Chapter 23                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen has been the focus of the world in the past or two years. It can be said that he is in the limelight and is at the forefront of the storm. Why hasn't Zhang Siwei studied it?

Zhang Siwei said: "Father, father-in-law, uncles and uncles. Duke Zhou is a famous minister in the world. He is the best in the world in the calendar. He is the best in medical skills to create firearms. He is simply wise and omniscient. The way to use military forces is actually the tip of Duke Zhou's iceberg. Therefore, elders must not regard Duke Zhou as a martial artist because of several great victory. That would lead to great losses."

"That's what we know." Wang En said: "You Uncle Wang sent some math books from Duke Zhou, and the family was shocking. Even if you don't talk about Duke Zhou, even if you found the math founded by Duke Zhou, Mr. Cheng, a disciple of Duke Zhou, it is hard for us to compare."

Many people below nodded.

Cheng Dawei is a relatively pure person. Most of his achievements are above mathematics. Many people don’t feel it. But in fact, Cheng Dawei has made many contributions, such as abacus algorithms. The formulas of three to five to two, three to twenty-one are originally the research directions that were popular in the Ming Dynasty. Many mathematicians have focused on this.

The same is true for Cheng Dawei. The only difference was that Cheng Dawei in history did not start to work in this job until he was in his seventies or eighties. But today, Cheng Dawei just used this job as a dessert and solved it casually.

As a teaching material for teaching outer disciples.

Although Cheng Dayi did not exert force, any outer disciple who could attack Zhou Mengchen's sect was a first-class account.

I don’t feel anything about other people yet. But the Shanxi shopkeeper’s accountant, the one who is not a business team. These people suddenly discovered that such a group appeared on the market. How could they not be shocked? Even Zhou Mengchen didn’t know that some of his outer disciples had been hired by Shanxi merchants as teachers and professors.

After all, even if you have the ability, you may not be important. After all, Shanxi people are relatively conservative. The position of the account can't be given to outsiders. But as a teacher, there is not so much to say.

Zhang Siwei said: "In fact, we should pay more attention to the fact that Zhou Gong is not about doing business, but in fact, he is a big businessman who turns his hands to make clouds and rain. Have you ever noticed the construction project of Beijing's outer city? The whole process was to lay eggs out of nothing. The result was to satisfy all parties. The key was that the cement he took out was a huge profit. If Zhou Gong ran it himself, it might not be impossible to make a family-born industry. But in the end, Zhou Gong almost didn't take any money. It can be seen that Zhou Gong was not about doing business, but was devoted to serving the public. Now the Zhou family's industry is just a printing workshop, several shops, and a few farms given by the imperial court, which totaled only tens of thousands of taels. How could it be compared to the huge profits of cement workshops?"

"The court and the nobles in the capital were even more full. It was even rumored that the granddaughter of the Marquis of Fengcheng had already been engaged to Duke Zhou's eldest son. It can be seen that Duke Zhou is still a good person. As long as he follows his wishes, he actually doesn't care about some small profits. Duke Zhou is in the world and cares more about the great benefits of the world. Some small profits he doesn't care about are enough for us to eat."

The group was very engaging in listening.

Zhang Yunling said: "Ziwei, what do you mean?"

Zhang Siwei bowed and said, "Father, what I mean is very simple. Duke Zhou is determined to reconcile. Many people in the court know that although he presided over the peace talks, in fact, the court is not at ease with him, worried that he will fight again. He cut off nearly one million taels of military expenditure in Datong in one breath. Duke Zhou is now at a loss, and it is icing on the cake, how can he help him in time?"

"I think no matter what Mr. Zhou said today, we just agreed."

"Zi Wei." Zhang Yunling said: "You all say that Zhou Gong is in love with the world and he is doing great things. The combined number of our dozens of companies seems to be worth a lot of billions of dollars. But you also know that every bank has its use for every bank. It has been a lot of money before. I'm afraid I can't do it if I want more."

Many people nodded.

Assets and liquid capital are two different things.

The total Shanxi merchants' net worth is not much more than 100 million taels. However, it is not possible to ask Shanxi merchants to take out millions of taels in one go. That will affect business.

