After dealing with these things, Wang Zezhi planned to put the businessmen in order.

There are too many things to do in Datong Mansion, and he can't do them all by himself.

The most important thing is that the consumption of money and grain is too large, and he must find a way to revitalize the market in Datong Mansion and reduce consumption.

Otherwise, with the current state of consumption, the money and food in his hands will not last for even a year.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the land of one place.

Wang Xian and Wang Shan were both sent out, and Wang Shan recommended one person to Wang Zezhi before leaving.

This person's surname is Yu, his name is there, his full name is Yu You, a native of Shaanxi, and his ancestral home is Shanxi.

According to him, his ancestors were relocated to Shaanxi during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty as one of the surnames of the Hongdong locust tree.

Now Shaanxi is in turmoil and is not suitable for business, so he crossed the Yellow River from Shaanxi to Shanxi.

Yu You has his own opinions on the way of doing business, and Wang Zezhi only chatted with him for an hour before he knew that this person was available.

As a result, he became the first president of the Chamber of Commerce, which managed Datong Mansion and the merchants of Naturalized City.

The evil gentry, profiteers, corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Datong Mansion were uprooted by Wang Zezhi with lightning speed.

The rest of the gentry and merchants were honest and dutiful.

This is also the reason why no one objected after Wang Ze ordered the collection of tolls.

For Wang Zezhi, these people are available.

As for the officials and businessmen in question, Wang Zezhi had already handed them over to Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, and Wang Zezhi believed that when Chongzhen saw what these people had done, he would definitely not spare them.

Chongzhen didn't move them before, because he was afraid of the forces behind them.

Now that Wang Zezhi has arrested all these people and has mastered the evidence of their crimes, Chongzhen has no reason not to move them.

If the people behind them obstruct Chongzhen, they will be charged with treason like them.

Wang Zezhi was sure that the ministers in the court were not stupid enough to dare to bear this charge.

In other words, the evil gentry, profiteers, corrupt officials and corrupt officials eliminated by Wang Zezhi basically have no chance to come back.

In the second year of Chongzhen, July 1, Kuixing Building in Datong Mansion.

According to Wang Zezhi's request, Yu You gathered all the businessmen with heads and faces in Datong Mansion.

"My Datong Mansion is located in the northwest border area, and it was the only way to do business from Chang'an to the north when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous.

From today onwards, your road to doing business will be smoother, farther, and more profitable. ”

The lobby of Kuixing Tower was full of people, and because there were too many people, only the famous people in Datong Mansion were arranged.

For example, the one sitting at the front, the representative of the Xue family, he represents not only his family, but also Tianchengwei, and even he alone can represent Datong Mansion.

Although he has a high prestige, he is not the first sergeant of Tianchengwei, because his family has a lot of wealth, which is not conducive to control.

If he is appointed as a sheriff, he will not have to rely on Wang Zezhi to allocate silver and grain, he will be able to pull up a strong team on his own.

Why the Xue family representative can have such great prestige is a long story.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were three Xue brothers in Tianchengwei, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi, who were farming, officials and businessmen respectively, and finally became famous local households.

The Xue family, the eldest brother is a farmer, and the third brother is in business, in order to subsidize the second child's study, and the second brother is on the soil and can be awarded a high-ranking official.

Xue Shixiu, the ancestor of the Xue family, about the beginning of the Ming Dynasty from the Ronghe Meander, and later settled in Tianchengwei, Datong Mansion.

Xue Shixiu gave birth to Xue Town, and the town gave birth to Xue An. An gave birth to four sons, namely Xue Chun, Xue Yun, Xue Yu, and Xue Lei.

Xue Chun gave birth to two sons, the eldest son Xue Jing and the second son Xue Qi. Qisheng has three sons, that is, the eldest son Xue (anonymous), the second hand Xue Lun, and the third son Xue Ying.

Xue Lun has been smart since he was a child, and his memory is particularly outstanding, when he was a teenager, he studied in a private school with his eldest brother, and his brother has not finished reading a sentence, Lun has already counted the lines, and when his brother reads again, Lun has memorized it by heart, and he recites it like a stream.

