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Chapter 1048 Do business seriously ([-])
"Stop standing and chatting, come and sit here." Qi Ke took the three of them to the tea table under the window. There was a delicate hand bell on the table. She held it in her hand and shook it twice, and the bell jingled. The bell rang, crisp and pleasant, "We chatted while drinking tea. Recently, I don't have the energy to pay attention to the news in the county. How is your market developing now?"

Just after the bell rang, four maids came in with tea sets, stoves and refreshments, and brought hot towels for the four of them to wipe their hands.

Qi Ke wiped his hands first, and while waiting for the water to boil, he placed the tea set and made Kung Fu tea.

"That's what we're going to say about this meeting."

The three of Lao Fang looked at the large tea table and were a little curious. This is a slightly different way of drinking tea from their home. Then they looked at the positions where the maids put the refreshment towels and coasters. The three of them lined up and sat down opposite Qi Ke. With a complicated face, he wiped his hands with a towel.

"Encountered difficulties? Some colleagues are making trouble for you and you don't want newcomers to enter the industry?" Qi Ke's face remained unchanged, busy picking tea leaves from the tea pot with a tea spoon, and waiting for the water to boil to make tea.

"Hmph, the colleague who caused the stumbling block has not appeared yet, but it will be soon." Lao Gu picked up a piece of tea cake and took a bite. The force of the bite was like biting the flesh of the enemy.

"Let's hear it, did the troublemakers come after you, or might they take me with them?" Qi Ke stretched out his hand to the kettle on the small clay stove, felt the heat, and estimated when the water would boil.

"That's the point, you should pay more attention." Lao Fang chewed a piece of delicious jerky, adjusted his sitting posture, and began to tell a story.

Lao Fang and the three of them are in the cotton and yarn business. It’s really the first time for big girls to get on the sedan chair. Donglin County has never been a big textile county. It neither grows cotton nor has weavers. They have never been in this business since they were young, but fortunately The contacts they have accumulated over the years are not fake. If you release a little news, well-informed friends will come to your door to find out more details and discuss business immediately.

The reason why my friend responded so quickly was that Bai Jiajun's big business couldn't be hidden from others, and the taxes of tens of thousands of taels were actually handed over to the Dong'an government office.

Then, because of the money, a private gossip was involved.

The overseas merchant ship transporting cotton encountered pirates at sea, and came to Liangshui town in a daze. The cotton was delivered directly there. After paying the taxes, this made the guild feel ashamed.

"What do you think this maritime guild is for? Merchants who do maritime business are all members of the guild. If you don't join the guild, you can't do this business. If you want to do this business, you must join the guild. Bai Jiajun has no representative in the guild. Made a big deal that the guild didn't know about." The more Lao Fang said, the more excited he became, his voice became louder, and he tapped his fingers on the table frequently, "The Bai family army has been here for so long, and the local snakes have figured it out long ago. , to say that General Bai doesn’t know what the Maritime Guild does, isn’t it possible?”

"The maritime merchant guild in Dong'an Prefecture is said to have a history of many years. It can be seen from the rule that it must enter the industry. It can be seen that it has reached the level of monopolizing the industry. Presumably it has developed an arrogant temper."

Qi Ke had known for a long time what kind of virtue the Haishang Guild would be, and his face remained unchanged. He calmly lifted the boiling kettle, ironed the pot and hot cups to start making tea, and neatly poured the second brewed tea into the justice cups, and then divided them into four cups. Using a cup fork, gently put three of the glasses on the coasters in front of the three of them.

(End of this chapter)