Comprehensive Governance Project began in just two days. Liu Yi was very enthusiastic about this matter, freeing up a storage yard in the west of the city, and effortlessly summoning a large number of carpenters to build four neat rows of standard stalls in two days. Compared to Ye Tao's requirements, the conditions of these stalls seemed even better. Each stall was at least eight chi wide and six chi deep (1 chi = 1/3 meter). In addition to the display area facing the street, there was also space for storing other goods, and even a folding bed for the small vendors who lived at their stalls. Liu Yi also promised the vendors who first agreed to move to the new market that a collective dormitory exclusively for them would be completed soon. Behind the stalls, there were hidden alleys not open to the public, mainly for the vendors to store goods and sundries that couldn't fit in their small stalls. Rules for managing the hidden alleys were also established, including over twenty regulations besides the prohibition of public urination and defecation.

The four rows of stalls totaled two hundred units. On one side of the market, Liu Yi also bought a small building to serve as the office for the market's future management. Following Ye Tao's idea, Liu Yi mobilized the spice and seasoning merchants most troubled in the chaotic market to move to the new market first. Ye Tao named this new market Xinxianghui (Spice Hub). Liu Yi put a lot of thought into this new market. As long as there were no major problems with Ye Tao's Hengbo Port renovation plan, the location of Xinxianghui shouldn't change. This allowed him to calmly plan and adjust any shortcomings in Xinxianghui and other markets in the future. But for now, the location was quite good. At least Xinxianghui had complete public sanitation facilities: a rather large public toilet. Moreover, it was the first public toilet in history with a larger women's section than men's. Xinxianghui also hired dozens of cleaners to sweep and clean the public spaces every day, collecting trash from the vendors' stalls. The labor costs in Nanyang were shockingly low. Hiring cleaners wasn't like hiring Zhuang Ding (farmhands) for a family, nor did it require them to be there all day. The work was strictly regulated, basically divided into two shifts, changing every day, and they could do whatever they wanted the rest of the time. Liu Yi offered a package of full room and board on workdays, plus one tael of silver per month, or one Yunzhou silver coin, or the equivalent in goods. Hundreds of people applied. Surprised, Liu Yi was laughed at by Ye Tao for the low living standards in Nanyang. Embarrassed, he rigorously screened the applicants, selecting fifty "excellent employees" with extensive cleaning experience, mostly former servants hired by bankrupt merchants. He promptly paid these people, who were struggling to make ends meet, in advance, eliciting cheers of joy.

The newly relocated vendors needed to organize their stalls before reopening, and the drainage ditches of Xinxianghui were also under active construction. But at this time, someone suddenly popped up and asked who gave Liu Yi such a good idea for making money... Liu Yi was now depressed.

"This counts as business?" Liu Yi asked Yu Yanhui, who was also an important figure in the Seven Seas Trading Company, and had just opened up the connections from Quanning Port in Chunnan, directly shipping various goods purchased by the Seven Seas Trading Company from Chunnan to Nanyang through Quanning Port, greatly reducing logistics costs and turnaround time. "Can you, Boss Yu, look up to this kind of business? Besides throwing in so much money, I really don't see where the money will come from."

Looking at Liu Yi's indignant expression, Yu Yanhui said with a smile, "I say, old brother, isn't this Ye Jinglue's idea?"

Liu Yi didn't deny it, but after thinking carefully, he said, "You explain that matter first."

Yu Yanhui chuckled and said, "This small vendor business, we may not look up to it. At most, there are some strange channels that can get a small amount of goods that we don't think are worth the effort. But, there may well be outstanding merchants who start their businesses from small stalls..."

Liu Yi thought for a while, and suddenly thought of Yu Yanhui selling wontons in the streets with his master when he was a child. After his master passed away, he opened a sesame cake shop, and from then on, he began his legendary career. He snorted unhappily, "Just keep bragging about yourself."

