And this agreement has four other highlights:

The first is the land mortgage. To tell the truth, the current Runing Army's own land is very tight, and it is impossible to take out the 240,000 mu of land at all, although the delivery date is five years later, but with the Runing Army constantly allocating its own retired soldiers and expired serf land, the land of the Runing Army will be even more tight.

Obviously, the Runing Army must go out of its own territory and go outside to take it by force. This doomed the Runing Army to implement an offensive policy, which was to go out completely. If the original Jimin Reclamation Commercial Bank was a semi-official land to occupy the tuntian, then now the Runing Army will be completely converted into a fully official tuntian.

The second is the establishment of a commercial bank. Here, whether it is the Runing army or the salt merchants of Yangzhou, they actually count the property of the imperial court and the private property of others as their own. To put it seriously, they actually don't pay attention to the decrees of the imperial court anymore, and have completely stepped on the verge of rebellion. Moreover, in order to seize the salt works, salt wells, and salt sales areas, the offensive nature of the Runing Army's policy was even more doomed, which was the same as the first point.

Therefore, there is a third point, the agreement between Wu Shigong and Yangzhou salt merchants on business expansion can only be a verbal agreement, and cannot be left as evidence. Of course, it can also be seen that Yangzhou salt merchants have a lot of trust in Wu Shigong's promise.

zuihou is the distribution of shares in a comptoir. There is nothing to talk about Ru Ningjun's shares, but Wu Shigong, the shares of Yangzhou salt merchants, has imposed restrictions on them, so that one of them will not have too much share. This is also a precautionary measure to prevent such a big tail in the salt industry.

Because if the Runing army finally seized the world, the salt tax would still become an important tax for the Wu dynasty, and Wu Shigong would have to take precautions at this time to prevent the loss of part of the salt tax at that time. However, because of the cooperation with Yangzhou salt merchants. At that time, it is conceivable that they will become a big company in the salt industry. It's just that now in order to solve the financial shortage of the Runing Army, Wu Shigong can only ignore this problem in the future.

Through this incident, in fact, we can also see that with the victory of the Runing Army, some interest groups began to take the initiative to board the chariot of the Runing Army. And Wu Shigong's personal leadership position in this group is also becoming more and more solid.

In the army, all the generals of the Runing Army system, if they want to break away from the Runing Army, not to mention whether his subordinates agree or not, just say that there is no financial resources in Wu Shigong's hands, those troops will immediately collapse. So with Wu Shigong, the army is simply monolithic. Even if it is the Xue Mansion faction, they only have their own opinions on the issue of Wu Shigong's heir, but they definitely dare not challenge Wu Shigong, the leader, and it is useless for Wu Shigong's father-in-law Xue Lian to come forward.

This is especially true in the civil service. Because Wu Shigong was not qualified to open a government office, almost none of these civil officials in the Runing Army were qualified as officials of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore. Without the Runing Army, they are nothing. So they are definitely of the same heart as the Runing Army.

And the same is true for interest groups. Whether it is Runing or Guide's official gentry group. It is still a consortium in Jiangnan and a salt merchant consortium in Yangzhou, and their profits must be supported by the Runing Army. And this support has increasingly evolved into personal support for Wu Shigong, which is contrary to the wishes of the imperial court, and these interest groups have also begun to be completely biased towards the Runing Army.

So when the Runing Army returned to Runing, these interest groups began to exert their power. There is an endless stream of distinguished guests visiting Wu Shigong. The gifts and treats that were sent were piling up. And when Wu Shigong threw out the same conditions as the Yangzhou salt merchants, and borrowed money with the land five years later as collateral, he immediately raised more than 300,000 taels, which made Wu Shigong feel stunned for the wealth of the people.

And those interest groups. It was a feast for the loan. An acre of land is a quarter of the market price, and such an opportunity is too rare, so those rich families are completely crazy. Although it would take five years to get these lands, these tycoons were not worried at all that the Runing Army would renew their promises, nor would they be worried that the Runing Army would not be able to grab the land. What's funny is that these people have much more confidence in the Runing Army than Wu Shigong himself.

Not only that, in Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, and in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of official gentry began to raise money to continue to lend money to the Runing army, for fear that Wu Shigong would not agree. So in the blink of an eye, Wu Shigong changed from worrying about not having enough silver to worrying about too much silver, what a happy trouble!

And Wu Shigong didn't accept the silver. This has become a weather vane, that is, it shows which family the Runing Army is close to and which family is close. If you don't accept it casually, not only is it not a good thing, but it also offends people for no reason. It seems that the gentry and the great families are crying and shouting, "Take away all our money quickly!" ”

So Wu Shigong did not refuse, anyway, it is better to have more silver now, and also explained to Deng Qifan: If anyone sends silver in the future, it will also be accepted. Anyway, there are many lice and no itching, and there are many debts. As for whether it will be possible to take out so much land in five years? Let's talk about it then! People are stress-free and fluttering!

However, Wu Shigong did not have no choice to collect cash, at least two did not accept it, and one was Ruan Dacheng, who also came to Runing to congratulate Wu Shigong; The other is the Zheng family in Fujian.

"Mr. Yuanhai! You are already in the humble house, why do you need your money? I really don't dare to accept it in the evening! Wu Shigong said with a smile.

"Don't hide Changjing, he also has a thin family asset in the next place, and the mere 20,000 taels are just to express his heart, and he is returning from He Changjing, and he doesn't need to shirk it." Ruan Dacheng also smiled and said politely.

Originally, Ruan Dacheng brought Hou Fangyu's letter of introduction to Runing to meet Wu Shigong, but he just wanted to get in touch with Wu Shigong and get to know each other first. However, when Ruan Dacheng learned that Ru Ningjun had borrowed money to repay the land, he immediately made a decision and was immediately willing to pay 20,000 yuan in silver to Wu Shigong. This kind of good thing that sells well and makes money, how could Ruan Dacheng give up?

"Mr. Yuanhai is famous all over the world, and if you can't invite him on weekdays, how can you break the bank? The heart is collared, the gift is not received, and when the person comes, it is the most haode gift. However, he was only a shallow learner in his later years, and he didn't do a lot of things thoroughly, so he needed help like Mr. Yuanhai. Now the most headache is the resettlement of displaced people, there is wasteland here in the late life, but the lack of warp and weft to take care of, is a little anxious, just Mr. came here. Therefore, there is a reluctant invitation here for the late students, first give Mr. 10,000 acres of land and share 100 households for the later students. The stock exchange of Runing will also issue new bonds, if you are interested, you can stay in Runing for a few more days? Wu Shigong said.

Ruan Dacheng understood what Wu Shigong meant as soon as he heard it, he pointed at Wu Shigong, but he didn't refuse, and the two of them immediately got up. (To be continued......)