Strictly speaking, Ma Yun is not a profiteer, because he is not even a businessman. The social status of the people in the Ming Dynasty was divided according to scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. The social status of scholars was first, which has remained unchanged through the ages, and then those engaged in planting and animal husbandry.
Farmers, workers engaged in industrial production, and small business owners, at the very least, do not create social value. They are just buying at low prices and selling at high prices, and traveling merchants. Of course, merchants are not useless. At least they drove economic prosperity and promoted the circulation of goods, which made the Ming Dynasty
Getting richer and richer.
But this Jack Ma is not a serious businessman, he is just a speculator who is good at taking advantage of opportunities. Jack Ma comes from a wealthy businessman's family. His father only had such a son when he was in his sixties. However, on Jack Ma's first birthday, the old man suddenly fell ill and died.
It is said that he died of joy to celebrate his son's first birthday. Some people said that he was so angry when he found out that Ma Yun was not his biological child. The specific reason is unknown. Anyway, according to relatives and friends, Ma Yun, who is described as wretched, does not match his majestic appearance at all.
Instead, his father took care of an ugly and strong nurse at home.
Ma Yun's mother was not a good person. After the old man died, her relatives all wanted to fight for the family property, but she was thwarted one by one. They clung to the family property and the orthodox position in the family. Ma Yun was pampered and pampered since he was a child. His intelligence
His talent was put into play when he was six years old. It was a temple fair. Xiao Ma Yun visited the temple fair accompanied by his family. When he came to a bridge, his family told him that the bridge was built with money from the late grandfather for the benefit of others.
A group of ordinary people. Xiao Ma Yun rolled his eyes and pointed at the endless stream of people crossing the bridge and said, then they should pay my family to cross the bridge built by my father. Then he directed his family to set up a card to charge for everyone to cross the bridge.
People have to pay a copper coin for the bridge toll, and those who don't have money can pay it with something. I don't know how many people come and go on the only way to the temple fair. In one day, I collected several coins for the copper coins, candied haws, apples, pears and marshmallows.
How much do you know? When I got home and told the story, the old lady was very happy and said that my Yun'er was really a thousand miles away.
When Ma Yun grew up, he became more shrewd and capable. He did not like studying and practicing martial arts, but only liked speculating in business. In this society, relying solely on good brains is useless, so Ma Yun relied on his brothers-in-law who were all involved in official circles to use the first
The information he obtained made him a lot of money. When the train station was being built in the south of the capital, Ma Yun was only ten years old. After he learned about this inside information from his eldest brother-in-law who worked at the Ministry of Industry, he bought it at an extremely low price.
When the imperial court requisitioned the wasteland around the station, they first made a fortune, and then built shops, storefronts, warehouses, etc. on the nearby wasteland. Once the railway between Jiangnan and Beijing was opened, land prices soared, and Jack Ma's initial investment doubled.
A hundred times! He quickly sold the house and freed up funds to invest in other areas to make a difference again.
Ma Yun is very young, unbelievably young. He is only twenty years old this year. It is precisely because he is too young that he unscrupulously instructs evil slaves to kill people in public on the river beach. After all, he is the youngest millionaire in the Ming Dynasty.
Well, I have several brothers-in-law who are famous in the political arena, so what can't be settled?
At this time, Liu Ziguang didn't know that Ma Yun was the playboy he met yesterday. In his mind, such a shrewd person would not appear so incompetent. This man had indeed recruited a group of plasterers to form a construction company not long ago, and he could participate in bidding.
Qualifications, but a guy like him who is good at operations will never be down-to-earth in business. He must have won the top bid to make a quick profit.
"I hate speculators the most!" Liu Ziguang said angrily. In such a big country, it is impossible to completely eliminate corruption. He also understands that when the water is clear, there will be no fish, but there must be a limit to corruption, not even if it is small.
It's okay to accept a few red envelopes, but it's too despicable to start with a century-old event like the river embankment.
But the matter has not happened yet, and getting involved now will only alert the enemy. So Liu Ziguang prepared to strike later. He arranged for some local people to enter the Xunjiang Yushi Yamen and the Yinchasi Yamen as spies, and sent people to keep an eye on Ma Yun, just to watch the bidding.
If there is any fraud, then don't blame Nanchang for meddling in other people's affairs.
At the Xunjiang Censor Yamen, Lin Ruhai was chatting with Gao Yifei one after another. They were both officials from the Procuratorate, so they were very close emotionally. In addition, they came to Huguang together and both landed by air.
They are cadres, so they are closer. Another factor is that the two families are about to get married.
Gao Yifei is over forty this year. After the death of the principal wife, he was succeeded by a young lady named Ma. She was very charming and charming, and was deeply loved by Master Gao. His marriage to this lady, Gao Yifei, was carefully planned. The bride's family is very powerful.
The sisters are all married to important figures in the court, and they also have a millionaire brother. By marrying her, she will get several powerful brothers-in-law and strong financial backing. Gao Yifei is deeply involved in the officialdom.
Tao said that joining forces to develop a network of relationships is the best way to climb up, so this marriage came about.
Not long after his marriage, Gao Yifei received the secret help of his brother-in-law and was transferred from the talented Metropolitan Procuratorate to Huguang as a press envoy. The press envoy, chief envoy, and military commander are one of the troika of the local government, and they have considerable status.
