Standing silently on the bow of the boat, there was a bright moon in the sky, and in front of him was the vast waterway, and the surroundings were very quiet, only the sound of frogs and insects, the night breeze gently brushed his face, and he didn't notice that the dew had fallen.

Since the moment he left Suzhou City, he has not looked back to the south, nor has he looked at the city that he has devoted so much effort to get the city that is now full of flowers.

Although his demeanor and treatment are similar to Tang Shunzhi, he is never Tang Shunzhi, he can't do the kind of humble and good realm, under his warm and jade-like face, there is a very strong hidden power**, but all along, he has been very careful to cover it up, but people who really know his heart will feel his strong desire to control everything, at least his own **.

From the beginning to his father; Later, to his brothers and classmates; Later, to the big families of Suzhou, foreign merchants; And the most obvious, in the way Xu Hai is treated, all of them are marked by his distinct personal brand - if there is meaning, well, let's discuss, if I convince you, do as I say; But if I can't convince you, I'm sorry, I'll have to do what I say.

Don't be deceived by his gentle appearance, it's just a layer of careful disguise, he is simply a paranoid with a strong desire to control, whoever disobeys him is his enemy, although he won't have a seizure at that time, but sooner or later there will be a day of revenge, even big guys like Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Lu Bing, he is not willing to lie down, and he has a pen in his heart, just wait for the autumn wind to rise and the autumn leaves fall into a pile, so he will settle the account with them.

Now, after hard work, he has just enjoyed the pleasure of being in charge of the power of the feudal officials, but he was immediately beaten back to the original point by the strict party elements, and he had to face an unknown fate, and he couldn't even control himself. This feeling of helplessness made him almost crazy, and he took the opportunity to mourn Tang Shunzhi, but he didn't know how much he drank and how many times he got drunk, and it was easy to lose his anger.

But the resentment in his heart has not diminished slightly, so yesterday he said something that was deliberately imitated by the Lan Jingyu in "The Outer History of Confucianism", but no one would understand, so his sarcasm fell into the void...... But that's fine, because if Yan Maoqing really understood, wouldn't he offend him to death? It's still so good, it is not only vented to dissipate the anger, but there will be no adverse consequences.

When he calmed down completely and silently examined his heart, he found that his desire for power had swelled several times more than before...... Originally, he was already very happy to be able to give him a Suzhou City to play with, but now what he longs for is that he will no longer be at the mercy of anyone, not even the emperor!

Shen Mo knows that it is dangerous to go on like this, because each other is born from the heart, and the action is determined by the heart, if he does not block the ** of 'heaven and earth, only me', then it is really not far from death.

So he was not sulking in the dark night sky, or reluctant to leave Suzhou City, as the guards thought, on the contrary, he was trying to restore peace of mind by taking advantage of the tranquility of the night...... He wants to forget the prosperity of Suzhou like a dream, wake up and face the cold future.

He thought so intently that he didn't even notice that someone walked behind him, until a warm coat was draped over his shoulders, and he looked back blankly, only to see Ruohan looking at him with a concerned face.

Although she is already the mother of two children, Ruohan still maintains the delicate face of a girl, the only change comes from those eyes, there is no sharp edge that she occasionally shot when she was young, and instead of it, it is the gift that the years bring to women - calm and elegant, intoxicating, making her man more attached than when she was young.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" Even when thinking about the cruelest questions, when I saw my wife's gentle eyes, Shen Mo would smile from the heart, and her voice would naturally become gentle.

"Just put the kids to sleep." Ruohan said softly: "Come and see you again, you will sleep." ”

"If you have a small heart, you will have a big heart." Shen Mo stretched out his hand, stroked Ruohan's hair and said, "Our family is young, and we really don't let you worry." ”

"Maybe I owe you in my last life." Ruohan covered her mouth and chuckled, the night was as cold as water, and she couldn't help but shudder.

Shen Mo stretched out his hand and took her into his arms, Ruohan looked at the guards, and everyone turned around in unison...... For the big show of affection for adults regardless of the occasion and place, these guards who have been with him for many years already know exactly how to deal with it...... Ruohan snuggled into his arms, and a cloak wrapped them both in it.

"What do you think?" Adjusting the most comfortable position, Ruohan muttered, "Do you think about what it will be like when you arrive in the capital?" ”

"How do you know?" Shen Mo asked softly.

