The next day, starting from the morning, a group of children of the thirteen small business houses who were familiar with Yi Zhishu came to the door one after another, and Yi Zhizu was hospitalized in the company of Yan Shikuan, and took this opportunity to secretly remember a group of fox friends and dog friends of the Yi family.

Regarding the reason why everyone knocked on the side to find out why Jardine Bank supported Fu Tai Xing, he simply said that he didn't know, because he couldn't explain it at all, so he could only say that he didn't know.

Following the thirteen lines of children, is another wave of visitors, but is with the Fu Tai line of business dealings with the children of foreign businessmen, these are mostly through this stubble to pull the relationship, now Fu Tai line to get the strong support of Jardine line, these foreign businessmen are naturally treated differently, the original relationship is good to consolidate, the relationship is weak to deepen.

This wave of children, Yi Zhishu basically has no impression, but fortunately, there is Yan Shikuan, this guy has a really good memory, but he remembers everything he has dealt with, and if he doesn't know it, he is also familiar with it, so it is not embarrassing.

After being busy intermittently for most of the day, sending the last two guests away, Yi Zhishu breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "This is more tiring than being sick." ”

"Virtue." Yan Shikuan pouted and said: "You accept the courtesy, the guest is greeted by me, what are you tired of?" ”

Yi Zhishu glanced at him, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said, "It's three o'clock, what are you still doing here?" Want to have dinner? ”

"Want to cross the river and tear down the bridge so soon? There are no doors. Yan Shikuan glanced at him, turned straight into the room, poured himself a cup of tea, and said slowly: "I'm tired for a day, what's the matter, I should be rewarded, do a massage or something, right?" ”

"You ...... beautiful." Yi Zhizhi lay down on the recliner and said leisurely: "I worked so hard for Xingtai Xing yesterday that I only got a morning tea, this is a bit of a, are you embarrassed to make a request?" ”

"Stingy."

"Yes, Ming'er invites you to massage." Yi Zhishu said and shouted outward, "Chunmei, take a cigar cigarette." ”

"Two sticks, I'll smoke them too."

In the next few days, easy to be content to live quite comfortably, get up early every day to go out to drink morning tea, and then wander around, Xiguan, Huangpu, Henan, Huadi, Guangzhou City are all one by one, the famous teahouse restaurant Qinglou is also not missing, the days are leisurely and happy, the ocean at hand is also flowing out, in a blink of an eye, the two hundred oceans are gone.

The days will enter May in a flash, this day of light rain, easy to be content with a rare lazy sleep, get up at about eight o'clock, after washing, go to my mother to say goodbye, in the main courtyard with some snacks, back to their own yard into the study.

Practice the brush words, this is easy to know the daily compulsory homework, and then there is familiar with traditional characters, many traditional characters he can recognize, but to him to write, he has to catch blind, in addition, he also wrote memoirs, every night, will be a lot of things that can be clearly remembered in the past life are recorded.

"Young Master, Young Master Yan is here." Li Wang whispered outside the door.

"Ask him to smoke a cigar in the hall." Yi Zhizu said without raising his head: "Remind me again at noon." ”

Li Wang hesitated before he said, "Young Master, noon has passed." ”

It's past noon? So fast? Yi Zhizu put down the pen, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, sure enough, it was already a little faster, he quickly packed up his things, burned all the words he practiced writing, and then left the study.

The rain has already stopped, the air after the rain is exceptionally fresh, Meimei stretched his waist, he came to the hall, and saw Yan Shikuan swallowing clouds and spitting fog, this guy really doesn't treat himself as an outsider, where is he still used to greet him.

