The clan leader of the Lu family of Zhuozhou Prefecture was escorted to Youzhou City by the magnificent street government office of Zhuozhou Prefecture. He was personally received by Zhao Xun, the leader of the Xiaoguo Army, and praised him for his support for the Xiaoguo Army policy.
For a moment, this incident was rumored everywhere in Youzhou, and some people praised Old Man Lu's actions.
Not only that, Lu's business name was also involved in the southern salt transportation business of Xiaoguo Army. Needless to say, everyone knows how profitable this thing is. Especially the merchants of Youzhou are even more jealous and envious.
The mansion produced salt, and at the beginning, the Baiyu merchants were operating. With the increase in production and the expansion of sales, these places were definitely not enough. Many merchants wanted to participate in a share, but they failed to get it in the end.
Xiaoguojun's permission, but unexpectedly, Lu's family participated because they purchased Xiaoguojun's bonds.
These merchants regretted it so much that they didn't even mention the big ones, they might be able to add them even if they bought them 100,000 silver coins earlier. If they were responsible for the salt transportation business of each state and one place, they would be really a daily gold rush. Unfortunately, they
It's too late to think about it now. Everyone knows the gap between the first and second ones. But no matter what, some merchants still bought Xiaoguojun's bonds. Who knows if there will be other businesses?
Being dropped by Xiaoguojun?
To be honest, Lu Xianjing didn't expect that Zhao Xun would let them participate in the salt transportation business in Yanzhou and other places. According to the salt price given by the Xiaoguo Army, not to mention Yanzhou, it is not impossible to even Yongzhou and Bingzhou.
If this is the case, 500,000 silver coins will be back in two or three years. Having said that, Xiao Guojun wants money, not business.
Immediately afterwards, news came from somewhere, saying that because the Xiaoguo Army wanted to repair and dredge the river, the finances were exhausted. If a certain amount of bonds could not be sold, then it was possible to increase taxes on the merchants under the Xiaoguo Army.
Even, it may return to the past.
Now, these businessmen are anxious. No matter what their origin is, in the past two years, under the rule of Xiaoguo Army, the business is absolutely safe and secure, and the business is not bad. If this is exactly as the rumors say, then
They were knocked down from the cliff. No one wanted to go back to the past, and no one could not get through with money. If the problem cannot be solved, what should I do? Then buy it! So, these merchants also bought bonds.
Yu, I will also express the recognition of the Business Department in the registration list, that is, if I buy it, I will not increase taxes on you at will. In this way, those merchants have also taken action. Now, it is not possible to participate.
It's right.
There are also Lu clans who are also surnamed Lu. Lu Chenyang is the leader of the Lu clan. Compared with the Lu clans in Zhuozhou Prefecture, their situation is much worse. In the past, the imperial court took advantage of the Xiaoguo Army's expedition to the east.
When the three eastern prefectures recovered the lost land, they incited the southern part of Youzhou to rebel and expel the Xiaoguo army. Although the Lu family of Yuyang Prefecture did not participate in it, they were also mixed up. The result was naturally self-evident, and Xiaoguo was joined.
The army's blacklist has been spent on a lot of effort to prevent the Xiaoguo Army from pursuing it.
Lu Chenyang is not a fool either. He can be a family member, so he naturally has seen many problems in the past two years. Originally, he planned to take advantage of the bonds that were not purchased and perform well.
To save the current situation of the Lu family, but who knew that Lu Xianjing from Zhuozhou Prefecture was taken first. After hearing that Zhao Xun, the commander of the Xiaoguo Army, met Lu Xianjing and asked him to participate in the salt trading business, he immediately cursed, not knowing that he was scolding Lu Xianjing again
He was still too slow to scold himself. Lu Chenyang naturally knew the difference between the first and second and third. But now, in addition to cursing himself secretly, he also had to admire the Lu family in Zhuozhou Prefecture, which is also the Lu family in Zhuozhou Prefecture.
In a luxurious mansion east of Jizhou City, Li Wenjie, a wealthy businessman in Jizhou Prefecture, is ready to rest. Today, he had a party with his business partners. After drinking a few more glasses, he turned a little confused and just drank the sobering soup.
