"Shopkeeper, how much money do we have to borrow?" asked Mr. Mo.

"Five hundred thousand taels!"

"Ah, so much loan?"

"Mr. Mo, don't hesitate. You can't miss such a good thing. The annual interest rate of 500,000 is only 25,000 taels, and you can easily earn it. After lending the money, you will pay 130,000 taels to Yutai, and the remaining 370,000 taels to Shengze. I, Mr. Tang, must be the boss of Wuxian!"

"yes."

...

After the opening of the Royal Bank, Tang Shengshen immediately submitted a loan application.

Wang Huaping attached great importance to this first large loan, applied to Tang Sheng to the office, asked him in detail about his plans and Sheng Ze's current production scale, and sent someone to Sheng Ze for on-site inspection. He found that what Tang Sheng Shen said was not false, so he ordered someone to sign a loan contract with him and loaned him 500,000 taels of silver.

With the strong silver, Tang Shengshen immediately paid off Yutai's owed silver, and invested all the remaining silver to Shengze, and started working hard.

...

For Tang Shengshen, the bank's loans were like the soon-to-be withered seedlings encountered timely rain.

However, businessmen like Tang Shengshen are not individual cases. Other industries and businessmen have been hit hard, and the financial support of Royal Bank has also rejuvenated them again.

The Ming Dynasty's economy began to move towards a road to recovery.

...

On the second day of July, Nanjing Gongyuan.

The Enko Examination is coming to an end.

All the review matters have been basically completed. The examiner of the 18th Room recommended a total of 395 test papers. The chief and vice president Wu Bing and Wang Fuzhi have basically finished reviewing. Except for the three test papers that Wang Fuzhi had a dispute with Wu Bing and examiner Shen Qiyu, the rankings of other test papers are basically consistent.

All three test papers were recommended by Shen Qiyu, the examiner of the 12th Room. Wang Fuzhi believed that these three test papers were mediocre and were not accepted, and all the test papers of the 12th Room should be reviewed.

After reading these three test papers, Wu Bing also felt that the article was of the middle and lower grade, and if he got it, it would be inappropriate.

When Shen Qiyu was called, he talked about these three test papers, Shen Qiyu was extremely displeased and said that the two referees had poor vision. These three test papers were the best in the Twelve Rooms. Not only should they not be dismissed, but they should enter the top ten.

The reason why Shen Qiyu is so arrogant is that he was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, and he was of the same age as Hong Chengchou. He was a famous senior Shilin.

Wu Bing knew the rules of Shilin. Although he was the ruling and his official position was much greater than that of Shen Qiyu, his qualifications were really not as good as that of Shen Qiyu, so he was also very afraid.

He was afraid that if there were no excellent articles in the twelfth house, Shen Qiyu would make a fuss and everyone would not be good at it.

But Wang Fuzhi did not believe in evil and tried his best to examine the twelve houses.

Wu Bing was in a dilemma. At the time of a stalemate, he saw Ma Jixiang, the commander of the Jinyiwei, quickly entering the main hall.

"Mr. Wu, Lord Wang, the emperor ordered the eunuch to pass the imperial eunuch. The imperial envoy is now outside the tribute court." Ma Jixiang said.

"The imperial envoy has arrived?" Wu Bing was shocked when he heard this: "It seems that something big happened. Otherwise, the tribute court would not be opened, and the emperor would not come in to pass the imperial edict at this time."

"Hurry, set up an incense table and open the middle door to welcome the imperial envoy." Wu Bing quickly put his official clothes on his feet and stood up and ordered.

"No, Lord Wu, the imperial envoy said that he would not go to the tribute court. Please ask Lord Wu to go to the gate of the tribute court. He can pass the imperial edict to you alone across the gate." Ma Jixiang said.

"Ah?" Wu Bing, Wang Fuzhi and Chen Qiyu were both stunned when they heard this, and then they understood that the emperor wanted to avoid suspicion.

According to the rules, the gate of the Gongyuan can only be opened when the yellow list is posted, and personnel are not allowed to enter and exit.

Of course, this is also to completely eliminate traffic information inside and outside the Gongyuan.

Before the yellow list came out, the imperial edict was unheard of, and it was unheard of that.

Wu Bing, Wang Fuzhi knew that the emperor often acted unexpectedly and did not care about it.

Wu Bing came to the gate of the Gongyuan, kowtowed across the door and took the imperial edict handed over from the crack of the door by the imperial envoy of the imperial envoy, Pang Tianshou, the eunuch of the Qing Palace.

After reading the imperial edict at a glance, Wu Bing felt cold sweat and thought to himself: "The emperor is in the ninth level, how can he know about the affairs of the tribute court? No one has ever been out."

Returning to the main hall, he offered the imperial edict to the incense table, kowtowed again, bowed and stood up, and said to Wang Fu: "Wang, take those three test papers, and I will take a look again."

Wang Fuzhi handed over the three test papers. Wu Bing looked carefully and thought to himself: "The emperor is so amazing. Why do you know everything? Is he really a god in the world?"

It turned out that Zhu Youlang's imperial edict said that the three test papers selected by Wang Fuzhi were obviously suspected of cheating, and the last stroke of the word "Ye" in the test paper was very strangely raised, and ordered him to re-view the test papers that were deposed by Chen Qiyu. If there were indeed questions about these three test papers, the transcription officer of Chen Qiyu, and the three candidates involved in the three test papers were immediately detained and handed over to the Jinyiwei for interrogation and to understand.

After reading the test paper, Wu Bing saw that the word "Ye" in it was indeed as stated in the imperial edict, and the last vertical hook was picked very long.

He also ordered people to take the other test papers in the Twelve Rooms and check them one by one. Except for these three test papers, there is nothing special about them.

Wu Bing remained calm and said to Wang Fuzhi and Shen Qiyu: "According to the will of the emperor, we will immediately review the 12-demolished test papers."

Upon hearing this, Wang Fuzhi said in his heart: "How did the emperor learn about the dispute in the tribute court? Could it be that someone from the Jinyiwei secretly reported to the emperor?"

Wang Fuzhi glanced at Chen Qiyu and said, "Mr. Shen, you can't stop this time, right?"

Chen Qiyu's face looked extremely ugly, and bowed and said, "The lower-ranking officials are selfless and are not afraid. Please check the two referees."

Wu Bing called Ma Jixiang aside and quietly reminded him. Ma Jixiang nodded and went down.

...

"Bang!"

Suddenly, he heard a slap in the table. Wu Bing, who was reviewing the 12th House, heard a sound and raised his head in surprise.

When Wang Fuzhi took a deposed article, he slapped the table and shouted: "It's wonderful, it's really a wonderful article. The first half is real and the one is empty. Since there is no disease of being severe, there is a cluster of clusters in the middle, and it is endlessly piled up, all of which turn into smoke and clouds. Lord Wu, this article can be entitled Huiyuan!"

Wu Bing took the article and read it from beginning to end. He thought this article was indeed very outstanding, and it was not an exaggeration to call Huiyuan.

At this point, Wu Bing no longer doubted and basically believed that there was indeed cheating between Chen Qiyu and the transcriptionist.

"Master Ma, immediately call Chen Qiyu and the 12th House exam paper transcription officer, and put a famous official to lock him up and imprison him separately!" Wu Bing did not hesitate and ordered Ma Jixiang.

"As for the order!" Ma Jixiang handed over and waved his hand, and several Jinyiwei came over and took down Chen Qiyu.

"This is this---, Lord Wu, what do you mean?" Chen Qiyu asked in a trembling voice.
Chapter completed!