East Plant.

"Dudu, now that the evidence over there is conclusive, Shen Shixing is about to arrest someone."

A eunuch said to Zhang Whale with a humble expression.

Zhang Whale was sipping tea and said unhurriedly: "Has the matter been investigated clearly?" ”

The eunuch said: "We already have solid evidence, all this is a trap designed by Guo Dan, he has long secretly ordered Chen Fangyuan to buy those silks, and then lured the four official teeth to buy them, and now he has arranged for someone to complain." ”

Zhang Whale frowned slightly and said, "That's fifteen thousand pieces of silk!" He must have spent a lot of money. ”

"Yes. Guo Dan spent almost 30,000 taels to buy those silk ones. The eunuch said.

Zhang Whale couldn't help but close his eyes and sigh when he heard this, and said, "I really didn't see it, it turned out that that kid was so ruthless, and this time he actually wanted their lives." ”

The eunuch said: "Governor, many ministers in the court have a very close relationship with Jiang Shiyou and others. ”

Zhang Whale squinted, "What do you think should be done?" ”

The eunuch pondered for a moment and said, "We can use this to bring Guo Dan in." ”

Zhang Whale was silent for a while, and said: "You let people tell them and let them bear all of them, at most, they will be confiscated from their family property and distributed to the army, and this crime will not lead to death." ”

The eunuch was slightly stunned, and said cautiously: "If the governor is afraid, we can let them bear it all, and at the same time testify against Guo Dan, in this way, it will not make Guo Dan feel better." ”

Zhang Whale said: "What do they use to testify against Guo Dan? It was they who were greedy first, speculating in timber, and wanted to make a fortune from Guo Dan, even if the evidence we investigated, it could only prove that Guo Dan bought the fifteen thousand pieces of cloth, and in addition, nothing could be proved, and the reason why the price of silk and satin really rose was ...... Alas.. Hurry up and do it. ”

"Yes."

After the eunuch went out, Zhang Whale's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he said, "This kid is really a little tricky!" ”

At the foot of this son of heaven, it is very difficult to hide from the eyes and ears of the factory guards, and it is easy to rectify Guo Dan with the means of Dongchang, but Zhang Whale knows that the manipulator behind Guo Dan is actually Wanli, where can Guo Dan get so much money, it is all Wanli's money, and Dongchang and Jinyiwei are both minions of the emperor, no one they check, they can't check the emperor, because they and the emperor are one, investigating the emperor is not the same as investigating themselves.

How can there be a reason to dig your own pit and bury yourself.

Zhang Whale was very helpless, he had 10,000 ways to make Guo Dan's head different, but Guo Dan was holding Wanli's fat leg, and he didn't dare to guarantee that he would cut off Guo Dan's head without hurting Wanli's thigh.

After the merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou filed a lawsuit, the timber merchants in the capital also went to sue the four major officials for forcibly buying and speculating in timber.

This is really the wall falling down and everyone pushing it, beating the water dogs.

They all took the contract to sue.

The black and white words are enough to prove that Jiang Shiyou and others are holding a small amount of money and buying several times the goods, which is not speculation.

Especially the contract of the timber merchant, at a glance, I knew that it was to speculate on the price of timber and deal with Guo Dan.

Anyway, Guo Dan contracted the pasture of the imperial court, and nominally raised horses for the imperial court, you are here to make money from the imperial court.

Shen Shixing immediately ordered someone to arrest Jiang Shiyou and others.

He also knew that the four major officials had an official background, and they had close relationships with many ministers in the court, and no one would care about them in normal times, but he had no way to take care of these now, because it had affected the emperor's reputation.

Wanli said very clearly at that time that this matter must be investigated clearly, otherwise, the people will blame him.

And this price rise, there must be someone to blame.

In other words, the four official teeth died unjustly this time, because this time it was not Guo Dan who dealt with them alone, but there was still the emperor cooperating with Guo Dan, how could they bear it.

