Chapter 819 The tangled nobles [asking for monthly votes]
Xin Mao will prepare for and take the exam together with Shangguan Yi, but the result will be both sad and happy. He was a Jinshi in Shangguanyi High School, but he failed in his reputation. He was really depressed and unhappy.
Nowadays, Shangguan Yi has passed the Jinshi title and was awarded a direct bachelor's degree from Hongwen Hall. He is also valued by His Majesty and serves as the magistrate of Haiyu County. His official career is bright. Thanks to Fang Jun's favor, he was able to serve as the director of a civil science department. At the same time, he worked hard and tried his best to take the scientific examination again three years later.
A few days ago, he and Shangguan Yi went south together. One was proud of the spring breeze and came to Suzhou to take up the post of Haiyu County Magistrate. …
However, Xin Maojiang has a cheerful temperament. Although he and Shangguan Yi are from a poor family, his career is both sad and happy. However, being favored by Fang Jun not only gives him a stage to display his ambitions and talents, but also does not worry about the future of the next few years. The pain of living in embarrassment can also be regarded as good luck.
When Zhou Tang heard this, he was slightly stunned, and subconsciously muttered: "Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, get rid of the dust in your chest, and naturally camp in the hills and valleys..." Naturally, he had never heard these two sentences before. However, it did not prevent him from hearing the incisiveness and depth in it.
The more I thought about it, the more I came to an enlightenment-like realization.
There is a kind of shock of "brilliant words"!
Zhou Tang praised: "Everyone in the world says that the General Manager is a master of poetry that has never been seen in his life. He can pick up good words and phrases at his fingertips. It turns out that the General Manager's insight into world affairs has long been penetrated. He has a clear understanding of the world's human feelings. Naturally, he has a beautiful mind, and he writes like a god." I really admire you.”
Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, get rid of the dust in the chest, and camp in the natural hills and valleys... Such words can not only be said by being able to write two good poems. The meaning of this sentence alone is clear, and it is not much worse than that of sages and sages.
No wonder this person was able to gain the emperor's trust at such a young age, and came to Jiangnan with an extremely tyrannical attitude. After a series of manipulative and horizontal tactics, the Jiangnan nobles had to avoid his limelight and not be aggressive...
It can be called a "hero"!
General Xin Mao also expressed his admiration: "The General Manager's talent and talent are gifted from heaven. He is indeed an unparalleled genius. It is truly a blessing for the younger generation to show off his skills by attaching himself to his tail."
Zhou Tang ordered someone to make tea to entertain him, and the two sat opposite each other, talking and laughing happily.
Although there is a huge age gap, they are both from the Confucian and Mencius school. They have a lot in common with each other and are not embarrassed to talk to each other. Gradually, Zhou Zang discovered that although General Xin Mao was not old, his attainments in the classics and history were profound. Especially, he often had thought-provoking and astonishing words about current affairs. He was indeed a rare talent. At the same time, he secretly wondered. Why did a young man with great knowledge and clear thinking fall into disrepute due to his trustworthiness?
Is it possible that the talents of the Tang Dynasty are now so prosperous that even such people have to be inferior to others?
However, this is obviously someone else's privacy, and it is even more hurtful. Zhou Tang is a well-mannered person, so naturally he will not ask about this unexpectedly.
After talking for a long time, Zhou Tang went straight to the topic and asked: "I wonder what the Chief Xin's orders are when he comes this time?"
Xin Maojiang put down the tea cup in his hand and said seriously: "I didn't give the order, but the chief manager sent this junior here to ask Mr. Emu whether the Yangxian Zhou family still intends to fulfill the quotation at the prospectus? ”
Zhou Tang looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "To be honest, the Zhou family is absolutely unwilling to give up these shares. Although the Yangxian Zhou family is not as famous and wealthy as the Xiao family and the Gu family, it is still the same. How could a good family based on faith do such things as backbiting and denial? ? It's just that there are some reasons why it's hard to explain. That's why such a price was quoted during the IPO. To be honest, I naturally want to fulfill the agreement, but it is not possible for Zhou to pay such a high price. It’s really a dilemma to take responsibility.”
This can be considered open and honest.
Frankly speaking, the previous quotation was submitted due to some difficult-to-explain reasons. Mr. Zhou doesn’t intend to default on the debt, but his family’s financial resources are shallow and he really can’t afford it...
I dug my heart out, not a single lie.
