Chapter 1265: Resistance! Resistance! Resistance!

Looking at the suicide note written by Sun Xiuquan to himself, Ye Mingsheng asked Song Haibo who was standing beside him:

"How is the investigation of the Sun family's case going?"

Song Haibo preached without hesitation:
"According to the report of Zhao Wentao, the commander of the Huainan Coordination Office, the Sun family's case is basically the same. There are more than 200 people involved in the Sun family, and the total amount of money and cash is more than 350,000 taels. However, there is still a part of it that is related to the Ma family's case. The Coordination Office is still continuing to investigate!"

Ye Mingsheng fell into deep thought after hearing this. According to the law, the normal situation of the Sun family would be to execute the entire family. If the law was more lenient, the main culprit and the accomplices would be executed, and the female members of the family would be incorporated into the Jiaofangsi!

Ye Mingsheng believed that the punishments in the Great Zhou were sometimes too cruel and harsh, so part of his planned reforms was to reduce such harsh punishments, or to raise the standards of these harsh punishments!

The Jiaofangsi was an institution that Ye Mingsheng wanted to cancel, so after a moment of silence, Ye Mingsheng opened his mouth and ordered:

"All the women and children of the Sun family who have nothing to do with the case should be exiled to Liaoyang!"

"Yes!"

After dealing with the Sun family's affairs, Song Haibo handed another memorial to Ye Mingsheng.

"Marshal, the audit of Dadongsheng Company has been completed. Here are the results of the audit. Please take a look!"

Ye Mingsheng became interested after hearing that, and immediately took the memorial and started reading it. After continuous thinking during this period of time, Ye Mingsheng had decided to split up the Dadongsheng Company, and the audit work was the investigation and investigation that Ye Mingsheng conducted on the Dadongsheng Company before the formal splitting up of the company...

Ye Mingsheng only glanced at the audit report two or three times, and his expression immediately became gloomy. According to the investigation in this report, there were 91 shopkeepers with an annual salary of more than 100 taels in the Dadongsheng Company. They were distributed in branches in various places, and there were a total of 3,612 formal clerks!
Of these 91 shopkeepers, about 80% have problems. As for the clerks, since they generally have little power, the number of people with problems may be less, but it is still 30% to 50%. This has also led to the collapse of Dadongsheng branches in many places.
At present, there should be 515,100 taels of silver in the accounts of Dadongsheng Company, but the actual warehouse has a total of 362,010 taels of silver. This means that more than 150,000 taels of silver that should have been in the warehouse have now disappeared and no one knows where they went.

As for the most important branch of Dadongsheng Bank, there are currently 5.15 million taels of silver deposited by depositors in Dadongsheng Bank. Most of this silver has been loaned to nearly 800,000 households. There are still about 500,000 taels of silver in the account. According to Ye Mingsheng’s previous request, this part of the silver is regarded as deposits, and is not regarded as the assets of Dadongsheng Bank!
To be honest, Ye Mingsheng had been mentally prepared for the seriousness of the problems in Dadongsheng. After all, there were problems with the first chief manager Ye Hongsheng and the second manager Ye Baode. With such a chief manager, the people below would definitely follow suit!
However, at the beginning of the year, Ye Mingsheng had already conducted a wave of cleaning up within Dadongsheng Company because of Ye Baode’s incident. He had discovered many problems and dealt with a number of people. Therefore, Ye Mingsheng originally thought that the problems of Dadongsheng Company had been improved to some extent.

However, judging from this audit report, Ye Mingsheng's idea was just wishful thinking. The roots of Dadongsheng Company were rotten to the core. Splitting up Dadongsheng Company was inevitable and was something that had to be done at this stage!
After thinking about it for a while, Ye Mingsheng already had some ideas about splitting up the Dadongsheng Company. In fact, although the Dadongsheng Company was involved in many industries such as grain, cloth, salt, etc., its most core asset was the bill exchange business!
Although Ye Mingsheng has issued licenses to some approved ticket houses in the past few years, Dadongsheng Company has absorbed the most private silver because it has the endorsement of the court, and the amount is almost equal to the sum of the other ticket houses!
In addition, the debt of millions of taels of silver was nominally issued by the Dadongsheng Company, so Ye Mingsheng needed to be extremely cautious in dealing with the split of the Dadongsheng Company in order to avoid panic among the people and the possible run on the bank!

