Chapter 73: Salary from the bottom of the pot
"Wang Yuanbao!" Zhang Qian frowned, and his eyes instantly became as sharp as the tip of a needle.
In my memory, the other party was a round fat man who smiled before he could speak to others, and his face never felt so sad. But now, Wang Yuanbao, who was kneeling in front of him, was so thin that he stood firm.
"Wang Yuanbao, what did you say? Your wife sold the dry shares you held?" Guo Nu was shocked, no less than Zhang Qian. He rushed over in three steps and grabbed Wang Yuanbao's collar. "Didn't Ren Xiaowu specially arranged the yard to hide all your family? How could others find her?" (Note: Chapter 70 was written as Wang Fugui, and it has been changed uniformly, sorry.)
"I, my wife, my wife is the descendant of an official." Wang Yuanbao was so angry that he was stuck in his clothes and collar. But Wang Yuanbao didn't want to struggle. He just put his desperate eyes on his face and explained intermittently, "She couldn't bear to take it alone when something happened at home. So, so he secretly went to find her mother's cousin who was an official in the capital. As a result, he..."
"Second junior brother, let him go and let him make it clear!" Although he was nervous, Zhang Qian was not rational. He found that Wang Yuanbao's face quickly turned from gray to blue. He quickly pushed Guo Nu and reminded him not to hurt his life by accident.
Guo Nu realized that he was too ruthless and quickly let go of Wang Yuanbao's collar. However, he kicked the other party again and asked sternly: "Who is his cousin's name? Who is his official position? Grandma, in order to help you, I and my third junior brother have even broken their legs these days. You are so good that you didn't even tell me, and then secretly went to find someone else to stand up. Grandma, your wife and brother are really capable. When you were in jail, why didn't you see him go to Xinfeng County to catch you?"
"I'm confused, I deserve to die, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Brother Ren, I'm sorry for Young Master Zhang!" Wang Yuanbao knelt on both knees, raised his hand and slapped himself hard. After a few strokes, he slapped himself in the face.
"Okay, stop beating. It will be useless to beat yourself to death!" Ren Cong felt so embarrassed that he squatted down and grabbed his arm, "You tell my senior brother again what you said to me from beginning to end. Although he did not come forward to save you directly, he has been directing my second senior brother and I to stand up for you. If you don't want to repay your kindness and revenge, tell him everything you know."
"Yes, yes!" Wang Yuanbao was already in vain. After hearing Ren Cong's words, he finally regained some rationality. While nodding, he continued to cry, "I have been complaining in Jingzhao Mansion these days and rarely go home. My wife was worried that something would happen to me, so she asked her cousin who was an official to help. His cousin's name is Chen Jie, and he is a censor. He always sees the vendors and refuses to agree. But on the day my wife went there, her cousin's cousin happened to be there, saying that she was helping to find out the news. Then her cousin's cousin brought people to my house the day before yesterday. While I was away, she advised my wife to give up money and eliminate disasters and exchange for peace for the whole family..."
He cried and said, intermittently, it took half a quarter of an hour to tell the whole story.
It turned out that his wife was in a mess and asked someone to entrusted her to a warm-hearted cousin. As a result, her enthusiastic cousin led an outdoor room that was said to be a high-ranking official to his residence. The high-ranking official's outdoor room was "very knowledgeable" and concluded that Wang Yuanbao was not the real target of being hit, but was accidentally involved in a conflict between wealthy families and suffered the disaster. If he did not withdraw in time, he would sooner or later have a family that would be destroyed.
Wang Yuanbao's wife was originally weak, and after hearing the other party's words, she was immediately scared. So, the high-ranking official's outer room advised her to take a step back and broaden the sky. She cashed out all the things that might be exchanged for cash at home, and then took her husband and children to Chang'an to her hometown Suzhou to avoid disaster. When the future is calm, with the money in her hand, she will not worry about making her husband come back.
So, naturally, Wang Yuanbao's wife "thinked" that in addition to the Liuli Workshop and the shops in the capital, the one who was most likely to get her husband involved in the storm was the Liushen Commercial Bank's shareholding. She simply followed the official's external room's proposal and cut the mess quickly and took action. The official's external room was also extremely "righteous" in doing things, and actually bought all the shares at the price Wang Yuanbao bought for the last time, and sent someone to send a whole box of horse hoof gold the next day!
