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"I said that Mr. Wu is a smart person. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Ji Gao, quickly help Mr. Wu up! Feng Yunshan commanded, and then said: "Mr. Wu, to be honest, over the years, you have helped the Qing demons raise military salaries to suppress our anti-Qing rebels. He also took the lead in setting up the Western Bureau and recruiting Ding Zhuang's regiment to practice defending the city, so that our holy army captured Guangzhou and suffered heavy losses. ”

"This king originally wanted to confiscate all the wealth of your Wu family, and then uproot your Wu family. Later, Ji Gao and Xiangguang dissuaded him, thinking that Mr. Wu was also forced by the situation, so he gave you this opportunity. In the future, the Wu family will serve my Taiping Holy Army. ”

"Thank you for your leniency! Mr. Xie Zuo's life-saving grace! Wu Chongyao thanked the two of them, and then said, "Chongyao will lead the holy soldiers to dig up the buried money and hand it over to the holy king." Since then, my Wu family has followed the Holy King to follow the work of dogs and horses. ”

"Mr. Wu, this king has long known that the Wu family has hidden money. I heard that your Wu family's wealth is more than 20 million taels, I don't know if it's true? This king knows that you still have a grudge against you, and it doesn't matter. To put it bluntly, in the future, your family members are not allowed to leave Guangzhou City at will, even if you want to go back to Fujian to worship your ancestors, you also need to be in batches, and you will be accompanied and protected by my Taiping holy soldiers. ”

Speaking of this Wu family, Feng Yunshan really knows a little.

When I was still in college, I liked to watch the news, and it was the turn of the millennium, when the Wall Street Journal listed the 50 richest people in the last thousand years, with a total of 6 Chinese, one of whom was Wu Chongyao's father --- Wu Bingjian at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

It was at that time that Feng Yunshan remembered the Wu family in Guangzhou. According to the accurate assessment of historical data collected by the Americans, Wu Bingjian's personal assets reached 26 million taels of silver before his death. You must know that the financial income of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time was only 40 million taels of silver.

Therefore, the Americans called him the richest man in the world at that time, and he was much richer than Queen Victoria of England and Napoleon III and Nicholas I of Tsarist Russia in terms of realizable assets and cash alone.

Even after Wu Bingjian's death, because the monopoly position of the officials and businessmen of the 13 banks in Guangzhou was no longer there, all of them became private compradors, and the Wu family's Jardine Matheson was still the first commercial house in Guangzhou's foreign trade firms. The Wu family's property will not be damaged too much.

Wu Chongyao was shocked in his heart!

The Wu family has always been low-key, although the entire city of Guangzhou, even the emperor of the Manchu court knows that the Wu family is rich and rivals, but no one knows how many there are, how did Feng Yunshan know this?

He saw that Feng Yunshan was determined to take all the people of the Wu family as hostages, and knew that this was Feng Yunshan's bottom line, so he didn't dare to object.

Seeing that Wu Chongyao was almost shocked by himself, Feng Yunshan said with a straight face: "Mr. Wu, let's be honest, do you think that my Taiping Holy Kingdom has a shallow foundation?" Even if you occupy Liangguang, sooner or later you will be encircled and wiped out by the Manchus? ”

"To be honest, the words of the Holy King speak to Wu's heart." Wu Chongyao smiled bitterly.

"Indeed, my Taiping Holy Kingdom was separated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and I founded the country with the Holy Religion, and the foundation is still shallow for the time being."

However, as long as the "Shengguo Tianmu System" is well implemented, the peasants of Guangxi and Guangxi can be firmly tied to their hands, and this alone will be invincible. Because with the support of the vast number of peasants, there is the most extensive source of soldiers! ”

"But the main strength of the Qing Demon relies on the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. Presumably, Mr. Wu also knows very well that the Eight Banners soldiers are arrogant and lax, and they do all kinds of evil, not only with corrupt military discipline and sparse training, but also with corrupt lives, drug addiction and gambling, and ravaging the people. Among the soldiers in the green battalion, they deducted military salaries, colluded with soldiers and bandits, were full of corruption, and had no training, and they had long been reduced to a showmanship that could only frighten the common people. ”

"Now I, the Taiping Holy Army, occupy the land of Liangguang. According to the king's speculation, the Taiping army in the Huguang area would soon capture Wuchang and go down the Yangtze River to threaten the land of the two rivers. And the uprising of the northern twist army is in full swing; The hidden worries of the Hui people can erupt at any time; There are also Western powers, eyeing each other. The Manchu Mansion will fall, this is true! Feng Yunshan finished speaking the general trend of the world in one breath.

Wu Chongyao and Zuo Zongtang were dumbfounded when they heard this. Zuo Zongtang is face of respect.

