"Stop standing and talking, come and sit here." Qi Ke took them to the tea table under the window, there was a delicate hand bell on the table, she held it in her hand and shook it twice, the jingle bell rang, crisp and good, "We are chatting while drinking tea, I don't have the energy to pay attention to the news in the county recently, how is your sales now?" ”

Before the bell had stopped, four maids came in with tea sets, stoves, and refreshments, and brought hot towels for the four of them to wipe their hands.

Qi Ke wiped his hands first, and while waiting for the water to boil, he placed the tea set and made a kung fu tea.

"That's what we're going to talk about when we meet this time."

The three of them looked at the wide tea table and were a little curious, this was a little different from their way of drinking tea at home, and then looked at the position of the maids who put tea towels and coasters, and the three of them sat down opposite Qi Ke in a row, wiping their hands with a towel with a complicated face.

"Got stuck? Have a peer to make trouble for you, don't want new people to enter the industry? Qi Ke's face remained unchanged, and he was busy taking a teaspoon to pluck tea leaves from the tea can, waiting for the water to boil to make tea.

"Hmph, the stumbling companion hasn't appeared yet, but it's coming soon." Lao Gu picked up a piece of tea cake and took a bite, and the strength of that bite was like biting the flesh of an enemy.

"Tell me about it, are the troublemakers coming at you, or maybe they're taking me with them?" Qi Ke reached for the kettle on the small tandoor, felt the heat, and estimated when the water would boil. Hundred Flowers Literature

"That's the point, you should pay more attention." The old man chewed a piece of fragrant dried meat, adjusted his sitting position, and began to tell a story.

Lao Fang The three of them do cotton cotton yarn business is really a big girl on the sedan chair for the first time, Donglin County has never been a big textile county, neither cotton nor weavers, they have never been in contact with this line since they were young, but fortunately, the contacts they have accumulated over the years are not fake, a little bit of news out, immediately there are well-informed friends who come to the door to learn more about business.

The reason why my friend reacted so quickly was that Bai Jiajun's big business couldn't hide from people, and the taxes of tens of thousands of taels of silver were actually handed over to the Dong'an Mansion.

Then, because of this money, a gossip circulated in private was involved.

The overseas merchant ships transporting cotton encountered pirates at sea, and came to Liangshui Town in a daze, where the cotton was delivered directly, and the maritime guild in Dong'an Province did not know about it, and when they heard about it, General Bai had already paid the taxes, which made the guild feel a big loss of face.

"What do you think this maritime merchant guild does? Merchants who do maritime business are all members of the guild, and if they don't join the guild, they can't do this business, and they must join the guild if they do this business. The more the old man spoke, the more excited he became, his voice became louder, and his fingers frequently tapped on the table, "The Bai family army has been in the local area for so long, and the snakes from all walks of life have already figured it out, if you want to say that General Bai still doesn't know what the Maritime Guild does, it's impossible, right?" ”

"The maritime guild in Dong'an Province is said to have a history of many years, and it can be seen from the rule that you must enter the industry that it has reached the level of a monopoly business, and I think it has developed an arrogant temper."

Qi Ke had long known what kind of virtue the maritime guild would be, and his face remained unchanged, calmly lifted the boiling kettle, kettle, and hot cup and began to make tea, neatly poured the second tea into the fair cup, divided it into four cups, and gently rested three of them on the coaster in front of the three of them with a cup fork.