Li Mingxun couldn't help but sigh. He had heard many stories about Chen Tingyang. This righteous man in the anti-Qing Dynasty was really not a pedantic man, but a good official in a state of public affairs. He was just a little reckless in his work. He went to Quanzhou to do business. He only paid a lot of money for him because a poor scholar helped him settle the accounts and asked his father to take him as his disciple. Of course, this scholar was Hong Chengchou, the important official of the dynasty in Shandong and Henan. When he was suppressing thieves in Henan, he was short of food and wrote a letter to ask for help from Chen Tingyang. Chen Tingyang also dispersed all the wealth in his family, took away the funds from the Sand Boat Gang, and bought thousands of ships of food to help him. He lived countless lives. From the overall perspective, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were like Chen Tingyang, and the world would be settled, but for subordinates like Xu Changxing, it was unacceptable.

"Mr. Shen has been a little fucked, but he has always been lenient to others. Brother Xu, why have you reached this point?" Li Mingxun asked in surprise.

Xu Changxing said, "Brother, my brother is already fifty-two. If he is ten years younger, he will not frown even if he goes north to transport military rations, even if he kills the enemy in Liaodong, he will not frown! But when he is old, how many years can he have to struggle? I thought that he would go home to support his old age by making some money. Now he is unable to do it. Alas, this Ming Dynasty is not his Shen family. Why do you take your own property to risk it? It's unwise! It's unwise!"

Li Mingxun didn't know how to comfort him. A voice deep in his heart told him that there were too many smart talents like Xu Changxing who had fallen to this point in the Ming Dynasty, but the frustration and loneliness of the man in front of him made him choose not to make that voice known. Everyone has a bond. How many people in the world are desperate for the country?

Xu Changxing is not a true hero, but he is not a villain. He is just an ordinary creature among the Ming Dynasty. He will not care too much when he has the ability, but when he is old and considers his family and children, he will not take risks.

As Xu Changxing's complaints kept coming into his ears, Li Mingxun understood the situation of this man more and more. If it weren't for Chen Tingyang's destruction of his family to relieve the difficulties and devoted the whole clan to help the Ming Dynasty fight against the enemy, he would still be the energetic shopkeeper Xu, who used his own abilities to take charge of the Shaboat Gang. However, when Chen Tingyang made that decision, Xu Changxing parted ways with the Shaboat Gang. Cheng Bi and others saw the past relationship and knew Xu Changxing well, so naturally many people recruited him. However, when they thought that his friends who were sitting at the same table in the past would become their boss, Xu Changxing naturally had many unwillingness and just wanted to drink to relieve his sorrow.

"What will your brother plan next? He won't want to drink here." Li Mingxun asked.

Xu Changxing was stunned and said, "I have little savings when I returned to my hometown and returned to Chongming over the years. When I arrived in Chongming, I bought land, gathered my relatives, and cultivated my nephews. After two or three generations, my ancestors of the Xu family have a spirit, and a juren or a jinshi can become a powerful family..."

This plan is uninnovative, but in fact, the gentry of Jiangnan has come like this, starting with officials and making money with business, which is not the case.

Li Mingxun smiled: "Have you ever considered joining my trading company?"

"You?" Xu Changxing was surprised and woke up halfway and asked, "Go overseas, east-west land?"

Li Mingxun shook his head: "Of course not, it's in Jiangnan!"

Seeing that Xu Changxing was a little interested, Li Mingxun explained: "Brother also knows that my business with Jiangnan merchants has already started to the right track. Speaking of which, the next thing is the issue of accounts and prices. Although the main products I can provide are winter fur and spring medicinal materials, as I open in Taiwan, there are many kinds of products, such as spices from Nanyang, pepper, broccoli, sucrose, camphor, and deer jelly produced in Taiwan. The trading company also needs to import more craftsmen, refugees, pig iron, raw silk, porcelain and tea from Jiangnan. Not to mention, the scope of this trade will be expanded, and my partners will also be expanded. It is necessary for someone who knows how to manage it. If Brother Xu is willing, Mingxun is willing to make you 10% profits from Jiangnan. How about it?"

"One percent!" Xu Changxing's eyes almost fell out.

He is very familiar with Li Mingxun's business. At present, although the raw silk, porcelain, tea and fur and medicinal materials he bought have not yet formed a large scale, they are all high-value. The profit per year is less than 300,000 yuan. Even if it is 10% of the profit, it is still 300,000 taels, which is more than five years after he worked in the sand boat.

Xu Changxing swallowed, woke up from his greed, and said, "Brother, although you and I have some friendship, they are definitely not as good as this. You have already established a charter for the trade with each company. Even if you don't come by yourself, you just need to send a confidant in the Huizhou Commercial Hall, which can be carried on. Why do you have to let me manage it?"

"The transaction in front of me is enough to send a account, but in the future, I will be planning to set up a shopping mall in Jiangnan, but I don't know whether it is easy to handle or not. After all, I am an overseas businessman and an outsider." Li Mingxun stared at Xu Changxing seriously and said sincerely.

Xu Changxing then realized that setting up a shopping mall is completely different from trading. As a representative of the shopping mall here, the shopping mall needs to deal with officialdom, wealthy merchants and gentry. Not to mention ordinary people, even Li Mingxun cannot do it because he doesn’t know much about Jiangnan.

"You set up a shopping mall in Jiangnan, I'm afraid the people who cooperate with you won't agree. Oh, Mingxun, you don't understand the gentry in Jiangnan, and you have to take care of your own land strictly. Don't talk about you, even if you are Zheng Zhilong, you dare to set up a business in Hangzhou, and you have to accept it on weekdays..." Xu Changxing has been doing business in Jiangnan for many years, and naturally has a deep understanding and immediately said.

Li Mingxun didn't hear Xu Changxing's words at all and said, "Is my brother willing to take charge of Mingxun like this?"

Xu Changxing was stunned for a moment, and he felt really moved by Li Mingxun's sincerity. It can be said that Li Mingxun's recruitment is in line with his needs. He pays tens of thousands of dividends every year and is in the south of the Yangtze River. The key is that he can still show his strengths, which is really in line with him.

However, Li Mingxun did not wait for Xu Changxing to refuse, patted Xu Changxing's hand and said, "Brother, let's make this decision. I will handle the rest. As for the store, you plan for me, how can you make those iron cocks nod?"
Chapter completed!