Overnight, the four official teeth who had infinite scenery were bankrupt and became prisoners of the ranks.

Having said that, if the four official teeth had known earlier that Guo Dan wanted their lives, with their financial resources, they would still be able to fill these holes, but they never thought that Guo Dan would use the government to deal with them, and at the last moment, they were still trying to find a way to stop the loss, they were used to making money, and they would lose tens of thousands of taels, which seemed to be their lives.

It's really unsaved.

But they have also been in the capital for so many years, they have seen countless people die, and they know the stakes here, if they don't bear it, it will definitely be wiped out, and they can't hold anyone hostage, so they went to the government, didn't say a word, and took it all down, and they didn't have much justification.

Shen Shixing didn't plan to investigate it deeply, if he wanted to study it deeply, he would have to talk about it, because many ministers in the court and the central government supported them to deal with Guo Dan.

And those ministers also have ghosts in their hearts, and when they saw that the four official teeth were all beared, they didn't dare to speak out.

The trial was completed in one day.

All the family property was confiscated, and the family was charged with the army.

However, Wanli did not let Shen Shixing to carry it out, but let Zhang Whale do it, if Shen Shixing copied it, it would be copied to the treasury, and Zhang Whale copied it, which was copied to the inner library, which is essentially different.

Wanli has never been short of money.

.....．

"Grandpa, we're here."

Liu Chengbian supported Liu Zongcheng and appeared in a small alley opposite Jiang's mansion.

Liu Zongcheng raised his head slightly, staring at the seal on the door of the house in a daze, and after a while, he sighed heavily: "Fortunately, my old bones still have some use value for him, otherwise it would ......." ”

Liu Chengbian said: "But grandpa, isn't he too vicious in doing this, the four official teeth didn't want his life at the beginning, but he ......." ”

Liu Zongcheng shook his head: "It's not that the four official teeth don't want his life, but they don't have the ability. But when we deal with him in the future, we can all keep an extra mind, this kid eats people and doesn't spit out bones. ”

.....．

Shen Shixing closed the case as soon as possible, and the purpose was also to end the matter and prevent the decline of silk, but unfortunately it had no effect, and the price of silk was still falling.

This is because Guo Dan is also secretly manipulating, he will not be sentimental for the bankruptcy of the four official teeth, just die, since he wants to play here, then he should be prepared for this, there is actually no difference between ancient and modern China and foreign countries, how many years later, there are many people jumping off Wall Street.

When the silk fell below four points per foot, Guo Dan finally made a move.

But instead of sweeping the silk on the market, he secretly sent people to negotiate with the tooth merchants who sold silk and satin, and bought the silk in their hands at a price of four and a half per foot, which was five miles lower than the original price, that is, he did not make them lose money, and he also earned some running expenses, and the price was that those tooth men would become employees of their tooth shop.

Those tooth people were already frightened, and they fell like this, but they really lost their money, the key is that they don't know what to do, they have the heart to jump into the river, at this time Guo Dan gave a helping hand, but it really saved their lives, and they couldn't wait to kneel down for Guo Dan.

After the acquisition was completed, Guo Dan did not move the price, and asked those Suzhou and Hangzhou merchants to send the 15,000 pieces of silk to the capital as originally planned.

Originally, the silk was falling, everyone was watching, and there were 15,000 horses here, how can this price go up, the key is who you sell it to.

At this time, Wanli finally convened a court meeting to discuss the rise in prices.

He first took the case of the four official teeth and criticized it fiercely, the court hired the official teeth in the hope that they would balance prices, but they used the power given by the court to speculate and speculate, this is really unreasonable, in the future, we must not tolerate and raise traitors, we must be strict with the law.

Among them is the restriction on the clothing of the carriage and horses.

That is to say, Wanli will really send Jinyi guards to inspect everywhere, and what class has to wear what color clothes, and they can't wear them indiscriminately, otherwise, they will have to do things according to the law.