He was lying in the arms of his concubine, asking him to massage himself to relieve his dizziness. Li Wenjie also began to move on his concubine.
At this moment, the door was knocked, and it was very urgent. Li Wenjie frowned and asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter? I'll talk about it tomorrow if I have something to do."
"Master, it's me! There is an important matter that I'll report back to you soon." A voice of the Li Mansion's chief manager came from outside the door. Li Wenjie couldn't help but be stunned. The housekeeper was his confidant, and he was a very calm person. Listen to him.
The voice was actually a little anxious, afraid that this matter would be small.
He stood up and tidied up his clothes, opened the door, and saw the panicked eyes of the chief manager of the inner court, Li Wenjie's heart sank.
The two walked into the study room on the side one after another. After sitting down, Li Wenjie asked: "What happened? Is there something wrong with our business?" As a businessman, besides commerce, what else can I do with myself?
Surprise yourself?
The chief manager swallowed and said, "Master, there is something wrong... there is something big. Master still remembers that I have a neighbor from the same village, and his son works as a job in the Shadow Department."
"Yes, you said, you also said, you helped them, but what does this have to do with me?" Li Wenjie said with a frown. But his brows did frown quietly, for nothing else, just for this shadow.
The name of Si. For the officials under the Xiaoguo Army and the gentry of the aristocratic family, this Shadow Department is definitely a knife hanging over its head. Now, seeing the panicked eyes of the Great Manager and the name of the Shadow Department, Li Wenjie has a
A bad feeling.
The manager said in a deep voice: "Because I helped them when they were poor, this kid did not forget his past kindness after he became rich. He also visited me many times and gave it to me during the holidays.
Some gifts. Today he went to my house and talked to me. He actually told me to quit the mansion's manager immediately and go out to play for a while..."
Li Wenjie suddenly couldn't calm down, his face slowly turned pale and blue, and he said in a trembling voice: "What does he mean..."
The big manager said, "I was quite strange at that time, so I slowly stoked him while talking about the past. Because I had kindness to him in the past, I could not force him, and told me vaguely because Xiaoguo
The merchants under the army ruled made the governor very dissatisfied with the bonds, so the superiors decided to replace the merchants under the Xiaoguo army who were under the Xiaoguo army, but they were unwilling to contribute to the Xiaoguo army.
So, the Shadow Department began to check the foundations of wealthy businessmen in various places. The Shadow Department has already obtained the evidence of our mansion buying and selling banned objects with the Marines a few years ago, and there are other evidences. I asked him to say more details, but
He stopped talking about it and told me not to spread the word, and then left in a hurry. Before leaving, he told me to quit his job immediately."
Li Wenjie's face faded away. The wealthy businessmen under the Xiaoguo Army had existed before. Before the Xiaoguo Army was in charge of Youzhou, who were clean? But after the Xiaoguo Army was in charge of the government, the commercial tax was unified.
We also made many decisions that were beneficial to businessmen, which made businessmen abide by the law, but the previous things were inseparable. Besides, who did not do anything that was unruly during the business process?
According to the news received by the great manager, the other party meant that Shadow was going to attack him. When he thought of the many prominent families who fell in the Xiaoguo Army in the past, the southern part of Youzhou was a family of the three Yi tribes due to rebellion.
The gentry and Li Wenjie couldn't help but feel cold all over. I don't know how many backgrounds of those people were better than him, but they were all killed by Xiaoguojun like a chicken. Who are he?
"How could this happen? Why did this happen? Didn't Xiaoguojun explicitly declare orders and not pursue them? Besides, what we did for the commercial transactions is just a few small things. How could... what to do?" Li Wenjie was in the room.
When I walked around, my first reaction was to run, but as soon as this idea came out, I was rejected, ran, and ran there. What's more, my family, I was afraid that I could not even get out of the city and would be robbed and killed.
"Li Hai, you said, why did Xiao Guojun attack me?"
