Printshop? Paper mills? Wu Changqing glanced at the two of them and teased: "Brother Si Xiang is now a wealthy man in Guangzhou, is it possible that he still likes the meager profit of printing books?" Besides, where can I not buy paper? You can use it to run your own paper mill, which is a lot of trouble. ”

"Printing books is naturally not for making money, but for doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, for spreading knowledge, and for opening up people's wisdom."

"Yes, I didn't earn a few taels of silver and started to do good deeds."

"Believe it or not."

"I can't believe it." Wu Changqing said with a smile: "Don't sell Guanzi, this is a printing factory and a paper factory, what do you want to do?" ”

Yi Zhishu said with a smile: "We are opening a bank, what else can we do to run a printing factory and a paper factory?" Of course, it is to print silver bills, to print banknotes, and this still needs to be asked? ”

"Do you really want to issue banknotes?" Wu Changqing and Pan Shiming couldn't help but look at each other.

"The Bank of England can issue pounds and promote the hegemony of the pound, why can't Yuanqi?" Yi Zhifen said in a relaxed tone: "Yuan Qi unifies the money bank in Guangdong Province, you can try to issue paper money, if we want to implement financial hegemony in the country and control the economic lifeline of the Qing Dynasty, we must issue paper money, and to issue paper money, printing houses and paper mills are indispensable." ”

Seeing that the two of them were stunned, Yi Zhizhi took a sip of herbal tea and said: "The issuance of paper money is the trend of the times, Britain has pounds, France has francs, and the United States has dollars, how can the Qing Dynasty not have its own banknotes?" It is also advantageous for us to start late, and we can learn from the advantages of Western banknotes. ”

After a pause, he waved his hand and said: "Let's not talk about these first, the printing press has been bought, and the newspaper distribution should be put on the agenda. As he spoke, he stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go and wash the dust for Brother Zecheng first." ”

Early the next morning, Xue Qigui, the shopkeeper of Fulixing Tea Shop, got up early, and after tidying up, he went to Tianhai Pavilion Tea House to have morning tea, and the tea market opened today, although he was sure that the price of tea would continue to skyrocket as soon as the market opened, but he still wanted to go to the tea house to listen, see if there was any rumor, do business, naturally be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, and now he has hoarded tens of thousands of tons of tea in his hands, and he dare not be careless.

Tianhai Pavilion's business was extremely hot, although he came early, but the lobby on the first floor was almost full, he didn't want to go to the second floor, so he sat down at a small table not far from the door, drinking tea and eating breakfast while listening to the crowd's discussions.

Yesterday in addition to the opening of the tea market, obviously nothing new, the adjacent tables of conversation are around the price of tea, he listened to very boring, is about to eat early morning tea back to the tea shop, but listened to a person: "I heard that Shunde has a lot of silk merchants have rushed to Xiguan to speculate in the tea market......." ”

Listening to this, his heart moved, the silk merchants in Shunde are all wealthy people, if the silk merchants come to stir up the tea market, the price of tea is afraid that it will really return to thirty, but the corresponding tea market risk will also increase a lot, silk merchants are not tea merchants, they must be a handful of left.

He was about to talk a cliché, but he turned his head and caught a glimpse of Yi Zhicontent and a fat man slowly entering the door, although he had only seen Yi Zhicontentment side, but he was sure that he was not wrong, and immediately called a man, dropped a piece of silver horn, and quickly followed.

Yi Zhishu naturally didn't notice Xue Qigui, and Yan Shikuan went straight to the third floor one after the other, and asked for a private room near the river. ”

Xue Qigui had a pockmarked face, and Yi Zhizhi delivered 400,000 yuan to him to speculate in the tea market, so he was naturally very impressed, and when he saw that it was him, he immediately smiled and said: "Shopkeeper Xue is also eating morning tea here, but it's a coincidence, please take a seat." ”

Xue Qigui glanced at Yan Shikuan, and then cautiously sat down at the bottom, Yi Zhizhi estimated that he was going to talk about tea, and immediately glanced at Yan Shikuan, Yan Shikuan secretly scolded himself, but said with a smile on his face: "It just so happens that the cigar smoke is gone, I'll buy two boxes." ”

"Then go to Xindoulan Street and buy it." Yi Zhishu said and took out a silver ticket and handed it over, "Buy two boxes for me." ”

Yan Shikuan, who was waiting, came out of the private room, and Xue Qigui lowered his voice and said, "Today, the tea market is open, what does Gongzi Yi command?" ”

"I thought that I would let the little guy inform Shopkeeper Xue later, but I didn't want to meet here." Yi Zhisuff said with a smile: "Above twenty-five, below twenty-seven, Shopkeeper Xue is considering selling." ”

Twenty-seven or less? Xue Qigui said in a low voice: "Young Master Yi, I heard that many Shunde silk merchants have also come to speculate in the tea market. ”

Shunde silk merchants? Yi Zhixiang glanced at him, secretly wondering if it was Liang Jiemin who asked Shunde silk merchants to stir up the tea market? It's impossible to think about it, Yuan Qi's unification of Guangzhou money bank is a foregone conclusion, Liang Jiemin can't be so ignorant of current affairs, and he reacted when he thought about it, Guangzhou Qian Zhuang was half opened by Shunde people, and it must be a profitable tea market, which attracted Shunde silk merchants to come.

Seeing that Yi Zhizhi was silent, Xue Qigui said tentatively: "It is a foregone conclusion that the price of tea will be pushed up, not to mention thirty, at least twenty-eight or nine is no problem." ”

"No, just twenty-seven." Yi Zhishu said in a deep voice: "Let's eat meat, let people drink soup in general, and your host's goods will be handled according to this standard." ”

"Yi Gongzi is really kind-hearted." Xue Qigui flattered, but secretly wondered in his heart, should there be any twists and turns in the tea market? He knew very well in his heart that the price of tea was high or low, but it was just a thought of the young man in front of him.

Kind-hearted? Yi Zhixiang smiled, he really didn't dare to take this seriously, and after a little hesitation, he said: "Shopkeeper Xue is willing to change the door and help Yi take care of business?" ”

Hearing this, Xue Qigui was stunned for a moment, and actually entered the eyes of Yi Zhi's contentment? To say that it is too far to be content with Yi Zhi, it is too far from following Su Mengdie, not to mention anything else, this status can be raised countless levels in an instant, he hurriedly got up and said: "Thanks to the favor of the shopkeeper Yida, but Su Dongjia has an appointment with Zaixia, and the four-year period has not expired, so I can't bear to resign, and I hope that the shopkeeper Yida will forgive me." ”

Hearing this, Yi Zhizhi smiled contentedly and said: "Su Dongjia does have the wisdom to understand people, a shopkeeper of Kong and a shopkeeper of Xue, both of whom are unparalleled in faith and righteousness, and have outstanding talents. ”

"It's just that I've done my duty, how dare I praise it as the shopkeeper of Yida." Xue Qigui said and arched his hand: "If there is nothing else, I will say goodbye." ”

"There's Lao Xue's shopkeeper to worry about." Yi Zhizhi got up as he spoke, and gave him away, secretly praising Su Mengdie in his heart for having a vision, and the shopkeeper he chose really made him speechless, such a temptation. Confused, the ordinary shopkeeper is afraid that he has already promised it.

Slowly pacing to the window, overlooking the scenery of the river, he wondered in his heart, should he pit a silk merchant in Shunde? It's a rare opportunity.