Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 671, it's all my own sins

In the mansion of Zhou Jing, former Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the capital, Zhou Jing is lying leisurely on the chair of the old man, drinking tea and reading newspapers at the same time. Thinking of myself, I reinstated myself as an official.

So I didn't go back to my hometown in Shanxi, so I simply retired here in the capital.

Drinking tea and reading the newspaper every day, I feel at ease. From time to time, my disciples and old officials come to visit, and my childhood is more carefree than when I was the secretary of the household department.

"My lord, Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen are here to visit, with great gifts!"

At this time, the housekeeper in the house came and spoke, emphasizing the following content.

"Take them to the living room~"

The surroundings twirled their goatee slightly, and began to guess in their minds what the three of them came to find him for.

There is no way, it is a habit developed after being an official for many years.

Most of the people who come to find themselves are seeking something, and habitually they will first think about what the other party is looking for.

Especially as the steward has said, the three of them came here with heavy gifts, so what they are asking for is bound to be very difficult.

If it is a general visit, this gift will be more casual.

Soon, Zhou Jing came to the living room with a smile.

"Duke Zhou~"

When Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen saw Zhou Jing, they immediately stood up and shouted.

"Sit down~"

Zhou Jing nodded slightly. They were all old acquaintances. When he was still the Minister of the Ministry of Households, these Shanxi merchants would often come to visit, and the benefits were not less.

"Duke Zhou, you must save us~"

The three of Fan Hanshi didn't have the mood to sit down, and immediately shouted out anxiously.

The whole person was anxious like ants on a hot pot, seeing that the huge foundations that several companies had built were about to collapse, so they even avoided the process of greeting.

"What happened?"

Zhou Jing looked at the anxious expressions of the three, and asked quickly.

Thinking about it carefully in my mind, it seems that nothing major has happened recently. Judging by the anxious looks of the three of them, something must have happened.

"We don't know which true god we offended. Since this morning, many big customers of our Jinshang Bank have come to take away their deposits one after another, which made our Jinshang Bank's Kuyin in a hurry."

"The Beijing and Tianjin branches are out of money, but there are already long queues outside, all of whom come to get the money."

"At the same time, our cement factories, textile factories, ocean trading companies, marine fishing companies and other real estate industries have also been blocked by everyone. Not only can we not sell our goods, we can't even buy raw materials. It's all on a standstill."

"Originally there was a batch to be sent to Nanyang today, but the agreed ship was not willing to help us bring the goods."

Fan Hanshi said anxiously, roughly telling the cause of the incident.

"It's true that someone is blocking you~"

After listening to his words, Zhou Jing pondered carefully, thought for a while and said.

"Have you offended anyone recently?"

"No~"

"In our business, peace is the most important thing, and harmony makes money. We never say that we will offend anyone, especially those true gods."

Fan Hanshi shook his head and said.

"That's strange. You have been blocked in all walks of life. There are only a handful of people with such energy in the entire capital. If you didn't offend someone, how could you be targeted like this?"

"Didn't you find out who is targeting you?"

Zhou Jing thought for a moment, there are really too few people with such great energy, not many in the entire capital, of course, it is also possible that they did something so outrageous that everyone really couldn't stand it anymore.

"No~"

"Even people who used to have a good relationship are silent about this, and even draw a line with us, and are unwilling to have any contact with us."

"This is also where we are strange. Naturally, we have never offended them. Even if we offend others, it is impossible to say that we have offended everyone who has a good relationship with us."

Fan Hanshi shook his head and said, this is what made them really afraid. They didn't even know that they had offended anyone. The other party's energy was so great that it made him feel desperate.

"Then have you done something outrageous recently?"

"Or did you do a lot of outrageous things to make money, and then everyone knew about it, and then you were blocked by the business community?"

Zhou Jing nodded slightly, thought for a while and asked again.

He still knows some details about the few people in front of him, and they have always been unscrupulous in doing business. In the past, they often smuggled to the grassland, selling tea, salt, ironware, grain, etc., and then sold the horses, cattle and sheep on the grassland back. It is true that they are very rich, and Shanxi merchants started their fortunes by relying on this.

"Hurt God?"

"A matter of heaven's anger and people's resentment?"

When Fan Hanshi, Wang Wentian and Huang Liwen heard this, they looked at each other and frowned slightly.

It seems that such bad things have been done a lot.

