Since falling into the hands of Jin Yiwei, Fan Yongdou knew that this day would come sooner or later.

But when the day really came, Fan Yongdou still felt a heart-rending pain.

This huge family business is not easy to come by, and it is only after generations of the old Fan family have worked hard for sixty or seventy years to earn it!

Taking risks and walking on the sidelines, can the current emperor understand the hardships and hardships?

Since he was captured, Fan Yongdou has not eaten a decent meal, has not slept a single night, and the brocade robe he is wearing at this time has been tattered, his hair is unkempt and dirty, and the whole person is even more thin and withered.

When he came to the gate of the compound he was once familiar with, Fan Yongdou saw that things were wrong, so he broke free from the custody of the Jinyi guards, threw himself to the ground, and cried bitterly.

However, the sadness in it is probably only possible for Wang Dengku and other Jin merchant giants who have suffered the same fate as him to truly understand it.

However, at this time, Fan Yongdou's actions were only exchanged for a beating of him by Jiang Jian and his Jinyi Guard.

This time, Wang Guoxing personally led the Jinyi Guard to Fanjia Street in Jiexiu Zhangyuanbao, and after taking Fan Yongdou and others to the Fan family compound, everything went smoothly.

In the dungeon of the West Thousand Households of Jinyi Weishan in Taiyuan City, Fan Yongdou asked Wang Guoxing and others to leave a way for his grandsons under the age of ten on the condition that he agreed to inform the Fan family of the location of the gold and silver in the cellar.

Wang Guoxing didn't agree, nor did he refuse, just nodded at him, and didn't give him a word of approval in the end.

But he had no other way, if he didn't say the entrance to the cellar of the Fan family's Tibetan seal, several of his young grandsons would be trampled to death by Jiang Jian immediately.

A character like Fan Yongdou was also a ruthless character in the north, but at this time, how could he not know that his old life had no chance of surviving?

But for him, his own life, or even his son's life, is no longer important when it comes to this step of the field.

However, the lives of several young grandchildren are related to the question of whether Jiexiu Fan's family will cut off their children and grandchildren, so he can't afford not to pay attention to it.

Therefore, Wang Guoxing's trip, after arriving at Jiexiu Zhangyuan Fanjia Street, was very smooth.

At the same time, the thousands of households and stall leaders of Dongchang under the command of Fangzhenghua led the people of Dongchang to search and arrest and raid homes in Dushikou, Zhangjiakou and other Xuanfu and Datong, which also went smoothly beyond imagination.

Since September of the second year of Chongzhen, the situation in the Monan area has been tense, especially after entering the second half of October, the war broke out, and the trade outside the various mouths of the Xuanda border area also stopped.

Shanxi merchants, who gathered from all over the country, also entered a period of stockpiling and waiting for the end of the war.

As a result, they did not wait for the end of the war, but waited for the Dongchang people to break in.

However, all the merchants listed on the list of Shanxi Chamber of Commerce were all arrested and imprisoned for the name of traitor.

The shops, granges and warehouses of Shanxi merchants scattered all over the border also fell into the hands of Dongchang at once, and quietly became the property of the Royal Baohe Company.

This is, of course, a kind of naked snatching and usurpation.

However, for snatching and occupying the property of the Shanxi or Shaanxi merchants along the border of Xuanda in this era, now Emperor Chongzhen does not have the slightest psychological burden.

If it weren't for the wealth that the Dongchang people forcibly seized in Xuanfu and Datong along the border, even if the Chongzhen Emperor had received all the gold and silver that Jianyu had plundered the hinterland of Xuanda but failed to take away, he would not have been so confident and generous to increase the amount of money for hundreds of civil and military officials.

Without this money, he, the emperor, would not be stable, what else is fair or unfair? !

When it comes to the New Year, time always flies quickly, as if it was just a blink of an eye, and February of Chongzhen's third year came.

In the city of Daming Jingshi, the atmosphere of the New Year has faded, but the breath of spring has become stronger.

The bloody rain that happened in various parts of Shanxi did not affect the busy and noisy life of the people here in the slightest.

The Forbidden City also has a lot of fun because of the birth of Princess Zhaoren.

Around the time of the second day of the second month of the second month of the third year of Chongzhen, the secret report of Wang Guoxing, the envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town, was personally brought into the Qianqing Palace by Gong Yonggu, the commander of Jinyi Wei.

Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horse, has always been restrained and steady, and has won the appreciation of the current Emperor Chongzhen, since getting rid of Tian Ergeng and taking over the command of Jinyiwei, his personality is more introverted and withdrawn, more taciturn, and easy to move emotions.

