How much money did Yan Song greed?

It should be said that real money is not much, or rather, Yan Song has almost exchanged real money for other things.

For example, calligraphy and painting, the value of the calligraphy and painting of the famous masters of the past dynasties copied from the Yan Mansion is at least more than 10 million taels.

There are also antiques, which are not easy to value, because if someone pays a starting price, then it is worth money.

In fact, these are not the main assets of the Yan family, and later, Jin Yiwei made another amazing discovery when he counted all kinds of treasure chests.

They didn't find much, just a few boxes, but the value of these things was quite staggering.

So, what are these things, they are worth more than gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

These things are actually very common, and it can even be said that ordinary people in Daming have them at home.

These things are really commonplace, and they are just land deeds.

However, the land title deeds of the Yan Mansion are terrifying, and the Yan family alone has annexed millions of acres of fertile land, in addition to tens of thousands of houses of various types, and thousands of shops and businesses!

These are terrible, take fertile land as an example, one mu is at least twenty taels, and millions of mu are worth more than 20 million taels!

Yang Cong was shocked when he saw these land deeds, this Yan Song is really greedy!

He caught Yan Song and punished him like this, and he really frightened the corrupt officials in the court, Yan Song can be said to be the ancestor of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the Jiajing Dynasty, who would dare to be greedy casually?

Even if you are greedy for money, you have to have a life to spend it, Yan Song, but the three clans have been wiped out!

After this fanfare rectification, the corrupt officials in the court are temporarily honest, but Zhu Zaikun has a little headache, because most of the things copied out from Yan Song's house are not gold and silver, what antiques, calligraphy and paintings, what land deeds, what is the use of him holding it?

He really didn't know how to deal with this question, so he had to ask Yang Cong.

In the imperial study, the master and apprentice sat opposite each other again, and Zhu Zaikun said helplessly: "Teacher, what can be done with these belongings copied out of Yan Song's mansion, those antiques, calligraphy and paintings, land deeds or something, you can't eat them, and you can't spend them as money, and you have to keep them in your hands, which is really a headache." ”

At this time, he has been the emperor for a while, and he still pretends to be more majestic in front of outsiders, but in front of Yang Cong, he still feels a little bit talking to his family, and he can't be majestic at all.

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly, this problem is easy to handle.

How to deal with these things, he actually has a case for a long time, he just doesn't want to make decisions for Zhu Zaikun, because that would damage the majesty of the imperial power.

At this time, since Zhu Zaikun asked, it would be easy to do, and he said without hesitation: "Wechen has some ideas about these things, Wechen feels that the land, houses, shops and so on, can be sold now and exchanged for cash, as for antique calligraphy and paintings, they can be shipped slowly, and they can be sold at a time, so that they can make more money." ”

Zhu Zaikun is really not good at doing business, just kidding, he is an emperor, what to learn to do business.

He was a little embarrassed and said, "Teacher, this property, house, shop or something is worth more than 20 million taels, who can afford it?" There are also antique calligraphy and paintings, why do you want to ship them slowly? ”

Yang Cong said confidently: "Don't worry about the land, those eunuchs, landlords and gentry like the favorite is the land, how much you have, they can buy as much as they want, the house is incidental, because you have to arrange people to cultivate the land, and most of the houses under the Yan Mansion are near the land, cheaper, and sell them to others." As for the shops, if the emperor feels troublesome, Weichen can take them all down. ”

Zhu Zaikun was a little surprised: "That's more than a million mu, can anyone really afford it?" ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "This emperor can be completely assured, the so-called official eunuch family, that is not blown out, there is no tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, they are embarrassed to say that they are official eunuchs, and the official eunuch family of the Ming Dynasty is counted according to a few in each county, that is also tens of thousands of families, this bit of land, just they can eat, the landlord and gentry or something, it is good to be able to drink some soup." ”

Well, Zhu Zaikun really didn't expect that these so-called official eunuch families would be so rich, you know, he has no money as an emperor, his father Jiajing is almost old, and the taxes collected every year are removed from the official and border army salaries, and there is not much left of his father's cultivation regardless of the cost, when he took over, the treasury and the inner treasury were basically empty, if it wasn't for Yan Song's millions of taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold, he wouldn't even be able to take out 10,000 taels of silver!

These eunuch families, since they can eat it, let them eat hard, you know, just after the sale of the land, he can earn more than 20 million taels, so much money, he couldn't think of it before.

As for the shops or something, forget it, thousands of shops are worth more than one million taels of silver at most, which is nothing compared to the land.

He said generously: "Teacher, if you want those shops to be given to you directly, they are not worth much anyway, and I haven't given you any rewards for so many meritorious deeds, just right, these shops are all for you." ”

Yang Cong hurriedly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, this can't be done, public is public, private is private, this point must be clear, if you give all the shops to Weichen, I'm afraid those direct ministers and ministers should chew the root of their tongues again, Weichen still pay to buy it, how much is how much." ”

This, well, Zhu Zaikun also knows that the master's family is rich, and it is quite rich, one million taels, which is really nothing to the master.

He was not hypocritical, and nodded directly: "Then thank you to the teacher, by the way, the teacher, why should those antiques, calligraphy and paintings be shipped slowly, can't they be sold in one hand?" ”

Yang Cong shook his head again and again and said: "No, no, business is not like this, the so-called scarcity is expensive, you put a few pieces or a dozen pieces out at a time, and you can still sell them at a price, if you put thousands of pieces out, then these things are not worth much." There is also a saying that is called the gold of the prosperous era of antiques and troubled times, that is to say, things like antique calligraphy and painting are only valuable in the prosperous times, and at this time the Ming Dynasty has not yet entered the prosperous era, and all the brains are sold, so it will be a big loss. ”

Zhu Zaikun, who really didn't understand what this business was about, no matter how Yang Cong explained, he still didn't understand.

He simply waved his hand and said magnanimously: "Otherwise, teacher, you can estimate the price casually, I will sell all those antique calligraphy and paintings to you, and then you will ship them slowly, these things, I am really a little worried about putting them in the inner library, if you don't keep them well and destroy those calligraphy and paintings, it will be a pity." ”

Yang Cong thought for a while, and then nodded very dryly: "The emperor has said everything, how dare Weichen disobey, if these antique calligraphy and paintings are calculated at the current price, they should be above 10 million taels, and Weichen will pay 10 million taels if he asks for a bargain, your majesty, what do you think?" ”

This feeling is good, the land deed plus antique calligraphy and painting is more than 30 million taels, and the treasury is full at once, okay!

Zhu Zaikun couldn't help but say excitedly: "Okay, just do what the teacher said." ”