Liu Jingting asked to see Li Xiaonan again, but it was Ah Wu who came to the tea house.
A Wu pushed open the private door and waved to Liu Jingting, leading Liu Jingting into the small courtyard where Gu Yan was entertaining guests.
Wan Qing and Yu Ting stood at the door of the wing, one on the left and the other on the right. Wan Qing bowed slightly and signaled Liu Jingting to enter the room.
In the side room, against the wall facing the door, there was a row of desks. The desks were piled with account books of varying heights, and the account books were spread everywhere.
Liu Jingting had just crossed the threshold with one foot and hurriedly stepped back.
Ah Wu said just now that this is where the Crown Prince meets with people and directors, and the account books placed here are compiled by the Crown Princess herself. So these account books must be extremely confidential official business, and he had better avoid suspicion.
Li Xiaonan turned around and saw Liu Jingting hurriedly retreating, "These are the account books of the charity association, come in."
Liu Jingting answered "yes" and stepped into the threshold again.
Wan Qing came in and was about to make tea when she suddenly stopped, turned around and asked Li Xiaonan, "Would you like to have a tea party?"
"Do you know how to hold a tea party?" Li Xiaonan asked in surprise. Facing Wan Qing's angry eyes, Li Xiaonan waved her hands hurriedly and said, "No, no, no, this is the accounting room, not the waiter."
Liu Jingting held back her smile hard.
Wan Qing poured two cups of tea with lowered eyebrows and placed them in front of Li Xiaonan and Liu Jingting, standing a mile away from Yuting across the threshold.
Liu Jingting took out a roll of sheepskin, opened it, and pushed it in front of Li Xiaonan. There were a dozen needles of different thicknesses and lengths tied to the sheepskin, as well as seven or eight iron and copper blocks.
Liu Jingting pointed at the sheepskin and said straightforwardly: "I found a few trustworthy craftsmen and tried it several times. From these times, it seems that the difficulty lies in this sewing needle.
"These are the best sewing and embroidery needles on the market. They have good hardness but not enough toughness. These are acupuncture needles used by doctors. They have good toughness but not enough hardness. It would be expensive to combine the two into one."
Liu Jingting paused before speaking and looked at Li Xiaonan.
He has already calculated that if the amount of this sewing equipment is used to cover the needs of the imperial military uniforms, the profit earned in the first one or two years can only cover the cost of this needle. This needle is probably the most expensive of all this equipment.
The simplest and cheapest item.
Li Xiaonan pushed away the piece of sheepskin, met Liu Jingting's gaze and asked: "Why do you want to be my disciple?"
Liu Jingting was startled. He didn't expect Li Xiaonan to suddenly ask this. He subconsciously looked at Wan Qing and Yu Ting, who were looking at him curiously.
"In recent years, overseas business has become more and more difficult year by year. The key to the difficulty of doing business is that the sea route is getting more and more difficult. I joined you because I hope to have the opportunity to draw on the power of the empire." Liu Jingting answered concisely and vaguely.
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"Then why don't you join the prince's family?" Li Xiaonan asked next.
"The Crown Prince has many talented people, and the Crown Prince has more opportunities here." Liu Jingting said with a smile.
"You two, stand back." Li Xiaonan turned around and waved to Wan Qing and Yu Ting.
Wan Qing and Yu Ting quickly turned back and ran to the hanging flower door, looking into the room from a distance to see the call.
"It's not that I can't trust them, it's that they feel they can't keep a secret." Li Xiaonan looked at Liu Jingting and explained.
Liu Jingting hurriedly smiled and bowed, her expression obviously becoming cautious.
"I think Mr. He is having a hard time. I also think that you and Mr. He have a very close relationship. If you didn't look nothing like him, I almost suspect that your surname should be He." Li Xiaonan stared.
Looking at Liu Jingting's face.
Liu Jingting raised her eyebrows slightly, then smiled bitterly.
Shopkeeper He did have the same difficulties as him.
