"Lord Wang, John Tang has repeatedly asked to meet the prince for an interview." Don't obsessively report.

"Why, they still don't agree? Go and tell them that the king is not available, and such a small thing is not enough to distract the king. ”

"And they agreed."

"Huh? Is it 600,000? Wu Zheng was surprised.

"Yes. It's just that Tang Ruowang and others proposed that they must meet the prince in person before they can reach an agreement. ”

Wu Zheng frowned and said, "Do you know what their purpose is when they want to see me?" ”

Mo Zhinian shook his head and said: "The old man also tried to listen, but they were all silent, and their intentions were really unknown. Lord Wang, according to the old man's opinion, it is better to meet them, after all, it is really going to delay and force the Qing court to be anxious, maybe the consequences will be ...... Disastrous. ”

Wu Zheng was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you mean by this?" Do you still have a soft coercion to be held? ”

Mo Zhinian shook his head and said: "Even if the old man is taken under soft threat, he will not persuade the prince to deign to see them because of this." It's just that, Lord Wang, Jiangnan coal and iron ore are scarce after all, and now the three military workshops, the coal and ore needed need to be transported from the north, if the Qing court is really urgent, in case of preventing the transportation of coal and ore to the south, I am afraid it will ....... ”

Wu Zheng felt a geden in his heart, he was indeed careless, the raw materials were controlled by others, and the war horses were controlled by others, no different.

Wu Zheng hurriedly said: "This matter is a big deal, is there no alternative source except for the north?" For example, in the west and south directions, and then directly from the merchants. ”

Mo Zhinian shook his head and said: "The war in the west and south is continuous, if it is an ordinary thing, it is easy to say, but these things, any party wants to get them, how can they be easily released?" As for the merchants, they can indeed be obtained, but the road is far away, and I am afraid that doubling the price may not be enough. ”

Wu Zheng was silent, at this time, the sea transportation could not be transported in three or five or seven or eight days like in later generations, and there was no need to think about it at all, and the resulting transportation costs could not be ignored.

Mo Zhiyan: "It's okay to have a truce with the Qing court at the moment, but soon the prince will go on a northern expedition, and the Qing court will inevitably block these raw materials." Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and others control the northern trade, and if we want to bypass the Qing court and successfully obtain the coal and ore in the north, we must go through these people. ”

Wu Zheng hesitated: "Although they are imperial merchants of the Qing court, can they really hide from the Qing court to transport goods south?" ”

"Have you forgotten how they transported the forbidden materials to the outside of the customs back then?"

Wu Zheng suddenly, "Then ...... Meet? ”

……。

Wu Zheng met these two big traitors who have been "famous" for nearly 400 years.

Fan Yongdou is around fifty, with a Chinese face, which seems to be loyal, it is difficult to see that such a face actually has a black heart.

Wang Dengku is a sharp-beaked monkey cheek face, like a later life Fu Slimming Cream who smoked too much, gentleman.

What made Wu Zheng strange was that the bare-ass John who was the head of the mission did not appear.

"The minister has seen the prince."

It's not wrong to call yourself a foreign minister, the eight imperial merchants, who did the errand of the Qing court's internal affairs office, are now ordered to send envoys, and they should be called foreign ministers.

But the look is arrogant, and it is also that the imperial businessman of the Internal Affairs Office, who was given Zhangjiakou as the world's business by Fulin, does have a reason to be arrogant.

The problem is that he obviously doesn't understand that this is Hangzhou Mansion, not Shuntian Mansion.

Wu Zheng ignored the two, turned his head and asked Mo obsessively, "What about John Tang?" ”

Without waiting for Mo to answer, Fan Yongdou stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang, Lord Tang is waiting outside." That's the case, the two of us have something to say to the prince in private, so I asked Master Tang to wait outside. ”

Wu Zheng's eyes shrank, these two traitors "cow", Tang Ruowang is the supervisor of Qintian, a five-grade official, and now he is ordered by the Qing court to send an envoy to Jiangnan, these two businessmen actually let the main envoy wait outside, you can imagine the majesty of these two.

Wu Zheng didn't want to fight for power for John Tang.

Just didn't want to deal with the two, of course, in fact, he wanted to dissipate the arrogance of the two, Wu Zheng slowly squinted his eyes and took a nap.

This kind of behavior has existed since ancient times, which means that when I see you, I will reward your face, but your identity is not enough, so I don't want to talk to you.

Then who will speak, don't be obsessed.

Mo Zhinian coughed lightly and said: "Two adults, what are you asking to see the prince, you might as well talk to Mo." ”

Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku have seen more of the world, so they naturally understand Wu Zheng's attitude, and their expressions are slightly restrained.

Therefore, he smiled and said to Mo obsession: "Speaking of which, this matter is also related to Master Mo, then there is Master Lao Mo." ”

So the two of them sat down.

Fan Yongdou's words were to say to Mo Obsession, but he still had to fight for Wu, this was the rule, "I will wait to see the prince, just for one thing." The Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce presided over by Master Mo has many branches in Jiangbei, and it is too sharp to operate, right? Fan has been in business for many years, and this kind of operation of Jiangnan firm is no longer making money, but losing money. For the sake of being in the same vein, we did not join forces to suppress it, so I want to seek justice from Lord Mo. ”

Wu Zheng's eyes shook his skin, I went, but I didn't expect to come to the door to find fault, this is really the birthday star eating arsenic is tired and crooked.

However, Wu Zheng didn't want to move for the time being, and quietly listened to Mo Zhi's thoughts on how to deal with it.

When Mo obsessed with hearing this, he had a score in his heart, and the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce had launched a business war against the north for some time in accordance with Wu Zheng's intentions.

This business war, because of the haste of the matter, did not have a very careful deployment, so as soon as it moved, there were two words, "rough"!

What kind of rough method?

For example, Jiangnan tea, a pound of ordinary Longjing, in Hangzhou is about 1 tael or 6 yuan to 2 taels of silver.

After being transported to the north, the cost is at least three taels or more.

In the past, the store was selling, and it had to be about four taels to say the least, but the branch of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce directly listed the price of three taels and one catty.

This price is definitely unprofitable, and may even be a loss.

This crude method really attracted a large number of buyers, and also caused a huge loss of customers to Beijing Commercial Bank.

But when a discerning person looks at it, he quickly understands the other party's intention - to smash the field.

Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku are clear-eyed people, so they can naturally understand it, but they are also understanding people, if they had changed to other business names, Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku would have launched a counterattack long ago.

It was precisely because they knew that Wu Zheng was standing behind the Jiangnan business, that they did not dare to do it easily.

Although they are imperial merchants of the Qing court, their power is established under the protection of the Qing court, and the idea of beating ordinary merchants, even ordinary families, is okay.

Of course, this had to be established in the case that the Yixing Dynasty and the Qing court had not yet torn their faces.

No, Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing court's envoy to fight for justice from Wu.