Chapter 242: I Was Fooled
Entering June, the days are longer, the sun is more poisonous, walk around outside, the white and tender skin will turn red, if it is often outside, it will become red, purple and black, no, Huang Jin's big white face will become red, and a layer of dead skin will be raised. The little eunuch took the ointment and trembled and applied it to Huang Jin.
"Godfather, watching you suffer all the time, the children are distressed, don't run outside when you are old in the future, how good it is to rest." The little eunuch chattered.
Huang Jin listened to it and said gently: "It's not that the godfather doesn't want to be comfortable, but this world doesn't allow it, now that the price of tea has risen, the godfather's head has been saved, and he can still be rewarded by the emperor, but if it's like a few days ago, the godfather's head will be gone." ”
The little eunuch was so frightened that his hand shook and poked it on the nose, Huang Jin frowned in pain, and the little eunuch hurriedly said: "Godfather's fortune is great, and his sons will serve you for a long life." ”
"Look at your little mouth, you really know how to talk."
Huang Jin sighed, and when he looked up, he happened to see the little eunuch leading Tang Yi in. Huang Jin hurriedly stood up, laughed so much that his eyes were gone, and said happily: "Hey, it turns out that the golden boy is here, come and take a seat." ”
Huang Jin pushed away the little eunuch, came over in person, pressed Tang Yi on the chair, made tea and served snacks, worthy of being a professional waiter, his movements were like a cloud of peers, and he fiddled with it in a few clicks.
"Tang Gongzi, why do you have time to come to see our house, is there a big move?"
"Hmm." Tang Yi nodded firmly.
Huang Jin seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and he became excited all of a sudden, rubbing his hands, which was indispensable.
"Our family knows that Tang Gongzi generally doesn't make a move, and he doesn't shoot ordinarily! It's definitely going to be big, let our family do something. Just tell me what I want. Huang Jin bowed his body, and his flattery was the same as when he faced Jiajing. To say that Huang Jin's degree of brain damage to Tang Yi is still above Xu Wei and Wang Shimao.
Tang Yi directly picked out and said: "It's true that I want to do a big job, but it's not the same as my father-in-law thinks." ”
"What's that for?" Huang Jin asked in surprise.
"Reconciliation!"
"Ahh Huang Jin slapped the table and stood up proudly, his sharp voice piercing the roof. stared at Tang Yi and shouted loudly: "Tang Gongzi, you're not crazy, are you?" Obviously, we have the advantage, the price of tea is getting higher and higher day by day, just wait for the deadline to come, we can count the silver, why reconcile, our family is not convinced! ”
Tang Yi spread his hands and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Huang is so courageous. In that case, let's leave it to Huang Gonggong to manipulate next! ”
"Don't!"
Huang Jin almost fell down in fright, let him manipulate, and he was not eaten to the bones! Immediately, Huang Jin accompanied the smiling face and said: "Tang Gongzi, our family is just and clenching fists - fake!" Isn't it still up to you to take the big idea, it's just that our family feels that we can't let go of those grandchildren easily. ”
"What my father-in-law said is not what I think in my heart. It's just that the situation is stronger than people! Tang Yi smiled bitterly: "Wang Chonggu found me and was willing to mediate." Huang Gonggong, I don't dare not give the face of Jin Shang, what about you? ”
"Me?"
Huang Jin suddenly became a frosted eggplant and wilted. Others don't know how powerful Jin Shang is, but he knows it well, but this is Jiangnan. It's not the territory of the Jin merchants, what are they mixing and doing?
"Tang Gongzi, are you so afraid of Jin Shang?" Huang Jin brought the ball back.
Tang Yi smiled dumbly, "Gonggong Huang, it's not a matter of being afraid of anyone. You are the head of the palace, and you are responsible for the mission of Your Majesty, and you must be safe in everything, after all, it is detrimental to the wisdom of taking out so much silver and passing it on. ”
"Wise? We've long since lost that thing. Huang Jin said that Tang Yi's words hit his weakness, and he didn't need to talk nonsense, he nodded, which was much easier than Tang Yi expected.
In fact, after this period of time, Huang Jin has become accustomed to obeying Tang Yiyan, and according to his ideas, he will definitely not suffer. easily got Huang Jin, Tang Yi was also very happy.
Some people want to ask, why did they spare no effort to help Huang Jin, and why did they let him withdraw at a critical moment? The answer is definitely not that Tang Yi is kind-hearted, nor is it that Huang Gonggong is cute. Huang Jin represents the palace, represents Jiajing, and is a retreat for Tang Yi. The next storm will only be more crazy and brutal, and Tang Yi is not sure how far it will burn, so it has become a necessary choice to keep Huang Jin out of the matter.
Under the instruction of Tang Yi, Huang Jin and Zhao Yongfang and others started negotiations, and it took fifteen days before and after, and finally reached an agreement, Zhao Yongfang invested 1.5 million taels to eat more orders in Huang Jin's hands, and at the same time Huang Jin wanted to release all the tea under his control, it was obvious that Zhao Yongfang and his party also thought that the tea was quietly purchased by Huang Jin, after all, they would not notice how much energy the head of the Xinke government examination case could have.
If Wang Chonggu hadn't thought of Tang Yi if it weren't for the salt iron pond and the great victory on the sandbank, he would not have thought of Tang Yi.
Huang Jin got back 800,000 taels, and repaid Tang Yi's 300,000 taels, and finally left 400,000 taels, and after deducting interest, he could earn more than 200,000 taels, although it was much less than expected, but Huang Jin was like a dream, life and death were in a thought, it was really torturous, and he never wanted to stay in Suzhou for a day.
