Liang Haidong's words and the scroll unfolded in his hand made Wang Benyu confused and confused, and asked, "Lord Liang, what does this mean?"

"Master Wang, you have done a good deed, I want not to let people know, early this morning, our Ya' 'Gate' was surrounded by people outside the city, saying that it was to ask for credit for you, Lord Wang, Lord Zhang and I didn't know what was going on, I called a few residents to ask, and only then did I know that your Lord Wang scattered hundreds of thousands of stone grain to the residents outside the city, this is a great merit, Lord Zhang was happy, this is not for you, this pair of words let me send it to you."

At this moment, Wang Liangshang was dumbfounded, he was originally going to report to the official, and everyone sent the words, so how could he report to the official, but he was unwilling, this is more than 100,000 taels of silver, how can he throw it away in vain

"Lord Liang, that's not like this, it's actually not what I meant, I just want to ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Liang Haidong interrupted him and said: "Don't be modest, the king's shopkeeper, Lord Zhang has already reported to the emperor, maybe the emperor will give you a commendation, you just wait at home."

After speaking, Liang Haidong bowed his hand and left the palace with the messenger, and the king grain merchant in the palace cried and said to the people who followed him: "Go and invite me a few shopkeepers."

The grain merchant Wang Benyu said that the shopkeepers were the several major grain merchants who were jointly preparing to boycott the market, looking at Wang Benyu getting angry, how dare those subordinates dare to slack off, and hurriedly led the horses to inform the grain merchants, Wang Benyu also returned to the study with his head down, and Mr. Sun, who had just sat down and went to Lord Wen for a while, also returned

"It's not good, sir."

"What's wrong with Mr. Sun, don't be startled and scare the old man, the old man is going to be angry," Wang Benyu reprimanded Mr. Sun angrily

"Something happened to Master Wen"

"What's going on, if something happens to Master Wen, you won't finish it all at once, ah, the old man is in a hurry, you literati are like this."

Mr. Sun said aggrievedly: "Master, according to Lord Wen's neighbor, Master Wen committed suicide the night before yesterday, and the Wen Mansion was also confiscated, and his family was sent to the border and locked up."

"How can this be, how can this be" Wang Benyu muttered to himself as he walked in the study

"Master, didn't you go to report to the official, what did the government say?"

"I haven't even left the house, the 'door' of the official is here, look at the words on the table."

Mr. Sun took the pair of words on the table, opened it, looked at it, and said: "Congratulations, master, this is the handwriting written by Master Zhang, master, you usually don't ask for it, why are you unhappy now?"

"Mr. Sun, this is more than 100,000 taels of silver, it's gone, I don't know who did it, I earned these four words, you said that the old man didn't die of a loss."

"Master, I don't think this matter is simple, there are masters behind us who plan to let us steal the 'chicken' and can't say the rice, isn't this just a dumb person eating coptis, but hundreds of our people went there, and I didn't see any of them when I went, so it wouldn't be them who guarded and stole it."

"No, I believe my cousin, and besides, there are several of my cronies inside, how can they be guarded and steal, so you go and contact the people on the rivers and lakes, I will pay 10,000 taels of silver for the 'flower' bonus, whoever inquires for me, I will give him the silver, but if you want specific news, it's not gossip, understand?"

"The old man understands, but what should we do next, I looked at the street, most of the shops on the street are open, what should we do if our shops are open or closed"

"Let's talk about it this afternoon, I'll send someone to invite Shopkeeper Sun and Shopkeeper Han to go, and when they come over, we'll discuss, you go and do things."

Sent away Mr. Sun, Wang Benyu, and walked around the house to think about who did it, and now even his own backer, Lord Wen, committed suicide, although he didn't have to worry about the leakage of their secret business, but he also lost a backer, and in the past few years, he has not given much money to Lord Wen, but this time he has suffered a heavy loss, although it will not be bankrupt, but it is also a bone break

The two people who went to invite Sun Grain Merchant and Han Grain Merchant came back, and the first person who went to Han's house said: "Master, Master Han said that he couldn't come, he said in his grain shop that he was going to open the 'door', and he said Congratulations to you before I left."

"None of these things are good, what do I have to congratulate, he said why congratulate me"

"Master Han said, congratulations, master, you have been commended by the government"

"Lord Liang just left, how did Master Han know about the government's commendation for me?"

"Master, I don't know about this little one, and I don't dare to ask the little one, so I'm in a hurry to come back and return to my life."

"Okay, I know, you go down, what did Master Sun say, why don't you come," Wang Benyu asked another subordinate who went to invite someone

"The old man said that he was very busy, and he had no time to call the guys to pull the grain and open the 'door' for business, and he said that he would come to talk to the master another day."

