Outside the gate of the Yuanqi Yixing branch, two long queues lined up from the lobby to the street, one team withdraws money, one team deposits, here is close to the Yixing Wharf, from time to time there are groups of people to ask, see the deposit of many people, and turn to other branches.

Suddenly, so many people came to deposit, and the Yixing branch was secretly happy from the shopkeeper to the guys, and hurriedly allocated half of the manpower to handle the deposit business, and the speed of withdrawal slowed down.

The reason why the people who came to withdraw money put down the work at hand would rather wait in a long queue to withdraw money, one is worried that the world is chaotic, and the silver is safe in their hands, and the main thing is to see that there are many people who withdraw money, and they are worried that Yuanqi will be squeezed without silver.

However, many people are very puzzled, who are these people who come to deposit? The delicate Wang Liuzhi lined up in the second half of the withdrawal team, he was worried about whether he could withdraw money today, but when he saw that so many people suddenly came to deposit, the speed of the withdrawal team also slowed down significantly, and he estimated that today's efforts were in vain.

After a slight sigh, he asked a young man beside him who looked like a coolie, and said, "Now that they are busy taking silver from Yuanqi, why did the little brother come to save the silver?" ”

Seeing Wang Liuzhi talking to him, the young man said a little shyly: "Yuanqi is in trouble, so naturally we can't stand aside and watch the excitement." ”

"Little brother is Yuanqi's person?"

"I'm from Changle."

"Changle Machinery Factory?

"From Changle Village."

Changle Village is now famous in Xiguan, not only because of Changle Machinery Factory, but also because there are many blonde and blue-eyed people in Changle Village, Wang Liuzhi naturally knows. At the moment, he was a little curious: "Changle Village is not a resettlement village for displaced people?" Little brother still has silver in saving? ”

"Yes." The young man was obviously not good at talking, and said bluntly: "We have money now." ”

Behind the young man, a stocky young man in his twenties spoke: "Changle Village is a resettlement village for displaced people, but in the past two years, Tuo Yuanqi's blessing can be regarded as living and working in peace and contentment, but anyone who is down-to-earth and willing to work can earn fifty or sixty yuan a year." Usually, now no one in Changle Village can take a hundred pieces of ocean on hand. ”

Hey, those outcasts are so generous now? Wang Liuzhi was a little incredulous, and was about to ask carefully, when a middle-aged man said angrily: "Changle Village is good to make money?" I heard that the craftsmen of Changle Machinery Factory only have four oceans a month. ”

"Changle's women can also make money, and they earn no less than their masters, what is that called?"

"Equal pay for equal work, men and women alike, cooks. January is all three or four oceans. ”

Changle Village is all homeless, that is, outsiders, there are no relatives in Xiguan Guangzhou, and they are busy making money on weekdays, and they rarely have the leisure to come out to hang out. At that moment, someone asked nonsense, "Little brother." Have all of you people from Changle Village come to deposit? ”

"Of course. Not only our Changle, but also several nearby resettlement villages have come, we can have this good life now, but it is all the blessings of Tuo Yuanqi and the Thirteen Lines, Yuanqi has suffered a run, how can we not come? We're here early. Changle Wharf is full of people, and you can't grab a boat. ”

"Changle is good, we are from Tianbao Watch Factory, and the people from our factory are also here, and the silk reeling women in Shunde are actively depositing. How can we be left behind women. ”

"The silk reeling women in Shunde are also depositing?"

"Not really."

"You put the money into Yuanqi at this time, aren't you afraid that Yuanqi will go out of business?"

"Let's admit it if it's closed!"

"How could Yuanqi go out of business?" A middle-aged man dressed in a robe and a horse coat dressed as a gentry paced over slowly at this time, and said loudly: "Yuanqi is not an ordinary money village, Yuanqi monopolizes the money industry in Guangdong Province, there are thousands of shareholders alone, the merchants of the thirteen lines and the silk merchants of Shunde are all shareholders of Yuanqi, and there are more rich merchants and silk merchants in Guangdong?" With the support of merchants and silk merchants, how could Yuanqi go out of business? ”

Hearing this, Wang Liuzhi slapped his forehead with some annoyance, and said secretly, not to mention that these people in Yuanqi are so united, just think about these shareholders behind Yuanqi, how could Yuanqi go bankrupt? Waste half a day here in vain, the silver is in Yuanqi, when can't you take it? Isn't this time to join in the fun?

Guangzhou Haopan Street, Yuanqi Guangzhou Branch.

