Zeng Guangxian nodded, and then cheered up: "Your Majesty, the Yang family in Guanzhong, I have roughly found out a very interesting thing, this Yang Tai is a simple person, usually lives alone in a courtyard of the Yang family, and usually does not see outsiders, only an old servant waits, even if there are outsiders, it is not seen." Externally, he just claimed that he was unwell, not to mention, he was already withdrawn, and the people in the house were already in awe of him, so naturally no one dared to question anything. ”

"However, in this Yang family, there is a person named Yang Heng, because this person is the son of Yang Chen, he has a lot of status in the Yang family, and at the beginning, Mrs. Yang also loved him very much, at least on the surface. Since then, he has also developed his arrogant temperament. ”

"He is in the mansion, no one can be provoked, the most reckless nonsense, however, Jin Yiwei from his mouth, but came to an interesting thing, the minister just said, in the Yang Mansion, no one dares to approach the courtyard of Yang Taigong on weekdays, but once, this Yang Heng was reckless, sneaked in, originally, he was just joking, but after entering, he found that in the courtyard of Yang Taigong, there were still people ......"

"Anyone else?" Chen Kaizhi said: "Didn't you say that this Yang Taigong lived there alone, and there was only one old servant to take care of him?" So, what other outsiders? ”

Chen Kaizhi suddenly felt that things had become more and more interesting now.

"That's the weirdest part of it." Zeng Guangxian nodded: "What Yang Heng saw was a Hu man, no, more like a person from the Western Regions, with yellow hair and blue eyes, wearing a black robe, he thought it was interesting, but he was careless, and made a noise, which seemed to arouse alarm, so he hurriedly slipped out, but it seemed that Yang Taigong was furious because someone had sneaked in, so he ordered the house to check it once, so that the chickens and dogs in this house jumped, and several domestic servants were killed, so that Yang Heng was also frightened and did not dare to make a noise. ”

Hu Ren...... Yellow-haired and blue-eyed ......

Chen Kaizhi silently remembered it in his heart, but he thought in his heart, if it was just a Hu person, why would he be yellow-haired and blue-eyed, if it was yellow-haired and blue-eyed, the most important thing was that Mrs. Yang closed the door every day and was unwilling to deal with people, so he must need to plan big things, such a major matter related to the fundamental interests, he couldn't even believe in others, why would he believe in a yellow-haired and blue-eyed guy.

The only possibility is that this person, Yang Taigong believes in him, or that in all the affairs of the Yang family, this yellow-haired and blue-eyed Hu man is involved.

"In addition......" Zeng Guangxian said: "What is more interesting is that Mrs. Yang is old, and his original favorite food is only small porridge and pastries, but sometimes, when he lived alone in the courtyard, the minister checked some records of the Yang family's meal, but found that sometimes, he would order people to kill cattle and slaughter sheep, cook beef and mutton, and send it into the courtyard." ”

Chen Kaizhi frowned.

If it is mutton, it is okay, Chang'an and Luoyang in this era, most of them do not like to eat pork, because the pork at this time has not been castrated when it is not raised, so there will always be a swishing smell, not to mention, now the iron pot is not popular, the so-called cooking, more to put the ingredients in the urn for cooking, the taste of pork ...... Not good.

So whether it is Chang'an or Luoyang, they all love to eat sheep.

But this beef is different, cattle are the most important farming and animal husbandry, so under normal circumstances, the imperial court is forbidden to kill cattle, and most of the cattle that die of old cattle are not delicious, so they are not respected.

Although for people like the Yang family, even if they eat tender beef, there seems to be no obstacles, but the social atmosphere has long been formed, so that everyone will never like beef unless they have a special habit.

And at this age of Mrs. Yang, how can he accept beef?

Chen Kaizhi suddenly thought of that Hu man, and then said: "The Yang family is overseas, what kind of business is it?" ”

Zeng Guangxian said: "All along, the Yang family has been doing sea trade, which is derived from two hundred years ago, Emperor Wen's policy of forbidding the sea, so that ordinary people, do not dare to go to sea, so there are occasionally some people from rich and noble families, but they can rely on this identity, sail to sea, make huge profits, the Yang family has also accumulated wealth for many years, it is said that decades ago, the Yang family's fleet, a year, can make a profit of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. ”

There are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a year......

This is definitely a terrifying amount, you know, the Yang family has been in business for two hundred years.

Zeng Guangxian said again: "But since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, the Yang family has decided not to carry out this business anymore, at least on the surface, no longer doing it, and the overseas fleet seems to have nothing to do with the Yang family, so there is no movement about maritime trade." The confession of the Yang family said that since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, Yang Taigong thought that since she was a relative of the emperor, how could she first violate the forbidden law, so she ordered someone to separate the overseas trade from the Yang family. ”

Chen Kaizhi sneered: "The money confiscated by the Yang family is only hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?" ”

"Yes." Zeng Guangxian said: "The specific number still needs to be calculated, but it should be this number." ”

Chen Kaizhi said lightly: "For more than two hundred years, they have relied on this to make huge profits, not to mention that the Yang family is a wealthy family in Guanzhong, and they have countless land and land properties, which are enough for their expenses, so where is the silver earned through sea trade?" That's an astronomical amount, at least tens of millions of taels of silver, and maybe even more than I imagined. ”

Zeng Guangxian said: "The minister will continue to investigate, Guanzhong is there, the minister ......"

