Chapter 32: New Situations
Cheng Wei, the original head of Yixingtang, was 42 years ago. Three years ago, a batch of goods sent to Cangzhou under the rule of the Henghai Army Jiedushi encountered chaos. Not only was the goods robbed of all, but even the servants under his command were killed and injured. In the end, only three of them came back. This loss immediately made Yixingtang fall into a desperate situation. It was at this time that Li Ze intervened in Yixingtang. At that time, there was no large amount of funds from Li Ze's. Yixingtang not only went bankrupt immediately, but was afraid that Cheng Wei would have to sue. When his property was not enough to compensate, even his family would be sold as slaves to compensate for the losses. For Yixingtang, Li Ze at that time, was not so much money as his life-saving benefactor.
Li Ze injected 10,000 yuan of money, accounting for 70% of Yixingtang's shares. At this time, Yixingtang was able to take out the only sales network they had operated under the rule of the Henghai Jun Jiedushi for many years and those necessary relationships. This is exactly what Li Ze values.
Another reason why he chose Yixingtang was that the governor of the Henghai Army was under the Bohai Sea, which was very important for Li Ze to raft on the sea when the situation was not good in the future.
However, people's hearts are always greedy. When Yixingtang spent the most difficult years and when Yixingtang was running a prosperous business in Li Ze and earning more and more money, Cheng Wei's heart finally became unbalanced.
Yixingtang was originally his! If it weren't for that unrestrained disaster, every penny earned by Yixingtang would have been his. The dozens of stores in Wuyi City, the caravan with hundreds of people, now earned more than 100,000 yuan a year.
Li Ze sneered, and he didn't think about it. If it weren't for Li Ze's investment, Yixingtang would have died long ago. If Li Ze hadn't sent Tu Hu and other guards to gradually build an armed caravan of hundreds of people in three years, how could Yixingtang be able to smoothly communicate under the unstable Henghai Army Jiedu? If it weren't for Li Ze's business plans one after another, how could Yixingtang not only resurrected in three years, but also became the leading major business in Wuyi County?
Li Ze did use some of his past relationships and sales networks, but in the past three years, Tuhu has expanded this sales network several times, covering the states, prefectures, counties under the rule of the Henghai Army Jiedu. His business protectors who were unable to come to the forefront in the past have now been directly managed by Tuhu to officials at the level of the governor.
What are the gains in this world?
Since this man started to think about this, he actively started to operate. He first gave his money to donate a official hat from the Wuyi County Zheng Cao to his son, and then got in touch with the county magistrate of Wuyi County.
This county magistrate is also a wonderful person. When he thinks of the current county magistrate Yang Kai of Wuyi County, Li Ze wanted to laugh. The former county magistrate Gao Gong has been promoted now, but he seems to have had some celebrations with Yang Kai, so he did not tell him not to mess with him. Gao Gong has been in Wuyi County for many years and has more or less known about the particularity of his own farm. Maybe someone has hinted at him. Therefore, over the years, the tax collectors who collect taxes in Wuyi County have never been to Li Ze's farm. And the hundreds of tenants in Li Ze have always only known Li Ze but not the government.
Yang Kai didn't know anything, but he actually dared to make his own ideas.
Maybe his father didn't care about him at all, so he forgot about this? In short, Yang Kai knew nothing about him, but he was a greedy person. He hit it off with Cheng Wei and began to find a way to seize his Yixingtang.
Since the hand is stretched out, it will naturally be cut off cleanly and neatly. I just took Yixingtang over. A Yixingtang that is completely controlled by him can do more things without having to be a little restrained like now.
In his previous life, Li Ze was a successful businessman. During his success, he had suffered many setbacks and betrayals. In his opinion, it was just like a child playing house.
Cheng Wei’s biggest reliance is probably the Yang Kaiyang County Magistrate? I’m afraid he can’t imagine that a mere county magistrate really doesn’t take it seriously.
"Young Master, Wuyi City has arrived." Tu Lichun's big face appeared in front of Li Ze.
Li Ze nodded, the carriage slowed down and walked towards the city gate. The people who were queuing up to pay the money at the city gate immediately dodged the road. There were carriages and entourages riding horses, and they were not ordinary families at first sight. Even the taxpayers at the city gate greeted them with a smile on their faces. Generally speaking, when such families enter the city, they are profitable, of course, they are not extorted. If they dare to extort such families, they will lose their jobs in minutes. As long as they welcome them properly, a lot of rewards are always indispensable.