The Guangzhou branch, like the Yuanqi general number, only handles business for large accounts that withdraw more than 1,000 taels of cash, and although there are many people gathered here, it is not as lined up on the street as the semicolon below.

"Bell——,bell——。" A gong sound from far and near, listening to this rhythm, everyone knows that this is a gong to open the way, one by one secretly pay attention, listen to the gong sound eleven times, and understand that this is a provincial level of travel.

Haopan Street is not only prosperous but also the economic center of Guangzhou City, even if there are officials who come on weekdays, they rarely put on a score, and most of them come in micro-clothes.

The provincial official who came came to Yuanqi Guangzhou Branch? Many people didn't even line up, and hurriedly crowded to the window to see the excitement, secretly guessing which big man came.

It was Xiong Changqian, the political envoy of Guangdong, who came to his official sedan chair and two teams of soldiers, escorting a long silver car, seeing this situation, a group of people in the lobby talked softly, "It's the lord of the domain, so many silver cars, this is the official silver of the domain?" ”

"This is to deposit the official silver of the feudal treasury to Yuanqi?"

"Maybe it's to Jingshi."

"Remit to Jingshi. Naturally, it is to find the Shanxi ticket number. ”

Xiong Changqian, who was old and long, got off the official sedan chair tremblingly, glanced at Liang Jiemin and his entourage, who quickly came up to greet him and bowed, waved his hand, and said, "Don't be polite, do the right thing first." He waved his hand and said, "Unpack." Counting. ”

One silver car stepped forward in turn, boxes of silver were lifted down from the car, unpacked and inspected on the spot, and then sealed and handed over to Yuan Qi's shopkeeper to carry it into the Guangzhou branch, and the people in the hall watched this scene and couldn't help whispering. "It's really a deposit of the official silver of the feudal treasury to Yuanqi."

"Yuan Qi even got the official silver from the domain treasury, is there no silver?"

"What kind of insight is this? How much official money is there? There are more than one million when the sky is broken! For Yuan Qi, this is a drop in the bucket, the Wu family, the Pan family, the Lu family, who of these three families can't take out millions of dollars? Is it necessary for Yuan Qi to use the official silver of the feudal treasury? People are asking the government to make a gesture. ”

"Posture? What do you mean? ”

"What do you mean? The government believes in Yuanqi, why can't the gentry and businessmen believe in Yuanqi? ”

Outside the gate of the Guangzhou branch, there are a lot of people standing from afar to see the lively people, and boxes of silver are shining with charming silver light in the sun, which is a rare sight. Wang Dechang, the big shopkeeper of the Guangzhou branch of the Rishengchang ticket number, also stood under a big tree and watched from afar, and he was surrounded by the shopkeepers of several other ticket numbers in Shanxi.

Yuan Tsuji Kuan said with some schadenfreude: "Yuan Qi seems to be a little choked this time, and it has fallen to the point of asking the government to come forward." ”

"But where the ticket number is in the bank, who is not afraid of a run?" Fan Qigui said in a sullen voice: "Yuan Qi is not bad, such a big run scene, they didn't even delay a large amount of cash." ”

Ren Tiande shook the folding fan and said, "Shopkeeper Wang, shall we help or push?" This is a great opportunity right now. ”

"Push?" Wang Dechang glanced at him. Said lightly: "Yuan Qi can be pushed down so easily?" Not to mention the means of being content, it depends on the strength behind Yuanqi. It's not easy to push, and you don't want to think about it, why did Yuan Qi push out the government at this juncture? Do you really like the official silver of the domain? This is a warning, don't be delusional. ”

"Since we can't push it, then we might as well help." Ren Tiande shook the folding fan, his face was not red and his heart was not beating: "At this time." Let's help, it can be regarded as accumulating some incense. ”

"Didn't you say that Yi Zhixiang refused to help us?"

"He's afraid to accept our favors, and this favor is not small."

"The more scared he is, the more we have to send it." Wang Dechang said: "Yuanqi's ambition is not small, and the machine silk reeling factory will definitely not be limited to Guangdong Province. Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, these two major raw silk centers, Yuanqi is afraid that they will be involved, this opportunity is rare, we have to let Yuanqi take a good lead on our big favor. ”

As he spoke, he paused slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Keep two or three percent of the cash, and send the rest to the Guangzhou branch, and send it together with the official silver of the domain, which will make a bigger noise and make the scene bigger." ”

"Aren't we worried about being run?"

