The "Chu Cao Lending" project allows the buyer to pay a security deposit of 5% to obtain the right to participate, and if the remaining funds are not paid in time, the deposit will be confiscated. However, as long as the imperial court agreed to accept Caoyin in Tianjin, all obstacles were removed, and all that remained was to bet on whether the Qing court would make Caoyun completely fail for a small profit of 380,000 taels of silver - there were many people who bet that the Qing court would not be so stingy, thinking that the business would be completed smoothly, thus bringing investors a net profit of 10% and 5% a month.

"As long as you can know the news three days in advance, then you can use all your money as a margin to buy a fund. When the official news came out, those who had been watching with the silver would not be able to buy it even if they wanted to. If they want a piece of the deal, they have to work with someone who has the stakes. Definitely won't give them a bonus of five into five, once the achievement is almost over, even if you are ruthless, someone will do five points. Brother calculates, for example, the family property is one hundred taels of silver, and if you set a share of two thousand taels of silver, the profit of one into five is three hundred taels, and the profit of one percent is two hundred taels for those who really give out the silver, and your own family property will not be doubled? If you are willing to give only five cents to others, it means that the family property of one hundred taels of silver has quadrupled in a month. ”

Niu Colu explained carefully to Suo Etu, in this transaction, the news of the imperial court is very important, among the profits of nearly 600,000 taels of silver, the first group of people to get the news may only use 200,000 taels to get a profit of 300,000 taels; And those who don't have a news channel may have to spend millions of taels of silver to get the same profit.

"The hardcore dealers of our banner people are also counting on Cao Yun, otherwise they wouldn't even have to take dozens of taels of silver this year." Niu Colu smiled bitterly: "My brother can't compare with my brother, the reward of a few hundred taels of silver, my brother is very excited." It's a pity that there is no one in Wuchang, otherwise my brother would also want to buy a deposit of dozens of taels. ”

Suo Etu glanced at the other party, this Niu Colu was obviously extremely shrewd, he didn't believe that the other party would put the money and not earn it. Now it's not as good as before, when I first entered the customs, the annual salary of hundreds of taels of silver can make most of the flag people very satisfied. But as life in Beijing gets better and better, and more and more luxury goods have been seen, now the young flag people feel that dozens of taels of silver are not enough to spend, and life is tight. Especially the kind of particularly beautiful stone called jadeite, the mother-in-law in the family wants it, but few people can afford it.

Even Suo Etu himself, when he heard that there was such a good thing to earn money, he couldn't help but feel a little moved. But what shocked Suo Etu even more was that if what Niu Colu said was true, then the viciousness of the Sichuan merchants was still on top of his Amma's expectations - if the Qing court broke the contract and greedy the silver transported by the Sichuan merchants, then the Sichuan merchants did not lose the slightest, and the losses were all those of the rich families, and they would definitely hate the Qing court to the bone; And if the Qing court honestly completed the transaction, most of these rich people would not think of the good of the imperial court, but would be grateful to the Sichuan merchants who made their fortunes with them - these Sichuan merchants would not lose anything, and they would not lose money at all.

After listening to Suo Etu's analysis, Niu Colu on the opposite side also nodded approvingly: "Sichuan people are really cunning." But then again, I heard that Liangjiang and Zhejiang will also handle it in this way, and the luck of tens of millions of taels of silver a year is a dividend of one or two million taels of silver. ”

Niu Colu inquired about the securities trading rules in the south so carefully, of course, not only to satisfy curiosity, but also to hear this: "You don't just want to sell news, right?" ”

"If you don't have the capital, then you can only sell news." Niu Colu smiled: "But my brother must not know that the stock exchange in Wuchang also has a rule called 'buying short' and 'selling short', which is also a margin of five percent, and the exchange has to take five thousandths of the transaction tax......

Niu Cobalt told Suo Etu that before the end of Cao Yunshun, these funds were all tradable: "According to Sichuan businessmen, this is for insurance, and they also gave them the names of 'risk management' and 'risk hedging', which stunned many people. ”

In fact, don't talk about ordinary people, even Suo Etu, the embryo of the powerful minister, is already dizzy to hear it. Only this button Cobalt still seemed to be at ease, and said to Suo Etu in simple terms: "Actually, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that this thing sounds good, but it is actually gambling." One is to bet on whether the imperial court will keep the contract, the second is to bet on whether the silver ship will encounter wind and waves at sea, and the third is to bet on whether the rumors of breaking the contract and drifting are true or false. If you don't care about it if there are unforeseen circumstances, it's completely fate. But there is another item that bets on the reaction of the imperial court, and those who think that the imperial court will break the contract will go short, and vice versa. The stock exchange is a casino, so it is natural to take a profit. ”

Although there are a group of people who believe that the Qing court will not let tens of millions of Cao Yun go to waste for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, some people suspect that the Qing court will do it, or will send sailors to rob it; Or the Sichuan Chamber of Commerce swallows more benefits and is reluctant to pay the dividends in full. These are all potential short-selling groups.