"You don't know for two consecutive days. Who are you lying to?" Guo Nu was impatient. Without waiting for Wang Yuanbao's statement to fall, he pointed out the loopholes in the other party's words loudly.
"I, I was left to interrogate by a case-handling reporter from Jingzhao Mansion the day before yesterday, and it ended very late. Then, I asked him and several officials in charge to go to Pingkangfang!" Wang Yuanbao wiped his tears and responded with his head down.
Guo Nu and Ren Cong are both familiar with Pingkangfang. As long as they have money, any man can enjoy the treatment they can enjoy in it will catch up with the prince. Wang Yuanbao spent money to invite the officials in the case to the brothel and would definitely stay with him until the end. And among the other party, as long as one of them was willing to do so, he would have to stay with him until the next morning.
The next day, he didn't have to go home and continued to go to the Jingzhao Prefecture Office for inquiries. Just hold him with a hope, it would be enough to make him have no time to distract him from taking care of him.
The chain of condoms is a standard chain of condoms! There must have been officials in Jingzhao Prefecture, and the participation level is very deep. Otherwise, they would not have sacrificed their own reputation and stayed in brothels. However, others could not catch any handles for these officials! After all, Wang Yuanbao was voluntarily treating guests, and the laws of the Tang Dynasty never interfered with the officials' behavior of sleeping with flowers and asking for help.
"Where is the official's outdoor room? What's her man's name?" Guo was unwilling to be beaten and refused to fight back. He gritted his teeth and continued to figure it out.
"She claimed that her surname was She and lived in Chongrenfang. The man's surname was Li, and she was Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple." Wang Yuanbao wiped his tears again and his head lowered.
In an instant, Guo Nu could not continue to ask questions. His face turned blue and his eyes were so red that he almost became angry.
Zong Zheng Shaoqing is a fourth-rank official and is not considered to be of high status and powerful. However, Zong Zheng Temple is a yamen specializing in handling royal affairs. Qing and Shaoqing in charge of affairs must be both royal families!
Not to mention whether the woman named She had a fake name and a fake address. Even if she had a real name and a real address, with Zhang Qian's current strength, it would not be possible to come to the door to find trouble for a royal family!
Although the Guo family has two governors, one true and one false, they cannot make the case for Wang Yuanbao. What's more, when the royal family bought Wang Yuanbao's shares, they could not be considered a tricky robbery, but instead left a profit for Wang Yuanbao and handed over the money and the goods in the same way!
"Senior Brother, after Wang Yuanbao returned home today, he found something wrong. He immediately took the horse hoof gold given to him by the other party and found my house." He stepped forward and pulled Zhang Qian's sleeve, and Ren Cong carefully pleaded for Wang Yuanbao.
When he was treated as a waste by his family, Wang Yuanbao was one of the few people who really regarded him as a friend. Therefore, he was very reluctant to lose this friend. However, Mrs. Wang's stupid behavior may cause great trouble to the Liushen Business Company. At this moment, no matter how his senior brother takes action against Wang Yuanbao, it cannot be considered too much.
"Zhang Shaojian, I know I'm sorry for you. I deserve to die. I have brought you all the money for transferring the dry shares. And, as well as my secret recipe for refining glass!" Wang Yuanbao suddenly kowtowed again, his voice with unconcealed despair.
The other party may have come from the Liushen Business Company, and he and his glass workshop were unfortunately affected by the fish. In fact, the moment he saw the gold after returning home, he was sure of this.
However, the more this happens, the more afraid Wang Yuanbao is. Zhang Qian and Guo Nu, as well as the other shareholders of Liushen Commercial Bank, may not be able to provoke the royal family. Crushing him to Wang Yuanbao is easier than crushing him to an ant. Especially after Zhang Qian, the secretary, who was able to cause such a big loss to the Buddhist sect, could only swallow his anger. Isn’t it as easy to make Wang Yuanbao’s family disappear without knowing it?
If his whole family was killed by Zhang Qian using magic, those who bought Liushen Commercial Bank's shares from his wife would never stand up for him. Maybe they would be afraid of Zhang Qian and decided to stop when they were right. Zhang Shaojian, killing anyone on the other side, may cause unpredictable consequences. Only killing him, Wang Yuanbao's family can kill the chicken to scare the monkey!
"Senior Brother, Wang Yuanbao really doesn't know. I can guarantee him. Senior Brother, he is willing to hand over the secret recipe of Liuli, he knows it at least!" Seeing that Zhang Qian was not speaking for a long time, Ren Cong was also very nervous. He pulled his sleeves again and continued to whisper to beg for resentment.
