Chapter 425: Huaiyang Rice Shop
Lu Wang was naturally not afraid of anyone impeaching him for any reason, because at this moment in the palace of the Forbidden City, Chongzhen was watching his performance intently, his breath also became steady and rapid, and his face was faintly flushed.
Chongzhen's psychology of Lu Wang is now a mixed feeling, there is gratitude and vigilance and even deep fear, of course, there is a little worship, this worship is also thanks to Gong Yonggu, who has just returned to Beijing, after this goods entered Beijing, he went straight to the palace non-stop, and when he saw Chongzhen, he knelt down and bowed: "Your Majesty, Lu Wang is a real immortal!" ”
Chongzhen naturally heard a lot about the legend of Lu Wang, but when these words came out of Gong Yonggu's mouth, he was still shocked, and hurriedly interrogated, Gong Yonggu was not hypocritical, and told all the words and deeds he saw when he saw Lu Wang, and it was mainly a profound description of Lu Wang's ascension to the sky.
"If he is an immortal, Da Ming is blessed, if he is a god stick, Da Ming is also dangerous!" It took a long time for Chongzhen to ease up, but Gong Yonggu didn't think so, even if he was a god, everything he was doing now was not self-serving, but everything he did was to share the emperor's worries and solve problems! went into battle to kill the enemy, invincible, and the emperor pulled out one of his stubborn diseases for more than ten years......
Gong Yonggu enumerated Lu Wang's every move since he came to the Ming Dynasty, what he did, and what he did to send money and troops to suppress bandits, but he was really for the country and the people, and he had no self-interest, and Chongzhen had to admit for a while that he was too suspicious.
In any case, when the people in the capital were celebrating Li Zicheng's capture, although Chongzhen was also a little more relaxed, but after all, Jinzhou in the north was trapped, Songshan was besieged, Zhang Xianzhong was not removed, and the Qing army was entering Hebei to plague him, these were all heart diseases, and he still couldn't be happy, but one thing that changed was that he now had great confidence in Luwang. It's like a pillar!
Putting aside his motives of being suspicious of Lu Wang, just with this confidence, Chongzhen's words and deeds are more confident and hard than before, and he is no longer submissive to the Manchu ministers, and he also selectively turns a blind eye to the various excerpts that implicate Lu Wang, as Lu Wang said, Chongzhen needs himself now!
Chongzhen is actually a good emperor, self-motivated, diligent governance is a rare leader among the emperors of the past dynasties, but it is really a little bit back, and now with the solid spine of Liluwang, his heart is also ambitious again. Create a brilliant Ming!
He is disgusted with discussing matters in the court, the routine court is now a formality for him, and he is not even interested, he prefers to have a small meeting in private, gather a few henchmen and important ministers to talk about national affairs like that, this is the real cabinet! These so-called henchmen are actually people recommended to him by Lu Wang, although he doesn't know what the ability of these people is, but the people who can follow their masters to martyrdom, this solar term is not available to everyone!
Although there are many people who are dissatisfied with Rwan. felt that Lu Wang had bewitched Chongzhen, and even felt that Lu Wang was proud of his achievements, and he demanded more and more from the emperor, and became more and more excessive. A lot of things messed up the law and broke the rules of the ancestors, but they didn't merge with each other, and Chongzhen was happy with it!
Now Chongzhen is in the imperial study and several henchmen are watching Lu Wang's excerpts. This is the most eventful time that Lu Wang has come to play the excerpt, and it is also the most enjoyable for Chongzhen to watch, and the most discussed by his henchmen!
The first thing Rwan's business was to ask the major cities to set up offices for the Ming Army. It is used to supervise all kinds of violations of law and discipline and inaction of the local government, and proposes that these personnel will be recruited from the Gongyuan and the Guozijian in the future! For this matter, the courtiers talked about it the most, they didn't care much about who Lu Wang's recruitment, although enlisting in the army was insulting, but it was also a consensual thing, and it didn't hurt if someone was willing to do it! What they objected to was the formation of a separate authority outside the imperial court, and what was that!
