Lu Ming

Chapter 395

In the black box opened by Xu Jin, there was a stack of yellow deed papers.

Du Yaren, who was confused, looked up at Xu Jin, and with the encouragement of the other party smiling and nodding, he picked up the contracts and checked them one by one.

The deed is of course no problem.Du Yaren took a glance and knew that these were all serious red deeds that had been taxed in the yamen.

However, there is a problem with the content of the contract.Du Yaren is a gold-medal professional real estate agent. The location of every piece of land in Jiading and the surrounding areas is in his mind, so when he read these deeds, a "C" shape suddenly appeared in his mind.

If Lao Du was traveling through the crowd, then he would definitely shout at this time: "The first island chain!"

Yes, if the various farms, mulberry gardens, fish ponds, and cotton fields mentioned in these contracts are connected intermittently, they will just surround Xiongdao's Shanghai Port.

Having seen countless treacherous Du Yaren in his life, he already had a faint bad feeling at this moment.

Seeing Du Yaren's puzzled eyes, Master Xu Jin smiled first, then he snuffed out the cigarette butt in a glass ashtray, crossed his fingers, and put it on his lower abdomen, and then said to Du Yaren: " Since a Zhuangzi can be exchanged for a crystal mirror, how much can I exchange for so many pieces of land, Mr. Xiong?"

Dense beads of sweat oozed from Du Yaren's forehead, and a chill rose from his heart - he was aware of the other party's deliberate plans at the first moment, and then he felt strong malice.

"Speaking of these lands, they are not all owned by my Xu family." Xu Jin was still smiling at this time, but there was some inexplicable taste in the smile: "There are still some family properties of close friends here. Old Du , To tell you the truth, everyone gathered together to come out and planned to have a talk with Master Xiong and make friends."

Du Yaren's heart is clear at this moment.He understood the main point of Xu Jin's words: this was a conspiracy by some people of the same rank as Xu's family, and these people quietly gathered the land around the pier, and they wanted to use it to control Master Xiong.

Thinking back to the hardships that Mr. Xiong had when he took over the land, and then looking at the stack of land deeds thrown in front of him with ease by the Xu family, Du Yaren immediately felt the great strength brought by Xu Jinshen, and the transformation from it. heavy pressure.

So he asked a little dryly: "I don't know what Master Xu intends to do?"

"It's easy to say." Xu Jin stopped laughing at this time, and her long face turned cold: "The Xu family took these shares into Mr. Xiong's private port. From now on, every time a shipment of southern goods arrives, the Xu family will take half of their own money." Sell. In addition, the Xu family will also hold half of the shares in those warehouses, wine shops and workshops."

After Xu Jin finished speaking, she returned to her calm look: "Speaking of which, your master still took advantage of it. The land on these deeds is much larger than that private port."

Seeing Du Yaren's face turn blue and white, Xu Jin said to him gently: "Old Du, this is a good thing. If your master wants to do business in Huahua Jiangnan, there must be someone to escort him behind the scenes, right? Half of the shares is not too much. Go back and tell your master, as for me, I will spend the winter in this house this year, and Master Xiong can come over and give me advice at any time."

Having said this, Xu Jin reached out to pick up the tea bowl, but didn't drink it; however, no matter what he thought in his heart, the knowledgeable Du Yaren must stand up and say goodbye on the spot.

Looking at the back of Du Yaren going away, Xu Jin put down the tea bowl with a sneer.

Right now is the year of Chongzhen, almost a sixty years have passed since the year of Jiajing when Xu Jie was the first assistant, and he was so intoxicating.

During this period of time, the descendants of the Xu family, although there have always been some people who have become officials and kept the family intact, but after all, there has never been a giant like Xu Jie, so the family business must have shrunk significantly compared to the past.

Of course, this so-called "shrinkage" depends on who you compare with.Compared with the hundreds of thousands of acres of land that shocked the world when Xu Jie was alive, it must be far behind; but compared with normal gentry families, the Xu family is still the top family in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

So when Xiong Dao and his private port became famous in the past six months, he ran to the Xu family to find out the details, and turned around to find out the reason why Du Yaren came to post the post.

This time the Xu family began to take care of Xiong Dao for more than half a year since he thought that the flag had died down, and felt wronged by it, but the Xu family and the other gentry who saw the fat were not idle.

Therefore, Xiong Dao, a dick from later generations, is still a little confused about the mentality of the top people-before he thought of win-win cooperation, but a real meat eater thought of how to kill pigs and sheep.

People who are used to predators, in this barbaric 17th century, how could they talk about cooperation with you, a shitty spokesperson from outside?Brother, when and what month did you win the list of emperors?How many people are on the list?

The half-and-half plan proposed by Xu Jin today is no different from robbery. In ancient times, there was a name called "contribution", and in later generations it was called protection fee.

