Everyone nodded one after another, and continued to praise Li Zhaoji's benevolence and generosity.

"Tang Mu, when will you dispose of the aftermath of the money?" Someone asked.

Tang Mu said: "On October 15th, I chose to be in Guangzhou Feihong Building, and when the time comes, the big shopkeeper will come back, not only you, but also some Franco businessmen in Macau, will also give the same treatment." If the big shopkeeper does not come back, it will be disposed of by Liu Mingde and Liu Shopkeeper.

Everyone's peace of mind is that the golden winter melon can be locked in the warehouse of the South Park, and I only leave two people to guard it. What do you think? ”

"Oh, when you say that, it makes people think that the old man can't trust you. That's not what it means, the old man just thought that when the time comes, arrange for the shopkeeper to meet the accounts. The gentry who had just asked hurriedly explained, but everyone knew that he was talking about it.

The gentry did not raise any objections, and calculated that this account was counted in 100,000, which was not something that Tang Mu could dispose of with a young person.

"Eldest Prince, please clear a storeroom." Tang Mu said.

"Do you really want to temporarily store this golden winter melon in South Park? Now that your company is fighting against the Japanese people overseas, it is indispensable to use money. Chen Huairen said.

"This is the arrangement of the big treasurer, to calm everyone's hearts. As the saying goes, when a cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold. This kind of thing is a war, how much silver is poured into it, and there is not even the dregs left, and the big shopkeeper said, if the golden winter melon is in his hands, and the expenses are melted, I can't help you. Tang Mu got up and said in a deep voice.

The gentry persuaded one after another: "Huairen, the Oriental Trading Company has a good intention, how can you save face, let's arrange it." ”

Chen Huairen got up and took Tang Mu with him.

Master Xu watched the two go out, nodded slightly, and said: "See, this is the bearing of the Oriental Trading Company, this is the strategy of Li Zhaoji, think of us in front of us in everything, don't embarrass our partners in everything, and cooperate with him, we can't suffer." ”

Master Huang also put down his chopsticks and said, "What I said is that the big guy looks at that Tang Mu, who seems to be a young and vulgar person." But in fact, things are done one by one, and they are very orderly. If half of the shopkeepers under my command were to have half of him, I would have burned incense. ”

"Yes, you see that when he first entered the South Park, he first beat the people of the Chen family, and then opposed Mr. Chen in front of so many people in the flower hall. I made a plan to give my life here, but when you look at Mr. Chen leaving in the afternoon, people knelt on the ground again, helped Mr. Chen to get on the horse, and begged the old man for forgiveness.

Although this child is not very old, he is a bent and stretchable person. Master Xu said with a smile.

Master Qi from Shaozhou Mansion arched his hand and asked: "Brother Xu, Brother Huang, among all of you here, the two of you are more familiar with Li Zhaoji, you see, what is his intention to temporarily store this gold in Nanyuan?" ”

Master Xu smiled: "I stored the golden winter melon in the South Garden, and tried every means to save the fourth son, but I didn't want to be embarrassed by the Chen family." ”

"What Brother Xu said is extremely true. But I don't think it's just embarrassing with the Chen family, and I don't want the relationship with us to deteriorate. Master Huang said jokingly.

"That's, that's. No matter how wise he is, Li Zhaoji is unparalleled, and his fierce and powerful is also overseas, on the ground in Guangdong, if he wants to do things, where can he leave everyone here. ”

When everyone laughed heartily, Chen Huairen and Tang Mu had already turned back.

And the big thing has been resolved, and then chatting is to talk about some small talk, and many people are interested in Sado Gold and Silver Mountain, and they have inquired about it. Tang Mu suddenly remembered something and said: "All of you are from famous families, many of them have been officials in the court, and they have all been guests in the court, master." ”

"What are you asking for?" Someone asked.

"I wonder if you can introduce a few to our trading company, and we would like to pay you a lot of money." Tang Mu said seriously.

"If you just want a few bookkeepers, clerks, which family can't produce a few, such trivial matters will be handed over to the old man." Master Xu said that not long after he returned to his hometown from a prefect in Jiangxi, he had a big business in Huizhou, so he naturally had the ability to do this.

Tang Mu said with a smile: "Master Xu misunderstood, this time the big shopkeeper invited him with a lot of money, and it was the master who was familiar with Qian Gu and the name of the crime. ”

Shiye, also known as the Makubin, was a scholar who helped the military and political officials deal with all kinds of food, and by the Ming Dynasty, the master had become a very independent industry, especially famous for the rise of the Xu Officials Gang in Shaoxing.

The master and the officials are in an employment relationship, and they have nothing to do with the court, they are the officials' cronies, think tanks, and personal assistants, but what they do is official business.

To a large extent, the ability of an official and the quality of his administration are determined by his staff team.

The master has to give advice to officials, participate in confidential information, draft manuscripts, draft sparse documents on behalf of others, handle case files, approve cuts, send envoys under orders, and liaise with officialdom. The masters of the officials ranged from three or five people to a dozen or even dozens of people. But it is mainly the officials of the local government, and the most important thing in the staff team is definitely the master who is in charge of the criminal name and the money valley

The kind of master that the Oriental Trading Company is looking for can be said to be able to do practical things.

"What kind of reasoning is this, what are you doing in the trading company to ask for the punishment of Master Qian Gu?" Someone asked.

Tang Mu said with a smile: "Originally, Tamsui was a wild place, but since the development of the trading company, there are no less than 1,000 households outside the city alone, plus the villages and mines under its jurisdiction, there are more than 6,000 Dingkou. And it is growing day by day, and the top management of our trading company, most of whom are businessmen and sailors, are really not good at handling these government affairs.

