[Chapter 270] Officials, businessmen, and businessmen, of course, only those with officials can have businessmen.

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Huang Fei agreed to go out, and in a short while, he brought Liu Zhiqiang in. It turned out that he was the chubby owner of Kuiyuan Building. When Liu Zhiqiang saw Xu Xingxia, his chubby face was full of flattering smiles. Looking from a distance, he looked like Maitreya Buddha.

Xu Xingxia stood up, made a gesture of sitting, and said with a smile: "Boss Liu, what kind of wind is this? Has it blown you here? Welcome, welcome, come, please sit!"

Liu Zhiqiang bowed his hand and said sincerely: "I came here to thank Xu Qianhu. Without Xu Qianhu's help, I would not be today."

Xu Xingxia said a little strangely: "Thank me? Where do you start?"

Liu Zhiqiang smiled and said, "To be serious, Li Yunrui is my nephew."

Xu Xingxia then realized that this was the case. It turned out that this was the case. It was estimated that Liu Zhiqiang should have sisters and married Li Maohui as his concubine. As for the original wife, it was impossible. Everyone in Ningxia Town knew that the governor's original wife died of labor many years ago and now there were only a few concubines. No wonder Liu Zhiqiang was able to become the boss of Kuiyuan Building and was hiding so deeply. It turned out that he was the relationship between the governor of Ningxia.

Liu Zhiqiang put a gift sheet on the table, pushed his hands in front of Xu Xingxia, and said with a smile: "This is my little meaning, it doesn't mean to be respectful. Please accept it with a smile."

Xu Xingxia was not polite, picked up the gift list, opened it in an orderly manner, and browsed it carefully. At that time, this behavior of disassembling the gift list in person was not only not disrespectful, but on the contrary, he was so despised by the other party that he would disassemble the gift list in person. If both parties were not very familiar with each other, they would not disassemble them in person at all.

After reading the gift list, Xu Xingxia knew that Liu Zhiqiang had planned a lot. This guy was really generous in his move, and the various gifts were probably worth four or five thousand taels of silver. As the boss of Kuiyuan Building, the gifts were so expensive, which was indeed a bit too much. Of course, this was most likely what Li Maohui meant.

After pondering for a while, Xu Xingxia folded the gift list again and put it in her arms, and then said meaningfully: "Boss Liu is doing it for the glass, right?"

Liu Zhiqiang nodded and said, "That's right. Please take care of Xu Qianhu and don't forget about this."

He did not hide his intentions and said his expectations bluntly. It was actually unnecessary to hide it. Talking to someone like Xu Xingxia is to be straightforward and express his feelings clearly. If you go around, Xu Xingxia feels that you are not sincere at all and your business will be ruined.

Indeed, since he learned that Xu Xingxia was able to get glass, Liu Zhiqiang's intentions have started to move. He is definitely not the kind of person who likes to be successful. Although he is fat, he is actually in his twenties and less than thirty years old! Which young man of this age does not have his own ambitions? Which one does not have his own dreams? Which one is willing to live his life in a daze like this? If there is a chance in front of him, who is unwilling to fight?

No matter how good the business of Kuiyuan Building is, it will make small money. Generally, people cannot afford the consumption level of Kuiyuan Building, and can only attack officials, wealthy businessmen, and big landlords. However, Ningxia Town is located in the border area, with frequent wars and chaotic public security. In such a place, how many dignitaries can there be? How many big landlords can there be? Compared with coastal areas, especially the southeast half, it is simply too different.

Even compared with other places in the mainland, Ningxia City is still a place that is not in the right place. Not to mention the big cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Kaifeng, and Xiangyang, even Datong Town, Xuanfu Town, and Shanxi Town are more prosperous than Ningxia Town. Ningxia Town is probably better than Yansui Town, Guyuan Town, and Gansu Town. It is not meaningful in a poor and backward place!

It is absolutely impossible for Liu Zhiqiang to leave Ningxia Town without any special skills or a special commodity. Even merchants with backgrounds must be able to travel across the country. Ningxia Governor is indeed the largest in Ningxia Town, but it will be useless if they leave Ningxia Town. In the world, even if there are not a hundred officials, there are eighty, which is not enough to rely on.

