Chapter 582: The Fuse of the War of the Four Surnames
In fact, there is also a behind-the-scenes propaganda in this. The main reason is: no matter how the outside changes, all the real money and silver can be stored in Lao Sicheng, what are our Wang family afraid of, with the head of the family, it is difficult to lose everyone? The clansmen understood it as soon as they thought about it, and with their blind trust in Wang Shihua, they were naturally enthusiastic about the exchange.
And the reason why this huge principal is kept by the Wang family is the result of a compromise between the four families: Zhangjiabao also wants it, but the other two, especially the Xiao family in Shendao Town, are a little uneasy about his family; The Xiao family wants, but they don't have such a strong force to protect it; The Zhao family is the weakest, so naturally there is no need to think about it. And the Wang family is not only connected with the four families, but also has strong strength and strong force, and at this time, Wang Shihua's personal reputation plays a key role - anyone who does business with him will not go well. Besides, no matter how uneasy everyone is, as long as they really want to issue border tickets, they have to acquiesce to this fact.
In just three days, the Wang family swallowed 20 million border area tickets, and in ten days, they swallowed 50 million border area tickets. This made the four companies overjoyed. But on the territory of the four own houses, it is much more difficult to exchange tickets for the border area. The sum of the three is only the same as the number issued by the Wang family.
Everyone is mentally prepared for this result in advance, after all, distribution and circulation are two different things.
The other three were really caught off guard by Wang Shihua's sudden economic squeeze.
The issue of banknotes in one's own sphere of influence has been practiced since ancient times, and the more chaotic it is, the more it is issued. But these people issue their own coins, all of them are for the purpose of looting the people's money, tying the people to their chariots, the people are fooled too much, and naturally they will not buy them again, so that those bigwigs can only forcibly issue them, often making the people's grievances boiling, and the victims are everywhere, and in the end, it is only the people who suffer.
And the four major families have had similar ideas before, but mainly because the four major families are used to fighting, under the intrigues, just the big problem of where to store the silver roots, they will break up unhappily, if it is only issued in their own territory, it is better not to do it, so, the four major families have really not done this for hundreds of years.
Therefore, at the beginning, although they were surprised by Wang Shihua's hand, they didn't pay much attention to it, but waited for the Wang family to make a fool of themselves with the meaning of watching jokes. But the result left them dumbfounded.
Needless to say, the prosperity of Shendao Town, and Longtang Town, relying on its geographical advantages, is now highly prosperous, Zhangjiabao has been rich for several generations, and Zhaojiazhai controls the choke points of Hunan and Guizhou. It can be said that these four basically control a large area connected by the three provinces, affecting several provinces. Coupled with the strength of each of them, this joint issuance of new coins has won the recognition and trust of many merchants. With the strong issuance of the four, the merchants entered the scope of the four and began to accept the border tickets, as soon as the situation opened, along with the circulation of the trade routes, the circulation of the border area tickets will inevitably become farther and farther, and the recognition will naturally become higher and higher.
For Wang Shihua, in addition to the economic monopoly, there is another important reason for what he values: it is jointly issued with the three of them, and the silver root is stored in the Wang family, so another huge benefit is obvious: the three of them will definitely not watch the other three families capture Lao Sicheng and seize the silver root. To put it bluntly, Wang Shihua tied all three of them to his chariot to prepare for the inevitable war of the four major families. At that time, as long as their three major forces help Wang Shihua defend Laosicheng and Longtang Town on the grounds of protecting the silver root, they can liberate a large number of troops for the Wang family.
And under the alliance of these four families, in addition to their respective territories, Jiangyin County was the first to fall outside: Shendao Town already controlled most of the county's economy, coupled with the geographical advantages of Longtang Town, it controlled the three main roads leading to Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the three major families did not even have the heart to resist, so they could only watch the people of the county buy and sell border tickets in their hands.
In fact, when the border area ticket reached its peak, Jiangyin County was the center, with a radius of thousands of kilometers, and the legitimacy of the border area ticket was recognized.
And Wang Shihua's hand also forced the other three to speed up the regular military war. In terms of economy, the three major families also immediately made adjustments, or temptations: the three major families negotiated with the Wang family to buy shares with 200,000 taels of gold and silver each. As a result, Wang Shihua deliberately delayed it...... What are you kidding, not to mention whether the three of them will agree, my hand is obviously aimed at you, how can I let you get in and get a piece of the pie? Faced with the alliance of their three major families, Wang Shihua naturally wanted to make a fierce move to disrupt their deployment.
From this time until the end of March, the friction between the Wang family and the other three major families became more and more intense. From the initial individual anti-counterfeiting, it developed into a group fight, and finally evolved into a fire between villages. In just two or three months, more than 100 people died in the fires on both sides alone.
Interestingly, as the county magistrate, Fang Jue actually ignored this. Think about it: the existence of the four major families, to put it bluntly, is the warlord separation, whether it is Lao Jiang or Fang Jue, they can't wait to strangle them, and now seeing them fighting, he is naturally happy to see it, or he plans to wait for the four families to fight hard before coming forward to reap the benefits. Anyway, everyone can see that the Japanese devils are already in decline, and they are not far from defeat, how can Lao Jiang tolerate these warlords jumping in front of his eyelids? And Fang Jue hasn't really opened up the situation yet, how can he have a good impression of the four major families?
