"Okay, okay... Just scold him Yi a few times and that's enough. Yi is still Nong's son-in-law after all!"
Although Zhuge Yangming is an old Beijinger, he has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years and can speak fluent Shanghainese. Seeing that Dahei often loses his temper, he tries to persuade him.
"Hey, what are you talking about?" Dahei Chang heard Zhuge Mingyang's words and almost lost his temper. He didn't care about the other person's identity and directly asked him.
Zhuge Yangming still looked cheerful and not anxious at all. He is also a military advisor, and of course he knows that Zhuge Weidao is already one of the eighteen military advisors of the Zhuge family. With this status, there is nothing wrong with having the daughter of the Dahei family as a concubine - this "concubine" is a Japanese concept, smaller than the main wife and larger than the concubine. It is definitely not a loss for the daughter of the Dahei family to become the concubine of the Zhuge family's military advisor who is only 28 years old (two years later, Zhuge Weidao will be 28 years old). Even letting the son of Zhuge Weidao and Daheikong become the next head of the Dahei family is very cost-effective.
Anyone who does big business knows that it is very important to choose a direction. If you choose the wrong route, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain. If you choose the right one, you can get twice the result with half the effort, and you can even make money easily. Just look at how the Zhuge family has made money for more than a hundred years!
Therefore, a father Zhuge who is good at pinching and calculating is really beneficial to the Dahei family's business.
However, the identity of Zhuge Weidao's military advisor was kept secret for the time being. Zhuge Yangming could not tell Dahei Chang clearly. He could only shake his feather fan and hold out two fingers and said: "Two years, you let the little girl wait for two years. I promise you won’t suffer a loss... You must believe me!”
"Two years? Why are you so happy?" Dahei Chang waved his hand and said, "It's not like my daughter can't get married... As you know, Shimazu Saiaki, the lord of Satsuma and Shimazu, has sent people to Shanghai. I’m proposing marriage, and I want Akong to marry Qi Liang, the successor of the Satsuma clan, to be the first wife!”
"Hahaha," Zhuge Yangming said with a smile, "A bunch of poor people want money... This Shimazu has taken over millions of dollars from me and still can't pay it out, and he also wants to marry his daughter. It would be foolish to agree!"
"Yi is the master of a vassal after all!" Daheichang shook his head repeatedly, "And this sister Qi Liang is also the eldest wife of the general, and she cannot afford to offend her!"
Hearing what Dahei Chang said, Zhuge Yangming already understood that this Dahei profiteer already wanted to marry his daughter to Shimazu Qi Liang... But this is not allowed!
Then Zhuge Yangming's face darkened, and even his accent changed to a strong Beijing dialect: "Brother Chang, the fate of your love and my 108th uncle was calculated by the great military advisor! The great military advisor calculated it. How can the cause and fate be inaccurate? You have to think clearly!"
"Did the great military advisor calculate it?" Daheichang was shocked, "Why has no one mentioned it before?"
If Daikoku Tsune was just a poor samurai with one sword and one life, of course he wouldn't have to be afraid of Zhuge's great strategist, but he was one of the four richest chaebols in Japan. The Zhuge family can just choke the Dahei family and make their family live or die.
The reason for this is that the coinage business of the Dahei Family has long been a business of printing and issuing banknotes. In fact, the so-called "silver yuan" of the Ming Dynasty were mainly paper money. Most of the real silver coins and gold coins that are more expensive than silver coins are now just reserves piled in the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which are used to maintain the "gold and silver composite standard" of silver coins.
Japan also completed its banknote reform during the Kansei years when Tokugawa Ieki was in charge and issued banknotes called "Nihon Notes". However, because the shogunate's finances have been unable to make ends meet for a long time, and there have been several records of issuing bad currency in the past, it lacks the credit and reserves to support banknotes. In desperation, the shogunate did not establish a central bank. Instead, the Daikoku family's Ginza, the Goto family's Kinza, and the Tagawa family's money bank served as the "royal banknote issuing banks" to issue "Nihonsaku". Let the Sumitomo family, a mining company, take a stake in the three major banks to strengthen the credibility of the three major banks. The four major chaebols, Daikoku, Goto, Tagawa, and Sumitomo, still have a very strong brand in Japan... Almost all the feudal lords owe them money, and other wealthy businessmen must go through the "seat" they started. " and the "house" conduct various financial businesses, so the "Japanese Notes" they issued circulate smoothly in Japan. But Daikokusune, a chaebol leader of this level, knows very well that what really determines the value of the Japanese currency is not the four major chaebols, but the financial market in Shanghai!