"Master, you forgot, what is the reason for the action from the superiors? At that time, because the wealthy businessmen did not buy the so-called bonds of the owner, Xiaoguojun had to replace a group of merchants under the rule of Xiaoguojun." The manager whispered in a low voice.
Said.
Li Wenjie was stunned and immediately understood. This was because businessmen like him were afraid that their money would be swallowed up by Xiaoguojun, so they did not buy it. Even if they bought it, they were only bought for a few hundred silver coins, which really did not match their identity.
Xiao Guojun was angry and was about to get angry. He was really desperate now.
If Xiao Guojun really wants to have this mind, he will have no way to survive no matter what.
"Master, you have to find a way, otherwise it will be too late for Shadow Master to take action..."
"How, what's the solution... By the way, bonds, I understand, so that's it!" Li Wenjie said in a deep voice. "The Xiaoguojun is not going to really target us, but is dissatisfied with our attitude. Think about it, Lu Xianjing
Well, this guy is so smart. Even if the 500,000 silver coins are given for free, the trade route he gets is enough for him to make money."
In fact, on this day, not only him, but also wealthy businessmen in Youzhou received this news through various methods, and Shadow Departments in various places also frequently moved. Even local county soldiers began to actively mobilize. Although the county
Adults said that this is just the normal operation of the county, but it is enough to make these merchants tremble.
In all prefectures and counties, there are Shadow Department, Finance Department, Huitong Money House and local officials jointly form the responsible unit for bonds. Yuyang Prefecture Yuyang City, Yuyang Prefecture Qian Yiqing is the general person in charge of this bond affairs.
.It has been half a month since the bond was found, but the money I got was still very small. As soon as the money was cleared, his hair was almost white. He knew what Xiao Guojun was going to do now, and he also knew the use of this bond, so he naturally hoped that the bonds he had
The more you sell, the better. Compared with him, the people in the Finance Department are even more anxious and their eyes are getting angry. However, the officials in the Finance Department are all assisting from the side, presiding over normal records and explanations, and those who are making decisions
, it is still Qian Yiqing and the governor of the government.
"Where are those gentry families? What about the rich businessmen? Have our people explained it clearly to them?" Qian Yiqing frowned.
"Mr. Prefecture, how dare we hide it from you? This is naturally explained clearly, but they ignored it and ignored it. What can we do if we don't see it? Besides, the superiors ordered that they should not be forced to buy it.
They can only voluntarily. These people, for fear that we will greed for their money, think that the bond is an excuse to cheat money," said the affiliated official with a wry smile.
Qian Yiqing's face was stretched very long, and his gloomy face seemed to be dripping with water. How could he not know what these people were thinking? Those gentry from the aristocratic families didn't say that, he was dissatisfied with the Xiaoguo Army, but those who rely on Xiaoguo
Qian Yiqing was very dissatisfied with the emerging big and prominent families and wealthy merchants. If it were not for the strict orders of local governments from the higher authorities, they would not force these people to buy bonds, and the money would have been scattered early in the morning.
Although the above is very annoyed because of the local bond affairs, and is preparing to use a small action to make the Shadow Department and the government, Qian Yiqing is still experiencing these wealthy businessmen who have made their fortunes based on the new policy of the Xiaoguo Army.
Extreme dissatisfaction. If it weren't for the new commercial tax policy of the Xiaoguo Army, could these people have today? But when they needed to serve, they all collapsed into a group and no one could stand out. It was better than those ordinary people,
At least they know how to be grateful and pay for the buyer's bonds.
Yuyang Prefecture Chief Yu Hai stood in his head with his hands and cried out, "Mr. Gong, we have done our best, running around the city, and we came to our door to persuade us to buy, and everyone has lost weight.
The big circle, but the effect is really not good. Except for some businessmen who can’t stand the face, I bought a little bit, and the others…”
Qian Yiqing sneered: "It's okay, they do this, and command it to make the lord angry. At that time..." Qian Yiqing didn't say much, he knew that the Shadow Department's actions were from Zhao Xun's intention, otherwise,
Apart from cooperating with his Shadow Secretary, there would not be such a big move. This shows that the lord is already dissatisfied with these people.
