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Liu Ji in the study looked a little depressed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info that Hengyuan firm is indeed his industry, since the beginning of commerce, he ordered people to operate secretly, with his connections and huge principal, has now become one of the world's top two business houses.

In fact, with the rise of commerce and trade, many court officials gradually turned from hoarding land to secretly investing in commerce, and the Ming Dynasty has already quietly changed, and a considerable number of people have changed from landlords to giants.

Although businessmen are lowly industries, it is not how those ministers who are secretly engaged in business like to chase the smell of copper, in fact, it is also a kind of helplessness to do so.

The rise of commerce, in fact, has completely broken the interests of the landlords, especially after the rise of the workshops, due to a large number of artificial attracted to the city, which led to a great problem, originally in the countryside, human resources are extremely abundant, landlords can at any time with the cheapest price to make tenants work for them. However, once the tenants had a choice, they would naturally pour into the city to work, so the problem arose, the landlords could not offer better treatment than the workshops, so in the countryside, a large number of strong laborers poured into the cities, that is, those old, weak, sick and disabled, in order to keep these people, so that their land would not be barren, resulting in the landlords having to repeatedly improve the treatment of tenants.

The problem is that the profits of the workshops are often much higher than the profits of the land, and the workshops can give better treatment to the craftsmen and apprentices, while at the same time ensuring that the workshop owners are very profitable. But for the landlord, it is a little difficult. For example, compared with a landlord who recruited 300 craftsmen and apprentices, the workshop could make a profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, while the landlord's annual profit was only 5,000 to 6,000 taels of silver.

Nowadays, it is not the same as in the past, due to the continuous rise of artificiality, so that the squires began to be unsustainable, so many squires in keeping their own land, but also began to take out money to carry out some commercial activities, tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, for them, land is fundamental, but the current situation, if it is only a simple annexation of land, it is difficult to maintain. Of course, there were also some squires who were inseparable from commerce, such as landlords, who began to change their land from growing grain to growing mulberry and tea, and in such a tight situation, it was indeed better to grow these crops than to simply grow rice, but this crop was closely related to commerce, they were both landlords and merchants, and after the harvest, they had to negotiate with the merchants who bought raw silk and tea.

Today's situation is very different from three or four years ago, those ministers who spontaneously rejected commerce and trade, and now they have joined one of them, and the development of commerce and trade can be said to be closely related to them, so even if the market has been shaken, a large number of craftsmen and apprentices have been abolished, adding great trouble to the imperial court, but no one blames this matter on commerce, they despise merchants at the same time, but they have to make profits from commerce, this complex psychology, and a new doctrine has emerged, to put it bluntly, It is to tolerate the existence of commerce, but strongly oppose the stinky merchants, although they are actually one of the merchants.

This kind of doctrine, to put it bluntly, is actually anti-corrupt officials and not anti-emperor, commerce and trade must exist, everyone depends on it for food, but businessmen must be criticized.

The same is true for Liu Ji, on the one hand, he has a great hatred for Liu Chengfeng, who set off the tide of commerce, but he can't help but be tempted in front of huge profits, but this does not mean that he will have any good feelings towards Liu Chengfeng.

At this time, his face was very unfathomable, the eunuch named Wang An was recommended to sell the news to his Hengyuan firm, and Hengyuan firm took advantage of this opportunity to earn a million taels of silver overnight It is just a matter of effort, you know, now the bulk commodity trading has begun to mature, the seller's goods are hoarded in the warehouse, as long as the other party pays, the two sides sign the documents, and the ownership of the goods in the warehouse is delivered, and there is no need to put the goods out at all, these goods are already the buyer's, As for what the buyer wants to do with these goods, whether to keep them in the warehouse or transfer them out to sell them is the buyer's own business, and the only thing the buyer has to do is to pay some rent to the owners of those warehouses on time.

This is also the reason why Hengyuan Commercial Bank was able to acquire such a large amount of goods overnight, if it was the kind of transaction method in the past, such a large transaction, I am afraid that there will be no months of effort, and I will not want to complete it.

The money is earned, but for Liu Ji, this is not enough, he never imagined that Liu Chengfeng actually rushed back at this time, and Liu Ji already had a premonition that Liu Chengfeng would come back this time, and he would definitely go to the next level, and at that time, the two sides were finally ready to tear their faces.

