As June begins, the plum rainy days in Fuzhou are finally coming to an end. The sky is basically still dark and cloudy, but the rain is not as strong as before. The wind is quite cool, but people who have lived in Fuzhou know that from this time on, the weather in Fuzhou will become hotter day by day.

In the auditorium of the guild, midsummer has arrived. Half of the people in the room were wearing silk and satin, while the other half were wearing cotton clothes. No matter which one it was, they were not worn by the poor. Except for the staff wearing flying fish suits, each of the participants who attended the investor meeting had a stool, and each of them held a small fan in their hands. The fan was very delicate, with a picture of a lady on it, and the withdrawal was written in the words of the 'First guild Investor Conference'.

Sima Kao fanned the small fan and took out a towel to wipe the sweat on his forehead. The towel had nothing to do with the wool. The so-called "wool" is not animal hair or human hair. The "wool" here refers to fluff. The general technical key of the towel is to insert cotton thread into the cotton thread of the knitted towel. The total amount of these exposed cotton threads is much more than the cotton cloth as the base surface, which increases the water absorption, breathability and softness of the towel.

The textile technique of towels is in line with the velvet technology of the Song Dynasty. In order to achieve such a process, in addition to having very good weaving technology, the labor spent on towels is much more expensive than weaving cloth. So when the towel appeared two years ago, it shocked Fujian Road, and this item could not be exported. It was not because no one from abroad bought it, but because rich people on Fujian Road purchased all the towels.

Sima Kao is one of the rich people. His family has business in Gusu, and Sima Kao also has income as a teacher. Now Sima Kao is waiting for his latest income, investment profits from the navigation industry. Sima Kao is surrounded by similar guys, and they are anxiously waiting for the meeting to be officially held. The meeting means determining the income of these people.

The only person in the venue who does not wear the flying fish uniforms of workers and is not an investor was probably Xu Yuanzhi. One-eighth of the people in the entire venue were Jinshis. As a member of the Jinshi and Zhao Jiaren's guest, he attended the investor meeting with Sima Kao.

Holding a fan in his hand, Xu Yuanzhi took an investor's manual and read it carefully. Four large chandeliers with dozens of candles hung above the auditorium, and the wooden shed on the roof was painted with white dust, so the light in the auditorium was still bright. After reading it, Xu Yuanzhi looked at it again. This made Sima Kao, who had read the manual for more than ten times, feel a little impatient.

"Uncle Master, do you have anything to understand?" Sima Kao was a little speechless. He could give some explanations to others and spend some time.

Xu Yuanzhi didn't raise his head, and said, "Simakao, don't be impatient. It's useless to be anxious. When it's time to hold a meeting, you will naturally have to hold a meeting. If you feel uneasy, go to the bathroom, wash your hands and wash your face. When it's time for the meeting, you're afraid you won't have time to do this."

Sima Kao didn't expect that Uncle Master would teach him a lesson, and he felt very unhappy at the time. Even though he was unhappy, Sima Kao knew that Uncle Master was right. Anyway, he felt as uncomfortable as if he had dried flowers in his heart, so Sima Kao simply stood up and went to the bathroom. There were also many people in the corridor outside the auditorium. These people chatted in a low voice, occasionally looking at whether the meeting was started in the auditorium, which was probably the same as Sima Kao.

Sima Kao felt very comfortable when he saw people who had the same idea as him. When these people even had emotional impatient feelings with him, Sima Kao felt like he was seeing his relatives. He couldn't help but come forward to chat with someone.

Since they couldn't help but run out, the brothers outside easily accepted Sima Kao. One of them was interrupted and when Sima Kao just entered the circle, the guy hurriedly continued: "In the early years, I saw that those big cannibals were domineering and looked arrogant. Now these people are all depressed, and then I feel that the words of Hedong and Hexi for thirty years are indeed a famous saying. My family used to farm for generations, so how could I find that one day I could make money from the sea."

It is very happy to mock the strong men before when they are proud, not to mention that the Dashi merchants were completely excluded from the guild. To be more precise, the maritime trade that was once monopolized by the Dashi merchants changed hands completely, and the Dashi merchants in the Dashi merchants mastered all the routes. Now it is the turn of these Dashi merchants who stayed in the Dashi merchants to become bystanders.

