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Chapter 90 Visiting Li Mansion for New Year’s greetings

Time flies, and it soon comes to the end of December of the 12th year of Chongzhen.

It has been more than half a year since Lin Feng came to Daming. He has now adapted to the life here, but it is really cold in the winter without air conditioning and heating.

Red lanterns have been hung on the two main streets in Fugu. Although there are no lights from later generations, they are full of New Year's atmosphere during the day.

The county government has a holiday on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

Lin Feng summoned the department heads and team leaders and above to hold a group meeting and gave everyone the year-end bonus he proposed.

They also made it clear that this was a collective New Year's greeting, and county government officials were not allowed to come to the house to pay New Year's greetings. It would be too annoying to welcome and send off.

After Lin Feng left the county government, he did not return to Lin's house. Instead, he took Lin Jiakang, Fang Xiaoyu and a few guards directly to Li's house.

Now that the government in Fugu is well-connected and the fishing team has no cases to handle, Fang Xiaoyu has almost become Lin Feng's personal bodyguard.

Li Wanxiang came over early to invite Lin Feng to a gathering at Li's Mansion on Rulin Street years ago. Lin Feng came here not only to accept the invitation, but also to pay New Year greetings in advance.

When he arrived at the door of Li's residence, Lin Feng went in directly without letting the concierge inform him.

Li Wanxiang, who heard the noise, hurried out to greet him and said as he walked: "The county magistrate is here, but he didn't announce it in advance so that I could greet him at the door."

"Uncle Li, you are out again, why don't you come here to welcome us?" Lin Feng said with a smile.

"Haha, then I'll ask you to call Yuanshan my nephew and come in quickly." Li Wanxiang said as he welcomed Lin Feng and others to the lobby and sat down.

After Lin Feng came to the lobby and sat down, he asked Lin Jiakang to hand over the gifts he had brought, which were a men's high-quality wool coat and a women's cashmere coat specially made by Grassland Trading. Then he said: "The Chinese New Year is almost here. There’s nothing to bring, so I picked out two decent coats from the group’s grassland business and brought them with me, Uncle Li, let’s try them on.”

When Li Wanxiang saw that Lin Feng was so considerate and brought a gift, he immediately picked up the men's wool coat and tried it on with a smile. After putting it on, he said: "It fits very well. This wool coat is really warm. The gift from the distant mountains is really great." I have a heart."

Then he looked at the women's coat, which was obviously much more exquisite than his. Knowing that it was for his daughter, he immediately asked the maid to send it to the backyard.

"How is Li's Construction doing lately?" Lin Feng then asked.

"I was just about to tell Yuan Shan that under your care, these two Li buildings have successively undertaken projects such as the Fudong compound, resettlement housing for refugees outside the city, and the cavalry barracks. They also participated in the renovation of part of the city wall. Together, The project money was more than 4500 taels, and the profit was about taels." Li Wanxiang seems to be very interested in Li's Construction and has a clear grasp of the situation.

"Yes, it's rare that Li's Construction can achieve so much profit just after it was established. It's all because of Uncle Li's good management." Lin Feng praised.

"Everywhere, it's all under the care of Yuanshan. Then the profits will be distributed as agreed?" Li Wanxiang asked.

"Okay, just contact Uncle Li with General Manager Li. The scale of Li's building is not large yet. When the weather gets warmer next year, I will consider large-scale coal mining. I wonder if Uncle Li is interested in cooperating?" Lin Feng threw out another question. Heavy inducement.

"Of course there is, but I don't know how to cooperate?" Li Wanxiang has already tasted the benefits of cooperation and is obviously very interested.

"Coal mining is different from construction. The difficulty lies in finding the ore and providing force protection for the mine. Both of these aspects require Zhenming Group to contribute, so it can only give you 10% of the profit at most. This depends on whether we are a company in the future. For people's sake." Lin Feng said.

"Understood, understood! 10% is fine. But I heard that the head of another branch of Zhenming Group can own shares in the group. I wonder if our Li family can participate?" Li Wanxiang obviously wanted to have more in-depth cooperation.

