The butler on the side thought for a while and said: "My master supports taking oil, gold, copper and iron into the possession of the imperial court. This must have offended many people, especially Liu Jin, who is behind the Ming Dynasty Petroleum Trading Company and the Ming Dynasty First Bank."
"They are no longer willing to collect our oil and will not provide us with loans. This should be normal."
The housekeeper was actually a member of the Liang family, so he was Liang Cixu's uncle, so he dared to say such things to Liang Cixu.
Hearing the butler's words, Liang Cixu immediately frowned deeply.
In fact, everyone originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of taking over the ownership of the imperial court to get these industries into their own pockets.
Taking oil as an example, the trading of oil is really profitable.
After finding the oil field and installing the oil extraction equipment, you can just sit back and collect money. The oil that continues to flow out is just money.
There is no huge cost or management required at all. Just send someone over and sit and collect cash. It’s simple and easy. The most important thing is to get more oil fields.
However, the Liang family started late in this area. Even if they relied on their father's power to buy, sell, and plunder by force, the Liang family did not have many oil fields in their hands, and they were all small oil fields. They were far from being able to compete with the Daming Oil Company.
Compared with oil fields.
This naturally makes these old-school people extremely jealous, and they want to get all the oil in the Ming Dynasty into their own pockets, especially the oil fields under the Ming Oil Trading Company. Each of them is a big oil field, like the big oil field in Liaodong.
, the oil production of one oil field can be equivalent to dozens of oil fields.
Daily income and huge sums of money are not enough to describe this oil field.
"You mean we offended Liu Jin and that's why we're like this?"
Liang Cixi thought for a while and said.
"Yes, I not only offended Liu Jin, but also offended many people, so now our family has been attacked and retaliated by them."
"I just contacted the Yang family, Mao family, Jiang family, etc., and now everyone's situation seems to be exactly the same as ours. They have been attacked and retaliated in all aspects."
The housekeeper nodded solemnly and said.
The master has offended too many people this time.
Almost all of these emerging capitalists and colonists were offended.
The policy of taking all kinds of minerals into the possession of the imperial court almost offended the colonists to death.
These people have a large number of industries in Huangjinzhou, Australia, Nanyang, and other places outside the customs, including gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, iron mines, oil fields, etc. These are their lifeblood.
You have touched other people's wealth and livelihood, it would be strange if they don't fight for you.
Just when the two of them were looking sad and helpless, Liang Chu came back.
"Father, something big happened!"
"Third brother, third brother was beaten to death in Golden Continent!"
Liang Cixu also quickly informed Liang Chu about the affairs at home.
"What?"
When Liang Chu heard this, he suddenly felt dizzy.
He was already very old, a man in his seventies, but he encountered such a change at this time. How could he accept it?
"What exactly is going on?"
After a long time, Liang Chu came to his senses and asked in a very sad and angry voice.
"We still don't know who did it."
"Our gold mines, silver mines and oil fields in Huangjinzhou were also looted by horse bandits, and all the slaves and family members in the mines were killed."
"Even my third brother in Penglai City got into an argument with someone on the street and was beaten to death."
Liang Cixu said quickly: "In addition, the family's industries are also in a difficult situation now."
"Our textile factory can no longer buy cotton even if we have money, and the cloth it produces cannot be sold. No one wants it."
"In addition, Daming Petroleum Commercial Bank will not accept the oil produced from the oil field."
"For the cement factory and real estate, Daming First Bank originally promised to provide us with loans, but now they have stopped all of them, and they also require us to repay the previous loans as soon as possible."
"What?"
When Liang Chu heard this, he was immediately shocked. Even the death of his own son seemed to wash away a lot of things.
Compared to the family's property and wealth, this son seems not that important.
"Liu Jin, you are going too far!"
After Liang Chu thought for a while, he couldn't help but roar.
Whether it is the Ming Dynasty Petroleum Company or the Ming Dynasty First Bank, these are Liu Jin's industries.
In addition, the sales of raw materials and cloth for textile mills are basically related to major commercial banks, and these major commercial banks are almost all Liu Jin's followers.
Liu Jin must be working against him, so if his textile factory cannot buy raw materials, he cannot sell the industry.
We also stopped collecting oil, and we stopped giving bank loans to ourselves.
Liu Jin must be causing trouble in all this.
Even if something happened to his son in Huangjinzhou, it was very likely that Liu Jin had someone behind his back.
Thinking of this, Liang Chu suddenly became furious and wished he could tear Liu Jin to pieces right now.
Although Liu Jin is no longer in the government and the public, his influence is still there everywhere.
