Chapter 73: Calculation
Wu Yingying nodded with satisfaction. After a while, he asked Chase to send his own soldiers to invite Han Shang, the head of the camp capital, and other people in charge of making money in the Divine Guard Army.
Since that day after the elimination and rectification of the Divine Guard, Wu Yingying was busy with other things, in addition to regular account collection, rarely dealt with them, and now after experiencing this military power seizure, and seeing such a strange shape of people and so on, I couldn't help but feel close, and laughed at himself: "On the account, Lao Tzu still has 20,000 subordinates in Jinling, and he can be regarded as a person who trembles when he stomps on the ground, hahaha." With a turn of his eyes, he saw that Han Shang, the head of the camp capital, was faintly let in front of everyone Gongyue, obviously because of his higher official position and the largest scale of the industry he was responsible for, but this person was chubby and pampered as a shopkeeper, Wu Yingying imagined in his mind that he led a group of shopkeepers to "tiger" Jinling, and a slight smile appeared on his face. In the eyes of the red-topped businessmen below, this smile is profound, which not only represents the meaning of Jiedu to make the adult close to his subordinates, but also represents that the adult is in a good mood now.
Wu Yingying picked up the tea bowl and said to him: "Recently, the Song army has besieged the city, and the business of Han Dutou's subordinates has been greatly affected, right?"
Han Shang said with a bitter face: "What the general said is that the businessmen who are familiar with his subordinates have not opened for two or three days. "Although Han businessmen only dare to sit down on the side of a chair in front of Wu Yingying, they are in charge of industries worth millions of yuan. Even if Jinling fell, his industrial losses were minimal, so at the moment he was not worried about the Song people entering the city and plundering, but the depression of business partners, but there was another side he hid and didn't say, that is, his grain stores took advantage of the Song army to besiege the city, and the prices of grain and cloth soared in various places, and he made a lot of war money, not only got rid of a large number of old goods that had been worn for many years, but also collected a lot of people who were reluctant to take out good copper coins and gold, silver, pearls and jade.
Wu Yingying said with a smile: "It's no wonder that the way of doing business is to make money with harmony, and now the war is in chaos, if even his life is gone, what kind of business will he talk about." ”
Everyone didn't know what he meant, and they didn't dare to talk to him.
Wu Yingying said: "The battle is dangerous, most of the people in the city have been evacuated, you might as well settle the business in charge of each other, report it to me, pay off the wages that are still owed to the guys by three times, and go out of the city with them to hide." ”
Han Shang and others were originally just businessmen in the army, but they were in the military, if they didn't have the order of the officials, but they really couldn't avoid the war, they were all very happy when they heard the words, but they were a little suspicious, and after watching each other for a while, He Kui, the head of the scattered people who still ran the Qinglou on the Qinhuai River, hesitated and asked: "The subordinates have thanked the general for his good intentions, but the people have dispersed, I don't know what to do with the industries in this city?"
Wu Yingying saw that everyone was looking at him with attention, and understood in his heart that these people were worried that once they lost their hands and left the city, they would send someone to take their place, and once the war was over, these people would probably never regain their current status, so he smiled and waved his hand: "The industry in the city is naturally closed and waiting for you to come back." But," he paused, looked at the people below who were still looking at him with concern, and continued, "I have a better way to ease the hearts of the people." ”
"Although you have been operating in the name of the Divine Guard for many years, you have actually been waiting for your private property. I have always felt that if I still treat it as a military property, it will be a failure to manage it with all your hard work over the years. It is better to take this opportunity to settle the accounts, and you will donate a sum of money to reward the army, and I will hand over the deeds of various properties to you and others to take away. When the world is peaceful, you can go back to the city to run various industries, and then it will be your own business. Wu Yingying said with a slight smile, throwing out this bone of management buyout, not afraid that these people will not take the bait.
After Han Shang, He Kui and others were silent for a while, Han Shang took the lead and said loudly: "The general is wise, and the villain is willing to pledge 100,000 yuan." ”
Wu Yingying frowned and said: "Han Dutou, you operate an industry of no less than one million yuan, but you only pledged a mere 100,000 yuan, which is too little." ”
Han Shang was speechless for a while, and said: "General Mingjian, although there are so many accounts operated by villains, most of them are goods, shop properties, and the money that can be obtained at one time is only 100,000 yuan." ”
Wu Yingying followed his words and said, "Since you can't get it for a while, you can write me another deed for one million yuan in arrears." 10% per annum. After a pause, he said: "Although your property is out of the Divine Guard, but you owe money to my Divine Guard, if you encounter someone who is not long-eyed and embarrassed with Boss Han in the future, you will have my Divine Guard Army stand out for you." ”
Han Shang calculated in his heart that the industry he operated was worth more than 1.5 million yuan, and this million yuan IOU was only three or five years of profits, plus the business did well in the past, and it had a lot to do with the big tree of the Divine Guard, Wu Yingying's reputation was growing day by day, although he was now under the suspicion of the imperial court, but what if the rumors were true? If he really has an appointment with the Great Song Dynasty to be the envoy of the Shengzhou Festival, and he has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, if he is the king of Jinling, others can't climb this big tree, and if he pushes it, it will be a big wrong. At the moment, he pretended to be in pain and thought, and agreed with a thousand thanks. He was the largest of the business officers. Seeing that he had started, and the others also pledged to donate to the army, Wu Yingying either asked them to add cash or let them recognize the IOU, and it took two hours to squeeze out 700,000 yuan of silver from these moths, and the other 4 million yuan of IOUs were collected, and finally the Divine Guard Army industry was cleaned up.
