Li Feibai nodded at the official who took the list. How could the official not know what Li Feibai meant, smiled slightly, and said, "What's your name?" ”

The man gave his name. The official nodded to indicate that he understood, and said, "If you want to sit here and sit again, if you don't want to sit, you can go home and sleep, and you have to get up early tomorrow to go to the stone carving factory?" ”

The man's hanging heart fell. He had just walked away from the ghost gate, how could he want to stay here for a while longer, and said, "It's better to go home and sleep!" When I stood up, I found that my legs were already weak, and I couldn't stand at all, and I stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately I held down Uncle Liu's shoulders to stand firmly.

He laughed twice to hide his embarrassment, and said, "Uncle Liu, why don't we two go back to sleep first?" ”

Uncle Liu nodded and said secretly: "Fortunately, I was willing to lose the gamble before, otherwise the whole family would have lost their lives." "I made up my mind to return what I had stolen when I went back, so that I would not suffer this unjustified disaster again.

The two of them helped each other and walked out. Other people have learned from the previous car, how can they not understand what to do next, and hurriedly said: "We are also willing to go to the stone carving factory tomorrow morning." Even lying on the ground, Zhang Dali shouted the same thing.

Ma Kun spat on the ground and said, "Lord Li is kind and begging, you guys kicked your noses and faces one by one, and you were embarrassed everywhere, but now you know that you are afraid?" ”

Everyone hurriedly said: "I know, I know." ”

Ma Kun said: "Don't be ashamed, this account will be written down for the time being, if you dare to commit it again in the future, the new account and the old account will be counted together." Get out of here! ”

Everyone hurriedly left the house, just afraid to stay a little longer, Ma Kun changed his mind.

Zhang Dali, who was lying on the ground, shouted: "And me!" ”

Ma Kun gave a look to the official beside him, and the official stepped forward to untie Zhang Dali. Zhang Dali got rid of it, nodded at Li Feibai and Ma Kun, and said, "I'll go to the stone carving factory early tomorrow morning." ”

Li Feibai said: "You tell them to call all your relatives and friends over." ”

Zhang Dali said that there were relatives and friends who wanted to come, but they didn't want to go to the stone carving factory, so how dare they agree, and said: "Don't dare!" But I didn't know that Li Feibai lacked anything, only manpower was missing.

Li Feibai's face turned cold, and he said, "Why don't you dare?" The two factories don't have enough people for 500 people, so I'll ask you. ”

Zhang Dali saw that he was not joking, so he said: "Okay!" "I ran away in a puff of smoke.

Ma Kun didn't sleep for two consecutive nights, and at this time he was really sleepy, so he yawned and said, "It's over, I'm going to sleep too." ”

Li Feibai said: "Thank you Brother Ma for making a move." ”

Ma Kun said strangely: "What words! Your business is Brother Ma's business, and it would be too angry to talk about Xie Ke. He bowed his hand and left with his subordinates.

Only Li Feibai's father and son were left in the house, Li Daning sighed and said, "Do you really want to build roads, build a brick factory and a cement factory?" ”

Li Feibai said: "There is a big financier who took 300,000 taels of silver to partner with me to do business, and if he doesn't build roads or brick factories and cement factories, how can he spend all the silver." ”

Li Daning didn't know how to do business, so he wanted to persuade Li Feibai to do a good job of the stone carving factory first. Don't run out of money halfway through, and lose all your pants at once, then the gains outweigh the losses. Hearing that Li Feibai was doing business in partnership with others, and with the 300,000 taels of silver as the backing, he didn't say anything anymore, and said: "If you really want to do business, those thieves don't need to use it as much as possible." ”

Li Feibai said: "I have a second life-saving grace for them, and they will not make trouble." After a pause, he said: "However, the wildness of these people cannot be eliminated in a day or two, Daddy finds some trustworthy young people, keeps an eye on the Lord every day, and doesn't let them do anything out of line." ”

Li Daning nodded and said, "This is easy to do!" ”

Li Feibai brought in a sack of corn and a small bag of tobacco leaves from outside, and told Li Daning to divide the small bag of tobacco leaves into nine parts, except for the cold winter wax moon, sow one per month, see which month has the best growth, and continue to sow with the tobacco seeds harvested that month. Let Li Daning be empty, and sow the bag of corn first.

