"You mean the Maori princess?" I suddenly remembered the words in the silent letter. Jing mentioned in her letter about the contact person of the Maori family on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Yurou nodded lightly, and then said slowly: "Today, someone came to my family's Chase Money Village to find me, saying that he was from the Wa Kingdom, hoping to arrange a meeting between their master and me and Brother Zhang through me, although this person did not say his name, but I know that this person is the owner of the best inn in Dengzhou - Windward Inn, Feng Er, this Feng Er is famous for his hospitality in Dengzhou, and he is extremely generous, although Dengzhou Mansion was very suspicious of his background at first, and also checked them several times, But then they all came to an end, according to the business world, it is said that Feng Er used 10,000 taels to settle the Dengzhou Mansion, and then Feng Er opened several inns in Dengzhou Mansion in a row, and also bought several fishing villages in Dengzhou to rebuild them into docks, and bought real estate everywhere in Dengzhou, all the industries he fancies will basically fall into his hands in the end, a few days ago I also fought with him for a restaurant near the school, and finally Uncle Li came forward and overwhelmed Feng Er's side. ”

"Hmm!" Li Guangzhong nodded and said with a smile: "Is there such a thing?" This Feng Er is also very good at things, and he knows that he can't mess with the Ling family in this area of Dengzhou, so he has never dared to compete with Yurou since he came, but a few days ago, he desperately wanted to buy a restaurant near the school, and I knew that this kid was not coming from the right way. ”

"Actually, I have already sent someone to check the details of Feng Er, and I am also very clear about his details and the back-end boss, but our Ling family and the other party's boss have always been well water and do not violate river water, and to be honest, his back-end boss also has a very tacit cooperative relationship with us, so I have always been reluctant to talk to Uncle Li about this." Yurou is no longer the gentle and graceful little woman at this time, but a wise business master, her response and disposal are extremely incompatible with her current age, you can't imagine that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl will know all about business secrets and deal with them easily.

Yurou is really amazing! This era is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger! I couldn't help but sigh.

Li Guangzhong on the side also looked at Yurou with wide eyes, his mouth opened wide, and he looked completely surprised, he probably didn't expect that this usually well-behaved and gentle woman was so sophisticated in business, and she was not inferior to men: "Your father is right, his two daughters are extremely powerful characters, I understand today, and in the future, I will have to rely on this old bone, but I will be cheaper than Ziyun!" ”

This dead old man, why are you pulling it on me again! Yurou and I, who understood what it meant, both blushed on our faces. Yurou also hurriedly avoided my gaze, and the image of the strong woman in the business world in my mind jumped back to the image of the little woman I was familiar with.

A girl is still a girl, no matter how capable she is or how terrifying she is, she is still a girl after all!

Yurou looked at me, and then continued: "Actually, the back-end boss of Feng Er's side is Li Dan, a maritime merchant who is now wandering in the Wa Kingdom, he now controls most of the routes from the entire Daming coast to the South Seas and even the Western Ocean, and most of the trade ships are controlled by him, whether it is the Wa Kingdom, the Chao-Xian or the Hongyi people, there is more or less Li Dan's shadow behind him, although because of the wanted by the imperial court, Li Dan has been staying in the Wa Kingdom, but this does not affect his control of the vast majority of the sea routes of the Ming Dynasty, The pirates and pirates on the routes to the West and the South Seas had to sell him a few faces. Therefore, most of the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty will have contact with Li Dan, and our Ling family also has two fleets in Ningbo and Guangzhou, mainly to transport porcelain and tea to Nanyang to trade with the local Hongyi, which is to greet Li Dan, of course, this is also indispensable to give him some sweetness, we will give Li Dan three components of income, and Li Dan will ensure the safety of our routes. ”

I rely on 30% of my income, and this protection fee is expensive enough! I looked helpless, this guy is really a shrewd businessman.

