In the first month of the first year of Chongzheng (1630 AD), a major event occurred in the capital, that is, the Rixinglong business was born. As soon as the New Year ended, the streets and alleys of the capital were plastered with notices of the opening of the Rixinglong Commercial Bank, and almost all the people in the capital knew that there was a very good business to open.

Why do you say he's a cow? The capital that can post the opening notice is all over the streets, but Shuntianfu doesn't dare to take care of it, isn't it a cow?

Actually, Shuntianfu originally wanted to take care of it, but the officials of Shuntianfu ran over to take a look, Nima, all the people who posted the notices were Jinyi guards, to take care of them? Look for death!

Of course, this little thing is not enough to prove that the day is prosperous, and the real place of the day is the content of the proclamation:

First of all, Rixinglong's slogan is very good, Rixinglong boasted that they wanted to establish branches in all the state capitals of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and they wanted to make Rixinglong the largest business in the Ming Dynasty!

Then, Rixinglong's business is very good, they not only deal in daily necessities such as grain, cloth, tea, cooking oil, but also deal in antiques, jewelry, jade, gold and silver jewelry, famous calligraphy and painting and other high-end goods, and even they also absorb deposits, issue silver tickets, and undertake loan business!

Finally, the silver tickets of the day are very good, and the denominations of the silver tickets are not only 50 taels, 100 taels, 500 taels, 1,000 taels, but also 5,000 taels, 10,000 taels, and even 50,000 taels, 100,000 taels! They claim that they can use the silver ticket of the day to shop in all the shops of the day and the sun directly, and they guarantee that the day of the bank can be deposited and exchanged in all the state capitals of the country!

Who is the boss of such a powerful business? This is a question that people in the capital, who have always been known for gossip, naturally want to know the most.

The boss is, of course, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, but he can't come forward, not only him, but all the court officials can't come forward to be the boss. In the end, Chang Wei, who had only done business with the Houjin people and had not betrayed the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty, was honorably elected as the treasurer of Rixinglong.

The gossip people in the capital can't help but ask again, where is this Chang Wei sacred?

No need to ask, less than a day after the notice was posted, all kinds of gossip about Chang Wei, the big shopkeeper of Rixinglong, spread in the capital:

What is the prosperity of the great treasurer Chang Wei is the brother of the wet nurse of the emperor Chongzheng when he is the emperor;

What is the day of prosperity, the big shopkeeper Chang Wei is the father of the Jinyi Wei command to make Luo Yang, Lord Luo's favorite concubine;

What is the prosperity of the big shopkeeper Chang Wei is the godson of Cao Huachun, the governor of Dongchang;

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The legend is superb, of course, these are not true, it was Zhu Cijiong who let Jinyiwei spread it, the overall meaning is one, this Chang Wei has a very good background and a lot of background, everyone can rest assured that the money will be prosperous, don't worry that he will not admit it, and don't worry that he can't redeem it, let alone worry that he will run away. This is called building momentum, and there is only one goal, that is, to let everyone feel at ease and boldly use the silver tickets issued by Rixinglong.

This trend is good, and the gossip fire of the gossip people in the capital has also been successfully detonated. dared to brag that he was the emperor's maternal uncle, or Lord Luo's concubine father-in-law, or the godson of Gonggong Cao, but everyone in these backgrounds scared a bunch of people to death. But, it has to be true, if it's fake, you have to be careful, the capital is windy, dare to be here and be careful to blow your tongue away.

Chang Wei naturally didn't have to worry about the wind flashing his tongue, he didn't blow it at all, he didn't do it, he was just a puppet, and his uncle, concubine, and godfather had nothing to do with him.

Chang Wei is not worried about revealing the stuffing, but our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong can't let him show the stuffing, this day Xinglong wants to connect the world, and the background of the big shopkeeper is naturally the bigger the better, so how to let him not show the stuffing?

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On the sixteenth day of the first month of the third year of Chongzheng, the head office of the capital of the company was officially opened.

On this day, the capital was simply fried, and it was even more lively than the time when Emperor Chongzheng went to Wang Gongchang to inspect it, and countless gossip people in the capital almost filled the western half of West Chang'an Street.

The gossip people who can come here to see the excitement have to admit that this day Xinglong business does have a bit of background. At least the façade of his general number is very awesome, West Chang'an Street is the most prosperous area in the capital in the middle of Dashi Yongfang and Xiao Yongfang, and the general number of Rixinglong is located here, and it also occupies the three big mansions on the street, which is the mansion of the former eunuch dignitary Jinyiwei commander Tian Ergeng and Jinyiwei all command Xu Xianchun and Jinyiwei Tongzhi Cui Yingyuan!

The people who came to congratulate confirmed the rumors, and any one of them could scare a bunch of people to death.

One of the protagonists of the rumor, Jin Yiwei's commander Luo Yangxing really came!

The other protagonist of the rumor, Cao Huachun, the commander of the East Factory, actually came!

There is also a rumored protagonist Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong did not appear, but his uncle Xinwang Zhu Youzhen also came!

There are also Qin Liangyu, the governor of Beijing, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Scholars and Rites of the Cabinet University, and Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, .......

