The raid on the Fan family found that there was such a large amount of oil and water, which really surprised the Minister of the Interior who came to Jin Province on the order of the Queen Mother. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the meeting of the princes and ministers, although Bumu Butai accepted Fan Wencheng's opinion and carried out this strategy of killing chickens and taking eggs, but considering that it could not be too cold for the hearts of those businessmen who served the Qing Dynasty, Bumu Butai summoned Bilong after the meeting and asked him to choose three or five wealthy families to do it, as long as he could solve the urgent needs of the treasury, and he did not have to fish with all his might. After all, the Qing Dynasty still has northern China and Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, and the situation is still stronger than that of the southern restoration of the Ming Dynasty, which is "orthodox", so some things cannot be done too much.

Bumu Butai pointed out that he could not be "punished without guilt", and after arriving in Jin Province, he immediately sent Fan Yongdou, the head of the Eight Imperial Merchants, to prison on the charge of "Waitong Chahar".

The crime of "Waitong Chahar" is not small, and now the prince of Chahar is Abnei, the second son of Lin Dan Khan. Unlike his brother Ezhe's closeness to the Qing Dynasty, Abunai was haunted by the shame of his ancestors, and hated the Qing court even more, although he was the brother-in-law of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Fulin, but after he became the prince, he refused to go to the Beiqi court to meet and secretly plotted against the Qing Dynasty. Abnai had two sons, the eldest son Burni and the second son Luo Buzang, both of whom were full of hatred for the Qing Dynasty. His son, Burnie, was brave and won the hearts of his people.

Originally, the Qing court was ready to wait for the war in the south to be calmed down, so it used troops to Chahar to force Abnai to come to the north, and then put him under house arrest.

Now Kubilong has charged Fan Yongdou with the crime of being a foreign chahar, that is, he had the intention of raiding the Fan family from the beginning. After he arrived in Jin Province, the local officials did not persuade the minister that if the imperial court was really in urgent need of money, he could issue an order to let these imperial merchants donate, so that he could not only get his money, but also avoid killing chickens and eggs to chill people's hearts, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

But he didn't dare to tell these Han officials in Jin Province that the Qing Dynasty was not in urgent need of money now, but was in great need of money, and what they wanted was not a small amount like hundreds of thousands or millions, but tens of millions!

Can the imperial merchants be willing to offer as much as 10 million dollars to the Qing Dynasty? It was definitely impossible, so he bypassed the Han officials in Jin Province and directly ordered the Manchurian soldiers he brought to Zhangjiakou to raid the Fan family's compound first, and then raid the Fan's property in various places.

After hearing that Fan Yongdou was ordered to be locked up by the minister of the Qin Mission, the rest of the imperial merchants were surprised, because they had never heard that the Fan family had an affair with Chahar, at most they secretly sold some materials to them. This is a common thing both in the past and now. The imperial businessmen can have today, which one is not a family that is easy to make a living by secretly and outside the mouth? It's the Qing Dynasty, didn't it also do business secretly with the imperial merchants back then, and the Qing Dynasty entered the customs and rewarded the imperial merchants for this matter, why did they suddenly want to arrest Fan Yongdou now?

However, although the royal businessmen were puzzled, no one stood up to speak for the Fan family, nor did they act for the Fan family, but gloated and waited to see the Fan family's bad luck. It is true that they are all imperial merchants canonized by the Qing Emperor, and they were united before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, but now, there is not much agreement between the eight families.

Shopping malls are like battlefields.

The Fan family, relying on the privileges of the Internal Affairs Bureau, expanded its business on a large scale, and had already harmed the interests of the other seven families. The seven families wished that the Fan family would be destroyed, so that the court would eat meat and they would be able to drink soup. You must know that once the Fan family falls, the vacated business can scare people to death!

As a result, the officialdom and shopping malls in Jin Province collectively remained silent on the arrest of Fan Yongdou. Even the officials who had a close relationship with the Fan family before, had a lot of intersections, and had a lot of cadres and shares, also wisely chose to step aside and did not dare to touch the Fan family. The heads of several imperial merchants even scolded Fan Yongdou for disappointing the emperor's grace, wolf-heartedness, and foreign access to Mongolia, so he could not die well.

Naturally, Suppilon would be happy to see this situation. Although the specific figures have not been obtained, and there are still many lands, houses, antique calligraphy and paintings that cannot be sold for the time being, but from the Fan family's compound and his family's various properties, there are more than 5 million taels of cash copied out!

This huge achievement made Ji Bilong uncontrollable excitement, he knew that the Fan family, as the head of the eight imperial merchants, had contracted all the trade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the pro-Mongolia outside the mouth, and had industries in all provinces in the Guannai, gold and silver were like flowing water, but he never thought that this Fan family was really rich and rivaled the country!

Like the second-class guard Hai Tong'a who directly raided the Fan family's compound, Ji Bilong hated the Fan family who was rich and rivaled the country, and then thought of the rest of the family, he gritted his teeth and was even more itchy, so he quickly confiscated the four imperial merchants of Lingshi Wang Dengku, Pingyang Jin Liangyu, Puzhou Wang Dayu, and Yuciliang guests on the same charge, and copied more than 9.6 million taels of silver.

This move frightened the remaining families, but the selfish nature of people made them lose their last chance to save themselves. They naively thought that the imperial court could not move themselves, and it was impossible for the Qing Dynasty to slaughter all the imperial merchants, so someone had to work for the Qing Dynasty!

Suppilon didn't think so.

When a large number of silver chariots were escorted back to Beiqi, there were two secret folds on the curbilong, one for the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai, and the other for the emperor in Yangzhou. The content of the secret fold is to allow the continuation of the investigation of the remaining imperial merchants and businessmen related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so as to solve the problem of lack of money in the treasury at one time. The so-called long pain is not as good as short pain.

Bumu Butai was also stunned by the huge wealth of the merchants of Jin Province, and she replied to the secret decree that only Kubilong "acted at his discretion". The emperor did not have a will, but there was an edict from the emperor brought by the imperial guards, only one word - "may".

With the consent of the emperor and the empress dowager, he quickly expanded the copying family, and made persistent efforts, successively copied Xiutian Shenglan, Taigu Zhaitang, Pingyao Huang Yunfa and Qingyuan Chang, Qi County Qiao, Qi County Qu, Taigu Cao, and several Jin Province merchants, with a total of more than 16 million taels of silver, and countless properties.

"At first, when they copied the Fan family, I thought it would be good for me for the Fan family to fall, so I didn't speak; Then, they copied the Lingshi Wang family and the Pingyang Le family... I thought that the court did not touch my house, and explained that it would make great use of my house, so I did not speak; Later, they copied the Jiexiu Tian family, the Taigu Zhai family, the Pingyao Huang family... I still didn't speak, because I thought that if the eight great imperial merchants were all dead, my Cao family would be able to become imperial merchants, what a rare opportunity! In the end, they came to my house, and no one looked at my jokes, no one sympathized with my family, and no one spoke for my family, and I regretted it, but it was too late. ”

Before being killed, Cao Wanquan, the head of the Cao family in Taigu, shed tears of regret. (To be continued.) )