When it comes to business, pursuing profit is the most essential characteristic of a businessman.

Tang Shengshenzi is no exception.

In his opinion, no matter who becomes the emperor, everyone will wear clothes anyway. The Qing people did not wear wild tree bark to keep warm, and even their emperors would wear dragon robes.

As long as someone wears clothes, textiles are inseparable, and businessmen are profitable.

Therefore, after the Qing army conquered Nanjing, Tang Shengshen was not very afraid. At most, he would lose some money. As long as he was not allowed to go bankrupt, the loom would ring and make a fortune, and it would not be difficult to live a life of luxury again.

However, it turned out that he was wrong.

Duoduo conquered Nanjing City and began to burn, kill, and rob.

Tang Shengshen thought that spending money could buy his life, so he took the initiative to offer tens of thousands of taels of silver to the officers who came to the door.

But this move was like throwing a piece of meat into the wolf pack. The wolf pack that smelled the meat ate the piece of meat, rushed up again, and began to bite the person who threw the meat wildly.

One wave of Qing soldiers left, another wave of Qing soldiers came again, and he asked for silver of no less than 10,000 yuan if he didn't give it, so he put a big blade in it. Tang Shengshen had to take out the silver again and again to satisfy these evil wolves.

In less than three days, his family had more than a dozen Qing soldiers and plundered all the deposits of his family.

Since Tang Shengshen, he has no money, so there will be no more trouble, right? But unexpectedly, the last wave of Qing soldiers who came came rushed up and entered his house and looted all his property.

Not only that, his wife, daughter, daughter, concubine, eighteen concubine, maid, servant, and women in the family were all humiliated, and they were also in front of him.

Seeing this great insult, Tang Shengshen was completely angry. However, with a bright big blade pressing on his neck, he did not dare to resist, allowing his relatives to cry in pain under the power of the Qing soldiers without daring to yell anger.

The Qing soldiers left, leaving him with an empty mansion and full of hatred.

After selling all the unclean concubines, maids, and maids in the 18th house, and for a little silver, Tang Shengshen took his family back to his hometown.

However, my hometown is not a pure land. People in a village die and flee, with almost no one left, leaving only a cold loom.

After a while, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty may have realized the importance of the human heart, or felt that the resistance to the Han people in Jiangnan had been greatly destroyed. They could not have the desire to resist, so they began to gradually win over the people's hearts and resume production.

Someone from the government came to Tang Shengshen, hoping that he could take the lead in building the textile industry in Wuxian.

However, after the disaster, Tang Shengshen could no longer be interested in making money. He learned from his mistakes and finally understood three truths. First, the change of dynasties did not have anything to do with their merchants; second, huge amounts of money could not buy anything, and the saying "it is hard to make the devil push the grind" is a deceptive; third, the Ming Dynasty he once hated was so miserable. Although it had so many problems, it was the Han regime and supported the Han people. Only when the Han people were in power could they do business and make money with peace of mind. The brutal Qing Dynasty would not give the Han people a way out. If he became rich again, his money would definitely become his original sin. Once it was lost, it would not be impossible for a great disaster to come.

After understanding these principles, Tang Shengshen was already discouraged and refused to make a comeback.

Of course, he didn't dare to complain at all, so he had to say that he was sick and was powerless when he came out again.

The government knew about his miserable experience, and when he saw that he lacked interest, he stopped forcing him.

After Emperor Yongli took over Nanjing, Tang Sheng learned from many sources that he encouraged the development of industry and commerce when Emperor Yongli was in Guangzhou, and no longer looked down on merchants. Later generations could even study and become officials, and reopened maritime trade.

He understood that these policies of Emperor Yongli were the blessings of their merchants, especially the fact that future generations could study and enter the officialdom, which made the merchants who had been "rich but not status" long even more excited.

In Tang Shengshen's heart, this is not the most exciting thing.

In his heart, the most important thing is that this is a Han regime. If the Han people are not inferior to others, they can do something big. Therefore, he had the idea of ​​re-entering the world.

The family returned to Nanjing and entered the Wuxian Guild Hall again. Tang Shengshen gathered with his old friends here to discuss how to revitalize textiles.

However, what he could not have imagined was that although almost all the merchants realized that the spring of the merchant had arrived, most of them were similar to his experience. When the disaster was rampant in the south of the Yangtze River, their family wealth was looted.

Facing reality, everyone realizes that without money, you can’t buy raw materials and receive the cotton cloth from the weaver’s hands. It is impossible to return to the original scale for the time being, so you can only make small fuss and accumulate slowly.

Tang Shengshen, who was determined to be the leader, was unwilling to make small fuss, but he had no money in his hand, so he had to borrow 100,000 taels of silver from the largest money house in the city, "Yutai Money House".

The 100,000 taels of silver written on the loan note actually only came to him by ninety thousand taels, and he would have to pay back 130,000 taels in three months.

Such a high interest rate has almost been breathless.

Look, he had a batch of cloth in his hand and had not sold it yet, and the money from Yutai Money House was about to come back. Tang Shengshen was as anxious as an ant in the hot pan.

"Shopkeeper, there is good news, you can see."

Just when Tang Shengshen was at a loss, the accountant Mr. Mo hurried into the guild hall and handed him a "Ming Ming Weekly".

"Good news, what good news? Has the court won the battle again?" Tang Shengshen asked with a frown.

"No, it's Royal Bank to open. Look, this is a great thing." Mr. Mo said, pointing to the front page of the newspaper.

"Bank?" Tang Shengshen looked along Mr. Mo's finger.

After reading the ten lines at a glance, Tang Shengshen's eyes lit up, and he stood up suddenly, and said in disbelief: "What? The annual rate is five cents? Such a low? It's not a lie, right? Let me take a look."

Tang Shengshen read it carefully again and finished reading it word by word. After he was convinced that it was true, two lines of tears flowed down.

Those were tears of joy.

"The emperor really has a wise ruler..." Tang Shengshen murmured.

"Yes, the shopkeeper, the Royal Bank will open the day after tomorrow. We will apply for a loan immediately. Not only can we pay off Yutai's silver, but we will also have the silver to feed the raw materials to the weaver households, and there will also be more silver to collect cloth, and the business will grow bigger and bigger." Mr. Mo said excitedly.

"Yes, Mr. Mo, there is another one you didn't see. Not only can we be resurrected immediately, but the vampire of Yutai Money House will be finished soon!"
Chapter completed!