The distance between the capital and Jiangnan is too far, and it is inconvenient to transmit news. The last time Zheng Yi got news from Jiang Zhen was two months ago, and that news was still delayed on the road for more than a month.
Because of this, he didn't know Jiang Zhen's current situation, and even he didn't fully understand the affairs of his own family.
There are many boats parked on the dock in Hecheng County, both big and small, and there are a lot of them.
But Zheng Yi glanced at the pier, but couldn't help frowning slightly.
There are a lot of boats on the dock, but it seems to be less than before
Probably no one came here today... Although Zheng Yi was a little puzzled, he quickly let go of it, he looked at everything he was familiar with from a distance, with a smile on his face: "I'm back at last... I'm really a little bit... homesick."
"I'm homesick too, but unfortunately I won't be able to go back for a long time, but..." Shen Anxin replied with a smile, but he was interrupted before he finished speaking.
"I don't want to be home. Seeing the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, I don't want to be at all." Feng Jingyuan smiled flatly at Zheng Yi, praising Hecheng County incessantly.
Shen Anxin was interrupted by him, and his face became unsightly, but he soon smiled again and praised He Chengxian: "It is said that fireworks go to Jiangnan in March, and the spring in Jiangnan is the most beautiful, but I don't want to Jiangnan in this autumn and winter is also so beautiful."
Shen Anxin and Feng Jingyuan said one sentence to another, and it can be said that they were competing to behave in front of Zheng Yi.
Zheng Yi glanced at the two people who were very indifferent, smiled and said nothing.
When he was in the capital before, in order to expand his business, he wanted to find someone to cooperate with, but after the people under him studied it, they found that the Bandung Firm was the most suitable.
In addition, the Shen family firm is also very good, but in the end it is not as good as the Wanlong firm.
Zheng Yi heard Jiang Zhen talk about the conflict between the Bandung Firm and him. He had a bad impression of the Bandung Firm, but only the words of the Shen family were not enough... After much deliberation, he simply cooperated with the two companies.
The two firms did not deal with each other. He cooperated with them and took advantage of them without exception, and he didn’t have to worry about the troubles of the Bandung Firm’s wrongdoing. It could be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
Zheng Yi originally planned to limit this kind of cooperation to the capital. When he didn't want him to go back to Jiangnan, Feng Jingyuan, the owner of Bandung Commercial Bank, even proposed to follow him, and then Shen Anxin also followed.
After thinking about it, Zheng Yi still agreed, and then he was in the same boat all the way, and he kept seeing these two people fighting each other... It was quite interesting.
At the beginning, Feng Jingyuan's son Feng Chenglin wanted to marry Shen Anxin, but he even planned to ruin Shen Anxin's reputation and even targeted Jiang Zhen... Zheng Yi would also help Shen Anxin when the two were in conflict, so although Shen Anxin's mental skills were not comparable Feng Jingyuan was on a par with Feng Jingyuan.
Feng Jingyuan also knew about this situation, but he did not become a royal merchant. Now he wants to follow Zheng Yi to get a bargain, and also wants to open up the market in Jiangnan. As a result, he encountered some censure, he All endured.
Being a little wronged in order to achieve his goals is really nothing to him.
The ship carrying cargo under Zheng Yi went to the private dock of the Zheng family to dock. They only have one main ship now, and the dock is relatively empty, so they docked quickly.
The Zheng family had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as Zheng Yi got off the boat, many people greeted him, let Zheng Yi sit in a comfortable sedan chair, and carried him, Feng Jingyuan and others into the Zheng residence.
A few people showered and changed clothes first, and then Zheng Yi's father, the eldest master of the Zheng family, hosted a banquet for Feng Jingyuan and Shen Anxin.
After Zheng Yi returned to his home, he relaxed a lot and showed his condescending side, but Feng Jingyuan and Shen Anxin were careful everywhere, just to make a good impression on Mr. Zheng.