Importantly, in addition to being responsible for criminal charges, it also serves as the dispatched agency of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and can impeach local officials.
Moreover, Huguang is a place recently conquered by the imperial court. This kind of place is the easiest to achieve political achievements. According to rumors, the big bosses in the DPRK intend to promote He Tengjiao to work in the central government. Once He Tengjiao leaves, the position of governor of Huguang will be his.
, so Mr. Gao was full of ambition every day and took himself seriously. He Tengjiao went south to Changsha, and he took the initiative to take over the affairs of the three towns in Wuhan.
When the brother-in-law gets promoted and gets rich, the brother-in-law will naturally follow the rising tide. When Gao Yifei came to take office, he brought his brother-in-law Ma Yun with him. At that time, the court had already made a decision to allocate a huge amount of silver to repair the river embankment. Ma Yun immediately realized that this was a way to make a fortune.
This is a good opportunity, so I decided to follow my brother-in-law to Huguang to look for business opportunities.
On the way to take office, he happened to meet Lin Ruhai's driver. Since they were traveling on the same road, they formed a team and moved forward together. It was during this journey that Ma Yun fell in love with Daiyu, the daughter of Lin Ruhai's family.
Young Ma Yun had never seen such a beautiful and graceful woman, and he immediately fell in love. While he was obsessed with Lin Daiyu's beauty, he was also extremely obsessed with the power in the hands of his "future father-in-law". You must know that Xunjiang Censor can compete with Xunyan Censor
He is fat enough to be comparable, and he has more than tens of millions of dollars in his hands. If he just leaks some from between his fingernails, it would be enough for an average person to be wealthy.
Of course, Ma Yun is not an ordinary person. He wants to do the biggest job. He wants to take over all the river embankment projects, so after careful consideration, he went to his brother-in-law to state his ideas.
Gao Yifei still valued his brother-in-law very much. After carefully analyzing the pros and cons of the matter, he resolutely decided to support his brother-in-law's approach. After arriving in Hankou, he immediately asked someone to go to the matchmaker.
Since the death of his wife Cao Min, Lin Ruhai has not had time to discipline his daughter. Originally, he wanted to help his daughter find a son-in-law with a scholar background. He may not necessarily have a high official position, but at least he must have a good reputation and be from a scholarly family. Regarding Gao Yifei's proposal of marriage, he
He is not so willing to agree.
Later, something happened that changed Lin Ruhai's view. He was surprised to find that his daughter was no longer the obedient little angel in his memory. Not only did she secretly read various martial arts novels and pornographic novels about lewdness and thieves, but she also liked to sneak out and show her face.
Knowing that a decent young lady is stuck in the house, and since she had not cared about her daughter for so long, she might have degenerated into something bad, so she was heartbroken, so she just broke the rules and agreed to Gao Yifei's proposal of marriage.
The two families were about to become in-laws, so Gao Yifei naturally visited Lin Ruhai often. He also knew that his brother-in-law had no famous family background, and his appearance was a bit wretched, making him a bit unworthy of Miss Lin. In order to eliminate Lin Ruhai's "grievance", he would go to Lin Ruhai every time.
He would have to say nice things about his brother-in-law, such as how many brothers-in-law had great skills and eyes, how promising the young man was, what a prodigy he was, how much money and land the family had, anyway, to make Lin Ruhai feel that this deal was worthwhile.
After several times, Lin Ruhai was gradually persuaded by Gao Yifei. The power of Ma Yun's family was indeed huge. The young man didn't have many shortcomings except for his ugly appearance. The family was so rich and worried that Daiyu would not be able to live in a good life.
A good life, and such a son-in-law will also be of great benefit to one's official career...
"If we get married in the future, won't I be a generation shorter than brother Lin?" Gao Yifei joked, stroking his beard. Lin Ruhai, who was ten years younger than Gao Yifei, quickly said: "Everyone calls each other, they young people are young.
Husband and wife, we are still brothers in the world, why should we follow those common etiquette."
Gao Yifei laughed boldly: "This will make me feel at ease."
Lin Ruhai knew he was joking, so she laughed a few times and asked, "Brother Gao, look at what day is the big day. My daughter is too old to keep her. She has to go out sooner or later. It's better to leave early than to leave late."
Gao Yifei said: "Today I came to discuss this matter with Brother Lin. In my opinion, this matter cannot be urgent. On the one hand, the weather in the three towns of Wuhan is hot and not suitable for weddings. On the other hand, isn't the Jiangdi Bidding Conference
Is it going to be held soon? You must miss this matter."
Lin Ruhai said: "Business and private matters are irrelevant, why should we avoid them? I, Lin Ruhai, don't have many friends in Huguang. I only have a close friend, Brother Gao. Then I can just set up a few tables of wine and dinner."
Gao Yifei smiled and said: "Brother Lin is indeed honest and honest, but what I am worried about is not this issue, but what if Jack Ma just became your new uncle of the Lin family, and he won the bid for Jiangdi, wouldn't it be right?
Would it make people suspect that your brother Lin is engaging in malpractice for personal gain?"
Lin Ruhai was surprised: "What, Jack Ma also wants to participate in the bidding?"