Outside the platform, a carriage came, and two people came down from it, the fifty or sixty-year-old in front of him, his face was full of red light, and he was very well maintained, followed by a middle-aged man in his early forties. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Big brother, Tang Ge Lao is not an ordinary person, let's deal with it carefully."

The old man nodded, "Ziwei's kid is a little unique, but it's a pity that the luck is not good!" The "Ziwei" in the old man's mouth is the last university scholar Zhang Siwei, and the identities of these two are about to come out, one is Zhang Siwei's father Zhang Yunling, and the other is his uncle Zhang Yunxia.

When the two of them arrived at the front of the house, they happened to see a man wearing a pale gray Confucian shirt, looking at the white clouds with his hands in his hands. Hearing the footsteps, he turned around with a smile and bowed slightly at the two people.

"Gong Zhang arrived, this pavilion has missed the welcome, please forgive me."

Zhang Yunling hurriedly surrendered his hand, "How dare you dare, I have long heard Ziwei say that Yuan Fu Wen Tao Wu is the best in the country, and when I see the style today, it is really more heartbreaking than what Xiao'er said, and it is enough to see Yuan Fu's side." ”

"Hahaha, the old gentleman is polite, please come in."

Tang Yi brought the two people in, sat down the guests, and served fragrant tea to the people. Zhang Yunling is a person who knows the goods, the top Mingqian Longjing, the water soaked in water is even sweet and clear, taste a mouthful, quench thirst, and the heat is completely gone.

"Lord Yuanfu, this is the place where Guan Yu set out on the expedition, Yuanfu lived here temporarily, he really has the mind to guide the world and encompass the four seas, so good to choose!" Zhang Yunling smiled and praised.

Tang Yi drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, "Gong Zhang, this pavilion drinks the remaining tea in the teacup every day before going to bed, do you know why?" ”

"I don't know, please ask Yuanfu for advice."

"Hehehe, sitting in my position, I don't know if I can drink a sip of tea tomorrow, don't you say?"

Zhang Yunling's face changed wildly, and Zhang Yunxia hurriedly interjected: "Yuan Fu is in charge of the country, and he has made countless contributions, who in the world is not convinced, the villain dares to say a word, you are too worried." ”

Tang Yi shook his head, "It's not that I'm thinking too much, it's really someone who is aggressive, treating my kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs." Tell me, have you ever passed? ”

Zhang Yunling and Zhang Yunxia were at a loss, and their sideburns were sweating, they were much older than Tang Yi, but in the face of this first assistant, they Alexander.

Zhang Yunling hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile: "Lord Yuanfu, I think that some things are all misunderstandings, and we have no intention of being unfavorable to Yuanfu, so please forgive Yuanfu." ”

Zhang Yunxia didn't expect the eldest brother to admit it so quickly, isn't this a handle for Tang Yi, even if those things are done, they can't admit it! He was sweating in a hurry.

Tang Yi suddenly changed his face and sighed, "People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves." Who doesn't count whom, this cabinet is too lazy to talk to you about anything, let's put it bluntly, I will implement my Longqing New Deal, you will manage your financial hegemony, our well water will not violate the river water, if the two insist on crossing the line and want to eat both, then don't blame Your Excellency for being ruthless! ”

Of course, the Zhang Yunling brothers understood that Tang Yi was out of condition.

In a word, I have the final say in the government and politics, and you have the final say on money.

Of course, this request is in line with Jin Shang's appetite, but will it be so easy, how much Tang Yi is willing to give up, Zhang Yunling didn't count in his heart.

"Yuanfu's words, the old man thinks so, but now the southeast is still the world of traffic, and we Jin merchants can't get in!"

Tang Yi smiled faintly, "The opportunity is right in front of you, see if you can do it?" ”

"Please also ask Yuanfu to show me."

Tang Yi said: "After betraying three vassal kings in a row, the affairs of the clan cannot be disposed of, but after all, people are the flesh and blood of the heavenly family, and as foreign ministers, what we should do is not appropriate." I had to ask the two of you to help and settle the matter. ”

"Lord Yuanfu, the old man is naturally willing to help, but the old man is weak, I'm afraid I can't help the adult."

"Don't worry, you're done listening to me."

……

Tang Yi was right, the problem of the clan must be solved, but he blindly took the toughness and forced the three major feudal kings to rebel, and if he continued to get it, public opinion was surging, and Tang Yi couldn't bear it.

He came up with a compromise solution, targeting the lowest-ranking third-class clans below the lieutenant of Zhenguo, in addition to receiving a few hundred stones of Lu rice every year, they are similar to ordinary landlords, and even some people are idle and have a tight life.

Tang Yi advocated allowing them to participate in the imperial examinations, so that they could become officials of the imperial court, and at the same time opening schools to teach them a skill so that they could survive.

However, it is not easy to become an ordinary person from relying on Lumi for generations. The imperial court needs to come up with a sum of silver, which is tentatively set at a discount of five years, starting at least 500 taels, for the children of the clan to invest and operate, and find a way to survive.

If you find the investment direction in the first year, you can receive it in full, find it in the second year, and distribute the rice in the previous year as usual, and the silver tael that you can get will be discounted by 80%, 60% in the third year, and so on. Five years later, they are no different from ordinary people except for the blood of the old Zhu family.

