Poor Family Chapter 676

  Chapter 676 Public opinion is boiling

If it is said that the Xixia army's tearing up of the armistice agreement was still covered up by the court, and only a few important officials knew about it, then the fact that Jin Guo officially declared war on the Song Dynasty could not be covered up. Just three days after the Jin soldiers entered Yanshan Mansion, Guo Yaoshi surrendered , Yanshan Mansion was occupied by the Kingdom of Jin, and the news of the annihilation of the 60,000 Song Army spread throughout the capital.

  For a moment, the imperial court was shaken, and the entire capital was in an uproar.

Li Daqi has been very busy during this period. He has been moving his shops and manufacturing workshops to Hangzhou one after another since a few months ago. He has closed three of the five Baoyanzhai shops in the capital, leaving only Yujie Baoyanzhai and Pan Loujie Baoyanzhai has not yet closed, and he will keep these two shops until the end.

In the past few days, the relocation of the head office has begun. At noon, Li Daqi came to Hongqiao Tea Tavern as usual. Snacks.

  Business in the tea tavern is particularly prosperous today, it is full of customers, basically all the proprietors of the surrounding shops, and the tea tavern is buzzing with people.

   "Mr. Li, long time no see!"

   "Long time no see, Proprietor Zhang is gaining weight again!"

   "Mr. Li, I heard that Baoyanzhai is also moving south?"

   "Yes! Everyone is moving south, and Bao Yanzhai has to consider retreating."

Li Daqi said hello all the way, and soon came to his fixed seat in front of the window and sat down. Opposite him was a thin old man. The old man's surname was Zhang. It is located near Hongqiao. Every day at noon, the shopkeeper Zhang Da will come over to drink tea unshakably. He also has a fixed seat, just opposite Li Daqi.

   Li Daqi sat down, Zhang Da shopkeeper nodded with a smile and said: "Today, the staff is a little late."

   "There was a visitor in the store, so it was delayed for a while."

   Soon, the clerk came over and served Li Daqi tea and two plates of snacks. Li Daqi poured himself a cup and asked with a smile, "When is Mi Xing going to move south?"

   "Move people away first. The owner's family will go south to Suzhou tomorrow, and the store will be late. Has Li Yuanwai's fleet arrived?"

   "Should arrive today, and we will move out the family members first."

  The shopkeeper Zhang Da said again: "Today, all silver shops in the capital have stopped exchanging silver. The price of silver on the black market has risen to 2,500 Wen for one tael of silver, and even gold cannot be exchanged on the black market."

   Li Daqi was running out of copper coins, and had already exchanged them for silver, but he still had hundreds of thousands of coins, so he asked quickly, "What about the coins?"

"The situation of Huizi is not good. I heard that the government's finances are tight, and everyone is worried that Huizi will be postponed, so some merchants have stopped accepting Huizi. I heard that silver shops will offer 90% discount for exchanging Huizi. Just busy with the exchange, Li Yuanwai has to hurry up."

  Li Daqi nodded silently. There are still many meetings in Baoyanzhai in various places, which must be cleaned up as soon as possible.

  At this time, the tavern manager came over to say hello to Li Daqi. Li Daqi took a sip of tea and asked him, "What's the news from Yanshan Mansion today?"

   "There is a major situation today!"

The tavern keeper sighed, "The news came early this morning that Yizhou guard Han Minyi was surrendered by Guo Yaoshi, Yi County was occupied by Jurchens, Zhizhou and Tongpan were both captured. Guo Yaoshi is really a wolf, and the officials are so kind. He, he still sold Yanshan Mansion."

A tea guest next to him snorted heavily, "It can only be said that the officials were blind and actually entrusted the Yanshan Mansion to a general from the Liao Kingdom. If he betrayed the Liao Kingdom, he would also betray the Song Dynasty. This kind of rebellious person People still have to reuse it, who is stupid?"

