In the inn where Xue Tingxiang stayed, Lin Yirong came in disguise.
"Master Xue, Xiaguan really doesn't understand. You asked us to perform this show, but there is no text. What's the use of this? Why can't Xiaguan understand it?"
In fact, Lin Yirong didn't want to come here, but he couldn't help it.
Xue Tingxiang told him that this was a life-saving strategy, but he and Xiang Qingshan knew nothing about how to save his life and how to save his life. Now that the two of them eat and live together, they are like trapped beasts. Xiang Qingshan has probably already reported that he will die, so he can remain calm, but Lin Yirong can't.
"You don't know because you're stuck in one place, but you can see Suzhou..."
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, Xue Tingxiang, who was standing in front of the window, called out, and Hu San came in with two letters.
Hu San did not speak, but handed over the letters. One was written by Chen Jian and the other was written by Lin Miao.
"We arrived together." Xue Tingxiang laughed and went to open the letter.
Chen Jian was demolished first, then Lin Miao.
After reading it, he smiled even more and murmured, "I knew it would be like this."
He shook his head slightly, as if he was sighing, and after a long while he beckoned to let Lin Yirong come and said something to him.
The government office had already posted a notice saying that Xiang Qingshan would give everyone an explanation in public.
On that day, when the morning light was faint, many people gathered in front of the government office.
As time passed, the sky became brighter and brighter, and more and more people gathered, including ordinary people dressed as ordinary people, and some dressed as businessmen.
Until Chen Shi, the gate of the government office opened wide.
Lin Yirong came out, along with Xiang Qingshan and many other yamen.
Compared with that day, Xiang Qingshan was dressed more decently today, wearing a blue robe, even though the clothes were empty, it made people worry to look at it.
"Since the lord said it, the Hongchang ticket number will give us an explanation, and we will wait. There must be an explanation today. After all, this is our hard-earned money." Someone in the crowd said.
"That's right, it's not easy for anyone to make money. We believe in the Hongchang ticket number, and then we put the money in it. But you actually used our money to do business. Now that the business has lost money, we have been trapped in it."
The crowd was noisy, and they said everything, but for one purpose, and that was money.
Xiang Qingshan stepped forward a few steps, folded his arms and bowed to the crowd to the end, saying, "Since I didn't leave that day, I naturally wanted to give the villagers an explanation, but there is one thing I want to say, from the beginning to the end, there was no one in Xiang. I plan to rely on this account.”
He looked at the crowd and sighed quite a bit: "Although the Hongchang ticket number is temporarily no live silver on the book, there are still many industries and businesses. In fact, everyone should understand that you deposit silver in the ticket number. The ticket number will pay interest to you every month. This interest is definitely not a waste of money, but the money is used to do various businesses, and the profits will be shared equally among everyone.
"My Hongchang ticket number has not been opened for a year or two, but more than ten years. In the past ten years, please think about it, can the Hongchang ticket number be shorter than everyone's interest? No! Since everyone believes that I will not disappoint everyone, and please don’t worry, this Yinzi Hongchang ticket will not fail, and neither will Xiang Xie!”
In the silence, someone in the crowd suddenly said: "You don't need to say this, we can hear calluses in our ears. Just tell me, is there money or no money?"
"Of course there is. Xiang Xian did not say that even if the family goes bankrupt, the money will not be short of everyone. It just takes time to raise it. Please wait for a while, the money will come soon."
Time passed by, and suddenly there was a commotion outside the crowd.
As the crowd split on both sides, a convoy of vehicles drove towards here.
There are about a dozen cars, and all the boxes are stacked one by one with seals. After the car stopped, there were a few people dressed as guys who unloaded the boxes from the car one by one.
At the same time, a young man wearing a royal blue straight jacket also came to Xiang Qingshan.
"Gao Dong's house!"
"Master Xiang!"
"Thank you for the old man's Wang Da owner, the old man is ashamed, the kindness is unforgettable!" Xiang Qingshan bowed his hands.
Dongjia Gao smiled: "Master Xiang is very polite. There is cooperation between the two and I have been watching and helping each other. It is absolutely inappropriate to say that."
Xiang Qingshan nodded, then came to a box, tore off the seal on it, and opened the box.
Following his actions, a box of white silver coins came into view.
All are twenty-two ingots of silver ingots, which are neatly stacked in them.
He lifted the lid of one box, then lifted the lid of another box, and opened more than ten boxes in one go. During this period, he seemed very excited, staggering, and his face was mixed.
The crowd just looked at him until he stooped feebly in front of a box.
With the sound of heavy breathing, his skinny body suddenly straightened up, and he used the last strength to lift the lid of the box before he patted the silver inside and said, "Yinzi, here! Hongchang ticket number, here! I am Xiang Qingshan. ,At this!"
