"Junior brother, after what happened today, I am afraid he will become famous in these major academies." Yan Fu said.

"But I'm afraid that Zhang Zijian and the others will secretly hold a grudge and take revenge on my junior brother. That's not a good thing." Yan Jingwen said.

Yan Fu listened and replied nonchalantly: "Then there's no need to be afraid. If they really dare to be arrogant in this Yangzhou city, my Yan family is not easy to bully. Besides, there is a master here. If they really want to

If you bully others with power, you may not be the unlucky one. However, junior brother, you should pay attention. They probably won’t use any underhanded tactics. They still have this kind of character, but if they meet in poetry or literary societies in the future, they will definitely have to

Those who make things difficult for you in every possible way, just pay attention to yourself."

After hearing this, Li Hao smiled and said: "That's okay. If we compare poems and essays, these are nothing more than chickens and dogs, and can't be mentioned."

These words made Yan Fu look up to the sky and laugh, and said, "Junior brother is very arrogant and has a bad temper towards me." On the other hand, Yan Jingwen next to him listened to what the two said and shook his head silently.

Then Li Hao asked: "By the way, senior brother, aren't you playing polo? Why are you here?"

Yan Fu said: "At first, those in our academy couldn't figure it out, so someone went to the front court to find me and asked me to come and have a look. As soon as they arrived, they saw my junior brother making a show of himself."

After chatting for a while, because Li Hao's legs were still difficult to move, he did not go back to the front court and went directly back to the academy by carriage.

After the polo field ended, this matter spread among several major colleges. The final result was that Li Hao's reputation in Qingtan College gradually improved. On ordinary days, there were always classmates from the college who came to talk, which made Li Hao's life easier.

Richer.

In the end, even Master Qin heard about it and warned Li Hao in class: "I have listened to the two poems you wrote on the polo field. They were indeed neatly written. But you must guard against arrogance and impetuosity.

Only by studying hard can you achieve results. And in the imperial examination, poems and poems are not the important thing after all, the essence of the article is the foundation, do you understand."

"Yes, teacher, I will definitely study hard." Li Hao said.

After listening to Master Qin's follow-up, he assigned the three of them their own homework and left. At that time, Li Hao thought that Master Qin didn't like him being in the limelight, but later he heard from his elder brother that Master made appointments with the mountain chief every day in the next few days.

I drank and ate with other teachers, and even drank more meat than usual. Only then did I realize that I was still proud of myself, but I had never told my students about it.

After this incident, Li Hao's subsequent life became orderly again. He studied and practiced calligraphy in the academy, and occasionally went to polo clubs with his two senior brothers. However, when the provincial examination gradually approached, Yan Fu also asked Master Qin to

Li Hao began to study hard in seclusion, and then Li Hao never went to the polo club again.

However, Li Hao's side gradually stabilized, but Li Jian and Wei's side encountered a difficulty. It turned out that as the soap purchased here was getting better and better, in order to keep up with the production, Wei's side went to the tooth shop

He purchased a buyer and built a new house behind his house.

At first, no one paid attention to the Li family's business, but then the commotion became louder, which aroused the curiosity of the villagers. After inquiring, they found out that the popular soap in the city was made by Li Jian and his wife.

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As a result, people from close families in the village came to ask if they could join in to help sell soap and earn some money. Wei discussed with Li Jianyi and was willing to let the villagers participate and earn some money. However,

The specific details still needed to be discussed, so they asked someone to go back first, saying that the couple would discuss it first and then tell them how to cooperate.

At this time, Li Jian actually couldn't come up with any ideas, so he wanted to go see Li Hao one day to see what he thought. But Wei didn't want to disturb Li Hao about this matter, so she said, "Since we are from the village, we can't help each other."

We should help each other. Now that we have a living, we can still bring them together. My idea is to set the unified price at 20 yuan, and then let them go to the city to sell the goods. We don't care how they sell it.

Anyway, if we didn’t sell one piece, we gave them two pennies. Now the two of us can sell hundreds of pieces every day. If they have more people, they will naturally be able to sell more. In this way, they can make money, and so can we.

