In fact, the cost of the lake silk obtained from the silkworm farmers is extremely low, and there is an additional income of nearly 100,000 taels of silver every year, which is not much. The tax revenue of Longqing's opening of the sea in a year is only 20,000 taels of silver, which can be seen from this.

Chen Donghai said that in order to emphasize the weight of his words, if he really gave up so much silver, he would definitely feel distressed and want him to die!

After saying this, he really had the reaction he was expecting. I saw that none of the people present could sit still, even his opponent Wang Donglei. Seeing that Wang Donglei asked a little worriedly, "What is the purpose of their coming to our Nanxun Town?" ”

After hearing this, the big shopkeeper of Jingxing seemed to remember something, although he also looked at Chen Donghai, but his face was obviously more worried.

Chen Donghai looked at them, his voice lowered, but his tone was more resolute: "The imperial court has issued an order to open the sea, and Husi is the most important cargo to go to sea. This is one of them; Second, it is said that he made a generous statement in the court last year, saying that our Ming Dynasty's taxes are too small, and we must learn from the previous dynasty to collect business taxes......"

Speaking of this, he bowed his hand to the chief shopkeeper of the Beijing Bank and a few other people: "You are well-informed, you should know that what I said is true, right?" ”

Several big shopkeepers who came from political centers such as Beijing and Nanjing nodded solemnly when they heard this.

"I dare to conclude that these brocade guards came to our Nanxun Town in plain clothes, probably because they took a fancy to the fat of Husi and wanted to learn from the former dynasty to collect taxes. So what else do we have to earn? There will be at least more than 10 million taels of transactions this year, are you willing to give up this piece of fat? ”

As soon as these words were spoken, the lobby was silent! Everyone looked down and thought about things, and their faces were very ugly.

It's not that southerners don't pay attention to the north, and they will naturally understand the dynamics of the imperial court. As for the war in the north or something, they are not interested. Their interest is only to make money, and the changes in the situation related to making money.

Combined with the changes in the situation in the past year or so, I have to say that Chen Donghai's words are very reasonable. Thinking that each family would lose countless amounts of money, Wang Donglei couldn't sit still at first, he looked at Chen Donghai and asked, "You old fox, what can you do?" They're brocade guards! ”

The first time he heard that his opponent had no idea, he lowered his head and asked himself what he meant, but Chen Donghai was not a little proud. He glanced at the others, and said with a hint of viciousness: "Naturally, there is a way, it depends on whether we are all willing to work together!" ”

"What's the solution? Say it! When Wang Donglei heard this, he immediately asked, and he didn't even know when he stood up.

The big shopkeepers seemed to understand what Chen Donghai's method was, they were not as excited as Wang Donglei, but they were frowning and thinking.

"There is only so much meat, or is there an outsider inserting it, or is it a big one coming in to the sky, what else can we eat, broth?" Chen Donghai looked at Wang Donglei, but the corner of his eyes was looking at those big shopkeepers and said, "Why don't we all tell the people behind us quickly, tell them about the situation here, let them decide, and see if we want to make trouble with him?" ”

"Mess with him?" Wang Donglei was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses, and asked a little uncertainly, "Just like the Suzhou civil uprising?" ”

When the Suzhou people were in turmoil, they actually participated in the people's revolt. If there are many people, the law will not hold the people accountable. In the end, those people in the palace were killed, and the matter of collecting taxes was gone. Just give some silver, launch a few substitutes for the dead, and give an explanation to the court, and the matter will be over!

Comparatively speaking, the burden at this time is a little lighter. After all, there is already a precedent to follow, and at that time, it was an impact on the official office, and now, it is just a house in Nanxun Town. The other party was still dressed in civilian clothes, so he was killed as a fake, and the court and the emperor had nothing to say. If you want to go down the stairs, you can also give money to launch a few substitutes for the dead after the matter is over.

Chen Donghai nodded at his old opponent, and then induced with a look of temptation: "It depends on what you mean, whether to let Jinyiwei take over this matter and conduct a thorough investigation, find out those of us behind the scenes, and even those behind us, and then lose both money and property, or grit your teeth, spend some money to make a scene, force the court and the emperor to comply, and cut off the outstretched hand?" ”

According to him, these people here actually have no choice, because these two answers are too obvious to them to be good or bad.

The shopkeeper of Guangxing nodded first and said, "I think so!" ”

When the shopkeeper of Jingxing heard this, he also nodded and said: "Yes, in addition, you can spend some more money to let those literati write more articles and spread them, just say that Jinyi Wei is relying on the minions of the Son of Heaven and is overbearing, and there is a great tendency to cause the disaster of the apocalypse!" ”

"Yes, what is the head of the Restoration Society, what is it called, it seems that it is called Zhang Pu, didn't he write a "Tombstone of Five", and he is famous for it." The big shopkeeper from Nanjing patted his head, thought about it and said, "His literary talent is first-class, and now because he has organized the Fushe and has extensive exchanges, why don't you also give them some money to support them, and let him write another article for us this time?" ”

Chen Donghai didn't understand this, and he hadn't heard of it. But since the big shopkeeper from Ying Tianfu said so, it must be wrong, and he nodded again and again, isn't it worth spending some money! With the participation of those literati, the pen is moving, and it is very powerful, so that those brocade guards are difficult to argue, and they have to bear a stigma when they die, and they will even implicate the emperor to condemn their families!

After a few more discussions, they immediately sent out fast horses to report the situation here and their countermeasures. At the same time, they also immediately began to prepare, because they knew that the people behind them would definitely agree with their approach, and this matter would have to be handled quickly, otherwise there would be a lot of people, and if the court reacted, it was very likely that there would be an accident.

They didn't know that the biggest variable was actually in the house they were surrounding them.

Just when they invited literati and mobilized their respective clansmen, as well as local ruffians and scoundrels from other places to participate in the trouble, Emperor Chongzhen in the house was a little puzzled, and he asked Fang Zhenghua, who was following him: "Why is it so quiet outside, there is no next move?" ”

Fang Zhenghua was also a little puzzled, it couldn't be thunder and rain, that's it, right? Or do you go to sue the official, saying that these people are pretending to be Jinyi Guards, waiting for the government to send someone to arrest them?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sneer, if it was like that, it would be funny!