Chapter 820: The tangled nobles [asking for monthly votes]
Xin Mao will prepare for and take the exam together with Shangguan Yi, but the result is both sad and happy. Shangguan Yi is a Jinshi in high school, but he has failed in the exam. He is really depressed and unhappy.
Nowadays, Shangguan Yi is a Jinshi and has been awarded a direct bachelor's degree from Hongwen Hall. He is also valued by His Majesty and serves as the magistrate of Haiyu County. His official career is bright. Fortunately for Fang Jun, he is able to serve as the director of civil affairs.
I’ll do the scientific research again next year.
A few days ago, he and Shangguan Yi went south together. One was proud of the spring breeze and came to Suzhou to take up the post of Haiyu County Magistrate. The other was a solitary figure carrying a blanket and came to Huating Town to join his benefactor...
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However, Xin Maojiang has a cheerful temperament. Although he and Shangguan Yi are from a poor family, his career is both sad and happy. However, being favored by Fang Jun not only gives him a stage to display his ambitions and talents, but also does not worry about the future of the next few years.
The pain of living in embarrassment can also be regarded as good luck.
When Zhou Tang heard this, he was slightly stunned, and subconsciously muttered: "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, get rid of the dust in your chest, and naturally camp in the hills and valleys..." Naturally, he had never heard these two sentences.
However, this did not prevent him from hearing the incisiveness and depth in it.
The more I thought about it, the more I came to an enlightenment-like realization.
There is a kind of shock of "brilliant words"!
Zhou Tang praised: "Everyone in the world has said that the General Manager is a master of poetry that has never been seen in his life. He can pick up good phrases and nouns at his fingertips. It turns out that the General Manager's insight into worldly affairs has long been penetrated into his mind. He has a clear understanding of the world and the world. Naturally, he has a beautiful mind, and he writes like a spirit."
I really admire you very much."
Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, get rid of the dust in the chest, and camp in the natural hills and valleys... Such words can not only be said by being able to write two good poems. The meaning of this sentence alone
But it is thorough, not much worse than the sages and sages.
No wonder this man was able to gain the emperor's trust at such a young age, and came to Jiangnan with an extremely tyrannical attitude. After a series of manipulative and horizontal tactics, the Jiangnan nobles had to avoid his limelight and avoid being aggressive...
He can be described as a “hero”!
General Xin Mao also expressed his admiration: "The General Manager's talent and talent are gifted from heaven. He is indeed an unparalleled genius. It is truly a blessing for the younger generation to show off his skills by attaching his tail to his tail."
Zhou Tang ordered someone to make tea for him, and the two sat opposite each other, chatting and laughing happily.
Although there is a huge age gap, they are both from the Confucius and Mencius school, and their words have a lot in common, and they are not embarrassed to talk to each other. Gradually, Zhou Tang discovered that although General Xin Mao was not very old, his attainments in the Classics and History were quite remarkable.
He is very knowledgeable, especially because he often has thought-provoking and shocking remarks about current affairs. He is indeed a rare talent. At the same time, I also secretly wonder why such a young man with great knowledge and clear thinking has lost his reputation among the reliable ones.
Is it possible that the talents of the Tang Dynasty are now so prosperous that even such people have to be inferior to others?
However, this is obviously someone else's privacy, and it is even more hurtful. Zhou Tang is a well-mannered person, so naturally he will not ask about this out of the blue.
After talking for a long time, Zhou Tang went straight to the topic and asked: "I wonder what the chief manager Xin's orders are when he comes this time?"
Xin Maojiang put down the tea cup in his hand and said seriously: "I didn't give the order, but the chief manager sent this junior here to ask Mr. Emu whether the Yangxian Zhou family still intends to fulfill the quotation at the prospectus?
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Zhou Tang looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "To be honest, the Zhou family is absolutely unwilling to give up these shares. Although the Yangxian Zhou family is not as good as the Xiao family, the Gu family is as famous and wealthy as the
How could a good family based on faith do such a thing and refuse to admit it? It’s just that there are some reasons that are hard to explain. It’s only during the prospectus that such a quotation is reported. It’s really not true.
To be honest, I naturally want to fulfill the agreement, but the Zhou family cannot afford such a sky-high price, so I am really in a dilemma."
This can be considered open and honest.
Frankly speaking, the previous quotation was submitted due to some inexplicable reasons. Zhou did not intend to default on the bill, but her family's financial resources were shallow and she really couldn't afford it...
