The north wind howled for a day, and the next morning snow began to fall over Kyoshi, and by noon it was a white world.

Fortunately, the snow stopped after noon, and the sun came out, and the people of the capital division were very experienced, and knew that they should take advantage of this time to quickly clear the snow, otherwise it would be difficult to walk the next morning when the snow was frozen, and each business house sent a young man to clear the snow outside the door, which was an interesting errand for young people, and the scene of chuckling and throwing snowballs while clearing the snow can be seen everywhere on the lively streets.

The city gate of Beijing is open six gates in the south, two gates are opened on the east and west north sides, each city gate has urn city, the corner of the city has a corner tower, the city wall is broad and the length reaches more than 80 li, it is magnificent and magnificent.

The circumference of the imperial city is also more than 20 li, originally the imperial palace that was changed into the yamen by the festival degree of the previous generation, and after many expansions and renovations, the current imperial city and palace city were formed.

The tone of the whole imperial city and the palace city is to take the blue bricks and black tiles as the background color, rarely use bright colors such as bright yellow and vermilion purple, the palace building is mainly based on the Tang system, and the Taicheng is covered with a wide and deep hall, which is magnificent and magnificent, showing the imperial atmosphere.

Along the Zichen Palace, Duanming Hall all the way out, is the main gate of the palace of the imperial city, Lijing Gate, left and right are the Jinshui Gate and Tongji Gate, out of the Imperial City is to imitate the Tang Dynasty's Zhuque Street, until the south gate of the outer city, it is the most dense flow of people in the whole Beijing, and the most prosperous commercial avenue.

Most of the houses along the street are buildings, and since they cannot be higher than the imperial city, they are generally three-storey.

The side facing the street is mostly storefronts, and the second and third floors and the yard behind them are production bases and warehouses.

The industrial and commercial trade of the Great Wei Dynasty was developed, and it can be seen from the fact that the street in front of the imperial city was regarded as a commercial street, and there were several other main roads, all of which were commercial houses and shops without exception.

Even on such a cold day, the camel caravan and horse caravan are still on the way, there are several rivers outside the city gates, and water transportation is also very developed.

Although the commerce of Jingshi is not as good as that of Jiangling, Suzhou, and Quanzhou, it is still undoubtedly a commercial center and a distribution center for goods in the entire north.

It is too normal that the largest merchant in Fuzhou, such as Pujia, is also a commercial house opened by the top Semu people in the Great Wei Dynasty, and there is a considerable branch of the commercial bank on Zhuque Street in Beijing.

The Pu family is mainly engaged in trade, raw silk porcelain, tea and cotton cloth, as long as it is easy to sell hard goods, the Pu family has partners and semicolons in the territory of the Great Wei, which is used to purchase the local goods of the Great Wei and sell foreign goods, the huge territory of the Great Wei and the goods produced are welcomed by overseas trade, and even crazy rush to buy, under a hundred years, the wealth accumulated by the Pu family has reached an unimaginable number.

When Wu Shizhong arrived at the Pushi Commercial Bank, the sun was just right, and the streets after the snow were brighter because of the reflection, and there were many teenagers and young people who came out to play in the snow.

The Pu family's semicolon in Beijing is very large, in addition to doing trade, there are also silver numbers, money villages, gold shops, gold shops are accepting gold for silver, or for copper money, generally speaking, people in the Great Wei will exchange gold for copper money, and foreign merchants will like to exchange copper money for gold, no matter how to change, it is profitable for the trading house.

"10,000 taels of gold." Lin Cunxin spoke extremely bad official dialect and swaggered into the Pu family's gold shop.

10,000 taels of other businesses is a big deal, but it is commonplace for the people of the Pu family, and many shopkeepers and men have not even raised their eyelids, only one shopkeeper came up and said, "According to the routine, we will deduct fifty taels." ”

"Damn, I don't even have a cup of tea." Pujiadian is also famous in Fuzhou, but his family's capital is huge, and he still has to find the Pu family to do the general big business.

Lin Cunxin muttered and said, "Since it is an example, it will be done like this." ”

Jin Jian took people to look at the cart, and the guys from the gold shop carried the bundles of copper coins into it, and calculated them one by one.

After the copper coins were counted, the people in the gold shop brought out the same amount of gold, of course, it was also a piece of horseshoe gold.

After the ten thousand taels of gold were calculated, a guy said to Lin Cunxin: "This guest, please sign a flower deposit, and the transaction is over." ”

"Wait a minute." Jin Jian stepped forward and said, "How can we know if the fineness of this gold is full or not?" ”

"Yes." Lin Cunxin's face changed and said, "You have to check the color." ”

"Don't make jokes like that." The big shopkeeper of the gold shop came over and said: "This is the gold shop opened by the Pu family, who in the whole world does not know the reputation of the Pu family's business?" ”

"I can't believe anyone, I just want to check the quality."

There are many ways to inspect gold, which is enough to find out the fineness, but the people of the Pu family really can't imagine that there are really people in the Pujia gold shop to check the fineness?

