Yang Wanli glanced at Fan Xian beside him, and said, "Teacher, the matter in Jiangnan has been settled, so don't worry too much."
What he said was very sincere and sincere. At this time, Yang Wanli had already gradually figured out the true meaning of being an official and the difficulties of the people's livelihood after half a year of wind and rain on the river embankment and the gossip and buck-passing in the Governor's Yamen of the River Transport.
As an official, if you want to do things for the people and share the worries of the court, you must have power and money in your hands, otherwise you will not be able to do anything. Because Yang Wanli has Fan Xian as his backer, no superior in the Ministry of Industry dares to tell him what to do. Although the governor's yamen of Heyun is still in a mess, he has the right to directly withdraw money from the internal treasury, so no one in this regard can create obstacles for him.
He is no longer the innocent young man who dared to yell at his disciples with a flick of his sleeves. Every time he thinks about it, he deeply admires the lessons taught by the master at the West Lake in Hangzhou.
At this time, the endless long embankment under the two people's feet is Yang Wanli's achievement in this year. Whenever he looked at the ashlar loess and the tame river under the embankment, his heart was always full of fulfillment and pride. The patched clothes on his body and his dark face became a mark of glory.
Yang Wanli knew that he was able to achieve his life ideals, relying on the meticulous care and support of Lao Fan Shangshu and Xiao Fan, the father and son, so he expressed joy and worry about the arrival of the master. The previous sentence.
Everyone in the world knew that Fan Xian had been attacked when he returned to Beijing, and Yang Wanli was very worried about his teacher's health.
Fan Xian shook his head, looked at the river under his feet and said, "It's okay, don't think too highly of me, I'm a lazy person, I won't be busy with government affairs and ruin my health... They have already been pinched, so they naturally have no power to fight back, but if they want to eat it in one bite, it is actually still a bit difficult."
Today's Yang Wanli, of course, can understand the meaning of these words. It is not difficult to eat the Ming family. The key is the members of the royal family behind the Ming family. If Fan Xian didn't have to taboo about the situation in the palace, the Ming family would have been eaten by him long ago. up.
Fan Xian smiled, did not go into details about the specific situation, but said consolingly: "This return to Beijing has yielded a lot. Although His Majesty has not made up his mind to rectify the administration of officials, the exchange of blood at the court has already begun... You should be here I saw Cheng Jialin's name in the mansion newspaper."
"Yes, brother Jialin is the first of the four of us to return to the court." Yang Wanli said happily. The investigation of Fan Xian's assassination ended without a problem, but Emperor Qing took the opportunity to drive away some old guys and install many When a newcomer entered the court, Cheng Jialin, the least famous of the four sons of the Fan family, met him respectfully and was promoted by leapfrogging. Now he is a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, and he is the key training object of the court.
Fan Xian glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Among the four of you, Jia Lin is the most silent and moderate, and because of this, he walked more smoothly than Ji Chang... Of course Ji Chang's problem is also mine, if not If I call him to Jiaozhou, he won't fall into such a stalemate, I just hope he won't blame me."
Yang Wanli shook his head and said, "Teacher, what are you talking about? Ji Chang also wrote to me about the Jiaozhou incident. It's a big matter, and only Ji Chang can handle it."
Fan Xian nodded. Since the four of them knew their painstaking efforts, there was no need to explain further.
The two walked downstream along the long embankment, walking and chatting along the way. Fan Xian reminded: "I am very clear about your affairs in the Hegong Yamen, and the court is also aware that the title of working hard for thousands of miles has also been introduced into the palace, which will be of great benefit to you in the future... But you still have to remember what I said back then. As the saying goes, for things like river repair, if you know how to do it, you have to work hard, and if you don’t understand, don’t order it carelessly.”
Yang Wanli responded with a smile: "After staying on the embankment for a year, I understand some things I don't understand anymore."
Fan Xian glanced at him disapprovingly, and said, "Hegong is a big deal, even more important than the battles on the border of the West Hu and Northern Qi. If you just know a little... How can this be enough to support you to say such confident words?"
Yang Wanli understood immediately, and felt ashamed to be taught.
"Of course it is impossible to stop the river disaster in just one year." Fan Xian suddenly frowned and said, "This is a ten-year project, or even a hundred-year project. How many years have you cultivated, you have to guard against arrogance and dryness... Be willing to be lonely."
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"However, we must also pay attention to cultivating some capable subordinates and professionals." Fan Xian said sincerely: "Although you have the wish to benefit the people, but you have been exposed to wind and rain for many years, and your bones can't bear it. You have cultivated capable people. People, don't stay in the Hegong Yamen any longer, go back to Beijing and work hard."
