The darkness is gone, and the dawn is dawning.

As soon as the morning dawned, Qingyuan County was as noisy as in the past.

The only difference is that now that the sun is almost three poles, and it has already passed the hour, the east gate has been closed, and the only entrance of Qingyuan out of the city has been sealed.

Moreover, there was also a bright red county government notice posted at the east gate, saying that a group of mountain bandits had recently fled from Putian to Qingyuan, and that they had frequently committed crimes outside the city, and that many villages had been looted and were very rampant. In order to prevent the mountain bandits from entering the city and causing trouble, the county government decided to temporarily close the city gate. After a few days, the garrison of Fucheng will exterminate the mountain bandits outside the city, and then open the city.

The date of payment is today, in addition to the vermilion Qingyuan County Order Seal, there is also the county lord's handwritten charge.

There are more people going in and out of Qingyuan County, or going out of the city to visit relatives, or going out of the city to go to the ground, or going to visit relatives and friends, to change to the usual East Gate closed, the city must be chaotic. But as soon as this notice came out, the people who wanted to go out of the city but did not get it did not dare to have any more opinions.

Good fellows, there are bandits outside the city, and they have already sacked several villages outside the city, this is no joke.

Once the mountain bandits are really allowed to come in and plague the county, then what is it? Therefore, for the county government's decision to temporarily close the east gate, the people in the city still support it.

Therefore, when the common people and merchants who came to the east gate and wanted to leave the city saw this notice, they all silently expressed no opinion, and returned to the city by the same route.

The bantam tiger hid on the city tower and watched the scene below the city tower, secretly admiring Fang Ming, a scholar, who was really powerful, and actually came up with this strategy. Of course, the Qingyuan County Order, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, really agreed to write this notice.

This Qingyuan County Lingyin and Hu Zeyi's handwritten bet naturally can't be faked.

Looking at all the things downstairs in the city, in his opinion, their plan to make a lot of money in Qingyuan City is becoming more and more reliable.

At this time, according to the list of people listed by Fang Ming, the vast majority of the merchants and gentry in the city, as well as large households, also received invitations written by Hu Zeyi himself.

Everything seemed to be slowly progressing in the direction preset by the One-Eyed Dragon, Fang Ming and the others.

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Archway Street, Drunken Immortal Building.

Tang Fuguo leaned half of his body in front of the counter of the restaurant that had just opened, holding the hot red invitation that the guy received when he opened the door this morning, looking at it with a strange face, and muttering: "It's really a strange thing, the county lord actually invited me to the county government for a banquet in the evening, it's really a rare thing in a century!" Junko, come over here—"

He greeted the guy who opened the door in the morning and received the invitation, and asked, "This invitation was really sent to you by the county government's yasman?" ”

"Of course it's true," Junko nodded seriously and said, "Tsing Yi soap suit, dressed in tolerance, who else can he be if he is not an official in the county office?" Shopkeeper, who dares in broad daylight

Pretending to be a tolerance and swindling? It's just boring! ”

"That's right!" Tang Fuguo nodded slightly, but he still had doubts on his face, and said, "But why did the county lord invite me to the county government for a banquet, this... He is a dignified six-grade official, and I, Tang Fuguo, am just a restaurant, how can I let the county lord invite me to dinner. I really can't figure it out. ”

"Hey, what's wrong with that."

Junzi rubbed the rag in his hand to wipe the table on his shoulder, and smiled flatteringly: "Our drunken immortal building is now the premier restaurant in Qingyuan County, and the last time the county lieutenant Cui held that Laoshizi charity dinner, wasn't it also held in our drunken immortal building?" He agreed, in the future, all the banquets of the county government will be designated in our drunken fairy building, the shopkeeper, you are also involved with the county government now, how can you be vain? According to the small look, that is the county lord who values the shopkeeper, eighty percent is the next important dinner to be set up in the drunken fairy building, so I will call you over to explain something. ”

"Shhhh It's really such a reason to be said by your kid, huh? ”

Tang Fuguo was said by the guy, and he also felt that it really made some sense. Especially when Shunzi touted it like this, he suddenly became a little fluttering, he could be valued by the county lord, it seems that he will not be a small person in the future, and the drunken immortal building is bound to be carried forward in his own hands.