Ren Cong is just kind but not stupid. The one who knows that the two armies are most likely to become a double target of attack is a guy like Wang Yuanbao who is not firm, whether the latter is intentional or unintentional. With his senior brother's current power and status, he does not need to use the three bronze bells to deal with Wang Yuanbao at all.
Maybe his pleading really worked, maybe Zhang Qian himself finally sorted out his thoughts. Just when Ren Cong was about to cry, he finally heard the voice of his senior brother. It was very slow, but very calm, and directly ignored the responsibility of Wang Yuanbao's family and went straight to another topic, "How many shares did you buy? Don't rush to answer first, think about it carefully. I mean, in addition to normal purchases, have you also bought more shares from others?"
"Yes, did you secretly take a lot of other people's shares from me and Xiaowu? Otherwise, if you buy the shares you hold, you should not use gold!" Guo Nu suddenly realized and reached out and grabbed Wang Yuanbao's front collar again.
At this point, even if Wang Yuanbao's family is killed, it will be useless. What's more, their whole family is also a victim. However, how many shares Wang Yuanbao has transferred to the other party in a confused manner? It must be found out as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be impossible to judge how much damage the other party will cause to Liushen Commercial Bank in the future.
"At first, when Ren Xiaowu first asked me to raise shares, I bought three thousand yuan. Later, every time I expanded the shares, I paid for some!" Wang Yuanbao's head almost drooped to Guo Nu's hand, and his voice was full of guilt. "Last month, some people felt that they had made enough money and wanted to withdraw, so I paid for some more. In total, I spent more than 24,000 yuan. It can account for about half of the total number of shares in the commercial bank, or slightly higher than half a century, but I can swear that it definitely did not account for more than 10%!"
"I'll beat you an ungrateful bastard to death!" Guo Nu couldn't bear it anymore, so he swung his fist and greeted Wang Yuanbao's head.
The other party has been secretly increasing the number of shares, but he and Ren Cong were unaware of it. Fortunately, their senior brother was alert and drew the bottom line that the total shareholding of the three brothers should not be less than 51%. Otherwise, if Wang Yuanbao secretly tossed around for a few years, the business would not be able to be surnamed Wang?
"It must not exceed 10%, it must not exceed. I have been careful and carefully drawing lines for myself! Oh, Master Guo, please spare me, please spare me!" Wang Yuanbao knew that he was in the wrong, and held his head with his hands and begged for mercy loudly, "The prospects of the business bank are so good. If I don't buy them, those business stocks will definitely fall into the hands of others. I, I really just want to take a taxi to make some stable money. I am a cannibal, you are all officials. No matter how brave I am, I dare not snatch the business bank from Zhang Shaojian! Oh, Master Shaojian, please spare me, Ren Wu, help me!"
"Forget it, stop beating!" Zhang Qian sighed when he heard him speak pitifully, and stepped forward and grabbed Guo Nu's arm again. "It was when we made too many mistakes when we made rules at the beginning. We were taking advantage of loopholes, so no one else could blame him. Besides, he has made wedding dresses for others now!"
"Fatty Wang!" Ren Cong was so sad that his whole body was trembling. He walked forward and grabbed Wang Yuanbao's collar. "You and I will calculate with each other. How many shares did you buy? When did you buy it? Who did you buy it? I will make a statement with you!"
"I, I have an account book, sure, it's not more than 10%. I really just want to take a ride!" Wang Yuanbao knew that he was sorry to Ren Cong, and did not dare to meet his eyes. He sobbed and escaped from his arms, and held it in front of Ren Cong with both hands. "There is also a recipe for burning glass inside. Xiaowu, I'm sorry to you, sorry to Zhang Shaojian. I can give you both gold and formula. You can also take my life away. Please, please, please let your sister-in-law and nephew go, they are really innocent. Woo woo woo woo woo..."
As he spoke, he cried again.
"Who did you help me think of it?" Ren Cong snatched the Yufeng and cursed, "When did I say I wanted to deal with your wife and children? You guys have done things without your conscience, and he actually thought that everyone was as bad as you. I was really blinded at the beginning, so I treated you as a friend. I thought of pulling you with any good things!"
