"How is it?" Gu Xiao looked at Li Zhi and Li Tai with smugness.

"You can try it." Li Zhi said.

Li Tai was still a little hesitant, "I want to discuss this with Mr. Kong Yingda, but it should not be a big problem, but the students still have to choose by themselves. We cannot put pressure on the students."

"That's natural." Li Zhi nodded.

"How about it, I'm careful, right?" Gu Xiao said while eating tea eggs.

"It's not bad, can you learn from it?" Li Tai touched Gu Xiao's head and stirred his hair up in a mess.

"As it happens, I will go back to the Hai Trade Department to wait for news about the emperor." Li Zhi stood up and said.

"Leave it to me." Li Tai nodded.

Seeing that Li Zhi was leaving, Gu Xiao quickly wanted to follow Li Zhi's footsteps and follow him.

Li Zhi saw Gu Xiao walking beside him and asked, "What are you doing with me?"

"Uncle King of Jin, what do you think the sea is like?" Gu Xiao asked in a low voice.

"I have never seen it before. I heard the people from the sea say it." Li Zhi said with a smile, "Why do you want to see the sea?"

Gu Xiao raised his chin and turned his head and said, "I won't go. What if I go there if I'm not familiar with the place, what if I'm sold? If I'm sold, who will inherit my father's inheritance?"

When Li Zhi heard this, he was covered in black. Why did this say come out of Gu Xiao so naturally? He thought about it carefully and said, "But you are Gu Qing's son, and no one in the Central Plains dares to provoke you."

Gu Xiao looked at Li Zhi with a gaze and said, "Uncle King of Jin, I want to ask you something."

"Ask." Li Zhi nodded.

"When you entered the Sea Trade Department, I remember my father gave you a lot of money. Where is the money now?" Gu Xiao asked.

"What, you kid are going back?" Li Zhi smiled.

"How dare?" Gu Xiao said lazyly, "My mother said that the money was the money of the Hai Trade Department. Many members of the Dukes were also among the money at that time, just thinking about who would be the amount of the money."

Li Zhi seemed to understand what Gu Xiao was going to say, and glanced at the sky, "It's too early, I'll go back first, you go to class quickly."

"Uncle King of Jin, how much did my father give you?" Li Zhi asked afterwards.

"Ask your father." Li Zhi left this sentence and walked further and further.

Gu Xiao stood there in a panic and left before he could finish his words. Why was this uncle King Jin so vigilant? Has he discovered my plan already, and he was thinking in his heart.

Li Zhi also walked towards the Gu family. Gu Xiao's words were heard in his ears, but his heart was very clear. This kid is the same as Gu Qing. He lives at Gu Qing's home and watched Gu Xiao grow up. Sometimes, Gu Xiao is no different from his younger brother. It's just that the money he designed is not too entangled, so that he will not have many twists and turns. This kid has been getting angry with his father recently.

Before I knew it, I walked to the door of the Gu family. Outside the yard, I could see Gu Qing sitting in the yard with a fan covering her face, tilting her head to sleep in the sun.

Li Zhi sat beside Gu Qing and the sun was also burning.

"Why are you here if you are not busy at the Haimao Department?" Gu Qing asked Li Zhi with the fan covered with his face.

"I was very busy, but I thought I wouldn't be so busy, so I wanted to ask my prince for help." Li Zhi said, "Now the Hai Trade Department is busy. Not to mention the letters sent from various places, each port has problems with each port. The waterway in the Central Plains is so long that I can't take care of it. Moreover, the journey is long, and it will take several days to communicate. It is too time-consuming and has poor effectiveness. I plan to open a branch of the Hai Trade Department in various places, so that the people of the Hai Trade Department can be assigned to each place, and deal with the problems in various places according to the situation in various places, so that it will be much smoother."

Gu Qing fell into silence.

Li Zhi said again, "Gu Qing, look at my idea, are you very smart?"

"It's not very stupid to think about it now." Gu Qing picked up the teacup and drank a cup of tea. "It should have been done this long ago. What do you think I asked the merchants in Jiangnan to build waterways? You might as well go and see the waterway drawings I designed at the beginning. Do you have any circle markings on it?"

"You have wanted to do this for a long time?" Li Zhi said in surprise.

"That's natural." Gu Qing nodded.

"Then why didn't you say it?" Li Zhi's tone rose a little bit.

"I thought that a person as smart as His Highness King Jin would understand that he did not need my guidance. Moreover, His Highness King Jin was able to take over so many civilians at my port, which shows that His Highness King Jin's ambitions must be carried forward in the hands of His Highness King Jin." Gu Qing raised his glass and drank the tea.

"Why do I feel like you are scolding me?" Li Zhi's mouth twitched hard.

"Is there any?" Gu Qing took a sip of tea.

"No?" Li Zhi asked back, "Gu Qing knew that he wanted to do this, but he didn't say it! Are you ready to bully me from the beginning? Are you unhappy if you don't tease me?"

"It's much more enjoyable now." Gu Qing held back his smile, and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Li Zhi's forehead was covered with blue veins and asked, "Then I'm going to get rid of trouble now, right?"

Waving his hand to interrupt Li Zhi's words, Gu Qing covered his stomach and said, "I can't help it anymore. Your Highness King Jin makes me laugh for a while."

"You!" Li Zhi pointed at Gu Qing and shivered all over.

"What are you laughing at?" Wu Mei came and handed it to Li Zhi with some snacks, "Try the cake you just made."

"Yes." Li Zhi took the cake and looked at Gu Qing and bit the cake fiercely.

"Don't laugh anymore." Wu Mei said to Gu Qing, "You said that King Jin would find such a problem. You just wanted to wait for King Jin to discover it himself. Now that someone has discovered it, you still have to make fun of him."

"Okay, okay, don't smile anymore." Gu Qing stopped his smile and said to Li Zhi, "If you establish a branch of the Maritime Trade Department, you must be prepared to conflict with the government. Many powers of the Maritime Trade Department conflict with the power of the government. Of course, it is not visible in Chang'an. When you go to various places, you will see that the most important thing is the maritime trade tax. Nowadays, the maritime trade tax is directly handed over to the court, but local merchants have their own taxes. Now, there are government officials in charge of the maritime trade department. It is probably not good for the maritime trade department to intervene rashly."

After Gu Qing said this, Li Zhi woke up in shock, "What should I do?"

"Whoever wants to stop the Sea Trade Department will break their legs."
Chapter completed!