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There was silence in the boat, except for the sound of the lake breeze blowing through the curtain and waving through the cabin. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info For a long time, a crisp sound of the lid hitting the bowl broke the silence, and when everyone looked at it, the fat man sitting in the middle of the south and north unhurriedly picked up the tea cup and took a sip, "Good tea, Wuyi Da Hong Pao is really wonderful, Boss Xie, when are you giving me a few taels, how about it?"

"Lord Liao, what's the situation, are you still interested in talking about the tea ceremony? When we get past this difficulty, don't talk about a few taels, what if I give you all the tea trees on the cliff?" At this time, the fat man was still interested in talking about the tea ceremony, and the middle-aged gentleman on the side laughed and laughed, but it was not good not to answer, so he only smiled bitterly and agreed, "I'm just afraid that as Qian Lao said, how many of our families will be left by then?"

Shaking his head lightly, the fat man put down the teacup, smacked his lips and said: "Don't be so pessimistic, don't you just want to discuss a solution now?" Although the situation changes rapidly, everything changes from its roots, and there are always people in the land south of the Yangtze River who will carry the banner, and if you don't go to war, you won't eat or wear, right?"

"Lord Liao, how do you know our suffering. Take my Xie family as an example, our Xie family started with river transportation, Quanzhou Mansion is the base of our Xie family, and now the river and sea combined transport, the transportation industry is the foundation of my Xie family, but now the war in the East China Sea, Jinling, the most important wharf, has fallen into the hands of His Royal Highness, and the taxes of the two counties of Yanyun and Donghai in the north have doubled, and due to the tense situation, the public security situation has also become more severe, my fleet has been robbed twice in a row, and the amount of compensation for my family has exceeded 500,000 gold coins; , The empire and the Maqi Khans alternately controlled Wenning, and the control of Anqing and Yueyang changed hands between the six highnesses and the three highnesses, the transit tariffs were surprisingly high, Jiujiang fell into the hands of a Taiping remnant, and the situation was over several other provinces, and the Xie family is now completely struggling to support, not to mention that the six highnesses are still asking for donations, just don't, I don't think this business will last long. After the middle-aged gentleman finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed.

"Yes, Lord Liao, the situation of our Zhou family is similar to what Brother Xie said, everyone knows that my Zhou Chuannan only does one business, that is, salt, where does the salt come from? Now the salt works in Donghai County have been detained by His Royal Highness, I sent people to negotiate, there is no response, the war in the five lakes is chaotic, the Heshuo road is blocked, and the price of salt in the Kansai side has risen by eighty percent; It's a strange story, but everyone listens to you. I smoked it, and before I arrived in Weiyang, I received a notice from the newly established Monopoly Commodity Administration of the Chu Palace, all monopoly commodities are under the control of the Monopoly Administration of the Chu Palace, and the monopoly license issued by the original county guard government is abolished, and it needs to be re-applied, and the three-year monopoly I purchased will be invalidated in less than a year, not to mention, and the price of the new monopoly has doubled compared with the original one bought in the county guard, do you want anyone to do business?" My Zhou family has been passed down from my great-grandfather for four generations, is it going to be defeated in the hands of my Zhou family?!"

"Who says it's not?" Seeing everyone speaking indignantly, the short and thin man surnamed Murong was not willing to be lonely, with a look of righteous indignation: "Although our Murong family's main business is a slave business, but this is also allowed by the laws of the empire, but in the eyes of others, we always seem to be inferior, the first stop of the tax department is our family, and the first place to go by the inspection department is also our Murong family, the concession license, hehe, Boss Zhou has tripled, but we have tripled! But if you look at the business, now that the price of grain has skyrocketed, who in the average person is willing to add more people? Any business is not easy to do, and it is all in a recession, who will come to buy your goods? Finally, when I saw that the Japanese defeated the Dotun people, I thought that I could take this opportunity to make a profit, but I never thought that the navy would not allow the Japanese ships to enter the port, and the Japanese were so angry that they sold all their slaves to Milan and Nanyang at once.

Everyone was gossiping, loud and noisy, and it seemed that they had been holding grievances for a long time, and they finally found an opportunity to vent.

"Okay, guys, now is not the time to complain, this is the case, we have to face the reality and think about how to get through this difficult time. At present, the situation is chaotic, we are blind, and it is difficult to see the current general development, Lord Liao has lived in the court for a long time, and he is well-informed, so he must have something to teach us, so it is better to ask Lord Liao to clear the clouds and fog for us and get a glimpse of the avenue. The white-haired middle-aged gentleman who had been sitting at the top of the room finally spoke, and the cabin suddenly fell silent as he spoke.

