Liu Du was in the past, although he was also a small boss, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to see the side of these old shopkeepers, he was old and had a wide network in various parts of Jiangnan, and the business he did every day may be done by himself for a year, how could he be interested in himself?

And this time, the thing that made Liu Du the most proud was that the big man from the imperial capital, the big money lord, came down to the south of the Yangtze River, and others didn't look for him, but they were looking for him, which was naturally related to his worship in the imperial capital under the command of that magical woman.

There are two gold bricks, and you can tell me which one is noble and the other is lowly?

In the same way, to make money, kneeling in front of a person is nothing more than men and women.

But this kind of identity, at the beginning, he wanted to hide it, and it was his duty to bet on both ends to please him.

However, when Li Xiangqian went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he immediately couldn't hide it, not only that, but this identity not only did not bring disaster, at least the official did not dare to be unkind to him, even if Li Xiangqian killed a door to lift people, but no one dared to touch his moldy head.

Countless former bigwigs in Liu Du's mind, who can be compared to the existence of Wang Jianlin's father in later generations, have sent deputies to pat him on the shoulder and encourage this junior in the business world, who is a symbol of the long-standing successors in the Jiangnan business community.

Some money bank owners earnestly inquire whether they need some money to expand their business.

Some people have eyes and hands, asking if they need to be escorted.

In short, Liu Du, who originally only had a few barges on the canal and a small pavement, was completely different from before.

Of course, he naturally knew that this different source was also proudly boasting for Li Xiangqian and the imperial capital, which had already changed from a modern city to the Garden of Eden in his mind.

Qian Lin is a side branch of the Qian family.

Among the 100 surnames in China, the so-called Zhao Qiansun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang, except for the surname Qian, the others are not small surnames, the reason why it is arranged so is because when writing the book, the Zhao family is the country, for the "big send", naturally the surname Zhao is the first, and the king of Wu Yue at that time is surnamed Qian, naturally with Qian as the second surname, Qian Lin's money, is Qian Miao's money, after hundreds of years is still a family surname, although there is no longer any throne, but the wealth is still maintained, relying on this money word, known to people, but also low-key enough situation, can also make friends with the powerful, naturally the Qian family through hundreds of years of ups and downs, after going through the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Yuan, the late Yuan Dynasty, and all kinds of bad things in the Ming Dynasty, summed up a perfect set of routines to make friends with the powerful.

Even if it is against the rebels, they have their own methods, but in the face of the existence of the imperial capital, everyone is weird and trembling.

The Millennium Falcon flew between Jiangnan and the imperial capital for at least half a year, until the food problem in the north was solved, and the Millennium Falcon was too precious to be consumed, so it was slowly withdrawn, and now the Millennium Falcon is used when special operations and special missions are carried out around the world.

But many people who know the real situation, especially a big family like the Qian family, which covers an area of more than 10,000 acres, naturally have an understanding of the grain business, and they all know that there are treasures in the imperial capital that are like gods and ghosts.

They don't understand science, but they understand the facts, and the fact is that the imperial capital doesn't seem to be simple.

Although China in this period was far less good at collecting intelligence than in the past, and even later in the "I Qing Dynasty" era, after being bullied by the Opium War for 30 years, when it came to the Tianjin Teaching Plan, I didn't know, at the same time, the French actually suffered a great disaster themselves, and the Franco-Prussian War was lost cleanly, which can be called the most street-fighting war in France after Napoleon, and then the French even performed the puppet government in power to pay reparations to the Prussian government that defeated them before, and bought the prisoners of war back to fight the rebels in their capital. Kill hundreds of thousands of at once.

At the same time, the officials of the Qing Dynasty did not even know about such a major event, which was not even small in the history of the world.

Even if you wake up slightly, you shouldn't be so negligent.

But it also shows that China's great shortcomings at this time have reached the moment when they have to be sorted out.

Although the collection of intelligence on the imperial capital is not professional, at least the local operation is not bad, and even a guy like Liu Du can drill the camp, let alone these big families.

Qian Lin is in such a situation, he belongs to the side branch, but by relying on hard work, he can be regarded as the shopkeeper of the outer door, but the world has changed color, at this time the Ming Dynasty has really ended, and who is sitting in the world below, no one really knows.

