Luo Cuihuan beckoned to the housekeeper and motioned for the housekeeper to come closer, Luo Cuihuan whispered a few words to the housekeeper, and the housekeeper nodded again and again.

"Do as I say." Luo Cuihuan looked at the housekeeper, and his eyes suddenly became cold, "If you mess up again this time......

"Fourth Mrs. rest assured! The villain will do it! The housekeeper hurriedly replied, "The villain vouches for his life!" There will never be a problem! ”

"There you go."

"The villain quits."

After the housekeeper retreated, Hu Yulin looked at Luo Cuihuan with surprise and gratitude in his eyes, as if he didn't know her.

"How are you going to destroy the corpse?" Hu Yulin's spirit had completely recovered from the collapse at this time, and he was curious about how Luo Cuihuan would deal with the girl's body so that no trace would be revealed.

Luo Cuihuan smiled slightly and said, "Have you seen "The Legend of Wu Pen"? ”

Hu Yulin suddenly remembered that he had arranged for someone to go to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province to purchase porcelain a few days ago, and couldn't help but suddenly realize.

"Are you trying to ......?"

"The master is frightened, tonight, let Cuihuan serve the master......" Luo Cuihuan showed an extraordinarily coquettish smile, and returned to her usual amorous appearance, she approached Hu Yulin, and her arms wrapped around Hu Yulin's waist like a snake.

Hu Yulin went to heart disease, and he was so happy that he immediately hugged Luo Cuihuan, and simply didn't even go back to the room, so he started to rain on the ground.

After another good time, Hu Yulin took a long breath, and was about to get up, he glanced at the face of Luo Cuihuan, who was lying there with scattered clothes, and his heart was suddenly clenched by great fear!

Luo Cuihuan's face. It turned into the face of the girl named Xu Yan'er who had just died!

Her eyes were wide open. Just looked at him dumbfounded.

Hu Yulin shouted. Woke up from his dream and sat up.

"Old man......" The concubine who was sleeping next to her was also woken up by Hu Yulin's scream, and looked at him at a loss.

Hu Yulin realized that he had a nightmare just now, and he couldn't help but feel extremely upset, Concubine Yan understood what was happening, and did not speak, but softly stretched out her hand and gently wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief.

Hu Yulin was a little deflated and fell back on the bed again, and then he found that the underwear was wet and slippery. Knowing that he must have vented a lot of money in a dream just now, his heart was even more depressed.

It may be that he has done too many things in love recently, and with all kinds of things, he feels that his body is not as good as before.

He made up his mind that tomorrow he would ask the dispensing masters of "Hu Qingyutang" to get him some medicine to replenish his body.

Probably because of the weakness of his body after the catharsis, although he had not fully recovered from the bad mood brought on by the nightmare, he quickly fell asleep again.

When he woke up again, it was already three poles of the sun, Hu Yulin stretched his waist and yawned. The concubine beside her was awakened by him and immediately turned around. Grabbed him and gave him a light thrash.

"Master, are you going to get up?" Concubine Yan asked with a smile, as if the nightmare he had last night hadn't happened at all.

"Hmm." Hu Yulin closed his eyes, nodded, and lay there at her mercy.

"The master is going to get up." Concubine Yan shouted, and the maid servants outside the bedroom immediately began to get busy.

The maids dressed Hu Yulin, helped him sit up, rubbed his waist and beat his back, and several maids walked in, washed his face and hands, and wiped him with a towel.

After all this was done, the maids who were waiting to freshen up withdrew, one of the maids took the tea tray and served a bowl of fragrant tea, Hu Yulin took a sip of the fragrant tea and rinsed his mouth, and the other maid walked forward quickly with a delicate and gorgeous porcelain basin and took it to Hu Yulin's mouth, Hu Yulin closed his eyes and spit it out. The two rings withdrew, and a servant took a fine rosewood plate, which contained precious stones of various colors and all kinds of jade, as well as other jewels of various colors.

Hu Yulin only opened his eyes at this time, took out a huge and shiny gem and a piece of beautiful jade, and carefully watched and played with it.

This is Hu Yulin's own morning rule, called "eye care".