Before leaving, Huang Jin took Tang Yi's hand, and tears flowed down his face.
"Tang Gongzi, don't say anything, you can watch it in the future, no matter what time it is, as long as you give an order, our family dares to frown, and let God smash our family!"
Sending off Huang Jin, who had made a vow, Tang Yi returned to his residence again, and Lei Qi came to report that the tea had been thrown out, and he had obtained a net profit of 390,000 taels.
Tang Yi didn't seem to have much interest in numbers, and suddenly turned back into an otaku, hiding at home, talking about poetry and essays with Xu Wei and Wang Shimao, making fuss with his head, and concentrating on coping with the college exam.
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Hong Ruixiang, Zhao Yongfang looked up at a few guys who took down the plaque of the business, and muddy tears flowed out of his old eyes.
Of course, he didn't have the ability to invite Wang Chonggu, just when he was unable to deal with the crazy increase in tea prices, he had no choice but to choose to ask for help, who was he looking for?
This person's name is Zhao Xu, he is from Shaoxing, everyone knows that Master Shaoxing is powerful, Zhao Xu is smart and clever, he has read a lot since he was a child, but everyone has their own ambitions, he reluctantly participated in a county examination, and he never took the imperial examination again, nor did he go to be a master.
So what does he do, start a business!
started with a small fight, and within a few years, Zhao Xu became the richest man in Shaoxing, and then his business became bigger and bigger, and he made friends with super wealthy and powerful people.
At the age of twenty-five, Zhao Xu suddenly threw away all the industries in his hands, and instead wandered among the family and the powerful, no matter where he went, he was a guest, and some people said that he was the first businessman in the southeast, the contemporary Shen Wansan.
Zhao Yongfang is more than 20 years older than Zhao Xu, and the two of them have nothing to do with each other, but when he founded Hongruixiang, Zhao Yongfang wanted to use Zhao Xu's strength to recognize Zhao Xu as his uncle.
With such a relationship, it was not difficult to open his mouth, and Zhao Xu was invited, and Zhao Yongfang knelt in front of him, begging his uncle for help.
"Alas, I have long said that you must be 10,000 times more careful when getting tickets, and you must cross the river with your eggs. Huang Jin, that guy is a popular person next to the emperor, how can he not have a little means. ”
"Uncle, my nephew knows that I am wrong, I just ask my uncle to make a move and pull my nephew, and my nephew is willing to give Hong Ruixiang both hands and honor my uncle."
Zhao Xu didn't agree immediately, but shook his head, round and round, and suddenly sighed. Said decisively: "I can't get entangled in the tea leaves." ”
"Why?" Zhao Yongfang's face turned red and said unconvinced: "Uncle Mo doesn't dislike the price offered by his nephew is not enough?" ”
"Phew! I'll care about your money! ”
Zhao Xu sneered: "You have a little brain, I have calculated it, in previous years, there were tens of millions of catties of tea flowing into Suzhou, of which the Jin merchants had to take away five million catties." And this year, Jin merchants purchased less than 400,000 catties, so much tea was eaten by Huang Jin's old gelding, how much silver did he mobilize, do you have a spectrum in your heart? ”
Zhao Yongfang convulsed for a while, silently calculated in his heart, and finally said bitterly: "At least four or five million." ”
Zhao Xu said lightly: "So much money is enough to influence the tea market of the Ming Dynasty, and you will not lose unjustly." ”
"Uncle, are you afraid of them too?"
"Joke, when it comes to silver, who have I been afraid of?"
Zhao Xu said coldly: "I'm worried that the fierce fight of tea will cause other tickets to collapse together, and at that time, it will not be solved with a little silver, listen to my orders, immediately shake hands with Huang Jin, and break your tail to survive." ”
"Uncle, Huang Jin won't let go so easily."
"Don't worry, I have my own way, but you need to know the rules."
A trace of struggle flashed on Zhao Yongfang's face, and he bowed down and said, "Please rest assured, uncle, my nephew knows." ”
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There is no free lunch in the world, Zhao Yongfang held the plaque of Hong Ruixiang tightly, his fingers were buckled white, showing the pain in his heart, most of his life in exchange for such a plaque, from then on, he became a poor worm who worked for others, and I don't know if there is a chance to turn over in this life!
He grabbed the plaque, gritted his teeth and threw it into the fire, letting it consume the flames......
"How so?"
In Zhao Xu's room, he kept walking on the ground, according to his estimates, Huang Jin had at least three million taels of silver tea in his hand, but the tea thrown out in the past two days was only one million taels at most.
Where did the other two million taels go?
Zhao Xu was puzzled, could it be that Huang Jin still had a hand, or Jin Shang was manipulating behind his back, in short, the tea would not disappear out of thin air, nor would it come out of thin air.
He has some obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he can't even eat. Zhao Xu didn't inform Zhao Yongfang, and went directly to the warehouse, he wanted to find clues from the tea.
In the mountains of tea leaves, walking around, carefully looking at each pile of tea, suddenly Zhao Xu found a problem, all the sacks of packaged tea are exactly the same color, specifications, and styles.
You must know that tea comes from all over the world, and there must be subtle differences in the sacks in various places, why can there be no difference in the packaging of Fujian and Zhejiang?
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu became suspicious, he didn't say a word and moved out a few sacks, poured out the tea bags, and asked his subordinates to inquire, and soon someone ran back and told Zhao Xu that all the sacks were produced in Taicang.
"It's all Taicang!" Zhao Xu muttered a few times, suddenly trembled violently, showed an incredible look, and shouted again and again: "Fooled, I was fooled!" (To be continued.) )