This operation, Wujin took a total of thirteen days, although he was not able to catch the pirate leader Li Baisha, but he unexpectedly obtained the distribution map of Uncle Shen's private soldiers in Chuzhou, a total of twenty-four manors, nearly 80,000 people, most of them were displaced people recruited from the north during various disasters, this unexpected harvest was far more important than the capture of Li Baisha.

Although he had an agreement with the crown prince, Wu Jin did not intend to tell the prince this important information, which was also of strategic significance to him.

When Wujin returned to Weiyang County ten days later, the tragic business war had ended, and the three major merchants had suffered huge losses, among which the smallest loss was Qi Ruifu, which burned down a money bank, and the heaviest loss was Baifu Commercial Bank, not only the two money houses were run out, and the reputation was seriously damaged, but also its properties in Donghai County except for the money village were taken away by Qi Ruifu, and they were squeezed out of Donghai County, and the business war was defeated.

Donglai Commercial Bank also suffered huge losses in this business war, its losses were mainly in Jiangning Mansion, two money houses were smashed, one money village was burned, and Weiyang County reached a cooperation with Qi Ruifu, so that Donglai Commercial Bank escaped in Weiyang County.

The smoke of the business war has gradually dissipated, but the credit blow suffered by the money bank will not recover for a while, especially for ordinary people, many people have experienced this nightmare run tide, and may not deposit money in the money bank for the rest of their lives, although they know that this is just a rumor.

However, it has little impact on the merchants, they need to deposit their money in the bank, and they also need to get loans from the bank, but the vast majority of the merchants have re-selected through the results of this run, and the result of the reproduction choice is that Qi Dafu won a big victory, in Jiangning Mansion they originally had less than 30% of the market share, and after the run, they jumped to occupy 70% of the share, and in Weiyang County, it was Qi Dafu and Donglai Money Zhuang who divided the share of Baifu Money Village.

Baifu Qian Zhuang was run and closed, its market share fell sharply from the original 30 percent to less than 10 percent, and Qi Dafu rose from 30 percent to 50 percent, Donglai Qian Zhuang also rose from 30 percent to 40 percent, half a year later, Weiyang County and Pingjiang County three Baifu Qian Zhuang were forced to sell to Qi Dafu and Donglai Qian Zhuang, and Baifu Commercial Bank was completely squeezed out of Donghai County, the most commercially developed county in the Daning Dynasty.

But the impact of this business war is far from the end of this, the business map of the three major commercial houses in the Daning Dynasty began to change, Baifu Commercial Bank faded out of Chuzhou, began to enter Youzhou, and Qi Ruifu Commercial Bank fully withdrew from Qizhou, increased the layout in Chuzhou, began to develop small money and small commercial houses, a year later, most of the counties in Chuzhou appeared Qi Dafu Qian Zhuang and Qi Ruifu Commercial Bank, and even Lujiang County also appeared Qi Ruifu Iron Commercial Bank brand.

However, Qi Ruifu's biggest strategic layout was to get the support of the Liang Wang lineage, and began to march into the vast Helong region, and used Helong as a springboard to develop to the more distant Western Regions, transporting grain, salt, tea, and supplies from the Central Plains to Helong and the Western Regions, and transporting the furs, livestock, and medicinal materials there to the Central Plains for sale.

After Qi Ruifu fully withdrew from Qizhou, Donglai Commercial Bank began to occupy Qi Ruifu's market share, and at the same time, Donglai also entered Youzhou to compete with Baifu Commercial Bank.

The changes in the power of the three major trading houses have also affected the power structure of the power field, and the biggest change is the sudden rise of the Liangwang family, they not only have the support of Qi Ruifu, who has strong financial resources, but also has a tacit understanding between the Liangwang family and the Ministry of Shangshu and Xiangguo Zhang Jinjie.

When Wujin returned to Weiyang County, it was already the beginning of November, and another cold wave hit the land of Jiangnan, and the sky began to flutter and flutter snowflakes, and at this time, the first snow in Jiangnan.

At this time, according to his previous order, the military ships anchored in the Weiyang Water Military Mansion had returned to Jiangning, leaving only his Jumbo ships to wait for the arrival of the other two Jumbo ships in the south, and then return to Jiangning Mansion together.

Wu Jin led forty guards into the city gate in the snowflakes, and the other Meihua Guard sergeants boarded the naval ship in Quarry Town, and returned to the Jiangning camp with a million high-grade fine iron.

Wu Jin raised his head, feeling the cold snowflakes in the sky, the sergeant next to him saw that the general was interested in snow, they all laughed, and the captain Sun Jianhong smiled: "General, the snow in Jiangnan is too small, if you go to my hometown at this time, the heavy snow will drown your whole person, then it is enjoyable." ”

"Oh! It's so spectacular, where is your hometown? ”

Another sergeant next to him also smiled: "Captain Sun's hometown is Gai County, Liaodong, in fact, he has never returned to his hometown, he listened to his grandfather." ”

"You kid is talking nonsense, why haven't I ever been back, it's just not winter."