As long as the price of the bonds of the "Three Blocks" can still be maintained on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, then the "Japanese Notes" issued by the Three Blocks will not be run - all banknotes in this era are "cashable" Paper money can be exchanged for corresponding gold and silver at the banknote-issuing bank. Japan's gold and silver reserves are insufficient and it is difficult to cope with a run on banknotes.
To maintain the prices of the three major bonds, the chaebols who control the three major bonds must be supported by the Daming Capital Group, headed by the Zhuge family and the Zheng family... In the past hundred years, although the Ming Dynasty has Japan was not conquered by force, but financial and economic penetration and control were not lost!
Seeing Dahei Changshi's expression, Zhuge Yangming knew that this profiteer would not dare to go against the great military advisor. So he calmed down and said, "This is a secret! Brother Chang, this secret... I have already revealed it. It's up to you whether you want to hear it or not!"
After saying this, Zhuge Yangming stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Brother, I have a social event tonight, so I won't interrupt you. Goodbye!"
Daheichang saw Zhuge Yangming about to leave and quickly said: "Wait a minute."
Zhuge Yangming stopped and looked at Dahei.
Dahei said: "I wonder when the wedding between Zi and Grand Duchess Natalie will be held? I want to take my daughter to have a wedding drink."
Zhuge Yangming smiled and said, "Are you just asking for a wedding drink?"
Dahei Chang sighed and said: "There is no way for a girl to stay in college... Although Zhuge Daozi is unlucky, he has no choice but to have his daughter fall in love with him... Why don't we just let her go to high school in Beijing." "
"That's right!" Zhuge Yangming said with a smile, "June 15th, Beijing Xishan, how about we take a trip together?"
"Okay!" Dahei Chang said, "That's it!"
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The fifteenth day of June in the sixth year of Taiping in the Ming Dynasty is a time for marriage, sacrifice, praying for blessings, making alliances, and good luck.
With the sound of crackling firecrackers, crowds of people surged around the Xishan Palace at the foot of Beijing's Xishan Mountain. Everyone crowded at the gate and looked inside with joy at the Grand Duchess Natalie, who was about to get married here... Being able to go to Xishan today to see this lively event, not to mention being famous, is also well-informed. figure. Of course they know who this Natalie is?
The original candidate queen is now married to the "silly fox" of the Zhuge family, and this matter has the support of the Queen Mother... Is there any bigger "melon" than this? This can all be made into a drama!
Therefore, although Zhuge Weidao did not want to make a big deal, he could just invite two thousand guests casually. But there are so many people who can’t stand it and want to come to have a wedding banquet! The seven major aristocratic families (excluding the Zhuge aristocratic family) and the noble families all over Beijing are all on friendly terms with the Zhuge aristocratic family, and they are all close friends!
Therefore, there are more and more names on the guest list... If Zhuge Weidao's wedding had not been held in a hurry, the number of guests who came to watch the show might have exceeded 10,000! But even though the wedding was rushed and low-key, more than 3,800 guests came to Xishan to drink on June 15th! Including their followers, there are a total of seventeen or eight thousand!
Zhuge Weidao couldn't even put it in his own Xishan Villa, so he temporarily borrowed Zhuge Weixue's villa to set up a small table of two thousand.
And Empress Dowager Zheng did work hard on this matter. She not only transferred a large number of black eunuchs and Japanese maids from the palace to serve in Xishan, but also transferred hundreds of cooks from inside and outside the palace, and also had people working in the palace. Temporary kitchens were set up in Xishan Palace, Wuxiang Houfu Courtyard and Zhuge Weidao's villa, and they were very busy.
In addition, she also lent her Xishan Palace to Natalie as a temporary natal house so that Natalie could get married from here.
She herself also took advantage of the opportunity to organize the wedding for her "godbrother" and invited the heads of eight aristocratic families to Xishan Palace as guests... At this moment, she was dragging the young emperor Zhu Xijin to have a chat with these people in the main hall of Xishan Palace. Helping the head of the family talk about another big wedding.
