Chapter 464: Tighten the noose

Yang reformed the court, the mood was extremely refreshing, he finally put the noose around the neck of the salt merchant, and the rest was to use the advantage of information to make some trouble.

It wasn't until I arrived at the warm pavilion that my tense face finally relaxed, this acting is really hard.

"Companion, summon the British Duke to see me." Yang reformed to enter the warm pavilion, and said with a smile.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen paused for a moment, and immediately agreed with a smile.

"In addition, send a message to Fan Weicheng, let him wantonly reprimand the salt merchant in the newspaper, and say more about the big truth, so that everyone in the world knows that the salt merchant has no faith in the back tuǐ of the salt merchant and the back tuǐ of the imperial court." Yang reformed.

"The slave obeys." Wang Chengen Xiǎo heartily agreed.

"In addition, let Fan Weicheng put a message in the newspaper, saying that I am going to sell the ......stock of Liulizhai in order to make up for the hole owed by the salt merchants," Yang Gai said.

“…… Your Majesty ......, this ......, the slave maid obeyed the order...... "Wang Chengen was somewhat reluctant to see the emperor sell the stock of Liulizhai, but this matter is not something he can manage, and he agreed."

“…… In addition, tell the businessmen who hold shares in the south that if the stock sells well after it comes out this time, don't care, if it is sluggish, let them take the market, don't let the stock be too deserted......" Yang Gai instructed again.

"Slaves obey!" Wang Chengen agreed.

Wang Chengen left, Yang Reform stayed in the warm pavilion, and took a sip of sweet potato wine, which had great stamina, and Yang Reform fell asleep unconsciously.

When he woke up again, he saw that Wang Chengen was looking at him with concern, and his body was still covered with a quilt, Yang Gai shook his head, it seemed that he was really drunk, and his head hurt a little.

asked for a cup of strong tea to sober up, and washed his face with cold water, Yang Gai felt more comfortable.

"Your Majesty, the British Duke has arrived." Wang Chengen xiǎo sound of the way.

"Oh, see you!" Yang Gengai washed his face, it was already much more comfortable, this wine was fragrant at that time, but this stamina was great.

After a while, the British Duke approached the warm pavilion, his face was also red, and when he saw the emperor, he smiled and saluted.

"Your Majesty." British public Zhang Weixian said.

"No need to be polite, sit down!" Yang Gengai pointed to a chair with thick cushions.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The British man sat down with a smile. Then there was a saying: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" ”

Yang Gengai looked at Zhang Weixian with some surprise, he hadn't spoken yet, he congratulated himself first.

"Hehe, Guogong, what are my pleasures? In order to make up for the four million taels of silver in the salt class, I am going to increase the stock of Liulizhai. What kind of joy is this? Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, don't hide it from the minister, Your Majesty's sweet potato wine, the minister has drunk it, it is really delicious, the liquor is really strong enough, the old minister took a sip, until now, I still feel hot in my mouth, didn't Your Majesty say that you want to make this a big deal, and ask everyone to join the shares, the minister was the first to respond to His Majesty's call and prepare to participate in the shares...... but I don't know if His Majesty is willing to ......" Zhang Weixian's old eyes flashed with light, and his face was full of joy.

"Hehehe...... Guogong is well-informed, I have this plan for this matter, but this is all xiǎo money, it's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning! ......" Yang said with a smile.

"Your Majesty laughed, Your Majesty's subordinates, there is that transaction is xiǎo money, in the eyes of Your Majesty, it is all xiǎo money, but for the minister, it is a huge fortune!" Zhang Weixian said with a smile, the emperor was welcomed into the palace by him, and the emperor is indeed different from ordinary people to him, this point, Zhang Weixian has always thought so, so chatting with the emperor is also more casual, and he has recently done a few times with the emperor, and he has become closer and closer to the emperor, and the value has also risen slowly.

"Hehehehe, I summoned Guogong today, it is indeed related to stocks, and it is indeed related to trading, but it is not for the xiǎo money of sweet potato wine and sweet potato flour, the trading of sweet potato wine, making tens of thousands of taels every year, hundreds of thousands of taels, that's all terrible, and then up, it won't be too much, how can this money be enough, I summoned Guogong here today, there is a big deal, it depends on whether Guogong intends to do it." Yang Gengai said with a smile.

