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Although the scenery of Lianzhou is not much, there is no strong affection of the water town of Suzhou and Hangzhou, and there is no atmosphere of the Beijing division, but it is better than the lively, and the atmosphere is more open, because the people gathered here are mostly young people, it is a city out of thin air, so it seems more vibrant, the next morning of arriving in Lianzhou, Liu Chengfeng took his family out to hang out, and went to the beauty workshop of Lianzhou, but the scale of the beauty workshop in Lianzhou is more than ten times larger than that of the Beijing division. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info occupies half of the Inner East City, which not only has a variety of female surnames, but also high-grade and inferior rouge, headdresses, and clothing, and even nunnery.

Lianzhou is not better than the Beijing Division, the women here are more in the workshop to work, the female surname has the economic ability, the status has naturally improved a lot, so the consumption capacity has also increased significantly, in the Beijing Division, the main customers of the Beauty Fang are some rich daughters or wives, but here, there are also a lot of familiar female workers, so although there is no richness of the Beijing Beauty Workshop, the goods peddled in the shop are not the best of the Beijing Division, good goods, bad goods are filled with it, but because of the flow of people, Liu Chengfeng is under the archway of the Beauty Fang, Seeing the endless flow of people, I couldn't help but be staggered.

The family members entered the workshop, Liu Chengfeng could only wait outside, and the rule of the beauty workshop was to avoid the appearance of a man, even if he was a prince.

Liu Chengfeng led a group of guards, dressed in civilian clothes, wandering the streets, but also in high spirits, and when it was noon, he set off to eat tea in a Ruyi tea shop not far from the beauty square.

The reason for coming here is that it has been agreed a long time ago, the big shopkeeper of Jubao Commercial Bank has been waiting here for a long time, and Liu Chengfeng needs to discuss the affairs of the trading house with him here.

Although Jubao Commercial Bank is also a tool for collecting money in the palace, the whole company is also extremely respectful to Liu Chengfeng, the major shareholder, and Liu Chengfeng's influence is very great, and he can even influence the resolution of the shareholder bureau, so this big shopkeeper saw Liu Chengfeng and groveled.

Liu Chengfeng came here to discuss three things with the trading house, which he had already thought about before, the first thing was to ask the trading house to attribute all the rights of the leased land and overseas ports to the Chu State, and from then on, these lands would be included in the territory of the Chu State.

The second is to transfer the loans of Annan and Zhenla to the name of Chu, and Chu will repay the debts of these two countries, which means that the future debts of these two countries will be wrapped to Chu, and Chu will collect debts in the future.

The third thing is the most important, Liu Chengfeng asked the firm to hand over the right to guard the firm, and the state of Chu was responsible for its trade security.

The first one is a little tricky, this big shopkeeper seems to be a little difficult, after all, the transfer of land, although His Royal Highness opened the price, but the price is a little low, this matter has to go through the shareholders' bureau to get an idea. However, the second thing is that the comptoir is strongly in favor of it, what the comptoir wants is to make money, and it is best for Annan and Zhenla's debts to be paid for them, and it is naturally not a bad thing to transfer the debts.

And the third one is a bit fatal, the protection rights of the Jubao Firms are all lost, which means that 100,000 escorts and hundreds of frigates and ships of all sizes will be stripped out of the firms, and the so-called Chu State is responsible for the safety of the firms, in fact, these people are all assigned to the name of the Chu State, and the guards have become the king's division, and they have become the military horses of the Chu State.

However, since Liu Chengfeng made this request, he was naturally not afraid that the shopkeeper would not agree, especially the third request put forward by Liu Chengfeng, most of the 100,000 guards were people placed by Liu Chengfeng, and half of the backbone of the guards were Liu Chengfeng's cronies, and the guards were all started by Liu Chengfeng from recruitment to preparation, so within the escort team, as long as Liu Chengfeng was willing to accept them, these people would never have the slightest criticism, after all, for them, whether it was in the business house or in the Chu State, In fact, they are all subordinates of Liu Chengfeng, the former is under the orders of Liu Chengfeng's shareholders who have a huge influence, and the latter is directly under the orders of the Chu royal court, but their identities have changed, the king of Chu has always taken care of them, and now they are considered mercenaries to become Wang Jun, and the future is only limitless.

The second is the shareholder bureau, Liu Chengfeng has sent a letter to the Zhang brothers and Cheng Guogong, these people and Liu Chengfeng are wearing a pair of pants, without Liu Chengfeng's support, they can't make money, and Liu Chengfeng is in control of the import and export of the important place, if you really disobey Liu Chengfeng's will, Liu Chengfeng will write an edict, you can drum up a caravan in Chu State and compete with Jubao Firm, Chu State occupies the geographical advantage, all ships have to go from here, as long as everyone still wants to earn silver, but also want to be drunk and dream of death, It is inseparable from him.

