After Wang Yaqiao sent a bunch of people to collect information about foreign merchants, Xiao Zhenlei knew every move of those foreigners well, and he now commanded the purchase points in various places to secretly transport cotton from the warehouse to sell it to foreign merchants, and at the same time, on the surface, he bought cotton from cotton farmers and cotton merchants at a price slightly lower than that of foreign merchants.

It seems that these cotton merchants and cotton farmers have made less money, and Xiao Zhenlei has made very little money from the cotton harvested in the later period, but in fact, the cotton farmers and cotton merchants have earned much more than before.

Just think about it, if Xiao Zhenlei didn't fight with foreign businessmen, would those foreign businessmen buy cotton at such a high price? At the beginning, the purchase price was lower than in previous years, it was Xiao Zhenlei who joined the purchase ranks, which pulled up the cotton price, if Xiao Zhenlei withdrew from the purchase of cotton now, then the foreign businessmen would definitely immediately reduce the price of cotton to the lowest point, cotton farmers and cotton merchants not only did not make much money now, but also could barely survive after a year of hard work, this is the role that Xiao Zhenlei played in this purchase war!

Not all of the people are stupid people, in fact, the people's eyes are bright, and some of them have wise old people who saw Xiao Zhenlei's extremely key role in this battle, so they persuaded the surrounding cotton farmers and cotton merchants to sell cotton to Xiao Zhenlei, and Xiao Zhenlei restrained the foreign businessmen in the middle, so that they always bought cotton at the current high price, so that the people really made money. It's no longer the same as before, and the price is controlled by foreigners, and even if there is a bumper harvest, you can't make money.

December 17th. Yan Yibin of the Yuanfengrun ticket number, Li Jingchu of the Yishanyuan ticket number, Li Yiqing of Zhengyuan Qianzhuang and other Shanghai Tang Qianzhuang and the big bosses of the ticket number industry jointly came to Daotai Yamen to complain.

Soon after the drum was sounded, Cai Naihuang, who got the news, had to rush back to the Daotai Yamen. However, he did not go to the court to try the case, but sent someone to call Yan Yibin, Li Jingchu and his party to the inner hall to talk.

"Participate in Lord Cai!" Except for Li Jingchu, everyone else saluted Cai Naihuang, this is because Li Jingchu is now the right man of the Zhengsanpin Post and Communication Department, and he is even higher than Cai Naihuang in terms of grade.

Cai Naihuang smiled and raised his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone, get up, the reason why Shanghai Beach can have the current prosperous situation, your contribution is not small, get up!" After speaking, he got up and saluted Li Jingchu and said, "Lord Li is also here, and the official has not been far away." Forgive sins, forgive sins! ”

Everyone said in unison: "Thank you for your praise"

Li Jingchu smiled: "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

Everyone here has some relationship with Cai Naihuang, and those who should be filial to Cai Naihuang on weekdays are also filial, especially Li Jingchu and Yan Yibin, who have a relationship with Sheng Xuanhuai and Cai Naihuang, and between Cai Naihuang and Sheng Xuanhuai, they can't actually offend either side.

After everyone got up, Cai Naihuang asked, "You came to the government today to beat the drum and voice your grievances. I don't know what your grievances are? ”

In fact, these people are also very puzzled, according to the procedure, after they beat the drum and voiced their grievances, Cai Naihuang should be promoted to the court immediately, but Cai Naihuang did not do so. Why is that? Is there something hidden in this?

Now Cai Naihuang asked, and Li Jingchu, the representative of these people, said: "That's the case, Lord Cai." Xiao Zhenlei of Zhenhua Company borrowed some money from our ticket numbers or money banks a few days ago, and the amount was very large. It wasn't clear to us at the time that he had lent money to all of our banks and ticket numbers at the same time, if we had known that. We will not lend to him no matter what, now Xiao Zhenlei and those foreigners who buy cotton are fighting to the death, we are careful that Xiao Zhenlei lost in this business war, resulting in our money bank and ticket number of the loan can not be recovered, and many adults in the government have deposits in our money bank and ticket number, if our loan can not be recovered, it may also cause losses to all of you, so we decided to recover the loan from Xiao Zhenlei after careful consideration, but two days after we informed him, he still avoided us, there is no intention of repayment, so we have to come to the Taoist Yamen to complain, and ask the adults to administer justice for us! ”

"Yes, yes, please Lord Cai to administer justice for us!" The bosses of other money banks and ticket numbers also bowed to Cai Naihuang in unison.

It's time to come or come, Cai Naihuang muttered in his heart, he thought for a while and asked: "It's natural to kill people to pay for your life, and to repay debts, this is a matter of course, you can rest assured, this official will definitely seek justice for you!" By the way, how long has Xiao Zhenlei's repayment period passed? ”

How long is the repayment period? Everyone looked at each other, Xiao Zhenlei's repayment deadline had not reached at all, only half a month had passed, and there was still half a year! Everyone looked at Li Jingchu, hoping that Li Jingchu would come out and speak.