Ye Mingsheng’s idea now is very simple. He will not announce the news of splitting up Dadongsheng Company first, but start to deal with those termites. Although Ye Mingsheng wants to clean up all these termites, he is helpless that the number of termites is too large!

If Ye Mingsheng takes a one-size-fits-all approach, then there is no doubt that the Dadongsheng Company will be paralyzed and may cause panic among the people...

If a bank run is triggered, the current bank reserves of Dadongsheng Company will definitely not be able to withstand it, and no bank in the world will be able to withstand the run!

Therefore, if a bank run really occurs, resulting in depositors being unable to get money from the bank, this will definitely cause some trouble. Although Ye Mingsheng can use some methods to solve this problem at that time, it will inevitably affect the people's trust in the credit of the bank.

Therefore, in order to take the overall situation into consideration, Ye Mingsheng's idea is to deal with them in batches. For those shopkeepers who are involved in large amounts of money, measures must be taken against them in order to demonstrate the laws of the Great Zhou and serve as a warning to others. As for those who are involved in relatively smaller amounts of money, Ye Mingsheng's idea is that as long as they are willing to return the stolen money, their punishment can be reduced.

Once the internal cleanup is almost complete, the news of the split of Dadongsheng Company can be announced. Ye Mingsheng's current idea is that Dadongsheng Company will only retain the most core bill exchange business, and Dadongsheng Company will become Dadongsheng Bill Exchange and inherit all the debts of Dadongsheng Company.

As for the other assets of Dadongsheng Company, Ye Mingsheng's idea is to sell the non-performing assets with poor returns as much as possible, so as to recover funds to redeem bonds in advance to reassure people's hearts, and to establish some other companies with the remaining assets and put them under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue...
So the only problem now is the selection of the manager of Dadongsheng Bank. The current manager in charge of the business of Dadongsheng Bank is called Ren Hai. Ye Mingsheng has an impression of this person. Previously, Ren Hai was in charge of the trade between Dadongsheng Bank and Jiangnan. He and Ye Hongsheng, the then chief manager of Dadongsheng Bank, had reported to Ye Mingsheng together!
During the report, Ren Hai left a good impression on Ye Mingsheng. In Ye Mingsheng's memory, although Ren Hai had a plain appearance and nothing worth noting, he was quick-witted and logical, very proficient in the business he was responsible for, and had excellent business capabilities! It was for this reason that Ye Mingsheng later transferred Ren Hai to be in charge of the ticket business of Dadongsheng Company, and gave him the core business of Dadongsheng Company!
In the current audit, although the bill exchange business is not 100% clean and also has some problems, compared with other businesses of Dadongsheng Company, the bill exchange business that Ren Hai is responsible for can be said to be much cleaner!

Originally, Ye Mingsheng also admired Ren Hai and thought that he was a talent who deserved to be trained. With more experience, he might become a pillar of the court in the future!

But recently, the internal security reported to Ye Mingsheng that Ren Hai has been trying to curry favor with An Miaoyi through some channels in order to gain An Miaoyi's help in becoming the third general manager of Dadongsheng Trading Company!
As for An Miaoyi, she had learned from her previous experience, so she was very calm in the face of Ren Hai's kindness, and did not express her acceptance of Ren Hai...

Originally, Ye Mingsheng wanted to let Ren Hai continue to be in charge of the Dadongsheng Bank, but Ren Hai's attempt to curry favor with An Miao greatly reduced Ye Mingsheng's favorability towards him!

Ye Mingsheng is now also considering letting someone else take over the Dadongsheng Bank, and he has a possible candidate. This person is called Liu Xinjie. He is currently an imperial censor in the Censorate and has never done business in the past!
The reason why Ye Mingsheng chose him is that Liu Xinjie is one of the few honest officials in the Yijing court. His work style is very strong and even impeccable!
Secondly, although Liu Xinjie had no business experience, his father had been the manager of a bank. Liu Xinjie grew up in a bank and, under the influence of his father, he had a good understanding of the working methods and content of the bank.
Precisely because of this, Liu Xinjie, who had served as the censor for some time before, had submitted memorials to Ye Mingsheng several times, reporting some problems existing in the operation of the banknote exchange. Ren Hai's predecessor, Zhao Kuan, who was in charge of the banknote exchange business of Dadongsheng Company, was arrested as a result of Liu Xinjie's report.

