Li Miao's work in the Northern Bureau headed by Li Shui in the past six months. Full affirmation was given. The situation has basically been opened up in the north, and it has made a good start for the work of the northern bureau in the future.

Li Miao decided to focus on the development of the Tongzhou branch, Tongzhou is mixed, and the business is so prosperous, it is an excellent place to develop business and protect forces in a low-key manner. Li Miao is only afraid of the government, not other fish and dragons.

The more chaotic Tongzhou is, the better. The government management here is also relatively relaxed, and so many families are developing in Tongzhou, and the government can't keep it up even if it wants to. It is in line with the pattern of Li Miao's low-key development.

On the one hand, by purchasing land, some domestic slaves can be placed, and some of the school-age boys can be trained to become Zhuang Ding, so as to increase their strength. Second, the field can be used to grow high-yield crops adapted to the north. Such as sweet potato, potato, corn, wheat, etc.

This will serve as an example and accelerate the promotion of these high-yielding crops in the north. Promoting high-yield crops in the north can obtain a huge amount of luck for Li Miao. It can also solve the food problem of peasants in the north. Why not?

Although Li Miao has a fame, plus Li Yuanwai is a shield. But the fields must also be controlled within 7,000 acres. Low-key and reluctant.

Li Miao arranged for Zhang Lao to worship Zhang Defu in Tongzhou to preside over the business activities of the Tongzhou branch, and opened tea shops and spice shops. When it comes to doing business, no one in the Northern Bureau is Zhang Defu's person. After all, he has been a shopkeeper for 30 years.

Hu Er and Li Jiu served as the chief of the guard and the assistant respectively. Gradually develop the escort force to escort Tongzhou's commercial and trade activities.

At present, the turnover of spice shops and tea shops in Tongzhou can be relaxed to 100,000 taels of silver per month. After all, I saw the prosperity of Tongzhou's commerce. The monthly business of 100,000 taels of silver is really inconspicuous here.

It's still quite impressive for Li Miao. Almost net profit. Can it not be impressive? With silver, we can develop and grow our strength better and faster.

The Northern Bureau still has a task, which is to buy a grange in Tongzhou. It is mainly in the middle and lower fields, and does not exceed 5,000 acres of land. One or more granges are acceptable. However, the distance between several granges should not be too far. for ease of management.

Once the grange is established, all the original households can be retained, and in addition, the homeless people with families as slaves can be purchased as slaves, and then the guards can be selected from them for training. Quickly build up combat power.

These guards only teach Jeet Kune Do. Cun Jin and other out-of-school students need Li Miao's special approval. Li Miao only took 100,000 taels of silver tickets. Leave 270,000 taels of silver for the Northern Bureau as development funds.

Because the market potential of Tongzhou is huge, Zhang Lao is also full of energy. In addition, when he saw the spices, tea and other goods that Li Miao brought from Jinling, he couldn't wait to take action immediately. Of course, Li Miao's regulatory power will also be in place, whether it is a cheap old man or who, institutionalized management cannot be different from person to person.

Li Miao and his entourage did not leave Tongzhou immediately, and in Li Miao's heart, the importance of Tongzhou at present is far greater than that of the capital. In the capital, Li Miao can't do anything except study, even if he has achieved the fame of Jinshi, Li Miao will not have the opportunity to show his strength. When it comes to doing business and developing the escort force, it has to be Tongzhou.

In the future, Tongzhou will be the top priority. Next, Li Miao, accompanied by Li Shui and other high-level officials of the Northern Bureau, conducted a three-day inspection in Tongzhou. Through the investigation, Li Miao's determination to show his strength in Tongzhou was strengthened. Before leaving Tongzhou, Li Miao summoned Zhang Lao to worship alone.

Li Miao's cheap father-in-law is now proud, and his son Zhang Jun is now the shopkeeper of the spice shop in Beijing. And he has already married a wife, and his wife is pregnant, Zhang Defu is about to hold his grandson soon. Daughter Xiao Zhang Min is also favored by Li Miao, and she is pregnant. Now Zhang Defu himself is in a high position.

I think of the dilemma I had when I was in Changzhou noodle restaurant before. It's really a gap between heaven and hell. Zhang Defu even sometimes thinks that if his son Zhang Jun's batch of spices in Lianyungang had not been robbed. What happens to your own family? It turned out that he did a business of several hundred taels of silver every year. And soon he will have to manage a business of several million taels of silver every year.

Li Miao and Zhang Defu had a secret conversation in the room for more than an hour, and no one knew the content of the conversation. This has also become the most proud thing in Zhang Defu's life, even more proud than he was Li Miao's housekeeper in Changzhou Mansion.

That was the owner who summoned him alone in front of all the high-level officials of the Northern Bureau! Many years later, some people wanted to take advantage of Zhang Defu's drunkenness to do something, but in the end it was fruitless. That's the secret between him and the owner, how could he leak half a word!

The second house where Li Miao is located on Rongning Street in the capital. This house was purchased by Li Shui for 30,000 taels of silver. The house as a whole is quaint and atmospheric. There are sixty or seventy rooms in total. The front yard is not small, and the backyard is not big, which is exactly what Li Miao wants. He is now a personal maid, and it doesn't matter if he has a backyard or not.

In the living room, there were three people sitting at this time, Li Miao, Wang Yonggui, Li Shui, and Li Shi stood behind Li Miao. Wang Yonggui: "The owner, can you buy five or six slaves to live in and listen to it?" "Yes". Li Miao squinted and nodded slightly.

Wang Yonggui: "The owner, you can also open a tea shop in the capital, as long as the transaction volume is limited, the impact should not be large, in addition, you can open a number of small teahouses, not trying to make money, just don't be deaf and blind."

Li Miao glanced at Li Shui, who was thinking. Now that they are in the capital, he is basically deaf and blind. No sources. "Yes". It seems that Li Shui has fully grown up, and there is still a long way to go. These tasks should have been done by Li Shui.

Li Miao stood up, "Everything in the capital is mainly low-key, and you can buy a few middle and lower granges in the suburbs of Beijing, just one or two thousand acres." On the one hand, sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, wheat and other crops are planted to facilitate the promotion of high-quality seeds in the north.

It is also possible to settle some homeless people with families, take them as slaves, train guards, and some treasurers, and prepare for future development. In addition, the storefront rented in the capital is now purchased." Saying that, Li Miao didn't stay in the living room for a long time, and then walked towards the study.

In the next few days, Li Miao was just strolling around Rongning Street near the house, and vaguely felt that his divine sense had also been suppressed. It seems that the water in the capital is still very deep, and it is not something that he can participate in. Low-key and reluctant.

So, Li Miao stopped going out, he was waiting for the fruit of the spice tree that Ke'er brought to him to ripen.

Anyway, it's not a few days before maturity. The spice tree fruit is still the first time to appear, and it took nearly half a year to ripen, so it should be a good thing. I don't know what it can bring him. In the past, he had tasted two of the fruits of the tea tree, one was Xiao Zhang Min's divine power and one yang finger supernatural power, and the other was Da Zhang Min's astringent Taoist supernatural power.