Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1072 Business in the capital
After all, Wu Kaidi has been with his master in the capital for more than ten years. He has a lot of experience in running errands for his master. From word of mouth among servants, he also knows a lot of fraudulent ways.

"This group of eunuchs are all cannibals. He cheated me of tens of thousands of taels of silver and didn't do anything. Don't we have to give him a penny of the bonus here? We men are just trying to make ends meet here."

He thought for a while and said: "Master, is there some concern? The relationship between you and Eunuch Yang is not an ordinary relationship - just how much money does he deposit in your Zhuangzi? Besides, he is still eating shares in the Zhuangzi. What good is he doing for cheating you? Besides, when he went to ask Wang Dehua to do something, he was also sending money to Wang Dehua, and Wang Dehua still wanted to see his favor. This kind of thing that can earn money from outsiders, Mr. Yang I can't wish for it. Otherwise, how can he curry favor with the higher-ups?"

"That's right!" Ning Yun put his hand on his forehead, and Wu Kai said something reasonable, "But I'm still worried..."

Ning Yunyun has been in the financial industry for a while, and is used to seeing a group of brokers at the foot of the capital who are pulling big flags and pulling tiger skins to buy and sell short. They can fool hundreds of thousands or millions of successful people from other places if they don't do anything.

"The master is right." Wu Kai said, "I'll go out and inquire now. I'll get you some real news."

An important daily schedule for Wu Kaidi is to go out to buy mansions, and then go to the gates of various officials and large-scale houses with contacts, chat with the concierge, and listen to the news.In fact, this is how Ning Yun collected a lot of information about the capital.

"There is also news about the Dengzhou mutiny, so we need to inquire more about it." He urged.

"Yes, I understand."

When Wu Kaidi went to inquire about the news, Ning Yun moved his numb legs and got off the kang. He rubbed his legs and feet, and walked unhappily to a secret door with a combination lock.

Open the secret door, and inside is a room with no windows on all sides - the local "safe house".The size of the safe house is not small - it is not a small room, according to the traditional Chinese architectural method, it is a room with three openings.Rows of large chests of rosewood are lined along the walls.Among them is a large picture case.There are some chairs, and some blackboards stand upright.

The condensation cloud lit the gas lamp on the table, and the whole room was suddenly brightened.

Apart from himself, only his assistant Wu Kaidi and his life secretary who also serves as a radio operator can enter here.

He came to a large rosewood cabinet with numbers.

Open the door of the cabinet, and inside are densely packed with cost binders: These cabinets are full of intelligence materials collected by the capital, from officials and clerks of all yamen, bosses and shopkeepers of various sizes to the clerks, servants, Servants, porters, cooks...the list is all there.There are also biographies of key figures.In addition, Wu Kaidi will report to him in detail about these people's black materials -- any black materials, whether they are hearsay or true facts, and he will summarize the materials and put them into someone's file.

The bosses thought it was a very confidential matter, but the lower levels knew about it a long time ago. This phenomenon is also very common in Daming.Especially the servants and petty officials around the dignitaries are almost born leakers.

These notebooks record all his achievements in the capital these days.

Intelligence work begins with the collection of sufficient basic information—and public information is the most important source of intelligence.This is the concept that Li Yan instilled in him when he was training him on the farm.

In fact, this is not an uncommon concept for Ning Yun, who used to work in the financial industry - the financial industry also has an intelligence collection system.At the beginning, he worked in the key account department for a period, and the department also had detailed customer files for all key customers, including the birthdays, hobbies and tastes of their wives and children and even the third party.

Ning Yun was very familiar with the documents in the cabinet, and he quickly found the documents of Wang Dehua and other popular eunuchs, took out one by one and piled them on the desk, and began to read them.

When Jingshi opened a bank, Ningyun Yun had the illusion of going back to work in the bank—the biggest feeling was: really TNND boring.

How is this different from working in the key customer department of a bank? Anyway, it was still in a high-end office building, under a 24-hour constant temperature and humidity environment, the bathroom was clean, the toilet was shiny, and the air was filled with the smell of jasmine essence .

And since he left Zhao Yingong in Hangzhou, he completely said goodbye to direct contact with the elders.Contact with the Senate was also limited to a few letters and radio waves.Although the conditions in Lingao are difficult, at any rate, after several years of construction, the living facilities of the elders have been greatly improved. At least the sanitary facilities are fully popular in Bairen City.Now here, my most accustomed way of hygiene is to boil hot water to take a bath every day-Wu Kaidi reminded him more than once: it is very dangerous to do this in winter: either you will die from the cold, or you will burn a charcoal basin to keep warm while taking a bath. "Charcoal poison" killed.He had to cut back on bathing to once a week after he caught a cold and developed a fever in one bath.Fortunately, Jingshi sells paper for wiping buttocks - called "Douer paper", which is a kind of rough straw paper. After being carefully treated by the local maids he bought, it is fine: spray water first, and then iron it with a charcoal fire iron to make it soft too much.