"I thought you were missing Suzhou outside...... Ruohan whispered: "But when I came out, you were standing facing north, and I knew that I wanted to go wrong." ”

"Yes," said silently, "although Suzhou is good, it has become our past, and our future is in Yanjing." ”

Ruohan chuckled and said, "Even if Yanjing is the future, Suzhou will not be the past." As he spoke, he whispered in his ear: "Of the twelve key guilds, we own three, control four, and indirectly control the remaining five, and everywhere we go, it's like carrying it in our pockets." ”

Shen Mo had to sigh that he married a female middle school Fan Li, a woman Bai Gui. When Jiajing was thirty-six years old, under Ruohan's planning, he first used the five million taels of silver that robbed the Lu family to fund the rescue of the crumbling ticket numbers and money houses. This is an amazing deal, which can be used to explain what is the "great shift", what is the "killing birds with one stone", and what is the "win-win situation for all parties"!

It can be said that the mentality of those bosses at that time was to let the five million taels fill the hole, in their opinion, the hole was filled, and the five million taels would be gone, anyway, the money could not be repaid, it was better.

However, Ruohan's capital contribution of 5 million taels was not directly handed over to the owners of the money banks who were waiting to be nurtured, but she first set up a ticket number, and then borrowed money from this ticket number to each bank, but on the condition that they did not want to repay the money, but asked them for a certain percentage of shares without changing the ownership of the bank.

At that time, the situation was stronger than people, not to mention that Ruohan only needed a part of the shares that did not affect the ownership, even if he wanted the entire money bank, the vast majority of people would happily pay. Because of the money bank, ticket number, and capital flow at that time, the flow of funds was almost dry, and the books were all huge debts, and I dreamed of throwing the mess to others.

Therefore, Ruohan is obviously a robbery, but because of the clever method, he was grateful to Dade by those bosses, thinking that the lord and his wife are really extremely benevolent. So almost no resistance was encountered, Ruohan acquired all the ticket numbers and pawnshops, three to forty percent of the shares, and then logically, quickly integrated all the money banks and pawnshops, and established a behemoth-like 'Huilian' with her own ticket number as the core.

At that time, the so-called 'Huilian', in the eyes of the ticket number bosses, was just a loose alliance in response to the crisis, although relying on the power of silence, they all had to listen obediently, but when others went to the tea and cooled, everyone would naturally disperse, so I didn't feel that there was anything unacceptable.

But what happened next made them smash their glasses...... If you have presbyopia and are willing to afford the expensive price to buy those kinds of Western glasses.

When the five million taels were not invested, no matter how much money was in the bank, it would be quickly exchanged, and what the bank got was just bundles of bonds that were too hard to rub around; But when the five million taels were invested, a miracle happened - the rush was immediately stopped, and there was even a miraculous return of funds! Because bundles of bonds that are not used to rub their stomachs have become sought-after goods again!

While everyone was still thinking about what was going on, Ruohan and Shen Mo were already in the mansion, toasting to each other. When he realized that his wife was a business genius, Shen Mo sorted out what he had learned in school, macroeconomics, microeconomics, money and banking, and all the economic knowledge he had mastered, and told Ruohan about it.

Ruohan's surname is really amazing, and his understanding of many concepts even surpasses that of Shen Mo, a teacher. She is keenly aware that the core thing in the financial industry is the word 'confidence', and customers will only have confidence in the ticket number to do business with you, and there will be no run when the risk increases.

So the five million taels of silver bought, is the people's confidence in the ticket number, money, when there is no confidence, they will run wildly, asking to exchange those tickets for real money, but once they have confidence, they will not do this, because they are not worried about the depreciation of the bills in their hands, but will continue to eat in order to make a profit.

As a result, the five million taels of silver just lit up the accounts of each ticket number, which not only calmed the scene, but also restored the gold-absorbing effect of the money bank ticket number like a super magnet.

While the bosses of the Convergence were about to celebrate their escape, Ruohan gathered them together again and announced a crazy plan! When they learned the whole picture of this plan, everyone healed their scars and forgot the pain, and they wanted to do a big job with high blood and fighting spirit! Earn back the old money you lost!

Ruohan's plan is the craziest in the world, but it is also the most suitable plan for businessmen, that is, 'buy Suzhou City'! All the ticket numbers, money banks, proprietors, shopkeepers, and heads went out together, waving silver tickets and rushing to the four sides of the city. Some of them rushed to various Suzhou embroidery factories, weaving factories, silk reeling factories and other silk weaving industry-related workshops, as well as green buildings, gambling houses, restaurants, inns, as well as wharves, warehouses, and even houses facing or near the wharf, all of which were within the scope of their purchase.

Because the same is only to buy three to forty percent of the shares, does not affect the ownership of the industry, and the background at that time was the rebellion, unsalable products, the industry is extremely sluggish, so as long as the money is not bad, ninety percent can buy the favorite industry at a good price. Later, it was not enough to buy Suzhou City, and the silk weaving industry in other counties of the prefecture, as well as the cotton cloth industry in Songjiang and the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen, were also purchased...... In this era, people's news is closed, and their reaction is far slower than that of hundreds of years later, and when they react and should take the opportunity to increase the price, Huilian has already ended the thunderous rush to buy...... In that crazy month, Huilian spent a total of 6.5 million taels, and acquired thousands of large and medium-sized properties, as well as countless small industries such as residential buildings.