After everyone dispersed, Wu Yingying was above the main hall, humming a little song and lighting an IOU without grace. If there really is that day, if you don't do it endlessly, it is not bad to follow Yan Qing, who carried the treasure beauty on her shoulder. While daydreaming, the soldier Yu Xi strode in and said, "My lord, the palace has sent a decree ordering you to go to meet Your Majesty quickly, and the carriage and horses are already waiting outside the door." ”
Wu Yingying was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart, isn't it that the imperial court has no patience to find out whether he is really colluding with the Song people, and this is going to be a knife, right?
Wu Yingying was hesitating, Chase walked in from the outside again, and after instructing Yu Xi to go down to greet the palace envoy first, he whispered: "My lord, someone claiming to be the envoy of the royal capital is asking to see him at the door. ”
Wu Yingying frowned, and shouted: "Since it's from Jiangbei, why don't you hurry up and send the beacon fire to the yamen, what will you do to report me?"
Chase stood on the ground and didn't move, and said in a low voice: "My lord, there are three caves in the cunning rabbit, according to the subordinates, there are not a few ministers in the city who privately communicate with the Song army, since Lord Wang intends to intersect, why should the Lord be vain?" Since Wu Yingying revealed to him the plan to excavate and enter the palace, Chase has confirmed in his heart that this Shangguan is not a foolish and loyal person, so he will no longer avoid anything for him.
Wu Yingying smiled bitterly: "You are loyal, but unfortunately I am not Xinling Jun, and you are not Feng Chen." He saw that Chase seemed puzzled, so he patiently explained: "In the past, the reason why Xinling Jun was able to do this was because he was a son of a Wei family, with a prominent background, deep-rooted, and the help of five thousand disciples. Not to mention whether this is true or not, as long as the evidence of my collaboratorship is confirmed, I am afraid that you and I will only have one way out of the city desperately. ”
Chase Fang said: "My subordinates understand, Lord Xie instructs." I will send the messenger to the yamen. ”
Wu Yingying said with a smile: "That's right, when I come back, let's take the time to interrogate him for a first trial, not only to understand the details of the other party's movements, but also not to be truthful." ”
As soon as this matter was interrupted, Wu Yingying's uncertain mood just now calmed down, he thought about it carefully, except for the high-fives with Cao Binjun, there was no other evidence to identify himself as having an affair with the Song people, although Cai Yu was a little weak, but he was by no means stupid. If you kill yourself without real evidence, not to mention the chaos of the army, Changrun Erzhou under the control of your subordinates will no longer be owned by Tang in an instant, and Jinling will immediately become an isolated city. Therefore, even if you want to kill yourself, you should have more time to plan, first control Changrun Erzhou, and then find enough real evidence, it is best to wait for the Song army to retreat before making a move. So you should be safe now. After thinking about this festival, he changed his court clothes and got on the carriage and horse that entered the palace.
Stepping into the Chengxin Hall where Cai Yu received his close ministers, seeing Wu Qiao and Xu Xian's two prime ministers and Zhang Xun, a member of the Zhongshu House, everyone looked solemn, and Wu Yingying felt that the atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Cai Yu saw Wu Yingying, his eyes were a little complicated, and finally beckoned: "Wu Qing is here, please take a seat." Immediately, a eunuch moved an embroidered basket for Wu Yingying to sit on. Cai Yufang said: "Xu Xiang, let's introduce the situation between you and Song He to Zhongqing first." ”
Xu Xian nodded and said slowly: "Everyone must know that I have been entrusted by His Majesty to preside over the peace meeting. As long as the Song people withdraw their troops, we will go to the honorific title and send protons into Bianliang, and the five or six states that have been occupied by the Song army can be ceded and the tribute will be doubled. Rao is Xu Xian's single-minded peace, after all, he is from Jiangnan, these words are extremely bitter, and the monarchs and ministers present are not comfortable in their hearts.