Hearing the name Xiaocui, a strange color flashed in Bai Yuanyuan's eyes, she pondered for a moment and gave instructions to Aunt Liu:
"I know the matter, don't tell others..."
"Yes! Madam!"
Bai Yuanyuan waved her hand, and Nanny Liu immediately bowed and left. Bai Yuanyuan immediately opened the note again, only to see four big characters written on it!
"Wan Xinghe! Danger!"
Looking at these four words, Bai Yuanyuan's expression couldn't help but become solemn. This Wanxinghe refers to their Bai family's Wanxinghe business name, and the meaning of the word "risk" is self-evident!
Although she still doesn't know who left the note, it is obvious that the other party is using this note to warn her that someone wants to take advantage of their Bai family's Wanxinghe business!
After realizing this, several names immediately appeared in Bai Yuanyuan's mind, and her expression became a little uncertain!
Although she still didn't know whether the content on this note was true or false, Bai Yuanyuan had some bad premonitions in her heart. She subconsciously felt that this matter might be related to an incident some time ago!
The Chen family, the natal family of Gu Sansi's favorite concubine Chen Wanting, was not only forced to shut down the Jiubao store they ran due to the impact of the case, but also had people come to collect debts. What's more, some people wanted to add insult to injury. Now the Chen family Because of internal worries, he wanted to buy the Chen family's property at a low price.
The Chen family was forced to the edge of bankruptcy within a few days, so they also turned to Gu Sansi, hoping that this cheap uncle of the Chen family could save the family from disaster... ··········
But unfortunately, Gu Sansi himself was also greatly affected by the "Archival Case". Not only was his position as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel removed, but he was also demoted three levels in a row from the second rank to the third rank. Now he must be careful at all times. time, so I couldn't help the Chen family, so I could only help the Chen family collect money to pay off their debts.
However, Gu Sansi was born into a poor family and had no family support. He was a well-known upright official in the Yijing court and did not have much money. Although the commander-in-chief rewarded him with a lot of property, most of it was fixed property. Monetization takes some time.
The Chen family is now in dire straits, and creditors have blocked the door. Just when both Gu Sansi and the Chen family are in a state of distress, Bai Changjiu's wife Cui Shi asks her husband Bai Wanhao to lend money to the family. The Chen family’s plan to pay off their debts!
Ms. Cui's idea at the time was that in order for the Chen family to repay the debt, Gu Sansi not only took out all the money in his hands, but also took the antiques, calligraphy, paintings, gold and silver utensils awarded to him by the marshal to a pawn shop. .
This shows that Gu Sansi and Chen Wanting have a very good relationship, and they really care about Chen Wanting, and Chen Wanting is pregnant again, so lending money to the Chen family is now equivalent to lending money to Gu Sansi!
Although Gu Sansi was disgraced because of the file case this time, the commander-in-chief still asked him to lead the staff, so it was enough to see that the commander-in-chief still trusted Gu Sansi. Therefore, this time it was just a short-term hibernation for Gu Sansi. In one or two years, or as short as half a year, Gu Sansi can be reinstated and make a comeback...
As the saying goes, adding icing on the cake is worse than providing help in the snow. In the past, when Gu Sansi was in power, even if you wanted to stick to it, people would not even look at you. But now you are helping Gu Sansi once, and it will make Gu Sansi remember your goodness!
This Gu Sansi is an important minister of the imperial court. If we can form a good relationship with him, it will be of great benefit to the Bai family!
Regarding his daughter-in-law Cui's suggestion, her husband Bai Wanhao thought about it for a while and felt that this was indeed the case, so he also learned about the situation of the Chen family!
Bai Wanhao also acted very quickly. After a few days, he learned the information. There were a total of five debts owed by the Chen family, which totaled about more than 80,000 taels of silver. The creditors were all well-known people, and the Chen family wanted to ignore them. Don’t dare to lie!
Although Bai Wanhao initially intended to lend money to the Chen family, he retreated somewhat after learning the news about the Chen family.
The first reason
After the Fengwu Army captured the south, Bai Wanhao also expanded the business of Bai Family Wanxing and Company to the south to seize the local market. He spent more than 100,000 taels of silver on this item, so Bai Wanhao did not have any cash in hand. There is not much left, and there is only about 90,000 taels of silver left in the family.
