8-45 Strong combination

Strictly speaking, Ma Yun is not a profiteer, because he is not even a businessman, the social status of the people of the Ming Dynasty is divided according to the farmers and industry and commerce, the social status of the scholar is the first which is unchanged, and then there are farmers engaged in planting animal husbandry and workers engaged in industrial production, small owners, the lowest is not to create social value, just buy at a low price and sell at a high price, and go south and north of the merchants, of course, businessmen are not useless, at least they have driven economic prosperity, promoted the circulation of goods, and made the Ming Dynasty more and more rich.

But this Ma Yun is not a serious businessman, he is just a speculator who is good at taking advantage of opportunities, Ma Yun was born in a wealthy businessman's family, his father only had such a son in his sixties, but on Ma Yun's first birthday, the old man died of a violent illness, some people said that he died happily for his son's first birthday, some people said that he was angry that little Ma Yun was not born that day, and the specific reason is no longer available, anyway, according to relatives and friends, Ma Yun, who is obscene, does not follow his dignified father at all, Instead, he followed an ugly and sturdy nursing home at home.

Ma Yun's mother is not a good stubble, after the old man died, relatives wanted to compete for the family property, she was defeated one by one, hugged the family property and the orthodox status in the family, Ma Yun was pampered since he was a child, his ingenuity was able to wave at the age of six, it was a temple fair, Xiao Ma Yun accompanied by his family to visit the temple fair, walked to a bridge, the family said to him, the bridge was built by the first grandfather, in order to benefit the people. Xiao Ma Yun rolled his eyes, pointed to the endless stream of bridge crossers and said, then they crossed the bridge built by my father, and they should pay money to my family. Then command the family to set up a card to charge, everyone who crosses the bridge to pay a copper bridge toll, no money to take things to arrive, the temple fair must pass through the road do not know how many people come and go, a day down the copper money collected several hanging, sugar gourd, apples, pears and marshmallows do not know how much, go home and say, the old lady is very happy, said that my family Yun'er is really a thousand miles of horses.

When Ma Yun grew up, he was more shrewd and capable, he didn't like to study and practice martial arts, he loved to speculate, this society is useless to rely on good brains, so Ma Yun relied on his brother-in-law who were all mixed in the officialdom, and used first-hand information to make a few sums of money, when Ma Yun was only ten years old when the south of the capital was preparing to build a railway station, he learned this inside information through his eldest brother-in-law who was on an errand in the Ministry of Industry, and bought the wasteland around the station at an extremely low price. Then a shop façade warehouse or something was built on the nearby wasteland, and as soon as the railway between Jiangnan and Beijing was opened, the land price rose sharply, and Ma Yun's initial investment increased nearly 100 times! He quickly sold the house and freed up funds to invest in other areas to turn things around again.

Ma Yun is very young, unbelievably young, he is only twenty years old this year, and it is precisely because he is too young that he will unscrupulously instruct evil slaves to kill people in public on the river beach, after all, he is the youngest millionaire in the Ming Dynasty, and there are several brothers-in-law who are surprised in the political arena, what is not fair.

Liu Ziguang didn't know at this time that Ma Yun was the gentleman he saw yesterday, and such a shrewd person in his heart would not seem so without a city. This person did gather a group of plasterers not long ago to form a construction company, and he can be qualified to participate in the bidding, but a guy like him who is good at operation will never do business in a down-to-earth manner, and winning the first bid must be to make a fortune quickly.

"Lao Tzu hates speculative people the most!" Liu Ziguang said indignantly that the country is so big, it is impossible to completely eliminate corruption, and he also understands the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, but there must be a limit to corruption, otherwise it is nothing to receive a few red envelopes, but it is too despicable to start with such a century-old event as the river embankment.

But the matter has not yet been born, and if you get involved now, you can only startle the snake, so Liu Ziguang is ready to make a decision, he asked some locals to enter the Yamen of the Imperial History of the Patrol River and the Yamen of the Inspectorate as eyeliner, and send people to keep an eye on Ma Yun, depending on the result of the bidding, if there is really fraud, hum, then don't blame Nanchang for being nosy.

Patrolling the Imperial History Yamen, Lin Ruhai is talking to Gao Yifei without a match, both of them are officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they are very close emotionally, plus they come to Huguang together, they are both airborne cadres, so they are closer, and there is another factor, that is, the two are about to get married.

Gao Yifei is more than forty years old this year, and after the death of Mrs. Zhengfang, there was a young lady surnamed Ma, who was born a thousand charming, deeply favored by Gao Da, marrying this lady Gao Yifei is carefully calculated, the bride's family is very powerful, several sisters are all married to heavyweights in the court, and there is also a millionaire brother, marrying her can get several powerful brothers-in-law and strong economic backing, Gao Yifei has won the way of officialdom, and the strong joint network is the best way to climb up, That's why there was this marriage.

