In the next two days, Fanning basically spent all kinds of entertainment, the local wealthy squires in Quanzhou City, the proprietors of major commercial houses in Quanzhou Port, as well as local officials, military generals and high-ranking officials, etc., all set up banquets for Fanning to wash the wind and dust.

In fact, these entertainments should be arranged by Di Qing, which also shows that Di Qing is not good at socializing, and basically never interacts with local squires and wealthy businessmen.

In the midst of all kinds of entertainment, Fanning officially changed to the role of overseas economic strategy.

On this morning, Fan Ning was arranging their own affairs for the three staff members in the official room, Gongsun Xuance and Zhang Bo needless to say, they followed Fan Ning for several years, this time Fan Ning served as an overseas economic envoy, they also came together, generally speaking, after five or six years of high-ranking official staff, they can generally get a good future, Gongsun Xuance and Zhang Bo are willing to continue to follow him because of Fan Ning's growth.

Another staff member is Chen Yu, that is, Chen Jichang, he has been a staff member with Fan Ning in the East Palace for a few months, and he has also gained some knowledge, originally Fan Ning was going to give him a few hundred yuan to end his tenure, but unexpectedly, Chen Yu's wife Liu did not allow her husband to resign, and asked her husband to follow Fan Ning for a few years to find a future.

Chen Yu was afraid of his wife like a tiger, although he was really a little reluctant in his heart, but he could only honestly follow Fan Ning south.

"Let's still have the old rules, Zhang Bo is in charge of the money barn, Gongsun is in charge of the military affairs of the priests, and Chen Wei is in charge of confidential documents, I may go to sea from time to time, but you don't need to, I will arrange official residences for the three of you, and you can bring your families here, I am afraid we will have to stay in Quanzhou for three or four years, and we can only return to Beijing after making a career."

The three of them nodded one after another, Fan Ning saw that Chen Yu was a little hesitant, so he smiled and said: "I know that Ji Chang's friends are all in the capital, and it is too remote to come to Quanzhou, I still say the same thing, if Ji Chang wants to go back, I will give him a thick coin at any time, and send it back to Beijing as a gift, and if I have achievements in the future, I will try to help." ”

Fanning's words are very subtle, if you want to leave, I won't stay, I will do my best to be benevolent and righteous, in the future, I will be developed, and I will try to support my past fate, but only as much as possible, not necessarily, of course, if I have been following myself, I will definitely carry it.

Chen Yu sighed, "It's a man who always has to embark on the road of official career, and now a great opportunity is placed in front of me, if I abandon it, not only will I be stupid, but how can I explain it to my family?" ”

Zhang Bo's 'poof! He laughed out loud, quickly turned his head, and held back the smile on his face, they all knew who Chen Jichang was referring to when he was talking about his family?

Fan Ning glared at Zhang Bo, and said seriously: "There are ups and downs to rise, there are achievements to succeed, today we come to Quanzhou seems to be in a hurry, wait for ten years later, this is definitely a brilliant starting point of the Great Song Dynasty, personally participate in the creation of brilliance, you will all be famous." ”

The three of them were enthusiastic, and they got up together to salute, "I am willing to serve the envoy!" ”

.........

At noon, a soldier reported outside the door, "Businessman Cheng Long asks to see!" ”

Fan Ning has been waiting for Cheng Long for the past two days, and he hurriedly said, "Hurry up and invite him in!" ”

After a while, Cheng Long walked in quickly, bowed down and saluted: "See the envoy!" ”

"Outside of Cheng Yuan, we haven't seen each other for many years."

Cheng Long smiled and nodded, "Kunzhou is goodbye, it's almost five years, and thanks to the promotion of the envoy, the dog can have today." ”

Cheng Long's son Cheng Qing has been an official in Kunzhou, initially working as a translator for Fan Ning, and was later promoted by Fan Ning to be a secretary of Kunzhou.

"It is Ling Lang's integrity and ability that he has the opportunity to be promoted, and of course, it is also Cheng Yuan's foreign tutor that the child can be promising."

"It's too much of a compliment."

Fan Ning invited him to come in and sit down, and asked the tea boy to serve tea, he asked with a smile: "I thought that Cheng Yuanwai returned to his hometown Yuyao to retire, but I didn't expect to be struggling in Fuzhou." ”

"I will indeed return to my hometown in two years, and now it is particularly popular in Japan to drink tea, completely learn the tea and sencha of the Great Song Dynasty, and the tea cup of Jianyao is selling well, and I am currently doing this business, my nephew is in Changqi in Japan, and there are also tea cakes in Fuzhou and Jianzhou, which are also selling very well in Japan."

