In the past year or so, after having two unique treasures, soap and glass products, the business immediately began to flourish, and it also drove other businesses they did, and they got better together.

Soap, except for the source of luxury, there is no semicolon, after Li Yi's unremitting efforts, now almost everyone in the south of the rich people know about this new thing, if they say that they have not used it, they are embarrassed to say that they are rich.

So don't look at the ridiculously high price of soap, but there are still as many as there are, and the supply is still in short supply.

In addition, during this time, the signboard of the glass mirror of Maoshengyuan was also completely launched, and the advantages of the glass mirror itself are much better than the copper mirror commonly used by people.

In the past, Seawolf could only produce some small glass mirrors, which did not have much advantage over those imported by Europeans, but the price was cheaper.

But as the craftsmen of the glass yard began to mature day by day, now Seawolf can use molds to press larger flat glass, which is used to make glass mirrors, and the largest glass mirror area has reached two feet square, which is definitely a rare product in this era.

Therefore, large glass mirrors and glass products produced in batches that meet the aesthetic taste of the Chinese have also become Maoshengyuan's fist products, plus last year, Maoshengyuan's soap and glass mirrors were sent to the capital as tribute by Fujian officials, and immediately won the favor of the royal family, ordering Fujian to continue to pay tribute to the palace.

As a result, Maoshengyuan's two fist products are even more popular, and there is an endless stream of buyers, and even businessmen who are far away in Beijing send people to Fuzhou Maoshengyuan to buy these things, and transfer them to Beijing for sale.

With these two fist products, Mao Shengyuan can be said to have done a prosperous business, and although Li Yi was not able to hang up the line of Wei Zhongxian, he finally spent money and hung up an old eunuch who is currently working under Wei Zhongxian.

With this line, those who covet the business of Mao Shengyuan should be much more honest, and now who doesn't know that in the court of the Dao Dynasty, there is a Wei Zhongxian Wei official, who is very popular in front of the saint, sitting in the capital can call the wind and rain, and even in the snap of a finger, it can make many people disappear.

Although Mao Shengyuan couldn't be regarded as hugging Wei Zhongxian's big thick legs, Mao Shengyuan still found a eunuch who was relatively close to Wei Zhongxian to work, and this kind of person couldn't be easily offended, so all kinds of harassment and threats that made Li Yi tired some time ago suddenly cleared up after he hugged the thigh of this little-known eunuch.

Even those Jinyi guards who are usually very arrogant on land no longer dare to easily find trouble with Mao Shengyuan, because these Jinyi guards all know that Wei Zhongxian is now in charge of the factory of the East Factory, and the fans of the Jinyi Guard must obey the dispatch of the East Factory, and after Mao Shengyuan has this line, no matter how arrogant the Jinyi Guards are, they will not dare to come to them for trouble.

So it seems that Li Yi spent a lot of money to find a way this time, but in essence, doing so saved Mao Shengyuan a lot of trouble and avoided a lot of unnecessary losses.

Otherwise, Mao Shengyuan's sudden rise in the business world so quickly will definitely attract the hostility and covetousness of his peers, and I don't know who will secretly stumble on Mao Shengyuan, so that Mao Shengyuan can't eat and walk around, so in Yu Xiaotian's opinion, Li Yi spent tens of thousands of taels of silver for this last year, and there was no vain flower.

With this way, Mao Shengyuan's business is now getting bigger and bigger, in addition to setting up a branch in the capital of Fujian Prefecture, the south has sent people to Guangzhou Mansion to open a new branch, and even now Li Yi also proposed that in the second half of this year, he is ready to go to Nanjing City to open another branch of Mao Shengyuan, move Mao Shengyuan's business north, and finally open the branch to Beijing.

In this way, the chain business of Maoshengyuan has basically spread out in various places, forming a network, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.

Just after the sea wolf defeated Chu Cailao this time, Li Yi personally went to Nanri Island to meet Yu Xiaotian and proposed a new idea to Yu Xiaotian, which made Yu Xiaotian very excited.

Li Yi's idea is actually to rely on Maoshengyuan's network and abundant funds to do business in the bank.

What is a bank? In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just an early private bank, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the money village has appeared a lot in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, because there is a big problem in the circulation of currency in the Ming Dynasty, and the merchants in the north and south deliver goods, basically only recognize silver.

Therefore, silver has become the official hard currency of the Ming Dynasty, but the value of silver is higher, when buying some small things, it is definitely not appropriate to use silver, and only copper coins can be used, so it came into being.

In the beginning, the bank was only a place for people to exchange silver taels and copper coins, but gradually began to expand the scope of business, including deposits, loans, and foreign exchange.

In this era, silver, as the most rigid currency in circulation in the official face, was very inconvenient when it was used, even if it had a high ratio, but it was not easy to carry it when the business was relatively large.

So the money bank provided a silver ticket, convenient for merchants to go out to carry, and easy to deliver, the person who holds this silver ticket, can go to the nearest branch of the bank, exchanged for cash, greatly convenient for the needs of businessmen, which is also the earlier form of the banking industry.

In the past, although Li Yi's business was good, his strength was far from being able to open a money bank, but now that he has partnered with Yu Xiaotian, Mao Shengyuan's business is much stronger now.

Several branches of Maoshengyuan have now been opened in various places, and the silver taels of Maoshengyuan's own business transactions alone are enough for tens of thousands of taels every day, so Li Yi took a fancy to this, instead of letting people do this business, it is better for them to open a money bank by themselves now and do this business by themselves.

