Prince Zhongshun couldn't help but question in his heart: "According to common sense, people from Jia Cong's faction, such as Lu Tingwan and others, should have accurate news when they transport major goods into Beijing." The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal leads directly to the west gate of the outer city, there are many eyeliners, ears and eyes are complicated, and the relationship between the officials of all parties is even more intertwined, so it is impossible to hide such important news from my eyes......"

He remembered in a trance that his people came to report that "they had not shipped some overseas special tributes".

There are not a few people who think the same as Prince Zhongshun, everyone thinks that it is a special tribute and the like, but no one thinks that most of them will be gold, silver and jewelry, etc., one is as Prince Zhongshun Ling Duchu just talked to his courtiers, the people of the Jia Cong faction, except for the support of firearms, have no imperial court appropriations for overseas operations, and even a lot of firearms have to be negotiated with the coastal officials themselves, so none of them are sure that the Jia Cong faction will not have so much money!

The second is that the bigwigs on all sides have eyes and ears, and it is impossible to make false reports and conceal them, so Prince Zhongshun and others at this time only believe that what Jia Cong and Lu Tingwan entered is an overseas tribute.

However, Prince Zhongshun Ling Jiechu felt that his eyelids jumped slightly, and he always had a bad premonition, so he secretly comforted himself and said: "Maybe it's because I'm thinking too much and worrying about the sky, sometimes I'm too tired and don't rest well, and my eyelids will jump by themselves, how can it be all an omen." ”

Jia Yucun, Mei Kenian, Yan Ming, Li Shanzhi, Lu Lianxian and other Manchu civil and military officers all stretched their necks and waited and see!

The Qinzheng Hall of Dashun Kingdom was suddenly tense and tense!

Jia Cong still stood in front of everyone in his faction, not evading or retreating, he looked at everyone's expressions one by one, and said in his heart: "Hmph! Let's take a good look at the results of the blood and tears we have shed in the past few years! This is the result of information asymmetry, dislocation and discrepancies, and when you see the results and taste the sweetness, let me ask the full court, how many people dare to oppose, want to oppose, and can oppose my Jia Cong's policy? ”

Suddenly, under the expectation and curiosity on Emperor Ling Jie's face, under the supervision of the Jinyi Wei Han general, the forbidden army, the first-class guards, and the imperial history, Yang Kuang smiled and said, "Unpack the box according to the order!" ”

Suddenly, the first few cargo boxes were opened one by one by Niu Jizong and others, and everyone saw that it was not the gold, silver and jewelry that reflected each other, it was really just some tribute!

Prince Zhongshun Ling Jiechu, Jia Yucun and others all let go of the boulder of doubts and worries in their hearts! In this case, Jia Cong still will not have any confidence and high-profile strength to go out of the mountain!

"Enlighten my emperor, this is a clock produced in England by Taixi, and the old clock of my dynasty has been improved, and it should be dedicated to my emperor. This is a Portuguese wine, which is different from ours. This is the ivory essence that we procured at our station, which is sandalwood, pepper, musk, pearl, clove and other spices. Lu Tingwan introduced them one by one, her eyes did not blink, and she deliberately described the tribute of the station as "procurement".

In fact, many aspects of this are just like the information asymmetry that Jia Cong thinks, one is that the overseas is too far away from the center of the Shenzhou Imperial Court, the imperial court regime wants to interfere too much, and the macro control is beyond the reach of the whip, and the other is that Jia Cong almost has the historical process information and the scientific and technological information beyond the times under normal circumstances, which will become the key point for Jia Cong to win!

"Sure enough, it's just a tribute." Jia Yucun snorted coldly in his heart, but as the secretary of the Ministry of War, he has also been in contact with this kind of thing, and after a little evaluation, the value is at least not low, so he said in a class: "Your Majesty, the people who are offered by General Soldier Lu are also things that are often profitable by the customs. In order to dedicate to our emperor, General Lu is loyal. ”

Jia Cong and the others didn't speak, he only recognized the real power of Lu Tingwan's general army at the beginning, and he praised and depreciated it.

After Ling Jieyuan saw it, like many ministers, they actually did not reject the advanced items of Taixi such as clocks and watches, and even wanted to own and observe, whether it was a rich and noble person or a cultural businessman, most of them could not refuse luxury goods and cultural toys, you must know that the Taixi people also relied on these things to get the acquiescence of the coastal officials, and if it was not a good thing to establish a trade base there, would the high-ranking officials agree?

Therefore, Ling Jieqi was also interested, but after all, he was disappointed, these things were valuable, but for alleviating the war in the entire imperial court, southeast and north, it was tantamount to a drop in the bucket!

After communicating with Liu Dongsheng, Bi Zhong, Wang Yingyuan, Zhao Beidou, etc., they were all exchanged with subtle eye movements, and Jia Cong, who was ordered to confront him in front of the court, obeyed the order, and still stood on the side of the middle of the hall and replied: "Shengshang, only pepper, two catties of pepper in India is Tianzhu only sold for 2 to five ducats, ducats are Western currency units, 1 ducats are roughly three taels of silver for me, and Portugal is the capital of the Franc machine, Lisbon, a hundred years ago, 14 million catties of pepper were needed every year, A hundred years ago, the pepper there was sold for 50 ducats for two catties, that is, 150 taels of silver, and the profit increased fifty times! ”

Lu Tingwan played excitedly: "Your Majesty, what Bachelor Jia Cong said is all true, and the recital of Lord Ding, the Governor of Liangguang and the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Lord Hong, should be able to confirm the words of the ministers!" ”

Wow!

There was an uproar in an instant!

