The skylark chirps, the Yao qin plays, in the Nanjing River Garden, Jiang Yan plays the qin, and Xu Ren listens quietly.
The song ends, and the lingering sound lingers.
"Wonderful! When I heard the master's playing, I felt like a fairy!" Xu Ren praised.
Jiang Yan smiled slightly and made him a cup of tea with his own hands, "Have a try, this is the tongue picked during the Grain Rain during the Qingming Festival."
Xu Ren saw that the tea was shaped like a bird's tongue, green with yellowish tints, silver hairs exposed, and golden fish leaves. What's even better was that it was covered with mist and the soup was clear and slightly yellow. He took a sip and praised: "
Wonderful! The taste is mellow, the aroma is like orchid, and the flavor is profound. How lucky am I to be able to taste the young master’s tea!"
Jiang Yan smiled, "This life is like a cup of tea! Plainness is its true nature, bitterness is its journey, fragrance is its gift, and it has all kinds of aftertaste and thousands of styles!"
"When I heard what the young master said, I just want to be addicted to the world and I can't extricate myself!"
"Since Brother Xu likes it, I will give these two pounds of newly made Huangshan Maofeng to Brother Xu."
"Thank you, sir!"
Two people chatting about everything but not talking about serious matters.
Finally, Xu Ren couldn't hold it in any longer, "May I ask, Sir, why do you come down here?"
Jiang Yan smiled and said, "I would like to ask Brother Xu for a favor. As you know, I have a stock called 'Beihai Road and Bridge'. In addition, there is a large port on Fubo Island. Because it is on the maritime trade route, its performance is
Very good. Recently, I want to inject the high-quality asset of Fubo Port into Beihai Road and Bridge. I believe that after the news spreads, the stock price of Beihai Road and Bridge will definitely rise sharply!"
Hearing this, Xu Ren pricked up his ears. He knew that Beihai Road and Bridge stock had a strong background. It was a large company jointly controlled by Huizhou businessmen and Shaanxi businessmen. Chairman Jiang Yan and the second shareholder Zhang Xun held the same shares.
, both share 30% of the shares. Jiang Yan is the leader of the Huizhou merchants, and Zhang Xun is the leader of the Shaanxi merchants. They are both big shots with hands and eyes that they look up to.
Seeing that he listened carefully, Jiang Yan smiled slightly and said, "Brother Xu, you should know that my Jiang family and Zhang family have the same shares in Beihai Road and Bridge. Recently, the Zhang family has been quite restless. Through some means, it has invested heavily in mining, tea and other fields.
It continues to expand and has taken away several mines and tea mountains that originally belonged to my Jiang family. Therefore, I don’t want to share the benefits of the rising stock price of Beihai Road and Bridge with them. Please help me, Brother Xu, to squeeze the Zhang family out of Beixin Road and Bridge.”
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Jiang Yan actually asked me to help him deal with Zhang Xun! Xu Ren was shocked. The Zhang family's status among Shaanxi merchants was just like the Jiang family's status among Huizhou merchants. If he couldn't offend Jiang Yan, how could he?
Zhang Xun? What does it have to do with us mortals when gods fight?
Xu Ren wanted to curry favor with Jiang Yan, but he didn't dare to offend Zhang Xun, so he was in a dilemma.
"If Brother Xu is willing to do this favor for me, I am willing to pay a reward of one million taels and transfer one million shares of Hetian Meiyu stock held by me to Brother Xu. This Hetian Meiyu has just obtained a gemstone mine in Yunnan.
, it’s a real mine, completely different from jadeite in southern China.”
Jiang Yan deliberately bit the word "Southern Jade" very hard, took a sip of tea, and then looked at the person in front of him with playful eyes.
Xu Ren felt a shiver in his heart. How did the other party know that he was dealing with jadeite from the Southern Kingdom in such a secret way? He understood the threat hidden in Jiang Yan's words. If he didn't listen to him, he would never want to take advantage of the stock market in the future.
There is no doubt that with the strength of the other party, squeezing yourself to death is like squeezing an ant to death.
After careful consideration, I was more afraid of Jiang Yan than Zhang Xun. This man was also a cheerful person and asked directly: "What do you want me to do, Master?"
