Chapter 1360: Mysterious people
Liuquan Lake is the most prosperous place in Yuejing City. Here, there are many high-gate houses, all occupying a wide area, and the houses are built more luxuriously. Yuejing City is a place where various cultural customs gather, and here it is vividly reflected. Various styles of houses compete for beauty, and each building has its own different heritage. Standing in this place, you can almost see the style of the world's house and manor.
It’s nothing more, just because this place is a settlement for the rich and wealthy merchants of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty valued merchants, and the emperor even shouted the slogan of not being stable without farmers, not being rich without merchants, taking farmers as their hearts and taking merchants as their brothers. The weight of huge merchants and merchants in the Ming Dynasty is getting heavier and heavier. These people with huge capital have been deeply involved in all aspects of the Ming Dynasty.
Here, not only were there rich families in the Ming Dynasty, but also because of the deposit confidentiality system of Changlong Bank, Chu, Qi and even some wealthy people from the former Qin State transferred large amounts of their funds to the Ming Dynasty and sent their own children to the Ming Dynasty to find a way out for the family.
Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. After the Ming Dynasty, these people soon gathered here. In the words of Geng Jingming, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty, the wealth in the hands of the people here is far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty's treasury.
Of course, the money of these people is either in Taiping Bank or Changlong Bank. Geng Jingming still has no words to finish, that is, the money of these people, and naturally the money in the treasury.
In the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver were not allowed to be traded. Once discovered, they were severely punished and refused to lend. They were just a reserve of hard currency. Using the Ming Dynasty banknotes, the court firmly controlled the direction of these funds and guided these wealthy people to circulate money where they should go.
Whether it is Su Can or Geng Jingming, they are convinced that only when money flows can it play a huge role. These two people hate that some people hide money at home. In the past, gold and silver were easy to store, but now paper money is different.
In the Liuquan Lake area, if you have an annual income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it is just now that you have just started. Most of them are people who are in all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to make a daily income of tens of thousands of dollars. Of course, the prices in this area are much higher than those in other places in Yuejing City.
There are countless things sold in the shops on the street that cannot be seen at ordinary markets. Of course, the prices of these things are not affordable to ordinary people.
Restaurants and restaurants are always crowded. If you don’t make reservations in advance, you won’t have a seat at all. Of course, there is no such thing as a dispersed restaurant. The exquisitely packaged independent private rooms provide guests with private space, so that they can discuss their business secrets here with confidence.
Here, the amount involved in the agreement reached every day may be a number that an ordinary person would never dream of. People here are familiar with each other. Even if it is two unrelated industries, who can tell clearly when there will be intersections? Who knows when they will have poor capital turnover and need help from others to turn over?
However, there is a family here that is not recognized by all the wealthy families gathered here. In the eyes of everyone in Liuquan Lake, this family is extremely mysterious. There is no plaque on their doors. Their families rarely go out. Even if they go out to buy, they will come and go in a hurry. Many who have lived in Liuquan Lake for several years have never seen the owner of this family.
The owner did not go out and there were no guests to visit. The mystery of this household had already made everyone in Liuquan Lake guess who it was.
But no matter who it is, this family is not short of money. His house is bigger than most people's houses. The things they buy from the street are the best on the market. Businessmen always have their own channels. Some people who are interested in estimating the annual consumption of this family, but the result is shocking. The annual cost of this family is probably more than 100,000 taels of silver.
The food is the best, the clothes are the best, and the use is the best. This family seems to have only one rule to buy the most expensive ones.
But what business does his family have? This is what the residents of Liuquan Lake are most puzzled. Although they are rich and spend a lot of money every year, they can only spend 100,000 yuan on daily life alone, but they are still incredible.
He said he was a huge businessman and could not see any business they had. He said they were powerful people, but the powerful people in the Ming Dynasty seemed to be very rich. More importantly, how could the powerful people live here? Just like merchants have their own settlements, the powerful and high-ranking officials also have their own settlements.
No one can guess thoroughly or understand.
The sun is shining with a scorching sun, and it is almost September, but the weather is still extremely hot, and there are not many pedestrians on the street, and there are not many people in the luxuriously decorated shops on the street. The guys sat lazily in the store and were drowsy. When doing business here, they naturally don’t have to work hard to attract customers on the street. Maybe there is no business for ten or half a month, but as long as they make one, they can manage ten or half a month.
