Chapter 70: Speak Out
Zhang Chun and Jiang Kui Jiang Yi still follow Zhang Han, and he Yusheng has a big business recently, and Zhang Han is in the center of the eye of the storm, and now he has to beware of business and official affairs, but also needs to beware of the assassination of hostile forces.
There are also many of those bandits who have slipped through the net, and it is difficult to say whether there will be those who are not afraid of death to run to assassinate, so from now on, Zhang Han can no longer be as light and simple as before, at least there must be several effective guards, who will follow day and night.
This is also a helpless move, looking at the few people surrounding him, Zhang Han also sighed silently.
"Lord Lai, we still have a chance, we still have the Fan family behind us, the relationship between Fan proprietors in various places is extraordinary, find a reason to cover up this matter, and then ......"
"Phew!"
Lai Tongxin spat Ning Yicheng on the face, and regardless of the image, he raised his foot and kicked Ning Yicheng hard in his mouth!
"Lai, you ...... it"
Ning Yicheng fell to the ground, his face was shoveled on the ground, and his whole face was covered in blood, and there was no need to mention that image.
"Dog Cai, you are also fighting with Zhang Dong with such a person?"
Lai Tongxin was actually a little jealous of Zhang Han in his heart, and he was no longer called "the little guy surnamed Zhang" in private, he stepped forward and kicked Ning Yicheng again, scolding: "Are you still dreaming?" The general army of Datong Town, Yanghe Soldiers, and the generals, as well as the general of Shanxi Town, and the commander of Tianchengwei, what is the relationship? The Fan family knows a lot of people, that is the way out of silver, I think Fan Yongdou may not be better than this proprietor's wrist, the two families are really fighting, who wins and who loses is not certain. Lao Tzu doesn't know what medicine you took wrong, and you are bent on fighting with others, but don't drag Lao Tzu into this troubled water! β
Ning Yicheng knew that it must be the failure of the private family, he didn't dare to quarrel with Lai Tongxin again, but the resentment in his eyes was incomprehensible.
"Ugh." Lai Tongxin sighed and said slowly: "Shizhai, you and I have some friendship, of course the report will cover it up for you, the capital crime will definitely not, the official will definitely not be able to do it, you will do it yourself in the future!" β
said that Lai Tongxin brushed his sleeves away, but he asked people to take Ning Yicheng well, don't let him run away or commit suicide, Lai Tongxin went to summon the master, and then reported it after embellishing today's matter.
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"Hehe, this is really a dream......
Just now the castle was so lively, Li Mingda was of course in the crowd.
Surrounded by crowds, Zhang Han and his subordinates have always been in the middle of the crowd, the center of all attention, but Li Mingda can only be in the crowd, constantly squeezing, and after a few hundred steps, he squeezed out a stinky sweat.
In front of the General's Mansion, he squeezed out a shoe and desperately shouted for someone to give way, but unfortunately no one paid attention to him at all.
This former man of the year is now in a situation where no one cares, and when he returned to the shop of the Fan family branch in a hurry, the frustration on Li Mingda's face was already rich and could not be dissolved.
All plans are put into practice!
Now what he is worried about is whether the bandits and Ning Yicheng will confess him and the Fan family?
If you think about it, it probably won't!
The bandits will not know the details of the cooperation between the Fan family and Ning Yicheng, and Ning Yicheng will not ask for trouble and offend a giant like the Fan family.
There are allies in the Fan family in Datong and Shanxi, Ning Yicheng's current crime is not fatal, at most he will lose his position, if he offends the Fan family, I am afraid that he will have to worry about his life, with Ning Yicheng's wisdom, it should not be like this.
"The proprietor and Lord Ning are both resourceful, and the Fan family is super strong, why can't they help such a small person?"
Li Mingda was puzzled, and there was a sense of powerlessness on his body.
But in any case, today's events had to be reported quickly, and he sat down at his desk, lit the oil lamp, and began to write.
"Shopkeeper, is the guise of this account bureau put away, or will it be hung up tomorrow morning?"
A big guy that Li Mingda had always loved walked in, picked up the guise of the Fan family's account bureau and asked.
"Take it and burn it."
"Huh?"
"Didn't you hear?" Li Mingda turned around, the anger in his eyes seemed to melt the guy, he stood up, and said with a pause: "Burn, burn, quickly take it and burn it!" β
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Compared with the gloomy clouds and fog of the General's Mansion and the Fan family's semicolon, the mansion of the Zhang family in Xinpingbao is a hot scene.
Zhou Fengji and Liang Hong came early, they didn't run to see the excitement, Zhang Han and others saw it when they entered the fort gate, in order to reassure Chang's, the two shopkeepers came over early, and after some words, Chang's was relieved.
In addition, there are Li Yujing and other gentlemen in the account room and the treasury, and the shopkeepers of the branches such as the mule and horse shop and the account bureau, all of whom are gathered together and stand a room full of people.
The youngest of these shopkeepers is only twenty-five or sixteen, and the oldest is Zhou Fengji, who is in his fifties, everyone is a bright eye, with abacus beads hidden in their stomachs, and their minds move at a moment's notice.
In other words, this group of people is the standard business elite.
