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Why did Liu Hengzhen mention the Chinese people’s bad habit of hoarding gold and silver? In fact, to put it bluntly, we want to wake them up, wake up these businessmen, and make them realize how the bureaucrats have eaten their flesh and drank their blood for thousands of years.
In China's unified feudal dynasty, business was the lowest level among the four peoples. In history, it is rare for giant businessmen to have a good death, such as Shen Wansan and Hu Xueyan.
No matter how much merit you have made, as long as you are as rich as the country, then when you are of use value, you are the God of Wealth. When there is no use value, you are just a fat pig, a fat pig that can be slaughtered at will.
Businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River have long understood this. For example, Mr. Sang, no one knows how much property he has. Even when there was trouble in the south, he just took his family and his family to escape to Guangdong to avoid goods.
For more than ten years, the mulberry field in Mr. Sang's home had been left unmanaged and occupied by anyone who wanted to. But no one knew that Master Sang had more than 100,000 taels of silver stored in that 10,000-acre mulberry garden. This silver and the land deed in his hand were the basis for his comeback.
Changmao was defeated, and Sang Ye arrived home. Everything was not over yet. Sang Ye wanted to take back the land that had been privately occupied by the rebels, but he couldn't do it without relying on the government and the Hunan Army. The one hundred thousand taels were all sent as bribes in the end. In the hands of layers of bureaucrats, there are civil servants and military generals.
After all the extravagant wealth was exhausted, Mr. Sang finally took back the fixed assets that originally belonged to him, and then the whole family carefully became an elite. Only then did the family rejuvenate in recent years.
It can be seen that people like Sang Ye have long found a way to survive in China's thousands of years of dynastic changes. These untold secrets are the only way for the merchant class to survive in China.
Make money, then hide the money, never reveal the wealth, or only reveal a small amount of the wealth. Finally, when encountering natural disasters, wars, etc., these floating wealth are the hope of family rejuvenation.
He will always be a duckweed, always drifting with the tide. No businessman can decide his own destiny.
Xiao Letian knows them too well. They know what these people think and fear. Therefore, Xiao Letian will never promote the stock market when there is stability and peace, because he knows that many rules in the stock market are contrary to the survival and development of these businessmen. of.
Going public means accepting financial supervision from outsiders. Going public means telling the world how much money you have. These are the things that businessmen fear most.
But we happened to encounter this financial crisis, this life-or-death money shortage, which forced Jiangnan businessmen to a dead end.
The so-called Tongzhi ZTE does not actually mean how powerful the Manchu Qing court was. This economic recovery is actually the natural economic growth after the war.
The population has increased, land has been deeply developed, and various industries have begun to recover in the hands of hard-working people, and productivity has been restored. That's all. This is not a real prosperous time. It is just the result of a soldier who lost too much blood and temporarily sutured the wound, and the body's normal hematopoietic function showed up.
It has been nine years since the war ended, but it will only take four or five years for sporadic fighting to end completely. In such a short period of time, Jiangnan's economy has only recovered by 30 to 40%.
Mr. Sang and the others still look great on the outside, but compared with before the war, they are much worse. Their free money has been basically looted, and all the merchants' capital chains are very tight. Because of this, this money shortage has hit them hard. That's why it's so huge.
Just imagine, if there had not been the Taiping War for ten years and the money hidden in the cellars of Jiangnan merchants had not been lost, then this little crisis would be nothing! Their family's hundreds of years of accumulation alone were enough to survive the famine.
Various factors led to this very unique financial crisis, including factors such as war, clever timing, loopholes in the Qing Dynasty's policies, and even the change of British Prime Minister Xiao Letian.
A crisis resulted in the smooth launch of the stock market. Even if the giant businessmen were worried and frightened, they had no choice as their capital chain was broken.
They have to drink Xiao Letian's poisonous wine, even if they don't want to drink it!
Financing is very smooth, but after the funds are obtained, businessmen will start to consider security issues. Such a huge wealth is exposed to the sun. If those corrupt officials, bandits and powerful people don't care about it, then there is something wrong.
And who can protect them now? There is only one person, and that is Xiao Letian. No one can count on him except him.
The banquet at the Huizhou restaurant lasted until midnight. No one knew what Liu Yunzhen had agreed with the merchants, nor how many promises Qiu Wei had brought with him. At least people knew that after midnight, the businessmen walked out of the restaurant. Finally, the expressions on those faces were as if they were resurrected with full blood.
How could Xiao Letian not protect them? These people will be the source of power for the Chinese war machine in the future! Chinese businessmen are indeed very powerful, but after all, their history is too short. The ones with real heritage are these ancient business families within the Qing Dynasty.
Without Xiao Letian, these business families would gradually disappear in the long history, and no one would even be able to remember their names. In fact, these business families that have been passed down for hundreds of years are not necessarily worse than those Jewish families. What they lack is a political environment that can support them and an army that can protect them.
Which merchants in the south of the Yangtze River don't want to buy seagoing ships and sell their silks, tea, and porcelain all over the world? Who doesn’t want to open his own family branch in Nanyang and Europe?
Who will help them realize these ideals? Looking to Manchu Qing? Or are you counting on foreigners? No, they can only count on Xiao Letian in this world right now, and only Xiao Letian is willing to help them.
"Bosses, listen to me. Those in Suzhou should not leave Suzhou City in the past few days. If there is no emergency, please stay for a few more days. If the schedule is correct, the Prime Minister will come to Suzhou in ten days. , I’ll definitely be able to meet you if I’m destined to do so!”
At the door of Huizhou Restaurant, the businessmen who were preparing to say goodbye and leave were all exclaimed, "The Prime Minister is coming? Oh my God! The Prime Minister is coming in ten days?"
Thinking about the promises made in the secret meeting just now, they were still a little disbelieving, but now they no longer dare to question it. All the merchants agreed that they would not leave until the Prime Minister arrived in Suzhou.
Qiu Wei looked at the retreating businessmen and took a deep breath. "Unite all the forces that can be united. Today is really fun. A group of Gods of Wealth are tied to the Chinese chariot! Hahaha."
