Shanghai, Miaoqian Street, and in front of the former Huilianhao Miaoqian Store, there are crowds of people, gongs and drums are loud, lions dance in the north, and colorful flags are waving, which is a festive atmosphere.

However, if you look closely, you will notice that there are many strange emotions mixed in this festive celebration. After the spread of the newspaper, worries and uneasiness quickly ferment, and people are worried about the safety of their property. Therefore, on the eighth day of the August 19th, everyone is paying attention. In front of Huilianhao and various stores in Riyilong were like this store, filled with people with worry.

As soon as the auspicious time arrived, firecrackers were crackling in front of the store. The shareholders of the Royal Bank of China and the shopkeeper of the Shanghai Branch jointly opened the red silk on the door and a plaque with blue background and gold characters. The Royal Bank of China Shanghai Miaoqian Branch finally opened its doors amid the applause and cheers.

However, before the shareholders and shop owners could wake up from the joy of newly opened, people rushed into the store like a tide, rushed to various counters, holding up the passbook in their hands to ask for cash withdrawal.

Most of the deposit certificates at the front counter were about 500 taels and 800 taels. The single one was not too many, but it could not hold back the crowd. People had no reason, and the guy couldn't ask for the reason. Fortunately, the above had foreseeed that there would be a wave of redemption as soon as the door was opened. In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, three million taels of silver were prepared. So after verification, the clerk opened a box of new official silver, took out a neatly packed 50 taels of big ingots, and redeemed it to the depositors as much as possible.

Seeing that the person in front of him successfully repayed, the depositor's mood suddenly stabilized, which made the shareholders and shopkeepers who had been trying their best to appease the depositors in the hall and secretly relieved. But before the breath was relieved, the client raised the news again. The depositor came to the VIP passage in the backyard and asked for redemption.

The man brought five carts, ten porters, and more than a dozen bodyguards. He handed over a total of seventeen silver notes on the counter, totaling 28,800 taels of silver. Such large cashing of silver was taken care of in advance, and if he didn't say hello like this, it would be a big trouble for the bank.

The manager in charge of VIP business saw that the signs were wrong, and said with a smile: "Please invite the guests to have tea and take a break. I immediately called the shopkeeper over. "It's easy to say." The man nodded, walked into the guest room with two bodyguards, and started drinking tea calmly.

As soon as he received the report, the shopkeeper felt something was wrong, so he greeted the shareholder, and rushed to the back to receive it in person, politely clasped his fists and said, "Do you dare to ask about your surname?"

"I'm a family, I'm asking for money!" The man said with a smile: "This shopkeeper is so nervous."

"1 Xiaoke was originally in the Yangzhou branch and just transferred to take over our store." The shopkeeper said with a smile.

"Ask your surname?"

"1 The little surname Wang, the name is Benchang." Manager Wang said, "I heard that Mr. Qian wants to cash in the silver?"

"Yes." Mr. Qian nodded and said, "Two hundred eight hundred taels, ten of which were Huilian bills and seven daily bills. Please check the shopkeeper Wang."

"No, no hurry." Manager Wang poured tea for Mr. Qian: "My shop serves tea, and it is the best in the Ming Dynasty. Please try it."

"I'm anxious to see the money, but I can't drink it." Mr. Qian didn't appreciate it.

"This is it?" Manager Wang was used to the wind and rain, and still smiled and said, "More than 200,000 yuan is more than 12,000 kilograms, and more than 4,000 yuan. It is very inconvenient to move it..." Seeing Mr. Qian take out a cigarette from his arms, he quickly lit it with great enthusiasm and said, "Although my name is changed to Royal Bank, its purpose will not change, and the service can only be improved to the next level. Do business 1

We have always planned to be appropriate for our customers. It is not convenient to carry and unsafe to carry so much cash, so it is still safe to keep it on our behalf. I don’t know what it is for Mr. Qian to bring this huge sum, but it is much easier to see if it can be transferred there, or to exchange tickets separately according to the amount specified by Mr. Qian. "

"Thank you for your care." Qian, the last one, took a sip of cigarette and said lightly: "This money has a helpless use, and I cannot tell you. In short, if someone has designated cash for cash, I cannot ignore it. I also know that it is bulky and unsafe to move, so I brought the car and the people."

