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Li Yuanqing met Fan Yongdou in the Tianzihao courtyard of Sanfu Inn.

Fan Yongdou is in his forties or early fifties, with a slim build and a pair of piercing fish eyes, which makes him look a bit spiritual, making it difficult for people to tell his age.

"Fan Yongdou, a grassroots citizen, has met General Li. The grassroots people have long wanted to come to see General Li, but they have always been involved in worldly affairs. Being able to see General Li today is enough to satisfy the grassroots people's greatest wish in life."

Fan Yongdou smiled and stepped forward to salute Li Yuanqing. A servant behind him hurriedly handed over the gift list respectfully.

Li Yuanqing glanced at it and saw a pair of jade bracelets, ten pearls, some other treasures and a thousand taels of silver. In total, it cost at least two thousand taels of silver.

Li Yuanqing smiled and handed the gift list to Niu Gensheng behind him, "Shopkeeper Fan, please take a seat. Yuanqing has also admired the name of Shopkeeper Fan for a long time. We are meeting today because of our marriage."

The two met each other and couldn't help laughing.

Although Li Yuanqing and Fan Yongdou had never met before, they had been in contact for a long time.

At the earliest, when Li Yuanqing was in Guangning City, when he went to Shenyang City through Qu Minqiu's caravan, he took the same route as the Fan family's caravan.

Later, because of Qu Mingrui's relationship, the Fan family also wanted to rely on Li Yuanqing, and they would bring gifts from time to time. When Li Yuanqing got married, even though Fan Yongdou didn't come in person, he had at least 50,000 taels of silver in his possessions. .

The two of them are really not strangers.

After a few words of greetings, the soldiers served tea. Li Yuanqing smiled and said: "Shopkeeper Fan is a very busy man. Why do you come to Yuan Qing's place in your free time today?"

Fan Yongdou hurriedly smiled and said: "To be honest with General Li, it is more difficult to do business these days. So Fan stayed in the capital for some time, trying to find some new opportunities."

Li Yuanqing smiled and nodded.

At this time, the Liao Dynasty was completely different from what it had been in history because of the emergence of Li Yuanqing.

After the fall of Guangning, the situation in Liao Dynasty has changed a lot.

Even if the Fan family has close contacts with Hou Jin, it will definitely not work if they want to take the original route.

Although the Fan family has many other options, the journey outside the entrance is long and the wind and sand are strong. Not to mention the cost will increase a lot. It is very likely that just a weather accident will cause them to lose everything.

Businesses like the Fan family's are, to put it bluntly, the forerunners of smuggling.

If there is a shortage of food, they will sell it there.

To a certain extent, this is indeed a huge profit, and it can be adjusted at any time according to market conditions to maintain an invincible position.

But to put it bluntly, no matter how awesome Fan Yongdou is, he is just a businessman.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's position in Liao was becoming more and more stable. Western Liao had already formed a large scale. Li Yuanqing was present in southern Liao. Later Jin Dynasty simply gave up and turned into a no man's land. The only place that could be troubled was Liaodong.

As a result, the best route to Shanhaiguan was blocked, and foreign merchants like the Fan family could only take the Xuan and Daxian routes.

But those Mongolian tribes are not vegetarians either.

Under the oppression of the Hou Jin Dynasty and the influence of the Little Glacier climate, these disciples and grandchildren of Lin Dan Khan can be said to be as poor as possible.

The Fan family will never make much money from them, and if they want to make money, the best trading partner is back money.

However, Hou Jin was defeated several times by Li Yuanqing in southern Liaoning, and suffered a bloody blow in the north. In the past few years, except for the battle of Guangning City, they gained a lot. In the rest of the time, they did not take advantage at all.

Coupled with Lao Nu's extremely anti-Han policies, the overall economic situation of Houjin was also in depression.

If the Fan family's business can still go smoothly as it did in history, just buy some ironware, send the silver to the backend, and get back a large sum of silver, how is this possible?

Seeing Li Yuanqing's calm smile in front of him, Fan Yongdou felt a little unspeakable in his heart.

Trading at this time was much more difficult than in the previous years. Although he had a close network of connections in Houjin, in the past few years, both transaction size and profits had shrunk significantly.

Fan Yongdou understood very well that a large part of the key to everything lay with the young and heroic Ming Dynasty general in front of him.

Precisely because of Li Yuanqing's intimidating power, which is like a magic needle in the sea, and the three front lines in Liao and the mainland are in an orderly manner, speculators like the Fan family find it difficult to have much room to play.

To a certain extent, Fan Yongdou also had crazy ideas. If he could drag Li Yuanqing into trouble, then...

But Fan Yongdou understands that this is simply unrealistic.

Given Li Yuanqing's status at this time, unless he was defeated miserably on the battlefield and lost all his foundation, it would be difficult for even the emperor and the court to take any significant action against Li Yuanqing.

The momentum is already there!

Fan Yongdou's ability to reach this point has already proven his ability. In this situation, being at odds with Li Yuanqing is like hanging himself - he thinks he has a long life.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and costs to maintain close contact with Li Yuanqing.

"Haha. Shopkeeper Fan is a very understanding person. As the saying goes, if you move a tree, you will die, but if you move people, you will live. When doing business, you should take a longer view, and don't just focus on one moment and one place. How broad your heart is, how broad the world is!

"

Li Yuanqing looked into Fan Yongdou's eyes with a smile.

