And Wang Yingkai, Wu Changchun, Jiang Guidi, Zhao Dongyun and others represent the local army factions, they can't recruit protégés on a large scale like Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang to expand their influence, but they are all real power factions that control the troops, maybe they can't influence Beiyang as a whole, but they can completely control their own troops, and use the troops under their control as the foundation to gradually expand their influence, the most successful in this regard is Wang Yingkai, why can he and Duan Qirui directly fight in the ring, relying on the first town under his command.

As for Zhao Dongyun, he is still in his infancy, and although the Third Mixed Association in his hands also listens to him, there is still a long way to go before it is completely controlled, not to mention that the Third Mixed Association will gradually affect the entire Beiyang New Army with the foundation of the Third Mixed Formation.

In all respects, Zhao Dongyun is already among the first echelon of Beiyang, although he is ranked very last, but he is also very different from the previous second echelon.

For such a person, maybe others don't care or they don't realize the importance of Zhao Dongyun, but for a capitalist who has been active in the foreign industry for a long time, Li Yijian pays close attention to the Beiyang system and knows very well that Zhao Dongyun is not a simple general.

In addition to Zhao Dongyun's political influence, the industrial and commercial forces controlled by Zhao Dongyun also made Li Yijian quite concerned, not to mention the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, when did you ever see a commercial enterprise controlling a national arsenal and providing militaristic weapons for the army in the Qing Dynasty?

There is also the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, as well as the planned Fuyuan Weaving Factory, which may not be of much importance to others, but they are very important to the Li family.

Because the reason why this Fuyuan weaving factory was established is because the sales of Japanese cloth in the northeast region have decreased significantly, this Fuyuan weaving factory is completely going to the northeast market, if it can be sold on behalf of the Li family, it will not only be able to recover the loss of foreign cloth sales, and even expand the domestic cloth market on a large scale.

This is extremely important for the Li family's cloth business.

It was precisely because he knew these importance that Li Yijian deliberately approached Zhao Zhao Dongyun, and even sent part of his manor out for Zhao Dongyun to stay, but what he didn't expect was that a banquet would break all his previous efforts.

Not to mention wooing Zhao Dongyun, he was even rejected when he went to see Zhao Dongyun, which made Li Yijian feel a great sense of crisis, on the one hand, he was worried about his cloth business, and on the other hand, he was afraid of annoying Zhao Dongyun and taking revenge on himself.

At this point, Li Yijian's businessman mentality still made him too cautious, or too much thinking!

Li Yijian saw that Zhao Dongyun refused to see him, thinking that Zhao Dongyun was angry with the Li family, but what he didn't know was that Zhao Dongyun didn't take the Li family to heart at all.

I didn't see Li Yijian, it was because Zhao Dongyun happened to be busy today, he had to review this month's salary in the morning, and then he had to inspect the live-fire drill of the third battalion of the artillery team, but he didn't have much time to brush up on a businessman.

Li Yijian thought that Zhao Dongyun was angry so he didn't see him, but in fact, Zhao Dongyun was just too lazy to see him.

Li Yijian didn't know that he himself was not as important as he thought, and he didn't even have the qualifications to make Zhao Dongyun angry, that's all!

Many times, the thoughts of the superior and the thoughts of the subordinates are different, even if they are faced with the same thing.

"Father doesn't have to worry too much, I'm afraid it's too inappropriate to go directly to see me now, but I've also drunk a few times with Zhao Dongping, the head of the Ordnance Section, these days, I'll go over there to probe the wind and see what the situation is!" Although Li Ziquan looks obese, his long fat body seems to be like a wine bag and rice bag, but as the eldest son of the Li family, he who has taken over most of the business does not want to look so useless, on the contrary, he is already a key person in the Li family's business, and the Li family's ability to quickly enter the foreign affairs industry has a great relationship with him.

For this eldest son, Li Yijian was still very relieved, and nodded immediately: "Well, although Zhao Dongping is only a section chief, he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, don't neglect him, you have to spend the money you should spend!" ”

Li Ziquan said: "I know, in addition, there was a telegram from Fengtian just now, saying that the inventory of foreign cloth is less than 30% of the past, I am afraid that there will be no cloth to sell in a few days, not only in Fengtian, we have less than half of the foreign cloth inventory in Yingkou and other places, we have to find a new source of goods quickly!" ”

Li Ziquan said while winking at her mother, mother and son were in the same heart, Li Jiang's own son used the excuse of discussing business to suppress the old man's anger so that he could get out, and immediately withdrew quietly.

Li Yijian inside was completely unaware of her quiet retreat, and he was already frowning at this time: "Didn't you just arrive five days ago with a batch of Oriental cloth, how did it sell so quickly?" ”

Li Ziquan said: "That batch of Oriental cloth was stopped by the Russians with an excuse at Yingkou, did my father forget?" ”

Li Yijian smiled embarrassedly: "This memory, but the Russians are really ah, what are you doing to hinder other people's business!" ”

"Today's plan, we have to do our best to find the source of goods, and the Oriental cloth is afraid that it will not work, the Russians are now mad when they see the Orientals, this cloth is estimated to be stopped by the Russians with various excuses just after entering the three eastern provinces, and the high price of other Westerners' foreign cloth is not suitable for the cheap and high-quality signboards that we have established in the past, but now we can only do our best to find high-quality domestic homespun cloth!" Li Ziquan said.

Li Erjian said: "Then send a report to the shopkeepers in Tianjin and Shanghai, let them find a suitable source of goods, and don't wait for them to send someone directly to Nantong to see how the soil is there!" ”

"Alas, if you can eat part of the amount of Fuyuan's hundreds of looms, you can solve the temporary urgency!" Li Ziquan sighed a little.

