Chapter 49: Collusion between Officials and Businessmen 1
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And here, Emperor Zhaohua is already planning how to collect evidence of some of the things that happened at this bidding meeting, so as to take down those unconscious officials in Jiangnan County in one fell swoop.
Gusu City, Basho Garden.
According to what he had seen and heard here these days, Lu Nancheng instructed Ying Yi to find out, so that on the one hand, he could collect evidence, and on the other hand, he wanted to see how many officials in this Jiangnan County were waiting in line to go to the guillotine.
So, this side of Ying Yi very neatly began to investigate and follow up on the situation of the jade mine, while Lu Nancheng continued to deal with the fat merchant, according to him, this fat merchant's temperament is not bad, and a lot of things he knows at present are known from his mouth, maybe he can know something from him.
Therefore, he immediately arranged for the guards to give him a post and invited him to come to the plantain garden for a gathering, saying that in order to thank him for teaching them so much, and then I wanted to hear him talk about some experience, so that he could be prepared when participating in the jade and tea bidding.
After the fat businessman received the post, he also sent a little guy back to be willing, and he always felt that this Boss Lei was a good person, but he didn't understand Guan Qiao in this bidding conference, so it was good to get together and teach him, otherwise it would be like the stunned young man yesterday, how good would it be to provoke the person who was on the third floor.
The capital, Dingbei Hou Mansion.
"Big brother, every time I do this, I think too much, haven't I already found out that Sun Lin is indeed estranged from General Zhennan, if you don't take advantage of the situation at this time, if the two of you reconcile again, what can you do. Dingbei Hou walked around in the study, chattering non-stop, thinking that this Yang Xiangye was so procrastinating, and he didn't write another letter for a long time.
"Dad, what do you mean?" Yang Xiao also felt a little irritated in his heart, this matter was indeed almost a certainty, "If you can't quickly encircle Sun Lin at this time, it will not be good if something goes wrong." ā
"Dad thinks so too, your uncle is a civil servant after all, he doesn't understand the difficulties of our martial ministers, our Yang family has been in a weak position in this regard, how can we maintain the status of our Yang family if we don't seize the opportunity?" said and sighed again, "What's more, your brother has already gone to ......."
Speaking of this, both of them were a little melancholy, this good child, just gone, how can it not make people's hearts ache? It's really a white-haired person sending a black-haired person, full of grief and indignation.
The father and son were already worried about Yang Ran's departure, and finally got out of their grief, and faced Emperor Zhaohua seemed to be preparing to attack the military power in their hands, so now, if they can't quickly consolidate the military power in their hands, once something goes wrong, it's better to compete with the royal family, right?
"In my opinion, this Sun Lin has already turned over with General Zhennan, if we use money to induce him to work for us at this time, wouldn't it be able to increase our strength?" Yang Xiao couldn't bear to see Dingbeihou continue to be sad about the death of his second brother, so he quickly diverted the topic again.
"Xiao'er, you're right, this opportunity can't be sent to the door every time, you go down and order someone to start preparing to buy some gold and silver, let's contact that Vice General Sun first!"
Gusu City, Basho Garden.
Lu Nancheng made an appointment with the fat boss to gather here today, naturally it was indispensable to prepare wine and food, and invited a few artists to play and sing on the building over there.
The fat boss is naturally happy to come to the gathering, because he has always had a good impression of this kind of interesting person, even if this Lei Yang is the first time to participate in this bidding conference, but he is cautious and will not come out easily, which is like the businessman that day, the first time he came, he didn't have a good understanding of this routine, and it was strange not to be pitted.
After all, this is the host's hospitality, always have to talk about the rules, and the post also wrote that the sister-in-law and wife are invited to get together, therefore, there are two of these seats today, men and women sit differently, since it is to thank the fat boss, always make the scene look better, not to mention that they come out of the imperial city, always remember the rules can be said to be deep in the bone marrow.
Soon, the fat boss came with a big belly, but he was never seen carrying his wife, but there was a little girl about eleven or twelve years old with a double snail bun, and a pair of big watery eyes, which looked quite lovely.
After being introduced, I learned that the fat businessman's wife was no longer there, and this little girl's name was Nian'er, and she was his youngest daughter.
Now it seems that there are a little fewer people, I thought that there would be a noble lady, but she became a little girl, Shen Yuan had to go to the next few gardens, and found one or two little girls of the same age, this is still more to say between children of the same age.