Therefore, if the money is lent to the Chen family, Bai Wanhao will have almost no working capital. If anything happens to Wanxing and the company at this time, they will be very passive... ············
The second point is that Bai Wanhao discovered that the younger generations of the Chen family are all second-generation ancestors who engaged in food, drinking, whoring and gambling, and none of them can support the family. Therefore, if you lend these 80,000 taels of silver to them, it is equivalent to wasting the money. , don’t expect them to pay you back at all!
Eighty thousand taels of silver is really not a small amount. You must know that the annual tax of Liaoyang Province is only three to four hundred thousand taels, so spending 80,000 taels of silver to sell Gu Sansi for a favor and Bai Wanhao feels a bit unworthy!
The third reason was that Bai Wanhao discovered that someone seemed to be deliberately squeezing the Chen family so that the Chen family's property could not be sold at normal prices. The Chen family's creditors also seemed to be someone's gun.
Although Bai Wanhao did not find out who did this, Bai Wanhao felt that the person who had the courage to do this must be a big shot. Therefore, if he lent money to the Chen family at this moment, he would undoubtedly ruin the other party's good deeds. Easily hated by others.
Based on the above three reasons, Bai Wanhao actually did not want to lend money to the Chen family at that time, and Bai Wanhao's idea was fully supported by his eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hu.
After learning about her husband's idea, Ms. Cui was very disappointed and unwilling. She even had a quarrel with her sister-in-law Ms. Hu!
Seeing that her husband seemed determined and unwilling to pay the money, Ms. Cui placed her last hope on her sister-in-law Bai Yuanyuan.
Ms. Cui asked someone to send a message to Bai Yuanyuan, hoping that her sister-in-law could come forward to persuade her husband to let Bai Wanhao take the money!
After Bai Yuanyuan read the letter from the second sister-in-law, after thinking about it for a while, she understood why the second sister-in-law was so persistent in asking her father Bai Wanhao to lend the money to the Chen family... ····
This is not because her second sister-in-law, Mrs. Cui, has any relationship with the Chen family, but because her second brother Bai Jiujiu is now the deputy chief envoy of Anqing. He is likely to become a regular official in the future, and may even be transferred back to the central government or even join the cabinet in the future. They are all very promising, and Gu Sansi, the actual Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, has a considerable say in this matter!
Even on some issues, it is no exaggeration to say that Gu Sansi said that you can do it, and whether you can rise to the top is a matter of just one word!
When the Fengwu Army system was still the Personnel Bureau, Bai Jiujiu competed for the position of deputy director of the Personnel Bureau, but in the end he missed out on this position. Shen Changhong finally became the deputy director, and now also serves as the personnel department. Minister!
The reason why Shen Changhong came to power in the first place was because Gu Sansi spoke for him. Bai Yuanyuan knew that her second sister-in-law, Cui, had always been worried about this matter. She believed that if Bai Jiujiu had come to power at that time, he would have a bright future as the Minister of Civil Affairs now. The bright one is my husband!
Because of this, when she now has the opportunity to please Gu Sansi and establish a good relationship with Gu Sansi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, Ms. Cui is not willing to let it go. In her eyes, the Chen family will simply not pay back the tens of thousands of taels of silver. , but as long as your husband can get the upper hand, it will be money well spent!
In fact, her sister-in-law Mrs. Hu also understands this truth, but why is Ms. Hu unwilling to let her husband Bai Wanhao pay for this money?
The reason is also very simple!
Although the last separation of the Bai family was stopped by her husband Gong Bai Wanhao, the idea of separation was also rooted in the hearts of the first and second families... ····
Therefore, in the eyes of the eldest son Bai Changrong's wife, Hu, most of the Bai family's property now belongs to the family, and her husband is a military attaché and his official career is not under the control of the official department. Therefore, even if he lends the money to the Chen family to please Gu Sansi, he is not interested in it. My husband's career is of little help, so why should I use my own money to make a wedding dress for my second wife?
And Bai Yuanyuan's attitude on this matter
She is inclined towards the second sister-in-law Cui. After all, Bai Yuanyuan intends for her son Jingheng to become the legitimate son in the future, so it would be great if she could form a good relationship with Gu Sansi!
Although she intended to persuade her father Bai Wanhao to pay for it, Bai Yuanyuan also knew in her heart that if she wanted to do this, she would probably need the nod of her sister-in-law Hu!