For this, Chongzhen was also very hesitant, although Lu Wang explained that this matter was just to make the officials more honest and self-disciplined, but he still let him play the drum, his own court has a discipline inspection committee, and the imperial history is dedicated to these things, Lu Wang is really not gradually forming his own power structure! However, he vaguely felt that this proposal was good, the supervision of the third party was indeed more fair and just, and Lu Wang promised to only supervise and not enforce the law, and if he found corruption, he would only report it to the imperial court, and how to deal with it was still done by the imperial court, and the office was also subject to the supervision of the imperial court!
Permit! Although Chongzhen hesitated, he was approved, which made many ministers dissatisfied, and then they didn't go!
The second thing is to run a new school, as well as recruit scholars to enlist in the army, there is no doubt about this Chongzhen, especially every year so many people who raise people to become officials, how can there be so many positions in the court, Lu Wang can be regarded as solving the employment pressure for him!
The third is tax reform, there is only one, temporarily exempt from disaster areas, agricultural taxes in war zones, increase commercial taxes across the country, and leave a few implementation suggestions, which made Chongzhen a little surprised, but he couldn't help laughing, Lu Wang's move is going to move a lot of people's cakes, okay, let them make trouble!
What excites him the most is Lu Wang's last suggestion, military reform! This is definitely a big move, and it will also cause backlash from all sides, this is a big thing that he wants to do but has not been able to do!
First of all, the military reform will take a lot of warlords, and secondly, there must be enough money and food, and these two most basic requirements Chongzhen can't do it, and Lu Wang is now going to do this for him to resist the big knife, he really can't ask for it! He knew that this was definitely not an easy thing to do, but he believed that Lu Wan could do it, and believed in the power of dividing and eating!
As for other invitations, such as raising the salaries of officials, the Shanxi earthquake in June next year, etc., although some are big and small, they will inevitably cause Chongzhen and his confidants to discuss and even quarrel fiercely, many times they are almost to the point of turning their faces, there are many people, and the direction of standing will be different, some people resolutely support Lu Wang, some people support Chongzhen's decision, and some people just have to be on the bar!
Correct! Combine! Ovum! When Lu Wang was still in Henan, a holy decree was sent out from the imperial city, and at the same time, the imperial court's palace newspaper announced some major events in the world: exemption, Shanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi one to three years of taxes, Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and some local provincial capitals to raise commercial taxes, business licenses...... Ming civil servants raise their salaries, and so on. It is destined to cause all kinds of boiling throughout the country, and of course, secrets such as military reform cannot appear here.
When the Holy Decree first left the capital, Lu Wang was in a very small county town in Henan at the moment, which was Huaiyang, close to Zhoukou, and could not be smaller. A county town guarded by only a few hundred people!
Lu Wang left the main force of the Ming army and came to Huaiyang City without many people, a total of five cars and a dozen people, when the convoy arrived at the city gate, it was immediately surrounded, ordinary people with ragged and numb expressions, and dozens of officers and soldiers who were also untidy but full of temper: "Stand, who are you?" The officers and soldiers looked at more than a dozen vehicles, and there were many doubts in their eyes
Now it was only three o'clock, and there were many people at the city gate, and it was simply an instant that Rwan's convoy was surrounded, staring like a monkey!
"Dodge, dodge". Ma Han opened the car door and took a few guards to push away the onlookers and walked to the front of the car, looking at a few officers and soldiers, "In the car is the Marquis of Fuxing, there is something important to enter the city, immediately retreat the people and open the way......"
"What monkey master, pig master, I don't know Lao Tzu, come down and let me see", a leading soldier ruffian is not a bird at all. But as soon as he said this, he was smashed to the ground with a heavy punch: "I don't know whether to live or die, the thief's hundreds of thousands of troops will disappear with a flick of his fingers, and you soldiers dare to be so arrogant and rude", Ma Han's face was vicious.
I saw that my head was beaten. The soldiers immediately shouted, and they all drew their swords and pretended, the guns in the hands of the guards here had already been raised, and the eleven lang next to him also coldly pulled out his long knife!
"Stop!" At this moment, the ruffian who was smashed by a heavy fist stopped his men with blood from the corners of his mouth. His eyes were full of fear, and now he finally remembered a person who had been rumored for a long time, the Fuxing Hou Lu Wang, who had broken Li Zicheng in Nanyang City! Huaiyang is also in the territory of Henan. They are very well-informed about this kind of thing, not to mention that not long ago, they heard that a large army passed through the territory, but they never thought that the famous Hou Ye would come to the small place of Huaiyang!
