Qian Yuan felt cold, very cold, it was still cold with a carbon stove in the study, and Jin Hong felt the same way as him.

After encountering such an accident, Jin Hong quickly calmed down, but after thinking about it calmly, although it was already leap March, and the old trees in the garden were beginning to draw new branches, he felt that winter had not yet passed, and spring seemed to never come.

Being able to start from scratch and become a major player in the southeast in 20 years, Jin Hong himself has enough ability, and also has a keen eye and accurate analysis and judgment level, although he was at a loss in the conversation with Qian Yuan yesterday, but he made the most accurate judgment the next day.

The eldest son died at the hands of the Woko?

Jin Hong will never believe this statement, he can be sure that the eldest son is in the hands of Qian Yuan, and the Guanyin statue is proof that the Japanese invaders kill people for money, and there are no Japanese people in the world who kill people and do not search their bodies?

But what about people?

reported the funeral a year ago, so the Qian family led a group of people to the door wearing mourning clothes!

A few months ago, he took a fake IOU to cheat the silver, and the Qian family dared to write an IOU and swallow the house!

Jin Hong knew in his heart that this was a person who repaid his grievances with a tooth for a tooth!

Therefore, the father and son of the Qian family died at the hands of the Japanese Invaders, so his eldest son will also die at the hands of the Japanese Invaders, and Jin Hong has no hope of his survival.

Turning his head to look at the set of mahogany furniture around him, Jin Hong couldn't help but reach out and touch it, he has made a lot of good things in private over the years, although most of them have been filial to Zhang Siwei, but they have also left a lot, such as this set of mahogany furniture is said to have been snatched from a Zhishi Jinshi's house in Jiaxing.

Turning his head to look at the servants of the Qian family guarding the garden, Jin Hong sighed in despair, he tried a total of three times last night, once through the back door, once over the wall, once with money and bribes, twice with his wife and children, and the last time he only hoped to send his young son...... But it's all blocked.

Jin Hong wasn't sure if Qian Yuan would be able to do what he said...... He had already thought about yesterday's conversation, and he was very skeptical that Qian Yuan would let him go, although the other party repeatedly emphasized that he would persuade the governor Yamen not to include the Jin family in the group of chickens that set an example for monkeys......

I wish this was a gentleman.

Suddenly, Jin Hong stiffened.

How did Qian Yuan persuade himself yesterday...... The Jin family has already died with a son, and there is still one son left, Uncle Jin, don't you think about considering the inheritance of incense in the future?

Jin Hong pulled his hair in pain, and promised to let go of the Jin family and the Jin family's incense inheritance, these are two things, the latter only needs to leave a son......

Glancing at the hair in his hand, Jin Hong turned his head and stared out of the window, he regretted it a little, but what he regretted was not to do it to the Qian family's father and son, how could the Jin family develop so quickly without this kind of thing, what he regretted was that he had seen Qian Yuan wrong.

If you regard a white-fronted tiger as a harmless little white rabbit, is there anything more blind in this world than your own eyes?

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On the bright side, the rank of the Ming Dynasty was that of Shinong and industry, and the social status of merchants was the lowest.

Why did a businessman who was always supported by the Ming army dare to face the opponent of Qian Rui's father and son, who had two Jinshi brothers?

The reason is only one word.

"Money".

From the first day Qian Yuan came to Hangzhou, he had a feeling of being at home when he threw himself into the tide of business in his previous life.

For more than 1,000 years, commerce, an industry despised by the controllers of countless dynasties, has blossomed the brightest flowers in the southeast coast for more than 1,000 years.

Although the flower is not pretty, it is still a little ugly, and even the soil under the thorny branches is oozing with sporadic blood......

But in Qian Yuan's view, this is the scene he is most looking forward to seeing.

As an amateur history buff, Qian Yuan did not believe that there was any need to save the Ming Dynasty, and fundamentally speaking, the demise of the Ming Dynasty was inevitable, and the most notable point was that those in power could never eradicate land annexation.

In the eyes of later generations, the tide of commerce had a chance to save all this, but it is a pity that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty turned a blind eye to this.

But the direction of history will never be fundamentally changed by the will of an individual or a group of people, even if the sea is forbidden several times, even if there are Japanese rebels, but the commercial atmosphere on the southeast coast will only become stronger and stronger, in fact, large-scale maritime trade has continued until the early Qing Dynasty, and then closed off the country for a hundred years...... After that, the gate was blasted open by the cannons of the Western ironclad giants.

