Chapter 9 Quiet the tide

Wu Yun, the governor of Hangzhou Prefecture, a Wu Shirong, has only been in office for more than a month, and he is not very familiar with the situation in Hangzhou. Dexin invited him to help Fukang with him, and felt that he had to explain a few words first. "Brother Shirong," he said, "the people in Hangzhou are called 'Hang Tietou', and they will take the soft but not the hard. thing, have you ever heard of it?" "I've heard that 'thousands of horses listen to orders silently, and a cow sits alone and reads articles'." Wu Shirong heard that there was a Zhejiang Xuezheng who was mean by nature and insulted scholars. He was afraid that he would whisper to each other during the exam, which would be like cheating. The title of the post poem is: "Ten thousand horses listen to orders silently, and they get the character "".This is obviously a curse, but when he was sitting high in the hall, looking at himself, someone suddenly took the case and said: "'Ten thousand horses listen to orders silently' is the first couplet, and the second couplet is called 'One cow sits alone and reads the article'." Laugh, of course the notes are broken.Only then did Xuezheng know that he was humiliating himself, so he had no choice but to keep silent.

"It's good that the old man knows the story. Today, I invite the old man to suppress it together. That's what I say, but don't take the word "repression" too seriously." It was not easy to understand these words, Wu Shirong bowed his waist and said: "Please advise me, my lord." "Hu Xueyan made great contributions to the local people at the beginning of Hangzhou's restoration. During the Hongyang Battle, Hangzhou was the hardest hit, but it recovered the fastest. This is all thanks to Hu Xueyan." "Oh, my lord means that Hangzhou people have feelings for Hu Xueyan."

"That's right. There are only a few people who are jealous of him, and there are also many people who rely on Hu Xueyan to support their families." Since he relies on Hu Xueyan to support his family, of course he is on his side, and the more important relationship is that he never wants to see Hu Xueyan's business go bankrupt. Wu Shirong suddenly realized and nodded repeatedly. "From this point of view, the trend should not be big." Dexin thought that Wu Shirong was very enlightened, so she said in a tone of praise: "Brother Shirong has a sharp eye, and he can discern every detail. Brother is very admired."

The idioms in the words are not used very well, but this is not the first time Wu Shirong has experienced such a situation, and I have heard people say that although Dexin is known as a capable person, he doesn't read much, so he is easy to show off to his subordinates The "half bottle of vinegar" ink in the belly, so sometimes it is unavoidable sour, and occasionally some jokes are added, which makes it even more sour and rotten. Such a change of mind, I found it nothing surprising, "Your Excellency is wrong." He continued to ask, "The mansion went to suppress with Your Excellency, although the main purpose is to appease, but if there are really people who don't know the importance and intend to stir up troubles?" , please tell me clearly, how to deal with it is appropriate?"

"It's always about resignation." No matter how "rebellious" it is, it can still be "submissive", there should be a sense of proportion, "Please make it clear, my lord!" He asked, "If someone dares to offend, what should I do?" "Is this a collision?" Dexin pondered for a while and said, "Forgive them for not daring!" Wu Shirong can tolerate his inappropriate words and comparisons, but he feels that he must break the casserole and ask the end of this kind of slippery words. "What if such a situation really exists?" Wu Shirong also lowered the level of elegance in his words, "As the saying goes, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, you have to be on guard."

"In case of a collision, it is naturally a matter of words. Why do you and I have to be as knowledgeable as ordinary people? There is a way to endure for a while and keep your life for a hundred years, and the way is not to be stupid or deaf, and not to be a family member. Your mansion is the capital. , just like one of our family members in Zhejiang." To be able to do this requires a lot of self-cultivation, Wu Shirong fears that it will not be easy, but judging from Dexin's meaning, it is very clear that everything is mainly to calm the storm.As for the means, there is really no need to listen to him. If you can accommodate, you must accommodate. If you cannot accommodate, you still have to use authority. As long as major issues are reduced to minor ones without losing dignity, it will be considered complete.

He thought about it for a while, and felt that there was one point that he had to make clear first, "Returning to what your lord said, the way of governing is to be lenient and fierce, but who should be lenient and who should be lenient, when should be lenient, and when should be fierce, it's all messed up." No. Thinking about the situation in the mansion today, the adults are the masters, and they should respond fiercely and strictly deal with it. The mansion is like a woman who is in charge of the family. She has to intercede on behalf of the servants. Please take it lightly. Such a red face and a white face, Only this play can be sung." He went on to say, "If there are those shrews who make trouble for the people, they will not be able to make them submit unless they are threatened. Now, this mansion doesn’t know what to do.”