"Oh, I don't know what Your Majesty is buying and selling?" Zhang Weixian's eyes widened, looking at the emperor, the emperor didn't pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of deals, but he didn't know what the big deal was in the eyes of the emperor, Zhang Weixian looked forward to it.

"Do you know that I recently appeased a pirate leader?" Yang reformed the confident way.

"Your Majesty is talking about Zheng Zhilong?" Zhang Weixian immediately asked, this Zheng Zhilong is a hot figure in the court recently! Last year, the official army was defeated, and he was a big pirate leader known to the whole dynasty, and now he was entertained by the emperor with a high standard, and it is said that he has been appeased. ,

"Yes, it is this person, can the prince know, why can this person afford tens of thousands of soldiers? And can you storm cities and plunder land? Yang asked reform.

"This, Your Majesty, is probably the benefit of the sea." Zhang Weixian thought for a while and said, the sea is very profitable, although he knows, but this matter has always been controlled by those merchants in the south, even if he is the first noble of the Ming Dynasty, he will not enter, so it is very vague.

"Yes, Zheng Zhilong relies on the trade at sea, and can have a profit of millions of taels of silver every year, so he can afford to raise so many people, dare to attack the city and plunder the land, and can remove tens of thousands of my people in an instant, and can give silver and cattle, without silver, how dare you boast? It's all about making a profit at sea......" Yang said.

As soon as he heard the emperor say that the profits on the sea, the British Duke stuck out his tongue, as the head of his family, relying on the little income in the field every year, he could barely make ends meet, but people, at every turn, it was a million taels of silver, and it really couldn't be compared!

"Your Majesty means to do business at sea?" Zhang Weixian became nervous, compared to this, the sale of sweet potato wine is indeed not enough!

"Not bad! I have persuaded Zheng Zhilong to let him be the general of the water division, and one of the prerequisites is to quit business, and I will not let him become an official and take charge of the water division; While making money in trade, he has become a general with heavy troops in his hands, but he is rich enough to rival the country, so he will give up this business......" Yang Gai said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is right, holding the water master on one side and the wealth of the country on the other hand is indeed dangerous, and it is better to destroy it in advance,...... Your Majesty is saying that now you want to take over this transaction? Zhang Weixian didn't care about how the emperor appeased Zheng Zhilong, but he cared about whether the deal could be done, and he became more and more nervous.

"Not bad! That's what I mean,...... Guogong rest assured, the deal that took over him is one of the conditions for me to appease him, otherwise I would rather not appease him, Zheng Zhilong has already agreed, I will take over this deal, Guogong can know that Zheng Zhilong is a guy who almost monopolizes the trade of the Japanese country, so this deal, as soon as he takes over, is a big money-making business, not to mention that Zheng Zhilong only opened up the Japanese country, Nanyang will not talk about it for the time being, just in the East China Sea, in addition to the Japanese country, there is also North Korea, then North Korea is just a subject country of my Ming Dynasty, I just need to send someone to reprimand it, Then the trade of North Korea will naturally be lost, and these two items will add up to about one or two million taels of profit per year, and they will be able to make a profit of about one or two million taels ......per year." Yang Gai only cared about himself and said "happy", but he didn't expect that Zhang Weixian was already "salivaing".

“…… Minister, the minister is willing to buy shares, and the minister is willing to buy shares......" Zhang Weixian said immediately, eager to pay for the silver immediately.

"Guogong has a stake, which is naturally no problem, but ......," Yang said.

"But what? Your Majesty? Zhang Weixian hurriedly asked.

"However, there are still some difficulties in this matter." Yang reformed and sold off.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what the problem is? I don't know if the minister can share His Majesty's worries. Zhang Weixian immediately followed the stick.

"Alas, O Guogong! This business still has to be protected by sailors and warships at sea! Otherwise, this trade will not last long, and in this way, my expenses will increase greatly, so if I become a shareholder in the business, I will have to take the lion's share, pay the sailors, and build warships, otherwise, this trade will not be able to be done. Yang reformed.

