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94. The Ministry of Household chooses the royal merchants(1/2)

Just listening to the sound, you will know that the visitor must be bad.

Jiang Zhen raised his head and saw a young man in his twenties who was about twenty years old and was looking at him.

The young man looked very likable, but now he looked at him with disgust and resentment, so naturally he didn't like him.

Jiang Zhen did not know this person, and when he heard this person speak, he immediately frowned.

The fat man was Feng Chenglin. He had originally spent money to bribe people and wanted to watch Chen Anxin's good show, but unexpectedly he was interrupted by Jiang Zhen. Naturally, he was disgusted and angry with Jiang Zhen.

After Jiang Zhen and Shen Anxin left, he became more and more angry when he thought about it. In addition, he heard from Manager Zhu that Jiang Zhen was a small businessman from Jiangnan and had no background, so he came to trouble Jiang Zhen.

Their Bandung Commercial Bank is indeed nothing in the capital, but it is no problem to deal with some small vendors from other places.

Even if you can't really do anything to others, you can scare them... These people from other places have always been easy to scare them.

Feng Chenglin looked at Jiang Zhen's clothes, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes: "I don't know which corner it was the toad that ran out of. It was jumping happily, and he was not afraid of being stepped to death."

Jiang Zhen cared about food, but he didn't care about clothes. In modern times, when he was still in the army, he wore clothes from his hair every day. Later, he retired from the army and bought several sets of the same clothes and pants to change. He was mistaken for not changing clothes.

In ancient times, he was even less concerned about wearing. In addition, he had actually been rich for a while, and he didn't have time to buy some better clothes at all.

What Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge are wearing are made of fabrics they have brought from the water bandits to the women they rescued from the water bandits.

This is the best clothes Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge have ever worn, and they are not worse than they did when they got married, but Feng Chenglin grew up in a golden and silver nest, so he naturally looked down on clothes with such fabrics and not fine stitches.

He also looked down on Jiang Zhen a little bit.

Brother Zhao Jin was very happy to eat, but Feng Chenglin didn't react when he first came over, but Feng Chenglin actually scolded Jiang Zhen... Brother Zhao Jin looked at him angrily, and after he noticed the disdain in the other party's eyes, he was about to stand up.

However, at this moment, Jiang Zhen held one of his hands, then grabbed a piece of ribs for him, and some dried bamboo shoots for him.

Brother Zhao Jin was a little puzzled, but he didn't move any more.

"Young Master, it's time for us to go back." Manager Zhu rushed over panting at this time, wanting to dissuade Feng Chenglin. Although Jiang Zhen was not aware of his character, they were concerned about making money when doing business, and there was no need to make grudges with others.

However, Feng Chenglin was not willing to leave.

Although he didn't like Chen Anxin, Chen Anxin, who rejected him several times, smiled at Jiang Zhen, but it also made him angry.

"Then Chen Anxin is like a man, you can talk too, but that's right, if someone is rich, you can give you a little bit of it in your fingers, and you can gain insights from a country bumpkin like you." Feng Chenglin said again.

"The young owner of Wanlong Trading Company?" Jiang Zhen glanced at Manager Zhu and guessed that the identity of the person in front of him had come. At the same time, he also felt that the blue veins on Brother Zhao Jin's hand that was pressed by him had burst.

Jiang Zhen sighed lightly.

When Zhu was not selling goods to Manager Zhu, he became angry and embarrassed. He asked someone to inquire about the Wanlong Trading Company - there are too many noble people in the capital, and he was worried that he would accidentally offend any noble person.

According to the information he found out, the Bandung Commercial Bank is just a merchant with good business operations and has no background. He doesn't have to be afraid at all, and he doesn't have the ability to do anything to him.

As a result... just when he thought he would not have any contact with this Bandung Trading Company, the young owner of this Bandung Trading Company actually came to cause trouble for him.

As soon as Jiang Zhen thought about it, he knew that the man in front of Chen Anxin was probably done by the man in front of him.

It would be fine if this person went to pester Chen Anxin, but he was still scolding him now...

