Shanghai, Dongchang Yamen. At the beginning of the morning, the sky lit up the compound, and the black pressure was full of Dongchang soldiers wearing round hats, white boots, and twelve buttons with round necks.

Qiu Yi, the head of the East Factory, respectfully invited the envoy from the Inner Factory from Beijing, and then said to his subordinates: "There is a holy oracle! Please Chen Gonggong speak! ”

"Gonggong Qiu is polite" The envoy of the inner factory took out a copper cylinder thick as a copper coin from his arms, and then took out a thin cylinder covered with wax oil from the cylinder, handed it to him, and said, "Please check it." ”

Qiu Yi took it with both hands and took a closer look at the wax layer wrapped in the shell. After seeing that there is no damage, put it into the prepared ink and dip it, and then roll it on the white paper. Only then did he take out a secret note from his arms and tear it open, lù out the pattern inside, compared the two, and found that it was completely wěn, and then said in a deep voice: "No problem!" With that, he handed it back.

"The emperor has decreed that the secret letter will be opened at nine o'clock on May 27." Gonggong Chen took out his pocket watch from his arms and said, "My watch is still ten seconds away." ”

"Mine too." Qiu Yi's is obviously still one point behind, but obviously it shouldn't be more true.

After a short pause, Gonggong Chen unscrewed the wax seal, took out the letterhead inside, and said in a deep voice: "All movable and immovable properties of Huilian in Shanghai are specially ordered!" After a pause, he looked around and said, "And take its members into custody pending trial!" In case of obstruction, shoot and kill! ”

In Qiu Yi's shocked gaze, Gonggong Chen handed him the secret order and said, "Gonggong Qiu, take a look, that's right." ”

"That's right," Qiu Yi said with a mouthful.

"Then execute!" Gonggong Chen raised his voice and said: "Anyone who procrastinates will be cut _sī, cut it!" Whistleblower, slash! Whoever hides his belongings, slash! "Now his identity is not a messenger, but a supervising eunuch in the infield.

"Yes!" "Yes!" The eunuchs replied in unison.

The gate slowly opened, and a pair of feet wearing spiked boots stepped out like iron hooves, and then divided their troops everywhere, and pounced on the storefronts of the Huilian in various parts of the city. Although people don't look at the road, it is true that most of them "dare not speak loudly, for fear of frightening the people of Dongchang." , even those scholars who have always been unscrupulous have become only talking about the wind and the moon, and don't talk about state affairs.

As soon as they found out that the people of the brigade had crossed the street and become frightened birds, Shanghai citizens hurriedly closed their doors and shops, and the Qianyuan teahouse was no exception.

The shopkeeper hung the door panel, and it was dark in the teahouse. Ma Liuye leaned into the crack of the door and peeked out, and discussed very quietly: "Who is going to be unlucky?" It was Old Man Zhou who spoke.

"At that time, when the seven major newspapers were seized, there was no such big movement," Ma Liuye said.

"Evil," Old Man Zhou sighed, "It's only been a few good days."

"Be quiet." Shopkeeper Hou hurriedly made a silent gesture: "Boss Qin is gone, if we are caught again, who will redeem us?" ”

"What can you hear?" Old man Zhou muttered.

"Who are you going to arrest this time?" Ma Liuye asked Chen Guandao.

Since the last time the boat capsized in Yīngou, Chen Guanren was much more cautious, and he shook the folding fan at least twenty times before he said slowly: "There is no news at all, and now that Dongchang has arrested people, they don't know about us." ，。

"This Shanghai city is now the world of Dongchang." Ma Liuye said indignantly: "Every once in a while, I will go to the dock to check the rebels, and I don't have three thousand thousands of silver to send away, so I want to start work!" He sighed heavily, "My brothers, eating has become a big problem!" ”

"Boss Qin is really right, I can't live my life!" Shopkeeper Hou couldn't help but complain: "In the past few months, the business in the store has been getting worse and worse, and last month it began to make ends meet, and the boss has relieved his nose for several guys."

"You are the shopkeeper and a shareholder, unless you close the door, you can't lose your business." Chen Guanren comforted him.

"As I said, the wages can't be paid, and I will bear the loss" The shopkeeper Hou shook his head and said: "This time I can't live at all, I'm going to hang myself." ”

"The world is difficult, I used to say that the tobacco came back and rolled it myself." Zhou Laohan said bitterly: "It's really hard to smoke." ”

"You can save it." Everyone despised together and said, "Don't be here without a disease." ”

As he was talking, he heard someone outside shouting while running: "It's terrible, the Huilian has been seized!" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and scolded: "Nonsense, the sky will fall and the Huilian will not be able to close the door........."

After laughing, everyone fell silent, and panic gradually appeared on their faces, and they no longer had the heart to drink tea, so they hurried to verify the authenticity of the news.

