Early in the morning of this day, Liu Fan came to Xu Ji's small courtyard as usual to watch the progress of the research and give Xu Ji some "guidance", when Xu Ji was made anxious by Liu Fan, Li Xiaohu came to tell Liu Fan that there was a banquet in Yuqiong Building today, and Liu Fan remembered that he had made an appointment with the British Gongzhang's family three days ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Liu Fan, who realized it later, hurriedly changed his clothes and freshened up, and hurried to Yuqiong Tower with Li Xiaohu and others.

Coming to Yuqionglou, Liu Fan and others came to the box where they watched the lantern festival last time, and as soon as they entered the door, Liu Fan saw Zhang Pengyuan, who was dressed as a scholar, and a middle-aged man in Chinese clothes chatting, Liu Fan hurriedly said, "Brother Pengyuan, look at Haihan when you come down one step later!" ”

Zhang Pengyuan's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and grabbed Liu Fan and said affectionately, "Haha, Brother Jimin is here!" Come, Brother Jimin, let me introduce you to this uncle, the most profane of contemporary Britain! ”

Liu Fan followed Zhang Pengyuan's gaze, and saw a middle-aged man in a Chinese costume looking at him with a Chinese face, Liu Fan hurriedly saluted and said, "Liu Fan has seen Grandpa Guo"

British Gongzhang Zhiji glanced at Liu Fan deeply, a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, and he said with a smile: "I have heard of the name of Jimin for a long time, and when I see it today, there is really something extraordinary." There is no vanity under the fame, no wonder His Majesty has been boasting in front of the old man that Jimin is a rare young talent in our Ming Dynasty, and the old man now knows that what His Majesty said is indeed right! ”

Liu Fan felt that his face was thick enough, but he couldn't help blushing a little under Zhang Zhiji's praise, and he couldn't help but feel a little good about him in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Grandpa Guo Miao, Jimin is also an ordinary person, and he can't afford to be so loved by Guogong." ”

Zhang Zhiji held Liu Fan's hands and smiled warmly, "Jimin doesn't have to be formal, since you are a friend of Yuan'er, then we are not outsiders, if Jimin doesn't dislike it, just call me uncle!" ”

Liu Fan's heart suddenly sudden, and he couldn't help but scold secretly, it's uncle again, do people in the Ming Dynasty like to let others call themselves uncle? Depend on! Although he complained in his heart, Liu Fan had to put up a smile and respectfully shouted, "Uncle!" ”

Zhang Zhiji had a smile on his face, and his attitude became more and more friendly, pulling Liu Fan to the seat, and said with a caring face, "Then the old man will call you a good nephew!" The virtuous nephew heard that he got married a few days ago? Alas, the old man has been in some health for the past few days, and it is a pity that he was unable to attend the wedding of his virtuous nephew. ”

Seeing that the two were chatting endlessly, Zhang Pengyuan, who was left aside, felt a little apprehensive, coughed dryly and said to the two, "That Jimin, uncle, you see that this hour is not early, let's hurry up and enter the table, otherwise the dishes will be cold!" ”

The two who were chatting enthusiastically glanced back, Zhang Pengyuan, who was full of bitterness and hatred, looked at each other and smiled, "Okay, let's sit down at the table!" ”

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Zhang Zhiji said, "Virtuous nephew, this wine has also been drunk, and the dishes have been eaten, we might as well open the skylight and say bright words, I also heard His Majesty talk about the intention of the virtuous nephew, but the old man is still not very clear about this specific matter, and I hope that the virtuous nephew will solve his doubts!" ”

Liu Fan nodded and said, "Actually, it's not too big, this time I invited my uncle to come mainly to cooperate with my uncle." My uncle has also heard about it recently, because the refined salt market in Jiaozhou is close to saturation, so I intend to find a collaborator near the capital to jointly run the refined salt business. ”

Although Zhang Zhiji already had a draft in his heart, he really couldn't help but throb when he really heard Liu Fan say this, this is a big deal of millions of taels every year, even with the respect of other countries, he has never touched such huge interests. At that moment, he asked in a trembling voice, "I don't know what kind of charter this cooperation law Jimin said!" ”

Liu Fan picked up the wine glass and took a small sip gently, then sandwiched a basket of vegetables, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly for a while, and then made enough shelves, and then explained, "Don't hide it from my uncle, this time the person in charge of the refined salt business is not me, but Your Majesty." Ninety percent of the profits from the output of this refined salt in Jiaozhou to the sale to merchants are to be handed over to His Majesty, and I am just running errands, so what we can talk about is only the sales link, I mean that you and I will cooperate to sell refined salt in the capital, and the profits will be opened, I don't know what my uncle wants? ”

Zhang Zhiji listened to Liu Fan's explanation, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and Zhengrong said, "Jimin, you and I are both martial artists, so let's not beat around the bush." The profit of refined salt is so large, even if it is sold, the silver obtained every year is probably not less than one million taels, why did Jimin choose my British mansion with such a large sum of money? You must know that although my British Duke has some power in the capital, he basically has no impact as soon as he leaves the capital. Compared with the Jin merchants, the Hui merchants and other big businessmen are not advantageous to the British government, why did the people choose us at the expense of the near and far? ”

Liu Fan looked at Zhang Zhi's extremely serious face fixedly, and said slowly, "It's not that I chose the British Mansion, but Your Majesty chose you." The situation in the court is also very clear to my uncle, since the civil and engineering changes, the Wuxun group began to lose power, the civil officials, the eunuch party came from behind, and has occupied the leading position of the imperial court, His Majesty first ascended to the throne, and was deceived by the despicable villains of the Donglin Party, and cut off his arm except for Wei Zhongxian. Since Wei's death, the eunuch group has become a major event, and now the Chinese official family is dominant. Without the threat, these civil officials became more and more arrogant, and even His Majesty had to be constrained by them. Therefore, His Majesty urgently needs a force to check and balance the civil officials, and look at the whole world, and now only the nobles who have retired with the country can take on this heavy responsibility. Among the nobles, only the British Duke is the closest to the Ming royal family, and the most loyal, so His Majesty intends to help the Duke of the Kingdom, let the British Duke rise again, and lead the martial artists to contribute to His Majesty and resist the threat from the civil officials! ”

Zhang Zhiji was short of breath, his heart was pounding, and he was almost about to jump out of his throat, compared to the interests of refined salt, Liu Fan's words made Zhang Zhiji care more, to Zhang Zhiji's status, in fact, money is not the most important thing to them, although the gold and silver sea of millions of taels are tempting, but how can they be as powerful and moving. Since the Civil Revolution and the death of the British Gong Zhang Fu, the British Gong has become more and more decayed, not only the civilian officials regard it as a thorn in their side, but even the nobles have isolated them for some reason. Coupled with the loss of the emperor's trust, the British public government was in an increasingly difficult situation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the enemy of the whole world. As a result, they are dignified British dukes, the most noble members of the Ming royal family, but they have to be people with their tails between their legs, such days Zhang Zhiji have long been enough, and he does not think about the day when he can take his clan back to the pinnacle of power and reproduce the glory of the British Duke. Now Liu Fan told him that the emperor was going to reactivate them, and he took action, how could Zhang Zhiji hold back the surging tide? (To be continued.) )