As soon as the topic was opened, the follow-up followed. Someone in the circle asked: "There are 100,000 Dashi merchants in Fuzhou and Quanzhou. You said they had basically no business in the past two years, why haven't they left?"

Immediately someone explained arrogantly: "Tsk. Where is our Song Dynasty? If the Song Dynasty was poorer than the food, would they travel thousands of miles to the Song Dynasty to suffer?"

Sima Kao felt that this was right. When he was nodding slightly, he saw a brother leading a waiter over. The waiter held a big wooden tray in his hand. Just when he approached, Sima Kao smelled a sweet feeling. He turned around and saw that there were many small trays on the wooden tray, and cream cakes were placed on each tray.

This is a new dessert launched by Zhao Jiaren, and the price is not cheap. The brother who came here saw Sima Kao at a glance, and he hurriedly said, "Forget it, one less, but fortunately I asked for a few more."

Sima Kao quickly stood up and explained that he could not stand the house, so he came out to have some breath with everyone. He asked about the price of the butter cake, and the person who bought the cake was very proud. He smiled and said, "I can afford a cake today! I will be a guest when I meet you, and you don't have to be polite to me, just eat it."

This is not all about scenes. For ordinary families, a quick butter cake is not cheap. For those attending this meeting, a piece of cake is just a happy dessert. Moreover, the butter cake is really delicious, and everyone thinks that the money spent is not unfair.

After eating other people's food, Sima Kao introduced himself. He heard that Sima Kao was a teacher in Zhao Jiaren's school, and a group of investors immediately showed an envious expression. After a little communication, they learned that Sima Kao was still a genuine Jinshi, and the eyes of these people instantly turned into admiration.

So the group of people began to introduce themselves, both from Fujian and coastal people. If they had to say that they had something in common, they had a group of dealing with Zhao Jiaren when Zhao Jiaren was establishing the Fujian coastal lighthouse group, and then engaged in commercial cooperation with Zhao Jiaren. Because of this relationship, they became the lowest-level investors, which means they could only invest in the overall goods and the dividend ratio was the lowest. Moreover, the average amount of money invested by these people was more than 300 jin of copper coins per person. Not poor, they could not compare with the internal investors of the Navigation Guild led by Zhao Jiaren.

After this brief introduction, someone immediately tried to continue the previous topic, "Sima Guanren. Do you think we will drive away all the big food merchants?"

Sima Kao had no interest in Dashi merchants, and had no idea about the stay or departure of Dashi merchants. So his answers were all puzzled, "Tear them away?"

After hearing this, the others couldn't help laughing out loud, "Haha, Sima Guanren, don't be as knowledgeable as him. This guy wants to buy a shop in Fuzhou, and he is almost crazy. But now there is no land in Fuzhou to buy a shop for him. After thinking about it, the only one who can sell the house is probably the Dashi merchant."

Even Sima Kao was so smart that it took him a long time to think about it to be considered as having to straighten out the logical relationships. The nautical guild established by Zhao Jiaren developed greatly, and large people flocked to Fuzhou, causing local real estate in Fuzhou to be scarce. The prosperous maritime trade in the Song Dynasty gave birth to the prosperity of Fuzhou's local commerce. If you want to do business, you need commercial land, so you can't just build a small house to use it.

Sima Kao worked as a teacher in Zhao Jiaren and visited the Mawei area that had been bought by Zhao Jiaren. The largest building in the Mawei area is actually not a school or a shipyard, but a warehouse. Wood, iron, and various objects need a warehouse. Moreover, it takes a lot of space to effectively manage the warehouse. After seeing these, Sima Kao finally understood why these guys who wanted to open shops in Fuzhou wanted to buy land and real estate.

"I actually don't know much about this. But even if we are relatively Dashi merchants, we must have a reason." Sima Kao followed the words of those people. After speaking, Sima Kao found that his words seemed to have something wrong logically. What does it mean to "there must be a reason"? It's stumped that as long as we find a reason that can be justified, we can do whatever we want to Dashi merchants?

