In the Li Manor in Jinzhou, Li Yijian looked at the account book in his hand, and laughed while looking at it, so that Mrs. Li beside him was not angry and said: "Looking at the account and laughing like this, isn't it just to make a few bucks!" ”

Li Yijian put down the account book, and then put on a straight face and said: "A few dollars, do you know how much net profit we made last month?" ”

Li Yijian raised two fingers as he spoke: "Twenty thousand taels, a full twenty thousand taels, more than our income in the first half of the year before last!" ”

Mrs. Li was also from a wealthy family, and when she heard that her husband was fussing about 20,000 taels of silver, she couldn't help but complain again: "Isn't it just 20,000 taels of silver, and it's not much!" ”

Hearing that he had worked hard and earned 20,000 taels of silver, Li Yijian was suddenly angry: "20,000 taels a month, how much is it in a year?" That is 240,000 taels of silver, if this momentum continues, it will not take three years for our Li family to be the first cloth in the three eastern provinces! ”

However, Mrs. Li still didn't react much: "Oh, isn't it just hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, look at you like this!" ”

Born in a rich family, and after marrying into the Li family, the Li family is also a rich family, so she really has no concept of money, and there is not much difference between 20,000 taels and 200,000 taels for her.

Li Yijian looked at his wife as if he regarded money as dung, he was angry and stood up directly, he had to find someone to compliment his business success in the past few years!

But just as he was about to get up, his slightly chubby eldest son Li Ziquan walked in, and after saluting first, Li Ziquan walked to his father and said: "Father, Mr. Chen of Jinju Commercial Bank, Feng Shopkeeper of Baoxin Foreign Bank and Master Pan of the Pan family are already on the way, and it is estimated that they will arrive at the main gate later!" ”

Li Yijian said: "Oh, go, go out to pick up people with your father!" ”

So he went out with Li Ziquan without looking back, leaving Mrs. Li there, although Mrs. Li knew that the father and son were going out to do business, she was still a little dissatisfied, and muttered to herself: I think about making money every day, and I don't care about my family!

When she said that, she couldn't help but think about her baby daughter Li Wan again, she is nineteen years old this year, and it will be too late if she doesn't get married, thinking of Li Wan naturally can't help but think of Zhao Dongyun and complain about him, as a mother, she has long known that her daughter is in love with that Zhao Dongyun.

This Zhao Dongyun does not mention his knowledge, talent and other conditions, just because he is the youngest feudal minister in the country today, it is enough to make Mrs. Li extremely satisfied, if his daughter can marry him, whether it is Mrs. Li, it is estimated that she will be able to wake up with a smile in her dreams.

But the problem is that Zhao Dongyun has become a relative, so Zhao Dongyun's wife Fang Ruolian is staying in the South Courtyard at the moment, and China has been monogamous since ancient times, since Zhao Dongyun has already married, there is naturally no place for Li Wan, unless Zhao Dongyun marries her as a concubine.

As for the flat wives mentioned in those novels, although they also existed in the Qing Dynasty, they could only marry flat wives when they needed to have a concurrent wife, that is to say, your uncle had no descendants, and you needed to be responsible for the succession and vaccination tasks of multiple houses, so you could marry a flat wife with one househead, except for this special condition, there was no other flat wife recognized by law.

The flat wife mentioned in this novel generally refers to the 'outer room', that is, the concubine who is kept outside.

And the status of the concubine naturally needs not be said more!

Although the Li family is not a prominent nobleman, it is also a family that has been inherited for a hundred years, although there have been no children in recent years, but no matter how it is said, it is also a rich family, according to Mrs. Li, it is the kind that throws out tens of thousands of taels of silver without blinking!

Therefore, the Li family is naturally unwilling to give Li Wan to Zhao Dongyun as a concubine!

But Mrs. Li was unwilling to marry Li Wan to Zhao Dongyun as a concubine, but she didn't dare to arrange other family affairs for Li Wan casually, because the Li family was also afraid of angering Zhao Dongyun, if the Li family married Li Wan out without authorization, who knows if Zhao Dongyun would be mad, and once Zhao Dongyun, who is the general of Shengjing, gets mad, the ten Li families can't bear his anger!

Therefore, Li Wan's marriage was so unclear and unclear that it was dragged on, and it is estimated that the lady who changed to another family would have married a long time ago, and she didn't have to wait until she was nineteen years old.

Mrs. Li sighed, thinking about it, she couldn't help but complain about her husband Li Erjian: "It's all to blame for this old thing, if he hadn't invited Zhao Dongyun to live there, there would be these things there!" ”

Li Erjian in the front yard naturally didn't know that his wife was complaining about himself again, at this time he stood in the front yard to greet the guests, with a carriage, a sedan chair arrived and then fell, Li Erjian personally stepped forward to welcome, today to Li Manor is the head of the first-class business on the ground in the northeast, the number is not more than 20 or so, but these people are in control of the three eastern provinces of forestry, soybeans, grain, cloth, heaven and earth and other industries, all of them are worth millions of lords.

Compared with the family behind these guests, the Li family's assets can only be regarded as the middle and lower reaches!

