I'm really not doing business

Chapter 519: Emperor's Escape: Orthogonal Killing Technique

There was a butcher who was carrying a load of meat home, which was enough for the whole village for three days. He was humming a tune and walking when he suddenly saw two wolves behind him.

The two wolves obviously smelled the smell of meat and took a fancy to the meat on the meat load. Their eyes looked fierce, and the butcher was very scared. Both of them looked extremely ferocious.

As the butcher kept walking, the two wolves followed him very far.

When the butcher was scared, he suddenly had an idea and looked at the load. There were a few bones with no meat on it. He was going back to make bone soup, so he threw the remaining bones out. A wolf started to lower its head and gnaw at the bones. , but there was another wolf still following the butcher, so the butcher had no choice but to throw away the remaining bones. As a result, the wolf caught up with him again.

The butcher kept complaining, but after a while, all the remaining bones had been thrown away. The two wolves moved forward together, chasing the butcher, waiting for an opportunity.

The butcher knew that the two wolves wanted the meat from the burden, which was enough for the whole village for three days. The butcher had no choice but to show his butcher knife and show off his power in order to scare away the two wolves. The two wolves were naturally afraid of the butcher. Although he had a knife in his hand, as long as the butcher moved, the two wolves would still follow him.

When they came to a wheat field, the butcher put down his burden and confronted the wolves with his knife. The two sides stared at each other for a long time. The two wolves suddenly began to attack, but the butcher's knife slaughtered countless animals. They dodged. At this moment, in the flash of the sword, a wolf was stabbed, and then the knife slit the wolf's throat. Seeing that the wolf would not survive, the butcher chased the other wolf.

As a result, the wolf was hiding in the wheat pile, with his butt exposed and shivering. The butcher drew his knife and killed the other wolf.

Returning to the load, the butcher found that there was another wolf coveting the meat on the load. He was planning to steal the meat while the butcher was away. The red-eyed butcher didn't like the wolf at all and killed it.

After returning to the village, the butcher did not waste the meat of the three wolves. As the saying goes, if the dog meat rolls three times, the gods will not be able to stand still. There is no difference between dogs and wolves, and the taste is extremely delicious.

Wang Qian is the butcher in this story, and the ticket of Yanxinglou Trading Company on Suiyuanchidao is the knife. The long-term profit of Suiyuanchidao is the meat on the meat load. It can be said that this is the whole village. The hope of mankind and the entire Ming Dynasty rested on the development of minerals and the promotion of industrial scale, systematization and standardized production. The three wolves were three private trade fairs with extremely high thresholds, that is, bookmakers.

The two sides started an invisible fight around Suiyuan Chi Road at Yanxinglou Trading House. This fight started seven days ago.

Wang Qian first saw a few funds flowing in from different directions. Wang Qian didn't pay attention. People came and went in the trading house every day. There were too many people and too much money flowing here. But Wang Qian soon noticed these funds. They all went to Suiyuan Chi Road, which was very unusual.

When the emperor went on a tour, Wang Qian didn't intend to do anything too extreme. He even threw away a few leftover bones. Wang Qian sold some Suiyuan Chidao tickets in his hand to stabilize the price. As long as they didn't do too much, Wang Qian would not do anything to them. The emperor was out on patrol, putting stability first, and wanted to eat meat. The Suiyuan Chi Road had not been repaired, and the meat had not yet reached the village.

Things changed. The day before Zhu Yijun's tour, after the Ming Emperor confirmed his trip, Suiyuan Chidao's tickets began to fluctuate on a large scale. These funds began to purchase a large amount of Suiyuan Chidao's tickets, and the price began to soar. , the sickle for cutting leeks has begun to wave!
Suiyuan Chidao Ticket is easy to make a game because of the small amount. I subscribed for three tranches in total and only had 3 million silver. The small amount and small transaction volume means the moat is shallow, and the expected return is unclear. This is a lack of confidence. Chidao The prospect of drawing bureaus is still unclear, and the policy fluctuates greatly. The policy of drawing bureaus in Wulongchidao of the Ming Dynasty is also constantly being adjusted, which means that the fluctuations are large.