Feng Jingyuan is very good at talking, while Shen Anxin is gentle and well-behaved. Master Zheng talked to them for a while, then turned around and scolded Zheng Yi: "You can't sit properly when you look at you?"
"Father, I've just been sleeping outside for a year, and you won't let me relax?" Zheng Yi said, but he still sat up straight, and went back to business: "Father, I think there are a few boats at the pier today. ,How is this going?"
"Isn't it because of the Jiang Zhen you are very optimistic about?" Master Zheng said with a smile.
"This has something to do with Jiang Zhen?" Zheng Yi was a little surprised, but he wasn't worried - seeing his father's happy look, he knew it wasn't a bad thing.
"Then after Jiang Zhen came back from the capital, he stayed in Hexi Village and didn't go out. At first, I thought he had lost his ambitions. I didn't want to think about it and underestimated him... He didn't make a sound, just in Hexi Village. A big pier was built on the side." Master Zheng said: "His escort bureau will help people deliver goods, and his pier is very large, and it is more convenient to use than the county's pier. Some small merchants shook their boats and collected them from various villages. After getting the goods, I went directly to his dock."
"So it is." Zheng Yi said.
"Not only that, but in just three months, his Jin Zhen Escort has already made a name for himself in Hexing Mansion." Master Zheng said again.
Obviously, not only Zheng Yi admires Jiang Zhen, but this Master Zheng also admires Jiang Zhen.
Feng Jingyuan didn't like Jiang Zhen, but seeing the Zheng family's respect for him, he couldn't help praising him, and Shen Anxin's attitude was the same as that of Feng Jingyuan.
"I knew he was very capable... I will go to see his dock tomorrow." Zheng Yi smiled.
Zheng Yi became more and more satisfied with Jiang Zhen as time went by!
Relying on playing cards, the Zheng family won the favor of the queen mother, and it took a year of hard work to earn money that may not have been earned in the past ten years!
Not only that, the way Jiang Zhen left behind to sew up the wound has also improved the relationship between the Zheng family and the generals.
Now that he is back in Hecheng County, it is natural to see Jiang Zhen as soon as possible.
Zheng Yi's words mattered. After a night's rest, the next day, he asked someone to find a boat to go to the pier of Hexi Village.
Feng Jingyuan and Shen Anxin probably made up their minds to follow him. They waited at the gate of his yard early in the morning and followed him.
Zheng Yi knew that Jiang Zhen and Shen Anxin had done business and knew each other, but he didn't think there was any problem with taking Shen Anxin in the past, but Feng Jingyuan...
"Don't worry, Master Zheng, after he offended Mr. Jiang, he went to give Mr. Jiang a gift to make amends. Mr. Jiang said at the time that the previous matter was written off." Feng Jingyuan said immediately.
Hearing what Feng Jingyuan said, Zheng Yi also let him follow. Anyway, based on his understanding of Jiang Zhen, Jiang Zhen really wanted to hate Feng Jingyuan... In the end, it would only be Feng Jingyuan, not Jiang Zhen, who would be uncomfortable.
When Zheng Yi went to the pier of Hexi Village this time, of course, it was not a big boat for long-distance voyages, but a small cruise ship.
This cruise ship is used by the Zheng family when they go out to visit friends or go out for an outing. It is really exquisite and beautifully decorated. Even the boaters are young and very pleasing to the eyes.
After Zheng Yi got on the cruise ship, a maid came to him, brought him tea, and put out a fruit plate and many saucers.
The tea is the best Maojian, the aroma is fragrant and clear and translucent. There are several kinds of fruits and preserved fruits in the fruit plate. In addition, there are more than ten kinds of side dishes on the table, a small plate of snails, and a small plate. Dried tofu, a small plate of boiled peanuts, a plate of duck tongue, a plate of glutinous rice balls the size of a fingernail... There's even a plate of abalone in sauce.
And behind the curtain next to her, there is a beautiful maid playing the piano and singing softly.
