The end of the crossbow!

It's the end of the crossbow!

It's about to collapse!

Immediately, it's going to collapse!

Immediately, immediately, immediately...... Only... Only....

Belch....

How can it not collapse yet?

How is it not to collapse?

What a desperate person!

Gradually, everyone began to realize that there was something wrong with the situation!

Why didn't Guo Dan collapse yet?

This is already the end of the crossbow.

But they have been "strong" for so long, why haven't they reached the "end"!

This is not Confucianism!

Today, many officials came to the customs office of Tongzhou's imported banknotes.

"It's... These are the ships of Weihui Mansion? ”

Yang Mingshen pointed to the boats on the river and asked Liu Zongcheng.

Liu Zongcheng nodded and replied, "Yes, yes." ”

Li Zhi said: "It's been so long, why are there still so many ships coming to the capital?" Or are these ships not halving their freight rates? ”

Liu Zongcheng said truthfully: "If you go back to Li Yushi, the freight of these ships is very low, only half of what is usual. ”

Liu Chengbian couldn't help but interject: "Now on the canal and the river connected to the canal, except for the ships transported, almost all of the rest are the ships of Weihui Mansion, and there are even many fleets that have joined the fleet of Weihui Mansion.

This is all because since Weihui Mansion subsidized the freight, many ships from the south to the north chose to go to Weihui Mansion, and then transshipped out, because as long as they go to Weihui Mansion, the freight will be half cheaper, in other words, the transportation volume of Weihui Mansion is much more than before, and the loss should be more. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

Rao is household servant, and Song Jingsheng also looked confused.

Liu Zongcheng was slightly embarrassed and said: "This... I don't know much about this, it stands to reason that with such a low freight, you can really lose as much as you ship, and there are so many ships coming and going every day, Guo Dan should have lost a lot of money. ”

Wang Xijue looked at Song Qi, the head of the household, and asked, "Song Shangshu, do you know the reason?" ”

Song Qi shook his head and said, "I don't know very well, where did Guo Dan get so much money to subsidize the freight." ”

"It seems that there must be an unknown reason for this!" Wang Jiaping frowned.

......

East Plant.

"Have you found out about this?"

Zhang Whale looked at Liu Shouyou with a solemn expression.

Liu Shouyou shook his head and said: "Duke, our people have already carefully investigated this matter, no matter which merchant ship, as long as it is related to Weihui Mansion, the price will be halved, and the boatman's wages will increase unabated."

Whether it is according to the calculation of the household department or according to the calculation of the tooth line, this will inevitably lose money, and there is a lot, Guo Dan should not be able to persevere, but Guo Dan is like a nobody at this time, and he is still staying in Yangzigou to help build a primary school in his hometown. ”

Zhang Whale frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and said: "There is something wrong with this situation, although I don't know what kind of medicine is in Guo Dan's gourd, but I believe that he is definitely not losing money, maybe... Maybe we've all been tricked. ”

Liu Shouyou's face was startled, and he said, "How is that good?" Although we have always stayed out of this matter, we ..... in terms of Caoyun. ”

Zhang Whale said: "Don't panic first, we have to make adjustments immediately, if Guo Dan is not losing money, then he must have a purpose in doing this, you immediately order someone to keep an eye on Nanjing and Weihui Mansion, if there is any trouble, come and tell me immediately." ”

"I see!"

Liu Shouyou sighed heavily as he spoke.

Whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei, they have never encountered this situation, and they can't find any clues at all, as if they are seeing flowers in the fog.

......

Weihui House.

"What's being built over there?"

On the Zhoufeng Wharf, I saw many construction workers pushing bricks and tiles to the east, and I couldn't help but be curious.

Cao Da frowned and said: "There are warehouses over there, not to mention restaurants, no workshop is allowed to be built there, for fear of causing a fire." ”

Suddenly, I heard someone behind me: "Brother Cao is right, the warehouse is being built over there." ”

Zhou and Cao looked back and saw Song Hui, a brick and tile merchant, coming over.