"It's me," Feng Chenglin responded, "If you know the truth, you'll apologize to me, otherwise..."

Feng Chenglin looked at Jiang Zhen's expression and was full of threat. Several girls from the Feng family had married officials, and his sister even married officials from the dock. It was really easy to mess with a businessman from another place.

Feng Chenglin was a little proud, but soon, both the threatening expression on his face and the pride in his eyes disappeared without a trace.

Jiang Zhen stood up with a bowl of soup on the table, and then... he actually poured the bowl of soup on his head.

This soup is dried winter melon bamboo shoots soup. Jiang Zhen has already put the ribs in the bowl and the dried bamboo shoots that Zhao Jinge likes into Zhao Jinge's bowl. Only every household in Hexi Village can grow them, but the winter melon that Zhao Jinge thinks is worthless.

And now, the winter melon fell on Feng Chenglin's head, and the soup poured on Feng Chenglin's head and face.

A piece of winter melon slid down Feng Chenglin's hair from his face and fell to the ground. Feng Chenglin finally woke up: "You bastard, what do you want to do?!" He has never suffered such an insult before!

"What? Want to fight?" Jiang Zhen put the bowl heavily on the table and made a "bang".

Feng Chenglin's expression froze. He just saw Jiang Zhen beat the "Zhang Lao Er" to no avail, and he knew very well that this person was not simple.

But why doesn’t Jiang Zhen do things according to common sense? This is the capital city, and there are merchants from other places who come here. Who is not afraid and trepidated? How could he be as arrogant as the person in front of him?

"I don't know where the fat pig came from. I kept wasting a bowl of soup." Jiang Zhen said again, looking at Feng Chenglin with disdain.

Originally, he didn't care if someone said a few words.

But he didn't care, Brother Zhao cared. When Feng Chenglin scolded him, Brother Zhao looked angry and seemed to be about to go up and hit someone...

He was always unwilling to let Brother Zhao take action, so he would do it first.

"The surname of Jiang, the place in Beijing is not something you can do if you want. Wait for me!" Feng Chenglin said. He didn't bring anyone this time, but Jiang Zhen was not only good at himself. There was also someone who looked equally weak. He was afraid that he would suffer a loss, so he threw down a sentence and turned around and left.

The people in this small restaurant continued to look at Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jin Ge. Jiang Zhen turned a blind eye to those eyes. He sat down again and said to Zhao Jin Ge: "Eat quickly."

"Oh..." Brother Zhao Jin picked up a piece of ribs from his bowl and gnawed them. He gnawed them twice, then looked up at Jiang Zhen: "Jiang Zhen, you looked so beautiful just now."

"That's it." Jiang Zhen admitted without hesitation and asked back: "I'm the best, right?"

Brother Zhao Jin paused, looked around subconsciously, and nodded after he found that the people around him should not hear him.

He thought Jiang Zhen was the best!

Jiang Zhen immediately laughed.

Brother Zhao Jin started to lower his head and chew on the ribs again. After gnawing several pieces before raising his head, he looked at Jiang Zhen: "Jiang Zhen, why did he just say that Chen Anxin is like a man?"

After seeing Chen Anxin today, Brother Zhao Jin felt something was wrong. The man's words just now made his feeling reach its peak.

"Because Chen Anxin is a twin." Jiang Zhen said.

"Shuang'er?" Brother Zhao Jin was shocked. Chen Anxin came to Jiang Zhen to do business. When Manager Zhu exposed his identity, he was not next to Jiang Zhen. Later, no one mentioned this matter, so he didn't know that Chen Anxin was actually Shuang'er.

"Yes... I forgot to tell you." Jiang Zhen said, he had always been difficult to divide Shuang'er and women. After Chen Anxin dug up a pregnant mole and wanted to be a man, he would not specifically tell others that he was actually Shuang'er.

Jiang Zhen didn't take it seriously, but Brother Zhao was shocked.

Chen Anxin is actually a Shuang'er! No wonder his previous performance was so weird!