Chen Kaizhi shook his head firmly: "It won't be in Guanzhong, the so-called cunning rabbit three caves, not to mention, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's minister, although the Yang family is a wealthy family, but it is not stupid, how can it be possible to put this egg in one basket, not to mention, this is a sum of ill-gotten wealth that relies on the privileges and prohibitions of the Yang family, how dare they hide in Guanzhong, nine times out of ten, the silver is overseas, and the Yang family has countless money overseas, and there are many descendants of the Yang family, I am afraid that most of them are overseas, in this overseas, There must be a place where they are entrenched, I now understand more and more, the ...... of Yang Taigong's fraudulent death" Chen Kaizhi suddenly had a cold light in his eyes: "Immediately take people to Guanzhong, go to the cemetery of the previous heads of the Yang family, dig up the tombs of their previous heads of the family, and say to the outside world, the Yang family is rebellious, the living are inevitable, and the deceased must also open the coffin and kill the corpse, you go in person." ”

Zeng Guangxian was stunned for a moment, but he hurriedly said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

He knew that Chen Kaizhi attached great importance to this matter, and he didn't dare to hesitate, so he immediately left.

Chen Yishou listened to the audit, and from beginning to end, he didn't express any opinions, until Zeng Guangxian left, Chen Yishou took a look: "Your Majesty, can you have a wealth of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year with the fleet alone?" ”

Chen Kai smiled: "I'm afraid it's not just this, with the Yang family's handwriting, there may be more." ”

Chen Yishou sighed: "The reason why the sea was banned at the beginning, speaking of which, the old minister consulted the relevant information in the Literature and History Museum of the Hanlin Academy, but I still remember that more than two hundred years ago, when Emperor Wen was in power, it was Yang Lin of Zuo Yushi who found out a Qin case, in fact, back then, the Japanese people also harassed Dachen badly, and many Japanese people were entrenched overseas, attacking my Dachen's maritime frontier, but Yang Lin found out that there were many Dachen maritime merchants, who actually colluded with the Japanese and gave them funding, so that Shandong and Jiangnan suffered greatly, and Emperor Wen was furious after learning about it, Seven decrees in a row, ordering the state capitals around the country to investigate and deal with maritime merchants, and this Yang Lin took this opportunity to play, asking for a sea ban, so far, Emperor Wen issued a decree, requiring the board not to go to the sea, so far, the sea ban policy, increasingly strict, the imperial court only allows the government and the sea trade business of various countries, such as His Majesty's original Jibei, is not allowed to carry out private sea trade, but needs to be traded between the official ships of various countries, and if His Majesty does not have the privilege of mutual market, it is even more impossible. ”

Chen Kaizhi bowed his head and said: "Hearing you say this, I think it's interesting, this Yang Lin is also from the Yang family in Guanzhong, heh, this person has collected countless evidence, and by colluding with the Japanese Kou, he eliminated all the maritime merchants in one fell swoop, so that the imperial court will severely crack down on the maritime merchants." But who would have thought that the maritime merchants would no longer be able to go to sea, but the wealthy families in this Guanzhong, the protégés and former officials are all over the world, and every three or five times, there are people from the family, or the Yang family who is an important minister of the temple, or a feudal official, but it is equivalent to monopolizing the power to go to sea. ”

"At ......the beginning," Chen Kai's eyes flashed a little mockery: "So I can almost imagine that the Yang family took this opportunity to come up with the so-called maritime ban policy, the fundamental intention is not to worry about the imperial court and want to ban the maritime merchants who collude with the Japanese invaders, but the fundamental intention is to take this opportunity to eliminate all competitors, only in this way can the Yang family take this opportunity to implement monopoly." Thinking about it like this, it's really terrible, the big families, after all, rarely engage in business directly, and most of them don't know anything about this sea trade. And the Yang family thought that they had been involved in maritime trade for a long time, and they knew everything about it. And ordinary maritime merchants, although they know that they can make huge profits in this sea, but a sea ban order secretly led by the Yang family, how many connections can these maritime merchants use, how many connections can they use, how dare they risk killing their heads and stealing their families, and go to the sea to make profits? And the Yang family is familiar with the sea trade, but also has enough privileges, even if the local government knows what the news, I am afraid that I dare not report it, those people from the sea inspection department, other people's ships dare to ban, how dare to ban the Yang family's boats, what is the final result? ”

Chen Kaizhi looked at Chen Yishou with a smile, and finally sighed: "The final result must be that Da Chen Haimao is only out of the Yang family, and all the specialties of Da Chen, any overseas person who wants to ask for it, has to buy it from the Yang family, this ...... is the real windfall profit, their annual income, even more than you think. ”