Ning Yun would occasionally regret applying to come to Beijing. It was because she was oblivious to the crowd in the Senate and had the courage to apply with such a faint idea of ​​making contributions, but it was actually approved.Ning Yun would often recall with humiliation how in the camp against Huang Shoutong, how he dropped the rifle in one breath and ran for his life. Because Wang Luobin saw this, it became a great "stain" for him.He'd been trying to clear himself up by some heroic act.

Leaving Lingao to tidy up his rucksack, when he picked up the Glock pistol, he always carried a bit of sarcasm: Carrying this pistol is useless, and if something happens, it is too late to count on the Foreign Intelligence Service to rescue him. This modern weapon is nothing more than to end his own life.

After arriving in Beijing, the difficulty of work far exceeded my imagination.Although he received comprehensive training at the "farm", the historical data research team of the Great Library specially supplemented him with the situation of officials in the capital and the concept of political struggle.But these things are useless when they actually come to Beijing to start work: senior officials don’t bother to meet with a small businessman, whether you are Bill Gates of Ming Dynasty or Buffett, in the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats, they are just tools to make money.

More importantly, I came to Beijing by myself, following the path of Eunuch Yang.His business has the background of Eunuch Yang.Many scholar-bureaucrats are very displeased with this.There is also resistance to carrying out work.In private, Ning Yunyun once heard: some veterans mocked him for doing two things in Beijing: kowtow and giving money.

The problem is that even if you want to send money to some people, there is no place to send it.Ning Yun thought to himself, bribery is a profound knowledge.

According to Ning Yunyun's original idea, he has two major tasks in Beijing: contacting high-level officials, expanding the intelligence network and contacts; establishing Delong Bank outlets and expanding financial influence to achieve profitability.

For the first task, Ning Yun felt that he was a little ashamed of the entrustment to the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Although Jiang Shan did not have high expectations for his own activities, he did not make any progress worth mentioning in his activities to approach high-level officials.Obviously, it is not enough to just use Eunuch Yang's route. They urgently need new high-level people with sufficient influence to broaden their social network.

On the other hand, Delong Bank started smoothly.The current Beijing branch of Delong Bank, called the branch, is actually the traffic station and intelligence point of the Senate in Beijing.The establishment of the bank is completely established in accordance with the standard system of Delong Bank's branches in various places. Ning Yun thinks that he is still conscientious in the professional field.Relying on Delong's existing influence in Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, the exchange business he has handled since he opened his business has made great progress: the drafts issued by Delong used to be accepted only in Li Luoyou's Liaohai Bank in the capital. Not only the discount is relatively large, but also there is a certain amount of acceptance every month, which is a lot of inconvenience.Since the opening of Delong, at present, the exchange between Guangdong and Guangxi has been basically monopolized by Delong, and the exchange business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also booming.

Due to the expansion of exchange business, deposits have also increased significantly.On Condensation Cloud's ledger, the most recent daily turnover is more than 10 taels.There is also a small amount of regular fixed-rate deposit business.But the lending business, which is crucial for banks, has not yet begun.

From a certain point of view, in the Beijing city of Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, loans were a very profitable financial activity: firstly, there is no limited liability in this time and space, all are unlimited liabilities; secondly, the interest here is ridiculously high, and the interest On a monthly basis, those with an annual interest rate of less than [-]% are doing good deeds.

Moreover, the demand for loans here is not small. Whether it is a variety of businesses that have experienced big business here, or they are trying to gain a job here, they are trying to find a job here. need.

In recent months, he has issued only one large loan: 500 taels of silver.The project is loaned to Mongolian merchants going to Mongolia to buy brick tea and groceries.

The business came from the introduction of the Jingshi Headquarters of the Wei Escort Bureau.Merchants took brick tea to Mongolia, exchanged it for furs, horses, cattle and sheep, and brought them back to the customs. The profits of Mongolian trade were very considerable, reaching hundreds of percent at a time.Condensing Cloud felt that the risk was worth taking.Even so, he was still worried about his large loan: he actually didn't know much about the risk control of the Ming Dynasty, but he felt that this step must be done sooner or later: everything has a beginning.

(End of this chapter)