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Chapter 54 Speculation (Part 1)

After the meeting of the Auxiliary Secretary, Sony rode back to his home. Although his life is better now, he is still not used to sitting in a sedan chair and always feels that he is not free to ride a horse.

Recently, the third son has been making trouble, and Sony has long heard of this. Sony has heard about the troubles of this son, which has a lot to do with the money. However, Sony did not interfere before, and Soetu came to ask him if the court would break the contract and whether he would make things difficult for acceptance. When he was willing to issue a receipt, Sony also told his son truthfully - at least this year, the Qing court would not turn against him and confiscate a sum of grain silver. It is not worth it to break up for tens of millions of taels of grain silver for hundreds of thousands of taels. I don’t know when, the Minister of Responsible Government suddenly had an impression that after the two sides fought for decades, the Qing court and the Ming army, to be precise, seemed to have not broken up with the Ming army in Sichuan.

Soetu and other former imperial guard officers who were unsuccessful in politics always gathered together. After a securities transaction emerged in the south, they gathered money to gamble. This gambling also had a fresh name called futures trading. However, Sony and other senior Manchu officials were favored by them, and they felt that the inside story of the battle at Gaoyou Lake was deep, and these children were all wronged by sacrifice. So even though they knew they were gambling and borrowed the imperial station system to gamble, their parents pretended not to know-the four ministers had their families involved, so it was not difficult to cover up this matter.

But after returning home today, Sony immediately asked Baoyi to call Soetu and said as soon as he met, "Don't go to Tianjin in the future."

Recently, Sony heard that his son’s gambling money is getting bigger and bigger, and it is said that he has been spending hundreds or thousands of taels of silver... There is nothing wrong with gambling, but like Soetu, it is a bit scary. Moreover, because of gambling, many noble children even went to Tianjin to watch the delivery of the canal silver, for fear that the court would keep their promises strictly, but the Tianjin local officials were experiencing the "Fu thief" who made things difficult for the Caoyin. Soetu also went to Tianjin with other kids every now and then.

"Why?" Soetu's eyes widened, his voice trembling: "Ama, but...but is the court going to break the contract and arrest people?"

Soetu and the others earned a lot of money these days. After the delivery of the canal in Huguang, Niu Hulu went to Jiujiang and made a fortune by doing more money in Jiujiang. Not long ago, the delivery of the canal in Jiangxi was also over. It was Jiangnan's turn. Niu Hulu should be on his way to Anqing now. In order to allow the group of people in the capital to participate in every transaction smoothly, they even affected the order of the canal delivery. It was obvious that the court originally intended that Zhejiang pay the canal in first, but because Niu Hulu could not fly, it could not flew in Wuchang and Hangzhou. So in the end, it decided to deliver the canal in Hubei, Hunan, then Jiangxi, Jiangnan, and finally Zhejiang canal in the delivery plan.

This plan was a bit difficult to pass in the Beijing court, because the ministers of the regent think that if they go through sea transportation, the transport of the canal from Hangzhou to Tianjin is obviously more convenient than Jiangxi. However, because the securities transactions in Huguang were opened first, for Beijing's futures group, they must start from Hubei and finally end up in Zhejiang. The regent and the Ministry of Revenue were worried that this might cause the silver ships in Zhejiang to wait outside and cannot be unloaded, while the silver ships in Jiangxi had not arrived yet, resulting in the strange scenes that the Tianjin Wharf had nothing to do. But the nobles could not resist the nobles' children persuaded their son's mother, and then the mother and son went on battle to deal with their important minister's father together. The order needed by Niuhu was passed by the Qing court.

The Ming army was very easy to talk. Feng Ziming, the president of the Chengdu Development Bank, who was escorting the silver ship, came ashore and lived near Dagukou after arriving. After many people suspected of being Deng Ming and Mutan's secret envoy, he replied with a relaxed look when he heard Soetu's request. For their financial group, the Qing court could do whatever he wanted. The ship of silver from any province can be considered as the canal of silver in any province, and one ingot of silver can be divided into five parts, and one ingot of silver can be divided into one piece of money.

Seeing that the Ming army's account book was so confused, the silver on the ship could be said to be from any province, which made many officials of the Qing court's Ministry of Revenue secretly despise it, and speculated that the Ming army's household official management system would be in chaos and had no rules at all. After hearing Feng Ziming say that even a ingot of silver could be divided into several parts. According to the needs of the Qing court, the Beijing Ministry of Revenue's contempt for the Ming army's account book management system reached an extreme. Many officials of the Ministry of Revenue concluded: "Sichuan is easy to break."