After this toss, Hu Yulin came to the main hall, and after breakfast, he was about to go out to Fukang Qianzhuang, when the housekeeper hurriedly ran over with his clothes and handed over a letter to Hu Yulin.

Hu Yulin looked at the envelope, and the letter was sent urgently by the Fuzhou branch of Fukang Qianzhuang. Hu Yulin nodded, the housekeeper said goodbye and withdrew, Hu Yulin opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it.

This was an urgent telegram, and Hu Yulin only glanced at it a few times, and his body began to tremble.

"Isn't there a Russian warship escorting it? How so! ......" Hu Yulin finished reading the telegram, held the letter tightly in his hand, and sat on the Taishi chair with a depressed face.

"Bastard! How so! Why is this happening! ”

Hu Yulin slammed the newspaper in his hand on the table, and the tea bowls, cups and plates on the table were all shaken. The people on the left and right were all startled, and they lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him.

In this telegram, Chen Yucheng, the treasurer of the Fuzhou branch, told him the news of the robbery of the silver ship.

"You all get out! Get out! Hu Yulin waved his arms violently, stared at the people around him, as if he wanted to eat people.

The housekeeper waved his hand in fright, and the servants all bowed their heads one by one, and the housekeeper thought about it, and finally took a few steps back and walked out of the door, closing the door panel, leaving Hu Yulin alone in the room.

Hu Yulin didn't go to see the housekeeper, but fell on the table and smashed it with his fist.

"How can this be ......"

"Six million taels, that's six million taels!"

"Six million taels, the Western Expedition is paid...... How can I make up for this big hole......"

"If Zuo Gong knew that I had embezzled the Western Expedition Assistance, would he kill me......

"Oh my God! Oh, my God! What a good thing I am! ”

The reason why Hu Yulin was so afraid of the 6 million taels of Western Expedition was because he knew the unknown secret.

Since the Great Qian Empire changed the Western Regions to Xinjiang by Emperor Quanlong, Xinjiang garrisoned troops and used troops in the northwest. Military spending. Most of the solutions are solved in the form of assistance. What is "Assistance"? Xinjiang initial placement. It is difficult for the finances to be self-reliant, so the household department and the provinces allocate silver taels to maintain military and political expenditures, and because the expenditures are mostly used for military salaries, it is called "co-paying" for the allocation of silver taels. Beginning in the 25th year of Quanlong, the Daqian Imperial Court allocated 2 to 3 million taels of silver from the interior every year. The amount dropped sharply, and in the early years of Tongzhi, the actual annual allowance was only 440,000 taels, and it was often in arrears. Among the annual contributions, 600,000 taels are allocated to Liangjiang, 1.44 million taels in Zhejiang, and 840,000 taels in Guangdong.

Zuo Jigao's westward expedition re-"activated" the co-pay system, but he was repeatedly trapped in arrears. Funding is difficult. In addition, Zuo Jigao's popularity is too poor, and it is not as good as the "turbulence" of the southeast when Zeng Bohan used the army. Tongzhi for six years. When Zuo Jigao moved to the northwest and passed through Jiangxi, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Jiangxi at that time, also took the initiative to ask for an additional 20,000 taels per month. But soon after, Liu Kunyi excused himself with difficulties, and the salary increase and the co-ordination fund disappeared. Zuo Jigao has repeatedly asked the imperial court to urge all localities to provide timely assistance, but "the first letter is frequently urged, and the rate is not answered."

Whether or not the co-ordination can be coordinated originally depended on the central government's dispatch, but since the Fengtongzhi period, whenever the provinces have an emergency, they have accommodated and borrowed from each other, and the household department has not asked, and there is no unified financial planning ability in the Quanlong period. The loss of the central government's financial power will depend on the coordination of the contributors themselves. It's a pity to coordinate this piece, with Zuo Jigao's personality and way of doing things, he can't do it at all.

Although the coordination cannot be done, Zuo Jigao has another set of methods in terms of dunning.

That is, borrowing foreign debts.

