It is known from the first-level governor that Denglai Commander-in-Chief Geng Yingjie was born and raised in Tianjin. After the great victory of Fanjiazhuang, he was promoted from Tianjin Deputy General to Denglai Commander-in-Chief. Although he was transferred to Denglai as Commander-in-Chief, he still kept his youngest daughter
He stayed in Tianjin. Every few months, he would go back to Tianjin to take a look.
In early April, he returned to Tianjin from Dengzhou to see his daughter.
As soon as Geng Hua saw Geng Yingjie, his eyes turned red and he threw himself into Geng Yingjie's arms.
"Dad, you are finally back!"
Geng Yingjie pulled away from Geng Hua with a smile and said, "Is someone bullying you when I'm not here?"
Geng Hua said with red eyes: "Dad and brother are not here, and they all bully me. Daddy, I also want to go to Dengzhou!"
Geng Yingjie said with a smile: "Dengzhou is not as prosperous as Tianjin. You grew up in Tianjin. It would be great to marry a man from Tianjin. If you go to Dengzhou with your father, you will see poor soldiers everywhere."
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Geng Hua muttered: "Tianjin is full of poor soldiers..." But she stopped mid-sentence and said coquettishly: "Dad, you have only come back for so long and you want to buy me something good!"
Geng Yingjie smiled and asked, "What good things should I buy?"
Geng Hua said: "To buy a mirror, my sister from the Qin family next door bought a dressing mirror from the Li family in the east of the city. Not to mention how clear it is, I can even count eyelashes. It's best for dressing up."
Geng Yingjie was stunned and said: "I have also heard about this mirror. I heard that it has become popular in the capital. Every wealthy family buys one."
Geng Hua took his father's arm and said, "Daddy, buy me a dressing mirror too! I'll use it when I apply rouge. If I don't dress up more beautifully, I won't be able to get married!"
"Can't you get married? Everyone who comes to propose marriage has almost crossed the threshold. You can't look down on any of them." Geng Yingjie said with a smile: "Those dresses and mirrors are not cheap. I heard they cost 150 taels each! You like these fresh ones.
It’s a toy that you play with for a few days and then throw away.”
Geng Hua held Geng Yingjie's arm and looked at his father eagerly.
Geng Yingjie had no choice but to take care of Jiao Didi's daughter. He clapped his hands and said, "Okay, I'll buy you one. We'll go to the Li family's shop to buy some in the afternoon!"
Geng Hua let go of Geng Yingjie's arm and clapped his hands happily.
Geng Yingjie shook his head helplessly and said, "How is dad?"
Geng Hua clapped his hands and said, "Daddy is the best!"
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In April, the sales of glass mirrors increased, and Li Zhi had sold all the mirrors he had accumulated in March. Li Zhi quickly hired five more people to increase the manpower to make mirrors and earn more money. Mirrors are better than glass wine sets.
The profit was even higher, so Li Zhi reduced the production of glass wine sets to free up production capacity to produce mirror glass.
On that day, Li Zhi was studying how to increase production capacity in the glass workshop when he heard a servant come to report that Yu Bichi, the official from Tianjin Middle Road's grain management department, was paying a visit.
Tianjin Town is divided into five roads, of which the Middle Road includes Tianjin Acropolis and Fanjiazhuang. The Tianjin Middle Road Food Supervisor manages the grain, grass and military pay of Tianjin Middle Road, and is a popular person in the eyes of the Tianjin Middle Road military attache.
, the general guerrilla generals would kneel respectfully when they saw him. But Li Zhi mainly relied on his servants, who had always raised their own food and grass, so he did not take this communication too seriously and just went to pay a visit.
Once there was no contact.
Why did the general judge come to Fanjiazhuang in person? Li Zhi dusted himself off and returned to the official hall. Entering the second hall, Li Zhi saw that the general judge Yu Bichi, who was in charge of grains, had already sat down with a middle-aged man with a thin face.
Waiting there.
When he saw Tongpan, Li Zhi did not kneel down, but bowed his hands and said: "Master Tongpan came to visit in person, and I am sorry to welcome him from afar."
General judge Yu Bichi knew that Li Zhi was a capable person, and even the commander-in-chief Luo Zhending was defeated by him. Moreover, Li Zhi was not too concerned about the military pay and food for a thousand battalions, so Yu Bichi gave him 10% more and 10% less.
Li Zhi could do it. On the contrary, Yu Bichi was afraid of Li Zhi's strength and always looked at Li Zhi differently when allocating food and grass.
There was nothing Yu Bichi could do about Li Zhi's refusal to kneel down. He just raised his hands and said, "Guerrilla general, please come and be safe!"
The judge then pointed at the middle-aged man next to him and said, "This is my younger brother Yu Biren!"
The middle-aged man bowed his hands and sang: "Yu Biren has seen the guerrilla general!"
Li Zhi heard the self-introduction of the visitor and knew that this was Yu Biren of the Yu family, one of the eight major merchant houses in Tianjin. The Yu family dealt in grain, and used Yu Bichi's status as grain commissioner to mobilize ships and bring in a large amount of southern goods from the canal.
Rice was sold in Gyeonggi and made huge profits. In these years of war and chaos, the north became more and more dependent on the south for food supply, and the Yu family's business grew bigger and bigger.
What is Yu Biren doing here? Does he also want to buy a mirror?
While Li Zhi was thinking about it, he heard Yu Biren say: "Master Guerrilla's mirror business is getting bigger and bigger, which is enviable!"
Li Zhi chuckled and did not answer.
Yu Biren said: "I want to buy 300 small mirrors with the guerrillas every month and sell them to the south!"
It turns out I really bought a mirror.
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Yu Gong also wants to buy a mirror?"
Yu Biren said: "Many of the ships returning to the south are empty ships. It would be a pity not to sell some things. Guerrilla Master's mirror is very novel and must be marketable."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "This mirror needs to be made of transparent glass, so the cost is quite high!"
Seeing that Li Zhi said that the cost was high when he came up, Yu Biren knew that Li Zhi was trying to bargain, so he raised his hand and said, "If I buy 3,600 mirrors next year, how much profit will the guerrilla general make?"
Li Zhi suddenly thought that Yu's family was engaged in grain trading. Could he buy some pig bran and rice bran from him? Now Li Zhi was raising a large number of piglets and needed a large amount of bran and rice bran every month. He relied on small merchants to
Selling from various places drives up the price. If Yu Biren sells in large quantities from Jiangnan, the cost will be lower.
"Yu Gong, I want to buy a large amount of bran and rice bran from you. Is it possible?"
Yu Biren was overjoyed when he heard this, raised his hands and said: "Bran and rice bran are cheap things. I have a lot of them in the south. If the guerrillas want it, I can transport it and sell it to you cheaply!"
Li Zhi then said happily: "If this is the case, my small mirror can be cheaper and sold to Yu Gong for nine taels a piece!"
Yu Biren said: "It would be cheaper for Guerrilla Master!"
“It’s already the cost price!”
"Guerrilla-sama is joking!"
“It is indeed the cost price!”
After bargaining with Yu Biren, Li Zhi finally bit the bottom price of nine taels of silver and agreed with Yu Biren to buy three hundred small mirrors for one month. Li Zhi made an agreement with Yu Biren to buy the mirrors.
The bran and rice bran business allowed Yu Biren to transport these pig foods from Jiangnan at a favorable price.
After discussing the business for an hour, both parties were quite satisfied, so Tongpan Yu Bichi took his brother back to the Acropolis.
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