It's just that what he said, "A good family based on faith cannot do anything but deny what it says" is somewhat untrue. It might be perfect if he added, "Now that the salt farm's stock price is soaring, only fools will deny it." the truth.
However, this implicit approach would be completely acceptable to Xin Mao.
He smiled and said: "Before this junior came here, the chief manager once said that the Yangxian Zhou family has been powerful for hundreds of years. Although it is not as powerful as it used to be, the roots are still there, and it is not an ordinary small family. How can a small household compare? It seems that the big manager still has a vision.”
Zhou Tang smiled bitterly and said: "The general manager is ridiculous. As a result, the old man is even more ashamed and helpless. However, his family resources are shallow and he is really powerless."
Between the words, I felt a little depressed.
He really wants to keep those shares, but he really doesn’t have that much money!
As soon as the news came out that the salt farm was controlled by the imperial court, the salt farm's stock price rose sharply. Datang did not implement the previous policy of "official management of salt and iron", so the salt industry was an eternal business. Even if one day the imperial court really implemented the "salt and iron official camp", it would not kill all the salt merchants in the past.
Please note that this is not a private salt farm, it must be licensed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs!
The imperial court no longer has a bottom line, and it will not change its own policies day and night and slap itself in the face!
But the Zhou family's offer is 30,000 guan per share, and the total price is 900,000 guan. How can they come up with so much money? However, there are many people who had not received the shares for various reasons before. Now they regret it and rush to ask the Zhou family to transfer their shares. However, how can the Zhou family give up knowing that this is a hen that lays golden eggs?
But if it were to sell off the ancestral property, that would naturally be impossible. No matter whether the salt farm or the hen that lays the golden eggs, it is also foreign wealth. The farm and house are the foundation of the family!
Transfer, reluctant to give up;
Eat, but have no money...
This is exactly what Zhou Tang is struggling with now.
"Haha," Xin Maojiang knew Zhou Tang's dilemma very well. In fact, this is not a situation unique to the Zhou family, but a common situation faced by those families who have obtained shares. They are all at a loss to do anything about this matter and are in a dilemma. .
"The Grand Manager has opened a 'Royal Bank' in Huating Town in accordance with His Majesty's decree. I wonder if Mr. Emu has heard of it?"
Zhou Tang was stunned: "I've never heard of it, so what is this bank?"
Since the rise of Fang Jun, whether he was in Guanzhong or now in Jiangnan, he has always come up with some unheard-of tricks, which makes people confused and strange.
Xin Mao kept his words concise and to the point: "It's very simple, lend money."
"Lending?" Zhou Tang's expression did not change, but his heart skipped a beat.
How could Zhou Tang be unfamiliar with the matter of "lending"? In fact, the Jiangnan gentry and some wealthy temples all engaged in the business of "lending", and the Zhou family was no exception. No one knew the essence of "lending" better than him.
That's blood-sucking!
Knocking on your bones and sucking out your marrow until I drain you dry...
Why did Fang Jun open a loan bank? Zhou Tang wondered maliciously, could it be that in order to deal with the fact that his family could not afford the money to purchase the subscribed shares, he created this bank and forced all the major families to "borrow" from him?
This is too cruel...
General folk "lending", such as nine out and thirteen returns, are all very common rules. It is easy to borrow this money, but it is even more difficult to pay it back. If you are unlucky enough to encounter a disaster year and fail to pay back the debt within one year, then congratulations, just wait until you sell your house, your land, your children and your daughter to lose your fortune...
If Fang Jun really forced the families who subscribed for the shares to borrow money from his "money bank" to buy his own salt farm shares, within three or two years, I am afraid that all these noble families would have to pay for their wealth. It was empty, and all the land in Jiangnan became his family's.
Zhou Tang looked ugly and said nothing.
If Fang Jun is really like this, I'm afraid not many people will ask him to borrow money, but there will be many people who collectively set off a boycott frenzy. They are all nobles who suck the blood of others, but now they are sucked by you. Who can bear it?
It is possible to rebel even if you pull the lever!
Zhou Shu on the side glared angrily: "Is this really justified? Doesn't it mean that our Zhou family doesn't want to borrow it, so he has to force us to borrow it?"
There's something else going on... As we all know, I'm not a full-time writer, so I have a lot of chores to do. I originally asked for leave today, but something unexpected happened and I had to break my promise. However, four updates are definitely guaranteed, and it’s hard to say if there are more, so please forgive me. The other thing... please vote and support it, thank you.
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