After some time, the Salt Inspection Department officially began to collect taxes, and sure enough, they collected taxes at the rate of one thousandth of the state, and the salt merchants were very happy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info81.%81zw. Although there is a lot of money in the regulations, it is still very little compared to the high tax burden of the provinces and counties, and it quickly spread, and some big salt merchants in other places also came to Shenwu County to set up shops. Soon, there were more and more salt merchants, and the houses and shops became nervous.

Salt merchant shops are easy to solve, some ordinary houses, as long as the salt merchants are willing to pay a high price, they will buy it, and a little repair is a shop. But the house is troublesome, some salt merchants like a relatively large house, they have to build their own, close to the city wall of the new city has become the first place, here the population is relatively loose, there are some vacant land, is the county yamen, the salt merchants and the county to negotiate, from the county yamen to buy land to build a house. Like the house, the owners of some shops, who also fancy the lot close to the city wall, have followed suit, and for a while, the vacant land in the new city of the gods was snapped up, and the county yamen really made a fortune.

Because the price of the county is not high, a set of homestead is only 1ooo two silver, and there are 5o million sets of vacant land, and the intervention of salt merchants makes the vacant land in demand, everyone is crazy to rob, and it is sold out all of a sudden, and the county magistrate got 500 million taels of silver, but there is no room for the county seat of the gods. Long Xiao saw that this was not a way, and the salt merchants stored land and sold it at a price, which was a bad phenomenon. The new city was occupied by the salt merchants in this way, so Long Xiao discussed with the magistrate that those who bought the land would not be used within a year, and those who did not build houses would be recovered. As a result, there was a wave of building houses in the county seat of Shenwu.

Long Xiao saw that he really couldn't deal with these salt merchants, there were as many as 5ooo salt merchants in Shenwu County, and the worst ones were millions of taels of silver, and a small Shenwu County couldn't control them economically. Although Long Xiao had a little headache, Lu Zhixian was happy. Unexpectedly, so many wealthy salt merchants came to Shenwu County, and they snatched the remaining land in Shenwu County at once, and the county magistrate Yamen got 500 million taels of silver out of thin air, so Lu Zhixian thought about it and took the silver for himself.

It is clear that corruption is not good, there is also the county below, and the supervision of the master book, not to mention embezzlement of 500 million taels, even five taels of silver is impossible. Lu Yanshou thought about it for a long time, but still had an idea, so he found Hu Xueyan from Hu's Qianzhuang: "Boss Hu, I have something to discuss with you, do you have time?" ”。 Hu Xueyan is in business, so he naturally knows that the Yamen of Shenwu County, with 500 million taels of silver, will naturally look for himself, because the interest on the Hu family is 50%, and there will be 250,000 taels of silver every year, which is a huge wealth, if Lu Yanshou gets this batch of silver, he will resign and quit, and it will be enough.

All the money houses in Shenwu County have been swallowed up by Hu's money village, and only Hu's money village is left, so Hu Xueyan concluded that Lu Zhixian will find his own sooner or later, because only if it is stored in the money bank, will it earn interest, and Lu Zhixian will have the opportunity to be greedy for ink and silver. However, Hu Xueyan had already thought about it, as long as Lu Yanshou opened his mouth, Hu Xueyan would squeeze Lu Zhixian very fiercely. In other words, the interest will definitely not be five percent, it must be pressed to the minimum, or even no interest, so that Hu's money will make a lot of money.

"Lord Lu, if there is anything to say, I don't have anything else, but I have silver, can't Lord Lu borrow silver?" Hu Xueyan naturally said this deliberately, Lu Yanshou now has 500 million taels of silver, how can he borrow money. Lu Yanshou smiled: "Boss Hu, our county has earned 500 million taels of silver, don't you know, I want to deposit it in your bank, how about it?" ”。

When Hu Xueyan heard this, he pretended to be crying: "Lu Zhixian, you may not know that because the salt merchants have entered Shenwu County and have a huge cash flow, many shops do not lend money, although the interest on our loans is not high, but because the loans are not much, our bank is unable to make ends meet; In the past, the deposit of silver was 5% interest, if it is at this price, our money bank can not stand it at all, I think, you still exist in other money banks, our Hu money bank, small households, this silver is too much, we can't afford to pay a huge amount of interest." Lu Zhixian turned yellow when he heard this.

