8-46 Small abacus. Bids

Gao Yifei smiled slightly: "As the so-called virtuous do not avoid relatives, Ma Yun is young and promising, why can't he participate in the bidding fairly and justly?" ”

Lin Ruhai had a difficult face, and said: "Although Ma Gongzi is talented, but after all, he has never done this business, besides, the construction of the river embankment is a low-profit and long-term project, and there is really no oil and water, why does Ma Gongzi insist on participating in the bidding." ”

Gao Yifei said: "I want to try it if I haven't done it before, as for the lack of profit, that's not a problem, Ma Yun is not a mercenary, he wants to do this project mainly for the well-being of the people, but also to win glory on the face of your future father-in-law." ”

Lin Ruhai still shook his head: "It's not proper, it is precisely because Ma Yun is about to become the son-in-law of the Lin family that he cannot participate in the bidding. ”

Gao Yifei noticed Lin Ruhai's words, he was not afraid of what the people would think, but afraid that his boss would have ideas, and he smiled in his heart at the moment, what is the history of the Qing official, but he is just a guy who cherishes feathers. Gao Yifei had already prepared, and he was relieved: "Brother Lin is too worried, you and I are both from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, we are the officials who impeach others, and we are afraid that others will not be able to gossip?" Besides, the old man has already taken care of the affairs of the DPRK and China, you look at this. As he spoke, he took out a few letters from his sleeve and handed them to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai took it and took a look, it turned out to be a letter written by several popular officials in the imperial court, although these people did not climb to the position of Shangshu, but they all held real power in the six departments, and the so-called county officials are not as good as the current management, with their support, what else is there to be unfair.

The letter is nothing more than praising Ma Yun's character, suggesting that Lin Ruhai give young people a chance and so on, of course, it is just a sincere suggestion, and it does not point fingers at the Yamen of the Imperial History of the Patrol River, Lin Ruhai received the letter into his sleeve after reading it and said: "Brother should consider it seriously." ”

Gao Yifei heard him say this, and knew that there was a door to the matter, so he didn't say anything more, got up and said goodbye.

After Master Gao left, Lin Ruhai took out the letters and looked at them carefully, realizing the meaning between the lines, and after a long time, he sighed and locked the letters in the drawer of the desk.

There was a gentle knock at the door, it was a newly bought maid, and she said timidly: "Master, Miss, please come over." Lin Ruhai frowned dissatisfiedly, and said in his heart that he had to find someone to train these local slaves to learn official language, and then replied: "Stand down, I know." The maid honestly stepped aside, Lin Ruhai took a sip of tea and calmed down, and went out of the study to find her disobedient daughter.

When he walked out, the maid suddenly came out from behind the flowers, glanced around, quietly pushed the door into the study, took out a steel needle from the corner of the skirt, and carefully dialed the copper lock of the desk, the old-fashioned padlocks were all anti-gentleman and villain, and were soon stabbed open, the maid first carefully observed the position of the letter, and then took it out one by one to watch, read it at a glance and ten lines, and put it as it was, buckled the copper lock, took out a rag and wiped the desk a few times, and retreated as if he had just cleaned the study, Returned to the backyard maid's room, and the groom Lao Zhang whispered for a while, Lao Zhang went out of the back door, slipped on the street for a while, saw a blind fortune teller and came over, and the blind man Hu Tian had a crepe at the bottom of the sea, and then returned to the Imperial History Mansion.

Lin Daiyu made a fuss on the embroidery floor, today's encounter made her disgust with Ma Yun increase a little, she resolutely opposed this marriage, but Lin Ruhai was angry, Lao Lin is a very serious and old-fashioned old intellectual, in the marriage of children, pay attention to the orders of parents, matchmakers, and must not allow the existence of free love, although he is not completely optimistic about Ma Yun, but his daughter's attitude makes him involuntarily stand on Ma Yun's side.

"What's wrong with Ma Gongzi? People are young and promising, their families are rich, and they are also infatuated with you, Daiyu, why don't you follow your mother at all, look at your appearance, how can you still have the demeanor of a lady? Lin Ruhai said bitterly.

