"Master Shi Dong looked at it, there is no hurry... Come and serve tea."

At that time, people would never be ill-fated when doing business. Whether the buyer was or not, they had to be treated politely. Big owners like Shi Congbin kept serving them from fragrant tea to snacks. There was a shopkeeper accompanying him, and Yusheng's shopkeeper also asked Shi Congbin if there were any arrangements for the evening. Shi Congbin apologized. He wanted to have dinner with a few old friends in the evening, and then after returning to the hall, there were guests waiting for the meeting.

After expressing regret from the shopkeeper of Yusheng, Shi Congbin slapped his head and said, "I almost forgot to pay silver from a new account. I have to handle a lot of goods this time and I have to take out 7,000 taels, which is quite large. I don't know that the silver can be prepared."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This matter is the end of the account. In fact, our stall is too big and there are many procedures. Sometimes I am very embarrassed to ask customers to wait. Master Shi's silver has already greeted him in advance, and the silver treasury has already arrived. Some customers may delay the matter if they come suddenly. It's okay if hundreds or thousands of taels are withdrawn. If it is a large amount of more than ten thousand taels, they may have to say hello several days in advance. After all, there are too many semicolons now and the silver treasury is scattered. I'm not afraid that Master Shi's silver treasury will be sufficient. If it is a real semicolon, there will be less silver deposits. Therefore, if such a situation occurs, please forgive me and don't blame me."

Shi Congbin said with great understanding: "It is normal for a business of expensive accounts to be so big. We have to do business with many expensive accounts. How could we be unhappy because we are delaying a little time?"

Shi Congbin continues to watch the goods. As expected, he found that the cloth of Heyusheng is fine and thick, and the quality is definitely not below Songjiang cloth. It is not very high compared to Shandong cloth and local local cloth. Some summer gauze is even thin and compact, and light and breathable. It is a bit better than the quality of Songjiang cloth. Unfortunately, Shi Congbin has already ordered the goods in other cloth stores, so he can only express his regret.

"It's okay," the shopkeeper smiled and said, "There are many cloth stores in the capital now selling our cloth. Unfortunately, the volume this year is not large, only more than 300,000 pieces. If there may be millions of cloth next year, we can sell it openly."

"The boss Zhang, who is a good student, really does everything he does!"

When Shi Congbin heard that 300,000 pieces was still a small business, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he could sell more than 30,000 pieces of cloth a year, and he was a top-notch cloth merchant in Kaifeng and even Henan. As a result, in others' eyes, it was probably just a small role. It was really disheartening to think about it.

When Conghe Yusheng came out, Shi Congbin sighed all the way to the store where he had ordered the goods. His silver was indeed taken out. The large ingot of silver worth fifty taels per person was not official silver, but also had a small word "六". Thinking that He Yusheng really made money, the silver minting business should be done casually, just to facilitate customers, not to make profits, and the pattern was a little higher than those of the royal palaces of the princes. He also heard that Hutchison bought his own silver coins in Shanxi for shops and elite groups who could fight against the Northern Territory. Shi Congbin had an idea in his mind, but he was very interested in the silver coins. Unfortunately, he had never seen them. It would be great if he could see them with his own eyes.

Shi Congbin is a big grocer and cloth merchant. He ordered a large amount of ironware at Heyusheng and went to several stores to order a large amount of groceries. When he took off the designated cloth, the more than a thousand pieces of cloth were transported by the cloth merchants from Heyusheng.

The shopkeeper of the cloth shop said: "The price is 30% lower, and we can sell it 20% to 30% lower than Songjiang cloth. If the goods are low, it is easy to take off. Moreover, the quality is not worse than that of southern goods. Beijing cloth merchants have already booked Hutchison cloth for next year."

Shi Congbin estimated that these big cloth shops would definitely rebate the goods from Heyusheng, but this was not his business. He smiled and asked the guy to take the cloth away and put it on the cart, and drove the car to Heyusheng's mule and horse shop to park. There were ten thousand taels of goods on the way back. This time, not only did he have to hold the flag of Hutchison, but he also had to go with the convoy of Mule and Horse shop. Of course, the parking fee and security fee also had to be paid, but it was still worth it compared to safety.

In recent years, due to the unfair weather, the bandits of horses everywhere have become more and more intense. Henan has a small number of twisters, and Shandong has become a big fuss. During the Chongzhen period, there were thousands of bandits in Shandong, and hundreds of people per team. Later, in the four towns of Jiangbei, many soldiers and horses were recruited from Shandong to recruit and support, and the combat effectiveness of these people can be imagined.

Because of the powerful bandits, experienced merchants will try their best to strengthen security. Some deal with the government and some handle their own escorts, but more merchants have the same choice as Shi Congbin. They either hire He Yusheng's convoy and use the account to transfer money, or when there are goods, they choose He Yusheng's escorts. No matter which one, they will save much trouble and effort compared to organizing their own escorts or hiding the government.

After drinking with a group of big businesses, I wrote a note. Zi called a few famous fan heads in the capital. Each of them took one away. Only Shi Congbin remembered that he lived in a guild hall, not a hostel, and his nephew was coming to talk to him in the evening, so he could only force his heart to leave with his parents.

