In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the eleventh day of the first month, Donghua Gate.
It was dark and not dark, and when I looked up, there were lights everywhere, men and women, and lanterns like a sea, stretching endlessly.
Zhu Xu carried a small red lantern in his hand and walked in the crowd with an excited face.
He was followed by Cao Huachun and Cao Wenzhao, and the two of them were also carrying a lantern in their hands, looking left and right with curiosity.
Shangyuan Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, at this time, regardless of wealth, there is no high or low, everyone is almost the same costume, men can wear rich and noble, women wear white shirts, compare lanterns with each other, buy all kinds of strange small objects, laughter, firecrackers rumble.
Cao Huachun was behind Zhu Xu and said with a smile, "Your Highness, this is the first time that a slave or maid has wandered around like this on the Shangyuan Festival. ” Zhu Xu nodded with a smile, the three of them were the first time to be so leisurely and seriously strolling around the Shangyuan Festival.
On both sides of the street, flower boats, restaurants, and tea shops are lively everywhere, noisy and boiling, and pedestrians are like flowing water.
Zhu Xu carried the lantern and walked around in a novel way, and the fireworks and lights were everywhere, lingering at will, which made him extremely happy.
At the same time, on the other side of the street, Yang Huaizhong, who hurriedly returned from the south, did not feel the ease and happiness of the Shangyuan Festival at all, and walked into a restaurant quickly.
As soon as Yang Huaizhong walked up to the second floor, a small man looked like a man greeted him and said, "Shopkeeper Yang, please, Shopkeeper Fan has been waiting for a long time." ” Yang Huaizhong frowned, nodded with a condensed face, and followed the little servant into a private room.
"Fan Da shopkeeper."
Yang Huaizhong raised his hand when he entered the door, and saw that there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy on the side, and hurriedly said, "The little shopkeeper is also there." ” There were two people sitting in the room, one was a middle-aged man, Weifu, with ordinary facial features, the kind of person who would never be noticed if he was thrown in the crowd.
But the young man next to him, with a dark complexion and bright eyes, looked like a delicate man with a sharp mind.
The middle-aged man picked up the teapot and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper Yang, please take a seat." ” Yang Huaizhong looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, hesitated, and sat down opposite him.
Yang Huaizhong symbolically picked up the teacup and dipped it on his lower lip, and said without waiting to ask, "Shopkeeper Fan, except for the business at sea, we have lost all other businesses, and the loss is very strong." ” Fan's shopkeeper's name is Fan Jinxiong, listening to Yang Huaizhong's words, his expression remained unchanged, and he said: "Well, I have counted this with several other families before I came, and I lost a piece of Caoyun, plus Zhang and Jiakou have also changed the sky, and the two most profitable ends are losing money, and this year we have only lost one million taels in Shanyou." ” Yang Huaizhong looked at Fan Jinxiong's face, and hesitated a little and said tentatively, "Shopkeeper Fan, what do those families mean?"
” Fan Jinxiong looked at Yang Huaizhong's expression, smiled, and said, "Don't worry about Shopkeeper Yang, we have cooperated for so many years, and we can trust your ability."
Our defeat was only affected by the changes in the court, and no one blames you. ” Yang Huaizhong breathed a sigh of relief, Jin Shang has always liked to hold groups, his Yang family is not big, his role in it, he is a broker if he sounds good, and he is an errand if he doesn't sound good.
If he wasn't trusted by these big treasurers, he would have nothing.
Fan Jinxiong glanced at the young man beside him and said, "Yongdou, you tell Shopkeeper Yang about the trouble we are in now." ” When Yang Huaizhong heard this, he hurriedly looked up at the young man on the left.
Fan Yongdou showed a smile on his dark face, looking very pleasing and easy to get close to, and said deliberately slowly: "Shopkeeper Yang, first of all, Cao Yun, the grain, private salt, tea, and cloth needed by the Jin people have not been transported from the south.
We used a lot of methods, but Caoyun was full of checkpoints, and it was difficult to completely clear it.
Not to mention the fire consumption on the conversion 6, it is a headache to talk about time and safety alone.
The Jin people are already very dissatisfied, saying that we are not trustworthy, and many of the businesses that were handed over to us have also been changed, and this alone has caused a total loss of more than eight million taels for several of us!
In addition, it is Zhang and Jiakou, now the imperial court is extremely strict, Jinyiwei haunts from time to time, the Feng family on the right side of the mountain has been raided, and many people dare not touch it again, this piece, we have lost more ......"
Yang Huaizhong had heard it before, but he didn't know that the Feng family had been raided, and his face sank.
The Feng family is much older than the Yang family, and they have been in business since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the sum of each branch is only more than three million taels!
Jin merchants, whether it is Caoyun, or Zhang, Jiakou are all unseemly, or rebellious business, once it is verified, it is normal to raid the family and exterminate the clan.
But because of this, the profits are so lucrative that they can't stop.
Yang Huaizhong was silent for a long time, then looked up at Fan Jinxiong and said, "Fan is the big shopkeeper, then, how did all the big shopkeepers decide?"
” Fan Jinxiong glanced at Fan Yongdou, and said thoughtfully, "We have already checked, whether it is Caoyun or Zhang and Jiakou, now they are all under the jurisdiction of the household department, and we have also inquired about the few chambers of commerce you mentioned before, and it is said that it is the household servant, Fu Tao." ” Because of the recent changes in the court, which has had a great impact on them, Yang Huaizhong naturally does not know who the household servant is.
Hubu Shilang, King Hui, Queen, such a company, Yang Huaizhong suddenly realized, looked at Fan Jinxiong and said: "I once heard rumors that the Huimin Chamber of Commerce has Zhang Guogong's share, but now it seems that it is only true!"
” Fan Yongdou said: "It should be true, but this Fu Gongzi seems to want to eat alone." ” Yang Huaizhong remembered the scene when he went to Zhou Jianyu to talk about Cao Yun, his brows condensed, and he was silent.
This Fu Gongzi has a deep background, and the business he does is unique, and it is difficult for outsiders to get in, unlike them, who do all the business of killing heads.
Fan Jinxiong looked at Yang Huaizhong, his eyes were calm, and an irresistible momentum appeared, and he said in a deep voice, "Caoyun must be opened, and Zhang and Jiakou must also be straightened out, no matter how much it costs!"
” Yang Huaizhong looked startled and said, "Shopkeeper Fan, that Fu Gongzi, I'm afraid that he is not a good talker, and besides, he may not like to participate in our business." ” Fan Jinxiong nodded indifferently and said: "No matter what, we have to try, if we continue like this, in addition to the business in the southeast, there is no way to do the business in the north and Tatar, we can't afford to lose, and we can't lose it!"
” Yang Huaizhong understood that this was not Fan Jinxiong's meaning, but the idea of most Jin merchants.
Jin Shang is a very united group, and the business is also very similar, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, most of them are related to the border pass, which is the root of life, and it must not be broken!
He thought about it, stood up and said in a deep voice, "Okay, then I'll go to the Fu Mansion tomorrow to visit and see Fu Gongzi." ” Fan Jinxiong thought for a while, and said to Yang Huaizhong, "You go and test it first, as long as you can make him raise his noble hand, you can open it at will for less than five million taels." ” This is the silver smashed by Chiguoguo.
Yang Huaizhong's face changed again, although the Jin merchants were huge and had rich family resources, it was not casual to take out five million taels at once, and this should also be everyone's outcome.
This means that they are really in big trouble.