The Yangzhou salt merchants are very powerful, to a degree beyond Yun Zhao's expectation.
If six million silver coins are stacked together, they will be as majestic as a hill.
This is all cash, and it is also a letter of surrender paid by Yangzhou salt merchants to Lantian.
Contrary to the expectations of these salt merchants, the people at Lantian Bank who received these silver coins did not show much joy.
Sun Yuanda did not expect that the procedures for sending money to Lantian Bank would be so complicated.
Just counting and identifying the silver coins took nine days. The people who counted and identified the silver coins did not come from one party, but from three parties.
Including Sun Yuanda himself, it is Sifang.
"There are an extra thousand silver dollars."
A guy with no flesh on his face, a withered complexion, and a pair of eyes that never seemed to wake up from sleep, looked cold. He pushed three plates of silver coins in front of Sun Yuanda.
Sun Yuanda smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that our account number is wrong."
Tian Shou, the lean Lantian bank treasury officer, said coldly: "Shopkeeper Sun wants to Should you add the thousand silver coins to the account, or should you take them back?"
Sun Yuanda said: "Add them to the account."
Tian Shou took the silver coins again. After a long time, I brought Sun Yuanda a document that had been stamped with more than ten seals, so that he could read it and use his seal.
After Sun Yuanda finished using the seal, Tian Shouxian said: "In the future, whenever there is an entry or exit in this account, shopkeeper Sun will know it as soon as possible, and all changes in the accounts need to be signed by shopkeeper Sun. Use the seal.
Every month, Shopkeeper Sun has three opportunities to check the account. I hope Shopkeeper Sun will know."
Sun Yuanda hesitated and said, "What if it is a cash payment?"
Tian Shoudao: "It's the same as the discrepancies in the accounts."
Seeing all the silver coins being transported away, with only a thin piece of paper left in his hand, Sun Yuanda felt a sense of loss in his heart Very serious.
Yang Wenhu and Feng Tong, who accompanied Sun Yuanda to the bank, also felt the same way.
After all, this is six million silver dollars, not six, six hundred...
"Now that you are on the ship, don't regret it."
< p>Sun Yuanda gritted his teeth and faced Yang Wenhu and Feng Tongtong.Yang Wenhua sighed and said: "The next step is to spend money like water... I just hope they can save some."
Feng Tong also followed: "We still have to find Chief Liu made it clear about spending money. We will not save what should be spent, but..."
Sun Yuanda nodded and said: "Even if you kill people, you have to give a reason for killing them. You can't just let us. Give us money, but don’t let us know how the money is spent.”
The three of them decided and went to the Lantian County Government together.
After being taken into the county government office, theyThe three of them saw the white-haired Master Liu diligently pouring tea to a young and overbearing guy sitting in the main hall.
The three of them were shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to sign up for the ceremony.
Xia Wanchun looked at the three of them for a while, and immediately put on a smile. After getting down from the main seat, he met Sun Yuanda, Yang Wenhu, and Feng Tong affectionately as juniors.
Xia Wanchun's deliberate smile made Sun Yuanda and the others shiver for no reason.
When dealing with the government, you are not afraid of the official being angry or giving him a cold face. You are just afraid of being indifferent first and then putting on a smile.
From Master Liu’s rambling words, Sun Yuanda and the others finally understood the identity of the young man in front of them.
Whether it is the newly appointed magistrate of Lantian County or Yun Zhao's only disciple, neither of these two identities can be offended by people like them.
From the moment they heard Master Liu introduce Xia Wanchun’s identity, Sun Yuanda and the other three people’s faces turned pale, and everyone lamented in their hearts that the huge sum of money collected by a group of people would be in danger.
Just when the three of them were desperate, Xia Wanchun took them to a wing room. After Master Liu lifted a curtain, a lifelike model of the Lantian train track appeared in front of them. before.
This is a miniature geographical model. You can tell from the snow-capped peak that this is Lantian County.
This is a triangular structure train model, from Yushan City to Chang'an City, from Yushan City to Fenghuang Mountain City, and then from Fenghuang Mountain City to Chang'an City.
There are not only train tracks, but also simulated small trains and carriages. The geographical mountains and rivers on both sides of the railway are also clearly displayed.
Seeing that the three of them were looking at the model carefully, Xia Wanchun said calmly: "I'm afraid they only think about building a train track. I'm afraid they haven't thought about how to build a train track, right?"
Sun Yuanda nodded repeatedly.
Xia Wanchun walked two steps around the model with his hands behind his back, then looked at Sun Yuanda and said: "Do you know that building a train track is actually a new thing that comes out of the fusion of many categories of knowledge.
p>Except for the research in this area at Yushan Academy, no one in the world knows or understands it.
This thing is the crystallization of the wisdom of Yushan Academy. The top-secret technology of our Ming Kingdom.
