After seeing off the last guest in the house, Xiao Jie turned around and hurried to the study, he knew that Tao Han should have been waiting for him for a long time.

Although the two of them had a marriage contract long ago, out of respect for Tao Han, Xiao Jie always talked with her in the study room, so as not to spread any bad gossip and tarnish Tao Han's reputation.

Xiao Jie walked into the study room, and saw Tao Han staring at a certain place with his hand resting on his cheek, in a daze, not knowing what was going on in his mind.

Seemingly sensing Xiao Jie entering the door, Tao Han came back to his senses in an instant, looking at Xiao Jie with a pair of beautiful eyes in surprise, but then seemed to think of something, pouted his mouth, and snorted softly: "Yo, His Royal Highness Qi Wang I'm done with my work, but let the little girl wait for a while."

Xiao Jie also smiled, and then pretended to be solemn and made a bow to Tao Han, apologizing: "Xiaosheng has kept Miss Tao waiting for so long, I really deserve it."

Seeing Xiao Jie's appearance like this, Tao Han couldn't help chuckling any longer, and scolded: "I don't even have any sincerity in apologizing, you have to be ashamed of yourself if you have a playful smile."

Xiao Jie also laughed, and the atmosphere inside and outside the study was full of joy.

"Let's talk, Your Highness Qi Wang, I specially asked this girl to come here, what advice do you have?" Tao Han didn't forget the business after laughing.

Xiao Jie smiled slightly, and said: "I don't dare to give advice, but I have a profitable business here, I wonder if Miss Tao is interested in listening to it."

Tao Han felt a little itchy in his heart, this guy, can't he talk to himself when he's not busy?He didn't learn from General Ye, so he would hang around Miss Zhao whenever he was free.

"Hey, His Royal Highness King Qi finally thinks of our Tao family now, but I heard that His Highness invited all the businessmen from Jiaozhou to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion for dinner, and only missed our Tao family. I thought His Highness had already forgotten our Tao family." It's over." Tao Han was angry in his heart, and his tone was a little teasing.

Xiao Jie laughed, and said: "I just forgot that no one can forget your Tao family. He just asked them to help me with some errands, but I left the opportunity to make a lot of money to your Tao family."

Tao Han could hear that Xiao Jie didn't seem to be joking, so he became interested for a while, and asked, "What are you businessmen doing for you?"

Xiao Jie smiled slightly: "It's nothing, I just want them to go to the Southeast Asian countries and buy local specialties at high prices, such as gems, spices and ivory."

Tao Han couldn't help frowning, and said with some doubts: "Our Tao family can also send people to do these things for you, but we need to prepare more money. Why do we need to mobilize so many businessmen to do it with great fanfare?"

Xiao Jie shook his head, the smile on his face disappeared: "Because I have more important things to entrust to your Tao family."

In fact, Xiao Jie did not mention another reason, that is, without the prosperity of shipping created by these businessmen, the Panyu New Port he built with so much money would have been in vain.

No matter how strong the Tao family's financial resources are, they can't prosper the whole of Panyu by themselves. If Panyu is to reproduce the commercial prosperity of Guangzhou in later generations, it still needs the efforts of the entire Jiaozhou business community.

Tao Han also became serious in an instant, nodded and said, "Tell me what's going on, we Tao family will do our best to cooperate."

Xiao Jie nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice: "It's very simple. I need your Tao family to send a large number of merchant ships to the Southeast Asian countries, find a way to suppress the local grain prices, and then quietly buy out the grain on the market. All the food was transported to Champa, and it will be of great use to me in the future.”

Tao Han remained silent, but he was slowly thinking about Xiao Jie's purpose in doing so.

Suddenly, she seemed to think of something, and looked at Xiao Jie with disbelief.

Xiao Jie looked at her with a smile, as if telling Tao Han that she guessed right!

At this moment, Tao Han felt lucky, she was glad that Xiao Jie didn't go into business, otherwise he would be a big enemy of their Tao family in the business world.

……

At the same time, in a house in the south of Panyu City, more than a dozen businessmen are gathering to discuss major issues, and cloth merchant Wang Zhong is also among them.

The businessmen present here are all business tycoons in Jiaozhou, and each of them is a person who can influence their own business. In fact, according to his wealth, Wang Zhong, who has a moderate business, is not qualified to sit with them and discuss Yes.

However, Qian Jin, the oldest businessman in the Jiaozhou business community, appreciates his courage in the Dudu Mansion today, and insists on inviting him to discuss with him. For his sake, he acquiesced in Wang Zhong's existence.

They gathered together today mainly to discuss two things, one is the issue of establishing a chamber of commerce, and the other is naturally to discuss the things Xiao Jie entrusted to them.

There is nothing to say about the chamber of commerce. After all, holding a group for warmth has always been the wish of these businessmen, but the government has not allowed it. But now His Royal Highness Qi Wang, who is the governor of Jiaozhou, has taken the initiative to propose it, and they are happy to go along with it.

As for the candidate for the president, there is nothing to say. Qian Jin has the oldest qualifications, and no one has any objections to him being the first president.

Qian Jin did not refuse, and gladly accepted the chairman's job, and then, as the chairman, let other people present share their views on Xiao Jie asking them to buy local specialties from Nanyang at a high price.

Of course, Qian Jin's original intention was not to ask everyone to shirk this matter, but the businessman's sense of smell made him feel that this matter was by no means that simple. He just wanted to find out Xiao Jie's intentions, and even wondered if he could get a share of it.

All the other businessmen present were silent for a moment, obviously this was also something they couldn't figure out.

Qian Jin noticed that Wang Zhong was frowning, and asked with a smile, "I don't know what brother Wang thinks about this matter?"

Wang Zhong didn't expect that Qian Jin would take the initiative to name himself, and he was a little stunned for a while, but since the new president asked, he couldn't hide it, and said directly: "I was thinking, why doesn't His Royal Highness let the Tao family to do this?"

Everyone couldn't help being stunned when they heard the words. Everyone knew about the relationship between King Qi and Miss Tao's family. The Tao family had money and people, so why didn't the Tao family come to do this.

Qian Jin's eyes flickered, and he continued to ask: "I don't know what brother Wang thought of?"

Wang Zhong hesitated for a moment, then said: "I suspect that asking me to buy special products from Nanyang countries at a high price is only the first step, and the Tao family is King Qi's successor."

Everyone felt suddenly enlightened and suddenly realized that Wang Zhong's words were reasonable, and they couldn't help but look at him with admiration, but they were also thinking about what King Qi's backhand was.

Wang Zhong seemed to have seen everyone's thoughts, and couldn't help reminding: "I told everyone that this is not for you to speculate on King Qi's meaning, or even to share a piece of the pie. Since King Qi promised that as long as we help him complete this For this matter, he wrote to the emperor to allow our children to take the imperial examination. What we need to do is to seize this opportunity and make things look good for King Qi. If we speculate or even act rashly, it will ruin King Qi’s great affairs , I’m afraid the gain will outweigh the loss.”

All the businessmen couldn't help nodding their heads in agreement when they heard the words, and even Qian Jin's thought of taking a share of the pie disappeared instantly.

Qian Jin coughed heavily, stood up and said, "Everyone, Brother Wang is right. In fact, King Qi has treated us very well. He has given us an important opportunity to change the fate of our family. We must grasp it and do it for him. Things are done beautifully, as King Qi said, to prove our value to the court."

The eyes of all the merchants became fanatical one by one.

Yes, just watch once to see if you can change the fate of the family!

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