Chapter 143: Huang Zhi's handle
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Speaking of which, since Wu Zhi came to Qingzhou, every time Huang Zhi provoked something, Wu Zhi has been in a passive defensive state.
The reason why Wu Zhi didn't take the initiative to attack, of course, was not because he was soft-hearted, but because he had just come to Qingzhou, his foothold was not stable, and he had no foundation, and Huang Zhi was not only powerful, but his scheming city government was also unfathomable, and Wu Zhi was powerless to fight back at the beginning.
Now it's different, the newspaper that Wu Zhi has been preparing for several months has finally come out, and Wu Song is also constantly making meritorious promotions, and now Wu Song's position and prestige in the army have completely overshadowed Huang Xin. As soon as the Wuzhi newspaper came out, the hearts of the merchants and people in Qingzhou immediately favored their side without any suspense, and they were already on a par with Huang Zhi in terms of financial and human resources, and it was time to start fighting back!
Although this kind of calculation between businessmen is not as tragic as the soldiers fighting on the battlefield, but the real fight is also an undercurrent, killing people without blood, saying cruelty is really cruel, Pan Jinlian was almost killed by Huang Zhi's calculation, this Qiu Wuzhi will not forget.
Before the newspaper was published, Wu Zhi had already asked his reporters to find out Huang Zhi's handle.
In fact, in this era, it is not so easy to catch a person's pigtails, not how deep it is hidden, but how it cannot be found......
First of all, people in this era pay a lot of attention to reputation, especially those who are rich, even if they don't cultivate themselves, they will never do anything detrimental to virtue on weekdays, the society is rich, the business is developed, and the money is so easy to make, why bother to be a traitor?
Besides, this is ancient times, and it's too difficult to find a handle...... What is a handle? Of course, it is a stain on a person's moral cultivation, or a violation of the law.
Huang Zhi obviously won't do anything that violates the law, why should he be so rich and uncomfortable to break the law. The second is the stain on moral cultivation, which is very easy to find in the 21st century where Wu Zhi is located, but all rich and powerful people basically have some life style problems, such as taking a second wife, raising a junior, **** drug abuse and gambling...... Anyone who violates the same offense and is exposed by the media is a big trouble.
β¦β¦ However, in ancient times, these problems did not constitute a problem of life style at all.
Second grandmother and third child? There are a lot of rich men who marry a seven-room and eight-room person, this is too normal, if Wu Zhi's newspaper talks about this, wouldn't it be rare and strange? And also****...... Nima, the high-grade brothels in this era are all run by the government, completely legal, completely regular, strictly counted, those prostitutes belong to the imperial court civil servants, and there are establishments...... Wu Zhi didn't know what to do about this.
If it weren't for the nightly sleeping rotation system formulated by the three ladies in the family who looked at Wu Zhi to death, Wu Zhi would have gone to the Qinglou to have a dash.
Of course, there is no drug use, gambling is also legal in ancient times, although the poor will be despised for gambling, but the rich have no moral problems at all.
Therefore, although Huang Zhi is contaminated with everything from eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, Wu Zhi can't do anything with him at all.
And Huang Zhi, who has never done anything else, such as stealing widows, picking up daughters-in-law, and Longyang's goodness......... Wuzhi newspapers can't be fabricated out of thin air!
Fortunately, the reporters under Wu Zhi's hands were powerful enough, and they dug Huang Zhi for half a month, almost turning Huang Zhi upside down, and finally dug up a useful clue for Wu Zhi.
It turns out that the reason why Huang Zhi is so rich is not only by selling salt, in addition to the light industry of selling salt, Huang Zhi also controls an underground industry, that is, usury!
In the Song Dynasty, there were no formal banks and banks, and most of the capital turnover between merchants relied on the most primitive way, that is, borrowing money from each other, and the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce also had this reason, and the reason why Huang Zhi was able to become the president was because he was the richest, and the members could borrow money from him from time to time.
The interest rate on loans in the chamber of commerce is very low, and some are even interest-free, so Liu An and others will be so scolding Huang Zhi, this is not Huang Zhi's handle, Huang Zhi's real handle is to secretly send people to put usury around the casino.
The gambling industry has always been a profiteering industry, there are four major gambling houses in Qingzhou City, after the reporters secretly investigated, these four gambling houses almost all secretly have some unclear relationship with Huang Zhi, and the source of the black money in it comes from Huang Zhi!
Although the government does not explicitly prohibit the gambling industry, it still verbally prohibits usury, although the government prohibits it, but the management is very small, after all, this does not violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.
The most hated usury is the people, mainly because the usury is too black-hearted, and the means of debt collection are too cruel, and they sell their wives and daughters at every turn, and the gambler who borrows money is not worthy of sympathy, but his family is innocent, and he is even more helpless.
Because usury has caused the destruction of countless families, the people are deeply disgusted by usury, and even the chamber of commerce prohibits those who open casinos from entering, and those who open casinos and those who lend usury are also the same thing.
And all the evidence that Wu Zhi has pointed out that Huang Zhi, who has a good image among the people of Qingzhou, is the big boss who puts loan sharks behind the scenes!
Thinking about it, Huang Zhi made so much money selling salt, and he couldn't spend it all, and he could make a lot of money by lending usury.
If the news of Huang Zhi's usury is published in the newspaper, then this is undoubtedly a slap in the face to Huang Zhi, and it can also make his reputation stink, you know, Huang Zhi is not an absolute monopoly on the salt industry in Qingzhou, and the official salt is also open to sell salt every day.
Although the official salt business is not angry, it is good to change it if it is not angry, as long as there are professionals to help......
Of course, Wu Zhi will not expose all of Huang Zhi's usury in the newspaper at one time, it is too urgent, it will be suspected by the people, and the effect is not good.
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The next day, the front page of the newspaper did not break the news, but with the headline "Inventory of the Families Murdered by Usury in Qingzhou in Recent Years" in large bold letters, it made a detailed and comprehensive report on the typical cases of many families persecuted by usury in Qingzhou in recent years, and used bloody and vivid cases to indict the harm of usury to ordinary people, and called on the people to resist usury and never borrow money.
On the surface, it is to call on everyone to boycott, but in fact, the article is full of anger between the lines, just to pull the hatred of the people, first pull enough hatred, and then the people will break out unstoppable.
At the end of the article, it was also revealed that the newspaper reporters would further track down the source of usury in order to completely eliminate this scourge - in fact, it was a hint that the people still had a follow-up to prepare for the exposure of Huang Zhi in the future, depending on when the hatred reached its peak.
Wu Zhi is not afraid that Huang Zhi will be vigilant, because Wu Zhi has already grasped the conclusive evidence of Huang Zhi's usury in advance, even if Huang Zhi withdraws in time now, Wu Zhi will make him speechless after exposing the evidence in the future!
Wu Zhi is now like pulling a bow and shooting an arrow, the tip of the arrow is aimed at Huang Zhi, the bowstring must be slowly rounded, and then the arrow can be released to maximize the lethality.
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