If Xu Xingxia really had a lot of glass, he would be planning to do a glass resale business in the future. Glass was a hot item in any place in the Ming Dynasty, which would be much more profitable than Kuiyuanlou. An ordinary piece of glass, once it was sold, would be a profit of dozens or even hundreds of taels! The most important thing is that there are buyers everywhere, no matter where you go.

Xu Xingxia measured silently for a moment and said slowly: "Have you contacted the next home?"

Liu Zhiqiang said expectantly: "We have contacted them all. Don't worry, as long as there is a good product, I can swallow it no matter how much it is. Xi'an Prefecture and Chengdu Prefecture have already contacted the specific next home. It is quite difficult to come to these two places in Yuegang, Fujian. Even if there is, the price is particularly expensive. They are eager to see glass. Especially the King of Shu, who is rich and powerful, can cost 300,000 taels of silver at one's own move."

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but touch his nose. He was paralyzed. He had just earned 100,000 taels and was a little proud. He felt that he had good ability to make money. Unexpectedly, the King of Shu opened his mouth casually and only 300,000 taels of silver was used to buy glass. My grass! I said, why do these royal relatives have so much silver? Instead, why are the emperor's treasury and the country's treasury always dry?

Liu Zhiqiang continued: "Even in Huguang, there are many potential buyers. King Xiang has a strong desire to buy glass. King Xiang and King Shu often fight for wealth openly and secretly, which are well-known secrets. King Xiang recently married a young princess. It is said that he likes mirrors made of glass and looks in front of the mirror for two or three hours every day. King Xiang is going to use large pieces of glass to make her a full-length mirror. Unfortunately, there is no such large piece of glass. As long as you have goods, it is definitely not a problem to sell it at a large price."

Xu Xingxia couldn't help but stand up and paced back and forth in the hall. At the beginning, Xu Xingxia was not particularly enthusiastic about glass production. The main reason was that he was really not short of money now, and his desire to make money was not particularly strong. Moreover, with his ability, extortion made money faster and there was no cost at all. But now, he was a little moved. The royal relatives of the Ming Dynasty were so rich! Paralyzed. If these princes were so rich, wouldn't they be sorry to the people of the whole country if they didn't help them share some of them?

After thinking for a while, Xu Xingxia made up his mind to start the production of glass and earned all the money from the royal relatives, big bureaucrats, big merchants, and big landlords by himself. Even if he used glass to rob the rich and help the poor, he would do his best to the heavens. He said slowly: "Let's do this, come to me again in January next year and I will show you the sample of glass. If there is no accident, it can be officially launched to the public."

Liu Zhiqiang was immediately overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Thank you, Lord Qianhu!"

The two continued to discuss the specific details for a while and determined the price, quantity, size and area of ​​the first batch of glass sales. Liu Zhiqiang left with great enthusiasm. The price of the first batch of glass is twice the price of the glass arrived in Yuegang, Fujian. As for the quantity, it is best to have more than five boxes, each box containing fifty pieces. The size of each piece of glass is no less than three feet square. The sales area is temporarily limited to Ningxia Town.

Xu Xingxia continued to pace in the hall. He held the gift list sent by Liu Zhiqiang in his hand, but did not look carefully. He was thinking, if he wanted to start glass production immediately, who should be responsible? This is a hen that can lay golden eggs, and there must be trustworthy people. Confidentiality is the first priority. Once the glass production technology is leaked, the whole world will copy it. After thinking about it, it seems that only his father is the most suitable one.

Suddenly, Huang Fei came in and reported again: "Sir, businessman Sun Dakun is asking for a meeting."

Xu Xingxia put down the gift list casually, and felt very strange. What was going on today? The big merchants came to the door one after another. Just now, Liu Zhiqiang, and Sun Dakun came again. Could it be that there is something happy to happen? It seems that I didn’t hear the magpies screaming! Or maybe Sun Dakun needs more money leopard skins and came to ask for help again? After pondering for a while, Xu Xingxia said slowly: "Please wait in the small flower hall, and I will arrive later."

