The sixth day of December.

Since the beginning of December, more than a dozen merchants from the Guzhen Inspection Department have successively sent people to Dapanbao, and teams of chariots and horses have come in and out, transporting batches of soap and Dapanbao pot wine, and at the same time, they have also bought a considerable amount of sea salt, and sent a large amount of silver to Liu Yan.

In a few days, Liu Yan directly received more than 7,000 taels of silver, making a lot of money, and everyone in Dapanbao was happy.

Liu Yan immediately paid an additional month's salary to the craftsmen and personnel of the soap workshop, wine workshop and salt drying factory, and immediately ushered in a burst of cheers.

On the evening of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Yan set up a banquet in the General Flag Official Hall, and invited Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Wang Yue, Miao Shao, Xu Ming, and Zhang Yi, as well as Tan Xiaoda, Chen Jiangshi, Zhao Min, and Zhao Yan.

Now that Wang Yunhe is in charge of the winery, Liu Yan has set aside two separate rooms in the winery as Wang Yunhe's boudoir residence.

In addition, Chu Yunfei, the salt lord who distributed sea salt with Liu Yan, was also invited, because of Sun Qian's disturbance, Chu Yunfei's private salt team was almost wiped out, and then with Liu Yan's funding, Chu Yunfei only took a very short time to rebuild his private salt people, which shows that his personal ability is still good, Liu Yan intends to support, so he called over together to enhance the relationship.

Soon everyone arrived, and everyone intentionally or unintentionally left the position next to Liu Yan to Wang Yunhe, Wang Yunhe did not refuse, but just sat down with a red face, which immediately attracted a burst of laughter from everyone.

Liu Yan also laughed and said: "Don't make a fuss, Miss Wang has a thin face, if Miss Wang can't get off the stage, I won't do it!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in a commotion again, Wang Yunhe glared at Liu Yan angrily, and then burst out laughing.

"Come on! Everyone put their glasses up. ”

After laughing, Liu Yan stood up with a wine glass and said loudly: "This year is the year of the rebirth of our Dapan Fort, and everyone has contributed a lot to Dapan Fort to be where it is today." On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, everyone will gather here, let's celebrate the New Year together, and the castle will be lively and lively together! ”

"Good!"

Everyone applauded in unison, their faces were full of joy and happiness, today's good days are really hard-won, if there is no leadership from Liu Yan, everyone is afraid that they are still living a hungry and full life, and now they think about it as if they were dreaming, so unreal.

Then everyone began to celebrate with wine, this time with the ancient town inspection department of the businessmen, not only made a few thousand taels of silver, with the current Dapanbao family background, a few thousand taels of silver will not make everyone so happy.

The real significance of this business lies in the fact that Dapanbao has another stable sales channel in addition to Wang Weizhen, the official of Wangjiazhuang's management team, which can be said to belong to Dapanbao's own sales channel, which is naturally worth celebrating.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Yan was already a little drunk, laughing and talking to Wang Yunhe from time to time, and then saw that everyone was also drunk.

At this time, Tan Xiaoda and Zhao Min were laughing next to each other, saying that the donkey's lips were not right for the horse's mouth, and they had obviously drunk too much.

Wang Yue had already drunk and fell asleep unconscious on his side. Chen Xun and Chen Jiangshi were better, the husband and wife took a sip of wine, clinked glasses with everyone, and muttered something in a low voice, and after saying a few words Chen Jiang's laughed in surprise.

Next to him, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Xu Ming, and Miao Shao were still fighting for wine, and three empty wine jars were placed aside, and Xu Ming stood up again and wanted to open the wine again.

Zhao Yan likes to be quiet, sitting alone and watching everyone's embarrassment, drinking wine with a smile, and unconsciously drinking a few large glasses, his face becoming more and more ruddy.

Chu Yunfei was a little unable to let go at first, after all, all the people here were from Dapanbao. But as the cups of burning pot wine went down, Chu Yunfei's words began to increase, and he began to pull Zhang Yi to talk about the production of sea salt, so that although Zhang Yi was prolific with sea salt, he could sell as much as he could, and everyone would make a fortune together.

After drinking for a while, Liu Yan suddenly remembered what Miao Shao said, and now the merchants of the Guzhen Inspection Department were hoarding iron and charcoal, so he patted the table and said loudly: "Tomorrow you will perform your duties, and then Miao Shao will take a few dun soldiers and go with me to the Guzhen Inspection Division." ”

Miao Shao held the wine glass and said with a smile: "Order!" ”

Wang Yunhe was already too strong to drink at this time, so he drank warm water, took a sip and asked: "Liu Zongqi is going to the Guzhen Inspection Department again, is there anything he wants to buy?" ”

"I'm going to buy some iron and charcoal, and I'm also thinking of having a banquet with the merchants of the ancient town and talking to them about the next business."

Wang Yunhe said with a smile: "Liu Zongqi is too greedy, people just bought so many things, and they have to urge others to spend money." ”

"Haha."

Liu Yan laughed, looked at everyone, and secretly said in his heart: "Maybe I will remember this banquet tonight for a lifetime." ”

The next day, Liu Yan slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up.

Last night, everyone drank until the second half of the night before they dispersed, and Liu Yan sent Wang Yunhe back with a drunken spirit.

"Miao Shao!"

Liu Yan rubbed his swollen and aching head, got up to wash, Miao Shao also had a headache and pushed the door in, and said, "Chief A is awake?" ”

Liu Yan smiled bitterly and said, "I drank too much last night, and I can't drink like this in the future." ”

Miao Shao said with a smile; "I'm afraid it's unrealistic, in the future, our Dapanbao will definitely get better and better year by year, and the first captain will definitely invite everyone to the banquet again and again."