Yang Wanli was startled, and hurriedly said: "Teacher, I don't want to go back to Beijing. Beijing is much more troublesome than the embankment... Besides, I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm used to it."
"Of course Beijing is troublesome, but if you want to do something, you have to go back to Beijing!" Fan Xian said firmly: "It has nothing to do with whether you can endure this suffering, I still expect you to live a few more years... for such an old man , I haven't even married a daughter-in-law yet, so what kind of rumors are spread?"
Yang Wanli was distressed and dared not speak more. Strange to say, Fan Xian was younger than all four of his disciples, but in the past two years, when they occasionally ran into each other, Fan Xian set up his master's score to teach them, and he became more and more used to it. It is the so-called dwelling body, raising and moving qi.
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For the next few days, Fan Xian was still wandering around Yingzhou, spending most of his time pointing and pointing with Yang Wanli on the embankment, but it was inevitable that he would be entertained by the Governor of Hegong's yamen. Fan Xian, an ordinary local official, could evade it, but this time the Governor of Hegong actually came to the banquet in person. Such a face is really worthless.
The reason why the governor invited Fan Xian was very simple. The governor’s yamen of Hegong was short of money, and Fan Xian presided over the internal treasury. , Betting great enthusiasm and countless silver taels on this yamen. This kind of affection can't help but be grateful to the governor.
What surprised Yang Wanli was why the sect master had been staying in Yingzhou. Of course, the imperial envoys on Xingjiang South Road could inspect the construction of the embankment, but looking at Fan Xian's appearance, he was planning to stay here for half a month.
"Teacher, don't you want to go to Suzhou?" One day, Yang Wanli asked boldly.
"Don't worry, wait a little longer."
Fan Xian laughed. The capital of Qing Kingdom is in the north, and Suzhou is in the east. He is sitting firmly in Yingzhou at this time, watching the upcoming events in the two places with cold eyes, just like a porter picking up two loads of thorns, and just happened to carry the pole on his shoulders. Bear the strength, but don't worry about being pricked by those thorns.
He is waiting for the matter in Suzhou to get to the point first, and then waiting for the matter in Kyoto to break out. Yingzhou is the best place to watch a play, because although he is very suspicious in the eyes of officials all over the world, at this sensitive moment, He still needs to avoid suspicion.
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There are two leading figures in the New Year Team of the Overwatch Council in Jiangnan, one is Su Wenmao who is in charge of the production of the inner warehouse in the three major workshops in northern Fujian, and the other is Hong Changqing who keeps an eye on the news of the Ming family in the inner warehouse transshipment department of Suzhou City.
The action against the Ming family was actually laid out a year ago, and the real action started half a year ago. On the one hand, the China Merchants Bank lost money to the Ming family vigorously to support the other party's channels and daily needs, and began to tease Ming Lanshi to open up new business routes. The confused Sixth Master Ming only knew that China Merchants Bank borrowed a lot of money from him, but he never thought that his own shares in the Ming family had already become several deeds in China Merchants Bank.
All of this was done clearly, because even if China Merchants Bank forced debts at this time, with the strong strength of the Ming family, the mortgage of the goods in hand, the daily turnover, and the support of Taiping Bank, they could still handle it without being forced to liquidate. Commercial bank shares and land property to pay off.
Therefore, the problem facing Fan Xian all along was how to reduce the Ming family's turnover rapidly and cause serious problems in the Ming family's turnover.
With such a huge property of the Ming family, no matter how rich it is, it may be difficult to achieve this goal, but the problem is that Fan Xian has the full power to dispose of the internal treasury, and he has tightly choked the supply of goods. The throat of the Ming family.
It was Su Wenmao who took the lead. With the full cooperation of Ren Shaoan, the Deputy Envoy of Neiku Transshipment, and the skillful arrangement of several old Ye shopkeepers in Qingyu Hall, since the end of last summer, the three workshops of Neiku The output began to rise gradually and steadily, and the quality has also been greatly improved.
If you ship more, you will eat more, and the Ming family is not willing to let go of this opportunity. In addition, during this period of time, the Overwatch Council has relaxed a lot from the harassment of the Ming family, so the entire industry of the Ming family has come alive. , swallowed countless goods at once, and transported them towards Dongyi City and Quanzhou.
Although such a large sum of goods consumed a lot of money from the Ming family, Ming Qingda was not worried, because the money would come back from this change of hands, which was why he felt relaxed during those days. What a wonderful day it would be if it went on like this.
However, the three workshops of the internal storage and transshipment department suddenly stopped working for unknown reasons!
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After the news of the shutdown reached Suzhou, Ming Qingda was furious, and asked Ming Lanshi to rush to the Neiku Transshipment Office to ask what happened. Hong Qingda shamelessly accepted his questioning, but he only said that the three workshops are undergoing routine equipment maintenance and need to wait for some time.