He straightened up, looked directly at everyone, and said loudly: "I have been in Hongchang for more than ten years, and I don't cheat or cheat. The world knows that. Today, the old man exchanged the silver in public, and the banknotes were both received."
Following his words, someone brought a long desk and a chair and placed them in front of him.
Gao Dongjia sighed with some sigh, and said: "Xiangda's owner Gao Yi, in order to raise this batch of money, sold many properties, and used half of the Hongchang ticket as collateral to borrow a batch from my Tailong ticket. Silver. Now the Hongchang ticket number is also a branch of the Tailong ticket number, so you really don't have to worry about the meeting ticket in your hand will be lost, so the silver tael is not enough, you can go to my Tailong ticket number to exchange. "
Naturally, some people think that he is exaggerating, but those who have this kind of thinking are only a few high-ranking people. Nowadays, anyone in the Jiangnan area is doing business, and the business is not small. Who knows the name of the Tailong ticket.
It has monopolized all the shares of Dinghai, and will become the Tailong ticket number of Dachang's largest ticket number in time.
At this time, someone in the crowd stood up and said: "Well, I don't pay, it's not easy for Xiang Dadong, the Hongchang ticket number has never lied to us for so many years. If anyone is in an emergency, go to the ticket number to borrow money. , I have never lost much, and the interest rate is the lowest, which is lower than those who put money in the black heart, I don’t know how much.”
"I didn't pay it either. Back then, my father was seriously ill, and he was desperate, so he went to Hongchang Bank to borrow money. I explained the reason. Not only did Xiang Dadong's family lent me more, but he still didn't collect the interest."
"They are all born and raised in Suzhou. I had the Hongchang ticket number when I was young. I hope that the Hongchang ticket number can continue to be used, and I have always been sincere and honest. We people naturally trust it. If I can fulfill what I said, I will believe you. In the future, the Hongchang ticket number will be rebuilt, and my family's money will still be kept here."
In the crowd, people stood up and spoke one after another, which caused a riot.
"Forget it, then we won't exchange it. Anyway, we don't have a lot of money. Xiang Dadong's family will not short us."
"Let's go, let's go, these days are enough."
More and more people are leaving together.
Facing this scene, Xiang Qingshan couldn't help but burst into tears.
What the ticket number does is integrity, and what he does is word of mouth, so he builds roads extensively and is kind to the people, and he has a good name.
But in fact, he is not as kind as anyone imagines, and he is indispensable to the people who put money in their mouths.
It's just that the Hongchang ticket number does not allow ordinary people, all of them are big households or businessmen. He made unscrupulous money from elsewhere, and turned his head to be kind to ordinary people, but it was just a show.
Playing today.
But now he can't play.
He suddenly felt that he had lived most of his life, and he seemed to understand a little more today.
Aside, Gao Sheng was thoughtful, while Lin Yirong stroked his beard with a sigh.
In the crowd, a carriage stopped on the side of the street.
Seeing this scene, Xue Tingyan in the carriage looked a little stunned and sighed a little.
…
Of course, there are also people who come forward to exchange silver.
After verifying the authenticity, they were cleared one by one.
There are many such people, but the money they exchange is not much. Most of them are ordinary people, and they are all small amounts.
Those businessmen holding large-valued tickets, either based on the names of Hongchang ticket numbers and Tailong ticket numbers, or because of the concern that even if they redeemed the silver, they could not take it away. Dashu did not choose to redeem the silver.
However, after leaving here, they took the ticket to the Tailong ticket number and confirmed that the Tailong ticket number confirmed the ticket of the Hongchang ticket number, and this heart really fell.
Of course, this will be the case, and there is also the reason why half of the Hongchang tickets circulating in the market are in the hands of Xue Tingyan.
Xue Tingxiang used the unique status of the Tailong ticket number to exchange a lot of Hongchang tickets with the Tailong ticket number. If you can use the membership ticket, you can use the membership ticket, if you can't, you can use the cash. Now these votes have been returned to Xiang Qingshan, and they have been exchanged for more than half of Hongchang's shares.
The ticket number is like this. It looks like a giant and cannot be shaken.
In the same way, it is not easy to establish a ticket number that is in the first place. For a ticket number that has existed for nearly 20 years, it is better to keep it standing than to annex it.
The most important thing is that Jiangnan cannot be chaotic.
Xue Tingxiang looked at the crowd from a distance, his eyes were erratic, he seemed to be looking there, but he didn't.
After a long while, he tapped his knuckles on the wall of the carriage, and the carriage slowly moved.
Regarding the suppression of pirates in Fujian and Guangdong, no results have been discussed.
Opposition courtiers than imagined, and more determined.
Most of them hold high the key to the location of Dinghai. The original purpose of establishing the Zhejiang Navy was to open up the sea in Dinghai, but now it is impossible to put the cart before the horse and send the Zhejiang Navy to Fujian and Guangdong to suppress a group of pirates.