Immediately, he slapped the invitation on the counter, cleared his throat, and said very proudly: "Well, since the county lord has invited me, how can I and the ordinary people refuse?" Go, be sure to go! ”

The loud voice spread throughout the restaurant, for fear that the guy working in the corner would not hear it and share the honor he was valued by Hu County.

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At noon, Tianshun Qianzhuang.

Wu Gongli also received an invitation from his cousin Hu Zeyi, and it happened that Wu Gongyi, who was also a cousin, was also a guest in his bank.

Who is Wu Gongyi?

It is the history of the money grabber who is responsible for the public money in Qingyuan County, and the professional manager of the official usury.

At the same time, he is also a cousin of Wu Gongli.

Because of the opening of Jufenglong Silver a few days ago, many businessmen who are in urgent need of turnover silver no longer eat his high interest rate, and have switched to low-interest Jufenglong, resulting in a sharp decline in his business volume recently.

So he thought about coming to his cousin Wu Gongli, who opened a money bank, today to discuss with the other party what could be done to combat the arrogance of Ju Fenglong, so that his usury business could recover some vitality.

He has business indicators every year, beyond the fixed business indicators given by the imperial court to catch money, and the rest of the business is basically his profit. Therefore, he used to often cooperate with Wu Gongli.

In the past, the money village in the entire Qingyuan County was Wu Gongli's family, and anyone who couldn't borrow money from Tianshun Money Village could only run to him to catch money and make Shi take usury. So they often do something in secret.

For example, if they see a merchant who is in urgent need of silver, and then ask Wu Gongli to refuse the other party's loan on the grounds that the money has been tight recently, then the other party must take usury from Shi Wu Gongyi, who caught the money. At that time, the cousins will add five points to the profit difference earned on the second and one point.

This kind of lack of morality, the brothers did not do less. It's just that Wu Gongyi has always been in the light, and Wu Gongli has cooperated in secret. Anyway, Wu Gongyi has not had a good reputation as a professional manager of usury in the imperial court. Therefore, this kind of infamous thing is for him to operate.

But since the appearance of Jufenglong Yinhao, the money village in Qingyuan County is no longer the dominant Tianshun money bank, not only his usury business has plummeted, but even Tianshun money has been hit.

Wu Gongyi, who has always been domineering and domineering, is willing to suffer this loss in a muffled voice?

So after lunch, I ran to Wu Gongli to sum up the countermeasures.

However, as soon as he entered the Qianzhuang and sat down, he saw that a county official sent an invitation to Wu Gongli, and he couldn't help but be curious, because he also received an invitation from his cousin Hu Zeyi in the morning.

After Wu Gongli read it carefully, he hurriedly asked: "Gongli, is it written in this invitation from my cousin, let you go to the county government for a banquet in the evening?" ”

"yes, huh?"

Wu Gongli looked at Wu Gongyi in surprise and asked, "Cousin, you also received an invitation?" ”

Wu Gongyi nodded yes and said, "Are you strange or not?" Uncle Cousin wants to invite our brothers to dinner, and send someone to say hello, why bother writing an invitation and sending someone to send it here. Why do you make such a move? ”

Wu Gongli is also very strange about this, it stands to reason that with Hu Zeyi's kinship with their Wu family, they really don't need these etiquettes, besides, aside from Hu Zeyi's identity as a county order, they are still their elders, where do they need these red tape when they ask their juniors to go to the county government for a banquet?

But soon, he was relieved and said, "Maybe Uncle Xing invited not only you and my brothers, but also some prominent figures in the city." ”

Wu Gongyi said: "Then do you know what it is for?" ”

"I don't know."

