Ma Shiying will return to Yanghe the next morning, and before leaving, he also told Li Yu to beware of the new governor of Datong, if this guy dares to make trouble, inside and outside the Guan, they will work together to drive him out of Datong, Li Yu also said that among the officials in Datong, he only recognizes Master Ma, who dares to move Lord Ma, that is, he can't get along with him, and Lao Ma is satisfied and left.

Li Fugui and Sun Tingyao and Shen Shoulian also finished talking, these two guys put forward a grand plan, Fengzhou's coal, iron, and salt ponds must be mined by them, and they also have to enter the Grand Commander's Mansion to prepare for it, so as not to secretly hack them in Fengzhou, and the matter of repaying the money can be given for another five years, but 80,000 taels will not work, and 100,000 taels must be repaid. Ortai was immediately furious, the two guys were thick-skinned, and said with a smile that doing business is to ask for a price and repay the money on the ground, you think about it again, let's go down and have a look first, Li Fugui agreed to continue the consultation, and sent Yunrong and Ma Qi to accompany the two to inspect everywhere.

After Li Fugui finished speaking, Li Yu sneered and said, they think we are barbarians, we can be bullied casually, don't think about it, if you want to be an official, you can consider it, and I will pay off 100,000 taels and gradually pay it off within five years, but coal and iron and salt ponds are the living wealth of Fengzhou people, and they want to make a fortune by boiling salt and making iron in Fengzhou, I give them a chance, but I can't do it if I want to occupy it.

"The purpose of their coming is to fight for the benefits of salt and iron, and the chaos in the customs is not as good as day by day, and they are beginning to consider the strategy of the three caves of the cunning rabbit," Li Fugui smiled, and said with a sigh, "We are short of money, lack of craftsmen, the strength of the workshop and the iron factory is still not good, Fan Erxi from Shanxi is just some small workshops such as tofu factories and sauce factories, Fengzhou wants to develop, there must be giant businessmen to come in, and we must be the ones who suffer when dealing with these people." ”

"It's not a loss, it's good if people can come, it's not okay not to give some benefits," Li Yu said and pushed a letter in front of Li Fugui, "Wang Mumin sent a letter, saying that there are a group of Shanxi people who want to go to Fengzhou, mainly some businessmen from Pingyang and Zelu, and a few of them still know me, the leader is called Li Jianji, it is said that he is a wealthy businessman in Quwo, and he will probably arrive in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, you can talk to them again, I will also meet with them, maybe I can get something." ”

Li Fugui smiled and nodded, this Wang herdsman was very pitiful in the first two years, with the title of Fuyi Chief Soldier but had nothing to do, he could only receive a salary to live a hard life - Li Yu was already a big official of the Ming Kingdom, do you still need him to caress him? Fortunately, everyone didn't take him seriously, otherwise the errand of the Datong Fuyi General Soldier would have been withdrawn long ago, and the court would have done this kind of thing for a useless subordinate to him like this. Wang Mumin was afraid that he would end up begging on the street in the future, relying on his old acquaintance with Li Yu, twisting the iron rice bowl that Fengzhou wanted to beg for mixed rice, and the Great Commander's Mansion felt that this person was still useful, so he gave him a hundred household titles, let him help with Datong's business, and at the same time arranged for him to be the head of Datong Titang. Wang herdsmen cherished this job very much, and worked diligently to do things, and as soon as there was a stir in Datong Town, he sent a message to Fengzhou, and his broken yard for office use also became Fengzhou's Datong Pond and Private Salt Transfer Station.

Two days later, in the afternoon, the Shanxi business delegation arrived at Manhan Mountain, good guys, plus more than 100 people came with his entourage, when Li Yu went to greet him, he suddenly found that Ma Guangyuan and Ding Qiming were already waiting with dozens of people, and even Namu'er, who was busy making water during this time, was also mixed in, and Li Yu was surrounded by guests before he could ask them.

"Lord General Bing, in Xia Li Jianji, the word Erzeng, a person from Quwo in Pingyang Prefecture, my brother is now a Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, I have heard the prestige of the handsome for a long time, and I have come to visit today, and I still have the famous assassin of Lord Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi." A tall, thin man with a white and clean appearance bowed to Li Yu.

"Lord General Soldier, I and the villagers in Zezhou have come to see you, there is a letter of recommendation from Master Zhang, the General Office of the Zezhou Joint Defense Bureau, are the two artillery pieces I gave you?" Li Yu's old acquaintance, the wealthy merchant king of Yangcheng Guoyu, squeezed over again to say hello.

