Chapter 168: Forced Debts

According to the agreement between the Nanshan faction and the king of Qi, the two major economic counties of Jiangning County and Weiyang County will launch an offensive against Qi Ruifu, and its East Laiqian Zhuang will fight Jiangning, and Baifu Qianzhuang will fight Weiyang, in order to buy a large number of Qi Ruifu's shops and real estate after Qi Dafu Qianzhuang collapses, Baifu Qianzhuang has also prepared sufficient funds in Weiyang County, and the two Baifu Qianzhuang in Weiyang County have prepared a total of nearly four million taels of silver, and they are gearing up to wait for Qi Ruifu's entire collapse.

But Baifu Qian Zhuang never dreamed that the rout of Jiangning County quickly swept into Weiyang County, and more than 100,000 panicked Jiangning people poured into Weiyang County with the fixed deposit notes issued by Baifu and Donglai, which also caused a run on Weiyang locals.

As long as the depositor gets the fixed amount deposit ticket issued by the bank, no matter in any place in the Daning Dynasty, you can withdraw money, of course, for the large deposit ticket of more than 1,000 taels of silver, the money bank generally has to exchange information between the banks, and the silver ticket is developed on the basis of this fixed deposit ticket.

But they didn't expect that this kind of fixed deposit ticket today has brought a catastrophe to the money village in Weiyang County, the people of Jiangning Mansion do not believe in the guarantee of the government, looking at the smashed and burned money village, they are also full of heart and weakness, Donglai and Baifu have suffered such a big loss, is he still willing to admit it? It was under the domination of this psychology that a large number of Jiangning people went south to Donghai County in an attempt to recover their meager property.

Tens of thousands of people crowded in front of the north and south banks overnight, anxiously waiting for their deposit or silver bills to be cashed.

In order to maintain their credibility and avoid a repeat of the tragedy of Jiangning's smashing, PAX also opened all night to cope with the growing run frenzy.

The steward of Nanshi Baifu Qianzhuang is surnamed He, he has always maintained a smiling demeanor, and always gives people an amiable impression, but in the past two days, the smile on Steward He's face has disappeared, replaced by a sad face.

One of the things he did the most every day was to sit in his room and knock on the plan, calculating how much money he had left and how many days he could last.

It was dawning, and Steward He, who was asleep on the table, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

"Who!" He slowly looked up, still confused in his mind.

"What's the matter, there is something to report."

It was the voice of the counter manager, and he was suddenly startled, and his mind suddenly sobered up, could something have happened?

"Come on in!"

The door was pushed open, and a principal walked in and put a thick stack of silver tickets on the table, "It's still the thousand taels of silver tickets that I exchanged last night, I think it's a little weird." ”

"Weird? Didn't I say last night that there was no problem? ”

Steward He picked up a silver ticket and looked at it carefully, the silver ticket was very new, stiff paper, exquisite printing, rounded numbers, clear seals, no matter from which angle, this was a standard Balvenie silver ticket.

"Isn't the number right?"

"There is no problem with the numbers, we have all checked the account books, and these numbers are available, but they are all silver tickets in the capital."

The three major money banks all implement the same means of controlling the silver ticket, more than 500 taels of silver tickets must carry out the number check system, all over the money village every day to send the newly issued silver ticket number to the headquarters with a pigeon letter, after the headquarters gathers, every two days will use the post station express horse to transmit the silver ticket number information to the national bank, so that you can ensure that every silver ticket can be circulated in all counties in the country.

Manager He picked up a silver ticket and looked at it, but he still couldn't see any flaws, so he said: "Since there is no problem with the number, there is no problem with the silver ticket itself, it can be exchanged normally, and it doesn't hurt to be from other places, maybe the foreign merchants happen to be doing business in Donghai County." ”

"But the number of this kind of thousand taels of silver tickets is too much, and I always feel abnormal."

He Guan was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "How much has you redeemed?" ”

"We exchanged more than 300,000 yuan in one night last night, and it is estimated that there are a lot of them in Beishi, if this continues, I am worried that the deposit will be all redeemed by them."

"Bastard! Why not report it earlier? "He was furious.

The chief trembled and said: "But I already reported to you last night, and you said that as long as one person does not exceed 10,000, it is no problem, and it can be exchanged, so I will order to go down and ......"

"You didn't tell me last night that there are so many, of course it's okay if one person doesn't exceed 10,000, but now that it's been exchanged for more than 300,000, you just told me, how can we have so much treasury silver?"

The principal was stunned for a moment, it turned out that the steward was worried that the treasury silver was not enough, not that these were fake silver tickets, he hurriedly said: "What's in charge, what I'm worried about is that these silver tickets are fake?" ”

"Aren't the numbers all matched? How can it be fake? As long as the number is right, the amount is right, and the limit is not exceeded, even if it is a fake silver ticket, it is not our responsibility, it is a matter of the total money bank and the issuing bank. ”

He is not very worried about the responsibility of fake silver tickets, because the information of silver tickets is the highest secret, so the information sent to various places is only the number and amount, and the place of issuance of silver tickets is not told to the place, and if a person redeems more than 10,000 taels of silver tickets, he must make an appointment seven days in advance, so that the local money bank and the total money bank can check the information.