"This minister has the province, and His Majesty has the majority, that's for sure!" Zhang Weixian immediately said, this is indeed no problem, it is reasonable for the emperor to take the lion's lead, has never been like this.

"In addition, although I don't let Zheng Zhilong do trade, I still have to take out a part of these profits and share them with Zheng Zhilong and his subordinates, otherwise, it will be unkind...... Yang Gai said.

"Your Majesty, it is reasonable for this minister to save money." Zhang Weixian said again, it is not incomprehensible to take a million taels of silver from others, and give others a little bit.

"In addition, the purchase and sale of my subordinates are voluntarily taxed, and this cannot be changed." Yang Gai began to talk to Zhang Weixian about the conditions.

"Your Majesty, this should indeed be!" Zhang Weixian immediately said, these are not problems, to see the problem, you have to look at it with a long-term vision, you know, the emperor has only now said that the country and North Korea, with the emperor is so strong, and he has appeased the pirate leader, this pirate on the sea, how can it not raze the people? Although the emperor only said one or two million taels of silver now, Zhang Wei dared to conclude that in the future, the trade on the sea will definitely multiply, thinking of this, Zhang Weixian only thought about buying shares quickly, conditions or something, will the emperor still let himself suffer? ,

"Hehe, there is another point, this business, now I don't want to publicize it, this up and down, there are many people who are for the purpose of those merchants in the south, once they know that I am secretly doing business at sea, they will definitely attack it in groups, when the time comes, the court may be very lively, and when the time comes, it will depend on Guogong, so Guogong must find some reliable people to join the shares,......" Yang Reform said with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, this minister knows, he will naturally be xiǎo hearted, not a reliable person, the old minister will never let him know about this, even if he lets those people know, the old minister is also firmly on His Majesty's side, and will not let His Majesty down, this deal in hand, no matter what, will not let it out again." Zhang Weixian is also an old fox, knowing that the emperor has something to say, the emperor told him a few days ago that the "car" to the south, he pondered for many days, and now, after listening to the news of the emperor, he feels that the emperor is hinting at this, to rob the business of those merchants in the south, he must have to deal with those people in the south, and when the time comes, he may have to come in handy, otherwise, such a great benefit, why should the emperor give him a share?

"Good! I knew that Guogong would not let me down, so the matter was decided, Guogong went to contact some reliable people, and then, I found a day to talk about this shareholding carefully, when the time comes, I am afraid that many people will become shareholder, and this business will be big and long......-lasting," Yang said.

"Command!" Zhang Weixian immediately agreed, listen to the emperor's meaning, there will be some "powerful" people involved in this matter, it seems that the emperor really wants to make a big deal against those businessmen in the south? That's a good show......

……

Following.

In the capital, the first article in the Di newspaper was that the emperor issued an order to reprimand the salt merchants, asking the salt merchants to pay the silver quickly, and then the emperor sold the stocks of Liulizhai in order to plug this gap. As soon as these two pieces of news came out, the capital immediately turned into a boiling pot.

The snow in winter is still thick, but in the teahouse, it is indeed warm, the heat coming out of the teapot is constantly rising, and the fragrance of tea is constantly wafting from the teacup, so that this winter, add a lot of warmth.

"I said, how many people, what else is this? The salt merchant owes so much silver? Your Majesty will use silver to fill this big hole? In the teahouse, many people held the newspaper and discussed this matter.

"Oh this! It's not a matter of a day or two for a salt merchant to owe salt class...... someone else said indifferently.

"This time, in my opinion, the salt merchant has gone too far, and as the newspaper says, there is no faith! I obviously agreed, but I didn't honor it, this business has no faith, and I see that this business can't go on......" someone else chimed in.

"Faithfulness? When did the salt merchant have faith? Those of them only think about throwing money into their arms, what promises, faith and righteousness are just bullshit to them......" someone else said indignantly.

"Indeed, this time! I think it's because the salt merchants have gone too far, and they shouldn't be pulling the Holy Son of Heaven and the back of the imperial court! If it wasn't Jiāo, I shouldn't have agreed to ...... earlier, but now at this juncture, I can't do it or make a big mistake! ”

The people at this table immediately echoed one after another, most of the big salt merchants were Jiangnan merchants, but they were mortal enemies with the people in their capital.