In the past, I was able to enter the imperial capital, although I occasionally saw people who were called elders, but people didn't talk about politics at all, and they refused to accept money.

In later generations, in order to continue it, these families can be said to have exhausted their organs, creating a layout in which the children of the family can devote themselves to multiple forces, and the part that remains in China is eroded into the organs, and a revolutionary party is corrupted in an instant.

This is what the elders fear the most.

Therefore, the Qian family, as a smuggler, supports the Donglin Party in exchange for the tax-free policy, and at the same time makes a lot of ill-gotten gains, must be cool, if his family is not cold, China will be cold.

Qian Lin, who had been waiting for a long time, was not discouraged, he vaguely understood that it seemed that people were taking care of themselves, so he was more calm and relaxed, and the reason for taking care of himself must be because he wanted to be of great use to himself.

The monks of Shaolin Temple asked the holy aunt to stay in Shaolin Temple for three years, which was itself to grind out his spirit from death, while Buddhism requires meditation, and the Vatican likes to let the priest make a vow to sit silently, in fact, it is almost the same in nature.

This Qian Lin naturally endures it.

Liu Du's temperament is naturally not as good as this old man, and the novelty of the imperial capital is about to be finished, but the elder still has no movement.

He was a little restless, looked at Qian Lin embarrassedly, and wanted to get up and ask, what time is it.

But at this moment, the weather eased slightly, and Li Xiangqian had already appeared, and before the person arrived, the voice had already arrived first: "Oh, it's rude, I have official business to deal with, but I made a few people wait for a long time." ”

Several people all knew what was going on, but no one said anything, and they all saluted Li Xiangqian.

"These are the treasurers of the famous big merchants, and they have come to greet the elders...... This is the money shopkeeper of Qian Ji Firm, the ...... of Xianheng Firm"

Of course, Li Xiangqian changed into a T-shirt and shorts, a little longer board inches, no hat, at first glance, he had just taken a shower, which was completely different from the pile of satin robes opposite, this image was in the eyes of these people, how barbarian and how barbaric.

Li Xiangqian said exaggeratedly and tiredly: "You people, don't you know that we are not allowed to accept gifts? I had to pack all the things you sent yesterday, put them in my account, and finally put them into the public account, and I was not allowed to touch a word, just a little hemp sugar preserves, and I could share them with the brothers to eat. ”

This joke is a little embarrassing, except for Liu Du who believes it a little, everyone else doesn't believe it at all, this belongs to the gift and is still here to put on a show.

Qian Lin said perfunctorily: "Mr. Li is really a clean and elegant person, and the people of the north are blessed." ”

Other people also suddenly realized and began to pat themselves on the back, the little thing that was originally given was just to let people have a good impression of you, and not to blow you out, and really expect so many people to let a party think of you?

You know, in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to see a junior official of the six ministries, you have to spend a few taels of silver, if it is a Wenxuan Qing Officials Division or that kind of fat official, even if it is a porter, it is equivalent to the arrogance of a county official, not to mention the first assistant of Shangshu, it is all clearly marked with a price, just a few taels to ask a good question, and the two gates have their own rules, and they cannot enter the big official's house without being stripped of a layer of skin.

Li Xiangqian borrowed the Humble Administrator's Garden, but it has long been abandoned, and it is even a little down, and the gatekeeper is a group of young soldiers, although these soldiers are not very old, but they are definitely not easy to deceive, and even oil and salt do not enter.

In the past few days, the Jiangnan gentry have used money stuffing tactics against them, and they have been defeated, even if they are lone soldiers, they have sternly rejected this kind of unclear black money, beauty tricks, and the food and drink on weekdays are purchased by themselves, so naturally these young people are indispensable to go, and they have arranged many encounters and seductions all of them are ineffective, and even the male sex is out of the horse, it is also ineffective.

But there is a little benefit, people let you in without any door bags, which is really clear and clear.

This is taken for granted after a little thought, what do you think? In the unique barracks culture of this era, the military leaders will go to receive a sum of money, of course, they have to be handed over, take a bite, and if they use the money to raise soldiers, won't they make a profit?

Therefore, it is difficult for these armies to achieve the proper armament and training, let alone insufficient military salaries, who will play with you.

So a new model was born, that is, the family.