Li Xiaonan continued: "If you want to use the power of the empire, old shopkeeper He is enough. You joined me because you want to use the crown prince to do what you want to do. If you join the crown prince, you are afraid that
You can't hide your little plan from the prince, so you start from me.
"I don't mind that you have your own little plans. I also have my own plans, which are different from the crown prince's. I just want to know some of your plans and see what your plans are like with mine.
Which ones are the same and which ones are different.”
Liu Jingting was silent for a moment, looked at Li Xiaonan and asked: "Does the girl think that shopkeeper He's difficulties are because the prince doesn't trust him enough?"
"No, it's very easy for him to want the Crown Prince to trust him. He probably doesn't care much about the Crown Prince's trust in him, right? So do you." Li Xiaonan said straightforwardly.
Liu Jingting looked at Li Xiaonan with bright eyes and asked, "Have you finished listening to Sang Shuai's biography?"
"Um."
"What do you think?"
Li Xiaonan said nothing.
"The ancestor of the He family is the shopkeeper surnamed He who followed Sang Shuai. The Liu family was a pirate. Both the He family and the Liu family have special ancestral halls dedicated to Sang Shuai." Liu Jingting continued.
"What are your plans?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"Prince Lao Rui reorganized the Jiangnan Weaving Mill. The Jiangnan Weaving Mill was dying. In order to save Jiangnan and the Jiangnan Weaving Mill, shopkeeper He's father asked my grandfather to reduce pirate robberies and commissions. Because of this reduction, the Liu family's control over the sea was greatly reduced.
With the weakening, the He family has also weakened, and it has been very difficult in these years." Liu Jingting said while looking at Li Xiaonan.
"Then how to solve it?" Li Xiaonan asked.
Liu Jingting secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Money, a lot of money."
Li Xiaonan frowned.
He wants a lot of money, and it's best to make money quickly. He needs to spend a lot of money on his own affairs. Alas, it's troublesome.
"What are you going to do, girl?" Liu Jingting asked.
"It's the same thing as Sang Shuai building roads." Li Xiaonan answered frankly.
"The girl has to make money first, I'm afraid this won't work." Liu Jingting pointed to the roll of sheepskin.
"Let me think about it." Li Xiaonan pushed the roll of sheepskin to Liu Jingting.
"The Crown Prince is very interested in this. I'm afraid I have to do it anyway. Being able to take over the production of imperial military uniforms, although the profit is limited, is still an income." Liu Jingting smiled, paused, and asked in a low voice: "Just now
Do you want to tell the prince these little things?"
"Your family's background as a pirate, doesn't the prince know?" Li Xiaonan asked.
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"I think Sang Shuai definitely doesn't mind whether the maritime line is controlled by the Liu family or the Zhao Qiansun and Li family. He doesn't mind what happens to the He family. He doesn't mind..." Li Xiaonan raised a finger and turned it around.
He raised it above his head and turned around again, "I don't mind..."
Liu Jingting laughed out loud, "Yes, I heard my great-grandfather say something similar when I was a child. But after all, the Liu family is a family that has received Sang Shuai's teachings. The Zhao Qiansun and Li family are definitely not as good as the Liu family, and the same is true here."
"Well, let me think about it." Li Xiaonan raised her hand to signal Wan Qing.
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Gu Yan didn't go back until midnight. He entered the hanging flower door and saw that the upper room was brightly lit. He hurriedly quickened his pace. When he entered the door, he saw Li Xiaonan wearing comfortable clothes and trousers with her hair loose. She was lying on the couch writing and drawing. She was so surprised that she felt cold all over.
I forgot about it and hurriedly stretched my head to take a look.
"What's written here? What's so important that keeps you up so late?" Gu Yan asked while reading.
"You haven't slept either. You are really cold." Li Xiaonan stretched out her hand to push Gu Yan away.
"I'm going to change clothes." Gu Yan turned around very quickly, sat behind Li Xiaonan, stretched his head and continued to look.
"You can't understand." Li Xiaonan wrote quickly.