This little girl doesn't recognize her life, she thinks that she has no mother, and she has followed the fat boss to go south and north a lot, and her temperament is a little more refreshing, which makes Shen Yuan's previous worries swept away, and she also sighed that if this little girl is older, maybe she will also make a lot of achievements in the business field.
Over there, Lu Nancheng and the fat businessman, but the wine is happy, in the early years, Lu Nancheng secretly ran away with Lei Yun to the military camp without telling his mother, when he was in the military camp, he did not indicate his identity as a prince, and he was the same as the rolling and crawling, drinking with ordinary soldiers, and going out to exercise together every day, but he suffered a lot.
But this also made him lose the high-minded appearance of being a prince, and now he is dressed as an ordinary businessman, and he is like a fish in water, and the more he chats with the fat boss, the better.
"Brother Xu, junior brother, I am going to participate in the bidding for that tea, there is something else here, but it depends on you to teach you more experience." Lu Nancheng began, taking advantage of the hot drinking of the two of them, they both called brothers and brothers, so they took the opportunity to ask.
"Hey, Brother Lei, you're still too young, in fact, you have already participated in two bids, think about it, besides that stupid one, is there anyone on the first floor who really won the bid for silk or porcelain?" Boss Xu took a sip of wine, patted Lu Nancheng's shoulder, and sighed infinitely.
When Lu Nancheng heard him ask, he began to think back in his mind, as if this was the case, since the bidding, there were silk, rice wine, porcelain and Chinese herbal medicines, but the merchants on this floor have not won the bid for silk or porcelain, and the only one who has it is now I don't know if he is still running around the dock to ask for people, anyway, there are indeed some problems in this matter.
Thinking of this, Lu Nancheng felt as if his heart was cold, and his eyes were facing each other, could it be that there was something else here that he didn't know?
Boss Xu was satisfied to see the change in Lei Yang's expression, he knew that this was a brain, and he could understand a lot when he mentioned it, he liked such a smart person very much.
Sure enough, Lu Nancheng quickly thought, could it be that there is also some dirt among this businessman?
"Brother Xu, I understand a little, but I'm really stupid, brother, so please go on. Although Lu Nancheng had some speculation in his heart, it was his own speculation, if this was different from what Boss Xu knew, then he was not disturbed by his own thoughts.
When the fat boss saw him say this, he also knew that if he couldn't explain this matter clearly, let alone Brother Lei, he wouldn't be able to understand it back then.
"Alas, for the sake of our fate, my brother can't bear to see you being encroached upon, so I'll tell you the truth, here, in fact, it's nothing more than the collusion between the government and businessmen. "The fat businessman's words seem to be relaxed, but in fact, his heart is not easy.
And Lu Nancheng is even more, when he heard him say that officials and businessmen colluded, the anger in his heart almost came out again, but now that he is still facing this Boss Xu, his reason for many years tells him that he needs to listen to the words well.
"Oh, brother, do you mean that the third-tier merchant yesterday bought off the local government and labor leaders in order to take revenge, and didn't load the ship?"
"Well, if that's just that, then there's no need to be so nervous, isn't it? Why do you want to let the bidding of the third and second floors go?
"This, naturally, the silk is high, the price of rice wine is not high, and the bidding price will not be too high, Brother Xu, do you mean that this is a commodity that the second- and third-tier merchants are grabbing high profits?" Lu Nancheng answered the fat merchant's question while putting forward his own opinion.
"What's more, if the government and the merchants are combined, won't the profits of the highly profitable commodities be high?"
"But how are they going to collude with each other? I thought it would be nice to just give some filial piety money to the government, but I would have thought that there were so many things going on here. Lu Nancheng cooperated to show the distress that a businessman should have at this time.
"Brother Lei, do you know why I don't fight with the second and third layers?"
Lu Nancheng looked at him, and it didn't seem that he didn't participate in the competition because he didn't have much money, so he cooperated and made a puzzled look, waiting for him to continue.
"Alas, that's because our layer has never been just a foil. After saying this, the fat merchant seemed to have infinite melancholy, picked up the wine glass in front of him again, and poured a big gulp.
"Foil?"
"Yes, because those with high profits are reserved by the government for merchants on the third or second floor, but in order to prevent the capital from sending people to supervise, it is arranged for our first floor to also participate in the bidding, which has become a customary rule. ā
Speaking of which, Lu Nancheng really didn't know what to think, he never thought that half of the lively bidding scene in the Izumo Building was fake, and at this moment, he only touched the wine glass with the fat boss, and the wine was sad.
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