That's not all there is to it today.
Li Shenming rushed over from Datong, there are still ten days before this year's official market, he has already put tens of thousands of silver in the account bureau, this time he came very chic, only brought a few entourage, green shirts and folding fans, plus a small companion, just rode a few horses. If it weren't for the tent office, I am afraid that he would inevitably have to bring a lot of attachΓ©s, and there would be chariots and horses to follow, and the goal would have become larger, and the journey would have been long, which was not an easy task for this midsummer season.
As soon as Zhang Han came in, the entire large living room became a sensation.
Bowed, bowed, and a few people who had just been promoted from the guy knelt down in front of the door to greet him, Chang also went to the door of the hall to greet him with the support of several mothers-in-law, and after looking up and down for a while, Chang said: "Fortunately, there are no injuries on the body." β
Zhang Han smiled: "If I don't do it, I won't be injured!" β
"It's better not to do it." Chang recited the Buddha and said: "But your subordinates are also raised by their parents, if you don't let others take risks, don't do it, if you are injured or whatever, even if we pay people silver, people are worth more than silver!" β
The woman in front of her is less than fifty, she has been at home for more than half a year, her body and bones are excellent, and she usually has nothing to look at the Buddhist scriptures, just waiting for the feeling of the old Fengjun who hugged her grandson, but she said this in public, but it was full of truth.
Zhang Han enlisted, and then replied solemnly: "Don't worry, mother, I won't ask my subordinates to put themselves in danger unless it is absolutely necessary." β
"Well, that's all I said." Chang Shi smiled: "There are a bunch of people here, you are busy with yours, don't let me snub the distant guests." β
Saying that, Chang turned around and left to return to the back house, and everyone got up to send each other.
Li Shenming smiled at Zhang Han and said, "When I saw Lingtang today, I knew why my brother was so talented. β
Zhang Han arched his hand and smiled: "Brother has won the prize." β
The two of them looked at each other, turned and went to the east room together, and closed the door to talk.
After sitting down, Li Shenming split his head and said: "After this incident, I believe that my brother's account business will definitely soar. With all due respect, the output of the vertical furnace is uncertain, and there is always the risk of the blast furnace collapsing, the molten iron hurts people, and it is also troublesome to pay for the tiredness, and the local dragons and snakes are mixed, although I can have a relationship with Lingqiu County, and your Puzhou side also has a relationship, but after all, it is a troublesome matter. If there is no profit, doing such a thing is really worth the loss! β
In the eyes of real high-level tycoons, opening iron ore is actually a business such as piles.
That is, the iron ore in the south of Ma'anshan is engaged in some gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, in the north, are some old hats to do this business, with the level of Zhang Han plans to build a furnace, you can get millions of catties of pig iron a year, but these pig iron are all sold clean, and you have to get tens of thousands of taels of silver, and you have to remove the salary of personnel, the cost of coal is lower, if you use charcoal, the cost is very high, and the raw materials are very laborious, Shanxi here, it is difficult for future generations to imagine, the trees on the mountains are almost cut down, and many mountains are bald, I'm afraid this will surprise a lot of people who think they are all green mountains and green waters.
In addition, the cost of dealing with local officials and leveling the ground is not small.
Li Shenming was not very optimistic about this business, if it weren't for Zhang Han's account bureau and the speed of development of the mule and horse shop, he was very surprised, I am afraid he would not even have been interested in discussing with Zhang Han.
When Li Shenming talked to Zhang Han last year, he just regarded Zhang Han as a variable, an idle chess piece that fell casually, and the most important thing was just to maintain the route from Datong to Xinpingbao so that he could prepare goods.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Han's performance was a miracle! However, in more than half a year, the account bureau of Yusheng has been developed everywhere, and more than a dozen branches have been opened on several lines with mule and horse shops. Or, "Who is Zhang Han?" What origin? "Instead, most of the silver has been handed over to He Yusheng's account bureau for escrow, and it is very convenient to take the silver to buy goods when he arrives at the ground.
Although there will be some cost increases, compared with the chaos and risks in various places, this cost expenditure is still very necessary, and no businessman will feel that the money is wronged.
Of course, there are still a lot of small and medium-sized businessmen, silver is two hundred taels, or even dozens of taels, the route is about three hundred miles, the risk is still within the controllable range, and there are not many people who are willing to deal with the account bureau, but these people are the main customers of Yusheng mule and horse shop, small and medium-sized businessmen can not afford to raise their own fleet and mule and horse team, and Yusheng's transportation capacity is strong, the cost is not high, and it is extremely safe, so it will naturally become the first choice for small and medium-sized businessmen.
Zhang Han now reports to Ma Chengen every month that the account bureau can earn 100 taels a day, and the monthly dividends to Ma Zongbing are more than 1,000 taels, more than 10,000 taels a year, this income is already the income of the Ma family in the first half of the year, Ma Chengen praised Li Shenming for his vision when he mentioned this, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile, Li Shenming was also proud in his heart, but Li Shenming felt that there should be more than that, but Ma Chengen sent him to the account room in Xinpingbao to check the accounts, there was no problem, and he naturally would not come out with more such mouths.