The tax officials rudely drove some people at the city gate who had not yet made any time to make way out to both sides, "Are you blind? Can't see any noble people coming? Get out of here quickly and get trampled by a horse and kicked, but no one pity you."
After driving everyone away, the entire city gate appeared empty in front of Li Ze. The head of Tax Ding came up with a smile on his face, nodded and bowed to Tu Lichun, who was sitting high on his horse, said: "Uncle, the road has been cleared."
"Yeah!" Tu Lichun nodded with satisfaction, took out a few silver horns from his arms, and threw them to the taxpayer. "Thank you for your hard work, please drink with your brothers."
"Thank you, Mr.." Taxi Ding thought there would be a reward, but he really didn't expect there would be a reward of silver. These silver tricks were worth his two-month salary.
After giving the reward, Tu Lichun took out another handful of copper coins, "This is a tax to enter the city."
"Where are you still using the tax to enter the city?" The tax chief shook his head and smiled.
"We are the rules and regulations, and we cannot break the rules and regulations." Tu Lichun restrained his smile and said coldly.
"Yes, yes." Seeing Tu Lichun's expression was not good, the tax chief quickly took over the copper coins and poured the copper coins into the box where the tax money was stored. Although Tu Lichun gave far exceeded the city tax they needed to pay, he did not dare to take advantage of another layer of oil.
Tu Lichun was in front and Chu Sheng was behind. The group entered the city in a swaying manner. Li Ze lifted the curtains and looked outside. Suddenly, Xia He, who was on the side, turned his head curiously and laughed.
After more than two years, Shi Zhuang's wanted portrait was still attached to the cave in the city gate. After more than two years, the paper has turned yellow and the corners are also missing, but Shi Zhuang's general appearance can still be seen very clearly.
"This painter is good at craftsmanship." Putting down the curtain, Li Ze said affirmatively: "Let Chu Sheng go and inquire, and let this painter draw a picture for you."
"The painting looks quite similar, but Master Shi is not so ferocious, right?" Xia He said with a smile.
"Fierce? You really didn't say the point. Shi Zhuang at that time looked ferocious. Tu Lichun was so brave that he was scared at that time." Li Ze said.
Xia He patted her chest repeatedly, "It's really impossible to see this."
The carriage squeaked forward, but he didn't know that at the city gate behind, people including the tax deputies were stunned at this time. Although Xia He's face was only exposed at the window for a short while, it had already shocked these people.
The carriage walked forward for a hundred steps, but stopped again. Tu Lichun's voice sounded outside again: "Young Master, Sun Lei is here."
Li Ze in the carriage did not answer.
Outside the carriage, Tu Lichun's face also turned cold: "Why didn't you greet the young master at the city gate?"
"Master Tu, I was about to come out, but I was pulled back by Manager Cheng Da. Xu Xu talked to his son for a while and finally sent him away. Then he rushed over." Sun Lei went out of the village, and stood in front of the carriage, holding his hands, looking uneasy.
"What did he say to you?" Tu Lichun asked coldly.
"He said that the county magistrate is going to visit his house tomorrow and invite me to accompany him!" Sun Lei whispered, "He looked proud and looked like he was malicious."
In the carriage, Li Ze sneered, using Sun Lei's mouth to pass on the message to himself. Give himself a warning and let himself know that he is not easy to mess with.
"Don't pay attention to him, you go and do your own thing. Tomorrow, follow me and I will meet this county magistrate." Li Ze said in the carriage.
"Yes, young master, I wonder if you are going to Yixingtang now, or go and rest first?" Sun Lei asked.
"What are you busy with? The young master knows everything about Yixingtang, and he is exhausted all the way. I will talk about it tomorrow. After you go back, you will tell the shopkeeper Cheng and say that the young master has arrived. There is no need to say anything else."
"Yes." Sun Lei thought for a while and said, "Young Master, I have always felt that things are not right for the past few months, so I became more careful and asked. It seems that the county magistrate has been in contact with Yizhou Biaojia. Just two days ago, the Young Master of You also arrived in Wuyi."
"Oh?" This was a new situation. Li Ze couldn't help but frown. Don't do it in Yizhou. This is a person with some face in front of me. After thinking about it, he lifted the curtain and said to Chu Sheng: "You won't go to the city, go back to Zhuangzi and invite Mr. Gongsun to come."
"Yes!" Chu Sheng didn't say nonsense, and immediately turned around and drove towards the way he came.
"Sun Lei, you did a good job in this matter. If this young master suddenly appeared in front of me, it would be a bit passive. I'll write it down."
Chapter completed!