"My daughter doesn't care about that, I don't like it no matter how rich he is, you don't know, daddy, this guy actually instructed evil slaves to kill people on the street today, and he didn't take the official mission in his eyes by relying on his brother-in-law's identity, and he looked like a villain, which is disgusting!" Lin Daiyu indignantly told her father about what she had seen today. However, it obviously failed to achieve the expected effect, Lin Ruhai suddenly became angry: "You dead girl, you actually ran out of the wild without me, you are the young lady of the imperial historian, how can you show up with the market, alas, your mother died early, because her father was negligent in disciplining, from today to the day the Ma family came to marry, you are forbidden to step out of the embroidery building half a step!" ”

After speaking, Lin Ruhai left angrily, and several mothers-in-law stood under the embroidery building as instructed, and began to guard it 24 hours a day.

Wuchang Xingyin Pavilion, Zhenwu Hou Xingyuan, Liu Ziguang just listened to the secret report of Nanchang Fanzi, and said to Zhong Shouyong next to him: "You go back to the capital, investigate these guys who wrote letters, and see how much benefit they have taken from the Ma family, and by the way, dig up the two corpses you buried in Wuhu for a good examination, whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei's people, you must find out, I don't like the feeling of being secretly remembered." ”

Zhong Shouyong gave up the order, and the true identity of the two guys who held fake Nanchang waist cards killed on the way to Wuhan is still a mystery. As for the roles arranged by Hou Ye for monitoring, although they are all powerful figures, they are just scum in the eyes of Nanchang, and it is easy to do it.

The bidding work has gradually begun, in line with the principle of fairness, justice and openness, each participating in the bidding can submit a bid to the patrol river Yushi Yamen, the tender indicates the qualifications of the merchants, performance and preliminary planning for the embankment, and then the price bid, under the same conditions of qualification, the lower price wins. However, everyone knows that the short and obscene Ma Yun is likely to take over all the targets, and well-informed people have learned that Ma Yun is the future son-in-law of Lin Yushi, and it is because of this that he can participate in the bidding without qualifications.

On the night before the bid was opened, Wang Jiu was in the hotel in Hankou with a long sigh, lamenting the unfairness of the competition, lamenting that the Marquis of Zhenwu did not help him with the gift, and was depressed when he suddenly came down to report that there was a distinguished guest visiting, Wang Jiu thought that it was a friend of the same company who came to complain, and hurriedly asked him to come up, but the person who came was unexpected, it was actually Ma Yun and Ma Gongzi.

"I don't know what happened to Ma Gongzi's visit?" Wang Jiu asked in surprise.

"Wang Yuanwai, I have admired you for a long time, you are the Taishan Beidou of this line, my admiration for you is like a surging river, I came to visit today, I want to ask the staff to help me in the evening." Ma Yun said politely.

"What can the old man do to help Ma Gongzi? Ma Gongzi is now thriving, and we still expect Ma Gongzi to enjoy a bowl of rice to eat. Wang Jiu said sourly.

"Wang Yuanwai's words are bad, everyone always has to rely on friends to help when they go out, and they will not go around in circles in front of you, and they will open the bid tomorrow, all the targets must be unique to the late students, and Wang Yuanwai also knows that with the people under the hands of the late students, where can they do such a big project, so they also want to ask the staff to help them."

Listening to Ma Yun's words, Wang Jiu felt incredible, you can take over the contract for a dog day, but you didn't fulfill it, and you handed it over to us to do, what kind of thing is this, there is something strange about this matter, he was silent for a long time, and thought about it.

Seeing this, Ma Yun explained: "Late life can give a generous price, which is definitely higher than Wang Yuanwai's offer." ”

Wang Jiuqi said: "Wouldn't Ma Gongzi lose money in that way?" ”

Ma Yun said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, it's all for the people along the river, besides, I want to help my father-in-law add some light to his face, I will take the contract at a low price, and report it to someone outside the staff at a high price, and it is not impossible to make up some silver taels from it, if the staff doesn't believe it, we can sign the contract, and then ask someone to guarantee it in black and white, there is no danger." ”

"Such a good thing?" Wang Jiu still doesn't believe it, he is also a person who has been crawling in the mall for many years, how can he believe that Ma Yun is a vegetarian wolf.