Therefore, I will have reservations about many things from you. I hope you can understand this."
What Sun Yuanda and the others said to Xia Wanchun. I heard it clearly and understood in my heart that people like myself would probably be kicked out of the inner circle of railway construction in the future, and they would have no choice but to pay money without getting anything in return.
“Next, you will not be able to understand many of the things I am going to say about railway construction, so I won’t say it anymore. Let’s just ask the three of you to go back and send the younger members of your family to come. ”
Sun Yuanda was stunned for a moment and said: “The county magistrate isTalking about the old sons? ”
Xia Wanchun nodded and said: “The construction of train roads is a long process. We cannot only build more than two hundred miles of train roads. Therefore, instead of trying our best to explain to you, it is better to give The young people in your family explain that this is easier and it can be done once and for all. "
Sun Yuanda looked at Xia Wanchun's face and said: "The dog is stupid..."
Xia Wanchun said: "If you are worried, you can go up by yourself, as long as you old gentlemen can After passing Yushan Academy's special examination on railway knowledge, you will be able to personally participate in railway construction. ”
“Do you need to go to school to start a business? ”
Xia Wanchun said with a smile: “Building railways is not considered a business. It is a major event that will benefit the present and have long-term success. We must not engage in it without caution.” ”
Sun Yuanda and the others did not get the money supervision rights they wanted from Xia Wanchun. Instead, they were in danger of being abandoned. Therefore, the three of them were worried after leaving the county government.
After these three people left, Chief Liu said to Xia Wanchun with some worry: "Young Master, isn't it good to just squeeze people out? ”
Xia Wanchun looked up at Mr. Liu and said, “I did the right thing. When these old rich men came to our Lantian, they didn’t actually think about making money, they only thought about how to gain a foothold in Lantian.” , thus avoiding the disaster of founding a country that has occurred in all dynasties.
After my master followed the rules and gave these people enough benefits and status, the greedy nature of these businessmen broke out again. After completing their original goals, they began to think about how to make profits.
It is the nature of businessmen to push beyond their limits. If they don’t give them a try, they will be in even more trouble in the future.
We have even forgotten that we can chop off their heads anytime, anywhere. "
Master Liu swallowed his saliva and said: "You won't really chop off their heads, right? Our family has not been a bandit for many years. "
Xia Wanchun nodded and said: "This is the troublesome part. Making money and building roads must follow the rules. However, what I said about letting their descendants participate is real participation. It's definitely not just a formality, it's really for their own good.
But according to my calculations, these people will not send the real legitimate son of the family, but only the humble bastard son of the family to top the vat.
Once they are sent, I will not allow them to be replaced. I will slowly cultivate these bastards into truly powerful people. I will also cultivate their ambitions, slowly support them to become stronger, and finally Replace these damn salt merchants.
In this way, the transformation of salt merchants is completed.
Speaking of which, our Lantian is setting rules for the world, how can we take the lead in breaking them?
Not only are we setting rules, Yushan Academy is also setting rules. They are using the general trend created by my master to set up a mind for heaven and earth, set up a destiny for the people, and continue the unique learning for the saints. ”
After Master Liu heard Xia Wanchun’s plan, he was filled with admirationOnly people like the young master and the young master can do this kind of thing of falling to the ground and killing two birds with one stone.
As for the deeper meaning of Xia Wanchun’s words about Yushan Academy, Master Liu didn’t even want to think about it. The things here were too complicated, and it was not something he, a poor rural scholar, could figure out. .
He couldn't understand, but Xia Wanchun thought very clearly.
Even if it is as advanced as Yushan Academy, it cannot keep up with the progress of the master.
Many years ago, the master said that he hoped that everyone could follow his footsteps. If he could not, he would not wait.
This is how the Yushan Academy is now. When it was small in the past, it could still keep up with the master's footsteps. But now that it has become a behemoth, their progress is very slow.
Not only that, as the academy became larger and larger, they began to have their own ideas.
The master is obviously extremely dissatisfied with this behavior of the academy.
However, touching Yushan Academy at this time would cause too much trouble, which is something the master is very reluctant to do.
Therefore, Yushan Academy can only continue to develop like this, but the master really wants to use the construction of railways and the establishment of a large number of new workshops to cultivate another group of social elites who suit his wishes.
The development of Yushan Academy has entered a bottleneck period. It is basically difficult to make further progress in a short period of time.
This is a good opportunity for the master to show his talents and force Yushan Academy to get back on track through the merchants who can best adapt to the new world.
It is very dangerous for a country to have only one academic thought.
Once these academic thoughts begin to inbreed, it will be easy to create figures like Dong Zhongshu and Zhu Xi.
Neither of them are bad people, but two very great people. But it is this kind of great people who are the biggest threat to Yun Zhao's dream.