C1425 Wealth Concealment

Well, it's good to communicate with smart people. Really well! It was just a few words, yet he had already understood the subtext.

Why did Liu Chouchu mention the bad habit of hoarding gold and silver in China? To put it bluntly, he wanted to wake them up, remind them of how the bureaucrats had been eating and drinking their blood for thousands of years.

Amongst all the feudal dynasty s in China, business was the lowest level amongst all the people. In all of history, there were very few mega-merchant s who managed to obtain a peaceful ending, such as Shen Wansan and Hu Xueyan.

No matter how great a contribution you've made before, as long as you're as rich as a nation, you're the god of wealth when you have value. When you don't, you're just a fat pig, a pig that you can slaughter at will.

For example, in the mulberry, no one knew how much wealth he had even if there was trouble in the south. Even if there was trouble in the south, he would only bring his family and escape to Guangdong to hide.

However, during those ten odd years, Sang Tian from mulberry's family had always been in a situation where no one managed him and no one was willing to take over his family. However, no one knew that the mulberry was in that mulberry garden, with more than a hundred thousand taels of silver hidden in the cellar.

Long Hair had been defeated, so when mulberry returned home, everything was not over. When mulberry wanted to take back the land that had already been privately occupied by the people, he could not do so without relying on the officials or the Xiang Army. That one hundred thousand silver had all been turned into bribes and sent to the officials below, there were even civil and military generals.

When the money was used up, mulberry finally took back his fixed assets. Then, the carefully chosen of his family, this was the rebirth of his family in recent years.

From this, it could be seen that people like the mulberry had long found a way to live peacefully in the history of China's dynasties. These secrets are the only way for the business class to survive in China.

Earning money and then hiding it was a waste of money. They would reveal only a tiny bit of their wealth, but they would end up encountering natural disasters and wars. This wealth was the hope for the revival of their family.

Always floating duckweed, always drifting along with the flow, no merchant can decide their own fate.

Xiao Letian understood them too well, they knew what these people were thinking and what they were afraid of. Therefore, Xiao Letian would definitely not push the stock market during a peaceful time, because he knew that many of the rules in the stock market went against the survival of these merchants.

Going public required financial supervision from outsiders. Going public was tantamount to telling the entire world how much money they had. These were all things that merchants feared the most.

However, they just happened to encounter this financial crisis. This desperate situation had forced all of the merchants of Jiangnan into a corner.

The so called Tongzhi Zhaoxing did not mean that the Manchu dynasty was that powerful, but rather that the economic recovery was just a result of the natural economic growth that occurred after the war.

The population multiplied, the land was developed deeply, and all kinds of industries began to recover in the hands of the hardworking people. Productivity was restored. That was all. This was not really a prosperous era. It was just the result of a soldier losing too much blood temporarily sewing up the wound and his body's normal hematopoietic function.

It had already been nine years since the war ended, but it had only been four to five years since the sporadic wars ended. In such a short period of time, the Jiang-Nan economy had only recovered thirty to forty percent of its original size.

On the outside, mulberry and the rest still looked impressive, but compared to before the war, it was not as impressive. All the money had been looted, and all the merchants' funds were tight.

Just think about it, if it wasn't for the war that happened in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for ten years, and if the silver hidden in the cellar of the Jiangnan Merchant House hadn't been lost, then this little crisis wouldn't even be considered anything! Just based on the hundred years of accumulation their clan had accumulated, this was enough to wipe them out.

All of these factors included the unique financial crisis, the factors of war, the ingenious timing of the war, the loopholes in Qing Dynasty's policy, and even the fact that the British Prime Minister was being replaced.

It was a crisis for the stock market. No matter how worried and terrifying the mega-merchant people were, with the capital chain broken, they had no choice.

They had to drink Xiao Letian's vintage, even if they didn't want to drink it, they had to!

The financing went without a hitch, but after getting the funds, the merchants would have to consider their safety. With such a huge amount of wealth exposed under the sun, it would be strange if the corrupt officials and bandits didn't think too much about it.

And who could protect them now? There was only one person, and that was Xiao Letian. Other than him, no one could rely on him.

The banquet at Huizhou Restaurant lasted until midnight, and no one knew what Liu Chouchu and the important merchants had agreed on, nor did they know how many Prime Ministers Qiu Wei had promised him. At the very least, everyone knew that after midnight, when those merchants had walked out of the restaurant, their expressions were as if they had been revived with fresh blood.

How could Xiao Letian not protect them? These people were the power source of this future Chinese war machine! The Chinese merchants were indeed powerful, but their history was still too short. The ones with real background were the ancient merchant families of the Kingdom of Qing.

If not for Xiao Letian, these business families would have gradually disappeared over time, and no one would be able to remember their names. In fact, the business families that had existed for hundreds of years were not necessarily worse than the Jewish families. All they lacked was a political environment that could support them, and an army that could protect them.

Didn't the merchants of Jiangnan want to buy their own ships and sell their own silk, tea, and porcelain to the whole world? Who wouldn't want to have their own family in the South Sea and their own family in Europe?

Who will help them achieve these ideals? To count on the Qing Dynasty? Or were they counting on the foreigners? Not even that would work. In this world, they could only hope that Xiao Letian was willing to help them.

"My lords, listen to me. In the near future, don't leave the Suzhou City in Suzhou, and stay for a few more days if there's no emergency elsewhere …" "If the timing is correct, the Prime Minister will come to the Su Province ten days later. At that time, we'll definitely be able to meet those who are fated to meet!"

At the door of the Huizhou Restaurant, the merchants who were preparing to bid their farewells were all endlessly exclaiming, "The Prime Minister is coming? Oh my god! The Prime Minister is coming here in ten days? "

When they thought about the promises they had made during the secret meeting just now, they, who were still in disbelief, did not dare to doubt anymore. All the merchants had agreed that they would not leave until the prime minister arrived in the Su Province.

Looking at the retreating backs of the many merchants, Qiu Wei took a deep breath. "It's a great day to unite all the forces that can be united. Another group of God of Fortune has been tied up on the chariots of the Chinese people!" "Hahaha …"