The scale of ship tickets is extremely large. If you want to interfere with the price of ship tickets, even His Majesty the Emperor has to do his best. Moreover, the price of ship tickets is actually affected by the profits of maritime trade. The chief merchants of the five major ocean-going trading houses also have officers in Beijing to keep an eye on it. Now, as long as the profits of sea trade are still huge, it will be very difficult to make a fuss about ship tickets.

The trading volume of Suiyuan Mining is almost zero, because the income from mining is very stable. Womagang, Shengzhou, and Alkali Lake are all available. They are the kind of good things that are not circulated. The holders are almost Shanxi merchants and Chuchuan. Merchants and Zhejiang merchants, these are all merchants who take shelter in the three major halls, and they also want stable and long-term dividends.

The day before Zhu Yijun left, that is, on the 13th, large sums of money began to rapidly increase Suiyuan Mining. On the 14th, which was the day the emperor left, Wang Qian found Cui Min, the eunuch who was responsible for the internal money. Wang Qiande Looking for a knife, he had too few tickets for Suiyuan Chidao in his hand.

The fierce fighting began. Internal funds, national funds, and Suiyuan Chidao tickets in the hands of Shanxi merchants were all concentrated in Wang Qian's hands. At first, Wang Qian followed several bookmakers to raise prices, but Wang Qian suddenly sold a large amount of money. Suiyuan Chidao's ticket sales were so large that they directly triggered panic and stampede. The price rose to eight silver dollars per ticket and plummeted to five silver dollars per ticket in just an instant.

These bookmakers were dizzy due to the selling. For an entire hour, Suiyuan Chidao's tickets went down all the way.

A rumor spread among the whispers at Yanxinglou Trading House that there was a problem with the construction of Suiyuan Chi Road, and that the Ming Emperor's internal funds were about to escape!
This rumor is very reasonable, because the Ming Emperor did run away to Tianjin to watch the ships. At this time, whatever happened to the Capital Trading House was not the emperor's original intention. This rumor was so reasonable that it caused even greater panic.

Panic, panic, panic!

The stampede began, and the dealers thought they were being plotted, whether by the emperor or by their peers. The plummeting price immediately turned the weak trust between the dealers into mutual hatred.

Wang Qian knows these bankers very well. Each of these bankers is calculating each other and calculating their own gains and losses. Moreover, in a speculative mentality, emotions will be infinitely amplified by the rise and fall of prices!

At this moment, everyone is a group of gamblers. No matter how many under-the-table agreements have been reached, under this terrible panic, after trust has completely turned into hatred, it is absolutely impossible to form a joint force.

In the gap between the evil of human nature, there are too many intrigues and intrigues, and it is full of uncertainty. Only His Majesty's certainty is Wang Qian's greatest reliance.

In the afternoon, when Suiyuan Chidao's tickets plummeted to three silver prices per ticket, Wang Qian was convinced that the dealers had lost everything and started buying at low prices, and then a new story emerged.

The improvement and miniaturization process of the sixteen-horsepower iron horse, the ticket price of Suiyuan Chidao is highly related to the development of steam engines. With the emergence of good news about the sixteen-horsepower iron horse and the injection of large amounts of funds, the ticket price of Suiyuan Chidao has finally Restored to five silvers per card.

Zhu Yijun felt that Wang Qian told the story well, so everyone paid for the story. However, Wang Qian felt that it was the research and development of the Royal Academy of Geology that led to this story. He, Wang Qian, a storyteller, just knows how to tell stories. In fact, without the small-scale mass production and miniaturization of the 16-horsepower iron horse, what would Wang Qian do?

The biggest certainty in this trading industry is the improvement of productivity.

The dealer pulled up Suiyuan Chidao, preparing to wield the sickle to cut a big wave. However, he bought at a high position and sold at a low position, and was severely harvested by Wang Qian.

So far, it has only succeeded in protecting the market, but has not killed those wolves who covet the meat.