Gu Yan looked at it for a while and frowned. He knew all the words, but he didn't understand how to put them together.
Gu Yan reached for a stack of written papers on the couch and read them one by one. When he saw the last one, he could almost understand it.
"Has it been written?" Gu Yan asked immediately after seeing Li Xiaonan stop writing.
"It's better today." Li Xiaonan put down her pen and stretched herself upwards. Gu Yan took her hands and said, "More upwards, push harder and hold your breath."
"Okay, okay! I don't practice kung fu!" Li Xiaonan pulled her hands back hard.
"What does this mean?" Gu Yan put the only piece of paper he could understand in front of Li Xiaonan.
"Your mother-in-law is so kind to you, so much so that even me is wrapped up in her kindness." Li Xiaonan let out a long sigh.
Gu Yan stretched his head forward from behind and looked carefully at Li Xiaonan's expression, "What do you mean by this?"
"Something happened in the Wen family recently." Li Xiaonan moved and faced Gu Yan face to face. Gu Yan frowned and was about to speak when Li Xiaonan put her finger on her lips.
"Stop talking, listen to me first! The fourth wife of the Wen family is dead, do you know this?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"Can I speak?" Gu Yan asked first.
"No, just nod and shake your head."
Gu Yan nodded.
"Mother Shen told me about this matter. She also told how the fourth master of the Wen family met the fourth wife, how the fourth master Wen didn't marry Qing, how the two of them were so good, and how the fourth master Wen could not marry her.
I'm more considerate to my fourth wife than you are to me
I still want to be better. I have been fine for seventeen years. Last year, Fourth Master Wen suddenly got tired of it. Mother Shen said that Fourth Master Wen was too kind to the fourth wife and took such good care of her. Without Fourth Master Wen’s care
, the fourth wife survived for more than a year and then died.
"This is an introduction. Aunt Shen talked a lot later. Aunt Shen was very particular in her speech and went through many circles. To sum up, men are unreliable and have to rely on themselves. I have to be able to stand on my own." Li Xiaonan. He patted Gu Yan.
"I can speak now? Can Wen Si compare with me? How can my mother tell you this? Do you think she is doing you a favor?" Gu Yan was a little unsure of what his mother meant and what she wanted to do. .
"Of course it's for my own good." Li Xiaonan took the piece of paper from Gu Yan's hand and raised it in front of Gu Yan, "I thought about it for two whole days. There are three ways in front of me. First, take a gamble. What if? Secondly, as Mother Shen said, be like A Niang and be a crown prince who can support the entire Prince Rui's palace; thirdly, be the richest man in the empire!"
Gu Yan burst out laughing, "The first one is just the word "bet". It seems you are not prepared to take a gamble. The second one, one, two, three, four and five, puts me in the first place. Not bad, not bad! You are the richest man. The following is the word "Gezhi". Are you preparing to become the Crown Princess who can support the entire Prince Rui's palace?"
"No, I decided to choose the third option. I want to be the richest man." Li Xiaonan patted the stack of rice paper, "These are all great ways to make money."
"What should we do in the palace?" Gu Yan asked with raised eyebrows.
"My grandma is only in her early fifties. I will be the richest man first, and then learn to be a housekeeper." Li Xiaonan said with a smile.
"You can be considered a scholar who has passed the examination. Don't you know that when people like us do business, they compete with the people for profit?" Gu Yan imitated Li Xiaonan and laughed twice.
"I know, I have memorized the Hadith, and these businesses of mine are businesses that are not available on the market." Li Xiaonan paused and looked at Gu Yan, "I haven't found a business yet. If I find it, I will definitely do it first. I’m telling you, I’ll do it after you nod.”
Gu Yan smiled and nodded, "How are you going to deal with my mother's side? You already said that this is for your own good."
"Let's put it off for a while. I still have a room full of accounts, as well as your accounts. I'll wait until I sort out all the accounts." Li Xiaonan wanted to sigh.
This is a troublesome matter. The trouble lies with the princess. It is for her own good!