Everyone laughed together, and Wu Jin was in a particularly good mood, and said to everyone: "I'll invite everyone to dinner tonight and go to Baifu Restaurant, no!" Now it is estimated that it has been renamed Qi Fu Ji Restaurant. ”

Everyone sped up their horses, and soon returned to the Baxian Bridge Money Village, just arrived at the bridge, but saw a carriage coming, on the window, his wife Su Han waved to him in surprise, "Husband!" ”

Xiao Biesheng was newly married, nearly half a month apart, Wu Jin also missed her and Jing Niang very much, suddenly saw his wife, he was very happy in his heart, and hurriedly jumped off the horse and asked with a smile: "Where is this going?" ”

Su Han finally saw her husband who was thinking about it at night, and her heart was about to explode with joy, but in front of the soldiers, she didn't show it, she just smiled and said, "Let's go to visit your grandfather in Donghai County, let's go together!" ”

Wu Jin was busy when he came to Weiyang County, and he planned to visit his grandfather after a little rest, but he received an urgent pigeon letter from Quarry Town, so he did not visit his grandfather so far, but entrusted his wife to visit him on his behalf.

Just as his wife was going to visit, of course he wanted to go with him, so he took out a five hundred taels of silver ticket from Qi Dafu's arms, handed it to Sun Jianhong and said with a smile: "Give everyone a holiday today, everyone will take this silver and share it, go to eat, drink and play casually, I won't be with everyone." ”

Sun Jianhong saluted and said: "There is no one around the general, it is better to do this, everyone accepts the silver, but twenty people are assigned to guard the general today, and they will rest tomorrow." ”

Wu Jin thought about it, so he readily agreed, "That's it, you can arrange it!" ”

He opened the door and got into the carriage, and forty guards divided twenty people to escort Wu Jin to the mansion of the Emperor Fu of the East China Sea.

When Wujin got into the carriage, he immediately got drunk in a warm and fragrant atmosphere, which made him return to the gentle village from more than ten days of eating and sleeping.

There were three people sitting in the carriage, his wife Su Han, his concubine Jingniang and his maid A Qiao, "What about Feng Wu?" He asked, a little curiously.

Su Han smiled and said: "She rushed back to Jiangning Mansion, she said that she was going to do a tea business, saying that it was her own business, and it had nothing to do with the family, let's go back to Jiangning Mansion and see her again in the future!" ”

Wu Jin knew this matter very well, and he didn't ask much, so he found a vacant place and lay down directly, but his head rested on Jing Niang's lap, and said with a smile: "You don't care about me, I've been sleeping on the horse for the past two days, I'm too tired, let me lie down." ”

Su Han and Jing Niang looked at each other and smiled, but Jing Niang carefully combed his hair and washed his face with hot water in the copper kettle, and at this time, the carriage arrived at Wujin's old mansion.

"Jing Niang and I have already been here once ten days ago, your grandfather's health is not very good, this time I will bring him a little ginseng."

Su Han took out a large bag of ginseng from the carriage and handed it to Wu Jin, there were three or four catties, it was the ginseng that Qi Fengwu bought for him last time, and Su Han specially picked out the best ones from it.

Wu Jin looked at this mansion that was once his family, and his heart was a little complicated, in fact, he didn't want to come at all, if it wasn't for the sake of visiting his grandfather, he would definitely not have stepped into the mansion.

"Let's go!" He walked briskly towards the gate with his wife and daughter.

As soon as he arrived at the door, the former second uncle Huang Fu Xu greeted him, smiling very enthusiastically, "Oops! Wu Jin, you're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

The last time Su Han came, he said, don't meet with royal courtesy, just treat it as your own family, Wujin knew that Huang Fuxu was already the official head of the family, so he smiled and arched his hand, "Second uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time, how is your health?" ”

"I'm not in good health, but your grandfather's health isn't great, hey! I'm too old, and I don't think it will last long. ”

Huang Fuxu turned around and beckoned a noble lady in her thirties to introduce her: "This is my newly married wife, surnamed Duan!" ”

Wu Jin hurriedly gave a salute, "It turned out to be the second aunt, and the little nephew is polite." ”

The Duan family hurriedly returned the salute, and went to greet Su Han and them, and everyone walked towards the mansion together.

"What about the carving and the jade? How are they? Wu Jin asked with a smile.

"Do you know that child Zhuoyu, it's still the same, I went to my father-in-law's house with my wife today, Zhuo Qi is not bad, I am in charge of our Huangfu's grange, the autumn harvest has ended, he went to the grange to collect rent, he has been going for half a month, it is estimated that he should come back in a few days."

While talking and walking, he came to the small courtyard where his grandfather Huangfu Bailing lived, and when he walked into the courtyard, he saw Huangfu Bailing on crutches, sitting on the stone bench in the small courtyard, looking at him with a smile.

Wu Jin's nose was sour, he took two steps forward and knelt down, tears had already welled up, "Grandfather, grandson has come to see you!" ”

Huangfu Bailing was also in tears, and hurriedly said: "Good boy, get up quickly!" Get up! ”

Wu Jin put a large bag of ginseng on the stone table next to him, "Grandfather, this is your grandson's filial piety." ”

Huangfu Bailing trembled and took out a ginseng and laughed, "Hmm! Good ginseng, Jiutian said last time that he wanted to bring me a little, I really brought it, thank you for your heart. ”

He smiled at Su Han again, "Thank you, child." ”

He trembled and picked up his cane to get up, Wu Jin hurriedly supported him, and Huangfu Bailing said to his son Huangfu Xu: "You go first!" I have something to say to Wu Jin. ”

"Yes! The child went down first. Huang Fuxu took his wife and left.

Huangfu Bailing smiled at Wu Jin and said, "Good boy, help me to the bedroom, I have something to say to you." ”

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(To be continued)