Shen Anxin and Feng Jingyuan are both rich, and they are very particular about their lives, but they have never been so particular about it before... Let alone the bowls and dishes that hold things... If they got such good china, they would definitely be reluctant to be very unstable. for a boat - what if it accidentally breaks
Zheng Yi was drinking tea and eating the side dishes on the table.
"Master, there is Hexi Village in front." The woman serving tea said.
Zheng Yi nodded, got up and came to the bow.
I heard that Jiang Zhen built a wharf, but I don't know what kind of wharf he built... Zheng Yi raised his eyes and looked over.
The pier on the side of Hexi Village is very large, even a little bigger than the Zheng family's private pier. From a distance, you can see a large open space on the river bank in the distance, as well as neat rows of houses.
The house was too neat and lacked aura, but Zheng Yi had to admit that it was very imposing.
But within half a year, Jiang Zhen was able to come up with such a place...
When he first got the news, Zheng Yi was somewhat disappointed when he heard that Jiang Zhen was with Brother Zhao Jin in the village all day long, but now, he wanted to find the person who spread the news and beat him up.
Jiang Zhen is doing business, why is it said that he stays in the village all for Zhao Jinge
"This is Master Jiang's wharf? It's really stylish!" Feng Jingyuan came over and exclaimed immediately.
"Master Jiang is really capable." Shen Anxin also said.
"He's not bad." Zheng Yi laughed.
While the three of them were talking, the boat slowly docked.
The servant next to Zheng Yi was holding the deck and was about to send Zheng Yi ashore, when Zheng Yi found that the person he was looking for had actually come over.
"Mingzhu, did you see that boat? How beautiful? When you are older, Dad will let someone make a boat like this for you, okay?" Jiang Zhen said to his daughter. It turned out to be Zheng Yi.
"Master Zheng?" Jiang Zhen looked at Zheng Yi in surprise.
"Jiang Zhen." Zheng Yi nodded towards Jiang Zhen, then looked at Jiang Zhen wearing a red cotton jacket in his arms, looking at Zhao Mingzhu, who was very happy and fat: "Is this your daughter?"
"Yeah, this is my daughter Pearl." Jiang Zhen smiled, showing Zheng Yi his chubby daughter.
After he decided on the two wet nurses, in order to make his daughter eat nutritiously, he would cook meat dishes and send them to the two wet nurses every day. After half a year, the two wet nurses were fed fat, and his daughter... also became fat. .
But to be honest, young children who are still breastfeeding are indeed fatter because of less exercise.
"This child is so cute." Zheng Yi said, when there is no way to say a child is beautiful, he usually praises cuteness.
"I think so too." Jiang Zhen accepted it unceremoniously, and asked again, "When did Master Zheng come back from the capital?"
"Just came back yesterday." Zheng Yi said.
Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi chatted, and also said hello to the two behind Zheng Yi, and then said, "Master Zheng, come to my house and sit down?"
"Okay! I'll also stroll around the pier by the way." Zheng Yi said.
Zheng Yi felt that Jiang Zhen's pier was very well built. The only downside was that everything was so neat that it would not give people the slightest surprise.
However, such a house is indeed better to use and save money.
Zheng Yi looked around, and he already planned to copy some of Jiang Zhen's things to his own dock, such as the cafeteria, he thought it was pretty good.
"Food is the god of the name, there is no harm in giving good food to your subordinates..." Jiang Zhen said, when he suddenly changed his face.
"Zheng Shao, I'm in a hurry to leave. I'll call someone to greet you!" Jiang Zhendao, seeing Zheng Baoning standing not far away, immediately said: "Zheng Baoning, come and say hello to Zheng Shao! I'll go home!"
"Yes, boss." Zheng Baoning responded, and then came to Zheng Yi in awe.
Their boss actually knows Zheng Shao, which is really amazing!
After Jiang Zhen finished speaking, he hugged his daughter and ran away. Seeing Jiang Zhen running away, Zheng Yi looked at Zheng Baoning in confusion: "What's wrong with your boss?"
"It should be because the young lady is a little inconvenient." Zheng Baoning said, it usually happens because their young lady wets her pants...
