The beams and pillars of the house were removed, and the house became a pavilion in the sky. It's no wonder if it doesn't collapse; When there is no evidence, the appeal becomes empty talk. Don't lose with ghosts!

The case has been tried to this point, and all kinds of people in the lobby must have understood the final outcome.

The only person who refuses to lose and can't lose is the representative of the eight major chambers of commerce, Zeng Kelian, the head of the Hankou Grain Merchant Guild and the big treasurer of Yutaifeng, the largest grain merchant in Hankou.

Without comparison, there is no truth or falsehood!

Presumably, Inspector Ding's handwritten letter and those supervising soldiers are fake! Master Li said without raising his head.

He pinched the magnifying glass with two fingers, squinted with one eye, finished studying the check, and asked the staff to take out a small book from his bag, so that he could put it on the desk and study the handwriting on it.

My lord! My lord! Zeng Kelian roared hoarsely in the hall, Xiaomin sent someone to Huitong Money Bank with a ticket to confirm! Even if the check is fake, it is also Huitong Money Bank's collusion with thieves and deliberate fraud!

The Hankou branch of Huitong Qianzhuang closed its business as early as the first day of June and moved to Hanyang Mansion, I don't know who the shopkeeper confirmed it to?

Could it be a gang of thieves?

Moreover, the shopkeeper said that it was confirmed, but there is a confirmation document signed and printed by the bank?

On the contrary, the capital bank has a letter guaranteeing the thief's shopping loan, with the seal of the shopkeeper. Would the shopkeeper be willing to watch it again?

The shopkeeper's eyes were red, like a vicious wolf devouring people: You are a wealthy family, how can you say that you will close your business when you close your business, and if you want to move, you will move? Even if you move, you should inform us according to the rules of the mall......

That's not surprising!

Wu Yiqian no longer ignored the shopkeeper Zeng who jumped over the wall in a hurry, returned to his seat and sat down, and said with a smile:

Huitong Money does not have a half-loan business with several chambers of commerce, so there is no need to notify you of the closure of the business. However, according to the rules, the village informed the Hankou Prefecture and the Domain's Yamen in advance......

Adult Mingjian: Tiantong Lane is narrow and dilapidated, and the money village is here, and it will collapse sooner or later. If Huitong Money Village wants to do big business, of course, it is necessary to find a brighter shop in the lively port. By the way, I would like to remind you, didn't you say that sooner or later you would collapse?

You! You! The shopkeeper pointed at Wu Qianyi, and the poignant voice was squeezed out of his throat, one voice was smaller than the other, and at the end the world whirled, like a pile of mud that collapsed to the ground. The shopkeepers were shocked, slapped and pinched, and panicked.

There was only one person here who did not panic.

He slipped out of the gap in the crowd and stepped forward quickly, lifted his hem, and kowtowed to Li Zhensheng and the adults:

The thief is proficient in the bank's bills, so he must be a person in the bank!

There are a large number of money villages in Hankou, and the fish and dragons are mixed, and the good and the bad are uneven. Illegal things such as silver ingots doping and copper coin counterfeiting have occurred frequently, and now there are even big cases of fraudulent official and counterfeit tickets!

In addition, the money interest rate of Hanyang and Wuchang has changed in a month, and the difference between the high and low has reached more than ten times, which makes the merchants of the two prefectures at a loss and miserable.

It can be seen that the complete rectification of the Hankou money industry is imminent!

Nowadays, all industries in Hankou have guilds, but there is no one industry. In my humble opinion, it is better to ask Huitong Qianzhuang to take the lead in setting up a Qianzhuang guild and cooperate with the government to rectify the Hankou Qianzhuang industry!

Silver banknotes are beautifully printed and difficult to imitate; Easy to carry and easy to change. At the same time, the silver banknotes are shareholders of the royal palaces and powerful gentry of Sichuan and Chu provinces, and a special deposit is also set up to ensure that the banknotes are fully guaranteed. Therefore, I would like to ask the government to make a clear announcement:

Market transactions and loans are subject to the banknotes issued by Huitong Bank. In case the petty traitors collude with the thieves inside and outside, disrupt the market, and hinder military supplies!

These are not two small suggestions.

With Huitong Money Bank as the head of the bank, the money bank guild is initiated, then Huitong money bank is not only the largest participant in the Hankou money industry, but also the maker of the rules of the game in the Hankou money bank. To be both an athlete and a referee is the superman in the arena.

With the silver banknotes issued by Huitong Bank as the legal medium of exchange, the silver banknotes and silver bills will be legally circulated in the whole province of Huguang. From then on, Huitong Money Bank could completely control the economy of Huguang through the issuance, exchange and lending of banknotes, and then control the political and military situation of Huguang!