But there is a loophole in this, that is, it can be split into less than 10,000 to pay, which must be grasped by the local bank, because the counterfeit silver ticket has to pay the price of raiding the house, so this situation is extremely rare, and the government can trace, the Baifu money bank issued silver tickets for more than 20 years, only appeared in the first year, and then never appeared again for more than 20 years.

But when there is a run, the problem arises, once the fake silver ticket is received, because there are too many people, it is difficult for the government to track down.

"What's the matter, I don't think it will be so coincidental, these silver tickets from other places suddenly appeared, and the silver tickets are so new, and more importantly, there are too many people, the guy has forgotten who exchanged it, once it is really a fake silver ticket, the guys in the total money bank will definitely put the responsibility on us, saying that we exchanged hundreds of thousands of taels of silver without reporting."

"That's because they don't make strict rules, we strictly follow the rules, anyway, one person doesn't exceed 10,000 taels, and the handprints on the silver tickets are different."

Having said that, Steward He thought of another thing, he heard from the people of Donglai Qianzhuang yesterday that Li Baisha, the leader of the Baisha Society, had appeared, and in such a chaotic situation, it was not possible for the people of the Phoenix Society to appear, and if they wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, it would be very possible for fake silver tickets to appear.

"In this way, you immediately tell the guys that all silver tickets of more than five hundred taels in other places will be registered first, and then cashed after seven days, and then notify the North City side, and the same will be implemented."

The chief went in a hurry, He Guan thought about it, this matter had to be reported to Huangfu Qu, that guy got into trouble and hid like a mole, and he didn't care about Qian Zhuang's affairs at all, which made He Guan have a headache.

......... As soon as the day dawned, Huangfu Wujin took Qi Fengwu to the dock, at this time, Wujin's giant boat has been moored to the civil and commercial wharf, fully occupying the berthing position of five boats, last night Qi Dafu has completed the delivery of silver with Donglai Qianzhuang, and there are three million and four hundred thousand taels of silver on the ship, which is enough for Qi Dafu to deal with the crisis in Donghai County.

However, they did not get on the Tiger Ben, they got on a small boat, and sailed out to the sea, and about a mile from the pier, there were three medium-sized merchant ships of 3,000 stones, which were ships of the Phoenix Society, and in the distance, they could see Heimi standing on the bow waiting for them.

Huangfu Wujin pulled Qi Fengwu onto the merchant ship, arched his hand to Heimi and smiled: "I worked hard last night. ”

Heimi bowed to Wu Jin very politely, "It is my honor to serve His Highness. ”

He looked at Qi Fengwu again, nodded and asked with a smile, "This is Miss Qi!" I have heard of the name for a long time. ”

On the way, Wu Jin had already told Qi Fengwu that this time they had received the help of the Phoenix Society, Qi Fengwu always felt a little strange in his heart, Wu Jin was the governor of the water army, he should be the sworn enemy of the Phoenix Society, how could there be a cat and mouse dance now.

However, she is also a person who has seen the world, and knows that many things in the power field cannot be measured by common sense, just like Qi Dafu didn't cooperate with Donglai Qianzhuang yesterday?

She nodded slightly politely, "Thank you, Big Brother Mi, for your help!" ”

"Please come in!"

Heimi led the two of them into the cabin, only to see boxes of silver taels piled up in the cabin, Heimi smiled: "A total of 530,000 taels were redeemed, and the Baifu had stopped paying early this morning, saying that they would register first and pay after seven days, so I asked the brothers to give up." ”

Yesterday, Wu Jin took out a total of 800,000 taels of fake silver tickets, and it was good to be able to redeem more than 500,000 taels, Wu Jin asked again: "Will it affect the brothers?" ”

Heimi smiled and shook his head, "I didn't let the head snake to pay, but let the brothers of the Phoenix Society pay, they all have martial arts, even if they are discovered, they can escape, and they all have legal identities, you don't have to worry." ”

Wu Jin turned around and asked Qi Fengwu, "Just exchange it for five hundred and thirty thousand taels, and don't redeem the rest, it's okay!" ”

Qi Fengwu smiled slightly, "It's beyond my expectations to be able to redeem so much, now that the silver has arrived, I want to start the next step." ”

"Are you going to force the debt?" Wu Jin asked with a smile.

"Nope! Now is not the time to force debts, let's do another thing first. ”

Qi Fengwu thanked Heimi again: "I only took 500,000 yuan of this silver, and the remaining 30,000 taels is my reward for Brother Mi, please share it with your subordinates for me, thank them for their efforts." ”

......... Half an hour later, Qi Fengwu and Wu Jin came to the warehouse group on the wharf, there are dozens of huge warehouses distributed on the wharf, both official and business, in fact, more than 30 are private warehouses of merchants, belonging to more than a dozen large households, such as the East China Sea Huangfu has two, Wu Jin just came to Weiyang County at the beginning, almost came to be a warehouse manager, the Guan family also has two warehouses, and Baifu Commercial Bank has four large warehouses, Donglai and Qi Ruifu also have four, these three occupy nearly half.

According to the normal market, the general fleet does not go to sea in winter, so before the winter comes, the merchants will store a large number of seafood, and the Baifu firm also stores nearly millions of taels of silver goods.

(To be continued)