"Worried about what? How many steps is the Guangzhou branch from us? ”

The official silver of the Xiang Domain Treasury has not yet been counted, and a group of ticket numbers in Shanxi are constantly carrying the silver box to the stage, as soon as they see this situation, the crowd waiting to withdraw the cash silver will disperse more than half, and a person is busy collecting cash, and the account room for the withdrawal business has been greatly reduced.

It was almost dusk, Yi Zhizhi returned to Rong Yuan, he entered with his front foot, Kong Jian'an and Xie Xiuyuan followed in with his back foot, as soon as he entered the door, Xie Xiuyuan bowed and said with a smile: "Big shopkeeper, I really admire the five-body throw on the ground." ”

Yi Zhizhi drank a large cup of herbal tea, and then said, "What's the matter, the effect is very good?" ”

"Okay." Kong Jian'an said with a relaxed smile: "From Xiguan to Guangzhou, the situation of the run has been greatly eased, and soon after the Yuanqi General Citi merchant escorted the silver ship, many tea merchants and silk merchants came to the door to deposit silver, and many people only withdrew it yesterday, and they have saved it back today." ”

Xie Xiuyuan continued: "After Lord Fan Tai Xiong escorted the official bank of the domain treasury to the Guangzhou branch, a large amount of silver was deposited in Shanxi Province, and besides, the number of people withdrawing money in various branches in Xiguan dropped sharply because of the enthusiastic deposits of Yuanqi and other employees, and it is estimated that the effect will be better tomorrow." Saying that, he smiled, "These leaders selected by the big shopkeeper are really unusual. ”

Kong Jian'an also learned about the herd effect from Xie Xiuyuan's mouth, and immediately said with a smile: "Using this method to alleviate the run crisis, is it the first time I have heard of it, could this herd effect also come from the West?" ”

"This is because our Yuanqi is big enough, and we have changed to other money banks, and this method does not work." Yi Zhixiang said and smiled, and said: "I've been tired all day, let's go down and rest first, we have to pay close attention to tomorrow, although the run crisis has been temporarily alleviated at the moment, but the war will eventually break out, and the run will also appear. ”

"Yes." Kong Jian'an and Xie Xiuyuan hurriedly bowed their hands.

The two of them retreated, Jin Ying came in with a basin of water, wrung a towel and sent it up, and said, "The young master has been tired all day, or just rest here, and the slave and maid will go and call the table for noodles." ”

Yi Zhixiang wiped his face and rubbed his hands, and then said with a smile: "I was thinking that it would be clean and clean here, so I didn't need to have a banquet, and I went to the back room to get a meal." ”

Before the words fell, Li Wang said at the door: "Young master, Shunde He Shutai and Wang Chaoyi are here." ”

"Invite them in." Yi Zhishu smiled and said, "Let's go and order the table and bring a pot of good wine." ”

As soon as he entered the door, He Shutai smiled and said, "I heard that the run is under control." ”

"It's under control for the time being." Yi Zhizhi said and stretched out his hand to give up his seat, and after sitting down, Wang Chaoyi said: "Since the situation is under control, is there still no need to organize the deposit of silk reeling women?" ”

"It's necessary." Yi Zhizhi said: "Calling on Yuanqi employees to deposit is not only to alleviate the pressure of this run, but also to unite people's hearts through this deposit activity." As he spoke, he took the cigar box from the table, took out a cigar, lit it slowly, and said faintly: "Yuanqi is now a big tree, all the owners must work together and twist into a rope, otherwise Yuanqi will be eaten and there is no scum left, I have always insisted on giving high salaries to the employees below, that is, for this consideration, there are not enough interests, and no one will support Yuanqi with all their hearts." ”

Hearing this, He Shutai and Wang Chaoyi jumped in their hearts, what do they mean? Yi Zhishu glanced at the two of them, and continued: "Right now, the war between the imperial court and England is imminent, and ******** officials in Guangzhou are pondering how to resist the English. ”

He Shutai cautiously asked: "What are the requirements of the big shopkeeper for the group training in Shunde?" ”

"Select two thousand elites from the regimental training in each town, between eighteen and twenty years old, with a strong physique, and someone in the family must be in Yuanqi." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "These two thousand people, if they want to be included in the Yuanqi Guardian Merchant Group, I will send someone to train them personally." ”

With 2,000 people transferred from Shunde, how big will the scale of the Yuanqi Guardian Business Group be? Five thousand? Six thousand? Wang Chaoyi's voice was a little hoarse and said, "The big shopkeeper won't be yes, it won't be." (To be continued.) )