"I heard that the Zhang family has recently taken a fancy to the shipbuilding industry and built three shipyards in Guangdong. The cost was huge and they had to pledge all their Beihai Road and Bridge stocks to Daming Bank. Please ask Brother Xu to smash the stock price of Beihai Road and Bridge
Once it falls below the liquidation line and the Zhang family is unable to add additional collateral within the specified period, their Beihai Road and Bridge stocks will be forced to sell.
"But Mr. Jiang, the Zhang family has a big business. Even if they don't have cash, they still have collateral," Xu Ren said.
"The Zhang family was indeed able to get the collateral, but the time limit given by Daming Bank was only ten days. The person in charge of the credit pledge in the bank was a good friend of mine. On the grounds of the quality of the collateral, they refused or delayed it for ten days, allowing them to liquidate their positions. Or should they?
It can be done," Jiang Yan said softly.
When a master plays chess, he can count all his pieces. Xu Ren secretly sighed in his heart, in the confrontation between wealthy families like Xi Jiang and Zhang, every detail of the confrontation was really taken into consideration!
"Master, I need five million shares of Beihai Road and Bridge's stock as a bargaining chip, and I also need two million taels of silver to purchase."
"Yes".
"I still need your cooperation to release bad news about Beixin Road and Bridge."
"Yes".
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After talking for a long time, after Xu Ren left, Jiang Yan's expression became serious. Just now he pretended to be relaxed, but in fact he was in a nervous mood. After all, the opponent he faced was Zhang Xun, the leader of the Shaanxi merchants, a man who was discussing friendship with his father's peers.
business veteran.
Huizhou merchants and Shaanxi merchants have their own foundations. Jiang Yan's sister Jiang Rou was not very favored after she entered the palace as a concubine. The Huizhou merchants' main backer was the former chief minister Guan Shouzhen; the Shaanxi merchant's backer was the second assistant Sun Jinding.
After the death of Guan Shouzhen, although Hui merchants still had Tang Zhen and other remnants of the Guan party to rely on, their power was not as strong as before: Shaanxi merchants took advantage of the situation to rise and encroached on various major commercial fields, squeezing the territory of Hui merchants.
Jiang Guomao, the father of Jiang Yan, the leader of Huizhou merchants, valued peace and did not fight with Shaanxi merchants. Instead, he co-founded the Beixin Road and Bridge Company with Zhang Xun, the leader of Shaanxi merchants. Jiang Guomao single-handedly handled the company's registration and road construction rights.
, but was willing to share profits with Shaanxi businessmen. It was very effective, and the two parties lived together peacefully for two years. However, as the Shaanxi businessmen's backer Sun Jinding, the chief minister of the cabinet, became more and more powerful, Zhang Xun gradually became restless, and the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce
Conquering cities and territories in various fields such as ginseng, grain, salt, minerals, transportation, tea, etc., severely squeezed the living space of Huizhou merchants.
Unable to bear it anymore, Jiang Yan prepared to attack Zhang Xun.
"Cough~cough~"
Just as he was thinking about something, he suddenly heard two coughs, and the gray-haired Jiang Guomao suddenly appeared.
"Father, why are you here?" Jiang Yan was shocked. Since Beihai Road and Bridge got on the right track, Jiang Guomao let his son take charge of the Jiang family's business and returned to Yangzhou to retire. Unexpectedly, he came to Nanjing from Yangzhou today.
"Ahem~ Have you thought about it? Do you really want to fall out with the Zhang family?" the old father asked tremblingly.
"Father, the Zhang family is pushing too far, and I really can't bear it."
"Tang Shilang (referring to Tang Zhen) has been promoted to the position of Pavilion Elder, and he is also the emperor's master. Can't you wait a few more years for the crown prince to inherit the throne before taking action?"
"Father, I also want to wait a few more years, but the Zhang family, relying on Mr. Sun Ge's power, continues to seize our family's business. If we don't fight back, sooner or later our Jiang family will be wiped out." p>
Jiang Guomao was silent for a long time and said: "Since you want to take action, how can one Beixin Road and Bridge be enough? You have to be ruthless and not give the Zhang family a chance to breathe!"
