Li Congyi and Zhang Bin do not know each other, but they also appreciate Zhang Bin's keen sense and bold style in business.

Influenced by Li Congyi, Xu Leyou divided the tea into two types of packaging, one is the five-kilogram white-glazed ceramic canned tea in Xuan porcelain, and the other is the one-kilogram tea packaged in oil-paper. Zhang Bindang placed a large order of 5,000 cans and 100,000 catties; Xu's Commerce and Trade also told the method of stir-frying green tea, and Zhang Bin's shop began trial production, but it may be a bit rushed to come up with its own spring tea.

In this era, businessmen deceive each other, and among their peers, there are few collaborators, and there are many people who hurt each other. However, Li Congyi and Xu Leyou made it clear that green tea is a new thing, and if you want to grow big quickly, you need to quickly open the market and make roasted tea a fashion, so as long as someone is willing to cooperate, then you can cooperate. As long as the market is opened, then the market is big enough, so big that everyone can make their own money.

Xu's Trading didn't need a flagship store, so he just bought a shop next to the Xuanzhou Trading Store and sold green tea and briquettes. Although it is indicated that it is second-grade, third-grade or simply no grade of Biluochun green tea, many hotel tea shops have come to buy it. Xuanzhou Commerce and Trade also sells coal stoves, but they are all small coal stoves dedicated to making tea and boiling water, which are small, delicate and expensive; The coal stove sold by Xu's trading agent is thick and simple, and it is not expensive, and many hotel tea shops feel that coal stove briquettes are far more economical than burning firewood.

With such a foundation, Jiangnan Bank's IPO went much more smoothly. The investors mainly come from three blocks, one is Zhang Shao and the Runzhou Township Party led by him, the other is Xu Xian and Xu Kai's brothers and several wealthy businessmen associated with them, and there are Huangfu Jixun and his cronies and generals of the Shenwei Army and several businesses specializing in the business of the Shenwei Army. Raising nearly 500,000 taels, although it is far from the goal of one million taels that Li Congyi hopes in his heart, it is also higher than his bottom-line goal.

Jiangnan Bank's branch in Jinling was also built by Xuanzhou Construction, and before that, it also borrowed the bank treasury of Jinling Mansion as a warehouse, which did not hinder the opening of Jiangnan Bank's Jinling branch. However, before the opening, Li Congyi had another hemorrhage, and exchanged six bottles of a total of ten boxes of Jingtingshan sake from the royal special to Li Yu's handwritten Jiangnan Bank plaque.

During this time, Li Congyi always took out some new things to ask Li Yu for big characters, which made Li Yu extremely happy. This royal special Jingting Mountain sake makes Li Yu love it even more, first, this wine is clear and cold, the degree is still high, in a word, it is enjoyable to drink; The second is that this wine bottle is also a kind of art, gilded strokes, the end is extraordinary, and the cork of the wine bottle also uses a wire buckle design, which is extremely exquisite.

As soon as Li Yu was happy, he asked Li Congyi to pay ten cases of wine every month. Li Congyi also lost no time in making a request to allow the sale of the royal special wine crossed out with the words "royal special" crossed out, so a royal special Jingting Mountain wine with a price of up to 100 taels was freshly baked. Due to the limited supply, after the opening of Xuanzhou Commerce, the first batch of 100 bottles was sold on the same day, and because the next batch was not until more than ten days later, this royal special Jingting Mountain wine was fried to a maximum of 321 bottles.

As Li Congyi and Du Chengyin, general manager of Xuanzhou Commerce, said, sales is not the focus of Xuanzhou Commerce, the focus of Xuanzhou Commerce and Trade is to continuously launch innovative products that detonate the market.

During this period, Xu Jianzhang was not idle, and recommended Liu Zai, a member of the Ministry of Labor, to Li Congyi.

