Fu Wenzhai, who was in great happiness, was still a little dizzy, so that he almost stepped on the air and fell down the steps, but Chang Meng beside him hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

After standing firmly, Fu Wenzhai hurriedly smiled and saluted: "Thank you Steward Chang." The students are so happy that they are a little out of shape! ”

"It doesn't matter! Anyway! Chang Meng hurriedly returned the salute, and said with a smile, "In the future, the small ones will also need to pay more help from adults!" ”

Fu Wenzhai, who was in a state of agitation, did not hear that Chang Meng's words were a little different from the past, and he happily said goodbye after bowing to Chang Meng several times in a row.

A few days ago, Wu Shigong sent people to put forward the idea of establishing a Jimin reclamation business bank to Old Lady Hou and Ye Zhong, and immediately received a warm response from them.

If the reclamation firm succeeds, it can increase the prestige of the Hou family and Ye Zhong among the local eunuch and gentry families in Henan; second, it can stabilize the chaos around Guide and Runing Mansion; Third, you can go to Emperor Chongzhen to ask for merit; Fourth, you can earn silver for your own house.

And what you have to pay is nothing more than some of your own prestige and relationships in the government, plus you have to send out some of your own family members and miners, and you don't have to take risks yourself, so how could Old Lady Hou and Ye Zhong not agree to this kind of good thing?

Of course, Old Lady Hou and Ye Zhong also knew that the key to the success of the reclamation firm was the military support of the Runing Army and the management of Tuntian Zhuangzi, so they unanimously requested that the Runing Army send someone to take charge of the reclamation firm.

The negotiations went smoothly, and the Runing Army would hold 20% of the shares in the Jimin Reclamation Firm, the Hou family and Ye Zhong would each have 10% and a half, and the rest of the shares would be divided between more than a dozen big families in Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion.

The Hou family and other big clans will send out 500 families, Ye Zhong will send 500 miners, and the Runing army will send a regiment of troops, as well as more than 80 officials with training experience in Tuntian and Huzhuang teams. Formed this Jimin reclamation firm.

Later, after occupying the abandoned land, they exported grain, agricultural tools, livestock, and seeds according to the shares to resettle the displaced people and set up tuntian farms.

After thinking about it again, Wu Shigong pushed his housekeeper Chang Meng to the position of the chief shopkeeper of the Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank. For Chang Meng's candidate, the rest of the shareholders also unanimously agreed, and they all believed that there were no weak soldiers under the strong generals. Besides, Chang Meng is also Wu Shigong's intimate person, and if there is any difficulty in the reclamation firm, it is easy to get Wu Shigong's help.

But Chang Meng has no bottom in his heart! He knew that Wu Shigong had arranged himself out this time, and he really had the intention of elevating himself. But Chang Meng was also afraid that he would mess things up, after all, he had no previous experience in military and civil affairs.

So just now Chang Meng has begun to make friends with Fu Wenzhai, he knows that he can't rely on Wu Shigong for everything in the future, and he also needs to have a good relationship with other high-ranking officials of the Runing Army.

But no matter what, Chang Meng was still a little nervous. So after sending Fu Wenzhai away, he stood in the corner of the courtyard in a daze. I was thinking carefully about how to open up the situation of the Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank as soon as possible.

Chang Meng is so serious. Even when Wu Shigong sent two more guests out of the study, he didn't notice it. It wasn't until Wu Shigong coughed a few times at Chang Meng that Chang Meng suddenly stepped forward to send the two guests out.

And these two guests are Zheng Jiao and Zheng Zhang, who will open a branch in Runing from Minhai Commercial Bank. Zheng Jiao originally came to send Zheng Shopkeeper to take office this time, of course, he also wanted to see with his own eyes what Wu Shigong's strength was in Runing.

But as soon as he arrived in Runing, Zheng Jiao was startled, because he saw the long queue at the gate of Sihai Qianzhuang. Those people who were crazy about saving gave Zheng Jiao a deep impression.

And at this moment, Zheng Jiao thought about it, because he took a fancy to one thing in the Runing Army, that is, the strong soldiers in the Runing Army. To know. Now is the time when Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang are fighting fiercely, if there is the addition of Runing soldiers, then Zheng Zhilong's hope of victory can be much greater. For this, Zheng Jiao even did not hesitate to pay some price.

Therefore, after today's meeting, Zheng Jiao immediately proposed to Wu Shigong that he should hire a group of soldiers from the Runing Army. And Wu Shigong, of course, also declined. For Wu Shigong, every soldier of the Runing Army is his own treasure, how could he sell them to become mercenaries?

Seeing that the employment was unsuccessful, Zheng Jiao had no other ideas, so he and Wu Shigong introduced each other's Shili situations. However, when Wu Shigong introduced the establishment of the Runing Army's Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank, Zheng Jiao was suddenly moved.

For the people of the Ming Dynasty at that time, no matter what industry made money, the most secure industry left to future generations was land, and Zheng Zhilong, who made huge profits through sea trade, was no exception.

However, Zheng Zhilong's Fujian province has many mountains and few lands, and the Taiwan he developed has competition from Dutch colonists. Therefore, buying a large amount of cooked land in the mainland is Zheng Zhilong's consistent pursuit. However, the land in the mainland is basically in the hands of the official eunuchs and gentry, and it is impossible for Zheng Zhilong to buy it, so this time when he heard that Wu Shigong's reclamation firm could get a large amount of abandoned land, Zheng Jiao suddenly couldn't bear it.

Zheng Jiao also knew that the abandoned land occupied by the Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank may not be able to occupy all of it, after all, many abandoned lands used to be owned by owners. But after all, the total amount of abandoned land is too large, as long as it occupies a small part, then this absolute amount is not a small amount.

So Zheng Jiao immediately proposed the following plan to Wu Shigong: the Zheng family wanted a 10% stake in Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank, and in exchange, the Zheng family would give Wu Shigong four sea boats, and these four sea ships would be operated by the Zheng family, and the profits obtained would belong to Wu Shigong.

After Wu Shigong heard this, he simply suspected that Zheng Jiao had something to do, because this condition was too generous. For Wu Shigong, the purpose of the reclamation business house was to tuntian, that is, to bring grain, grass and soldiers to the Runing army, and whether to make money or not was a secondary consideration. And after listening to Zheng Jiao's introduction, Wu Shigong also knew that if the four sea ships went well, they would bring him more than 20,000 taels of silver every year, so wasn't the Zheng family giving him silver for nothing?

So Wu Shigong immediately agreed. But Wu Shigong didn't know that Zheng Jiao calculated the account like this: the Zheng family actually only paid the four big boats, and the value was only more than 10,000 taels of silver.

For the current maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty, it is far from being saturated, so the addition of Wu Shigong's four sea ships will not affect the Zheng family's business at all. Even after forming a group with Wu Shigong, he was able to strengthen the Zheng family's right to speak in maritime trade.

And Zheng Jiao's plan paid off immediately. Wu Shigong also immediately agreed to select a hundred water-based haode soldiers from the Runing army to join the Zheng family's fleet as the escorts of the four sea ships. So the result of this meeting was immediately a happy one. (To be continued......)