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  Chapter 475 473【Detailed work】

   I don’t know which Wolong came up with the idea, but the Man Qing’s first bribe-taker in Nanjing turned out to be Qian Qianyi, a Ph.D. from the Imperial Academy.

  The person who planned the purchase seemed to know Qian Qianyi very well. He knew that this man was greedy for power and fame, and he was also passionate about money in private. That being the case, Qian Qianyi must be dissatisfied, after all, he had to be in a "noble" position with no power or wealth.

   And they were very careful, starting with Qian Qianyi's old disciples.

  Seizuo pretends to be a merchant from Shanxi, buys a house by Xuanwu Lake and opens a trading company. He also said that this year's fabrics are not easy to purchase, so he has been lingering in Nanjing, inviting non-official scholars to hold literary meetings all day long.

  Every time a literary meeting is held, there is a painting boat on Xuanwu Lake.

  Famous courtesans, fine wine, singing and dancing, poems...even a scholar was hired to compile an anthology, and everything was paid for by the merchant, and it became prosperous in just over half a month.

  Even literati who were already officials in the court were gradually invited to go.

   Among them are two representatives of "Xin Guan Xue": Wang Zhiliang, professor of Jinling University, and Fu Qingzhu, a master of gynecology.

  Because this detailed work claims to be from Shanxi, it is also clear when it comes to Shanxi. Wang Zhiliang and Fu Qingzhu are also natives of Shanxi. They have not returned to their hometowns for many years, and they feel friendly when they meet each other. They like to ask Xi Zuo about the current situation in Shanxi.

  As fame grew, Xi Zuo finally invited Qian Qianyi.

   Did not buy directly, but talked about his admiration for Qian Qianyi. He also said that Mr. Qian Muzhai has the talent of Wang Zuo, and the new dynasty of Datong is waiting to be rejuvenated. He should go to the cabinet to formulate national policies. How can he be inferior to the top of the Imperial Academy?

  Every time we meet, he flatters Qian Qianyi, making Qian Qianyi so ecstatic that he really wants to become a government official.

  The next step is to inquire about it through small talk, and casually ask about the news of the Nanjing court. Whenever Qian Qianyi said something unknown to the outside world, or analyzed a certain current policy, Xi Zuo would marvel at his lofty vision, and then toasted to express his admiration.

   After coming and going, Qian Qianyi and Na Xizuo became friends who talked about everything.

  By relying on Qian Qianyi's fame, more scholars will be attracted by his detailed work!

  Qian Qianyi was summoned by Zhao Han, bowed his hands and said: "I see Your Majesty!"

   "Sit down." Zhao Han said.

   Seeing that Xu Ying, Fu Shan, and Wang Zhiliang were also present, Qian Qianyi cupped his hands as a gesture, and then sat beside him.

   Zhao Han said with a smile: "I heard that a Taigu businessman came to Nanjing. He doesn't do business every day, but just entertains scholars. Sir is also his guest?"

  Qian Qianyi explained: "Cao Xiaoyou is also talking about business, and is sending people to buy cloth and ship it to Shanxi."

  Zhao Han pointed to Fu Shan and Wang Zhiliang: "Come on."

  Wang Zhiliang said: "This person is indeed with a Taigu accent, but if he speaks too fast, or when he is drunk, there are other accents mixed in."

  Qian Qianyi was puzzled: "Isn't it common for merchants to mix their voices when they travel around?"

Fu Shan sneered: "This person claims that his teacher is Wen Tuxue (Wen Xiangfeng), but he doesn't know that the late student's tutor is also Wen Tuxue. He said that in the third year of Tianqi, he had been taught by Wen Tuxue himself, but Wen Tuxue has retired this summer. Homecoming."

  Qian Qianyi felt more and more wrong, and subconsciously argued: "Maybe it's because I was educated in spring, I don't know. It's normal to remember things wrong twenty years ago."

  Fu Shan said: "The late student also felt that his memory was wrong, so he said that in the fall of that year, the late student was invited by various scholars, and hundreds of people saw him off. Ask him if he has heard about it?"

   "How did he answer?" Qian Qianyi asked.

  Fu Shan said: "He didn't give a definite answer. He only said that he went back to his hometown for a funeral in summer, and he didn't know that a scholar had invited him to see him off."

  Qian Qianyi said: "He went back to his hometown for the funeral in the summer, and the literary inspector returned to his hometown in the summer. He was taught by the literary inspector in the spring. This is true, and the time is right."

