Vol 13 Chapter 16: dispute

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Fang Linyan said this, but the people on the opposite side of the security guard were really curious. Then Fang Linyan knew the art of talking and the reason why the words were not astonishing and endless, and the three people in front of him were shocked:
"I came to the capital this time to raise 5 million taels of silver! Then I don't spend a penny of this money, and I leave it all to Master Song to strategize and do a good job of the oriental little devil!"
"Five million taels of silver", "not a penny", "doing the oriental little devil with one vote" and so on are directly thrown out, and it is the capital tycoon like Da Dao Wang Wu, who is also shocked. Couldn't speak for a while.
It must be admitted that Fang Linyan's words express things that these hard-working men in the world have never even dreamed of, and this is exactly the effect Fang Linyan wants.
Just as the other people were waiting for Fang Linyan to continue speaking, Fang Linyan changed the subject, stood up and pointed to himself, and then took a glass of wine:
"I'm going to Hu Zhiyun, let's toast everyone."
Faced with such a solemn self-introduction, the other three will definitely stand up and return the salute.
Then Fang Linyan said:
"I don't know my name, so you probably haven't heard my name. It's not surprising, but Zuo Zongtang and Zuo Gong should have heard of it."
Zuo Zongtang died in 1885. It has been several years since he passed away. However, he has made many achievements in his life, has a great reputation, and has a high official and rich salary.
Whether it is suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, setting up foreign affairs, pacifying Shaanxi and Gansu, recovering XJ, building the Northwest, etc., just take one out of them, and they are all achievements that ordinary courtiers can boast about in their lifetimes.
Of course, his greatest achievement is to pacify XJ and block Russia's ambitions abruptly. This is a serious national hero!
Wang Wusan nodded and said:
"The Duke of Zuo is a famous official in the world, and even children know his name."
Fang Linyan said simply:
"When Zuo Ping decided the western frontier, the imperial court's military expenditure was insufficient, and the shortfall was over 10 million. My uncle worked as a mediator, first raised 2 million taels for Zuo Gong from Standard Chartered Bank in the United Kingdom, and then four times in succession. HSBC, Citibank, etc. raised 15.5 million taels."
Hearing Fang Linyan's words, Wang Wu was already extremely shocked, while the man beside him was speechless and surprised:
"Master Hu.... Could it be that Uncle Ling is the King of Medicine in Jiangnan, Hu Xueyan, Lord Hu!"
Fang Linyan thought that having a background is easy to use. He finally met someone who knew how to do it. Otherwise, it would be funny to pull up a tiger's skin as a banner, and others couldn't understand it. He sighed and said:
"What is the king of medicine in the south of the Yangtze River? The Hu family can't be considered the word now, but Hu Xueyan is indeed my second uncle."
Sure enough, after Fang Linyan brought out the shadow of his famous tree, no one felt that his previous words were just bragging.
Wang Wu was silent for a while, and said simply:
"I really didn't expect Brother Hu, after you are a loyal minister, you come to the capital to do a big thing that benefits the country and the people! Although I, Wang Wu, can't help you much, I can't do anything to hold you back. "
"I have no friendship with Tie Butterfly Duan Fei. I just owe his senior brother a big favor, so I was entrusted to come to trouble you, but I will never come back from now on."
"But you have to be careful, Duan Fei's senior brother is the senior senior brother of the Ganzi Sect in the incense sect. His methods are very good. This person will pay for it, and he will not give up."
Fang Linyan nodded and smiled:
"Thank you fifth master for your mercy, I will be careful."
Wang Wu shook his head:
"In front of you, Brother Hu, I can't afford this name! If my brother doesn't dislike it, for the sake of my age, call me fifth brother! Come on, let's drink this cup."
At this time, at the dinner table, the group of people were still chatting more speculatively. Later, Fang Linyan realized that most of the atmosphere was due to Laurent, who was following him next to him.
After all, a tycoon like Wang Wu, who has traveled far and wide, has no idea how many people he has met.
But Wang Wu looked at Laurent's attitude towards Fang Linyan, as if he was a servant, this is a foreigner!
Combined with the momentum of the Hu family who was the richest man in China back then, and the momentum revealed in Fang Linyan's speech and behavior, it is obvious that it is not something that a liar can simulate.
