Chapter 196: Dilemma

"Actually..." The confidant thought for a moment and said, "Grandpa, do you still remember the business of collecting silk cocoons a month ago?"
Hearing him mention this, Gu Changchun's face became dark and he let out a sigh of relief. ;
Thinking about it carefully, this year they Gu’s family seemed to be guilty of Tai Sui. Whether it was personnel or business, everything went wrong. Gu’s business was mainly money houses and silk brocades. They made their fortunes on silk brocades and grew up with the money houses. They learned that there are silk merchants in Chaozhou a month ago A large number of silk cocoons were eager to sell, and Gu Changchun ordered that they must be grabbed, but in the end he was one step behind and watched the great profit fall into the hands of others.
"What?" Gu Changchun pressed his brow and said.
"Actually, the price had already been negotiated... It's just that our cash came one step later than others..." said the confidant.
"I'm so embarrassed to say!" Gu Changchun snorted, suppressing a bit of annoyance, and then he was taken aback, slightly squinted to look at his confidant, "Could it be..."
"At that time, it was transferred from the capital semicolon..." the confidant whispered and nodded.
"You mean he delayed on purpose?" Gu Changchun asked in a deep voice, a little cold in his voice.
In order to successfully take down these silk cocoons, Gu Changchun mobilized a large amount of cash to deposit into the capital bank.
The confidant hesitated for a moment, "It's not a delay. He said that the large sum of money was released to earn a good interest, so the collection was sent a few days late... I also questioned him. The Jingcheng manager was also very aggrieved and said he didn't know the money. It was for this, so as soon as I received the money, it was released as usual..."
Gu Changchun frustrated and went back. For business insurance, the bank did not know what to do when mobilizing money. This has always been the rule. With a large amount of cash deposits, the bank will lend usury to generate high interest rates. , This is also the rule. I used to have nothing to do with each other. I didn't expect this rule to collide with the rule, causing such a dark loss.
"Are you sure he didn't mean it?" Gu Changchun asked for a moment of thought.
The confidant looked slightly hesitant, and said vaguely: "It shouldn't be... The old man is not an outsider..."
Gu Laochang, the manager of the capital city, is the home of Gu Changchun. Since he is sensible, he has been helping out at the bank. He has worked hard for decades. He has been the manager of the largest bank of the Gu family since he was young.
Gu Changchun's expression flickered, and he was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "It was used to adjust the accounts of the capital bank."
A few days later, in the sub-colon of the Gu's house in the capital, a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes walked in. When he saw this man come in, the busy boys immediately took it.
"Fifth Lord, that gust of wind blew you here..." the crowd bowed and said with a smile.
This is a member of the Gu family's not-so-low status. Hearing the news, he immediately accepted it respectfully and sat down in the back hall for good tea. The two chatted for a moment.
"Such a big thing happened at home..." The two of them were naturally talking about Gu Shen'an, and their expressions were a little sad.
"But, fortunately, there is still Brother Yu... so that the green and yellow will not stop..." Gu Wuye smiled vigorously.
A strange color flashed on Gu Lao Chang, the manager of the capital, and he lowered his head and said yes.
"By the way, old Chang..." Gu Wuye took a sip of tea, and the topic changed, "I am in a hurry when I come to Beijing this time. You will open me a five hundred thousand taels of cash."
While taking out the note written by Gu Changchun himself.
Old Gu took a serious review, and then smiled and happily won, "Master Wu, wait a minute, I'll get it for you..."
Gu Wuye took the silver ticket, got up and said goodbye after a few gossips, and a group of people personally delivered it to the door, watching Gu Wuye ride the car to the most prosperous place on the street.
Gu Wuye's car didn't go far, so he turned abruptly and turned into an inn with a bright facade. Without the help of a servant, he went straight upstairs to a door and opened the door.
In the room, Gu Changchun was sitting quietly and eating tea. Seeing him coming in, he raised his head and asked, "How?"
"Uncle, he didn't shy away, so he gave it to him..." Gu Wuye put the bank note on the table, with a relaxed look.
Gu Changchun picked up the bank note and looked at it carefully, and let out a sigh of relief.
"So it seems that the 700,000 taels of deposits on his account were not a fake..." He said, pushing the bank note to Gu Wuye, "Two days later, return it to him..."
Two days later, after seeing the silver slips that were sent back, Gu Laochang sat in the room with a relieved expression. He stretched out his hand to open a locked box in front of him and took out an account book.
If Gu Changchun were here, he would recognize that this account book is exactly the same as the account book of the capital semicolon he transferred, except that the content...
Gu Laochang opened slowly, his gaze fell on the last line, impressively showing that there are now less than one hundred thousand taels of silver in the capital.
"Spare you as the leader of a clan, and you have to listen to my old emptiness..." Gu Laochang said in a low voice, his tone stretched, he really hummed, sang a word, and his face was full of fright and gratitude. , Unfold a piece of paper and write a letter.
"Thank you, the adults, for concealing the sins of the commonplace, and for pointing out that there is no big business relationship with Gu's family at this time. The old man has the courage to not be flustered under his temptation. The old man does not expect to report. And yes, after the arrival of the South China Sea goods, the old man vowed to stop, not to borrow public money for smuggling..."
With a few words, Gu Laochang put the pen to dry, folded it and made a confidant.
"Go, send Young Master Yu Yangzhou to collect it yourself." He whispered.
The confidant led away.
After leaving his confidant, Gu Laochang got up to the window to see the dark clouds in the sky and the north wind blowing.
