In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 164 What's wrong with His Majesty?

Zhao Yurui looked at the scene, and the crowd seemed to be all high-ranking officials and dignitaries, well-dressed, but not far away, many ordinary people looked at this side in groups, and there were many boatmen by the pier, also watching with smiles.

"What happened? Shopkeeper Liu? What are you doing?" Zhao Yurui knew a middle-aged man standing at the front. This man was named Liu Xi, and he was related to Zheng Zhaoxian, the privy councillor and political adviser who had become an official. Zhao Yurui After Rui came over, she didn't dare to offend him, and the relationship with him was handled well.

"Wei Wang, Liu Cheng is dead, the ship is sinking." Someone cried.

Zhao Yurui was stunned for a moment, then turned pale and exclaimed: "What? Liu Cheng is dead?"

At this time, there was a lot of talk around, and they all stepped forward to cry.

It turned out that on the second day after Zhao and Rui went to Jeju Island, there was a sudden news from the sea that they saw a merchant ship that was about to sink along the way from Japan to Dinghai.

A Japanese merchant ship passing by looked at it, and it seemed to be a Song people's boat, and there were Song people in the water calling for help, so they approached for rescue immediately, only to find that it was a ship full of sulfur and raw copper, coming from Japan.

In the end, more than a dozen people were rescued, and these people cried out one after another. They were people from Liu Cheng's mansion. This time, they transported 20 catties of sulfur from Japan according to the imperial court's order. Then Liu Cheng felt that the ship could be decorated, and loaded a large amount of it. As a result, the ship was halfway, encountered wind and rain, and the oil lamp on the ship was blown, causing a fire in the warehouse, coupled with heavy rain outside, and then sank.

Someone called out that shopkeeper Liu Cheng was also on board.

The ship merchant who rescued them was shocked. Liu Cheng opened Dongyang Bank in Dinghai County, and everyone deposited their money with Liu Cheng. Nothing would happen, right?

He hurriedly sent people to salvage again, but they found more than a dozen boxes of sulfur, but no one was found, and finally watched the ship sink.

When the news spread back to Dinghai County, the whole Qingyuan Mansion was destroyed, and people looked for Dongyang Bank one after another. Unexpectedly, the bank was closed and the building was empty.

It's worth it now.

In the past year or so, Dongyang Bank has attracted the entire Qingyuan Mansion and even wealthy businessmen and officials outside Qingyuan Mansion to save money with high profits. Who will pay for how much money?

Everyone doesn't care about Liu Cheng's life and death, what everyone cares about is what to do with their money?
"Holding the grass, it's a mother." Zhao Yurui was furious after hearing this, with an exasperated expression on his face, and he said in a trembling voice: "This king--this king--this king also saved 50 coins--"

"Quickly, what about Lizhi County, quickly send people to block Dongyang Bank and arrest relevant people, etc. The king's money—no, the people's money must be recovered, and the interests of the people must not be lost. ah--"

Zhao Yurui beat their chests and stomped their feet like crazy.

Seeing King Wei like this, Liu Xi finally felt better. It turns out that King Wei also saved so much money?
On the same day, Zhao Yurui impassionedly stated to the crowd at the pier that he would arrest Liu's family and bring them to justice as soon as possible.

Then, the on-site servants were asked to register according to the family, and everyone was asked to take out the ticket stubs of the savings, which will be used as evidence for recovering the capital in the future.

The people in Dinghai praised King Wei for his benevolence and righteousness, for his dedication to the people, and then handed over all the ticket stubs for saving money to Zhao Yurui.

In fact, Dongyang Bank has been open for more than a year, because the interest rate is extremely high, with a monthly interest rate of [-] per thousand, you can get back a quarter of the capital in a year, and many people who saved early have already got back a third of the capital. The loss is not too great.

The biggest ones are those who rushed to save in later.

At this time, someone in the crowd said: "Oriental Bank can't help it. The shopkeeper suddenly suffered a disaster. It's not that he doesn't want to pay."

There was a lot of cursing all around, is there no one in the Liu family? If you are gone, you can pay back the money.

But some people expressed sympathy. Indeed, the Liu family was miserable this time. The treasurer disappeared, and the goods and ships transported for the imperial court also sank.

On the day when King Wei came back, Quan Dinghai knew that King Wei also lost 50 guan, but King Wei was the first to save it. He got back 10,000+ guan in interest, and still lost more than 30 guan.

After King Wei returned to the mansion, he immediately sent someone to seal up the Dongyang Bank, and then emptied everything in the bank, and it is said that even the windows were taken away.

In a few days, the King of Wei sent someone to issue a notice that Liu Cheng was caught in a warehouse where Liu Cheng kept money in a certain farm in Dinghai County. The other party was transferring money to Japan. He was caught, but only partially.

Dinghai County cheered and praised King Wei for his wisdom.

This batch of currency is equivalent to about 100 million copper coins.

The King of Wei announced that, for the amount of money invested and the length of time for investing, everyone can get back some of it, and you don't have any opinions on how much or how little.

So for half a month, people went to the production department to get money one after another. The least can only get back a few tens of guan, and the most can get back tens of thousands of guan.

Although it is still far inferior to their losses, it is worse than nothing.

At this time, Zhao Yurui retrieved the money, and prioritized some ordinary people with little savings and important wealthy officials.

