The big ship slowly approached the shore, and Qi Jiguang, who was dressed in military uniform, stood at the bow of the boat, he was wearing the armor of General Shanwen, the big red tassel on the helmet, and the black on the outside and the red cloak on the back of his shoulders were flying in the air, looking heroic.

Shen Mo, who was dressed in casual clothes, was already standing on the dock, greeting him with a smile, and Lao Yuan smiled and said, "Brother Yuan Jing, don't come to harm!" ”

"Your Excellency!" Qi Jiguang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "Don't come harmless, my lord!" "Although he is a fourth-grade military general, two levels higher than Shen Mo, he is a civil official, and he is far more expensive than him, not to mention that a civilian official commands a military general, which is an iron-clad rule.

It's just that he was called a brother and a brother at the beginning, and he called him by his name, but now he has to distinguish between the upper and lower levels and the inferior, which makes Qi Jiguang feel a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, he was silent and greeted him at the dock, which made him feel much better.

The pedal was lowered, Qi Jiguang was the first to come down, and he was about to pay a big salute, Shen Mo hurriedly supported him, and said with a serious face: "Do you remember what we said in Longshan?" Don't get used to bad habits! ”

Qi Jiguang recalled that winter, the two of them were in the small thatched hut behind Longshan, scolding Fang Xuan, inspiring words, pointing out the country, and talking about the world, there is really some meaning of 'just young and romantic, try to reach out, and make up for the cracks in the sky'!

Thinking of this, this Shandong-like man couldn't help but get slightly excited.

"Do you remember our ideals at the beginning?" Shen Mo shook hands with him tightly.

Qi Jiguang nodded heavily and said: "Enrich the country and strengthen the army, and revitalize the prestige of China!" ”

"Prestige all over the world, dignified China wants to let all countries come to court!" Shen Mo also became excited, patted his hand vigorously and said, "Brother Yuan Jing, although the goal is far away, you and I are indeed one step closer!" ”

Hearing his words, Qi Jiguang regained his calm mood and nodded: "My lord is in charge of a mansion with a weak crown, and he holds the power to open the port, and now he is sweeping away the obstacles, it is a good time to show his ambitions." ”

Shen Mo looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother Yuan Jing, from what you said, I heard a wave of resentment. ”

"Jiguang doesn't dare." Qi Jiguang said softly.

"You and my brother, don't be restrained by false courtesy!" Shen Mo patted his arm and said, "Talk as you go." ”

Qi Jiguang nodded, and walked along the river with him, passing through the crowd of people who unloaded sacks from the boat, and the surroundings gradually quieted down.

Shen Mo opened his mouth and smiled: "To be honest, does Brother Yuan Jing blame me for being too self-righteous and selfish?" ”

"The last general will not dare." Qi Jiguang hurriedly denied it: "Just like the military regulations of our cooperation say, obedience is the duty of a soldier, and I have always asked my subordinates to use this, of course, I have to lead by example." ”

"Look," Shen Mo pointed at him and smiled, "You have to use military regulations to convince yourself before you can come to me...... It shows that you are indeed reluctant and unwilling! ”

Qi Jiguang chuckled: "It's nothing, it's too much." ”

"I don't have much heart." Shen Mo said in a clear voice: "You think that this place is far away from the war zone, compared to Songjiang, Ningbo, Taizhou, etc., there are too few opportunities for war, I'm afraid that most of the time, it will be for him Shen Humble to take care of the home, right?" ”

Qi Jiguang smiled and didn't speak, obviously being right.