When the officials of Zhuyifu were silent, thinking about a solution, there were suddenly a burst of noise outside the yamen. Qian Yiqing was busy with bonds and was in a good mood. At present, Qian Yiqing was
I couldn't help but feel angry and stood up suddenly, and was out of breath, and I just took a few eyes to express my breath.
Just as he walked to the middle of the lobby, a yamen runs over outside, but his surprise on his face could not be concealed. When he saw Qian Yiqing, he kept saying, "Sir, Lord Prefect..."
"What's going on? How can it be a mess in a government office? Tell people outside that if they dare to make noise outside our government office, they will be responsible!" Qian Yiqing asked angrily with a face.
Seeing Qian Yiqing's face was not good, the yamen run in looked inexplicable, and after a while he reported it, he stammered: "Outside...there are the leaders of various wealthy families in Yuyang City...and those rich businessmen..."
"Big family patriarch? Rich businessman? What are they here to do?" Qian Yiqing frowned immediately. He had no good impression of these people.
The yamen runner hurriedly said, "Sir, they naturally bought that... that bond when they came here."
"What? Come and buy bonds?" Qian Yiqing was stunned and walked out quickly. In the lobby, more than ten wealthy merchants from Yuyang City gathered together, arguing about something lively.
"Mr. Qian, all the sir!" Seeing that all the officials in the mansion were coming, more than ten people bowed and said respectfully.
"Are you guys?" Qian Yiqing asked.
Li Wenjie smiled and said, "Mr. Qian, we are all always buying bonds. The Grand Commander protects the country and the people, implements new policies, unify commercial taxes, so that the people can live and work in peace and prosperity, and that we can build a family. Now, the Grand Commander wants to repair and dredge the river channel.
Not for the people of the north? How can we watch the wall? It is something we have been looking forward to for the governor!”
Qian Yiqing sneered in his heart, and he had been looking forward to it for a long time? Then why have you been indifferent for the past half month? But a smile appeared on his face and he smiled and said, "Mr. Li, you are the most powerful tycoon in Yuyang City. Then, you are ready to buy it.
How many bonds are there?”
Li Wenjie smiled and said, "I heard that Lu Xianjing, the head of the Lu clan of Zhuozhou Prefecture, invested in buying a bond of 500,000 silver coins. Although I, Li Wenjie, is not as rich as his Lu clan, I am not inferior to others. Similarly, 500,000!"
"What?" Qian Yiqing was stunned. Li Wenjie was too generous. He was a little too generous and was not afraid of his business going bankrupt. Qian Yiqing was completely shocked. Five hundred thousand, this was a big deal.
Although Li Wenjie's family is very wealthy, it must be included in his business name. The officials standing behind Qian Yiqing looked at Li Wenjie with some disbelief.
"This is also my contribution to my Grand Governor dredging river channels! In addition, Li also invited many business partners to buy them together. Well, the total amount should not be less than 2 million."
Qian Yiqing was amazed in his heart. Two million silver coins were already a lot. He quickly smiled and said, "Mr. Li is really wise and understands the righteousness. I admire him. Please, please, please, I will go through the procedures with you.
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While walking towards the back hall, he shouted loudly: "Come here, come and see the seat, serve tea, serve good tea!"
Li Wenjie and others thought secretly: In this way, Xiaoguojun will not come to cause trouble for us again.
Not only Yuyang City, but also in Youzhou and Jizhou, bonds suddenly became popular, and seemed to have become popular goods. They were purchased in large quantities. The gentry and wealthy people who were indifferent on weekdays appeared in the county government offices.
Within, I bought this bond in a large amount. In just two days, the harvest in various places was the same as money for half a month. In this way, more and more people were. It seems that the bond was successful.
Seeing this, Zhao Xun decided to repay the merchants who performed extremely "superior", so he summoned the more than 100 people with the largest investment to the Grand Governor's Office for a banquet, and the salt dealer under the command of Xiaoguo Army.
The business is also delivered to them. After all, it is not possible to sell this low-priced salt to other prefectures and counties by one or two.