"You tell the whole story. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Fang Yundao.

Dong Wencong nodded and said, "Xiangzhou has a superior geography, a suitable environment, a dense population, and is very rich. Especially after the water transportation capacity of the human race was improved, Baling City, which was close to the river, rose. With the development of water transportation, the things needed by the workshop can be entered at a low price, and the things produced by the workshop can be transported away quickly, so there are many workshops in Baling City. There are rivers and lakes in the north and west of Baling City, which are most suitable for hydraulic organs, so the North Workshop District and the West Workshop District are formed, and you can climb the military tower...... No, when it was Yueyang Tower, I must have seen it. ”

Fang Yun nodded lightly and said, "That's true." ”

"Many years ago, even though Baling had great advantages and formed a continuous workshop area, it only made some of the people of Baling City better, but did not benefit the people of Xiangzhou. Because, all the craftsmen and scholars or excellent craftsmen in the workshop are Qingguo people, and they only give the simplest, dirtiest and most tiring work to the people of Baling City. Moreover, they purchased items such as logs, medicinal herbs, and grain from Xiangzhou at low prices, and after making paper, medicines, or other goods, they would sell them to Qingguo or other countries first. Only those surplus goods will be sold to the people of Xiangzhou, and the price is higher than that of selling to other places. ”

"Hearing this, others will definitely ask why the people of Xiangzhou don't buy goods from other places, but you must know that because Qingguo has established an Xiangzhou Council, all the entry and exit of goods are decided by the Xiangzhou Council, and the Xiangzhou government has no right to manage it. The members of the Xiangzhou Association are all major commercial houses in Qingguo, and the real masters behind all the big commercial houses in Qingguo or Shengyuan Continent are families, royal families, wealthy families or high-ranking officials from various countries. ”

Fang Yun nodded lightly.

Dong Wencong continued: "In the rest of Qingguo, these big commercial houses still need some face, after all, they must preach at any time for the sake of the people of Qingguo, once they do too much, they will be criticized by the scholars of Qingguo and even other countries, and even shake the country's foundation. But Xiangzhou is different, so Qingguo connived at Xiangzhou Meeting. The Xiangzhou Capital is not an official government, it doesn't need face, it only needs money, so they use every means to squeeze the people of Xiangzhou. So far, what is really needed to control the lives of the people of Xiangzhou is not the government, but the Xiangzhou capital. ”

"I know something about that. Fang Yundao.

"Xiangzhou will control all aspects of Xiangzhou, in the first year of Xiangzhou being reclaimed by Jingguo, Jingguo did not move, and they did not give up Xiangzhou, but compromised, such as raising the wages of workshop workers, such as reducing the price of things sold, such as wooing Xiangzhou workers and scholars, such as moving the paper mill with too much wastewater, and so on. But from the second year onwards, Jingguo's commercial houses began to enter Xiangzhou. However, all the commercial houses in Jingguo are very aware of the strength of the Xiangzhou Meeting, so they are all piecemeal, only opening shops and not building workshops. ”

After the temptation, Jingguo Commercial Bank found out that Xiangzhou was a treasure land to make money, so it was ready to enter Xiangzhou, but Xiangzhou would immediately use some tricks to make those commercial houses realize the strength of Xiangzhou and hesitate. It was only recently that the Zhao firm officially broke the deadlock and began to build a large paper mill in the North Workshop District, which would produce at least enough paper for the government. Before the Zhao workshop was built, it began to publicize, treating workers equally, and the price of paper was also in line with the whole human race, which was equivalent to digging up the roots of all the paper workshops near Baling City, and seventy percent of the paper workshops in Baling City belonged to Qingjiang Commercial Bank. Dong Wencong said.

"Is that the firm that Ge Million is doing?"

"Yes, it is the famous Ge Million trading house, but although everyone is used to calling him Ge Million, his wealth has billions of taels of silver. Of course, you should know that those riches do not belong to him completely, he is not the owner of Qingjiang Commercial Bank, but only the big treasurer of Qingjiang Commercial Bank. Dong Wencong glanced at Fang Yun after speaking.

Fang Yun smiled slightly, nodded slightly, this kind of thing is still understood by himself, those families of emerging high-ranking officials or families that are inconvenient to do business directly for various reasons will cooperate with a certain businessman and let the businessman show his face, and they will wait behind the back to collect the money.

Because it is illegal for high-ranking officials to use their power to make money, in some local colloquialisms, it means getting their hands dirty, and these businessmen are like clean gloves to cover the dirty hands of these high-ranking officials, so these businessmen are also called white gloves.

Ge Million is the biggest white glove in Qingguo.

Fang Yun has long known Ge Wanwan's identity, although he is disgusted with this person's collusion between officials and businessmen and disregarding the life and death of the people, but he is still quite sure of his own ability, and if someone else, even if there are high-ranking officials behind him, he may not make Qingjiang Commercial Bank so big.

Fang Yun thought for a while and said: "Then the one who instigated the people of Baling to take to the street this time should be Ge Wanwan's distant nephew, Ge Yiming, a giant of Jinshi in Xiangzhou, right? Ge Jia, I'm afraid that they hate me to the core, so they just finished the new meeting yesterday, and they can't wait to incite the people of Baling to take to the street today, ostensibly to fight against the Zhao family firm, it is a business dispute, but secretly it is to attack my prestige." ”

Dong Wencong praised: "You are really 'sitting at home and knowing the world'. Although Ge Million is the big shopkeeper of Qingjiang Commercial Bank, he is comfortable among high-ranking officials and magnates, but his status is not high after all, and he is most afraid of losing both people and money one day. So, his nephew Ge Yiming in Xiangzhou suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, this person is a Jinshi, his words are often unexpected, but it is reasonable, the key is that this person recruits talents, travels widely among scholars, and is good at creating some small incidents, so that the common people remember, most of the ordinary people feel that although this person is a rich Jinshi, but he is very confident, so he also has a high reputation among the people. ”

Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "This Ge Yiming, after returning to Xiangzhou from Kongcheng and becoming a Jinshi, his literary name began to skyrocket, it should have been seven or eight years ago. ”

Dong Wencong said: "Whether it is those wealthy and noble families that have accumulated for many years, or the families that have risen in recent years, whose children are as flamboyant as Ge Yiming? Why? The Ge family is unstable. Because Ge Million wanders among the powerful people of Qingguo, the slightest carelessness will ruin his reputation, and it will be difficult to protect his family. In order to avoid the loss of wealth caused by disasters, he must transfer part of his wealth to the Ge family, and Ge Yiming has the highest position and is the most suitable candidate. Once the name is enough, even if the Qingjiang Commercial Bank changes greatly, Ge Million will end as soon as he dies, and those people will not be wiped out, and Ge Yiming will be a stable rich man. ”

"Dogs that bite don't bark. Faced with the persecution of Liu Zicheng, Liu Zizhi and Ji Zhibai, I couldn't wait to use all means to enhance my literary name, just to make them jealous, and now, even in the face of the Zonglei family, I will not publicize it. Fang Yundao.

"That's the truth. However, Ge Million is indeed a dragon among people, he is a giant in business, if he follows the text, I am afraid that he can become a great Confucian. As for that Ge Yiming, he was cultivated by Ge Million with all his might, and he naturally surpassed ordinary people in all aspects, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is one out of a hundred, but those Hanlin or university scholars occasionally evaluate him, only four words, middle and upper-minded. Dong Wencong made no secret of his dissatisfaction with Ge Yiming.

. (To be continued.) )