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At that time, people would never be evil when they did business, whether they were buyers or not, they had to be politely entertained, like Shi Congbin, a big proprietor, from fragrant tea to dim sum, there was a shopkeeper to accompany him to talk, and Yusheng's shopkeeper also asked Shi Congbin if there was any arrangement at night, Shi Congbin apologized, he was going to have dinner with a few old friends in the evening, and then there were guests waiting to meet after returning to the hall.

After expressing regret with Yusheng's shopkeeper, Shi Congbin patted his head and said: "I almost forgot to pay silver from your account, this time I have to do a lot of goods, and I need to take out seven thousand taels, which is not small, I don't know if the silver taels can be prepared." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "This matter is the beginning and end of the account bureau, in fact, our stall is too big, there are many procedures, sometimes ask the guests to wait, it is really embarrassing, the silver of the owner of the ship, has already said hello in advance, the silver has been sent over by the silver treasury." Some guests, if they come suddenly, I am afraid that they will have to delay things. Hundreds of taels and thousands of taels are fine, if it is a large withdrawal of more than 10,000 taels, I am afraid that you will have to say hello several days in advance, after all, there are too many semicolons now, and the silver treasury is also scattered, not afraid of the Lord Shi to laugh, the silver storage in the capital is still sufficient, if it is such as the true semicolon, I am afraid there is not much silver. If there is such a situation, please forgive the proprietor, and don't blame it. ”

Shi Congbin said quite understandingly: "Your business is so big, this situation is really normal, I also benefit from your account when I go out to do business, how can I be unhappy because of a little delay." ”

At the moment, Shi Congbin continued to look at the goods, and saw that the cloth of Heyusheng was fine and thick, and the quality was by no means under the Songjiang cloth, compared to the Shandong cloth and the local homespun cloth, I don't know where it was high, and even the yarn of some summer gauze was fine and compact, and light and breathable, compared to the quality of Songjiang cloth, it was a few points better, but unfortunately Shi Congbin had ordered the goods in other cloth stores, and he could only express regret.

"It's okay," the shopkeeper said with a smile: "Now there are many cloth shops in the capital selling our cloth, but unfortunately this year's volume is not large, only more than 300,000 horses, if there may be a million pieces of cloth next year, then we can sell them freely." ”

"Your proprietor Zhang is really generous in everything!"

As soon as Shi Congbin heard that 300,000 horses were still a small business, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he could sell more than 30,000 horses of cloth a year, and he was also the leading cloth merchant in Kaifeng and even Henan.

To be from He Yusheng out, Shi Congbin sighed all the way to the business house where he ordered the goods, and his silver was really taken out, fifty taels of big ingot silver, not official silver, but also a small "and" word, thinking that He Yusheng really makes any money, the business of casting silver should be convenient, just for the convenience of customers, not to make profits, the pattern is a few points higher than those princely mansions, and I heard that Hutchison issued silver coins in Shanxi to shop guys and those elite regiments who can fight the northern captives, Shi Congbin had a thought in his heart, but he was very interested in this silver coin, but unfortunately he had never seen what it looked like, if only he could see it with his own eyes.

Shi Congbin is a big grocer and cloth merchant, after ordering a large number of ironware with Yusheng, and went to several trading houses to order a large number of groceries, and then went to take down the ordered cloth, sure enough, the more than 1,000 pieces of cloth were carried by the cloth company from He Yusheng.

The shopkeeper of the cloth shop said: "The price is three percent lower, and we can also sell two to three percent lower than Songjiang cloth, and the price is low and it is easy to get out, and the quality is not worse than the southern goods. ”

Shi Congbin estimated that these big cloth shops would definitely kick back the goods from He Yusheng, but this was not his business, he smiled at the moment, and asked the man to take the cloth away and put it on the car, and drove the car to the mule and horse shop with Yusheng to park, and there were more than 10,000 or thousands of taels of goods on the way back, this time not only to play the flag of Hutchison, but also to go with the convoy of mules and horses, of course, parking fees and security fees also have to be paid, but compared to safety, it is still worth it.

In recent years, due to the bad weather, the bandits and thieves in various places have become more and more intense, Henan is a small number of twists, Shandong is very noisy, the bandits in Shandong during the Chongzhen period have developed to thousands of people and hundreds of people, and later the four towns in Jiangbei, there are many soldiers and horses from Shandong Xiangma Zhao'an to join the service, and the combat effectiveness of these people can be imagined.

Due to the strong bandits, experienced businessmen will try to strengthen security, some are dealing with the government, and some are running their own guards, but more businessmen are the same choice as Shi Congbin, either to hire and Yusheng's fleet and use the account bureau to transfer, or when there are goods to accompany them, choose Heyusheng's guards, no matter which one it is, compared to the power of their own organization of guards or sheltering the government, it is much easier to save trouble and effort.

drank wine with a group of big businessmen, and wrote a note and called a few well-known fans in the capital to come over, and everyone took one to leave, only Shi Congbin remembered that his family lived in a hall, not a hostel, and his nephew wanted to talk at night, so he could only force his heart to leave with his parents.