Jin Jian and the others ignored it, and they were already making noise inside and outside the store.

This kind of weather, and the end of the year, there are too many idlers, and after a while, the inside and outside of the store have been surrounded by three layers of idlers, and there is no shortage of idlers sent by the surrounding businesses to see the excitement.

A few white-robed housekeepers of the Pu family finally rushed over when they heard the news, and after hearing what happened, they frowned and said, "Just test it, real gold is not afraid of fire practice." ”

So I took a lot of effort to inspect all the 10,000 taels of gold, and of course, the fineness was all full color.

At this moment, the ridicule around him became louder, and the people of the Pu family sneered: "I want to ask where you are from, you don't know our Pu family's business name?" ”

"We are Nan'anhou Mansion on Fujian Road." Lin Cunxin said: "Come to the Jingshi Temple to sacrifice, the quality of gold, dare to take it lightly?" ”

When he said this, he attracted everyone's nods and approval, and everyone knew that the Jingshi festival was held once every three years, but there were very few princes and princes who were attentive to this kind of festival.

"These brutes," one wondered, "they don't know how many years they've been substituting brass for gold?" ”

"I'm afraid it's a sincere person."

"Nan'an Hou Mansion, I remember, this matter is really interesting."

In the midst of the discussion, Wu Shizhong and Li Fuxiang and others also arrived, and directly surrounded by idlers, they went to the Taimiao not far away, and the gold that had just been exchanged was directly placed in a conspicuous place, and they went directly to the Taimiao to find the people of Zong Zhengsi to sacrifice.

There are quite a few people who are curious to follow and see, and sure enough, they saw that the people of Nan'an Hou Mansion sent the gold that had just been exchanged to the Taimiao, and the people of the Beijing Division loved to see the excitement and gossip, and after it got dark at night, this little thing spread throughout most of the capital.

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Liu Yuan is located in the residence of the senatorial government, the mansion of the ruler is the imperial gift, this huge courtyard was originally the prince's mansion at the beginning of the country, the regulation is grand, the architecture is exquisite and elegant, when Liu Zhiyuan moved in, the emperor gave 100,000 yuan to renovate the old house, so this compound not only repeats the old view, but also is much more exquisite and beautiful than before.

Liu Yuan is famous for its rocks and large lotus ponds, and even the officials have been curious to come once.

It is not uncommon for the emperor of Great Wei to go out of the palace to walk around the courtiers' houses, and Lang Wei dispatches more than 100 guards, and the officials will leave the palace in the afternoon and return before closing the palace gate at dusk.

Sometimes he will make a big show and lead many palace people to go to Lang Wei, which is a special honor, and he will usually have a luncheon at the minister's house before returning to the palace.

When Liu Zhiyuan was the deputy envoy of the privy council, the official family went to his mansion to drink and feast, and now he is the great ginseng, and the Son of Heaven has gone back and forth three times, which is a rather rare honor, and the support attitude of the official family is obviously easy to see.

"The people of the Pu family are gone." On a snowy day, there are still a lot of guests in Liu's Mansion, and there are at least more than 100 people waiting in line to receive them.

The people in Beijing are the best at watching the wind and looking at the scenery, and one of them is to see whether the gatehouse of each mansion is as white as day, and whether there are a large number of officials waiting to meet them.

The movement of Liu's mansion has always been second only to the mansion of Han Zhong, the left minister, and many times more lively than the mansion of Xu Xiashang, the right minister, and Zhang Wenda, the privy envoy.

Today, Liu Zhiyuan has never seen anyone, and when the big event is launched, Liu Zhiyuan likes to be alone, calm down, reading books and chess, and thinking about whether there is any omission when he wears a chess cloth in his spare time.

It was Liu Zhiyuan's confidant Fang Shaoqun who spoke, the young man who raised people to take the exam more than ten times and failed to be successful, arrogant and arrogant, and liberal by nature, that is, people like Liu Zhiyuan can use such a person, and in a few years, he has been promoted to the political hall of the witty text, from the seventh grade official, but he is more envied than the main hall of the whole world I don't know how many states and counties, and the power in his hands is, of course, far more than ordinary states and counties.

"Let's go, let's go." Liu Zhiyuan put down the Taibai poetry collection in his hand and said with a smile: "Zhonghe, Pu Shougao will definitely feel guilty about this matter, but he still owes me a favor, so he has to take care of the people around me, and you just wait to receive the gift." ”

"It's a benefit of grace." Fang Shaoqun smiled coldly and said, "That day, Fang Barbarian, he was tired of seeing it, but money is a good thing, and he will definitely peel off a layer of skin in the future." ”

"The Pu family's net worth is more than billions." Liu Zhiyuan said leisurely: "If you want to peel off a layer of skin from him, I'm afraid it's more difficult." ”