"Build a warehouse?"

Zhou Feng wondered, "Who built the warehouse over there?" ”

Song Hui said with a smile: "Who else can there be, isn't it Guo Dan, there are more and more goods coming to Weihui Mansion recently, many businessmen in order to covet cheap freight, specially send the freight to Weihui Mansion first, and then transfer it out every day or two, just stop and go, this freight can be reduced by half." But this also caused the warehouse to be insufficient, so Li Tong approached me a few days ago and asked me to build some more warehouses. ”

"Guo Dan, is this an addiction to losing money?"

Cao Da only felt extremely incredible, "I still built so many warehouses to lose money." ”

You are already heavily subsidizing, and you are spending more money to build a warehouse here, which is really too much money!

But he didn't want to think about it, as soon as this goods stopped here, it would be a wide source of money!

Song Hui shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this. ”

Zhou Feng said: "I don't know about other places, but just because our Weihui Mansion gets cargo ships in and out every day, the 500,000 taels can't withstand a few tosses!" ”

Song Hui sighed: "This Guo Dan's wealth is really unfathomable!" ”

In the whole world, no one thinks that this is actually a money-making business.

And the more subsidized, the more you earn.

They can still see the flowers in the fog, but the people of Nanjing don't have this leisure now.

Still crashing?

They had been collapsing for months, and as a result, they were living more and more nourishingly, and they ran to swim in the pond every day, without paying any attention to the feelings of the people who were spying on him, and now they were about to collapse.

This is because the Nanjing government bragged every day to replace Weihui Mansion, and the Jiangnan people originally had a tradition of doing business, and many wealthy businessmen and big landlords threw money into it to learn the production mode of Weihui Mansion.

The result is good!

The money was invested, but the goods could not be sold, and the price of key raw materials had increased.

TMD！

Everyone hates this kind of behavior that harms others and is not beneficial to themselves.

Yangzigou!

I saw two groups of people holding hoes and firewood knives confronting each other at the entrance of the township, and there were hundreds of people on both sides!

The scale is not small!

"Go and call Guo Dan out, Lao Tzu has to ask him, what is he trying to do this, does he want us to die, he is still from Nanjing, is he like this to his fellow countrymen?"

A pot-bellied landlord, with his hands on his waist, shouted at the people opposite.

A gentry on the opposite side angrily reprimanded: "I said Wang Dafu, you don't look at it, where is this, dare to sprinkle here, you leave quickly, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite." ”

Wang Dafu immediately said: "If you can't see Guo Dan today, Lao Tzu won't leave." ”

"In that case, then don't blame us for being polite."

The villagers of Yangzigou immediately raised their hoes, and the opposite side was also solemn.

But in terms of momentum, the other party is obviously inferior to the villagers of Yangzigou, after all, they are all called by the landlord, and the villagers of Yangzigou are to protect their own villagers and maintain their own territory.

And on a hill on the edge of the township, two men and a woman stood.

It is Guo Dan, Aunt Xu, and Yang Feixu.

"I finally understand now why you have been staying in Yangzigou and not even leaving the village."

Aunt Xu suddenly looked at Guo Dan.

Guo Dan nodded and said, "Yes, I'm afraid that Fei Fu will be beaten." ”

Yang Feixu rolled his eyes slightly.

But she can't argue with it!

Aunt Xu pursed her lips and smiled, "It seems that they are about to lose their hold." ”

Guo sighed: "Our troubles have just begun. ”

At this moment, I saw a few old men appear in the middle of the two groups of people, Guo sighed lightly: "Let's go, lest Uncle Yang and them be difficult to behave." ”

Half an hour later.

Inside the ancestral hall.

"Nephew Guo, this is Uncle Wu and Uncle Li from Xinghua Township next door. This is Uncle Liu and Uncle Zhang in the east of Crawling Zigou. ”

Yang Sheng introduced the old man sitting inside to Guo Dan.