On the 13th, Wang Qian not only found Cui Min, the eunuch who was responsible for the money, but also found the source of these funds, and secretly ambushed these bankers.

There are many money banks in the capital. If you want to manipulate the bills, you need a lot of money. Wang Qian found a few money banks and gave these bankers a severe leverage.

Bankers have actually been looking for banks with low interest rates, but the interest rates of the banks are very high. The interest rates of the banks Wang Qian found are very low, but they require collateral, and the collateral must be mortgaged at the bank at a 50% discount. inside.

Since you want low interest rates, you have to pay something.

This is Wang Qian's directional blasting. There is no doubt that the sudden appearance of low-interest money is a trap specially laid by Wang Qian.

If the bookmakers had a little respect, didn't cause trouble when the emperor was on tour, or weren't so greedy, and had a little bit of food when Wang Qian was seeking stability, or didn't borrow the money, they wouldn't have died so ugly.

But the dealers' behavior was too ugly, so Wang Qian targeted these dealers.

This time someone jumped into the Yongding River and lost everything overnight. Even the ancestral property was mortgaged to the bank for borrowing money. The usually aloof bankers borrowed money everywhere to redeem the ancestral property, but no one lent it to them.

"Wang Qian said in the memorial that if the time they choose is not now, Wang Qian will not kill them all." Zhu Yijun took Wang Qian's memorial and said with emotion.

Wang Qian's belief in authority is exactly the same as Wang Chonggu's belief in authority. Wang Qian does not want anything to happen. This time His Majesty went out for two days. It was a rare way to relax. Due to the temporary schedule, another day was added. King Zhu Yiliu of Lu said The emperor is like a donkey in the mill, and Wang Qian sees His Majesty's diligence. His Majesty finally goes out to relax, and if he insists on causing trouble and causing trouble for His Majesty at this time, then it is no wonder that Wang Qian is ruthless.

"Your Majesty, I don't understand what they want to do." Feng Bao asked with some confusion: "If it is for profit, buy at low price and sell at high price, if it is for tickets, when the price is low, you should Buy in bulk.”

"I don't understand the purpose of the bookmakers. If you are speculating and you don't have any determination, why do you want to enter the market?"

"Concentration?" Zhu Yijun smiled. It was really clear to all observers. He could stand and talk without pain in his back.

Feng Bao was confused by the dealers. Feng Bao understood the whole process, but he still could not fully understand the dealers' behavior.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "The original plan of the bookmakers was to buy at a low price, sell at a high price, harvest at a smashing price, and then buy at a low price. Several private trading meetings must have signed an agreement under the table to complete this move, and then This small-scale Suiyuan Chidao is completely in our hands. In fact, the bookmakers, like Wang Qian, are optimistic about Suiyuan Chidao in the long term. "

"In the whole process, as long as one person cannot hold up the selling, that is the moment the agreement under the table fails, and the trust between the bookmakers is broken. If this trust is not broken, in fact, the bookmakers are completely capable of fighting. ”

"During the stampede, they buy in large quantities to stabilize the price, and their purpose is achieved. They buy low and sell high. During the stampede, it is a pity that there is no rationality and determination. If they choose to sell at that time, it will cause a chain of selling. This completely slipped into the scene they least wanted to see.”

Throughout the whole process, Wang Qian took advantage of human nature. He knew very well when the bankers' panic and trust would collapse.

Feng Bao said with emotion: "The Master said that people cannot stand without faith, things cannot be accomplished without faith, businesses cannot prosper without faith, and countries will decline without faith. If so."

"In fact, absolute trust does not exist in the trading house." Zhu Yijun leaned back in his chair. He trusted Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang with absolute trust, and this trust was based on the goal of Ming Dynasty becoming great again. At the beginning, Qin Xiaogong trusted Shang Yang. Only by traveling on the great road can he have absolute trust.

In the chasm between human nature and evil, trust is still too extravagant.

"How much did you earn this time?" Feng Bao asked curiously.

"This number." Zhu Yijun stretched out four fingers and said.

