Chapter 187: Run on the Storm
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In Zuo Liangyu's army, Qin Mu was famous for his fierce reputation, comparable to the king of Yama. Even many Zuo Jun said that he was a demon with three heads and six arms, who ate people and did not spit out bones.
Zhao Xun saw Qin Mu walking in wearing a three-grade governor crown, he was upright and elegant, and his attitude was quite kind, which formed a strong contrast with the rumors outside, so that he was very uncomfortable.
Qin Mu said with a smile again: "Mr. Zhao doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”
"Thank you, Lord Qin." Zhao Xun sat down in the guest seat.
"I don't know why Mr. Zhao came?" Qin Mu raised his hand to ask for tea and asked with a light smile.
"Lord Qin, we don't have to go around in circles, my family's Zuo General Soldier asked me to come because I hope Lord Qin's men and horses will withdraw from Wuchang and Jingzhou, so as to prevent the two sides from fighting again."
"Oh, this official is strange, General Soldier Zuo is neither the General Soldier of Wuchang nor the General of Jingzhou, why did he let this official withdraw from Wuchang and Jingzhou?" Qin Mu's smile was still warm, and his tone was still calm.
"Wuchang was originally recovered by my family's Zuo General Army, but Lord Qin took advantage of the danger of others, and took advantage of my family's Zuo General Army's army to go north to Xiangyang to attack thieves, and brazenly attacked Wuchang, it is simply unreasonable, my family's Zuo General Army now has 500,000 troops, a hundred miles of company camps, and the armor is like a cloud, if Qin Muren wants to occupy Wuchang and not return it, then my Zuo General Soldier can only wave his own troops to take it, but I am afraid that it will not be a problem to only take Wuchang at that time."
Zhao Xun, hehe, it's really inferior, is there no one under Zuo Liangyu? Just sent such goods, Qin Mu didn't bother to answer him, and took the tea with a smile and drank it by himself.
Yang Shen replied on behalf of Qin Mu: "Mr. Zhao, who recovered Yuanzhou, Liling, and Yuezhou from the rebels, but I don't know why your army came to take them."
Qin Mu waved his hand to Yang Shen, and then said to Zhao Xun: "Mr. Zhao go back, tell your family Zuo General Soldier, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, if people offend me." I will give back more. ”
"Lord Qin, is this going to insist on being the enemy of my family's general soldiers?"
"This official has no intention of being the enemy of your left general soldier, but he is not afraid of being the enemy of your left general soldier, this officer will dare to meet Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops with 2,000 people, and your left general soldier asks himself how is Zhang Xianzhong? The reason why I talk so much nonsense with you today is because the official doesn't want the cranes and mussels to compete and let the fishermen benefit. As long as your Zuo General Soldier is willing to turn the war into a jade silk, when the Dashun Army returns to Henan, the official will also be willing to provide some help to the Zuo General Soldier, hehe, if the Zuo General Soldier insists on being the enemy of the official. This official doesn't mind having a front and back attack with the Dashun army. ”
Qin Mu's careless words made Zhao Xun's expression change greatly, this time Zuo Liangyu sent him because he learned that Li Zicheng had sent his general Yuan Zongdi to lead tens of thousands of horses to attack Xiangyang, and he would arrive soon.
In order to avoid being attacked on both sides, Zuo Liangyu sent him as an envoy to Yueyang, he thought that Qin Mu had not yet learned about Yuan Zong's return to Xiangyang, and he also wanted to show off his prestige in order to grab more benefits in the negotiations. But he didn't want to be broken by Qin Mu's words, where could he still be majestic now.
Qin Mu has an inexplicable relationship with the Dashun Army, when he and the Red Lady dealt with Zhang Xianzhong together, who knows if he will unite with the Dashun Army again this time. What about Zuo Liangyu on both sides?
"Lord Qin has misunderstood, and my family's Chief Soldier Zuo has no intention of being an enemy of Lord Qin" Under Qin Muruo's smiling gaze, Zhao Xun looked embarrassed.
In fact, Zhao Xun can't be blamed for being incompetent, but no one thought of it. Qin Mu, who was busy with expansion, quickly created an intelligence department with a number of nearly 3,000 people, and learned the news of the Dashun army's southward movement in advance;
Otherwise, Qin Mu, who was anxious to recuperate. It is really possible to be blackmailed by him to take a lot of benefits, and the importance of the intelligence system is fully reflected at this moment.
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On the waterway of the Yangtze River, also because of the good intelligence work, a good show was staged, and in Chaohu Lake and the Yangtze River waterway, according to the information from Nanjing, the elusive water bandits set off with hundreds of minions and accurately stopped the silver ship of the Huitong Bank.
Langlijiao originally thought that there would be a fierce fight this time, but what he didn't expect was that as soon as the person in charge of guarding the silver ship heard his name in Langlijiao, he immediately threw down more than ten silver ships and fled in all directions.
Lang Lijiao was happy, and he grabbed more than a dozen boats of silver without much effort, but when he boarded a silver ship, except for the upper layer of silver, the bottom was full of stones, and then looked at other silver ships, not even a tael of silver, the whole ship was full of stones.
"Big boss, there's a word here."
"Go and call the advisor and see what's written." Langli Jiao's limbs are developed and strong, but he can't read a single big character.
The military advisor was quickly brought, and after reading the note, he said in a hesitant manner: "The big boss, this note reads: It is not easy for the big boss in the waves to come from Chaohu Lake, and this hundred taels should be regarded as inviting the big boss and the brothers to drink." The payment is a million gold. ”
"Golden million, how dare you fuck Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not swear to be a man if he doesn't dismantle you." This time, he took all his brothers and did not hesitate to take the risk to kill near Taiping Mansion because Jin Million told him that Huitong Bank was going to transport millions of taels of silver back to Jiangxi.
