After Wang Youcheng sat down, Cui Geng asked someone to bring a bowl of tea soup and said, "Don't worry, shopkeeper Wang, drink tea soup first, and say anything slowly." ”

After taking a sip of the hot tea soup, Wang Youcheng stabilized his mind a little, wiped his lips, and said: "Cui County Order, Ju Fenglong has a big deal this time." The reason for this has to start from half a year ago......"

Cui Geng learned from Wang Youcheng that it was not Cao Yuechan who had the accident, but Yangzhou's Jufenglong Yinhao.

In February of this year, Li Zhaode, who was born in the Li family in Longxi, was named Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Ping Zhangshi by Wu Zetian, that is, the prime minister, and a very popular minister.

However, the ambition of this Prime Minister Li is not only that.

As soon as he took office, he used a little trick and kicked Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi out of the prime minister's team, leaving only the good old man of officialdom who "spit on his face" - Lou Shide.

Although Wu Zetian later recruited three more people to enter the prime minister's team, no matter in terms of seniority or sainthood, the three newly promoted members of the prime minister's team could not compete with Li Zhaode.

For a time, Li Zhaode became the "sole minister" of the imperial court, and he was in power.

At that time, the Great Zhou court not only had to use troops in the Western Regions, but also built two palaces for Wu Zetian, Xingtai Palace and Sanyang Palace, and raised money everywhere, causing serious deflation.

How to solve this problem?

Nowadays, there are four main things that can be called "money": one is copper coins, the second is cloth, the third is brocade, and the fourth is gold.

Li Zhaode patted his head and issued an order - "prohibit the cultivation of brocade by the people".

He had a good idea. The common people spend all the brocade, and there is more "money" on the market, so won't deflation be solved?

It is not known whether this decree has achieved its original purpose, but it is clearly felt by the various money banks...... There are not enough warehouses.

The reason is very simple, the gold and copper coins in the market are not enough, and if you don't let the people accumulate brocade now, then only ordinary cloth can be accumulated in large quantities. The value of cloth is low and the volume is large, and the original warehouse is of course not enough.

Yangzhou is a prosperous business and trade, and the currency circulation is the most frequent, which can stump several branches of Jufenglong in Yangzhou.

The shopkeepers of several semicolons pondered that it would not be cost-effective if each of them built a new warehouse, so they simply raised funds to buy an abandoned granary in the name of Jufenglong Yinhao, which was specially used to store the ordinary cloth of each family.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, just last night, the warehouse caught fire, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth were burned.

With the help of well-intentioned people, the merchants and people of Yangzhou City soon learned the news.

Is this worth it?

They gathered in front of the doors of Jufenglong's various branches in Yangzhou, demanding that the money tickets in their hands be exchanged for real money.

This led to the most feared event of the money bank operators - a run.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the establishment of Jufenglong, there was a plan for this situation: first, depositors with less than 30 yuan can redeem money at any time. But in the event of a run, the bankers have to deliberately slow down the speed of the money. Second, if the depositor wants to withdraw more than 30 yuan at a time, he must make an appointment three days in advance, otherwise it will not be cashed.

Therefore, the current situation is that within three days, the silver numbers in Yangzhou, Jufenglong, can still be maintained. But three days later, if those big depositors also participate in the run, the Yangzhou Jufenglong branch will be completely finished. Under the chain reaction, it is not impossible that Jufenglong's semicolon in the entire Huainan Province will go out of business.

Therefore, Wang Youcheng, as the responsible person of Jufenglong in the entire Huainan Province, came to find Cui Geng today, which is to hope that Cui Geng will come forward and persuade those big merchants not to participate in the run for the time being, so as to give Jufenglong a chance to breathe~ .

Cui Geng, who is the major shareholder of Jufenglong Yinhao, is of course obliged to do so after knowing the ins and outs and the seriousness of the situation. After sending Wang Youcheng away, he immediately sent an invitation to invite the big customers of various branches in Yangzhou to the banquet.

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The next day, Quy Nhon Restaurant, 2nd floor.

Dozens of tables were filled with wealthy merchants in Yangzhou, among whom there were even a dozen monks. In these years, don't look down on monks, the temple not only accepts donors, but also most of them also operate quality banks, which makes a lot of profits, and naturally becomes a big customer of Jufenglong.

Cui Geng didn't come alone this time, and he also brought the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion Fa Cao to join the army Wei Miao, and Li Shan, the biggest underworld leader in Yangzhou City.

The two of them didn't need to speak, just sitting there was a deterrent.

When the guests were full, Cui Gengcai coughed lightly, and persuaded everyone not to participate in the run.

And for very good reason.

First of all, the burned cloth in the warehouse is only worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, and for Ju Fenglong, it is not even a broken muscle. As long as everyone does not run, there will be no problem in the operation of Jufenglong.

Secondly, if everyone runs on one after another and Jufenglong collapses, the final victims are still the majority of those present.

And the most important thing, the most profitable business in Yangzhou today, one is the frosting workshop, and the other is the felt hat workshop. Cui Geng is willing to take out part of the shares of these two workshops to guarantee the credibility of Jufenglong.

These words are reasonable, coupled with the face of Cui Geng, Li Shan and Wei Cao, the big depositors of the merchants are suddenly a little moved.

Of course, it would not be realistic to say that I would agree to it.

If you don't run on yourself, you can't guarantee that others won't run. Participating in the run still has the hope of getting back the capital, if you don't move, and when Jufenglong really collapses, then you will regret it.

For a while, there was silence in the hall, and none of the wealthy businessmen was willing to take the lead in expressing their position.

At this moment, someone outside the door suddenly shouted: "Since everyone can't trust Jufenglong so much, why don't you sell all the money tickets in your hand to you!" ”

Immediately after that, the curtain was lifted, and three people walked in.

