The main residence of the Qi family is located in Anye Fang, close to the main road of Luojing on Xuanwu Street, the old residence of the Qi family is in Pingjiang County, ten years ago was required by the imperial court to move to Luojing, the Qi family because of the large population, the emperor now approved the Qi family to build a hundred acres of mansions, only the county king and above the title of the mansion are allowed to occupy an area of 100 acres, despite the emperor's special approval, but the Qi family's mansion still only covers an area of 99 acres, dare not cross the red line of 100 acres.

These days Qi Mansion comes and goes, very lively, from the gate to the inner house are full of lights, the word longevity hangs high, and a few days later is the seventieth birthday of the old man Qi, this is a major event of the Qi family, the entire capital Qi Ruifu Commercial Bank tens of thousands of people have been mobilized, purchasing all kinds of items, decorating the house, preparing to spread it out, and the invitation card alone has sent out more than 8,000 sheets.

At this time, the night is already deep, it is almost a watch, most of the people in Luojing have fallen asleep, the city is dark, but the main hall of Qi Mansion is still brightly lit, dozens of lamps will illuminate the main hall as day, the red and bright 'Shou' word in the middle of the lobby is a little dazzling under the illumination of the light, under the word Shou, the old master of the Qi family, Qi Wannian did not have the joy before the seventy birthday, but the expression was extremely solemn, at this moment, the Qi family is facing a test related to life and death.

On a sandalwood square table in the middle of the lobby, there are neat stacks of 1,000 taels of silver tickets, a huge amount of 1 million taels of silver, like a heavy weight in the hearts of every child of the Qi family present.

Not only that, the Qi family has been allowed to issue silver tickets for nearly 20 years, and the unique anti-counterfeiting technology that the Qi family has maintained for 20 years has finally been cracked, although there are only five color lines, but it is only one step away from the seven color lines, and even in the eyes of ordinary people, there is no difference between these silver tickets and real silver tickets, it is difficult for ordinary people to see the difference between five color lines and seven color lines, and even Qi Dafu's ordinary guys are difficult to identify.

Crisis, the first crisis of the Qi family is finally here, if this matter is not handled well, even Qi Dafu will face the risk of bankruptcy, but the old man Qi has a deeper worry in his eyes, these silver tickets are only the first crisis that the Qi family faces tonight.

"Take a silver ticket for each person and take a look!"

Old Man Qi spoke, and he ordered everyone present to take a silver ticket, so that each of them could feel the seriousness of the problem, and the two chief stewards stepped forward and distributed a silver ticket to each person.

On both sides of the lobby stood dozens of core members of the Qi family, although the main industry of the Qi family was controlled by Qi Wannian's eight sons, but the people of the Qi family also participated in the specific operation of the pawnshop and some other sporadic industries.

Qi Fengwu is also among them, due to her grandfather's birthday, all the clansmen of the Qi family must return to Beijing, and she also returned to the capital from Jiangning Mansion half a month ago.

She stood beside her little aunt Qi Linglong, the two of them were the only female surnames in the lobby, Qi Fengwu was responsible for inspecting the account books of the Qi family's property, doing internal audits, and had a very high status.

And her aunt Qi Linglong is Qi Wannian's youngest daughter, in her early twenties this year, married at the age of eighteen, her husband died of illness after only one year of marriage, she was widowed in her mother's house, the Daning Dynasty inherited the Tang style, and did not discriminate against widows, only for her husband to be widowed for one year, you can marry normally, and some large families, to be widowed for three years, Qi Linglong is married to the Luojing clan Cui family, so she was widowed for three years, three months ago, the Qi family received the official marriage dissolution letter from the Cui family, Qi Linglong regained her freedom.

Compared with her niece Qi Fengwu, Qi Linglong's appearance is slightly inferior, but she is still plump, elegant and refined, more of a mature woman's charm, her talent in business is also very high, although she is widowed in her mother's family, but she still participates in the Qi family's industrial management, she is responsible for the Qi family's fat powder flower dew, which belongs to the Qi family's small industry, and occupies a small share of the Qi family's income, but when the women in Beijing mention Qi Luolan fat powder, no one does not have a yearning in their eyes, that is the first brand in the fat powder, Even Empress Shen has a reputation for this brand of fat powder, and she has opened two big stores in Luojing and one in Xijing.

Although Qi Fengwu and Qi Linglong have a difference in generation, but the relationship between the two of them is the best, almost nothing to talk about, at this time Qi Fengwu also took a fake silver ticket in her hand, and the silver ticket has been stamped with a red seal of cancellation, but she almost thinks that this is a real silver ticket just by the feel of the paper, Qi Fengwu is also the same as everyone else, holding the silver ticket high, looking at its color bar through the light, she squinted and counted for a long time, sure enough, there were only five.

Qi Fengwu was also a little nervous in her heart, because she knew that the merchants in the market would never count how many color bars there were, and their standard for distinguishing the authenticity was only to see if there were any color bars, and as for how many there were, no one would pay attention to them.

"Everybody saw it!"

Qi Wannian's voice was very old and full of worry, "You should understand the serious crisis in front of our Qi family's money bank, Wei'er, you can tell you the reason for the matter!" ”

"Yes! Father. ”

Qi Wei slowly stood up and said loudly to everyone: "The matter originated from the fact that the Donggong tax and silver of Donghai County were escorted into Beijing......

