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"How much money does the trading house have on hand now?" Before coming up with a countermeasure, Song Zheng still had to inquire about his family's financial situation.

"Ming Xuan, Huang Yue and I have gathered together, and we probably still have more than 40,000 taels in hand."

"What? So little?" Song Zheng was surprised. When he was taking the first place in martial arts, he set up a gambling game and earned 340,000 taels of silver.

Lu Chun smiled bitterly, "In order to expand branches in various places, we have almost invested all our money. Now these more than 40,000 taels are the remaining money in our hands to meet our daily expenses." [

Song Zheng frowned, "The trading house has income every day, can't we think of a way?"

"It is true that there is income. Unfortunately, in addition to expenses, these incomes must be used to repay the loans from Kaibao and Datong. According to the agreement, these loans are paid on a monthly basis. Now there are rumors that the two major banks want to take them back. Loan. If we withdraw all the money, we will not be able to repay the loan agreed with the bank this month. The two major banks will have more excuses to take back all the loans." Lu Chun had to explain to Song Zheng in detail.

Song Zheng nodded, knowing that at this point, the two major banks could not be allowed to keep their word.

Lu Chun continued, "When my father and others created each semicolon, they set aside fifteen thousand taels of silver for each semicolon. If they were all pooled together, it would be enough, but these funds are all used to deal with emergencies. It is used for incidents and should not be touched lightly. In August last year, a fire broke out in the warehouse of Quzhou branch, burning the warehouse and a batch of goods. It was only possible to survive with fifteen thousand taels of silver."

"Fire? Have you found out what happened?"

"Oh, it's not that someone deliberately sabotaged it." Lu Chun obviously knew what Song Zheng meant, "but the person guarding the treasury accidentally set fire to the goods, and one of the two died."

Song Zheng sighed, "Fifteen thousand taels is still too little. If the fire gets bigger, I'm afraid the money will have to be transferred from the head office."

"That's why we don't want to touch the money." Lu Chun said, "Besides, you also know that we don't dare to delay the money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. We have to give a dividend of fifteen thousand taels of silver every month. This money cannot be discounted at all.”

The palace's money cannot be touched, which is the main backer of Huitong Trading House. When the young emperor invested 100,000 taels of silver into the trading house through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the monthly dividend also increased from the initial two thousand taels to fifteen thousand taels. , it was a huge profit. Of course, this was because the trading house was determined to win over the imperial palace. Although Song Zheng was deeply trusted by the Holy Emperor, this relationship would only be stronger if he could ensure that the Ministry of Internal Affairs made money.

The trading house couldn't draw out the money, and most of Lu Dafu and others' money was empty. The more than 40,000 taels they scraped together were not even enough to make up a fraction of the 280,000 taels. Fortunately, everyone bought Ruifeng Bank. It was decided through discussion together, otherwise, Xu Mingxuan and Huang Yue might also have complaints.

"Have you and Uncle Lu discussed any solution?"

"How can we not discuss it?" Lu Chun sighed, "Mingxuan once proposed to borrow money from the merchants doing business in our trading house, but..."

Song Zheng continued, "But Uncle Lu is afraid that this move will affect the credibility of Huitong Trading House. Once the news gets out, the merchants may lose confidence in the trading house."

"That's right. Now the news about Ruifeng Bank has been spread. Several well-informed merchants have asked the trading house whether this is true. I haven't bothered to reply to them. What if this happens? If the matter is completely dispersed, the business of the trading house may also be affected."

"Yes, this is a series of things. The business of the trading house is affected, the transaction volume drops, and our income decreases. By then, let alone expansion, we will not even be able to repay the loans from the two major banks."

Lu Chun was silent. As a result, the trading house was almost at risk of life and death.

Song Zheng stood up, kept mumbling something, and kept pacing in the room.

Lu Chun waited for a while and then cautiously said, "Xiao Lang, can you think of another solution from the Ministry of Punishment? For example, you can disclose your identity and return to Jiangning in a dignified manner. The Holy Lord trusts you so much, you can..."