Liang Chu was furious, saying that Liu Jin was bullying others too much, but he didn't think about it. If he hadn't targeted Liu Jin from the beginning, how could Liu Jin have launched a counterattack against him?
Above the court, they, the old-school officials, tried their best to impeach Liu Jin, labeling Liu Jin randomly for forming cliques for personal gain, and using power for personal gain. If they were labeled as using power for personal gain, it would not only cost Liu Jin's life, but also Liu Jin's entire family.
life.
The current counterattack is just the beginning. Liu Jin is not a good person. You are so wanton in criticizing, impeaching and slandering yourself. If you remain silent, you will not show anything.
From now on, wouldn’t cats and dogs be able to eat, drink and poop on me?
What's more, this is a political struggle. These conservative people cannot kill Liu Jin. Naturally, Liu Jin does not need to be polite to them.
While talking about taking the oil back to the imperial court, now they are blaming the Ming Oil Trading Company for not taking their own oil.
While opening Huihai Bank to steal the job of Daming First Bank, and at the same time blaming Daming First Bank for not giving him a loan, this is simply picking up the bowl to eat and putting down the bowl to curse.
"Father, could it be that Liu Jin did all this?"
Liang Ci asked after thinking for a while.
"Who else but him would dare to go against our family."
Liang Chu sat on his chair, frowned, and thought deeply.
"Could it be that the death of my third brother is also related to him?"
Liang Cixu also frowned, thought for a while and asked.
"This is not necessarily the case. It could also be the work of the gold mine owners and silver mine owners on the Golden Continent. We have offended a lot of people this time."
Liang Chu pondered for a while, shook his head slightly and said.
Based on my understanding of Liu Jin, Liu Jin should not be said to have done such a thing. It is more likely that the local gold mine owners and silver mine owners in Huangjin Continent are responsible.
"Father, what should we do now?"
"It doesn't matter if the oil can't be sold. Anyway, the oil is still underground and won't go away."
"But if this textile factory has no raw materials and the cloth cannot be sold, it will have to stop working."
"For the cement factory and real estate, we have taken out the factory and the land for mortgage loans. The projects have already been put into operation and we need a lot of funds to keep them going."
"If we don't have funds, it won't be as simple as stopping. The First Bank of Ming Dynasty can directly sell our factory and land."
Liang Cixi thought for a while and asked quickly.
Facing Liu Jin, he really had no choice.
Liu Jin's energy is beyond imagination. Not only in the court, but also in all walks of life and everywhere, he has huge influence. He offended Liu Jin, plus those noble groups, capitalists and colonists. After the Liang family
It was really difficult.
"First pick up some of the assets at home and sell them, and then we can deal with the emergency."
"Send someone to investigate your brother's matter. No matter who it is, I will never let him go."
Liang Chu thought for a while and said.
"But father, there is not much property left in the family that can be sold. For the Huihai Bank matter, we even sold out all the land in our hometown in Guangdong."
"Now we can't sell much silver at all, and the amount of silver we need is at least 3 million taels of silver."
When Liang Cixin heard this, he quickly shook his head and said.
It takes a lot of money to engage in industry, whether it is textile factories, cement factories, real estate, banks, etc., these all require a lot of capital.
Originally, I could still rely on bank loans to survive, but when I opened Huihai Bank some time ago, almost all the assets in my home that could be sold have been sold off.
Now there are no assets that can be sold at all. We can only sell the industrial land value, but this has been accumulated with great difficulty over the years.
"Three million taels of silver!"
When Liang Chu heard this, he immediately frowned deeply.
This amount of money is really too much, even though now due to the Ming Dynasty's colonization of the world, a large amount of silver has flowed in, making silver far less valuable than before.
However, 3 million taels of silver is still an extremely huge amount. It is not something that ordinary small households can afford. Only the truly rich people and dignitaries like Ming Dynasty can spend such a huge sum of money.
come out.
"Father, we must find a way, otherwise the First Bank of Ming Dynasty will take away all our textile factories, cement factories, land, etc. If this happens, our family will be completely destitute."
Seeing that Liang Chu was also helpless, Liang Cixu said anxiously.
"Why don't we withdraw the shares of Huihai Bank first and get the money out for emergency use?"
Liang Chu thought for a while and said.
"Father, Huihai Bank doesn't have much money left. A large part of it is used to expand and build new branches, and part of the money is borrowed."
"There isn't much money left, and we all contributed shares together!"
"What should I do?"
After Liang Chu heard this, he was completely dumbfounded. Now he was finished.
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