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Chapter 732 Aftermath
"To be honest with you three officers, I am just a small pawn who has crossed the river. I cannot be the owner of Wufang Money House. Can you give me a few days to report the truth to the boss?"

Being alive at this time was beyond Wu Jin's expectations, and being a manager or not was even less important. But Wufang Money House became a branch of Sun Moon Bank, and he really had no say in it, so he had to discuss it with the Shen family.

As for why he still wanted to protect the Shen family when he knew they would not protect him, why not just give them up and let the Jinyiwei find them? It was not that Wu Jin was still thinking about the cheap old father whom he had never formally met, but that he had no choice in the world.

The first thing to do in the money house business is credit. If you sell out your boss, who will trust you in the future? If you lose your credit, the money house will also lose its credit. This is one thing. If you want to stay in this business, credit is your life.

"Well, it's OK. Prime Minister Ao is good at judging people, and you have done well. You don't have to worry about the Shen family. They have already handed over the house and land deeds. From now on, you are a member of the Sun Moon Bank in life and a ghost of the Sun Moon Bank in death. You will have nothing to do with anyone else.

I have another unhappy thing to tell you. The Wu family in Changshu is not your mother's family. It is the family of the Shen family's wife's wet nurse. Your mother is not a member of the Shen family either. She was a girl from the building. She jumped into the river after giving birth to you. There is no need to elaborate on why she committed suicide. If she didn't die, you and your son would have died together.

Take it, this is the fan she and your father wrote together. We spent a lot of effort to force the Shen family to hand it over. Remember, her surname is Zhang, and she may be from Yangzhou. It has been too long, and most of the people who knew about it are dead. We are under the emperor's order, so we don't have that much time to investigate. "

After hearing Wu Jin's answer, the three Jinyiwei did not continue to press him. Instead, they took out a very old but well-preserved folding fan and told him a life story that was not bizarre but still tragic.

"Three benefactors...why did you help me?"

Wu Jin looked at the words on the fan, and a trace of mist flashed in his eyes, but it did not condense into a shape and dissipated. For more than 30 years, the rumors and gossips he had been carrying had already worn his heart into stone. The mist was already a ripple, and he really couldn't afford more.

"Why should we help you? It's Prime Minister Ao of Sun Moon Bank who wants to help you, but I don't know why. Ask her yourself after you meet her. Remember, you are a member of Sun Moon Bank in life and a ghost of Sun Moon Bank in death. You've died once, and it's not easy to get your life back, so cherish it."

The three Jinyiwei didn't say why, but it seemed like they did. From then on, Wu Jin changed his name to Wu Youcai as instructed, and started preparing for the opening of the Suzhou branch with the staff sent by Sun Moon Bank.

In fact, there is one thing that Jinyiwei didn't say, or didn't know. The name Wu Youcai was not given by Sun Moon Bank, but by the Ming Emperor. His style is the same as that of the heads of various branches of Sun Moon Bank, and they all belong to the imperial unreliable series.

As for why Wang Huazhen, the governor of Suzhou, suddenly changed his attitude and still wanted to ask the three Jinyiwei, they not only had evidence of the crimes of the Shen and Wu families, but also the Wang family. And the people who gave them these materials must know more.

From the day it was established, in addition to helping the emperor control the palace and monitor key targets, it also collected all kinds of evidence through the archives of the Silijian and various court departments, and organized and classified them.

Normally, these shameful case files were kept in the secret storeroom of Xiyuan, and would only be taken out and exposed to the public when the emperor needed them. It is no exaggeration to say that even officials like Yuan Keli, Yuan Yingtai, and Zuo Guangdou, who performed their duties conscientiously and were honest and upright, would be found to have violated the Ming Dynasty law more than once if they were found.

Of course, as long as the emperor does not find it unbearable, he will not use nitpicking and mean means to demand officials and subjects to become saints. But once it is brought out, there are only two results, either you surrender or you die!
Moreover, the process was aboveboard and strictly followed the law, and it could even be published in the newspaper and criticized by the public. Even if the case came before Gao Panlong, he would have to make a judgment accordingly.

So far, a financial storm that was not noisy but turbulent has finally come to an end after more than two months of open and covert fighting.

The Sun-Moon Bank successfully issued 1.5 million taels of interest-bearing bonds and established a branch in Suzhou Prefecture, further encroaching on the territory of traditional money houses and silver banks, and successfully penetrating the most stubborn positions of the bureaucratic gentry and landlord groups, laying the economic foundation for the next step of promoting the new policy.

"I want to build roads to prepare for war, which almost emptied the treasury; I want to train new troops to defend my country, so I have to cut down the border troops to save military expenses; I want to build water conservancy projects to prevent disasters, so I have to force the nobles to pay reluctantly; I want to build large sea ships, but I have to shamelessly go to Annan to rob like a bandit.

However, for their own benefit, some people can spend millions of taels of silver to attack the Sun Moon Bank. After winning, they continue to exploit the people. If they lose, they accuse me of stealing profits from the people and being cruel and stupid. These are my good subjects. I wonder what you think?"

The end of the economic battle in the shopping mall does not mean that the political struggle among the top leaders is over. On the contrary, it is just beginning.

Before the dust settled on the run on Sun Moon Bank, the emperor said nothing about it. But when the newspaper published the news of the opening of the Suzhou branch, the emperor suddenly changed his behavior and convened a special imperial meeting, asking soul-searching questions in front of the 14 military ministers.

"..." Even though no one in the court discussed this matter, secretly most of the officials in the capital were very concerned about the outcome of the Sun Moon Bank, and used this as an important basis for judging the direction of the court.

At this time, the Sun Moon Bank, which obviously stood on the side of the royalists, won a great victory. It was inevitable that the emperor was in high spirits, and it was also human nature to take advantage of the situation to eliminate some political enemies and dissidents. So no one was willing to take up the issue. Whoever deserved the consequences deserved it. Why would he get himself covered in blood because of his excessive words?

"It seems that you all think that I deserve the blame! In that case, I cannot do things and still bear the blame. You all should share some of the burden." The emperor was very unhappy when he saw that no one was willing to support him. He hung his face and spoke in a cold tone.

"..." There was still no way to follow up on this statement. As a minister, one's duty was to share the worries of the king. In the Yangxin Palace, one could still hear a pin drop.

"Ye Xianggao, how many sons do you have?" Seeing that no one had spoken, the emperor became even angrier, his fat face twitching, but he tried hard not to get angry. His eyes swept over everyone at the long table, and finally stopped at the face of the cabinet's chief minister.

(End of this chapter)