Chapter 2452 Gui Zi Juan is unwilling to give up, and his ambition is bright.
Zhen Baochen is indeed making some preparations.
In fact, she had long known that she could not be Feng Ziying's concubine.
Feng Ziying, as a third-ranking official in the imperial court, had no problem taking the Li family's concubines, and it would have been no problem to take Zhen Baoyu as his concubines, because they had never married.
By taking them as concubines, Feng Ziying violated the law of the court, and the court was dissatisfied with the punishment. However, if she took married women as concubines, it would challenge the dignity of the court and scholars, which would greatly damage Feng Ziying's status among court officials and Reputation among scholars.
The former can be rounded by Feng Ziying in other ways, but the latter cannot be erased.
In this case, Zhen Baochen naturally knew that she could not marry into the Feng family.
However, he did not marry into the Feng family, but he and Feng Ziying were actually married. Moreover, although he was the wife of the Ding family first, he was still extremely shameful and remained a virgin. Feng Ziying was his first man.
This weird and bizarre situation made Zhen Baochen find it difficult to describe and describe it.
What is even more surprising is that Feng Ziying has an extraordinary relationship with Bao Qi.
Although Feng Ziying looked embarrassed and vague when she asked about Bao Qi's situation. She only said that she would know it when she met Bao Qi in the future and refused to say it clearly. However, as a woman's keen intuition, Zhen Baochen felt that Bao Qi was the same as herself and Feng Ziying. There has been a couple thing.
But Feng Ziying categorically denied that she took advantage of others' danger, and Zhen Baochen didn't think that Feng Ziying was that kind of person. As for what happened between them, we really can only find out after returning to Beijing and meeting Bao Qi.
However, Feng Ziying also tentatively asked her about her plans, which still made Zhen Baochen feel quite happy and comforted. At least this man was not the kind of person who wouldn't admit it if he took advantage of her body.
Although I was more interested in the Zhen family, if this man really regarded me as a pure trading object, I would definitely still be very disappointed.
Feng Ziying mentioned Wang Xifeng's current situation casually.
Zhen Baochen still understands and admires Wang Xifeng somewhat.
In a sense, this woman’s identity and situation are similar to mine.
The woman from Heli even brought a child with her.
The Wang family, who was born in the family, was also one of the four old families that was overthrown. It was only because of Wang Ziteng's decisive return that he was saved from being exterminated. The Jia family that he once married into was also one of the four old families and was now in a state of rapid decline.
After Wang Xifeng reconciled, she left the Rongguo Mansion and was alone. It didn't even look like she could go back to the Zhen family. She was not even willing to go back to the Wang family, or the Wang family didn't welcome her very much, so she went to Tianjin with a few servants. guard.
But in just a few years, Wang Xifeng completed the leap from a fallen phoenix to nirvana. She became prosperous in Tianjin Wei and became one of the most famous businessmen in the North. Not only did she open her own cement business Workshop, and controls more than 30% of Beidi's cement sales to Shandong and along the canal. This is something she has heard about in Huizhou.
Although the Ding family mainly sells tea, they also do other businesses, and they have never thought of selling cement.
Beidi cement is continuously sold to the south of the Yangtze River through canals and sea transportation, but it is mainly sold along the coast, canals and the Yangtze River. Places like Huizhou have very few new products like cement coming in for the time being, but some people have tried to use cement to build houses. , has also become a symbol of wealth and wealth.
Cement is now in short supply in Jiangnan, and it has always been a seller's market. Many businessmen in Jiangnan also intend to obtain exclusive rights to this kind of goods, but Shanxi businessmen control the production and sales of cement, and Wang Xifeng is probably a special case.
Many people are speculating that Wang Xifeng and He Dehe can run their own cement workshop, occupy the main market along the Shandong Canal, and even start selling cement to the Nanzhi area, and enter Xuzhou and Huai'an. They speculate that there must be someone behind it. .
Some say that the Wang family is behind it, while others say that the Jia family still supports it, but these are all random speculations by outsiders or people who don't know the details.
Those who are really interested have learned from Shanshan businessmen that this is a cement workshop that Feng Ziying specifically named Wang Xifeng to cooperate with Shanshan businessmen to open in Tianjin Wei, and that Wang Xifeng is in a leading position.
In fact, over time, this has not been concealed from others. Considering the situation of the Wang family and the Jia family, how can He De support a woman to participate in such an emerging profit-making industry that is firmly monopolized by Shanxi and Shaanxi businessmen?
Those who can make Shanshan and Shaanxi businessmen bow their heads are either big figures such as cabinet ministers, or people they think are extremely critical and indispensable to them or who they must please.
So the target was quickly set on Feng Ziying, even though Feng Ziying was not considered an important minister at that time, but just the Prime Minister of Shuntian.
But everyone knows that Feng Ziying’s relationship with Shanshan businessmen is unusual.
