The Minjiang River flows eastward, and it has been ten years in a flash.

It was August of the 22nd year of Jiajing. It was the clear and clear autumn season. The grains were waiting to be harvested. In a few days, the provincial examination in Fujian Province was about to begin. On the official road by the river, a group of students from western Fujian and northern Fujian were rushing towards the provincial capital in sweat. Some of them were tired of walking and took a rest. Some of them glanced at the river with their eyes, but saw a building boat downstream, with a student of twenty or so sitting on the bow of the boat. They were elegant and sang poems of the Tang Dynasty as the sound of the boat breaking through the waves. They saw him holding red on the left and holding green on the right, and there were two beautiful prostitutes in his arms. There were also a pair of music maids beside him, one hugging the zither and the other holding the flute, and the music was used to match the rhythm of the student.

"The world is getting worse!" An old student over 50 years old on the shore gritted his teeth and said angrily.

"It's sour when people get old!" Two young scholars next to them teased the old student, but envied the young student on the boat: "This is how life should be!"

Some people with ambition secretly made up their minds: "When I pass the juren, I will have all these!"

Due to the smooth sailing, the boat pulled all its sails again, so it was very fast. Soon it arrived outside Fuzhou City and stopped on the pier. A group of sedan chairmen were waiting there. The student leaning against the red and green came down from the boat and stepped into the sedan chair. The four sedan chairmen walked like flying and carried them straight into the city, and came to the gate of the Sanhe Pavilion opposite the Youxi Hall in the west of the city.

However, the Sanhe Pavilion is built together, with the Bian Pavilion in the middle, the Ge Pavilion at the left, and the Tao Zhu Pavilion at the right. The three houses are all three in front and back, with high walls and large courtyards. Because the three houses are combined and the local population is well-populated, they are called Sanhe Pavilion. Over time, even the owner of this museum accepted this title.

This Sanhe Pavilion is an industry purchased by the Li family of Youxi. The Museum of Arts and the Zhige Pavilion teaches martial arts. In addition to entertaining poets, poets and martial arts masters, it also provides free education to local poor teenagers. As long as children under the age of 15 can pass the admission qualification examination, they not only study for free, but also provide food and accommodation. As for the Taozhu Pavilion, they only entertain businesses that have business cooperation with the Li family.

In recent years, not only has the Li family's business grown bigger and bigger, but the transactions they have also undergone great changes.

In the first few years, the Li family mainly used handmade products and made iron tools and transported them to Zhangzhou for export to smugglers.

There is an old saying in the business circle of South China: No good business is good. This sentence means that the Chinese imitation ability is too strong. As long as someone makes a fortune from a certain type of business, the people around him will immediately start imitating it. The same is true for Youxi. After the Li family made a fortune by making iron tools, all kinds of large and small iron tools workshops followed the trend, regardless of whether they have overseas resources and transportation capabilities like the Li family. In short, as long as there is a little industry, they imitate the products of the Li family's iron factory, and even dig the Li family's corners to grab blacksmiths. So the Li family organized a Youxi iron industry chamber of commerce.

The bosses of the fellow townsmen thought at first sight: "Here, I'm going to make a move! I'm going to suppress us!" It's fair and reasonable to make the rules of the Li family. Not only did they not want to suppress emerging peers, they also provided some overseas market news for the villagers for free. The Li family's iron factory even stopped producing many inherent iron products such as iron pots, iron needles, etc. This was simply freeing up market share for fellow townsmen! So not long after, even the workshops that were very wary of the Li family at the beginning joined the chamber of commerce one after another - because it was beneficial to join!

"Li Dashu is indeed kind and righteous!" The more kind-hearted person thought.

"Isn't this a fool?" said a little mean but didn't appreciate it.

There is another type of person who thinks that the little fox of the Li family is doing something conspiracy.

Relatively speaking, the third type of people's ideas are more reliable, but the Li family's plan is not a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy.

After the production of iron pots and iron needles, the Li family established a "Tongli" business, and only retained a part of the high-end products in the manual manufacturing industry and became more and more refined. The main profitable business of the family is no longer here.

After the Beiyouxi Machinery Corps' great reputation, the Li family began to do logistics. How to do logistics? First, the Li family cooperated with alliance merchants from all over the country and built a total of 19 pottery and rudimentary halls, large and small, in Jianyang, Nanping, Minqing, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Tong'an, Yuegang and other places. The pottery and rudimentary hall is in front of the alliance merchants, and the destination for the allies from other places when they come to the local area. It is the place where local allies discuss and gather on weekdays, and a warehouse is built behind. The warehouse is divided into three parts: one is

Public warehouses are for temporary storage of goods when the allymen in another place are left; second, the private warehouses of local alliance merchants, and there are several local franchise merchants, and there are several small private warehouses; third, the special warehouses of Tongli Business. The security work of Taozhu Pavilion is handled by the bodyguards from the corps of the aircraft, and the relationship with the local government is handled by the local allies. As for the operating expenses of Taozhu Pavilion, the franchise merchants agree to distribute them together. Generally, the greater the rights they have, the greater the responsibility they have to bear.

The chambers of commerce, which were jointly chaired by Li Dashu, wanted the Li family to be responsible for protecting their trade and transportation at the beginning, but if you asked someone to give you a bodyguard, what kind of goods are they to protect, how many quantity is, where the starting place and destination are, you have to speak with them? During this process, the Li family quickly grasped the logistics information and trading destinations of most major merchants in Fujian.

