Opium cream, black with an oily luster, is the finest Indian horseshoe soil. In the market of the Qing Dynasty, one tael would cost one silver coin!
Most people cannot afford to smoke such pure opium. Many local opium workshops will add impurities into pure opium paste. Even the opium produced in China in the Qing Dynasty does not have such good technology. This results in a mixed bag of good and bad opium on the market!
But people who can own garden houses in the Shanghai Concession will never smoke inferior local opium. If they want to smoke, it must be high-quality Indian horseshoe soil.
But the person in front of him was obviously not an addict, because there was no smoking gun or other tools in front of him, only a bowl of wine and a large piece of opium paste.
"Wuwuwu... I was wrong, I was really wrong! I don't want to die..."
The people in the room knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, but no one dared to enter the room, and all the servants were kicked out.
It is difficult to swallow raw opium paste. It must be served with a bowl of wine. This way of eating will definitely lead to death!
The man grabbed two ounces of opium and tried it several times but did not have the courage to put it into his mouth. Tears and snot flowed everywhere. He is so attached to this world, and he has not yet reached the age of forty and has many blessings to enjoy in the second half of his life.
But he has committed a heinous crime, and he cannot survive without death!
"I'm so confused by lard! Why am I so confused..." After saying this, the man finally summoned up the courage and opened his mouth to stuff the opium paste into his mouth.
At this moment, the door was opened with a bang, and three strong men, who looked like martial arts masters, rushed in surrounded by a man in rich clothes.
"Zhang Xiaowen! Are you crazy? Stop him quickly..."
With a roar, a guard rushed over like the wind, tapped Zhang Xiaowen's wrist with his finger, and the opium ointment immediately rolled to the ground.
Hu Xueyan, a red-top businessman, walked in angrily and slapped him in the face!
Zhang Xiaowen, the second shopkeeper under Hu Xueyan, later became the liaison officer for trade with the Chinese by chance. It was this person who boldly reported the Lin Yuanmiao corruption case to Xiao Letian.
Lin Zhen's biological father, Lin Yuanmiao, a veteran Ryukyu official, also died of illness due to shame and anger because of this corruption case!
It is because of this kind of contribution that Zhang Xiaowen is honored as Zhang DaDa by his colleagues in the financial circle. It is precisely because of his extraordinary courage and a few words of praise from Xiao Letian that his wealth path is as if he has wings. stand up.
At present, Zhang Xiaowen is already Hu Xueyan's number one general, controlling an investment quota of nearly 7 million taels of silver. As long as the investment is below this scale, he can make his own decisions without asking Hu Xueyan for instructions.
In the past few years, Zhang Xiaowen has established a close network of relationships with Chinese, Jiangnan, Nanyang and even European foreigners, and has won a lot of profitable business.
In fact, finance is a circle. In this circle, people help each other and are very particular about factions and inheritance!
Everyone makes a fortune together, and many businesses that are guaranteed to make a profit will not be put outside, but will be digested internally... These people call their own transactions the primary market.
Really, ordinary stock investors, debtors, and ordinary people holding banknotes outside are just leeks that can be plundered at will!
After Zhang Xiaowen entered the financial circle, he discovered that making money is so easy. In fact, many investments have no risk at all.
For example, Niu Jinfu of the Sihai Group is a master-level businessman in East Asia's ocean trade. He wants to buy 10 million silver dollars of rice in Nanyang, but he doesn't have enough funds to dismantle 6 million.
Do you think that in this kind of business, you still need to ask your grandparents to invest in the secondary market? Who in the world doesn't know that the Sihai Group has a close relationship with the head of state? Those were all friendships established during the riots in Tanggu.
The Sihai Group's grain trade is different from that of boss Mi Fu. It must be undertaken by the army, so the safety factor of this business is frighteningly high!
In this kind of business, even if the interest rate is low, there is no problem. Just grab as much as you can. It’s completely free money!
Not to mention internal shares, internally issued bonds, peer dismantling... If it doesn't work, you can also dismantle the money directly to the Chinese military logistics department. This is a sure-profit business.
Zhang Xiaowen made countless money for Hu Xueyan, and he himself became a financial tycoon in the Shanghai concession area. Even the foreign devils rushed to treat him to dinner.
Such a financial tycoon actually committed suicide by swallowing opium paste today. This would be huge news if it spread outside!
Fortunately, Hu Xueyan discovered something unusual about him and rushed to his home with his guards in time. If it had been a step later, this person would have been gone!
Hu Xueyan is Zhang Xiaowen's boss, and it was Hu Xueyan who brought him into business. When he saw the old shopkeeper coming, Zhang Xiaowen burst into tears and knelt down to hug his thigh tightly.
"Old shopkeeper...I was wrong, I was wrong..."
Hu Xueyan's face turned livid and he whispered, "What's going on with the resignation telegram you sent me? And why did you divide the family in advance?"
"You divided the property among your wife, children, and two concubines, and asked them to go back to their respective homes... You even sent the servants away. What on earth are you going to do?"
"Zhang DaDa! Where is your courage? You were not even afraid of Lin Yuanmiao back then, but the Ryukyu minister asked you to pull him down. Now you want to commit suicide?"
"You are so shameful! Why did I bring out such a loser like you..." Hu Xueyan, who hated iron but not steel, went up and slapped his ears twice more.
Zhang DaDa did not hide or beg for mercy. After the boss slapped him backhand, he slapped himself several times in the face!
"I should fight, and I will be cruel to myself...Boss...Sakamoto Ryoma has secretly mobilized his troops. Is he trying to kill me?"
"The person who did that bargain-hunting plan...is...it's me!"
ah! At that time, Hu Xueyan's head buzzed, "Is it you? Is it you...you made the connection?"
The person who really took the lead in this attempted financial strangulation war in Jiangnan was really bold. This person was extremely brave. When he saw the news that the European heads of state had won and received war reparations, the market not only did not rebound but also experienced strange fluctuations.
At this time, his sensitive business acumen caught the scent. After conducting multiple investigations and even consulting Liu Yunzhen, a stock market tycoon, he understood the details.
In the final analysis, the people of Jiangnan, or the people of the Qing Dynasty, have been bullied so hard by foreign devils in recent years that they have lost their self-confidence.
They believed that the head of state had won the war, but they were a little doubtful that they would receive compensation after victory. In the end, they heard that not only was the compensation an astronomical figure, but also land was ceded to the Chinese!
This time the gift bag was too big, but it made them dumbfounded!
This is like ordinary people celebrating the New Year. When you see the county magistrate walking up to you and saying "Happy New Year" to you as an official, you will think that this is really an upright and good official!
But if Xiao Letian stood there and stood there, you would clasp your fists and wish you a happy New Year, and say that you are the head of state of the Chinese nation!
It is estimated that the common people are the first to not believe it and have to go back and report to the officials, "Come quickly, someone is pretending to be the head of state and cheating!"
It is such a simple truth that human beings can only accept the happiness they can imagine, but cannot control the beauty beyond imagination!