"Alright, alright, you all go down."

Now Wang Benyu knows that this strike is a complete failure, and the grain outside his city may be sent by the government to carry it out, but without Lord Wen and the backer behind Lord Wen, the only thing he can do now is to continue to pretend to be grain outside the city, that is, he arranged people to disperse, the worst thing is to offend the two big grain merchants, and they may never discuss business matters with him in the future

He now wants to find someone to discuss, but no one cares about it, not to mention that his backer has also fallen down, and he regrets that he shouldn't follow this trip, this troubled water is because he is too greedy, and he doesn't want to think about what good fruits he will eat if he goes against the court

Wang Benyu, who was full of regret, said to the little servant who had been waiting in the study: "You go and inform Mr. Sun that all our Wang family's grain stores are open for business in the afternoon, and you can quickly bring in the grain on the canal and then recruit people to repair the granary outside the city."

It is not only Wang Benyu himself who is disappointed, but there is also someone who is more disappointed than him

The cabinet sat in his room, looking at the twists and turns on the table, disappointed and helpless, so he couldn't read a word, the "fine" prepared strike disappeared so much, and he also abducted and killed his cronies, fortunately, the surname Wen was smart enough, if he was brought to Dongchang, he would confess sooner or later, and it seemed that he was still not as good as Zhang Juzheng, and his heart and 'sex' theory and strategy were more than a little worse

Gao Gong himself can't recognize his own shortcomings, and now that he is an official, others don't dare to say it, so he has a bigger and bigger temper, and his heart is getting higher and higher, and he feels that he is right, and he rarely listens to the advice of others

Just like the cause of this boycott, that is, Gao Gong felt that he would lose face if he collected commercial taxes, and he didn't want to think about the fact that there was no silver in the treasury now, and the open source should be, and the merchants were also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the taxes should also be collected

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, taxes have always been insufficient to spend, because only thinking about the harvest of land, the people's taxes did not think that the merchants' money would come more and faster, with the intensification of land annexation, the tax is less and less, so that now there is no silver available

Zhang Juzheng in the next room, at this time, was in a completely different mood from Gao Gong, happily looking at the excerpts and reading them, and also receiving the officials who came to ask for instructions from time to time, Zhang Juzheng's happiness was not only to thwart this boycott, but the greater joy was that the emperor left him alone after the early dynasty to make a commendation for the credit of this thwart strike, although there was no substantive 'sex' reward, but he knew that his weight in the emperor's heart was getting heavier and heavier

The emperor used to rely on Gao Gong, but now he summons him a lot more times than Gao Gong, coupled with the guidance of the master of ceremonies and Feng Bao, the respect of the majority of officials, Zhang Juzheng feels better and better, maybe one day he will welcome his most glorious time to ascend the throne of Shoufu, which is also the highest honor of being a courtier

Zhang Juzheng was concentrating on the 'essence' and looked at the fold of the 'door' curtain at once, Zhang Juzheng looked up and found that it was Chen Jiu who came, and hurriedly beckoned Chen Jiu to sit down and asked: "Why is Manager Chen so idle and running to the cabinet?"

"Lord Zhang, you also know that I am a hard worker, it's okay, how can I have time to come, this is not the emperor's decree, let you go to the grain merchant Wang Benyu to pass the decree" In fact, Zhang Juzheng knew that the other party, Wang Benyu's plan was also his plan, but he didn't expect the emperor to let him pass the decree

"Mr. Chen, just send someone to pass the decree, the old man is busy, how could the emperor let me pass the decree?"

"Lord Zhang, this Wang Benyu is a great benevolent person, a few days ago, he scattered more than 100,000 stones of grain to the poor, and the emperor said that this is the biggest good deed of this dynasty this year, in order to show the importance of the imperial court, he specially sent you to pass the decree."

The two of them knew that these strategies had been agreed on a long time ago, although Zhang Juzheng looked down on the eunuchs, but his attitude towards these eunuchs was still good, plus Chen Jiu had a good relationship with me, Zhang Juzheng was my master, and he loved the house and Wu, this Chen Jiu also respected Zhang Juzheng a lot, and was much closer, on the contrary, Gao Gong was different, relying on the emperor's teacher, he scolded Chen Jiu, although Chen Jiu did not have any big right to fight against Gao Gong, but in some small details, Gao Gong was still okay

Just like this time, the emperor sent Zhang Juzheng to deliver the decree, but he didn't send Gao Gong to Chen Jiu, and Chen Jiu deliberately did a big business to listen to Gao Gong next door, otherwise there was a sound of something falling to the ground from next door, how could Gao Gong's temper endure falling things often