At that time, there were many guild halls in the capital, from provincial level to prefecture level, and then subdivided to county level. Generally, local officials and wealthy businessmen donated money to buy a large mansion in the capital. All the fellow townsmen of the county or prefecture can stay in. The cost is very low, cheaper than staying in a hotel, and if you really don't have money, you can live in for free. Those with status like Shi Congbin would have to spend more money than staying in a hotel, because he would pay more than ordinary people. By the end of the year, the directors of the guild hall would come to ask for donations from home. At that time, the donation share of the Shi family would be not low on Shanyuan Book.

Due to this relationship, Shi Congbin lives in the Xiangfu Association. A group of deacons in the association are welcomed by the attendant. Every time he goes to Kyoto, he is very familiar with each other and is used to it. Even if he is inconvenient, he has never changed to those hostels to live there.

Besides, there is another advantage. In addition to a few poor people living in the guild hall, most of them are people with status, such as juren who came to wait for the exam early, students who went abroad to study, unemployed officials in Beijing who had not yet returned to Beijing, and businessmen with status who went to the capital to do business with Shi Congbin.

As he came in, Shi Congbin kept greetings, standing and chatting with those who were worthy of friendship from time to time, making an appointment to drink tomorrow. In a few words, he decided to have all the banquets tomorrow at noon and evening. Shi Congbin had to hold all the goods and didn't want to stay in the capital for a long time, so the candidates for this banquet were all short and fast.

He went to the room to wash away the dust on his face, changed into a home robe, and just sat down and calculated the accounts for today, the roommate said, "Third Master, the young master of nephew is here."

"When Xianzhi comes, you still want to spread it?" Shi Congbin put down his pen and said, "Come in quickly."

"The courtesy cannot be abandoned." Shi Kefa was extremely handsome and elegant. He bowed after entering the house, and then said with a smile: "My nephew, his mentor and Yang Dahong, went to the Hange Old Mansion together today. He encountered an interesting thing, which was delayed."

"I told you why you came so late." Shi Congbin said with interest: "What interesting things, let me tell you."

"Yes..." Shi Kefa sat down, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then told the matter slowly.

It turned out that tonight, Shi Kefa, Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and others went to visit Han Du, the second assistant to the cabinet.

The struggle has become more and more intense recently, and the officials of the Donglin Party have become increasingly popular. However, except for the emperor who began to scold Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others, there has been no movement in the past two months, and the whole thing has been frozen.

If it were ordinary things, the emperor would have treated this matter coldly. After all, it is estimated that the Holy Emperor was not able to use any thunderous means because of the great movement. The matter was delayed to this day and there was still no situation. The government and the government felt a little anxious, and the officials had more private connections. Of course, the Donglin lineage often visited each other and exchanged some news.

Not long after everyone arrived at the Han Mansion today, the outside world followed in and reported that there was a guest who wanted to see him.

The Han Mansion is at least the residence of the prime minister, and those who have no identity cannot enter. Today I would like to see Gu Bingqian, who is also one of the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet. There are two Grand Secretarys of the Wei Party in the cabinet, and Gu Bingqian is one of them.

Although there is no friendship in private between different parties, as one of his colleagues in the cabinet, Gu Bingqian's qualifications and status are enough, so Han Du immediately ordered the middle door to welcome him.

When Han Yu, Shi Kefa and others arrived at the middle gate, they suddenly realized that the guest standing in the middle was not Gu Bingqian, but a tall man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a tall man with a white face and no beard. Who is he who is not Wei Zhongxian?

Han Yu had some conspiracy at that time and even forgot the etiquette of letting the guests into the house. Wei Zhongxian didn't mind. He directly stated that he wanted to ask Han Yu to mediate the political dispute between him and Donglin's party.

Wei Zhongxian offered the condition that the Wei Party would demote several particularly hated backbone members, such as Xu Xianchun, who was in charge of the Jinyiwei Pacification Department. The corresponding condition was that the Donglin Party would not be allowed to impeach him again, and everyone would settle the matter. This round would be considered a draw.

Originally, Han Dong was the boss of a sect of the Donglin Party, and he was a little confused about the embarrassing situation at the moment... It is not scary to have enemies, and it is not scary to have civil servants to talk to each other. What is scary is the enemy asymmetry and information asymmetry. Now I don’t know how far the situation is. It seems that people are walking in the dark, and they are all pitch black from all directions. Even if there is nothing, they will be scared to death.

When Wei Zhongxian came here, in Han Du's opinion, the matter was made clear. If Wei Zhongxian had not lost power in the palace and had evil the emperor and was scolded by the emperor, how could he put down his airs and come to beg for peace in person?

Is this easy to make? Don’t say that Han Dong is the backstage of the Donglin Party who is the most fussy person who makes trouble. Even if he agrees with Wei when he thinks about this, how can the rest of the party agree? Don’t say that Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou are the strongest fighting people in front of you, and Zhao, Nanxing, Zou Yuanbiao and others who have gradually become low-key in recent years, how can Han Donglin Party be so powerful, but because of too many people, there are many comrades in the party who have rifts with each other. Han Dong’s lineage is more brave and fierce, or likes to show off himself. This is equivalent to raising himself in a very high position. How can Han Dong agree to Wei Zhongxian’s request rashly?

"Just refuse in public?" Shi Congbin felt incredible, and after hearing this, he was stunned.
Chapter completed!