I dug my heart out and found not a single lie.
It's just that what he said, "A good family based on faith cannot do anything but deny what it says" is somewhat untrue. It might be perfect if he added, "Now that the salt farm's stock price is soaring, only fools will deny it."
the truth.
However, this implicit approach is completely acceptable to Xin Mao.
He smiled and said: "Before this junior came here, the chief manager once said that the Yangxian Zhou family has been powerful for hundreds of years. Although it is not as powerful as it used to be, the roots are still there and it is not an ordinary small family.
How can a small household compare? Now it seems that the big manager still has a vision."
Zhou Tang smiled bitterly and said: "The general manager is ridiculous. As a result, the old man is even more ashamed and helpless. However, the family's financial resources are shallow and he is really weak-minded."
Between the words, I felt a little depressed.
He really wants to keep those shares, but he really doesn’t have that much money!
As soon as the news came out that the imperial court controlled the salt field, the stock price of the salt field rose sharply. The Tang Dynasty did not implement the previous policy of "official management of salt and iron", so the salt industry was an eternal business. Even if one day the imperial court really implemented the "salt and iron" policy,
"Official camp" was established, so it would not be necessary to exterminate all the salt merchants in the past.
Please note that this is not a private salt farm, it must be licensed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs!
The imperial court has no bottom line and will not change its own policies day and night and slap itself in the face!
However, the Zhou family's quotation is 30,000 guan per share, with a total price of 900,000 guan. How can they come up with so much money? There are many people who had not received the shares for various reasons before, but now they regret it and rush to beg the Zhou family.
How can the Zhou family be willing to transfer their shares, knowing that this is the hen that lays golden eggs?
But if it is to sell off the ancestral property, it is naturally impossible. No matter whether the salt farm is the hen that lays the golden eggs, it is also foreign wealth, and the farm and house are the foundation of the family!
transfer, reluctant to part with;
Eat, but have no money...
This is exactly what Zhou Tang is struggling with now.
"Haha," Xin Maojiang knew Zhou Tang's dilemma very well. In fact, this is not a situation unique to the Zhou family, but a common situation faced by those families who have obtained shares. They are all at a loss for this matter and are in a dilemma.
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"The Grand Manager has opened a 'Royal Bank' in Huating Town in accordance with His Majesty's decree. I wonder if Mr. Emu has heard about it?"
Zhou Tang was stunned: "I've never heard of it, so what is this bank?"
Since the rise of Fang Jun, whether he was in Guanzhong or now in Jiangnan, he has always come up with some tricks that have never been heard of before, which makes people confused and strange.
Xin Mao kept his words concise and to the point: "It's very simple, lend money."
"Lending?" Zhou Tang's expression did not change, but his heart skipped a beat.
How could Zhou Tang be unfamiliar with the matter of "lending"? In fact, the Jiangnan gentry and some wealthy temples were all engaged in the business of "lending", and the Zhou family was no exception. No one knew the essence of "lending" better than him.
That's blood sucking!
Knocking on your bones and sucking out your marrow until I drain you dry...
Why did Fang Jun open a loan bank? Zhou Tang wondered maliciously. Could it be that it was just to deal with the fact that his family could not afford the money to purchase the shares they had subscribed for, so he set up this bank and forced all the major families to
"Borrow" from him?
This is too cruel...
General folk "lending", such as nine out and thirteen returns, are all very common rules. It is easy to borrow the money, but it is even more difficult to repay it. If you are unlucky, you will
In a disaster year, if you haven't paid back the one-year period, congratulations, just wait until you sell your house, your land, your children, your daughters, and lose your fortune...
If Fang Jun really forced the families who subscribed for the shares to borrow money from his "money bank" to buy his own salt farm shares, within three or two years, I am afraid that all these noble families would have to pay for their wealth.
All the land in the south of the Yangtze River became his family's.
Zhou Tang looked ugly and said nothing.
If Fang Jun is really like this, I'm afraid not many people will borrow money from him, but there will be many people who collectively set off a boycott frenzy. They are all nobles who suck the blood of others, and now they are sucked by you. Who can bear it?
It is possible to rebel even if you pull the lever!
Zhou Shu on the side glared angrily: "Is this justified? Doesn't it mean that our Zhou family doesn't want to borrow it, so he has to force us to borrow it?"