There is no need to inquire, there is a Huilian store on Miaoqian Street. The four of them rushed out of the teahouse, and as soon as they came to the street, they saw that the storefront signboard was torn to the ground.

The guy put on the shackles and was escorted out of the store by the East Factory ......,

Seeing this scene, the four of them were dark for a while.

"It's over, it's over, it's completely over" Shopkeeper Hou collapsed to the ground at that time, and the other three hurriedly held on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On the same day, 338 Huilian employees were arrested in Shanghai, and 40 shops and treasury were seized. The same situation also occurred in Liangjing, Zhejiang, Susong, Shandong, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Liangguang on this day, a total of 2,400 Huilian employees were arrested, and the stores were seized.

There are more than 500 warehouses.

This action without warning shocked the whole country, and those officials and gentry and wealthy businessmen who had deposits in the Huilian were all dumbfounded, but anyone who dared to stop them would be arrested and imprisoned by Dongchang After several large-scale arrests, Dongchang's deterrent power is not what it used to be, and the actions were rough and powerful, and they simply ignored these hard-mouthed and timid officials and wealthy businessmen.

In the following month, East F arrested and sealed down prefecture by prefecture and county, increasing the number of detainees to more than 20,000, seizing more than 6,000 stores and warehouses, and almost sweeping away all the personnel and real estate of Huilian......

Even the Huilian, which is known as an unsinkable giant ship, was taken down by the emperor, and the officials and gentry and rich people across the country all trembled.

Emperor Wanli finally realized his grandfather's unsung pride, but he guarded against arrogance and rashness, urging the household to speed up negotiations with Rishenglong.

The bigwigs of Sunrise Long gathered in Taiyuan to make decisions on this matter. After auditing the general ledger copied from the Huilian, the Jin merchants moved, and it was really difficult to draw the dragon and the tiger, and the copycat of Rishenglong could not be compared with the original of others, whether it was the scale of funds, risk control and capital retention rate, everyone had a world of difference.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" The Jin merchants, who have always been known for their sanity and conservatism, were red-eyed, and said in a hoarse voice: "The annexation of Huilian is equivalent to the financial unification of the whole country, and since then, we are still there after the death of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Being able to kill the boss and become the boss is the ideal of all the second ones. And the objective situation also determines that they must hurry up and take over, because confidence in the financial market is king, and if the public's confidence in the banking industry collapses, then Sunrise will also be doomed.

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Zhao Yi broke into Song Shilang's room again, and said excitedly: "It's done, it's done!" After saying that, he realized that he was reckless again, and quickly wanted to quit.

"Oh?" Who knew that Song Sui was not in the mood to reprimand this time, took a deep breath of cigarette and asked, "What is the result?" ”

Sunrise has agreed to a plan to merge the two to form Royal Bank, with each company owning half of the shares. Sunrise got the right to operate for 50 years, and the profit gave us five points. ”

"Why has there been such a big change in attitude?" Song Sui said sourly: "When I discussed with Brother Yang Xian yesterday, he was still at a loss. ”

"It is said that this morning, a word came from Shanxi, and the day was relieved.

"Sure enough, at this time, I can still rely on my own people. 、。 Song Sui was envious and jealous. Yang Junmin is the eldest son of Yang Bo, and he has a unique advantage in negotiating with Riyilong, and he can envy him.

Thinking of this, Song Sui was disheartened for a while, and said sourly: "All the money earned goes to the emperor's pocket, and Brother Yang is just making a poor and happy." ”

"That's" Zhao Yi echoed repeatedly, but he was very disdainful in his heart: "You don't have a chance to be poor and happy." , No matter what Song Sui thinks, Zhang Shangshu is very happy anyway. With money, your own family is easy to do, even if this money does not fall into your pocket, as long as you can make the emperor not reach out to the state treasury, life will be very good.

So as soon as he changed the procrastination style of the government yamen, Zhang Xueyan personally supervised the formation, and completed all the formalities in half a day. The next day, he asked Yang Junmin to take Sunrise to sign the seal.

Rishenglong's side is also afraid that it will change later, so he quickly signed and drawn. Yang Shilang hurried back to the ministry and asked Zhang Xueyan to go to the word with him.

When the two talked and laughed and passed by Song Sui's room, they didn't forget to ask him if they were going together. Song Suipi smiled and said, "I won't go, I'm not feeling well today."

"Then get some rest." The two didn't invite him sincerely, so they took a sedan chair out of the palace and went to the palace.

In the East Warm Pavilion.

The eunuch used the seal steadily, and then presented the contract to the emperor after completing all the formalities.

Wanli looked at it carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, he smiled and said, "Great." You two have a lot of credit. ”

The two of them hurriedly became modest, and before they could say a few words, they were interrupted by Wanli: "There is another thing, I just knew, the vault of the Huilian does not match the books. ”！。