In other words, once the two suggestions are fully implemented, the strategic plot of the Shu Wangfu to control Huguang Province will be the first to be realized through Huitong Qianzhuang's financial domination of Huguang!

With the strength of the good wind, send me to the green clouds (Note 1)!

An unprecedented heroism has been injected into the blood of Wu Qianyi's always humble and cautious.

Seeing that Master Li was discussing with his staff, Wu Qianyi left his seat and thanked the speaker:

Dare to ask this brother's surname? Brother Tai's love is really deserved!

This is the head of the Hankou Cotton and Linen Guild and the big shopkeeper of Xuanyirui, Shi Xinyunshi!

The Lord of the Politics Counselor did not give advice to the Inspector, but took the initiative to introduce Wu Qianyi. And Fu Shangrui, the official of Wuchang, followed suit, following closely behind, as if he was very familiar with the shopkeeper Shi.

Xuanyirui?

The legendary business name of the Xuanhua Wangfu Office of the Chu Domain?

Chu King Zhu Huakui's white gloves for laundering money and making money?

In addition to controlling the cloth, cotton and jute markets, a large merchant that also deals in rice, salt, pig iron and other materials?

Wu Qianyi looked at the stone shopkeeper: tall and bloated; The face was white, the Adam's apple was not visible, and he immediately guessed the identity of the other party.

The stone shopkeeper turned out to be ......, and the Wu shopkeeper Shi Li said.

In the next exactly!

The shopkeeper Shi opened his eyes and replied, it turned out that the shopkeeper Wu was also ......

Shopkeeper Wu was cordial in his grief and helplessness:

Don't dare to hide it. Same! Same!

The code was reversed, and the alliance immediately became comrade.

Now that we have become comrades, there must be a common enemy.

This unfortunate enemy, of course, was the poor treasurer.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are important facts to report below! Shopkeeper Shi began to give full play to his advantages as a local and insider, and beat the reservoir dog to the unconscious shopkeeper Zeng.

Zeng Kelian is suspected of colluding with the thief chief Zhang Xianzhong!

Thinking that the Yinghuo Mountains are barren and poor, hundreds of thousands of thieves and lean thieves can be entrenched here for many years. There were no grain merchants to sell grain, and the thieves and thieves would have starved to death!

As far as I know, last winter and this spring, Yutaifeng sold more than 100,000 stones of grain to the adjacent Yinghuo Qishui. Qishui, a small county of widows is also! Why do you need 100,000 food? This is a secret, please check it carefully!

This time, the thieves pretended to use the letter of the Governor to buy one million military funds, and more than 600,000 taels bought food! Zeng Kelian, as the head of the grain chamber of commerce, hovered between the guilds and the thieves, jumping up and down, deceiving the upper and lower! The matter of the silver ticket is all handled by this person. If there is no collusion between the two, we don't believe it!

Right! Right!

The representatives of the chambers of commerce, who reacted slowly, immediately turned their faces, threw the half-dead Zeng Kelian on the cold floor tiles, and shouted in unison:

The reason for this case must be that Zeng Kelian colluded with thieves, counterfeited silver tickets, and prepared military funds for the sacrifice of thieves and left thieves! Please put Zeng Kelian on death row and torture him! Please seal and confiscate the Yutaifeng! The losses of our firms will be compensated by Yutaifeng!

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At midnight on the same day, after the personal interrogation of inspector Li Zhensheng and other officials, the truth of this major and important case that shook the business circles of Huguang was finally revealed.

Zeng Kelian, the representative of the eight major chambers of commerce, the head of the Hankou Grain Merchant Guild and the chief treasurer of the Yutaifeng, the largest grain merchant in Hankou, really colluded with the thieves entrenched in the Yinghuo Mountains.

The resolute and efficient government found a large pile of gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings in Zeng Kelian's mansion in Wuchang Mansion, including women's head jewelry. One of the most scarily intimidating things is a gemstone and a gold wrench. On this wrench, there is a half-cut of fishy and blackened fingers:

It is clear that the robber can't erase it for a while, so he uses a machete to click the picture!

The evidence is conclusive, even if there is no confession from Zeng Kelian, the government still makes up such a plot in his mind:

Thieves use the looted treasures to buy food, salt, and clothing, and naturally need a merchant who can have enough influence in the market to act as an agent.

Zeng Kelian and the Yutaifeng behind him played such a role.

This time, the thieves sent people to pretend to be the staff of the superintendent to exchange 200,000 taels of silver notes from Huitong Bank, which was used to pay a deposit of 20% of the purchase price.

Huitong Bank issued a cash promissory note of RMB 200,000 to the lender, and simultaneously deducted a large amount of materials purchased by the lender as collateral.

However, with the subsequent payment of 800,000 taels of goods, the thieves could no longer rely on Huitong Bank for loans.