This rhetoric is too sharp, and no one dares to guarantee that the Zhejiang navy will go to Fujian and Guangdong, and they will be able to suppress the pirates, and there will be no accident in Dinghai.
The most important thing is that the cabinet has been holding back.
In the early morning of today, Chen Jian, who was in the process of being a minister, suddenly wrote a letter.
The main core point of Chen Jian's letter is that blocking is worse than sparse. In order to confirm his statement, he listed many examples of Japanese pirates in the coastal areas of the previous dynasty, and explained these examples, explaining that pirates and sea bans complement each other. important connection.
In fact, this is indeed the case. The most serious time for the Japanese pirates in the previous dynasty was when the imperial court had the strictest control over the sea ban. Japanese pirates are not just Japanese pirates, there are also many coastal people who cannot survive, almost everyone in the court knows.
But everyone knows things, they choose to ignore, nothing more than huge interests are involved.
In Dachang, there were also Japanese pirates along the coast, but the Japanese pirates were not so bad. In fact, it was just another way. The smuggling maritime merchants used gold and silver as bribes and bought a large number of court officials for their protection, so everyone knew it and everyone ignored it.
Smuggling is rampant, the court can't collect business tax, and it is the private pockets of those corrupt officials, but the court can't even get the money for disaster relief and war.
Instead of this, it is better to open the sea ban, to collect the commercial tax of the four seas for the imperial court, and the pirate looting will naturally be solved. Even if I can't figure it out, when I have a lot of money, I can expand the navy and overhaul the warships. Why can't I promote my great prosperity.
Chen Jian's letter this time was to tear off the last layer of the fig leaf in front of everyone in the court and the opposition, almost poking at the core, making it impossible for people to argue.
No one would have thought that the battle of whether the Zhejiang navy would go to Fujian and Guangdong would turn into a renewed maritime ban.
Because of Chen Jian's letter, it took nearly an hour to end in the early morning. The matter has not been settled, but there are already many discerning people who know that the storm is coming.
After he came down to court, it was rare for Wu Ge to return to the Wu residence instead of going to the cabinet.
His face was gloomy, and there was a low air pressure all over him.
In the past few days, Mr. Wu Ge has been in a bad mood, and the servants don't know what happened. They only know that after the girl came back, the master became angry a few times.
The girl is out of favor.
This is something that everyone in the Wu family knows.
The girl's fate is against the master, so the master will have no children for many years. After the girl left, Concubine Feng became pregnant, and the next year, the master gave birth to a fat and white son. The master was so happy in his sixtieth year.
But suddenly the girl came back, and the master has been in a moody mood for many days, and many servants have been implicated.
What did she do when she came back? It's not that she's making fun of herself, it's better not to come back! In private, many servants said that.
Old Wu Ge came to the yard where Wu Wanqiong lived in a rage. Unlike the previous carvings of beams, paintings and piles of gold and jade, this yard had been empty for a long time, and it was not popular, and the paint on the pillars had come off.
In addition, after Concubine Feng was in charge, all the things in the yard were put into the warehouse. It is usually repaired once or twice every year, and it is not repaired anymore. Although it is not dilapidated, it looks shabby.
This time Wu Wanqiong was called back, not to call her back to live for a long time, but to vent her anger.
She is now confined in this yard, and her father is obviously disgusted and abandoned, and the servants naturally ignore her. In addition, Feng Auntie's intentional or unintentional little shoes make her look extraordinarily down-to-earth.
"You mortal star!"
Wu Ge blew in like a gust of wind, and before Wu Wanqiong could react, she was slapped in the face.
"You Sorrowful Star! Sorrowful Sect Star! Do you know what the price you have done for my Wu family? Your father's face has been humiliated all his life, and he is going to bow his head to that surnamed Xu. Now, Now…”
Wu Ge was kicking and beating, and seeing Wu Wanqiong being slapped to the ground, he kicked hard with his feet.
He had never done this before, obviously he was extremely angry.
Maybe other people don't know, how could Wu Ge don't know why Chen Jian mentioned this today. The matter that had been in a stalemate, no one has mentioned it for more than a year, suddenly mentioned it today, nothing more than knowing that he would not object.
Not only will he not object, he will also raise his hands in approval.
If he is alone, there are countless officials along the coast standing behind him. If he touches the interests of others, even if he is a noble elder or a second assistant, he will lose people's hearts.
A small Hongchang ticket number actually made him constrained so far, and Wu Ge knew that it wasn't over yet. As long as those things are held in that person's hand, he will be threatened by the other person.
Hello, your Tyrone ticket number! Hello, Xue Tingxiang!
And all of this is because of him, the daughter of the death star!
"You mortal star, why don't you die! You have ruined your father for half his life without a son, and now you have to ruin your father's life! When you were born, you should have been strangled to death! star!"