Jiang Zhixian's words completely opened the window, and the officials and non-officials lost their moral integrity and began to discuss it one by one.
At first they were discussing how to talk to Wang Xian, but within a few words they mentioned that the group of businessmen were setting up a colorful building at the pier and seemed to be holding a welcome ceremony. Everyone agreed that we should also hold one. So we
There was a lively discussion on how to welcome the guests and how to flatter them when the time came.
Seeing that the preparatory meeting before a war turned into a flattery meeting, and the target was a low-ranking official, the season leader Bo couldn't help but sigh to himself, what the hell is this?
On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, all the outsiders came to the pier early to wait. Unexpectedly, the businessmen came earlier and had already started rehearsing under the lottery building. They hired dozens of musicians to play gongs and drums, and there were also people holding
There are prostitutes with musical instruments and flower baskets and lion dance artists, it's like a temple fair.
The non-members were also prepared, but the time was too short and too hasty, and the scale was much smaller.
"Hurry up and beat the gongs and drums, we have to use our momentum to make up for the number of people," Yu Yuanwai told his troupe.
So downstairs in the colorful building where the members were, more than a dozen musicians began to play the gongs and drums hard, and they also performed the lion dance.
A duet opera was sung below the two colorful buildings, which attracted the people of Fuyang to watch and ask, "Is this going to be an opera?"
"It's not an opera." Because he has a brother who owns a restaurant, Zhu Dachang is well-informed and says with a proud expression: "This is the wealthy businessmen of our county, who are preparing to welcome Mr. Wang and Mr. Wang back home to visit their relatives.
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"What does it mean to visit relatives?" Most people.
"You don't even understand visiting relatives?" Zhu Dachang said with a sense of superiority: "I tell you, it means going back to my hometown to visit relatives."
"Let's just visit relatives and save money," everyone laughed and said, "What kind of writing are you, a pig butcher?"
"That's why you don't understand." Zhu Dachang said matter-of-factly: "Now that the Wang family is a noble family, the words used in daily life cannot be confused with ordinary people." After a pause, he said: "For example, when we say 'eating,' people are officials.
But people say 'eating'; we say 'sleep', and we say 'go to bed'; we say 'poop', and others say 'change clothes'."
"Nonsense, how can shitting become changing clothes?" Everyone didn't believe it. "Aren't you worried about the smell?"
"Stupid, how can an official's hut stink? It smells better than your daughter's house." What did Zhu Dachang know? He just said nonsense: "Even if I change clothes inside, it still smells good when I come out."
"I see that you are also a layman. Officials are so particular about how you can change clothes in the hut." Everyone didn't believe it, but there was one thing they believed in. That was the Wang family - they were really rich.
Okay, their standards for wealth are a bit too low, but that doesn't stop them from lamenting how downtrodden the Wang family was back then and how prosperous it is now. They lamented that they watched the two generations of their father and son struggle with their own eyes. Who said that only those who studied in the peaceful and prosperous times could have the ability?
The way out is that the father and son did not study, how can they live in a prosperous life?
There is a saying that seeing is believing, but in fact, what we see is often deceptive.
When the people saw that the officials and gentry of Fuyang County welcomed the Wang family and his son with such grand ceremony, they thought that the two men were doing very well. Little did they know that the two men were not doing well, let alone being very good. The reason why this scene happened before them was that
It was the result of a fierce struggle between the government, gentry, and wealthy businessmen. At this moment, both sides were unabashedly at odds with each other.
In order to overwhelm the other side in terms of momentum, both sides were beating and shouting hard and calling friends. Whenever a gentry or businessman came to join one side's camp, that side would burst into warm cheers, as if one more person would
It will seem to have more momentum
At about midnight, Li Yuanwai and his nephew Li Yu arrived, and the cheers of the gentry suddenly became several times louder. The Li family was the backbone of Fuyang's wealthy family. When they arrived, the sky was falling and they were standing tall, so everyone did not panic.
Unexpectedly, people from the Chamber of Commerce over there also shouted: "President Li, come to our side, you are the leader of our Chamber of Commerce."
"That's nonsense, Mr. Li is our boss."
"President Li is the president of our silk industry."
There was a fight between the two sides, but in fact everyone felt that he would still go to the side of the gentry. After all, he was an old man for many years and his roots were there.
However, what I didn't expect was that Li Yuanwai was in a dilemma for a while, and then he hugged the gentry and said, "I'm sorry, everyone, I am now the president of the Silk Industry Chamber of Commerce, so I have to go..."
The gentry were dumbfounded, but the businessmen cheered excitedly.
Seeing the businessmen crowding around Mr. Li and returning to the Cailou opposite, the faces of the gentry were extremely ugly. This meant that the war was imminent and the general had surrendered to the enemy. His morale suddenly dropped to the freezing point...
"I can't believe that Li Yuanwai has been one of theirs for a long time." The gentry said angrily, "It's a shame that we trust him so much."
"No wonder, he refused to come to the county office yesterday," Yu Yuanwai said with a dark face: "It turned out that he had planned to change his appearance for a long time."
"He turned traitor without even saying hello." The non-members were really angry: "Now we are riding a tiger, but he has become the leader of the company."
