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Chapter 195: The Yiren from afar

After hearing this, Xu Jingyue threw herself on her younger brother and shouted loudly, "Sir, my mother is old and only likes this son. If my younger brother has any problems, my younger brother will never be able to bear such a blow. Even if my older brother doesn't care about his ancestors, I forgot to see my younger brother's life in front of my mother!"

Ma Juren looked at Sun Sheng again, and saw that Sun Sheng was looking at him with an indifferent look on his face, so he made up his mind and gritted his teeth and shouted, "Drag it away for me and continue to beat me."

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out. "Slow down!"

Everyone looked at the sound, but it turned out that it was Yu Ren who had been standing beside Sun Sheng. Everyone was confused. They thought that Yu Ren wanted to pull Xu Laosan into the water. Unexpectedly, Yu Ren said, "Master Ma, in my opinion, let's forget about this matter! Although Xu Laosi's nonsense has humiliated the reputation of his uncle, he has already beaten him half to death, which is a heavy punishment for him.

As the saying goes, killing people is just a matter of placing the ground. Today, the emperor has always been kind again, so why not let him live a life!”

Although Ma Juren heard Yu Ren come out to plead, he dared not let it go. So he took a look at Sun Sheng again.

Sun Sheng still didn't say anything. So Yu Ren called Xu San Shao over again and said in front of everyone, "As far as I can tell, I shouldn't have pleaded for your brothers. Your third young master framed me Yu Ren several times, and even almost made my uncle's whole family beheaded. But I always feel that since we are fellow villagers, it is better to resolve enemies than to get them together. I will forgive you again and hope you can do it yourself."

After hearing this, Xu Jingyue quickly kowtowed to Yu Ren, and Yu Ren was stopped by someone.

When Ma Juren heard that Yu Ren pleaded for Xu Laosi again, he went to see Sun Sheng again.

Sun Sheng didn't look at Ma Juren, but just said unevenly, "Since Mr. Yu has spoken, then Lord Ma will give him a gift!" While saying that, he turned around and entered the shop.

After hearing this, Xu San Shao quickly kowtowed to Sun Sheng again. Ma Juren picked him anywhere. He left without looking back. Xu San Shao wanted to kowtow to Yu Ren again, and Yu Ren hurriedly pulled him up.

"Young Master Xu San, don't be polite to me! I just hope that the Third Master will cause less trouble for me in the future."

Xu Sanshao kept saying that he didn't dare.

After this farce, more people came to the Yu Family Money House to save money in Songjiang Mansion. Although the profit from saving money is actually very low, everyone first felt that it was safer to put the money in the money house than to keep it at home. When they saw the backstage of the Yu Family Money House, even the prefect was afraid that he would be like that, so everyone felt more at ease.

Xu Sanshao also closed his own money house and vowed not to be enemies with Yu Ren again.

So, Yu Ren and Zhao Rui opened two semicolons in Suzhou. As more and more people came to the shop to deposit silver, Yu Ren began to feel the pressure of releasing silver. So Yu Ren and Zhao Rui specially organized a group of old shopkeepers with rich business experience and set up an independent group. These people were specifically responsible for finding customers to lend. Although they were generally stable, they occasionally looked for high-risk investments to obtain high returns.

What disappointed Yu Ren the most was that the people he wanted to support most with technological innovation never saw one. In the Ming Dynasty, there were too few such people. Businessmen only thought about low entry and high entry, while scholars only thought about scientific research and official positions. The most innovative one was craftsmen. However, craftsmen were often inherited from their father's business and passed on by word of mouth. They followed the rules and methods of their fathers and did not dare to change them easily.

A few who passed on craftsmanship to outsiders almost without exception followed the bad habits of the people and taught their disciples to keep a hand. This made the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty very slow in innovation. Moreover, even if these craftsmen have any new inventions, they often only think about how to use them to consolidate their current status and ask for some money in front of their current bosses every month. Almost no craftsman would think of finding someone to cooperate with or create them alone when they have new inventions.

Yu Ren specially told this group of subordinates who were looking for someone to lend money to make them pay more attention to such craftsmen, but he has not found a single person so far.