Many courtiers are jealous, and their eyes are red!

Especially a military attache like Shi Ding, Shi Ding's eyes were red, and he cursed in his heart: "Damn stinky boy Jia Cong, such a huge profit, why didn't you pull us to the death in the first place, it's worth it!" In that way, my historian won't worry about money now! ”

There are not a few people who think like Shi Ding, and if the windfall profits exceed three times, the law will be trampled on, let alone fifty times? This kind of profiteering is not only for the people at the bottom, but also for the high-level people! Because once Bo arrives, it is to enjoy the wealth that can be endured for a lifetime! Even if it's high-risk, it's better than a lifetime, and the opportunity is so tempting!

"But this doesn't seem to be reasonable, Jia Cong, Lu Tingwan General Soldiers, then why are there such huge profits, why don't you make profits for the court when you have heavy soldiers, heavy weapons, and heavy rewards?" Zhao Kang asked in a crisp voice, asking what Ling Jiechu thought.

Ling Juechu thought about it: "Since Zhao Kang is not on the right path with Jia Cong, it would be better for me to cooperate with him more." ”

Lu Tingwan, Liu Dongsheng and others secretly gritted their teeth, where is the reward? Isn't the reward in the pockets of your prisoners?

Jia Cong's face was expressionless, and without saying a word, he opened the box behind him with the forbidden army.

Bang dang, bang dang!

The sound of the lid banging on the lid and swaying is endless.

The warm afternoon sunlight shone in from the open wooden window of the carved dragon and phoenix, and they shone on the sundial, cranes, and white marble pillars outside the main hall, and also on the boxes of silver produced in the Americas, without the carving of Shenzhou handwriting, and even on Jia Cong's body, so that he was like Shakyamuni who read the Dharma, and accepted the prostration of all beings: "Your Majesty, according to the statistics of the ministers, in addition to the tribute, overseas can pay a tribute of 8 million taels of silver this year." ”

Lu Tingwan continued: "These are only part of the palace, and some of them are on the warship, but the ministers dare not drive close to Tianjin, and the personal soldiers of Governor Ding and Governor Hong are taking care of it, and they also ask the emperor to send heavy troops to protect them." This is only one year, and the tribute will not be less than this in all subsequent years. ”

Ling Jieyuan was stunned for a moment! These things are worth at least 10 million taels or more! If what Lu Tingwan said is true!

And unlike the 10 million donated by Shen Sanguan, the president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce, when Jia Cong was patrolling the imperial history, after all, the salt merchant is a long-term accumulation, and Jia Cong and Lu Tingwan's sea trade can be like this every year in the future, so how much silver does it have? How much relief and reconciliation will it have for the imperial treasury, the people of Shenzhou, and the economy?!

The value is simply immeasurable!!

The most important point is that this is silver, and it is not silver from Shenzhou! Silver itself has value, it is a hard currency, Shenzhou has long been the silver standard, silver is more valuable than silver bills and treasure money, and it can be trusted hundreds of millions of times! Everywhere you put it, it's worth it! Ordinary people only recognize silver and copper coins, not paper!

Zhao Kang and Ge Xuanli almost exclaimed, how is this possible? How can it be? How could Jia Cong hide it so deeply?!!

Other words...... The "little ghosts" under Jia Cong, that is, Jia Cong's own eyes and ears and counter-espionage and counter-reconnaissance people, are also all over the capital like them, after all, Jia Cong's foundation has always been in the capital, you have it, how can I not have it?

If it weren't for the occasion of the last dynasty, Zhao Kang Ge Xuanli would almost let out an exclamation like a male duck!

Jia Yucun and Zhongshun Wang Ling's faces were full of disbelief!

Even King Beijing was dumbfounded!

Shi Naishi Ding was even more short of breath, forgetting what Shi Xiangyun and what gambling contract, looking at the white flowers and dazzling silver, he was so excited that he couldn't speak, and he couldn't take his eyes off.

The whole hall was silent, so quiet that you could hear a needle dropping.

At this time, only Jia Cong's voice sounded, he walked two steps slightly, facing the brilliance of the sun, his eyes were like electricity, and he stabbed directly at Li Shanzhi, the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, Jia Cong said slowly: "Lord Li Shanzhi, Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, I will answer you now, in fact, what you said about Zhuangzi's absolute saint abandonment of knowledge and thief is not wrong, Lao Tzu also said that the absolute saint abandons wisdom." However, you don't know the era in which Lao Zhuang lived, and hundreds of schools of thought contended. Most of them want to rely on their academic views and differences to gain fame and fortune, and Li Min is still suffering, so Lao Zhuang's absolute sage and abandonment of wisdom is the absolute kind of person, and it is also the kind of person who gives up that kind of person and doctrine. It's not anti-intellectual, it's not to destroy our way of objectivity. ”

Liu Dongsheng, Zhao Beidou and others all laughed.

This is the correct understanding of the Absolute Saint Abandoning Wisdom, Jia Yucun's face turned blue, of course he also knew, but he would not refute Li Shanzhi.

Jia Cong took advantage of the victory to pursue, and when he said it at this juncture, Li Shanzhi blushed, thinking that this move was defeated by King Zhongshun and Zhao Kang, and as a gun and standard-bearer, he would be punished by derogation, and people with knowledge would think that Jia Cong was right, plus Jia Cong's sea trade profits, I don't know how many people's hearts and support would be won! In a fit of rage, Li Shanzhi fell on his back: "Poof! ”

He vomited blood and fainted on the spot!

At this moment, many people were full of shock to Jia Cong.

This person is really as heavy as Mount Tai.