The idea of borrowing foreign debts came from Zuo Jigao, and the person in charge was Hu Yulin. Zuo Jigao believes that by replacing the assistance with foreign debts and using the emergency needs, a huge amount of money can be quickly collected to make up for the lack of assistance. Zuo Jigao's method was: to use customs stamps, that is, to assist the local provinces to stamp customs defenses, in order to show their commitment instead of the central government's urging. In other words, the huge external debt has been replaced by a decentralized allocation. Begging "borrowing foreign debts" with the co-payment system can be said to be a genius's generosity, which Zuo Jigao cannot do.

Between the sixth year of Tongzhi and the seventh year of Tongzhi, Zuo Jigao borrowed two large foreign debts through the hands of Hu Yulin, totaling 2.2 million taels of silver...... I have to borrow my hand and go to the plane as soon as possible". In Zuo Jigao's view, borrowing foreign debt is a good medicine to make up for the financial shortage, and he even thinks that it can be borrowed on a large scale, "The more you borrow, the lighter the interest consumption; The farther the vintage, the easier it is to refinance. Though I have gained much in him, I have consumed little. "Anyway, he doesn't need to pay back the money.

What's even more clever is that Zuo Jigao used "borrowing foreign debts" as a means to collect the provincial salaries!

For Zuo Jigao's loan handled by Hu Yulin, the interest can be said to be ridiculously high. Liu Kunyi once put himself in Zuo Jigao's shoes, thinking that this was his "last resort" move in order not to delay the military, Zuo Jigao just sneered after hearing about it, in fact, he was not a "last resort", but intended to "be high or low"!

Because what he wants to do is to "kill one stone and count birds".

Because high interest rates can not only quickly raise huge sums of money to meet the needs of soldiers, but also force the co-ordinating local provinces to quickly cooperate with each other, otherwise the principal and interest of borrowing foreign debts will have to be repaid by them!

With the whip of foreign debts whipped behind it, do the provinces still dare to default?

This time, Zuo Jigao doesn't need to ask for help, the governors of the provinces will go to the road themselves!

In addition, Zuo Jigao's "high is not low", another purpose is to leave room for kickbacks for Hu Yulin, who is in charge of it.

Hu Yulin is a profit-loving businessman who lives for profit, and Zuo Jigao certainly knows it very clearly. Hu Yulin must have a reward for doing these things for him, and without a return, how can Hu Yulin raise military salaries for him day after day and year after year? What's more, in order to borrow foreign money for the western expedition, he also staked the Fukang silver number and his family fund, and deserved to be rewarded for his dedication and benefits, but there was no such item in the institutional arrangements of the imperial court. The so-called "saint can be right", and it is logical for Zuo Jigao, who calls himself "Jinliang", to let Hu Yulin eat the interest rate difference at a high interest rate in return.

And the governors of the provinces were helpless. In order not to be the unjust head of Zuo Jigao's "usury". The only means to do so are to resort. The co-payer will be apportioned.

And the victims of Zuo Jigao's "high-interest urging" are businessmen from all over the world.

Not to mention, under the pressure of Zuo Jigao's "high-interest urging", the officials in Guangzhou forced Pan Shicheng, a merchant of the 13th line in Guangzhou, to pay 1 million taels of the Western Expedition Pension. Later, fortunately, his relatives entered Beijing and found Prince Jing to appeal. before being released. Pan Shicheng's release once made Zuo Jigao extremely angry, and specially went to the court for this purpose, demanding severe punishment for merchants who refused to apportion, and was later suppressed by the court

Of course, Hu Yulin knew why Zuo Jigao hated these businessmen who refused to pay their assessments so much.

As early as the beginning of the Western Expedition, Zuo Jigao proposed that Middle-earth could imitate the practice of foreign countries "lending troops to pay the merchants", "returning taxes, following business conditions, and collecting things", but the reality ruthlessly shattered his idea. The local merchants stationed in the Western Expeditionary Army were suspicious. didn't buy his account at all, Zuo Jigao planned to negotiate a loan of 2 million taels from local merchants to support military supplies. As a result, the merchants were only willing to borrow 800,000 taels of silver in the end, not even half of it, and "the heart was still hesitant and could not be relieved". Zuo Jigao was furious about this, and simply began a hard apportionment to severely punish the merchants who refused to comply. For a time, Shaanxi, Gansu and other western expeditionary armies passed through the provinces, and the merchants dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out.