More money, wouldn’t it be great?”

Li Jian heard this and thought it made sense, so he agreed. So the next day Li Jian invited Li Zheng to act as a surety and draw up the contract. However, there were a total of eleven families added this time, and each family had their own affairs first.

Take two hundred bars of soap to sell, and then let them discuss and divide the areas to sell separately.

As a result, sales immediately increased greatly. Because there were enough manpower and the ability to make money, the enthusiasm of each company to make money increased sharply. As a result, the soap market was suddenly spread out of Yangzhou City, and many people came to the nearby market towns.

Sell.

After arriving, almost everyone's delivery volume increased, which naturally made Wei and Li Jian extremely happy.

But just like that, it didn't take long for two families to send people to the door of the Li family, leaving Li Jian and the Wei family in a difficult choice. It turned out that the soap's best-selling matter fell into the eyes of the Cheng family and the An family.

, are the two big families in the village.

In fact, the two companies also knew about the soap business at the beginning, but at first because Li Jian and Wei only sold it by themselves, the audience was limited and the sales volume was not very large, so the two companies did not pay much attention to it. But later, as the number of sales increased,

It increased and expanded to surrounding towns. The two families sent people to visit the village to inquire, and then each calculated it, and they could roughly estimate how big the business was. Now the Li family transfers no less than fifty taels of money every day, and one

That's nearly 20,000 taels of silver per year. And this is just in Yangzhou. If they take over and sell it in various places, the income will be huge.

So I wanted to get involved. Zhang Hu came from the Cheng family, and his tone of voice was not bad. He only said that the family wanted to invite the two of them to meet to discuss whether they could cooperate. But the person from the An family was very rude and direct.

When it came to buying the soap formula, the two of them were asked to think carefully and come up with a price, saying that they would discuss it again in a few days.

Li Jian and the Wei family naturally refused to sell the formula, but the An family was powerful after all, and there were people in the big family who were serving as officials. He was born as a Jinshi and now served as the magistrate of Hongzhou on Jiangnan West Road. It was natural for someone in the court to do business.

Being big is far beyond what the Li family, a small family, can offend now.

Therefore, compared with the An family, Li Jian and the Wei family thought that the Cheng family might be better off, and there was no other way. So just two days later, they asked Li Jian to go to the Cheng Mansion to see Cheng Shi to see what the Cheng family wanted.

How to cooperate.

When I arrived at Decheng Mansion, I was greeted by Zhang Hu and walked into the lobby. I only saw the front door. When I entered the living room, I saw corridors on both sides. In the middle was the hallway. There was also a large marble screen with a red sandalwood frame in the middle.

The screen is a small three-room hall. Behind the hall is the main courtyard at the back. There are six upper rooms in the front, all with carved beams and paintings. On both sides there are verandahs and wing rooms with various parrots, thrushes and other birds hanging on them.

The scenery along the way showed the wealth of the Cheng family, but how could Li Jian have the time to take a closer look at this at this time.

After entering the main hall, Zhang Hu asked Li Jian to sit down on the side, and then went to find Cheng Shi. When Cheng Shi came out of the inner courtyard, he saw that Mr. Cheng was a rich man with a look on his brows that had accumulated from years of wind and rain.

Calm and indifferent, wearing a dark blue wide-sleeved cardigan, he looks quite majestic.

After Cheng Shi came in, he didn't directly mention the soap. Instead, he first talked to Li Jian about trivial matters in the village, and also asked about Li Hao's current status in the academy.

Li Jianhou had no choice but to accompany him and answer them one by one, but when he talked about Li Hao, he was in high spirits and spoke with pride.

After hearing this, Cheng Shi also praised the young man for his own style and so on. However, after chatting for a while, he still didn't get to the point, which made Li Jian anxious. He really wanted to know what the Cheng family was planning.

Li Jian then directly asked: "Master Cheng, I don't know how you will cooperate with us on soap matters when you sent someone last time."
Chapter completed!