At that time, there were a lot of guild halls in the capital, from the provincial level to the prefecture level, and then subdivided into the county level, generally the local officials and wealthy businessmen donated money, bought a big mansion in the capital, where the county or the state capital can live in the same township, the cost is very low, cheaper than living in a hostel, there is really no money can also live in vain, like Shi Congbin's identity has to spend more money than living in a hostel, because he has to pay more money than ordinary people, at the end of the year, the director of the hall will go door-to-door to ask for donations, when the time comes, the good fate book, The share of the historian's donation is not low.

Because of this layer of relationship, Shi Congbin lived in a separate courtyard in the Xiangfu Hall, and a group of deacons in the hall ushered in the service of the send-off, every time he entered Kyoto to live here, he was very familiar with each other up and down, and he was used to it, even if it was a little inconvenient, he never changed to those hostels to live.

Moreover, there is another layer of benefit, except for a few poor people living in the hall, most of them are people with status, such as the old man who came early to wait for the exam, the students who traveled to study, the Fuxian Beijing official who Ding Wei returned to Beijing and has not yet reinstated, and the businessman with status who went to Beijing with Shi Congbin to do business.

All the way in, Shi Congbin has also been greeting people, from time to time with those who are worthy of standing and chatting a few words, making an appointment to drink tomorrow, in a few words, the banquet at noon and evening tomorrow has been set, Shi Congbin has to complete the goods, and he doesn't want to stay in the capital for a long time, so the candidates for this banquet are all short, flat and fast.

went to the room to wash off the dust on his face, changed into a home robe, and just sat down to calculate today's accounts for a while, the outside chief said: "Third master, the nephew and young master are here." ”

"When the constitution comes, you still want to pass it on?" Shi Congbin put down his pen and said, "Come in." ”

"Etiquette should not be abolished." Shi Kefa was very good-looking and personable, and after entering the house, he bowed for a long time, and then said with a smile: "My nephew went to the old mansion of Hange with his teacher and Yang Dahong today, but he encountered an interesting incident, so he was delayed. ”

"I said, why are you here so late?" Shi Congbin said with interest: "What interesting things, let's hear about them." ”

"Yes......" Shi Kefa sat down, first took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then explained the matter without hurry.

It turned out that tonight, Shi Kefa and Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and others went to visit Han Yi, the second assistant of the cabinet.

Recently, the struggle has become more and more intense, and the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by the officials of the Donglin Party has become more and more popular, but the emperor has not moved in the past two months, except for Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, and the whole thing has frozen.

If it is an ordinary matter, the emperor will treat this matter as cold, after all, it is estimated that the Son of Heaven is also because the movement is too big, it is not easy to use any thunderous means, the matter has been delayed so far, the government and the opposition feel a little anxious, and the officials have more actions in private, and of course, the Donglin family often visits each other and exchanges some news with each other.

Shortly after everyone arrived in the Han Mansion today, the foreign minister came in to report that there was an important guest to see.

The Han Mansion is the Prime Minister's Mansion anyway, and it is impossible to enter without identity, and it is Gu Bingqian who is invited to meet today, and he is also one of the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, and the Wei Party currently has two scholars in the cabinet, and Gu Bingqian is one of them.

Although they are not from the same party and have no friendship in private, as one of his cabinet colleagues, Gu Bingqian's qualifications and status are enough, and Han Yi immediately ordered the middle door to be opened to greet him.

When Han Yi, Shi Kefa and the others arrived at the middle gate, they found that the guest standing in the middle was not Gu Bingqian, but a tall man with a tall figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a dignified appearance, and a white beard.

Han Yi was a little aggressive at that time, and he even forgot the etiquette of letting guests into the house, but Wei Zhongxian didn't mind, and directly stated that he wanted to ask Han Yi to mediate the political dispute between himself and Donglin's party.

Wei Zhongxian's condition was that the Wei Party demoted several particularly hated backbones, such as Xu Xianchun and others who were in charge of Jinyi Wei Zhenfu Division, and the corresponding condition was that the Donglin Party was not allowed to impeach him again.

Originally, Han Yi, as the boss of a faction of the Donglin Party, was still a little frightened by the current embarrassing situation...... It is not terrible to have an enemy, nor is it terrible for civilian officials to fight verbally, but what is terrible is that the enemy is asymmetrical, and the information is not symmetrical, and now we have no idea how far the situation has developed, as if a person is walking in the dark, and it is pitch black in all directions, and even if there is nothing, he will be scared half to death.

As soon as Wei Zhongxian came over like this, in Han Yi's opinion, it made things clear, if it wasn't for Wei Zhongxian's loss of power in the palace, evil to the Son of Heaven, and being reprimanded by the Son of Heaven, how could he put down his shelf and come to beg for peace in person?

Is this and how easy it is to promise? Don't say that Han Yi himself is the backstage of the troublemakers in the Donglin Party, and he likes to cause trouble the most, even if he himself thought about this matter and promised Wei, how could the rest of the party agree? Don't say that Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, the strongmen with super combat effectiveness in front of them, how can Zhao, Nanxing, Zou Yuanbiao and others, who have gradually become low-key in recent years, deal with it? The power of the Donglin party is indeed in full swing, but because there are too many people, there are many comrades in the party who have disliked, and Han Yi is relatively brave and ruthless, or he likes to flaunt himself, which is equivalent to raising himself in a very high position, how can Han Yi rashly agree to Wei Zhongxian's request?

"Just refused in public?" Shi Congbin felt incredible, and after listening to it, he was dumbfounded.