Chapter 465 "Mōdi Exam"

At the end of the first year of Chongzhen, the Beijing division was very lively.

Literati students rushed to Beijing Normal University to participate in the discussion of running a school, or to go to Beijing Normal in advance to prepare for the next examination; Some landlords and old fortunes near Jingshi rushed to buy stocks in Jingshi; The large-scale rise of the Jingshi workshop, the merchants who looked for a way to do business in the Jingshi; ordinary people who went to the capital to find work opportunities; Officials from all over the country went to Beijing to report their posts; Or visit Liulizhai and so on, not to mention, in short, this year in the capital, unusually lively.

A few days ago, the emperor said in the newspaper that there are Liulizhai shares sold, so that the people who are waiting for the dividends are red-eyed, scrambling to buy stocks, the end of this year is coming, the dividends are about to come down, if you can get the stocks of Liulizhai, where to find this good deal?

The additional shares were quickly snapped up, so much so that a large circle of people from all over the world shouted for additional shares.

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"Who are these people? How is there so much? Yang Gai, dressed in civilian clothes, looked through the glass window, looked at the crowd inside the stock jiāo Yi office, and asked.

"Hui Gongzi, these people, are here to buy stocks, many of them are the nobles in the capital, the housekeeper or shopkeeper of the official's family, the one standing at the front, Li Niang remembers that it seems to be the Wu housekeeper of the Wu shìlang family, he is in such a hurry to buy stocks, nothing more than to help his lord buy ......, in addition to the nobles and officials in the capital, there are also some rich people around the capital, those rich people heard that this stock has money to make, many people from the cellar, buried for decades of silver to buy stocks......" Sun Liniang stood beside Yang Reform and explained with a smile.

"Hmm! I didn't expect this stock to be so sought-after, I'm still worried that it won't be easy to sell......" Yang Reform relieved himself, and Yang Reform, who had suffered from a lack of silver recently, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Childe, this is thanks to Childe's 'Imperial Party', if they didn't take the lead in buying stocks, I'm afraid that this stock would not be so easy to sell, in addition, there are also those nobles of the Duke of the Kingdom who also came to cheer, and there are also Wang Shopkeeper them, but the strange thing is that in addition to Wang Shopkeeper and them, there are also many businessmen from the south, and they also made a move, which is strange, plus those old rich people who follow the trend...... So this stock is very hot, otherwise, where would it sell so quickly? I'm afraid some people haven't even seen what stocks look like...... Your Majesty, do you want to watch out for them? Sun Liniang said, after speaking, she also deliberately mentioned the special situation, in addition to the southern businessman of the king, this king's shopkeeper was the first to buy the first to buy Liulizhai's 10% of the stock, and he was his own person.

"Hmph, ......, it'......s interesting," Yang Gengai laughed. The scope of this "imperial party", in addition to the "imperial party" in the court, has expanded to all aspects, including nobles, generals, merchants, and even pirates, and with the increase in the number of people who buy stocks, the scope of the "imperial party" is even larger.

A larger scope of the "imperial party" gradually formed, the emperor did things, the imperial party naturally had to come out to stand on the platform, judging from the situation of this "mōdi examination", Yang Reform had considerable confidence in his own work.

"Merchants of the South? Hehe, it's fine. Yang Reform said with a smile, this group of southern businessmen, Yang Reform estimated, it is estimated that it is the group of southern maritime businessmen, they are close to themselves, now this opportunity is in front of them, if they are acquaintances, they should come to cheer for themselves, if they don't know each other, then don't blame yourself for not taking care of them.

"Oh, Li Niang knows, Childe, do you want to issue more shares of this stock?" Sun Liniang asked, this stock is crowded, and it is to buy stocks, but this stock has been sold out and can only be issued more, so Yang Reform will appear here.

Yang Gengai thought for a while and said, "Let's issue an additional one." "Today, Yang Reform went out of the palace, because he heard that Liulizhai's shares were selling crazy, so he came to take a look, and the current situation is that it is necessary to increase the issuance. Yang Reform originally wanted to make a gesture in the Di newspaper, explaining how bitter he was by the salt merchants, to engage in stinky salt merchants, by the way to test whether the strength of his imperial party is reliable or not, but he didn't expect that the "masses" were so enthusiastic to support themselves, it seems that there are really more people, the more people who buy the better, when the time comes, the people who buy Liulizhai stocks, but they are all the strength of their own side!