Immediately, many ministers stood up and told Wanli that this is unforbidden, the people are rich, and they will definitely want to wear something good, and the restrictions on the clothing of the carriage and horses have never been strictly implemented since Taizu, and many people can't figure out what they can and can't wear.

How many people have to be arrested.

It will disturb people's livelihood.

It was concluded that, rather than restricting them, it would be better to abolish the restrictions on the clothing of chariots and horses.

Many of them are for their own sake, their main income is not Yulu, the Ming Dynasty officials' Yulu is pitifully low, their income is from silk and grain, because only they can get a large area of land to plant mulberry trees, every minister standing in front of the gate of the emperor, but they are big landowners, no matter how rich the merchants are not as much as their land.

Now that the silk has fallen like this, if you go down with this order, it will be completely unsaved, and now it is only the capital that is falling, but once the policy is introduced, it will be national, then they are really a heavy loss.

When self-interest is involved, that's a different story.

Let his previous officials and scholars prevent Wanli from abolishing the restrictions on carriages and horses, not because this is really not abolished, which emperor does not abolish the ancestral system, this is just a kind of inertia, they are just to restrict the emperor, anything out of the ordinary, your emperor can't touch it, you have to be the emperor in our minds, that is, the set of Confucianism.

And Wanli hates this the most, you eat fragrant food below, drink spicy food, wives and concubines are in groups, I am specially locked in the palace, I have to review the chapter every day, three dynasties a day, dare to love me, the emperor's life is not as good as you, then why should I be this emperor, if all of you are like Hai Rui, then I have three days a day, and I don't have to complain.

Wanli thinks so, of course it's wrong, how much power you have, how much responsibility you have, but Wanli is not a god, he is also a person, of course he will feel unfair.

However, of course, Wanli would not fight with them in this matter, and reluctantly announced in the court that the restrictions on the clothing of chariots and horses would be lifted.

Originally, Wanli assumed that you would pay taxes first so that you could not be within this limit.

But I was persuaded by Guo Dan, don't make up my mind about that little money, even if this tax is set, it is just cheap for those officials, who paid who didn't pay, who wore it and who didn't wear it, you don't know, not they have the final say, and they will be complained by the people, so they will be directly dismissed, and we will make money by selling silk.

With this lifting, the price of silk soared immediately, and the price per foot rose to six cents in an instant, and the prices of dyes, wood, and horses all rose, after all, wood was needed to make a carriage.

Qianqing Palace.

"How much do we earn now?"

Wanli looked at Guo Dan excitedly.

Now that the whole thing has settled, it's time to divide the spoils.

Guo Dan said: "Back to Your Majesty, we have purchased a total of 30,000 pieces of silk and satin, at the current price, the average income per foot is one and a half cents, and each horse earns six dollars, just the silk in our hands now, we will earn about 20,000 taels, plus the profit from the sale of silk and satin when the silk rose before, it is estimated that we made about 26,700 taels." ”

He said, afraid that Wanli would be dissatisfied, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, this is only a small part, we are now buying all the timber in the capital at a low price, and these timbers will bring us at least sixty or seventy thousand taels of profits, counting together, this time, we will get at least one hundred thousand taels of pure profits." ”

Wanli exclaimed, "So much? ”

Guo Dan said with a smile: "The humble position once told His Majesty that we don't need to pay a penny to build the ranch and the racecourse, which has been reflected in the new racecourse, and they are fighting for a thatched hut, the reason is very simple, it is because the thatched hut is on the edge of the racecourse."

But they plan to build restaurants, inns, tea shops, and so on near the racecourse, and then those merchants will definitely rush to come, and first of all, they will give us a sum of money, and they will pay for the construction themselves, and the timber will have to be bought from us, and now the timber is in our hands, and the price is naturally not cheap. ”

Wanli took a breath of cool air and thought to himself, it turns out that trading can still do this.