"The Li family is a high-ranking official, but they are willing to associate with businessmen. It is not a shame." Someone said with regret on his face, but in his heart he shouted, "Take me with you."
In that room, Li Yuanwai turned a deaf ear to the scoldings of his former partners. He had entered a new role as a business leader in Fuyang and loudly explained to the businessmen what they should pay attention to later. The businessmen listened very seriously. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty,
The businessmen just stood aside in various ways. Although their situation has been greatly improved, they still cannot get on the stage. Therefore, they were extremely excited that Li Yuanwai could stand up and they were willing to let him be the boss.
Member Li was also secretly proud of himself. Unlike those fools, the Li family gained wisdom every time they suffered. Last year, they hoarded money and almost went bankrupt by Wang Xian. They also complained all over, and the old man became seriously ill from anger.
Naturally, the Li family couldn't just let it go. Li Yuanwai wrote to his brother who was an official in Beijing, asking him to take action to rectify Weizhi County. In his opinion, Wang Xian was simply working for the tiger. As long as Wei Zhixian fell, Wang Xian would
Just knead it at will.
His brother went to the same year of the official department to see if there was any way to hack Weizhi County. Unexpectedly, the same year of the official department told him that the official official told him that Wei Zhixian had been promoted and would soon enter the Imperial Academy in Beijing. His future was bright and best.
Don't have a grudge against him
At the same time, there was shocking news in his brother's letter - Wang Xian was appointed as the official history of Pujiang by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. No matter what the story behind this, this boy has already come into the court's sight, so it's better not to provoke him.
Good.
Therefore, after Wang Xian left Fuyang, although Yuan Wai Li had been stirring up trouble, and at the same time he had been in private contact with the Chamber of Commerce, he was afraid that the boy would come back and kill him, so he had a way out. As a result, Wang Xian did come back, and as soon as he got the news, he
He made a prompt decision and accepted the position of president of the Silk Industry Chamber of Commerce. He took his nephew and prepared generous gifts to Hangzhou to apologize humbly to Wang Xian, and finally gained Wang Xian's understanding.
But the gentry believed his words, thinking that he was just trying to find out what was going on, and being the president of the Chamber of Commerce was just to paralyze the other party. Unexpectedly, when lies turned out to be true, truth also turned out to be false, and he actually sided with the merchants at the critical moment.
On the pier, the merchants were full of momentum, but the gentry were completely suppressed.
At midnight, the boat of the Wang family and his son slowly sailed into Fuyang Pier. People on the boat saw colorful buildings set up on the shore, and people were standing downstairs. There were also sounds of gongs, drums, and suonas, which was really lively.
"Is there any social drama today?" I asked the people around me.
Lin Qing'er, who was supporting her, covered her mouth and said with a smile: "It's only the second day of the Lunar New Year, how can we watch a show?"
"Then what do these people do?" I asked.
"Pick us up." Wang Xingye slowly twirled his beard like a big-tailed wolf. He saw many familiar faces, many of whom he had originally looked up to and fawned over, but now they were looking up to him and fawning over him.
This was something he would never have imagined when he was drying salt in the salt field two years ago.
"Why does it look like there are two groups of people?" I looked again and found something strange...the crowd was divided into two distinct groups with the colorful building as the boundary, one group had more people and the other group had fewer people.
"Ahem, otherwise how can we show that we are people from all walks of life?" Wang Xingye coughed twice, then asked Wang Xiandao in a low voice: "Is it okay?"
Wang Xian was playing with his newborn baby. His little niece was just over a year old. She was so pink and tender that people couldn't put it down. When he heard this, he smiled and said, "Everyone is here, what's the problem?"
"That's right." Wang Xingye nodded and cursed Wang Xian secretly: "Now you can tell me, how are you going to deal with them?"
"I told you, there's really nothing I can do." Wang Xian smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not from any government office now, so how can I start?"
"Really?" Dad was shocked when he heard this. If there weren't so many people waiting on the pier, he would have slapped it with the sole of his shoe, and shouted: "You little bastard, it turns out you were just talking empty words to scare them.
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"Yes." Wang Xian touched Xin'er's little hand and said irresponsibly: "I'm just saying it, it's up to them to believe it or not."
"It turned out to be Zhuge Liang's empty city plan," the father suddenly said. He was about to praise him, but his expression changed and he said angrily: "Sima Yi was suspected of being seriously ill and fell into the trap. What if they don't accept your trick?"
"Then let Tian Yu Niang get married and let them go." Wang Xian shrugged his shoulders and said, "Are you going to use the empty city strategy? You must be prepared for others to enter the city without any effort."
"You little lunatic", Mr. Wang couldn't laugh or cry.
"Haha, please calm down, father." Wang Xian kissed his new son and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat. It seems like they don't all believe it?"
In fact, Wang Xian's empty city strategy is an upgraded version of Zhuge Liang's. Zhuge Liang's one is based on Sima Yi's character weakness, but Wang Xian's one is more of a deterrent than an empty city strategy. In fact, it is more like Huo Qubing riding into the enemy alone.
Camp, conquer the Huns with bare hands
Although the two cannot be compared, they rely on their past glorious achievements to establish a strong psychological advantage. Only when they are so domineering can their opponents be frightened and then surrender...