"No, no!" Dexin said again and again, "I will be the red face, and you will be the bad face. If you are the red face, I will never be the bad face. All in all, if you are the protagonist, I will 'sweep the edge', and I will definitely hold it You sing the play." The words are very polite, but the main responsibility for quelling the Fukang riot this time has been lightly placed on his head.Wu Shirong thought to himself, Dexin is really an old fox pretending to be stupid! With this promise, Wu Shirong was more at ease, so he stood up and said goodbye. At the same time, it was agreed that he would go back to the Hangzhou mansion first, arrange all the "guides" and go to "serve" in front of the Fukang Bank in Qinghefang, and then Dexin would leave.

The two of them planned the time and came to Fukang one after another. The crowd was just like the "Ziwu tide" in the tide. Just after the middle of the day, it was not clear who came in the morning, so they insisted on not going. Those who got the information came after lunch at home , the servants of Hangzhou Prefecture and Renhe and Qiantang counties, seeing that they could not be caught off guard, they all went to a familiar shop to have tea and rest their feet. When they heard the sound of gongs and Taoism, they heard that the prefect of Wu had arrived, and then Defantai would also come. Naturally, we can't be lazy, but fortunately, after resting, our spirits are refreshed, each of them puffs out their chests and belly, waving their whips in the wind, making a whirring sound, and immediately opens a way in the crowd.

Qinghefang is a main street, and the crowds are driven away. There is an open space in front of Fukang Gate, which is enough for two large sedan chairs to park.Xie Yunqing had already been notified by Mrs. Luosi that the government would come out to take care of the food, so although the voices outside the door were roaring, shouting and cursing, which made people jump in fear, he closed his eyes and meditated like an old monk, with a deep feeling in his heart. He was thinking about how to arrange when the government came forward, and how Fukang should deal with it.When the calculation was almost done, Wu Shirong was about to arrive.

This has to be greeted first, if the magistrate comes to the door, unloads the door to greet, and the customers rush in, it will be out of control, so he took care of many guys to guard the side door, and then slipped out quietly, wearing a felt hat At the same time, he pretended to be afraid of the cold, and covered his mouth and nose with his hands. Fortunately, no one saw through. When he got close to the guide, he rushed to the front of the sedan chair, and the sedan chair stopped of course. This is called "Chong Dao". As usual, the guards raised their whips to protect the sedan chair, and then someone else stepped forward to see their status. If they are ordinary people, they can be allowed to drag and spank their buttocks in the street. Xie Yunqing is well-dressed, so naturally he should be more polite and ask: "what is your job?" Xie Yunqing bowed his knees in front of the sedan chair and said, "Xie Yunqing, the owner of the Fukang Bank, pays his respects to your lord." "Oh," Wu Shirong ordered in the sedan chair, "stop the sedan chair." "Stopping the sedan chair" does not mean putting the sedan chair down on the ground, the sedan chair is still on the bearer's shoulders, but there is a jujube stick with a fork to support the sedan chair, which is called "beating the pole". At this time, the car curtain was naturally lifted, Wu Shirong asked, "Are you Xie Yunqing?" "yes." "When will your boss come back?" "Tonight, I will definitely be there." Wu Shirong nodded and said: "Fantai is coming soon, I'll sit with him in your store and we can discuss how to do it." Then, Dexin also arrived, still led by Xie Yunqing, and entered the guest seat of Fukang Bank through the side door.The furnishings here are very particular. The furniture is made of rosewood inlaid with Luodian in Guangdong, and the walls are decorated with calligraphy and paintings of famous people. A Tang poem in running script, with characters as big as the mouth of a bowl, the inscription is "Prince Gong's Letter", and there is a big seal in Zhu Wen under the seal, with the words "Emperor Six Sons" written on it, and a pair of couplets on the left and right are Zuo Zongtang's own handwriting. The guest seats are large and high, with a glass skylight in the middle. It was past noon and the sun was shining directly, illuminating a huge marble-topped Eight Immortals table in the middle. There are only two bowls of tea in fine porcelain silver trays, which are naturally prepared for Dexin and Wu Shirong. "Hurry up and take it away!" Dexin pointed to the table as soon as she came in and said, "It's not good for people to see." "Master De is right." Wu Shirong agreed deeply, and said to Xie Yunqing, "Master De and I are not here to be guests today." "Yes, yes." Xie Yunqing commanded the staff, took away the