Li Chongrun waited outside the guest room for a long time, but did not hear any movement inside. Li Chongrun made mental preparations for a long time, but when he opened the door and looked in, he found that it was empty.
A burst of laughter like silver bells came from outside the window, and Li Chongrun vaguely felt that he had probably been deceived by a group of them.
"Come out, if you don't come out, I will leave!"
"No, no!" A small figure jumped out from behind the closet. "It's coming, it's coming."
Li Chongrun was worried before that he had spent so much money and not even opened a shop. He was afraid that when he returned to Luoyang later, he would not be able to communicate with Wang Rong.
In the end, Wang Rong really followed Binger to Yangzhou.
However, looking at the furnishings in the guest room, they are still home furnishings, and the clothes on Wang Rong's body also look a bit dusty, as if he rushed here in a hurry.
"Why did you come here suddenly without even a letter?"
Li Chongrun was very curious. Before coming to Yangzhou, he asked Wang Rong specifically. However, Wang Siye only had this precious grandson. Naturally, he was reluctant to let him leave Luoyang and follow him to Yangzhou. Why did he suddenly run away silently?
Coming over?
"Don't mention it, there's a marriage proposal at home, and I can't get rid of it no matter what. If I hadn't run fast, I might have packed it into the bridal chamber by now." Wang Rong's face shrank, and he looked very frustrated.
.
This Wang Rong is slightly younger than Li Chongrun, but if he is from a wealthy family, he has indeed reached the age of marriage, so it is inevitable that his family will urge him to get married.
"Hey, whose young lady is so lucky that she was chosen by Wang Siye to be her granddaughter-in-law?"
"It wasn't my grandfather's idea, it was my father who found it, saying he was from the Cui family."
Li Chongrun was a little strange. Wang Siye was the actual person in charge of the Imperial College, and he was familiar with it. But he had known Wang Rong for so long and had been to her house many times. He only knew that his mother had died young, so he really hadn't heard him talk about it.
about his father.
"Your father? We have known each other for so long, why have we never seen your father?"
"It's okay not to mention that scumbag." Wang Rong seemed to really not want to continue this topic. He turned his eyes and started to trouble Li Chongrun: "You paid 100,000 yuan to come here, where is the semicolon?"
Li Chongrun smiled bitterly, thinking that it was a blessing rather than a curse, and an ugly daughter-in-law would always want to see her parents-in-law, so he told Wang Rong everything he had done since arriving in Yangzhou.
Wang Rong's face was not ugly when he heard that Li Chongrun said that the semicolon was not completed and he also spent a lot of extra money to open a grain account and do charity. However, when he heard that he opened a workshop and built a school and spent a lot of money
, although this is Li Chongrun’s only profitable business at present, Wang Rong still showed an obvious expression of disgust.
It was only when he talked about his cooperation with the Lanling Xiao family that Wang Rong returned to his normal expression.
"I'm not talking about you. You obviously have a golden job, but you always do things that mean nothing."
Wang Rong glanced at Li Chongrun with disdain, turned over the teacups and teapot on the desk, and found that they were empty. Li Chongrun hurriedly went out to get him some tea.
Recently, everyone in the family has followed Li Chongrun and learned how to drink green tea. He simmered a pot of boiling water in a small red clay stove and poured it into a black porcelain cup. The green tea leaves were tumbling up and down in the water very interestingly. Wang
Rong was having fun on the sidelines and made several cups of tea one after another.
Li Chongrun did not dare to rush the God of Wealth. Instead, he carefully played with Wang Rong's tea leaves with a smile on his face.
After waiting for a while, Li Chongrun felt that the tea was no longer so hot. He picked up a cup and took a sip. When he thought it was enough, he motioned to Wang Rong to have a taste.
Drinking tea has always been considered an elegant thing in this dynasty, but Li Chongrun's simple and crude brewing method will only make people who have never drank tea feel bitter and unbearable for the first time.
Fortunately, there were not many tea leaves added, and the Yangxian tea sent by the Xiao family's patriarch was very fragrant. After Li Chongrun drank the tea, he took a breath and felt the faint sweetness on the tip of his tongue. Wang Rong's eyes changed.