Speaking of this, it is already very favorable. Besides, whether it is a bank or a bill number, to put it bluntly, it is a place where people keep their money. How can they control the purpose of their depositors? If Manager Wang said something else, he would discredit his own golden signboard, so he could only smile awkwardly: "How to arrange this money is your freedom, but this amount is really not small. According to convention, you have to notify my account one day in advance."

"I want to notify in advance, are you open the door? Besides, there is no explicit regulation. You cannot withdraw large amounts of cash on the same day, right?" Mr. Qian lowered his face: "I am in a hurry to use money today, otherwise I will delay the transaction and I can only ask the expensive account to compensate."

"Since Mr. Qian is in a hurry to use it," the first day of opening, Manager Wang really didn't want to get into trouble, so he had to endure the pain and pretended to be happy: "I will break the example!" He immediately took care of the ticket verification and the warehouse payment.

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This attracted many people to watch the fun, and they were also talking: "The rich people are well-informed. Could it be that the money from Riyilong and Huilianhao are unreliable, so they have to withdraw cash?" In this world, cash is still the king." The repayment wave that had just calmed down in the hall in front rose again.

After spending a day in pain, I finally reached the five bells and when the tickets closed, the tellers immediately went down the window and stopped operating. The crowded crowd stayed in the hall for a long time before leaving in a bad mood.

When the outsiders were gone, the guy went to the queue. It was time to get off work and eat, but they all sat there and couldn't move their butts, all of them looked depressed and their eyes were dull... They were all old money shops who had been in business for many years. This was the first time they had seen each other like today, and they only had to go out but couldn't get in. To be honest, they were all scared.

Manager Wang also looked depressed, greeted several important subordinates, and went to the conference room upstairs to have a secret talk.

"I think something is going to happen!" He took a sip of the cigarette and asked the subordinates of the custodian: "How much is the cash currency?"

"A little over 900,000," the manager replied in a low voice.

"Only nine hundred thousand?" Although Manager Wang had already made the worst plan, he was still shocked by the reported numbers: "In a day, more than two million taels will be paid?"

"The man named Qian has a bad idea. Many rich people have followed you 30,000 and 50,000, and they only need to cash in and don't have to pay." The manager of the VIP counter responded, "If I hadn't asked the guy to delay time as much as possible and withdrew two more counters, we would have seen it awkwardly long ago."

"..." Manager Wang waved his hand depressedly, indicating that he would not open any pots, and asked, "How much should be receivable in total?" So the account manager took the general account and the current account and looked at it. What should be receivable was the deposits of the branch in the general warehouse, the loans released due, and various securities, and the funds in the transport were worth more than 16 million taels. The depositor's deposits were only about 6 million taels, and the silver notes issued, it could not be calculated.

"It will take at least three million taels to stabilize people's hearts." The account manager gave a professional estimate and said: "If you hold on, the current bank will naturally flow back, and our Royal Bank's signature will be considered to be established.

"I don't care about the overall situation. I only have one thought, to let this store hold on." Manager Wang squatted off the cigarette butt and ordered everyone with red eyes: "Tonight, everyone worked hard and went to various places for help overnight. I will pay all the money they have. I will tell them that they will help each other in an urgent and difficult situation today, and they will definitely be rewarded in the future!"

The so-called "cultivists" refer to pawn shops, salt names and business stores set up by Shanxi merchants in Shanghai. When they are desperate, who will be able to get into this muddy water except for their own people?

After the four managers came out and ran overnight, they came back to report their lives. The news they brought back was not optimistic. It turned out that nine other branches in Shanghai also robbed the money. The shopkeepers and managers in the shops were all trying their best to raise cash silver everywhere. There were too many monks and less porridge, and we fought for the cash silver that the branch in front of the temple could raise was only 800,000 taels.

