"The little nephew has heard of it, it is said that he has no shame, and in order to seek an official position, a person with a sixtieth birthday actually thinks that he is the grandson of Li Wenfu in the dynasty."

"This is true, so such a person who is incorruptible and shameless will naturally use any despicable means." Liu Jiangbai was quite disdainful of Liu Ziqin.

After thinking for a while, he continued: "In addition to Liu Ziqin, there are two other people you have to be wary of, the first is Liu Kun, who bullied you some time ago, and the other is Zhang Qingshan, the owner of the Yangbu Bank, he is the son-in-law of Guo Xianglin, the head of the first line of the six lines in Songjiang, and Guo Xianglin is the head of Li Wenfu's single-handedly up. ”

"It turned out to be a comprador." Lin Mu sneered.

In the eighteenth century and before, the trade between the West and the Chinese Dynasty was very little, and it could even be said that it was dispensable, because the East and the West were too far apart to trade conveniently, and although the West at that time had made progress in science and technology, most of them were still dominated by handicraft workshops, and trade was not dominant.

However, after entering the nineteenth century, with the completion of the second industrial revolution, Western countries entered mechanized production, and urgently needed to sell a large number of industrial products in exchange for raw materials, coupled with the opening of the Suez Canal and the use of steamships, the time between the East and the West was shortened to two months.

Britain, in particular, took control of the Indian subcontinent after India's victory over France, becoming the country that traded the most with the Chinese dynasty.

It's just that although the Hua Dynasty is not closed to the country like the late Qing Dynasty, it still has the thinking of the Heavenly Empire, and regards the countries outside the territory as Yidi, so it does not attach much importance to trade with foreigners, until the Jin soldiers went south and the Hua Dynasty retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court expanded trade with foreigners, and set up six treaty ports along the coast.

"Why did Da Lang sneer." Liu Jiangbai looked surprised.

"There is nothing wrong with compradors, but suppressing the development of local industry and commerce for their own interests is tantamount to representing the interests of foreigners and harming the interests of the Chinese people. Lin Mu said hatefully.

In the late Qing Dynasty, many compradors representing the interests of the West were popular in China, advocating that it was better to buy than to build, and this led to the sluggish development of national industry, so that advanced technology would always be in the hands of foreigners, and they had a share in the poverty and weakness of modern times.

"Well, this is reasonable, and now there are some people in the Fa-changing faction who are like Zhang Qingshan, blindly wanting to become stronger by buying, without thinking about building the Hua Dynasty's own things, which is really short-sighted." Liu Jiangbai sighed, and only when he was inside the Fa Reform Sect did he know the complexity of various currents of thought.

Lin Mu didn't listen to what Liu Jiangbai was saying, his mind was all on the foreign goods business, soap was so successful in the early days, when the expansion of trade was, now the West also lacks high-quality soap, if you can trade with foreigners, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money from foreigners.

So he said: "Uncle Liu, the pros and cons of foreign goods are all in one thought, betraying the country for profit is a thief for the country, selling domestic goods and foreigners is equivalent to letting silver flow into the country, if the little nephew can trade with foreigners, it is impossible to sell soap to foreigners." ”

"You also want to set up a foreign goods store?" Liu Jiangbai instantly understood Lin Mu's thoughts, pondered for a while, and said: "This is not impossible, if you can properly handle tomorrow's incident, King Duan and I will naturally be able to reprimand Li Wenfu and his party in front of the official family, and take the opportunity to seek the president of a foreign goods store for you." ”

Lin Mu's eyes lit up, earning the silver of the Hua Dynasty was naturally not as happy as earning the silver of foreigners, he patted his chest and promised: "Uncle Liu, don't worry, even if the little nephew scatters all the family wealth, it will settle the matter." ”

"That's good." Liu Jiangbai nodded.

Talking all the way, the two went home.

When he arrived at the Lin Mansion, Lin Mu picked up the pen and wrote down his thoughts, just waiting for the announcement tomorrow.

……

Liu's compound.

Liu Ziqin, Liu Kun, and Zhang Qingshan were drinking tea, and the housekeeper He Cong was standing on one side.

After drinking a bowl of tea, Liu Kun and Zhang Qingshan glanced at each other, as if they had reached some kind of tacit understanding, put down the teacup, Liu Kun smiled flatteringly, and said in a low voice: "Liu Gong, just like the one who discussed in the restaurant that day, the little one has ordered the housekeeper He Cong to send someone to the nearby countryside to spread the news, and now he has gathered five or six thousand people, just wait for the people to go to the government tomorrow to beat the drum and voice their grievances, and then Liu Jiangbai will not be able to come to the stage." ”

Zhang Qingshan interface, "Lin's weaving workshop sells cloth at a low price, which makes the business of the foreign cloth shop plummet, Guo Xing is very dissatisfied with this, if it goes on like this for a long time, the business of Songjiang Liuxing will not be able to continue, and the silver of filial piety to Li Xianggong can only be discounted." ”

Liu Ziqin took a sip of tea and rinsed his mouth in his mouth, spit out the water, and said sharply: "Anyone's silver can be discounted, but Li Xiangye's silver can't be less than a penny, if it is less, Guo Xianglin and his business will not want to be a boss." ”

"Liu Gong, now that the foreign cloth can't be sold, we can't help it." Zhang Qingshan couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Snorting lightly, Liu Ziqin said, "Isn't there a way?" You take more silver and come out tomorrow to make trouble, it is best to make trouble, and when this fold arrives in Beijing, whether it is Duanwang, Liu Jiangbai or that Lin Mu, they all have to go around without eating. ”

Liu Kun and Zhang Qingshan nodded, and then the two of them signaled to their respective subordinates, and after a while, two large boxes were carried up, and the boxes were opened, and they were white flowers.

"At that time, I hope that Liu Gong will say a few kind words for the two of us in front of Li Xianggong." Although Liu Kun and Zhang Qingshan have different interests, they both want to have Li Wenfu as a backer.

Liu Ziqin swept over the two boxes of silver, slightly satisfied.

Liu Kun breathed a sigh of relief, and when he remembered something, he asked: "Gong Liu, the government has supervised the regimental training recently, is it that the Jin soldiers are going south." ”

Zhang Qingshan was also extremely concerned about this matter, and after the news of supervising the group training was released, he sent someone to transport some of the gold, silver and jewelry at home to Fuzhou.

When he mentioned this, Liu Ziqin suddenly changed color, he had never been afraid of anything in the court, but this Jin man was a master who slaughtered the city if he was unhappy.

After learning from the mouths of his friends in Beijing that Jin Bing did indeed move south, he was so frightened that he never slept all night, and he had already planned to flee south.

And taking advantage of this time, he just wanted to make more money, Liu Kun and Zhang Qingshan were naturally very happy when they came to the door at this time.

"This matter is just a precautionary measure for the imperial court, and the Jin people didn't call it so easily, you put your heart in your stomach." Liu Ziqin deceived the two, he knew that once he told the truth, Jiang Ning would inevitably be in chaos at that time, and it would not be easy for him to leave at that time, after all, as a general judge of Jiang Ning, he and Fu Yin had the duty to guard the city.

Liu Kun and Zhang Qingshan didn't think much about it, they were a little more steady, and they just waited for Lin Mu to give color tomorrow.