Those caught in the middle, the low-level officials and the middle class are the most unlucky and suffer the most.

Zhao Yurui thought very clearly that these people suddenly lost a large amount of assets, and in the future they had to work hard for King Wei in order to survive as decently as before.

In late May, after reporting to the imperial court, several employees of Dongyang Bank were beheaded in Dinghai County. On the day of the murder, there were huge crowds of people.

But no one knows who was beheaded.

The next day, the king of Wei announced that he would send warships to Japan, asking Japan to hand over the people of the Liu family. The rich merchants applauded, but some people said that they had just returned from Japan, and the Liu family in Japan was empty. , long gone.

The Dongyang Bank incident caused many wealthy people around Qingyuan Mansion to return to before liberation overnight, and many officials also went bankrupt and lost a lot of money.

In desperation, some businessmen and officials could only sell fields and shops for turnover.

Four Seas Trading took the opportunity to acquire a large amount of farmland and a small number of shops.

early june.

Coastal system set up envoys.

Early in the morning, someone wearing a bamboo hat and led by Niu Bao quietly came to the backyard.

After seeing Zhao Yurui, he bowed immediately: "My lord."

"Hahaha, Liu Xin, come here, sit down." Zhao Yurui greeted Liu Xin happily.

It was Liu Xin, Liu Cheng's son, who came here.

Liu Xin looked at Zhao Yurui in awe, and thought, King Wei is really ruthless, this time he swallowed more than 600 million guan coins from the people in one go, which is unprecedented and unmatched.

"Greed can blind our eyes." Zhao Yurui said solemnly at this time: "This is the truth from ancient times to the present. Many people know the danger, but they still want to take the risk."

"Believe it or not, after a while, if we come back in another place, there will still be a lot of people being deceived?"

Liu Xin nodded immediately: "I believe it."

He is already an eighth-rank official of the imperial court, and it is also Zhao Yurui's greatest reward to the Liu family in this matter.

Zhao Yurui believed even more that because communication is so developed in later generations, it still happens everywhere in the country every year.

People, it's not that they don't have a long memory, but greed can lose their sanity.

This thing is like cutting leeks, you can cut one crop after another. Zhao Yurui feels that as long as he lives long enough, he can harvest from all the time until he is 80 years old.

"How did you do it?" Zhao Yurui asked again at this time.

Liu Xindao said that they set off from Japan that night with a fully loaded ship. All the crew members and sailors were newly recruited in the past six months, and most of them were Japanese locals. Then they told everyone that Liu Chengcheng was on the ship, but in fact he was not on the ship at all.

The ship was preparing to do something halfway, but it happened to be raining heavily. The ship arranged for someone to set fire to the warehouse, and then jumped into the sea at the first time, and the small boat that followed quietly rescued the person.

It was the middle of the night, and it was raining, and everything was perfect.

After more than a year of absorbing savings this time, Zhao Yurui and Liu Cheng have swallowed a total of more than 8000 households along Qingyuan Mansion and the surrounding counties. There are about 600 households.

Basically, more than [-]% of the middle class and wealthy households in eastern Zhejiang have been involved.

Qin Zhuo was shocked, did not expect King Wei to make money like this?

To be honest, this way of making money is quite immoral in the eyes of Song people, but Zhao Yurui is for the people of the world, for the continuation of the Han people, well, he is quite satisfied with this reason.

"Jeju Island is going to build a new city, 'Jidong City' in the east of the island." Zhao Yurui continued: "Your father will preside over it."

"It will be changed to Jidong County in the future, and your father will be the county magistrate in the future. For the time being, he asked him to change the name to Qicheng on the island."

"You Liu family took such a big risk to follow this king. This king will never treat you badly. In the future, you will definitely be great honors of the Song Dynasty."

A look of ecstasy appeared on Liu Xin's face.

King Wei made so much money to buy Jeju Island, train troops and build guns. Of course Liu Cheng and his son knew what King Wei wanted.

At this time, most of Zhao Yurui's confidantes already knew what Zhao Yurui was thinking.

Because you have to give others hope. If you just want to be a feudal lord and make money, no one will follow you.

Only when Zhao Yurui's feelings are clearly revealed can everyone support Wei Wang more loyally and willingly.
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In late August of the 17th year of Jiading.

The capital Lin'an City.

The imperial city has been covered with dark clouds recently, and the official Zhao Kuo's health is getting worse and worse. He went to court four times in June and only once in July.

After waking up yesterday, Ning Zong took a walk in the garden and felt unwell. When he returned to Funing Palace, the imperial doctor could not find out what was wrong with him, so he asked Ning Zong to rest more.

From yesterday to today, Ning Zong got up several times, and each time it took less than half an hour, he didn't have a chance to deal with all the official affairs, and all of them were handed over to Shi Miyuan.

His cough was getting worse and worse, and his face was getting uglier.

Today, the imperial craftsman Zeng Fang came again, but he didn't see anything, so he asked the officials to rest more.

Ning Zong looked at Zeng Fang after listening, and asked after a while: "How long can I live?"

Zeng Fang was shocked, and quickly knelt down: "Long live your majesty, long live, long live, please don't worry, your majesty, I will definitely do my best."

Murong Ying who was behind Ning Zong couldn't bear it anymore and said sharply, "What's wrong with Your Majesty?"

Zeng Fang hesitated to speak, then lowered his head again.

(End of this chapter)