At Fulixing Tea Shop, Xue Qigui drank a few glasses of wine in the evening and was asleep. He was awakened by a rush of slapping the door. He turned over and sat up. He heard a noise outside and shouted in a deep voice: "What's the matter?"

The guy outside the door said anxiously: "Big shopkeeper, get up quickly. The street is full of soldiers, and I will shoot the door of the shop to open it."

Soldier Xue Qigui was startled and jumped out of bed, quickly put on his clothes and opened the door. He saw that the shop had gathered outside the door. He pretended to be calm and said, "It's not a bandit, why are you panic?" As he said, he walked on the big walk: "Go and have a look."

Thinking that all the tea leaves had taken action and all the silver notes had been deposited in Yuanqi, he felt secretly glad and felt relieved. As soon as he was discharged from the hospital, he heard the sound of "bang bang" slapping the door endlessly.

He stopped everyone and walked to the door and looked out through the crack of the door. He saw that the soldiers armed with torches were tax officials from Guangdong Customs. He couldn't help but wonder what was going on. What was going on? He immediately turned around and opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, a soldier looked at several people with a torch and shouted, "Who is Xue Qigui?"

"The little one is." Xue Qigui hurriedly bowed, "I wonder what the military master has to do in the middle of the night?" As he said that, he took a step forward and quietly stuffed two oceans into the soldier's hands.

Seeing that he was tactful, the soldier's face calmed down slightly and said softly: "According to the order of the Guangdong Customs Supervision Lord, we will strictly investigate foreign businessmen who collude with foreign businessmen."

When Xue Qigui heard this, his face turned pale. He had vigorously rectified the foreign businessmen twice and seized hundreds of businesses. All the goods were confiscated. He hurriedly bowed: "June, I am a little unjust, Fulixing Tea Shop has never colluded with foreign merchants to smuggle."

"Stop talking, Fulixing Tea Shop is registered, we are doing our business according to the list." A soldier shouted: "All the shopkeepers came out and closed the door."

Seeing that the Bing Ding did not enter the store, he just closed the store, Xue Qigui felt a little relieved. With his relationship with Yi Zhizu, it was not difficult to open up this joint. When he thought of Yi Zhizu, he was shocked. He thought of him deliberately raising the price of tea and specifically instructed him to deposit silver notes in Yuanqi. Is this his method?

Without any time to think about it, he hurriedly stepped forward and stuffed two oceans to each of the soldiers outside the door. The military officer led the team specially stuffed a silver note. The military officer did not avoid suspicion at all. He picked up the silver note and glanced at it. Seeing that it was a silver note of twenty yuan, he grinned and said, "Shopkeeper Xue is aware of it. Although Fulixing colluded with foreign businessmen to smuggle, the circumstances were not serious. He was just sealed off, so there is no need to worry."

"Thank you for your investigation," Xue Qigui bowed and thanked him, and then asked again: "How many businesses are there on the list?"

"More than four hundred families." The military officer said and waved, "Everything is quick."

Although it was midsummer, it was still a little cold late at night. Xue Qigui looked at the torch soldiers all over the streets. There was a messy scene, and he didn't know where to go. He cursed in his heart, what kind of fucking world is this!

Guangdong Customs vigorously rectified and banned foreign businessmen, and seized more than 400 businesses overnight, more than half of which were businesses that operate tea, and more than 20 shopkeepers were arrested and imprisoned. The news spread and Xiguan was in a big uproar.

Early in the morning, the Thirteen-Strait merchants received a message. At the meeting of the Xingshang Office, the anxious merchants didn't even bother to drink morning tea and rushed to discuss.

At the same time, tea merchants, silk merchants, cloth merchants, ceramic merchants, drug merchants and sugar merchants in Xiguan all received notifications from their respective industry offices and rushed to their respective industry offices to meet.

Xiguan was shocked, and the foreign businessmen who lived in the Thirteenth Street Business Hall were also shocked and worried. Guangdong Customs vigorously rectified and banned foreign businessmen, so foreign businessmen naturally would not have a good life. They may end their good days of private trade with foreign businessmen and free trade. In the future, they will have to deal with Thirteenth Street, which monopolizes foreign trade.

Thirteen business offices, conference halls.

Wu Shaorong glanced at the merchants and raised his voice and said, "The Guangdong Customs seized more than 400 foreign merchants last night. You should know that, right, the Thirteenth Bank begged the Guangdong Customs to rectify foreign merchants. The Thirteenth Bank monopolizes foreign trade, and now it is in name only and has reached the point where it must be rectified!

When we close the door, there is no need to hide it. Why have foreign businessmen so rampant over the years? You should be very clear in your heart, just because you are deliberately indulging them!

Of course, we are not unaware of your difficulties. It is because considering your difficulties, the Xingshang Office has turned a blind eye to this matter for a long time. Why? You are afraid of being ruling foreign businessmen! You will go bankrupt and go bankrupt.

But now it’s different. Yuanqi Bank has unified the Guangzhou Bank and can provide you with a large number of low-interest loans. There is no need for Thirteen Banks to indulge foreign businessmen, and there is no need to look at the foreign businessmen’s faces anymore!”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, looked at Yi Zhizu and said, "Shopkeeper Yi Da, please say a few words."

Yi Zhizu is not a businessman, but his position in the Thirteenth Front is very transcendent. His position is next to the two major businessmen Wu Shaorong and Pan Zhengwei. Before he could speak, Liang Chengxi from Tianbaoxing said, "Shopkeeper Yi Da, we have not even had time to throw away the tea leaves on hand."

Yi Zhizu glanced at him, slowly swept over everyone, and said, "Everyone here, who has sold it?"

"I sold it, and I sold it all twenty-seven taels." Yan Qichang said.

There is a rare obedient person. Yi Zhizu nodded and saw that no one said anything again, he said, "Before noon yesterday, someone had been sent to notify you. May I ask, who was not notified?"

After hearing this, everyone looked a little embarrassed. They did receive Yi Shizui's notification, but seeing that the tea price has risen well, they were not willing to take action.

"Let's not talk about this for now." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "Justice Wu said so just now. Yuanqi unified the money market in Guangzhou and his strength has increased greatly. The amount of low-interest loans that can be provided to you will also increase. Yuanqi will then launch a series of measures to facilitate bulk trade and greatly accelerate the turnover of funds. You don't need to worry about not having enough turnover during the peak season of the sea trade.

As for the debts to foreign businesses, Yuanqi's loan interest is now lower than that of foreign businesses. You really don't need to look at the expressions of foreign businesses. With Yuanqi as your backing, Thirteen Fronts has now increased its monopoly on foreign trade. Whether facing foreign businesses or foreign businesses, your backing can be hardened."

"Okay!" Wu Tianyuan smiled and said, "The nephew is annoyed us. We are like young wives who have just passed by the door over the years. We are careful everywhere and always cautious. After being wronged, we still look at other people's faces. These aggrieved days have finally come to an end today."
Chapter completed!