"We didn't do anything that was too offensive or outrageous~"

Fan Hanshi thought for a while and said weakly.

"Didn't you do anything too outrageous?"

"So you've done something?"

When Zhou Jing heard this, he couldn't help but raised his beard immediately. It was as expected. These Shanxi merchants must have done something to offend people. Otherwise, why didn't they block Huizhou and Zhejiang merchants? Yes, I just want to block you Shanxi merchants.

"Duke Zhou, it's business. Everyone is somewhat unclean. We are just like you."

Wang Wentian touched his head in embarrassment.

"It's fine if you don't want to say it. Anyway, I'm now without an official, and I can't help you with anything. Go back with your things."

Zhou Jing looked at the three of them and knew that the three of them must have done a lot of immoral things.

"Duke Zhou~"

"We said, we said~"

The three of them became more anxious when they saw Zhou Jing's eviction order, and they began to explain as soon as they gritted their teeth.

"I don't know where we offended people~"

"Let's start with the prairie. We buy wool, sell cattle and sheep on the prairie, that is, we are short of catties, shoddy, and deliberately lower prices. These are normal trading methods, and they will not make people Heaven is angry and people complain, let alone being blocked by people."

"As for the cement plant, we just infiltrated some sand, gravel, soil, etc. into the cement, and also lost some processes, but it was also to reduce the price and increase competitiveness~"

"Maybe in the plantations in Nanyang, we tricked many people into Nanyang to reclaim fields and plant sugar cane and rice for us, but we didn't say it was too unreasonable. Food, clothing and housing are guaranteed."

"Our factory just takes longer, and the food is worse~"

"And... and~"

The three of them began to explain some of the things they had done one by one. In their view, these were nothing.

As they explained one by one, Zhou Jing's expression couldn't help but change.

"Sure enough, since ancient times, there is no business without adultery~"

"These people are really black-hearted~"

Zhou Jing couldn't help sighing in his heart, he looked down on businessmen from the bottom of his heart.

Listening to the incidents they enumerated, each of them seemed to be calm and calm, and I thought it was something that businessmen would do for granted, but when you think about it carefully, these three are masters who cannibalize people without spit out their bones. .

Because there is no one in this Nanyang plantation, he even tricked his fellow villagers in Shanxi to go to Nanyang, and then circled them up, forcing them to reclaim fields and grow sugar cane and rice.

They can do this kind of thing and use themselves as slaves from Shanxi.

Zhou Jing knew from the newspaper that as long as someone is willing to immigrate to Nanyang, the Nanyang province will directly allocate tens of acres of fertile land. With his hard work, he can easily have hundreds of acres of fertile land.

Instead, they directly used people as slaves. You can imagine what happened to these people. They originally went to Nanyang with beautiful dreams, but they suddenly entered hell on earth.

"Also, and recently we created a real estate in the capital. After we sold the real estate, we just took the money and left, and it was unfinished~"

Huang Liwen looked at Zhou Jing with a stern face, thought for a while, and then faltered and explained the recent matter of relying on real estate to make money.

"You guys~"

"This is all retribution~ It's all the evil you did yourself, and now you're just reaping the consequences~"

"Let's go, I can't help you with your affairs."

Hearing Huang Liwen's words, Zhou Jing couldn't help closing his eyes immediately.

When he was just reading the newspaper, he happened to see the unfinished report of Shuxiang Yayuan in Xicheng District. The newspaper wrote many miserable scenes of the people who bought this house.

The family worked so hard to save money to buy a house, but the house was unfinished, and they owed a whole lot of debt to the bank, and even cried dry.

Just now he felt extremely angry, and wanted to know who did such a thing, but when he turned his head, the person who did it appeared in his house and wanted to help them himself.

"Duke Zhou~"

"Mr. Zhou, you must help us. If you don't help us, we will really be doomed. We will all be doomed in the future~"

When Fan Hanshi heard this, he immediately shouted anxiously, and made a look at Wang Wentian. The other party immediately took out a stack of silver notes from his pocket, a total of fifty thousand taels of silver, one hundred and one pieces of Ming Dynasty First bank notes.

"Duke Zhou, this is our kindness. Please help us, help us find out who is targeting us, and beg for mercy. Everything else is easy to talk about."

Wang Wentian also said in pain that if Zhou Jing didn't help out, he would be dead this time, and he would definitely die without a whole body.

　No business, no rape~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)