Although Zheng Yingtai couldn't figure it out, how could King Shin know about the existence of the smuggling route?

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Zheng Yingtai no longer concealed it, he said loudly: "Your Highness, Your Highness is really well-informed. The Zheng family only has a little connection with the outside of the mouth. Outside the gate, the Zheng family really didn't dare to provoke. ”

"Don't dare to provoke?" Zhu Youzhen sneered, "Hehe, isn't that team of archers a visitor from outside the Guan?" ”

It was like a thunderbolt splitting his head, and the secret in his heart was exposed by King Xin, and Zheng Yingtai immediately sat down on the ground.

"If it weren't for those savages, Lao Tzu wouldn't have come to your door." Zheng Yingtai thought to himself, he has nowhere to tell the bitterness in his stomach, what else can he do when he encounters a teammate like a pig?

"When a man dies, a bird faces upward, and he will not die for thousands of years." Now that the secret has been revealed, Zheng Yingtai is secretly ruthless in his heart. On the surface, people are single.

Zheng Yingtai got up with a grunt and kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen repeatedly, "Your Highness, Your Highness." The villain didn't dare to deceive, that team of savages was really not a villain's people. They are just bodyguards sent by the Outer Mongolians to the villain. ”

"Mongols?" Zhu Youzhen groaned, "Are they Mongolians?" What do you and the Mongols do to buy and sell? ”

With all that said, what else is there to hide? If you want to survive, you have to tell the truth. Zheng Yingtai still has this awareness.

Zheng Yingtai also thought clearly, since the matter of the archers is known to King Xin, then the Zheng family's life is really only in King Xin's thoughts.

Even King Xin knows, will Dongchang and Jinyiwei be far away?

Dongchang and Jinyiwei are just in the wrong direction for a while. Now it seems that Wuqing Houfu and Pingjiangbo Mansion may be difficult to buy much time for the Zheng family.

Whether it can be useful to King Xin is already related to the survival of the Zheng family.

Don't dare to be lazy, Zheng Yingtai said the matter like pouring beans on a bamboo tube, he wanted to buy time for the Zheng family.

The Zheng family did smuggle into the grasslands again, from grain and tea to pots and pans, all kinds of goods. However, the bulk of the trade was grain and tea.

In recent years, the weather has been bad, and disasters have occurred frequently on the grassland. Drought and white plague alternated, livestock could easily die in large numbers, and the demand for food on the grasslands was increasing.

Only by mixing meat with grain can the herders on the steppe survive on a small number of livestock. Living on water and grass is becoming more and more dangerous.

The Zheng family had a decades-long friendship with the Shubo tribe of the Horqin Mongols. For many years, the Zheng family has been smuggling various materials for the Shu Bo Department.

In the grassland now, where there is food, there are people. With the support of the Zheng family, the power of the Shu Bo Department is getting stronger and stronger.

Similarly, the power of the Shu Bo Department is getting stronger and stronger, and the demand for the Zheng family is also increasing.

For decades, in order to maintain this trade route, the Zheng family has been collecting grain, tea, salt and other necessities in the Central Plains and smuggling them to the grasslands through caravans. Then he exchanged all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as a large number of furs and livestock from Shubobu, and smuggled them back to the Central Plains. Back and forth, the Zheng family can earn a lot of profits.

In recent years, food prices have been rising, while fur and livestock prices have been getting worse. The sales cycle is getting longer and longer, and the demand for the grassland is getting bigger and bigger. In recent years, the Zheng family has completely relied on Dexing Money to maintain an increasingly tight capital chain.

After the opening of the public money bank, it has gradually affected the life and death of the Zheng family.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, after the word of mouth spread in the public money bank, the rich people in the capital transferred the silver to the public money bank for preservation. After all, even for the wealthy, the silver storage fee is a large expense. For them, it's also a little bit of saving.

With the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer wealthy people who deposit silver in Dexing Bank. When Jung Young-tae found out about the problem, he was powerless.

Behind the popular money is His Royal Highness King Xin, which is tacitly understood by the rich people in the capital. The good reputation of the public money bank has dispelled the worries of the rich people about the king of letters. In the capital, the public money bank has become the first choice for the rich to save money.

Losing the deposit of Dexing Money, the Zheng family's capital chain is getting tighter and tighter, and it is about to break, and the loser is just around the corner.

Zheng Yingtai still clearly remembers that when the Zheng family opened the money bank, it was just to prepare raw materials for their own silver building. Because of Wei Guogong's face, coupled with the Zheng family's careful duty, the money village slowly became bigger, and the silver deposit became more and more.

One year, there was a little accident in the Zheng family's transaction with the grassland, and he trembled and embezzled the money and silver to help the Zheng family tide over the difficulties. Afterwards, no one in the outside world knew about it. This incident touched Zheng Yingtai a lot, and he realized how important Qian Zhuang was to the Zheng family.

The Zheng family's silver treasury in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is actually not as big as the Zheng shopkeeper. Most of the time, that bank is just a front. At most, it only contained hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

A large amount of silver deposited in Dexing Qianzhuang has been embezzled by the Zheng family and turned into various food materials, smuggled to the grassland, and exchanged for a large number of grassland specialties for the Zheng family.

In the cycle, the Zheng family became more and more prosperous.

But unconsciously, the Zheng family is inseparable from the funds provided by Dexing Money.

When Zheng Yingtai found that the money in the bank was getting less and less. He sensitively found that if this continues, when old customers also need to withdraw money, Dexing Money is likely to be unable to pay. Once that situation arises, it will be when the Zheng family is defeated.

Since then, Zheng Yingtai has been planning to deal with the public money bank.

Standing behind the public money bank is His Royal Highness King Shin. Wei Guogong refused to come forward no matter what the Zheng family paid. On the official side, the Zheng family is completely helpless against the public money.

After nearly a year of careful investigation and research, Zheng Yingtai found a flaw in Dazhong Bank.

This flaw is that the public bank accepts small deposits, resulting in a large number of depositors, and there is a danger of a run.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen looked at the people of this era, and the inevitable run in his eyes was actually studied for almost a year before he found it.

In response to the flaws of the public bank, Zheng Yingtai drew up a plan, he wanted to defeat the public bank in one fell swoop. But Zheng Yingtai was stunned to find that the power of the Zheng family alone was not enough to promote his plan.

In order to achieve this goal, after Zheng Yingtai's unremitting efforts, the public money bank was gradually connected by Zheng Yingtai because of the exchange of silver money, and all the people in the capital who were offended were gradually connected by Zheng Yingtai. The plan is finally ready to be launched.

Zheng Yingtai invested a huge amount of money for this operation. He exchanged the grassland for a large amount of supplies, cashed out cheaply, and the funds raised were invested in this operation.

For more than half a year, Zheng Yingtai also arranged for people to secretly collect silver tickets of various denominations from Dazhong Money Bank in various capacities by means of storage and acquisition.

The hard work paid off, and he finally got a silver ticket of more than 500,000 public money banks. For this, the Zheng family paid a price of more than 600,000 taels of silver.

In order to allow Wu Qinghou and Ping Jiangbo to take the lead, the 30,000 taels of silver deposited by the two families into the public money bank were also provided by the Zheng family. This money, no matter whether you win or lose, it is impossible to get it back. This silver can also be regarded as a thank you gift for the two families.

The Zheng family paid a huge price to promote this plan.