Chapter 179 Promoted to Little Prime Minister! (Here we come! Five thousand chapters!)

"Ms. sir, you have to help us speak up. This behavior of the officials is really too much. They are openly embezzling people's property!

He has always refused to compete with the people for profit. Now he has tyrannically occupied all twenty-seven banks. Will he come to invade our fields in the future, and will he also take away our wives and daughters?

Since the founding of the country by Taizong, the monarch and his ministers have been getting along harmoniously, and the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats have shared the world. But now he wants to overturn the table. If this continues..."

An official was very angry and complained to Song Xiang.

The other officials also looked at Song Xiang with angry faces.

Song Xiang sat on it, listening with no expression on his face, but when he heard this, he suddenly said: "Are you considered a citizen?"

The official was stunned and said: "There are four peoples in the world: scholars, farmers, industry and merchants. We scholar-bureaucrats are naturally also people."

Song Xiang shook his head and said, "You are traitors."

The official immediately shut up.

The rest of the people also looked at each other.

Song Xiang snorted and said: "Twenty-seven banks are attacking the imperial institutions. This is a provocation to the imperial court. You are the traitors."

The official was unconvinced and said: "The banks only use commercial means. The twenty-seven banks deal with the central bank through normal commercial channels to disburse loans. How can it be considered a rebellion?"

If the Emperor of the Song Dynasty is going to do this, will he then say that all the people in the world are from the royal family? Will he then say that the whole world has the surname Zhao?"

Song Xiang looked at the official coldly and said: "The emperor is kind, do you really think he is a coward?

I ask you, is the central bank equivalent to the six ministries of the imperial court? Does the six ministries represent the imperial court? Do you still want to set a trap for the six ministries? Do you still want to organize the people to surround the six ministries?

Some things can be said but not done, and some things can be said but cannot be said. You don’t understand this?

It's not that this thing can't be done, but since it has been exposed that the emperor is merciful and unwilling to carry out mass killings or expand the scope, do you really think that you are not guilty?

Now we don’t confiscate families and exterminate clans, we don’t plow down courts and clean holes, but only your bank, do you still feel aggrieved?”

Song Xiang's words left everyone speechless.

The official Qiqi Ai Ai said: "Ms. sir, I hear what you mean. Is it because the officials don't want to expand the scope because they have concerns?"

Song Xiang smiled when he heard this: "I'm not afraid to tell you. You should also know that there are several forces in the Song Dynasty court."

The official was also well-informed and quickly answered: "We know this, the relatives are on one side, the generals are on the other side, and the civil servants are on the other side, but the civil servants are also divided.

Among the civil servants, there is the northern side, represented by Hebei, Hedong, and Hexi, and our group is the southern side.

Of course, now the Fujian faction has suddenly emerged, with Zeng Gongliang and Wu Yu as its representatives, as well as Zhang Heng, the troublemaker, and Fujian talents are emerging in large numbers, and there are many Fujian Jinshi in the previous imperial examinations..."

After saying this, he suddenly became alarmed: "...Mr. Sir, do you mean that in order to maintain balance, the officials are unwilling to kill Jiangnan?"

Song Xiang spread his hands: "Hey, don't you understand now?"

The more the official thought about it, the more panic he felt in his heart. He looked at the other people around him, and they all looked sweaty. He also felt lucky to have escaped death.

He quickly thanked Song Xiang on behalf of the Jiangnan officials: "My lord, thank you for your reminder, otherwise we would have made a big mistake."

At this time, someone from behind suddenly said: "Ms. sir, can we withdraw the cash from the bank? It's all our money, and it's a lot of money..."

When Song Xiang heard this, he waved the tea cup to the ground with a wave of his hand. The cup shattered on the ground and the tea was scattered all over the floor. However, he didn't care at all, stood up and walked back to the inner room.

Everyone looked at each other in shock.

The person who just asked the question was a little surprised: "Did I say something wrong?"

The official who had been talking to Song Xiang sighed and said: "Remember, if you don't want to die, you can't touch even half of the money in the bank! If there is a deficit, quickly take money from home to make up for it. Do you understand?

?”

The person who asked the question widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "It's not enough if I don't take the money, and I have to add more money?"

The official glanced at him and stopped talking to him. Instead, he said to everyone: "Everyone who understands what you should do and what you shouldn't do will understand. If you don't understand, see what others do, otherwise your family will be confiscated and your family will be destroyed."

Don't blame me, don't blame my husband for not making it clear. Let's just leave it like this today."

Everyone could only retreat temporarily.

This official was delayed at the end. When everyone left, he turned around and returned to the lobby. Song Xiang came out of the inner room.

"Everyone's gone?"

The official nodded.

"They're all gone."

Song Xiang sighed and said, "Yunchang, you are a smart man."

Yunchang is the official name of this official. His name is Tan Rong, a serious Hangzhou native.

Tan Rong looked solemn and said: "Does the official family really give the Jiangnan Clan a chance to survive?"

Now in the political affairs hall, Jia Changchao is from the north, Song Xiang and Ding Xi are also from the north, Wang Gongchen is also from the north, and Zeng Gongliang is from Fujian. It can be said that there is no one from the south of the Yangtze River.

