Returning to the city in embarrassment, and then another day and two nights of torment, Zhao Guansheng looked a little haggard, and even his eyes were completely sunken. Although Du Shiyi threatened his family, at the beginning of his return to the city, he did not have the idea of slipping away immediately, but a certain movement discovered by the men and servants outside the tea shop made him completely dispel this unrealistic calculation, and he desperately calculated how to bring his allies into the Yazhou Governor's Mansion.

However, he didn't think about it for too long, and the few foreign businessmen who went to Yejiazhai to collect tea suddenly set off a lot of waves in the Yazhou tea market, and some people even came to ask him what was going on. Suo Xìng broke the jar and broke it, and he bluntly told him what happened before, and sure enough, most of the allies were like ashes for a while.

The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, this word does not work all the time, especially when the imperial court is strongly promoting the tea introduction division, what they can do is the sneaky little trick behind them. When this kind of action falls into the eyes of others, it means that a catastrophe is coming.

It is precisely because of this that today with Zhao Guansheng came to the Yazhou Governor's Mansion, there are enough other four businessmen. They are all local tea merchants entrenched in Yazhou, and they don't have many external channels, and they used to run errands for those big tea merchants to collect tea and earn intermediate profits, at most, they are doing business in Jiannan Road. Therefore, as soon as the tea is introduced, they only feel that the profits are compressed so thin that they can only take risks for a while. As for the profits from the soaring tea in the past few years, they have long been ignored by them.

The waiter who had just poured tea and handed out water here was called away by someone at some point, and they were actually dried here. Although everyone is ready to be intimidated and blackmailed, this feeling of waiting to die like a lamb to the slaughter is really not so pleasant. So, after waiting and waiting, the oldest old tea merchant finally couldn't help it.

"Why hasn't there been any movement yet?"

"What exactly does that Du Shiyu plan to do with us!"

Another middle-aged tea merchant also stared at Zhao Guansheng and asked. As for the latter, at this moment, in the face of others' eyes piercing at him like sharp arrows, he sneered equally angrily: "You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and I have offended that Du Shiyu, if you can't help it, just leave!"

Having said that, none of the other four dared to leave, at most they could only mumble in their hearts. It wasn't until they sat down that their waists and legs were gradually numb, and then they heard the sound of someone talking outside. Vaguely distinguishing that someone seemed to call Du Shiyu, Zhao Guansheng quickly stood up and straightened his waist, and the rest of the people also learned from him. Sure enough, after a while, they saw a young man in his early twenties slowly entering the house, followed by the boy they had seen before.

"I've kept you waiting."

Du Shiyi's casual words, Zhao Guansheng and the others hurriedly nodded and humbly, some said they didn't dare, some said that Du Shiyi was busy with official business, until Du Shiyi sat down on the main seat of zhōngyāng, someone couldn't stand the torment just now, and asked cautiously: "Du Shiyu is ordered to preside over the affairs of the tea introduction division, and this time he came to Yazhou to ......."

Before this person could finish speaking, Du Shiyi interrupted his temptation: "Zhao Lang didn't tell you what happened before?"

This sudden rhetorical question plunged the room into a deathly silence. After a long while, Zhao Guansheng said in a somewhat difficult tone: "Back to Du Shiyu, a certain has ...... It has already been said to them. ”

"Since you said it, you still pretend not to know, are you taking it for granted?" Du Shiyi put down the tea cup that Chen Bao'er had just handed over, and saw that the person had retreated to the corner silently, holding a roll of paper in his hand, holding a pen in his right hand, and clearly starting to write hard, he put down the tea cup of the torture kiln with a snap, and said coldly, "Crossing the tea introduction division, not knowing the reason for the tea introduction, buying tea with the villagers without authorization, and slandering the government, if I want to investigate, you know what kind of crime this is!"

This reprimand undoubtedly revealed Du Shiyi's youthful vigor, and although the expressions of the first five faces were different for a while, the mood was roughly the same. Without giving them a chance to defend themselves, Du Shiyi said lightly: "The price of tea has risen, and your profits have risen year by year, but the farmers who grow tea have been exploited again and again, and in turn, they want to escape from the government, which can't be said anywhere!" You may wish to ask yourself, if the tea introduction division is responsible for the collection of tea, and if you want to collect tea, you must buy it from the government at a higher price, what is this matter?"

This is the situation that was mentioned when the imperial court once played the imperial court after the imperial history of the court explored the benefits of selling tea in the north, although few people know about it among the people, but this kind of music is also known to be very likely. For a while, Zhao Guansheng and the others were like dirt, and everyone knew in their hearts that this was more deductible than buying tea first and then buying tea to sell!

So, everyone looked at each other, and no one said a word. In the end, it was Zhao Guansheng who said bitterly: "However, I was greedy for a while, and the Bashu Tea Party is really a lot of giants, and there is no place for us." If the market is monopolized by tea parties, the cost of buying tea is high enough for us to ......."

