Jia Ke was not very worried about the matter, because he knew that those ministers were not so bold now.

Now Jia Ke's biggest worry is silver, because it is related to the major events of his future rectification of the world: "You should worry more about the matter of silver." ”

Although Li Deshan didn't know what Jia Ke wanted so much silver for, since it was ordered by the master, he naturally had to fully support him as a slave.

Soon Jia Ke's orders reached the hands of the three merchant gang leaders.

After receiving Jia Ke's letter, the Jin merchants led by George Yong immediately summoned the leading figures among the Jin merchants to gather in the Qiao family compound.

These bigwigs of the business world sat there and asked each other, and this time George Yong summoned everyone over, what was there to discuss.

As a result, there were really one or two of them who were well-informed, and as soon as they spread the information they knew, like these people, it immediately caused an uproar among the leaders of these Jin merchants.

In the previous imperial courts, I had never heard of asking them for money every year, and Jia Ke still set a precedent.

While they were shouting there, George Yong entered the hall from the back house, looked at the bustle below with some displeasure, and patted the guard on the table.

Everyone looked up and saw that George Yong had come, so they quickly shut up.

George Yong saw that everyone was quiet, so he sat down in the middle seat, and then arched his hand to the bottom and said: "It seems that everyone has already made it clear, this time King Yan Chitose ordered us to pay a tribute of 2 million taels of silver every year, what kind of charter do you have?" ”

The people below were still arguing there just now, but now after listening to George Yong's question, no one spoke, after all, this is not a trivial matter, if he came out to oppose it that day and became a bird, Jia Ke knew about it, and it would be good in the future.

Seeing that they were not angry, George Yong stood up and said: "I know, everyone is reluctant to give up the silver, but our backers in the court are all eating under Jia Ke's hands, and even they are fed, but they don't give Jia Ke any benefits, how can he agree." ”

As soon as Qiao Zhiyong finished saying this, the business tycoons below began to talk about it, George Yong was right, and there were not a few ministers of the court who they had supported, but for Jia Ke, who said everything in the court, there was no one or two silver to pay tribute, and now Jia Ke wants silver, if they dare not agree, I am afraid it will be a catastrophe.

Qiao Zhiyong saw that the direction of the wind below had changed, so he said: "I mean, let's just give him 2 million taels of silver, which can be regarded as spending money to avoid disasters, I don't know what everyone thinks." ”

Although the others were a little reluctant after hearing this, after all, it was hard to give up good money, but after all, their arms couldn't twist their thighs, so they could only reluctantly agree.

George Yong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the people below agreed, and then said generously: "This time, our Qiao family pays 500,000 taels of silver every year, which can be regarded as sharing everyone's worries, and it is not too difficult for the rest of everyone to get together." ”

The merchants below breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, after all, George Yong, as the leader of the Jin merchants, took the most money this time.

George Yong saw that these people discussed for a long time, and finally each distributed the silver taels to be offered by each family, so he was relieved, and then continued: "Everyone will send the silver to my house within three days, and I ordered someone to open a silver ticket and send it to the house of Yan Wang Chitose, so that Yan Wang Chitose can directly withdraw it from the ticket number in the capital." ”

After the Jin merchants discussed here, they immediately took action, and within a few days, a silver ticket of 2 million taels was delivered to Jia Ke's case.

Jia Ke looked at the silver ticket in front of him and couldn't help but nodded, this Jin merchant is worthy of being the leader of the three major merchant gangs, his actions are fast, and his eyes are also very bright.

Jia Ke took the silver ticket and said to Li Deshan next to him: "You take the silver ticket to the ticket number of the Jin merchants, bring the silver back to me, and I am always worried about the silver in the hands of others." ”

Li Deshan listened, quickly took the silver ticket, and then patted his chest and promised that he would definitely send the silver to the silver treasury of Yanwang's Mansion tonight.

Jia Ke's Yanwang Mansion has now been repaired for the most part, and there are still many exquisite buildings that have not been repaired, but such an important position as the silver treasury has been repaired in advance and has been put into use.

Although Bao Shufang of the Hui merchants was much slower than the Jin merchants, he finally escorted the silver to the capital and sent it to Jia Ke's hands.

Jia Ke saw that these two major merchants were soft, so he focused all his attention on the salt merchants.

Besides, after Wang Yinggeng got Jia Ke's message, he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet. Originally, she thought that the emperor was no longer good, and there was no need to pay tribute to these silver taels, so some time ago, his master was in a hurry to use the money, so he sent the silver to the master first, but she didn't expect Jia Ke to think of this stubble again, which made him how to make up these silver.

If you want to let him collect some more silver taels from other salt merchants, it is indeed possible, but a single money cannot be collected twice, he has already collected the filial piety of these salt merchants in the name of the emperor as in previous years, and now he will not be able to keep the position of the leader of the salt merchants if he collects it again, and he will be attacked by these salt merchants when the time comes.

To say that Wang Yinggeng is also wealthy, if he is against one or two salt merchants, he will naturally win, but let him go against almost all salt merchants, then he doesn't have that ability.

