This night, Zhang Bin was sleeping in the courtyard with Miss Yoyo in his arms, and suddenly felt that something was not right.

When I opened my eyes, the light of candles filled the room. Zhang Bin was excited, and he stepped forward to get out of the quilt, and woke up the Youyou girl, and when he looked up, he saw that there were a few more people in the room, sitting at the table in front of the bed, looking at them all in a good way, and the frightened girl screamed loudly.

Zhang Bin decisively slapped her, interrupting Miss Youyou's screams on the spot, just wrapped in the quilt and hiding in the corner of the bed shivering.

Li Congyi motioned for him to get dressed. Zhang Bin didn't panic, so he got dressed and walked to the table: "Lord Guogong is so interested!" ”

Li Congyi smiled: "It's not interesting to talk about whether you're interested or not." It's just that some people always have to start from the perspective of strength to make him honest. ”

"From the perspective of strength, the statement of Lord Guogong is quite novel, but Zhang Bin is a businessman, and he doesn't need this kind of strength to shout and kill." Zhang Bin figured it out, if this Jiang Guogong wanted to vent his anger and kill himself, he would have killed him early; This will be mostly to intimidate him, and that naturally has a purpose.

"Oh, if it's just the strength of buying low and selling high, harming others and profiting, my father can't look down on it." Li Congyi said leisurely.

"Is Lord Guogong talking about green tea?" Zhang Bin's eyes moved.

"Xuanzhou Commerce and Trade will open soon, and I may be able to send you an invitation card then."

Zhang Bin stared at Li Congyi, and finally relented. "A few days ago, the villain really wanted to take advantage of the power of the Guogong, and here is not to compensate the Guogong, please ask the Guogong to have a large amount."

"I think you also want to give Xuanzhou Commerce and Trade a dismount, right?" Li Congyi said, "I also scared you once today, which can be regarded as flattening." Then he got up and walked out.

The guards opened the door for Li Congyi, and Li Congyi walked out. Zhang Bin finally couldn't help but say, "Since Lord Guogong is here, why don't you stay for a while?" ”

"The air in your room is not good, let's talk in another room." Li Congyi walked directly to the main hall.

Zhang Bin didn't understand what "bad air" meant, but he understood that Jiang Guogong wanted to talk in a different place, so he hurriedly followed.

The frying method of green tea is not a secret matter, and some old tea farmers can guess the frying process from the finished tea of green tea; And in order to promote green tea, there is no need to keep secrets. In order to collect a larger amount of green tea, Xu's trade has also taught the tea farmers how to roast tea, and Xu's Xuanmao has not made exclusive requirements, such as Zhang Bin's merchants who go to Xuanzhou and Shezhou to collect tea next year, and they can directly collect finished green tea from tea farmers.

Therefore, Li Congyi is willing to share the method of frying green tea with Zhang Bin, and can even transfer a batch from Xu's Commerce and Trade to sell Zhang Bin to the Northern Kingdom of Jiangbei.

In addition, Li Congyi needed to buy iron ore from quarrying and transport it to Xuancheng against the water, and Li Congyi was currently short of ships and wanted to hire a fleet of Zhang's shops to transport iron ore. On the return trip, the coal produced by Xuan Coal was transported to Jinling. In addition, if Zhang Bin felt that the ironware produced by Xuancheng Iron and Steel could be sold, Li Congyi would not mind wholesale some to Zhang Bin.

In addition, if history has not changed, the Song State will cut down the Tang Dynasty in October this year, and the new grain from Poyang Lake has just been put on the market, and it may not have time to be shipped.

Li Congyi's sincerity is full.

Li Congyi's appeal is also very simple: Jinling Mansion opens an account in Jiangnan Bank, and the treasury and bank are stored in Jiangnan Bank, and Jiangnan Bank's silver or promissory note is used for expenses.

Li Congyi didn't let Zhang Bin give an answer on the spot, and Zhang Bin couldn't decide on this matter.

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At this time, Li Congyi received two messages, one good and one bad.

The good news came from Hangzhou. Qian Hailu went to Tongrentang, cut into the black language, got the English letter, and replied to Li Congyi with an English letter. Qian Hailu said in the letter that she would find a way to go to Huzhou and make an appointment to meet in Huzhou at that time. However, this matter needs to be operated, and the date will be set and then told to Li Congyi.

The bad news is that Zheng Deshui came back from quarrying, and the conclusion given is that Fan Ruoshui's project is very solid, and the stone tower and the cliff boulder are integrated, and it is not easy to destroy. And now many believers worship the top of the stone tower, if you want to get rid of the stone tower, I am afraid that the Guangji Temple is quite difficult to agree.

Li Congyi comforted Zheng Deshui that this stone tower can carry the Yangtze River pontoon bridge, which is naturally extremely strong. However, the stone tower is a dead thing in the end, and there is a way to destroy it, but it is just a little troublesome.

In the past few days, the Jinling Hotel has begun to open for trial operation, and there are privy envoys Chen Qiao who have made several advertisements, and there are dignitaries and dignitaries who have passed the party, and everyone who has come is amazing. During the trial operation, only one side of the wing room was opened, counting eight boxes, which was very popular, only three days after opening, and the reservation was arranged straight to more than ten days away.

