There are still three days before the bidding day, and Lijiazhuang is busy.

Den.

Li Chuan was looking at a list, and Li Changyue was explaining on the side.

This list is a large list of 10,000 taels of silver guarantee, and there are more than 300 names on it.

"In the beginning, there were less than 20 people who paid the deposit."

Li Changyue said: "Later, the goods were transported into Zhuangzi, and those merchants quickly sent the silver over, but the old slave did not accept the deposit from the Shanxi merchants and the Jinling Xu family according to the instructions of the young master. ”

Li Chuan asked, "What is the reaction of the Xu family?" ”

Li Changyue said: "The people from the Xu family left without saying anything. ”

Li Chuan turned a few thoughts, and still didn't dare to take the Xu family in Jinling City lightly, and explained a few more words, asking Li Changyue to prepare for the bidding in three days, and while looking at the list, he pondered the people and things in Jiangnan.

More than 300 names are more than 3 million taels of silver.

There are so many local tyrants in the Ming Dynasty, which is a bit beyond his expectations.

You can take out 10,000 taels of silver casually, which shows how rich these people on the list, or the people behind them, are. It is said that the people are rich in Tibet, but the people are almost out of food, where does the surplus wealth come from.

The so-called people are really just the names on this list.

The day before the bidding, several guests came to Lijiazhuang.

The first person to come was from the Xu family, a middle-aged man in his forties, named Xu Songshan.

"I don't know what Mr. Xu is looking for?"

Li Chuan looked at Xu Songshan, and his tone was a little cold.

For the people of the Xu family in Jinling, he owes no favor at all.

Xu Songshan said: "Xu has a word, I don't know if to say it!" ”

Li Chuan said with a lack of interest: "Then don't talk about it, come here, send off guests!" ”

"Ugh!"

Xu Songshan was dumbfounded, he had never seen such an immorality.

Seeing that the servants of the Li family came in to invite people, where could they still take care of being reserved, they immediately said with burning eyes: "I don't know what benefits the palace has given to Lord Li, if Lord Li cooperates with the Xu family, what the palace can give you, the Xu family can give you the same, and it will only be more." ”

Li Chuan is a sigh: "The threshold of the Wei Mansion is a bit high, and I can't climb it in the next Jinyi Wei Qianhu, go back and tell your master, the last time I wrote it down, and I will return it in the future." ”

"You ......"

Xu Songshan's face changed, as if he didn't expect that someone would dare to argue with the Duke of Wei, and he was about to have a seizure at that time, but thinking about it again, the lord was reprimanded by the emperor not long ago, so he endured it and said coldly: "I don't know what to do!" ”

After that, he went long.

Li Chuan was also sneering, and there was murder brewing in his eyes.

None of these powerful people are stupid, and they can see that there is a palace to support him.

But that's fine, as long as the government army doesn't dare to move him, the Xu family has nothing to be afraid of, with the goods in his hand, no matter how rich and powerful the Xu family is, they can't help him, at most they play some shady means, and he continues.

However, he still underestimated the lower limit of human nature, and that night, a group of thieves infiltrated Zhuangzi.

Fortunately, Li Chuan was very satisfied with the performance of the family members this time, and all the thieves who infiltrated Zhuangzi were captured by the family members, and Zhao Tiezhu killed three people on the spot, and after some severe torture, he did not ask for any useful information.

"The hands and feet are really clean!"

Li Chuan was not angry, but thought about the methods of these family lords.

The more he learned about Da Ming, the more he understood how much the emperor in the Forbidden City was.

Daming is not so much the world of the Zhu family as the world of scholars.

The Ming scholarly class was far stronger than its predecessors, and even the emperor had to compromise, and the lower limit of the scholarly class that represented the interests of the landlord bureaucratic class was also refreshing his cognition over and over again.

For their own interests, there is nothing that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty dare not do.

If nothing else, let's just say that what Jin Shang did was simply betraying the country.

It is not surprising that businessmen betray the country, Marx said that interests can drive everything, and it is not uncommon to betray the country.

But as far as Li Chuan got the news, the officials of the Jin Shang were not unaware of what the Jin merchants were doing, and some even participated in it to seek benefits, and perhaps the only one who was kept in the dark was the emperor sitting in the deep palace.

The discipline of the Ming bureaucrats and doctors can be seen from this.

It was dawning very quickly.

Li Chuan went to Jiangyin City, and the day of bidding came.

Wangjiang Tower has been completely covered, but it is still overcrowded.