high tray, and invited the distinguished guests to sit down. He stood between the two of them, waiting for questions. "It's not the same thing if you don't open the door." Dexin asked Wu Shirong, "I think it should be open as usual." As soon as this remark came out, Wu Shirong had no answer, and Xie Yunqing was even more distressed."Business as usual" is possible, why not go down the queue?This is real nonsense. Dexin also found that what she said didn't make sense, so she added another sentence: "However, there should be a limit." This made sense, and Wu Shirong interjected: "I think how to restrict it, Fukang will not be empty, right?" "Yes, the limit depends on Fukang's inventory." Dexin asked, "How much cash do you have in your treasury?" There are more than 400,000 in stock, but Xie Yunqing didn't dare to tell the truth, so he folded it in half and replied, "It's in the early 200,000." "There are 200,000 cash in cash, which can be used for a while." Dexin asked again, "Hu observes a lot of careers, can he still help him from other places?" "Returning to my lord, although our boss has many businesses, I only take care of the bank, and I don't know much about the situation elsewhere." "The collection of money from other places is of course with Fukang. How could you not be clear?" Wu Shirong said, with a tone of reprimand. "Responding to my lord," Xie Yunqing hurriedly explained, "I don't know because I don't know how much cash there is in other places, but there are limited ones, such as Jianbi Gongji Dian, where there are at most tens of thousands of taels of silver, and there are large sums of money. It’s a temporary visit to Fukang.” "Then," Dexin asked, "how many tickets do you issue, will you be accounted for?" "Of course, of course! How can there be no account?" "Okay! Let me ask you, how many notes have you issued under 10,000 taels?" "It depends on the account." Xie Yunqing made a confession, sat down on the chair next to him, asked the clerk to fetch the account book, quickly typed the abacus, and reported it after the calculation, "A total of 330,000 will be paid in zero." "Not much!" "My lord," Xie Yunqing said, "there are not many notes issued by this account, but I don't know about other places. For example, the notes issued by Shanghai Fukang, we also have to honor them." "Ah, ah!" Dexin suddenly realized, "This is where the difficulty lies." This has to increase the limit.Although both Dexin and Wu Shirong hoped that banknotes below 5,000 taels could be cashed as they were, Xie Yunqing felt that they were not sure. If the limit was relaxed, so that the deposits were exhausted, and the second announcement of a suspension of cashing, the consequences would be even more serious. . This is a head-to-head matter without pretense, and in the end, according to Xie Yunqing's request, the limit was lowered to one thousand taels.The next step is to study the handling of banknotes of more than one thousand taels. "Our boss must have a way." Xie Yunqing said, "Fukang Bank didn't collapse, it was just because of the impact of the market, it was temporarily unable to turn around." Dexin thought for a while and said, "It can't be said that everything will return to normal when Hu Guan comes back, and he should be given a deadline to plan. This deadline should not be too long, but it should not be too short either. How about three days?" Wu Shirong thought it was appropriate, Xie Yunqing had no objection, so it was decided.However, how to communicate this decision to the customers took a lot of consideration, because those who hold more than 1,000 taels of banknotes are all big customers.You have to think ahead and plan ahead, otherwise the tide will break out immediately. "This needs to be cleared up first." Wu Shirong said, "There are always decent gentlemen among those gathered in front today, invite them in, ask adults to enlighten them face to face, and entrust them to take the lead in persuading them. At the same time, a red notice is issued to explain the method, so that two prongs can be achieved , is more appropriate." "This plan is very good!" Dexin nodded and said, "However, a decent gentleman must rely on it, and a villain who loses his temper must not be comforted. You and I will do it separately." Therefore, Xie Yunqing sent two capable men to quietly go to the neighbors on the left and right, and borrow their windows to see carefully who in the crowd needs to be invited in for a talk. There are three categories of people to be invited in. The first category is "decent gentlemen", the second category is "crooked talents" who are used to booing, and the third category is "flirting ghosts" who are not doing their job properly. People who are idle and idle, fearing that the world will not be chaotic, so as to fish out of troubled waters, and hang out with local ruffians, people in Hangzhou call them "flirting ghosts". When the two men set off separately, Dexin and Wu Shirong had already agreed that the Hangzhou government would put up a red notice. This