The characteristics of Jinling Hotel are: first, the dishes are varied and fresh, such as roast duck, braised pork, boiled fish and other dishes, which are unprecedented in other restaurants; The second is that its taste is fresh and positive, which cannot be compared with his family, which not only has the effect of refined salt, but also the effect of Li Congyi's five-spice powder; The third is the exclusive sale of Jingtingshan sake, mainly because people of this era have never drunk too high liquor, and according to the current level, the alcohol content is difficult to accurately control, Li Congyi only sells more than ten degrees of sake; Fourth, the service is distinctive, other restaurants are all small and second, and Jinling Hotel is a maid of a water, and there is at least one maid in a private room, which makes the dignitaries feel no worse than the guests at their own home.

When the Jinling Hotel officially opened, it caused a sensation in the high society of Jinling City.

The four gilded characters of Jinling Hotel are mentioned by Li Yu, the current lord of Jiangnan. For these four words, Li Congyi has improved Li Yu's Chengxintang to a higher level. The tea table and calligraphy table made of half a log are carved with dragons and phoenixes on both sides of the log; It is also equipped with two single, two pairs, and two multi-person soft chairs for a complete set of soft chairs, which are made of mahogany, covered with genuine leather, and then paved with brocade, and painted with dragon and phoenix patterns. Considering that these need to be made by the master, plus the transportation costs, it can be said that the four words written by Li Yu are worth a thousand taels of silver!

But the emperor's signature is the best umbrella and the best advertisement at the moment.

The main hall of the first courtyard of the Jinling Hotel is set up with a loose platform, the left and right wings of the second courtyard are equipped with small boxes, the main hall of the second courtyard is a large box, and in the center of the second courtyard, there is a simple stage, and there are singing and dancing performances every night during dinner, and the end is very lively. And the main hall of the third courtyard has a VIP box, there is a tea table and soft chairs for drinking tea, if necessary, the hotel also has a small band can enter the private room to play music and sing to help the fun.

While feasting, while still enjoying the song and dance, whether it is the scholars in the scattered stage, or the high-ranking officials and rich in the private room, they all feel that this is the enjoyment of the immortals.

In the VIP box in the third courtyard, Li Congyi swayed, and a poem by Li Jing in the Song Dynasty was shamefully plagiarized by him:

"Duck" is commonly used by people, and it is expensive not to fly. Full of food to be slaughtered, false teaching wings.

This is a poem written on roast duck at the request of Xu Xian, the secretary of the ministry.

Although the private room is large, the number of people is Liao. There are Xu Xian, the secretary of the ministry, Xu Kai, the scholar of Jixian Palace, Li Congyi, the Duke of Jiangguo, and Yin Zhang Shao of Jinling.

After Li Congyi finished writing four lines of poetry, the other three were silent for a while, only thinking that there was something in this poem, but thinking about it, I felt that the random association was really far-fetched.

It was Xu Xian who broke the quiet and eerie atmosphere: "Pu Ze once said that Jiang Guogong was extremely talented in poetry, and now I think what Pu Ze said may still be modest." The poem in front of me seems to be simple and unpretentious, but it is thought-provoking, and it is not simple. ”

If others tout it, they naturally have to tout the past. Li Congyi praised the two Xu again, which diluted a trace of strangeness brought by the poem just now, and the advantage was that Xu Xian no longer mentioned the topic of poetry and lyrics.

After being full of wine and food, several people moved to the tea table and continued to drink tea. That's when we get into the conversation.

Jinling Mansion opened an account in Jiangnan Bank, and all the treasury and bank went to Jiangnan Bank, and all income and expenditure went to Jiangnan Bank, which is actually not a big deal. After all, Jiang Guogong himself is a royal family, and if something really happens, he has his own pocket.

But for Zhang Shao and others, since they want to sell Jiang Guogong's face, it is better to see if they can benefit from it.

In fact, everyone's concerns are several: first, how Jiangnan Bank makes money, second, whether Jiangnan Bank will wipe out everyone's money, and third, whether there is any money in Jiangnan Bank after the Song people called. Of course, the last question has to be asked in a 360-degree turn.

In addition to lending to merchants, Li Congyi also said that in the future, you can lend money to people who buy houses in the city, and you can also lend money to farmers who buy land or open up wasteland. To lend money to merchants, of course, there must be a mortgage; And if you lend money to the property-owning households, even if you can't repay it for a while, you can eventually repay it slowly, or use their real estate and land to pay off the debt. Of course, Li Congyi will not take the initiative to say that banks can still lend money to the government, and for officials in this era, there is no awareness of actively running deficits.

As for the enemy country calling, is it safe to hide the silver in the cellar, or is it safe to lend it to others and wait for others to repay the money? Li Congyi's words woke up the dreamer.

The subsequent reopening of Xuanzhou Commerce and Trade opened the eyes of Jinling officials and nobles.

This time, Jingtingshan sake was also officially distributed, and the first batch of 10,000 bottles of one-pound Xuanci bottled wine, each bottle was sold out in just three days. The strong purchasing power of the wealthy class in Jinling City can be seen.

The refined salt and special green tea on the market are also popular among the Jinling elites, and the wave of light luxury furniture with brown mat beds and soft chairs as the core has also quickly blown all over Jinling City.

Seeing the enthusiastic situation of Xuanzhou's commercial sales, Zhang Bin no longer hesitated, and agreed to cooperate with Li Congyi.