At the beginning of the lanterns, Xi'an's largest restaurant "Tianwaitian" was already full, and the voices were boiling. But as long as there are men with some status, who doesn't want to witness the appearance of Chen Yuanyuan, one of the "Qin Huai Bayan"? Therefore, in addition to the people who received the invitation of the "Qingfang Club", a large number of people who did not have an invitation also came to join in the fun, crowding the entire street outside the restaurant.

After a short time, more than 20 sturdy men escorted several soft sedan chairs, laboriously separated the crowd, and came to the door of the restaurant. The curtain of the sedan car was raised, and several graceful girls came out of the sedan chair. Although they don't apply powder, they have a natural and fresh beauty, and the perverts who came to see the beauties were stunned and drooled.

Coming down from the last sedan chair were two men. The age of the leader is also ten years old, he is dressed as a scribe, his facial features are delicate, his teeth are white and his lips are red, he has a faint smile on his face, and he is gently shaking a Hunan concubine folding fan in his hand, and he is elegant and elegant, chic and handsome.

There were also many ladies in the mansions of dignitaries and nobles who came to participate in the Qingfang Meeting, and when they saw this prince so personable, they all cast admiring glances at him. Even some dirty men couldn't help but be moved, thinking that if they had a friendship with this son who was more handsome than a woman, wouldn't it be a great pleasure in the world.

But looking further back, everyone was discouraged. It turned out that the man who was following this son was an unusually ugly-looking man. Although he is not very old, he was born crooked melons and cracked dates: two broom eyebrows, a pair of triangular eyes, and the bridge of his nose is quite straight, but there are two huge front teeth protruding from his bloody mouth, which is annoying.

What's even more annoying is that this guy keeps rolling his triangular eyes and peeking at the nearby women. After looking at it for a long time, he shook his head, and it seemed that no one could look at it.

When everyone saw him so obscene and rude, they really wanted to rush up and beat him up. But seeing the more than 20 fierce and vicious strong men, he had no choice but to give up this spontaneous idea, and watched a few people climb the stairs in a hurry.

It wasn't until they entered the private room on the fourth floor and closed the door carefully that several beauties couldn't help but laugh: "I advise you not to pretend to be so ugly, you just don't listen!" is still the right appearance of the lord of Zhenyan, and he won the jackpot as soon as he got out of the sedan chair! ”

The ugly ghost laughed and said, "Isn't this a need for work!" After a while, Zhenyan will meet the distinguished guests as the deputy leader of the Yellow Sea Merchant Gang, of course, this 'Han Zhen' outfit is the most suitable. As for me, the purpose is not to be recognized, and the uglier I look, the better the effect! ”

It turned out that they were Zhu Youzhen, Li Zhenyan, as well as Bao Yulian, Zhu Cunqi, Qi Meifeng, the four sisters and others. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhu Youzhen and Li Zhenyan both went to the meeting in disguise and hid in the private room with the women early.

In fact, they entered the city in the afternoon, and the reason why they came now was to take advantage of the noise and reduce the chance of exposure; Second, Zhu Youzhen has been busy inspecting the operation of the Huanghai Merchant Gang, and he really can't attend the meeting in advance.

For more than an hour, Zhu Youzhen first looked at the accounts of the Yellow Sea Merchant Gang, and then focused on studying the first batch of information sent back from all parts of the country.

Now these accounts and information are all handled by Zhu Cunqi. She is both thoughtful and interested in this work, so she has sorted out all kinds of information in an orderly manner, and Zhu Cunqi will be able to explain it in detail for him immediately if Zhu Youzhen sees any page.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be moved: "I am really ashamed that the county lord manages so many mundane affairs!" ”

Zhu Cunqi smiled and said, "The helper is here again!" Didn't you say that you can't call the county lord anymore, you have to call Mr. Qi. And people think that these jobs are very interesting and meaningful, and the more they do it, the happier they are, how can they be tired! ”

Zhu Youzhen saw that she was happy from the bottom of her heart, and of course she was secretly proud. In this way, not only does he have a good helper, but Zhu Cunqi can also temporarily get rid of the identity of the county lord and enjoy a colorful life.

After reading the account books and intelligence, Zhu Youzhen was very satisfied with the recent operation of the Huanghai Merchant Gang. In terms of main business, Li Zhenyan has met with Tibetan businessman Tsering Wangjie and successfully signed the purchase contract for the second batch of Tibetan goods. Just wait for the goods to be transported to Xi'an, and they can be transferred to Dengzhou to go to sea immediately.

And this time, because we bypassed the dealers and directly traded with large wholesalers, and the purchase volume was very large, the purchase price also dropped significantly, on average only about half of the last time. At first, Tsering Wangjie didn't want to drop so much, but Li Zhenyan was a top master in business negotiations, and for a while he put forward the fact that the goods were shoddy, and then compared the supply prices of other Tibetan merchants, and even copied the abacus and quickly calculated the cost of several goods.

Rao is Tsering Wangjie has been in business for many years, and he also felt overwhelmed by this proficient business-proficient "Deputy Han Gang Leader", so he had to obediently reduce the price. Of course, he still made a lot of money in the general account, and Li Zhenyan made it clear that no matter how many goods Tsering Wangjie had, the Huanghai Merchant Gang would eat it.

With such smooth sales, Tsering Wangjie is willing to reduce prices more, because as long as the capital turnover speed is accelerated, even if he only runs one more trip a year, the profit will be much more than in the past.

And the work of opening stores in various places is also going very well. In just half a month, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Taiyuan, Chengdu and other places close to Xi'an have set up several branches of the Yellow Sea merchant gang. Because of the long distance in other important cities, the shopkeeper and his men who were sent to open the store have not yet arrived, but they have also brought sufficient start-up capital. As soon as it arrives, it will be open for business in less than three days.

In terms of business scope, these shops are also varied, such as salt shops, rice shops, cloth shops, porcelain shops, and so on. Of course, Zhu Youzhen didn't point to these stores to make a profit immediately, and their more important task was to collect all kinds of local intelligence.

The first batch of information sent back was mainly economic, including prices in various places, commodity abundance and shortage, and so on. Although it is not very complete, Zhu Youzhen already feels very helpful. The next step is to continue to improve the intelligence network and strengthen the collection of social and political intelligence.

After dealing with these things, Li Zhenyan pretended to be Han Zhen and accompanied Zhu Youzhen to the Shaanxi Business Gang to meet Li Henian, Li Zicheng and his son. They were also invited tonight, and they also had their own guesses about why the prefect Ding Qirui and Qiao Beiyue and others wanted to see them. So everyone discussed again, roughly how to deal with the situation, in short, the two families must cooperate tacitly.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen hid in the car and asked Li Zhenyan to perform a disguise technique for herself, pretending to be one of Han Zhen's henchmen. When he went to the banquet for a while, he asked Han Zhen to come forward, and Zhu Youzhen listened quietly on the side.

At this time, Chen Yuanyuan had not yet arrived, and when Zhu Youzhen was recalling the bits and pieces of getting along with her, he suddenly heard a noise outside the private room, and some people shouted indiscriminately: "Yang Sichang Yang Gongzi is here!" ”