Suo Etu also understood: "If you know if the court will break the contract, wouldn't it be cheating in the casino." ”

Niu Colu slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "Brother is so right, that's what happened." In other casinos, it is rare to see a high roller who spends a lot of money, and it is not small to play a few taels of silver; But this stock exchange is not, it is all tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of gambling, and the bet is tens of millions of taels of silver a year. And the general casino is to exchange silver for chips, lose miserably at least give you two copper plates to go home, really red eyes to press the wife, daughter, our family can not afford to raise, where do you dare to go back to receive ah. But on this stock exchange, if you can't afford to play a big game, he will lend you ten or twenty times as much as you can gamble. Hehe, but if we have the approval letter of the imperial court, then this is not a gamble, this is moving silver home. ”

Niu Colu wanted to gather a group of Eight Banner princelings like Suo Etu, and everyone gathered tens of thousands of taels of silver to come out and go to the exchanges in Wuchang and Nanjing to earn a large sum of silver. And these princelings can use their connections to make sure they get the treasure in the right place every time - at this time, Niu Colu is still thinking about using flexible information channels to make money, and has not yet moved the idea of trying to influence the government and even the outcome of the war to create a gambling situation that is particularly beneficial to himself. After all, at this time, their position does not allow them to daydream like this. Niu Colu's current dream is to earn a windfall of thousands of taels for himself, and by the way, establish good relations with the princelings in Beijing.

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When Niu Colu tried his best to pull Suo Etu onto his fortune ship, the famous King of Qingyang, Feng Shuangli, also left his old nest Jianchang and rushed to Chengdu.

Feng Shuangli must have come to Chengdu to see Deng Ming this time, but now Deng Ming's ship is said to have not entered Kuimen. In the past, every time he returned to the east, Deng Ming would return to Fengjie before the army and report his harvest to the Inspector Wen. However, after the matter of supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the Ming Army reached Fengjie this time, there was a rumor in the committee, saying that Wen Anzhi's face was not very good-looking. This rumor obviously spread to northern Hubei as well, so the Sichuan army returned to Sichuan one after another, but the admiral who helped the Qing Dynasty destroy the Ming army claimed that he had something to discuss with Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun, and he did not go to Fengjie to report his work for a long time.

However, he can hide from the first day of the new year and can't hide from the fifteenth, unless Deng Ming has the ability to hide in Jiangling until the next time the Sichuan army goes out of Kuimen, Feng Shuangli also knows that Deng Ming can't find a reason not to enter the city to meet Wen Anzhi during the Fengjie Festival.

In this way, before Deng Ming returned to Chengdu, Feng Shuangli needed to carefully consider the choice he was about to make. King Qingyang, who is no longer ambitious, plans to retire to enjoy the rest of his life, but he has not yet figured out what is the better choice, whether to be a magistrate with certain feudal rights, or to be a rich man?

The cause of this incident was also because of the empire's chief criminal officer, He Daoning, whose father He Zhen died of illness at the end of last year, and his will was to ask his eldest son to return to northern Hubei and inherit his status as a warlord.

However, He Daoning is not very interested in this, He Daoning has already married and started a family in Chengdu, and he has great power at a young age, and he can be regarded as a well-known figure in Chengdu - although He Zhen's status cannot be compared with Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, and Yuan Zongdi, He Daoning's status is not lower than that of Yuan Xiang and Liu Jinge. Moreover, the living conditions here in Chengdu are much stronger than He Zhen's base, and the Hanshui River Basin is surrounded by Qing troops, which may fight at any time, unlike here in Chengdu, He Daoning is under the strict protection of the emperor's ** team.

Therefore, He Daoning did not want to give up the position of chief criminal officer to inherit his father's warlord career, so He Daoning also sang a high voice, saying that the power should be handed over to the "central government" in his mind, that is, to Deng Minghe Yuanhui. However, Deng Ming and the Yuan Council refused to buy it, Deng Ming thought that if He Daoning did not go back to take over, it would make the allies suspicious that Deng Ming wanted to cut the domain, so he insisted that He Daoning should inherit He Zhen's legacy. And the Yuan Council did not want to agree to He Daoning's conditions -- He Daoning did not hand over the territory for nothing, but wanted to sell it to the Yuan Council for a large price -- if He Zhen's territory bordered Chengdu, maybe the Yuan Council would pay for it, but now that there is still a Kui Gate in the middle, the Yuan Council feels that the money is spent unjustly, the risk is too great, and the return is suspicious, so it refuses to agree to He Daoning's conditions no matter what.

In the end, He Daoning set his sights on Jianchang, planning to exchange his Hanshui territory for Feng Shuangli's Jianchang territory, and then sell Jianchang to the Yuanhui and put a large sum of money in his pocket. This exchange was strongly supported by Di Sanxi and other young Zhuang factions, who felt that the Hanshui Valley was richer than the remote Jianchang, and that they also had the opportunity to make military achievements for the empire, and even considered themselves to infiltrate the Hanshui Valley as Deng Ming's forces to contain the surrounding Kuidong warlords.

Of course, Feng Shuangli would not go against the wishes of most of his subordinates, but he had no intention of continuing to fight in the Hanshui Valley. This time, he came to Chengdu to discuss with He Daoning the specific terms of the "house exchange", and at the same time to discuss with this ambitious young man how to have a better future within the empire.

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