The day after Li San returned, the silver taels given by the imperial court arrived in Qingzhou, and with the deposit of the harem concubines, Xiao Ming had 500,000 taels of silver in his hand to mobilize. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This amount of silver can be said to be a huge amount of money in Qingzhou, but it is just a drop in the bucket for Xiao Ming's development plan.

And 200,000 taels of them are the deposits for the concubines to need perfume, and he also needs to purchase spices to make perfume and send them to the concubines, so it can be said that 200,000 taels have to be discounted.

For perfume, Xiao Ming is not ready to give it to others, part of the business he has in hand is taken out to paralyze the wealthy families in Qingzhou, but some of the business he needs to keep for himself, so that he can make more money.

Especially in the wealthy south, commerce is developed, trade is prosperous, and compared with his own technological advantages, the fastest way to get money is business, so he has been planning his own trading house.

Let Zhang Liang build a ship, after all, the purpose is still for trade, because countless facts have proved that only commerce can rejuvenate the country.

"Captain Li Kaiyuan has seen His Highness." In the main hall of the Qi Palace, Li Kaiyuan stood at the bottom and bowed to Xiao Ming.

With the money in his hand, Xiao Ming's idea of establishing a commercial bank became even stronger, but the person in charge of the commercial bank had been hesitating, and it was not until the past two days that he decided to use Li Kaiyuan.

Now Xiao Ming reuses people such as Qian Dafu, Chen Wenlong and his son, one is his own cronies, and the other has no roots in Qingzhou and has nothing to do with the wealthy families in Qingzhou.

This Li Kaiyuan has been investigated by Qian Dafu, and he has no special background, and Li Kaiyuan's personality is extroverted and very slippery, so he is obviously suitable for being a businessman, not a general.

He said, "Get up, this time the king has come to you to give you a heavy task. “

"Your Highness, please say, the lower officials must do their best to die." Li Kaiyuan said with a smile.

Xiao Ming can be said to know Li Kaiyuan's character very well, and he doesn't care, and says: "This king is going to set up a business house and wants you to be the shopkeeper." ”

"Temple... Under. Li Kaiyuan's face turned white, and he trembled: "Your Highness, the matter of the barbarians last time, the lower officials have already introspected themselves......

Xiao Ming waved his hand, "This king is not punishing crimes, this king didn't blame you for what happened last time, your position in the army will remain, but you need to take on the affairs of the business house alone, if I guessed correctly, your father Li Shengji used to be a businessman in Qingzhou." ”

Li Kaiyuan cried with a sad face, the Great Chongqing State is still a traditional heavy agriculture and suppressing business, although the stable environment in the past hundred years has slightly improved the status of businessmen, but the overall businessmen are still looked down upon.

The reason why he was able to become a lieutenant in the army was not by merit, but because his father bought it from Xiao Ming at a great cost.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Fei has always looked down on him.

Now Xiao Ming asked him not to be a general and be a businessman, but I can imagine his mood at this time, but Xiao Ming said that he was more relaxed when he kept his position.

"Back to Your Highness, it is true, before my father went west, he kept walking the states to sell cloth." Li Kaiyuan said.

Seeing that Li Kaiyuan still had some unhappy emotions on his face, Xiao Ming said: "This king knows that you are not happy, but you have to understand that this business is an official businessman, although it is also a businessman's business, but it is really for the government, and it is still an official, if you insist on staying in the army, it doesn't matter, this king is looking for someone else, but Captain Lu Fei came to report a few days ago, this heavy snow seems to have frozen to death a lot of cattle and sheep on the grassland, and it is not good to say that this winter the barbarians will go south in large numbers to plunder......"

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is willing." Li Kaiyuan was excited, he was the only seedling in the family, and he was killed in the war between being looked down upon and being killed by the barbarians, but he still chose the former.

Xiao Ming smiled evilly and nodded at him, "That's right, make the best use of things, make the best use of people, you are not suitable for the army, come, this king will tell you how to prepare for the establishment of a firm." “

Li Kaiyuan looked helpless, so he had to step forward and listen carefully.

This time, the commercial bank that Xiao Ming prepared was hung with the name of the Qi Palace, which was also for the commercial bank to pass around and avoid blackmail from some local officials.

The name of the trading house is Wantong Commercial Bank, Xiao Ming will take out 50,000 taels of silver to buy five small merchant ships plus ten horse teams on land, such a scale is only a small commercial bank at present, but everything is difficult at the beginning, and it can grow slowly.

In addition to the specific management methods of the commercial bank, Xiao Ming also instilled many advanced business concepts in Li Kaiyuan, which Li Kaiyuan understood quickly under the effect of science and technology spars.

His family is a businessman and knows a little about doing business, and this matter can be said to have seen the light of day.

"The first batch of goods is perfume, and you just have to go through the water and ship it directly to the southern states." Xiao Ming finally said.

Li Kaiyuan was still shocked by the new knowledge in his heart at this time, which made him a little ambitious, and he said: "Your Highness, I still have a few brothers in the army who are more trusted, and I will rest assured with them." ”

"No problem, you can take whoever you want, except for Lu Fei." Xiao Ming joked.

Li Kaiyuan nodded, said goodbye, turned around and left the Qi Palace, and began to prepare for the affairs of the firm.

As soon as Li Kaiyuan left, Liang Dahai arrived at the main hall under the guidance of Qian Dafu.

Xiao Ming asked, "Liang Dahai, what happened to the slaves that this king asked you to buy?" ”

"Your Highness, the grass people have spent a lot of time to find all the brothers they can find, and this time they have found a total of nine hundred and fifty slaves for Your Highness, and when the snow on the roads in the states has melted, the grass people are ready to go north to buy slaves for Your Highness." Liang Dahai said.

Nine hundred and fifty slaves is still too little, basically a drop in the bucket, but the meal has to be eaten in one bite, and it seems that he still has to focus on shipbuilding, and overseas trade is the center of commodity exchange.

"Yes, keep buying slaves, and this king will not treat you badly." , Xiao Ming gestured to Qian Dafu.

At this time, Qian Dafu gave Liang Dahai a silver ticket of 20,000 taels.

"Your Highness, that's a bit much." Liang Dahai was pleasantly surprised, he had never done such a smooth business.

"Leave the more for the next slave trade." Xiao Ming said: "Where are these slaves? ”

"It's all on the dock in the north of Qingzhou City." Liang Dahai happily accepted the money, in the past, he waited for half a year in the East Market to have a buyer, but now such a large transaction made him truly appreciate the benefits of cooperating with Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu: "Steward Qian, you call Captain Shanglu, temporarily place the slaves outside the city in the military camp in the east of the city, and the king of tomorrow will go to meet them." “

Qian Dafu nodded, and left with Liang Dahai in response.

Now that he has enough money on hand, Xiao Ming is eager to use this silver to get on the fast track, what he just said to scare Li Kaiyuan is not nonsense, there are indeed a large number of barbarian scouts outside Cangzhou City.