"No! This time when I come back, I have more important things to do, so I can't appear in public for the time being." Song Zheng said flatly. Before understanding the situation in the Duke's Mansion, it would be more advantageous for Song Zheng to hide in the dark.[

Perhaps knowing that his tone was harsher, Song Zheng explained, "If I appear in public, my enemies will deal with me in various ways. And I have been away from Jiangning for such a long time, and many things have not been figured out yet. Be careful and you may fall into the ditch."

Lu Chun smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Lang, I have really suffered you."

When Jiangning Trading Company was founded, it was difficult. It was all thanks to Song Zheng that he attracted Huang Yue and Xu Mingxuan, and managed to obtain the emperor's inscription, and solicited the Ministry of Internal Affairs to invest in shares. He also took the risk to sneak into the base of Datong Bank and obtained the funds to threaten Datong Bank. Things, this opened up the situation in one fell swoop. Although Song Zheng no longer interfered with the affairs of the trading house in the later period, everyone still used to come to Song Zheng for advice whenever there was a major event.

Now Song Zheng came back secretly. He didn't even return to the Song Mansion, and his biological son couldn't see him. He clearly had more important arrangements, but he didn't want to be held back by the business of the trading house. Speaking of which, Lu Chun was really embarrassed to ask again. What should Song Zheng do more?

Song Zheng paced back and forth, repeating the words "head office, semicolon, bank" and other words. Suddenly, he felt so blessed that he seemed to have thought of something.

At this moment, a figure broke in, bringing a gust of fragrance - it was Lu Feng'er.

"Brother, that 'three-eyed glutton' is here and wants to see you." Lu Feng'er said hurriedly. The scar on Huang Yue's face was really scary, and Lu Feng'er couldn't change her words in a hurry.

Lu Chun glanced at Song Zheng with a questioning look.

Song Zheng pondered for a moment, "It's best not to spread the news of my return to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Lu Chun nodded. He knew that it wasn't that Song Zheng couldn't trust Huang Yue, but that Huang Yue had Huang Yuandu behind him, and Huang Yuandu was the culprit who forced Song Zheng to send an envoy to Xishu. In this case, it was really inappropriate to put Song Zheng's Tell Huang Yue the news.

"However, you can tell uncle secretly to let him relax. I have a way to solve the problem at hand."

"Really?" Lu Chun said happily, if his father knew that Song Zheng was back and thought of a way, his illness would be better than half immediately.

Song Zheng nodded, "Go quickly, I'll wait for you here for a while, and I'll tell you what to do when you come back."

"Okay!" Lu Chun's sad expression immediately disappeared and he immediately walked towards the door.

Song Zheng smiled from behind and said, "Brother Lu, don't worry about me!"

Lu Chun was stunned, and immediately stopped his joy and put on a sad look, which made Lu Feng'er next to him burst into laughter, making Lu Chun extremely embarrassed.

After Lu Chun left, Lu Feng'er turned around and looked at Song Zheng curiously, with bright eyes that made Song Zheng feel scared.

"Miss Feng'er, what's wrong, Brother Lu's clothes don't fit me?" Song Zheng chuckled.

Lu Feng'er shook her head, "No, Brother Song wears brother's clothes, well, they look good!" At this point, Lu Feng'er blushed.

Song Zheng laughed and said, "As long as it fits you." However, Lu Feng'er's next words made Song Zheng a little embarrassed. The girl whispered, "This dress... was made by me."

"Oh! Very good!" Song Zheng was startled, and could only praise him, lowering his head to drink tea. He thought to himself, Lu Feng'er's craftsmanship is really good.

After waiting for a moment, Lu Feng'er asked softly, "You...do you know Mu Boyue?" [

"Brother Boyue? Of course we know each other." Song Zheng replied. When he was taking the martial arts examination, Mu Boyue was in Dark Eagle and Huang Song used him against him. However, after he and Huang Yue became good friends, Mu Boyue After leaving Dark Eagle and passing the martial arts examination, Mu Boyu went to the Taiping Prefecture garrison.

