In the house of Zhou Jing, the former household secretary of the capital, Zhou Jing lay leisurely on the old man's chair, drinking tea and reading the newspaper, seemingly idle, but in fact, he was still looking forward to the day when Emperor Hongzhi would remember that he would reinstate himself as an official.

So I didn't go back to my hometown in Shanxi, so I simply retired in the capital.

Drink tea every day, read the newspaper, but also relaxed, from time to time there are protégés and old officials to visit, small days than when the household book is more leisurely.

"Master, Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen came to visit with heavy gifts!"

At this time, the housekeeper in the house came to speak, emphasizing the latter content.

"Take them to the living room~"

He twisted his goatee slightly, and began to wonder what the three of them had come to him for.

There is no way, the habit that has been developed after many years of being an official.

Most of the people who come to find themselves also have something to ask for, and they habitually think about what the other party is looking for them for.

Especially the housekeeper said that the three of them came with heavy gifts, and this request must be very tricky.

If it's a general visit, this gift will be more casual.

Soon, Zhou Jing came to the living room with a smile.

"Zhou Gong~"

As soon as Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen saw Zhou Jing, they immediately got up and shouted.

"Sit down~"

Zhou Jing nodded slightly, they are all old acquaintances, in the past, when he was still a scholar of the household department, these Jin merchants would often come to visit, and the benefits were not less.

"Zhou Gong, you must save us~"

Where did Fan Hanshi and the three of them still have the mood to sit down, and immediately shouted out anxiously.

The whole person was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, seeing that the huge foundation laid down by a few families was about to collapse, so even the process of greeting was waived.

"What's wrong?"

Zhou Jing looked at the anxious looks of the three of them, and hurriedly asked.

Thinking about it carefully in my mind, it doesn't seem that anything big has happened recently, looking at the three of them in a hurry, this is definitely a big incident.

"We don't know if we offended the true god, since this morning, many big customers of our Jinshang Bank have come to withdraw the deposit bank, so that our Jinshang Bank's treasury bank is in an emergency."

"There is no silver in the Beijing and Tianjin branches, but there are already long queues outside, and they are all coming to take the silver."

"At the same time, our cement factories, textile factories, ocean-going trading houses, marine fishing companies and other local industries have also been blocked by everyone, not only can we not sell our goods, but we can't even buy raw materials, and all of a sudden they have fallen into a state of shutdown."

"Originally, there was a batch of ships to be sent to Nanyang today, and the ships that were promised were not willing to help us bring goods."

Fan Hanshi said anxiously, roughly telling the cause of the incident.

"This is indeed someone blocking you~"

After listening to his words, Zhou Jing pondered carefully, thought about it and said.

"Have you offended anyone lately?"

"No~"

"When we do business, we pay attention to harmony and make money with harmony, and we never say that we will offend anyone, especially those true gods."

Fan Hanshi shook his head and said.

"That's strange, you have been banned in all walks of life, and there are only a handful of people in the entire capital who have such energy, if you didn't offend people, how could you be targeted like this?"

"Didn't you find out who was targeting you?"

Zhou Jing thought slightly, there are too few people who can have such great energy, and there are not many in the entire capital, of course, it is also possible that they have done something angry and resentful, so that everyone really can't stand it.

"No~"

"Even people who used to have a good relationship with us were silent about it, and even drew a line with us, unwilling to have any contact with us."

"This is also our strange place, we naturally think that we have never offended them, even if we have offended people, it is impossible to say that people who have a good relationship with us have offended."

Fan Hanshi shook his head and said, this is what makes them really afraid, they don't even know who they have offended, and the other party's energy is so great that he feels desperate.

"Then have you done something angry lately?"

"Or did he do a lot of hurtful things in order to make money, and then he was known by everyone, and then he was banned by the business world?"

Zhou Jing nodded slightly, thought about it and asked.

In front of these people, he still knows some of their details, and he has always done business by unscrupulous means, and he used to smuggle tea into the grassland, selling tea, salt, ironware, grain, etc., and then selling horses, cattle and sheep on the grassland.

"Hurt the heavens?"

"What is the anger of the heavens?"

When Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen heard this, they looked at each other, and immediately frowned slightly.

It seems that a lot of such bad things have been done.