Probably the only fig leaf is the title deeds.

This is actually a display of power and a threat: the Xu family's old handicraft of seizing the land is still there, and it was useless before. It was because the family was gradually declining and they did not dare to arouse public anger on a large scale.But now with the support of other gentry, Xu Jin has easily settled the pile of land deeds in the past six months, and it is still silent.

This is power, and this is a naked threat: the title deed is just a slap in the face, if you don't accept it, there are still many ways to go.

Walking out of Xu's house, looking up at the glaring sun at noon, even though Du Yaren was used to all kinds of plundering, he couldn't help but feel helpless at Xu Jin's lion opening his mouth.

Fortunately, Du Ya was just a messenger from the beginning to the end, and the land deed matter had little to do with him, at most it was just a small commission.

So while Du Yaren sighed, he took his servant back the same way, boarded the ferry at the east gate of the county seat, and returned to his command across the river.

There was no need for Du Yaren to rush back to the port thirty miles to the north to return, because there was someone waiting for him at Yangjiadu.

Even in later generations, Yangjiadu, a transportation hub facing Shanghai's Dadongmen, still has customs and ferries. In addition, the Jiangdi Tunnel passes through here.

After Du Yaren got off the boat at Yangjiadu, he joined the two people who were waiting there.One of the two, the younger Du Yaren, was very familiar with them. We had worked together before. The young man was named Liu Qingyun.

After the two parties met, they came to an inn at the ferry.In the upper room of the inn, Du Yaren narrated the content of his conversation in Xu's house in detail.

Then, under Liu Qingyun's repeated questioning, Du Yaren later expressed some of his views and judgments on this matter.

During this period, Duya was talking dry and drinking water, but he never noticed a blue handkerchief on the table.

After the two parties finished talking, the young man Liu Qingyun offered a silver coin as a reward to Du Yaren, and then sent someone to send Lao Du out of the inn.

As Lao Du went out, Liu Wang, whose alias was Liu Qingyun, lifted the towel, picked up a small Sony tape recorder, and handed it to the subordinates beside him: "Hurry up and send it back to the master to listen to."

"Yes!"

After that, Liu Wang went out again and turned into the side room of the small courtyard. As soon as he entered, he said, "Send the report, I have important information."

The telegram quickly spread to the Port Authority building dozens of miles away.

Naturally, it is impossible to go into great detail with the telegram, but even so, the content of the telegram is enough for Xiong Dao to understand what just happened in Xu's residence.

"Okay, okay, people hurt tigers, and tigers hurt people's hearts. I'm here to lure tigers out of their holes." Sitting in the office on the second floor of the Port Authority, Xiong Dao read the telegram before sneering: "No I thought, I didn't expect, these masters actually took over the surrounding land without humming, good skills, good skills, it's really a shame not to work in the demolition company."

After the emotion was over, Xiong Dao's face darkened, and he said to several subordinates standing in the office: "In this case, let's start it, follow the plan, and grasp the rhythm."

"Yes!"

In the afternoon of the same day, the commercial area outside the port first ushered in a wave of climax: the Port Authority released a large amount of inventory, and businessmen from all walks of life flocked to it immediately.

Some of these goods have a general agent in the local area. After the manifest is released, the general agent will be stationed in the shopkeeper in the commercial area. You only need to pay the payment for the goods before you can go to the warehouse area to pick up the goods.

Other goods that have not yet negotiated with the agent have started a public auction.

This time is the carnival of small and medium businessmen.These dick merchants, who are not qualified to represent certain kinds of goods at all, have started to form temporary groups at this moment, shouting quotations on the released goods with red eyes, and fiercely competed with the big merchants.

At the same time as the singing and selling started, the men of those big agents had already proficiently pulled the cash boxes full of gold and silver to the Port Authority to settle the bill.The scene at this time was very spectacular: the front of the second floor of the Port Authority was full of silver boxes brought by various households, a real version of Jinshan Yinhai.

Today, however, the mountain of silver piled up in front of the building is extraordinarily large - all the stocks in the warehouse have been taken out, none of them are kept, and all are sold.

In the evening, the hustle and bustle finally calmed down.In one afternoon, the merchants swept away all the released goods through carriages and boats.At this moment, the commercial area was finally empty, and a large number of merchants and guards left with their goods.

And the empty warehouse area also gave the guards convenience: in the future, they can reduce the manpower used for patrolling.Of course, the reduction in manpower does not mean that everyone has nothing to do - although there is no need to guard against thieves who set fire to an empty warehouse tonight, but everyone can still go to someone else's house to set fire, right?
So, in the middle of the night that day, a raging fire ignited in Xujia Zhuangzi, which is located on the north side of the port.

Then these mulberry orchards were poured with expensive "kerosene" in the middle of the night and burned down.At night, the flames were so bright that anyone twenty miles away could see them.

(End of this chapter)