After laughing, Liu Yan asked, "Are you all ready?" ”

"I'm ready, my subordinates brought a team of dun troops and set up three carts, I don't know if it's enough."

Liu Yan thought for a while and said, "Bring all the men and horses under your command, and put on three more carts." ”

"Six cars?"

Miao Shao said: "Chief A, can you use so many ox carts? ”

"Take it all with you."

"Yes."

Half an hour later, Liu Yan set off with Miao Shao's banner, and six large cars set off along the official road to the north, arriving outside the south gate of the Guzhen Inspection Department in the evening of the same day.

That night, Liu Yan and others found an inn, and there were few guests in this inn, so Liu Yan directly chartered the entire inn and stayed.

Early the next morning, Liu Yan took Miao Shao and others to purchase from various places in the Guzhen Inspection Division, and spent a day buying 1,300 catties of iron and 5,000 catties of charcoal.

Six ox carts couldn't fit so many supplies, so Liu Yan asked the merchant Jia to transport the iron and charcoal to the inn under the package first, and then asked Miao Shao to take two teams of Dun troops back first. It is estimated that this batch of iron and charcoal will have to be transported three or four times.

After Liu Yan sent Miao Shao back to transport the goods, he ordered a banquet in the Swift Building in the Ancient Town Inspection Fort, and then invited the previous seventeen merchants, and the time was set for noon tomorrow.

Now the name of Dapanbao has spread in the Guzhen Inspection Division, after all, more than a dozen powerful businessmen have brought the best-selling sea salt, soap and pot wine from Dapanbao. The goods transported back by the seventeen merchants were sold out in just over a day, so that the seventeen merchants tasted the sweetness, and such best-selling goods were enough to spread the name of Liu Yan and Dapanbao in a short period of time.

Soon it was the appointed time, Liu Yan came to the Swift Building in advance with four dun soldiers, and then the seventeen businessmen came one after another, and everyone also brought some good businessmen, Liu Yan also came, and all of them ushered in the seats, so that the shopkeeper of the Swift Building opened a few new tables of wine and food.

When the invited businessmen arrived, Liu Yan beckoned everyone to take a seat, and soon the seven tables of wine and food that had been opened before and after were all full.

Liu Yan ordered the four dun soldiers under his command to pour wine for the merchants, then got up and said a few opening words, and then said with a smile: "Today Liu invited you to a banquet, one is to thank you for buying my Dapanbao goods, and the other is to hope to continue to do business with you, in the future, we will cooperate for a long time, my Dapanbao produces all kinds of best-selling goods, you will be the distributor of my Dapanbao, there is silver to earn together, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Good! With Mr. Liu's words, I will be relieved. ”

"Hehe, the sea salt, soap, and pot wine in Dapanbao, these are the three uniques, how many are not too much."

"Well said, let's trade for a long time in the future, and everyone will make money together!"

"Mr. Liu is too polite, let's get along well in the future, and we will make a fortune together!"

Liu Yan saw that everyone agreed with his proposal, so he said with a smile: "Okay, since everyone agrees, let's all have a drink together, come, let's have a drink!" ”

All the businessmen also raised their glasses, and when they were about to drink together, suddenly the door of the private room was pushed open, and a tall and sturdy man walked in with a sneer, followed by a few long-looking entourage.

Seeing this, the merchants were suddenly silent, almost everyone consciously put down their wine glasses, and then bowed their heads and remained silent, and the atmosphere of the banquet suddenly dropped from warm to freezing.

Seeing this, Liu Yan couldn't help frowning, clenched his fists and said, "I don't know what to call this hero?" ”

The sneering man didn't return the salute, and said proudly: "Heroes can't be talked about, but the size of the inspection department in this ancient town is also a small role, and in Xia Song Long!" ”

Liu Yan hadn't heard of this person, so he looked at a businessman sitting beside him suspiciously, and asked, "Do you know who this little brother Song is?" ”

I saw that the businessman didn't dare to answer, but just gestured with his eyes, and squeezed his eyebrows at Liu Yan for a while.

Seeing this, Song Long laughed, and then said: "What about Liu Zongqi, what do you say, what are you fooling about?" ”

As if he had received a holy decree, the merchant smiled and said, "Yes, yes." It's just that Song Gongzi is such a person, we small businessmen and hawkers don't dare to comment, don't dare, don't dare. ”

"Haha!"

Song Long was very useful for such an answer, standing at the door and laughing wantonly, Liu Yan's face became more and more ugly, this guy was obviously looking for trouble, and it seemed that he was going to rectify it again.

Just when Liu Yan was thinking in his heart, Song Long said: "I heard that you Liu Zongqi is generous?" It's not good to make a fortune in Dapanbao, but he came to my ancient town inspection department to do business, is it possible that the current chief flag officer of the guard station is so rich? ”

After speaking, Song Long walked to a table and directly pushed away the two businessmen who were blocking the way, one of the businessmen did not stand firmly, and fell to the ground with his butt, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

Song Long picked up a jar of pot wine and took a sip, then spit out a mouthful of wine, and said with a smile: "Liu Zongqi's pot wine is really delicious, since Liu Zongqi is so generous, I don't think it's as good as this, from this month on, Liu Zongqi will send me 500 catties of pot wine, 1,000 catties of sea salt, and 1,000 pieces of soap every month, as for the silver, I don't think I want much in Liu Zongqi's face, just send me 3,000 taels of silver every month, how about it!" ”