"Originally, you were not wrong to think so, Suzhou is indeed not the front line." Shen Mo stood still, and said to him: "But it's wrong now, because this is going to open a port, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and a bad thing for cutting off people's financial routes. ”

"The literary ones can't do it, the martial ones come to the martial arts; What is bright does not come out, and what is dark comes to the dark. Shen Mo continued: "When the open guns and hidden arrows do not work, they will definitely summon the Japanese and break the net." ”

Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "Originally, they and the Japanese were embarrassed, and this is no secret in Zhejiang. ”

"Well," Shen Mo also nodded: "So Brother Yuan Jing must not relax, he must practice more diligently, and when the opportunity comes, he will be a blockbuster!" ”

Qi Jiguang said solemnly: "The last general has been taught. ”

"Look, here we go again." Shen Mo laughed and said, "But now, I still have to trouble Brother Yuan Jing and take on the vigilance of Suzhou City." ”

"The matter of Suzhou," Qi Jiguang praised sincerely: "My lord is so good, in the midst of the clouds and rain, all those wealthy families will be in." ”

"Hehe," Shen Mo smiled: "My game of cloud and mountain fog, Brother Yuan Jing thinks he has seen through it, right?" ”

"After repeated scrutiny," Qi Jiguang shook his head and said, "It can only be said that I have a rough understanding." ”

"Tell me about it." Silent laughter.

"Then the general will get an axe." Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "The adults used the strategy of 'showing the enemy weakness, first release and then receive', and led them into the trap step by step!" ”

"Hehe, how can you show weakness to the enemy, release first and then receive?"

"On the surface, the adults seem to be caught off guard by those people, but I look at the adults' responses, step by step, in an orderly manner, obviously anticipating the enemy's opportunities and dealing with them early." Qi Jiguang said eloquently: "Look at the adults who clearly understand the grain, but they just don't move, and wait until the other party's money is all exchanged for grain and coupons, and then sell it in one fell swoop, so that the price of grain plummets and the value of the coupons depreciates sharply, so that those people lose their old capital!" ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh: "This is actually the same as fighting on the battlefield - it obviously occupies the advantage of troops, but it is inclined to show the enemy's weakness, lead it into an ambush circle, and then surround and annihilate it!" ”

"Sure enough, it's 'three sentences don't leave the line'!" Shen Mo laughed loudly: "But there are some similarities. As he spoke, he looked at the wide river and said: "Yes, in fact, this incident did not last so long, and it was so big, as long as I made up my mind, ruled the city with an iron fist, cracked down on lawlessness, and stabilized prices, I believe that with you and your army as a deterrent, it can be nipped in the bud." ”

"The reason why it has developed to this day," said in a deep voice, "the unexpectedly strong enemy is one thing, and my deliberate weakness and even deliberate connivance are also very important reasons. He chuckled and said, "I deliberately put down all the chips and complicate simple things." ”

"Why do you want to do this, sir?" Qi Jiguang asked softly.

"It's a war!" Silent and said in a deep voice: "It's their challenge to me, to the city, judging from the development of the situation, at first they didn't plan to fight, but wanted to test or intimidate, so that I would retreat from the difficulty-if I ended it simply and rudely, there would definitely be a series - I don't have so much time to mushroom with them, so the long pain is better than the short pain, or it is better to settle it completely at one time!" ”

"Your Excellency is wise." Qi Jiguang said sincerely: "Now it's completely clean." ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "How is it possible?" Scratching his head as he spoke, he said with a distressed face: "The trouble is still to come, just like I told you just now, if you don't handle it well, there will be a big mess!" As he spoke, he stood up and said solemnly: "General Qi! ”

"The end will be." Qi Jiguang hugged his fists.

"The security of Suzhou City is up to you. Especially the granary of the wharf, the ticket number in the city, the pawnshop, and those businesses should be taken care of. Silent and silently commanded, "Don't let the situation worse." ”

"Yes!" Qi Jiguang received the order.

As Shen Mo predicted, trouble is yet to come. With the entry of a large amount of grain into the market, grain prices have fallen rapidly, and at the same time, the overall price has fallen rapidly...... Contrary to the previous situation, things are now cheaper and can be bought for less money, but the massive number of tickets in the hands of those ticket numbers are all in short periods, half of which are purchased by themselves at a high price, and the other half are pledged by debtors at a higher price. Either way, the cost of acquisition is much higher than the current price.