The escort team is not opposed, and the shareholder bureau must not be a stumbling block, so the next thing is the question of status, and it must be approved by the palace, which Liu Chengfeng has also thought of, fortunately, the first emperor has an edict before his death, ordering Liu Chengfeng to guard Nanyang, which means that all the military, political and foreign affairs in Nanyang are handed over to Liu Chengfeng, and there is no reason why the armed ships and guards running in the sea should not be handed over to Liu Chengfeng's jurisdiction, and the emperor must take care of himself a lot, and he will definitely not interfere.

Liu Chengfeng put forward these conditions, full of confidence, but the big shopkeeper hesitated for a while, but in the end he smiled at Liu Chengfeng and said: "All the things Your Highness mentioned, the villain must report to the Stock Bureau quickly, as long as there is no objection from the Stock Bureau, there is naturally no problem." ”

Liu Chengfeng nodded and said with a slight smile: "The main business of the commercial bank is in the Chu State, so after a while, it will be said that the Chu State will establish a customs bureau to take charge of the entry and exit of maritime trade. ”

Liu Chengfeng's words surprised the big shopkeeper again, what kind of customs bureau is clearly used to supervise the trading house, this commercial house was set up by His Royal Highness the King of Chu back then, but now it is holding a noose, and it seems that there is a plan to completely control it.

Liu Chengfeng was already standing up at this time, and said: "This matter, this king just informed you, and this king also knows that you can't be the master, you go and say hello to the shareholders bureau." ”

Then Liu Chengfeng went downstairs, the weather here in Lianzhou was humid and hot, so Liu Chengfeng wore a sassy gown, walked around the street, and saw that the ladies had not come out, so he sent the girl in to call, who knew that the girl came out, but he replied that the ladies were only afraid of delaying for a while, if they had something to do, they could go back first.

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile bitterly, thinking that this must be the idea of Duoduo's little girl, only this girl is the most playful, after thinking about it, Liu Chengfeng refused, and waited until the moon set in the West Mountain, saw a few people come out, and went back with them.

These few days Lianzhou is very lively, the news of the opening of the examination for officials came out, immediately caused an uproar, the major newspapers are now publicizing, nothing more than to say that the officials of the Chu State and the officials of the Ming Dynasty are different, to put it bluntly, the officials of the Chu State not only have salaries, and the salaries are not low, and the standards of natural requirements are also high, not only that, the officials of the Chu State have the incomparable advantages of the small officials of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the officials who open the examination belong to the reserve team of future officials, as long as they are willing to stay in it, maybe they can be the secretary in the next step, and even be the main bookkeeper, It is not impossible for the warden or even the magistrate to enter the center of the Chu State.

In fact, many things, after the newspaper momentum, many people will understand, Lianzhou here is not many real readers, but those who can read and hyphenate are still a lot, after all, here is rich, plus there are many schools, many people have read some books, and even some people are literate while working, and literate people can increase their income here a lot, and increase their enthusiasm for reading, so if it is based on learning alone, the Ming Dynasty is a lifting person, I am afraid that it is enough to kill all the readers in Chu State, but to talk about the literacy rate, The Ming Dynasty was far inferior to Lianzhou.

People who can read and write are not considered readers, but now that there is an opportunity for exams, many people have also moved their minds, according to the meaning of the newspaper, as long as they can be hired, there is an income of two or three taels of silver every year, and with the increase of qualifications and positions, it can continue to rise, so to speak, this is really a good place to go.

The newspaper also announced the general content of the exam, so for a while, the newly formulated "Chu Law" and arithmetic books were sold out immediately, this Chu law is evolved according to the Ming law, and then according to the actual situation of Lianzhou, some modifications have been made, in fact, there have been some unspoken rules in Lianzhou over the years, and it has its own set of management methods, but after the establishment of the Chu State, these things have been written into the law in a grand manner.

The booksellers are obviously also cooperative, and soon printed out many volumes, this Chu country, many people who have read books, and are not very satisfied with the current work of people actually picked up the law and arithmetic and even the four books and five classics one by one, and they have picked up the lamp and battle, this time the exam gave them not much time to prepare, and the exam will start in half a month, which is divided into liberal arts and martial arts. Instead, the training is carried out in these two schools for three months, and then officially entered the post, and the liberal arts are all in the various yamen to do some paperwork, transcription, or registration and other work, and after the training of the martial arts, they are responsible for patrolling and arresting murderers, or port inspection.

However, some people scoff at this, after all, the official has been despised for thousands of years, and now even being a small official has to take the exam, which is really a bit like a farce, and it is said that this news has also been in the newspaper of the Beijing Division, and it has become a joke for a while, causing the gentry to make fun of it.

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(To be continued)