There are more than 300 people who have paid the bid deposit, and the number of people who have already exceeded 1,000 with the entourage or something.

Li Chuan handed over the specific matter to Li Changyue, and he did not do it himself, but went to a small courtyard in the back and took a meeting with the powerful figures of the wealthy businessmen or large families who came here.

These people have extraordinary identities, and specific things are naturally handled by their subordinates, and it is not their turn to show up in person.

There are more than 300 people, and it is a joke to remember them all.

Li Chuan keenly found that although some people were polite, they looked down on him in their bones, and some people were even very cold, and they naturally had a sense of rejection for a businessman like him who clinged to the palace.

If it weren't for the great reward, these people wouldn't have come here at all.

This is the scholarly class, the natural rejection of imperial power.

Li Chuan is also very personable, and he greets people very warmly, but he is even more disgusted in his heart.

Although the imperial power is very domineering, it is only a hooligan at best, and it will not disgust him.

But the bureaucrats and doctors of the Ming Dynasty were bitches and had to set up an archway, which made him feel disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

It didn't take long for a man named Zheng Xing to catch his interest.

"Brother Zheng is the person who attacked Lord Zheng in coastal defense?"

Li Chuan knew this person, the Zheng family in Fujian, who was the overlord of the China Sea at this time.

"The guerrilla lord is the brother of the clan."

Zheng Xing was also looking at Li Chuan, the origin of this person's Western goods was very mysterious, those Western goods Zheng family had studied several times, all of them were exquisite and ingenious, and the profits were amazing, but they couldn't find out the source of the goods.

Merchant ships traveling to and from the West had to pass through the sea areas controlled by the Zheng family.

If it was really a Western cargo, how could it escape the search of the Zheng family.

Li Chuan said: "As far as I know, the Zheng family is rich in the South Seas, not only have a commission for the merchant ships coming and going, but also have a fleet of ships traveling in the South Seas, with an annual income of tens of millions of oceans, I don't want to be able to look at the goods below, I am really flattered!" ”

Zheng Xing smiled and said: "My Zheng family has contacts with Western countries, but I have never seen those exquisite goods, but I don't know which country those goods come from in the West and where they came ashore, my Zheng family's fleet has not been able to find them. ”

Li Chuan laughed and said, "Do you think I'll tell you?" ”

Zheng Xing also smiled and said, "As far as I know, you don't have a fleet to go to sea. ”

Li Chuan nodded, he couldn't deny this, as long as he inquired a little, he could find out.

Zheng Xing said confidently: "Since you don't have a fleet to go to sea, those goods are brought in by Yiren's ship." But what I don't understand is that even if the Yi people want to find someone to cooperate, my Zheng family is also the best object, why would those Yi people cooperate with you. ”

These words are marked with naked contempt.

In fact, compared with the Zheng family, a behemoth that dominates the sea frontier, Li Chuan is really not enough.

In fact, many people also have this question, how can Westerners cooperate with a hairy boy.

Li Chuan was not angry, and said: "Maybe the Zheng family is too domineering, so they will cooperate with me, haha!" ”

Zheng Xingpi smiled and said: "Yiren's ship can avoid the Zheng family's fleet once, but it won't be able to dodge every time, how to talk about the transaction, give your purchase channel to the Zheng family, the Zheng family will never let friends suffer." ”

This proposal is good, and Li Chuan is also quite impressed.

The Zheng family is the overlord of the sea, and with the help of the Zheng family, there is no problem in going to sea to occupy a small island.

It's a pity that the goods are his, and he has no channels.

Li Chuan shook his head and said, "Can the Zheng family's sea boats be sold?" ”

Zheng Xing said: "Of course, as long as there is silver, there is no business that cannot be done. ”

Li Chuan said: "How much silver is a sea ship?" ”

Zheng Xing's eyes seemed to be looking at a fool, and said: "There are big and small sea ships, it depends on which one you want." ”

Li Chuan asked, "How much silver is the largest sea ship?" ”

Zheng Xing said: "It is not easy to build a sea ship, and the largest lucky ship can't build a few a year, at least 100,000 silver. ”

It's so expensive!

Li Chuan couldn't help but take a breath, he didn't care about 100,000 taels of silver, but this is the price of a ship, if you want to form a fleet to go to sea, at least ten big ships, just to buy a ship will cost one million silver.

Converted into gold rush coins, it is more than 100 million.

One hundred million......

Li Chuan had a toothache and quietly extinguished the idea of buying a boat.