The Ming family has the right to be angry and growl, because he is an imperial merchant who has marked countless taels of silver from Neiku. Since Neiku has accepted his bid, he must guarantee his delivery channel, otherwise he can go to fight Court before the imperial court.
But Hong Changqing also had an excuse for delay, because the shipments of the three major workshops in the past year have already completed the share in the bidding documents. Even if they stop for ten and a half months, your Ming family has already received all the goods that should be received.
Ming Qingda had no choice but to use his power in the officialdom to inquire about the real news of the first place in Fujian. After finally getting the news, he heard that there was another labor riot in the three major workshops. The heads of a few people were barely suppressed, but it took many days of work.
Knowing that this was the reason, the Ming family breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't Fan Xian's conspiracy, they began to wait for the day when the internal treasury resumed work. The reason why the Ming family is so eager and nervous... is all because everything went well in the first two months, and the Ming family gradually recognized the shipping capacity of the inner warehouse. According to the daily quantity, they signed large contracts with Dongyi City and overseas. .
The bill of goods has now expired, the Ming family needs a large amount of goods, and what the merchant needs is reputation. The Ming family would rather lose money than sell without goods.
After a few more days, the three major workshops finally resumed work... However, there are not many kinds of goods produced, which is a drop in the bucket, and I don't know when they will be able to return to the situation of last year. The Ming family fell into a little panic for a while. In order to complete the goods list, they had to start to transfer goods around, not to mention dimming the family's last spare stock, and had to spend high prices on the Xingbei Road and Xingnan Road. Some goods were borrowed from several families.
After receiving the reward from the accountant, Ming Qingda weighed the current available water in the clan. Ming Qingda frowned and said, "What exactly does Fan Xian want to do? Is it too much to take me for a few days and just want to beat me down?" childish."
Ming Lanshi listened to the side, his mouth bitter. These days, he secretly transferred a sum of money to China Merchants Bank to participate in the private salt business. His partner this time is Yang Jimei, the largest salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River. Knowing that the relationship between Yang Jimei and the governor Xue Qing is very close, Ming Lanshi is not worried about anything... It's just that it will take at least three months for the return of the private salt... If his father knows that he has moved the running water in the house to other places, will he be worried? Will he still be as confident as he is now
"Our Ming family has nothing but silver." Ming Qingda said with a cold smile, "Fan Xian wants to manipulate the price of goods on the market and come to eat our silver, so give it to him. Anyway, he will still want it in the future." Spit it back... You must complete this order."
However, the actions of the Overwatch Council were of course not as simple as manipulating the price of the goods. On the second day after the Ming family successfully collected goods at a high price... the workers of the Three Great Workshops became excited as if they had eaten carbs. The operation of the internal warehouse broke out suddenly, and there was no sign of a labor movement at all. In a very short period of time, the daily production reached a peak.
Although the price of the goods sold by several major imperial merchants is the price fixed by the imperial court, the selling price must be controlled by the upstream supplier. At this time, the price of the goods has become cheaper, but the business has improved a lot. The Ming family, the Sun family, and even Xia Mingji have all made a lot of money in this wave of market prices, mainly because they have made a lot of price difference from the Ming family... Who made the Ming family mark the most roads.
The Ming family worked hard to collect high-priced goods and fulfilled most of the orders. However, seeing the prices of goods on the market drop, they were indescribably annoyed, especially the few foreigners who went to sea in Quanzhou ran away shamelessly. On the way, turn to Lingnan to pick up cheap goods... Let the Ming family smash a lot of high-priced porcelain perfume in their hands.
In this battle alone, the Ming family lost 700,000 taels of running water.
In the past, the 700,000 taels was nothing to the Jiangnan Ming family, but after being suppressed by the Overwatch Council for a year, the Ming family's distribution channels were already close to dryness, and it all depended on Taiping and Merchants. Supported by the bank, now another 700,000 taels of flowing water disappeared like snowflakes, so Ming Qingda, the master of the Ming family, became vigilant.
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"This order must be sent over. Although Shi Pibao is a foreigner, behind him is a big foreign business firm. He will not be as shameless as those islanders. He also respects credibility." Ming Qingda rubbed his tired eyes, Said to the son below: "Lan Shi, this time you go to escort the goods yourself, you must be careful."
Ming Lanshi responded, and he also knew that this batch of goods was very important, because this batch of goods was a batch of trial goods that my father tried everything possible and used many relationships to snatch it from the inner storehouse.
The so-called trial goods refer to the goods that have been successfully developed in the internal warehouse for the first time. Like the previous spirits and perfumes, although the price is extremely high, everyone knows that it must be a very novel thing. Once sold, it can be used as gold. Sell.