This big drink went straight to the store's closing time. After Wang Wuhui finished the bill, Fang Linyan said that he had left beforehand. Wang Wu was a little surprised and didn't say much. In the end, after walking a few steps, the one next to him. The middle-aged Ma Kui said with a wry smile on his face:
"Five masters, I just took over a big job."
Wang Wuqi said:
"Just for a while, where are you going to pick up the big job?"
Ma Kui said Nunuzui in the direction Fang Linyan was walking:
"This grandfather gave it."
Wang Wu was stunned, obviously not responding:
"Big... big job?"
Another next to him couldn't help but said:
"It's on the third floor of the bathhouse? Is there a drink package?"
Ma Kui gave him a fierce look:
"You TM poured two cups of horse urine, what are you doing here! Fifth Master, it's really a big job at the bureau."
Wang Wu said solemnly:
"How to say?"
Ma Kui usually also serves as the escort's accountant, so he directly said:
"According to this master, there will be 800,000 taels of red goods in a few days, and they will be delivered from the shopping market in Chongwenmen to Lord Song. Please ask us to send one for free, and give us three out of 100. divided."
Wang Wu was taken aback! Immediately loudly said:
"Three out of 100? That's 24,000 taels? And isn't Master Song usually in the Sichuan Guild Hall? What kind of money do you charge for the distance you get to pee?"
"If you can't do it, you can't do it, the rules are not calculated like this, and his money is used to do big things for Master Song. If we can't help, how can we still hold back!"
Ma Kui smiled bitterly:
"I think so too, but I guess why this young master Hu didn't say anything when you were there. Even knowing that you probably won't agree, I can only negotiate with you."
Wang Wu said categorically:
"What's there to discuss? Our bureau will pick up this trip, but we won't accept the money. If we take the money, you'll have to be stabbed in the spine when you die."

After three days,
That is, on July 5, 1894, at six o'clock in the afternoon,
Fang Linyan has already received a small portion of the goods in the Hengli Market in Chongwenmen. The credit of Qiao's warehouse is still very good, and a large number of goods are being transported from outside.
Suddenly, Fang Linyan saw an old man with a familiar face hurried over. He was accompanied by no one else, but the shopkeeper of the Qiao's warehouse here.
The old man also saw him, and immediately walked over, full of anger:
"Liu! What are you doing?"
Fang Linyan was stunned for a while, and already remembered that this old man was an elder in the clan, named Hu Xueming, ranked seventh, and he was very opposed to his own work in the clan before, so he said casually:
"Seventh uncle, why are you here?"
Hu Xueming said sadly:
"Why am I here? I went to Beijing to take the exam a few years ago, and if I don't come! This family property will be lost to you! I ask you, the family squeezed out 10,000 taels of silver and let you go Take care of Mr. Li Mengli! You actually went straight to the capital, the land of fireworks, to squander it!"
Fang Linyan immediately retorted:
"Seventh uncle, don't spit your blood, I am clearly hoarding a batch of goods here, where does the word splurge come from?"
Hu Xueming said angrily:
"You dare to be stubborn, I have eaten more salt than you have ever seen. You took the money from your clan and ran to this place to stock up some unsalable goods. The key is to only pay the deposit, and finally It's not that the family should support it, and the loser won't be a member of the Gongzhong?"
As soon as Fang Linyan heard Hu Xueming's words of leaning on the old and betraying the old, he knew that this disgusting thing was his own elder. One sentence loudly:
"I have long heard that the Qiao family does everything without leakage, and is based on faith. It turns out that this is what they do. It's really eye-opening."
When Fang Linyan said this, he deliberately raised his voice, almost shouting it out, and this is a large market, which immediately attracted the attention of the shopkeeper and the guests next to him.
Chinese people, the most favorite thing to watch is to join in the fun, and there is a saying that peers are enemies. This is obviously because someone has come to trouble the Qiao family. Of course, a group of people will soon gather around.
In the face of Lin Yan's accusation, the Qiao's shopkeeper's expression changed:
"Brother Hu, don't spit blood, how can I lose my faith."
Fang Linyan saw a lot of people around and immediately said:
"Our deal was negotiated seven or eight days ago. We agreed to pay the deposit in advance, and we will pay the final payment within ten days after the goods arrive, right?"