The bosses had to reduce the selling price of the tickets to the price level, but the people no longer recognized them and stopped buying these tickets! The psychology of chasing up and down is particularly prominent at this moment, and people think that the price will continue to fall, so they will naturally hold the currency for purchase and no longer use a penny.

Someone wants to ask, after months of tossing, just to buy high-priced grain, do the people still have money in their hands?

The answer is yes, yes or no. The reason why they say this is because they do have silver in their hands, but it is all printed money borrowed from pawnshops and ticket numbers...... I ran out of money, and I couldn't tie my neck and skip eating, so I could only borrow money from pawnshops and ticket numbers.

Of course, you can't borrow in vain, in addition to the ultra-high interest, there are also various coupons as collateral. At that time, when prices were soaring and tickets were in high demand, the heads of money banks and pawnshops were very happy to eat these 'cheap' tickets, believing that with the rapid change in prices, their wealth was also growing.

Even if you don't want a Chinese person, you can make this loan, which is very lenient.

It's just that they don't know what it means to be 'safe in their pockets', and anything can happen before the tickets are turned into silver and in their pockets!

Now the price of the ticket has plummeted, and the wealth of the ticket number Qian Zhuang has also shrunk sharply, the bosses behind the scenes are anxious, and the leaders in front of the stage are even more like pins and needles. They rushed together, thinking about how to pass the customs, and finally decided to start from two aspects, on the one hand, urging the people to repay the money as soon as possible; On the one hand, it is putting pressure on those companies that sell to redeem the tickets at the original price. Anyway, we have to get rid of these damn tickets.

But contrary to expectations, these two methods are useless. Let's talk about the former first, the people will naturally settle the accounts, since those coupons are worthless, if you return the money of the seal, it will not be cost-effective to redeem the coupons, it is better to rely on the accounts directly, leave the money, and don't want those more and more cheap coupons.

So when the guys came to the door in a hurry to ask for the money, the debtors said, "The money was used to buy things before, and we have no money in hand now, or we will leave those coupons to you."

I don't know where this bad idea came from, but it soon spread all over the city, and the common people began to repay their debts, and the pawnshop and ticket number really can't be helped, because all along, the value of the collateral is much higher than the Indian money itself, so there has always been a saying of 'two clearances when due', that is, the Indian money with collateral, if it is not repaid when it expires, it does not need to be repaid, but the collateral belongs to the creditor. This was originally a trick to exploit debtors, but who knew that this matter had become a stone to shoot oneself in the foot.

Besides, the stall heads and shopkeepers came to the store that issued the coupons and asked them to redeem them at the original price. Of course, the store did not agree, they said: "The back of this coupon is clearly written, 'Once sold, it will not be redeemed', didn't you read it clearly when you bought it?" ”

The shopkeepers of the ticket number money bank were angry, slapped the table and said: "If you don't redeem it, then it will all be cashed out, and we will be finished together!" ”

The store really can't cash it, but their dead pig is not afraid of boiling water and said: "Our money has bought food stamps, and now we have no money and no goods. If we are forced to do so, we will go bankrupt and go out of business, and all the coupons in your hands will have to be turned into waste paper! Let's play together! The word "Zhongkou" is precisely to calculate the ticket number and pawnshop, and dare not let the tens of millions of taels of tickets go down the drain. This is obviously a high-ranking person behind the back.

In the face of this complete scoundrel, the pawnshops and ticket numbers that are flying in the sky have the feeling of being a vulnerable group for the first time. To make matters worse, in the later stages of the campaign, they were already stretched thin, so they had to borrow millions of taels of silver from their counterparts in Beppu, and now when they heard the news, the creditors came to the door and began to collect the money from them.

All this pressure was uploaded layer by layer, and finally passed to the backyard of Hanshan Temple, and fell on the shoulders of Lu, Wang, Pan, and Peng.

"Four big masters, you have to think of a way." The big families who were fooled by them cried and said with sad faces: "All our belongings have been pressed, but we can't just turn it into nothing." ”

"Yes, we didn't want to do it with them at the beginning, how good it was to open the port happily, but now we have lost our wife and soldiers, which is really a loss."