"Tsk, everyone, there's a good show to watch here...... one of them said suddenly.

"Brother Wang, what's the show?" The person at the table immediately asked.

"This matter, I heard my brother's uncle next door occasionally mentioned it in the same year, this matter, is the gods fighting, but I don't know if the Holy Son of Heaven wins, or the salt merchant is more ......powerful," this person broke the news.

"Oh, Brother Wang, what the hell is going on?" The people at the same table immediately asked, this gossip is powerful.

"Hmph, Your Majesty is not an ordinary person today, in order to let those salt merchants have enough salt class, but claim to get rid of the salt government, they would rather not have the salt class of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the current situation is that the Holy Son of Heaven abolishes the salt class bī on the court of those masters, and let those officials and masters go to the salt merchants, the salt merchants do not have money, and the Holy Son of Heaven will get rid of the salt class, and everyone will ...... it" This person took a sip of hot tea and broke the news.

The people around the table, a burst of surprise! I didn't expect that this matter in the court would be so "interesting".

"Eliminate the salt class, but let me wait for the people to eat some cheap ......salt," someone said.

"Tsk, dude is really funny, does this get rid of the salt class and eat cheap salt? Could it be that my brother thinks that without the salt class, there will be no salt merchants? The Salt Chamber of Commerce is merciful and does not put money in his pocket? Dude, this is a fight between the gods, what does it matter to our people? Let's just watch the play......" Someone immediately poured cold water. ,

"That's ......" The man immediately admitted that this was unrealistic, and that he was thinking too simply.

"This time the immortals are fighting! I hope the Son of Heaven will win......" someone said.

"Oh, why does Brother Tai think that?" The person next to him immediately asked.

"It's not simple, the Son of Heaven is always a Bodhisattva Emperor, and he will never harm the people such as me, so it's hard to say that the salt merchant is going to be able to say, now our Ming Dynasty is counting on his silver to save the emergency, he is good, but he dragged it to the Son of Heaven to sell Liulizhai to make up for his hole, these two comparisons, who is good and who is bad, won't it come out?" Although this person's words are not very reasonable, they are also honest and immediately approved by ordinary people.

"This is not bad, I also hope that the Son of Heaven wins, maybe this time the Son of Heaven will fight the salt merchants, and the Son of Heaven will let the salt merchants sell the salt cheaper, but the Son of Heaven is dedicated to the welfare of our people......" The words of that person just now have been supported by many people, and now what the emperor has done has been affirmed by quite a lot of ordinary people.

"Say hello, Your Majesty! I heard that yesterday, in the court, there was also a national policy, Your Majesty is going to plant sweet potatoes every year with millions of taels of silver, and even officials have to be promoted according to planting sweet potatoes. ......" someone sighed that the people's concept of good and evil is always very simple.

"Really? Is that sweet potato candy? Yesterday, an old sister next door to me got a palm-sized piece of sweet potato candy from her master, she had bad teeth herself, and gave me a piece of xiǎo, hey, I tasted it, this sugar, it's really sweet, it's not worse than that frosted sugar, listen to my old sister say, this sweet potato can still be used as a vermicelli, and it can also be used as wine, and it is very useful...... "Someone immediately broke the news, although this Beijing city claims to have a population of one million, in fact, it is also very xiǎo, and the emperor gave these things on a large scale, how many of them are not related to the official? Therefore, the emperor's distribution of sugar immediately spread throughout Beijing, and this sweet potato candy immediately became a hot topic in Beijing.

"Hey, listen to what my brother said, catch up with Ming, and let the countryside plant a few sweet potatoes, and it's good to make a few catties of sweet potato candy to entertain people during the New Year, if you can make a few catties of wine, hey, this day, it's getting more and more excessive...... "Immediately someone planned for next year's good days."

"Brother is good at planning, catch up with Ming, I will also plant a few plots in the countryside to ......"

"Yes, yes, yes, this kind of ......" immediately some people are enthusiastic about this thing, sugar is a luxury in this era, quite expensive, if cheap sweet potatoes can be made into sugar, this is a good thing to improve the quality of life.

“…… Yes, I will also plant it in a hurry, we can believe that the Son of Heaven will not harm our people......" More people plan this kind of sweet potato.

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