kind of notice would be in six characters as usual. The draft is submitted for review.The notice reads: "Zhaode Fukang Bank has always had a good reputation. Its affiliates are located all over the north and south, and it is more than enough to dispatch. It is only because the times are not stable, and the money is rarely abundant, and the turnover is not working well for a while. There is no need to be panic-stricken. This is hereby Dezhi: The market must be calm, and the small people should take care of it. Fukang is open as usual, and bank notes can also be cashed. It is all under one thousand taels. If it is more than a thousand, another district will be opened. The owner of Fukang will be able to cope with it when he returns to Hangzhou. But in three days, the difficulties can be overcome. I hope that the community will be in a difficult situation and work together to respond to the situation. If there are lawless villains who hope to fish in troubled waters, or threaten to confuse the public, or secretly instigate, once they are caught and verified, the laws of the country will not help you. The government It’s hard to say that you don’t need to say anything! Do not hesitate to say this.” Dexin and Wu Shirong had different evaluations of the six-character notice. Dexin thought it was very well written, but there were two points to be changed. One was that the deposit and withdrawal were the same as the exchange of silver, both of which were limited to one thousand taels, and the other was that the money was too tight. , is the same everywhere, not just in Shanghai and Hangzhou. But Wu Shirong had an opinion from the very beginning, saying that Fukang had a good reputation and that Hu Xueyan would be able to deal with Yuru when he came back. It is inevitable to blame the same deception, so it is advocated to re-draft, to be realistic, to say what you have, is the responsible attitude. "Brother Shirong! This statement is wrong!" Dexin replied, "The most important thing now is to stabilize the people's hearts. Don't say that Fukang has a good reputation, can it be said that it is crumbling? That is not the same as telling the people of Hangzhou to come and withdraw their deposits. Cashing in? And just to give people a handle. If Fukang is really squeezed, Hu Jian will say that it was just a temporary failure, and it was only a notice for the Hangzhou government. At that time, may I ask you What can I say?" Wu Shirong didn't think of an answer, but reluctantly replied: "The mansion always feels that it's hard to talk, and it won't be wrong to suffer for others in the future." "It's not yet a matter of whether individuals can commit crimes or not. The most important thing now is to stabilize the situation. Hu Xueyan is known as the 'God of Wealth'. It is not a good thing for the 'God of Wealth' to be in trouble. It will be a miserable scene of crying all the way. Brother Shirong, You have to think about the consequences." "Yes." Wu Shirong became more and more speechless, but Dexin was more plausible. "As far as facts are concerned, it is not wrong to say that Fukang's reputation has always been outstanding'. His credit is not good, and most of the world has his joint number? So to save Fukang, we must say that Hu Xueyan has a way. To be honest, Fukang Kang is not afraid of the cashing of bank notes, but is afraid of large depositors withdrawing deposits. If the large depositors are stabilized, he will think in his heart that the money is stored in Fukang, earning interest during the day, and accruing interest at night when he sleeps. Why bother to withdraw the cash and put it at home? Not only does big money not make small money, but it also makes thieves and robbers jealous, and there is also the worry of slow hiding and stealing. Brother Shirong, do you mean what I say?" "Yes—yes!" Wu Shirong was completely convinced for him, especially when he thought of "slowly hiding and instructing robbers". When a robbery happened, the governor, the inspector, and even the local officials were all responsible, and only the feudal officials did not care. Criminal name, you can stay out of the matter.From this point of view, Dexin's warning is really advice. So it was rumored that the notice was finalized, Xie Yunqing asked someone to buy high-quality plum paper, found a good calligrapher, and wrote it in block letters with characters as big as the mouth of a bowl. Gai thought it was time-consuming, so he had to work around it. Wu Shirong drew a monogram under his own title to prove that it was a notice from the Hangzhou government. At that time, the two men who were ordered to invite guests returned to the shop one after another to return their orders, but they returned in vain, just because there was no suitable person to invite, but some volunteered and were willing to come to see the vassal and the magistrate, but they scrambled to invite this one. If you don't invite that, you will offend people instead, so you have to shirk and ask for instructions. From their