After a few rounds of drinking, it started to get dark, and another classmate asked curiously: "What is Brother Qin going to do next?"
Qin Dewei replied vaguely: "Take it a step at a time. If you need anything from you, I hope you will help me! After the situation calms down, if you are interested, Yuanfenghao is willing to hire you to be responsible for dealing with the county officials!" "
Everyone applauded together. Scholars and ministers are not like masters of civil affairs. They also have to find ways to make a living, but the dignity of a scholar cannot be lost.
Yuanfeng Hao is now a local giant, with its tentacles extending to eight counties in Yingtian Prefecture. Helping Yuanfeng Hao deal with the government is a decent job.
Although it is not as good as working as a staff member for the powerful, it is still better than going to someone else's house to sit in the house and just ask for a little bit of repair during the holidays.
An astute person would have guessed that Qin Dewei just couldn't say anything publicly about his next plan in advance, but he definitely knew it in his heart.
With the matter fermented to this point, Qin Dewei of course gradually saw the outline.
In this wave of people who are making trouble against him, Yingtian Governor Sheng Duanming is the chief executor in front of the stage. There must be strong political figures in Nanjing to echo and promote it. This is all as it should be.
However, in the city, through various channels such as restaurants, flower farms, and street postings, they spread rumors and create public opinion by any means, and the big shots rarely end up personally involved.
In other words, big shots generally can't do such detail. They are concerned about their reputation and status, so they rarely do such low-end things themselves.
Therefore, Qin Dewei judged that there must be a core figure who is good at dancing and connects the upper, lower, left, and right forces.
This role may even be the most critical person, able to communicate with the higher-ups, mobilize the lower-levels, and coordinate the actions of different forces.
It's similar to the role that Qin Dewei often plays. As the saying goes, the same kind is the most sensitive to the smell of the same kind.
While everyone was eating and drinking, Gao Changjiang, a classmate from the county school and the young boss of Taibai Tower, appeared.
Someone then criticized him and said, "Classmate Gao, you are so unloyal. When Brother Qin was in urgent need of help today during the day, you didn't show up! It's in vain that Brother Qin usually cares about you so much!"
Gao Changjiang became anxious and defended loudly: "The one who is afraid of trouble is the turtle grandson! It's true that something big happened today and I can't get away!"
Everyone laughed together: "Nothing bigger can happen today!"
Today they collectively submitted a letter to the Inner Guard Hall, directly creating a political crisis for the Nanjing court. What could be bigger than this?
Gao Changjiang said to Qin Dewei: "Today, hundreds of shops in the city have called for a break to protest against you, Qin Dewei and Yuanfenghao, for colluding with the government and manipulating the market!
I wanted to help you keep an eye on the situation, but I was also afraid that it would affect our Taibai Building, so I didn’t show up during the day!"
The so-called break is actually what later generations called strikes, which was how it was called in the nascent period of capitalism.
For a giant city like Nanjing, a strike involving hundreds of stores may not have a big impact on the economy, but it will definitely have an impact on public opinion.
Qin Dewei and his classmates looked at each other. There must be an organizer for this kind of thing, but is the organizer a fool?
In the current political atmosphere, those who still dare to organize a coalition to call for a break to deal with Qin Dewei are trying to be funny, or do they want to prove another kind of collusion between government and businessmen?
Qin Dewei scratched his head and said hesitantly: "This really messes me up."
Gao Changjiang is a bystander, "This kind of large-scale call for rest will not be launched temporarily, it must be arranged in advance."
So I guess it may be a coincidence that they decided to launch today, but it happened to coincide with your visit to the inner defense hall."
Everyone laughed together, "What a coincidence!"
Gao Changjiang handed Qin Dewei a list and said: "Their slogan is 100 stores, but I don't know the exact number. I collected a list of more than 40 of them."
Qin Dewei took it and took a look. It was really diverse, from weaving to vinegar sauce, from clothing to northern goods, from tea to livestock, all walks of life.
He couldn't see anything at the moment, so he could only turn around and hand the list to Yuan Feng, and further sort out the details.
However, everyone was a little confused. One classmate immediately asked: "Are these people all fools? If someone organizes them, they will follow suit?
What's the point of protesting against Yuan Feng Hao and Brother Qin? The development and growth of Yuan Feng Hao is just a bank, what does it have to do with their industries!"
Gao Changjiang asked: "There are indeed many stores that are dissatisfied with Yuanfenghao. Do you know what is the most different between Yuanfenghao and Laoqianzhuang?"
The classmate replied decisively: "Collusion between government and business!"
Qin Dewei: ""
He just remembered one sentence. If a rumor is repeated a thousand times, it will become the truth.
There were still some sensible people who slapped the classmate from before and said, "What is collusion between government and businessmen? It's called earning interest for the government's money, which benefits both the government and the people!"
Gao Changjiang explained: "Although this is correct, there is another point. The biggest difference between Yuanfenghao and Laoqianzhuang is that the proportion of business targeted at merchant stores is very large!
If there happens to be a competitor who receives monetary support from Yuanfenghao, dissatisfaction will naturally arise.”
Qin Dewei thought thoughtfully, if that's the case, it's not just a few shops that are dissatisfied?
If you think more deeply, those regional business gangs that have the function of lending funds to each other as their biggest competitive advantage will probably be even more dissatisfied.
If a Huizhou merchant competes with other ordinary businessmen, he can rely on the credit of his fellow villagers, ask the fellow townsmen's guild halls to serve as guarantees, and borrow large amounts of funds from his fellow townsmen, thereby forming a huge advantage.
This is the reason for the prevalence and development of business gangs in areas such as New Anhui Shang, Shanshan Shaanxi Shang, Jiangxi Jiangyou, Zhejiang Longyou, and Suzhou Dongting.
In a sense, the rise of Yuanfenghao Bank also broke the traditional regional business gangs in Nanjing, especially the monopoly of "financing" channels by Huizhou merchants, and damaged the foundation of business gangs.
Therefore, using the Yuanfeng as a starting point to encircle and suppress Qin Dewei was not just a purely political act by a few officials, but there may be an economic logic behind it.
Behind politics is economics, and the extension of economics is politics.
If today there is no outrageous operation by the county scholar to submit a letter to the Inner Defense Hall, and there is only the big news of a collective strike of hundreds of stores, what will happen next?
From the beginning of spreading rumors, and letting the situation develop step by step to this point, some high-level figures can naturally take the opportunity to come forward.
First, the matter was promoted in a politicized direction, and finally the seemingly neutral and objective Governor Yingtian tried Qin Dewei and Yuanfeng Hao.
This encirclement and suppression plan is actually quite good, but the premise is that when someone starts to build momentum and someone cooperates to file a complaint, Governor Yingtian has to stand up to Qin Dewei, which is not difficult at all.
As a result, no one expected in advance that Qin Dewei did not pay any attention to Governor Yingtian.
A single official could actually mobilize the power of a small county government to such an extent, and he could also collude with the military guards. Not only did he hold down and beat Governor Yingtian, but he also made the governor look guilty.
In the end, everyone who needs to know what happened today should already know it, including the gangsters who planned the strike.
Everyone thought together, Nanjing will be very interesting tomorrow!