Brother Zhang may think that this income of 30% is indeed very high, but the merchants of Daming do not think so, you must know that the porcelain and tea are transferred to Nanyang, and then purchased spices and a large number of luxury goods from Nanyang back to Daming, this back and forth profit is simply unimaginable. This is also the reason why although the imperial court explicitly forbade the sea, there will still be a large number of merchants going to sea, and the imperial court's finances have been stretched thin in recent years, so it has gradually relaxed the trade at sea, and even set up government-run merchant ships to go to sea to trade, and private merchants to fight for interests. So up to now, the southeast coast has been very lively! ”

From Yurou's mouth, I seem to be able to see the bustling scene of the southeast coast, countless people sail for wealth, and embark on the road to a foreign country with their dreams of money. It's a lively time! I sighed in my heart, the China Sea in this era should not be as lifeless as the Qing Dynasty in later generations, and the merchants of the empire should still know how to obtain unprecedented wealth through the sea.

"But going to sea for trade will also encounter all kinds of problems, pirates and other hostile forces may threaten the safety of the shipping routes, so Li Dan can stand out from all the maritime merchants. Although he was like most merchants at first, only engaged in porcelain and tea business, but then I don't know what happened, he began to contact with the Hongyi in the South Seas, and began to smuggle some weapons, he began to sweep away the dissident forces on various routes by establishing his own armed forces and fleets, including the Japanese and Hongyi, all of which were defeated by him, and everyone was afraid of Li Dan's monopoly of sea routes at first, but Li Dan did not have the slightest idea of taking all the routes as his own. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty could still enter and exit the Nanyang route at the cost of 30% of their income, and they would never be harassed by pirates and some of their peers, while the merchant ships of the Hongyi and the Japanese had to deduct up to 50% of their cargo income. So gradually, Li Dan is not so fierce in everyone's mouths! ”

"Oh! Oh my God, I'm glad I didn't go to Japan, otherwise I would have lost a lot! Thank you, General Lee, for robbing me here! While wiping the sweat from her head, Reska sighed that the sea merchants of the Ming Dynasty were very terrifying.

Isn't this another Wang Zhi? Controlling the sea routes of the Ming Dynasty and operating a huge maritime empire, this is the Ming merchants of this era, compared to the so-called famous merchants of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, although they are not so famous, but they are really much more domineering.

It is also ridiculous to say that the sea power of the early Ming Empire was maintained by these maritime merchants who were wanted by the Ming Empire.

"If Wang Zhi hadn't been killed back then, the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty might have been even more prosperous now!" I can't help but sigh with emotion, speaking of Wang Zhi is also a famous figure in my time, he is the predecessor of this Li Dan, but more famous than Li Dan, there are many arguments about him, some people say that he works for the Japanese Kou, some say that the Japanese work for him, but the only thing that no one doubts is that he once controlled the entire sea route of the Ming Dynasty, monopolized the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty, is a veritable sea god king, and he also established his own base in Kyushu, Japan, With a large trading fleet and armed fleet, it is the most powerful maritime power in the entire East Asian region.

But he had a speechless ending, with the idea of using his own strength to provide maritime support for the Ming Dynasty to return to the motherland, willing to be surrendered by Hu Zongxian, but because of the treachery of the imperial court, the result was caused by the ten years of chaos on the southeast coast and the collapse of the Ming maritime trade routes, and Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal successfully took advantage of the chaos to mix into the course of the Ming Dynasty, fortunately, after so many years of efforts by the Ming maritime merchants, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty finally regained control of this waters, Although the imperial court was still as hostile as before, to these merchants who were born and died for the Ming sea route.

"Although because of Wang Zhi's experience, Li Dan has a very skeptical attitude towards the imperial court, but he, like Wang Zhi, still has a certain affection for the Ming Dynasty, so he still has a lot of affection for the Ming merchants, many Ming maritime merchants encounter disputes, the first time to find him to mediate, and he seems to be happy to protect the interests of the Ming merchants, so, from beginning to end, the fleets of the Wa Kingdom, Hongyi and Chao-Xian can not compete with the Ming merchants on Li Dan's route." Yurou looked at me and seemed very surprised that I could understand Li Dan, after all, in this era, the vast majority of court officials and the people of the Ming Dynasty must have the same prejudice against these merchants as Li Guangzhong, but it is obvious that I don't.