Hu Xueming roared beside him at this time:
"Nie Zha, are you still embarrassing?"
Fang Linyan ignored him and asked the shopkeeper of the Qiao family:
"dont you agree?"
The shopkeeper of the Qiao family said:
"That's right!"
Fang Linyan Road:
"Then what do you mean by telling him the details of our transaction?"
Fang Linyan said that he was obviously Hu Xueming.
The shopkeeper of the Qiao family said disdainfully:
"This is none other than the seventh uncle of your Hu family! He knows that you have a sloppy personality, so he has been paying attention to you and asked me to help you keep an eye on your movements. The money you use is the hard-earned money of your Hu family. I will Does this tell him anything wrong?"
"Youdao is the parent and teacher of the monarch of heaven and earth. There is no such thing as a relationship in the world. Can't you let your relatives and superiors know about what you do? You can't say anything about the world, but the truth of the saint."
After everyone heard it, they felt that what the shopkeeper had said really made sense.
But at this time, Fang Linyan let out a long laugh, and then said to the big shopkeeper:
"I think the shopkeeper may have made a mistake. I didn't buy these goods! I'm just an interpreter and a middleman. The owner of these goods is Mr. Laurent from Europa!"
The big shopkeeper's face changed suddenly, and soon he saw Laurent walking in from outside, at this time Fang Linyan said sharply:
"What else is there to say! Your Shanxi Qiao family is really shameless, with some kind of faith-based signboard, but behind the scenes, they are doing the business of selling customer secrets! The shame has been thrown in front of foreigners. There are rules, what do you say today?"
The Qiao family in Shanxi has a huge business and a very good reputation, so it must be a big move and a lot of people will hate it. Some of these people are jealous, some are because they were blocked by the Qiao family, and their peers are enemies.
Now Fang Linyan was afraid that this matter would not be a big deal, so he had already started shouting. Among the onlookers, it was not too big of a problem to watch the fun. Seven or eight out of ten were helping him.
If it were an ordinary person, the Qiao family had done such a big business, and they were doing a good job in officialdom. There was a green camp stationed outside Chongwenmen. The charge of causing trouble" was arrested, and the matter was settled first.
Today, the garrison was rewarded by his subordinates, and he came out in an aggressive manner immediately. The reason for such a positive reason is that he did something for the Qiao family, and the gift money offered afterwards must be expensive.
As a result, he walked thirty steps away, and when he saw that a blond foreigner was involved, he immediately frowned, then turned around and walked away, looking like he had seen a ghost.
When his subordinate asked him why he had turned his head, he immediately kicked over and cursed:
"In these days, when it comes to contaminating foreigners, even the grandfather of the late emperor is not a good thing. UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com anointed the soles of his feet and went to Chengde, the concubine (Chang Concubine) was spoiled, and even the Yuanmingyuan was burned. Now, for the few taels of Qiao's family, Grandpa, can I take such a risk?"
The big shopkeeper saw that the crowd was getting more and more crowded, but the "reinforcement" on the side of the green camp didn't come. At the moment, I can only look at Hu Xueming and complain:
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"Hu Weng, this is something your family did!"
Hu Xueming was also a little stunned at this time. He didn't expect that this nephew would actually bring this matter to the foreigner.
"Nie Barrier! Where's the money given to you from the clan? If you don't take it out quickly, have you lost all of your food, drink, prostitution, and gambling?"
Who is Fang Linyan? If he was attacked suddenly, he would hesitate for a few seconds, but now facing the old man, he smiled and said:
"Seventh uncle, don't spit your blood. I have lent all my money to Mr. Laurent, and I will get 10% of the profit for 30 days. Am I a prodigal?"
The 30-day 10% interest, converted into an annual interest rate, even reached a terrifying 10%. If you borrowed 10,000 taels, you would have to pay back 22,000 taels. Most of the people present were businessmen. A good deal.
This Hu Xueming is not a smart person, otherwise, Hu Xueyan was hidden as the richest man in the world back then. To put it bluntly, under such a general trend, it is not just a matter of saying that one person can get the right way, but Hu Xueming has only mixed with a local squire. It can be seen that his ability and character are really limited. (To be continued)