Even before he came to Yu Xiaotian, he had already made a detailed plan and found some good people, as soon as Yu Xiaotian agreed, he immediately started to handle this matter.

After listening to Li Yi's proposal, Yu Xiaotian thought about it, he didn't know how to operate the money bank, he didn't study economics before, and he didn't have a deep understanding of this knowledge.

However, he knew that the benefits that a bank might bring to him, once he had a bank of his own, then he would be more lenient in the future, and he no longer needed to rely on others to launder money, through his own bank, he could easily launder money.

In short, this matter is also a good opinion for him, and he has no reason to obstruct it, but he can't let Li Yi do it alone in this regard, and there is still necessary supervision.

So he summoned Zhao Mazi and asked Zhao Mazi to find two subordinates who were familiar with the business of the money bank in the council hall to study how this matter should work, and the council hall could control and supervise behind the scenes, in short, the money bank could be opened, but it must be placed under his control to ensure safety.

After Zhao Mazi obeyed the order, he hurriedly began to work according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, and finally reached an agreement with Li Yi to determine that the money village could be opened.

However, the people in the council hall proposed that the newly opened money bank should not be placed under the name of Mao Shengyuan, and try to set up another one, and on the surface, do not let people know the relationship between this money bank and Mao Shengyuan, Mao Shengyuan is just a customer of the money bank, and it is only through the way of the money bank to settle the payment.

In this way, Qian Zhuang and Mao Shengyuan will not have anything to do with each other on the surface, even if Mao Shengyuan or Qian Zhuang has any problems in the future, it will not affect the business of the other family.

Li Yi felt that it was okay to do so, and it was safer to do so, so the matter of opening a money bank was decided, and after discussing with Yu Xiaotian, this money bank was named Jingtai Money Village.

As for the specific start-up and operation, Yu Xiaotian didn't understand it and didn't pretend to understand, so he directly threw it to Zhao Mazi, Li Yi and others, and let them handle it.

The opening of a money bank is not a matter of words, the money bank must first have the start-up funds, and then print the bills, and try to do it as hard as possible to make people forge, in short, the things are very cumbersome, there can be no mistakes, otherwise, as soon as the door opens, the business may be messed up.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian, a layman, will not mix with it, and let Li Yi and other insiders do it.

Just when Li Yi left Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian got another great piece of good news, which had little to do with the sea wolf, but it was great news for Xiaotian.

Because of his wife Lan'er and his maid Xiu'er, there was happy news almost one after the other, which means that he will be a father in Yu Xiaotian soon.

When he heard the guards whisper this great news, Yu Xiaotian jumped up and down with joy, and almost turned over on the spot with a smile.

You must know that he and Lan'er have been married for a long time, and for such a long time, Yu Xiaotian has worked hard, including that Xiu'er, Yu Xiaotian has also hoeed the ground.

But for some reason, Lan'er and Xiu'er's stomachs have never reacted, so Lan'er and Xiu'er, and even many people, including Liu Laoliu, are anxious for them.

Yu Xiaotian has always been busy living a busy life, often not returning at night, which makes Liu Lao Liu very dissatisfied, so he has reminded Tai Xiaotian many times that he is not young, Lan'er has been married to him for so long, and it is time to have a child.

Yu Xiaotian is not resistant to this, since he has come to this era, then he also wants to leave his heirs here, but God doesn't seem to help him much at this point, no matter how hard he works on Lan'er and Xiu'er, the belly of the two of them has never moved.

So Yu Xiaotian even thought about whether there was something wrong with him, which caused Lan'er and Xiu'er to never be able to conceive, and even secretly asked the medical officer to check his body to see if there was something wrong with his body.

But several Lang Zhong who had checked Yu Xiaotian's body said that Yu Xiaotian's body was very strong and he didn't find any problems, so Yu Xiaotian could only accept his fate and wait for a miracle to happen one day.

This time, he never thought that not long after he defeated Chu Cailao, Lan'er and Xiu'er found out that they were happy almost at the same time.

When the two of them checked their pulse in Langzhong and confirmed that they were pregnant, both of them were overjoyed and hurriedly sent someone to report the news to Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian was still in his study, discussing some problems of ship construction with several craftsmen in the shipyard, but now he is in a hurry to build more practical ships such as dhows as soon as possible to meet his own needs.

So he summoned the shipwrights in the bungalows to discuss with them about building a bungalow on the side of Tamsui Village, and discussed how to build more sloops or brigs more quickly to meet their needs.

When the guards came to whisper the news to Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian was happy on the spot, and immediately got up and waved his hand: "That's it for today, you guys are ready, tomorrow you go to a few people over there in Tamsui Village, according to the results of our discussion, we will stare at the construction of the shipyard over there, and we must step up the preparation of materials, and once the shipyard is completed, we will start construction immediately!" Don't waste time!

There are other things that can be prepared first, after you have passed, you must start to prepare first, the dock is more laborious, for the time being, it is better to build the slipway first, and when the manpower is sufficient, it is not too late to dig the dock!

I have something to do today, so I won't tell you more! Ha Lu Ha! Stand down! ”

After hearing this, the shipwrights hurriedly packed up their things and got up to leave, and Yu Xiaotian didn't wait for them to get out of the room, so he ran out of the house with his personal guards and ran towards the backyard of his house.