Soon after his marriage, Gao Yifei received the secret help of his brother-in-law, and he was sent from outside the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Huguang as an envoy, and the envoy and the political envoy and the commander of the soldiers and horses were one of the troika of the local government, and their position was quite important.

And Huguang is the place where the imperial court has recently subdued, this kind of place is the easiest to make political achievements, according to the grapevine, the big man in the DPRK intends to promote He Tengjiao to work in the central government, He Tengjiao left, the position of the governor of Huguang is his high fly, so the tall people are full of ambition every day, and they take themselves very seriously, He Tengjiao went south to Changsha, and he took the initiative to take up the affairs of the three towns of Wuhan.

When Gao Yifei came to take office, he also brought his brother-in-law Ma Yun, at that time, the imperial court had already made a decision to allocate a huge amount of silver to repair the river embankment, Ma Yun immediately realized that this was a good opportunity for wealth, so he wanted to follow his brother-in-law to Huguang to find business opportunities.

On the way to take office, I happened to meet Lin Ruhai's car, since they were on the same road, they formed a team to move forward together, and it was during this journey that Ma Yun fell in love with Miss Daiyu of Lin Ruhai's family.

The young Ma Yun has never seen such a beautiful and graceful woman, and he suddenly fell in love, while he is infatuated with Lin Daiyu's beauty, he is also extremely obsessed with the power in the hands of his "future father-in-law".

Of course, Ma Yun is not an ordinary person, he will do the biggest thing if he wants to, and he will contract all the river embankment projects, so after some careful consideration, he found his brother-in-law and stated his thoughts.

Gao Yifei still attaches great importance to his brother-in-law, and after carefully analyzing the pros and cons of the matter, he resolutely decided to support his brother-in-law's approach, and when he arrived in Hankou, he immediately asked someone to talk to the matchmaker.

Since the death of his wife Cao Min, Lin Ruhai has not had time to discipline his daughter, originally he wanted to help his daughter find a son-in-law who was born as a scholar, not necessarily a big official position, but at least to have a reputation, if it is a scholarly family. For Gao Yifei's proposal, he was not so willing to agree.

Later, there was an incident that changed Lin Ruhai's opinion, he was surprised that his daughter was no longer the obedient little angel in his memory, not only peeking at all kinds of prostitution and theft of martial arts, yellow, but also liked to sneak out and show his face, you must know that the serious lady is not out of the door, the second door is not stepping, he has not cared about his daughter for so long, maybe she has fallen into something, and in the heartache, he simply broke the jar and broke it, and agreed to Gao Yifei's proposal.

The two families are about to become in-laws, Gao Yifei naturally often walks around Lin Ruhai, he also knows that his brother-in-law has no meritorious background, and his appearance is a little obscene, a little unworthy of Miss Lin's family, in order to eliminate Lin Ruhai's "grievances", every time he has to say good things about his brother-in-law, such as how many brothers-in-law are with hands and eyes, how talented the young man is, what a prodigy, how much silver and how much land there is in the family, anyway, to make Lin Ruhai feel that this transaction is not a loss.

After a few times, Lin Ruhai was gradually moved by Gao Yifei's words, the power of Ma Yun's family is indeed huge, and the young man has no big shortcomings except for his long bumps, is it still worrying that Daiyu can't live a good life with fine clothes and food if the family is so rich, and such a son-in-law is also very beneficial to his future in officialdom.....

"If you become a relative in the future, won't the old man be a generation shorter than Brother Lin?" Gao Yifei stroked his beard and quipped, Lin Ruhai, who was ten years younger than Gao Yifei, hurriedly said: "Each parent calls each other, they are young and young couples, our brothers are still brothers, why do you need to follow those customs." ”

Gao Yifei laughed heartily: "So the old man can rest assured." ”

Lin Ruhai knew that he was joking, laughed a few times, and asked: "Brother Gao, when is the big day set to be good, my daughter can't stay when she is older, she has to go out sooner or later, and it's better to leave early if you leave late." ”

Gao Yifei said: "Today I came to discuss this matter with Brother Lin, the old man seems that this matter is still in a hurry, on the one hand, the weather in the three towns of Wuhan is hot, which is not suitable for weddings, on the other hand, isn't the river embankment bidding meeting about to be held soon, and I have to miss this matter." ”

Lin Ruhai said: "Public and private affairs are irrelevant, why should I avoid it, I, Lin Ruhai, have no friends in Huguang, only the senior brother, a close friend, and when the time comes, it will be okay to just set a few tables of wine and dinner." ”

Gao Yifei said with a smile: "Brother Lin is really honest and honest, but what the old man is afraid of is not this problem, but if Ma Yun just became the new aunt of your Lin family here, and he won the bidding of the river embankment over there, wouldn't it make people suspect that your Brother Lin was cheating?" ”

Lin Ruhai was taken aback: "What, Ma Yun also wants to participate in the bidding?" ”