Wang Changgeng has always had a flexible brain, so he quickly understood what Liu Quxian meant, and patted him on the shoulder: "How good are you, other gentry have to cut expenses because they see profits because of the abolition of the new policy of preferential exemption, but you see an opportunity to increase profits, and you have to make the transaction bigger." "Ahh

"Knowing the people's diseases, solving the people's difficulties, this is what the book has taught, I also apply what I have learned, what the people need, I naturally have to do, the demand for cotton cloth increases, and it is natural to produce more cotton cloth."

Liu Quxian said with a smile.

Wang Changgeng asked again: "How did you think of earning the silver of the people in the countryside first, and then the silver of the people in the city?" ”

"I learned from Haibutang, he can organize the people of the village to surround the gentry in the town, and I can also use this method to do business, all for the benefit of the people."

Liu Quxian replied.

Wang Changgeng nodded a little understandingly, and then asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"You pay for the money and partner with me." Diaphragm

"It costs a lot of silver to buy a lot of cotton."

Liu Quxian replied.

Wang Changgeng laughed: "How can I have silver?" ”

"You don't have any silver, but you can borrow it!"

"You are the grandson of Wang Vice Xian, and you know a lot of wealthy gentry, and now these gentry are strictly restricted in the interest rate of Qingmiao loans because of rent and interest reductions, I am afraid that there is no place to put higher interest loans, if you introduce me to them and let me lend their silver, plus you guarantee it, they will definitely be willing."

Liu Quxian said.

After hearing this, Wang Changgeng thought for a while and said, "Then I want to account for 20% of the dry shares!" "Ahh

Liu Quxian nodded.

Wang Changgeng was overjoyed and said: "Well, after the New Year's Eve, in the name of going to Beijing to study in Guozijian, I will take you north to meet a few large cotton producers in the north!" ”

Saying that, Wang Changgeng said again: "I can't stay here for a long time, because it's the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve, and my family requires that I must go back before dark, so I can only leave." ”

Liu Zhixian therefore said goodbye to Wang Changgeng, and only had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with Laidi and a group of maids.

And on Chinese New Year's Eve.

When the whole Daming was having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the Jinyi Guard, which had been arranged in advance in Nanzhi, also began to arrest the Nanzhi Haoyou, who had fanned the people's rebellion behind the scenes and wantonly looted business travelers, and even smashed and looted, raped and plundered.

Because only at this time, these tyrants will gather with their families, even if they are traveling abroad, they will come back early. Diaphragm

After all, this is an eternal tradition in China.

Except for those who are officers and soldiers, there is no one who will not go home for the New Year.

Therefore, at this time, it is the most reliable to catch people, and it is also the least easy to catch people.

Jin Yiwei even specially sent undercover agents in advance, taking advantage of the opportunity that these wealthy and right-hand families were close to the New Year and needed a lot of short-term work, so they mixed in in the name of short-term work, and found out where these wealthy right-hand families would spend the New Year, or whether it would be the family in Beijing for the New Year.

Therefore, on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, a large number of brocade guards who had been dormant in advance suddenly appeared from many streets and alleys, and rushed towards these places where the heroes gathered.

"Get out of the way!"

"Get out of the way!" Diaphragm

"Jinyi Wei takes people!"

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When Wang Changgeng returned to the city, he saw a large number of brocade guards holding torches, running towards him, and shouting at him and the pedestrians on the official road.

Wang Changgeng had to let the little servant stop the carriage to the side and get out of the way.

At the same time, Wang Changgeng saw with his own eyes that a large group of brocade guards stopped at his house, and was about to negotiate with him to marry his sixth girl, Gu Bingren's house.

Peng!

Then, Wang Changgeng saw with his own eyes that the gate of the Gu family was smashed open by the Jinyi guards, and a large number of Jinyi guards rushed in, and they were arrested when they saw people. Diaphragm

"Gotta get out of the marriage!"

"I have to get out of the marriage immediately!"

Wang Changgeng was frightened, and after thinking so, he hurriedly ran back on foot, and explained the matter to his father when he returned home.

At this time, the Gu family was listening to the play in the lobby and eating delicacies from the mountains and seas.

A room full of people covered in silk and pearls filled the room.

The house is even brighter, and the gold and jade are dazzling.

