Zhao Liben was good at temptation, but Zhao Hao was still confused.

The old man had no choice but to accept that his grandson had not yet learned the idea and turned the topic to a secondary matter.

"What's going on with your Luoshi Jiangnan Company? Last time I was in Yangzhou, why didn't I get angry?"

"Hi, in order to reassure Mr. Wu, he made up such a name randomly." Zhao Hao replied with a smile: "But after walking around in Taicang and Wuxi, he attracted several shareholders, so it is not a scam now."

"How much did you fool someone?" Zhao Liben asked curiously.

"The two Wang families each cost 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 shi of grain. The Hua family has 150,000 taels of silver and 80,000 shi of grain." Zhao Hao pinched his fingers and counted: "Mistress Xueying came up with one million taels, but I am worried that other shareholders will have any opinions, so she only needs half of it."

"My good..." Zhao Liben almost glared at his eyes. "You're just making a fuck with nothing, and you'll get one million and two million taels of silver at once?"

When Su Song rice is expensive, the Mi family is never less than two taels per stone. The Wang family only costs two taels of silver, and Zhao Hao does not suffer any loss at all.

"Grandpa is such a bad word." Zhao Hao said seriously: "How could he make a fortune by making money? The grandson uses the goodwill accumulated in the past."

"Goodworthiness, what is that?" Zhao Liben was puzzled.

Mr. Zhao patted his chest and said nothing.

"Uh... that's still just a waste of money?" Zhao Liben sneered.

"Grandpa insists on saying this, I can't do anything." Zhao Hao spread his hands helplessly.

"It's a skill to be able to get it." Zhao Liben smiled, took out an envelope from his sleeve, and handed it to Zhao Hao and said, "There are still people who chase you for money."

"This is?"

"I passed by Yangzhou. The salt merchants begged to work with you, but you didn't agree. This time, they gave all the money to grandpa."

"And they are afraid that you will not agree, so they have issued documents to ensure that they will not interfere with the company's business, nor will they sell shares, and just share dividends with you." Zhao Liben handed Zhao Hao an envelope.

"Why should I take someone to play?"

"So good?" Mr. Zhao opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Their money is washed by sea water, and they can't spend it all, and there is no other place to go. Instead of having mold in the cellar, it's better to put it here to give birth to a baby." Zhao Liben smiled and said, "Look, how generous they are."

Zhao Hao opened the first envelope and saw a thick stack of tickets inside, counting them to a million taels. "How many companies are they from?"

"There are five companies in total, and the family is 200,000 taels." Zhao Liben smiled and said, "There are three other companies that are not our Hui merchants, so they don't take them to play... Do you think this matter should be done?"

"Yes, everyone has achieved this, how can there be any reason for it?" Zhao Hao pondered for a moment:

"According to the fact that Jiangnan Company has occupied Xishan, the stock price should have risen. But since they are so sincere and have great respect for grandpa, then we can still count on one or two stocks."

"Hehe, Changliang! He is worthy of being my grandfather's good grandson!" Zhao Liben was very happy. It was considered to have completed his mission and had an explanation when he went back.

Zhao Hao opened another envelope and saw that there were five documents inside. The general idea was that each company invested 200,000 taels of silver to Zhao Hao, and he would take full control of the shares. He would lose all profits and losses and would never withdraw them voluntarily.

To put it bluntly, the salt merchants regard this as a financial investment and do not regard it as a big deal...

I think that's true, 200,000 taels are really nothing for the wealthy salt merchants.

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In fact, even if the salt merchants do not grant the voting rights to Zhao Hao, Mr. Zhao will take the initiative to suppress the shares to less than 50%. This will show that Jiangnan Company is not his own, and it will also block Youyou's mouth.

In fact, Mr. Zhao didn’t have to be so careful. In this era, there was no regulation that relatives of officials were not allowed to do business in the place of office.

But be careful to sail the ten thousand-year-old ship. Who knows whether this one will be used to attack his father and son in the future?

So he would not even serve as the chairman of Jiangnan Company, and he was going to ask Grand Master Hua Chahua to act as a mascot.

Zhao Li would not interfere with these specific and minor matters, he only focused on the big strategic direction.

Taking a sip of tea, the old man talked about the situation of the Eight Great Masters.

"Last year they did not find the golden seal of King Jinghai. I wanted to say that they would talk about the numbers again and cast one again."

Zhao Liben smiled gloatingly and said, "But as I expected, it's not that simple? The Lu family relied on the power of Lu Bing and his son as the Jinyiwei, and each family felt that they had suffered a loss. Now that the Lu family is defeated, how can they divide these 20%? Should everyone share the same, or who takes over the King of Jinghai and who takes the lead? The eight families are fighting endlessly."

"Of course." Zhao Hao nodded and continued the tea ceremony for his grandfather: "The families who know that there is no hope of fighting for the throne must hope to divide the shares equally. A strong party like the Xu family naturally wants to take it alone."

"And in addition to the dispute over land share, there are more troublesome problems at sea." Zhao Liben continued to explain to his grandson:

"Originally, Wang Zhi's Wufeng fleet controlled the shipping of the Southeast Ocean, and the nine people could only sell the goods to his family, so the power and profits were all in Wang Zhi at that time."

"The nine people were naturally dissatisfied with this and joined forces to find ways to get rid of Wang Zhi. After Wang Zhi's death, his fleet was divided into pieces and attacked each other, and the maritime trade was completely over."

"The nine masters used both soft and hard work, and jointly promoted the Lu family to the new King of Jinghai. King of Jinghai was the person in charge of all the fleets on Zhejiang Zhihai."

"The goods of the Nine Masters are distributed to the five major fleets. The five major fleets will sell the goods to the two oceans, make money and then pay them to the Nine Masters. Finally, the Nine Masters will be distributed to the Nine Masters, so that a maritime trade will be completed."

Zhao Hao nodded and said with some gloating pleasure: "When King Jing Hai died, the sea surface will definitely be more chaotic than on land."

"That's natural. Most of the companies on the land hold their own identities and are related to their ties, so it's hard to completely break up. But the sea is already a prey of the weak. Are those fleets a maritime merchant or a pirate? No one can tell." Zhao Liben also smiled:

"So the sea needs more order. Once order is gone, the fleets will immediately get in chaos. Without the Neptune, no one will provide them with goods, and they don't know who to pay for the goods after selling them. They will cut off trade in an instant."

"Those maritime merchants were originally just a lord who dared to spend two people. After half a year of not entering the business, some people went back to the old path and became pirates and started robbing. I heard that the Taicang Wang family was robbed of two batches of goods in the first half of the year."

"Oh." Zhao Hao suddenly realized, no wonder Wang Shimao sweated when he mentioned this. It turned out that he suffered a great loss.

"The Xiang family simply took the opportunity to eat a fleet of ships, and wanted to produce and sell their own products, and did not play with everyone. As a result, the other companies stopped working. On the first lunar month, they burned more than 100 ships of the Xiang family. The Xiang family naturally had to take revenge. After several months of hardships, hundreds of people died before they stopped."
Chapter completed!