Chapter 348 Wang Daokun's Support
Mr. Nanming, you are a good person. This play is so good!
Wang Fulin wished to award Wang Daokun a Best Acting Award.●⌒, although the script has it, Wang Daokun’s position and authority are here. He cannot be as unscrupulous as he is to Ye Dakuan and the Chen County Zun of Yin County, or even as he does Tu Yuan and Wu Dashao. Therefore, it depends entirely on how Wang Daokun wants to play his own freely. Therefore, he was happy when he heard Wang Daokun reveal his old background in this way, but on the surface he honestly lowered his head and said, "Uncle taught me a lesson."
Although he saw Wang Fulin becoming honest all of a sudden, he heard Wang Daokun comment on Wang Fulin's disaster star for destroying his family, and when he thought of Wang Fulin's swearing to send him to the Grand Master, Huo Xiucai finally couldn't support it and fell to the ground and fainted. At this time, Liu Qian and Ma Liang looked at each other, and finally hurried forward and knelt down to Wang Daokun.
"Wang's Ministry, Mr. Wang is really misunderstood. I just had some friendship with Mr. Huo. I heard that he wanted to find a house, but the second son of the county Zun was naughty. Master Wang was not capable of doing it before, so I went to say to him. Who knew that Mr. Huo was so arrogant and had to add the conditions for gambling. This was the first time I knew that Mr. Huo was so bad, and he just wanted to know that he had such a bad record and only regretted the unknown person." Ma Liang said sincerely, but he didn't care about the age difference. He knelt down and bowed to Wang Fulin and said, "Mr. Wang, I am willing to apologize to Mr. Ling, it's all my blindness!"
Ma Liang could tell lies like this, and he could ignore his face. Liu Qian had no scruples. While he was glad that he did not contact Huo Xiucai, a self-righteous scum, he said respectfully: "Wang's college, although the student has only worked with Master Wang for more than a year, he also knew that he was kind. He didn't expect that he was so conspired by Guard Huo yesterday, so he asked the county master to keep Master Wang. It was definitely not the same as the plot that Guard Wang had misunderstood. Not only that, the county master heard that Master Wang had no savings in Hankou Town over the years. He also ordered me to bring Cheng Yi another 80 taels and let me secretly give it to Master Wang."
Wang Fulin stood beside Wang Daokun. He heard the two masters of the thief spirits and thief spirits and washed themselves clean in a moment. He deliberately muttered in a low voice: "Don't you think we are liars, so you give us twenty taels first, and then you give us eighty taels after seeing my uncle, so that you won't be cheated of money? Do you think others are fools?"
"Fulin!" Wang Daokun saw the two kneeling masters sweating profusely on their faces, and they were obviously squeezed by Wang Fulin. He could only shout with a stern face again, "Enough, County Magistrate Zhou has been tolerant of your father for more than a year, and it is also a bit of a guest and guest relationship. Will you not come to Hanyang Mansion in the future? Leave him some face!"
That being said, Wang Daokun would not just sing to the end. Seeing the two masters feeling relieved, he said lightly: "My brother Yun is a bit old-fashioned and pedantic, and I know he is probably not likable. But if he doesn't like him, come if he is unfriendly, and go if he doesn't. Whether it's gifts to return home or make it clear in person, it's better than playing with some methods that don't come to the table! You go back to tell County Zhou that after he has taken care of Brother Yun for more than a year, some things will be written off. Fulin, you are the same, it's fine for this scholar with a bad record. Don't dig up the rest of the others!"
Seeing that Wang Fulin agreed reluctantly, Ma Liang and Liu Qian both had an illusion that when Wang Daokun taught them a lesson, his attitude was calm. However, when he said something, he was not polite at all. Instead, when he hit Wang Fulin, the words were not entirely a warning from the elders to the younger generation, but also an indescribable indulgence. They were both scholars and knew that in some big families, the younger generations might be favored. But they had almost no say in major matters. You have to listen to what the elders said, especially a senior official like Wang Daokun who has become a governor. For a time, the two people's evaluation of Wang Fulin was raised to a higher level.
This young boy would be better off getting offended less in the future... No, he must not be offended!
"Go and take this scholar with a bad record by the way." Wang Daokun was too lazy to waste his precious time on two irrelevant people. He gave such an order, and then turned around and entered the study.
When Wang Fulin waited until Wang Daokun left, he looked at Ma Liang and Liu Qian who were trembling and stood up, and suddenly said with a smile: "Since you were so worried that we were liars before, I might as well recommend a good book. I remember that a famous wealthy businessman in She County had an affair with a group of liars who cheated in one government and six counties, and finally broke it to me. I took the risk of taking someone to copy his nest. When someone died, the lawsuit for property was in full swing, and a bunch of relatives died and injured. Afterwards, Master Feng, the teacher of the She County Academy, wrote a new book on Du Lie with this title. You can take a look. Let's just forget about what happened today, and give me a gift to Zhou County on my behalf."
Seeing Wang Fulin nodding slightly and entering Wang Daokun's study, Ma Liang and Liu Qian couldn't help but look at each other. Wang Fulin's half of the previous words clearly added that Wang Daokun's evaluation of the disaster of destroying his family began. As for the second half of the words, it is certainly a relief to the end of this, but they still have to apologize to Zhouxianzun... what kind of gifts are they?
