After Zhu Youlang took Yangzhou, the most tangled thing was how to deal with these rich businessmen.

Yangzhou is rich in the world, and these businessmen are all rich and rival the country.

Zhu Youlang was still skeptical about this before, but now he is completely convinced.

Just the mansions of these businessmen are all mansions worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the mansion of Zhou Yuanzhao, the richest man in Yangzhou, occupies a huge area, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miniature version of the Forbidden City.

Compared with it, Zhu Youlang's palaces in Kunming and Chengdu are a little shabby.

These wealthy businessmen and giants in Yangzhou City must have millions of taels of property together, and they can't get ten million taels.

Even for the Ming army, this is a huge amount of money.

This silver was enough for the Ming army to consume for a year, or even longer.

However, Zhu Youlang, as the son of Zhengshuo of the Ming Dynasty, could not directly raid these businessmen without scruples.

Everything has to have a reason.

Zhu Youlang picked out at most one typical example and set an example to beat those businessmen who didn't understand the rules.

It would be great if these merchants could obediently hand over the silver as a filial piety.

If Zhu Youlang blindly uses strength, the silver will definitely be obtained, but it is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs.

This will greatly stimulate the merchant community.

Those merchants under the rule of the Qing army would have tried their best to fund the Qing army when they heard the news. Because they knew that once the city was broken, their fate would be the same as that of these merchants in Yangzhou.

This is what Zhu Youlang never wants to see.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is Zhengshuo, and it can't be arbitrarily demanded like the grass platform team.

In the end, Zhu Youlang decided to set up a banquet to entertain the wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou City.

This feast can be seen as a feast of the Hongmen.

Zhu Youlang can be beaten at the banquet, hinting that the merchants take the initiative to donate silver.

I believe that as long as there is some political consciousness, they will immediately donate money to ensure safety.

Of course, it's okay to pretend to be dead and stupid, so it's no wonder that Zhu Youlang is ruthless.

Zhu Youlang is not Chongzhen, and he can't tolerate the businessmen being so bullied.

After several trade-offs, the venue for the banquet was chosen in Yangzhou Fuxue.

The main reason why this place was chosen is that Fuxue is the educational center of Yangzhou, and the banquets held here are full of political significance.

In addition, Yangzhou Fuxue is also a top Jiangnan garden.

Among them, the pavilions and pavilions are full of rockery and water pavilions, and the banquet held here is full of elegance.

Another point is that this school was built by Yangzhou merchants with funds, and Zhu Youlang asked them to come here to imply that they would take the silver out.

Zhu Youlang wants to make this banquet as ingenious as Zhao's big cup of wine to release military power, and it may be possible to pass on the history in the future.

After comprehensive consideration, it is very suitable to choose to hold a banquet in the house.

As the propagator of the holy decree, the tiger army was responsible for spreading the will of His Majesty the Emperor to the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City.

All businessmen with heads and faces have basically received their orders.

Dozens of wealthy businessmen were stunned after receiving the holy decree.

After all, they were lowly businessmen, and although they were rich, they never thought of being able to participate in a royal banquet in their lives.

This kind of transcendence of identity was unimaginable before.

But it did happen.

Although they also know that there is nothing good about being targeted by the Ming Emperor at this time, they have to deal with it, right?

Almost all businessmen thought of Zhou Yuanzhao for the first time.

As the richest man in Yangzhou, Zhou Lao Yuanwai has a pivotal position in Yangzhou City, and his words can influence the behavior of group businessmen.

But he said that Zhou Yuanzhao was difficult to protect himself, and sighed sadly, and learned that it was not good for the group of businessmen to come to visit.

If he wasn't the only one who didn't go to the banquet, it wasn't so obvious, and finding a reason for the illness might be able to fool him through.

But now if he opens his mouth, all the businessmen will definitely use the excuse of obeying the will of the Zhou family, then he Zhou Yuanzhao will recite this black cauldron.

In that way, it became Zhou Yuanzhao's instigation and instigation of the group merchants to fight against the emperor, and the nature changed completely.

Zhou Yuanzhao sighed, looking very helpless.

Now there was only one choice left in front of him, and that was to go to the feast.

People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, and it is up to him whether he lives or dies.

Zhou Yuanzhao could only obediently hand over his life, whether it was the Hongmen banquet or the guillotine banquet, he had to go to this banquet.

Fortunately, Zhou Yuanzhao anticipated this situation in advance, and had already arranged for his son Zhou Yuji to transfer his assets to the north by sea.

In this way, he has three advantages and two shortcomings, and the huge family business of the Zhou family will not be completely cheaper than others.

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On the day of the banquet, the wealthy businessmen and giants in Yangzhou City came to the mansion for the banquet in a very low-key manner.

They changed their usual dress of fresh clothes and angry horses, and only wore cloth clothes and green fur hats.

This is naturally to hide their wealth, but how can this little trick deceive the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Youlang has already eaten them, no matter what they dress up, Zhu Youlang will not let them go.

At the gate of the palace, the merchants were inspected by the Tiger Army, not to mention that they wanted to carry swords, even daggers were impossible.

The safety of the Son of Heaven is the first thing that the Tiger Ben Army considers. There is absolutely no room for error in this regard.

A group of wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou, including Zhou Yuanzhao, are no strangers to Fuxue. In fact, many of their children and nephews studied here.

At this time, the school was completely different from the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, if you wanted to be admitted to the government school, you had to pass the primary three exams, that is, the county examination, the government examination, and the college examination.

Those who pass the examination are Xiucai, which means that only Xiucai can be enrolled.

But since the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere has gradually changed. Extravagant pleasures prevailed.

Even the imperial examinations were tainted with this ethos.

There is an extra hyperplasia and epiphysia in Xiucai.

The meaning couldn't be clearer, as long as the family has money to donate a student, it's not impossible.

This is still the case in a poor place, let alone a rich place like Yangzhou.

The scholar of Yangzhou Mansion was a vassal and elegant person, and he disliked the previous construction of the Mansion School that was too rigid and shabby, so he hinted that the merchants in the city donated silver to build the Mansion School.

Those who donate 1,000 taels can ask for a talent and fame for their children and nephews, and those who donate 10,000 taels can guarantee a tribute quota.

This can be said to be a clear price, and Tong Su is not deceived.

The most important thing these wealthy businessmen lack is money.

For a time, there were countless silver donors, and even compared.

Seeing this, the school official was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

He didn't expect that he would symbolically express it, and these businessmen would be on the road like this.

The official of the Fuxue School squinted most of the silver he had made, leaving a small part to build the Fuxue.

Rao is so, the school was also built by him magnificent, in which the scenery is scattered, can be described as a very exquisite garden.

Most of these businessmen have been invited to visit the Fuxue, after all, they are the funders.

But now when I see the scene again, I am very worried.

His Majesty the Emperor shouldn't have been so simple in calling them here for a banquet, right?

Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor already knew about their donation of silver to the Fuxue, and intended to use this to imply that they donate money?

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