The four of them were discussing there, when suddenly a guard ran over and said, "Sir, someone at the door of the official hall came to visit with a name card!"
Li Zhi opened the name card and saw that it said "Foolish Brother Xu Mince Knock". Knowing that Xu Mince was here, he said to the four of them: "You continue to organize training, I have guests coming!"
Li Zhi came to the second hall of Baihu Official Hall and saw Xu Mince already sitting there drinking tea. The few servants hired by Li Zhi were smart. They saw Xu Mince's extraordinary bearing and were already serving tea.
Li Zhi walked up and cupped his hands and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Brother Xu, how are you doing?"
Xu Mince stood up and returned the salute, saying with a smile: "Brother Xian's new official office is so grand!"
This hundred-household official hall, located in the center of Xinfanjiazhuang, was newly built by Li Zhi. It has four entrances from the front and back.
When a new government office was built, Xu Mince couldn't help but make sarcastic comments when he saw Li Zhi breaking the rules.
Li Zhi replied calmly: "It's not bad!"
Xu Mince said directly: "Jianxin Yamen has a bad reputation for Xiandi. Aren't Xiandi afraid of others smacking their tongues?"
Li Zhi is not a submissive person who only listens to others' orders. As a time traveler, he doesn't pay much attention to the rules of the late Ming Dynasty. He smiled and said: "I don't care!"
Xu Mince smiled, not knowing what to say, and shook his head.
Li Zhi greeted: "Brother Xu, sit down!"
The two sat down separately, and Xu Mince said: "Brother, it's very busy here. We are building houses and repairing city walls. You have hired half of the masons in Gyeonggi Province! I see that you have built many single-family houses.
Who is that for?"
Li Zhi said: "Those villas are all for the workers in my factory! What I built is New Fanjiazhuang, which is planned to house 7,000 households. After it is built, it will be a town with prosperous trade!"
"Seven thousand households? That's a big county!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Xu Mince took a breath and felt more and more that Li Zhi was unusual. He wanted to build a city out of nothing! How could a small hundred households do this? Even if Li Zhi owns several factories,
The businessmen in the workshop would probably have to spend all their financial resources to launch such a large project. What a courageous Li Zhi! This son's future is boundless.
Xu Mince secretly said that fortunately he had been supporting Li Zhi. Now he was Li Zhi's brother. In the future, when Li Zhi leaped over the dragon gate, he would benefit from it.
Xu Mince was calculating in his mind, but he didn't speak for a while. Li Zhi glanced at Xu Mince and asked lightly: "How is the sales of Brother Xu's soap?"
Hearing Li Zhi talk about soap, Xu Mince said with a smile on his face: "Soap is very popular in Jiangnan. Once the goods arrive, they will be sold out in less than ten days!"
Li Zhi now employs 2,000 servants, and his monthly expenses are huge. The price of cement is cheap and the freight is too high. The supply is okay in nearby counties and towns, but it is not suitable for long-distance trade. Too much cotton production will impact the small-scale peasant economy where men farm and women weave.
After the rebound, the soap workshop was able to expand for the time being. He was determined to sell more soap to Xu Mince. However, Xu Mince had to ask for the soap, otherwise Xu Mince would definitely have to bargain on the price. Li Zhi was gentle about the soap, and
Shut up and stop talking.
Seeing that Li Zhi had stopped talking, Xu Mince said loudly: "I came to visit Brother Xian today for two things, one of which is about soap. I want to buy 300,000 more soaps with Brother Xian every month and ship them to Jiangnan.
Sales, I don’t know what my good brother wants!”
Li Zhi said with a smile: "Brother Xu helps me in everything, and I am grateful. Since Brother Xu wants to buy more, I have to make up the amount to sell to him no matter what! Starting next month, I will sell fifty
Ten thousand pieces of soap are delivered to Brother Xu’s warehouse!"
Xu Mince was overjoyed when he heard this and asked: "What's the price?"
Li Zhi said: "Just stick to the previous price."
Xu Mince thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine!"
Xu Mince has now almost become the general agent of Li Zhi's soap business in Jiangnan. This soap business is a monopoly trade, and the market demand is extremely hot. Xu Mince bought the soap from Li Zhi for eighteen cents, and asked the canal gang to transport it to Jiangnan and sell it for two.