"The third junior brother arranged a residence for your family, with the purpose of preventing others from taking revenge on your family when you complain. You just don't miss his favor, but you actually thought he was going to threaten you with your family! Wang Yuanbao, do you have a conscience?" Guo Nu turned his mind quickly and scolded loudly on the side.
Wang Yuanbao was neither shameless nor brave, nor brave. He held his head with his hands and squatted on the ground and cried loudly. When Ren Cong saw it, he felt more and more uncomfortable. He raised his legs, kicked the man hard, and continued to curse: "Cry, do you still have the face to cry?! If I want to harm you, I will take so much effort to pick you up from the Xinfeng County Government? If I want to harm you, I will take so much effort to help your wife and children find a place to hide. I..."
"Forget it, third junior brother, you can calculate how many shares he holds first!!" I didn't want Ren Cong to be too sad, so Zhang Qian deliberately arranged a task for him, "Then, if you have time, go back to your house and ask Ling Zun how much cash you can mobilize at most."
"Yes!" Ren Cong raised his hand and wiped his tears, and agreed in a trembling voice.
"Third junior brother, don't cry for such people, it's not worth it!" Guo Nu was a little older than Ren Cong, and knew the feeling of being deceived by his friends. He walked to him and gently patted his shoulder, "And, senior brother is right, the rules we made at the beginning did not prohibit shareholders from acquiring each other's equity. His behavior was not kind enough, but it was not out of line."
After saying that, he took the fish seal that had been opened from Ren Cong's hand and took out the remaining thick piece of paper from it. He quickly glanced a few times and handed it to Zhang Qian with both hands, "Senior Brother, this is Wang Yuanbao's secret recipe for making glass."
"Yeah!" Now that things have come, Zhang Qian has no reason to be polite to Wang Yuanbao. He has taken the secret recipe and browsed it quickly. He doesn't want to directly refer to the recipe to practice glass, at least he hopes that he can get some inspiration from it.
As a result, if you don’t look at it, you will be disappointed when you look at it. The secret method of refining glass by Wang Yuanbao is not the original glass manufacturing process he expected. It is a special process derived from the fire of porcelain and the casting of bells. It can be regarded as a different approach or astray.
First of all, the material for burning glass is not the cheap river sand, but the pure quartz powder that Taoists swallow every day in order to survive. Craftsmen need to wrap the quartz powder with burning brick clay and place it in a brick kiln to calcin.
The products calcined in this way can only be called coarse materials. They need to be refined for four to five days before a kiln can be produced. After the kiln is released, the clay shell needs to be carefully peeled off, smashed the coarse materials, grind them into powder, and added different colors to be called fine materials. After the fine materials are melted, they can be processed into various shapes to be called glazed.
As for the manufacturing of glassware, it is even more ancient. It is like casting bronze. It is first used as the "lost wax method" to make the mold. Then the fine material and the water filtered out of the wood ash are put into a clay crucible together to boil it. The fine material is boiled into a melting state and poured into the mold to cast the whole.
After casting the glassware into a basic shape, use iron pliers to hold the glassware and put it on the fire to roast it softly. By stretching, shrinking the mouth, hoop, kneading and rounding, the aesthetics and shape details of the utensils are increased. If you want to make high-end goods, you need to add another polishing process to be considered as the result.
With such high raw material costs and complex manufacturing processes, no wonder the price of glass products is as high as Xiuyu. It is also because the output of flower dew in Liushen Workshop was not high some time ago. Only Wang Yuanbao's glass workshop can ensure the timely supply of glass bottles. If the production of flower dew in the future is doubled, there is no need for outsiders to destroy it at all. The shortcomings of insufficient production capacity of glass bottles will be exposed immediately!
In this way, the person who is calculating Liushen Trading Company is becoming more and more unfathomable. In other time and space jargon, this person's first move was to interrupt the supply chain of Liushen Flower Dew. According to the secret recipe for making glass provided by Wang Yuanbao, even after Liushen Trading Company found that there was nowhere to buy bottles, it immediately organized people to burn glass by themselves. From purchasing brick kilns to manufacturing finished products, it would take at least three to four months. This time, it was enough for the so-called "authentic perfumes of Dashi" to swallow up the consumer market that originally belonged to Liushen Trading Company.
"Although my workshop was burned, the fine materials were still over a thousand kilograms, and the main craftsmen were there. If we organize the work now, we still have time to make a few hundred bottles before the end of the year!" Squatting on the ground and crying for a while, secretly observing that Zhang Qian's face was ugly. Wang Yuanbao decisively stopped crying and moved to him and whispered to the point.
