Chapter 1408: Knowing the Reason
Yang Huairen coaxed and frightened, and said that Huang Million and Bai Yinhai were trembling, and then they would continue to fool, or they would be reasonable.
"What is going on with the respective business of the two of you, this king didn't understand it before, but after overthrowing Zhao Xianqiu, this king understood a little, the money you gave to Zhao Xianqiu when you were rich was not what you wanted to give, right?
Actually, I should have thought about it from the beginning, because I'm also a businessman, and I was able to think of this kind of thing when I opened my first restaurant in Tokyo.
In our Da Song, it is not difficult to do business, but it is difficult to make the business bigger and achieve the top in a certain industry, not only if you have the ability.
After all, the status of merchants in the Great Song Dynasty is too low, no matter how rich we are, but scholars look down on us, and even ordinary people have to look down on us.
Therefore, the person who can make the business bigger must have a backer behind him, otherwise if you make a little mistake, others will pinch you as much as they want, and you have no way, so you must rely on something.
Huang Million, you have made the rice and grain business so big, if you don't have a decent backer behind you, you won't be able to go today, and the same is true of Baiyinhai, the salt field is not something that anyone can open if they want to.
Later, I inquired about the history of your two families, and I found out that you were the backer behind you. ”
Although Yang Huairen had made it clear that he wanted to promote them, Huang Million and Bai Yinhai were still a little nervous when they heard this.
Yang Huairen said, "At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, although your Huang family was also a big merchant in Jiangnan, the family property at that time was not worth mentioning at all compared with now, right?"
It was your ancestor who judged the situation and when other rice merchants sold grain at a high price in the troubled times, it was your Huang family who sold the grain at a low price to the King of Qin, so that the Huang family was the dominant family among the rice merchants in Jiangnan for more than 100 years, right?
And your Bai family, your ancestor is the son-in-law of the king of Longxi County, right? Otherwise, with your Bai family's status among the merchants in Jiangnan at that time, you wouldn't be able to let the imperial court hand over the business of the salt farm to your Bai family, right?
With the origin of your yellow and white families, how can you fight for wealth in order to compete for the richest man in Yangzhou? The original drama was too fake. ”
Yang Huairen casually told the two of them whose power they originally relied on to make their fortunes, which made Huang and Bai look embarrassed.
But the problem is that the families of the King of Qin and the King of Longxi County at that time are now no longer beautiful, and the prestige of the founding generals has also disappeared in the long years of Wen Tian and Wu Xi.
In today's Tokyo city, the red walls of the high gates of the Commanders and Shomen are still standing, but most of the people behind the Shomen inside are already in the same light as the dust.
One of the most beautiful sights in the city of Tokyo is the brightly dressed ladies and yamen on the streets, with folding fans in their collars and a huge palace flower on their heads.
The merits of their ancestors have made them worry about food and clothing for generations, and they have no part to speak in the court, and they can only be happy to be raised by the state like pigs.
It's not that there are one or two descendants who have inherited the skills of their ancestors, like Yang Shihu of the Yang family, Shi Meng of the Shi family and others, but there are too few of them, and they can't see people when they are thrown in the middle of a group of gentlemen, and they are basically negligible.
Yang Huairen got along with this group of relatives in the capital, although there was no deep friendship, but on the whole it was not bad, and some of the transactions were still made by everyone working together to make money.
If you want to revive these generals, Yang Huairen has little to do.
But it is precisely these generals who control the most elite army of the Great Song Dynasty, the twenty-four guards of the forbidden army, and the generals of each guard are closely related to the generals of Xunqi, not to mention how many children are placed in the intermediate captains.
Although the forbidden army is not good, the soldiers are the best in the Great Song Dynasty after all, and if they can be trained, it is not difficult for them to have a little combat effectiveness.
Although the war with the Western Xia was caused by infighting among the Western Xia nobles, those forbidden troops had been trained by Yang Huairen for half a year, and they had some combat effectiveness.
If they can continue to hold on, the forbidden army can still be seen after three or five years, and the sad thing is that after a big victory, almost all the forbidden army will get carried away again.
Blame it on the descendants of the generals, the generals and captains who are the leaders in the army have any virtues, and the soldiers below have any virtues, and it has always been a normal phenomenon in the army, and it is impossible to expect the soldiers to be diligent when they are lazy.
Yang Huairen is now leaking the matter of his conquest of Jiaozhi next year to Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, to a certain extent, let them pass the word to these gang of commanders.
There are some things that Yang Huairen said directly that seemed to arouse suspicion, let businessmen like Huang Bai say it, it would be best if the generals could understand Yang Huairen's intentions, if they didn't understand, then Yang Huairen would have no choice.
Like Lu Jiyuan, who has changed from a gentleman to a fierce general in the army, there are still some in the Wude Army, and there are better than none.
Yang Huairen said, "The investment in this battle, the two of you each contributed 250,000 yuan, accounting for one-third, and you don't need to inquire about how I get the rest of the money."
From the time you go back, you will start to prepare as I said, whether it is a man or a ship, I believe that with your ability, you will have your own way to prepare.
On the maritime side, you don't have to worry about it, I will naturally arrange it clearly. ”
After explaining clearly, Huang Million and Bai Yinhai hurriedly said goodbye, and after Yang Huairen sent them away, he called someone else.
With a war investment of 1.5 million yuan, Yang Huairen calculated that he was very surplus, and he almost didn't care about it at all.
Now that there are 500,000 guan of Huang million and Baiyinhai, in fact, there is money for the foundation, and the township donation has raised 150,000 guan, and 150,000 guan has been intercepted from Zhao Xianqiu, which has 800,000 guan.
On the side of the official family and the imperial court, some money should be allocated, whether it is 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, Yang Huairen will also be satisfied.
The remaining 500,000 to 600,000 yuan, Yang Huairen plans to come out by himself, of course, not explicitly, but let Fengshenwei use the name of those businessmen whose identities are kept secret to make accounts, and this money will not be suspected of Yang Huairen's head.
If you want to conquer Jiaozhi, you naturally have to prepare in advance in terms of information, and the tentacles of Fengshenwei can't reach Jiaozhi, so you should start preparing from now on, Yang Huairen met with several leading figures in the Fengshenwei in Jiangnan, and arranged this matter.
Although the Song and Jiaozhi people are both of the yellow race, they are still very different in appearance and body shape.
Although it is a bit too much to say that the locals of Jiaozhi are monkeys, their height is indeed shorter than that of the Song people, and their appearance is also sharp-beaked monkeys, which indeed looks like humans who have not evolved well.
Wu Dejun turned out to be a forbidden army, and it was difficult to find such a person in the army, so the only way to ask Xiao Qi to find some people from Fengshenwei was to pretend to be a merchant and go to Jiaozhi to fight the outpost first......