Zeng Guoquan was indeed a little tempted by what Fatty Xiong said. He still had a relationship with Xiao Letian. It should be said that he was the first person to establish a relationship with Xiao Letian in Manchu Wenwu.
When Xiao Letian had just entered the capital and was arguing with the Confucian scholars in Baihua Tower, he secretly listened on the sidelines. Later, when he went to Prince Gong's Mansion, he and Guiziliu invited Xiao Letian to drink together.
Even when his brother Zeng Guofan met Xiao Letian, he was the matchmaker himself. Without the protection of the Zeng family, Xiao Letian would have been trampled to death by the Manchus in his early stages.
If he goes out to meet Xiao Letian, just to save his old face, let alone four million, how dare he, Xiao Letian, not take care of the business of 40 million a year?
But Ninth Commander Zeng Guoquan refused to see Xiao Letian until his death. After the victory of the Franco-Prussian War, Zeng Guoquan became more and more alienated from Xiao Letian.
It was his brother who could see clearly. Zeng Guofan knew his brother. He knew that Ninth Commander, the great hero of the imperial court who conquered Tianjing City, was older than Xiao Letian.
So Zeng Guoquan has always felt condescending when facing Xiao Letian. It's not that he looks down on Xiao Letian, he just thinks that you, Xiao Letian, are my juniors based on seniority, and you can't be awesome in front of me!
But is Xiao Letian really cool with Zeng Guoquan? In fact, there really wasn't, because there were very few opportunities for the two to meet in the later period. Zeng Guofan, the capital master, often met, but the Ninth Marshal had not seen each other for a long time.
We haven't even met each other, so how can we act like a big name? But that’s what Jiu Shuai thinks. This is his inner demon. Zeng Guofan has long seen through it and pointed it out.
"You! It's not that Xiao Letian is disrespectful to you, but that you can't let go of your face. From the bottom of your heart, you can't stand that Xiao Letian is so successful!"
"This is your inner demon. Do you think our Zeng family has put down Changmao and extended the life of the Qing Dynasty? We will be the leaders of this future destiny?"
"Don't you have in your heart the idea that our Zeng family will also reach the top in the future? Now that you see Xiao Letian becoming more successful, but the luck of the world has been taken away by him, you feel uncomfortable, you are jealous and uncomfortable!"
"Why bother? How old are we? We can't compete with other young people!"
Zeng Guofan didn't dare not listen to Zeng Guofan's reprimand, and he couldn't refute it, but he was still unconvinced and couldn't get rid of it no matter what!
Zeng Guoquan also admitted that today's Xiao Letian is really untouchable. Tsarist Russia and France have suffered successive defeats at his hands. With such strength, let alone himself, the court has to avoid him.
Then I can't afford to provoke you and I can hide. If I don't see you, I will get angry just by looking at you. Therefore, Jiu Shuai has basically never seen Xiao Letian after the law popularization. The few times they meet, they mostly use polite words.
I thought that all this would be over, you would go your way, I would cross my single-plank bridge, and no one would be involved or provoked!
But after Zeng Guofan died, the situation suddenly changed! Human relationships are cold and warm. Marshal Zeng or everything is easy to handle. After Zeng Guofan is dead, many old faces will not be easy to use!
Things are not impossible, but there are always obstacles. You have to spend some money on many things that don't cost money.
And those things that originally cost a small amount of money now cost even more!
The key is that there are so many old subordinates in the Hunan Army. Without Zeng Guofan, we can only rely on Zeng Guoquan. If a family that is not well managed goes bankrupt, why don't you help?
Someone who doesn't know how to be an official is being punished by others. You can't help smooth things over?
Even if you are caught engaging in corruption and bribery without opening your eyes, you still have to ask someone to help you make big things into trivial matters and make trivial matters into nothing!
These matters have to be handled by the Zeng family. Another thing that gives Ninth Commander a headache is the relationship between these Hunan Army generals and the Chinese!
When the situation was smooth and long-term, these generals were so arrogant that even the court did not dare to offend them. Even if they brought up a horse stabbing case, it would be settled in the end.
This creates a very bad habit, that is, not following the rules! But the Chinese are a place that pays great attention to rules. The law is the law, and the rules are the rules. No matter who you are, you must abide by them.
Even if you are a veteran of the Hunan Army, you will never hesitate to be beaten or punished if you violate Chinese rules!
Just say that in many Chinese businesses, you have to work according to contracts with others. Do you want to do what the Qing Dynasty did? If they want to bully the money of black businessmen, the Chinese will definitely come forward.
Including the Jiangnan stock market where Fatty Xiong is located, this group of Hunan Army veterans will definitely not let go. There were people who wanted to play a speculation game of buying low and selling high before, but when Liu Henzhen found out, he strangled them directly from the market.
They don't make any noise, they just search for your trading seat. Once they find it, they will keep an eye on you. No matter how you operate, they will hedge it. After three or four rounds, you will lose money.
If you lose money, you can only bow your head and admit defeat and find someone to negotiate with. Who can you find to negotiate with? In the end, it was not about seeking favor from Ninth Commander, but Zeng Guoquan wrote letters to Hu Xueyan, Liu Henzhen and even the old shopkeeper Fan Qian, but he never asked for help from Xiao Letian.
There were more and more chores, and Jiu Shuai was keenly aware that he would one day ask Xiao Letian!
Has the Zeng family's career really become what is written in the Book of Stone and has passed its peak?
Seeing the silence of Ninth Commander, Fatty Xiong took the courage to whisper, "Of course my subordinates know that four million a year is not enough to do anything. Ninth Commander's family has a big business and the expenses are huge!"
"How about... I'll find a way to contact Fan Datou. The head of state is his uncle. If he can lead us, I think we can make more money!"
Jiu Shuai shook his head, "You can't always think about speculating money back and forth in the stock market. Xiao Letian is very tired of this... you don't know something! After the Franco-Prussian War, the big crash you were going to make almost made you lose money." Xiao Letian gave me a spoonful of stew!"
"You don't know these things. Later, old shopkeeper Fan Jian mentioned a few words in a letter... Don't you just want to take advantage of Jiangnan's disbelief in the fact that the head of state has paid so much compensation, and it is a moment when confidence is not firm? ?”
"You smash the market, and then wait for Xiao Letian to come back with war reparations. When the market sees that the news is true, the stock price will skyrocket again, and you will make a lot of money!"
"Haha... What you think is really good. Thanks to Ryoma Sakamoto for mobilizing troops to beat Xiao Hexin, I stopped you!"
"Actually, Sakamoto Ryoma and the old shopkeeper had another plan to kill the family at that time!"
"That is, when your funds really enter the market and the market is smashed, you will then order the entire Jiangnan stock market to stop trading!"
"The account data has been sealed and no trading is allowed. We will resume trading after the head of state comes back!"
"At that time, you will be checking the accounts, who is short selling, and who is making false news. At the same time, the market will be locked up and your money will not be able to escape. You will be trapped in it alive!"
"If that time comes, you will be the ones who commit suicide by jumping into the river!"
This is the first time that Fatty Xiong has heard the new version of the crisis that year. He is knowledgeable and knows that if the head of state does this, all the speculators in Jiangnan will be wiped out.
His legs were so frightened that he slumped down on the chair. "Oh my god! What's going on like this? I'm so hung up, so hung up..."
"Haha... Hang it! In fact, Xiao Letian raised it high and put it down gently. He spared your life!"