words, it can be heard that among the running crowd, there are no gentlemen with status enough to call on the public, and those who are eager to come to see the government are all unknown.That being the case, there is nothing to worry about. Dexin thought for a while, looked at Wu Shirong and Xie Yunqing and asked, "Is there anyone with good eloquence? The voice should be loud and clear, and someone who has seen a big scene can hold his breath .” Wu Shirong hadn't opened his mouth yet, but Xie Yunqing said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it's Zhou Shuban in your lord's yamen." "Zhou Shuban." Dexin asked, "Is it Zhou Shaotang?" "Yes, yes! It's him." "Yes, this man is very good. Why is he here?" "He and our boss were friends in the early years. Today I heard that Fukang has something to do, so I came here to help." Actually, this person was specially invited by Xie Yunqing.It turns out that in the vassal offices of various provinces, there are book offices that arrange money and food, commonly known as "grain books". Official documents often refer to this generation as "beetle officials". The so-called "money and food" are land taxes, which are the main income of the country. Even the most honest and capable local officials cannot be completely rectified, so it is called "grain muddleheaded".However, these "beetle officials" also have a very clear bottom book, which is a great source of income, and can only be obtained by registering a recorded grain book with the vassal office.Grain books are hereditary duties, inherited from father to son, brother to brother, and others, can also be transferred under the name of others. Buying such a book office depends on the county he is in charge of, such as Renhe and Qiantang counties in Hangzhou Prefecture. The food books cost hundreds of thousands of silver at the most, even in a barren mountain city, it is not only twenty or thirty thousand taels.This Zhou Shaotang was originally Hu Xueyan's poor and humble friend. Later, with Hu Xueyan's support, he spent 50,000 silver to buy a food book for Jiashan County, Jiaxing Prefecture. He only came to Jiashan when he was busy collecting money and grain. Xie Yunqing is very familiar with him, because of Fukang's run on this day, I was afraid that he would not be able to handle it, so I specially invited him to help, and it just came in handy at this time. At that time, Zhou Shaotang was found, and he saluted Defantai and Wu Shirong respectively, and then stood aside with a smile on his face, waiting to be dealt with. "Zhou Shuban, the prefect Wu and I have to take charge of Fukang's affairs in order to maintain the market. Now there is a notice here. You can see our painstaking efforts after reading it." "Yes, yes! The two lords have done their best for the people of Hangzhou, and I am truly grateful. Mr. Hu Da and the two lords are colleagues in business and friends in private. He is not in Hangzhou, and it is up to the two lords to take care of him. It's up to you." "Although we can make decisions for him, we have to rely on everyone to take care of the overall situation. To be honest, Hu Guan will not fall. If he does fall, the market in Hangzhou will be greatly affected, and it is not the fault of Hangzhou people. Fu. I ask you to tell everyone what you mean by this.” Zhou Shaotang agreed, took a few steps back, winked at Xie Yunqing who was standing at the entrance of the guest seat, and went to the locker room together. Several important employees of Fukang, as well as the household book office who planned the six-character notice were there. .As soon as Zhou Shaotang entered the door, he said, "Old Bu, your pen is really awesome!" As he said, he raised his thumb high. "Old Bu" is called Hufang Shuban, they have the same status, they are very close, and they are used to joking, and then Lao Bu replied: "One of my pens is not as good as your mouth, now it depends on you. " "Don't read my joke! Think about it for me, where do we start with this matter?" "If there is a gimmick at the beginning, everyone will be attracted by the gimmick, and then they will calm down and listen to you." Lao Bu said, "Let me teach you a way, don't you know how to sing 'Hui Diao'? Move a table of eight immortals Go out, you stand on it, just like "Xu Ce Runs the City", pick up the hem of the robe, sing it a section of "Pallet", and you will be full of applause. This way, everything is easy to say." It was obviously a joke, but Zhou Shaotang didn't take it as a joke. He looked at the sky, blinked his eyes wildly for a while, and said, "I have a plan. I want to make a slanted article about it. Come on, Lao Xie, ask someone to set up a piece of paper." Get out of the Eight Immortals Table." "What?" Lao Bu laughed, "Really want to sing 'Xu Ce Runs the City'? One table can't be rounded, so do you want to set up another table?" "You know what!" Zhou Shaotang turned to Xie Yunqing and said, "When you open the door to post notices, you are learned. If you are not prepared, when the door