Liu Zai once served as the field supervisor of the government-run quarrying iron field, and during his tenure as the field supervisor, the iron output of the quarrying iron field was increased from an annual output of one million catties to five million catties, but the increase in output broke the original pattern of interests. After Liu Zai left, the iron output of the quarrying iron yard slowly dropped to about three million catties per year. Liu Zai didn't believe it, so he went to the waiter of the Ministry of Industry at that time to talk about it, saying that since the iron-making furnace was completed, even if the output decreased, it would not be so bad. What is going on here, of course the discerning person understands, but it has flowed from the iron field to the black market, and there is a share of the pie in this chain, which one is the easy one? Fortunately, Liu Zai didn't break the matter, so the waiter was kind and persuasive, and asked Liu Zai to rest and not mind other people's affairs. Then Liu Zai had nothing to do, and he read all kinds of miscellaneous books every day, and also wrote about his experience in ironmaking.

This Xu Jianzhang is indeed a talent. He ran to the quarrying iron yard, originally wanting to dig a few more masters for Xuanzhou Iron and Steel, but he didn't expect to hear about Liu Zai's matter, and felt that it was the talent that Jiang Guogong wanted, so he returned to Jinling. It was easy to find Liu Zai, but when Liu Zai heard that he was going to Xuanzhou, he was not very happy; Xu Jianzhang said that he asked Jiang Guogong to meet, but Liu Zai's strange temper came up, and he refused. Helpless, Xu Jianzhang persuaded Li Congyi to see him, and Li Congyi was free that day, so he took a few people and went to Liu Zai's house.

Liu Zai's house is near the West Fence Gate in Xicheng.

Knowing that Jiang Guogong was coming, Liu Zai couldn't help but be intense, but he couldn't help complaining about Xu Jianzhang: "How can Lord Xu be so reckless that he actually came to the cold house in person." Xu Jianzhang was slightly embarrassed.

When he talked to Li Congyi about ironmaking, Liu Zai couldn't help but be secretly frightened. Whenever Jiang Guogong talks about ironmaking, he can always hit the key point, and Yun built a blast furnace on the bank of the Shuiyang River in Xuanzhou to make iron, using a waterwheel to blow the wind, and using a waterwheel to strike iron, Liu Zai imagined such a scene, and couldn't help but be fascinated.

The two talked into the alley, and it was noon. Liu Zai's mother-in-law came over to ask Liu Zai for money to buy some wine and meat as a hospitality, and the two bit their ears and spoke, but Liu Zai's embarrassment fell in Li Congyi's eyes, and Li Congyi also woke up, so he asked Chen Dong to buy vegetables and meat.

The reason why Chen Qiao threw Chen Dong to Li Congyi was that Chen Dong was unwilling to study seriously, and wanted to be a gentleman all day long, learning from those bad boys to drink and gamble in the Red Mansion, and he couldn't control it, but Chen Qiao somehow felt that Li Congyi might have a way. Li Congyi couldn't help it for a while, but fortunately, Chen Dong's nature was not bad, and he had been with him for the past few days, thinking that after Xuanzhou, he would be left in the barracks to grind and grind, and he might want to study.

Liu Zai's family is just two into a small courtyard, living with the old parents, and only one daughter, who is also the age of a yellow-haired girl, and is not afraid of life, so she listened to the adults in the courtyard, and immediately jumped out and said that she could lead the way to the riverside market outside the West Fence Gate to buy some fish and meat.

Chen Dong went out with the little girl of Liu Zai's family. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, she couldn't come back, and Liu Zai's mother-in-law was also anxious and wanted to go out to find it.

When going out in Xuanzhou, Li Congyi usually brought at least ten guards, but in Jinling City, horses were not allowed to run in the city, and Li Congyi was unwilling to take a carriage, so he could only ride a horse and walk slowly, or simply lead the horse. Therefore, when he went out this time, Li Congyi only brought three guards and Chen Dong. And this Chen Dong is Chen Qiao's grandson, Li Congyi really can't let this kid have an accident. So he asked Liu Zai to lead the way, and the group went outside the West Fence Gate.

It is said that Chen Dong walked out of the West Fence Gate, walked along the avenue, and soon arrived at a market by the Qinhuai River.

The market is very lively, and many fishing boats returning from fishing in the Yangtze River stop here to sell; There are also small boats of merchants who sail directly here to unload their goods, and then go directly to the city through the West Fence Gate. In this way, a market was formed here, with fish, meat and vegetables, and even more coachmen and coolies waiting for work gathered in one place, which was more vibrant than in the city.