Lu Zhixian thought that if he deposited the 500 million taels of silver into the Hu family's bank, even if the deposit interest was a little lower and he had some kickbacks, he would have at least a few million taels of silver, and he would just make a handful of it himself, even if he transferred it away, the silver would be able to be earned. Now listening to Hu Xueyan, people are not enthusiastic about saving money by themselves, and their plans have failed.

Lu Zhixian thought about it, no, he couldn't come for nothing, he must do this business, so he said to Hu Xueyan: "Boss Hu, as long as you are willing for us to deposit 500 million taels of silver into your bank, our county magistrate is willing to lower the interest rate", Hu Xueyan still did not let go: "Lord Lu, I just said, your silver base is too large, our money village temple is small, and we can't afford to pay your interest, if you don't want interest, I can consider it, if you want interest, forget it, you still have to deposit it in other money banks."

Lu Zhixian looked embarrassed: "Boss Hu, aren't you embarrassed for me, all the money houses in Shenwu County are all branches of the Hu family's money bank, where do you let me go to save, is it possible to go to other counties?" I'm just going to other counties, I heard that 8 percent of the money is also from the Hu family, and I'm not looking for you, can't I be accommodating? ”。 Hu Xueyan saw that the heat was almost over, so he smiled and said: "Lu Zhixian, let's do it, there is no interest, but we have rebates, what do you think?" As soon as Lu Yanshou heard that there was a kickback, his eyes lit up.

"How much is the rebate?" , Hu Xueyan said with a smile: "Then it depends on how much silver you save, if it is 500 million taels, I will give you a rebate of 1ooo thousand taels of silver, but let's say okay, of which 400 million taels is fixed, and 100 million taels is current, how about it?" ”。 Lu Yanshou was a little puzzled: "What do you say about current accounts?" How do you say it on a regular basis? ”。 Hu Xueyan: "That's right, 100 million taels for 5 years, 100 million taels for 4 years, 100 million taels for three years and two years, and the last 100 million taels are current, which can be accessed at any time, that is, the county can only take out 100 million taels every year, what do you think?" ”。

When Lu Yanshou heard that there was 100 million taels every year, it was enough to spend for a magistrate, so he agreed with Hu Xueyan's statement. Lu Yanshou asked the master to deposit all the 500 million taels of silver into the Hu family's bank, and the interest was zero, but Lu Yanshou got Hu Xueyan's 1ooo taels of silver on the spot. After Lu Zhixian got the silver, he knew that he couldn't contain the fire in the paper, and he would know about it sooner or later after contacting several other county officials, especially Long Xiao, who heard that he had a very good relationship with the boss of Hu's money bank, and he would hear about it sooner or later, and he couldn't swallow it alone.

So, Lu Yanshou gave four million taels, 1oo taels to the county Cheng Longxiao, 1oo taels to the master book, 1oo taels to his master, and 1oo taels to Dian Shiwu, which can be regarded as blocking the mouths of the four people. Long Xiao felt that it didn't matter, anyway, this silver, as long as the capital was there, Lu Zhixian was still benevolent, there was no greed for ink, just a kickback for greed, Long Xiao had no choice but to close his eyes. In this way, Lu Yanshou was greedy for the benefits of 6oo taels of silver.

Afterwards, Long Xiao found Hu Xueyan and asked what was going on, and Hu Xueyan told Long Xiao: "Lord Long, do you mean that it's a little dark for me to do this?" ”。 Long Xiao said with a smile: "Originally, it was an interest rate of five percent, and a deposit of five hundred million taels of silver for a year is 25ooo taels, you are good, and you are forced to deposit in the county for five years, and then you will give 1ooo million benefits, you are too dark."

Hu Xueyan smiled and said: "Lord Long, after I finish speaking, you won't say that I am black-hearted: there are so many salt merchants in our county, their cash is a sky-high amount, although they all go to our money village, but the salt merchants are very few loans, only deposits, this year is just the deposit of the salt merchants in Shenwu County is 2.5 billion taels, such a huge base, if they all get interest from the money bank, our money bank will not be able to bear it, therefore, the new rule I set in Shenwu County is that after 1oo taels of silver, the deposit is no interest, I have now given Lu Zhixian 1ooo 10,000 taels of silver, and that is for your sake."

"Besides, our Hu's money village is not short of silver at all now, you inject 6oo million catties of gold every year, that is 6o billion silver, our money village is more and more now, if it is not for the bank ticket, it will not be able to bear it at all, but, Lord Long, you can rest assured, Hu's money village I will run it for you."