Chapter 32: New Circumstances
Cheng Wei, the original head of Yixingtang, is forty and two this year. Three years ago, a batch of goods sent by Yixingtang to Cangzhou under the rule of Henghai Jiedu encountered chaos, not only the goods were robbed, but even the men under his command were also killed and injured, and finally only three came back. It was at this time that Li Ze also intervened in Yixingtang, and without Li Ze's large capital injection at that time, Yixingtang not only had to go bankrupt immediately, but he was afraid that Cheng Wei would have to suffer a lawsuit, and when his family property was not enough to compensate, even his family would be sold into slavery to compensate for the loss. For Yixingtang, Li Ze at that time was not a life-saving benefactor.
Li Ze injected 10,000 yuan, accounting for 70% of the shares of Yixingtang, and at this time, the only thing that Yixingtang could take out was the sales network and those necessary relationships that they had operated under the rule of Henghai Jiedu for many years. And this is exactly what Li Ze values.
Another reason why Yixingtang was chosen was that it was near the Bohai Sea under the rule of the Henghai Navy, which was very important for Li Ze to run away on the sea when the situation was not good in the future.
However, people's hearts are always greedy, when Yixingtang has survived the most difficult years, when Yixingtang is prosperous in the people sent by Li Ze, making more and more money, Cheng Wei's heart is finally unbalanced.
Yixingtang was originally his! If it weren't for that unwarranted disaster, every penny that Yixingtang earns now would have been his. The dozens of storefronts in Wuyi City, the caravan that now has hundreds of people, has an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan.
Li Ze sneered, he didn't want to think about it, if it weren't for Li Ze's capital injection, Yixingtang would have died a long time ago, if it weren't for Li Ze sending Tuhu and some other guards to gradually build up an armed caravan of hundreds of people in three years, how could Yixingtang be able to communicate smoothly under the rule of the unstable Henghai Jiedu? If it weren't for Li Ze's business plans one after another, how could Yixingtang not only come back to life in three years, but also become the leading business in Wuyi County?
Li Ze did make use of some of his past connections and sales network, but in the past three years, Tu Hu has expanded this sales network several times, covering all the states, prefectures, and counties under the rule of the Henghai Naval Jiedu Envoy.
Is there a vain harvest in this world?
Since this person began to move this thought, he has been actively operating, first using a lot of money to donate a Wuyi County criminal Cao's official hat for his son, and then he has a relationship with the county order of Wuyi County.
This prefectural magistrate is also a wonderful person. Thinking of Yang Kai, the current county commander of Wuyi County, Li Ze wanted to laugh a little. The former county commander Gao Gong has now been promoted, but he seems to have had some trouble with Yang Kai, and he didn't even tell him not to mess with himself. Gao Gong has been in Wuyi County for many years, and he knows more or less about the particularity of his own Zhuangzi, and some people may have hinted at him, so for so many years, the tax collectors in Wuyi County have never been to Li Ze's Zhuangzi. And Li Ze's hundreds of tenants have always only known Li Ze but did not know that there was an official government.
This Yang Kai didn't know anything, so he actually dared to fight his own idea.
Maybe my dad didn't care about him at all, so he forgot about it, right? In short, this Yang Kai didn't know anything about himself, but he was a greedy person, and he hit it off with Cheng Wei and began to think of plotting to seize his own Yixingtang.
Since the hand is stretched out, it is natural to cut it cleanly, and he just took the Yixingtang completely, a Yixingtang under his complete control, and he can do more things, and he doesn't have to be a little restrained like now.
In his last life, Li Ze was a successful businessman, in the process of his success, I don't know how many setbacks he suffered, how many betrayals he encountered, like Cheng Wei, in his opinion, it is simply a child who is not worth it.
Cheng Wei's biggest reliance is probably this Yang Kaiyang County Commander, right? I'm afraid he can't imagine that a mere county order really doesn't take it into his eyes.
"Childe, Wuyi City has arrived." Tu Lichun's big face appeared in front of Li Ze's eyes.
Li Ze nodded, the carriage slowed down, and walked towards the city gate, and the people who were queuing up at the city gate to pay the money immediately dodged the road, there were carriages, and there were horseback attendants, and at first glance they were not ordinary people. Even the tax collectors at the gate of the city greeted them with a smile on their faces, generally speaking, when such people enter the city, that is, when they make a lot of profits, of course, it is not extortion, dare to extort such people, it will make them lose their jobs in minutes, as long as they are properly welcomed, a lot of reward money is always indispensable.
The tax collectors brutally drove some of the people at the gate of the city who had not had time to get out of the way to both sides, "Are you blind, don't you see that there are nobles coming, get out of the way quickly, you have been trampled and kicked by the horses, but no one has pity on you."