Soon, a house slave came in to report that the Jinyi guard had come to raid the house. Diaphragm

Gu Bingren was so frightened that he suddenly stood up dumbfounded, and it didn't take long for him to see that a large number of brocade guards really broke in.

Among them, Bai Yiqing, who was responsible for copying the brocade clothes and guards, also walked in with the holy decree: "By the order, Gu Bingren was ordered to live up to my grace, colluded with officials and bandits and thieves in the court, fanned the people's uprising, and intended to obstruct the new policy, and chaos the country, with the crime of rebellion to confiscate the whole family!" ”

"How so?"

"How could the court know?"

Gu Bingren muttered.

And Gu Bingren was puzzled for a while, then he suddenly understood again, and scolded: "Wang Yuanyu, Shenwu County, you shameless people, you must have betrayed my Gu family!" ”

"Hold up!" Diaphragm

Bai Yiqing only commanded at this time.

Then, two brocade guards came over and took Gu Bingren away, and forcibly ripped off the jade wrench on Gu Bingren's thumb, so that Gu Bingren's thumb was full of blood, and he screamed in pain for a while.

"You eagles and dogs treat the gentry like this! It's just abominable! ”

Gu Bingren, who was detained, had just come out in shackles, and when he was walking on the white snow, he saw that Ma Weiming, who was an official in Nanjing, was also escorted out in the heavy snow of the day.

Gu Bingren couldn't help shouting: "Ma Gong! You were copied too? ”

"Naturally, yes!"

"Those shameless people who have no conscience have betrayed us, and even the private garden I just bought in Nandu was known by Jinyiwei, and even I knew about the New Year in Nandu, otherwise, with Jinyiwei's own strength, how could I find out where I was for the New Year so quickly!" Diaphragm

Ma Weiming replied loudly, and said to Gu Bingren with tears in his eyes: "Gu Gong, we shouldn't, shouldn't be this budding bird!" Now that we have cheapened those reluctant people for nothing, let them join forces with the imperial court to encroach on us, and we also have to beg them to take in our female scrolls! Whining! ”

"Gu Shibo!"

At this time, Wang Changgeng suddenly walked over, and after escorting his Jinyi Guard Captain with a silver ingot, he got a chance to talk to Gu Bingren alone.

And taking this opportunity, Wang Changgeng said to Gu Bingren: "The letter of the family, the father has already burned, this marriage, the father means to forget it, please don't mention it again, and as compensation, our Wang family will buy the sixth girl into the house at that time, and continue to be raised by the young lady, and the little nephew will also treat her as her own sister, so as not to let the sixth girl be sold farther in the future, and it is always better to stay in her hometown than to live in another country, and in my family, she will not be too wronged." ”

Gu Bingren nodded, and Wang Changgeng had to give his hand, and said in tears: "Please tell Ling Zun, the contemptible people are grateful!" In addition, tell him that the temple field of Mingyuan Temple in the west of the city is actually the field of my Gu family, and they are the house slaves I let out, and they are the milk brothers of the six girls. ”

In many cases, ancient Buddhist temples and Taoist temples were mainly used to assume the function of a trust for many gentry.

Therefore, Gu Bingren can also arrange some properties for his daughter at this time. Diaphragm

Wang Changgeng was ordered by his father to come for this, and he also bowed back, and then hurriedly left in a carriage.

And Gu Bingren couldn't help but sigh at the sky, looking at the snowflakes that were getting bigger and bigger, and the torches that stretched to the end of the sky like two long lines, and said, "It's really cheap for these rats!" ”

In any case, Ma Weiming and Gu Bingren and other Hao You, who were doing things behind the scenes, were completely copied and imprisoned.

And this is also a big blow to the gentry who have not been raided, including the gentry in other provinces other than Nanzhi.

Therefore, they all confirmed the determination of the imperial court to implement the new policy, and did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary again, but only instigated other gentry to do it, and they were all much more honest.

In many places, the caress of the press is therefore sparse and said: "Traitors and tricksters know that they are vigilant, and the wind of encroachment can be reduced", "Once the habits accumulated in the past are washed, the gentry all know the traces." ”

This also makes the resistance to the promotion of the integration of the official gentry and the grain errand in the country become very small. Diaphragm

It's just that the gentry who worship Buddha have suddenly increased a lot, according to Hai Rui Bao, in the area of Susong in the south, the number of Buddhist temples has increased greatly, and donating fields to build temples has become a trend.

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