Chapter Twenty-Eight: Business in the Four Seas
028 Li Ruolian's business
On this day, Zhu Youjian was relatively happy.
God seemed to see his sincere pain, and threw the two talents in front of him. Chen Zilong, Song Yingxing, this is the team he wants.
They were young, enthusiastic, empty-eyed and unscrupulous, without the rotten smell of the official robes that you could smell for too long. Willing to break everything, willing to rebuild everything, and even more difficult is to have a soft heart that has not yet ossified,
However, before the time came, bastard, Zhu Youzhen could only take out the wine and invite them to drink, so that the two little guys who were carried back by the servants of the family wondered if they were just having a good dream, and also made their next encounter no longer so embarrassing.
"These two people don't leave the eyes of Jinyiwei." Under the instigation and arrangement of the emperor, Li Ruolian, the current commander of Jinyiwei, added a small stronghold of the new Jinyiwei in Liushu Hutong. The main entrance of the stronghold is a huge restaurant with a nondescript name called Sihai, and the people with a little face in the capital know vaguely that it is the property of Wang Chengen's father-in-law, who is now the most popular in the capital.
Isn't it true that the prince can't see every fate of the old guys who have been laid off in the palace? From the chef to the running hall here, they are all the masters who used to work as errands in the imperial dining room. Hey, don't say it, there is still such a group of people in Jingshi.
Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, no one on the official face came to refute the rumors anyway. What's more, the style of King Lao Tzu has been learned up and down here, and even the people who greet guests at the door have a pair of dog eyes. Love doesn't come, the entry reality is a thousand taels of silver a year, and it is said to be an entrance fee. Without this, you just can't even get into the lobby.
This is still the minimum standard, and if you want to be able to book a private room, you need to add an additional 1,000 taels a year. The point is that you have to pay again next year, but where can you go to reason for this?
But this Dajing master is really not worried about running out of money, but about running out of goods. Within ten days of opening, a notice was posted at the door, saying that this year's membership of 5,000 people has been full, either you will be early next year, or you still need to find two members to recommend, and a private room member to recognize, so that you can pay the money.
According to the people who came out, it's really rich in words. It is said that there is a mysterious message board on which if you write what you want to do and how much you want to pay, someone will be able to handle it.
Liu's shopkeeper, who has made a fortune by ship from Tianjin Dagu all the year round, has been detained by Tianjin Yamen, and there is no way to explore everywhere, seeing that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver with a net worth of life are about to be lost. Someone in the hometown hall introduced this Sihai Restaurant to the shopkeeper Li, and the introducer and the middleman were all their fellow villagers in Fujian. Shopkeeper Li gritted his teeth, and mortgaged the gold goods in his hand and a small courtyard in Jingshi to the guild hall, so that he could get together a thousand taels of silver for the entrance.
As soon as he entered the door, Shopkeeper Li, who only had one hundred or ten taels of silver left, ordered a pot of tea for one or two silver, and only then did he dare to ask the guy who ran the hall about the guest booklet. The man looked like a eunuch, but he didn't embarrass anyone, and as he spoke, he reported a one-foot-square wooden board, on which were marked the person who left the message, the items requested, and the various matters of rewarding the money. Shopkeeper Li wrote down the amount of 1,000 taels first, and when he put the message board, he glanced at the other rows, and gritted his teeth and changed it to 5,000 taels.
The next day, the shopkeeper Li, who was still sleeping in the Xiaopo Hotel, received a note from the guy running the hotel and asked him to go back to the Four Seas Restaurant tomorrow, saying that someone had already taken the order, but he still needed to ask about the specific matters in person.
Shopkeeper Li arrived at the restaurant early, and he was received by two female deacons, one inquiring and the other recording. Two days later, he was informed that he could pick up the goods at Dagu with the note in his hand.
Shopkeeper Li was suspicious, and borrowed 500 taels of silver from the fellow townsman hall in order to pick up the goods. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at Dagukou in Tianjin, he didn't say a word on an errand, and waved his hand to ask him to hire someone outside to unload the goods as soon as possible.