Feng Bao asked tentatively: "Four hundred thousand silver?" When it was time to cooperate with the performance, Feng Bao would not turn a blind eye. Is it worth Wang Qian's personal action to earn 400,000 silver?

"Four million silver." Zhu Yijun clapped the memorandum in his hand and said, "These are three private trade fairs. The decades of accumulation of more than seventy powerful right-wingers, rural sages and gentry have all been destroyed in one day."

The trading house ransacked homes faster than the Tiqi people. In less than five days, all the accumulated silver was harvested by Wang Qian.

"The virtuous and wealthy gentry in the countryside who are powerful and powerful are also quite poor. Such a family only costs four million silver." Feng Bao said happily after hearing this.

In fact, there were some backstabbings here. It was this private trade fair that followed Wang Qian in unison and brutally harvested a wave of similar people. I don’t know whether these backstabbing people noticed that things had changed, or whether Wang Qian had arranged for them. People who go in.

"Wang Qian sent six volumes and one account to the Ministry of Accounts for audit. This time he did it with the help of money and receipts from internal funds, so the profit was 50-50 cents from internal funds. Wang Qian took the leftovers that he had thrown away before. Bones, bring them back." Zhu Yijun talked about the division of the matter.

Did Wang Qian really not earn anything? Of course not, Wang Qian made a lot of money!
He first earned the Holy Family. When His Majesty left the capital, he maintained financial stability and guarded the market position of Suiyuan Chidao. This thing is priceless;

Secondly, Wang Qian finished telling the story of the iron horse. The argument that the horsepower and output of the steam engine will double in one and a half to two years has been supported by reality.

There is also generous remuneration. The money with low interest rate is a targeted explosion of the bank led by Wang Qian. Even though Wang Qian is really very honest, as honest as Hai Rui and has no right to seek rent, this 50% discount mortgage All the interest money goes to the banks. Are these banks so ignorant? The Wang family has business, and they just need to make it convenient for each other at certain times. The accounts should be divided accordingly, and Wang Qian will not be short of money.

The bank is still counting on Mr. Wang to carry out several more directional blasts. If the emperor eats meat and they drink soup, it will mean they have been busy for several years.

Zhu Yijun said with lingering fear: "So this trading house, don't touch the middle-class family, it is the best. No wonder sir, you want to raise the threshold, because there are no rules in this place, it's all about the big fish eating the small fish, the small fish Eat shrimps, and shrimps can only be eaten.”

Through Wang Qian's manipulation, Zhu Yijun discovered that the cruelty of the trading house, the absolute freedom of disorder and cannibalism, were vividly reflected here.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was still reluctant to let go of Youlonghao, but no matter how much he liked it, it was time to return to the capital. He said he would play for two days, but it was already on the third day. Zhu Yijun turned around three times and got on the jade chariot and headed towards the capital. This time there was no falling into the water, no fire chasing us, everything was smooth and smooth.

Zhu Yijun thought that he was going to be involved in a rollover accident this time. Even the roll cage was installed. If nothing happened, would he be worthy of the eunuchs taking precautions in the bud? But nothing happened.

When the emperor was still young, Zhang Juzheng told His Majesty that the only people who could threaten the safety of the Ming Emperor were the courtiers and assistant ministers. The others were not qualified and did not have that much energy. Hai Rui thought that the Ming courtiers were all weird, but there were no bad guys. A loyal and upright minister can at least fulfill his duties as long as the direction of the wind does not change.

Zhu Yijun did not relax at all because of this calm situation. Night attacks always occur at dawn, the moment when the dawn is just seen. At this time, people are most likely to relax because of the long darkness.

The calm on the surface means that crises are always brewing under the water.

Not to mention that Wu Zong did not have any strange deaths of his heirs, let’s just say that Emperor Jiajing was chasing after his butt and burning it. He simply had a palace maid assassinate him, and only one of his eight sons was left. However, any Ming emperor who wants to do something must be consistent. If you continue to do it, as long as you relax even a little bit, you will die very miserably.

