"How much money was collected? It's all cash? Li Xiaoqi took advantage of the words to intercept Shi Yu's words and asked, Shi Yu was full of smiles, and bowed his hand respectfully to Li Xiaoqi and said: "It's all cash silver, and it's all silver tickets that can be redeemed at sight, and they have already been taken to the silver shop to withdraw silver, all together," Shi Yu paused and said softly: "Nine million three hundred and one thousand taels!" Li Xiaoqi frowned and said 'um', Su Zicheng was stunned, looked at Shi Yu and asked, "How much?" ”

"Lord Wang, a total of nine million and one hundred thousand taels of silver." Shi Yu smiled with a smile on his face and replied clearly, Su Zicheng tightened his face, and nodded a little stiffly after a while, Li Xiaoqi glanced at him, turned his head to look at Shi Yu and said with a smile: "It's a lot more than I expected, you leave the detailed list for me to see, Lord Zhao and Master Ming will stay for one night first, I have read the details, and I will discuss the future with the three of them tomorrow, the merchants have spent silver, and they must let them earn enough silver to do it." The three of them hurriedly stood up and agreed, and Shi Yu presented the brochure and retired with Zhao Hongzhi and Ming Qian.

Seeing that the three of them walked out of the flower hall and couldn't see it anymore when they turned a corner, Li Xiaoqi picked up the detailed booklet, turned his head to look at Su Zicheng and said with a smile: "The prince's face is so tight, is it too little?" ”

Su Zicheng burst into a smile on his face, and suddenly bounced up from the chair and shouted, "Less?!" Nine million three thousand taels! More than nine million taels! Su Zicheng waved his hand and turned around a few times, and said with a smile: "More than nine million!" One Huainan Road, there are more than 9 million a year, and this is not counting this year's grain endowment! This year Huainan Road is a good year! Li Xiaoqi patted the detailed booklet in his hand and smiled: "It's not more than nine million every year!" This is the silver that sells the tea mountains and salt pans! This tea mountain and salt pan can only be sold once, and it can't be sold every year, and it won't be there next year! ”

"Next year, the taxes on tea, salt, and liquor will come up, how can there be none? Even if it's less, it will have to •••••• millions of taels, right?! Su Zicheng couldn't count a few million taels for a while, and Li Xiaoqi exhaled: "How can there be millions of taels?!" Wine can't be taxed, this liquor license is a year's tax, tea, next year is to collect some tax, but salt, I think the first three years will not be taxed, the ones sold are said to be salt pans, in fact, they are all seaside wasteland, to open out to dry salt, the first year or two are net investment money, and then tax is to kill chickens and eggs! It won't be a million next year! ”

"If it doesn't work next year, there will be the year after tomorrow, the year after tomorrow, don't be afraid, with these more than 9 million taels, the silver for collecting grain, and the silver for the labor army, go, hurry back!" Hurry up and write to tell the eldest brother that the eldest brother has been worried about the silver for a while! Li Xiaoyi's words did not make Su Zicheng's excitement diminished by half a point, his eyebrows still fluttered, stretched out his fingers and flicked the booklet in Li Xiaoyi's hand briskly and smiled, Li Xiaoqi bent his eyes and smiled, hugged the booklet, and Su Zicheng laughed and entered the inner courtyard, and went back.

Outside the gate, Ruan Da, whose face was blue and covered with cold sweat, watched Su Zicheng and his party enter the gate, but he was stopped outside by the guards, who wanted to shout but didn't dare, only hurriedly turned around, caught a glimpse of Dongping, hurriedly squeezed away the guards, and rushed over and shouted: "Uncle Dongping!" It's me! It's me! Nguyen Da! Dongping turned his head to see Ruan Da, greeted him with a smile and arched his hand: "It's Uncle Ruan, looking for me?" What's up? ”

"Uncle Dong, please report to the prince, I have something urgent to see, and I am in a hurry! I have to see the prince no matter what! Ruan Da's tears were about to fall, Dongping was startled, and hurriedly asked, "What is the matter?" You've got to get through it first, or I won't be able to reply. ”

"It's really a matter of urgency, bidding today, I'm here, I didn't get any bidding, the master and the uncle sent me, how can I go back and explain?! I! Ruan Da Lao burst into tears, but Dongping exhaled and smiled: "You don't need to see the prince for this matter, it's useless to see the prince, you have to find the fifth master, don't cry, I'll go in and see, if the fifth master hasn't stopped, I will help you pass on this, you can rest assured, your second master and the fifth master have always been good friends, and now your two families are children and relatives, if the fifth master can help, he will definitely help you, go back first, if you have anything to say, I will send the little servant over to tell you." ”

Ruan Da was slightly settled in his heart, raised his hand to wipe his tears, thanked Dongping for a long time, and moved his steps to get into the car and go back.

Dongping entered the gate, stood in the second gate and thought for a moment, went in to find Danyue, and told Ruan Da about it, Danyue went in and quietly reported the matter to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi patted the detailed booklet heavily, looked at Danyue and said angrily: "Tell me, how can this person be stupid like this?" You can't buy anything with money! What is this called?! Idiot! Danyue hurriedly removed the teacups on the table and persuaded: "Don't be angry, girl, if he can't buy it, let him go, anyway, their Shui family has money, and they have a lot of this silver." ”

"Alas!" Li Xiaoqi sighed annoyedly: "How can you care, that's the Shui family, Shuiyan and their family, Shuilian's mother's family, there are many things in the future of Huainan Road, the court can't do without the support of the Shui family, alas!" I had to cut my flesh! ”

"Girl, don't be angry, why don't you let Dongping talk to the prince?" Danyue changed a cup of hot tea and suggested to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi shook his head: "You remember, if you want to do favors, you can do enough." Let people go to find Fifth Brother Zhao and Zhang Zhongyi, and come to see me early tomorrow morning. Danyue agreed, and simply went out to find Dongping, and asked him to run and pass the word.