His friendship with Sun Dakun was deeper than that of Liu Zhiqiang. The White Army bought a lot of food and other supplies through Sun Dakun's relationship. Xu Xingxia earned more than 50,000 taels of silver with a piece of leopard skin. In general, Sun Dakun was quite flattering to him, Xu Xingxia, and Xu Xingxia had a good impression of him. However, since Sun Dakun was a Shanxi merchant, Xu Xingxia was somewhat retained. In real history, these Shanxi merchants and the Later Jin Tartars in Liaodong had more or less ties, so they had to be careful!

A moment later, Xu Xingxia came to the small flower hall and found that Sun Dakun was waiting here. His expression was more cheerful than when he saw it last time. It seemed that the leopard skin should have played a certain role. The goods seized by the Sun family were hopelessly released. Seeing Xu Xingxia coming out, Sun Dakun hurriedly saluted respectfully and said enthusiastically: "I heard that Lord Xu has been promoted to a thousand households. I specially prepared some small gifts, and I would like to accept them with a smile."

Xu Xingxia secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that this guy came just to congratulate him, and he thought he had something to beg him! By the way, his news was very well-versed. He was far away from Shanxi and actually learned that he had been promoted to Qianhu so quickly. What's even more rare is that he actually came from Shanxi to congratulate him.

Even though he knew that the other party was cursing himself, Xu Xingxia felt very comfortable. It was as comfortable as drinking snow water in June. In fact, he was just a common man with the joys, anger, sorrows and happiness of ordinary people. Of course he felt comfortable when others flatter him. How many people in this world don’t like others flatter him?

Xu Xingxia took the gift list with both hands, opened it in front of her, looked carefully, and said slowly to Sun Dakun: "Boss Sun, I'm afraid the Sun family can't afford such a generous gift!"

Sun Dakun smiled and said, "If it weren't for Xu Qianhu's leopard skin, the Sun family would probably no longer exist. What are these external things? Please don't take some slight gifts to heart. In the future, the Sun family will have to rely more on Xu Qianhu!"

Xu Xingxia nodded, folded the gift list again, and put it directly into her arms.

Such actions are actually telling Sun Dakun that I have accepted all your gifts. The so-called "eating people is short-spoken and soft-handed". If you have something to ask for, you might as well just say it out. As for the gifts you take for tens of thousands of taels of silver, I, Xu Xingxia, will help you with the big things, and it's no big deal.

The Sun family made a heavy gift list this time. The gift list was indeed very heavy. The total gift list was tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was two or three times the weight of Liu Zhiqiang's gift list. Such a heavy gift list was almost the same for a governor. It was a bit terrifying for a small thousand household. In fact, Sun Dakun could not take a small thousand household seriously. His efforts to curry favor with him were of course for Xu Xingxia's future future. Xu Xingxia was only less than 20 years old, and he was already a thousand households. His future future was limitless!

What? It’s not that civil servants cannot be the top level? At most, they can only be the general officer? That’s the view of women! What was the highest level of the Ming Dynasty? It was the emperor, the lord! Duke, Marquis, Bo, Zi, Male, Fifth-class title, civil servants had no chance to get involved! This is the rule set by Taizu Chengzu, and no one can change it! Zhang Juzheng spent all his efforts to get a title for himself, but after he died, he was immediately deprived.

There is only one possibility to be awarded a title, that is, military officers, open up territory, and establish great military achievements! During the Jing Dynasty, why did so many people follow him, not for the title? Why did Emperor Zhengde make a fuss and lead his army to fight in person, and there were so many military generals following him? Isn't it for the title? No matter how awesome the chief minister is, he has no chance of inheritance. The title is OK. This is the fundamental difference!

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were all officials and businessmen. Of course, there were only officials with officials. Simply put, behind each merchant, there were one or more officials to support him. There was no pure businessman at all. The stronger the officials behind the scenes, the more prosperous the business he could do. If he was suppressed by the government, he would be able to do nothing, and he might even lose his entire family and lose his life.

This time, the Sun family's goods were seized in Yuegang, Fujian. It was because the Ye family members secretly made bad things and instructed local officials to operate. Why did the Ye family dare to forcibly seize the Sun family's goods? Because behind the Ye family, there is a giant, that is, the former chief assistant Ye Xianggao! In the southeast half of the wall, Ye Xianggao is definitely a first-class existence!
Chapter completed!