When he served as the magistrate of Yongping Prefecture, he vigorously promoted the large-scale investment and construction of Shanxi businessmen in Yongping Prefecture, from iron ore mining and coal mining to iron smelting, iron making, cement industry, and even With the opening of the port and maritime trade, Yongping Prefecture has grown from an unknown and ordinary small prefecture to become the largest economic prefecture in Beizhili, second only to Shuntian Prefecture, surpassing Hejian, Baoding, and Zhending, which are large prefectures in terms of population and land, and its industrial and commercial tax revenue has increased. It is several times larger than these big mansions.
The merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi, who also benefited from this, have always been suppressed in the process of competing with Jiangnan merchants for decades. This time they finally managed to win the game and feel proud.
After Feng Ziying became the Prime Minister of Shuntian, Feng Ziying pushed Shanxi merchants to continue to expand the mining, coal, cement and iron smelting industries and began to enter the military industry, almost taking over the entire firearms manufacturing and gunpowder production in the Zhou Dynasty. It also brought Shuntian Mansion's economic strength to a higher level.
This has become a highlight of Shanxi businessmen's pride. Everyone knows the importance and influence of the military industry on the imperial court.
It can be said that except for the ministers in the cabinet, who can give advice to the merchants of Shanxi and Shaanxi and make the merchants of Shanshan and Shaanxi obey their ears? Only Feng Ziying'er, and even some of the ministers in the cabinet may not be able to do so.
Only Feng Ziying instructs the Shanshan and Shaanxi merchants to allow the Shanshan and Shaanxi merchants to "cooperate" with Wang Xifeng. It would be impossible for anyone else.
As for the relationship between Wang Xifeng and Feng Ziying, it seems quite complicated to sort out the inside.
For example, Wang Xifeng’s ex-husband Jia Lian was a close friend of Feng Ziying, and Jia Lian also obtained the position of chief treasurer of Yangzhou at Haitong Bank, where Feng Ziying had great influence. Another example is that Wang Xifeng’s cousin Xue Baochai married Feng Ziying and became Feng Ziying’s second wife.
However, it seems a bit far-fetched for these factors to allow Feng Ziying to open this "golden mouth" to give Wang Xifeng a way to make a fortune.
Therefore, some well-informed people later claimed that Wang Xifeng was actually Feng Ziying's concubine, and even gave birth to a son for Feng Ziying. Of course, this news was only known to a small area, but the Zhen family was among them.
Because of this, Zhen Baochen felt that maybe instead of entering the Feng Mansion, she could be like Wang Xifeng without fear of others' words and live a free and easy life.
She also knew that Wang Xifeng was not just sitting back and enjoying the success and being a puppet as some people outside imagined. On the contrary, Wang Xifeng was strategizing, and all the men under her were doing well under her guidance, and they were constantly expanding the market.
From the beginning, it was only Tianjin Wei and a few surrounding counties, and it continued to expand, gradually taking over the entire cement market in Hejian Prefecture, and then penetrated into Shandong along the canal. The market in Shandong was basically negotiated one by one by Wang Xifeng's men. Consolidate one by one.
This all made Zhen Baochen extremely jealous and moved.
What Wang Xifeng can do, how can she, Zhen Baochen, not be able to do it? The Zhen family has a lot of business, and she has seen it since she was a child. She thinks that she is stronger than Wang Xifeng, and the Jiangnan market is much bigger than that of the North. As long as Having chosen the right career, she believes she can do better.
She has been quite independent since she was a child, but when she got married at the age of fourteen, she was unable to change her destiny. But when the opportunity to change her destiny came to her again, she felt that maybe it was God's pity and care for her. .
She can live her life according to her own wishes. Of course, in this world, she also knows that she must have a strong man to support her. Now all these elements are present.
Of course, she does not necessarily have to work in the same industry as Wang Xifeng. The cement business is indeed very tempting, but it is not necessary if she wants to compete with Wang Xifeng.
However, if Feng Ziying intends to let her work in the cement industry in Nanjing, she thinks it is fine. Everything depends on Feng Ziying's opinion, but no matter which industry, she is interested in accepting the challenge.
Through his understanding of Feng Ziying during this period of time, and the conversations between Feng Ziying and himself, Zhen Baochen increasingly felt that Feng Ziying was unfathomable.
This person seems to be confident in everything he does. Some things may seem dangerous or uncertain, but as long as they fall into his hands, he will quickly sort out the context and come up with a solution.
This was true in his experience as an official, and it was also true in the business he worked with. Even his subordinates and classmates who were close to him all benefited from this. It was this that made Zhen Baochen more and more curious about Feng Ziying. .
Some people said that this man was a genius, and some said that he was born with a pair of discerning eyes, but Zhen Baochen felt that this was not entirely accurate. This man had a foresight and foresight that was rare in other men of this age, and he was also very good at using people. The level of several staff members astonished Zhen Baochen, who had had some experience.
Coupled with Feng Ziying's own personality charm, it is no wonder that she is always successful in everything she does.
(End of this chapter)