More importantly, this time the northern voyage entered and occupied Sado Island in the Japanese Kingdom, which has a population of no less than 80,000 and is densely covered with gold and silver mountains. The city of Xiangchuan alone has a population of more than 30,000.

How to rule is already a difficult problem. ”

Everyone nodded one after another, speaking of which, some impoverished counties in Daming have a population of only 100,000, and a county town with a population of 30,000 is not a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Well, what you said makes sense, and the old man will help you ask."

"Yes, when the old man was in office, the famous master was in Guangzhou, just help you ask."

Macau, Wanghai Tower.

Tang Mu, Li Sizhi and Liu Li entertained the master recruited by the gentry here, Liu Li went to the pass to greet him, and Tang and Li waited in Wanghai Tower.

"The big shopkeeper summoned me to the north, but not Liu Li, he was displeased, so he spoke a little harder." Li Sizhi said to Tang Mu.

Tang Mu smiled, and didn't care: "Compared with Liu Shun, Liu Li is a greedy villain, I have long heard that he is acting in Macau, pretending to be public and private, and the accounts are not clear. ”

"He has been much more diligent during this time." Li Sizhi said.

"Even then, it can't be him. Although I don't know what the big shopkeeper did to let you go north, it must have something to do with Sado, and maybe you will stay in Sado in the future. And the others will also stay behind, among whom the soldiers and horses are convenient, and it must be Liu Shunlai, who fought everywhere in Sado and made a reputation, and those Japanese people were afraid of him.

If Liu Li is allowed to govern again, Zuodu Jinyinshan will not be his Liu family. Tang Mu said.

Li Sizhi waved his hand: "I'm really young and lack experience, maybe I don't want to preside over Sado, maybe it's Chief Chen who presides, I'm just going to assist him." ”

"It's possible, but whether it's you as the main person or as your assistant, you should also change." Tang Mu said.

"Brother Tang, please advise." Li Sizhi and Tang Mu are familiar with each other, and they almost go to Li Zhaoji's side together to be a personal companion, one article and one martial arts, complementing each other.

Tang Mu said: "There are two things, you have to grow your beard, and you and the girl from your master's family should also get married." ”

"Why is that?" Li Sizhi was puzzled.

Tang Mu said: "Four knowledge, we are all young, the big shopkeeper said that youth is capital, but in the eyes of outsiders, youth is bullying." This time I went to Guangzhou South Garden, if I hadn't risked my life to deal with Master Chen at the beginning, I would have made those gentry despise.

Even so, later on the table, they teased me like a child. When I returned to the south, I was acting in Tsushima, and in order to avoid being looked down upon, I had to let Chen Si'an, a traitorous outsider, stand in front.

I believe that you have been looked down upon by others because of this, although you are not old, but you have to find ways to make up for it. If you become a parent, you are an adult, and if you grow a beard, you can be more mature. ”

The beard is a sign of adulthood, and of course, marriage is even more so.

But two things are troublesome for Li Sizhi.

He and his master Qi Hai's Qi Ling are childhood sweethearts, but they like He Chunhua, the daughter of He Liangtao's family. Originally, He Liangtao's wife also had plans to marry her daughter to him, but after the He family went to Tamsui, they immediately changed their minds.

I heard that Li Zhaoji did not have a wife, He Liangtao had the idea of marrying his daughter to Li Zhaoji, but he was rejected, and then saw that Chen Liuzi's wife was not around, and asked him what he meant, but he was also rejected. After coming down three times and twice, after Li Sizhi heard about it, he was disgusted.

But the problem is that he was raised by Qi Hai, if he marries his junior sister, Qi Hai is determined to let him into the family, which is definitely not what Li Sizhi wants.

At this time, Li Sizhi no longer had the original idea of 'Da Ze has a group of wives and concubines', and he planned to let the big shopkeeper come forward to ask for marriage and marry Qi Ling home, without getting into trouble, but it happened that he was in Guangdong to immigrate, and Li Zhaoji sailed north to Nagasaki.

And for him, beard is more about his future.

In the Oriental Trading Company, people have begun to divide civil and military, and when he came back this time, Yang Yandi was closer to Tang Mu, which is that Tang Mu belonged to the martial arts.

When the army was established on Lingding Island, Li Zhaoji asked the whole army to shave and bald their heads, which was not only convenient for hygiene, but also had the benefit of bandaging after being injured.

Because of Li Zhaoji, all his personal entourage shaved, but he often did both civil and military work. For example, Li Sizhi specializes in immigration, which is directly cooperating with Liu Mingde.

can be close to the military generals, Li Sizhi knows that if he has a beard, his future will be directly moved to the cultural context.

In the personal entourage of the big shopkeeper, Tang Mu and Li Sizhi are the most outstanding, if Li Sizhi has a beard, he will be exclusive to Tang Mu in this vein. Li Sizhi is smart, I don't know if this is Tang Mu's intention, or if it is unintentional.

When the long, when the long.

The bell of the carriage came from outside, and the two looked out the window to see that it was the carriage that welcomed the guests, and they tidied up their clothes and were about to go downstairs.

Tang Mu said: "Sizhi, look, who is the carriage in front of the head?" ”

Li Sizhi looked down and found that the person dressed as a scribe knew him, it was Chen Shangchuan, a Gaozhou student who assisted him when he was immigrating in Guangzhou, and he still remembered that Li Zhaoji asked him to take care of him. But later, someone from Chen Shangchuan's house came and said that there was something at home, so he left in a hurry, and there was no news again, and he didn't expect to meet him here again.

At the beginning, Li Zhaoji didn't dare to invite him because he was a talented man, but now he sent it to the door himself.

"Mr. Chen, gentlemen, please inside." Li Sizhi and Tang Mu hurriedly went downstairs, and when they saw Chen Shangchuan, they greeted them.

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