opens, people crowd, and the world will be in chaos. Now, you ask them to set up a sign from the side door. The table goes out, sticks to the row of doors, and then removes the row of doors behind the table. This way, the front is blocked by the table, so people can’t get in.” "What about you?" Old Bu asked, "You crawled out from behind the desk?" "Climb out what? I climbed up from behind the desk." "Okay, okay!" Xie Yunqing was just opening the door for the first time, and the crowd was so crowded that it was difficult to maintain order, so when he heard this, he was very happy and immediately sent someone to do it. As soon as the table was lifted out, the clamor outside became a little quieter. When the doors inside were unloaded, two guards went out first, and then handed out the red notice. Everyone rushed forward, yelling, and the clamor intensified up. "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze!" Zhou Shaotang hurriedly jumped onto the table, raised his hands, and said loudly, "I'll read the notice from Master Wu of the Hangzhou Mansion." Then he commanded the two guards to hold the red notice up high, and he chanted "Hui Diao" like rhyming Bai, "Zhao De" and so on, and began to read it in an orderly manner. After reading, he shouted loudly: "Everyone, don't move!" He drank suddenly, because the amount was loud and powerful, and he had an intimidating force, so many people wanted to put their hands into their arms, but their hands stopped in the middle. "Why do you tell everyone not to move around? The pickpocket is right next to you! You don't have time to touch the banknote to cash it, but you don't know where the banknote is, and you have already told the pickpocket. The copper coin is yours and it is yours. Fukang’s banknotes are cash. If you don’t redeem them today, you will redeem them tomorrow. Touching it with your hand, it's useless to cry at me." Armed with a gun and a stick, he yelled at the bar, but suppressed the voice of the people, but someone in the crowd let go of his voice and said, "Zhou Shaotang, are you singing 'Hui Tiao'er, or selling pear paste candies?" As soon as this remark came out, there was quite a lot of laughter among the crowd. It turned out that Zhou Shaotang sold pear paste candies in his early years. As usual, this business used to sing ditty tunes to attract customers. Voice, and a little talent, Zhou Shaotang's ability to adapt to changing situations was honed during the two years of selling pear paste candies. Although someone laughed at him, he looked calm and looked around, taking this opportunity to use his brain.When the laughter stopped, he said loudly: "Huang Bamazi, don't dig my painful scars! I, Zhou Shaotang, will not sing Hui tunes or sell pear paste candies today. I am here to fight for everyone's injustice." The last sentence caused whispers again, but it quickly returned to calm, and Huang Bamazi spoke again: "Zhou Shaotang, who are you complaining about?" "I will fight for everyone!" Zhou Shaotang answered in response. "Which one to fight?" "Fight foreign devils!" he said. "Foreign devils see that China is easy to bully. The French who sell their mothers can't beat Liu Yongfu in Annan. They have two iron-clad steamships made of lantern shells, and they are dangling outside Wusongkou. People in Shanghai It's a useless 'shovel head', scaring itself, causing chaos in the market, and even the famous Fukang can't cover it. After all, it's the French who harmed people! However, the French are still really villains , In addition, there are foreign devils who are more poisonous than the French." Having said that, he deliberately stopped to look at the reaction, only to hear the voice of "Which country, which country" asking. "If you want to ask which country, here, green bamboo has a snake's mouth, and a wasp has a needle in its tail. Both are not poisonous, but the British are the most poisonous." To these two sentences, everyone responded with silence, which was not a good reaction, because Mei Tenggeng of Guangji Hospital was well liked by the people of Hangzhou, and he was British. "You only see Mei Teng Geng," Zhou Shaotang pulled out the knot in everyone's heart, "Mei Teng is a doctor, and it's good for a doctor to have a heart of cutting shares. What else? The first one is Hurd, we in China Let him grasp it, it’s like our throat is stuck by him!” He stretched out his hand to open the tiger’s mouth, and made a choke gesture on his own neck, “When he loosens his hand, the Chinese will eat two more bites. If you want to eat rice, you will be hungry! This mother sells X, he only wants Chinese people to eat 'black rice', and he doesn't want Chinese people to eat white rice." Speaking of this, there happened to be a tearful young man who tried his best to squeeze out, causing a small commotion and giving him a chance to make use of the problem. "Look at you, look at you!" He pointed at the young man and said, "If you don't learn well at a young age, you will eat black smoke! Once you get addicted, you