Early the next morning, Lu Feng got up early in the morning, rushed in front of Su Zicheng to practice 'gong', aimed at Su Zicheng to come to the martial arts training ground, and showed his side from afar, without waiting for Su Zicheng to see clearly, he rushed in the opposite direction, and went around in a big circle to find Li Xiaoyi.

At the fork in the road not far from Li Xiaoyi's yard, Lu Feng bumped into two mothers-in-law carrying a huge celadon vase, which was full of slightly open lotus flowers, and was about to turn around to Li Xiaoqi's yard.

Lu Feng hurriedly stopped his mother-in-law, leaned over and sniffed it and asked, "Where did you come from?" For the fifth master? ”

"Back to the second master, it was picked by the prince himself in the morning, he found this bottle and inserted it, and ordered the slaves and maids to send it to the fifth master." The mother-in-law on the right replied respectfully, Lu Feng's eyebrows rose and fell, and then twisted up, full of unsmooth 'hum', reached out and plucked the highest lotus flower, two fingers a little force, and pulled two petals down, the two mother-in-law were so frightened that their faces turned pale, Lu Feng twisted the petals and rubbed them, and then inserted them back into the lotus, and then went to pull another lotus, the two mothers-in-law looked at Lu Feng in amazement and rubbed all the flowers, Lu Feng rubbed all the flowers, took half a step back, looked at it with satisfaction, waved his hand and commanded: " Send it over! ”

The two mothers-in-law cried with sad faces, you look at me, I look at you, where can you move, Lu Feng waved his hand happily and said, "Go quickly!" The fifth master likes such flowers, I won't blame you, go quickly! The two mothers-in-law had to move their steps into Li Xiaoyi's yard, Qingcheng was waiting for Li Xiaoyi's breakfast with Begonia, turned his head and saw the lotus flowers carried in by the two mothers-in-law, his eyes were wide open, and he didn't know what to say about the flowers, Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at the pile of lotus flowers that were crumpled in a mess, and looked at the mother-in-law with an earthy face and smiled: "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the fifth master, it is the •••••• flowers that the prince personally picked early in the morning, and the bottle that he put in his own hands, and ordered the slaves and maids to send them to the fifth master, and the slaves and maids carried the flowers and met Lu Erye in front of the Guanyun Pavilion, and Lu Erye •••••• ••••••"

"That's it?" Li Xiaoqi smiled and continued, the two mothers-in-law nodded together, Li Xiaoqi looked at the lotus again, sighed and ordered: "Put it down, this flower is very good, Qingcheng will give five hundred yuan to the two grandmothers." The two mothers-in-law breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly followed the guidance of Qingcheng to put down the vase, received the reward, and went out with a thousand thanks.

Lu Feng watched the two mothers-in-law enter Li Xiaoqi's yard from afar, thought about it, didn't dare to follow up at this time, turned around, and simply slipped out to go shopping.

Fifth Brother Zhao and Zhang Zhongyi followed Xirong into the courtyard, Li Xiaoqi was already waiting for them in the flower hall, the two saluted, Li Xiaoqi rubbed his temples, and asked the booklet in front of him: "Yantian bought 4,500 mu and four tea mountains, is that so?" ”

"Yes! According to the instructions of the fifth master, we must get these four tea mountains, and the others, Liben and I felt that the price was too high, and it was not suitable, so we all let it go. Fifth Brother Zhao bowed down and replied with a smile, Li Xiaoqi reluctantly drew his fingers back and forth on the names of those tea mountains, and asked sullenly: "Yuanfeng Hall did not compete for tea mountains, only ate seventy percent of the liquor licenses, and a family of 1,000 acres of salt fields?" ”

"Yes! The fifth master didn't see it, President Qian and them, it was just amazing, they won the liquor license, and they began to smash the silver directly in the first round, and they smashed more than half of the people at once, and the momentum •••••• me and Liben were dumbfounded, Chashan, President Qian said, since we make a move, of course they can't let it. Fifth Brother Zhao smiled, Li Xiaoqi said 'um', and said indifferently: "We only need these four mountains, and there are many tea mountains left!" What do you want not to let go? They must not have much silver, can only do their best, but also because of the lack of silver, only to come up with momentum to smash people, through the Huainan Road businessman's wandering and scattered, won the seventy percent of the liquor license, you two have to learn more in the future, businessmen are not easy to do, good businessmen are even more difficult, follow the money president, see more, listen more, think more and talk less. ”

Fifth Brother Zhao and Zhang Zhongyi hurriedly bowed down and agreed, and Li Xiaoyi exhaled in annoyance and asked, "What do Ruan Da want?" Fifth Brother Zhao and Zhang Zhongyi glanced at each other, and Fifth Brother Zhao replied: "He told me that if he wants to buy a few tea mountains, he also wants to make wine, but Yantian is not willing to ask for it." ”