Mo Zhi smiled happily: "In this way, buying a store worth 10,000 taels for 10,000 taels is an ordinary thing that everyone in the world thinks is an ordinary thing and will not attract attention, but who would have thought that this 10,000 taels of shops has a warehouse worth tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of taels?" There are even several such warehouse princes, is the old man right? ”

Wu Zheng nodded with a smile.

"What should we do with the share capital deed issued by the Chamber of Commerce to those eight profiteers?"

This is indeed a problem, and it is definitely an unavoidable problem with a seal in black and white.

Wu Zheng smiled and said: "You don't have to give it to eight people, you just need to issue one to Fan Yongdou, and let Fan Yongdou distribute it to seven people in private." ”

Mo asked obsessively: "But what is the difference between one and eight?" ”

"The existence of the deed is not only a risk to you, but also a risk to Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou is the imperial merchant of the Qing court's internal affairs office, and he also gave Zhangjiakou as the world's inheritance, such a person, dare to show this paper deed to the public? ”

Mo shook his head.

Wu Zheng said: "As soon as he gets it, he will definitely hide it secretly, for fear that he will leak the news and be punished by the Qing court." ”

Mo Zhi nodded and said, "What the prince said is reasonable, but in the future." ”

Wu Zheng shook his head and said with a smile: "There is no case." After a while, the handwriting will disappear on its own. ”

It is not difficult to let a skilled craftsman concoct such a document, it is nothing more than using acid and alkali neutralization.

Mo Zhinian was dumbfounded.

Wu Zheng said: "This paper contract is sent by the king to help you get it, you just have to rest assured." ”

"But this matter must pass the resolution of the top ten shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce, and the old man accounts for two votes, and he must also inform the other shareholders that the old man is afraid of leaking the news."

The voting power of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce is in the hands of the top ten shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce, and the top ten shareholders, except for Mo Zhinian, who has two votes for the president, the remaining nine people, each with one vote.

In the case of two-thirds of the people who approve of it, at least six more people will have to be sought.

But in this way, at least six people except Mo Zhizhi must know about it.

Wu Zheng thought for a while and asked, "Besides you, how many of the nine people are credible?" ”

Mo obsessively thought about it for a while, and replied: "Xi Benzhen, Cheng Benyuan, Chen Wenhuan and others, the prince has seen them, and they are also the direct organizers of this war against the Northern Merchants, so they should be credible." ”

Wu Zheng nodded and said: "These people can be trusted, then you will inform first, and then the king will send someone to let Ma Shiying go, these things, he is good at haha." ”

Mo Zhizhi let go of the big stone in his heart, and asked, "Then does the prince still see Tang Ruowang?" ”

These words made Wu Zheng gradually restrain his smile, "Seeing is to see, I still want to grasp the purchase of firearms from the Qing court through him." It's just that this thing has to be done in secret, and once the news leaks out, I'm afraid that the tiger won't become an anti-dog, which will not be good. ”

After thinking about it, Wu Zheng said: "In this way, don't those two profiteers want to invite you to eat and drink?" I thought that John Tang would also accompany him, and when the time came, he arranged for people who were good at drinking to drunk them, and then led John Tang to see the king. ”

Mo obsessively replied: "Yes." ”

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Qufu Bridge North, in front of the original North Division Five Roads, is now the post house set up by the General's Mansion.

Tang Ruowang, who was rejected by Wu Zheng, returned to his room depressedly, he didn't understand, obviously Wei Kuangguo sent a letter, saying that the king of Huiji County of the Yixing Dynasty wanted to meet him privately, why did he arrive at Hangzhou Mansion but met him stingily?

The room next to each other directly opposite Tang Ruowang was the room of Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku.

At this time, Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku were whispering inside.

"Brother Fan, what do you think is the idea of this Wu Zheng? Could it be that he was already preparing for war with the imperial court? Wang Dengku was indeed a little surprised, in his opinion, the Yixing Dynasty in the land of eleven prefectures was a small force that was barely breathing, but it was because the Qing court couldn't pull it out for a while that it was given the opportunity to grow, "He wasn't afraid of waiting for the court to transfer his hand, and he could smash it with one palm." ”

Fan Yongdou's face was solemn, and he shook his head slightly: "Before I came, I also thought like you, thinking that this Wu Zheng was just a young boy who had just won the crown. But in the past few days in Hangzhou, I have seen a different scene. ”

Wang Dengku was surprised: "What scene? Why didn't I find out? ”

"Don't you realize that the people walking around the street are different in spirit? The smile on his face cannot be hidden, especially the gaze, which is definitely different from the Han people in the north, even the people in the capital do not have this kind of confidence. ”

Wang Dengku frowned slightly and said, "When you say this, I feel it." In this elephant inn, the two little guys who serve you and me, this attitude and gaze, this is in the north, I have already fanned it with a big mouth, and it is against the sky! ”

Fan Yongdou said leisurely: "Maybe the lord of this world is especially undecided." ”

Wang Dengku was shocked: "Brother Fan has said it, right? The Qing Dynasty already owned seventy percent of the world, and the Yixing Dynasty was only a small area, and at most one percent of the land, land, population, taxes, etc., could not compete with the Qing Dynasty. If earlier, when the Qing Dynasty had just entered the customs, it might have been able to climb the heights, but now the Qing Dynasty has been sitting firmly in the country for four years. ”

Fan Yongdou snorted lightly: "The Yixing Dynasty is not terrible, what is terrible is this Great General's Mansion." ”

"What's so scary? It is nothing more than occupying the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the southern section of the canal. If it weren't for the obstruction of water transportation and the unrelenting provocation of Nanshang in Jiangbei, I would not have come to this southern barbarian land. In fact, I don't think you have to come, there is no Jiangnan, we are in the north and southwest of the Jiangnan, and it is enough to earn a lot of silver, why come here with a hot face and a cold ass to others, and send such a huge sum of silver? If this is known by the imperial court, I am afraid that the eight of you and I will not be able to bear the consequences! ”

Fan Yongdou sighed softly, "Brother Wang, you and I have been in business for decades, from salt and iron, tea mulberry, grain, fur, coal to ginseng medicinal materials, almost all of them involve the capital of one hundred taels, and when we earn fifty percent of the profits, we are already smiling." Now he has hoarded thousands of taels of silver and buried it in the ground. Brother Wang, what is the use of silver buried in the ground, like a pile of rotten iron? ”

Wang Dengku was silent.

This is indeed true, which of the eight imperial merchants has not buried millions of taels in the ground?

It's not that they don't want to use it, it's really nowhere to spend it.

Ordinary people put on a donkey, a carriage, just a donkey and a horse, they put on three, it is already the limit, if you really want to set seventeen or eight, then the road is not allowed.

At this time, the materials are that you have a lot of silver, and you have no land to spend, so you can't eat 100 catties of meat at a time and chew 100-year-old ginseng as a meal, right? Even if you don't eat the dead, you have to have so many centuries-old ginseng.

It is precisely because there is money and no land to use that there is a custom of hiding silver in the ground.

But the Tibetan silver of these eight families is obviously at the peak.