Shi Guozhong, who had just been awarded the seventh grade of Xuande Lang and received the right to know the affairs of Cangzhou, lived in Tofu Lane near Panlou Street. It's not a big mansion with a few entrances and exits, it's just a two-story building along the street, which looks a little low, and there is no yard, so it's not grand at all.

However, it is still enough to be enviable to have a mansion of his own in the most prosperous inner city of Kaifeng Mansion, even if he is a dignified official of the Seventh Rank Dynasty, and now he has also received important military and political affairs in a state.

Of course, this house was not purchased by Shi Dazhizhou with the money obtained from corruption and bribery, but by the dowry of his mother, Sister Wan.

Shi Guozhong was a jinshi in the third year of Yuan You, and the chief examiner of that subject was Su Dongpo, the mentor of Wu Haogu. Shi Guozhong himself is a native of Sichuan, deeply influenced by Sumen Shuxue, and the "treatises" and "countermeasures" he wrote won Su Dongpo's appreciation, so he was admitted to the second class.

At that time, he was a fifty-three-year-old old showman, and he was a poor man who had never begged a lady and had no property in his family, and his life was gloomy. Before high school, not to mention that those relatives in his hometown in Sichuan disliked him, even he himself disliked himself. If he hadn't been afraid of death, he would have hanged himself with a rope a long time ago.

But at the moment when the list was released in front of Guozijian on February 15 of the third year of Yuan You, Shi Guozhong immediately magically realized the counterattack of Diaosi, and was contested by a group of Bai Fumei and her father who were younger than him...... In the end, he was a bad old man in his fifties and half of his body was in the ground, and he actually married the eldest lady of the Kaifeng family, and also got a house worth tens of thousands of yuan, as well as 10,000 acres of fertile land in Chenliu County, and a lot of gold and silver treasures as a dowry. It's not that beautiful in my dreams!

Maybe it's because this happy life is not easy to come by, so Shi Guozhong, a civil official from a second-class jinshi, is more slippery than a yellow eel. In his early years, when he was a county lieutenant and a teacher, he specially used some small and medium-sized businessmen and landlords with no background to establish his authority, and he seemed to be very stylish. Later, he was promoted to supervise the imperial history and began to mix, using trivial things to impeach the powerful, and did not "join the party", and as a result, he was sent out of Beijing to be the magistrate. In the county magistrate, he was also confused and the officials did foolish things, and he never dared to provoke the powerful and powerful.

originally thought that he was going to be mixed with Zhishi in the magistrate of the county in this life, but he seized an opportunity to meet the luck in Yanggu County, and in a blink of an eye, he mixed with the magistrate - he skipped the general judgment from the magistrate and became the governor directly, but it was a leap in officialdom!

And how this leap was achieved, Shi Guozhong certainly knows it. However, he did not go to thank Wu Haogu for this, but calmly waited at home for Wu Haogu to come to the door. It's not that he's on the shelf, but it's that a dignified civil official of the seventh rank goes to worship the door of a military attache from the seventh grade, which is likely to provoke the imperial history bullet seal. He is not a big mountain like Cai Jing, and he is not afraid of others impeaching him for trivial things.

However, after waiting for many days, they were about to go to Cangzhou to take office, and they did not see Wu Haogu visiting. Wu Haogu didn't come, but he came to a friend that Shi Guozhong met when he was studying abroad in his early years (in fact, he was a teacher), Zong Ze, who was named on the gold list one later than him - that was the famous minister of the anti-gold in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and Zong Ze Zong Rulin, who stayed in Tokyo.

Zong Ze was a jinshi in the sixth year of Yuan You, his official luck was actually good, and he was born in the fifth class, and he became a magistrate early. Now I have just finished serving as the governor of Longyou County, and I have returned to Beijing to report on my duties and elections, and I live in the Guanyin Courtyard not far from Tofu Lane, and often come to Tofu Lane to drink a few cups of wine with Shi Guozhong, and smooth out a major national event.

But today, the visiting Zong Ze chatted with Shi Guozhong about the "property market turmoil" that happened yesterday. In fact, it wasn't a turmoil, but some civil officials from Jinshi and some small military ministers of the forbidden army did not buy a house, and they blocked the door of the Republic Building for a while. If it hadn't alarmed An Tao and Lu Jia to ask these two big guys, it wouldn't have been a problem at all.

But Wu Haogu just bumped into the muzzle of An Tao and Lu Jiawen, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that this matter is not easy.

However, Zong Ze is a generation of famous ministers, so he naturally looks at the problem more profoundly.

"Mixed blessings and sorrows, first joy and then sorrow."