Wu Gongli shook his head, then remembered the announcement at the east gate in the morning, and guessed: "It should be related to the rampant bandits outside the city recently." It is estimated that Uncle Cousin wants to convene the merchants in the city to discuss how to allocate the living expenses of the people in the city in these days when the city gate is closed. It is nothing more than to let the big guy not arbitrarily increase the price of daily necessities such as rice, vegetables, and meat during this period, resulting in chaos in the city. The year before last, when there was a plague outside the city and the city gates were closed for a month, didn't my cousin also do this? ”

"It's still a public gift, your brain reacts quickly." Wu Gongyi praised Wu Gongli and asked, "That has nothing to do with us, are you going?" ”

Wu Gongli nodded heavily and said, "Go, I must go, this is a matter of supporting the scene for my cousin, and it's not good for us to be juniors." And because of the matter of Jufenglong Yinhao, I had a bit of an unpleasant quarrel with my cousin a few days ago, and I can take this opportunity to make up for it. ”

"If you don't say I forgot! This dog's day gathers Fenglong, and this time can kill Lao Tzu and me. ”

Wu Gongyi slapped the table angrily, frowned and said, "Yes, I will go if you go, just so I will sue my cousin." The public money is not my business alone, and if I can't complete the fixed tasks sent by the imperial court at the end of the year, the county government is also responsible. Uncle Cousin, as the commander of Qingyuan County, must not ignore it. ”

Wu Gongli also hated Ju Fenglong in his heart, and nodded and said: "Okay, when I go to the banquet, Cao Tianjiao, the old bastard of Jufenglong's silver number, will definitely be there, and I will make this old bastard look good at that time!" Look, cousin, how long have you been in? I didn't even have a guest in this money village, and now I'm running away to gather Fenglong! ”

"Good! That's it! ”

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Jufenglong Money Village.

Cao Tianjiao was smiling and sending a guest outside the silver number.

When he returned to the store, he stretched his waist proudly, and couldn't hide his joy and said to a guy who was sweeping the floor with his head down: "Go, make me a bowl of tea and soup for the owner to quench my thirst, and I have been talking with people all morning about business, and my mouth is about to dry out." ”

Looking at this posture, it should be that another loan deal has just been negotiated.

As soon as the guy left, Cao Yuechan hired Tingting to come down from upstairs, looked at Cao Tianjiao and asked, "Dad, did Hu Xianling send someone to send an invitation in the morning?" ”

"Well, yes."

Cao Tianjiao walked to the cabinet, stretched out his hand to the guy inside through the window of the cabinet and said, "Bring the invitation from the county government in the morning to the eldest lady." ”

Then he forwarded the invitation to Cao Yuechan, and said with a smile: "Chan'er, the errand of going to the banquet will be left to Daddy, you are a girl who has not been out of the cabinet, and you always do something to show up, and the impact is not good!" ”

Cao Yuechan took the invitation, glared at Cao Tianjiao angrily, and said slightly teasingly: "Your old man really loves his daughter, at this time I thought that I was a girl who had not left the cabinet?" Who asked me to take care of the brewery in the first place? Who did he leave his daughter to collect debts all day long? ”

When Cao Tianjiao heard this, he laughed twice, obviously, his little caution was seen through by his smart and clever daughter.

Obviously, he just wanted to take advantage of the recent booming business of Jufenglong Silver to show off in front of a group of businessmen when he went to the county government for a banquet, so that the big guy would know that he Cao Tianjiao was also a capable person.

Waiting for Cao Yuechan to finish reading the invitation, suddenly, her face was extremely solemn and said, "Dad, you can't go to this banquet!" ”

Cao Tianjiao was suddenly unhappy: "Why can't I go?" Nominally, I'm still the owner of Jufenglong! I'm going! ”

"Well, that's not what my daughter meant."

Cao Yuechan shook her head again and again: "Not only can't you go, but your daughter can't go either!" No one in our Cao family is allowed to go! ”

"Huh?" Cao Tianjiao was a little puzzled.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Yuechan said again: "Not only can our Cao family not be able to go to the banquet, but the silver horn must be closed now, and the guys will start the holiday now." At the same time, all the coins in the silver trumpet are transferred. Don't leave a single copper plate on the silver cabinet! ”

"Aang? Chan'er, why is this? What the hell is going on? ”

This book comes from reading books