Zhu Yijun returned to the capital and began to process the memorials. The memorials that had been accumulated for three days were piled up in front of the emperor. Zhu Yijun looked at the mountain-like memorials and said to Feng Bao in disbelief: "I am always so diligent. Do you want to review so many memorials?"

"On weekdays, there are more than this. Wenyuan Pavilion's Tianjin Guards will go with His Majesty, and later Mr. will send me a memorial with floating notes." Feng Bao bowed his head and said.

"As expected of me." Zhu Yijun sat in front of the imperial case, picked up the ink pen and began to review the memorials. Because there were many memorials, Zhu Yijun would usually scold the memorials of a hundred words. After reading them, he crossed them all.

In fact, there is no need to read some memorials at all, because the Secretary of General Affairs first arranged the memorials into categories, and the ministers summarized them. You can completely make a ruthless stamping machine, you don’t even need to look at it, just stamp it directly.

But the diligent Zhu Yijun still read all the memorials one by one, and then recorded the contents on the memo, and finally the in-service official's book screen fully reflected them.

The Official Book Screen was a gift given to the emperor by Zhang Juzheng, which is a visual office. After handling government affairs every day, Zhu Yijun would draw a stroke on the signs of some official officials who always talked nonsense and nonsense. When he finished writing a correct character , Hai Rui’s anti-corruption campaign and officialdom exam success would often eliminate him.

On the entire Zhiguan Book Screen, almost no one could escape the Emperor's Escape: Straight Character Killing Technique. The tallest one could only reach the second straight character. This meant that the error correction mechanism of the Ming Dynasty was operating stably.

Whether the Ming Dynasty officialdom, a huge political machine, is operating stably and smoothly, whether it is internally metabolized, and whether error correction is complete, will all be very intuitively reflected on this official screen.

"What a good thing." Zhu Yijun took the memo, wrote a few strokes, and sighed sincerely. With Zhang Juzheng's assistance, wouldn't it be enough for the Ming Emperor to have the skills? !
Feng Bao looked around and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, in fact, the six government offices, the governors of various places, and the municipal shipping department all have such a book screen in their hands."

"Oh? Did your husband promote it?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

Feng Bao shook his head and said: "That's not true. Sir, I gave it to His Majesty. After the ministers knew how useful it was, they first used it in the Sixth Department, and then it was slowly spread."

"Sir, all these means have been wiped out by them!" Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

The mother of Yu Qiyuan, the magistrate of Gaoyang County, died of illness. Yu Qiyuan petitioned Ding You for his life. The official department had already approved it, but Zhu Yijun decided to seize her love. Yu Qiyuan was in a critical period of his rise. He had just helped Baoding Governor Xin Zixiu to clear out redundant personnel. At this time, Ding You came back to life again. He is still the county magistrate, and whether Xin Zixiu still appreciates his love is another matter.

The favors in Ming Dynasty's officialdom have a shelf life, just like the emperor's holy family. It doesn't mean that you can always rely on your qualifications and holy family to do whatever you want because you have performed meritorious services in the past. Holy family will weaken with the passage of time. Needs constant reinforcement.

Zhu Yijun gave Yu Qiyuan a three-month holiday and asked him to return to his hometown to take care of his family affairs. It was an official delivery post.

Ling Yunyi, the governor of Shandong and Henan, completed the census of Henan and Kaifeng. The situation is basically the same as that of Shandong, Songjiang, Shuntianfu, and Nanya. 80% of the farmers are in extreme poverty, and 98% of the farmers are bankrupt or about to go bankrupt. , and because of the vassal issue in Henan, annexation is also particularly serious.

The same situation occurred in Shanxi and Shaanxi. Judging from the yellow records of Wen Jingtang, the situation was worse than Zhu Yijun imagined.

Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of a person, King Chuang Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was beaten by Sun Chuanting to the point where only seventeen of his cavalry were left to flee. After Sun Chuanting left, the peasant rebel army under Li Zicheng quickly returned to a scale of one million. Li Zicheng lost to Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou. But every time the banner was raised, countless people defected. When Kaifeng was attacked to release grain, millions of people in Henan went to eat.