Xue Lun is quick to think, hundreds of words can be achieved immediately, and the writing is beautiful.

The eldest brother admired Xue Lun's talent deeply, so he gave up his studies, inherited his father's business and farmed the fields, and sponsored Xue Lun to study.

Inspired by his eldest brother's self-sacrificing spirit, Xue Lun became more and more diligent in his studies.

Finally, in the second year of Longqing (1568), he ascended to the rank of scholar and entered the official career.

In 1568, Xue Lun served as the county magistrate of Chang'an County, so that all fields must be cultivated, land taxes must be equalized, light forced labor, and recuperation, so that local production can be greatly developed.

He also upheld the unjust case of Zhang Liangbi and others, the people of the county, so that the long-delayed legacy of the problem was cleared up, and the administration was called "the first of the three auxiliaries", and his political achievements were recognized.

In 1580, he filled the vacancy as the prefect of Kaifeng.

Xue Lun's axe unraveled the blade, and the bullet pressure was strong to suppress Hao's right, and he was later called the first in Henan.

When Xue Lun's career was thriving, fate played a joke with him, Xue Lun was involved in the Dingbian matter, and Emperor Wanli was furious.

In fact, Xue Lun has only been in Dingbian for two months and has no reason to be involved in litigation.

In the face of the exclusion of the local forces of the Chu people, Lun was disheartened and abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown.

Some people pity him, Xue Lun said: "I am fortunate to inherit the inheritance of my ancestors, my brother and brother, help me study, so that I have today's position, I wish it is enough!" ”

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the development of the social commodity money economy, the Kaizhong system in which merchants paid grain in the frontier Tuntian in exchange for salt was gradually replaced by the silver folding system, and the salt merchants were also divided into border merchants and domestic merchants.

Border merchants specialize in nanometers, beans, and grass bundles, and rely on trade salt to make profits.

Domestic businessmen sit on the market to collect salt, trade or resell it to others.

Because domestic businessmen are in the position of controlling the distribution of salt, they make more profits and increase their capital rapidly.

Therefore, the big salt merchants in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui and other places lived in Huai'an and Yangzhou, and Xue Ying settled in Yangzhou during this period.

The fifth generation of the Xue family property has never been separated, and it is jointly managed by brothers.

After Xue Lun went home, the three brothers gathered together, and they ate noodles for dinner.

Xue Lun said: "I saw that salt merchants from all over the country have gone south to Yangzhou to buy property and become domestic businessmen. ”

Xue Ying said: "The ancestors set family rules and never separate families, are all these thousands of people willing to live in Yangzhou?" ”

The boss Xue Jing said: "The Xue family is in Datong Liangtian, with countless shops, and I don't want to go south." ”

Lun said: "I want to abandon the official and go home, I can go to two places, and you can lead some people to the south." ”

Xue Jing and Xue Ying were shocked, Xue Ying knelt down and said: "Brother is an official and lives in the four grades, we all feel the light, show off everywhere, and don't abandon the official." ”

Xue Lun said: "I am conscientious and loyal to my duties, and I have been framed by others, and I have made up my mind." ”

What Xue Jing and Xue Ying didn't know was that when Xue Lun abandoned his official position and went home, he had already resigned.

The Xue family has half of the north and south production, and in his later years, he walked between Yangzhou in Datong, treating people with kindness and raising Haoran righteousness.

At the same time, he managed various affairs in the two places, and was buried in Kowloon Bay, Sunjia River, Tianzhen County. The epitaph of Wang Jiaping says: Shine for a hundred generations and have light, and the public will not die.

Most of the Xue family who stayed in Datong Mansion were descendants of the eldest brother Xue Jing, Xue Jing was in Tianzhen and Yanggao, and he bought countless fields, and he was originally an honest farmer.

Even if he started doing business at this point, he was doing honest business.

The Xue family can represent Datong Mansion because they have developed to the Chongzhen period, and they are already one of the top wealthy families in Datong Mansion.

In addition, Xue Lun has been an official, and their reputation is also one of the best in Datong Mansion.