Fifteen cents a dollar, the interest rate difference is seven cents, and he can earn more than six cents after the freight. Now he buys an additional three hundred thousand yuan, which means an extra profit of two thousand taels a month, which is 24,000 taels a year.
silver.
Twenty-four thousand taels of silver was a huge sum of money even for Xu Mince, one of the eight major merchants in Acropolis. Xu Mince did not master the core technology of soap, but he made so much money by befriending Li Zhi. It was really
Very satisfied. He secretly thought that Li Zhi was a good friend, and he sat on the chair with joy.
However, this kind of transaction was a win-win situation, and Li Zhi also made a lot of profits. Another deal was negotiated, and Li Zhi gained an additional profit of more than three thousand taels of silver every month, and he was in a good mood.
The two of them were thinking about their business. After a long time, Li Zhi asked: "Brother Xu said there are two things today, what is the other thing?"
Xu Mince then spread his hands, looked at Li Zhi and said, "There is one more thing. Brother Yu is here to give Brother Xian a fortune."
Li Zhi didn't know what Xu Mince meant, so he said, "Brother Xu, please make it clear!"
Xu Mince laughed and then said: "In the past six months, there has been a group of bandits on the Yanshan Mountain in Qing0y County. They have been robbing the place very rampantly. The local government was unable to eradicate them, so they reported it to the governor. The governor was considering who should be sent to pacify the area.
When I was a thief, I thought of you!"
The governor of Tianjin governs the entire territory of Hejian Prefecture, Wuqing and Baodi counties of Shuntian Prefecture, Luanzhou and Leting counties of Yongping Prefecture and nearby islands. Qingxian County is He0y County
A county under Jianfu is also under the control of the governor of Tianjin. If there are bandits, they will be reported to the governor's office, and the governor will send troops to eliminate them.
After a pause, Xu Mince continued: "The governor said that it would be better to send you to exterminate this group of bandits. After that, the governor will use your achievements in suppressing the bandits to ensure that you become deputy Qianhu and stay in Fanjiazhuang to serve as Fanjiazhuang's defense officer.
how?"
Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and it took him a while to react. After thinking about it, Li Zhi felt that the governor had taken advantage of him and regarded himself as his direct descendant. He worked hard to promote himself. Moreover, he was generous.
He Shishou can make a lot of money by doing good deeds to him, so he will naturally remember himself.
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said, "The governor is interested!"
Xu Mince blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "There are three or four hundred bandits in that group. This matter will last for half a year, and you will be asked to wipe out the bandits within half a year." After a pause, Xu Mince said slowly: "After the matter is completed, you
But we have to go to the governor's office to take care of things, so we can't live up to the governor's good wishes."
When he heard that there were three or four hundred bandits, Li Zhi was stunned and said: "If it comes to pass, I will naturally thank the governor. But the bandits are so powerful, how can the governor believe that the next team leader can wipe them out regularly!"
"
Xu Mince blinked his eyes and said with a smile: "What a team officer! I heard someone say! You have a thousand servants! More than one guard soldier! These servants should be able to wipe out the bandits after a few months of training, right? You
Since you want to be a member of this hundred households, you must be able to be an officer? Don’t let the governor down!"
Xu Mince had information, but the information was not very accurate. Li Zhi recruited two thousand servants, but he thought there were only one thousand. I think most people in Tianjin official circles got similar information to Xu Mince. One hundred households recruited two thousand households.
Ding, no one believes it even if I tell you.
However, after hearing Xu Mince's words, Li Zhi felt a chill in his heart, and said that this matter was not all a good thing. There was also an element of testing him in this matter! If he had "a thousand servants" but could not defeat the bandits, he might
He Shishou and Xu Mince no longer value themselves, and have a different way of dealing with themselves. If He Shishou no longer supports them, Li Zhi's future career may be much more difficult!
Li Zhi bowed his hands to Xu Mince and said, "Brother Xu, don't worry, I will definitely not disappoint the governor. Within a month, I will destroy this bandit!"
Hearing Li Zhi say that the bandits would be wiped out in one month, Xu Mince's eyes lit up, and he looked at Li Zhi differently.