Li Dashu didn't know what the use of these messages was, but he had a son. There were always ups and downs in business, and when they encountered lows, such as if the ship date was missed, the goods could not be taken away for a while, and the capital chain was so fragile that he could not allow him to drag it down. At this time, the people of the Li family would appear, buy them at an acceptable price, and place them in the warehouse set up by the Li family in various places, waiting for the next round of price peak.

Because he has mastered overseas market information and had frequent business dealings with various merchants, and the goods and cash (silver) they controlled at hand are becoming more and more powerful, and Li Yanzhi has an advanced business concept and has a stronger voice over the rules of the game. So in recent years, Li Yanzhi's words may affect the export (smuggling) prices of tea, books, iron tools, sulfur and other goods in Fujian Province! At the same time, the products obtained by the Li family from overseas, such as spices, have also quickly opened markets in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places. Even merchants in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Huguang and other places came to find the Li family to get goods.

It can be said that the Li family is no longer a local tyrant in Youxi County, but a large business with regional influence. The Li family also attaches more importance to the Taozhu Pavilion in the provincial capital Fuzhou. In addition to Youxi, the Li family usually only bears less than 20% of the investment and rights and responsibilities when other Taozhu Pavilions are built, but the Li family has borne nearly 50% of the cost for the Taozhu Pavilion in the provincial capital!

The Taozhu Pavilion in the provincial capital usually only has the side door. Generally, only heavyweights from the business world come to visit, or high-ranking officials in the provincial capital visit to inspect. However, as soon as the sedan chair arrives, the Taozhu Pavilion actually opens the middle door and welcomes the sedan chair. In the corridor of the east wing of the Taozhu Pavilion, a Confucian scholar who is less than thirty years old and has a beard is waiting there.

This Confucian scholar was an important figure in the Youxi Li family. He was originally from Jiangxi. When he was fifteen years old, he went to Fujian to visit relatives with his parents. When he passed by Youxi, he listened to a student debate in Youxi's blog, but he refused to leave. He asked his parents to stay there to study. His father was also a person with knowledge in the public. After asking many sources, he agreed. At that time, the blog was not as prosperous as today. Although the atmosphere and system were good, there were also local celebrities who occasionally entered the lectures, but there were only a few teachers who taught new knowledge and had not studied in depth. After Feng Qi entered the school, he learned the lessons of the blog at that time in just a few months, but he did not leave because he met Li Yanzhi there.

Feng Qi was a little disdainful at first for the "child prodigy" who was several years younger than him, but as the relationship deepened, he gradually changed from dissatisfaction to admiration, and then from admiration to admiration. In the end, Li Yanzhi, who was a few years younger, held the etiquette of his disciples and respected him as his teacher. Li Yanzhi was also different from other students to Feng Qi. Five years ago, he opened the Six Art Hall and only recruited students who had outstanding talent in the study of the Museum and were willing to give up the imperial examination. Feng Qi was one of the first three students who entered the class. Three years ago, Li Yanzhi built another "one-lane room" with only six.

Only the most outstanding disciples in the art hall were allowed to enter, and Feng Qi was the first to enter the room. Li Yanzhi has successively established 19 museums and 36 court halls in various places in Fujian, selectively recruiting poor children from all over the country. In the past ten years, more than 10,000 students have been educated. It is already one in ten to pass the entrance test. Since the establishment of the Six Art Hall, there have been only 36 disciples, of which five have entered the room. Whether it is the 36 show or the five heroes in the room, Feng Qi is the first senior brother.

The education system of Liuyitang emphasizes the application of what you have learned and the unity of knowledge and action. Therefore, none of the thirty-six students who entered the hall sat in their study and studied the Four Books and Five Classics hard, but directly applied what they learned. For example, those with exquisite mathematics will be sent to Su Mei to assist in accounting affairs, those with strong language talents will be sent to Yuegang to deal with the Japanese in the Florida, and those with a wise mind on military skills may enter the corps to receive training or even follow the corps to go up the mountain to suppress bandits. Those with keen sense of business operations will be arranged to be trained in branches in various places as intern shopkeepers, and two or three students who are interested in handicraft design will enter the secret workshop of the Iron Factory - this is their internship process and their position destination after graduation. The thirty-six students who entered the hall will have almost everyone's internship directions, and Feng Qi's role is particularly special!

From the day he entered the hall, Li Yanzhi would show him every time he sent a letter to the magistrate and a reply from the magistrate. He often took him through various rooms in Youxi County and visited the powerful and powerful people in Yanping Prefecture. A year later, Li Yanzhi's report to the magistrate, and the county magistrate was basically drafted by Feng Qi. Three years later, Feng Qi had Feng Qi's figure in business affairs that had a relationship with the public. It can be said that although Feng Qi was not surnamed Li, he was already an extremely important figure in this system! The so-called water rises, and as the Li family becomes more and more powerful, Feng Qi becomes popular in Fujian's business world. Even the rich people in Fuzhou City, Feng Qi competes with them. But at this moment, he stood quietly in the corridor, waited until the sedan chair stopped, then stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Three Young Master, how did you arrive?"

The student in the sedan chair said, "Have you done the provincial examination?"

Feng Qi said: "All aspects have been prepared, and I will ensure that the third young master and fifth brother will be successful in the exam. And..." When he said this, he suddenly felt that the voice of the sedan chair was wrong, so he stopped and asked tentatively: "Three young master?"

The student in the sedan chair couldn't help laughing. Feng Qi was stunned when he heard the laughter, then snorted, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, took a look, and dismissed the person in the sedan chair, then pointed at the student in the sedan chair and scolded: "Fifth Lao! You are getting bolder! Even the master dares to pretend!"

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