"This time, the Pu family really lifted a stone to shoot themselves in the foot, and they can't talk about their suffering." Fang Shaoqun didn't want to accept more casual words, and said at the moment: "But for us, it doesn't affect the overall situation, Ming Gong, late will change, today's incident is proof." It shows that the Nan'an Hou Mansion may also guess some traces, or be mentioned by others. I don't think we can delay any longer, even if there are some fish that slip through the net, but it will not hurt the overall situation, if it drags on and arouses public opinion, it may really be a bad thing. ”

That is, Fang Shaoqun's character, his temper can be outspoken here in Liu Zhiyuan, Liu Zhiyuan didn't care, and said with a smile: "In this case, let's call Dazong Zheng early tomorrow morning." ”

Liu Zhiyuan sighed again: "This major event, if it weren't for the official family personally moving the Korean public, it would be extremely difficult. ”

"Of course it's hard to do big things." Fang Shaoqun sneered and said: "Regardless of the prince, duke, or marquis, there are few outstanding people in this generation, and there are many people who consume national resources. In today's world, not only the official family is from a pro-domain, we must beware of ambitious people, but also the clan, the gentry, and the giant businessmen, and clean up the well. ”

That is, Fang Shaoqun dared to speak to Liu Zhiyuan like this, and changed someone else, I am afraid that Liu Zhiyuan will directly slap him to death.

Even so, Liu Zhiyuan still had a little anger in his heart, this guy in front of him was smart and smart, but he was too disrespectful to himself, you must know that the official family and himself were quite gentle and polite, after thinking about it, Fang Shaoqun was about the same age as his eldest son, and he was so arrogant and rude!

Of course, this kind of thought is hidden deep in Liu Zhiyuan's heart, Fang Shaoqun doesn't look at his face at all, he can't see any clues, even if he can see it, Fang Shaoqun won't care, if he agrees, he will stay, if he doesn't, he will go, now it is Liu Zhiyuan begging him, but it is not Fang Shaoqun who is asking Liu Zhiyuan.

"I see." Liu Zhiyuan said in a deep tone: "Ignore the affairs of the Pu family, but there is His Royal Highness King Zhao behind him, this is not good and perfunctory, and after a while, Zhonghe will write a letter to King Zhao to explain what happened." ”

"Okay, in the next part." Fang Shaoqun is actually impatient to write entertainment articles, but since Dong Weng Xiangtuo can only write, not to mention, Pu Shougao entrusted Liu Zhiyuan, no matter whether the people sent by the Hou Shizi of Nan'an are real gold or brass, they will all be treated with brass in the Hou Mansion of Nan'an, and in terms of punishment, it is also necessary to use the most severe punishment to directly cut off the title of the Marquis, and at the same time confiscate the official village, the imperial gifts and the mansion in Fuzhou City.

In this way, the prince of Nan'an Hou was directly swept away, and the forces, mansions, official villages, and official positions were swept away, although he still had the status of a clan, but he could only receive dozens of yuan a year for living expenses, and he didn't starve to death.

The Great Wei Dynasty has always banned or cut down the clans that committed crimes, and the punishment of the clans was stricter during the Chongde period, and even if Xu Zixian was not banned, at least he had to cut the knights to make Pu Shougao satisfied.

And Pu Shougao's letter also made it clear that there is His Royal Highness King Zhao behind this matter, which makes Liu Zhiyuan have some understanding, King Zhao and Nan'an Houfu are close to the clan, and they actually have this entrustment, it seems that the water in Fuzhou is also very deep, the general trend of the world, as long as you are in the whirlpool, you can't avoid fighting, even if it's an uncle and nephew?

This matter is just a trivial matter for Liu Zhiyuan, otherwise he would not have recruited Wu Shizhong, but the recruitment failed, which seemed to make Wu Shizhong vigilant, so there was this matter of Pujia gold shop exchanging gold.

This matter has spread, and now there are only two results, either to sacrifice the business reputation of the Pu family, and the Taimiao side still says that the gold is fake, and it is made of brass.

The matter of Nan'an Houfu exchanging gold in the Pu family has spread, if this is done, it is equivalent to saying that the Pu family takes copper to pay for the gold, not to mention that the Pu family will suffer heavy losses for this matter, the reputation of the business house is more precious than anything else, and Pu Shougao will never agree. Even if Liu Zhiyuan instructed his subordinates to do this, the people of Jingshi all watched the people of the Pu family test the gold on the spot, obviously it was real gold all the way to the Taimiao, who could exchange gold for copper in front of everyone?

When this matter spread, it was still quite unfavorable to Liu Zhiyuan's major event of assisting the Son of Heaven to suppress the powerful clans in the world.

There is a loophole, and there will be quite a lot of people to follow up and complain, and when the time comes, who can suppress the surging opinion?

"I can only let go of the prince of Nan'an." Liu Zhiyuan still feels that this is a trivial matter, just a prince of the country, a newly appointed regimental training envoy, what kind of big waves have been stirred?

"King Zhao has been planning and preparing in Fuzhou for more than ten years, and he will not be subject to a prince who has not attacked the prince." Fang Shaoqun also looked unimpressed.

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