Chapter 124: Episode at the Investiture Ceremony (4)
Hu Bing looked at Tang Fei, a first-class loyal and brave man beside him, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the classmate three years ago actually realized his dream, got what he wanted, and got something better than what he wanted at the beginning. Looking at the first-class Zhangweibo noble certificate and medal in his hand, he had to sigh at the magic of fate.
Standing on Chengtianmen Square, he recalled that when the emperor took over the Danshu iron coupon (many traditional people believe that the certificate of nobility is the Danshu iron coupon) and the medal in the hands of the eunuchs who stayed in the former Song Dynasty, he was so excited that he couldn't control the embarrassment of his hands and feet.
Every lowly businessman once dreamed that he might be like Liu Bang, Liu Bei, Liu Yu and other grassroots emperors in the past, but troubled times are always so dangerous, there is no chance in prosperous times, and businessmen who take interests and risks as a reference for their actions can never become emperors. And the often successful grassroots emperor Yanjing has the surname of a rogue who ignores the risks, and always has the last laugh in the big gamble.
He is just a small trader from a third-class household, his father is a fisherman, and his mother is at home with housework, weaving, feeding chickens, and pulling his five brothers and sisters. The eldest brother followed his father out to sea to fish, and he walked the streets and alleys to sell groceries, while the third brother was a five-year-old child, and the two younger sisters were busy weaving nets and preparing dowries for female workers at home every day. If he hadn't met Second Brother Song, who was smuggling smuggled salt, his fate might have been to die as a small trader.
Since he met Second Brother Song, he guaranteed to borrow an ultra-low-interest loan with an annual interest rate of one cent from the branch of Chenji Bank in Mizhou, bought a 200-material fishing boat and supporting fishing gear for his father, and then used the remaining money to build a kelp workshop recommended by Second Brother Song in his hometown, and invited a few brothers and neighbors to help. It took less than a year to pay off the loan and save 500 yuan in silver dollars. After seeing this benefit, he boldly borrowed 12,000 yuan from Chenji Bank (collateral with personal credit, family property and the seafood underwriting contract signed by Chenji Chamber of Commerce) to buy fishing boats and land and house tools to expand the workshop.
Three years later, it became the largest seafood supplier of Chenji Bank in Michigan. Feeling that his ability was insufficient, Second Brother Song took him to the Donghai Academy opened in Linzi County (Zibo) of Qingzhou on Jingdong East Road to study and learn the art of getting rich (business administration) recommended by the Chenji Chamber of Commerce. After two years of study, he signed to become the general manager of the Qingzhou Food Branch of the Chenji Chamber of Commerce, and the Haidong Shipping Company and Hu's Seafood Company were also merged into the Qingzhou Branch. With 30% of the equity, you can get a share dividend of 4 million Chen base money a year. My father became the logistics supervisor of the company's ocean-going fishing fleet, my brother was the captain of the fleet, my younger brother was sent to a shogun, and my younger sisters were sent to a girls' college in the Daimyo's house by their mother without marrying. The fate of the family changed with the acquaintance of the second brother Song, who was a single person (the people who sold smuggled salt basically did not have a small family), and after completing his studies, he recommended himself to a trading company to do his old job, specializing in the high-quality snow-white salt produced by the Liao and Goryeo smuggling companies. As the general manager of Mizhou Foreign Trade Company, a subsidiary of Haidong Group under Chenji Group, he can get at least 400,000 annual salary and 3 million share dividends a year.
It was a complete coincidence that I got the knighthood, and my sister always said that the soap in the academy was not enough, and the teacher told them that it was because of the lack of raw materials, and the output could not be increased, and a large amount of animal fat was used to produce it. When the elder brother heard about it, he proposed to kill the big fish in the sea to provide oil, so that he could make money and make friends with the head of a more powerful chemical company. I immediately handed over this proposal to my immediate boss for consideration, but I didn't expect that the god-like dean of Chenji Academy personally received me and entrusted him with a major task, that is, the creation of the whaling industry and the exploration of the northern ocean. After taking on this task by himself, the eldest brother and himself spent countless energy and financial resources to recruit sailors, build a large fleet, upgrade the processing plant, and join forces with many related factories and workshops to digest the huge whale meat and by-products. In the first year, the miracle of quadrupling the company's total output and the discovery of the White Sea archipelago (crossing all the islands north of Ezo Island, which had just arrived).
The later credits are all small credits that cannot be compared with these two, and he and his brother also got this title by virtue of the credit accumulated over the years. Years of hard work were finally recognized by the imperial court, and the family rose to the level of nobility in the past, and it was really willing to die.
Suddenly, a loud explosion interrupted Hu Bing's memories, and a shockwave hit him from the back, pushing him to the ground, and suddenly the huge impact caused him and many people in the square who were close to Chengtianmen to be severely injured and unconscious or near death.
The forbidden army near Chengtianmen and many upstarts who had just left the gate hurriedly blocked the road and square, rescued the wounded and inspected the murderers.
Under the high-intensity training and a large number of exercises, all the forbidden troops and nobles began to work in an orderly manner. In less than a quarter of an hour, all information was blocked, and it took less than five minutes for the people passing through the palace to feel the shaking of the ground and hear the sound of explosions. At this time, the emperor was still canonizing the last batch of lifelong nobles in the main hall step by step. Although the explosion and shock wave came very suddenly, hurting many low-level nobles who were close to Chengtianmen, they did not affect the many middle- and high-ranking nobles standing between Chengtianmen and the main hall. Many of the upstarts who were waiting to leave after the ceremony were angry, the new dynasty had just added officials to themselves and others, and they were attacked before they left the palace, which was simply an eye medicine for all the vested interests of the Chinese Empire.
The high-ranking nobles who had more organized appeal immediately shouted for escort and organized people to surround the main hall. The traversers also began to open the internal phone that had just been built, informing the Praetorian Guards and the guards of all walks of life.
The anti-terrorist forces established by Wang Xinyu were also urgently mobilized to block the city gates and scatter a large number of people to hunt down terrorists.
An hour later, the military and police who have undergone advanced modern anti-terrorism training will wipe out the criminals, and it turns out that these people are workers who are preparing to set off fireworks after the award ceremony, because when entering the Chengtianmen Gate during the transportation of fireworks, the artificial super electromagnet of the gate triggered the gunpowder particles in the fireworks partially wrapped in thin iron sheets, this mistake led to the death of five transporters and the serious injury of four guards (the black powder is less powerful, and it exploded outside the Chengtianmen gate, and the impact range was only a few tens of meters, The nouveau riche standing in the small square in front of the main hall on the other side of the doorway were only a few unlucky ghosts who were blown down by the shock wave that passed through the 12-meter-long doorway. )
This false alarm naturally made many people put down the big stone in their hearts, and the news of the blockade was also processed and made public, which was nothing more than the truth of the fireworks explosion published in the newspapers, and the families of several dead and injured guards and workers were heavily committed. The person responsible for the accident, the supervisor in charge of transportation of the fireworks company, and the person responsible for the management of the city gate shall be punished with corresponding penalties for dereliction of duty.
The injured Hu Bing, as the most unlucky upstart, just hit his forehead when he fell to the ground in a coma, and he was bruised. The fireworks show was naturally canceled during the evening banquet, and the new-style mandarin duck hot pot was the first emperor's banquet tasted by the nouveau riche of the new dynasty. The traversal once again copied the idea of the Qianlong Baisuo banquet in later generations, and the only innovation was to invite all the family members of the upstarts to give them a surprise and the impact of the treatment of human surnames.