Almost half of the high-ranking officials in the capital came, and there was an endless stream of fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade officials, and almost all the officials below the third-grade level in Beijing came to congratulate them.

It's the same force, pretending to be high and low, it seems that this day Xinglong business is really awesome!

In fact, Zhu Cijiong just asked his cronies to be present, and he didn't say hello to other officials, if he gave a verbal order, naturally no one would dare not come, but in that case, everyone would know that Rixinglong was opened by him, and the impeachment chapter is estimated to be piled up in the imperial study, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty are famous The emperor dares to scold!

So, why are there so many fourth, fifth, and sixth grade officials coming to congratulate?

Some of them came automatically to save face for Luo Yanghe and Xu Guangqi and others, and the others can be said to have been forced to come, because Ri Xinglong sent invitations to all officials in Beijing, and the invitations were all Jinyiwei!

Someone is going to say, isn't Jinyiwei clearly involved in business? In those days, officials blatantly participated in business, wasn't that looking for death?

Other officials of the yamen were blatantly involved in business in that era, but Jinyiwei was an exception, you dare to say that Jinyiwei's participation in business was to find death, they had a license to kill, except for the emperor, whether you were a prince or a nobleman or a common person, they could directly click people without interrogation, and kill them or bury them!

It's a bit like a joke, so casual, what if you kill the wrong one? There are many relevant records in historical materials, and Jin Yiwei did kill a lot of Zhongliang by mistake, what was the result?

Killed the wrong one? Then kill the wrong one, people have misses, horses have stumbled, who can not make a mistake? This is a privilege given by Emperor Taizu, and it is better to kill the wrong one than to let it go! At that time, Emperor Taizu Jinyiwei was ordered to handle Hu Weiyong's case, and killed more than 40,000 people in one go, and a few of them really deserved to be killed, most of them were not killed by mistake! But Emperor Taizu didn't say a word of accusation, and praised them for their ability to do things!

Therefore, since the beginning of the Taizu Dynasty, Jinyiwei has developed the habit of indiscriminately killing innocents, which can be described as notorious and extremely cruel.

Although the current commander of the Jinyi Guard makes Luo Yangxing look like a child and harmless to humans and animals, who can guarantee that he will not suddenly go crazy and become a butcher who kills innocents indiscriminately?

Therefore, even if Jinyiwei is so blatantly involved in the business activities of Rixing, no one dares to impeach them. It's just a bad reputation to participate in business, is Jinyiwei's reputation better? Let them go, as long as they don't run out and kill people indiscriminately.

In fact, this Luo Yangxing is really not a murderous person, historical records record that the entire Chongzhen Dynasty also punished the eunuch party that Luo Yangxing opened a killing ring, and other times he was unknown, as if he had disappeared, and he had never done anything to kill innocents.

Luo Yangxing is such a second-generation official, killing the eunuch party is to avenge his father, and it is justified, and at other times he is really too lazy to care about the idle affairs of those officials.

But this time it was different, Zhu Cijiong gave him 500,000 taels of dry shares, and other commanders from ordinary Jinyiwei to Jinyiwei commanders were divided into dry shares ranging from 50,000 taels to 50,000 taels according to their positions. Although this 500,000 taels is not real money, it can be distributed at the end of the year! So he is very positive, and the Jinyi guard below is even more active than him, who doesn't want to share more money!

The same is true of the East Factory, except for the Admiral Cao Huachun, who has divided 500,000 taels of dry shares, and the rest of the cadres from ordinary fans to large and small stalls have been divided into 50,000 taels of dry shares ranging from 50,000 taels according to their positions, and the fans of the East Factory are also actively unable to do so.

Zhu Cijiong just wants them to shift their focus to making money, instead of letting them stare at the court officials all day long, which makes people panic, it is better to let them concentrate on making money for Daming.

Zhu Cijiong has been the emperor for so long, and finally understands one thing, the last death of the Ming Dynasty was not in the hands of the peasant rebels, nor in the hands of the Houjin Iron Riders, not in the hands of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but in the word "money".

Why did the peasants of the Northwest revolt? Because the imperial court has no money for disaster relief, if you don't revolt, you will starve to death!

Why can't the more than 100,000 troops in Houjin District find the north of Daming? Because there is no money to pay them, there is no money to make weapons and equipment, and you can't recruit a million troops to clean them up!

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong wants to mobilize Jinyiwei and Dongchang to make money, although these people can't go to the battlefield to fight, they are good at intelligence, and what businessmen need most is intelligence, such as where the cloth is cheap and expensive, where there is an urgent shortage of food, where the grain is piled up and so on. There are also businessmen who must be escorted to do business, otherwise those ruffians and corrupt officials come to fight the autumn wind all day long, so how can they make money? With the assistance of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, it is different, send a Jinyiwei or Dongchang fan to that station, what kind of ruffians, corrupt officials and corrupt officials come up to try, you only need money, we can die!

It can be said that the combination of Jinyiwei, Dongchang and businessmen is the best money-making machine, as long as they are running, it is not too easy to make money.

As long as there is money, the 500,000 troops in the Beijing camp will be full; grenades, 10 per person; new flintlock pistols, two per person; Franc machine guns, Hongyi cannons want to build as many as they want, what peasant rebel army, what post-gold iron cavalry, what a fart!