Tangled!

The people who are entangled here are not only the top ten merchant gangs, there are forty or fifty people in the hall, it can be said that there are big merchants in the capital, and all the merchant gangs have sent people over. Chartered the entire restaurant with a branch, there was no argument, not even much discussion, almost everyone was an action, holding a teacup in a daze.

Merchants are untouchables, but they are not untouchables, and Shinong businessmen and businessmen are all good citizens, but their status is low.

The people sitting here dare not say that it includes the entire business district and economy of Daming, but it is enough to describe it with the word influence, they can affect the entire commerce, industry, and even agriculture of Daming.

The top wealthy businessmen, even the prefect, also have to give some face.

Of course, a taxi is a taxi, and a merchant is a businessman. Just because they have money doesn't mean they can change their status.

Bai Minglu, who was sitting in the cubicle next to him, only really realized his brother's status at this time, and even the thirteen scholars of the Taihua Hall would consider his opinion very seriously.

Bai Minglu still remembers that when his mentor Shang Shi found him and told him to do something, he said that Bai Minghe wanted it.

Just these four words, the white crane wants! is enough to represent his brother's right to speak above the court. Don't talk about the court, just talk about the time when I came here with two scribes from the Wenhua Palace. It is etiquette to greet each other, and no one is bad at it. But when I reported my name, I could clearly feel the difference in the expressions of these people.

One qiē is because he is called Bai Minglu.

Bai Minglu is a lifter, but not an official, just a clerk. At present, he is the son of the country, and he is a scribe in the Wenhua Palace. Those who can be scribes in the Wenhua Hall will be able to mix to the prefect level in the future, and those who are outstanding can enter the cabinet. But so what? These businessmen will not offend you, but they will not necessarily put you on their heads.

But Bai Minghe's younger brother is different, this identity is too dazzling.

The white heron was also sitting in a daze as he sat in his chair. In my heart, I was sighing that I wanted to break into my own world, but unfortunately Bai Minghe was so good that he could cover the limelight of a qiē person.

In the outer hall, the merchants finally spoke.

"Count the benefits of Hami for more than half a year. The old man thinks that we are all frogs at the bottom of the well! ”

The person who spoke was surnamed Liu, and he was an old man of the Shaanxi Gang. The old man continued: "The people who went to Hami at the beginning were all small businesses that couldn't find business, and there were occasionally a few larger ones, but they also didn't know the essentials in these years and lost money. What the old man wants to say is that don't underestimate this place in Hami. ”

A middle-aged man stood up: "Shanxi Wanglong greets all the seniors!" ”

Everyone returned the salute.

The middle-aged man said: "As the old saying goes, three peaches and four pears are five years, and the jujube tree will pay back that year." The Wanglong was not financially sufficient, so this time it was built in accordance with the first courtyard. Speaking of this, the middle-aged man paused for a moment, and then changed his words and said, "It should be said that it is built by Lord Yibai." Our firm transplanted jujube trees in Hami and adopted a new grafting technology, and what was planted last year will inevitably have a bumper harvest this year! ”

"I heard that there are tens of thousands of acres of jujube forests in Hami?"

"The total investment of each firm is almost 50,000 mu. There are still 10,000 acres of grapes, but the grapes will not bear fruit for the first time until next year, and it will take at least three years to harvest them. 50,000 acres of jujube forest, it is estimated that 50,000 stone jujubes can be harvested! ”

At present, the price of high-grade dried dates in the capital is about four-thirds of a catty of silver. One stone is three, two, or four dollars.

For an ordinary business, tens of thousands of stone dates are a huge fortune.

Don't take a tael of silver for money. In Daming, an eighty-pound pig is only one or two or seven dollars of silver, and an ordinary sheep is only four or five dollars of silver. According to this calculation, an ordinary firm's investment in Hami can have a net profit of 50,000 taels of silver, which can be said to be a bumper year.

A merchant gang is composed of hundreds or thousands of merchants, and there are different counters under a large firm. Equivalent to the form of a branch office. No one will ignore tens of thousands of taels of silver, even the Xie family, a Hui merchant who is known as the largest business at the moment, has a family property of only one million taels!

"It seems to work. The old man estimated that the court came to ask us what these people thought, and didn't really want us to come up with an opinion. It is always necessary to make a whole drama of the Book of the People. In the past few days, I have also inquired about the newspapers of some publications, and I also know some news. Turpan helped the tile thorn to attack Ningxia Zhongwei, General Zhu Qian died in battle, this white man wants to go to General Zhu to ask for an explanation, although we are grass people, but Da Ming is strong and our waist is also hard, what is your opinion? ”

The merchants nodded their heads.

In fact, the imperial court really cared about their opinions, because continuous wars would affect the livelihood of the people.

Affecting the workshop's external production of goods, the requisition of people before and after is also millions, with the army is a part of the expedition, but in various places to transport materials to the north, naturally also rely on manpower.

The autumn harvest is coming soon, and too much civilian power has been requisitioned, which naturally hurts the peasants.