Liu Ji couldn't help gritting his teeth and snorted coldly, a few years ago, he would never have imagined that when he was old, his opponent was just a stinky kid, but with his respect as a scholar, he had no way to deal with this kid.

He closed his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said to the principal: "That Wang An, if you want to continue to contact, if there is any movement in the harem, or let him do something, just tell him directly." ”

The principal was shocked for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that this person won't." ”

"Won't?" Liu Ji smiled and said lightly: "He will be willing, otherwise once the fact that he came out to sell silver with such important news is revealed, will he still be alive?" Besides, this man is greedy for money, and in the future, he will give him a small profit, and he will have to listen to us obediently. This person is very useful, and if he uses it well, he can save the old man a lot of things. ”

The chief listened, and hurriedly said, "The master is wise." ”

Liu Ji sighed, waved his hand, and said, "There is no need for flattery, speaking of which, the old man's health has not been as good as before in recent days." Hey, internal and external troubles, then Liu Chengfeng came back only for fear of being aggressive. ”

The principal couldn't help but say: "Master, that Liu Chengfeng is really so terrible, why doesn't the master and his well water not violate the river water, and they are all safe?" ”

The reason why the principal proposed this is actually to plan for Liu Ji, after all, Liu Ji is too old, to put it bluntly, he doesn't have a few years to live, so why bother with a Jinyi guard commander and envoy?

Liu Ji made a straight face and said, "What do you know, the old man is planning for the future, hehe...... The old man is halfway back into the cabinet, it is the interests of Liu Jian and these people who are affected, don't you know that there is a saying that people go to the tea and cool, and when the old man really drives the crane to the west, there are people who fall into the well, and the old man is just that, this life is glorious and rich, no one can move, but what about the descendants of the future? At that time, I am afraid that everyone will have to rectify the Liu family, and the old man will take advantage of this lifetime to overthrow Liu Jian and others, and this Liu Chengfeng is the biggest obstacle, this man is scheming, and he is eye-to-eyed with Liu Jian and others, if he is not removed, where is it so easy to clean up Liu Jian and these people. ”

Liu Ji's words really made this main thing a little bit unturned.

This Liu Ji continued: "Not to mention, Liu Chengfeng has repeatedly insulted me, this revenge is not avenged, how can the old man be blind, you go down, do what the old man tells me." ”

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Datong, a team of people arrived at the pass, the local garrison personally opened the city gate, brought out a team of military horses to meet, the origin of the people is really not small, it is a month ago out of the customs Liu Chengfeng, no one ever thought that this guy actually came back, and it was back unharmed, Liu Chengfeng was in Xuanfu, I don't know how many people were cleaned up, how much bloody rain was provoked, in this Xuanfu, so far there is still some lingering palpitations about this guy, now this guy comes back from the desert, Datong here, naturally no one dares to slacken, All the officials from top to bottom came to salute.

Liu Chengfeng was sitting in the carriage, and he was physically and mentally exhausted at this time, so he just asked Qian Fang to negotiate with these officials, saying that he was tired from the journey and it was inconvenient to see each other, and no one got out of the car, so he went directly into the customs.

Guannai and the desert are really two worlds, Liu Chengfeng sat in the car, gently lifted the corner of the curtain, and saw the streets of Datong moving backwards from the side of the carriage, and sighed in his heart.

When the woman controlled the Monan Zhubu, Liu Chengfeng already knew that he couldn't stay in the desert, and the affairs of the people of the tile spur were left to the tile spur to solve, and in fact, the woman didn't want Liu Chengfeng to return to Beijing immediately, because Liu Chengfeng stayed for a long time, not only would it give the Khan court the pretext of colluding with the Han people, but at the same time, Liu Chengfeng was too elusive, and even Li Ruofan knew in his heart how difficult it was to control such a man, so she quickly agreed to Liu Chengfeng's request to return to China.

Liu Chengfeng in the carriage leaned comfortably on the carriage, still recalling a scene in his mind, on the night of departure, a strong wind blew in the grassland, he slept in the tent, heard the cold wind outside calling, and had no intention of sleeping.

When did it happen, Liu Chengfeng didn't know, only knew that the curtain was lifted, and the vicious woman came in, smiling with a smile, she was really beautiful and moving to the extreme, so far Liu Chengfeng recalled, are a little thrilling, perhaps, only such a scheming woman will have such a moving beauty, just as goblins and spirits are always incarnated into stunning beauties.

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(To be continued)