"Do you dare to go back to Xinfeng County to recruit personnel to start construction?" Zhang Qian looked down at the person and asked with a sneer.
Wang Yuanbao immediately shook his neck and shook his head with tears in his eyes, "I dare not, I just sued Wang Zude, the magistrate of Xinfeng County. Although no one is willing to make decisions for me, he must have hated me to the core. However, I can write a letter to help you gather all your hands here. I, Wang Yuanbao, are indeed greedy for money, but have never betrayed my friend. Ren Cong helped me like this, and if I don't help him make the bottle, I will never die with my eyes!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his little thoughts were exposed by Guo Nu on the spot, "Bah, you are afraid that my senior brother will deal with you, so you want to show that you are useful and want to make meritorious service!"
After saying that, he handed over another bill to Zhang Qian and quickly added: "Brother, I have calculated it with the third junior brother. Although he took advantage of the loopholes, he still knew how to restrain himself. He only held about 8% of the total share capital. Unless the person who collected his share capital, he could join forces with other shareholders to request a withdrawal of the shares, otherwise..."
"Not unless, but definitely!" Zhang Qian shook his head, his smile a little bitter. "Look over there, whose car is it? It's almost at the gate of the village!"
"Ah--" Guo Nu immediately turned his head in surprise when he heard this. Sure enough, he saw dozens of well-dressed guards surrounded by a tall car decorated with white copper and headed straight to the gate of the Zhang family.
"It's the young man Duan Huaijian's car!" Ren Cong walked forward with his red eyes and whispered, "Senior brother, you don't have to come forward. I'll go to greet him and ask him clearly before talking about it."
"No need, follow what I said, go back and ask your grandpa, how much cash you can use." Zhang Qian sighed with a smile, shook his head gently. Then, he turned his gaze to Guo Nu, who was full of anger, "You are the same. Go home and ask your grandpa, how much cash you can use. Then, you take Wang Yuanbao to Xinfeng County and transport the fine glass materials he saved back to the village."
"Gold, I still have gold. Zhang Shaojian, I am willing to hand over all this batch of gold to you. I will make up for my merits to atone for my sins!" Wang Yuanbao was afraid that Zhang Qian would not let him go in the future, and gritted his teeth and expressed his opinion again. "Xiaowu, second brother, I really don't know. If I know, I will kill my life and will not sell my share. I don't believe that Zhang Shaojian can't overcome this hurdle. Even if he can make a tenfold transaction, I will not sell it with just a little money. You must believe me. I am a greedy person, but I am not a fool!"
"Senior Brother!" Ren Cong dared not make decisions and asked Zhang Qian for instructions with red eyes.
"Then stay. If someone withdraws the stock, how much can this batch of gold be bought? Even if Wang Yuanbao re-invests the stock!" Zhang Qian thought for a while, nodded with a smile. With every move, he still maintained confidence and calmness.
This confidence quickly affected Wang Yuanbao. The latter's eyes lit up, gritted his teeth, and whispered to his promise again: "Zhang Shaojian, I still have more than 10,000 other debts, which can be collected at any time. Also, I have a shop in the city, which can be exchanged for cash at any time. I will teach you how to call it. In the future, I will only buy back half of the shares."
"You are so beautiful!" Guo Nu raised his foot and kicked Wang Yuanbao aside. Then he approached Zhang Qian, lowered his voice, and quietly tried, "Senior Brother, have you already had a solution? I knew, you would have a way? Anyone who wants to ride on your head and shit is dreaming in the daytime!"
"Don't say it's so dirty, go to work quickly!" Zhang Qian slapped him three feet away. Then he smiled and strode towards the door, not caring. His face was dirty as if it was a ghost painting talisman.
If the opponent is suppressed by power, he may not be able to hold on. After all, he, as a secretary, has not yet performed his duties, and has no team to support him. No matter how much he has, he has no strength to be an enemy of the entire Tang Dynasty bureaucratic system.
However, since the other party is playing with him as an official and a businessman, it will be much easier for him to deal with it. Even if he loses everything, he will just export the Liushen Commercial Bank.
He still has a lot of money-making shortcuts like Liushen Hualu. He can make a fortune in less than half a year.
"Hu——" The south wind whistled, blowing his sleeves. It was like two wings that had just grown feathers.
Chapter completed!