Chapter 284: You Pit Me, I'll Pit You
"Can you still get silver?" Wen Zhenmeng's eyes lit up.
Chen Qiyu glanced at Su Baiyi deeply.
"Yes!" Su Baiyi stood up respectfully and clapped his hands in the hall, and someone outside immediately approached the room and respectfully sent a tray covered with a red cloth to the same respectfully.
Su Baiyi took the tray, stretched out his hand and handed it to Wen Zhen Mengdao: "Lord Wen, look at what this is?" ”
Wen Zhenmeng stood up and took it, stretched out his hand to untie the red cloth on it, and a scroll of holy decrees piled together was presented in front of the three of them.
"The railway shares were originally scheduled to be sold for forty shares, but I didn't expect that when I just sold fifteen shares, I had already collected enough 20 million taels of silver, and the remaining twenty-five shares were here." Su Baiyi showed a harmless smile on his face: "So, if Lord Wen returns these twenty-five blank holy decrees to Your Majesty, if Lord Wen really can't get the silver, you can beg Your Majesty to hand over this holy decree to your cabinet for processing, hehe...... Master Wen should understand what Su meant, right? ”
Wen Zhenmeng's face changed slightly.
Chen Qiyu looked at Su Baiyi with interest, then at Wen Zhenmeng, and smiled.
He saw the struggle between Su Baiyi and Wen Zhenmeng, but it doesn't mean that he will definitely help Wen Zhenmeng, he is the governor of the five provinces, the reason why he came here is for military salary, as long as you give me military salary, it doesn't matter if you are Su Baiyi or Wen Zhenmeng, it doesn't matter!
"Well...... this" Wen Zhenmeng put the tray on the table, took a deep sip of tea, and said: "Baiyi, you are responsible for building the railway, I mean it is more appropriate for you to sing **." ”
"Lord Wen!" Su Baiyi looked confused: "But, the money for Baiyi to build the railway has already been raised." ”
This kind of thankless errand, he is not willing to take it!
And the second auction is likely to have bad consequences.
Of course, Wen Zhenmeng was reluctant to take this errand, one was that he was unwilling to deal with those businessmen, and the second was that he was not very good at making a living from these businessmen, and the most important thing was that he was likely to carry a big black cauldron.
In case the construction of the Su Baiyi Railway is not completed by then, the fifteen companies that have already sold it will find trouble with Su Baiyi, but if he sells the remaining twenty-five shares, others will also trouble him.
"Baiyi, the old man knows that the silver you have raised for the construction of the railway, but the military department and Taicang are still waiting for the silver, the so-called two masters are not bothered, the old man hopes to plan for the Ming Dynasty and the court, so you can organize it again and sell the remaining twenty-five shares."
"Forehead ......" Su Baiyi held his forehead with his hand, and looked at Wen Zhenmeng with an idiot on his face: "Elder Wenge, you just said that this silver is for the Ministry of War?" ”
"Yes!" Wen Zhenmeng nodded.
"What about my railway governor's mansion?" Su Baiyi was stunned and asked.
"Huh?" Wen Zhenmeng was caught off guard by Su Baiyi's sudden change of face, and was stunned for three seconds, only then did he taste the future, he opened his mouth and said in a cold tone: "Master Su, you can't say that, you are all doing things for the imperial court, what is the railway governor's yamen and the military department's yamen, you must understand the overall situation and take care of the general situation." ”
"Oh......" Su Baiyi nodded, looking like what you said was very reasonable, "In this way, I am asked to do things for the Ministry of War, so why do you need the Ministry of War to do, and why do you want the officials of the Ministry of War to do?" ”
"You ......" Wen Zhenmeng raised his hand to accuse.
Su Baiyi grabbed another sentence and said: "Lord Wen is a cabinet minister, how can he serve hundreds of officials if he is so unfair?" said that I, Su Baiyi, don't care about the overall situation, I took all the railway shares and sold them to you, and I didn't care about the overall situation.
I Su Baiyi don't know the general situation, okay, I'll let you see it today, what does it mean to not know the general situation! ”
shouted angrily outside: "Li Suo, come in." ”
Li Suo, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, trotted into the room and respectfully handed a piece of rice paper to Su Baiyi.
Su Baiyi handed the paper to Wen Zhenmeng and said, "Lord Wen, look at what this is?" ”
Wen Zhenmeng took the paper and looked at it, but he didn't get angry in one breath, and fainted directly.
Paper is naturally an IOU.
It was an IOU of 3.5 million taels from Mao Bijiang and Chen Zhenhui, two talented people of the Restoration Society, to Yuyuan.
"Alas!" Su Baiyi shook his head, looking at Wen Zhenmeng, who fainted on the chair and couldn't wake up no matter how Chen Qiyu next to him shook, and said with some pity: "Lord Wen, this is a joy and urgency, Lord Chen, you can't wake up if you shake around like this." ”
"What should I do?" The cabinet ministers fainted, Chen Qiyu was still quite nervous, and the nervous sweat remained.
It doesn't matter if Wen Zhenmeng is dizzy, at such an old age, if he dies in Guide Mansion if he is unlucky, it will really shake the government and the opposition.
"Su is quite knowledgeable about medical skills, let me take a look."
"Okay, Lord Su, please!" Chen Qiyu naturally understands Su Baiyi's medical skills.
Not only him, but also those high-ranking court officials, others are not convinced, but they really admire Su Baiyi's medical skills, it is an indisputable fact that Yuan Keli's thirst was also cured by him, which is really no one can do in the Ming Dynasty.
