Compared to these futures, which are already in front of us and can soon come true, Lu Zhen is obviously more concerned about other things. While everyone was still circling around those spices, gold and silver, and while he was talking, he had already pulled Yang Zhen over, and asked Zhengse: "When you go to sea this time, have you asked people from other countries about the things I mentioned before?" ”

Yang Zhen was only stunned for a moment, then understood, and a look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on his face: "My lord, forgive me, although I ask the local people about what transparent glass is, and what kind of corn and sweet potato food is called everywhere." However, the people of those three countries had never heard of such objects, so they ......"

"Is that so? It seems that I'm a little too anxious......" Lu Zhen couldn't help but sigh, in fact, he really didn't have much hope for this matter. Because historically, whether it is glass, corn and sweet potatoes and other crops, it was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, that is, at least fifty or sixty years later, it will be brought to East Asian countries by those adventurers who continue to open up new routes, and now, the famous Age of Exploration has not really opened, One Piece Luffy...... Well, it's wrong, it should be that characters like Da Gama and Columbus were born or not is still a question, and it is naturally impossible for them to bring crops from the Americas, Africa and other places to the vicinity of Daming.

Seeing that Lu Zhen suddenly fell silent and looked a little disappointed, Yang Zhen hurriedly said: "However, I have already told the sailors and others on those ships that as long as they go to sea again, they will still ask the people of other countries about the whereabouts of these things, maybe they can find them somewhere outside the Three Kingdoms." ”

"Well, I hope so." Lu Zhen smiled reluctantly and patted the other party's shoulder again to show his gratitude. This kind of thing is really urgent, anyway, there are still too many things to deal with in the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of prevention can be done slowly.

However, the top priority now is to first publicize the results of this great harvest from going to sea, whether it is officialdom or non-governmental, so that more people know that going to sea trade can earn a lot of profits. Only in this way can we strike away the backward and self-defensive thinking that has imprisoned people's minds for decades and create a completely new situation.

After making up his mind, after Lu Zhen returned to the official office, he ordered Yang Zhen to start counting the harvest, and then invited dozens of tent offices to start distributing the harvest from the sea. This is really an important and troublesome matter, and it must take enough effort and sincerity to achieve fairness, justice, openness, and to satisfy everyone.

Fortunately, Lu Jin's reputation in Shandong has already begun, just the previous breakthrough of the White Lotus Sect's conspiracy, suppressing the Kong family, and this time in order to kill the people of the two towns and not hesitate to be the enemy of the Shanxi military, all of which have won everyone's support, so as long as he can come up with a reason, he can convince those businessmen who contributed money.

In this way, after nearly ten days of liquidation, the businessmen who were only funded by Lu Jinhao finally took over their harvest from the government. Among them, most of them can get an income of 350,000 taels of silver, and the less can be 10,000 or 20,000, compared to the hundreds of 1,100 taels they invested before, it can really be regarded as a million profits. And this also attracted more people's eyes, and those businessmen who had hesitated before and did not contribute regretted it even more, and after learning the news, they all rushed to the governor's yamen to see Lu Jin.

Lu Jin, who had returned to Jinan during this period, only dealt with these people casually, but also allowed them to carry their goods on the ship and sell them to other countries the next time they went to sea. However, this time the government will no longer be able to serve them free of charge, and when they return, half of their income will be transferred to the government's income.

Of course, now that the sea ban on Shandong has been opened, if these merchants are not satisfied with the government swallowing such a large profit, they can organize their own fleets to go to sea to trade, so that they only need to pay a certain amount of taxes to obtain all the profits.

It's just that when Lu Zhen put these two choices in front of the big guys, almost all of these businessmen chose the former. The vast sea is not a joke, it is more stable to rely on the government. You don't see that among the thousands of people who went to sea this time, there are hundreds of people who have not been able to come back, and this kind of damage is not something that ordinary businessmen can afford.

In this case, even if a few businessmen move the latter's mind, they can only give up temporarily. After all, it takes dozens of businessmen to unite to have such a big deal, and it is difficult for a few people to move this mind.

Of course, compared to the harvest of these merchants, the harvest of the government is much greater. Even if we don't mention those spices and other specialties that are extremely rare in the Central Plains and can definitely be sold at high prices, 100,000 of the more than 1 million taels of silver alone went directly into the treasury of Shandong. Don't look at it as just 100,000 taels, but it is enough to make many officials in other provinces red-eyed.

Then, Lu Jin, as the largest funder of this trip, also harvested nearly 300,000 taels of silver at once. However, it was not him who made the most profit this time, but the Son of Heaven who was far away in Beijing, and half of the million profits would belong to the Son of Heaven or the imperial court.