Li Yu laughed: "We are not outsiders, everyone can come to look up to me Fengzhou, please go into the camp and rest, if you have something to say, let's sit down and talk slowly." ”

"Hermes-Epitek, I'll introduce you to two guests." Na Mu'er stopped Li Yu, and walked over with Ma Guangyuan, Ding Qiming and others in a crowd, one of them was an old man with white hair with blue eyes and a high nose, very similar to the Taixi people he had seen in the Jingshi Nantang.

"This is Father Gao Yizhi from Taixi, Father Gao has been preaching in Shanxi, this is Han Lin, a man from Jiangzhou, Shanxi, Mr. Han Yugong......"

Before Na Mu'er finished speaking, Li Huai beside Li Yu bowed to the two guests: "Li Huai, Li Yushan, who raised his son in Xia Yulin, Li Yushan, once had a relationship with Father Jinnige, who was a missionary in Shaanxi, and heard him talk about the name of Father Gao and Brother Yu, Father Gao came to my Ming Dynasty from thousands of miles away, wrote a book and talked about the communication of Chinese and Western learning, Brother Yu abandoned the imperial examination and specialized in Western learning, proficient in the art of Western learning, admired for a long time, I really didn't expect to see two here." ”

"We heard the voice of the Lord calling, and there must be something we need to do, so we came." Father Gao Yizhi said kindly.

Li Fugui quietly stabbed Li Yu, the two of them saluted Gao Yizhi and Han Lin together, welcomed them to Fengzhou, and after a few words of greeting, everyone entered the camp, Na Mu'er said on the road, Father Gao is old, tired all the way and needs to rest early, so he accompanied Gao Yizhi and Han Lin with Ma Guangyuan and Ding Qiming, and Li Yu and Li Fugui invited Li Jianji, Wang Chong and other rich businessmen into the Grand Commander's Mansion.

After the guests and hosts were seated, everyone chatted, this time there were mostly businessmen from Zezhou, and there were also businessmen from Pingyang Mansion and Lu'an Mansion, adding up to forty or fifty, they told Li Yu that after Wang Jiayin's department was appeased, Shanxi was not stable, and the large group of thieves was temporarily gone, but there were still many small groups of thieves, such as the eight kings of Shaanxi thieves, Cao Cao, Lao Huihui, Chuang Jiang, and Shanxi thief Gao Jiaji and others, these thieves hid in the mountains and were still resisting, and this year's Shanxi drought and banditry were chaotic, but the government was still forcing grain and taxes, and there were more displaced people than beforeIf this situation continues until the beginning of spring next year, chaos in Shanxi will be inevitable. The people could not survive and were forced to rebel, and the businessmen could not maintain their family business and business, the businessmen also said that the Fengzhou army had been in Pingyang, Zelu to suppress the thieves and the people, the local people were grateful to the handsome and trusted, the Shanxi people and the Mongolians outside the Datong border did business for hundreds of years, and they were no strangers to Fengzhou, and now there is a handsome man sitting here in Tuntian, they all think that the outside of the pass is safer than the inside of the pass, this time they came, one is to bring some property to comfort the marshal, and the other is to find some livelihood in Fengzhou to avoid the war.

Li Yu hurriedly got up and bowed to everyone, I Li He De how can you have to worry about you, but it is the Fengzhou army to enter the customs to suppress the thieves, thanks to the people's help, it should be Li Thank you, you can come here to see, it is my honor to Fengzhou, although Fengzhou is poor but the people are simple, the major events here are discussed by the people, there is no "Da Ming Law", there is no government oppression, there is no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, if you like it, come to it, Fengzhou people's minds are as wide as the grassland, and they will welcome you with open arms.

The businessmen became excited, and asked all kinds of questions, making Li Yu dizzy, but fortunately, there were Li Huai, Ortai, and Li Fugui next to him, and they answered the questions raised by everyone one by one, and Li Yu saw that the businessmen were satisfied, and sat down with sweat this time.

"My lord, have there been two businessmen named Sun Tingyao and Shen Shoulian in the past two days?" Li Jianji, who rarely spoke, suddenly asked Li Yu, and immediately said fiercely, "These two people are profiteers and never do good deeds, can you tell them what they are doing, I guess these two bastards must have a bad idea, adults should be careful of them." ”

Li Yu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and briefly said a few words about Sun and Shen coming to collect debts, Li Jianji immediately stood up and scolded: "Black, really black, dare to come to the door to ask for such a high profit, my lord, this Hades debt will not be repaid!" They didn't dare to make trouble. ”

Wang Chong and the others were also angry, and for a while the crowd was excited, scolding the black-hearted profiteers for bullying our beloved Dashuai, Shanxi people must not agree, drive them away, and we will do the business in Fengzhou for Dashuai in the future, Li Jianji also rolled up his sleeves, and claimed to come forward for Dashuai to settle these two guys.