"Childe, the original additional Icheng shares were sold for a total of more than 2.3 million taels of silver, if we add the additional Icheng of this issuance, it is estimated that it can be sold for four or five million taels, what should I do with these silver?" Sun Liniang asked. ,

"As before, they are all deposited in the bank, turned into silver coins, leaving the part that needs to be distributed at the end of the year, and the rest, for backup, at the end of the year, there are more and more places where money needs to be used! ......" Yang Reform instructed, in the past two months, Yang Reform has gone crazy with general money, first to make up for the border army to make up for the arrears of two million taels, and then to purchase cotton clothes, the continuous investment in shipbuilding in the south, as well as the expenses of the new army white pole soldiers, where are the expenses of Yuan Máo and the others, the expenses of the Beijing camp, the expenses of the Jinyi Guard, the expenses in the palace, the cashing of the head silver, the reward for winning the war, the pension, the fleet of hiring foreigners, training the navy, casting artillery, scientific research, etc., all rely on this means, The income of the stock is taken out in advance, as for the dividend, that is the end of the year, and even need to secretly sell some stocks, in order to maintain the stability of the funds, now an additional number of shares have been issued, and more than two million taels of silver, but there is silver to pay dividends at the end of the year, fortunately, they account for most of the shares of Liulizhai, when dividends, there is no need to divide out how much silver, otherwise, this bottomless dòng, Yang Reform is to jump down by himself, and he is not satisfied.

"Yes, Childe!" Sun Liniang replied, Sun Liniang is now a nv strongman who is accustomed to seeing the world, in the previous NV era, the biggest ideal is to earn a hundred and ten taels of silver every year, and live happily, since following this Yang reform, let alone a few hundred taels, even if it is a few million taels of silver, she doesn't pay much attention to it, she has a glass Zhai worth tens of millions of taels of silver in her hands, living in the glaze Zhai, which is known as the first scene in the capital, and the graceful and luxurious temperament on her body is getting stronger and stronger.

"By the way, the matter of the southern businessmen that Liniang said just now, I think of one thing, there is a 'Lord Wang' in the court, who is the backstage of this group of southern businessmen, they are maritime merchants, but now the sea is not very peaceful, and they can't do it anymore, I want to take the mén road of my son, Liniang will see this for me." Lord Wang, I don't want to come forward, you tell him, their sincerity in buying stocks this time, Ben Gongzi sees it in his eyes, Ben Gongzi appreciates it very much, what they want to do, Ben Gongzi knows, whether it can be done, it depends on whether they are sincere next......" Yang Gaiyun said in a cloudy voice, this matter, you can't just say it everywhere, whether you can understand it or not, it's up to them.

"This, Childe, what's going on? Is it the king of the court? Sun Liniang hurriedly asked, listening to what Yang Reform said, in the clouds, Sun Liniang couldn't help but ask casually.

"......," Yang Gai whispered softly in Sun Liniang's ear for a while.

"Well, Li Niang understands, don't worry, this matter, Li Niang will definitely handle it for Childe......" Sun Liniang immediately agreed, this matter is not a difficult matter, the emperor is not convenient to come forward to do this, so it is better for her to do it.

"It's good to understand, I wanted to stay a little longer today, but there are still important things to do, so I'll leave first......" Yang Reform has a way.

"Childe,...... Childe, are you leaving? Sun Liniang saw that Yang Reform looked like she was about to leave after seeing it, with a look of regret and resentment.

"Well, I've been a little busy these days, and when I'm busy these days, I'll accompany Liniang well." Yang Reform looked at Sun Liniang and said with some pity, although Yang Reform also wanted to stay and share the tenderness, but there were more important things to do, and after reading the "mōdi exam", it was time to do more important things.

"Then ......, Liniang will wait for the son......" Sun Liniang said with some loss.

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Out of Liulizhai, Yang Reform's carriage circled the street a few times and went straight to a house.

This house, there are no obvious signs, and there is no difference between it and the many houses in Beijing.

This house is not the first time Yang Reform has come, Yang Reform is familiar with entering the house and sitting down.

"Sinner Liu Xingzuo knocked to see the son...... "Liu Xingzuo This is the third time he has seen the emperor, and as soon as he meets, he immediately kneels down and kowtows and makes a big salute.

"Get up! No need to be polite. Yang reformed.

"Gongzi Xie." Liu Xingzuo got up at this time, looking at the young emperor, Liu Xingzuo concentrated jī moved, he was a xiǎoxiǎo anti-general, and then met the emperor three times, what does this mean? It shows that the emperor attaches great importance to himself, and he is of great use, can he not be happy?

"Liu Xingzuo, how long have you been with Dongyu? When did it get started? Yang asked reform.