will be like this ghost. But," he raised his voice, "don't blame him , Blame the British who kill without blood! Without the British, Fukang is fine today." "Zhou Shaotang, don't speak yellow accents indiscriminately. Fukang's appearance has nothing to do with the British? You can't see shit and blame the latrine. It's true." The person who asked the question was Huang Bamazi, with sharp words, Zhou Shaotang replied calmly: "You said that I have a yellow accent, and my surname is not Huang." As soon as the words came out, it immediately caused a burst of laughter, and there were clapping and stamping, full of joy.This gave Zhou Shaotang another chance. When the laughter stopped, he challenged Huang Bamazi loudly. "Huang Bamazi, you blame the latrine for not producing feces, you blame the latrine for being bad, do you dare to argue with me?" "Others are afraid of your 18 fallacies. My surname Huang, a stone-boned and iron-hard Hang Tietou, wants to pierce your diorama." "You are Hang Tietou, could it be that I am Su Kongtou? Let the horse come here!" Everyone saw that there was a good show, and they automatically gave way to allow Huang Bamazi to squeeze to the front, and someone shouted: "Go up, go up!" Someone even lifted him up, Zhou Shaotang was very graceful, stretched out his hand After giving him a hand, he leaned aside to make room for him to oppose. Encouraged by this, Huang Bamazi became more confident, "Zhou Shaotang, I can't argue that you lost a banquet." He asked, "Did you lose?" "I lost. Outside of a banquet, I kowtowed to everyone on the spot to make amends." "Okay! You ask me to answer, I ask you to answer, if you can't answer, you lose. You ask first." Zhou Shaotang originally wanted to ask a question first, so as to get the "first move" in Go, so when he heard Huang Bamazi's words, he hit his chest, and immediately cupped his hands and said, "Give it up, let it go!" "You're welcome, let the horse come over here." Huang Bamazi is tall and burly, and he is standing in the east. The sun on the west side illuminates his pockmarked grains, and he intervenes and looks up. . "Excuse me, there is a new type of silk reeling machine, do you know about it?" "I know." Huang Ba Mazi replied without looking at it. "One machine of this kind can be used as a hundred spinning wheels, do you know that?" "know." "Since one machine can be used as a hundred spinning wheels, then if each family has five spinning wheels, twenty five is ten, and ten times becomes one hundred, there are twenty families whose spinning wheels are useless. Do you know something about it?" "know." "The spinning wheel of the Twenty Families is useless, that is, the Twenty Families have no food to eat. Of course you also know this." Zhou Shaotang added, "Isn't it? Huang Bamazi, please tell me." "What's there to talk about?" Huang Bamazi pointed at Zhou Shaotang and said, "What does this matter have to do with Fukang going to the court? You should put your mind to it and stop talking nonsense." "If you say I'm talking nonsense, just talk nonsense. You don't know the ins and outs of the talk until later, so it's here! It's already too late by then, and the banquet has been lost." "Humph, hum!" Huang Bamazi said with a sneer, "It depends on whether I lose the banquet or you kowtow to everyone." "Okay! Closer to home." Zhou Shaotang asked, "Even though it's a machine, it needs cocoons to make silk, right?" "Is it still necessary for you to say that?" "Then it goes without saying that without cocoons, his machine would be useless. Now, let me ask you one more thing. Where did their machine come from?" "Of course it's from abroad." "Who shipped it from overseas?" "I don't know, the only one I can ask you is Zhou Shaotang of 'The Complete Book of All Treasures is missing a corner'." "This point is not in the 'horn' that I 'lack'. Let me tell you, Jardine Matheson, the taipan is British." Zhou Shaotang changed his way at this time, and addressed the public, "The British machine is good. , that is, the mouth is big, and a machine is going to eat up the rice cooked by 20 Chinese families. Everyone thinks, is there any way to deal with it? There is only one way, which is to starve his machine. How to starve it, don’t sell it Give him the cocoon." At this time, there was some commotion under the stage, and the sound of "buzz, buzz" appeared in several places, obviously woken up by Zhou Shaotang, and somewhat touched Hu Xueyan's difficulties. This kind of situation cannot continue, otherwise, once the concentrated attention is distracted, he will not be able to continue speaking, so he found an acquaintance and asked questions by name. "Hey, little Amao, you work in a machine workshop, and your mother is 'Sister Husi', so tell me!" The women who spun silk at home and were paid on a piece-by-piece basis to supplement their families were called "Sister Husi" by Hangzhou people. Little Amao and his son were weavers in the weaving yamen, and the family's livelihood was related to silk. For the new silk