If the Western Xia army tore up the armistice and withdrawal agreement was still covered up by the imperial court, and only a few important ministers knew about it, then the Jin State officially declared war on the Song Dynasty could not be concealed, just three days after the Jin soldiers entered Yanshan Mansion, Guo Yaoshi surrendered, Yanshan Mansion was occupied by the Jin State, and the news of the annihilation of the 60,000 Song army spread throughout the capital.

For a time, the imperial court shook, and the entire capital was in an uproar.

Li Daqi was very busy during this time, he began to move his shops and manufacturing workshops to Hangzhou a few months ago, and he has closed three of the five Baoyanzhai stores in the capital, leaving only Baoyanzhai in Yujie and Baoyanzhai in Panlou Street have not been closed, and he will keep these two stores until the end.

At noon, Li Daqi came to Hongqiao Tea Tavern as usual, which is also the industry of Baoyan Zhai, and most tea taverns sell wine in the morning and evening, and drink tea at noon, but even if you drink tea, you also have snacks.

Today, the teahouse is particularly prosperous, and it is full of customers, who are basically the proprietors of the surrounding shops, and the teahouse is full of people.

"Li Yuanwai, long time no see!"

"It's been a long time, and the proprietor Zhang is blessed again!"

"Li Yuanwai, I heard that Baoyanzhai is also moving south?"

"Yes! Everyone is moving south, and Bao Yanzhai has to think about retreating. ”

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Li Daqi greeted all the way, and soon came to his fixed seat in front of the window to sit down, opposite is a thin old man, the old man's surname is Zhang, is one of the three major rice lines in the capital, the big shopkeeper of Wan's rice line, the main wharf of the rice line is located near Hongqiao, every day at noon, Zhang Da shopkeeper will also come to drink tea without moving, he is also a fixed seat, just opposite Li Daqi.

Li Daqi sat down, and the shopkeeper Zhang nodded with a smile and said, "Today is a little late." ”

"There was a customer visiting the store, and it was delayed for a while."

Soon, the guy came over and served Li Daqi tea and two plates of snacks, Li Daqi poured himself a cup and asked with a smile: "When does Mi Xing plan to move south?" ”

"Move the people away first, the family members of the owner will go south to Suzhou tomorrow, the store will be a while late, has Li Yuanwai's fleet arrived?"

"It should be today, and we will move our families first."

The shopkeeper Zhang said: "Today, the silver shops in the capital have stopped exchanging silver, and the price of silver in the black market has risen to 2,500 wen for one tael of silver, and gold cannot even be exchanged in the black market. ”

There are not many copper coins in Li Daqi's hand, and they have all been exchanged for silver, but he still has more than 100,000 guanzi, and he hurriedly asked, "What about the huizi?" ”

"The situation of the meeting is not good, I heard that the imperial court is tight, everyone is very worried that the meeting will be postponed, so some merchants have not accepted the meeting, I heard that the silver shop exchange will be discounted by ninety, I have been busy with the exchange of the past two days, Li Yuanwai should also hurry."

Li Daqi nodded silently, there are still a lot of Baoyan Zhai meetings in various places, and they must be cleaned up as soon as possible.

At this time, the tavern shopkeeper came over to greet Li Daqi, Li Daqi took a sip of tea and asked him, "What's the new news from Yanshan Mansion today?" ”

"There's a big deal today!"

The tavern shopkeeper sighed, "News came early this morning, Yizhou guard Han Minyi was surrendered by Guo Yaoshi, Yixian was occupied by the Jurchens, Zhizhou and Tongju were captured, Guo Yaoshi is really wolf-hearted, the official family is so kind to him, he still betrayed Yanshan Mansion." ”

A tea guest next to him snorted heavily, "It can only be said that the official family is blind, and he actually entrusted Yanshan Mansion to a Liao general, he betrayed the Liao State, and he will also betray the Great Song Dynasty, this kind of person with a long backbone actually has to be reused, who is stupid?" ”