After two men who were too smart on weekdays were angrily holding Huo Xiucai and leaving the governor's yamen, they didn't even understand it. Wang Daokun could hear it clearly in the study room, and when he left, he laughed and scolded: "You, you are unreasonable. What does the apology mean when you just said?"
"It's literal." Wang Fulin blinked innocently. Seeing that Wang Daokun had disbelief, he said with a smile, "If my uncle doesn't believe it, I will visit Zhouxianzun again, personally thank him for taking care of my father for more than a year, and then he frightened his two masters to repent. Is this okay?"
"Forget it." Wang Daokun knew that it was not the first time that Wang Fulin had dealt with people in the government, so he would naturally have the degree of it. What he cared about was another thing that Wang Daoguan mentioned to him when he came back. After signaling Wang Fulin to sit down, he asked directly, "What's going on with the ticket number you mentioned to Zhong Yan before?"
Wang Daokun was born into a family of merchants and always advocated that both agriculture and business should be given priority. Although it did not touch the ancestral system of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, his views on merchants were naturally different from those of many officials. In addition, Wang Daokun was the leader of the Wang family in Songmingshan, so Wang Fulin naturally would not keep it.
"Uncle, I went to Hangzhou to do business once, and then went to Ningbo and Xinchang. I always felt that now Hui merchants are rich in the southeast, and merchants are running around. Although many giant chambers of commerce open gold and silver shops in many places, they can exchange silver into silver notes to facilitate exchange transactions, most people do not use such convenient exchange business. The people who have money only know how to save money, and even many merchants, after making money, either buy houses or dig the money directly into cellars and buried them."
"So, I have launched rice coupons in Yidian before, because I can repay the principal and profits in time every time. Over the past year, I have sold out every time. The ordinary families in the public who hold small money have thus found a place to save money and earn interest. I was thinking, why not make further improvements based on Tang Shifei's money?"
Wang Fulin spent two quarters of an hour to elaborate on his various ideas on foreign exchange and deposit and withdrawal services in detail: "My idea is to open a ticket number in Huizhou, Hangzhou, Hankou, Suzhou and Yangzhou, where Hui merchants gather, no matter where the customer deposits the money, they can pay a certain handling fee and then withdraw it from another place. In this way, merchants can just carry the bill of exchange and do not have to worry about bandits on the road. Once they are lost, they can use various strict reporting measures to pay the corresponding handling fees and withdraw the money. At the same time, for ordinary people, they attract 10% of the annual interest, so that they can not only make up for the silver banknotes of various places, but also absorb private hot money and invest in various loan and profitable industries..."
There were flying money in the Tang Dynasty, there were Jiaozi in the Song Dynasty, and the treasure money was used in the early Ming Dynasty. Except for the flying money, it was because of how much it was saved to withdraw, so it was still good to use it, but Jiaozi and Baobao money were all worthless later. Therefore, Wang Fulin would not consider issuing paper money, which is a matter of grabbing power with the government. Even the scope of the ticket number was temporarily set in these areas where Hui merchants gathered. Seeing that Wang Daokun was concentrating on thinking, he continued: "Once these ticket numbers are opened, the silver banknotes in various places are likely to fluctuate, and sometimes there will be large amounts of silver transfers. This is also the reason why I asked Mr. Lu to take action and open an escort agency at the same time."
The two things of Piaohao and the escort agency complement each other. Of course, the most important reason why escort agencies were so popular in the late Qing Dynasty was that they completely took over the work that the officers and soldiers should have done, which was to escort tax silver into Beijing! Of course, it is absolutely impossible for the escort agencies to do this today, and everything is just starting out.
Wang Daokun pondered for a while, then he said, "You are a good idea. I personally support your idea. Although Zhong Yan only heard a rough answer before, he agreed with Zhongjia. But this matter is very important. You might as well discuss with Mr. Xu of Doushan Street and Brother Cheng of Huangjiawu."
When Wang Fulin heard Wang Daokun's statement, he was overjoyed. Later generations often said that Shanxi's Piaohao was like this. That was because after the salt industry reform in the mid-Qing Dynasty, Hui merchants had already entered a decline by the end of the Qing Dynasty. It was far worse than Shanxi merchants who mastered the trade of fur and medicinal materials on the outside of the mouth and even ginseng. Now, if they don't hurry up and start making Piaohao when the business was extremely developed in Longwanjiao, when?
He was about to speak, but Wang Daokun looked at him again and said meaningfully: "But although I am the official of the Wang family in Songmingshan who is the biggest, I can't let me decide on the business matters. The person who takes charge of the salt industry in Yangzhou is my uncle and an elder of your uncle. If he doesn't want to agree, you have only one way, which is to recommend others to replace him. My grandfather, the elder of your great-grandfather, was once recommended as the salt industry in Lianghuai Salt Industry? Sailing wine, which represents the negotiations between the salt merchants and the Salt Transportation Department, is now far from being as good as the Cheng family of the Xu family, and is even about to be caught up by other families. If you want to lead the opening of a ticket number, then you have to make your reputation famous in Yangzhou."
ps: Seriously suspected that it was rumored by my mother... She has been coughing for almost two months and has taken countless Chinese medicine. 55, please give me a monthly ticket to comfort me (to be continued.)
Chapter completed!