They are all squires in the neighborhood, and Yang Sheng has no choice.

Guo Dan also saluted one by one.

The other party just nodded slightly.

The old man surnamed Wu said: "Guo Dan, your reduction of half of the transportation fee is tantamount to hurting people with your own business, you are a businessman, isn't it just a fortune, what good is it for you?" ”

"You are also from Nanjing, but look at how many Nanjing people are about to go bankrupt because of you."

.....

After all, it was in Yangzigou, and these gentry didn't go too far, but there was still a hint of blame in their tone.

Guo Dan smiled bitterly: "Uncles and uncles, the younger generation has no intention of targeting Nanjing, no, it should be said that the younger generation does not mean to target anyone, the younger generation does this to save themselves, because of the new tariff law, the Weihui Mansion is really unable to survive, the younger generation has received the grace of the Holy Grace to have today, and naturally has to support the decision of the imperial court, but there can be no complaints about this, so it was decided to pay for it to save the Weihui Mansion." ”

Yang Sheng stroked his beard and said: "I have heard a little about this matter, at that time, there were many people in Nanjing who wanted to fall into the well for my Guo nephew, and my Guo nephew did not want to target Nanjing, he just took the money out to subsidize the fleet, isn't this okay?" ”

The old men made eye contact.

Indeed, they are not reasonable.

Guo Dan just took out the money to subsidize everyone, as for why the goods went to Nanjing, he couldn't control it, he just reduced the cost by half, as for where the ship went, it was the businessman's own decision.

"Alright! Let's not talk about this before, what should we do now? If it goes on like this, you will feel uncomfortable, and we will not be able to stand it. ”

"I can't help it."

Guo Dan shook his head and said: "If I cancel the subsidy immediately, Weihui Mansion will immediately be in trouble again, and I have promised them that I can't talk and not talk, our villagers in Yangzigou have always valued integrity, if I go back on my word, I can't help but lose my father's face, and I will be ashamed of Yangzigou." ”

Yang Sheng was really useful for this, and said: "Okay, good! Although Nephew Guo is away all the year round, he does not forget his roots, very good, very good. ”

Those gentry saw that Guo Dan was resolute, and Yang Sheng was resolutely on Guo Dan's side, knowing that this matter could not be discussed.

And that's where the problem comes in.

Guo Dan is not unwilling to withdraw, but he wants to revoke the subsidy, and the new tariff law will immediately put Weihui Mansion in a difficult situation.

Immediately, many people went to find Wang Yiyu, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

"Wang Shangshu, this new tariff law is a conspiracy."

"I think this new tariff law is basically that some ministers in the DPRK want to borrow Guo Dan to collect more taxes on us."

"Look at it, now all the prices of our goods in Nanjing are rising, even the paper has risen by a penny."

......

Wang Yiyu looked at these scholars and gentry, and felt a headache, and said, "I remember that you all seemed to approve of it at that time. ”

A scholar with a white beard asked rhetorically, "Could it be that Wang Shangshu could have thought that the imperial court would cooperate with a merchant to collect taxes from us?" ”

"Do you have any evidence for this?" Wang Yihe asked.

"Do you need any evidence for this? If there is no support from the imperial court, Guo Dan dares to waive half of the transportation fee, and give a large amount of subsidies to the merchants of Weihui Mansion, hmph, if we count the taxes we paid during this period, then they may have made a lot of money. ”

"Wang Shangshu, now this matter has caused a boiling of public resentment, if you don't play it, let the court cancel the new tariff law, then the people will be resentful, and we can't stop it."

"In fact, there is no need to cancel it, as long as the government prevents the goods of Weihui Mansion from entering Nanjing, then we believe that it is not the imperial court that secretly colludes with Guo Dan to collect more taxes from us."

"That's it! Come on! You're going too far. ”

Wang Yihe said: "I will investigate this matter, if this is the case, then the official will play His Majesty to explain the matter." ”