reeling factory The situation is quite clear, and he immediately replied: "My mother didn't have a 'life' to do it, but now she does." "What time is there without 'life'?" "As soon as the Shanghai Ocean Machinery Factory started construction, it disappeared." "Why do you have it now?" "Because the foreign machine factory shut down." "Why did the foreign machine factory stop working?" "I don't know." "Do you know?" Zhou Shaotang turned to Huang Bamazi, but before he could answer, he said it himself, "It's because they don't sell cocoons to it." Then he asked, "Silkworm farmers don't sell cocoons, so what do they eat? Cocoons must be sold, and if they are not sold to foreign devils, someone must come to buy them. Tell me, which one is this?" Huang Bamazi knew it but refused to say it, and he would lose if he said it, so he answered bravely, "Who knows?" "You don't know, I'll tell you! Here!" Zhou Shaotang half-turned back, pointed to the shining golden signboard of "Fukang Bank" and said, "This is Mr. Hu Da here." "Zhou Shaotang, you're praising the follicles of the 'God of Wealth' again!" Huang Bamazi launched a counterattack, "Mr. Hu Da hoarded silk, but there were not many cocoons. The matter was not clear, and the cowhide was blown away, and no one here bought it. Your pear cream candy." "My pear paste candy eliminates phlegm and qi. Just think about it, at that time, as long as you go out at night to gamble copper coins until dawn and don't come back, your mother will come and buy my pear paste candy." This is a set of words Zhou Shaotang made up out of nothing, and Huang Bamazi scolded with anger: "You are really shameless and talk nonsense, Zhou Shaotang, who doesn't know that my surname Huang never gambles with coins? " At this time, there was already laughter in the crowd, but Zhou Shaotang deliberately joked: "You go out at night and don't go home all night. If you don't go to gamble with coins, then you must go to the 'private door'. In this way, your wife will Come to buy my pear paste candy." The audience roared.Huang Bamazi gritted his teeth but was helpless, Zhou Shaotang still had a tired expression, which made him laugh even more in comparison. "Don't be angry!" Zhou Shaotang said with a smile, "everyone smiles to eliminate phlegm and gas. Brother, you are looking for fun and don't be serious. Wait a minute, I'll treat you to an 'imperial meal'. Now," he straightened his face , "Let's talk back." Next, Zhou Shaotang appealed to the masses again. He said that Hu Xueyan's hoarding of silk was to protect the interests of silkworm farmers and to fight against foreign businessmen.He said that foreign merchants originally planned to set up a new type of silk reeling factory, buy cocoons at a low price, and sell the silk directly to the West. The foreign devils have eaten it all by themselves!" He turned to Huang Bamazi, "Do you think the foreign devils are cruel? Do you have anything to say for them?" This sentence annoyed his opponent, "Zhou Shaotang, don't spew blood at others. Where did I say good things to the foreign devils? Only you, holding the follicles of the 'God of Wealth'!" Huang Bamazi pointed at him and said, "You have You have the ability to tell the reason why Fukang accepted the deposit from others, so you can refuse to pay it, I admire you." "Huang Bamazi, you're talking yellow accents again! Open your eyes and look at the red notice. What did the parents of our Hangzhou government say, and what did the masters of Fantai say? Mr. Hu Da has 50,000 bales of silk in his hand. A pack of four hundred taels, a total of 20 million taels, listen clearly, 20 million taels of silver, 50 taels of big ingots cost 400,000, why rely on customers' deposits?" "Not bad, then pay it!" Huang Ba Mazi took out a stack of bank notes from his arms and waved them in the air, "Look, Fukang's bank notes are about to 'wipe your ass and feel guilty'." 他这一着，变成无理取闹，有些泼妇的行径了，周少棠不慌不忙地将手一伸：“你的银票借我看看！你放心，当了这么多人，我不会骗你，抢你的。” 这一下，黄八麻子知道要落下风了，想了一下硬着头皮将银票交了过去，“一共五张，两千六百多两银子，看你付不付。”他心里在想，周少棠绷在情面上，一定会如数照付，虽然嘴上吃了亏，但得了实惠，还是划算的。 周少棠不理他的话，接过银票来计算了一下，朝后面喊道：“兑一千四百四十两银子出来！听到没有？” 谢云青精神抖擞地高声答应：“听到。” “对不起！现在兑不兑不是阜康的事情了，藩台同杭州府两位大人在阜康坐镇，出告示一千两以下照付，一千两以上等阜康老板回来，自会理清楚，大人先生的话，我们只有照听不误。”他检出一张银票递了回去，“这张一千二百两的，请你暂时收回，等胡大先生回来再兑，其余四张，一共一千四百四十两，喏，来了！”阜康的伙计抬上来一个箩筐，将银子堆了起来，二十八个大元宝，堆成三列，另外四个十两头的元丝。都是刚出炉的“足纹”，白光闪闪、耀眼生花。 “先生，”谢云青在方桌后面，探身出来，很客气地说，“请你点点数。” “数是不要点了，一目了然。不过，”黄八麻子大感为难，“我怎么拿呢？” “照规矩，应该送到府上。不过，今天兑银票的人多，实在抽不出人。真正对不住，真正对不住！”说着，谢云青连连拱手。 “好了，好了！”人丛中有人大喊，“兑了银子的好走了，前客让后客！大家都有份。” 这一催促提醒了好些原有急用、要提现银的人。热闹看够了，希望阜康赶紧卸排门开始兑银，所以亦都不耐烦地鼓噪，黄八麻子无可奈何，愤愤地向周少棠说：“算你这张卖梨膏糖的嘴厉害！银子我也不兑了，银票还我！” “对不起，对不起！”谢云青赔笑说道，“等明天稍为闲一闲，要用多少现银，我派'出店'送到府上。喏，这里是原票，请收好了。” “八哥、八哥！”周少棠跳下桌，来扶黄八麻子，“多亏你捧场。等下'皇饭儿'你一定要赏我个面子。” 周少棠耍了一套把戏，黄八麻子展示了一个实例，即便是提一千两银子，亦须有所准备，一千两银子五十五斤多，要个麻袋，起码还要两个人来挑，银子分量重，一个人是提不动的。 这一来，极大部分的人都散去了，也没有人对只准提一千两这个限额表示异议，但却有人要求保证以后如数照兑。既不必立笔据，无非一句空话，谢云青乐得满口答应。不过要兑现银的小户，比平常是要多得多，谢云青认为应该做得大方些，当场宣布，延时营业，直到主顾散光为止，又去租来两盏煤气灯，预备破天荒地做个夜市。 偌大一场风波，如此轻易应付过去，德馨非常满意。周少棠自然成了“英雄”，上上下下无不夸奖。不过大家也都知道，风潮只是暂时平息，“重头戏”在后面，只待“主角”胡雪岩一回来便要登场了。