The scent of flowers and plants in the air, and the surrounding trees draped in clumps of verdant greenery, make it easy to get sleepy in spring, but on the other hand, the air is the most refreshing.

With gray hair but meticulously combed, the sleeve that lacked an arm swayed from side to side in the spring breeze, Cheng Kaikai stood at the door of the Su family's courtyard, followed by an old servant about fifty years old, and two coachmen who were driving the car.

The simple and tidy courtyard without losing the atmosphere of life has been opened twice before, but every time I come over, I have a different emotion and feeling.

The first time was when Su Baiyi approached him through Yuan Keli to help him calculate a small businessman named Qiu San. Of course, at that time, Su Baiyi was also a small person in the eyes of Cheng Kai, and the calculation between the little people, he only helped out of the sake of face.

But after that calculation, Cheng Kaikai thought about the whole process of Su Baiyi's calculation of Qiu San over and over again, and the more he thought about it, the more thrilled he became, where is this a commercial calculation, it is simply a general strategy of war between the two countries!

However, at that time, he just expressed his respect and surprise to Su Baiyi.

The second time was when Su Baiyi threatened to build an academy, and then drummed out soap and glass, and after Cheng Kaikai and Su Baiyi negotiated a business, they made a special trip to visit Su's house.

At that time, when facing the Su family's small courtyard, Cheng Kaikai still greatly admired Su Baiyi's talent.

And this time, when he came to this small farmhouse again, he looked up at the black background and gold painting "Pingdong Bofu" under the newly built thatched gate, and he felt depressed!

In front of him, the young man who used to be on an equal footing with him once upon a time talked about wine and bargained, but now, not to mention that people are deeply favored by the emperor, and the Shandong rebellion has been quelled in a snap of his fingers, so he has to look up to him.

"Mr. Cheng, my lord invites you to come in and talk!" Li Qing opened the door and said with a smile towards Cheng Kai.

Cheng Kaikai bowed slightly, and actually saluted Li Qing, and said "Thank you, girl" before he hurriedly tidied up his clothes and followed Li Qing in.

The courtyard of the Su family is not big, and it even seems a little small in the eyes of Cheng Kaikai, and he walked to the hall in three steps and two steps, looking at the simple decoration of the hall, Cheng Kaikai did not dare to be disrespectful, and hurriedly walked to Su Baiyi, who was sitting on the Taishi's chair, and said in fear: "The villain Cheng Kai Kai, see the lord!" ”

Cheng Kaikai is a big businessman, and now the grain and medicinal materials business has been done all over the six northern provinces and two capitals of the entire Ming Dynasty, although the Jiangnan region is not his territory, but he has also dabbled. Such a big businessman, no matter where he goes, he is surrounded by the front and back, and his net worth is innumerable.

But in what a big businessman, also a businessman!

Since the Ming Dynasty, there have been four classes of Shinong industry and commerce, and businessmen are at the bottom. In the past, Su Baiyi was just a white man with no reputation, just a teacher who taught in Guide Mansion, and Cheng Kaikai didn't talk about respect when he saw Su Baiyi, at most it was just a courtesy respect for Yuan Keli's face.

But now it is different, Su Baiyi not only became the Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi of the third grade, but also was named the railway governor of the second grade, and more importantly, he was named Pingdongbo, and he was knighted once, and he was the noble family of the Ming Dynasty from then on.

These sudden identities made Cheng Kaikai have to respect.

And it's respect from the heart.

"Sit down!" Su Baiyi pointed to the other side, didn't get up, and said with a smile: "Mr. Cheng and I are acquaintances, and we don't deal with each other once or twice, so you don't have to be so polite." ”

"Haha......" Cheng Kaikai also laughed heartily, but this boldness looked a little unnatural in Su Baiyi.

"Mr. Cheng, please drink tea, this is a new bud tea on the market this year, which was brought by Cao Gong from Taiping Mansion by the way, how about you taste it?" Su Baiyi waved his hand.

Cheng Kaikai thanked him, then sat down, opened the lid of the porcelain cup in front of him, and a fresh tea fragrance spread between his mouth and nose, and it was indeed a newly listed bud tea.

"It's still Mingqian tea!" Cheng Kaikai praised it loudly, and said with a little meaning: "Master Su is so blessed, this is Fuyangchun that can only be exchanged for one tael of ten taels of gold on the market!" ”

Fuyangchun!

It was originally an ordinary tea name!

Now I don't know who spread the various encounters that Su Baiyi first entered the door of the Yu family, not only did the entire Guide Mansion know the allusions to Fuyangchun, but even the nobles in the capital also passed it on.

Su Baiyi didn't know what Mrs. Yu's expression was after knowing about this, he just smiled faintly, feeling quite boring.

It's boring!

Now that her identity has reversed, many things have been lighted up, and when she saw Mrs. Yu again, the seemingly natural noble temperament on her body didn't know when it would dissipate. The last time she was in the Su family, she was trembling, and in Su Baiyi's eyes, she had become a woman who was no different from ordinary middle-aged and elderly women.

It's very boring to compete with a middle-aged and elderly woman.