Zheng Yi has been married for many years and has a child long ago. Although he never brought him, he knew a little about the child. Hearing Zheng Baoning say this, he immediately understood, Feng Jingyuan also smiled, but Shen Anxin was a little puzzled: "What's the inconvenience? Doesn't the child look good?" I don't know if this child was born by Zhao Jinge... Zhao Jinge was not pregnant when he was in the capital, right
Shen Anxin didn't have much contact with Jiang Zhen at the beginning, and only met a few times. Others would not tell him about Zhao Jinge's pregnancy for no reason, so he didn't know that Zhao Jinge was actually pregnant with a child.
Zheng Baoning smiled and didn't answer, but Zheng Yi laughed: "It must have been his daughter who urinated on him! It was Jiang Zhen who carried his daughter around for people to see, and let the child urinate on himself. I'm going to make a note of this, and when the little girl grows up, I must make fun of her."
Jiang Zhen's daughter would be very embarrassed if she knew that she was peeing her pants when she was a child.
And then... he felt a little bad.
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge's daughters, if they look like them, Jiang Zhen's unreliable guy will train his daughter like Zhao Jinge...
When he went to make fun of Jiang Zhen's daughter, would he in turn be beaten by the angry, tall and strong girl
Jiang Zhen doesn't like to talk, Zheng Baoning is the opposite.
He has painted the woman Shuang'er in the county town for five or six years, dealing with the woman Shuang'er all day long, but Zheng Baoning has developed a clever mouth and knows how to make people happy.
He coaxed Zheng Yi very happy, and introduced the wharf in more detail. At this time, they had arrived at the Zhao family's new house.
Zhao Fugui couldn't be idle. He insisted on planting the Zhao family's few acres of land. Of course, because Jiang Zhen's men would help out when they saw it, he didn't have much work to do.
There is also the matter of raising chickens and ducks. They also continue to do it. They just don’t feed the chickens and ducks anymore. Feed the couple.
As a result, Zhao Liu's family is not busy, and can raise more chickens and ducks.
However, although a few are raised a lot, they are not sold, they are all eaten or given to subordinates by Jiang Zhen as a reward.
Because they did not completely abandon their farming work, the Zhao family was prosperous, but still full of local flavor. Instead of planting flowers and plants in their yard, they planted a lot of vegetables, even if there were a few trees, which were also loquat and persimmon trees. This is how the peach tree can bear fruit.
Not only that, when they arrived, Zhao Jinge was still basking the millet on the ground.
If the millet of this year wants to be kept longer, it needs to be dried a few times. The sun is good today, and there is nothing to do at home, so Zhao Jinge took them out and dried them.
The job wasn't tiring, so he regarded it as relaxing—he was studying before drying the millet, and he was really dizzy.
"Sir, there are guests here." Zheng Baoning greeted Zhao Jinge respectfully.
"Brother Zhao Jin, why are you drying millet?" Zheng Yi glanced at Brother Zhao Jin in surprise.
"Zheng Shao?" Zhao Jinge put down the hoe in his hand: "I have nothing to do, so I will take out the millet at home for drying... Zheng Shao, please come in."
In the past few months, I have been talking about business with people everywhere. When Zhao Jinge met Zheng Yi, he was not as cautious as at the beginning, but much more relaxed.
Zheng Yi also discovered this, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
When Zhao Jinge brought people into the house, Jiang Zhen had already changed his daughter's diaper, and he had also changed a piece of clothes.
In order to allow his daughter to stay in any room, Jiang Zhen specially made some large wooden barrels with a diameter of more than one meter. There is one in the living room. After putting his daughter in it, Jiang Zhen greeted Zheng Yilai. .
Zheng Yi came to Jiang Zhen this time without any purpose, so he chatted with Jiang Zhen, and beside them, Zhao Mingzhu was ignored, so he shouted dissatisfiedly.
Fortunately, Zhao Jinge came soon and took his daughter away.