Liu Xingzuo saw the emperor ask about this, although he felt strange, but he was not afraid, these things were written in his "book", thought about it, and said: "Hui Gongzi, the sinner was exiled to the Dongyu side when the ancestor Wanli was thirty-three years old, as for the ...... of the beginning, the sinner was ...... during the battle of Salhu" Liu Xingzuo said here, he didn't dare to say it, for fear of angering the emperor, Salhu was a big defeat on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a fiasco of the Ming Dynasty outside the Guan. ,

"O Salhu! At that time, Nurhachi was still the chieftain, before you made a fortune, could you get close to Nurhachi? Can you know some of the things he did? Yang asked again.

"Hui Gongzi ......, this, this ......, the sinner is the personal shì guard of the chief of the Eastern Captive, and most of the sinners know something about what the chief does...... "When Liu Xingzuo said this, his eyes flickered a few times, and he replied.

"Oh, there's one thing about Nurhachi, you know?" Yang Gai didn't notice Liu Xingzuo's flickering eyes, and asked his own question directly.

"I don't know what Childe said." Liu Xingzuo asked.

"How much do you know about Nurhachi's seven hatreds?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Seven hatreds? This, the sinner does know something, but it is the ...... of the chieftain" Liu Xingzuo was a little surprised, why did the emperor ask him these things? The Seven Hatreds are not an unusual, nor are they secrets.

"Ben Gongzi didn't mean that, Ben Gongzi said,...... Well, I heard that the Nu chief gave a generous reward to the sixteen Han merchants who were doing business in Fushun at that time, and let these merchants enter the customs with these 'seven hatreds',...... Ben Gongzi now suspects that these sixteen businessmen have sent a message to Dongyu and sī to Dongyu, so he wants to ask if this matter is true......" Yang Gai said.

"Ahh Liu Xingzuo exclaimed, it turned out that the emperor was going to ask this, could it be that the Jin merchant capture case that has been rumored in Beijing recently? He Liu Xingzuo can't go out, but he can also read the Di newspaper.

"Your Majesty, but you are talking about the Jin Shang Tong case?" Liu Xingzuo asked.

"Yes and no, this son just wants to ask now, is there such a thing, can you confirm it? Or was you able to get close to the slave chieftain at that time? Yang reformed.

"Hui Gongzi, this ......, at that time, the sinner did serve by the side of the chieftain, and he did know about this matter, and there were indeed sixteen businessmen who entered the customs with the 'Seven Hatreds' ......, this matter, the sinner can indeed confirm that this matter, on the side of the Dongyu, is not unusual, as long as it is a person who has followed the slave chief for some years, he knows ......it," Liu Xingzuo said.

"Look at this, this is what Jinyiwei discovered when he tried the Jin Shang Tong Capture case...... "Yang Reform handed Liu Xingzuo a thick thing.

Liu Xingzuo looked at it. The more I look, the more frightened I become! This thing that the emperor gave him will cost the lives of some people! The Tongyu case suddenly changed from the Jin merchant Tongyu to the salt merchant Tongyu, or in other words, the salt merchant yīn Tongdongyu, secretly made it bad, the worst, it can also be said that someone instigated the salt merchant to pull the emperor and the imperial court, and indirectly helped the Dongyu! This thing ......, Liu Xingzuo was terrified, how could the emperor show him this thing?

"Childe, this ......" Liu Xingzuo said in fear, he was caught in a huge conspiracy! A non-xiǎo heart is a place to die without a burial!

"It's good that you also know about the Jin merchant case, this son thought, since it was more than a dozen businessmen back then. The seven hates' into the pass, all over my Ming Dynasty north and south, among them, naturally there may be salt merchants, even if there is not, but now, this son looks at the behavior of the salt merchants, how can I feel that there must be someone who instigated them to deliberately default on the salt class, in order to achieve their ulterior purposes, or in other words, under the instigation of the Dongyu Jiān, the salt merchants deliberately defaulted on the salt class, so that the prince and the court did not have silver to pay, so that the customs continued to erode, isn't it? Yang Gengai prompted.

"This ......, this, Childe, this may ......" Liu Xingzuo replied with sweat on his head.

"This is not possible, but absolutely, this son thinks, there were more than a dozen Han merchants who entered the customs, so many years, I don't know how many Han merchants have been captured, secretly make it bad, but everyone doesn't know...... now, Jin Shang has arrested Jinyiwei, this matter, this son thinks, it should also be revealed to the world, but this son feels that there is a lack of some key evidence, this son thinks, you Liu Xingzuo is a suitable person, living in Dongyu for many years, and Dongyu high-level, In particular, he is very familiar with the captive chieftain and can get close to the slave chieftain, so this prince thinks that you are a ready-made witness in this matter......" Yang reformed and said. Yang Reform calculated his plan and found that this Liu Xingzuo is indeed very useful, with his "qualifications" in Dongyu, to prove that the salt merchant has a relationship with the Tongyu case, and it will be more perfect, so Yang Reform specially came to see Liu Xingzuo, this is the third time, Yang Reform never thought that he would see this anti-general one after another, and for the first time, Yang Reform hesitated for a long time to see it, but he didn't expect that this Liu Xingzuo would come in handy so soon. ,