The civil unrest in Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi in the late Ming Dynasty could not be completely suppressed, nor could it be pacified, because production had been completely destroyed.

Ling Yunyi and Shi Maohua reported that basically all water conservancy projects in Henan and Shaanxi are in disrepair, and the problem of drought is not only a celestial phenomenon, but also a lack of water conservancy projects.

After Li Bing and his son built Dujiangyan, they have been tinkering with it for thousands of years. All dynasties have repaired it so that it can be used continuously. If the water conservancy facilities can last for twenty years without repair, it is a conscientious project.

The engineering corps camp in Henan has grown to the size of 30,000 people, and while these people are building official factories, they are also dredging water conservancy in Henan. Shi Maohua also asked for orders to form an engineering corps camp. The problems in Shaanxi are highly similar to those in Henan.

Zhu Yijun approved two memorials, agreed with Shi Maohua's idea of ​​forming an engineering regiment and battalion, and gave the two governors a reply: According to the favorable conditions of the weather, the earth's veins, and physical properties, the earth's power is limited, but manpower is enough to defeat the sky!
This is what Xu Zhenming said when he taught Zhu Yijun agriculture.

The Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, the Governor of Yunnan, Liu Shizeng, the Commander-in-Chief of Sichuan, Liu Wei, and the Yunnan Governor, Wang Xiyuan, and others reported some progress on the southwest front. The battle situation was completely stable. The enemy tried more than a dozen times but failed to form a He attacked effectively, but was beaten up by Liu Wei.

At this time, the Toungoo chieftains headed by Mang Yingli began to fight among themselves. They were unable to advance, and some of them were beaten by counterattacks. When they were defeated, their morale was severely hit. The worse the morale, the harder it is to deal with the Ming Dynasty's frequent counterattacks. , Liu Wei took a big knife and chopped the chieftains in Taungoo to the point where they fell on their backs and doubted their lives.

The Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, reported that two chieftains were willing to surrender, but the Duke of Guizhou chose to refuse. He refused very resolutely. Mu Changzuo had lost trust and patience in Shengmiao. The previous defeat made Mu Changzuo reflect. In the past, he was so kind to Tusi and Shengmiao that he lost respect for them. Mu Changzuo could not forgive him for daring to lead the way for the enemy in this kind of confrontation between countries.

That Longchuan chieftain Yue Feng and his son Yue Wuwu almost reached Dali, and Mu Changzuo couldn't get rid of this knot in his heart.

Zhu Yijun did not give specific instructions on matters on the front line. He did not know the Yunnan area as well as the local officials, and it would take several months for letters to arrive. Any instructions would be too cold to pass through. In terms of communication distance, Yunnan is further away than Java and Jiugang Xuanweisi.

Regarding the Southwest War, Zhu Yijun approved that when he was about to run out of money and food, he should speak in advance. Compared with the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Luchuan and Taungoo, it was a very cost-effective deal to only pay for food.

Zhu Yijun dealt with the memorial until late at night, then stretched out. The memorial did not stay in the palace overnight, and the Ming Emperor was as diligent as ever.

"Your Majesty, urgent report from Nanyang!" A small yellow doorman ran in in a hurry and handed a copy of the Tang newspaper to Feng Bao. Feng Bao put the Tang newspaper away and turned on the lime blowtorch.

Zhu Yijun opened the Tong newspaper. It came from Zhang Yuanxun, the governor of the old port governor's palace. Zhang Yuanxun launched a surprise attack on Toungoo, but failed because Zhang Yuanxun discovered that the governor's palace of Goa and Toungoo Mang Yingli were involved. Together.

But King Akbar of the Mughal Kingdom made the right choice and joined the Ming Dynasty in attacking the Governor's Palace of Goa. The envoy Akbar sent to Malacca City said that the Mughal Kingdom hated the Red-haired Fans deeply. At the Governor's Mansion, he wanted to help.

Zhang Yuanxun missed a hit, and after returning to rest, he planned to take a short rest before making another plot.

(End of this chapter)