"So, you won't run around with the boat in the future?" Zheng Yi asked when he heard that Jiang Zhen planned to take a break.
"Yes." Jiang Zhen nodded: "It's tiring to run around, I plan to rest at home for a while." Jiang Zhen said.
"If that's the case, do you want to do it with the casino you proposed?" Zheng Yi looked at Jiang Zhen: "At that time, I promised you to be the manager of the casino, and the profits of the casino in Hecheng County will be divided into 30% of the profits for you. , you definitely don't like this thing now... Why don't you help me build a few more casinos in Hexing Mansion, how about half of the profits from these casinos?"
"Master Zheng's statement is true?" Jiang Zhen looked at Zheng Yi.
"Really." Zheng Yi said.
"Zheng Shao, I will definitely handle this matter for you." Jiang Zhen said without thinking: "But I mainly give ideas. I want you to pay for the manpower. Of course, I am willing to pay half of the cost."
"Okay, just do that." Zheng Yi said.
The two quickly agreed, and after speaking, Jiang Zhen remembered one more thing: "By the way, when it comes to this manpower, I also have some people who can be used. I will go to the county town tomorrow, and I will bring Zheng Zheng. Don't look around."
Jiang Zhen was talking about Liu Qianqian and Zhao Lingxi, the women he rescued from the water bandits.
Among these people, there are a few big-hearted people who don't want to make money by embroidering clothes all day long. He thought that if he wanted to open a casino, he could actually let them work in the casino.
He didn't dare to say anything else, Liu Qianqian and Zhao Lingxi should be willing to work in the casino.
No, it must not be called a casino, it should have a more elegant name.
Zheng Yi had lunch at Jiang Zhen's side before leaving, and while they were here, Zhao Jinge kept observing Shen Anxin.
After finding that Shen Anxin paid no attention to Jiang Zhen at all, he was in a good mood.
"Jiang Zhen, are you really going to open a casino with Zheng Yi?" Zhao Jinge asked when the others left.
"Yes." Jiang Zhen said: "The escort bureau is my career, I will focus on this, but it takes a lot of time and money to make the escort bureau bigger. Under such circumstances, it is very easy to make some other investments to make some money. Is necessary."
"What?" Brother Zhao Jin didn't understand.
"Meaning, I want to open a casino and get a ticket from it." Jiang Zhen said: "It takes a lot of thought. When I do things, you and Mingzhu can still follow, which is good."
Jiang Zhen decided to bring his daughter-in-law and daughter with him when he was helping Zheng Yi, and on the other hand, Zheng Yi also had this guess: "This guy Jiang Zhen will definitely bring Zhao Jin-ge when the time comes, no, I'm afraid It's not just Brother Zhao Jin, this time, he might even bring his daughter with him."
"No way, Master Zheng? That child is less than one year old." Feng Jingyuan didn't believe it.
"Look at what he looks like today... I bet he will take his daughter with him." Zheng Yi said: "He is definitely the man I have ever met who cares about the man in the family the most."
Men like them wouldn't hold a child at all, but Jiang Zhen... He could just hold a child, and he was still holding it all over the place.
"Zheng Shao, this is not necessarily." Shen Anxin said. He used to think that Jiang Zhen was very good to Zhao Jinge, and even treated Jiang Zhen because of it... As a result, besides Zhao Jinge, Jiang Zhen also raised several women and children.
Although it has been a year, Shen Anxin still feels uncomfortable when he thinks about it now.
Zheng Yi didn't care about Shen Anxin's suspicions. People who didn't know Jiang Zhen really had a hard time believing Jiang Zhen's sincerity towards Zhao Jinge.
But he believed it.
What Jiang Zhen did to Zhao Jinge made him more willing to cooperate with Jiang Zhen. When he cooperated with Jiang Zhen, he would not always be as prepared as when he cooperated with Wanlong Firm and Shenjia Firm.
Early the next morning, Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge, packed Zhao Mingzhu, and went to the county seat.