"This ......, this ......" Liu Xingzuo's face was full of sweat, and he already understood what the emperor meant, that is, he used his experience in the east to prove that Nurhachi did send a Han merchant to the Ming Dynasty, all over the north and south of the river, if you add the evidence that the emperor got from the Jin merchants, it can be confirmed that there are many Han merchants in the Ming Dynasty who are taking prisoners, and they want to climb the salt merchants, saying that the salt merchants do not pay the salt class because of the captives, the most unfortunate, and you can also climb the salt merchants One was instigated, so he owed the salt class, although there was no direct capture, but, It also helped Dongyu. In this way, the emperor can justifiably kill within the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the salt merchant is the first object that the emperor wants to cut, and it is estimated that mō, is the emperor who has taken a fancy to the silver of the salt merchant, or rather, the salt class?

"How, can you confirm it?" Yang Gengai looked at Liu Xingzuo, who was sweating, and waited patiently for him to think.

"Hui Gongzi, this ......, the sinner can confirm that not only Nurhachi sent Han merchants to enter the Ming Dynasty to do the gap, but Huang Taiji also sent more Han merchants to the Ming Dynasty to do the gap, this matter, in the upper echelons of the Dongyu, is by no means a new thing, when we fight Salhu, no, when the Donglu fights Salhu, someone informed the slave chief of the Ming army's every move, and later hit Shengjing, no, Shenyang and other cities, all have internal responses, this, the sinner can testify......" Liu Xingzuo heard the emperor ask, and immediately made up his mind, decided to do it completely according to the emperor's ideas, and added a lot of "condiments".

"Hehehe, yes, about the fact that Dongyu has jiān details inside my Ming Dynasty, this son has always been suspicious, and has been taking precautions, Jinyiwei has also been investigating, but this clue is always limited, and the things found are also limited, and it has not been able to remove the tumor that remained in my Ming Dynasty, now you can stand up and testify, this is the best, in the future, this son may need you to testify in the court, do you dare?" Yang Gengai smiled and nodded, persuading Liu Xingzuo to say according to his own meaning, he still has a lot of certainty, with this Liu Xingzuo, his plan is more reasonable, and he doesn't need to be too "barbaric".

"Back to Gongzi, the sinner follows Gongzi wholeheartedly, where Gongzi lets the sinner go, the sinner goes, Gongzi lets the sinner go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and the sinner does not hesitate, I just hope that the son will not dislike the sinner......" Liu Xingzuo immediately agreed with the emperor's words.

"You can rest assured, this son has always been reputable to do things, this, you can rest assured, that kind of crossing the river and demolishing, this son has never done it, originally, this son also wanted your brother in Dongyu to provide information, but, since you are going to testify in the court, then, you will be violent, your brother will be in danger in Dongyu, so, this son will let your brother leave Dongyu in advance, so that your family can be reunited as soon as possible......" Yang Reform said again, Originally, Yang Reform was going to wait for Liu Xingzuo's younger brother's internal news, but, Since the General Staff formulated next year's battle plan, Yang Gengai felt that it didn't matter whether there was any internal information about Dongyu, and he had already prepared for the worst. Even if there is internal information, it is only a few days in advance to get the news, in the case of his own preparation, this time does not play a decisive role, but Liu Xingzuo's role is even greater, so Yang Reform decided to change the plan.

"The sinner has thanked the son for his great kindness, the matter of the son, the sinner has already written it down, and he will never mistake the ...... of the son's matter" Liu Xingzuo was overjoyed, he was looking for an opportunity to say this, but he didn't expect the emperor to think about it for him in advance, the emperor took his affairs seriously, so the emperor's affairs, he would naturally "take it seriously", so it seems that the emperor is also a reputable and reliable person, follow him to do things, and have a spectrum! Liu Xingzuo immediately put his mind at ease.

"Well, that's good, what you read just now is the confession that Jin Yiwei asked from Jin Shang, as well as the situation collected by Jin Yiwei over the years, as well as some conjectures of this son, you have to remember them one by one, so that you can confirm them in the future, you can read them carefully......" Yang Reform said again.

Liu Xingzuo looked at the "thing" just now and remembered it seriously. After a long ring, I finished reading it, and said, "Hui Gongzi, the sinner has finished reading." ”

Yang Reform, who had been waiting for Liu Xingzuo, put down the teacup, got a "confession" from Wang Chengen, and burned this thing on the fire.

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