"It was difficult when there was nothing to do in the past, and the output of their hundreds of looms was not enough to supply them directly, and it would be evenly distributed to us, and even if it was really given to us, it would not be used, what we wanted was more than just the amount of dozens of looms. If we really want to solve this matter, we still have to invest in their newly established weaving factory, take the opportunity to get involved in the weaving industry, and then we will build our own weaving factory, so that we will not be controlled by others! Li Yijian's speech is also full of incomparably huge ambitions.

The textile market in contemporary China is very large, otherwise it would not replace opium as the main dumping commodity of the great powers against China, the Li family's business in addition to the fields is mainly import and export business, mainly to purchase soybean oil, soybean cake and other Northeast native products, and then sell them to foreign companies in various countries, and then import a large number of foreign goods from foreign banks, such as lamp oil, foreign cloth and even matches, soap, etc., through guò Li family's warehouses all over the three eastern provinces to sell to various places.

In this series of business, the sales of foreign cloth are the most important, not to mention accounting for 100%, but there are still three or four percent of the share, because the Li family used to sell Oriental cloth-based, and with the tension between Japan and Russia, Russia used its power in the Northeast to squeeze out and block the entry of Japanese goods into the Northeast market, which also indirectly affected the Li family's foreign cloth sales.

Of course, the most important thing in the Li family's foreign cloth business is their sales network, and there is not much difference between selling foreign cloth and domestic machine-made cloth, so they seek the supply source of domestic machine-made cloth.

It's just that the supply of cloth they demand is too large, and ordinary small weaving factories can't meet their needs at all, and at the same time, they are also extremely sensitive to the price requirements of cloth because they are mainly targeting the middle and lower class market, otherwise they will not choose Japanese and foreign cloth, not because the quality of Japanese and Oriental cloth is better, but because its price is lower.

Therefore, it is actually very difficult for the Li family to seek a supply source outside of Japan's oriental cloth, otherwise the Li family would not have rushed to the shelves to try to directly intervene in the weaving industry.

When Li Erjian and Li Ziquan's father and son were discussing business, Li Jiang's also took this opportunity to leave, and Li Jiang's was scolded by Li Erjian for no reason, and she was in a bad mood while scolding Li Erjian, a bastard or something, and on the other hand, she also walked into Li Wan's embroidery building quickly.

Although she thinks that her husband Li Yijian's words are a little stinky, but what she said is the truth, then Li Wan is really spoiled, this temperament is okay at home, if the family doesn't know what kind of chaos will happen!

Li Jiangshi, who was worried about her daughter, walked into her daughter's room, but saw that Li Wan was still reading a book, but as soon as she saw Li Jiangshi coming in, she immediately threw away the book, and then stood up: "Mother, tell your father, it's going to be boring if you stay here all day!" ”

Li Jiangshi didn't look at her, and said while passing behind Li Wan: "I can't control your father, he wants to grounding you, you just stay well, otherwise you will make him angry again, but it's not as simple as grounding!" ”

Saying this, she just picked up a book from the table, but the cover of the book was not Chinese words, but printed with English TheScarletLetter, Li Jiangshi looked at it and frowned: "How to read these foreigners' books again, I know you like these, but also in moderation, reading more female commandments, internal training is always good for you, don't read these all day!" ”

Listening to her mother say this, Li Wan didn't care: "All the books I read are not all the same!" ”

Can this require a woman's three virtues and four virtues, the internal discipline, and the strong feminist TheScarletLetter?

Li Wan said that she had already taken out the book from her mother's hand, put it down and held her mother's hand: "Daddy, he's still angry?" ”

It's okay if she didn't say it, Li Jiangshi said with effort on her face when she heard this: "I went to see someone in the front south courtyard just now, but I didn't see it and I fell something when I came back!" ”

As a mother, it is difficult for her to say that Li Yijian still took his temper out on her, but blamed Zhao Dongyun for the crime.

After hearing this, Li Wan pursed her mouth again: "Hmph, that person is still so arrogant when he lives in our place!" ”

The Li Jiang clan didn't know how to explain it, could it be said that their Li family invited Zhao Dongyun because something asked him?

After Li Jiang's left, Li Wan picked up the book again and wanted to continue reading, but the words that seemed to be full of agility in the past now looked extremely boring, as if the annoying Qi Lingwus in the book had become Zhao Dongyun's face, she jumped out of bed after closing the book, and then went down the embroidery building to go out, and the little maid behind her, who was two years younger than her, trotted and said: "Miss, Miss, you go there!" ”

Li Wan lifted her long skirt, carefully poked her head out and looked left and right, only to see that the two old women who were taking care of her were squatting at the gate of the compound while eating melon seeds and chatting, she retracted her head and said: "I didn't call, let's go out secretly!" ”

The little maid was only thirteen or fourteen years old, her body had not grown, and she was also unfamiliar with the world after following the young lady's ass all day long, so she did not directly object at this time, but said: "But, but Miss, you have been grounded by the master!" ”

Li Wan said, "I know, that's why we have to go out secretly!" ”

The little maid could only say 'oh' when she heard this, and then she couldn't object.

Li Wan saw that the two old women outside didn't look inside, but walked out gently on their tiptoes, like a light and fast butterfly, they had already crossed the corridor several meters silently, and waved to the little maid behind her with her back against the pillar, signaling her to follow quickly.

The little maid was worried and tiptoed behind the pillar, and she said softly in a nervous voice: "Miss, where are we going?" ”

Li Wan bit her red lip lightly: "Go to the South Courtyard!" ”