Qi Fengwu's heart jumped, 'Donghai County', the matter is in Donghai County, she was still there more than a month ago, her expression suddenly became a little nervous, and she listened to the second uncle with full attention.

"The East Palace tax silver was to be escorted into Beijing, but the King of Chu tried his best to obstruct it, and Su Hanzhen used the golden cicada to get out of the shell, and I heard that the first use of the lead to pretend to be a silver ingot in Qizhou to get rid of the interception of the King of Qi, so he escorted the silver ticket of one million taels into Beijing.....

"But this million taels of silver is also fake!"

Qi Linglong couldn't help but interrupt the second brother's words, Qi Wannian waved his hand, "Linglong, don't worry, listen to your second brother." ”

"Yes!"

Qi Linglong didn't say much anymore, and continued to listen to the second brother's narration, "Things are weird here, at that time, the Baxian Bridge Qianzhuang in Weiyang County deposited one million taels of tax silver, and the Qianzhuang issued one million taels of silver tickets according to the requirements of the county magistrate......

"Second brother, wait a minute!"

This time it was the fourth Qi Huan who interrupted Qi Wei's words, he had just come back from Donghai County, and he understood the situation better, he explained to everyone: "It's not the county magistrate Shi, Xu Changshi is the person of Uncle Shenguo, and he has been stripped of his financial power, at that time, there was an assassination case of the criminal department's waiter, and Su Tingshi's just appointed Hu Cao chief was arrested, and his younger brother temporarily acted as Hu Cao's director, and this hundred thousand taels of silver tickets was made by this temporary Hu Cao director, I know this person, I also bought a piece of his to open a store, this person is called Huangfu Wujin ,...."

"Ahh

There was a low cry from the lobby, all the people turned their heads to look together, Qi Fengwu's face was flushed, she lowered her head, the exclamation just now was that she had lost her mouth, and Qi Linglong next to her whispered with concern: "Xiao Wu, are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine!"

Qi Fengwu hurriedly shook her head, her heart was full of surprise, why was that guy always ghostly? Again.

Qi Wannian glanced at her suspiciously, he didn't understand why his granddaughter was out of shape, so he said to Qi Wei: "It's just a small question who is going to apply for the silver ticket, you continue to talk down." ”

"Yes!"

Qi Wei continued to say aloud: "The weird thing is here, they not only used Japanese lead as a disguise, but also made this million fake silver tickets, which deceived the embroidered guards at the last moment, and the real one hundred thousand taels of silver tickets were successfully sent to the East Palace, all of which I heard from Uncle Shen Guo just now." ”

There was silence in the lobby, everyone was pondering, all thinking about the source of the fake silver ticket of one million taels, which was the most critical issue, at this time, Qi Wannian's second brother Qi Wanjun said slowly: "I think this is a little strange, I know Su Hanzhen, this person is upright, has an outstanding reputation, and he is the son of Su Xun, the son of the country's priest Su Xun, a famous family, I think it is almost impossible for Su Hanzhen to make a fake silver ticket, and he will not support it, he may know about it with Japanese lead and silver, I think what he knows is the end of it, The fake silver ticket in the back may not even know about Su Hanzhen. ”

Su Hanzhen has been an official in the capital for a long time, and his reputation is very good, basically many people know him, and everyone nods, thinking that Second Master Qi has a point.

Qi Wannian thought about it and asked Qi Wei, "Did Uncle Shen Guo say who was the person who transported the silver ticket this time?" ”

This sentence is very critical, if Su Hanzhen doesn't know, then the fake silver ticket should be the person who bet on the silver ticket did it without authorization, at least he knows the source of these fake silver tickets, if this person can be found, then the Qi family can block the source of this fraud, and everyone looks at Qi Wei expectantly.

"Back to my father, they also attach great importance to this person, Uncle Shen Guo, I wrote down the name, it is the emperor Fu Wujin that the fourth brother said just now."

"It's him again!"

Everyone was in an uproar, Qi Fengwu frowned even more, he was really haunted, he used to entangle himself, but now he is entangled with the Qi family, she knows Wujin better than anyone else, a disciple, lustful, scoundrel, a little clever, he is very familiar with the gangsters in Weiyang County, and it must be his work to make a million taels of fake silver tickets, which is in line with his style.

Qi Wannian has been paying attention to his little granddaughter, from the exclamation she just now, he felt that there was something wrong with her, maybe she also knew this Huangfu Wujin, but Qi Wannian would not ask Qi Fengwu in the lobby, as a head of the family, what matters in the lobby is his attitude and decides some big things.

And there was a crisis in his heart, which made him have no time to think about so many details for the time being.

"Okay, let's talk about this matter of the emperor's lack of promotion, and I'll announce a few important decisions first."

Everyone gathered their minds and looked at the head of the family, Qi Wannian said to everyone: "The first thing is to stop the power of the other five Qianzhuang branches to print silver tickets, all of which will be uniformly printed by the Luojing head office, and the second thing is to stop the issuance of 10,000 taels of silver tickets from tomorrow, and the third thing is to compile and print the detailed rules for the identification of silver tickets overnight and distribute them to all Qi Ruifu commercial banks in various states, and the fourth thing is ......"

(To be continued)