First of all, it is a political mistake to be a general, and it is to be criticized, therefore, the generals still do not dare to raise private soldiers, in the case of the Ming military system, the conscription system can only summon a large number of peasants without military literacy, and even cannot be trained, the combat effectiveness of such troops is extremely worrying, and the conscription system can only recruit the children of the broken cities, the helpless local ruffians and bankrupt peasants, and the combat effectiveness of such troops is also hehe.

So the family came into being, more loyal than the regular soldiers, the salary of these soldiers is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, weapons, war horses are more sophisticated, of course the combat effectiveness is stronger, and it is not a taboo to go, after all, it is a habit to use fellow villagers in this era.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the powerful Guanning Iron Cavalry, it is a family army, which is owned by the ancestors of the largest generals in Liaodong who rose after the Li family, and all the officers have ancestral families, and most of the sergeants are not Han Chinese, but composed of poor Mongols surrounded by their ancestors, and their combat power is very strong, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they have lost control of Jiangmen, and this elite has only appeared a few times on the battlefield of resistance to Jin and fell silent.

In terms of organizational mode, it is difficult to feed a large number of soldiers when it is impossible to enter modernization, so a small number of families ranging from hundreds to thousands are elite, and most of the officers and soldiers who can fight a tailwind war can lead most of their combat effectiveness to fight.

Later generations of soldiers reviewed the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the military department Shangshu Wang was in Jin, thinking that the imperial court border army was unbearable to fight again, so the decision to give up Liaodong and Liaoxi, with the Great Wall as the border, rebuild Shanhaiguan as the last line of defense, only to harass the hinterland of Jiannu with the sailor, so that Jiannu could not be replenished, and naturally starved to death, and at that time the imperial court still had spare strength, which could be eaten in one bite.

But, the Donglin Party.

Naturally, he did not support this money-saving tactic, so he found a "famous general" Sun Chengzong and came up with a fortress plan, built a large number of buildings outside Shanhaiguan, and continued to build a fortress to the east. When Jiannu came, the soldiers and civilians retreated into the fortress to hold on, and when Jiannu retreated, they continued to build a new fortress, building while advancing, and finally repaired the fortress to Shenyang.

This good idea completely took the life of the Ming Dynasty, and Liao Yu spent five or six million taels of silver on Guanning Tieqi every year, you can imagine that from the ancestral family to the court bosses, they all have their own profits, just like the parliamentarians of later generations are not corrupt, and people are just looking for business for their own companies.

Every time the Jurchen soldiers attacked, after destroying the fortresses along the way, the official army had to rebuild it again, so the imperial court had to spend a lot of money on the project. He also gave Houjin a large sum of grain, grass, weapons, horses, and silver for nothing.

This is the root cause of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the same as Cao Yun, from the Song Dynasty, to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, sea transport has been most of the capacity, but every year according to the regulations from the south of the Yangtze River to Beijing to transport grain 8 million stones, along the way all kinds of inexplicable consumption of nearly 30 million stones, as well as the repair of the canal, the maintenance of the sluice, thousands of miles of canal transport, nearly a million people involved, there are tens of millions of stone grain every year for the profit, that is, tens of millions of taels of silver. In the face of such huge and stable gains, who wants to change? Who would dare to touch it?

Whether the policy is good or not does not matter to officials, whether they have the opportunity to corrupt is the most important thing.

Wang Zaijin's strategy is good, relying on the Ming army, which still has some strength, to completely seal down the Jurchens, they have no food and weapons, and the power to hunt down and kill the Jin merchants is enough to drag them to death.

It is still light for those black-hearted officials to build the fortress into tofu scum, and it is common for them to make up some non-existent strongholds directly on the bill, which are specially used to cheat money from the imperial court! Anyway, when the Jurchen soldiers came, the jade would be burned, and even if the imperial court wanted to send someone to check the accounts afterwards, there would be nowhere to check.

There is food, but there is no enemy!

Every year, millions of taels of silver fattened the official pockets from the Jiangmen of Liaoxi to the Donglin Party and then to the big and small officials.

And the family members, because their identities are subordinate to the generals, naturally they have to obey the generals' orders, and the brains of the soldiers are simple, so they are naturally fed and don't care about the money.

Therefore, for Qian Lin, the soldiers at the gate are not corrupt, but they don't care and don't understand the meaning.