Chapter 324: Lu Bei Er Nan Xie Zhan
Later, Ji Wuyin also learned that Qin Sheng might be exposed.
He asked Xue Xu, "Ask if you should be transferred somewhere else?"
Xue Xu replied, "No need."
Ji Wuyin was surprised by this answer. "Aren't you very afraid of death? Why don't you want to move?"
The city gate won't be blocked for long, as long as they can get through these few days safely.
Of course Xue Xu knew this.
Xue Xu smiled and said, "If it is a blessing, it will not be a disaster. If it is a disaster, it cannot be avoided." His smile was a bit meaningful.
Xue Xu had a premonition that sooner or later they would have to face Xie Zhan and confront him head-on.
He just learned from Mr. Qin Liu that before he left, Mrs. Qin Liu gave him a brocade bag, saying that if he met Xie Zhan and Xie Zhan made things difficult for him, he should open it.
Xue Xu knew that there was no problem for them to leave, as Madam Qin Liu had prepared the gate for them to leave, and Xie Zhan could not stop them.
The silver they earned could be taken away with them. As for the remaining two warehouses of grain, they could later be transported from the south through Ji Wuyin.
There was no other way around it. They had to transfer 100,000 dan of grain from a large warehouse in one night, which was already the limit.
They were really racing against time with the imperial envoy, and the two large warehouses behind were really helpless.
Liaodong County, Houcheng County Governor's Mansion
Zhou Da and Lu Songli report the battle results in the south.
"...Mr. Xue and his team had just sent the Zhu family's children out when, not long after, the major city gates in the South were sealed. Currently, only one of the three major warehouses of grain has been opened and shipped out of the South City. This grain is still floating on the sea."
Lu Desheng was sitting nearby. When he heard that Mr. Xue and his son-in-law had just arrived in the South and had picked up such a big bargain, he couldn't help but smack his lips. "My daughter, this peach is quite big."
If they had not reached the South, the Zhu family's three large warehouses of grain would have been given to Xie Zhan for free.
When Lu Desheng thought about the fact that they had taken away Xie Zhan's fish, he felt happy. It was really a relief!
Lu Songli asked with concern, "How many children has the Zhu family sent out?"
Zhou Da replied, "Eleven people."
Lu Songli asked someone to invite Qin Heng.
Later, she and Qin Heng would go to meet the Zhu family's children.
Zhu Changnian was generous and gave them 300,000 dan of grain. So, they arranged everything they needed.
Her father couldn't get involved in this matter. After all, he was the governor of Liaodong County and a legitimate official of Dali. The children of the Zhu family were even less well-off than those of the Qin family.
After Zhou Da finished reporting the situation, Lu Songli let him go down and have a good rest.
When she and her father were the only ones left in the room, Lu Songli joked, "Dad, our new emperor is lucky. Every time he's hungry, someone feeds him."
When he ascended the throne, the treasury was empty, and she fed him once. Now the south was hit by a flood, and the entire disaster area was in dire straits. The treasury was empty again, and now Xie Zhan fed him again.
Lu Desheng curled his lips, "If he does this, his reputation will not be good."
Speaking of the new emperor, Lu Desheng couldn't help but think of the previous emperor, and he felt uncomfortable again. Song Mo was really too bad and was a disgrace to the wisdom of the previous emperor.
"Let's not talk about the emperor anymore. Zhou Da just said that the southern land has blocked all the city gates. Have Mr. Xue and his son-in-law been discovered?"
"Xie Zhan must have noticed something was wrong."
As soon as Mr. Xue and Qin Sheng arrived in the South, they raided the Zhu family's hidden food cache. This wasn't just a minor incident; it was inevitable that they would be discovered. Xie Zhan wasn't stupid, was he? Furthermore, the imperial envoy to the South was Zuo Anmin, so it was only natural for Xie Zhan to have the major city gates sealed off.
Lu Desheng: "Then what should we do?" Will Xie Zhan catch us in this situation?
It is inappropriate for a son-in-law to appear in the South as a criminal.