At this time, restaurants and hotels are at the best time. Almost every private room is full. Here, restaurants and hotels can provide everything you can think of.
A rumbling sound suddenly sounded outside, and many people poked their heads out in amazement. The sun was still shining brightly, but why did it thunder? But the next moment, everyone's faces changed. A cavalry appeared on the wide street, with bright armor and fully armed cavalry riding horses, galloping unscrupulously on the street.
Everyone was shocked to watch all this because such a scene had never been seen in Yuejing City for several years.
What happened?
Looking at the cavalry's uniforms, a few big words flashed in everyone's minds, and something big happened. Because it was the army under the Supervisory Office of Eagle Nest.
Someone is going to be in trouble.
Everyone was worried. How many people who lived in Liuquan Lake dared to say that they were clean?
It’s not yourself, it’s not yourself! Almost everyone is trembling in their hearts and silently reciting. The Ming Dynasty’s king is kind and wise, but the Ming Dynasty’s law is also extremely strict. If you do not violate the law, you can enjoy all the preferential treatment you can think of in the Ming Dynasty. Once you violate the law, you will be punished the most severely.
They had seen the constable from the Ministry of Justice come here to get people. He was a famous businessman in the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, he wanted to compete with the tax authorities in the Ming Dynasty. The result of tax evasion was that the person was imprisoned, and the huge fine instantly allowed the family to enter the extreme poverty class. His business was naturally divided up in an instant.
Not long ago, someone met the man who once called the wind and rain in the Ming Dynasty. Now he opened an ordinary grocery store in Yuejing City, which can barely make a living.
This is the end of challenging the emperor's bottom line.
But the last time was just the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Revenue jointly handled the case, and this time, the falcon came even more terrifying. Obviously, the level has been improved a lot.
Amid everyone's anxiety, the black-clothed falcons stopped in front of a house, and the residents of Liuquan Lake, who were paying attention to all this, breathed a sigh of relief. It was the mysterious house.
Seeing the falcons banging the door heavily without hesitation, it was obviously not a good thing.
Curiosity can naturally kill cats. Since it has nothing to do with me, everyone's gossip heart is naturally hooked up. This family, who has always been extremely mysterious in their eyes, seems to be about to be unveiled.
This family is indeed very special because his owner's surname is Ning. Ning Zhiwen's Ning and Ning Zeyuan's Ning.
Or there are not many people who know Ning Zhiwen, but Ning Zeyuan is famous in the Ming Dynasty. For some people in Liuquan Lake, Ning Zeyuan is their great god of wealth. It was this Ming navy commander who opened up a new way of wealth for them. Since the Ming Dynasty opened up the maritime ban last year and allowed merchants to conduct overseas trade freely, for those who have some channels and have sufficient funds, going overseas to do business has become an inevitable choice because it almost represents huge profits.
In the past, the imperial court had a ban on seas, and there were pirates on the seas, and there were wind and waves. The risk was too great, but now, the only thing they need to worry about is wind and waves. Compared with the current income, wind and waves are naturally no problem.
Of course, the owner of this family was neither Ning Zhiwen nor Ning Zeyuan, but he had a very close relationship with the two because his name was Ning Zefeng.
A guy who almost controls the Ning family and almost completely sends his younger brother Ning Zeyuan to the sea to feed the turtle. Of course, Ning Zeyuan is full of luck and encounters Qin Feng in a desperate situation, thus embarking on a brilliant journey of life. Ning Zeyuan is developed, and Ning Zefeng will naturally be in trouble.
He was sent to Yuejing City and became a canary kept in a cage. He would not be less money. The Ning family in Quanzhou has money, but freedom is not available, and naturally there is no future.
Ning Zhiwen was unwilling to kill his son, and Ning Zeyuan didn't want to bear the reputation of killing his brother. They decided to raise Ning Zefeng like a pig.
Ning Zefeng was kept here for several years. He had failed completely and had already admitted his fate as Zhu Luo for the rest of his life, because he knew very well that if he did not accept his fate, his life would be truly unsafe. It would be better to live without dying. Even ants cherish their lives, let alone people?
Of course, no one knows what he was thinking.
Chapter completed!