After the opening ceremony, Zhang Chu invited Li Lan to have lunch together, and Li Lan happily agreed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It just so happens that I still have a lot of things to talk to you about school construction, and you don't want to kill people when you set up such a big stall all at once."

"Okay, I'll talk about work later, I just want to know more about your sister now." Zhang Chu hurriedly stopped Li Lan, who wanted to talk about work.

"If you want to know my sister's situation, it depends on the quality of your meal." Li Lan grimaced and said, at this time she finally changed from a big principal back to an ordinary little girl.

At noon, Zhang Chu and Li Lan had dinner together, and they could finally ask Li Mei about her situation in detail.

After Zhang Chu left Shanxi, Li Mei became busy, and according to Zhang Chu's arrangement, Li Mei began to inspect various places in a high-profile manner. "Zhongyang Daily" constantly reported her whereabouts, and her every move became the focus of public opinion.

Zhang Chu was very helpless, he had a girlfriend, but he had not gotten out of his single life for several years. Li Mei has also changed from a girl when she first met to a big girl.

Li Lan saw Zhang Chu there in a daze and asked, "What's the matter, do you miss my sister?" If you want to, you can marry it. ”

"I'll look for a chance." Zhang Chu is very helpless, now that the stalls of the security army are getting bigger and bigger, it is really not a good time to marry a daughter-in-law.

The two of them were silent for a while, and Zhang Chu said, "Let's talk about the situation in Shanxi." Although there are reports about the situation in Shanxi from time to time, Zhang Chu still hopes to know more about it.

Now in addition to the territory of the security army in Shanxi, it can be described as very lively, Hong Chengchou learned to be smart after being beaten by the security army a few times, no longer attacked the territory of the security army, and decided to attack the other rebels first, and then find the security army to settle accounts after pacifying the other rebels.

Cao Wenzhao, as Hong Chengchou's most loyal subordinate, fought all the way in Shanxi, and many small groups of rebels were wiped out. The more powerful rebels also tried to avoid fighting with the official army. However, the extermination policy advocated by Hong Chengchou could not save the situation in Shanxi, and the uprising would not stop until the disaster and famine were eliminated. The starving people naturally chose to revolt between starvation and revolt, and the number of rebels did not decrease because they were killed.

Among them, the best developed team is Li Zicheng's team. Li Zicheng was a smart man with great ambitions, not only did he find ways to strengthen the team, but also was good at absorbing the successful experience of others, and the security army was the best example among the many uprising teams. In the course of his contacts with the security forces, Li Zicheng paid close attention to the methods of the security forces and was prepared to learn from them.

Many of the policies of the security army Li Zicheng's team could not be imitated at all, but the strict discipline in the management team and the kindness to the people were very recognized by Li Zicheng. He would rather slow down the expansion of his ranks, but also strengthen the discipline and education of his troops, and strictly ordered his subordinates not to rob ordinary people. The reputation of Li Zicheng's team gradually improved, and more hungry people were willing to take refuge under Li Zicheng's command. Li Zicheng tried his best to control and absorb the elite as much as possible, and in this way, he still gathered more than 100,000 people. He also relied on the good relationship with the security army to buy a large number of sophisticated weapons and equipment, as the backbone of his team, the old battalion continued to grow, the ability to attack fortifications has also been strengthened, one after another captured several county towns, harvested property, Li Zicheng did not own but bought more weapons, and then attacked larger cities. His team has gained a virtuous circle and is growing.

Zhang Chu couldn't help but sigh, this hero who can leave a name in history is really extraordinary, casually pulling up a team of more than 100,000 people, it is like running around all year round, and he doesn't even have time to marry a daughter-in-law.

After eating with Zhang Chu, Li Lan rushed back to school. As Li Lan said, Zhang Chu would kill people if he laid such a big stall all at once, and there were more than 2,000 male and female students in the school, so it was not an easy task to manage.

The reception of Weihaiwei also gave Zhang Chu a lot of problems for himself, just to ensure that these more than 30,000 people have food to eat, a large amount of food is needed, not to mention the various factories and shipyards that the security army is about to start construction, all of which require silver. Zhang Chu found himself in a state of never making ends meet, worrying about silver all day long, before he also laughed at Emperor Chongzhen every day to collect silver from the world's rich merchants and the ministers to fight, now Zhang Chu and Emperor Chongzhen have the same disease.

Zhang Chu thought that the wealthy merchants not only wanted to get money from them, but also to consolidate their own power. If it were possible, Zhang Chu still hoped to pull the rich businessmen of the Ming Dynasty into his camp, and it would be unrealistic to kill all the rich and then support a new rich class. If you can't force all the rich people into a corner, and go all out to support the imperial court, then it will be troublesome. Zhang Chu set his sights on Jinan, the capital of Shandong, where he planned to establish contact with the wealthy and gain their support by making money together.

These days, the big businessmen in Jinan Province are both happy and a little worried. All this is because Wang Jijie, a big businessman from Shanxi, came to Shandong to develop. This Wang Jijie has been very famous among the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, the thieves in Shanxi are everywhere, the Shanxi merchants who had a prosperous business have been hit hard, the trade route to the mouth has been cut off, and the ferry port from Shanxi to Henan has been occupied by thieves not long ago. Shanxi businessmen can only sit and eat, all have no money to make, and at this time Wang Jijie has sprung up, invested a lot of money to buy the materials in everyone's hands, everyone is waiting to see Wang Jijie's jokes, but he doesn't know what channel to sell the materials, and then also transported in a large number of goods that Shanxi urgently needs. It is better to make less money than not to make any money, Shanxi businessmen had to buy goods from Wang Jijie and sell them, and most of the things produced in Shanxi were sold to Wang Jijie. Although everyone was reluctant, it still became the de facto next home. Later, there were rumors that the cut off of the trade route was the ghost of Wang Jijie, which made everyone hate Wang Jijie, but everyone had to admit that the Wang family is now the largest merchant in Shanxi. The fame of the Wang family also spread throughout the Ming Dynasty with the circulation of goods.

Wang Jijie came to Jinan and really showed his wealth, bought several shops in the best commercial area in the center of Jinan, and then rebuilt them, and built a four-story building overlooking the whole city of Jinan very ostentatiously.

Being able to build the building so high that the people in Jinan are very envious, Wang Jijie is so high-profile, some gangsters in the city dare not step forward to provoke the Wang family's business house. It is said that Wang Jijie is the best friend of Zhang Chu, the general soldier of Dengzhou, and this Zhang Chu was born as a thief in Shanxi, and he does not like to reason with people, but likes to talk with a knife.

Wang Jijie's arrival is not all bad news for Shandong businessmen, a while ago Wang Jijie scattered a large number of orders to buy a large number of materials and goods, so that the merchants made a lot of money, not long after, the Wang family's firm and to promote a variety of scarce goods in Jinan, so that the early merchants made another profit.

And this time, Wang Jijie sent an invitation to several big businessmen in Jinan, saying that everyone would have a light meal together, sit down and chat, talk about business matters, and make money together. (To be continued.) )