As the head of the Wen family, the head of the seven major families in Jiangnan, *'s insight and vision are far from being comparable to the rest of the businessmen who only know how to run a business, although it is necessary to make friends with the local government and maintain necessary contacts with the surrounding forces, but Jiangnan has been peaceful for a long time, and it is an important place for the empire to finance and tax, and whoever holds the throne of the empire will not easily shake the foundation of Jiangnan, which is already the unanimous consensus of both the government and the opposition. As the merchants of the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, while constantly expanding their own business, they are also more or less colluded with the forces of the imperial court, but as the original surname of profit-seeking, they are not willing to get too close to the nobles of the court who have been changing, especially in the later period of Situ Mingyue's administration, frequent power adjustments and official integration, so that the businessmen are at a loss, often spending countless money and manpower to climb the line, maybe they will become prisoners every few days, and may even be affected by the disaster of pond fish, so the businessmen in the later period are more and more cautious, out of the Liao Qichang who lives firmly here, they are even more united, to get along with the middle and upper level officials of the local garrison and navy, but there is a lot less contact with the senior officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee who are far away in Yanjing, and of course there is still no less filial piety in money.

Long before the change of the imperial throne, Liao Qichang, as the county guard of Jiangnan County, was keenly aware that the storm that the empire was about to face was far from being as simple as the ups and downs it had experienced in the past, and he once reminded the seven families of Jiangnan that they should disperse the various assets and investments concentrated in the three eastern counties of the empire, and not put their eggs in one basket, and pointed out that the relatively barren and backward northwest and northern Luzon may be a good choice.

Although this suggestion once caused a wave of Jiangnan funds pouring to the northwest and northern Luzon, but the three southeastern counties have been calm The situation has made major businesses reluctant to transfer their investment in the three counties, only the head of the Wen family*, as the head of the seven families, attaches great importance to Liao Qichang's view, and began to gradually shift the focus of investment from the East China Sea and the Five Lakes to the northwest and North Luzon, and began to diversify the direction of investment. From the financial industry to the plantation to the mining industry, the Wen family's investments in the Northwest and Northern Luzon have more than doubled the investments of the other six combined. In particular, the acquisition of the Northwest Datong Bank, which was originally controlled by the Yanjing commercial forces, was renamed the Northwest Branch of Jiangnan Qianzhuang, which made the transfer of funds and assets of the Wen family accelerate sharply, and after the Northwest Bank, the second one obtained the permission to open a bank and bank in North Luzon, and even went to Jinling Qian Zhuang and Wanfeng Qian Zhuang in the northwest with the Wen family first, and now they are trying their best to obtain access to the financial market in the Western Regions and the Kansai region.

After seeing that Tiannan was under Li Wufeng's control, he was the first to send a representative to congratulate Li Wufeng, and proposed to buy the Southern Bank, which was originally controlled by the Qin Lang family (because of the collapse of the Lang family, which led to a run on the verge of bankruptcy and liquidation), in order to stabilize the people's hearts, which was highly praised by Wufeng. His positive performance not only won the friendship of Xiao Tang, James and Yang Zhengbin, senior officials in the northwest, but also provided a strong guarantee for his financial security. So in this matter, he has always been very grateful to Liao Qichang, and thanked the other party for pointing out the direction and threading the needle for him, which made his mood at this time much easier than that of several others.

As early as after Liao Qichang's proposal to invite Wufeng to the east of the Five Lakes Jiangnan was rejected, Liao Qichang had already felt that the three southeastern counties were likely to encounter unprecedented wars and chaos in hundreds of years with his keen sense of smell in his political career over the years, of course, he did not know that the drought would be a powerful catalyst for this war, but the strong rise of Situ Biao behind the Qiankun Road, Situ Tai's ambition for a county in the East China Sea and even Jiangnan, the crazy expansion of the Japanese people on the sea, the greedy appetite of the Milanese behind Situ Yuan, the two eloquent politicians of Ma Qi Khan, and the scattered forces of the empire, all of which are likely to plunge the entire three southeastern counties into a catastrophe, but his early predictions and instructions, only * can be regarded as an out-and-out listening, but the Wen family's too large assets cannot be completely transferred in just one or two years, and the people in the Wen family who have a fluke mentality are also delaying the progress of asset transfer openly or implicitly.

It wasn't until the Japanese soldiers sent a lot of troops and Situ Tai's army went south, seeing that the early prophecy gradually became a reality, and due to the sudden financial constraints caused by frequent wars, all this slowly began to be transferred to the merchants who were the new wealthy forces in Jiangnan, that they really woke up, but is it a little too late now?

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