Most Manchu children did not understand why Sichuan was easy to break, so they only vaguely figured out some of them, that is, the Ming army's account management was not very strict enough, giving Sichuan officials too many opportunities to take advantage of the waters - I think my Qing Dynasty accounts are so rigorous. When I entered the Ministry of Revenue warehouse to move, soldiers were not allowed to wear clothes and were naked, but there were still various opportunities to carry them. Sichuan was so careless that it would be possible to "see it to be defeated" in a few years, right?

Since only five percent of the deposit was required, Niu Hulu's profit was very good. The more than 30,000 taels of silver that everyone had raised had become more than 50,000, and the two hundred taels of silver that Soetu had also become more than 500 taels of silver. A few days ago, Soetu borrowed it from his brother, brother, cousin, and relatives everywhere. He patted his chest and promised 30% of the profit, and raised a few hundred taels of silver to Niu Hulu. It was because of the problem of the deposit. If the Qing court suddenly changed his face and had to pay the debt, then every time he was confident that Niu Hulu, who was full of wealth, would throw everyone's private money into the water at one time.

Thinking of this, Suo'ertu was not good at all. Last time, Niu Hulu sent a letter saying that Anqing had launched a new Caoyin delivery insurance project, selling personal and property insurance to silver ships going to Tianjin, and these insurance funds were also listed in Anqing. After studying and understanding the project mentioned in Niu Hulu's letter, Sou Hulu laughed very happily. They all knew that the court would not break the contract, nor would they catch people. Therefore, they asked Niu Hulu to buy as much as Niu Hulu had, thinking that it was a business that would make sure to make a profit and not lose money.

As a result, the court was about to change its mind in the blink of an eye... This gambling is indeed impossible, and even my own father is unreliable.

Soetu hurriedly turned around and was about to run out: "Ama forgives his sins, so his son has to write a letter quickly and send it to Anqing while the city gate is not closed yet."

There are also many of the borrowed money from my cousins, cousins ​​who get married and save money from their private money they save when they are frugal. If they lose all the money they have lost, they will only commit suicide to thank the world?

"Stop it!" Sony shouted.

A long time has passed in the Battle of Gaoyou Lake. As the situation becomes increasingly unfavorable, everyone is no longer so obsessed with the Imperial Guard's dereliction of duty. This time, going to Sichuan has the opportunity to collect local products and make money, and it is also an opportunity to obtain military merits. If you can make great contributions in this conquest, then the nobles such as Soetu will have the opportunity to make a comeback.

Therefore, several auxiliary ministers united to win this opportunity for them and their followers' children. The Empress Dowager had agreed to give the Gaoyou Lake delinquents who had been cleared out of the imperial guards and allowed them to return to the army and serve with Prince Kang and Ebilong.

Since his son has a future again, Sony can't watch him continue to gamble and mess around. He also knows that this son has great ambitions and is different from other sons who are scrambling to die.

"Three, I have never won any title for you." After Sony told his son the good news, he encouraged him seriously. Needless to say, Soetu's elder brother would inherit Sony's title, and Soetu's second brother and his younger brother, Sony also tried his best to win all kinds of life-long iron-core crops for them. Except Soetu, Sony never helped him get any idle position to get a free salary, but he did not miss any chance to let Soetu listen to the emperor: "I won't mention the past. You must seize this opportunity. You will have a title that is not inferior to your father."

"Yes, my son knows." Soetu bowed his head and followed the teachings, his face full of excitement.

However, Soetu's joy was not entirely because of the reappearance of the political future, but also because of knowing that the court would not break the contract. After all, Soetu still held so many relatives' life-saving money in his hand; not only him, but also other participation values. As far as Soetu knows, Guarja's brother fooled more people than him. After hearing that this could make a lot of money in the short term, several men mortgaged the house with their wives on their backs, one person had five taels and one person had to raise money in ten taels, and they also had to go to the Anqing Exchange to go long. If something went wrong, how can I explain it?

"It's also good to go through Tianjin. You can know the inside story of Sichuan." Soetu frowned and said to him.

"Nonsense, how can you know about western Sichuan when you go to Tianjin?" Sony disagreed and glared at Soetu: "You should calm down and don't go gambling again."

"Ama misunderstood." Soetu didn't expect me to see through his intentions at a glance, but since he dared to say this, of course he was not completely unprepared.

A newspaper was taken out of Suetu's arms, held it with both hands and handed it to Sony respectfully: "This is what Feng Ziming and several other Sichuan people are reading for nothing. It seems that the matter on it is all about western Sichuan."

Deng Ming did not forbidden the newspapers in western Sichuan from leaking out. Every time a new silver ship arrived, Feng Ziming and others would rush over to ask for the latest newspaper. These people have been in Tianjin for several months. After getting the newspaper, they would read them hungrily, and Soetu looked for an opportunity to steal a few pictures.
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