Li Jingchu is the main force in this lawsuit, and he did not live up to the expectations of others, saying: "Lord Cai, to be honest, his repayment deadline has not yet arrived, but we still want to ask Lord Cai to help him try this case, because this time Xiao Zhenlei's business war with foreigners is very dangerous, and we are not optimistic about him, so we want to recover the loan, so as not to lose our loan after he collapses!" ”

Cai Naihuang asked, "What is the repayment period stipulated in the contract between you when you took out the loan?" ”

"It's half a year!" Li Jingchu hesitated for a moment but said it, this can't be hidden, and when the time comes, it will definitely be found out when the case is tried and the contract is checked.

"Half a year?" Cai Naihuang showed embarrassment on his face when he heard this, "Lord Li, you are embarrassed to go down to the official, the two of you have agreed on the repayment period, and now the deadline has not yet arrived, you want to recover the loan, this matter is obviously not reasonable for you, you let the lower official be promoted to the court to try the case, and ordered Xiao Zhenlei to repay the money immediately, if the lower official does this, it is obviously biased in favor of you, and Xiao Zhenlei is not good at stubble, his relationship with the foreigners in the concession is not ordinary, when the foreigners come forward, what will the lower officials do?" ”

Seeing that Cai Naihuang refused to help, these people suddenly became a little anxious, Li Jingchu hurriedly said: "Lord Cai, I still ask you to help me in this matter, and this matter is not that we people want to get along with Xiao Zhenlei, it is a greeting from Lord Shan, of course, we also know that it is inappropriate to recover the loan before the repayment deadline, but we have no choice, and we don't know how Xiao Zhenlei offended Lord Shan, so please ask Lord Cai to help!" ”

Cai Naihuang knew that these people would bring out Sheng Xuanhuai, although he was angry in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, he thought for a while and said: "That's it, this matter itself is your fault, I will send someone to call Xiao Zhenlei over, let you negotiate in person, and see how to solve this matter, do you think it's okay?" ”

Yan Yibing stood up at this time and said: "Lord Cai, Xiao Zhenlei has been avoiding us, I think even if you send someone to find him to negotiate with us, he will definitely say that he can't repay the loan now, and the result is still the same, the best way is for you to ascend to the court and decide that Xiao Zhenlei will repay us immediately, if he can't come up with the money now, he will order his Zhenhua company and all other properties to be sealed, and return these discounts to us as money!" ”

Cai Naihuang shook his head when he heard this: "This official can't do this, everyone, it's not that the official doesn't help you, do you know what position Xiao Zhenlei is now?" He is now the 46th standard commander of the 23rd Mixed Association of the New Army, and his grade is higher than that of his own officer, so you let this official judge him? Let the official order to seal his estate? He has thousands of men under him, what if he goes crazy? And people are in charge, no matter where the lawsuit goes, you are at fault, since it is the meaning of the grand man, you go to the grand lord to try the case, this official really can't afford to greet you here! ”

"What? This?" Li Jingchu and the others' faces changed greatly when they heard this, they never thought that Xiao Zhenlei now had this kind of identity, according to Xiao Zhenlei's current identity, it was indeed not something they could move lightly.

Li Jingchu, these people, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do for a while, on the one hand, Sheng Xuanhuai, on the other hand, Cai Naihuang can't help Xiao Zhenlei, how to do this?

Seeing the faces of these people, Cai Naihuang asked with a smile: "Are you thinking about how to explain to Master Sheng when you go back?" In fact, this official has a way to not only make you offend Master Shan, but also let Xiao Zhenlei return the money to you, I don't know if you want to listen? ”

Of course, it is best to be like this, after all, no one in the shopping mall wants to offend the powerful, you can not only explain to Sheng Xuanhuai, but also recover the money, of course there is such a way, Yan Yibin hurriedly said: "My lord, please say, if it is feasible, we will do it!" ”

Cai Naihuang took a sip of tea and said: "Actually, Xiao Zhenlei had already guessed that you would come to the official to complain, and he asked the official to tell you a word, give him a week's time, and after a week, he will definitely repay all the loans to you, but there is no interest, and the official will also accept your pleadings here, but the official will set a court trial after seven days, and then solve the loan problem between you, so that you can not only explain to the grand people, but also recover the loan, killing two birds with one stone!" ”

Everyone thought about it for a while, and thought that this method is indeed feasible, although the loan cannot be recovered immediately, but a week is not long, and the government always needs time to investigate after accepting it, right? This can be explained to Sheng Xuanhuai, so Yan Yibin and others agreed to Cai Naihuang's construction. (To be continued......)