"We didn't do anything too hurtful and angry~"

Fan Hanshi thought about it and said weakly.

"Didn't you do anything too hurtful?"

"So that's what you've done?"

As soon as Zhou Jing heard this, he immediately couldn't help but raise his beard, and sure enough, it was similar to what he guessed, these Jin merchants must have done something to offend people, otherwise why don't they ban Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants and the like, but they want to ban your Jin merchants.

"Zhou Gong, this business, everyone is somewhat unclean, and we are similar to everyone."

Wang Wentian touched his head a little embarrassed.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it, anyway, I'm unofficial now, and I can't help you anything, so go back with your things."

Zhou Jing looked at the three of them and knew that these three people must have done a lot of things because they lacked virtue.

"Zhou Gong~"

"We say, we say~"

As soon as the three of them saw Zhou Jing's eviction order, they suddenly became more anxious, and began to explain as soon as they gritted their teeth.

"I don't know where we offended people~"

"Let's start with the grassland, we buy wool and sell cattle and sheep on the grassland, that is, we are short of catties and two, shoddy, and deliberately lower the price, these are also normal trading methods, and they will not make people angry and resentful, let alone be blocked by people."

"In terms of cement plants, we have infiltrated some sand, gravel, soil and the like in the cement, and there are also some less processes or something, but it is also to reduce prices and increase competitiveness~"

"Maybe in the plantations in Nanyang, we deceived many people into going to Nanyang to reclaim fields and plant sugarcane and rice for us, but we didn't say that it was too harmful, and food, clothing and shelter were guaranteed."

"Our factory is a little longer, and the food is a little worse~"

"And... And ~"

The three of them began to explain some of the things they had done, and in their eyes, these were nothing.

As they explained one thing after another, Zhou Jing's face couldn't help but change.

"Sure enough, since ancient times, there has been no business and no traitor~"

"These people are really black-hearted~"

Zhou Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, looking down on businessmen in his heart.

Listen to the things they have counted, each of them sounds like a breeze, and they think that businessmen will do it for granted, but if you think about it carefully, these three people are all masters who eat people and do not spit out bones.

Because there was no one in this Nanyang plantation, they actually tricked their fellow villagers in Shanxi to go to Nanyang, and then encircled them and forced them to reclaim the fields and grow sugarcane and rice.

They all did this kind of thing, and used their Shanxi people as slaves.

Zhou Jing knew from the newspaper that as long as someone is willing to immigrate to Nanyang, Nanyang Province will directly allocate dozens of acres of fertile land, and with his own hard work, he can have 100 acres of fertile land casually.

It is good for them to use people directly as slaves, and you can imagine that what happened to these people was originally to go to Nanyang with a beautiful dream, but suddenly they entered hell on earth.

"Also, we recently made a real estate project in the capital, and after we sold the real estate, we directly rolled up the silver and left, and it was unfinished~"

Huang Liwen looked at Zhou Jing with an iron face, thought about it and explained the recent matter of making money from real estate.

"You guys~"

"It's all retribution~ It's all evil that you have done yourself, and now it's just your own repercussions~"

"Let's go, I can't help you with your affairs."

Hearing Huang Liwen's words, Zhou Jing couldn't help but close his eyes.

When he first read the newspaper, he happened to see a report on the unfinished Shuxiang Yayuan in Xicheng District, and the newspaper wrote a lot of miserable scenes of people who bought this house.

The family worked hard to save money to buy a house, but the house was unfinished, and they still had to owe a lot of debts to the bank, and even cried dry.

Just now, he felt extremely angry, wanting to know who did such a thing, but he didn't expect that when he turned his head, the person who did it actually appeared in his house, and he had to help them himself.

"Zhou Gong~"

"Zhou Gong, you must help us, if you don't help us, we will really be finished, and we will be finished in the future~"

When Fan Hanshi heard this, he immediately hurriedly shouted out in a hurry, and made a look at Wang Wentian, and the other party immediately took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, a full 50,000 taels of silver, and one hundred silver bills of the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhou Gong, this is a little bit of our heart, please help us, help us see who is targeting us, help us plead, everything else is easy to say."

Wang Wentian also said in pain, if Zhou Jing didn't help come forward, he would be dead this time, and he would definitely die without a whole body.