Chen Dong had never been to such a place, but he was very curious, looking around all the way. When he met a meat vendor, Chen Dong wanted to step forward, but the little girl of the Liu family pulled him to continue walking, "There is another one in front, let's go to the one in front." ”

Unexpectedly, there seemed to be someone making trouble ahead, and the crowd was crowded into a heap, blocking the road. The little girl of the Liu family said "not good", so she slipped into the crack, and Chen Dong followed closely and squeezed in.

I saw two groups of people each with a dozen people facing each other on the street, all dressed as boatmen. One of the people, but the leader was a woman. Chen Dong squeezed to the little girl of the Liu family and asked what was the matter.

The little girl of the Liu family was also spicy, so she said loudly: "These people are so shameless, they blindly bully other orphans and widows!" Someone took the lead, and there were also people in the crowd of onlookers who complained about the woman. In just a few words, Chen Dong understood. The person named Wu Kai, the leader here, and her husband named Xianglian over there jointly bought the land, and both families set up warehouses here, and let their families set up stalls here to sell fish and meat. Unexpectedly, Xianglian's husband had an accident when he ran away from the boat this year, and Wu Kai bullied Xianglian's orphans and widows, and wanted to tear up the agreement and drive Xianglian and them away from here.

Although Chen Dong didn't want to study, his mind was not confused, and looking at Wu Kai's appearance, he thought that maybe Wu Kai wanted to swallow up Xianglian's group of people.

I really guessed it for Chen Dong. Running boats on the Yangtze River, these small boats may have accidents on windy days, or sometimes they may die when they encounter river bandits or even some vicious officers and soldiers. And once something happens, the family can only take care of the boat help. This is also the fundamental reason for the prevalence of boat gangs on the Yangtze River, Taihu Lake and other waters.

The boat gang has also reduced the difficulty of the government's management, and some things can be done directly to the boat boss, and it is not easy to catch the boat boss, and the boat boss is on the official government's book, but it is not easy to run. This Wu Kai really wants to join Xianglian's boat gang.

Everyone is gossiping, and this Wu Kai is a little unable to wipe his face. Annoyed, he came to arrest the girl of the Liu family.

Originally, the girl of the Liu family had already shrunk her head and squeezed into the crowd, but Chen Dong was young and vigorous, and he didn't open this Wu in his eyes, so he reached out and grabbed Wu Kai's arm. Wu Kai was extremely angry, grabbed Chen Dong's arm with his backhand at the moment, and pressed Chen Dong to the ground with more force.

Chen Dong was so angry that he shouted: "You dare to hit me!" ”

"I'm going to beat you!" Wu Kailai made trouble a few times, but he didn't want to eat this fragrant lotus, and the people of the boat gang were also united, and it had no effect. Today, I saw someone crashing into the door, and there were a few old punches at the moment, which made Chen Dong's nose blue and his face swollen.

The girl of the Liu family jumped out again and shouted: "You are beating the adults of the government!" ”

At this time, Wu Kai noticed that Chen Dong was wearing good clothes, and he really didn't look like the surrounding civilians, and then he saw that Chen Dong had white skin and was pressed to the ground by him, just holding his head high and his eyes were on fire. Wu Kai suddenly felt that the situation was wrong, so he wanted to smear oil on the soles of his feet, and the girl of the Liu family ran to Xianglian: "Sister Xianglian, don't let people run away, my father has an adult there, and he will definitely come over in a while." ”

Xianglian listened, and didn't say anything, and immediately stepped forward to grab Wu Kai, Wu Kai was anxious to leave, and couldn't get rid of it for a while, so he punched him. That Xianglian was also very good, one dodged sideways, bullied in, and fought with Wu Kai. After all, Xianglian is a woman, and her strength is not as good as Wu Kai, but Chen Dong couldn't hold it anymore and rushed up, Chen Dong didn't have any rules, but Wu Kai didn't dare to hurt Chen Dong anymore at this time, so he tied his hands and feet, and was entangled by Xianglian and couldn't get out.