There is a reason why he uses the word "packaging"... Now that it's cold, Zhao Liu was afraid that his granddaughter would freeze when she was away, so she found a cloak of Jiang Zhen and tied Zhao Mingzhu...
Jiang Zhen got on the boat and wanted to let go of his tied daughter, but... Zhao Mingzhu fell asleep...
"Brother Jin, after we go to the county seat, let's go to the house I bought and put things down, let Mingzhu sleep there, and then go to Zheng Shao." Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Jinge, he took it with him when he went out Zhao Mingzhu, but she didn't plan to take the child with her all the time. After all, it was inconvenient to take the child with her when she was doing business.
So, he brought Li Shi and Ruo'er, and planned to let Zhao Mingzhu stay in his house in the county town most of the time... This way, when he went to work, he could leave his daughter there , After finishing, I can go back to accompany my daughter and have a meal with the family.
In fact, Jiang Zhen originally wanted to bring Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu, but they felt it was too troublesome and did not want to come.
Thinking that he would go back at night anyway, Jiang Zhen didn't force it.
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge went out very early. When they arrived at the county seat, it was just dawn. He settled Li Shi and Ruo'er first, and left two men to help with errands and protection, and then went to Zheng's house to find Zheng Yi.
"Jiang Zhen, you came too early." Zheng Yi said with some emotion, "Speaking of which, I thought you would bring your daughter too, but I didn't expect that you didn't bring your daughter."
"I brought it, but she fell asleep, so I left her at my residence in the county seat." Jiang Zhendao.
Zheng Yi couldn't help but laugh.
Zheng Yi and Jiang Zhen both planned to open the casino in Hecheng County first. Of course, they have now given this casino a good name, Qingfenglou.
This Qingfeng Building is for the rich, and they just want those rich people to spend their time here, but they don't plan to let them lose everything here, so although there are bets in this Qingfengtang, they have decided that they can't Betting too much, you can only bet a little on happiness.
Of course, the small gambling of the rich is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
At the same time, there will also be tea and meals, as well as some other services... Of course, erotic aspects are not included.
Jiang Zhen planned to turn it into a high-level club, but he couldn't make it vulgar.
Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi discussed the rules and regulations for a long time without reaching a conclusion. After a while, they still could not reach a conclusion after discussing, so they decided to go to set the place first.
And when they went out, without exception, they met Feng Jingyuan and Shen Anxin who were waiting outside.
Anyway, it was just to see the place, and Zheng Yi did not refuse their follow. As for Jiang Zhen, he didn't care.
Whether it is Feng Jingyuan or Shen Anxin, in his opinion, they are just people who have met a few times but are not very familiar.
Zheng Yi let out a yard of the Zheng family in Hecheng County. Jiang Zhen was very satisfied after seeing it, and then Jiang Zhen proposed to go and see the women he rescued from the water bandits.
If they are willing, they can work in Qingfenglou in the future.
Those women and Shuang'er were arranged to live in a house not far from Hecheng County, and this was also the place where Jiang Zhen used to give those accountant exams before—it was quite big, and some places were originally made by Jiang Zhen. It was designated as a warehouse.
Those women and Shuang'er all lived in the backyard. Jiang Zhen walked inside with Zheng Yi and others. After getting close, he let Zhao Jinge go in to say hello, and then walked inside.
"Master Jiang, you've come!" Jiang Zhen heard Liu Qianqian's coquettish voice as soon as he entered.
"Don't talk like that." Jiang Zhen frowned.
"Mr. Jiang, am I not used to this?" Liu Qianqian said, and asked again: "Mr. Jiang, what are you doing here with us this time? Don't ask me to embroider the dart flag again."
"There is a very easy job and a lot of money. I want to ask you if you want to do it." Jiang Zhen said.
Jiang Zhen is quite calm at the moment, but Shen Anxin's heart is like a river overturned.
Isn't these people the concubine of Jiang Zhen who he had met before
They... are not actually Jiang Zhen's concubine, but the people Jiang Zhen rescued from the water bandits