Li Jianji, the acting head of the Li family in Quwo - this is his own title, the Li family has been doing business for generations in the opening of the Chinese law, and during the Hongzhi period, the head of the household Ye Qi changed the opening of the Chinese law to "fold the silver and lose the silver", and the Li family turned to Jianghuai, and made a windfall by selling official salt, and the family wealth was tens of millions of dollars in Shanxi. Like other super-rich, the Li family also cut their heads to drill into the officialdom in order to keep the family business, and the children of the clan have been divided into two categories since childhood, selecting the smart ones to choose famous teachers to teach their careers, and through the imperial examinations to seek careers, the dull ones stay at home to do business and keep their jobs, the best of the Li family's generation is Li Jianji's brother Li Jiantai, Jinshi and the first Jianba Hanlin Yuan Jishi, the head of the Li family is none other than him. Li Jianji's situation is special, his intelligence is still above his brother, but he has been stubborn since he was a child and does not like to study. Li Jianji does not need to study hard, but he is very talented in business and trading, this guy is also bold, there is only a business that does not make money in the world, but there is no business he dare not do, the Li family under his toss, from specializing in selling salt to silk and cotton, coal, iron, grain and tea, and money village pawn shops are more and more flowers, the wealth of the Li family is increasing day by day, with his proud business performance, he has become a prominent figure in the Jin merchants, and it is also said in the Li family, uncles and brothers are only looking at him, the only thing he does not dare to challenge is his brother Li Jiantai - Li Jiantai, who served as a Jishi in Beijing, had a bright future, and that was the face and umbrella of the Li family, so he could only call himself the acting head of the Li family.

Li Jianji's visit to Fengzhou this time was an accident, there was no concept of Fengzhou in his mind at all, and he blamed his reputation for being too big, and met Wang Zheng and his group in Taiyuan - the northern part of the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, the goods they should buy could not come in, the goods in their hands could not be sold, the craftsmen and men were still running at two ends for three days, and the days were almost unbearable, and the smart Shanxi people immediately remembered their traditional Guanwai market, and the kind-hearted Li Zongbing happened to be there in Tuntian, maybe this is a major business opportunity. They gathered in Taiyuan and were discussing how to get out of the customs, when Li Jianji suddenly appeared, and the merchants immediately regarded him as the boss of the Jin merchants and asked him to take everyone out of the customs. Li Jianji was very impatient, he had a big business to do, how could he care about the little things outside the customs, but he was reluctant to be the boss of the Jin merchants, and was hesitating, suddenly someone from Datong said that Qin merchant Sun Tingyao and Nanzhili businessman Shen Shoulian had arrived in Datong, and it was said that they wanted to go out of the customs to do a big deal.

Li Jianji, Sun and Shen have long been mortal enemies, after the defeat of the opening of the Chinese law, the Qin and Jin merchant gangs switched to Jianghuai, with Yangzhou as the base, and formed a group to defeat the local Jianghuai merchant gang in one fell swoop, basically monopolizing the Huai salt trade. Lost a common enemy, internal strife ensued between the Qin merchants and the Jin merchants, the two sides fought intermittently for hundreds of years, the Jin merchant Li Jianji went to Yangzhou to continue to carry forward this tradition, he targeted the Jianghuai Qin merchant boss Sun Tingyao, relying on the family to suppress Sun Tingyao desperately, do not trample the other party under the feet and never stop. Sun Tingyao couldn't bear it anymore, and joined forces with Shen Shoulian to fight against Li Jianji, the Shen family belonged to the Jianghuai merchant gang, made a fortune by sea, and it is said that they also passed through the Japanese Kou, and there were their ships everywhere in the Yangtze River and the coast. Sun and Shen joined forces to advance by land and water, and launched a crazy counterattack against the Li family, there was a period of time when the goods of the Li family could not get out of the dock, Li Jianji hated these two guys very much, one of them betrayed the alliance of Qin and Jin to eat inside and outside, and the other secretly communicated with overseas Japanese criminals without shame, this kind of person must be beaten hard, and the two sides have been fighting in the Jianghuai area.