Before Sima Kao could adjust his words, the brothers involved in the discussion looked glorious. The most anxious person nodded repeatedly, "Yes! That's right! It's just that there must be a reason. If he acts randomly, the government will probably not agree."

Sima Kao felt that he might have started a very bad start. In a difficult situation, a thought of explaining himself suddenly emerged. That was Zhao Jiaren's words, "The fundamental reason for the development of things is not outside of things but inside of things, but within things, and within things. There is such contradiction inside anything, which causes the movement and development of things. This contradiction inside things is the fundamental reason for the development of things, and the mutual connection and mutual influence of one thing and other things is the second reason for the development of things'.

In other words, in order to achieve their goal of opening a store in Fuzhou, these people don’t care about doing many things. Now Simakao is at most external factors, and it is not even a cause. If these people do anything, it only means that they have the urge to do this.

Just as Sima Kao was seeking an explanation for his guilt, he listened to the group of people continuing to discuss, "The Dashi merchants are always very close to the Pu family. I remember that Zhao Zhizhou started because the Pu family ordered the Dashi merchants not to sell goods to us!"

"Yes! The Pu family colluded with the Mongolians because there were many big cannibals on the Mongolians."

"I have heard a class that Zhao Zhizhou asked someone to give in the city. In the class, our ancestors have said that if they are not my race, their hearts will be different! Those great cannibals must be close to the hearts of the great cannibals. Our China is just a place where they make money, not the motherland they want to serve forever!"

"Those big food merchants don't even love their own motherland. Although our fleet goes out, the purpose is to return to our Song Dynasty. But the big food merchants don't have big food at all, they just stay in the Song Dynasty. People say that when the disaster comes, they fly their own. They don't even love their motherland, and they won't even love our Song Dynasty!"

Sima Kao listened to the investors' words and was completely confused. At this moment, there was a commotion near the auditorium gate, and a group of people chatting there hurriedly entered the auditorium. Someone who knew him waved to this side and signaled that the meeting was held. The people here immediately stood up and hurried to the auditorium.

Looking at the backs of these people, Sima Kao felt his mind was a little unfair. Judging from the introductions just now, these people had not read much, but what these people said just now was just using words that were not as elegant as those of the literati in the court, and they were actually no different. In summary, these people were all "using reason to prove that some people are evil." As for those who were characterized as bad people, they were good people or bad people, this was not important at all.

In the officialdom, if you kill the political opponents and seize the political resources and political status in the hands of the political opponents, you can begin to implement your political ideas and try to realize your political ambitions. It can be seen that the purpose of these people trying to solve the problem of Dashi merchants is only for the commercial resources in the hands of Dashi merchants. In other words, these people are attracted by the commercial land and commercial buildings in the hands of Dashi merchants.

Perhaps Sima Kao himself was the target of political attack, so Sima Kao couldn't help but think that "an ordinary man is innocent and bears a treasure."

With this emotion, Sima Kao entered the auditorium. Xu Yuanzhi, who was sitting steadily in the seat, saw Sima Kao sitting in the seat without any excitement, calmly waiting for the people above to start speaking. Xu Yuanzhi began to ask first, "Who did you meet outside?"

Sima Kao nodded, "I will be my teacher when I walk together!"

Xu Yuanzhi did not continue to ask what Sima Kao had encountered. He said in a relaxed tone: "That's the case. I will not be willing to study because I am not humble." After educating my nephew like this, Xu Yuanzhi fell silent, slapped the fan gently, waiting for the people on the rostrum to speak.

However, it was not the people who spoke on the rostrum. The group of people sat down. A celebrant strode to the front desk and shouted to everyone in the audience with a somewhat exaggerated atmosphere: "Dear investors, the investor conference we are looking forward to has finally begun! Now you can see that the officials of our Navigation Guild took their seats under the leadership of Mr. Yuan Hongjie, the Secretary-General. Now, please welcome Mr. Yuan Hongjie to speak with warm applause! Come on, the applause sounded!"
Chapter completed!