Li Daqi was very grateful to Zhao Ji, he didn't want to hear criticism of Zhao Ji, and hurriedly argued: "You can't blame the official family for this, Yanshan Mansion has been controlled by the Liao State for a hundred years, and the people's hearts are towards Liao, and it is a wise move to use Liao to guard Yanshan Mansion in the future, and when Guo Yaoshi came to the capital, everyone praised him for having the Han family in his heart, valuing love and righteousness, and I didn't see anyone say that he had backbones, but I could only say that Guo Yaoshi was too good at disguise and deceived everyone." ”

Another tea guest next to him said loudly: "Li Yuanwai, this matter is really the responsibility of the official family, at the beginning, Fan Xianggong strongly opposed the Northern Expedition and insisted on retaining the Liao State as the barrier of the Great Song Dynasty, who insisted on the Northern Expedition?" did not hesitate to concoct the Fan Dang case, causing the loyal ministers to be wronged, isn't it the one in Yanfu Palace? We all thought that once Jin Bing went south, he would have to take full responsibility. ”

"Shopkeeper Sun is right, it is indeed the responsibility of the official family, everyone is a clear-eyed person, it is he who insists on forming an alliance with the Jin State, greedy for small profits, and it is he who withdraws troops from the border of Western Xia, causing the empty treasury of the Great Song Dynasty today, and he is also responsible for internal and external troubles, if he does not take responsibility, God will not tolerate it!"

There was a sudden uproar in the teahouse, except for a few people who thought that the official family was deceived by traitorous ministers, most of the other tea customers almost unanimously denounced the current son, believing that he was the culprit who caused the southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom.

Even Li Daqi had to admit in his heart that the official family did mishandle some things, such as his son wrote to the imperial court a month ago, and the Western Xia had torn up the withdrawal agreement and stationed heavy troops on the border, hoping that the imperial court would deal with it immediately, but the imperial court concealed this important news and did not have any countermeasures, which made Li Daqi have to wonder if the official family was really deceived by traitors.

The increasingly severe criticism in the teahouse made Li Daqi unable to sit down, and he said to Shopkeeper Zhang: "I have urgent matters in the afternoon, so I'll go first." ”

"I'm leaving, too, and I have to go to the meeting in the afternoon."

The two settled the bill, got up and left the teahouse one after another, Li Daqi hurriedly came to Baoyan Zhai, and as soon as he entered the door, the man stepped forward and said: "The proprietor, the proprietor of Qin is here again, and he has been waiting in the guest hall for a while." ”

Qin proprietor is the proprietor of the shop along the street of Hongqiao Baoyan Zhai, Li Daqi just bought ten acres of land along the river, and the shop along the street is owned by this Qin proprietor, and resolutely refused to sell it to him, but rented out to open a grain shop, and later Li Daqi took over at a high price, and changed the grain shop to Li's rouge shop, and later changed its name to Zhang Gu rouge shop.

Qin Dongzhu has come to find him several times during this time, and wants to sell the store to him, but how can Li Daqi be willing to take over at this time?

Li Daqi had a headache, so he had to walk into the guest hall, "Let the owner of Qin wait for a long time!" ”

Qin Dongzhu is a middle-aged man, is a famous landlord in the capital, Hongqiao along the street shop is thirty percent of his land, of course, it is also left by the ancestors, for decades to their family has brought extremely rich income, only by the income of the public to make their family one of the top ten rich businessmen in the capital, but now the situation in the north is unstable, the real estate that has been on fire for decades suddenly entered the winter, housing prices plummeted, transactions were almost frozen, and the lease was still there, but almost no one was willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a house.

Qin Dongzhu hurriedly got up and saluted, "I'm sorry, I'm here to disturb Li Yuanwai again." ”

"Lord Qin, please take a seat!"

Li Daqi asked the guy to change the tea, and asked with a smile: "I heard that the proprietor of Qin has been exchanging silver these days, how is it?" ”

"Don't mention it!"

Qin Dongzhu said with a bitter face: "I went to the Baifu Silver Shop today to exchange silver, yesterday it was two thousand five hundred Wen for one tael of silver, and today it has risen to three thousand Wen for one tael, saying that it is because of the loss of Yanjing City." ”

"Didn't all the silver shops stop exchanging money? You can only go to the black market over there to exchange it. Li Daqi asked puzzled.