Zhang Guining Wang had just returned from the branch. He relied on being the main branch manager of the branch, so he seized the food from the tiger's mouth and took out the 2 million taels of cash deposits. Because the Huilian Shanghai General Library was looted by the emperor, the deficit could only be made up by the Shanxi merchants themselves. Although Zhang Siwei used the issuance of new shares to raise funds, the Shanxi merchants were reluctant. Zhang Siwei took the lead in investing and threatened to profit, and finally subscribed for more than half of the issuance of more than 20 million taels. This also caused the dilemma in Shanghai today in addition to Wang's Miaoqian Branch, none of the other nine branches could fully propose that the minimum deposit was only less than one-third.

"It should be enough now." Wang Zhan Gu still had the same attitude. He couldn't control others. He could sweep the snow in front of the door and burn the incense: "As long as there is no more trouble, we can go there!" Looking at the watch, it was more than an hour before leaving the store, everyone went back to their room to sleep for a short time, so they were able to maintain their spirits and deal with the harsh situation.

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The person who came to call him was the manager of the front desk, but he said angrily: "Shopkeeper, wake up quickly, something really happened!"

"What did you say?" Manager Wang was still muddy and rubbed his sleepy eyes.

"The platoon has not been unloaded yet, and the depositors are already in a long queue." The manager reported.

When Manager Wang heard this, his remaining sleepiness was so scared that he could not see any trace. He hurriedly started to wash his face and rushed to the store. The clerks all looked up at the wall clock hanging high on the wall.

The clock pointed at 8:50, and there were ten minutes to unload the door. As time passed, it felt as uncomfortable as a death row prisoner waiting for the torture, but no one dared to suggest opening the door early, because everyone knew that opening one minute early may mean that tens of thousands of taels of cash out of the bank during this storm, and every cash out must be saved.

But ten minutes soon arrived. The bell of the time woke everyone in a daze. Manager Wang stamped his feet and gritted his teeth and said, "Open the door!"

A guy just took off a platoon and the crowd rushed over like a tide, squeezing him to the ground. The others quickly shouted: "It's going to be killed! It's going to be killed!" to rescue him.

The scene was in chaos at the beginning. Fortunately, the police officers from the Shanghai Prefect's Office arrived in time and, under threat, finally stabilized the situation.

The head of the policeman Zhang, wearing shiny leather boots, walked into the store with a clang, and said in a Shandong dialect: "Who is the shopkeeper?"

"It's me!" Manager Wang hurried over and handed the cigarette.

Captain Zhang took the cigarette, didn't smoke it, and said in his ear: "You shopkeeper, don't cause trouble for the boss. Get out the money and send someone to walk so that the market will not be damaged."

"There are some money. Lord Zhang, please keep order and come one by one."

Manager Wang saw Captain Zhang's xiong card and smiled and said, "I won't let my brothers suffer in vain."

Seeing that he was quite upset, Captain Zhang nodded and raised his throat and said, "Don't worry, you're all in a hurry, you'll have some money, come one by one!" Finally, the depositors lined up in a long queue, and the line was more than ten feet on the street.

With the government in charge, the customers became quieter, and the tellers had been instructed in advance and tried to slow down their actions. Many depositors used passbooks to deposit, and needed to settle interest, which made it even slower. The six people at the counter only processed forty or fifty customers in an hour, and the money they were taken away was less than 100,000 yuan. It seemed that the situation could be stabilized.

But at noon, at the VIP counter in the backyard, more than a dozen big households came together and said they wanted to withdraw money. Each of them had a large passbook. The total amount was more than three million taels!

Manager Wang was sweating like a slurry at that time. Fortunately, Shanghai was still very hot at this time, so he could finally cover it up. He wiped the sweat and forced a smile and said, "You are all distinguished guests of our bank. Why bother withdrawing cash? If it is useful, the bank will issue a silver note, which can be exempted from the handling fee!"

But everyone refused to say, "We only need to make a silver!"

"I wonder what use you are going to give so much money?"
Chapter completed!