In today's atmosphere, almost everyone on the southeast coast has a desire and worship for money that is unimaginable in other parts of the era.

For the sake of money, they are willing to do anything, and for the sake of money, they dare to do anything.

It was under this will that the local government of Zhejiang acquiesced in Wang Zhi's business in Ligang, and the people rushed to send their children to the fleet, and countless merchants flocked to it.

With 100 percent profits, they dare to trample on all laws, and with 300 percent profits, they dare to risk hanging their heads...... In the Ming Dynasty, 300% of the profits were not enough to reach the minimum level!

Therefore, on the morning of the second day when the Ming army attacked Ligang, Qian Yuan met countless people in Ningbo...... This sentence is not accurate enough, for them, Lao Tzu Niang is not so sad when he dies!

Therefore, in the eyes of Zhang Siwei, who has the means, background, and qualifications to leverage the resources of both the maritime and the government, Qian Yuan's uncle who is a general judge in Huizhou is worthy of the word medie.

It's an old saying that money can make ghosts grind.

In the eyes of these businessmen on the southeast coast, it should be "money can make grinding ghosts"!

Qian Yuan came up with that secret recipe for money, the death of Qian Rui's father and son was because of money, and Jin Hong's upcoming tragic fate was because of money, and there were many, many people who were worried about money......

For example, Wang Chen and Xingshi, who were worried in the governor's yamen.

As the governor of Zhejiang and the commander of the military affairs, Wang Chen's main focus should be on military affairs, after all, the current situation is just like the description of the Songjiang hidecai, a large number of uncontrolled Japanese invaders haunt the southeast coast, going ashore to plunder the people.

Moreover, a large number of Japanese pirates were indeed divided into two routes, one way to the south to find trouble in Taizhou, which had been helpless to the Japanese pirates, and the other way to plunder the rich Jiaxing Mansion.

But after sending the official document during the day, transferring Yu Dayou and Lu Bo to the north, and Tang Kekuan to the south, Wang Chen's main focus was on how to get out of this matter that was related to his vital interests.

Wang Chen can also see clearly, no matter whether his methods are gentle or fierce, the whole province of Zhejiang does not welcome him, and the stiff relationship between the governor's yamen and the political envoy and the inspection envoy is an example.

And Wang Chen also saw the problem, just like the staff Xingshi said, after the Ming army captured Ligang, the Japanese did not disappear as imagined, but there was a tendency for a spark to start a prairie fire, and the wolf soldiers could not stay, and it was not a long-term solution to fight fires everywhere.

In this case, the weak side of Wang Chen's bones, who dared to do things in the eyes of the world, was revealed, just as Qian Yuan guessed, he wanted to slip away.

But this matter is very, very difficult to operate, so Wang Chen needs it very, very much...... Some PR costs.

The reason is also very simple, the two governors of Zhejiang were appointed by the emperor, and there are only three people who can exert influence on Jiajing in this matter, Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet, and Nie Bao, the secretary of the military department.

Go to Xu Jie for help?

This option was ruled out by Wang Chen for the first time, you must know that now that the fighting between the DPRK and the Central Government is in full swing, go to Xu Jie at this time...... That would be equivalent to standing on the opposite side of Yan Song.

Wang Chen is not stupid, in case he is targeted by Yan Song, Xu Jie's ...... But it belongs to the turtle, and his son Wang Shizhen's best friend Yang Shushan is still in prison.

The second one who was excluded was Nie Bao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, for a very simple reason, first of all, this person is famous for not eating and not accepting gifts, and he is also Xu Jie's teacher, and he is also a member of Wang Xuemen.

There is no way, I can only find Yan Song, there are two ways to get Yan Song to help, the first is to join the Yan Party without shame, such as Yan Maoqing and Zhao Wenhua, who worshiped Yan Song as their godfather...... It's a pity that Wang Chen wants to be faced.

The second is to make a way with the money.

If you vacate the position of a local official, you can also make a lot of money, Yan Song ...... At least Yan Shifan is willing to do this business, and this little pavilion elder has a good reputation in this regard, when it comes to it, Tong Suo is not bullied!

The only problem is that this cyclops doesn't have a big appetite.

Therefore, the public relations expenses that Wang Chen needs are not ordinary.