Chapter 52

A cold glint flashed in Yin Qi's eyes; he hated these people who fawned over foreigners the most.

Oppressing the common people internally, and fawning over foreigners externally.

Sooner or later, he will deal with them all.

Yin Qi said lightly: "700,000 silver dollars, I have already prepared it. Where is the loan contract?"

"Wha... what?"

Jason and Davis both widened their eyes in disbelief.

God!

Are these natives all this rich?

Any family can raise 700,000 silver dollars in one day!

The assistant prefect was also stunned, a flash of greed appearing in his eyes.

This Yin family is really damn rich!

The matter of Yin Xuan borrowing money from the Zhang family money shop is currently in a state of confidentiality, and outsiders don't know about it at all.

Yin Qi's voice deepened: "I said, the money is already prepared, where is the contract?"

"Oh, oh."

Davis came back to his senses and hurriedly took out the contract: "This is the contract."

The assistant prefect happened to be there, so under his witness, Yin Qi handed over the silver notes and promissory notes for 700,000 silver dollars to Davis, and Davis verified that there were no problems with the silver notes and promissory notes.

Davis was very excited, his mouth almost splitting open.

He didn't know the whole plan, only thinking it was a trap to pit the Yin family.

Anyway, according to Jason's promise, he could get 100,000 silver dollars.

This is equivalent to his salary for a hundred years; with this money, he could completely return to England and live the life of an upper-class person.

Jason, however, was very unwilling, because their plan had failed.

Without annexing the Yin family, although he could still get quite a bit, it was at least half less.

But what could he do if he was unwilling?

Yin Qi said lightly: "Gentlemen, the loan has been paid off, please leave my house now."

"Hmph!"

Jason snorted coldly and turned to leave.

Davis was smiling and even greeted Yin Qi before leaving: "Dear Yin, as long as I am still in Shanghai, you are welcome to come to our HSBC Bank to handle loan business, I will definitely give you the best interest rate."

The assistant prefect originally wanted to get some benefits before leaving, but looking at Yin Qi's indifferent eyes, he felt a sudden panic, a feeling that even exceeded when he met the Governor-General.

So, he didn't want to stay any longer and hurriedly took his men away.

Seeing everyone leave, the head steward also let out a long sigh of relief, then frowned and said: "Second Young Master, now that the money is paid, what about the steam engine factory?"

In order for this steam engine factory to be put into production as soon as possible, Yin Chengtao had been eating and living in the factory.

It was not easy to open up the supply chain, and it was not easy to wait for all the equipment to be installed, and the foreign technicians were already training workers, but now it was going to be dismantled.

Yin Qi said lightly: "If they want to dismantle it, let them dismantle it themselves. Perhaps, he might forget about this matter."

"Ah... ah!"

The head steward was stunned and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head.

That is equipment worth 850,000; how could that foreign devil forget.

Yin Qi asked again: "By the way, how much of the family's antiques and jewelry have not been pawned, and how much money has been recovered?"

The head steward said: "Nearly half has been pawned, recovering 30,000 silver dollars. Second Young Master, the money we have in hand is enough to maintain the family's business operations, let's not pawn any more. Our Shanyin is only so big, if we continue to pawn, it will constantly lower the prices."

Yin Qi thought for a moment and nodded: "Then as you say. Let's go, accompany me for a walk. I don't even know how many businesses the family has, and I should also recognize the people."

"Alright, Second Young Master!"

The head steward nodded.

Now that the eldest young master's life is hanging by a thread, and the old master is bedridden, this family can only rely on Yin Qi.

If it were in the past, he certainly wouldn't trust Yin Qi either.

But Yin Qi was able to turn the tide, borrow 500,000 silver dollars from the Zhang family, and let the Yin family survive the life-and-death crisis, so he knew that this second young master was definitely not as simple as he looked on the surface.

A day passed in a hurry.

Yin Qi met many people in charge and finally had a very clear understanding of his family's industries.

The Yin family's industries are very broad, but mainly in three areas: first, tea mountains; second, farmland; third, the textile industry.

The tea mountains and farmland were passed down from the Yin family's ancestors, with five tea mountains and over 30,000 mu of various farmlands. Basically, Yin Qi doesn't need to worry about these; there are mature management personnel below, and he just needs to audit the account books at the end of each year.

The textile industry includes silk and cotton textiles, owning a series of factories that can process silkworm cocoons and cotton into finished silk and cloth, among which silk is mainly exported, and cloth is sold domestically.

In fact, the Yin family also has some other factories, such as match factories, flour mills, etc., but the scale is relatively small.

Night fell, steam engine factory.

Yin Qi didn't return to the city, because when he was inspecting the steam engine factory, the sun had already set, and if he rushed back, the city gates would definitely be closed, so he simply didn't go back.

The head steward was also surprised; the steam engine factory's equipment was going to be dismantled, so there was nothing for the second young master to look at.

The night was deep, and because it was a cloudy day, the stars were covered by clouds, and the whole world was pitch black.

Walking outside, you couldn't see your fingers.

The steam engine factory is located in the southern suburbs of the city, near the river, about ten miles away from the prefecture city.

In such a pitch-black suburb, a figure was running fast.

This person was Yin Qi.

Jason and Davis colluded to set a trap for the Yin family, not only cheating them out of 700,000 silver dollars but also very likely killing his eldest brother Yin Xuan; how could he let this matter rest?

Tonight is the time for blood debts to be paid in blood.

If he misses tonight, once Davis returns to Shanghai, it won't be easy for him to take revenge.

Tonight's operation is not only for revenge, but he also wants to snatch back the silver notes and promissory notes for those 700,000 silver dollars.

At the same time, after killing Jason, all the equipment in the steam engine factory will naturally belong to him.

He wants to start an uprising next, and the steam engine factory is very important to him, because this factory can use machines to manufacture machines, so he can use it to produce the equipment needed for manufacturing guns and cannons.

For tonight's plan, Yin Qi specially inspected the industries for a day and deliberately stayed overnight at the steam engine factory, just to make people feel that he didn't have the conditions to commit the crime.

First of all, on the surface, he is still an ordinary person.

Although he started practicing martial arts, he hasn't practiced for long, so his strength definitely isn't much.

Secondly, from the steam engine factory to the prefecture city, it's over thirty miles round trip. On such a pitch-black night, walking at night without a torch is a problem, let alone climbing over the city wall.

But these are not problems for Yin Qi.

Because he can see at night; although his vision is very blurry, walking is no problem, it's equivalent to being nearsighted, just not seeing clearly, not to the point of stepping into a mud ditch or a river.

As for the city wall, it's over five meters high.

This height for ordinary people, without a ladder, they can only stare.

But for him, over five meters high, a running start is enough to climb up, so climbing over the city wall is not difficult.

Half an hour later.

Yin Qi came to the city wall, he took a quick running start, then jumped with all his might, his body jumped high, his hands silently rested on the top of the city wall, and then with another pull-up, he was on the city wall.

Shaoxing hasn't had any wars for a long time, the city wall is a bit dilapidated, and the defense on the city wall is also very lax.

Yin Qi's actions didn't attract any attention.

He quietly got off the city wall and headed straight for the prefecture government office, because he had already let Yin Hai find out clearly yesterday that Jason, Davis, and other foreigners were all staying at the prefecture government office.

Yesterday they went to find the prefect, and the prefect treated them as distinguished guests.

(End of chapter)