"Oh! Rare visitors, rare visitors! Sir, your late night visit has really made my Shen family shine!"
Before my father-in-law went out, he raised his hands in greetings and smiled brightly.
The official from the capital was about forty years old, with a long beard, an easy-going face, and an extraordinary bearing. The accompanying guards are all strong and strong, holding swords on their hips, showing full majesty.
"I am a lower official, Cao Tian. I paid my respects to the two Zhejiang Road Transport Envoys and was sent to Suzhou to purchase annual coins." Cao Tian was modest and polite, and then looked at Shen Tian and asked, "I wonder if you are Mr. Song?"
"Uncle...Song?" Shen Tian was stunned and glanced at Song Che behind him.
Song Che stepped forward with a smile to greet him: "Uncle Song, I don't dare to accept it. Song Che, a common man, please see Mr. Cao." He then turned to his father-in-law and introduced: "This is my father-in-law, the head of the Shen family, Shen Tian."
Cao Tian smiled and said: "I originally thought that Mr. Song was a mature person. When I saw him today, I never thought that he was such a young talent. I am disrespectful and disrespectful."
"Mr. Cao, you're welcome. The common people are just businessmen," Song Che said politely, making an invitation gesture, "Mr. Cao, please take a seat in the living room."
"please."
Cao Tian caressed his beard and entered the house.
The father-in-law looked at Song Che in surprise, "Xianxiang, do you know Mr. Cao?"
Song Che smiled and shook his head: "Perhaps our cloth sells well and word of mouth has spread to Luoyang."
Entering the living room, good tea is served. Shen Tian and Cao Tian sat down, while Song Che waited respectfully aside.
"The imperial court is in urgent need of new coins this time. I was also temporarily ordered to come down from the court this morning and came all the way from Luoyang. Only then did I disturb Master Shen and Aunt Song at night." Cao Tian drank the tea in one breath. I got it clean, and it looked like it was really urgent.
My father-in-law was confused: "This year's coin..."
Cao Tian sighed: "I don't know the mystery here, but since it is an official order, you and I can do our best to get it done."
He got straight to the point and asked: "Now the imperial court needs 300,000 pieces of silk and 50 pieces of dendrobium pearls to pay tribute to neighboring countries as annual coins. I wonder if Mr. Shen or Mr. Song can get them?"
The father-in-law exclaimed: "Three...three hundred thousand horses! This...this -"
"I can get it." Song Che said decisively: "It's just that the silk is a little late. It's past the peak season of sericulture, and it will take a certain amount of time to peel off the silk and cocoons. As for pearls, my mother-in-law's family is the largest jeweler in Hangzhou. We can supply them at any time." Everything can be prepared.”
Cao Tian asked again: "The official family is in a hurry. Can we prepare everything this month?"
Song Che said confidently: "Don't worry, Mr. Cao, we will get it together within seven days."
"Okay! As expected of a businessman recommended by senior officials, it's really fun to do business with Mr. Song!" Cao Tian stood up and said, "In seven days, I will come to check and accept!
Cao Tian didn't stay long. Before leaving, he said: "This year's coin is related to the fate of the country. I hope Master Shen and Mr. Song will be strict with it."
Song Che saw the guests out of the house and did not return to the living room until Cao Tian boarded the official sedan.
The father-in-law slumped in his chair. Perhaps all this happened too fast and his mind could not turn around.
Shen Wenjun walked out of the screen, his face was filled with sadness, "Husband, I heard it just now, 300,000 pieces of silk, there are only 150,000 pieces in Yunshuifang's warehouse, even if all the franchised cloth companies are gathered together, it is not enough Three hundred thousand horses, you are bragging about Haikou to the capital officials, how can you get it together in seven days?"
Song Che smiled and said, "When have I ever done anything unreliable?"
"Then how can you scrape together the other 150,000 horses?" Shen Wenjun grabbed Song Che's arm and glanced at his father-in-law who was slumped in the chair. "If you don't say something reassuring tonight, I'm afraid that the whole family will suffer in these few days." I can’t even sleep.”
Song Che patted the back of Shen Wenjun's hand and comforted him softly: "Madam, don't worry, our family doesn't have it, but others have it."
"Other family...you mean...Chen family?"
"Who else in Suzhou City could produce so much cloth except that one who was taken advantage of?"
"With Chen's style, how could he be willing to take out the cloth?" Shen Wenjun was worried.
Song Che smiled coldly: "If he doesn't spit it out, he will go bankrupt."
There are sericulture everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River. Anyway, the order has been received. The worst is to purchase it elsewhere and work as a middleman to earn the difference. With 300,000 pieces of cloth, you can become a big fat man in one bite.
The father-in-law looked up at Ping Lei in the lobby and murmured: "This time my Shen family is going to heaven..."
…
This family is happy, that family is sad.
Chen's living room.
Chen and his son paced back and forth, waiting anxiously.
"Master, young master, Master He is here."
The servant led He Qiu into the living room.
"Cousin!"
"Good nephew!"
Chen and his son respectively grabbed He Qiu's right arm.
"Cousin, I just got the news that the transport envoy has entered the city and is going straight to the Shen family. Did he go the wrong way?" Chen Rencai said anxiously.
He Qiu threw away the father and son, and said in a deep voice: "After Mr. Cao entered the city, he didn't see me first, and then went directly to the Shen family. The purpose was very clear. Uncle, cousin, I see this year coin business, you still Don’t worry about it anymore.”
Chen Rencai lamented: "My old cousin! That's not what you said. At the beginning, my uncle asked us to be more careful, saying that the silk business in the coins belongs to my Chen family. We have taken care of it from top to bottom. It’s so much money, why...why did you suddenly ask the Shen family to cut off your money?"
He Qiu sighed and asked, "Who is that Song Che?"
Chen Rencai said: "He is just a son-in-law picked up from the middle of nowhere!"
"Impossible!" He Qiu exclaimed: "Did you know that with just one letter from him, he can call upon the envoy of Lin'an Prefecture to punish him? Even my father couldn't keep the annual coin business, but he cut it off. This shows that there are powerful forces behind him. How powerful...Uncle, cousin, in my opinion, you should not provoke him. Losing a business is a small thing, but moving your head is a big deal!"
"ah……"
Chen Rencai collapsed on the ground, wiped his tears and cried: "For this business, we have collected all the silk in Suzhou, Linzhou, Jiangning, Hangzhou... Jiangnan, and there are 400,000 pieces in the warehouse! Just wait. After the Sui Coin business was completed, I had good funds to pay back the balance owed, but now that the business has declined, the remaining wealth cannot fill the hole. If the contract is broken, the compensation will be tripled... This will cost the life of my Chen family! "
"Good nephew, your father personally promised that this business would be successful, so we were hoarding silk. Now that the Chen family is on the verge of bankruptcy, you can't just sit idly by and ignore it!" Father Chen held onto He Qiu's arm and said, A handful of snot and a handful of tears.
"Oh uncle! This matter... This matter is being negotiated between you and my father. If it weren't for the official worship here, I really wouldn't have known about this matter. As a Suzhou parent official, how could I engage in favoritism for your business! "
"Then you want more than a hundred members of the Chen family to die!"
The father and son hugged each other and cried bitterly.
He Qiu couldn't bear it, so he helped the father and son up, and sighed: "I have an idea that can give the Chen family a chance to survive. I wonder if my uncle and cousin are willing to listen?"
Chen Rencai grasped at straws, "How about it! Cousin, tell me quickly, as long as I can keep the family business, I am willing to do anything!"
He Qiu softly uttered eight words: "Put down your body and ask for Song Che."