This is why they recommended Xia Song to be in charge of the political affairs hall, but now not only Xia Song cannot come back, but they, the Jiangnan officials, are also in big trouble and are being slaughtered like fish on the chopping board.

Now that Xia Song cannot come back, Jiangnan will have no spokesperson at the top. If the officials kill him, Jiangnan may really be in ruins.

Song Xiang glanced at Tan Rong and said, "If you hadn't been given a chance, you would have been in jail now.

Don’t think too much, Jiangnan is a place where talents gather, so it doesn’t matter if you are temporarily lagging behind, there will be opportunities in the future.”

Song Xiang said it in an understatement, because although Song Xiang suffered some losses in planning Xia Song's return to the capital, it was not big, but the gains were much greater than the losses.

Originally, the officials of the Jiangnan Department were counting on Xia Song's return, and they had a backbone. However, Xia Song was far away in the northwest, so they could only rely on Xia'an Qi as the most important link. Now that Xia'an Qi has entered, the Jiangnan Department is suddenly leaderless.

Although Song Xiang is from Yongqiu County and is a pure northerner, Song Xiang is regarded as Xia Song's disciple, so they also recognize him. However, Xia Anqi was there before, and these people were not too close to him, but Xia Song

When An Qi entered, these people could only point at him.

After he gathered the Jiangnan faction, Song Xiang didn't want Xia Song to come back.

What a joke, he is back, can I still command these people?

However, there is still a conflict that needs to be resolved, and that is Gao Ruone.

Song Xiang instigated Gao Ruona to impeach Jia Changchao, but Zhao Zhen and Jia Changchao made a show of it. Now Gao Ruona is still sick at home, waiting for Zhao Zhen's fate.

Song Xiang also regretted that he shouldn't have let Gao Ruona take the lead. Now that it's better, Gao Ruona must hate him to the bone!

Song Xiang thought for a while, gritted his teeth, wrote a letter, and then attached a document for his family to send to Gaorona's house.

Gao Ruonei was sitting quietly at home, but his heart was not at peace. His family members did not dare to offend him and stayed away from him. As a result, the Gao Mansion was completely silent, which made the sound of people's footsteps particularly noticeable.

Gao Ruona was burning incense and meditating in the quiet room, sitting cross-legged and meditating. Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps, and Gao Ruona's heart immediately became restless.

"Sir, I have your letter."

"Bring it in quickly!" Gao Ruone said hurriedly.

The servant quickly opened the door and sent the letter in, but when Gao Ruonei saw the signature on the envelope, he immediately threw the letter on the ground.

"Bah! Villain!"

Gao Ruona cursed angrily.

The servant quickly retreated and quietly closed the door.

Gao Ruonei pointed at the letter on the ground and typed it out, but after scolding for a while, he picked up the letter with a frown, opened the letter, and took out all the things inside. Gao Ruonei saw the objects inside.

, suddenly became angry: "This bitch, he tricked me and ruined my future, and he wants me to forgive him for just one yard?"

Gao Ruonei was indignant, but after seeing the location of the yard clearly, Gao Ruonei's face changed: "...not to mention, this old boy understands me and actually gave me this yard..."

Remembering that he had been to Song Xiang, a garden that was unremarkable on the outside, but low-key and luxurious on the inside, Gao Ruona was already a little anxious.

There was no way around it, that garden was too valuable. Anyone who loved life would want to spend his old age in it when he saw that garden. Who knows how much money Song Xiang spent on it.

Thinking of this, Gao Ruona spat again. Song Xiang looked clean and honest to the outside world, but inside he was extravagant and lustful.

"He's such a hypocrite!"

He was scolded, but for Yuanzi's sake, Gao Ruona still decided to hold his nose and make peace with Song Xiang. Of course, his position as censor Zhongcheng might be lost. If he went to work somewhere, there would be no one in the court.

, you may never come back in your lifetime.

Therefore, whether it was for Yuanzi's sake or for his own future, it was impossible for Gao Ruona to completely sever ties with Song Xiang.

So Gao Ruonei pinched his nose and wrote a letter to Song Xiang, thus putting the matter on hold.

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The surrender of the Jiangnan Clique made the central bank's actions to unify the major banks very smooth.

At Zhao Zhen's suggestion, Liu Neiquan gave Han Yixun the identity of Kong Muguan and joined the Central Bank, under the jurisdiction of Zhang Heng.

With Han Yixun as a traitor, the big bosses of the major banks did not dare to do anything. Of course, it was Tan Rong's warning that worked.

The bureaucrats behind the Bianjing bank were even more sensible. Not only did they proactively cooperate, they also completely withdrew and sold the rest of the bank to the central bank.

Zhang Heng is also quite interesting. All the banks that were not involved in the siege of the central bank gave good prices, which is commendable.

But Zhang Heng is not without his thunderous methods. A Tangzhou bank is really ignorant. Not only did it resist the central bank's entry, but it also drained all the cash flow inside. It also set a fire and burned the ledger to the ground.

, we will have nothing to do with it from now on.
To be continued...