yesterday we and other dogs behaved debauched, offended the adults and the King of Wei, you have a lot, and you also teach these stubborn people a lesson for us, and then ask the adults to forgive their sins."

After finishing speaking, several people saluted Xiao Zheng at the same time.

"A few people don't have to be polite, I'm looking for you to come here not to ask the master for guilt, but to discuss another thing, and besides, I also asked them to pay for everyone's meals yesterday, and I haven't had time to thank you for eating a meal in Xiabai."

Seeing that Xiao Zheng said easily, several people immediately relaxed.

"I don't know what the adults are saying about me?"

"You have been in business for many years, presumably there are many more businessmen in this Hangzhou city than in the next, I think you have also heard of the Yangzhou Construction Chamber of Commerce, please try your best to invite the Hangzhou City to have real businessmen to come and establish the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce."

"My lord, are you going to set up a chamber of commerce in Hangzhou here to make a fortune?" One of the merchants asked excitedly.

Qin Dachuan turned his head and glanced at him with some displeasure, then turned his head to Xiao Zheng and said: "My lord, the villain of the Yangzhou Construction Chamber of Commerce you mentioned has also been contacted, the villain is both a businessman and a normal person, last year this chamber of commerce made a lot of money by taking the opportunity of building roads and tuntian. I don't know what you're going to do when you set up a chamber of commerce this time, but we have nothing to do with road construction and tuntian."

"Everyone, the vision is still too narrow, may I ask what business Mr. Qin's family is doing?"

"The villain's family has been dealing in silk for generations, and it is usually sold to all parts of my Datang."

"Have you ever thought of selling overseas, or the Western Regions?"

"My lord, this villain has also come into contact with some seafarers, but these people don't have a stable business, and they can only go to the Western Regions through the Hu merchants in Chang'an, and they don't have that much ability in the lower regions" Qin Dachuan said very frankly.

"One silk merchant can't do it, two can't do it, what about ten or eight, if you can't count me, if you can't do it, I'll go to the saint, is it feasible?" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

When Qin Dachuan heard Xiao Zheng say this, his face immediately showed pride and said: "My lord, if it is really as you say, the villain can make the business to the edge of the sky, but this also requires the mobilization of resources from all parties, for example, this needs a large sea ship to be transported overseas."

"Good knowledge, in Jiangnan on shipbuilding belongs to the Lingnan Feng family, you can rest assured, Feng Ang's guy still has a little friendship with me, I will come to the craftsman's business, but we don't have to worry, the meal should be eaten one bite at a time, I now ask you to inform the merchants, if you can come to join, come as much as possible" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

Five days later, more than 200 merchants gathered together in the Hangzhou Mansion, and with a good start of the Yangzhou Construction Chamber of Commerce, all the merchants who came recognized Xiao Zheng's proposal.

The Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce was established in an atmosphere of great joy, as the initiator Qin Dachuan was elected president by the businessman in a secret way, it can be seen that this guy is not bad, he didn't expect his son to get into trouble, but he was blessed by misfortune, happy This guy took Xiao Zheng's new tea as a wine and drank it and shouted happily.

After signing the convention of the Chamber of Commerce, Xiao Zheng looked at everyone and said: "Since the Chamber of Commerce has been established, we should always do something, I will discuss something with you now, and please consider it."

"Your Excellency may as well speak up," said some of the businessmen.

"Everyone, I want to make a fate first, I am going to build a academy on the bank of the West Lake in Hangzhou, this is a picture drawn in the next few days" Xiao Zheng said and asked people to take out a large picture.

When they saw the picture, everyone was a little stunned, and there was a large-scale academy hidden under the beautiful scenery of West Lake.

Qin Jiuchuan sighed in his heart when he saw it, and said to Xiao Zheng with the courage to say: "My lord, if we build a small academy, we can still afford this money, if such a large academy costs immeasurable, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to wait for these businessmen."

"Did I say I asked you to pay so much?" Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

As soon as the words came out, everyone was confused, and they didn't know what Xiao Zheng wanted to do.

Xiao Zheng walked up to the painting and pointed to the painting and said: "We can divide it into several phases, build one phase this year, and then build the second phase when the time is ripe in two years, I don't think I need to move the mountains with Yugong, we can finish this thing in a few years."

"My lord's words make sense," said some enlightened businessman.

Xiao Zheng continued: "Everyone, since everyone is a businessman, I will also make a deal for everyone, and this money will not be in vain." I think you also know that I handed over a copy of "Please Open a Scientific Examination Suggestion" in Chang'an, and in order to avoid trouble, I went to Jiangnan to make waves."

As soon as the words came out, everyone burst into laughter.

When people stopped laughing, Xiao Zheng said again: "Regarding the scientific examination system, I think you are not more familiar with it than me, Xiao. With all due respect, although the businessmen in today's world have money in their hands, their status is not high, and the business is the most unsuccessful, but when it comes to Xiao, the wind direction is about to change."

The merchants in the lobby all smelled an unusual smell in Xiao Zheng's words, and everyone quieted down and waited for Xiao Zheng to say the following.

"In the future, if there are descendants in your family who are talented and talented, I, Xiao, can assure you that the door of this academy will be open to you at any time! And in the imperial examination, I will engrave the name of each donor in the academy, even if you only donate a penny, in this land south of the Yangtze River, I Xiao Zheng still speak! ”。

After Xiao Zheng finished speaking, there was silence in the hall at first, and after a few breaths, more than 200 people suddenly burst into thunderous applause, and some businessmen cried excitedly on the spot.

The suppression of social status has made many businessmen hold back a grievance in their hearts, and now there is really a Shangguan who can say these words in the court, so that many people have a feeling of knowing and knowing kindness, and Xiao Zheng's doing this is tantamount to setting a precedent in Datang society!

After the people quieted down, one of the fat men stood up and wiped the tears on his face, arched his hand to Xiao Zheng and said: "Adult, the villain's surname is Huang, he has been in the jewelry business, the children in the villain's family are very smart, and the children who have been taught first say that they are a good material and beautiful jade, and the villain is worried that the child will not be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future due to his low status.

"Huang Fatty, you kid wants to be beautiful, my child is worse than yours? Lao Tzu still wants to get it all out, can you still let you swallow this good thing alone? There are no doors! Someone stood up again and said.

"Yes, if you want to come out, let's go out together! For the sake of future generations in our family, we must also go out together," a group of businessmen shouted loudly.