Seeing him come in, Yan Shikuan hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "I heard that the third brother has been bored in the study all morning, but he is thinking about the repayment plan?" ”

Yi Zhizhi took a cigar and said casually: "Have you got the information you added?" ”

"Alright." Yan Shikuan smiled and said, "No, as soon as I get it right, I'll send it over." As he spoke, he took out an envelope and handed it over, saying, "This is the detailed information of Wu Yuanhua when he was the chief merchant of the Thirteen Banks. This is really not knowing if you don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, I only knew the scenery ......of the general business before, who knew that Wu Yuanhua's experience was so miserable. ”

Saying that, he sighed and said, "No wonder the Pan family would say that they would rather be a dog than a businessman......." ”

Would you rather be a dog than a merchant? Is the general merchant of the Thirteen Lines worse than a dog? Yi Zhishu didn't answer, lit the cigar, opened the envelope and read it, and after reading it in one go, he was speechless to the extreme.

In the sixth year of Daoguang (1826), the great nobleman Zhang Ge of Xinjiang rebelled, and the imperial court sent troops to levy, and it was urgent to raise a huge amount of military salaries, and Guangdong Province apportioned military salaries of 1.3 million taels of silver.

Wu Bingjian saw the opportunity and spent 500,000 taels of silver to get up and down, only to get his own dignity to withdraw from the ranks of merchants, and Jardine Matheson was taken over by his fourth son Wu Yuanhua, and the general merchant of the thirteenth bank was also taken over by Wu Yuanhua.

Wu Yuanhua's tragedy began here, the Xinjiang rebellion lasted for four years, Wu Yuanhua, who was the general merchant of the Thirteen Banks, was like a rat in the bellows, angry at both ends, and in four years, the Thirteen Banks donated more than one million taels of military salaries.

In 1830, the imperial court won a complete victory and put down the rebellion of Zhang Ge, Wu Yuanhua did not have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and the British East India Company caused him trouble again.

This matter was forbidden, because the Qing Dynasty did not allow foreign women to enter Guangzhou, and Wu Yuanhua was stripped of his shirt and whipped ten times for this incident, and was forced to pay a fine.

In 1831, Zhu Guizhen, the newly appointed governor of Guangdong, went to Xiguan to inspect and believed that the newly built fence and stone gate around the square in front of the Thirteen Xingyi Pavilion were detrimental to the prestige of the imperial court.

Wu Yuanhua was frightened and knelt and kowtowed for half an hour, and then, because the Guangdong Customs Inspector helped him speak, the death penalty could be avoided, and the living crime was inevitable, and then he was thrown into prison, Wu Bingjian ran in many ways, and finally spent 100,000 taels of silver before Wu Yuanhua was able to get out of prison.

In 1832, the British merchant ship "Amsterd" departed from Huangpu Port in Guangzhou, left the Pearl River estuary, turned northeast, and headed for the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, staying for up to half a year.

Emperor Daoguang was angry with the Thirteen Merchants of Guangdong because of this incident, believing that they were negligent in the management of foreign ships, and Wu Yuanhua, who was the chief merchant of the Thirteen Merchants, was arrested in Yamen.

Wu Bingjian once again spent 100,000 taels of silver to redeem Wu Yuanhua from prison.

In 1833, the British businessman was cut with a kitchen knife because the righteous man was cut with a kitchen knife, and there was no way to file a complaint, and set fire to the yamen of the Guangdong Customs.

Wu Yuanhua, who was the general merchant of the Thirteen Banks, was once again made a scapegoat for poor management and was arrested and imprisoned.

In the name of rebuilding the Guangdong Customs and "retribution" to suppress the Yao rebellion, Wu Bingjian donated 500,000 taels of silver before and after to free Wu Yuanhua.

After being released from prison, Wu Yuanhua fell ill and died soon.

Yan Shikuan saw that he was stunned for a long time after reading the information, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, I'm scared?" ”

"I'm really scared." Yi Zhizhi knocked the cigarette ash and said: "This is not only money, but also fatal, I really don't know how those general merchants survived before." ”

Yan Shikuan said disapprerovingly: "To put it bluntly, it's not all rich to make trouble. ”

Before the words fell, the little guy who listened to it reported outside the door: "Young master, Wu Gongzi Wu Changqing is here again." ”