Wang Yinggeng couldn't solve it by himself, so he had to go to his master for help.

After receiving Wang Yinggeng's letter, the little boy felt that his heartbeat kept accelerating, and he had already analyzed from these news that Jia Ke had already doubted Wang Yinggeng, this time on the surface he was asking for silver, but in fact he was tempting.

That little boy was not given for nothing, until now he can only survive with a broken tail, if he and Jia Ke stand up and make Jia Ke angry, I am afraid that there will be some clues when the time comes, so that he can find himself here.

This little boy is still not sure of Jia Ke's attitude towards him, so he doesn't dare to take risks.

After this little boy thought it through, he immediately asked his housekeeper to take out 5 million silver vehicles from the silver vault and send them to Wang Yinggeng.

The housekeeper listened, and the little boy ordered him to stand there for a long time without moving.

The little boy was a little unhappy when he saw the housekeeper standing still, "What are you doing standing there?" Don't go to work yet. ”

The housekeeper listened to the words of the little boy, and could only say: "Master, we only have more than 6 million taels of silver in our treasury, if we take out another 5 million taels to Wang Yinggeng, how can we spend this year?" ”

The little boy also felt troubled after hearing this, in the past few years, Qin Keqing's forces have developed too rapidly, and now they can't keep up with the silver.

Now that Jia Ke has made such a fuss, the situation that could barely be maintained is probably about to collapse.

"What else can I do? Shrink the power for the time being, let the people below work hard for a year, and wait until next year. ”

The housekeeper smiled bitterly after hearing this, for those spies who have been cultivated since childhood, it is natural to persevere, but for those court ministers who have been bribed, where will they suffer with you, if you don't send money today, they won't listen to your orders tomorrow.

But there was no way to do it, so the old housekeeper reluctantly went to the silver vault, took out the silver, and sent it to Wang Yinggeng.

Wang Yinggeng finally breathed a sigh of relief when he received it, if he didn't get Jia Ke's affairs done this time, he was afraid that Jia Ke would be remembered.

Wang Yinggeng is now thinking about taking advantage of the sharp rise in salt prices in the north to make up for this year's deficit.

But contrary to expectations, this general had just risen for more than half a month, and suddenly there was a large amount of salt on the market, and the price of these salts was four or five layers lower than Wang Yinggeng's price. This time, Wang Yinggeng's salt can no longer be sold.

After Wang Yinggeng got the news, he was so angry that he was burned inside, what is going on? Who is unruly?

In Wang Yinggeng's impression, those who can make such a large amount of salt are a few big farmers among their salt merchants.

So Wang Yinggeng sent people to inquire around, and found that the salt merchants in Jiangnan did not make any big moves.

And that's not all, these salt merchants are also angry that so much salt has suddenly appeared in the north. After all, this time Wang Yinggeng took the lion's share, and they, the salt merchants, could also drink some soup after him, and this time it was all over, and they would lose some money if they didn't make trouble.

Wang Yinggeng still had some power in the south of the Yangtze River, and he didn't have much effort, so he got the news from the salt factory and knew that the salt factory had directly transported a large amount of salt to the north without passing through their salt merchants.

Now it became clear that this was a salt factory bypassing their salt merchants and directly participating in the salt trade, which was a bad rule.

So Wang Yinggeng did not delay, and came to the salt factory to find Li Yingtai with a few hours of vigor, asking him to give him an explanation.

Li Yingtai watched Wang Yinggengci come to find fault with him, and he didn't care. He drank a cup of tea slowly, glanced at Wang Yingtai with slanted eyes, and then said slowly: "Mr. Wang, doesn't he really know what's going on?" ”

Wang Yinggeng said with a blushing face: "Please also ask for advice." ”

"Hehe, the price of salt in the north has risen so much, does Mr. Wang really not know what's going on?"

At this time, Wang Yinggeng understood at once, this is the imperial court transporting salt to stabilize prices, and it seems that the imperial court has doubted itself.

Wang Yinggeng didn't dare to have any complaints after returning home. After thinking about it after returning to the mansion, he felt that it was better to be honest during this time, otherwise he would really be remembered by Jia Ke, and I am afraid that there would be no good life.

So, the 5 million taels of silver that Jia Ke asked for were soon shipped from Jiangnan. And half a month later, Jia Ke received 5 million taels of silver from Jiangnan salt merchants.

Jia Ke watched as dozens of boxes were placed on the main hall, and the lids of each box were opened, and under the sunlight, the silver-white light reflected in these boxes.

Li Deshan, who was next to him, also felt greedy when he looked at the silver, but he didn't dare to show a little.

Jia Ke didn't have any sense of joy, it seems that this is the case, Wang Yinggeng still has some city government.

Originally, I thought that through this time, I would take down Wang Yinggeng in one fell swoop, and then see who the person behind him was, but I didn't expect him to make up 5 million taels for himself.

But Jia Ke didn't lose heart, you paid 5 million this year, and I'll see how you make it up next year.

Besides, at this time, the Zhu Lin clan also received an order from their little son-in-law, asking her to gain Jia Ke's trust no matter what, even if she lost some connections for this, she did not hesitate.