Brother Zhao Jin had a good impression of Chen Anxin and thought that he was a very powerful person. Now that he knew that he was actually Shuang'er, he admired him even more, but when he thought of what the person said just now, he couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

However, he didn't think that a young master like Chen Anxin would compete with him for Jiang Zhen. He thought that Jiang Zhen had always been indifferent to Chen Anxin, so he quickly let him go.

He has always been with Jiang Zhen, and he knows very well that Jiang Zhen has no relationship with Chen Anxin, and Chen Anxin and Jiang Zhen are just saying a few words politely.

However, Brother Zhao subconsciously didn't want to mention Chen Anxin, and just asked Jiang Zhen: "Jiang Zhen, will there be something wrong with you doing that just now?" The eldest young master who came up to curse seemed quite powerful...

Jiang Zhen was also a little worried that he was not familiar with the place in this capital... What's more important is that he had a brother Zhao Jin beside him, and Zhao Jin was still pregnant.

If the Wanlong Trading Company was like dealing with Chen Anxin, she would find someone to deal with Brother Zhao Jin...

Jiang Zhen just thought about it and his brows were already frowning tightly.

"Let's buy something and visit the Zheng family." Jiang Zhen said.

After Jiang Zhen left the dock and moved to the city to live, Zheng Yi also moved to the Zheng family to live.

Before, Zheng Yi had someone look for him and asked him if he wanted to meet some people.

He felt troublesome at that time, so he refused, but now thinking about it... it would be beneficial for him to know more people.

Jiang Zhen thought of it and went to cook it. After dinner, he took Brother Zhao Jin to buy some things and then went to Zheng's house.

Jiang Zhen reported his name and said he was looking for Zheng Yi. He was soon taken into Zheng Yi's yard by the concierge, but Zheng Yi was not here and went out, so they needed to wait.

Zheng Yi came back not long after. When he saw Jiang Zhen, he smiled and said, "I have looked for you several times before, but you don't want to come here. Why did you come here today?"

"Actually, I have to trouble Mr. Zheng if I have something to do." Jiang Zhen said directly, and told his purpose straightforwardly.

Zheng Yi likes Jiang Zhen’s directness very much. It’s great to say something if you have something to do. If you have a relationship for a long time, then tell someone that he is actually having a relationship, it will actually make him dislike: “What’s the matter?”

Jiang Zhen thought about it and told the whole story.

"Bandung Commercial Bank?" Zheng Yi laughed when he heard these four words.

"Mr. Zheng knows them?" Jiang Zhen asked.

"I know, tomorrow, this Wanlong Trading Company will come to the Zheng family." Zheng Yi smiled: "Jiang Zhen, I asked you if you want to know some people before, because the Ministry of Revenue will make a big move when it comes in."

Zheng Yi started talking slowly.

But it turned out that as the royal expenses became increasingly large and the silver was not enough, the empress dowager came up with a way to save money.

That method is to enthrone some imperial merchants.

Give certain merchants a certain status and then let them be responsible for purchasing something for the palace.

For example, if the palace needs a lot of silk every year, you can choose from the silk business people, give him the title of the Imperial Merchant, and let him be responsible for the matter. This merchant has been different from ordinary merchants since then.

The Empress Dowager has been thinking about this method for a long time, and is planning to implement it recently. The person in charge of this matter is the current Minister of Revenue and the second master of Zheng's family.

Jiang Zhen only knew that Master Zheng Er was a second-rank official, but he really didn't know that he was the Minister of Revenue.

However, Jiang Zhen didn't know about this, but he had some understanding of the imperial merchants.

Even if he had never read the original work of Dream of Red Mansions, he had also watched TV series. Isn’t the Xue family in it the imperial merchant?

Even the author of Dream of Red Mansions, Jiangning Weaving Manuscripts, who were once the elders of his family, was considered an imperial merchant.

In the Qing Dynasty, being an imperial merchant was a sure profit without losing money.

Jiang Zhen had heard of the Imperial Merchant, but he didn't understand it, so he naturally kept silent and said nothing, just said: "If Young Master Zheng could become the Imperial Merchant, he would definitely get a lot of benefits."
To be continued...
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