The first person, looking at the age of about forty, eight feet tall, with a slightly hunched back, just said what he said.

The two people behind him, one was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, with her hair combed in a double bun, dressed in a splendid dress, although she did not have hairpins, she was more graceful and naturally beautiful.

The other was a middle-aged monk. Although there is nothing surprising about this person's appearance, when he goes to that station, he gives people a sense of otherworldliness, and he should not be underestimated.

Cui Geng had already checked before the banquet, and all the wealthy businessmen who had been invited had already arrived.

Then these three people are not invited!

He looked at the three of them and asked, "I don't know the three of them, and I don't know how many of them are ......."

The camel's chest was slightly pulled, and he said proudly: "Hehe, although Cui Xianling was not invited, aren't you just talking about money today?" As long as it has something to do with money, ask yourself below, and you are qualified to say two sentences! ”

After a pause, the camel glanced at the dozens of businessmen present at the banquet, and said: "A certain family repeats it again, if anyone doesn't trust Jufenglong Yinhao, it doesn't matter, you can sell the money ticket in your hand to Zaixia." Those who come do not refuse, and the more the merrier. ”

Eat the money tickets in the hands of everyone present in one go?

What a big breath!

The businessmen and depositors present all showed disdain, obviously not interested in the words of this camel, and criticized them in private.

"The toad yawns—what a breath! Sell you all the money tickets, can you eat it? ”

"I don't know where the people from a small place have two dollars in their hands, and they don't know how thick the sky is. Do you know how much Jufenglong owes us? It adds up to more than 10 million! ”

"Don't talk about you, even today, if you want to come up with such a large amount of money, you have to weigh it carefully. Dead camels, go up and stay wherever it is cool. ”

……

In the face of the ridicule of the wealthy merchants, the camel seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and there was no shame at all.

It wasn't until the criticism gradually died down that he pressed down with both hands and said confidently: "What? Do you believe that you have the financial resources to do so? ”

"Who the fuck are you?" Someone really couldn't stand the camel's pretense, and suddenly stood up and asked in annoyance.

The camel said: "In the lower Zou Fang." If you haven't heard of your name, you should have heard of your father, right? His father's surname is Zou, his name is Fengchi, and some people call him Zou Camel. If anyone here doubts the identity of the next person, please go to the nearby Fusheng Di store to verify. ”

As soon as the camel signed up, the wind immediately changed again, and the businessmen and depositors who were still full of disdain just now showed joy on their faces.

"No wonder you dare to boast about such a Haikou, it turns out that he is the son of Zou Camel."

"Ju Fenglong and the Zou family are involved, and the future is really promising!"

"With the Zou family's guarantee, everyone is still worried about the exchange of money tickets, the clouds are full of scattered throughout the day."

……

However, Cui Geng really hadn't heard of the name of Zou Camel, so he looked at Li Shan beside him and asked, "Who is this Zou Camel?" ”

Li Shan slightly twisted a few strands of short ink hair under his chin, nodded and said, "Don't believe Cui County's order." More than 10 million is a thousand difficulties for others. But for the Zou family, it's really not a problem, the Zou family is really rich and rivals the country......"

Li Shanke is an old man, and his experience can be called a living dictionary, so he introduced it to Cui Geng in detail.

Zou Fengchi, born in the seventh year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, was nicknamed Zou Camel because of his high shoulders and bent back.

It is said that when he was young, he was a vendor selling steamed cakes in a cart in Chang'an City, and he was very poor.

The northeast corner of Shengye Square in Chang'an City is the place where Zou Camel must pass every time he sells cakes, and there are several bricks half-buried in the ground on that road.

Every time the Zou camel passes by here, if it accidentally touches these bricks, it will fall into the cake, and the day's income will be greatly reduced.

One day, the car overturned again, and Zou Camel was furious, borrowed tools, and prepared to dig out all these bricks, so as to never suffer in the future.

This excavation was terrible, and Zou Camel found that there were more than a dozen large urns buried in the ground, and each large urn was filled with gold.

Later, Zou Camel used these gold to open a large number of mansions, and gradually became rich and rivaled the country. I think that back then, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi heard about his name when he was alive and specially summoned him.

Summoned him into the palace, Li Zhi asked, Zou Aiqing, they all said that you are rich and rival the country, how much money does your family have?

Zou Camel thought for a while, and said very arrogantly, If Your Majesty is willing, you can sell me all the trees on Zhongnan Mountain. No matter how big or small, one silk is a tree. The grass people dare to guarantee that even if all the trees in Zhongnan Mountain are cut down, my family's silk will still be rich.

Li Zhi pondered carefully, this camel is really rich and rivals the country! A businessman is actually richer than me, the king of a country, so how can he do it?

Within a few days, Li Zhi grabbed Zou Camel's pigtail and sent him to Lingnan.

It wasn't until Wu Zetian ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world that Zou Camel, the richest man in the world, was able to return to Chang'an City.

Although Zou Camel was exiled, his family's property was embezzled by various magnates. However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the rotten ship has 3,000 nails, so it is indeed not difficult for the Zou family to come up with more than 10 million yuan.

……

After hearing this, Cui Geng secretly wondered, he had no contact with the Zou family, how could Zou Fang take the initiative to help Ju Fenglong with such a big favor?

But now is obviously not the time to think about this, he quickly stood up, hugged his fists and arched his hands: "Thank you Zou Shaodong for your help, this county is grateful for Ju Fenglong, if it is ...... in the future"

"Wait!"

Without waiting for Cui Geng to finish speaking, the beautiful girl behind Zou Fang interrupted abruptly, "Cui County ordered to wait a minute, Zou Shaodong did this, but there are conditions." ”