For Datong, the Shanxi merchants thought that they were more about maintaining their relationship and not offending Zhou Mengchen. As for taking a step further, it might not be bad. But they paid too much, but they were unwilling to do so. In the fundamental sense, although Zhou Mengchen is now in a high position, the combined influence of the Shanxi merchants may not be weaker than Zhou Mengchen.

Not to mention anything else, although Yang Bo, who is in Jizhou Town, looks weaker than Zhou Mengchen, he really wants to talk about it, he may not be afraid of Zhou Mengchen with his influence in the court.

Zhang Siwei couldn't say anything.

After all, he is just a juren now, and he is not the future chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. Here he is more of a junior speaking. These so-called elders are willing to listen to it to, which is already giving Zhang Siwei a face. Could it be possible to adopt it?

Zhang Siwei could only call it yes and then retreated aside.

However, after the separation, Zhang Siwei said to his father: "Father, I still think that Zhou Gong will not see us casually. Since he wants to see us, it must be a problem. Moreover, when Zhou Gong's life is still alive, he never intends to use people at will, so there will definitely be rewards."

Zhang Yunling said, "I know."

Zhang Siwei said: "You know it still-----"

Zhang Yunling said: "Do you know if a new business in Datong is the Yin family in Shuozhou. His head is the disciple of Duke Zhou. Yin Zongyi is the freight and steam engines. I guess his family can earn tens of thousands of taels this year."

When Zhang Siwei heard this, he said, "Ten Thousand Taxis? So much?"

Don’t talk about the furniture of hundreds of thousands of taels here, but you think that tens of thousands of taels are not much. It should be noted that the Zhang family’s property has been accumulated by three generations. Yin Zongyi has only been in business for one or two years. It is already amazing to be able to do this.

"It's ten thousand taels." Zhang Yunling said: "Mr. Zhou has some golden hand. He can turn stones into gold. My family has known about the open-pit coal in Shuozhou for a long time, but he doesn't want to support a military weapon supervisor. If I look at the Shuozhou military weapon supervisor, if it is converted into money, it won't take a million taels."

"When I got the news, I had already asked my family to sell several yards in Yangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou. If I couldn't sell it, I wanted to pay it off. With the cash in hand, I could probably get about 100,000 taels of cash."

Zhang Siwei said: "Then father, you just returned it?"

Zhang Yunling said: "Ziwei, you have a good study. You have a bright future. Always remember one sentence. Your biggest enemy is probably your biggest supporter now."

Zhang Siwei immediately understood it.

The opportunity given by Zhou Mengchen was to give Shanxi merchants. However, Shanxi merchants were not monotonous. The Zhang family, Wang family, and Yang family were dominated by Yang Bo's relationship. But it does not mean that there were no other merchants among Shanxi merchants.

Their group of people are from Puzhou, Pingyang Prefecture. But there are no merchants in Jiexiu, Taiyuan? Of course, it is not. Now the Jiexiu Fan family has actually already a place.

Even among the Puzhou businessmen led by Yang Pu, there may not be any lack of three or two shortcomings.

Therefore, everyone is united to form a group of Shanxi businessmen that outsiders see. When encountering things that do not involve fundamental interests, they can naturally help each other and join the group to keep warm. But if they really meet a great opportunity that concerns the fundamentals, it may not be possible.

Zhang Siwei bowed and said, "Father, the child has been taught."

At this moment, he deeply imprinted this scene in his heart. Many times, others are hell. When they take action, they have to take action.

Zhang Yunling said: "Ziwei, are you going to go to the capital after the result is achieved, or leave now?"

Zhang Siwei said: "I can't help here either. Duke Zhou is not someone else. This time, even if my father has no gains, he doesn't have to worry about offending Duke Zhou. I left first. After all, for me, the imperial examination next year is the most important. I originally thought that the result should be soon, but today I may not be able to see it."

He felt that the result would come soon, which was the matter between Zhou Mengchen and the Shanxi merchants. But today, it might not be a struggle within the Shanxi merchants.

He is interested in the former, but not in the latter.

Zhang Yunling nodded and said, "Okay."
Chapter completed!