Volume 3 Chapter 21 The wealth is staggering
The reason why Zhu Cijiong let Luo Yangxing continue to dig deeper is because another group of key figures has not yet been implicated, and he knows that there is a connection of interests between the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan Shidafu Group, otherwise a bunch of Donglin Party members would not have jumped out to oppose the mention of transaction tax. They are not in business, so why are they opposed?
If the people's livelihood in Jiangnan is withered and poor, then it will be enough, the problem is as far as he has seen with his own eyes, Jinling City is much more prosperous than Jingshi, and there are many people who are richer than Zhu Cijiong at the Oiran Conference! The whole north has been in drought for many years, and the military disasters are continuous, and the people are not able to make a living, and the poor are about to eat people; The magnates in Jiangnan are drunk and dreaming of death, laughing for the Pomeranians, throwing out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver without blinking their eyes!
Such an extreme gap, Qian Qianyi, as a native of Jiangnan, would they not know? Knowing that you still have to oppose the collection of transaction tax, what is it for your own selfishness? If it is for the country and the people, then it should be in favor of taxation!
There must be interests involved, why hasn't anyone exposed it?
It turned out that Qian Qianyi and his team had always been in contact with Xu Hongji, Xu Wenjue and other leaders for the sake of insurance, and the people below naturally didn't know what was wrong. These leaders are going to raid their families and exterminate their clans, so they naturally won't bite others anymore, so Qian Qianyi and they have not been implicated.
However, Skynet is magnificent and negligent, and there will always be retribution for doing things that hurt heaven and reason, although the leaders can't find out the cats between them without opening their mouths, but the mansions, fields and even silver they receive always have to go through the hands of people, and it is impossible for everything to be handed over face-to-face between the leaders. When the minions who managed the property were found, the Donglin Party was finally implicated.
One by one, they pretend to be high in the capital, coarse tea and light food, light cars and simple obedience, clean sleeves, honest and honest, and the same as moral models, but in Nanjing, they have deep mansions, a group of slaves, and their wives and concubines, children, relatives and friends are extremely luxurious!
These are all done very secretly, there is no record in the history books, but from the love story of Qian Qianyi and Liu Ruyi, Qian Qianyi's wealth is faintly exposed, at that time Qian Qianyi was just a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, he specially built the "I Wen Room" in order to pursue the reality of Liu Ru, and then built a spectacular and gorgeous "Qianyun Building" and "Red Bean Pavilion" for her in Yushan, and the gold house was hidden. If you look at it as a love story, it is indeed deep and touching, but if you look at it from another point of view, don't you need money to repair these? Ming Dynasty officials were notoriously low-paid, so where did he get so much money to build these luxurious "gold houses"?
Even officials like Qian Qianyi, who were bought by them, are so rich, so how rich are the magnates in Jinling City? What kind of luxurious life did they live? If you want to make a detailed description, at least you can write a long novel, fortunately, the Red Mansion just introduced the magnates in Jinling City at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the description of their luxury can be described vividly:
For example, Jia is not fake, and Bai Yu is a horse for Tang Jin. This Jiafu is luxurious, the main hall is made of white jade, and the sculptures in front of the hall are pure gold!
For another example, Afang Palace, three hundred miles, can't live in a history of Jinling. This historian is huge, and the palace for three hundred miles can't live in it! Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, but it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of slaves.
For another example, there was a lack of white jade beds in the East China Sea, and the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling. This Jinling royal family is richer than the legendary Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the Dragon King of the East China Sea is a few streets away from his royal family to play luxury goods!
Another example, there is a good year and heavy snow, and pearls are like earth, gold and iron. This Xue family is rich, gold, silver and jewelry are like dung in their eyes!
Of course, the historical background of the Red Chamber has always been a point of contention, with some saying that it was written in the last years of the Ming Dynasty and others writing about the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, there is nothing to argue, in the case of the Qing Dynasty's great literary prison, how dare the author mock the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty, if he wants to write about the Qing Dynasty, it is estimated that this book will not have a chance to be passed on to future generations based on the "talisman" in front of him.
Well, let's not talk about it, let's get back to business, in short, from Wanli to Tianqi to Chongzheng, the wealth accumulated by the Jiangnan Shidafu Group under the protection of the Donglin Party is amazing, and even Zheng Sen, who no longer regards silver as money, was frightened. This is not a joke, there are hundreds of millions of taels of silver copied from the homes of these powerful people alone, what is this concept, from a quantitative point of view, a silver box of one thousand taels will be prepared for 100,000!
The value of other mansions, fields, shops, workshops, antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings is immeasurable, it can be said that Zhu Cijiong collected all the taxes owed by Jiangnan in the past few decades at one time, and finally no longer have to worry about silver, just cash silver is enough to solve the peasant rebel army in the northwest.
As for those mansions, fields, shops, workshops, antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, shops, workshops, antiques, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings are all combined with the Rixinglong firm. The mansion and land property happen to be the private property of the royal family, and the income is several million taels a year, and our little emperor even has private money.
Zhu Cijiong was not in a hurry to return to the capital, and there were still many problems to deal with during this trip to Nanjing.
First of all, Qian Qianyi and other villains in the Donglin Party who were corrupt and bent the law and abused their power for personal gain should all be brought to Nanjing for interrogation, but Zhu Cijiong wanted to see if they could pretend to be high in the face of ironclad evidence.
Then, the resumption of the society can not be allowed to develop, Daming can no longer withstand the toss, if there is another Donglin Party such a powerful party of the government and the opposition, it is estimated that Daming will die. After Qian Qianyi and the others were arrested, there happened to be many positions in the Northwest Air Force, so they asked the people of the Restoration Society to replace them and send them to the disaster area to experience life, so they knew that it was not easy to govern the country.
In addition, there was no need for the existence of the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Nanjing, these officials were basically involved in corruption, and it was not easy to set up a small imperial court far from the capital, so Zhu Cijiong simply took the opportunity to remove them all.
In the end, it is a matter of making money, don't look at the hundreds of millions of taels of cash that have been copied this time, and it can't really be spent for a few years, there are too many places for Daming to spend money, if there is no huge income, it can only be slowly consumed by Houjin.
The comprehensive development of the Rixinglong firm was put on the agenda, and it happened that the confiscated shops were all over the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were all the state capitals, and all of them were transformed into the branches of the Xinglong business, and the sales network and banking system in the south of the Yangtze River were established.
There are also those workshops, all of which are purely handmade, and the productivity is relatively low, Zhu Cijiong is ready to transform them and equip them with steam power, so that the productivity can be directly doubled several times. During the Qing Dynasty, all the textile industries in the south of the Yangtze River were merged together to establish a huge Jiangning weaving, Zhu Cijiong not only wanted to establish the Jiangnan weaving but also the Jiangnan porcelain and tea industry, and turned the cloth, silk, porcelain, and tea into steam-powered modern companies.
After the rapid development of productivity, the products will definitely increase exponentially, and sales will become the top priority. But Zhu Cijiong is still blind to the current overseas situation, fortunately Zheng Sen is here, he asked Zheng Sen to inform Zheng Zhilong directly, and said: The emperor invited you to come to Nanjing for a gathering.