This time he was really convinced, Shopkeeper Li didn't say a word, and came back and took out 10,000 taels of cash with the mortgage of the goods. First, he paid 5,000 taels, and then spent 1,000 taels to buy a seat for a private room member.
Naturally, the documents of the merchant's goods being stuck for no reason also accumulated on Zhu Youzhen's long table again.
Then there's the auction that comes with a difference. Judging from the beautiful booklet for members that circulate once a month, I can't even think of the things that are auctioned, starting with furniture, gemstones, tributes, and medicinal herbs, and now I hear that there is also a method of making glass that has been passed down from Bunsiin. The business of the people is really shrewd, and this booklet also needs to be tattooed ten taels of silver. Recently, I heard a rumor that a spinning machine with a hundred will be released, and the auction ticket alone will cost 1,000 taels. I heard that the major chambers of commerce have paid double the price, and they only ask that this auction can be postponed until the end of the year.
It is precisely because of this that Sihai has become the most prosperous place in Beijing, and the most face-saving place in the upper circle now.
Li Ruolian looked at the main gate of the four seas where there was an endless stream of cars and horses after nightfall, and then turned around and walked in through a secret door not far away. Dressed in casual clothes, he walked through the passages of the dark rooms of the private rooms, listened to the sound of toasts and lamps inside, and passed through the huge crowded auction hall. Looking at the magnates who are already familiar with the rules frantically holding up the number plates, today's auction is a huge golden silk nanmu. He knew that this thing was left by the three major halls of the Apocalypse, and the emperor approved the note without looking at it.
Now it is the great eunuch Wang Zhixin who is really in charge of the business here just promoted, and the one who is in charge of the money in and out is the great eunuch Zhang Yixian, who is actually the tentacles attached to this restaurant, and if there is nothing special, he doesn't even go up on the ground.
Seeing that everything was okay, he walked through the backyard to a row of bungalows behind the restaurant. He was greeted by Bai Baojun, who had worked in Tianjin Wei.
Li Ruolian is a very cautious person, whether the emperor looks at it or not, he hands the strip that he needs to beat to the emperor. There are not many people, only seventeen or eighteen, and they are all scattered around the Jingshi.
There are all kinds of people in the room, such as washermen, cooks, gardeners, and palanquins, and there are a few people sitting next to the innermost table who look like they are not on the list, and they are the candidates for the private school master and housekeeper who are ready.
Come in and take three or four people. These people have just been recruited, and there are a lot of affairs involved, to settle down their families, reorganize their household registration, and explain some of the most basic skills of Jinyiwei, without ten days and half a month, these people can only be put in their hands.
Li Ruolian looked at the situation and called Bai Baojun to his secret room.
"How did the people on the side of the Jinyi Weijing Division exclude?" Li Ruolian is now mainly working on the bright side, and the cleaning and selection of the original Jingshi Jinyi Wei is mainly Bai Baojun.
"According to Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun's cronies, only pick the two items of evil, and then exclude the people with blood on their hands in a few major cases, a total of 58 people need to be cleaned up, and the list is here."
Li Ruolian leaned under the candlestick and looked at the list carefully.
To be honest, there are many of them who were the same year as themselves, and they are still a little difficult to do for a while.
"Liu Jiuling, this is?"
"I originally dealt with the rats in the Jingshi Middle Society, but I don't know when I put myself in. This matter is estimated to have nothing to do with Tian Xu and the others. According to our brothers, nine out of ten of the lost children in the Jingshi will not be able to get rid of Liu Jiuling. ”
"Where's Zhang Shutian?" Li Ruolian saw another name, this was his master of the sword in Jinyiwei.
"According to Wang Gongchang's confession, we didn't do a big purge of the Jin people in the Jingshi, and the Tianhe Building, which folded more than a dozen brothers, was Zhang Shutiantong's letter from the wind report. has been confirmed again and again, first received money from the Fan family in Zhangjiakou, and then directly took the line of Houjin. The silver ticket, the informant, the title deed, and the estate were all verified. In prison, he said that he was inlaid with a blue flag, and he also sealed his mouth. ”