Li Daqi was very grateful to Zhao Ji. He didn't want to hear criticism of Zhao Ji, so he quickly argued: "We can't blame the officials for this matter. Yanshan Mansion has been ruled by the Liao Kingdom for a hundred years, and the hearts of the people are towards Liao. It is wise to use Liao to guard Yanshan Mansion in the future. Besides, when Guo Yaoshi came to the capital, everyone praised him for his heart of the Han family, his love and righteousness, and no one said that he was rebellious, but Guo Yaoshi was too good at disguising and deceived everyone."

Another tea guest next to him said loudly: "Mr. Li, this matter is really the official's responsibility. At the beginning, Fan Xianggong strongly opposed the Northern Expedition and insisted on keeping the Liao Kingdom as a barrier for the Song Dynasty. Who insisted on the Northern Expedition? He did not hesitate to concoct the Fan Party case , causing loyal ministers to be wronged, isn't it the one from Yanfu Palace? We all think that once the Jin soldiers go south, he has to bear full responsibility.”

"Treasurer Sun is right. It is indeed the responsibility of the officials. Everyone is a discerning person. He is the one who insists on forming an alliance with Jin. He is greedy for small profits. He is the one who withdrew troops from the Xixia border. This has caused the treasury of the Song Dynasty to be empty today, with internal and external troubles. It's also him, if he doesn't take the responsibility, it's God's will!”

  The teahouse was suddenly noisy. Except for a few people who believed that the officials were deceived by treacherous ministers, most of the other tea guests almost unanimously condemned the current emperor, thinking that he was the chief culprit of Jin Guonan's invasion.

Even Li Daqi had to admit in his heart that the officials had indeed mishandled certain matters. For example, his son had written to the imperial court a month ago, Xixia had torn up the withdrawal agreement, and stationed heavy troops on the border. He hoped that the imperial court would respond immediately, but the imperial court concealed it. There was no response to this important news, which made Li Daqi wonder whether the officials were really deceived by treacherous officials.

  The increasingly severe attacks in the tea tavern made Li Daqi unable to sit still. He said to shopkeeper Zhang: "I have something urgent in the afternoon, so let's go first."

   "I'm leaving too, and I have to go to the meeting in the afternoon."

  The two paid the bill, got up and left the teahouse one after another. Li Daqi hurried to Baoyanzhai. As soon as he entered the door, the waiter stepped forward and said, "Master, Master Qin is here again. He has been waiting in the living room for a while."

Proprietor Qin is the proprietor of the shops along the street of Baoyanzhai in Hongqiao. At the beginning, Li Daqi only bought ten mu of land along the river. The shops along the street belonged to Proprietor Qin. Later, Li Daqi took over the grain shop at a high price, and changed the grain shop to Li's Rouge Shop, and later changed its name to Zhang Gugu Rouge Shop.

  Dongzhu Qin has come to find him several times during this period, and wants to sell the shop to him, but why is Li Daqi willing to take over at this time?

  Li Daqi had a headache for a while, so he had no choice but to walk into the living room, "I kept Qin Dongzhu waiting for a long time!"

Qin Dongzhu is a middle-aged man and a well-known landlord in the capital. Thirty percent of the shops along the street in the Hongqiao area belong to his land. The income made their family one of the top ten richest businessmen in the capital, but now the situation in the north is unstable, the real estate that has been popular for decades has suddenly entered the winter, the house price has plummeted, the transaction has almost frozen, and the lease is still available, but almost no one is willing to spend Tens of thousands of dollars to buy a house.

   Qin Dongzhu quickly stood up and saluted, "Sorry, I'm here to disturb Li Yuanwai again."

   "East Master Qin, please sit down!"

  Li Daqi asked the waiter to exchange tea, and asked with a smile: "I heard that Lord Qin is exchanging money these days, how is it?"

   "Forget it!"

Dongzhu Qin said bitterly: "I went to Baifu Bank to exchange silver today. Yesterday it was 2,500 Wen for one tael of silver, but today it has risen to 3,000 Wen for one tael. It is said that it is because of the fall of Yanjing City. "

   "Didn't all the silver shops stop exchanging silver? You can only go to the black market at the Wanxing Exchange." Li Daqi asked puzzled.