Fanning suddenly thought of a question and asked, "Is the official still doing business with Japan now?" ”

Cheng Long shook his head, "The imperial court doesn't seem to encourage it anymore, Kunzhou has stopped trading with Japan since last year, and now it is mainly private trade." ”

"Are there a lot of pirates? I've heard that it seems to have reappeared. ”

"There are still pirates, but there are not many, there is one in the waters near Ryukyu Prefecture, and there are two pirates off the coast of the Japanese Governor Qi, but they have just started, and their strength is not strong, and they only dare to intercept a lone boat."

The two chatted for a while, Cheng Long changed the topic, and asked with a smile: "It seems that the envoy is very interested in my garden?" ”

Fan Ning said with a smile: "My wife and mother will soon come to Quanzhou to live, and the official house is too small, so I plan to buy a house, but my daughter likes mountains, raise some small animals on the mountain, we built a dirt mountain in the house in the capital, so I think about having a mountain in Quanzhou's house, someone recommended the house in Dongping Mountain before, to be honest, I don't like the house built on the mountain, I want to buy a Dushan courtyard, just the day before yesterday I saw the house outside Cheng Yuan. ”

"No problem, the envoy likes my mountain house, I'll let the envoy just do it."

Fanning shook his head, "I don't like people. ”

Cheng Long smiled bitterly and said: "Don't hide it from you, this Dushan house was originally bought for my wife, she is from Quanzhou, and she wants to go back to Quanzhou often, but unfortunately she died of illness in Fuzhou last year, and her wish to return to Quanzhou has become a pity, even if you don't want this house, I plan to sell it, I want to go back to my hometown Yuyao in a few years, and the firm will be transferred to Mingzhou, and Fuzhou and Quanzhou will not come again." ”

Fan Ning said happily: "Since this is the case, let's make a price outside!" ”

Cheng Long thought for a while and said, "Three thousand five hundred yuan, I will sell it to the envoy at this price." ”

Fan Ning was taken aback, "Cheng Yuanwai, I don't dare to buy this price, it's too low, you still quote the real price, I don't want to be caught by the opponent of the imperial court." ”

Cheng Long smiled bitterly, "This is the real price, that piece of landscape was bought by my father-in-law for 2,000 yuan 40 years ago, and later married me as my wife's companion, I spent 1,000 yuan to build a house ten years ago, and spent hundreds of dollars to renovate it, 3,500 yuan, I don't lose money and don't make money." ”

Fanning shook his head and said, "Forty years ago, the price can't be compared with now, so be it!" I'll take a little advantage, 5,000 yuan, how about selling this house to me? ”

Cheng Long's face was embarrassed, "The housing price in Quanzhou is not expensive, and it is a bit too high to buy a 50-acre house for 5,000 yuan." ”

"It's not a matter of price, there are only five Dushan in the city, and you are the one with a waterfall, if it is in the capital, this house will cost at least 200,000 yuan, so I take advantage of you and buy it for 5,000 yuan."

"Don't hide it, my father-in-law didn't have waterfalls and lakes when he bought it, it was slowly formed later, so let's go five thousand!"

Cheng Long took out the house deed and title deed and a large bunch of keys from the leather bag he carried, put them on the table and pushed them to Fan Ning, and he put these things in another house in Quanzhou and took them directly.

Fanning nodded, "I'll give you five hundred taels of gold!" ”

He got up and went to the inner room to take out a box and put it in front of Cheng Yuanwai, "Here are five hundred taels of gold, weighing thirty-one catties, please accept it!" ”

Five hundred taels of gold are worth six thousand yuan on the black market, Fanning is still not too embarrassed, he is ready to buy this house with ten thousand yuan, it is other people's luck to buy it cheaply, how can he take other people's luck as his own.

Cheng Long hurriedly waved his hand, "How can you use gold, this is more than five thousand!" ”

"Cheng Yuanwai doesn't have to be polite, just take it."

Cheng Long couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it, Fan Ning took another standard contract, filled in the price, Cheng Long signed and pledged, and the deal was completed.

"I'll go to the old mansion later, and take the old man who cares for the house to my other house, which also needs to be taken care of, so you can just go and get the house directly."

Fan Ning smiled: "The furniture inside is good, it is made of good dipterocarp wood, and it is best to transport it away with Cheng Yuan." ”

Cheng Long smiled: "Five hundred taels of gold include these furniture, otherwise I have to return a thousand yuan to the envoy, so that the monarch should not embarrass me too much." ”

Fanning was not hypocritical, so he readily agreed.