This is not only because Zhu Qiyu took out a lot of things in the palace for Lu Zhen to sell overseas, so that they were sold at sky-high prices, but also because Lu Zhen intended to use this to strengthen the determination of the Son of Heaven to open the sea, and also to let those opponents in the court see how great benefits this move to open the sea can bring to the imperial court.

You must know that this is just the profit brought by Shandong's first tentative dispatch of ships to sea. If the whole country had lifted the sea ban and continued to send goods overseas, the profits would have been 10 times higher than they are now, and the financial problems that had been entangled at that time would have been completely solved. He believes that as long as he is a person who understands, he will be able to see the gains and losses.

In order to make the Son of Heaven and the courtiers accept the opening of the sea more quickly, when the accounts were clear, Lu Zhen hurriedly asked Yang Zhen to personally escort these harvests to Beijing. So this arrangement, of course, is to give Yang Zhen a chance to go further. This time, the Son of Heaven will naturally be happy when he gets hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and then he will inevitably reward Yang Zhen, who has taken people to the sea and made great contributions.

When all this is done, September is coming to an end, the weather is starting to get cooler, and it is the time of the annual autumn grain harvest. However, this time, it is impossible for the local government in Shandong to be embarrassed by the government as last year, and at the moment when the Kong family has already suffered a lot, who would dare to get along with Governor Lu, who is famous and has real power?

In this way, after being busy with this paragraph, Lu Zhen finally became completely idle. The following official affairs will be handled by the officials below, and he, the governor, only needs to take the general direction from above, which is enough.

But this doesn't mean that he is really idle, at least the arrival of someone still makes Lu Zhen feel annoyed-

On September 27, Lu Renjia suddenly came to the governor's yamen with a bitter face. As soon as they met, they cried and said with a sad face: "Adult, the villain really doesn't know what to do this time......

Seeing him like this, Lu Zhen quickly understood: "But there is a problem with the grain business in Shanxi?" ”

"Exactly...... Somehow, this time, the Shanxi government and the army suddenly turned their faces and denied people, not only did they find a random excuse to withhold the grain we worked so hard to transport and not give money, but also took a lot of our people. If it weren't for the villain's quick opportunity and quickly withdrawing away, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back to see the adult......" Lu Renjia said, sighing for a while.

When Lu Zhen heard this, he stared at him for a long time with a smile, until the other party was a little uncomfortable with him, and then said, "Don't use this scheming between you and me." Even if you don't know what's going on when you go to Shanxi, you should be able to find out afterwards. Your backers have been dismissed, isn't that enough to make you feel vigilant? To tell you the truth, if it weren't for your relationship with me, you wouldn't have had this opportunity in the grain trade before. But at the same time, because of the relationship with me, this time I was almost taken down by the local people in Shanxi for some reason. ”

When he said this, Lu Zhen also blamed himself a little, he really forgot about this stubble. Once he and Shi Heng were openly hostile, and Hu Sui fell because of this, the situation of Lu Renjia, who had made a fortune from this, became extremely dangerous. After all, there are many people in the Shanxi government who know the relationship between themselves and Lu Renjia. Thanks to this clever man, otherwise something would have happened.

Lu Renjia was also uneasy when he told his thoughts, so he could only admit his mistake: "The villain knows his mistakes, I shouldn't hide anything." ”

"That's it. It is true that the official has some thoughtless thoughts on this matter, and he should have reminded you earlier, otherwise he would not have caused this loss. Lu Zhen waved his hand.

"In fact, the loss of this batch of grain is nothing, but in this way, our years of hard work have also been in vain." Lu Renjia said with a face full of unwillingness. He knew very well that after this time, someone would soon rise up to take his place and become the largest grain merchant who provided grain to Shanxi's officials and troops. You must know that in the past few years, the local businessman has not been less interested in this idea, and he has spent a lot of effort to keep his current status.

"Forget it, now that it's over, no matter how unwilling you are, you can only let it go." Lu Zhen comforted, and said in his heart that this is the problem of officials and businessmen. When the backer is there, it is natural to be smooth, hello, hello, hello, everyone. But once something happens to the backer, all kinds of problems and crises that I couldn't see before will follow. Not to mention him Lu Renjia, it was the red-roofed businessmen Hu Xueyan and Sheng Xuanhuai hundreds of years later, who were also eaten and wiped clean in an instant after their respective backers fell, and they didn't even leave any residue.

Of course, Lu Renjia's only luck was that he was still there, so he said: "Since Shanxi can't do business, you can come to Shandong to do it!" ”

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