"The wind and snow are coming..." He muttered to himself, reaching out and closing the window.
Towards the end of November, the weather in Jiankang was even colder, with heavy wind and snow for several days, and there were obviously fewer pedestrians on the street.
Kwok sat in the room with his eyes closed and chanted, but he was upset and irritated because of the chill.
"Come on, add another brazier!" she shouted, opening her eyes suddenly.
The maid standing by the side hurriedly lowered her head and said timidly: "Madam... Master ordered... Ordered... Only one..."
Guo was furious, raised the Buddhist beads and smashed them.
"Why don't you want to freeze me to death, marry me again?"
Gu Leshan stepped in at this moment, and was also furious when he heard that.
"Dead! Dead! Everyone is dead to be clean!"
The Guo family did not dare to speak back, so he whispered, "Master...this...how will life go...even charcoal can't be burned...the boss and the second house are all sold.... The family is crowded here, and it will be noisy. ...Still dead and clean..."
Gu Leshan's face was blue, his eyes looked down, and he exhaled heavily and sat on the chair.
Just a few days ago, Gu Changchun suddenly sent someone to chase the hundred thousand taels of silver they wanted to borrow, and he was tough. If he didn't pay it back, he opened the ancestral hall and sold his family property.
Seeing that Gu Changchun was not joking, he was pleading everywhere to no avail. Gu Leshan didn't dare to neglect, he turned the seller's property out, and collected one hundred thousand taels of silver. From then on, the days have been like water and fire.
"Your son of the white-eyed wolf, actually refused to take out a penny. I didn't believe it before, but now I believe it. Even if your father is dead tomorrow, he won't blink..." Guo cried. Said.
Gu Leshan's cheeks banged violently, grabbed the teacup and threw it on the ground, "Shut up! He...Where is he rich!"
"The money surnamed Huang will have maggots!" Guo cried and retorted.
"Stop arguing! The money has already been given to the clan!" Gu Leshan shouted loudly.
Guo's cry stopped, and he looked up in surprise.
"Master..." Reminiscent of the atmosphere in the clan in recent days, and then looking at Leshan's face, Guo's heart suddenly picked up, and a cold wind blew in, only feeling cold all over his body, "Today we have a meeting in the clan, but...but... What happened?"
Gu Leshan closed his eyes abruptly and slumped back on the chair.
"The bank...run..." he murmured.
"What?" Guo cried out, covering his mouth.
In the Gu family, the night was heavy, but the hall was still brightly lit, and the whole room was crowded with utter panic.
"...More and more people withdraw silver..."
"... Grandpa... Taikang refused to accept silk brocade..."
"...Grandpa... The four major banks refused to borrow turnover silver..."
The bad news came one after another, which meant that one road after another was blocked.
Gu Changchun was sitting on the chair, his whole body was like petrified, and he seemed to be unable to hear the messy sounds in the hall.
How could things be like this... Or, until now, Gu Changchun didn't even know how all this happened.
Years ago, it was the peak of money exchange. It is reasonable to say that this is not surprising, but I did not expect this time to be aggressive, and the most important thing is to suddenly find that the bank's cash flow is gone.
"It's found out..." Gu Changchun was awakened with a loud shout, and several account rooms came over with the ledger, "It's the capital of the semicolon, transferred three million taels of silver..."
"Gu Laochang!" Gu Changchun patted the table and stood up.
Only then did the people in the room realize that Gu Laochang was not alone among the stewards who had gathered at home.
Once the source was discovered, the matter was quickly sorted out. Over the years, Gu Laochang has been using money from the bank for his own profit, from privately lending foreign debts to profit-making money to embezzling money from the bank for shipping goods, and the amount of embezzlement was also More and more, until this time a huge sum of three million.
"What about the goods?" Gu Changchun took a few deep breaths before asking completely.
"Said it was robbed by pirates... so... Gu Laochang also knew that he was bound to die, so he ran away..." someone replied.
Gu Changchun only felt his eyes dark, and barely stretched out his hand to hold it.
"Grandpa is not good..." someone shouted and ran in.
This kind of voice has never been cut off in the past few days, and everyone is numb to hearing, and their eyes are dull to follow the sound.
"Grandpa...Jiankang Palace...comer, I have to mention...three million taels of silver for the official..." The man's face was like paper, and he knelt on the ground.
"It's over..." Gu Changchun shook his body and fell forward.
In Yangzhou, Huang Shiying stepped into Gu Yu's study, and Gu Yu, who was waving his ink leisurely, looked over.
"Mother is here..." he said with a smile.
"Yuer..." Huang Shiying looked at him~EbookFREE.me~ Is there still no news about the cargo ship hijacked by the pirates? "
"No..." Gu Yu said with a light smile, putting down his pen.
"...Yu'er," Huang Shiying was silent for a moment, "Gu's family is in trouble..."
"Yeah..." Gu Yu said with a smile, "The heart is unstable, and after the run, it will be like snowballs... Uncle's official failure, folk rumors are everywhere, and the central government is full of doubts... …"
"Yu'er..." Huang Shiying looked at him and said, "Mother never asked you anything..."
She slowly bowed.
Gu Yu knelt down and said, "Mother has broken the child..."
"Please solve the Gu family's predicament..." Huang Shiying said.
Gu Yu raised his head and Huang Shiying saw a real smile on his face for the first time.
"Baby..." He shook his head and smiled slowly, "I can't solve it..."