Fleeing the wasteland and farming: don't panic, the family's metaphysics boss

Chapter 293 Something went wrong

The morning dew is hazy, and as the sky gets brighter, the fog gradually dissipates. The golden light of the morning sun sprinkles on the pavement that gets up early, and the steaming boiler makes the morning cooler. Taking a breath, it seems Even the heart and lungs are a little colder.

However, such a quiet morning was soon broken by various voices.

Guli Street, Tongjia Yinzhuang, although it has just opened, it is still very busy. The Yinzhuang is full of people and noisy.

The shopkeeper took a few banknotes from a customer, counted them, his brows furrowed, and there were tens of thousands of taels of silver again.

Only this morning, in less than a quarter of an hour, tens of thousands of taels went out.But this is not all. In fact, since the beginning of the month, there have been a lot more people who come to exchange silver with bank notes, especially recently.

The customer waiting for the money in front of the cabinet urged: "Shopkeeper, hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

The shopkeeper quickly regained his senses, checked the authenticity and the amount of the bank note, and handed it to another person behind him.The man walked into the inner treasury with the bank notes, and not long after, a group of strong men came out from the side door carrying more than ten boxes of silver.

The guests who took out the silver ran out of Yinzhuang quickly and called their carriages.

There are tens of thousands of taels of silver, and more than ten boxes weigh seven to eight hundred catties. It took three carriages to load them all.

The silver taker sat in one of the carriages, and several people dressed as escorts carried big knives and sat in three carriages, and then the carriage team drove away.

The guy in charge of counting the silver stopped and looked at it for a while, and then returned to Yinzhuang with the strong men who carried the silver, and was ready to take the silver for the next customer.

Tongjia Yinzhuang spent the whole morning in such repetition.As for the shopkeeper, after a long time of deliberation, he finally made up his mind to close the door early, and then hurried to the Tong's house.

Tong Yaowen, the Patriarch of the Tong family, happened to not be out today, so it was quite strange to hear that the shopkeeper of his own Yinzhuang came to see him.

Everything in the shop is reported at the beginning of the month, if it is not an urgent matter, why would the shopkeeper come to see him suddenly, so he went to see him immediately without delay.

The shopkeeper obviously came in a hurry, even though it was a cold moon, his forehead was dripping with sweat.Seeing this, Tong Yaowen didn't have time to exchange pleasantries, and asked directly: "What happened to Yinzhuang?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly took out the account book, a little anxious: "Boss, I feel that something is going to happen to Yinzhuang."

Tong Yaowen frowned, and while flipping through October's accounts, he said, "Tell me in detail."

Only then did the shopkeeper recall: "Since October, there have been many people in Yinzhuang to withdraw large amounts of silver with bank notes, all of which are more than 1 taels.

I didn't care at first, but recently, more and more people came to withdraw silver, and they were all ranging from a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels.Especially this morning, in just one morning, Yinzhuang was withdrawn 7 taels of silver.

I felt bad, so I closed Yinzhuang at noon on the grounds that I had something to do at home. "

After reading the accounts, Tong Yaowen frowned deeper, "It's only been half a month, and you paid out 40 taels?" Turning to the receipt part, he was even more shocked, "It's only less than 10 taels in the warehouse. ?”

The shopkeeper's forehead was covered with cold sweat, "I also sensed something was wrong, so I hurried over to respond to you.

There is no problem with the accounts, and the banknotes are all real. Now I don't know what the problem is, and why there are so many people who exchange silver all of a sudden. "

Tong Yaowen frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "They use bank notes to exchange money, not bank note stubs?"

The shopkeeper hummed, "I've checked, and none of them are depositors in Yinzhuang. But the bank notes are indeed real."

There are banknotes but no stubs, which shows that the banknotes were obtained through other means.Tong Yaowen thought of all kinds of business in his family, and then he was startled, and quickly called "Come on".

Soon a family servant walked in quickly, "Master."

Tong Yaowen pointed at the servants, "Hurry up and notify the shopkeepers of the pawnshops and ask them to bring the account books quickly."

The domestic servant quickly responded yes, and hurriedly retreated to arrange people.

The shopkeeper was reminded, and he suddenly clapped his hands: "Yes, it must be a pawn shop." He also secretly thought, no wonder the business of the pawn shop soared when the report was made at the beginning of the month.It was here that something went wrong.

There were more than [-] pawnshops in the Tong family, and it was already an hour later when the servants delivered the news and the shopkeepers arrived one after another.

Tong Yaowen did not explain much, but directly asked the pawnshops to report the situation from the beginning of October to the present.

The shopkeepers of the pawnshops looked puzzled, but they still reported next to each other.And after they finished their respective reports, everyone heard the problem.

The shopkeepers of the pawnshop were very puzzled, and those sitting next to each other started discussing in low voices.

"Why is your business so good? I thought it was only my family."

"I didn't expect that I encountered a lot of big orders this month, all of which were pawns worth tens of thousands of taels."

"Me too. I have land deeds here, starting from [-] to [-] mu."

"Huh? Why are you also a land deed? I am also here."

"Me too"

For a while, the shopkeepers of all the pawnshops were stunned, one or two were fine, but everyone was in the same situation, which was obviously a big problem.

Everyone looked at Tong Yaowen in horror.

Tong Yaowen frowned even more. He went through the account books of various pawnshops side by side, and found that there were nearly 200 million taels in total.

In other words, in just half a month, there were 200 million taels more Tongjia bank notes on the market.And once these banknotes are exchanged for silver, the Tongjia Yinzhuang will directly face the risk of collapse.

The shopkeeper of Yinzhuang also turned pale with anxiety, "Boss, I think we are being targeted by someone. It is obvious that someone has set us up."

The shopkeepers of the pawn shop were afraid to speak, some of them were more or less puzzled.But because they only need to manage their own pawn shop, they are just a little confused. After all, everyone wants to make more income from the shop they run.

And from a single point of view, there is actually no big problem. What is really problematic is that this is the case with more than two dozen pawnshops. 200 million taels, which has exceeded the turnover of Tongjia Yinzhuang.

Tong Yaowen recalled carefully, trying to remember where and who he had offended, but after much deliberation, he couldn't figure it out. In the end, he could only ask Yinzhuang and the shopkeeper of the pawnshop.

"Have you offended any noble person recently?"

The twenty or so people in the hall shook their heads. Peace is the most important thing in the business world. They are all old shopkeepers. Naturally, it is impossible for them to make such a mistake. If the other party is really a noble person, they would rather suffer a little loss than offend them.

Tong Yaowen was startled now.

If it was really only 200 million taels of silver bills, it would not be a big problem, but right now, it was obvious that the Tong family had fallen into the trap, and the 200 million taels of silver bills would definitely be exchanged for cash by the scammer.

If that person really cashed in all the 200 million taels of banknotes in one go, it would only be a matter of time before Tongjia Yinzhuang collapsed.

(End of this chapter)