As a result, the thieves took advantage of the opportunity of the closure of the Hankou branch of Huitong Qianzhuang and moved away, colluded with Zeng Kelian, the treasurer of Yutaifeng, forged a short-term check cashed by Huitong Qianzhuang, and after delivering 200,000 taels of loan collateral in full to Huitong Qianzhuang, they swaggered away the remaining military funds.

As for where these military funds went, there is no doubt that they went to the hands of thieves!

No wonder the thieves of Yinghuo have been suppressed for a long time!

No wonder the whole territory of Luzhou is lost!

No wonder even Huang Chuangzi and Huama Liu lost to the Xian Thief and the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo!

It turned out that there was an inner ghost in the Huguang business community!

After the joint interpretation of the brains of the judge and the person being tried, a clear and unambiguous conclusion was placed in front of everyone.

Naturally, how to consolidate this preliminary conclusion will require a great deal of painstaking and meticulous work. But with a preliminary conclusion, the merchants can get rid of the status of the person on trial and recover most of the economic losses through the seizure of the Yutaifeng. Even if the corpses are everywhere, they are still a group of vultures looking for corpses and eating scavengers!

The problem of the merchants was solved, but the problem of the officials was even greater.

Yutaifeng is the largest grain merchant in Hankou, Hanyang and even Huguang, and there are many officials who have elements in the open and in the covert.

If the details of this case are circulated, and the officials with ulterior motives in the province or near Huguang are stabbed to the imperial court, the responsible officials in Hanyang, Wuchang, and even Huguang may be convicted of dereliction of duty and negligence;

Some officials are even more afraid, because this is a great crime of thieves and extermination!

In addition to political and legal responsibilities, the much-needed military resources in Xiangyang are also tricky.

Zuo Ping's thief is almost a reminder every three days and a report every five days. It was the Huguang government that urged it, and it was the emperor of the court who reported it.

In the sparse text, Zuo Liangyu ** naked threatened: The soldiers are all reckless soldiers who eat food and work hard and don't know what loyalty is. If there is no food and no salary, it is very likely that they will turn against each other if they say that they will sell their lives!

However, the limited military funds have been deceived by the thieves, and the Shangtun in Hankou is empty, even if the Huguang Domain Division borrows two million, it will not help!

The anxious Huguang officials wiped the sweat from their heads and closed their doors overnight.

At noon the next day, a supplementary solution was finally released after a negotiation team composed of representatives of the government, Huitong Qianzhuang and the Hankou Chamber of Commerce.

The plan has made many hidden arrangements around the concerns of all parties, but the core of it is:

By donating 200,000 taels of collateral and continuing to sell materials to the government, Huitong Qian Zhuang gained control of the Huguang Qian Zhuang Guild and a monopoly position in Huguang with silver banknotes. Cash Bank completely withdrew from the government tax settlement system.

All the family property and shares of the shareholders and senior executives of Yutaifeng who are responsible for this case are confiscated to make up for the losses of Huitong Money Bank and other innocent merchants, and the shares held by other unrelated shareholders, including the clan officials, are not touched.

If the problem of military supplies is solved, things will not be magnified, and political responsibility will be easy to say. This is the logic of the government's handling of this case.

If Zuo Liangyu doesn't make trouble, Song Yihe doesn't make trouble, Li Zhensheng doesn't make trouble, and Huguang Fan doesn't make trouble according to the two divisions, the probability of the court being held accountable is very small.

The personal interests of the clans and officials have been preserved, and the interests of the vast majority of merchants have also been preserved, so the map of Huguang's commercial interests has not changed greatly, but there is a new boss.

According to the rules of the bank, the value of the collateral is discounted by at least 7%. The collateral for a loan of 200,000 taels is worth nearly 300,000 taels. The boss of the money bank was chosen by the firm himself, and the right of way of the silver banknote was originally the government's request to transfer the money bank. Huitong Qianzhuang donated so many materials free of charge, which solved the urgent need of the Huguang government, and a money boss and the right of way of silver banknotes are definitely not enough to compensate.

Therefore, a few days later, Zhou Wenzheng, the chief shopkeeper of a newly registered Wuchang firm "Shu Salt Ji", suddenly became the head of the Hankou Salt Merchant Guild.

The first thing Zhou Wenzheng did after his arrival was to announce in a high-profile manner that the Salt Merchants Guild would organize its own salt and ban Huai Salt from entering Chu.

The notices of the Salt Merchant Guild were posted at the gates of the major cities of Wuchang. It said: Once Huai salt is found to be in Chu, it will be disposed of in the sinking river! Those who transport salt and sell salt will be transferred to the government and severely punished for the crime of selling illegal salt!

Note 1: "The good wind relied on its strength to send me to the clouds." The excerpt is from Xue Baochai's willow lyrics "Linjiang Immortal".