"Of course, there are some conditions, that is, the king must advance money, and the silver allocated by the imperial court will have to operate for a period of time before it can be paid to the outsider, and you must have heard of the ability to use money to make money in the later life."

"I see." Wang Jiu finally understood Ma Yun's intention, this trick is called the empty glove white wolf, using the relationship to pull the project and then subcontract, the purpose is to make use of the huge amount of project money, which is equivalent to financing activities, the key is that Ma Yun can not succeed in this time difference every time, and there is the amount and time of the advance, and it is not possible to exceed the scope that Wang Jiu can bear.

Everyone is a smart person, hit it off, and the specific details will be discussed later, and the two high-fived and reached a preliminary intention.

After Ma Yun left, Wang Jiu sat in the dark room for a long time, and his cronies and entourage cautiously reminded him: "Do you want to report to Zhenwu Hou?" ”

Wang Jiu shook his head and said: "Since they dare to do this, they are quite sure, Zhenwuhou and them have no major conflict of interest, and it will be settled if they give a generous gift, I rashly seek to report, but it is not beautiful, in short, many friends in this world are stronger than many enemies, anyway, I can't afford such a big contract, it is better to follow Ma Yun to make a little money." ”

Wang Jiu was very thoughtful, since ancient times, officials and officials have protected each other, he can't believe that Liu Ziguang will stand on the side of these cloth merchants and go against the imperial history of patrolling the river, as long as he can make money, it doesn't matter if he is subcontracted out or not.

Other builders also have the same idea as Wang Jiu, Ma Yun visited all the way, almost all of them agreed to cooperate with him, and after he took the general contract, he split it and subcontracted it to these builders. Besides, the imperial history of patrolling the river is opened by his own father-in-law, and when the time comes, he will find some deductions from the head of the project, and then find someone to dredge and dredge, just say that the river is complicated, and additional silver is needed, and when the time comes, let a few brothers-in-law and the old man go out together, and it is not a matter of catching it.

The day of the bid opening came, the Yamen of the Imperial History of the Patrol River was busy, the hall was full of officials, the forehand was Lin Ruhai, on both sides were the political envoys and envoys of Huguang, the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were also present, even the King of Chu came to observe, the officers and soldiers borrowed from the newly established Huguang Command Department guarded the Yamen, and the builders from all over the country and the representatives of the gentry on both sides of the river came here, quietly waiting for Lord Lin to open the bid.

Lin Ruhai first chattered for a while what a wise decision the emperor allocated a huge amount of money to build the river embankment, everyone should thank the emperor for generations and other clichés, and then said how open and transparent the bidding is, hearing some gentry in the hall nodded incessantly, Lin Ruhai's angry reprimand of bribe-givers is widely spread in the Huguang area, everyone still admires Lin Ruhai's official reputation, with this iron-faced imperial history gatekeeper, they are a hundred assured.

The bidders' bids are sealed in large letters, sealed with fire paint, there are only seven or eight shortlisted companies, each of which has given a reserve price according to careful calculation, this price is not the total price of the project, but the quotation in the unit, the river embankment project is so big, the time is long, it is impossible to calculate how much silver it will cost, such a price is very scientific. The bids have been opened, the prices have been compared, and now all that is left to do is to read them out in public.

Finally began to open the bid, Lin Ruhai bowed slightly to the officials under him, a young official stepped forward, took a letter covered with a bright red seal from Lin Ruhai's hand, walked to the middle of the hall, and read aloud: "The Yangtze River flood, affecting the sacred heart, the grace of heaven is vast, and the appropriation is to build a government to build a river embankment, and our officials are all conscientious and conscientious, and they are all responsible for the people. ”