This tense situation is like a pot of hot oil, just like a spark seed.
On April 3, 1944, the Martian seed appeared.
April 1 is the 80th birthday of Zhang Wentian's mother. Wang Shihua naturally wanted to bring a heavy gift to participate. It happened to be Peng Ziqing's turn to change guards with the fifth battalion stationed in the middle of the Chonghu trade road (each battalion was stationed for a quarter), so he accompanied Wang Shihua.
After celebrating her birthday, because Mrs. Zhang hadn't seen Zhang Cuiyun for a long time, she missed it so much, so she deliberately left Zhang Cuiyun and others to stay for a few more days. Wang Shihua also thought that he hadn't been in touch with Zhang Wentian for a long time, so he agreed to stay together.
It happened that a batch of opium was to be urgently transported to Shendao Town, and the cost of the road was very high, so Wang Shihua took over the deal. Subsequently, a telegram sent Peng Ziqing to Daohujiao County to receive the goods.
After Peng Ziqing returned to the garrison smoothly with the goods, he thought that he would take this opportunity to go home to see his grandson. Because of the peace and quiet of the Chonghu Trade Road in recent years, Peng Ziqing was also a little careless, ignoring Peng Shuihu's reminder, and returned with a company.
The team walked to the foot of an unnamed hillside, but strangely encountered the bombing of the devil plane that had not been seen for a long time, Peng Ziqing, who was bombed on the spot, turned on his back, and the angry Peng Ziqing scanned the plane with a machine gun, and as a result, the plane did not come down, and his thigh was pierced by a bullet.
Peng Ziqing was also stubborn, he didn't want others to see his jokes, and he didn't think much about it when he was angry. Not only did he not send a telegram of reinforcements to his family, but he also took twenty or thirty surviving men with him to put the bodies of the wounded and the war dead on the wagon and continued to move forward.
Although the four major families have been tense in the past few months, before this, the relationship was not bad, and it was normal for the leaders below to interact with each other. No, after Peng Ziqing got acquainted with Xiang Rengui, the youngest brother in the Xiang family's family, they fell in love very much, and they got married and have been in contact with each other.
In the past few days, Xiang Rengui didn't know if it was because of the ghost model or some other reason, he was impetuous, and he took dozens of guards into the mountains to hunt. It's also strange that in the past, he returned with a full load, but yesterday he only hit three rabbits and two pheasants, which made him angry, and after staying in the mountains all night, he was now beating around, and as a result, he actually lost his way.
As soon as he finally came out of the mountains, he happened to meet a small caravan coming from afar along the road.
Xiang Rengui is also capable, otherwise, how could Peng Ziqing marry him. But he has one problem: greed!
Looking left and right at no one, he immediately greedily raised his lips, and commanded: "This is not in the village in front of the village, and there is no store in the back, since it has collided, it is God who is sending us fat sheep." Brethren, get ready to do it. ”
"Fifth master, this is the Chonghu Trade Road, it would be terrible if someone found out."
"What happened to the Chonghu Trade Road?" Xiang Rengui said in a deep voice in annoyance: "The Chonghu Commercial Road is the road of the Wang family, and it is a matter of our Xiang family...... In the past few years, the Wang family has relied on this road, eating a lot of fat, mother, I don't know how to score a piece of the pie for a few of us, and I am embarrassed to say that the four major families are in the same spirit...... Now it's time to give him eye medicine. ”
He also instructed the guards around him: "They are just such a few people, and we have the advantage of ambushes, so it will be hell if we can't win...... It's all remembered by Lao Tzu, and he doesn't leave a living mouth. ”
In the excited waiting, as the other party got closer and closer, Xiang Rengui gradually saw through the telescope that the person on the horse was Peng Ziqing.
pursed his lips, weighed it again and again, and probably felt that if he ambushed his in-laws, it would be a little impossible to do it, and besides, the Wang family is indeed not what it used to be, and it is not easy to provoke. But he was unwilling, and after thinking about it, he left most of the centaurs to continue to hide in the forest, and he took a dozen or so guards, carrying game, and walked slowly towards Peng Ziqing.
"In-law! Why are you here? ”
"Lao Peng, it's not that you don't know my preferences, so you like to hunt. No, I came out yesterday, and I was too lucky, and I didn't hit anything after walking around the mountains, but I got lost at night. After nesting in the mountains all night, he inexplicably moved here...... "Looking at Peng Ziqing laughing, I didn't think it in the past, but now, after he smiled like this, he felt that he was laughing at himself, and the evil that had just been suppressed in his heart came up again, how to look at it, how to feel that Peng Ziqing was not pleasing to the eye." I endured it in my heart, but my face pretended to be annoyed, and scolded: "Isn't it just a momentary miss, look at you, you laugh a fart!" ”
"Hah! Ha ......"
"Okay, stop laughing. Lao Peng, how did you get here? Why are there so many people around, but so many things are escorted...... Hey~! You're ...... leg."
"Don't mention it, I'm more ...... than you"
When Peng Ziqing unsuspectingly told the source of his resentment to the good in-laws, it was a bad thing......