Of course not! I sighed, five hundred years later, the Chinese have realized what is the significance of the sea to this ancient country? The significance of the ocean to a country has been obvious in later generations, look at the rising powers in modern times, that is not a maritime power, if I don't know anything about the ocean, my history is in vain.

"Yurou, what evidence do you have for saying that? Is this Li Dan really as you said? Li Guangzhong still kept an eye on it, out of instinct, he had a natural distrust of these merchants, especially those at sea, and besides, the Japanese had just attacked Dengzhou.

"Don't worry, father-in-law! I can guarantee that Li Dan has no ill will towards us! This can be seen from Li Dan's attitude towards our Ling family, every time our fleet goes to sea, Li Dan personally sends people to contact our fleet and escort all the way, although every time we charge our protection fee according to the income of 30%, but often after arriving in Hong Kong, they will deposit 10% of it in our money bank in various names. It is impossible for Li Dan not to know what my relationship is with Dengzhou Wei, and he must know that his father used to be the commander of Dengzhou Wei! So by doing this, he was courting us to see if there was a possibility of working with us! This time Brother Zhang came to Dengzhou, presumably Li Dan also knew, he asked Feng Er to buy a restaurant near the school, that is, he wanted to see Brother Zhang's strength and explore our bottom! Yu Ruo's analysis was the first to say, and Li Guangzhong and I nodded again and again.

"Makes sense!" Li Guangzhong stroked his beard, at this time, he was completely like a layman, listening to Yuruo analyzing the minds of those businessmen for him.

"This time Brother Zhang's dark island battle shook Dengzhou, and the performance of the Shenji Battalion will definitely attract Li Dan's attention, and this time Brother Zhang also caught the princess of the so-called Maori family on the island, and the Wa Kingdom will definitely not sit idly by, they will definitely find a way to come here to ask for people, and through Li Dan is the best choice! Li Dan himself will definitely make contact with us by coming here to change people this time! Yurou looked at me as she spoke, but her eyes were full of admiration for me, what she didn't know was that the three men in this hall, including me, were now throwing themselves to the ground with the five bodies that she had admired.

"Yurou, I still don't understand, what does this Li Dan have to do with this money after you talked about it for a long time? Do you want Li Dan to pay us? ”

Li Guangzhong looked at Yurou, it seems that business idiots and business geniuses have no common language.

Yurou shook her head with a smile and said: "It is basically impossible to ask Li Dan to give us money, one is that he doesn't believe in us very much, and the other is that this has no interests for Li Dan, for a businessman, interests are everything." But we can cooperate with Li Dan, this time he sent Feng Er to contact us, which shows that he wants to cooperate with us, and he still attaches great importance to it! ”

A business genius is a business genius! Now I understand how important a good business genius is to others, and if I want to build a strong army, I must have money, and with Yurou, a business genius, I am much more relieved.

"Although Li Dan now has huge maritime assets, but his trade routes can only be concentrated on the sea but there is no way to extend to the inland of Daming, so Li Dan's current strength has reached the peak that he can reach, his weapons, his spices, and many of his overseas trade goods cannot be imported into Daming, and similarly, he can't get more tea, silk fabrics and porcelain from Daming to Nanyang, so he tried his best to send people to open casinos and inns in Daming. In order to find more channels to expand trade from Daming! ”

Although Li Guangzhong's face was confused, but Resca and I obviously understood what Yuruo meant, although Li Dan had a huge fleet and numerous maritime trade routes, but the policy of the Ming Dynasty and his identity doomed him to not be able to continue to expand the scale of his trade, the reason is very simple, although the trade goods of the Ming Dynasty Nanyang have a large trade gap, but it is impossible for the merchants in the mainland to transport a large number of goods to Li Dan who is still in the name of pirates, and similarly, Li Dan can obviously use a huge fleet to transport spices and various luxury goods back to the Ming Dynasty, But no one dared to collect so much smuggled goods.

I seem to have understood what Yuruo meant, and I have to say that Yuruo is a genius both in terms of people and business operations.

"Yuruo, you're amazing!" I immediately let out a heartfelt admiration.

