After entering the back room, there were also a few people here who were settling accounts, and these people Li Xiang was able to call out their names, and each of them was connected with fifteen people outside, which was regarded as a middle-level cadre.

"I've seen Your Highness."

After Zhou Huairen saw Li Xiang, the whole person was very excited, although he also reported to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for a while, but it was Li Xiang who changed his fate, who was his boss? Zhou Huairen saw it very clearly.

Li Xiang looked at Li Chengqian in the back room, Li Chengqian was busy at the moment, Li Xiang didn't go over to bother, Li Xiang was because he saw that Li Chengqian liked money, so he handed over this job to him, and looked at the family's treasury full every day, this is what Li Chengqian is most satisfied with, not to mention that he is indeed talented in accounting.

"This period of time has done well, the development of various industries is good, the benefits obtained are also good, and the main task in the next stage is to grow food."

When Li Xiang said this, Zhou Huairen deliberately picked out his ears as if he didn't hear clearly, we have invested so much money in business, shouldn't we continue to develop? How can it be transferred to food? What's more, there is not much profit from growing grain this year, and compared with real business operations, this money is too little.

"Your Highness, our business operations have already reached a scale, and at this time it should be a matter of continuing to expand everywhere and grow food......

Zhou Huairen wanted to say that growing food is a trivial matter, and the profit obtained is not enough, so there is no need for us to waste time on this matter, but when he saw Li Xiang's eyes, he swallowed this word again, thinking of Li Xiang's genius in business, which is by no means understandable at his level.

"Grain is the foundation of the country, and at present, a large amount of land is in the hands of the five surnames and seven hopes, so if we want to fundamentally reverse this situation, then we must have a large amount of grain-producing land. Do you want to leave them idle? ”

Li Xiang actually knew how to defeat these big families for a long time, but he didn't have a proper plan, and now that he finally has free time, he should put this plan on the agenda.

"Your Highness doesn't need to operate the matter of growing food personally, every grange has its own head, we can entrust it to them, the most important thing is to focus on our commercial complex, although there are only a dozen of them in business, but it is definitely a daily profit."

Zhou Huairen hurriedly took out an account book, in fact, Li Xiang refers to Wanda in the 21st century, they established a commercial center in the center of each city, and now Li Xiang has also moved to Datang, where you can eat, stay, and even have a place to drink flowers and wine, in short, after you come here, basically everything can be done, although there is no way to build a commercial building in this era, but you can buy a piece of land and build a commercial street in the back.

At present, it has been in operation in more than a dozen major cities across the country, in addition to the rent we get every day, the most important thing is the growth of the price of the surrounding land, Li Xiang knows the importance of real estate, so when building this commercial complex, all the surrounding land has been bought, and now it has risen several times.

"A commercial complex must rely on a large number of people, at present, the major cities in the country have opened, the remaining cities do not have the conditions to open, if we continue to explore, we may start to lose money."

Li Xiang's words also attracted Zhou Huairen's attention, in fact, in the last two projects, Zhou Huairen already felt that in the state-level cities, they can still maintain profits, but in the last two cities, their profit margins have dropped significantly, the most important thing is that the local economy is not prosperous enough, if you continue to open up in other cities, it may not be as good as the last two cities, and you may face losses at that time.

"Your Highness has given them those poor areas?"

Zhou Huairen instantly figured it out, this kind of commercial complex must be opened in an economically developed place, if there is an economically underdeveloped place, then just wait for a loss, after all, the early investment is not a small number, coupled with their respective business operations, the energy and money invested are very much, since the major families are looking at this piece of hot eyes, then Li Xiang is ready to give this piece to them.

"Count you as a smart person, we will not expand for the time being, and then let them expand the remaining cities, and when they can't continue to operate, you can come forward, the commercial complex that was originally worth one hundred taels, you can buy it at the price of fifty taels of silver, maybe when they encounter an economic crisis, thirty taels of silver are also willing to sell, our cost has been reduced several times at once, no matter what kind of operation it looks like, one-third of the cost can be earned."

When Li Xiang's words were explained, Zhou Huairen was about to jump up happily next to him, no wonder His Royal Highness is not ready to continue to expand, and his subordinates have also received news recently, several major families have begun to learn and set up commercial complexes in some cities on their territory, and have notified the local government to prevent Zhou Huairen's people from entering.

At that time, Zhou Huairen still felt that his road was not easy to walk, if it was blocked by the local magistrate in the future, although we also had an official background, but we would definitely not be able to catch up with these big families in the local government, and I didn't know how to explain to His Highness when the time came, but now I understand that His Royal Highness has opened a dead end for you.

"Of course, restaurants and accommodations can continue to be opened, this kind of things that the people really need are still possible to operate, and they also need to collect news for me across the country, even if it is not profitable for the time being, we will allocate money to make up for them."

Li Xiang wanted to establish a nationwide integrated news network very early, and opening a store was the best way, but now it has only developed into large cities, and small cities have not yet penetrated.

"Your Highness, don't worry, I have already arranged for my subordinates to do it, but this is the farming?"

Zhou Huairen can understand other things, but he doesn't understand what Li Xiang said about farming, how does Li Xiang want to farm?