Chapter 153 Investment 1

In Jinzhou Li's Manor, Li Yujian looked at the account book in his hand and smiled, making Mrs. Li beside him angry and said, "Looking at the account and laughing like this, didn't you just make some money!"

Li Yijian put down the account book and then said with a straight face, "A few money, do you know how much net profit we had on the bank last month?"

Li Yijian raised two fingers while talking: "20,000 taels, exactly 20,000 taels, more than our income in the previous year!"

Mrs Li was also from a rich family. When she heard that her husband made a fuss about 20,000 taels of silver, she couldn't help complaining: "It's just 20,000 taels of silver, not much!"

Hearing that he had worked hard to earn 20,000 taels of silver, but he was not despised by his wife, Li Jian was immediately angry: "20,000 taels a month, how much is a year? That's 240,000 taels of silver. If this momentum continues in less than three years, our Li family will be the first in the three eastern provinces!"

However, Mrs. Li still didn't react much: "Oh, it's just hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Let's make you happy!"

She came from a rich family, and after marrying the Li family, the Li family is also a rich family, so she really has no idea about money. For her, there is not much difference between 20,000 taels and 200,000 taels.

Li Jian looked at his wife's appearance of looking at money as dung. He stood up angrily. He had to find someone to compliment his business success in recent years!

However, as soon as he was about to get up, his slightly fat eldest son, Li Ziquan, came in. First, after salute, Li Ziquan walked to his father and said, "Father, Mr. Chen of Jinju Commercial Bank, Mr. Feng of Baoxin Yanghang and Mr. Pan of the Pan family are all on their way. I guess they will arrive at the main gate later!"

Li Yujian said, "Oh, go and pick up people for your father!"

So she went out with Li Ziquan without looking back and left Mrs. Li there. Although Mrs. Li knew that the father and son were going out to do business, she was still a little dissatisfied and muttered to herself: I want to make money every day, regardless of my family!

When she spoke, she couldn't help thinking about her baby daughter Li Wan. She was 19 years old this year. If she didn't get married, it would be too late. Thinking of Li Wan, she would inevitably think of Zhao Dongyun and complain about him. As a mother, she had long known that her daughter had fallen in love with Zhao Dongyun.

This Zhao Dongyun did not mention his academic talent and other conditions. Just because he is the youngest feudal minister in China today is enough to make Mrs. Li extremely satisfied. If her daughter can marry him, Mrs. Li will probably wake up in her dreams.

But the problem is that Zhao Dongyun has become a marriage. Fang Ruolian, Zhao Dongyun's wife, is staying in the South Courtyard at this moment, and China has been monogamy since ancient times. Since Zhao Dongyun has married, there will naturally be no position for Li Wan, unless Zhao Dongyun marries her as a concubine.

As for the ordinary wives mentioned in those novels, although there were also in the Qing Dynasty, they can only marry ordinary wives when they need to be concurrent. That is to say, your uncle has no descendants and needs you to be responsible for the task of vaccination of multiple rooms alone, so you can marry a flat wife in one room, except for this special clause. In addition, there is no ordinary wife recognized by other laws.

The ordinary wife mentioned in this novel generally refers to the 'outside room', that is, the concubine raised outside.

And there is no need to say more about the status of the concubine!

Although the Li family is not a prominent aristocrat, it is at least a family that has been passed down for a hundred years. Although no children have been promoted in recent years, it is also a rich family anyway. According to Mrs. Li, it is the kind that throws tens of thousands of taels of silver without blinking!

So the Li family is naturally unwilling to give Li Wan to Zhao Dongyun as a concubine!

However, Mrs. Li did not want to marry Li Wan to Zhao Dongyun as a concubine, but she did not dare to arrange other marriages for Li Wan casually, because the Li family was also afraid of angering Zhao Dongyun. If the Li family married Li Wan without authorization, who knew whether Zhao Dongyun would lose his temper. Once Zhao Dongyun, as General Shengjing, lost his temper, ten Li families I can't stand his anger!

So Li Wan's marriage was so unclear and unclear. It is estimated that other wives have been married long ago, and they don't have to wait until the age of 19.

Mrs. Li sighed and couldn't help complaining about her husband Li Jian: "It's all because of this old man. If he hadn't invited Zhao Dongyun to live there, these things would have happened now!"

Naturally, Li Yujian in the front yard naturally did not know that his wife complained about himself again. At this time, he stood in the front yard to meet the guests. As carriages and sedan chairs arrived and fell down, Li Yujian came forward to welcome him in person. Today, those who came to Li's Manor were all the helm of the first-class merchants on the northeast ground. There are only 20 or so, but these people control many industries such as forests, soybeans, grain, cloth, heaven and earth in the three eastern provinces, all of whom are worth millions.

Compaed with the family behind these guests, the assets of the Li family can only be regarded as the middle and downstream!

The reason why so many super-rich people can gather the Li family in Jinzhou is naturally not that Li Jian has the face to invite. In fact, these people are all rich people invited by Zhao Dongyun to participate in the 'Fengtian Investment Promotion'.