The reason why so many super-rich people can gather in the Li family in Jinzhou is naturally not that Li Yijian has the face to invite here, in fact, these people are all rich people invited by Zhao Dongyun to participate in the 'Fengtian Investment Promotion'.

As for the Li family, as before, it is just to provide a conference venue, undertake banquets and provide accommodation for guests, well, to put it bluntly, it is that Zhao Dongyun regards the Li manor as a hotel for holding meetings.

This kind of thing is not the first time, in the past two years, the Li Manor has helped Zhao Dongyun hold four large-scale banquets, as for small-scale banquets, there are even more, so many banquets have been held, the internal and external housekeepers of the Li Mansion are about to become banquet experts, regardless of the traditional Chinese banquet or Western buffet, or even Western dance party, etc., most of them can be organized.

For this reason, the Li Mansion has even hired several foreign cooks to provide standard Western-style food!

Fortunately, the Li manor is large enough, with three major courtyards inside, dozens of courtyards, hundreds of houses, and even a small lake with a radius of hundreds of meters. If it is exquisite, this Li manor is definitely not as good as those famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not as grand as the mansions of those rich people in Shanxi, but this Li manor is big enough, and the courtyard is scattered and divided between the garden and the lake.

At this time, another light Western-style four-wheeled carriage entered the manor from the distance of fine gravel, and then walked on the gray road that had just been paved for a few months, and you could clearly hear the sound of the horse's shoe hitting the concrete floor, and the horses that were already panting seemed to be pulling the car more relaxed, and their steps were much lighter.

Not long after, the carriage stopped at the gate of the front yard, and then the carriage door was opened and walked down a middle-aged man wearing a Shu brocade coat, slightly short and fat, after this person got off the car, followed by a young man in a Western-style dress and a lady in a red silk skirt, after the three got off the carriage, Li Yijian, who had been notified at the back, had already arrived in the front yard at this time, and immediately said loudly: "Brother Zhicun, you are late!" ”

The middle-aged man held the civilization staff in his hand, and also laughed: "I have been delayed in Jinzhou City for a long time, otherwise I should have been able to arrive at noon, how can it be that the other few people in Fengtian have already arrived in advance, and they are not waiting for our Yunzhou!" ”

Li Yijian said: "Your Brother Baoyang, Brother An Qing, and Mr. Hong in Fengtian City have all arrived in the afternoon!" ”

That Fang Yunzhou said: "Let's not talk so much, I didn't even have lunch on the way, let's go, Brother Li will sacrifice my five internal organs temple first!" ”

Li Yijian laughed and said: "This is natural, most of you have come from afar, and the tea and snacks have already been prepared for you to enjoy!" ”

After saying that, Fang Yunzhou pulled the noble lady behind him and said, "This is a cheap one!" ”

Then he pointed to the young man and said, "This is my third boy, named Lian Tong, who has just returned from Japan's original Liuyang, and I will bring him here today to gain knowledge!" ”

That Fang Liantong hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "I've seen Uncle Li!" ”

Li Yijian smiled: "It's all your own family, you're welcome, go!" ”

Immediately, a group of four people walked in, but Fang Yunzhou, who had just crossed the front yard, lowered his voice slightly and said to Li Erjian: "I know that Brother Li, you have a great friendship with Zhao Duxian, and I will ask Brother Li to help me in front of Lord Duxian and say a few words to the three boys of my family!" ”

Li Yijian heard a hint of embarrassment flashing, and then pretended to be puzzled: "Oh, Brother Fang, what do you mean?" ”

Fang Yunzhou said: "I heard that Lord Zhao Duxian's shogunate is newly built, and he is in urgent need of talents, although my three boys are not talented, they are also smart and clever, I sent him to Japan to drink foreign ink for four years after Gengzi, don't I want to see if I can send it to Zhao Duxian to copy and copy the documents!" ”

Li Yijian showed a hint of embarrassment when he heard this: "Brother Fang, you also know that the talents who want to serve the Governor Xian are all over the country and abroad, but I heard that the telegram room of the Southern Courtyard receives a lot of recommendation and self-recommendation telegrams every day. It's so easy for ordinary people to get into the speech of Lord Governor, and I'm just a few words with Lord Governor on weekdays, so I can help you say that! ”

Fang Yunzhou said: "Brother Li, I know what you are worried about, you can rest assured that I only need Brother Li to help introduce one or two, as for whether it can become a success, naturally my three boys will worry about it!" Speaking of this, Fang Yunzhou said again: "Regardless of whether it is successful or not, as long as you need soybeans here in the future, our family will definitely give priority to satisfying them!" ”

Li Yijian looked at Fang Yunzhou, and then at Fang Liantong who was standing aside, and couldn't help but ponder in his heart, although Fang Yunzhou only let himself introduce one or two, but this recommendation could not be sent out lightly.

Since Zhao Dongyun became the general of Shengjing, many people have gone to the Li manor every day to ask to see Zhao Dongyun, and many people have found Li Erjian here to ask him to help introduce, but Li Erjian knows that every time he introduces a person to Zhao Dongyun, he has to bear a consequence.

Immediately, he looked at Fang Liantong and said, "I don't know what kind of famous background the virtuous nephew is?" What is the school tour? ”