And Wu Chongyao, he believed what Feng Yunshan said from the bottom of his heart, but reason told him that this was indeed the case. I can't imagine that the Manchu Dynasty is so erosive. However, how could the Holy King be sure that those long-haired thieves would definitely capture Wuchang soon, and they would also go down the river?

In this way, if the long-haired thief army really occupies the Liangjiang area, then the Manchu court does not have much spare strength to recover the Liangguang area, and it is also a reliable choice to join the Taiping Holy Army. It is impossible to be martyred for the Manchus.

Thinking about it like this, Wu Chongyao couldn't help but feel relieved in his heart, and his tone became more attentive and cautious: "What the Holy King said is extremely true! Chongyao has been taught! Chongyao is no longer worried about the sky, and he will join the holy kingdom wholeheartedly. ”

"Since Chongyao said so, this king is also relieved!" Feng Yunshan also became affectionate, even changed his title, and turned his head to Zuo Zongtang and said, "Ji Gao, this king is going to pay tribute, so you can tell Chongyao about this king's intentions." ”

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, and then turned to Wu Chongyao: "Mr. Wu, what the Holy King means is that it is far from enough for our Taiping Holy Kingdom to have the peasants of Liangguang alone, and we must have sufficiently advanced weapons. ”

"And advanced weapons, all in the hands of foreigners at the moment, can only be bought. However, there are two ways to buy weapons, one is to buy weapons and ammunition directly, and the other is to buy machinery and equipment for manufacturing weapons and ammunition. What the Holy King means is that we should buy both weapons and ammunition and machinery and equipment that can directly make weapons and ammunition. ”

Wu Chongyao said, "What the Holy King said is right! However, Chongyao has dealt with foreigners from many countries before, mainly trading civilian goods, occasionally buying a small number of foreign guns and cannons, and also purchasing them on Hong Kong Island and Xiangmen through foreigner friends he knows. Large-scale orders for weapons are not only a question of whether foreigners are willing to sell them, but also that the foreigner government will jump out and interfere nine times out of ten, and this is the biggest trouble. ”

"The Holy King has already thought about it. That's why I use Mr. Wu! Zuo Zongtang continued: "Mr. Wu came forward to set up a new foreign firm, and Taiping Shengguo accounted for eighty percent of the shares. The remaining 10% will be invested by your Wu family, and the other will be jointly funded by the Xu family, another Pan family who has taken refuge in the Holy Country, and other Guangzhou commercial banks that the Holy Kingdom has recognized as reliable. ”

"Because the Wu family helped the Qing demon suppress the rebels, their crime was huge, and all the Wu family's property must be confiscated, including the buried money. Mr. Wu also understands that the Holy King already knows the background of your Wu family. However, the Holy King has been doing good in your Wu family for generations, so he left 10% of the wealth for the Wu family to spend. ”

"Mr. Wu needs to take care of this new foreign company himself. The original Wu family's Jardine Matheson was also among the confiscated property. At present, we have tea shops, money houses, pawnshops, more than 100 shops, 30% of the shares of the American Qichang Foreign Bank, more than 10 other commercial bank debts, and the branches of Jardine Matheson Commercial Bank in Shanghai and Hong Kong Island, all of which have been merged into the new foreign bank. ”

Zuo Zongtang was also a little embarrassed to say it, and he suspected that the Holy King was embarrassed to walk away under the pretext of leaving. After all, the Qing Demon only snatched some cash from him, and did not directly rob the Wu family's property. But the Holy King wants to directly confiscate the entire Wu family's property.

Wu Chongyao was quite calm. For him, he was ready to raid the whole family and even exterminate the family. Now it's just that all the properties have been confiscated, and his Wu family can still take one percent of the shares, which is already good. The most important thing is that the entire Wu family is preserved, and he believes that as long as someone is there, with the means of his Wu family's management, he will soon be able to rise again.

Feng Yunshan came back. Zuo Zongtang nodded slightly at him, and Feng Yunshan knew that he had finished speaking.

He kept Wu Chongyao, in fact, he mainly liked the relationship between his Wu family and foreigners. It is really not easy to keep the Wu family and covet the Wu family's industry. In the end, Feng Yunshan could only find an excuse to fund and suppress the rebels.

However, there is also a strategy for strong grabbing. From the beginning, he was treated as a bandit, and it was natural to rob him.

Grab a part of it first, and leave a part for the Wu family, the Wu family must hold a grudge; First snatch it directly, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and then change your mind and give a little to the Wu family, the Wu family does not say that they are grateful to Dade, but the resentment in their hearts will be much lower. This is the difference, human nature.

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I'm on Sanjiang, I have to push the book, thank you:

1, "Emperor Feng of the Ages": A sword breaks the ages, a tripod of rivers and mountains....fantasy masterpiece, full of momentum.

2, "The Call of the Three Kingdoms: Water Margin": Lin Chong looks like Zhang Fei. Guan Yu, Guan Sheng, stupid can't tell the difference.