As for the three levels of Zhenguo, Fuguo, and Fengguo, due to the higher titles, big family and big business, and the transformation is also difficult, Tang Yi plans to use ten years to achieve the transformation, from the royal family and nobles, to ordinary businessmen and landlords.

"Mr. Zhang, in a word, is to buy the royal bloodline with silver and buy hereditary preferential treatment. But you all know that the court can't come up with so much money, so there is no way, and it has to borrow money from you. ”

Zhang Yunling and Zhang Yunxia glanced at each other, silently calculated in their hearts, and immediately shook their heads.

What are you kidding, in the case of the lowest-level lieutenant Fengguo, the annual 200 stone of Lu rice, the actual hand is 150 stone, and in five years, it is converted into silver, which is enough to have six or seven hundred taels, and there are more than 10,000 such clansmen.

If you let the Jin merchants pay money, you will need tens of millions of taels a year, and you can't get it out if you smash the pot and sell iron!

"Lord Motosuke, it's not that we don't help, we really don't have the power."

"It's not that there is no strength, it's that I don't see the benefits!" Tang Yi smiled faintly, "Those sect disciples may not be able to transform immediately in the first year, so you can take one or two million taels of silver at most, and you can deal with it." And the court will not let you suffer, you are equivalent to paying silver for the court, and when you distribute Lu rice in the future, you can also receive the remaining years, and you will not lose money. ”

Zhang Yunxia still shook his head, it is not a loss, but how difficult it is to deal with the clan, besides, whether the imperial court can distribute Lu rice on time, how much labor and energy it will cost in the middle, no matter how much you look at it, it is not cost-effective, they don't want to carry this black cauldron!

Tang Yi saw that these two kept shaking their heads, this one was speechless, it seemed that he had to come up with a killer idea.

"Let's be honest, these middle- and low-level clans are just appetizers, and the big meal is still those princes and county kings."

"How?"

"This is not simple, the middle and lower clans have been disposed of, there are only dozens of princes and hundreds of county kings left, and the imperial court will send the royal palace chief Shi and guests to manage them to death. They have tens of millions of acres of land in their hands, so aren't you interested? ”

Zhang Yunling's heart shrank suddenly, "Yuanfu, do you mean that all the fields belong to us?" ”

"Of course not!" Tang Yi said with a smile: "The acres of land rewarded by the imperial court are still owned by the vassal king, and the land they annexed privately should be returned to the people, in order to take into account the interests of the vassal king, the land is handed over to you to manage, and you will convert it into silver according to the land endowment, and supply it to the vassal king's mansion every year." ”

Zhang Yunxia shook his head when he heard this, isn't this still a treasury?

With so many fields and millions of taels of silver every year, where can we afford it? But Zhang Yunling is old and refined, and he heard some doorways.

"Lord Yuanfu, do you mean that these tens of millions of acres of land belong to us, and we can dispose of them as we want?"

"Mr. Zhang is smart, you are raising a large number of sheep in the grassland in Hetao right now, just rely on pasture, how many sheep can be raised, there is not enough concentrate feed, how to let the sheep survive the winter? If there is not enough food, how can hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herdsmen be employed? Tang Yi said with a smile: "If these tens of millions of acres of land fall into your hands, immediately the grassland can appear ten times as large as the sheep, and the profits are huge, don't I need to say more?" ”

Zhang Yunxia couldn't help but breathe shortly, and little stars appeared in front of him.

"Another point, the silver you take out is all denominated in silver dollars, and this piece of this pavilion can't make a penny, how much you can earn, you know in your heart."

There is no need to say much, the two things Tang Yi said hit the key point of the Zhang brothers.

Especially the last one, it made their hearts surging and their blood boiling.

The silver dollar business of the Jin merchants is getting bigger and bigger, and the limelight of Heshengyuan even overshadows the traffic line, and it is conservatively estimated that it can bring 10 million taels of windfall profits every year.

But the problem is that the current silver dollar is mainly circulated in the capital, Tianjin, as well as Jiubian and the southeast, as for the vast Central Plains, due to the conservative folk customs, it has not yet been pushed away, and the Jin merchants are very anxious and eager to open the market of the Central Plains.

If they take advantage of this problem to deal with the suzerains and provide loans to the imperial court and the clans, you must know that most of the clans are concentrated in the north and the Central Plains, which is equivalent to pushing the silver dollar away in the north at once.

Based on the Central Plains, Huguang, Sichuan, and Liangguang will be included in the territory of the Jin merchants, and at that time, the Jin merchants will completely surpass the maritime merchants in the southeast and become the most powerful merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

Isn't this exactly the direction of the efforts of the Jin merchants of the past dynasties, and it is really exciting to realize it in their hands!

Zhang Yunling felt that his blood pressure was rising for a while, and he was about to faint, but he was calm after all, and now Heshengyuan was expanding too fast, and the treasury was no longer enough.

If there is no silver support, the silver dollar system will collapse, and when the time comes, countless people will run to run, and the century-old foundation of the Jin merchants will be destroyed.

One step forward, whether it is heaven or hell, it's really hard to say!

Zhang Yunling forcibly suppressed her excitement, and her voice changed tone, "Yuanfu, such a big matter, the old man still has to discuss it, please forgive me a few days." ”

"Okay, this pavilion doesn't matter, if you don't want to take it, the traffic bank has already prepared the silver, and it's a big deal to let them issue silver dollars to provide loans."

The Zhang family brother nodded vigorously, "We must discuss it as soon as possible!" (To be continued.) )