Li Daning's stone carving skills are good, and he is also a good hand at farming. He didn't ask what these two seeds were, his son is now a friend of the county commander, and his status is so high, what he has to do is no longer something he can participate in.

The two talked again, and Li Feibai went back to the house to rest. In the next few days, he either went to see Jin Damin leading people to build a brick cellar on the ground, or went to see the stone carver in the village carving lions with people, or he hid in a secluded place with Wu Yishui, studying how to build a cement cellar and what the ratio of lime to clay should be.

Li Feibai instructed Wu Yishui to take a few assistants who had to do it first, build a small cellar to test the burning of cement, and wait for the burned cement to look decent, and then build a large cellar to burn a large number of them. Even if the big cellar is burned, the small cellar cannot be destroyed, and we have to keep experimenting with what to add to it to make the quality of cement better.

Wu Yishui agreed to do so one by one.

After five days, Li Daning led people to plant corn and a piece of tobacco, and this day the county order sent someone to urge, he was not good to stay in Xiapan Village anymore, and Hou Yanmin went out of Xiapan Village and went in the direction of Wangwu Township.

There are many things in the yamen, and Ma Kun has left with the yamen four days ago. He walked halfway to the road with Hou Yanmin and the official who reported the news, met Liu Yangming, who was leveling the road, and talked for a long time, and then continued to hurry.

When I arrived in Wangwu Township, it was already the third watch in the middle of the night. The three of them knocked on the door of the balcony palace, stayed for a night, and the second day when the sky was light, they hurriedly rode the three horses left by Ma Kun and went to the county seat.

Hurry up and hurry, when you get to the county seat, it will still be dark. After entering the city, the accompanying officials said goodbye and left, and Li Feibai and Hou Yanmin went straight to Li Ji's stone carving shop.

The stone shop has completely changed, and the empty shop now has shoulder-high counters and wooden railings on top. A small closed door on the left is the only way to access the backyard and go upstairs.

Tang Zilan was busy at the counter, teaching a few new recruits how to keep accounts and how to issue bills. She spoke seriously, and those guys also learned to be serious, and from time to time they also held a brush in one hand and a plate in the other, simulating how to go through the procedures of deposit and withdrawal.

Hou Yanmin saw that the signboard on the shop had been replaced with "Daming First Commercial Bank", and the signboard of "Li Ji Stone Carving Shop" written by her own hand was erected at the door. She was very unhappy in her heart, and said secretly: "Such an ugly word is embarrassed to hang on the front of the store." ”

Seeing that Tang Zilan was cute and gorgeously dressed, she gradually became filthy for no reason, and said, "What's going on?" ”

Li Feibai said: "In the stone carving business, Daxing will be open to acquisition in the future, so there is no need to use two shops to place stone lions." I thought that being idle was also idle, so I changed the Li Ji stone carving shop into the first commercial bank of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Hou Yanmin glanced at Tang Zilan and said, "Who is she?" ”

Li Feibai said: "She is my God of Wealth, the pearl of the head of the Daxing account, and she takes out 300,000 taels of silver to do business with me." As he spoke, he raised his legs and walked into the shop and said, "Miss Tang, I'm back!" ”

Tang Zilan glanced up at Li Feibai, and her face, which was smiling like a flower just now, suddenly became gloomy. Walked to the side of the counter, opened the small door, and said, "Come in!" ”

Li Feibai led Hou Yanmin into the counter and said, "The cellar has been dug?" The silver was pulled over? ”

Tang Zilan said "um", led the two to the courtyard, and walked to the original cellar entrance. Today, the entrance is covered with an iron fence and locked with a lock the size of a child's head.

Li Feibai stretched out his hand and said, "What about the key?" Let me go down and take a look? ”

Tang Zilan took out a key from her pocket, opened the lock and led Li Feibai down. Hou Yanmin didn't know what was strange below, and her curiosity arose, so she followed.