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng's current idea is to let Liu Xinjie be the chief manager of Dadongsheng Bank, and then let Ren Hai be the second manager. This will also be a supervision and warning to Ren Hai.

Ye Mingsheng hoped that in this way, Ren Hai would wake up and focus on business, and think about doing a good job in the bank's performance in order to get a promotion, instead of focusing on scheming and thinking about getting a promotion by relying on some dignitaries...

Ye Mingsheng recognized Ren Hai's ability from the beginning to the end, so Ye Mingsheng was willing to give him another chance to reform.

In fact, the problems of the Dadongsheng Company are only part of the problems of the Yijing court. Ye Mingsheng has always been very clear that whether it is the previous Fengwu military power or the current Yijing court, they are all derived from the political system of the Great Zhou Dynasty. So even though Ye Mingsheng has made many reforms, some things are still inevitable. After all, the limitations of the feudal system are here!

These problems did not arise in one day, it was just that the rapid development of the Fengwu Army before covered up this problem!
In fact, there has always been a voice within the Fengwu Army that believes Ye Mingsheng is warmongering. Since its establishment, the Fengwu Army has been either fighting or preparing for war, and the financial burden has always been heavy, so they hope that the Fengwu Army can take a break, let the finances take a breath, and then continue on the path of expansion!

Ye Mingsheng had also considered this idea, but in the end Ye Mingsheng did not adopt this suggestion. The reason was that Ye Mingsheng was worried that once the Fengwu Army stopped, various internal problems would erupt. By then, the team would be demoralized and might never be able to recover to their previous state!

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng would rather be heavily in debt and risk a financial explosion to get rid of Xu Zhaojie, Lu Jianchao and others. Facts have proved that Ye Mingsheng won the gamble. The Fengwu Army recovered a lot of blood from Jiangnan, and the financial crisis was also brought under control...
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng no longer hesitated and made the final decision. After dealing with this matter, Ye Mingsheng originally thought that there was nothing else to do. Unexpectedly, Song Haibo handed him another letter and said:

"Sir, Mrs. Pei wrote you a letter from home!"

When Ye Mingsheng heard that Pei Zhixiu had written a letter to him, he immediately became interested and opened the envelope to read it.

Like the previous letters, Pei Zhixiu showed concern for Ye Mingsheng's recent situation and told him that Ye Jingxuan had grown taller and was now as tall as Pei Zhixiu's shoulders. Ye Mingsheng's youngest daughter, Ye Yiren, was now able to call her parents and could walk a few steps on her own!
Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but reveal a faint smile on his face. To be honest, he had been away from home for almost half a year. Although traveling and investigations had occupied most of Ye Mingsheng's energy during the past six months, when it was late at night, Ye Mingsheng inevitably felt a little homesick.

This is actually one of the reasons why Ye Mingsheng did not go to Sichuan and Shu for inspection. After all, it would take about three months to go to Sichuan and Shu for inspection. By the time he returns to Yijing, it might be March of next year. By then, Ye Mingsheng would have been away from home for a year. Ye Mingsheng never thought of himself as a saint. He was also a mortal with seven emotions and six desires, so he also had his own selfish desires!
Looking at the last content of Pei Zhixiu's letter, Ye Mingsheng's expression became serious.

Pei Zhixiu said that Murong Qingwu came to her and told her that some of Ye Mingsheng's reform measures were too hasty. Although some ministers opposed it in their hearts, they could only remain silent due to Ye Mingsheng's intimidation. So Murong Qingwu hoped that Pei Zhixiu could persuade Ye Mingsheng to curb his radicalism, act within his ability and make a fresh start with the people!

Pei Zhixiu told Ye Mingsheng that she didn’t understand reform and ZZ, but she felt that Ye Mingsheng could listen to the opinions of the officials. After all, these people were loyal officials who had followed Ye Mingsheng all the way. They were the cornerstone of the current Yijing court and Ye Mingsheng’s most loyal supporters.·························

(End of this chapter)