As for the Li family, as before, it only provides meeting venues, undertakes banquets and provides accommodation for guests. Well, to put it bluntly, Zhao Dongyun regards Li's Manor as a hotel for holding meetings.

This is not the first time. In the past two years, Li's Manor has helped Zhao Dongyun hold four large-scale banquets. As for small-scale banquets, there are more. After so many banquets, the internal and external housekeepers of Li's are about to become banquet experts, whether it is a traditional Chinese banquet or a Western-style buffet. Meals, even Western-style dances, etc., can be mostly organized.

For this reason, Li Fu even hired several foreign cooks to provide standard Western food!

This is also good that Li's Manor is large enough, with three courtyards, dozens of yards, hundreds of houses, and even a small lake with a radius of hundreds of meters inside. If it is exquisite, this Li's manor is definitely not as good as the famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not as good as the mansions of those local rich in Shanxi, but this Li's manor is big enough, and the courtyard is divided between gardens and lakes. The luxury of this mountain, ancient trees, green lakes is naturally not other ordinary villages. The rockery water in the garden can be compared.

At this time, another light Western-style four-wheeled carriage entered the manor from the fine gravel in the distance, and then walked on the gray road that had just been paved for a few months. You could clearly hear the thump when the horse's hand hit the cement floor. It was already gasping. The horses seemed to pull cars more easily, and their footsteps were much lighter.

After a while, the carriage stopped at the gate of the front yard, and then the carriage door was opened and came down by a slightly short and fat middle-aged man in a Shu brocade coat. After the man got out of the car, followed by a young man in a Western-style dress and a lady in a big red silk skirt. After the three got off the carriage, Li Jian, who was notified at the back, had arrived at the front yard at this time and immediately said loudly, "Brother Village, you are late!"

The middle-aged man took the civilized stick in his hand and laughed and said, "I have been delayed for a long time in Jinzhou City, otherwise I should have arrived at noon. Why have the other people in Fengtian arrived early and not waited for our Yunzhou!"

Li Jianjian said, "Brother Baoyang, Brother Anqing and Mr. Hong in Fengtian City will all arrive in the afternoon!"

Fang Yunzhou said, "Let's not talk so much. I didn't even have lunch on the way. Let's go. Brother Li will sacrifice my five internal organs temple first!"

Li Yujian laughed and said, "Of course, most of you have come from afar, and the tea and snacks have been prepared for you to enjoy!"

After saying that, Fang Yunzhou pulled the lady behind him and said, "This is cheap!"

Then he pointed to the young man and said, "This is my three boy, named Litong, who just came back from Japan. I brought him here today to gain insight!"

Fang Litong quickly came forward to salute: "I've seen Uncle Li!"

Li Yujian smiled and said, "They are all from their own family. You're welcome. Let's go!"

Then the four of them walked in, but Fang Yunzhou, who had just crossed the front yard, lowered his voice slightly and said to Li Jianjian, "Brother Li, I know that you and Zhao Duxian have a close relationship. Later, please ask Brother Li to help me with the three children in front of Lord Du Xian and say a few more words!"

Li Jian heard a trace of embarrassment flashed, and then pretended to be puzzled, "Oh, Brother Fang, what do you mean?"

Fang Yunzhou said, "I heard that Lord Zhao Duxian's new shogunate is in urgent need of talent. Although my three children are not very talented, they are also smart. After the year of Geng Zi, I sent him to Japan to drink foreign ink for four years. I just want to see if I can send Zhao Duxian to copy documents!"

Li Yujian showed a trace of embarrassment after hearing this: "Brother Fang, you also know that the talents under the governor are all over the country at home and abroad. I heard that the telegraph room of the Southern Academy receives a lot of recommendations and self-recommendation telegrams every day. Ordinary people have such an easy way to get into the speech of Lord Du Xian, and I can just say a few words with Lord Du Xian on weekdays. Where can I help you say this!"

Fang Yunzhou said, "Brother Li, I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, as long as Brother Li helps to introduce one or two, as for whether it is natural for my three kids to worry about it!" Speaking of this, Fang Yunzhou said again, "Whether everything is done or not, as long as you need soybeans in the future, our family will give priority to satisfaction!"

Li Erjian looked at Fang Yunzhou and Fang Lingtong standing aside. He couldn't help thinking about it. Although Fang Yunzhou only allowed himself to introduce one or two, this introduction could not be easily sent out.

Since Zhao Dongyun became General Shengjing, many people have come to Li's manor to see Zhao Dongyun every day, and many people have found Li Yijian to help him introduce him. However, Li Yujian knows that every time he introduces a person to Zhao Dongyun, he has to bear the consequences. If he is really a talent to introduce, naturally It's a good result for you and me, but if you rush to introduce a vulgar person, I'm afraid Zhao Dongyun will be dissatisfied at that time.

Immediately he looked at Fang Lingtong and said, "I don't know what kind of meritorious nephew came from? What school do you want to study in?"