Fu Shan said: "Inspector Wen fell ill in the first winter, and he was promoted to the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple and did not take up his post. He was bedridden from the first winter until the next summer before he could get up and go back to his hometown to recuperate. He couldn't even get up from the sick bed. Come on, how can I teach him personally? The late student was not sure at the time, and said that Governor Wen’s asthma had relapsed that year. This is not clear!"

  Qian Qianyi frowned: "Is this person sent by Li Zicheng?"

Fu Shan said: "This person must have lived in Shanxi for a long time, and he must have passed the imperial examination under the name of Wendu Xue, and he was even taught by Wendu Xue. But in the third year of Tianqi, he was definitely not in Shanxi. What happened after the third year of Tianqi , and most of them are fabricated. Wansheng used many words from him. This person should be Shanxi who returned to Chongzhen in the second year. Many things about Shanxi in the middle are not correct. He said that he went out to do business with his father, and only occasionally returned to Shanxi. , wanting to make up for his slip of the tongue. Wansheng asked him about other things, but there are always some things he made up!"

  Qian Qianyi said: "Maybe it's a braggart who tells too many lies and believes it himself."

  Xu Ying suddenly said: "So Mr. Fu was not sure, so he came to tell His Majesty, and His Majesty asked me to investigate quietly."

  Qian Qianyi couldn't help asking: "How is the investigation?"

Xu Ying said: "This person was afraid of encountering a knowledgeable Shanxi merchant, so he made up an identity for himself, saying that he was a close relative of the rich merchant Cao Sanxi. This time, he also came to the south to buy fabrics in the name of Cao Sanxi. I sent someone Go to Yangzhou to check, and the Shanxi merchants there said that Cao Sanxi has indeed been involved in the cloth business recently."

   "So it's okay?" Qian Qianyi couldn't understand.

   "Big problem!"

  Xu Ying said in a deep voice: "If he was really sent by Cao Sanxi to receive the goods, he would not do his business and hold literary conferences every now and then, Cao Sanxi would definitely kill him!"

  Cao Sanxi was born as a farmer. Due to difficult times, he went to Liaodong and settled in the countryside near Liaoyang.

  The land was vast and sparsely populated. Huang Taiji encouraged the Han people to reclaim land, and Cao Sanxi reclaimed wasteland and planted vegetables as a free citizen. With a little savings, he raised pigs, ground tofu, and started brewing sorghum wine.

   Liaodong is bitterly cold, and sorghum wine is sold very well, and business is gradually booming.

  He grows vegetables and soybeans, opens a tofu shop to grind tofu, feeds pigs with bean curd residue, and uses pig manure as fertilizer for planting. This is the so-called circular economy. There are semicolons everywhere, the chairman is not in charge of management, the general manager is in charge of operation, the management right and ownership are separated, and the audit team is regularly dispatched to check. What an advanced business management model.

   The above are all publicized by the descendants of the Cao family. It seems that because of hard work and excellent management, a large company that later expanded its business to Russia was born.

  But everyone knows with their ass, can a farmer make a fortune legally in Liaodong?

   Has long been blackmailed and bankrupted by Man Qing!

   What really made Cao Sanxi rich was that he followed the Qing army into the customs and plundered. He provided military supplies to the Qing army, and digested the property looted by the Qing army on the spot. Not only could he make a windfall from it, but his shops in Liaodong could also be protected by the Qing army.

  As Dorgon moved the army and civilians to Beizhili, Cao Sanxi's business in Liaodong could not continue, so he returned to Shanxi with a huge amount of property to open a shop. He talked about his arduous entrepreneurial history to everyone he met. He went to Liaodong with a pole and almost starved to death halfway. What is the bitter cold in Liaodong, when I was the poorest, I slept with pigs to keep warm.

   This guy left his disgraceful entrepreneurial history clean, built bridges and paved roads in Taigu, Shanxi, bought food to help the villagers, and paid for the repair of county schools to subsidize scholars. His reputation is already extremely good.

  After the Qing army withdrew from Shanxi, Cao Sanxi defected to Li Zicheng again, offered to provide supplies to Li Zicheng, and since then won Li Zicheng's favor.

  This time the Manchu Qing dispatched secret agents, instead of using the "eight great imperial merchants", they used Cao Sanxi's signboard, because they felt that this person's reputation was more "innocent". Even in Liaodong, few people know that Cao Sanxi followed Huang Taiji into the pass to rob every time.