It's good now, more than a dozen silver boats have been searched, and only one hundred taels have been found, and since Langlijiao's debut, he has never been played like this, this time it can be said that he is disgraced.
Not to mention how the waves were furious, but said that the golden millions in Nanjing City received a message from the flying pigeon, and after learning that the silver ship of Huitong Bank had been hijacked, he was preparing to make a time difference, and asked his subordinates to cash out the silver deposited in Huitong Bank first, and then spread the news when the cash was almost done.
However, what Jin Million and the bosses of various money banks never expected was that before they could act, Huitong Bank took the initiative to announce the news of the robbery of the silver ship.
A large notice was posted at the door of Huitong Bank, claiming conclusively that the bank's silver ship was robbed by the Yangtze River bandits, and Huitong Bank lost 1 million taels of cash at a time, but the bank also comforted the depositors that even if 1 million taels were robbed, the bank would not collapse. But at the same time, it is explained that it takes time for the bank to ship silver from other places to fill it, so it is necessary to make an appointment three days in advance to cash more than 500 taels of silver at one time.
Of course, this could not dispel the doubts of the depositors, so the crowd of people who ran on the money inevitably appeared, and the front of the bank exchange was crowded with thousands of people, half of whom came to exchange silver, and half of them came to see the excitement. Everyone scrambled to the counter, and in the winter, they were sweating one by one, for fear that they would not be able to cash in if they fell behind.
"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, our bank deposit is enough to cash out to everyone, don't worry, I promise someone to leave a sentence here, zuihou if anyone can't cash out their own silver." Although take Xu's head. ”
"What's the use of taking your head, cash in quickly, and return our money quickly."
"Yes, yes. Cash out quickly. ”
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The crowd outside the counter was full of emotion, and Xu Yingjie was not ambiguous, shouting: "No diamonds, no porcelain work." Come on. Bring out the treasury silver, send more people, and cash it out to the customers as soon as possible. But the notice makes it clear. If you want to cash out the fixed deposit immediately, not only will there be no interest, but our bank will also deduct 3% of the breach fee. ”
"Buckle it, you quickly cash it out"
"Cash in."
In the shouting of everyone, the guys of the bank carried out boxes of silver, and built a mountain of silver in the counter, the white flowers were dazzling, seeing such a mountain of silver, the crowd outside finally felt a lot more relieved, but just in case, everyone still rushed to cash, if something like this happened, it was more reassuring to hold the silver in their own hands.
Jin Million and the bosses of various money banks were a little dumbfounded, the silver they deposited in Huitong Bank was a large sum, and they originally planned to deposit the silver first, and then go to the run together, and at the same time spread some rumors in the market, causing panic among depositors, so that they could go to the run together, and in this way squeeze Huitong Bank down.
Later, Huitong Bank transported silver to Jiangxi, and Jin Million felt that if it was to run on the bank like this, Huitong Bank would delay it and then transport the silver back, so that it would not be difficult to deal with the run, but if the water bandits hijacked the silver boat, causing a huge funding gap for Huitong Bank, and then going to run, Huitong Bank could not fill such a huge funding gap for a while, and there was only a dead end.
Since it is more secure to do this, of course Jin Million will not let go of such an opportunity, and quietly sent someone to send the news of the silver boat to Langlijiao. Everything was going well, but now things don't seem to be good.
Huitong Bank dared to take the initiative to announce the news of the robbery of the silver ship, not only did they lose the opportunity to fight the time difference, but also failed to cash out their silver before the people knew the news, and Xu Yingjie dared to do this, does it mean that Huitong Bank has enough money to deposit, and is not afraid of depositors to run on it?
How is this possible? They still inquired very clearly about the details of Huitong Bank, and after being robbed of 1 million taels of silver, at least the Nanjing branch would never be able to fill the gap immediately.
"No matter, everyone quickly send someone to cash in, go quickly." Jin Million shouted at the butler. The bosses of various money banks also took action one after another, sending their men to Huitong Bank to run.
The shopkeeper and the guy of Huitong Bank seemed to have golden eyes, and when they saw them coming to cash, they said loudly: "Hey, isn't this brother from Wanyuan Tongshang Bank, it turns out that Boss Jin also came to our bank to deposit money." ”
"Hey, let's see, the people from Juyuan Qianzhuang are also here, thank you Boss Qu for trusting our bank."
"Haha, you are a guy from the rich money bank, right, your boss Liu actually deposited the silver in our bank, thank you, thank you, please forgive me, brother, you are also in this business, you should know that there are many people who run on the bank, and the bank always needs some time to raise silver, so you can only cash out five hundred taels today, and if you exceed five hundred taels, please make an appointment three days in advance."
"Rest assured, although our bank was robbed of a million taels of cash, but this is just a drop in the bucket, all colleagues know that we do this line of work is a reputation, no matter what, our bank will not be less of a big boy."
The people of each bank were pointed out by the shopkeeper of Huitong Bank, and they couldn't help but be very embarrassed, and the depositors who came to run on them also looked at them strangely. Even the banks have deposited their money in Huitong Bank, what is going on? Doesn't it say that peers are like rivals? Is this the trust of each bank to Huitong Bank, or is there something else in it?
The eyes of the people are bright, and the people who came to run on the money are really embarrassed to death, and they deposit the silver in the Huitong Bank, no matter what the reason, it is not easy to say.
The shopkeeper and his companions of Huitong Bank did not embarrass them, and greeted them warmly with haha, but all those under five hundred taels were cashed out without discrimination.
In order to alleviate the anxious hearts of the depositors, Huitong Bank announced in advance that it would not close its doors at night, and would cash out to the depositors overnight.
There was order on the part of Huitong Bank, but there was chaos in front of the counters of other banks.
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