The trial products this time are a batch of mirrors—Ming Lanshi personally inspected the products. The main material of these mirrors is glass, but I don’t know how to make them on the back. They are even coated with a layer of silver. It's baby.
Logically speaking, based on the relationship between Fan Xian and the Ming family, it is impossible for the Ming family to make a fortune with such an important trial product in the internal warehouse. However, the Ming family has been operating in Jiangnan for a long time, and they have passed this batch of goods through another imperial merchant. down. But Ming Lanshi still has some ominous feeling in his heart... If this batch of silver mirrors can be safely delivered to Shi Pibao in Quanzhou, the current difficult situation of the Ming family can be greatly alleviated, but... will it be so smooth
"Don't worry about anything." Ming Qingda said with a gloomy face: "I have communicated with Jingzhong. You will personally escort this batch of goods. The Jiaozhou Navy has also explained that we will not go to sea this time, although we will earn less. Some, but walking between states and counties, it should be safe... ”
The master of the Ming family who had tolerated Fan Xian for a whole year suddenly raised his head, and said in a cold voice: "If someone... really dares to kill and steal goods... we can't kill everyone, and if they escape, we will Go to Beijing to fight the imperial court!"
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Three days later, on a small hill heading southeast from Suzhou, Hong Changqing laughed when he saw the long convoy down the hill. There were not many cars with silver mirrors, only two carriages, but the Ming family dispatched five hundred The private soldiers who came to escort him really attached great importance to the export bill.
However, his smile immediately subsided and turned cold. At this moment, he thought of the day a year ago, when a large number of officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Navy went to the island to massacre, he thought of those seabirds that ate carrion , the pirate brothers who died on that island.
Although from the very beginning, he was a secret agent of the Overwatch Council, responsible for going to the island to investigate, but after staying on the island with those pirates for a long time, he always had some feelings. So today he stood on the mountain, looking at the convoy and private soldiers of the Ming family below, a happy and bloody smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
He didn't kill people today, but it definitely hurt Ming Qingda more than killing these people.
While thinking, a cavalry team of about 200 people, escorting several carriages, walked over from the official road directly opposite the Ming family.
The two sides hedged and were blocked at the foot of the mountain.
Ming Lanshi has been carefully paying attention to the situation on the road. Looking at this group of people, he immediately sensed a strange atmosphere, and commanded his private soldiers to draw out their weapons and prepare to meet the enemy.
But the two hundred cavalrymen did not move, they just passed by the Ming family convoy indifferently. Although these cavalrymen stood upright on their horses, they had a cold and chilling aura all over their bodies, which made the private soldiers of the Ming family Don't dare to act rashly.
Just when the two teams merged into two lines.
The side compartments of several carriages escorted by two hundred cavalry suddenly broke, and all the contents inside were dumped out, smashing onto the carriage where the Ming family kept the silver mirror!
If it's ordinary goods, what's the fear of smashing it
But the problem is that what fell on the silver mirror carriage... was a rock, a very heavy, heavy, angular rock!
No one dared to stop them with flesh and blood, even the private soldiers of the Ming family who were under strict orders. After a few muffled bangs, there were countless crackling sounds!
Minglanshi screamed, and quickly dismounted to check, only to see that more than a hundred silver mirrors... most of them were crushed into broken and shining lenses, although they still reflected the charming light, but...
There was sudden chaos on the official road at the foot of the mountain, countless people drew out their weapons, the two sides confronted each other, and a big battle was imminent.
Ming Lanshi's eyes darkened, and he knew it immediately. He turned his head fiercely, stared at the leader of the two hundred cavalry, gritted his teeth and said, "Sure enough... the black cavalry of the Overwatch Council, when did they start murdering and robbing goods?" matter?"
The leader had a silver mask on his face. It was no surprise that the young master of the Ming family could recognize the identities of his group, because they hadn't planned to cover up their identities today.
Jing Ge, the deputy commander of the black cavalry of the Overwatch Council, looked at Ming Lanshi and said indifferently: "I didn't kill people or rob goods... I was supposed to escort the stones needed for the three major workshops of the inner warehouse through here, and you and other private merchants dare to block the way. The road is narrow and narrow, unfortunately the car overturned, both sides suffered losses, so I don't want you to compensate... You guys don't want to make noise, it angered grandpa's fierce temper, watch your head carefully."
Ming Lanshi's eyes were a little dim, and he looked at those black knights who were full of iron and blood, and seemed to be eager to try... He suppressed the anger in his chest forcibly, only feeling a bloody smell in his throat, staring at his eyes in pain, and said in a daze: "Roll over?"
Is there anyone in this world who is so accurate when a car rolls over? Both sides have losses? No matter how you turn over your Shilu, there will be no missing corners, but yours...is a fragile silver mirror!
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