After listening to Zong Ze's evaluation, Shi Guozhong frowned, "Why is it happy first and then worried?" It's all joy and no worries! The two pieces of land in Dutingyi and Fengqiu Gate are not very big, and they are sold for millions after building a house...... If you can revitalize the land of the imperial court in Kaifeng Mansion in this way, you can earn millions of dollars by selling a few pieces of land a year, which is worth one-tenth of the tax in the world, isn't it good? ”

"That's a good thing," said Zongze, "but Brother Bourne, you can't just look at the present and ignore the long term!" This time, the Republic Bank relied on just two plots of land and hundreds of properties to confine millions of people...... This is an unprecedented speed of accumulating money! ”

"It's a good idea!" Shi Guozhong shook his head, "What's wrong?" ”

"Don't suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, don't suffer from poverty but suffer from anxiety!" Zong Ze touched his beard and frowned, looking worried about the country and the people. "In today's world, there is a lot of unfairness, wealth and restlessness, and people's hearts are panicked. And what Wu Haogu did opened up a path for the wealthy and powerful to quickly accumulate wealth, which will inevitably cause the rich to get richer and the poor to be uneasy, and after a long time, I am afraid that the world will disintegrate! ”

Zong Ze said, in the words of later generations, that is, what Wu Haogu did was accelerating the accumulation and accumulation of capital. Not only in Kaifeng Mansion to engage in "real estate prosperity" is this way, in Jiehe to engage in a commercial market, in Haizhou to build a Tianya Town, are all in the concentration of capital - capital is concentrated, in order to have doctrine!

It was only in this real estate sale activity that the effect of capital gathering was particularly obvious, which caused Zong Ze's concern.

Of course, his concerns were not unfounded. Because the accumulation of capital, or the richer the richer, will inevitably cause the poor to be uneasy. And most of the "richer" rich people come from the central city, just look at the money that Wu Haogu made in the real estate business this time! can get his own money, how can he have hundreds of thousands, right?

With so much money, if the local owner collects rent, one million mu may not be enough!

In other words, Wu Hao's ancient behavior has driven some wealthy businessmen in big cities to get richer, and relatively it has broken the original pattern of wealth and power, which can easily cause the disintegration of the world - a similar situation has already appeared in Zong Ze's hometown of Yiwu! It is the great wealth from the sea that causes the obligations and the "uneasy and uneasy and the people are panicked" in some parts of the two provinces.

The wealthy maritime merchants bought a large amount of land and colluded with officials to pass on the land to the poor. The poor people who are living in difficulty "eat vegetables and serve the devil and form a party to protect themselves", which is a headache for the magistrates.

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At this time, Wu Haogu was sitting in a rickety carriage and walking slowly on Panlou Street.

It was drizzling outside the carriage, and the road was a little slippery and muddy, but this was not the reason why Wu Haogu did not ride a horse and switched to a car. What he wants to do today is to form a party for personal gain, and of course it is inconvenient for him to come openly.

So not only did he ride in a carriage, but the carriage was rented, and it was not Olga or Lin Chong who drove the carriage, but a steward of the Republic Bank, named Wan Baolu. The person with this very festive name is the son of Su Dalang hired from Kaifeng Wanjia, and he is also the cousin of Shi Guozhong's mother, Sister Wan.

Wu Haogu, who was sitting in the carriage, squinted his eyes and was thinking about his thoughts, not the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, but the affairs of the north!

Just this morning, Lin Chong rushed back to Kaifeng Mansion from Jiehe Shang City, and brought the news of the death of the Liao lord Yelu Hongji and Yelu Yanxi's accession to the throne to Wu Haogu - because the transfer of the supreme power of the Liao State has never been very smooth, so Yelu Yanxi did not mourn after ascending the throne, and waited until the important ministers of the Liao State who were scattered all over the country (not all the important ministers of the Liao State followed the emperor around in the wilderness) were summoned to the Winter Bowl Camp, and then announced the death of Yelu Hongji, and sent mourning envoys to the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Western Xia, Uighur and other countries.

Now that the mourning envoy has not crossed the boundary river, the news sent by Lin Chong was sent by Ma Zhi.

Wu Haogu, who got the news, knew that his days of messing around in Kaifeng Mansion were coming to an end soon, and there was still a big business on the Jiehe side that he needed to take care of!

However, before leaving Kaifeng Mansion, there are still many things that need to be arranged...... Especially that Lu family thief must give him some tricks!

When he was thinking about how to frame Zhongliang, the carriage in which Wu Haogu was riding had already listened outside a small alley.

"Dong Weng, Tofu Alley has arrived." Marbel's voice came from outside the carriage.

"Okay." Wu Haogu retracted his mind, pulled the curtain of the car and went out, it was still raining outside, and Wan Baolu immediately handed over an umbrella diligently. "Dong Weng, do you want Xiao Di to accompany you?"

"No need," Wu Haogu smiled, "I'm familiar with Tofu Alley." ”

As he spoke, he took his umbrella and walked briskly into the narrow alley. Soon arrived at the door of the small building where Shi Guozhong and Wan Niangzi lived. As soon as I tried to knock on the door, the door creaked open.

A man came out of it, in his forties, a little chubby, with a round fleshy face with a goatee and a pair of brass bell-like eyes.

Wu Haogu couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and hurriedly looked at both sides to confirm that this house was indeed Shi Guozhong's home......

"Hey, why is Dalang here?"

Wan Niangzi's soft and sweet voice suddenly came, and then I saw Wan Niangzi appear behind the man in his forties.

Now Wu Haogu was even more surprised, and said in his heart: It can't be that he chose the wrong time and met someone he shouldn't have seen, right? But it doesn't matter, my mouth is tight......

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu hurriedly stepped aside, wanting the man to leave quickly, only then did he see Shi Guozhong appear in the door carrying a bamboo basket, "Brother Rulin, there is a Dongpo elbow here for you to take...... Hey, Wu Dongmen, why are you here? Please, come in. ”