"Miss Ling, if you were born in Europe, I think all the businessmen there would kneel in front of you!" Reska also began to praise again and again, he is a European, and he will not be stingy with his praise for businessmen, especially such a good businessman.

Yurou laughed embarrassedly, and a crimson immediately flew up her cheeks, I really knelt down, Ling Yun is such a lewd old man, there are two genius daughters, one is proficient in military affairs and the other is proficient in business, God, this is simply a heavenly reason!

"Do you all understand?" As far as Li Guangzhong is concerned, he basically has no concept of trade, especially this kind of international trade, and it is estimated that he will not even understand what kind of trade law and what kind of cooperation law there is.

After I nodded tacitly with Reska, Li Guangzhong's whole old face immediately turned green, and he looked at Yurou, not knowing what she just said.

In line with the responsibility of popularizing the knowledge of science and commerce for this ancient person in front of me, I began to explain: "Every merchant wants to make more money, although Li Dan now has a huge trading fleet and controls many trade routes, but the scale of his trade is limited because of the imperial court, because he is a wanted criminal, so it is impossible for him to buy more goods in Daming, even if he buys enough goods, those goods he purchased in Nanyang cannot enter Daming, that is, although he is a merchant of Daming, But he couldn't grasp the huge market of Daming. ”

"Uh-huh!" Li Guangzhong nodded as if he didn't understand, and then continued to look at me, hoping that I could continue to explain to him.

"Therefore, Li Dan needs a supplier and a sales merchant who can freely buy and sell goods in Daming, this person must have the background of the government, be able to bypass some restrictions set by the imperial court, and must have enough strength to expand commercial activities in the entire Daming!" I looked at Li Guangzhong with an incredible face, and then pointed at Yurou and said with a smile: "This person is Yurou!" ”

Li Guangzhong looked at Yurou in surprise, his brain at this time was probably stopped by these business problems.

"If we cooperate with Li Dan, then we can get enough funds from Li Dan to open up more markets in the interior of Daming and expand the scale of our goods, we can sell our silk, porcelain and other materials to Nanyang through Li Dan's fleet, and then get more goods from Nanyang to return to China to trade and obtain more funds. Then the cycle keeps going on and on, so that we can have more assets, and naturally we can provide more money to Brother Zhang's Shenji Battalion! Yurou said with a smile, it seems that the reason why this girl thought of this trick was to raise enough military funds for me.

"And Li Dan has a lot of dealings with Hongyi, and often sells arms, we can use him to find newer muskets and artillery overseas, and even recruit Western craftsmen with certain abilities, and at the same time, he also has a huge fleet, which is also helpful for Uncle Li's ideal of forming a huge fleet!" Yurou's analysis has convinced me and Reska completely, and for the two of us business aholics and navy maniacs, Yurou is simply genius.

"I'm convinced, Miss Ling! You are simply a business genius, and even a hundred merchants in our country are no match for you! Reska said with a thumbs up.

"Actually, it's not that hard to do business! It's about seeing what you don't need and what others need, and then finding a way to sell these things to others! Yurou said lightly, I almost knelt down immediately, this little girl said it easily. Who can do it?

However, Yu Ruo's words still made me feel that there was an extremely terrifying thing behind her idea, if she really cooperated with Li Dan and took advantage of Daming's rich material advantages, would these two people control the entire Southeast Asian market! Although what Yu Rou said was very light, she could come up with such a big plan......

Yurou is really too godly!

"If my father-in-law and Brother Zhang have no opinions, I want Feng Er to come here to meet with Brother Zhang, probe their tone first, and then we will talk to Li Dan about the conditions.

"No opinion, no opinion at all!" Li Guangzhong was already smiling very brightly at this time, I naturally would definitely not have any opinions, I was still worried about military expenses, but now even if the court doesn't give money, it's fine!

"Then it's decided! Oh! The snacks are ready, I'll have them served! Yurou smiled happily, probably because she helped us solve a big problem and made her feel much better.

Looking at Yurou's cheerful expression, there were only six words left in my mind.

Genius Business Girl!