"Once you obtain the equity of Zhenming Group, you will be closely tied to the group. Are you sure you can bear the future risks?" Lin Feng asked.

"Yuanshan, I'm even planning to marry my daughter to you, so what risk can't I bear? I can't run away even if something happens to me." Li Wanxiang is also a smart man and seems to have thought about it all.

"Okay, Zhenming Group achieved a profit of more than 3 taels in December, and the annual profit is expected to exceed taels. It is now conservatively estimated to be worth more than taels. In less than half a year since its establishment, the value has increased dozens of times, and Still growing in value rapidly.

In this way, for the sake of being a family in the future, Uncle Li, if you pay 3000 taels of silver, I will allow you to acquire 1% of the group's shares at a fair price. This is already the largest shareholder besides me and Xiong Zhen. Lin Feng replied. “Is 1% too little? Can I acquire more?” Li Wanxiang asked.

"Uncle Li, if you think about it this way, our Zhenming Group controls the entire Fugu, and you spend 3000 taels to capture 1% of the Fugu market.

If we control the entire Jiazhou in the future, your 3000 taels will be 1% of Jiazhou. Is there any business with higher profits than this? "Lin Feng explained.

"Haha, that's true. Just listen to Yuanshan. I'll pay 3000 taels to buy 1% of Zhenming Group's shares." Li Wanxiang was also very straightforward and made the decision immediately.

Lin Feng stretched out his hand to shake his hand and said, "Then happy cooperation! From now on, Uncle Li will know the value of this 1%."

At this time, a maid from the Li Mansion came in, walked to Lin Feng and said, "Master Lin, Miss Lin would like to invite you to the backyard garden to meet her."

Before Lin Feng could speak, Li Wanxiang immediately said: "Then I won't disturb you young people. You can go far away and do what you want."

Lin Feng then got up and followed the maid to the back garden of Li Mansion.

I saw Miss Li already wearing the snow-white cashmere coat that Lin Feng gave her, and she was admiring the flowers under a plum blossom. The white snow on the branches contrasts with the delicate red plum blossoms, and Li Rushi stands on the edge pretty. It is true that people are more beautiful than flowers.

Seeing Lin Feng coming, Li Rushi immediately came up to him: "Brother Lin, I haven't thanked you for your help last time. Today you gave me this coat. I like it very much."

"As long as Miss Li likes it." Lin Feng replied with a smile.

"Brother Lin, you can call me Xiaoshi, that's what everyone in the family calls me."

"Good poem, Xiaosheng, you are so polite." Lin Feng cupped his fists and saluted.

"Brother Lin, you are so bad and you are making fun of me again." Li Rushi said shyly.

"The plum blossoms are hanging on the branches, and the snow is dancing in the skirt. The little poem is just a poem when you stand here." Lin Feng instantly showed off his more advanced skills in picking up girls.

Sure enough, there are no educated girls in this era who don't do this. Li Rushi immediately flashed her eyes, showing a look of joy, and said timidly: "Did Brother Lin write this to me?"

"Haha, poems come from the heart and blurt out. I don't know if I have memorized what someone else wrote." Lin Feng was not sure whether the poem he casually mentioned was memorized by some ancient person.

"How is that possible? I have read poetry books for a few years. If it is someone else's work, I must have some impression. Thank you, Brother Lin. I am so happy." Li Rushi said happily.

"In this weather, the most suitable thing is to cook wine and enjoy the plum blossoms. Xiao Shi will come to my house when she has time, and then we will have hot pot with my sister." Lin Feng suddenly thought of eating hot pot in the cold weather.

"What is hot pot?" Li Rushi asked.

"It's just to heat the copper pot with charcoal, put the broth in the pot, and add some mutton slices to eat. It's very enjoyable." Lin Feng explained.

"Oh, it's just a hot pot. Okay, okay! I'm going there in a few days. I've long wanted to meet sister Wanyu." It seems that Li Rushi has inquired about the Lin family's situation.

The two chatted again and happily made an appointment for the next date, oh, it was a meeting, and then Lin Feng said goodbye and left. The main reason is that if I don’t leave, I will be frozen to death in the garden.

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