But this time, Emperor Chongzhen had not yet received the secret report submitted by Gong Yonggu, and he had already noticed the excitement in Gong Yonggu's heart from Gong Yonggu's trembling hands and voice.

When Gong Yonggu saw Emperor Chongzhen, he immediately knelt on the ground, holding the secret report sent by Wang Guoxing to Jingshi in both hands, and said in a trembling tone:

"Your Majesty! There is news from Wang Guoxing! Everything is as His Majesty expected, everyone has stolen money, and the evidence is complete! ”

Emperor Chongzhen saw that people like Gong Yonggu could not hide the excitement in his heart when he saw Wang Guoxing's secret report, so this secret report would definitely not disappoint him.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a good mood recently, smiled and asked Gong Yonggu to speak, and took Wang Guoxing's secret report from Gong Yonggu's hand.

After opening it, I looked at it at a glance and ten lines, turned a few pages in a row, and finally saw the number I wanted to see in the last paragraph:

"The gold plan is two hundred and two, and the silver is two and two ......."

And that's just two of the numbers.

However, it was these two figures, plus the Dongchang under the command of Fang Zhenghua, that 115,600 taels of gold and 6.12 million taels of silver were copied from Zhangjiakou Dushikou, which already exceeded the total amount of gold and silver obtained by the confiscated eunuch family property and salt merchants in Changlu, Shandong, Lianghuai and other places.

This amount of gold and silver cash is worth six or seven years of financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty!

As for the salt quotations, land deeds, and other bills that can be used as gold and silver, as well as accounts such as how many acres of land, how many shops, how many manor houses, and how many cattle, horses, and livestock were copied this time, Emperor Chongzhen didn't have the heart to read them carefully at this moment, number by number.

Emperor Chongzhen once again read out the two numbers in the Jinyi Weibei Town's Fu Wang Guoxing Secret Report word by word, and then laughed, and said while laughing:

"Not bad! Not bad! Very good! Very good! This time, Dongchang and Jinyiwei can be regarded as atoning for the previous sin of negligence, and can even be regarded as a meritorious service for me to serve the Ming Dynasty! ”

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the main destination country for the world's silver was China at that time.

However, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the official and private commerce of the Ming Dynasty suffered from a series of problems caused by the shortage of silver.

The root of this anomaly lies in the habits and characteristics of the clans, merchants, and big landowners of the Ming Dynasty at that time to store silver.

These large amounts of silver were not willing to be spent, but were melted into huge ingots and stored in the hope of passing on to future generations.

Therefore, with the increasing concentration of silver wealth in the hands of big merchants and big landowners, although there was a huge amount of silver poured into the Ming Dynasty in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the silver circulating in the Ming Dynasty was less and less.

The ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty had less and less silver in their hands, and the imperial court could not receive the silver, so the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty became more and more prominent.

Now the Chongzhen Emperor knows what the problem is, so he also has great expectations for the notoriously slamming Jin merchant consortium.

It seems that this time, these businessmen who are slamming the enemy really did not disappoint themselves.

With such a sum of money, the financial problems in the next two or three years can be maintained.

Once you survive another two or three years, when Chongzhen is six or seven years old, it is time to get on the right track with the few new financial resources that have been opened up before.

For example, the customs offices of the various treaty ports under the North-South Political Mission, such as the Mint General Mint under the North-South Household Department, and then the Nanyang Company, the World Bank, and so on.

When these newly opened financial resources are on the right track, forming a cycle, and with a steady stream of financial support, this practice of alleviating fiscal problems by killing the rich and helping the poor and accumulating by internal plundering can be abandoned.

After all, while this way of making money is fast, it is extremely destructive, and it is not so fair.

In particular, these rich businessmen are not inexhaustible and inexhaustible!

Moreover, after copying these Jin merchant families, it is equivalent to destroying the commerce and economy of Xuanda and Shanxi at once.

Although a large amount of gold and silver was amassed in a short period of time, the cost of this act was also extremely huge.

Today, although Baohe Company has temporarily taken over the shops, warehouses and other industries in Xuanfu, it will take a few years to restore the prosperity of trade in the past.

However, even with such a price and even harm, now this Chongzhen Emperor can only do this.

As the saying goes, 10,000 years is too long, seize the day, and the crisis situation of the Ming Dynasty makes him unable to continue to wait.

Even if he drank to quench his thirst, he could only drink it first without hesitation.