"The silver shop just stopped exchanging at the official price. If they accept the black market price, they are willing to exchange it. It's just too ruthless. At the beginning of the year, it was only 1,500 Wen for one or two silvers. It has doubled in just half a year. I am miserable now. See through."

  East Master Qin's face was so bitter that water could be wrung out. Not only did he suffer serious losses in real estate, but he also had hundreds of thousands of coins in the cellar of his house, which could not be transported away at all. It was too late to exchange for gold and silver.

Li Daqi knew that the problem of the Qin family was greed. Last year, he persuaded him to sell the house quickly for silver, but his family thought it was too bad, and refused to sell the house, and refused to exchange the silver. They wanted to wait for the price to recover before selling, but What waited was from autumn to winter.

Li Daqi couldn't say anything, so he had to persuade him: "My son wrote to me a few days ago to tell me that the gold soldiers will soon attack Hedong. I think the price of silver will rise, and even stop the exchange. The owner can exchange as much as he can." Bar!"

   "I also know, it's too late to regret it now, Mr. Li, I will give up this shop a little more, eight thousand taels of silver, you can take it!"

At the beginning, the market price of the five mu shop along the street was 50,000 guan, but Li Daqi was willing to pay a high price of 60,000 taels of silver to buy it, but Qin Dongzhu resolutely refused to buy it. Qin Dongzhu approached him two months ago and was willing to pay 50,000 guan He sold it to him at the price of money, but Li Daqi didn't want to buy it. Qin Dongzhu found him again a month ago, and was willing to cut the price by 10,000 guan and sell it to him for 40,000 guan, but Li Daqi still refused to agree.

These days Dongzhu Qin came to him every now and then, saying that the price could be negotiated, but Li Daqi was unmoved. Today, the news came that Yanjing City was captured by Jin soldiers, and the price dropped sharply again. Dongzhu Qin only wanted 8,000 today. Two silvers, equivalent to twenty-four thousand coins.

But Li Daqi is very clear about the small calculation of the Qin Dongzhu. Once the Jin soldiers invade the south, the price of silver will definitely skyrocket again. There is no doubt that the price will break through five thousand taels. In the end, Dongzhu Qin did not suffer a loss. To put it bluntly, once the Jin soldiers attacked Bianliang and burned down the houses outside the city, these shops would be worthless. How could such a shrewd person like Li Daqi go to this set.

Li Daqi sighed and said: "To tell the truth, Dongzhu Qin, my fleet will arrive today, and the head office of Baoyanzhai will soon move south. I also plan to sell this land, but the problem is that I offer five thousand taels No one wants any money. Now I rent it out, and I can only rent it for 30 yuan a month. I also lost a lot when I bought this land. I also lost the Hongqiao Inn and the tea tavern. Qin Dongzhu, I can't do anything now!"

Qin Dongzhu's face suddenly became very ugly, and he said for a long time: "Okay! I will find another way for the store. I am here today to ask Li Dongzhu to discuss whether the fleet can be rented to me for a month. I would like to pay double. Price."

  Li Daqi was taken aback, now renting a boat is more difficult than selling a house, this owner Qin has a good idea, and he doesn't have enough money, so he still wants to rent it to him for a month, dream it!

Li Daqi shook his head and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, my family members are all ready, and they're going south by boat today. They can't even move, they can only bring their belongings with them. In this way, for the sake of years of friendship Come on, I will allocate a boat to Dongzhu Qin, let's send his wife and children away first!"

Qin Dongzhu's face became very ugly. He also has an ox cart, and his family can go south in an ox cart. He just wanted to use a boat to transport money. A boat is worthless, and he still owes Li Daqi a favor, so he had to get up and say: "Thank you Li Yuanwai, I'll find another way! Excuse me."

  East Master Qin left unhappy. At this time, a clerk hurried over to report: "Master, the fleet has arrived!"

  Li Daqi was overjoyed, and quickly ordered: "Go and inform everyone, come to Baoyanzhai to gather!"

  (end of this chapter)

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