After driving everyone away, the entire city gate appeared empty in front of Li Ze. The head of the tax man greeted him with a smile on his face, nodded and said to Tu Lichun, who was standing on the horse: "Uncle, the road has been cleared."
"Hmm!" Tu Lichun nodded with satisfaction, took out a few silver horns from his arms, and threw them to the tax collector, "Brothers have worked hard, please drink brothers."
"Thank you, uncle." The tax collector thought that there would be a reward, but he really didn't expect that there would be a silver horn to reward him, and these silver horns were worth his two months' salary.
After rewarding the tax collector, Tu Lichun took out another handful of copper coins, "This is the city entry tax."
"Where do you still need the entrance tax?" The tax leader shook his head and laughed.
"We are disciplined people, and we can't break the rules." Tu Lichun restrained his smile and said coldly.
"Yes, yes." Seeing that Tu Lichun's face was not good, the leader of the tax collector hurriedly took the copper coins and poured them into the box containing the tax money on the side in a disciplined manner, although the copper coins Tu Lichun gave far exceeded the entrance tax they needed to pay, and he did not dare to rub another layer of oil.
Tu Lichun was in front, Chu Sheng was behind, and the group swaggered into the city, Li Ze opened the curtains, looked outside, and suddenly laughed out loud, Xia He on the side leaned his head curiously, and laughed at a glance.
In the cave of the city gate, after more than two years, there is still a wanted portrait of Shi Zhuang, more than two years, the paper has already been yellowed, and the corners are also missing a lot, but the appearance of Shi Zhuang is still very clear.
"This artist is a good artist." Putting down the curtain, Li Ze said affirmatively: "Go back and let Chu Sheng inquire and ask this painter to paint a picture for you."
"It's quite similar, but Shi Ye isn't so vicious, right?" Xia He smiled.
"Vicious? You really didn't get to the point, Shi Zhuang at that time, his appearance was hideous, Tu Lichun was bold enough, he was scared at the time." LI Zedao.
Xia He patted his chest again and again, "That's it, I really can't see it."
The carriage squeaked forward, but he didn't know that at the gate of the city behind him, the people, including the tax collectors, were stunned at this time, although Xia He's face was only exposed in the window for a short time, it had already shocked these people.
The carriage walked forward for a hundred steps, but stopped again, and Tu Lichun's voice sounded outside again: "Childe, Sun Lei is here."
Li Ze in the carriage did not answer.
Outside the carriage, Tu Lichun's face also turned cold: "Why didn't you greet Gongzi at the city gate?"
"Master Tu, I was already about to come out, but I was pulled back by the shopkeeper Cheng Da, and I talked for a while, and finally sent him away, so I rushed over." Sun Lei went out from Zhuangzi, and at the moment he was standing in front of the carriage, with his hands tied, and his face was uneasy.
"What did he tell you?" Tu Lichun asked coldly.
"He said that the county master is going to his house tomorrow as a guest, and invited me to accompany him!" Sun Lei said in a low voice, "He looks smug, it looks like he has bad intentions."
In the carriage, Li Ze sneered, this is through Sun Lei's mouth to pass on his words. Give yourself a dismount and let yourself know that he is not easy to mess with.
"Don't pay attention to him, you go and do your own thing, tomorrow, follow me, I will meet this county master." Li Ze said in the carriage.
"Yes, Childe, I wonder if Childe is going to Yixingtang now, or is he going to rest first?" Sun Lei asked.
"What are you busy with, the matter of Yixingtang, the son is clear, and he is tired all the way, if there is something to talk about tomorrow, after you go back, tell the shopkeeper of Cheng Da, and say that the son has come. Needless to say, the rest."
"Yes." Sun Lei thought for a while, and then said: "Childe, in the past few months, I have always felt that things are not quite right, so I inquired a little more, it seems that this county prince and Yizhou don't drive together, just two days ago, the son of Don't drive also arrived in Wuyi."
"Oh?" This is a new situation, Li Ze couldn't help frowning, don't drive in Yizhou, this is a character who has some face in front of his own Lao Tzu. After thinking about it, he opened the curtain and said to Chu Sheng: "You are not going to the city, go back to Zhuangzi and ask Mr. Gongsun to come over."
"Yes!" Chu Sheng didn't talk nonsense, and immediately turned the horse's head and drove towards the way he came.
"Sun Lei, you have done a good job in this matter, if this don't drive boy suddenly appears in front of me, it will be really a little passive, I will make a note of it."
"Thank you, Childe." Sun Lei was overjoyed." I'll go, boy."