Yu Ren was very disappointed, so he remembered Fatty Xu and the others he met in Hangzhou, as well as Hu Zi from Nanjing. He was about to return to Nanjing first, and then go to Hangzhou to make good use of Fatty Xu and Sun Menghu. In the past, although he wanted to do scientific research, he was struggling to have no money.

Any scientific research cannot be completed in one or two days, nor can it be done in a few taels, dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver; it is often a thousand taels of investment. At that time, Yu Ren was powerless. Now that he really had money, he began to think about this.

So he planned to go to Nanjing and Hangzhou in person, give them some money, and then help them plan well. But at this time, an urgent letter from Dongyang disrupted his overall plan.

This letter was brought by a merchant who went to East China to deprecate. When Yu Ren saw the letter, he became anxious because this letter was written by Li Ying, who had long been missing for a long time.

After receiving this letter, Yu Ren learned that after Li Ying returned to the East China with her father, she was under house arrest for a long time. Not only could she not return to China, she could not even deliver the letter. This time she took the opportunity of her maid Ying'er going out to see a relative and asked him to send the letter out. Then Ying'er's relative passed the letter to a Ming merchant who came to the East China.

The letter reads:

Since the last time my father took me back to Hirado, he has been restricting my movements. He is not allowed to go out at will, nor is he allowed to take care of business matters. Since then, he has introduced several young talents in Hirado Castle, including Ming and Oriental people.

I also know my father's temper, because he has a deep prejudice against you. If I refuse him harshly, he will be angry and can only be slandered. I just say that none of these people are satisfied. My father is not as strong as he is.

But recently, because you helped Uncle Xu to regain Daqu Mountain, you conquered the pirates of the Southeast and took over all the former subordinates of the Li family in Zhejiang and Fujian, which made my father particularly angry. You only knew that taxes were seeking progress, but you didn't know that Zhong Qi was actually the secret instruction of his father. He wanted to use his hand to regain some of my original island bases in Zhejiang and Fujian. But you killed them by yourself.

My father was dissatisfied with your family, and he became even more annoyed with Uncle Xu. He became increasingly intolerant of my marriage. Recently, I heard that he had met a new Ming young man named Zheng Zhilong and liked him very much. He mentioned this person in front of me many times. He also intended to lead me to meet him several times.

Although I still refused on the grounds of not liking it, my father stopped accommodating this time. He also said that no matter whether I agree or not, he would marry me in three months.

I have no choice but to do anything. I hope my husband will come to Hirado as soon as possible to save me from the East. From then on, you and your husband will fly together and never be separated again.

After receiving this letter, Yu Ren quickly left the business at hand and only gave a few words to Zhao Rui, asking him to send someone to Nanjing and Hangzhou to contact Xu Fatty and Hu Zi, to see if they needed money. After the explanation, Yu Ren rushed to Nansha without stopping.

Zhao Rui actually knew who Yu Ren received, but she didn't ask too much or say anything.

Yu Ren rushed to Nansha Island, and happened to be Xu Xinsu was not at home and went to Chongming. Yu Ren was impatient, but he didn't want to say hello and left. After all, this trip to Hirado was different from the last time. Although he had already thought about it, he would not show up publicly, and only went with someone he didn't know from the Li family and pretended to be ordinary merchants, the risk was still very high.

It should be noted that the Li family is in Hirado, and that is the boss, and Li Dan is equivalent to the lord of Hirado City. It is not easy for him to rescue Li Ying under Li Dan's nose.

If something happens, Li Dan may not kill him for Li Ying's sake, but it is almost impossible to return to China. He is no longer alone at this time, and he has so many brothers under his command. If he doesn't come back, these brothers will ask Xu Xinsu.

Therefore, although Yu Ren was anxious, he still had to wait until he came back before leaving Xu Xinsu.

The soldiers who sent the message quickly sent a boat to report to Xu Xinsu. Yu Ren quickly ordered people to prepare the sea boat, while selecting the accompanying personnel. Since almost all the old members of the Li family were in Zhejiang and Fujian, only one Liu Qiang came to Nansha with him. However, this operation was not to go to war, and Yu Ren did not intend to take Liu Qiang there.
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