All lit up.
"This is really good stuff, and it's much simpler than the previous tea ceremony of cooking. Where did this tea come from?"
"The head of the Lanling Xiao family sent it here. He originally asked us to help him print books, and he also gave us two tea mountains. I didn't want it."
Wang Rong opened his mouth to say something, but then he thought about it and didn't refute. He just muttered: "It's better not to ask for it. If we bring two tea mountains here, where are we going to find people to serve this thing?"
After drinking a few cups of tea, Wang Rong and Li Chongrun started talking about business.
"When it comes to making wine, let's not think about doing too much. Just like when we made fans, we just need to keep an eye on the top. There are so many people drinking in the world. You really want to monopolize this kind of business.
How much rice is needed for brewing?”
It was when Wang Rong discovered that Qingyiyuan's fans were making more and more, it took a lot of manpower, and he was involved with a group of professional craftsmen, but there was still no profit, so he gave up the low-end market and concentrated on selling them to the nobles.
Go for those luxury items.
"What we are worried about right now is that there is no one. You have finally taught a few literate children and put them all into the workshop to work as coolies. It is really a waste. You must know that those sisters in Qingyi Garden were casual
After I learned some literacy and arithmetic, I was able to be released as a bookkeeper. Your method of employing people is really a waste."
In his last life, Li Chongrun was accustomed to such a level of universal education. He always felt that children who had only learned Chinese for a few days and could memorize some multiplication tables were not even considered workers, but he did not expect that he would be so far-sighted.
It's really a bit too high.
No wonder the school has not even opened yet, and many children from all over the country have already been sent here. I originally thought that the farmers just wanted the school to take care of food and accommodation, so that they could save a lot of money. From this point of view, coming to the school to learn writing and arithmetic is a good way to make a living.
There are also many people who are springboards for personal life.
"You have gathered all the children in Yangzhou City at once, and you are not afraid that His Majesty will think you are going to do something." Wang Rongshun added another sentence, "There are 200,000 households in Yangzhou City, and one family will send one
Kid, how much rice do you spend just preparing meals every day?"
Li Chongrun was speechless by Wang Rong. He really lacked some consideration when doing these things. He just felt that he had no one and needed to train some literate workers as soon as possible. He didn't think so long-term at all.
"The same goes for the bookshop. You opened it in such a hurry. Apart from putting an eyeball on the top of your head to stare at it, is there any benefit?"
"Winning over the Xiao family?" Li Chongrun carefully argued with himself.
"You don't want to teach tens of thousands of talented people, and the Xiao family won't run away, so when can you not recruit them?" Wang Rong was always rude when talking to Li Chongrun, but Li Chongrun was already used to Wang Rong taking advantage of him.
Although he doesn't have the personality of an outsider, he is actually very useful.
"Now that the advertisement is out, we can't just send all those kids back, right?"
"Then what can we do? Let's take a pick. Those who are really stupid can only send some rice and food back. I just don't know how much effort it will take."
Wang Rong cursed Li Chongrun for a long time, and finally got better at him: "But your grain account business is indeed a good idea. Although it cost a lot of money to collect the rice grain, it has left a good reputation.
Not to mention anything else, if we operate this grain number well, it will really be a golden job."
"How can I make money with this grain account?"
"You said earlier how Buddhism makes money?"
"It's money to pay for sesame oil. It's the kind of loan sharking that comes out of nowhere."
"Then if a grain company with a good reputation like ours does this, and we not only collect copper coins, but we can also collect rice grains, do you think those farmers will trust us or those monks?"
"Then they must trust us. What do we need so much rice for?"
"Don't you own a winery? There are so many children, aren't they all mouths?"
Li Chongrun was inspired a lot by Wang Rong, and an idea came to his mind: "Why don't we simply put out copper coins when lending money, and collect rice grains at market prices. This can also solve the money shortage."
Wang Rong felt that this guy was a bit high-spirited, so he sarcastically said: "You are thinking of a good thing, but where did you get the copper coins?"
"I'll think of a solution!" Li Chongrun smiled very kindly.