Outside Xin'an City, a few days ago the common people dried up the water in the paddy fields and began to dry the fields, now the rice has been scorched, soon the people will welcome a bumper harvest, they can not enjoy the joy of a few days of harvest, and then they will plant the seeds of the next season, rice farming is like this season by season, and the cycle repeats, feeding the people for a lifetime. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, for the common people, sowing seeds is very important, even as important as a good harvest, one is to sow hope, and the other is to reap the fruits.

Zhu Jinglun has returned to Xin'ancheng, under the training of Indian officers, those soldiers recruited by Hou Jin have made rapid progress one by one, these people have a good foundation, the British have conducted basic training for them, and now they have to make up for the use of weapons, mainly the use of rifled rifles.

After all this is done, they are not a regular army, and there is still a big gap between them and the Anglo-French army, because they are not yet able to cooperate with artillery and cavalry like the Anglo-French army, and can only be said to be a group of village warriors with rifles, but Zhu Jinglun believes that even so, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary Qing troops.

Zhu Jinglun also brought back his group of artillery from the manhole, including eighteen Irish officers, plus some selected gunners, as for the artillery, there were only 20 British and French infantry guns, these were gifts from Huang Zonghan, which were forced out of the mouths of Hua Tingjie and others.

The gunners had to figure out their own way, in the first battle of Guangzhou, the gunners suffered a lot of injuries, and those gunners who survived, as long as they were at the disposal of Hua Tingjie, Li Futai, Lin Fuxiang and others, they were all treated as treasures, and none of them were willing to let them out.

Zhu Jinglun sent more than a dozen children brought back from the Chen family to the artillery team, let them learn from the Irish officers, what they can learn depends on themselves, what the Irish can teach, he does not intend to interfere, only tell them, teach a qualified artilleryman, reward them with one hundred taels of silver, the approximate system is decided, the rest depends on them, for Manager Zhu, let professional people do professional things, than he himself to meddle at will.

Zhu Jinglun understands his identity very well, he should be a person who makes rules, not a person who implements them, what he needs to be responsible for is to supervise whether the rules he makes are appropriate, if they are appropriate, supervise and let the rules run well, if they are not suitable, modify the rules, or even go further, and develop an effective mechanism that can reasonably correct the rules, so that it is only necessary to maintain the good operation of this mechanism.

A figure like Fang Shan is obviously the person that Zhu Jinglun will use to maintain the rules or mechanisms in the future, but at this time, Zhu Jinglun is still in the stage of establishing rules, and Fang Shan and they can only be in the stage of enforcing the rules.

It has been three days since Fang Shan arrived in Macao, he is not alone, of course there is no one from Zhu Jinglun by his side, because Zhu Jinglun has no one to send, and Fang Shan is surrounded by a group of people from the Wu family.

Not only did he borrow money from the Wu family, but he also borrowed money from the Wu family.

This was not what Zhu Jinglun requested, this was Fang Shan's own decision, because if a million taels of silver were placed in his hands, he didn't know what he would do, he was poor and afraid, but he was a smart person, he knew that some money was not so easy to take, and it was not something that smart people would do.

Fang Shan didn't know that he couldn't stand the temptation of a million taels of silver, and he also knew that Zhu Jinglun was definitely not sure, but Zhu Jinglun didn't take any precautions, so he directly handed over this matter to him to be responsible, Fang Shan understood that this was still a test, he was not afraid of the test, although the test meant that Zhu Jinglun didn't fully trust him, but he could understand that he was not Zhu Jinglun's relative, not to mention that even in front of his relatives, he might not be at ease to dominate a million taels of silver, and Zhu Jinglun gave him this power, This means that even if this is a test, it is a test of gold, and few people are entitled to such a test.

In order to let himself withstand this test without fail, Fang Shan made his own opinion, he borrowed someone from the Wu family, he didn't plan to touch money, not a single copper, this was a firewall he set up for himself, guarding against his own greed, protecting his own net worth and his wealth and wealth.

One million taels, even for the rich Wu family, it is a huge amount of money, and the Wu family is also extremely serious, they sent their most trustworthy people, several old shopkeepers from the Wu family, a group of people who live in the Wu family and will enlist in the ancestral grave of the Wu family after death.

"How much did you lose today?"

For three days in a row, the money was lost like a stream, and the means of trading in this way were a few old shopkeepers who had been in the shopping mall for a long time, and their hearts were trembling.

"I lost thirty-five thousand taels."

A shopkeeper said with a bit of tightness in his chest.

Fang Shan was at ease, he couldn't help but thank himself for his wise decision, if he was in charge of the money himself, he would definitely not be able to do it so easily.

"Well, tomorrow to continue."

He said casually, and in a few words, he decided the flow of hundreds of thousands of silver coins, and this kind of bearing, these shopkeepers have only seen it in Wu Bingjian, who has been dead for many years.