"For example, how many people grow tea today? How much tea is produced?" After Du Shiyi asked these two sentences in a row, seeing that Zhao Guansheng was dumbfounded for a while, he stretched out his hand with a smile and slowly bent his finger, "The trend of drinking tea in the Central Plains is gradually flourishing, but now the most inseparable from tea is the Xi people." ”

The Xi people, who have tasted the benefits of tea, have doubled their demand for tea in the past five years!

Therefore, after a slight pause at this, Du Shiyi bent down a second finger, "Secondly, it is Khitan." The Khitan and Xi people were at war and knew the situation of the Xi people well, so they also exchanged horses for tea in recent years. ”

"Thirdly, there are the Turks. The changes of the Xi and Khitan can't be hidden from the Turkic royal court, so. The Khan's adviser Tunyù Gu had instructed the khan to buy a large amount of tea when he wrote to the imperial court. This year alone, there are tens of thousands of catties. Fourth, the Tibetan people are now also buying tea, and they are on the plateau, not to mention this thing. It can be said that in recent years, there will be far more people drinking tea than now, and the production and even sales of tea will be several times that of now. ”

Speaking of this in one breath, Du Shiyi looked at the tea merchants with different faces, and sighed softly: "So, you still think the cost is too high to bear?" If you are squeezed out of this circle now, from now on, no matter how hot the tea market is, it will have nothing to do with you!"

Even if Zhao Guansheng was already extremely jealous of Du Shiyi, listening to his eloquent analysis at the moment, he had to admit that what he said made sense. After all, the rapid growth of the tea business in recent years has confirmed this. Well, it is said that Du Shiyi single-handedly promoted the integration of the Bashu tea party, it is said that the trade routes in Tubo were opened up by him, and he didn't catch up with the good time, and now he offended Du Shiyi again, he gritted his teeth and asked: "Du Shiyu, I was confused for a while before, what should I do in the future, please give me some guidance!"

He looked up, and the rest of the people immediately looked at each other. Well, it has to be sent when the arrow is ready, and there is a ready-made road for Yazhou to enter Tibet, and the only thing to worry about is that it is not easy to walk. So, after exchanging glances with each other, someone echoed and asked for advice. In the face of such a reaction, knowing that he had held their sore feet before, this was the key to success this time, Du Shiyi threw out his proposal in a hurry.

"Since you can't squeeze in the Bashu Tea Party, the Yazhou Tea Party is not impossible to build. Cooperation is strong, division is weak, in the name of the Yazhou Tea Party and the Bashu Tea Party contact, and then find a place, others will naturally accept you. Moreover, according to Yazhou, the most haode tea-producing land in Shu, the way to enter Tibet, others also want to borrow from you. Seeing that Zhao Guansheng and the others were shocked at first, and then overjoyed, Du Shiyi shook his finger and said, "But I missed the tea quotation before, and you need to make up for it for me immediately!"

"It's nature, nature!"

Zhao Guansheng had planned to cut his flesh and sell his blood earlier, and even Du Shiyi asked for more, he also admitted it, and when he heard that he just wanted to make up for the tea he had escaped before, he immediately agreed with relief. And this amount of money is not small, but for each family, it is also within the scope of affordability.

Even when Du Shiyi and everyone finalized the details of the Yazhou tea party, and then made it clear that they would unite to donate money to the Yazhou Governor's Mansion and build a chain bridge for the mountain people to travel, they agreed. It's just that when all this was said and Du Shiyi beckoned to call the waiter who was so quiet after entering the house that they didn't have a sense of presence before, that they showed puzzled expressions.

"This is Chen Jizhen, I accepted him as a disciple in Chengdu Lingshang before."

What, this is not a squire?

Zhao Guansheng and the others were dumbfounded, especially those who had quietly given Chen Bao'er money or other things, and their faces turned red for a while. Seeing their expressions, Du Shiyi bowed his head slightly, and motioned Chen Bao'er to read the content of the previous transcript to everyone, and he immediately saw that these suspicious businessmen looked at Chen Bao'er's expression as if they had seen a ghost. No one expected that such an inconspicuous young man would memorize almost every word of what they said!

"Ji Zhen is my secretary, although it is not an order of the imperial court, but it is also my heart. If you want money to open the way in the future, you might as well be more cautious. If you meet a person who likes to tell the truth, this loss is not small. ”

"Yes yes yes ......"

When these businessmen retreated in embarrassment, Du Shiyi asked Chen Jizhen to bring the recorded scrolls to himself, seeing that he really remembered that he was messy and scribbled, and he was able to say so much about everything, relying more on memorization than shorthand, he said thoughtfully: "Bao'er, your memorization is also the greatest wealth that God has given you." However, I once read an article by a reclusive sage, named Rì Hurt Zhongyong. ”

Du Shiyi memorized Wang Anshi's famous article from beginning to end, and when he saw that Chen Bao'er was terrified of being taught, he bowed his head and encouraged: "Be cautious, don't live up to your qualifications." After every rì evening, you write out what you have heard, heard, and thought in this rì, which I can see, which can be regarded as another kind of training!"

"Yes, the disciple obeys!"

Du Shiyi smiled and nodded at this sensible disciple, but thought in her heart, is this a rì note assigned by the teacher to the student?