Li Yanzhi reunited with his second brother, and was happy and excitedly told what happened to Li Er's departure. He was drunk and said something vaguely, so Su Mei added corrections next to him. Occasionally, a fellow villager came in to see what a silly child was like when he was drunk. Li Er hid behind the door and only appeared after he left.

Li Yanzhi finished talking about his goodbye, and the banquet outside was almost over. Li Dashu and Li Gang were both drunk and unconscious. The guests dispersed. When Li Yanzhi saw his son coming back, he lost everything and hugged him and cried and laughed. She didn't love him very much when Li Er was at home, but once he was taken away by Li Bang, the concern became deeper and deeper. When he saw him coming back safely, he cried endlessly.

On the second day, when Li Dashu woke up, the family reunited, and there was another intimacy, joy and sadness. Li Dashu asked: "Erzai, why are you back? Where is your second uncle? Is he okay?"

"Uncle II is fine, he asked me to come back."

Only then did Li Er talk about what to do.

It turned out that day he followed Li Bald to Chaozhou and met two other merchants, Xu Dong and Wang Zhi, who built ships at the junction of Fujian and Guangxi. Wang Zhi helped him name Li Jie, and since then Li Jie became a member of this maritime business group.

Li Jie followed this group of the most avant-garde maritime merchants in China to travel to the small Western Ocean, make friends with natives from various islands, as well as Huihui merchants and Folangji merchants, and their horizons were wide open! After that, he went to Japan with Folangji. After two people walked back and forth, their wallets became bulky and their team grew stronger! The waters rose, and Li Jie also grew from a small sailor to a small leader.

None of the merchants who dared to go into the sea to smuggle in this era are good people! During the business, it was inevitable that they encountered pirates and indigenous attacks. Li Jie followed Xu Dong, Wang Zhi and others to fight to kill the enemy, and his hands were also ruthless. Therefore, two years later, Li Gang, who stayed at home, did not change much, but Li Jie seemed to have changed his body!

When Li Dashu heard that he had killed someone, he was even more worried and said, "Then are you going to take refuge this time?"

"No!" Li Jie said: "I want to take my elder brother to sea."

"Nothing!" Li Dashu said angrily: "Your third brother finally got a fame, but you want to discredit his foundation, right? You...you go, you go!"

Su Mei didn't know why her godfather got angry, but Li Yanzhi understood: Dad was worried that he would be implicated and his foundation was not clean! But he was also a little surprised: Li Bald Head was worried that he would implicate him, so before leaving, he repeatedly told him not to recognize him as his uncle when he met in the future. Why did he let his second brother come to the door and pull his eldest brother into the sea now?

But Li Jie said, "Dad! Don't be anxious, listen to me! Listen to me. The situation is different now! Two years ago, the second uncle was also worried that he would implicate his third brother. But the situation in the southeast has been different in the past two years. We have seen with our own eyes that many gentry come to do business with us. Among these people are Juren, Jinshi, and even the family members of the officials in the court! The second uncle thought, since they can do it, why can't we do it? That's why the second uncle sent me back, hoping to bring my elder brother with me. One more person will make more money and give the family more subsidies. In the future, the third brother will have the extra money to clear it up when he goes to the exam!"

When Li Dashu heard him say this, he was angry for a moment, but waved his hand and said, "Our family's money is enough now. Your third brother relies on real talent and knowledge! He doesn't need any money to clear it. Although you say that many of the master's families also do this business, the court still has not opened the ban, so let's forget about this matter." After all, he is conservative and afraid of things.

Li Yanzhi's mother said again: "Second, the situation at our family is different from previous years. I think you should not go back, just stay in your hometown and help your father manage the countryside and silver mines, but it is no better than being born and die at sea?" This is the thought of a loving mother in the countryside.

When Li Baltimore was at sea, he said that his family was still poor, and he didn't know if the silver he left had been used up, so he sent his nephew to come back with more than 100 taels of silver. When he got ashore, Li Baltimore told him that if Li Dashu or Li Gang were unwilling, he didn't have to force it and leave only the silver. Although Li Jie did not show up publicly after returning to his hometown, he also heard about his own changes on the road. When he saw Li Dashu not allowing his elder brother to go into the sea, he did not insist, but said, "Dad, I kowtowed that day, so I was adopted by my second uncle. I am happy now that the family is in a good situation, but I am not at ease. I think I'd better go back to the sea."