Lu Songli wasn't too worried. "Dad, don't worry. It's not a big problem. Xie Zhan can't do anything to them."
Southland
As soon as Ji Wuyin returned to the Ji Mansion from Xue Xu and his family's villa, a servant came to report that Gu Huaisheng, the young master of the Gu family, was here to visit.
Ji Wuyin naturally asked someone to invite him in, and was wondering why he came.
After Gu Huaisheng was led to the living room by the servants, he met Ji Wuyin and Ji Dashao.
The two sides exchanged greetings and then took their seats as host and guest.
After some pleasantries, Gu Huaisheng got straight to the point and mentioned the chaos in the South. "Uncle, our two families are in real danger this time."
The six great families in the South, plus the richest family Ji, make up the seven major forces in the South. The Gu and Ji families are the only ones left.
Ji Wuyin nodded, "Your Gu family is fine, but our Ji family is in real danger this time. The Ji family bank is almost finished this time."
"I would also like to thank you, nephew Gu, for not withdrawing the deposits when the Ji family's bank was in its most difficult period, thus preventing the Ji family from suffering further. Otherwise, the Ji family's bank would have been unable to cope with such a huge bank run. Uncle, I am grateful for your kindness this time."
"Uncle Ji, please don't say that." Gu Huaisheng knew very well that if the Ji family fell, their Gu family would also be unable to support themselves. Adding insult to injury to the Ji family would be like digging their own grave, and he would not do that.
"The Ji family bank was able to survive this crisis thanks to the foresight of our uncle, who prepared sufficient silver and money to deal with it."
Gu Huaisheng roughly calculated that in order to cope with the bank run crisis, Ji's Money House took out a total of nearly three million taels of cash.
He could only say that Ji Wuyin was worthy of being the richest man in the South.
The Gu family was equally wealthy, but asking them to come up with one million in cash was a stretch. Their assets included shops, fields, farms, antiques, calligraphy, and paintings, so cash wouldn't be a significant component.
"Secondly, it's because of my uncle's wide network of contacts that he has the help of noble people."
What Gu Huaisheng was referring to was that 'the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce finally deposited a large sum of silver into Ji's Money House, thus completely resolving the bank run crisis of Ji's Money House'.
Ji Wuyin stroked his beard and smiled, "It's just good luck."
Gu Huaisheng continued, "For people like us, luck is also very important. Speaking of which, I wonder when did your uncle realize Xie Zhan's evil ambitions?"
If the Ji family bank's three million taels of silver were a sign of the family's strength, leaving them unused, Gu Huaisheng was more inclined to believe that the three million taels of silver were raised in advance by Ji Wuyin after he learned of the news.
Ji Wuyin came from a merchant family, so he understood the principle of money making money better.
Logically speaking, he should have invested at least 1.5 million taels of silver, leaving about 1.5 million taels in cash, which would be enough to cover most emergencies in the bank.
Something was out of the ordinary, and he had to think about the deeper meaning behind it.
Ji Wuyin gave him a thumbs-up and said, "Nephew Gu is really smart and perceptive. I did know Xie Zhan's plan before you did."
"Uncle, did you find out about this through the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce?" Gu Huaisheng guessed.
He believed that the Gu family's information network would not be worse than the Ji family's. They, the Gu family, did not know the news in advance, so the possibility that Ji Wuyin's information came from the South could be ruled out.
The Ji family helped in the rise of Liaodong Chamber of Commerce's bookstores in the south.
There is no doubt that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce and the Ji family have a good relationship.
Furthermore, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce acted precisely, and was one of the very few forces that could profit from the chaos in the South. He had to suspect that the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce had anticipated the chaos in the South, and this possibility was very high.
Ji Wuyin was truly amazed this time, "Nephew Gu, you are so smart."
What's wrong with this era? These young people are so talented. There's Lu Er and Lu Songli in the north, and Xie Zhan in the south, but it's not enough. Even Gu Huaisheng has his merits compared to them.
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