But the businessmen are very humble that they are cheap businessmen, and the court does not need to ask them what to do, and it is already a long live grace to be able to say hello to them, and the court will give them face. And they can't be embarrassed, they always have to lift this sedan chair, not to mention that this is still the western expedition proposed by Bai Minghe.

"Then it's decided, that's it?" The old man asked again, and everyone thought it was appropriate.

On the other side, the small compartment where the white heron is located.

After three soft knocks at the door, the three older men entered the room, saluted each other, and then sat down.

"But we did not discuss the business. Just thinking of the old general Zhu Qian who died fighting to protect the country, my heart was full of grief. Thinking about it, the importance of state affairs is just a trivial matter that does not enter the stream. Silver can be earned again, but the country's prestige cannot be damaged. On behalf of all the merchants and people in the world, the old man implored Banzai to order the westward expedition to raise the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and the Western Regions. ”

"Old gentleman Gaoyi, please accept a salute from the juniors!" Bai Minglu and the other two national prisoners stood up at the same time and bowed.

Several old men hurriedly returned the salute: "I can't afford this gift, as the people of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperity of the country will be the prosperity of the people, and the weakness of the country will be the people's sorrow." ”

"Old gentleman, please accept another salute from the juniors!"

This came and went, and there were three back and forth just for the ceremony, but finally got a reply from the Shang Gang, and Bai Minglu hurriedly returned to Beijing with the other two and went to the Wenhua Palace. They are not qualified to enter the Wuying Palace, where the discussions in the past few days are all military affairs.

After listening to the report of the three people, Shang said that Jiang was still old and spicy.

"You have done a good job, and you will give the Chamber of Commerce a commendation in the name of Wenhua Palace. All the people are returning to their hearts, and the prosperous era is imminent. Okay, good! Shang Zhen sighed with emotion and motioned to a few young people to record: "Publicize the world, the people of Tulupan belong to the tile thorns, and raid my Ming Ningxia Wei and Ningxia Zhongwei." General Zhu Qian, the left vanguard, fought more than 100,000 enemy troops with 5,000 troops, and was crushed by the Ming Dynasty. Yiji Nai ......" Shang Yu stopped and looked at Bai Minglu with a smile on his face.

"Teacher!" Bai Minglu quickly stood up.

Shang Shi smiled and nodded: "I want to congratulate your Bai family for the teacher, your brother is the first to fight in Yiji Nai, destroying 100,000 enemies, and capturing alive." The battle was not completely over, and the various divisions were still pursuing the remnants of the army. Later, someone will send some battle reports, you can polish them well and publicize them to the world. ”

When the words fell, everyone in the entire Wenhua Hall was stunned. was also captured alive first, and 100,000 enemies were annihilated. How could there be such an amazing change all of a sudden, you must know that two days ago, these Ming ministers still had sorrow written on their faces.

"Students ask to recuse themselves!" The white heron stood up and gave a salute.

"No, Bai Minghe no longer needs someone to write lyrics and praise him, and you won't be afraid that someone will say that you are famous for your brother after you write it. In this article that publicizes the world, the name of the white crane only needs to appear once is enough, and he leads the troops! "Shang Xinxin said that Bai Minghe still uses people to tout again.

The immortal tablet can't be set up casually.

I don't know how many families have set up immortal cards for the white cranes.

"Yes, students thank you for your advice!"

After the business left, more than a dozen outstanding students selected by the Guozijian here, as well as young outstanding officials selected from among the Beijing officials to do auxiliary work here, came to congratulate one after another.

The white heron returned the salute one by one.

They envy Bai Minglu for having a good brother, and they will definitely follow Bai Minglu's officialdom in the future. But at the same time, he sympathizes with Bai Minglu for having such a brother, because under the shadow of Bai Minghe, Bai Ming Lu has to work ten times harder and a hundred times better than others before he can show himself.

And not the younger brother who is called the white name crane.

Of course, no one thinks about such a thing as surpassing the white crane, and no one thinks that they can do it.

Twenty-one-year-old, only twenty-one-year-old white crane, has reached the height that countless people can't reach in their lifetime, how to surpass!

Also set and barracks.

The white crane finally received a callback, and the Ming Emperor personally decreed: the white crane marched westward to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and the Western Regions. And for the death of General Zhu Qian, he asked the Turpan Khan court for an explanation. The whole order did not mention a word about silver, territory, or anything like that, nor did it mention a word about annexation, submission, etc. It's just a prestige and justice, that's all.

really saw that the capital allowed him to go to Turpan, and Bai Minghe didn't have much smile on his face.

"Alas......" Bai Minghe let out a long sigh: "I really don't know if I will be able to go home for the New Year, three thousand miles." I'm afraid I won't be able to get there if I have to go for a month, ahhhh The white crane let out a long breath.

Wang Chengxin said that this is the real white-named crane. will complain, complain, and scold my mother. But at a critical time, for Daming, a young adult, he can ignore a qiē, and he doesn't even care about his reputation. Wang Cheng is convinced that if the history books do not write a strong stroke for the white crane, it is that the historian is blind.

But even if the historian didn't write it, didn't the people remember? This is a man who has been famous for a long time!

At this time, the telegraph rang again, and the same will of the Ming Emperor came. (To be continued......)