Su Baiyi raised his hand and picked up the porcelain cup on the coffee table next to him, and also took a deep sip. Due to the habits and values of later generations, he has always liked to use porcelain cups, and after seeing the hot glass of the Ming Dynasty, he always regarded it as a stall.

"The tea is still good, but if you say ten taels of gold and one or two teas, I think it's still a bit unworthy of the name!" Su Baiyi put the cup in his hand back on the coffee table, then raised his eyes and smiled: "I don't know if Mr. Cheng is looking for me today, what advice do you have?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Cheng Kaikai hurriedly put down the cup, and said, "It's just that there is something to discuss with the Governor!" ”

"Please!" Su Baiyi stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of please.

Cheng Kaikai smiled, took out a small bottle of perfume from his fat sleeve and put it on the coffee table, and praised: "Master Su is really a genius in the world, and as soon as this perfume comes out, it will definitely be popular in the Ming Dynasty." It's just, hehe, it's ......."

"It's just too expensive, right?" Su Baiyi was embarrassed to say it when he saw Cheng Kai opening, so he simply said it.

"Lord Su's eyes are as wise as a torch!"

"It's not that I'm as discerning as a torch!" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "You just don't understand the situation." The words changed and said: "Mr. Cheng came to Su today, just for this perfume, hehe, unfortunately, this perfume really can't let you make it." ”

"Why?" Cheng Kaikai was taken aback and hurriedly asked.

With his old spiciness, how can he not see the huge potential and market of this perfume.

The wealthy nobles of the entire Ming Dynasty used incense, although the effect of incense is also good, but compared to this perfume in terms of taste and freshness, it is more than a little worse.

The most important thing is that the perfume is convenient, and you can keep the rich floral fragrance for half a day by sprinkling a little on the body. Incense is different, for a woman to make herself fragrant, she must smoke for at least half an hour in the room where the incense is lit, and that fragrance is much worse than the fragrance of fresh flowers.

So it's not hard to imagine that no matter where this perfume is sold, there will be no shortage of markets.

Because women who can use perfume when they are idle and have nothing to do are all wealthy families.

Since it is a wealthy family, there is no difference between the price of ten taels of silver for a bottle and a bottle of twenty taels of silver.

How big the profit can be, Cheng Kaikai can even imagine without even calculating!

Now that he just opened his mouth, Su Baiyi refused, how could he not be in a hurry: "In this way, I won't negotiate the price with adults, as long as I ask someone Cheng to sell this kind of thing, it will be ten taels of silver a bottle, what do you think, my lord?" ”

"Mr. Cheng, you really misunderstood!" Su Baiyi sighed and said: "It's not that you won't be allowed to sell on behalf of you, but things like perfume are extracted from flowers, but you also know that the land we return to Defu is all good land, where is there a large number of flowers planted?" This shortage of raw materials is destined to have very little perfume production, even if it is sold to you, it is a pity to abandon it without taste. The official took it for granted that this perfume would not be introduced to the market in the future. ”

Perfume is a good thing!

But Su Baiyi never expected that the yield would be so low, according to the last output, even if a thousand acres of moon flowers were picked for a year, he wouldn't be able to get much silver.

Rather than earn that little money, it is better to commercialize the perfume, and the perfume produced in the future is only given as a gift, and is not sold separately.

Think about it, what is the most precious?

Of course, it is the rare and rare things that cannot be bought in the market that are the most precious.

In this way, it is better to use this thing to give gifts and open the backyards of countless wealthy families, and the income is much better than simply selling.

"I can buy land!" Cheng Kaikai immediately thought of the crux of the problem: "If Mr. Su is willing, the villain will buy land in Guide Mansion and then plant a large number of flowers, so that the yield will not increase?" ”

"Mr. Cheng has fallen behind, you should know that the land is the root of the people, the foundation of the country, if it is used to plant flowers, is it to abandon the original to the end, our Ming Dynasty has not been extravagant to this extent." Su Baiyi shook his head.

"Yes, yes, yes, the villain takes it for granted!" The perfume business negotiation failed, Cheng Kaikai's face inevitably showed a look of disappointment, he lowered his head and took two sips of tea, and then groped out a piece of paper covered with a red seal from his sleeve and sent it to Su Baiyi, and said with a smile on his face: "Lord Su, because of the murder of the Mu family in Defu, his family property was also confiscated, and the prefect Qin resold his mansion at that time, which happened to be obtained by someone Cheng, this is a red deed, well, and the key." ”

Good boy!

Su Baiyi smiled in his heart, Lao Cheng is here as a gift!

If the business is not negotiated, it will give a big house, which is really a big deal.

Although Su Baiyi, the Mu family's house, has never seen it, as the former richest man in Guide Mansion, it is conceivable that his family house will definitely not be small. Moreover, if the force is too low, Cheng Kai will not be able to take it.

After all, we are now men with titles.

"Mr. Cheng is polite!" Su Baiyi smiled.

"Lord Su, it's not the first time we've done business, we're all friends, a little meaning is not a respect, and I hope Lord Su must laugh!" Cheng Kai respectfully!

Su Baiyi smiled, naturally he would not be polite, and took the red deed and key and said, "Then thank you Mr. Cheng!" Since Mr. Cheng is so polite, then I will talk to Mr. about a big deal! ”