They all sighed and left, and they were busy.

What is it called when they are busy every day?

secretly spent money to put away the bills of exchange, and then hurriedly found those powerful big merchants to exchange, and they exchanged it in the name of the Wu family, and they, the old shopkeepers of Jardine Matheson, also have very connections in Macau.

Therefore, it is impossible for their actions not to arouse the doubts of people with intentions, and many channels have already asked them, but the Wu family only replied that there is a shortage of cash at the moment, so they have to exchange some of the bills of exchange that have accumulated in the past.

But the power of the Wu family is too strong, no one even wants to believe it for a while, all kinds of rumors have come out, some say that the Wu family has suffered a catastrophe and needs to save their lives with a lot of money, and some also swear that the Wu family plans to run away, because there is accurate information that the Qing government has planned to settle accounts with the Wu family and want to raid the family and exterminate the family, so the Wu family plans to cash in on the industry and flee to Citigroup.

The East India Company's bills of exchange were very firm, and even the price was a one-to-one purchase, but when they were sold, they only needed 90% cash on the first day, 80% on the second day, and 7% on the third day.

The experienced shopkeeper of the Wu family did not understand this method of trading, and Fang Shan actually did not understand it, but if the group of speculators in London or New York saw it, they could recognize it at a glance that someone was shorting the bills of exchange of the East India Company.

After another three days, the price has been maintained at the seventh floor, but their purchase price has also been lowered, and they can be collected with eighty percent of the face price. That is to say, Macao's bill of exchange market has changed from a simple exchange tool to a financial instrument that can be bought and sold and obtain the difference.

To do financial manipulation, no financial market can't do it, but relying on the strength of the Wu family, Fang Shan has created such a trading market for financial products in a short period of time.

In another three days, it is still 80 percent in, 70 percent out, and 10 percent of the loss, but the source of bills of exchange is no longer limited to Macao, and many Hong Kong bills of exchange are flocking to Macao, and Fang Shan's operation in Macao has pulled the Hong Kong market in.

At this time, according to Zhu Jinglun's plan, it was time to stop.

Take stock at night.

"Today we lost 100,000 taels!"

The heart of the old shopkeeper of the Wu family is dripping blood, although this is not his money, he doesn't want to see such a loser.

Fang Shan nodded, today they used one million taels for operation, and the loss was one hundred thousand taels, and these 100,000 taels involved the entire large and small foreign banks in Macao, and recently almost all foreign banks were discussing the Wu family's sale of bills of exchange, and they all knew that they could receive cheaper bills of exchange privately, and it was a profit of one percent to sell them to the Wu family, which was a good deal, especially when Guangzhou was not passable, and the coast was confronted with the British, and there was also a confrontation between the Turks and the Turks, and there was no good deal to do on the entire southeast coastMany foreign banks even regard the reselling of bills of exchange as their biggest business, and they also handle the collection of bills of exchange from Hong Kong.

"How much money did we lose in total?"

Fang Shan asked again.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand seven thousand eight hundred taels."

The old shopkeeper replied.

Fang Shan nodded: "Let's end tomorrow, you don't have to go to exchange the bills of exchange, you are bothered by the shopkeepers, go and inform some familiar ocean companies, and tell them that after receiving the news, the British Parliament dissolved the East India Company, and the East India Company's bill of exchange has become a piece of waste paper, and in the London market, not a single copper can be redeemed." ”

Fang Shan just finished speaking, some of these old shopkeepers couldn't help but gasp, obviously they reacted quickly and already understood what they were doing during this time, they were doing a bill of exchange bureau, China does not have a mature financial market, but these experienced shopkeepers, who have not done such a handicap as hoarding Juqi, hoarding cotton, hoarding tea, hoarding silk, and even hoarding crows, but they didn't expect that this thing can also be played like this, The main thing is that they did not know that the British had dissolved the East India Company, which in their eyes had always been the same as the British government, and of course the shrewd ones understood that the East India Company was a monopoly trading house like their Thirteen Lines, but so what, it did not prevent them from doubting the credibility of the company.

Now that Fang Shan shook out the news, they immediately understood that this was a handicap, disturbing the handicap of the bill of exchange, then it was time to kill the pig next, even if there was no Fang Shan in the back, they would do the rest, and they might do better.

Fang Shan then confessed, released the news, and began to only collect and not sell, but could not be collected at full price, only according to seventy percent of the face value, and to tighten step by step, as low as it could be, until the price of the bill of exchange rebounded to the par price.

Fang Shan's mission came to an end, and according to Zhu Jinglun's explanation, he returned to Xin'an to resume his life. But when he boarded the Xin'an wharf, he found that the farmland in the distance had been harvested, and the hard-working farmers had sown new seeds in the fields of hope after reaping the fruits of the harvest. Little did he know at this time that he had actually sown a seed and was waiting to be harvested.