Fan Yongdou was stunned and couldn't help but laugh, "General Li, you are really the best among men! Listening to your words, Fan Mousheng has studied for ten years!"

When the two met each other, they both burst out laughing.

With the shrewdness of the two of them, there is no need to explain many things in a straightforward manner. With a little hint of meaning, both of them already know it well.

After laughing for a while, Fan Yongdou took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "General Li, I heard that you have shipped a batch of goods from Liaodi. Do you want to take action?"

"Haha. Is Shopkeeper Fan very knowledgeable?"

Li Yuanqing smiled and said, "There is such a thing. Shopkeeper Fan, you are an expert. If you have time, would you like to help Yuan Qing grow his eyesight?"

Fan Yongdou couldn't help but be overjoyed, "General Li thinks highly of Fan, how can Fan fail to appreciate him? He should do his best to serve General Li."

As he spoke, he smiled quickly and said: "General Li, look, it's getting late. Why don't we find a private room and chat while eating?"

Li Yuanqing smiled and nodded, "That's fine."

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Fan Yongdou came well prepared and had already booked one of the most luxurious private rooms in Wuyu Pavilion. The two simply packed up and went directly to Wuyu Pavilion.

In the land of China, it can be said that more than 90% of the business is negotiated over the wine table.

In fact, Fan Yongdou got the news as early as Li Yuanqing's batch of goods arrived at Dagokou and began to disembark.

The main reason is that the Liao Territory is blocked. It is no longer realistic to imagine that various rare materials from the Northeast can be transported smoothly to the customs as before. The prices of goods such as ginseng, mink skins, and deer antlers have skyrocketed.

And Li Yuanqing's big deal this time is like a piece of fat. A wily and insightful person like Fan Yongdou has been eyeing it for a long time.

When they arrived at Wuyu Pavilion, they were seated separately. The pretty maid served wine and food, and the musicians began to play. Fan Yongdou smiled and greeted: "Go, quickly invite Miss Liuli over. We have distinguished guests today."

Li Yuanqing smiled and said: "Shopkeeper Fan, we are all members of our own family, how can I ask you to spend so much money?"

Miss Liuli is the new star of Wuyu Pavilion after Wan'er. She is only fifteen years old this year, but she is good at playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is especially good at playing the flute. In just a few months, she has already become famous in the capital.

Far and wide.

Li Yuanqing had heard of Li Liuli's name a long time ago, but he had only been in the capital for less than two days and did not have time to meet him.

Unexpectedly, Fan Yongdou helped him facilitate this situation.

Fan Yongdou smiled hurriedly and said: "Mr. Li, you are an honored guest that Fan can't even invite. Miss Liuli has some free time today, so we just have a chance to catch a glimpse of Miss Liuli's style."

Li Yuanqing stopped refusing, picked up the wine glass with a smile, and took a sip.

When Fan Yongdou saw Li Yuanqing accepting his arrangement, he couldn't help but feel even more happy, and hurriedly asked: "Why doesn't Miss Liuli come?"

The maid next to her hurriedly said: "Miss Liuli is dressing up and will be here soon."

Even though Fan Yongdou was very wealthy, he really didn't dare to be violent in Wuyu Pavilion, so he could only urge him a few words and drink with Li Yuanqing with a smile.

Not long after, the door was gently pushed open, and a graceful girl covered with a veil, Shi Shiran, accompanied by more than a dozen maids, walked in, and an intoxicating fragrance drifted over.

"My servant Li Liuli has met these two masters."

She Shi Shiran came forward and saluted Li Yuanqing and Fan Yongdou respectfully.

Li Yuanqing was startled and looked at her.

Although she is covered with a veil, you can already get the general idea just by looking at her posture and figure.

Li Yuanqing also had to admire Yang Jiao's ability. Li Liuli's appearance alone could score at least 95 points.

Fan Yongdou's eyes were a little straightened, and it took him a moment to react, and he hurriedly smiled and said: "Miss Liuli, please sit down quickly. Mr. Li, this is Miss Liuli."

Li Yuanqing smiled and said, "Miss Liuli, Li is so polite."

Li Liuli hurriedly saluted Shi Ran, "I've met Mr. Li."

After a while of greetings, Li Liuli went to play the piano. Fan Yongdou picked up the wine glass and greeted Li Yuanqing with a smile: "Master Li, the shopkeeper of Wuyu Pavilion is really a talented person. Compared with her, Fan's profession is really...

…Hey! Comparing people with each other is really irritating!”

Li Yuanqing smiled and said, "There is no need to belittle yourself, Shopkeeper Fan. Shopkeeper Fan is known to Mr. Li."

The two drank a few glasses of wine. Fan Yongdou smiled and raised the topic to Li Yuanqing, asking about the total amount and list of goods.

Li Yuanqing directly handed the list to Fan Yongdou without writing any ink and asked him to read it himself.

After a few quick glances, Fan Yongdou's eyes flashed. If he could eat all of Li Yuanqing's goods, he would earn at least 00,000 taels of silver.

Next to him, Li Liuli played the piano beautifully, but Li Yuanqing focused more of his attention on Fan Yongdou, taking in all his expressions.

Fan Yongdou finally came to his senses at this time, and said with a smile: "Master Li, I don't know, what are your plans for this shipment?"

Li Yuanqing smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Fan, we are not outsiders. As the saying goes, good news should not flow to outsiders. If Shopkeeper Fan is interested, Li can set aside more for Shopkeeper Fan."
To be continued...