As Zuo Jigao's money bag, Hu Yulin certainly understands Zuo Jigao's temperament.

For the businessmen who refused to apportion, once Zuo Jigao knew that he had embezzled the Western Expedition salary in order to covet the usury interest given by the Japanese government, Hu Yulin did not dare to think about it anymore.

Hu Yulin tried his best to calm himself down, he knew that what he had to do now was how to plug the hole of the 6 million taels of Western Expedition as soon as possible.

As long as the hole is plugged and Zuo Jigao has an explanation, not only will he not trouble him, but if he has a problem in a certain link, Zuo Jigao will try his best to help him settle it!

Thinking of this, Hu Yulin's heart gradually settled down.

But how can we close this big hole?

6 million taels of silver, for him Hu Da Caishen, it can't be said to be an astronomical amount, but it is also a huge amount!

His total assets are actually far more than this amount, but his main business is the money bank ticket number, most of the funds of Fukang money bank are now used for lending, and only a few funds are used for purchases, and in a hurry, it is impossible to withdraw so many funds!

Where can I get the money?

Hu Yulin thought about it for a long time and finally came up with an idea.

That's the money in the raw silk business.

Thinking of the decision he made to hoard raw silk to raise the price for huge profits, he couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

Raw silk, tea and porcelain have always been important commodities in the foreign trade of the Great Qian Empire, and they are also the main business for merchants in China to make profits. Among them, raw silk is the most important. After the opening of Shanghai, the center of trade between China and Turkey and foreign countries gradually shifted from Guangzhou to Shanghai. In the twenty-fifth year of Shaoguang, more than 5,000 bales of raw silk were exported from Shanghai. In the ninth year of Tongzhi, nearly 60,000 bales of raw silk have been exported from Shanghai. Since the ninth year of Tongzhi, about two-thirds of the country's raw silk export trade has been exported to foreign countries through Shanghai Port. At one time, well-known ocean companies such as Qichang, Jardine Matheson, and Tianxiang settled in Shanghai one after another, engaged in the export trade of silk and tea. However, since the rebellion of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom, because of the war, the production of raw silk and tea has been greatly affected, and the foreign trade quota of Chinese merchants and tea has also dropped greatly, and foreign merchants who come to China to buy raw silk have even complained that the production of raw silk in China is getting smaller and smaller, so that they have nowhere to buy. As the demand for raw silk far exceeded the supply, the price of raw silk began to rise, and farmers began to engage in raw silk production when they saw that it was profitable, but it was far from returning to the scale before the Shohei Rebellion (during this period, Japan seized the business opportunity and vigorously expanded the production of raw silk, making a lot of profits in the international market, which made the Japanese economy develop greatly and became one of the important achievements of the Meiji Restoration). Author's note), Hu Yulin seized this opportunity, on the one hand, to lend to silk farmers who were willing to engage in raw silk production, and on the other hand, to invest in a large amount of hoarding raw silk, ready to sell it at a high price in the future to obtain huge profits.

Up to now, Hu Yulin has invested 4.7 million taels of silver in raw silk, buying a total of 11,000 bags of raw silk, and if all of them are thrown at the current price, the profit should be about 500,000 taels, that is, the profit can reach 5.2 million taels.

In this way, if you scrape together 800,000 taels of silver from other places, you can plug this big hole......

Thinking of plugging the hole, Hu Yulin breathed a sigh of relief.

However, where do you go to get the 800,000 taels of silver?

After thinking about it for a while, Hu Yulin still didn't understand the essentials, and couldn't help sighing.

In the past, 800,000 taels of silver was nothing to him, but now, it was enough to suffocate him, the god of wealth.

After thinking about it, he knew that he could only borrow this money.

Who are you going to borrow from?

Because of the military quartermaster for Zuo Jigao's Western Expedition, he Hu Yulin offended many people in the business community of China and Turkey because of the "hard apportionment" relationship that Zuo Jigao engaged.

What's even more terrifying is that once he Hu Yulin opens Chrysostom to borrow money from others, once the news comes out, someone will definitely link the transaction between him and Zuo Jigao, and once someone instigates the official to participate in the performance, to check his Hu Yulin's account, the trouble will be even greater! (To be continued......)

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