"The silver shop just stopped the official price exchange, if they accept the black market price, they are also willing to exchange, but it is too ruthless, at the beginning of the year, only 1,500 yuan to one or two silver, in just half a year has doubled, I am miserable now."

Qin Dongzhu's face was so bitter that he could wring out water, not only did he suffer serious losses in the real estate, but also their family had hundreds of thousands of yuan in the cellar, and they couldn't transport it away at all, and now it was a little too late to exchange it for gold and silver.

Li Daqi knew that the problem of the Qin family was that he was too greedy, and he persuaded him to sell the house and exchange it for silver last year, but their family thought it was too much of a loss, and refused to sell the house or exchange the silver, and wanted to wait for the price to recover before making a move, but what they were waiting for was from autumn to winter.

Li Daqi didn't know what to say, so he had to persuade him: "My son wrote to me a few days ago that the Jin soldiers are about to attack Hedong, and I think the price of silver will rise, and even stop redeeming, so the proprietor can redeem as much as he wants!" ”

"I also know that it's too late to regret it now, Li Yuanwai, I'll give you a little more in this shop, eight thousand taels of silver, you can take it!"

At the beginning, the market price of the five-acre shop along the street was 50,000 yuan, but Li Daqi was willing to pay a high price of 60,000 taels of silver to buy it, but Qin Dongzhu resolutely refused to buy it, two months ago Qin Dongzhu found him and was willing to sell it to him at a price of 50,000 yuan, but Li Daqi did not want to buy it, and a month ago, Qin Dongzhu found him again, and was willing to reduce the price of 10,000 yuan and sell it to him at a price of 40,000 yuan, Li Daqi still refused to agree.

These days, the proprietor of Qin came to him every other day, saying that the price could be negotiated, but Li Daqi was unmoved, today the news that Yanjing City was captured by the Jin soldiers came, and the price fell sharply again, and the proprietor of Qin only needed eight thousand taels of silver today, which was equivalent to twenty-four thousand yuan.

But Li Daqi is very clear about this Qin Dongzhu's small abacus, once the Jin soldiers invade the south, the price of silver will definitely skyrocket again, and there is no doubt that the price of breaking through 5,000 Wen will be undoubted, at that time 8,000 taels of silver is equivalent to 40,000 yuan, Qin Dongzhu did not suffer a loss in the end, to put it mildly, once the Jin soldiers attacked Bianliang and burned down the houses outside the city, these shops would be worthless, how could Li Daqi be such a shrewd person.

Li Daqi sighed and said: "Don't hide it from the proprietor of Qin, my fleet will arrive today, and the head office of Baoyanzhai will move south soon, and I plan to sell this land, but the problem is that no one wants me to quote 5,000 taels of silver, and now I rent it out, and I can only rent it for 30 yuan a month, I also lost a lot when I bought this land, and the Hongqiao Inn and the tea tavern are also smashed in my hands, the proprietor Qin, I am at a loss now!" ”

Qin Dongzhu's face suddenly became very ugly, and he said for a while: "Okay! I will find another way to shop, and I came today to discuss with Li Dongzhu whether the fleet can be rented to me for a month, and I am willing to pay double the price. ”

Li Daqi was taken aback, now renting a boat is more difficult than selling a house, this Qin Dongzhu thinks beautifully, he is not enough, he actually has to rent it to him for a month, dream!

Li Daqi shook his head and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, my family members are ready, and they will take a boat to the south today, they can't even move, they can only bring their carrying, in this way, for the sake of many years of friendship, I will give a boat to the owner of Qin, and send my wife and children away first!" ”

Qin Dongzhu's face became very ugly, he also has an ox cart himself, and his family can take the ox cart south, he just wants to use a boat to transport money, a boat top fart, and he still owes Li Daqi a favor, so he had to get up and say: "Thank you Li Yuanwai, I'll find another way!" Excuse me. ”

The proprietor of Qin left unhappily, and at this time, a guy hurriedly ran over to report: "The proprietor, the fleet has arrived!" ”

Li Daqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Go and inform everyone, come to Baoyan Zhai to gather!" ”