Li Jianji learned the news that these two people were going out of the customs, and pulled up his group of Jin merchant brothers and ran to Datong, he was too familiar with Sun and Shen, they both belonged to people with a keen sense of smell, and they couldn't afford to be early, so they couldn't let them succeed, and I just didn't do the business outside the customs, and I had to mess them up.

When he arrived in Datong, Li Jianji bumped into two opponents who were eating, drinking, and having fun - wherever they went, they were looking for the best hotels to live in and the best taverns to eat, and it was difficult to meet without meeting. The two sides quarreled when they met, and then Sun and Shen ran away, Li Jianji and his gang wanted to follow out of the customs but couldn't get out, the officers and soldiers guarding the customs resolutely refused to let go, and they didn't use the money, Li Jianji inquired and found out that there were documents from Fengzhou to enter and exit the side wall, and the ultimatum of the government was useless - these bastard officers and soldiers really didn't know who was guarding the door. Li Jianji had a fire in his belly, and inquired to find Wang Mumin, the permanent representative of Fengzhou in Datong, who checked their identities several times, and only after confirming that they were correct did they open a note to leave the customs, and also reminded them that they could not run around after leaving the customs, and they must follow the person who picked them up, otherwise they would be eaten by wolves and deserve it, and Li Jianji and his gang made the trip.

Li Jianji thought of the trouble encountered in this time, and became more and more angry with Sun and Shen, standing in the middle of the room and scolding, the words of unscrupulous profiteers and despicable villains blurted out, and Li Yu and others were dumbfounded, Ortai couldn't listen to it anymore, and reluctantly smiled to defend the two profiteers, it is natural to repay debts, and they can't blame others.

At dinner, a large number of officials from the Great Commander's Mansion came to eat and drink together, Li Jianji, Wang Chong and others all felt that they had face on their faces, and they had never seen a few high-ranking officials who were willing to deign to accompany the merchants to eat in the Guannai, and later they learned that the life of Fengzhou was hard, and they usually ate coarse grains and gnawed yam eggs, and it was rare to see wine and meat. When they were almost eating, Sun Tingyao and Shen Shoulian suddenly shouted and broke in, the two had just returned from the guard below, and Yun Rong and Ma Qi were still following them.

"Li Nianfeng, you are not enough friends, such a big business is hidden from us, you have to make it clear." Sun Tingyao's face was angry, and he walked straight to Li Fugui's table, and casually slapped a few Fengzhou military tickets in front of Li Fugui.

"Sun Boxi, Shen Yongnian, you are so bold, you dare to be presumptuous here, I am waiting to clean you up," Li Jianji immediately got up and rolled up his sleeves, but his eyes glanced at the military ticket, "Hey, what is this?" ”

"Li Erzeng, you're here too, and you're still sitting here! Lord Commander, he is a profiteer, don't fall for him. Sun Tingyao was taken aback and shouted at Li Yu.

"Brother Erzeng, don't come unharmed, didn't you meet a wolf on the road?" Shen Shoulian smiled and didn't smile.

"The wolves here don't look for good people, you two are too lucky," Li Jianji smiled fiercely as he took the military ticket in his hand and looked at it, and then shouted loudly, "Say, what bad ideas do you two have, don't think about leaving if you don't make it clear." ”

The three of them pulled and pulled each other, scolded each other for being profiteers who didn't do good things, and turned over the old accounts in the past to quarrel, Li Jianji was a little angry, and shouted "Dashuai, I'll go out to teach them a lesson for you", pulling Sun and Shen out, Wang Chong and the others have been watching the excitement at a loss - they all know the rules, this kind of huge rich identity is far above them, and the big guys' affairs are not their turn to talk more, and when they saw that their boss was gone, they also said hello and followed out in a swarm.

"None of these three guys are good people." Ortai immediately made a judgment.

"Send someone to watch them, if you want to quarrel casually, you just don't do it," Li Yu frowned, and then said, "Regardless of them, let's go see Father Gao and Mr. Han." ”

The house where Gao Yizhi lived was already crowded with people, Ma Guangyuan, Namur, and Ding Qiming were all there, and even Wulan and Wu Langha were also here. Father Gao was tired from the journey, and after resting, he had dinner again, and his spirit recovered a lot, and he was teaching the doctrine to everyone, and Han Lin sat next to him to occasionally help explain a few words.

"Brothers and sisters, God has mercy on all the people of the world, he sent his own Son Jesus to the suffering world, to spread his gospel, to save the souls of the world, Jesus returned to heaven after suffering, but he left God's love in the world, God is omnipresent and omnipotent, rich and poor are equal before God, as long as you truly believe in God, you can receive his love."