"That's right, didn't that Lu Ji say that he was on top when the sky fell? Why is there no one now? It was clear that the situation was not good, so he escaped! ”

"What else do you say about how powerful the nine families are, how can they not even fight a prefect? Bragging is endless! "The crusades have become more and more intense, and there is a tendency to develop towards invective.

"Enough!" Lu Ding finally couldn't bear it anymore. Lu Ji is his same surname, and he was introduced to everyone by him, so every sentence of these people now sounds like he is scolding himself.

Seeing everyone's unconvinced looks, he said with an ugly face: "Lu Ji worships the mountain on behalf of the nine families, and everyone is eager to lick the soles of other people's shoes." At that time, I was not optimistic about Lord Shen, which was also a public opinion. At that time, I told you that this is a gamble, buy and leave, win or lose, it is your own path, but you can't blame others. ”

Of course, everyone remembered this, and they were a little embarrassed to hear it.

Lu Ding sighed and said: "Now the situation has reversed, the Nine Masters have lost, Lord Shen has won, this is the final result!" What we need to focus on now is how to respond to and defuse this crisis. There is no point in saying those words that hurt feelings. He said in an accentuated tone: "Don't think that I am here to change the topic, I will not evade my responsibility!" But the threshold is, how to let everyone reduce losses, this is not something that can be done by handing me over. ”

"What else is there to discuss?" After listening to him, the prince said: "To untie the bell, you must tie the bell, and only Lord Shen can resolve it." ”

"Then go and plead guilty." Everyone said: "Ask for Lord Shen's forgiveness." ”

"You can go, I won't go anyway." Peng Xi said with an awkward face: "I haven't been on the door of the fifth rank official since thirty years ago. "He is a third-grade Zhishi, with a big face, and it has always been a magistrate who visits him, even when Cao Bangfu, the governor of Susong, was in office, and now let him go to a five-grade Tongzhi and know three or four, so that the good-faced old Peng is embarrassed?"

Let him say this, Pan Tuo also said: "Indeed, our status is much higher than him, and it is inconsistent with etiquette to visit us, so we will stop laughing." Let's let the owners of the pawnshops and ticket numbers go, and we'll just have an idea behind the scenes. ”

Seeing that they were still dying to save face at this time, Lu Ding sneered: "Wake up, old men, you are high-ranking officials, but you have already made a decision." Now on the stage, it is Shen Humble Yan! If you have no desire, you are just right, but if you have a request for others, what qualifications do you have? ”

But now his prestige has dropped greatly, and when others say something that comes in with their left ear, they go out with their right ear, and they don't go to their hearts at all.

In the end, after some discussion, I still couldn't pull down that face, so I decided to let the people below negotiate.

The order was transmitted back to the city, and the shopkeepers and bosses of the ticket numbers and pawnshops hurriedly gathered and went to the government to ask for a meeting with the lord.

Who knew that the official at the door blocked the car, and said with a dark face: "This is the important place of the government, not a market for buying vegetables, I want to see our adults, have you made an appointment?" "Because of the evil work of these people, the officials have not had holidays for several months, and the workload is still very large, and the pressure is also great, so the anger is naturally great.

The bosses offered a lot of silver taels with interest, and asked him to be accommodating. With a heavy bag of silver in his hand, the official said angrily: "Wait, I'll ask you." ”

The bosses waited and waited, and waited for half an hour before the official came out again, and said with a gloomy face: "Lord Fuzun said, you can't be the master, and it's useless to tell you, so let's find someone who can be the master." Saying that, he pouted and said: "If you want to say that your master, you really don't know each other, you lost all your underwear, and you still think about posing for music, you just take yourself too seriously." Then he smacked and said: "Go back and tell your master, the master of Suzhou Mansion is the master of our family, and if you still want to mix here, you will obediently come over with your tail between your legs and report!" Get out of here! ”

(To be continued)