Perhaps it is because in the future most of the Bai family's family property will be handed over to the eldest son Bai Changrong, and the eldest son Bai Changrong is a military attache and knows nothing except fighting. Therefore, Bai Wanhao intends to cultivate the business talents of his eldest daughter-in-law Hu, and now Bai Jiawan Hu is also in charge of most of the daily operations of Xinghe Company!
Therefore, Mrs. Hu has a lot of influence on her husband Gongbai Marriott. If we can get Mr. Hu's help, then this matter can be said to be basically done!
And when it comes to getting her eldest sister-in-law Hu to nod, Bai Yuanyuan also gave her second sister-in-law Cui a nod!
Bai Changrong and Hu had a son named Bai Enshou. Since he was born prematurely, he was weak and sickly. Therefore, Bai Changrong gave up the idea of letting Bai Enshou learn martial arts. Instead, he hoped that Bai Enshou would study hard and become a civil servant in the future... ····················
Therefore, Bai Yuanyuan believes that as long as she uses her eldest nephew Bai Enshou as a breakthrough, and acts with emotion and reason, she can completely make her sister-in-law Hu change her attitude and persuade her husband Bai Wanhao to pay for the money!
I have to say that Bai Yuanyuan's plan was very clever. Originally, Mrs. Hu, who was still arrogantly saying that Ms. Cui didn't feel bad for selling her father's land and tens of thousands of taels of silver was wasted, changed her attitude after Ms. Cui pointed out her weakness and gave her a series of guarantees. , not only did not object to paying the money, but also began to persuade Bai Wanhao to pay the money!
Bai Wanhao, who had originally decided not to lend money to the Chen family, finally changed his mind after the joint persuasion of his two daughters-in-law and one daughter!
After a series of more detailed thoughts, Bai Wanhao made the final decision to lend 50,000 taels of silver to the Chen family. Although the 50,000 taels of silver accounted for more than half of the current cash flow of the Bai family, the Bai family still had There are more than 40,000 taels left. If there is any trouble in our business, we can handle it with just over 40,000 taels of silver.
In addition, with the 50,000 taels of silver from the Bai family, although it cannot completely make up for the debts of the Chen family, taking into account the silver given by Gu Sansi and the taels of silver that the Chen family has scraped together, it can still basically cover the debts of the Chen family. Finished.
In order to eliminate unnecessary hidden dangers, when the Bai family lent the money to the Chen family, they specially bought it from an underground rice store.
After completing this matter, Gu Sansi did not say anything to the Bai family, but recently news came from the Ministry of Personnel that Bai Jiujiu performed well in the year-end assessment of the Ministry of Personnel, which also greatly cheered up the mood of the Bai family... ·············
Just when Bai Yuanyuan was immersed in the possibility that her second brother Bai Jiujiu would be promoted to the post of Chief Envoy of Anqing, she never expected that such a thing would happen!
Although there is currently no evidence to show that the information on the note is true, Bai Yuanyuan personally prefers that this matter is true!
The reason why Bai Yuanyuan thinks so is that she has always suspected that the person secretly running against the Chen family is that woman!
Although she has never had a heart-to-heart relationship with that woman, Bai Yuanyuan has become aware of that woman's thoughts after being sisters for such a long time!
She knew that the woman had always wanted to impress Gu Sansi, but she had been suffering from no good opportunities. Therefore, the Chen family's opportunity was so good that Bai Yuanyuan thought that the woman would definitely not let it go!
The reason why Bai Yuanyuan decided to try to form a good relationship with Gu Sansi was actually because she didn't want that woman's conspiracy to succeed. After all, that woman now has a lot of energy. If her conspiracy succeeds again, Then there is no hope for anyone else to seize the throne in the future!
At that time, in order to avoid the woman's pursuit, they even used an underground rice farm to get their hands on it, but now it seems that they still didn't hide it from the woman!
Thinking of this, Bai Yuanyuan couldn't help but have a look of worry in her eyes. Although she still didn't know what the woman planned to do, but if things were really as she thought, then with that woman's character, she would definitely not let Bai Yuan go easily.
House's!
Realizing this, Bai Yuanyuan's expression also became a little regretful, but now it's too late to say anything. The only thing she can do now is to send the news back to the Bai family, so that the family can prepare early and be careful in case of emergencies. need·························
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