Taiping Prefecture also belongs to the capital, not far from Jiangning, but Song Zheng only met Mu Bo once at the Song Mansion during the Spring Festival of the year before last. Song Zheng didn't know what happened next.

"He...how is he like this person?" Lu Feng'er asked tremblingly again.

Song Zheng suddenly realized that he just heard the little girl Lu'er say that Lu Feng'er was betrothed to someone else, could it be Mu Boyue? These two people are suitable. Although the Lu family is now a big business, it is a merchant's family after all, and its social status is not Gao. Outsiders looked up to the Lu family because of his status as an "imperial merchant". Although Mu Boyue's father, Mu Yi, was Huang Yue's confidant, he was a servant after all. When Mu Boyue passed the martial arts examination, Mu Yi He has become a "master", but he is still serving Huang Yue.

Since he guessed that Mu Boyue was Lu Feng'er's husband, Song Zheng was naturally pleased with his beauty and immediately praised him, "Brother Boyue is the best choice for his talent in martial arts."

"Brother Song lied to me." Lu Feng'er chuckled, "I...I have seen him before." Her face was still red.

Song Zheng was slightly stunned and immediately guessed that Mu Yi had probably brought Mu Boyue to the Lu Mansion to propose marriage, and Feng'er hid aside and secretly met Mu Boyue.

Mu Boyue had higher cheekbones and was indeed not handsome. However, Song Zheng couldn't help it. He immediately smiled and said, "Brother Boyue and I have a close relationship. His father, Mu Yi, I still call him uncle. How could I do that?" Are you deceiving Miss Feng'er? Brother Boyue has great ambitions. The word Boyue comes from the famous general Jiang Wei of the Three Kingdoms. In terms of kung fu, he can win the title of Jinshi among thousands of people. How can he be an ordinary person? In terms of intelligence, he is even the best. I have to say I admire you. As for your ambition, if you can call yourself Jiang Boyue, I can't compare to you."

"How can you say it so well!" Lu Feng'er sneered, "The number one scholar in both civil and military affairs, the Eternal One. Hehe!"

Song Zheng was speechless and could only shake his head with a wry smile, lowered his head and drank tea again.

Seeing Song Zheng's embarrassment, Lu Feng'er was a little proud. Song Xiaolang, who was famous all over the world, actually lowered his head in front of her, which was really a bit of pride. It was a pity that this matter could not be told, it was really less interesting.

"Brother Song, you always praised Mu Boyue just now. I wonder what your ambition is?"

How dare Song Zheng say that his ambition is to be a little thief and hide at home to count gold and silver treasures? Lu Feng'er would laugh to death. But Song Zheng couldn't brag that he wanted to "rule the country and bring peace to the world", so he had to say, " My ambition is unspeakable, and Miss Feng'er may not believe it."

"If you don't tell me, how can I believe it?" Lu Feng'er seemed to particularly enjoy watching Song Zheng's embarrassment.

Song Zhengnai replied angrily, "My ambition is - 'One acre of land, two cows, wife and children.' Does Miss Feng'er believe it?"

"Ah?" Lu Feng'er obviously didn't expect Song Zheng to answer him like this, and was immediately stunned.

Song Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his embarrassment suddenly subsided.

After a long while, Lu Feng'er said angrily, "Brother Song lied to me again and stopped talking to you!" After that, he turned around and left in a hurry.

Song Zheng couldn't help laughing. Lu Feng'er, who had walked to the door, turned around and glared at Song Zheng fiercely. Then her cheeks turned red and she turned around and walked away even more hurriedly.

Song Zheng laughed and thought to himself, Lu Feng'er is Mu Boyue's fiancée, and he cannot offend her. Today's words can be regarded as the beauty of an adult. When they get married in the future, they must ask Mu Boyue for a wedding drink.

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