Don't underestimate the position of Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi, if you talk about the level, it is also from the seventh rank military attaché. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoHowever, what Lu Zonghan promised Ren Siqi was only a temporary status, and he did not file with the Ministry of War, that is, a temporary worker. However, with this identity, it will be much easier for Ren Siqi to do things in the future.

This is not the only thing that surprised Ren Siqi. Liu Defu and Hu Deji recovered from the fright of being kidnapped, and they were extremely grateful to Ren Siqi for saving their lives, if it weren't for Ren Siqi and the others, they would probably have died by now!

The day before the passenger ship arrived in Hangzhou, Liu Defu and Hu Deji solemnly set up a banquet on the ship to thank Ren Siqi.

"The two of you are too polite, I also saved the big guy by the way to save myself." Ren Siqi said in the middle of the banquet.

"You can't say that. It's just a handy thing for a little friend, but it's a lifesaver for us! What a trifle! Liu Defu said solemnly, he had to get up and salute Ren Siqi, thank him for saving his life, Ren Siqi couldn't resist him, so he had to accept the gift from him and Hu Deji.

After the salute, Liu Defu sat back in his seat.

"Xiaoyou, if you have a place to get the old man in the future, just open your mouth, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse!" Liu Defu promised. Hu Deji also patted his chest and assured.

Ren Siqi was also polite, and told his difficulties at the moment to see if Liu Defu could help.

After listening to Ren Siqi's words, Liu Defu stroked his beard and pondered, got up and rummaged around the room, turned out a painting scroll from a rattan box, and carefully held it and handed it to Ren Siqi.

Ren Siqi stretched out his hand to take it and looked at Liu Defu in amazement: "Senior, what is this?" ”

"The famous painting "Flowers and Birds" by Huizong of the Song Dynasty in the previous dynasty, you give this painting to Lord Yinghua Wang of Tixue, and he should restore your fame of showing talent!" Liu Defu looked at the painting scroll in Ren Siqi's hand with some distress.

"When I took the Ningbo Children's Institute exam the year before last, I had dealt with Mr. Wang, and I knew that he was an honest and self-disciplined official, but he loved to paint. If you give him this painting of Song Huizong, it will not be a problem to restore your fame if you do what he likes, after all, you have not really committed a crime, but have been framed. Now that Zhou County Decree has acquitted you, it is only natural that the lost fame should be restored. ”

Song Huizong's painting is a treasure, such a painting is worth a few hundred taels of silver, and Liu Defu's gratitude to Ren Siqi can be seen.

"Then I'll take it, thank you seniors for your kindness!" Ren Siqi put down the scroll and bowed.

Seeing that Ren Siqi accepted the painting scroll, Liu Defu's mood was much better, although he was also a talent, but he had been in business for many years, but he was a businessman in his bones. He knows that the love owed to others needs to be repaid, not to mention that what he owes is the grace of saving his life, and now that Ren Siqiken is under this scroll, he feels that although it is not enough to repay the grace of saving his life, he has repaid part of it after all.

Hu Deji saw that Liu Defu gave Ren Siqi a famous painting, and he was a little embarrassed on the side, Ren Siqi also saved him, he couldn't help but express something, thought for a while, and gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Brother Ren, I can't repay the grace of saving my life. The day before yesterday, when we were chatting, didn't you say that you needed raw silk, and I will sell you the 100 quintals of raw silk at home for 60 taels per quintal, as for the payment, you can owe it first, and then give it to me after you go overseas to sell it and return the funds. Hu Deji made this difficult decision, and his heart suddenly felt much more relaxed after saying it. In previous years, the price of raw silk was sixty taels of silver, and now it is sold to Ren Siqi at the same price, but it is only a later day to recover the payment, hoping to repay Ren Siqi for saving his life in this way.

"Brother Hu, are you here?" Ren Siqi was stunned for a moment, "Brother Hu doesn't have to be like this, your hundred quintals of raw silk are a year's hard work, my career is just starting now, and I don't have enough funds to pay you for the goods, the sea is stormy, why should you take such a risk, Brother Hu?" ”

Liu Defu listened inexplicably on the side, and interjected and asked, "What, Xiaoyou, you can't do business now?" ”

Now that everyone is not an outsider, Ren Siqi briefly said that he owned a sea ship and was ready to go to sea for trade, and Liu Defu was very interested after hearing it.

Hearing Ren Siqi's refusal words, Hu Deji was anxious, and said in a loud voice: "Brother Ren, don't you look down on me?" Although my brother and I have no power and power, I am a small family, but the spit is a nail, and there is no reason to take it back! ”

Seeing his blushing face and thick neck, Ren Siqi knew that he couldn't refuse.

"Okay, Brother Hu, I accepted your 100 taels of raw silk, but the price is not 60 taels 1 load, but 80 taels and 1 loads. But you also know that brother, I don't have much money right now, so I can only pay you a small amount of money first. Ren Siqi said.

"Brother, you..." Hu Deji didn't expect Ren Siqi to raise the price of raw silk to eighty taels, and he didn't know what to say all of a sudden.

"Brother Hu, if I buy from Hangzhou Silk Bank, eighty taels is the lowest market, in fact, now I have no purchase channels at all, Brother Hu, you are willing to lend me raw silk on credit, it has already helped me a lot, I can't let you suffer in the price!" Ren Siqi said angrily. Although it is said that he has the grace to save his life in Hu Deji, he can't let people suffer because he saved other people's lives, which is not the reason for doing business. Tianda's kindness is also time-sensitive, only interests can make everyone's relationship more intimate, in order to form a strong cooperative relationship, now Ren Siqi lacks such a relationship network.

"Xiaoyou, I didn't expect you to have a sea boat and have the courage to go to sea!" Liu Defu gave a thumbs up to Ren Siqi.

In Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, business was already very common. Although businessmen have no status, and they don't even have business status in Daming, who doesn't do business in Jiangnan Gaomen big families and small families?

In Ningbo, in Yinxian County, the most planted in the fields in the countryside is not rice, but mulberry trees, which are used to raise silkworms, and the silkworms are cocooned and then reeled and sold for money, and the big silk merchants buy raw silk or sell it to the maritime merchants to be transported to the Nanyang of the Japanese Kingdom, or simply weave silk into silk and sell it throughout the country.

The germ of capitalism that later generations said was born in Jiangnan, which shows the attitude of the people at that time towards business.

Liu Defu was a well-known gentry and merchant in Yin County, and his business naturally included raw silk and satin. He has two silk reeling workshops under his name, and produces hundreds of quintals of raw silk every year.

"My predecessors won the award, and I was forced to go to the sea to break out of the way. Are you interested in this overseas trade? Would you like to work with you? Ren Siqi asked tentatively. Liu Defu's strength far exceeds Hu Deji, if he can cooperate with Liu Defu, he will have a stable supply of goods in the future.