Yu Yanhui blushed and said, "I don't mean that... No matter how big or small the business is, what everyone cares about is nothing more than two things. First, whether the business can be done, and second, whether the money earned is guaranteed. This market, don't look at the fact that you have to constantly throw money into it at the beginning, and people are not willing to come. But once it has a reputation and a scale, people have to work hard to get into it. Especially this kind of business, the more it gathers, the easier it is to do. Indeed, comparing goods is a benefit for people who buy things, but it is the same for people who buy things. Everyone's business methods, pricing strategies, the ability to attract customers, and the ability to find new selling points in the competition of similar goods are all crucial. And when there are more people gathered, naturally more things are bought. When we visit those markets and go to auctions, don't we often inexplicably buy a lot of things that we don't need? These vendors rely on this money to support their families, unlike us, even if we open a shop in a corner, someone will come to our door. They also need a place to gather similar merchants. In addition, there is the guarantee. The original market was really... too damn dirty. Several times I looked for goods that I couldn't get anywhere else, and not many guys were willing to go in there. If the market can be kept clean, the business will definitely be better than it is now. But you can't rely on those vendors themselves. If they unite to rectify the market, then what they unite to do will definitely not be just rectifying the market. Then we should be headache about how to deal with this group of ubiquitous small businessmen. But now it seems that the construction and rectification of the market is best controlled in our hands. Don't look at putting money into it now, once it has a scale, renting out each stall, there are plenty of opportunities to make money. What's more, you have a group of merchants under your control, and it's clear at a glance who is doing well and who has good character. We don't lack money or contacts now, and with Ye Jinglue, all kinds of money-making businesses keep coming, but what do we lack? We lack talent... Don't say that this kind of market is very likely to make money, even if it's just breaking even or losing a little, you have to invest money to see... We can manage the market well, and we can do business well. That's our ability, and it's also the basis for us to attract talent in the future. And it's the least that those people can do to support themselves. Those who do well may be recruited to manage our business for us. Back then, Princess Zhaohua's idle move opened the Fengyu Shengjian (pan-fried buns) this shop that looks almost like a child's play. From then until now, they only sell so many things, no more than ten, but look how majestic Sun Liang, that old guy, is now? There are shops in all the cities in Dongping. He opens one whenever he finds someone who can manage a branch. That old guy has more than four hundred shops, which is too damn scary... Everyone lacks talent."

Yu Yanhui's long speech stunned Liu Yi. He pondered Yu Yanhui's words and nodded, "Indeed. It seems that there really is a trick to it... I haven't done business for a long time, and my brain is rusty. Thanks for reminding me... It's just that Ye Jinglue is now personally involved in the comprehensive governance, so it's not good for us to handle it with the idea of making money, right?"

Yu Yanhui said nonchalantly, "It's okay, don't worry. Ye Jinglue is now a big business, and he doesn't have the mind to make this money. Moreover, Ye Jinglue's businesses are all carried forward by others. Although Ye Jinglue is a genius, he won't consider making money as long as he doesn't lack money. Princess Zhaohua is indeed a god of wealth, but she is a person who has to worry about big things, and she doesn't have time to toss these small businesses. If you don't dare to do it, just give it to me, and I'll talk to Ye Jinglue about it."

Liu Yi was not such a timid person, although he did not quite agree with Yu Yanhui's view that this was small money. But since there was someone willing to chat with Ye Tao, what was wrong with that? Yu Yanhui had not talked to Ye Tao much, but all along, everyone had some business dealings and some correspondence with Ye Tao, such an easy-going person. Liu Yi was still very happy to introduce Yu Yanhui to Ye Tao and let him owe him a favor.

When Liu Yi and Yu Yanhui visited, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin were inspecting a series of important information that had just been sent to Nanyang, most of which was about the current situation in Xiling. Although they were low-key and restrained, the mess they caused in Xiling was still big enough, especially the fact that the secret scrolls of the former dynasty finally fell into the hands of the Xiling royal family, causing an uproar. The discussion in the court and the public has not stopped until now. There are certainly people who are summoning the souls of the former dynasty, but there are more people who are trying to gain benefits for Xiling and themselves from this incident. Those secret scrolls are hidden in the Xiling Palace, and it is said that no more than ten people can read them. Another important thing is that the Xiling Lord finally announced that the Fourth Princess and several others died in a bandit attack, and officially held a funeral for the Fourth Princess. The Xiling Lord's character is that he is old and strong. After the imperial guards sacrificed a large number of soldiers to thoroughly investigate the entire maze, they still found the bodies of the guards who were bound and starved to death. This situation was enough for him to infer that the princess had been kidnapped. However, he just refused to be threatened. On the one hand, he sent out the imperial guards and many elites from the royal guards to continue investigating and searching, and the families of those playboy also sent out people to search for clues, but on the surface, they all held funerals. Those people completely disappeared... What is more interesting is that the names of Lu Zhen and his wife are also赫然 listed in that death list. It seems that until now, this young man who has left a deep and good impression on many princes and nobles in Xiling is still being mourned.

This made Ye Tao even more depressed.

At this time, suddenly hearing that Yu Yanhui and Liu Yi actually wanted to commercialize the comprehensive governance, Ye Tao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed heartily. Tan Weixin also covered her mouth, looking at these two clever old men, wondering what they were up to.