  However, Cao Sanxi's business management model, as well as Cao Sanxi's strict management of shopkeepers and clerks, exposed the details of this dispatch to Nanjing.

  The person in charge of the purchase sent by Cao Sanxi can't be extravagant to organize a literary conference!

Xu Ying said: "This person is not Li Zicheng's meticulous work, because it is not like Li Zicheng's meticulous workmanship. Li Zicheng's meticulous work is mostly a small businessman, and his actions are very shabby. This person's actions are too generous, and it seems to be fake. Li Zicheng copied tens of millions of taels of salary in Beijing, and a lot of money was intercepted by the puppet government halfway, enough for them to distribute money to work in Nanjing."

  Qian Qianyi felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, sweating profusely from his vest.

   After drinking once, he revealed that the former royal family was in Nanjing. Moreover, the concubines of the previous dynasty could weave and sell their own cloth, and the princes and princesses could go to school to study, and they could move freely.

   "Your Majesty, forgive me, my minister... I really don't know that this person is a spy!"

  Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he knelt down, almost kowtowing.

  Zhao Han asked: "What news did you reveal?"

  Qian Qianyi quickly recalled, no matter what came to his mind, he said it all at once.

Zhao Han smiled and comforted him: "Get up. Continue to contact this person in the future, and you can accept the money if you give it. You can also complain to me while drinking. There should be more than one secret operation of the Puppet Qing Dynasty in Nanjing. Let's find out slowly. .The cashier works for Man Qing...hehe, don’t even think about running away!”

   "Minister, obey the order!" Qian Qianyi hurriedly kowtowed to accept the order.

  Zhao Han waved his hand and said, "Let's step back."

  Qian Qianyi slowly got up, his legs were weak when he walked, and after going out, he found that his vest was completely wet with sweat.

   Aware of his embarrassment, Qian Qianyi gritted his teeth and said: "The traitor has harmed me so much, I want you to die without a place to bury you!"

  As soon as I got home, an old servant handed me a greeting card: "Master, Shopkeeper Cao invites you to have a banquet tonight."

  In the evening, Qian Qianyi went to Xuanwu Lake to attend an appointment, and listened to music while drinking in the boat.

  Cao Fengji asked, "Why is the herdsman sighing?"

Qian Qianyi said angrily: "I heard what you said a few days ago. I went to see Your Majesty today. I want to resign from the Imperial Academy and become an official in charge of the court. I don't expect to be anything else. I'm just a fifth-rank doctor. Your Majesty not only refused to do it for the officials, but also scolded me and asked me to compile books honestly in the Imperial Academy. The sages have a saying, to cultivate oneself, govern the family, govern the country and the world. I, Qian Muzhai, have cultivated myself for decades, so virtue and talent can only be compiled books ? Can’t you be an official to rule the country and bring peace to the world?”

  Cao Fengji quickly added wine to Qian Qianyi, sighed and said: "Oh, the shepherd is a great talent, but it is a pity that the talent is not met. My uncle (Cao Sanxi) has a lot of connections in the Dashun court. If the shepherd wants to show his skills, it is better to go to Taiyuan with Wansheng."

  Qian Qianyi was surprised: "You are Li Zicheng's lobbyist?"

   "Late birth is not talented, but he is not stupid," Cao Fengji said with a smile, "Li Zicheng is not the master of enlightenment, and Dashun will be destroyed sooner or later. Why should late birth be his lobbyist?"

  Qian Qianyi said unhappily: "Then you still persuade me to vote for the intruder?"

  Cao Fengji said: "If the herdsman defected to Li Zicheng, he might be able to become a prime minister. At that time, if he goes to Nanjing as a prime minister, won't he be reused?"

Qian Qianyi shook his head and complained with some sincerity: "You don't know that His Majesty Nanjing doesn't care how big an official he is elsewhere. Even if he is the chief assistant of the cabinet of Ming Dynasty, he can only start from a small official if he is voted for. He holds tight to official positions and titles, it doesn't seem like he is doing big things."

  Cao Fengji took the opportunity to say: "Such actions are indeed not enough to accomplish great things."

  Qian Qianyi smiled wryly: "Sometimes, the old man even thinks that it would be better to do the opposite if he is doing idle work under this single husband... Cough cough, drink, drink."

  (end of this chapter)