Li Yanzhi was moved when he saw his second brother so much love and friendship, and said to himself: "Dad is an honest man. He made a safe plan. He was afraid that he would miss my future! But he didn't know my ambition! If I just wanted to be an official at ease, then I should draw a clear line with my second uncle! But..."

However, Li Yanzhi's ambition was far more than that! He secretly calculated and had an idea, so he grabbed Li Jie to ask about the traffic on the sea, the sea routes to Japan, the goods traded by both parties, etc. Although he was asking questions, he asked very well. Li Jie had known his younger brother was a prodigy, but after hearing these questions, he still couldn't help but glared and said, "Brother, have you been to the Japanese island? How could you know so many things?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "I have never been to the Japanese island, these are what I saw in the book."

Li Jie had never read a book, so he didn't doubt it at all. He raised his thumb and said, "Awesome, amazing! Brother, you are a scholar! It's really different!" He followed what Li Yanzhi asked and told him everything he knew.

In addition to Li Yanzhi and Li Jie, Su Mei is the smartest in this room. She listened and thought halfway through the sound of the sound of the Japanese island, "The business on this Japanese island is very good! If you can go back and forth safely, the profit you get will be greater than pulling silk from the silver mine!"

Li Yanzhi thought further than her! In fact, after the county government was frustrated, he was determined to open up another path, and at this time he was even more certain: "This new force is here!" Combining the information obtained from Li Jie into his original plan, he had the next plan and said to Li Dashu: "Dad, we should do this overseas trade business!"

Li Dashu was surprised, and Li Jie was surprised and happy. Li Dashu shouted: "Sanzai, don't listen to your second brother's nonsense! Don't be greedy for those little profits! Your future is important!"

"That's not a small profit!" Li Yan said straight: "That's not even a big profit, the national economy and people's livelihood, and even the future of the world are all here! I will not give up on the imperial examination, but I must also get involved in this area. Otherwise, I will only be a bureaucrat in the future and will not be able to do the career I want to do!"

Li Dashu stared at him one by one, and no one understood what he was saying. Li Yan smiled and said, "Anyway, everyone is right to listen to me. Did I miss my decision?"

Li Jie also felt that this younger brother was extraordinary, so he advised Li Dashu, "Dad! My younger brother is a person who is knowledgeable about the world. Our knowledge is not as good as his! I'll just listen to him."

Li Gang also said: "The second brother is right! The third brother is Wenquxing, and Zhuge Liang is reincarnated. What he is definitely right!"

Li Dashu looked at his wife, and Li Yanzhi's mother thought for a while and said, "I also think that what our Sanzi wants must be more clever than what we think!" Li Dashu couldn't, so he said, "Okay. But Sanzi, you have to think clearly. It doesn't matter whether you make money or not, the most important thing is your fame and fortune!"

"I know Daddy." Li Yan smiled and said, "Besides, I don't plan to go into the sea. I have another better plan!"

“A better plan?”

"Yeah." Li Yan said straight: "I infer from my second brother's description that overseas trade is the seller's market now. Since it is the seller's market, we only need to control it..."

"Wait, wait!" Li Dashu asked, "What is the seller's market?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "Seller's market, this, well, that is to say, now at sea, Chinese goods are in short supply overseas. As much as they produce, they can sell as much as they can! The dominance is controlled by the seller. If we want to participate in this overseas trade, we don't have to go into the sea. As long as we pick up spices at the beach, take them to Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and then produce what we need overseas in our hometown, and then sell them to the maritime merchants. There is the profit of the boss in the middle!" Looking at Li Jie, he said, "Second brother, what do you think?"

Li Jie nodded and said, "The third brother said it very well! Now we are worried that we can't find the goods!"

Li Yan said straight: "If this is the case, then second brother, you'd better contact your second uncle and communicate to see what you need overseas and what we can produce. Then... the eldest brother is responsible for setting up a factory at home to produce, and second brother, you'd better hand the freight to the beach to the second uncle, and the second uncle will sell it. That's it!"
Chapter completed!