Su Baiyi pretended to look at it for a while, and felt that Wen Zhenmeng would definitely be surprised and angry when he saw this IOU, but after all, this old guy is so old, and he is still a cabinet minister, so his psychological quality should not be so bad!
That's easy to explain!
Wen Zhenmeng didn't faint at all, but was pretending to be dizzy in order to get through the embarrassing period in front of him.
Just as you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, you can never wake up a person who is pretending to be unconscious.
Can't wake up? Hehe, then wake you up.
"Master Wen is fainting, it's good!" After Su Baiyi visited again and came to a conclusion, he then shouted loudly outside, "Li Suo, go get a jar of night incense." ”
"Yes, sir!" Li Suoying went with a sigh of relief.
Chen Qiyu asked a little strangely, "Master Su, night ...... Nightshade, what's the use? ”
"The night fragrance is pungent and strong, in the case of Lord Wen, under external application and internal use, you can wake up in less than a moment!" Su Baiyi's face was unusually solemn, which made Chen Qiyu next to him feel that it was true.
"Master Su, this, this, Lord Wen is a cabinet minister, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" Chen Qiyu's face turned bitter.
What is Nightshade?
Human urine too!
"No!" Su Baiyi was righteous and awe-inspiring: "Lord Wen is the pillar of the country, and if there is a slight mistake, the pool will collapse like a mountain, and it will be a great loss to the imperial court at that time." Although it is undignified to save people at night, Lord Wen will definitely take into account the overall situation and not take care of the general situation! ”
"That'...... That ......" Although Chen Qiyu felt that Su Baiyi was talking nonsense, he didn't understand medical skills and was not easy to arbitrary, so he had to agree: "Then listen to Master Su." ”
No matter what Su Baiyi did, there was no loss for him.
If Su Baiyi really poured night incense on Wen Zhenmeng and saved him, he would still have the merit of persuading him to advance; If Su Baiyi killed Wen Zhenmeng, it wouldn't have much to do with me, Chen Qiyu, anyway, it was you Su Baiyi who killed people!
Since there is nothing to lose, then why should I be a villain in vain?
Chen Qiyu chose to watch from the wall, and Su Baiyi implemented it even more like a fish in water.
Li Suo dragged a large jar of night incense from somewhere into the house, and Chen Qiyu covered his face with his sleeve and retreated to the side. Su Baiyi looked very dedicated, and did not retreat because of the "fragrance" of the night incense, he solemnly held the jar in his hand, like a good doctor who cured the disease and saved people.
"Li Suo, quickly break Lord Wen's mouth open!" Su Baiyi gestured.
"Hey......" Li Suo stepped forward and stretched out his hand to break Wen Zhenmeng's mouth, but before his hand touched Wen Zhenmeng, Wen Zhenmeng woke up in time.
"Ah......" Wen Zhenmeng opened his eyes suddenly, and then under the surprised gaze of Chen Qiyu and Li Suo, he slowly sat up and said, "Alas, I'm old, I'm old, and my body bones don't work." ”
"Lord Wen, how are you?" Su Baiyi asked with a glare.
"Alright, alright." Wen Zhenmeng moved his hands and feet, and shook his head again.
Su Baiyi waved his hand and let Li Suo walk out of the hall with the night incense. Then he quietly put the IOU back into his sleeve, resumed his smile, sat on the chair, and looked at Wen Zhenmeng while sipping tea.
Wen Zhenmeng also seemed to understand that it was probably impossible to bring someone to wear a small shoe from Su Baiyi's empty gloves and silver in his hand this time, but he couldn't do without money. There is only one last option left: sell the shares yourself.
Otherwise, who knows if Su Baiyi will take out that IOU again to anger himself again.
Thinking of this, Wen Zhenmeng's face suddenly flashed with anger: What did Mao Bijiang and Chen Zhenhui do with these two kids? Didn't they let them go to the share auction to make trouble, how could they steal chickens and rice, and even put the restoration society in?
Raising his eyes and looking at the holy decree on the plate, Wen Zhen Meng Qiang resisted the urge to kill the two disciples, and sighed faintly: "According to what Master Su said, the old man will take the remaining railway shares to sing and sell to raise military salaries." ”
"Lord Wen is laughing!" Su Baiyi smiled: "This sale of railway shares is Your Majesty's will, and the remaining Su is naturally returned to the imperial court, not to Lord Wen, if the cabinet and the Ministry of War want to sell the remaining shares Su Baiyi has no opinion, but you always need to ask Your Majesty for a decree, and Your Majesty promised me to give the holy decree to Lord Wen." ”
Without waiting for Wen Zhenmeng to get angry, Su Baiyi said again: "Of course, the matter is urgent, and Su will not embarrass you, so I will send someone to enter Beijing with the holy decree and return it to Your Majesty with Lord Wen. ”
To be honest, Su Baiyi didn't want to continue to sell his shares in the railway, after all, the railway was like his child, he had to do it as a last resort to raise money, but now, it's like cutting meat.
But on the other hand, although the railway was built by him, the ultimate ownership is still the state, since the emperor himself does not cherish it, what do I care?
As long as you don't take Lao Tzu's money, it doesn't affect Lao Tzu's construction of the railway.
However, the previous hollowing out of publicity and holding an auto show was in vain.
Alas, it's hard to find everything complete.
Su Baiyi sighed and gave the railway shares to the imperial court to let them sing and sell, but he didn't know that many years later, this thunderbolt planted intentionally or unintentionally helped him a lot.