Under Song Meiren's resentful pleading, Zhu Daolin, who had planned to return to his parents' house, had to stay, but he was secretly glad that he didn't tell anyone when he came back this time, otherwise he really didn't know how to arrange it.

After dinner, the two returned to the warm world upstairs, snuggling up to each other and whispering.

I don't know if it was because the small basket of jade was too valuable, or for some other reason, Song Shaojun was very excited all night, making Zhu Daolin lost in her endless lingering and couldn't extricate himself.

By the time Zhu Daolin woke up, it was already nine o'clock in the morning the next day.

Although the beauties around him were still sleeping sweetly, Zhu Daolin, who had a lot of affairs, had to get up, wash up, leave a note for Song Shaojun and leave quietly.

Zhu Daolin's hurried return was not for weapons and equipment, but for the sake of 3,000 military tents, 20,000 cotton coats, 20,000 pairs of winter suede protective shoes, and 50,000 pairs of cotton velvet leather labor protection gloves that Lu Jianmin had been entrusted to purchase.

The Jiaodong Peninsula in the Xiaoice River period is even worse than Zhu Daolin imagined.

Although all units of the army had already distributed antifreeze cream made with oil, camphor, and borneol in the Ziyang Guannei Pharmacy before departure, many officers and men were still so cold that their lips cracked and their hands and feet were frostbitten.

In addition, Zhu Daolin also had to buy a batch of toffee and distribute it to his soldiers.

Chewing a few pieces of sugar every day to replenish calories is very good for people, no matter how other armies survive the cold winter of the Xiaoice River period, Zhu Daolin must find ways to make his soldiers live better, and when the enemy cannot move or has difficulty moving in the cold climate, his own soldiers can still run and fight is victory.

Zhu Daolin spent more than five hours running two sugar wholesale companies and a private sugar and liquor wholesale store in a row. Finally, I successfully bought 22 tons of White Rabbit toffee.

The three companies successively sent 22 tons of toffee to Zhu Daolin's Heshan villa, brought stevedores to move boxes of toffee into Zhu Daolin's villa, and gave Zhu Daolin a lot of promotional gifts and wall calendars, hoping to continue to keep in touch with Zhu Daolin, who was rich and wealthy.

It was already evening after harvesting a few batches of toffee.

Zhu Daolin, who was ashamed, did not dare to go back to his parents' house to face Chu Mei, knowing that Chu Mei had already printed 25 kinds of tens of thousands of traditional children's books edited for him, and entrusted Liang Cheng to purchase the Taiwan edition of astronomy, navigation, glass manufacturing technology, plant cultivation technology, the design and manufacturing technology of the world's classic sail warships from the 16th to the 19th centuries, the design and manufacturing technology of Chinese and foreign ceramics, and so on. A total of more than 100 kinds of more than 3,000 sets of professional and technical books and albums have been stored in the warehouse, but Zhu Daolin never dared to call.

After nightfall, Zhu Daolin returned to Song Shaojun's Zhongshan villa as promised to negotiate the jade transaction.

Song Shaojun decided to ship slowly this time, send it to Hong Kong in batches and quietly transfer it to a few powerful old customers, or public auction, she excitedly told Zhu Daolin that this batch of jadeite is all rare and high-quality, even if the smallest piece of jadeite is about 800 grams. It is also worth more than HK$100 million, so you need to be cautious.

Due to the trading of precious wood and medicinal materials, Zhu Daolin is not short of money at present, and is naturally willing to slowly sell to obtain higher income, but Zhu Daolin still avoids contact with other people in the Song family on the grounds that it is difficult to receive high-quality antique calligraphy and paintings, so he does not hesitate to give up the temptation to buy 30 tons of silver, and would rather go back and accumulate slowly. He also didn't want to cooperate with Song Shaojun's uncle anymore.

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Two days later, Zhu Daolin spent the evening with Song Shaojun, who begged Yin Yin to stay by his side. During the day, I drove to visit Boss Yu who supplied ceramics, Manager Li who supplied copper, Boss Lin who supplied tea, Aunt Gao who supplied silk, Professor Li who provided Chinese patent medicine pharmaceutical equipment for himself, and others to summarize this year's contract and complete all the settlements, and finalize next year's business item by item.

To Zhu Daolin's delight, Manager Li of the Provincial Metal Company called him on the morning of the third day, saying that his father-in-law urgently needed two decent rosewood gifts before the Spring Festival, and Zhu Daolin happily agreed.

Manager Li immediately reciprocated. said that he personally checked the inventory and was able to provide Zhu Daolin with 27 tons of 0.1~3×50~250mm copper strips, and also promised that as long as Zhu Daolin needed it, he could provide no less than 30 tons of high-quality copper strips every month.

Zhu Daolin was very excited, this is an important material for the manufacture of copper fire caps for single-shot rifle bullets and copper coating on the bottom of battleships to increase speed and reduce the corrosion of marine organisms. Immediately ask if you can buy it now? Manager Li said that it can be done at any time, and if it is a long-term purchase, you need to sign a contract to transfer the goods.

Zhu Daolin didn't say a word, and immediately rushed to Manager Li's company to invoice and transfer money, and then signed a purchase contract of 5 specifications and 40 tons per month, and then transported 27 tons of 0.5~2×250mm brass strip back to the printing company's warehouse in the northern suburbs of Qixia.

On the morning of the fourth day, Zhu Daolin finally said goodbye to Song Shaojun, who was like glue, drove to the warehouse of the printing company in the northern suburbs of Qixia, took out six bills of lading listing agricultural tools, logging tools and five kinds of bearings and handed them to Lu Jianmin, explaining that he wanted to count the inventory of goods, so that all the inventory goods could be transported away, and he would no longer occupy the company's warehouse in the future.

Lu Jianmin had long been accustomed to Zhu Daolin's style of doing things, and after carefully reading the goods on the bill of lading and the place of pick-up, he immediately took two custodians and drove out.

Zhu Daolin closed the gate and took only half an hour to "pick up" all the goods that belonged to him, including 240 artillery wagons covered with canvas under the courtyard wall, 300 tons of copper in 16 containers, and 27 tons of brass belts purchased yesterday afternoon.

After inspecting and seeing that there was nothing missing, Zhu Daolin closed the door of the warehouse, drove back to the Heshan villa, sorted out the various commodities that Lu Jianmin had purchased as planned for more than a month, and included them in the King Kong circle one by one, making room to wait for Lu Jianmin and others to transport back various tools and bearings and other raw materials.

It was late at night, Zhu Daolin printed the fragrance, capacity, packaging and other information of 12 kinds of perfumes on the Internet into a book, and discussed the number of orders with Lu Jianmin, who had been busy with him for most of the day, and finally selected three large-scale manufacturers along the coast of Zhejiang Province, and Lu Jianmin was responsible for contacting and signing a one-year customized contract.

After sending the diligent Lu Jianmin away, Zhu Daolin quickly tidied up the room, put on a stab-proof vest and heavy warm clothing, and went downstairs to the living room to put all the tools and spare parts transported during the day into the gold steel ring, and then mustered up the courage to call Chu Mei and her parents to report their safety.

Zhu Daolin explained that he came back in a hurry this time, and he had to go on a business trip early tomorrow morning, and he would come back after New Year's Day, so that Chu Mei and his father and mother should not worry. (To be continued.) )