Later, although the son did not go crazy, but Huilian has not stopped the acquisition action, using the branches that have opened all over the southeastern provinces and provinces, the water has flowed for three years, and more than 4 million taels of silver have been spent to acquire countless high-quality industries in other places.

I want to ask them where they have so much money, and at the same time they can continue to buy, they also open branches in various provinces and provinces and even most developed states and counties? The answer is, borrow the city to open the port! Relying on dazzling is pure!

When the news of the opening of the port was finally confirmed, countless businessmen poured into Suzhou City, so the price of real estate began to soar, and the consumer industry of hotels, inns, restaurants and teahouses was also extremely prosperous; With the final opening of the city, the silk weaving industry, cotton spinning industry, and porcelain industry suddenly changed from insufficient operation to insufficient production capacity, and naturally became hot, and industrial prices soared one by one.

Shen Mo has made statistics, if you buy an ordinary house near the wharf in May of the 36th year of Jiajing, you will need 300 taels of silver; But in the fifth month of the thirty-seventh year, seven hundred taels were needed; in the thirty-eighth year it reached one thousand hundred taels, and in the thirty-ninth year it reached two thousand taels; And the latest data for forty years was three thousand three hundred taels...... In addition to the factors of short supply, there is also the fact that it is sought after and speculated because of its good investment prospects, resulting in inflated prices.

In just five years, the price of silk weaving, cotton spinning, and charity making has increased by at least tenfold and up to twenty times...... This is still because of the silent fear of a bubble, which will lead to another financial crisis, forcing the Huilian number behind everything to prohibit excessive speculation on the concept and the result of killing a certain industry.

In the five years of this kind of prosperity and speculation, the capital of the Huilian has increased twelve, directly and indirectly controlling all the twelve key guilds of the city, if you count this part, even Ruohan does not know how much the Huilian is worth.

After arduous and lengthy negotiations, it was finally reorganized, and the newly listed 'Huilian Bank', although it only changed its name, meant that it had finally evolved from a loose alliance to a large modern bank with a well-structured and well-organized structure owned by all shareholders, with the board of directors responsible for regular decision-making.

This masterpiece that transcends the times is affectionately called their youngest son, because it is the product of the perfect combination of the knowledge in her silent mind and her genius economic acumen, and there is nothing wrong with saying that he is a son. As the largest shareholder who directly holds 25% of the shares of Huilian Bank and indirectly holds 26% of the shares, the net worth of the couple is conservatively estimated to be more than 100 million taels of silver, which is worthy of the name of being rich and rivaling the country.

Of course, this figure is only on paper, and it is impossible for them to turn their shares into real money, first, the couple live a simple life and do not need a few dollars at all, and second, the rate of 51% represents absolute control over Su Song's booming business world, but while holding power, he also has to shoulder the obligation to maintain this financial empire.

If it is said that when he left Beijing and went south and arrived in Suzhou, Shen Mo purely represented the interests of himself and the bureaucratic class, and only sympathized with and even took advantage of the business class, then when he left Suzhou and went north to the capital, under his glamorous crimson official robe, he had quietly added another heart - the heart of business.

From now on, he will have to escort the huge financial empire behind him, and in this official-based world, in order to do this, it is best to choose only one - to seize the highest power and become the one who controls the world.

On this night when he went north to the capital, Shen Mo set up his ambition to 'be a powerful minister'. Almost as fate would have it, almost at the same time, one of his old acquaintances had finally ended his travels around the world and was completely reborn - from a standard angry youth, in just a few years, he had completely matured and made the same vow as silence.

The two have the same purpose and are destined to pass, and the two have the same purpose and are destined to ...... What the two of them didn't know was that earlier, in a royal palace in Yanjing City, a serious-faced teacher had the same ambition, and he was much more sure than the two of them. Coupled with several bigwigs who are already on the stage, they are either calling for wind and rain, or low-key accumulation, each of them has the super ability to control power and govern the country. This era is destined to be a stormy and unpredictable era, and these unparalleled geniuses will be cast into Jiajing for forty years, on the narrow stage of Yanjing City, so that they can show their wisdom and strategy to their heart's content, and from then on, everyone in the Ming Dynasty, even including the emperor and the prince, will obediently be driven by them and become the supporting role of this drama they co-act.

Because this stage only belongs to geniuses who are at the peak of wisdom and state, any mediocrity and decay will be ruthlessly abandoned!

The Nine Dragons are shocking, and they will swim in shallow water during the wind and clouds. Jin Lin is a thing in the pool, and it will turn into a dragon when it encounters wind and clouds.

(To be continued)