I thought I wanted to get some oil and water when I touched the fat meat, but I didn't expect to step on a nail, and it was the kind of nail that can be fatal, the soldier's face turned green now, and he knelt down with a puff: "Please atone for your sins and spare the little one!" ”
"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you, hurry up and open the way", Ma Han directly ignored his pleas, seeing that there were more and more people, and he was in a hurry to do something, how could he have spare time and a soldier to talk nonsense.
The soldier obviously didn't expect to be let go so easily, he kowtowed to Lu Wang's car and immediately got up, his face instantly became fierce and vicious, and he smashed the scabbard at the crowd around him: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" The rest of the officers and soldiers immediately followed Rwan's convoy.
Huaiyang City is very dilapidated, although Lu Wang, who has long been mentally prepared, is still shocked by these ruins, since he has crossed over to go to a big city, or not a war zone city, and Henan has been a war zone for more than ten years, suffering from the harm of war, the life of the people can be described as miserable!
In addition to Nanyang City, the first time Lu Wang entered the war zone was Huaiyang, and the streets were full of dilapidated and low shacks, and the streets were full of ragged and dish-faced people, although they surrounded the convoy to watch the excitement, but their expressions were numb, it was a kind of numbness that lost the passion for life!
Rwann is now like an idol star of later generations, the convoy is surrounded everywhere it goes, the only difference is that there is no cheering, and the people don't care who he is, just to see the excitement.
The soldier's surname was Zhao, and Lu Wang was not interested in knowing his name, so he dutifully became a tour guide, and soon left the convoy in front of a rice shop! "Master Hou, this is the largest rice shop in Huaiyang City!" ”
Rice shop? The people who followed along the way finally became a little excited, could it be that the Hou Ye was going to give alms and began to talk about it one by one!
The owner of the rice shop is surnamed Xu, and his name is built! Three generations opened a rice shop, the family is honest, but now his face is full of panic, he doesn't understand that his shop is suddenly surrounded so tightly, and it is guarded by a group of people with loaded guns, until Lu Wang walked into the store, Zhao Junruffian introduced it as Fuxinghou, he took the family to kneel down to meet!
In the living room in the backyard, Lu Wang looked at Xu Jian, an old man in his fifties, who looked honest, but his eyes were shrewd by a businessman, "I bought five hundred taels of silver from your shop!" ”
"Master Hou, this small family property is left by the ancestors, and it is really not for sale", Xu Jian knelt down again as he spoke!
"Six hundred taels!" Lu Wang's tone was light, he lit a cigarette casually, and looked at Xu Jian's shrewd eyes flashing!
"Master Hou, Xiaomin has something to understand, you can buy a lot of land in Huaiyang City for five hundred taels of silver, and build ten such big shops, why do you have to spend a lot of money to buy Xiaomin's shop!"
"Because I'm busy, things that can be solved with money. I don't want to take the time! Lu Wang spit out a smoke ring and continued: "These six hundred taels bought you this family business, including land and yard, but you don't have to move out, you can stay and work for me!" ”
Forehead...... Xu Jian was a little dumbfounded.
Lu Wang continued: "In the future, this will not only become the largest rice store in Huaiyang City, but also serve as a transit base. ”
"Back to Master Hou, the price of rice is sixty taels and one stone now!" Xu Jian's words almost choked Lu Wang. Sixty taels of silver! This is a sky-high price, but imagine the information you have read, at this time there are more than 20 taels of silver in Shandong, and some in Henan are as high as more than 100 taels, and these 60 taels are actually low!
Exhaled, "From tomorrow, the price of grain will drop to one or two stones!" Lu Wang's words immediately made Xu Jian's jaw drop, "One or two!" Master Hou can die at a loss! ”
"I don't die! What I have is food! Lu Wang smiled slightly, "In a few days, someone from Nanyang will come to receive a batch of rice grain." Shipped to Kaifeng and other places, I want the highest price of rice in Henan within half a month! "Xu Jian felt like he was listening to the book of heaven, or hell!
There was some noise outside the courtyard, and it turned out to be people who came to Huaiyang Yamen after hearing the sound. There are county orders, master books, etc., this is to meet Luwan! After a brief greeting, the men immediately joined the discussion about grain and rice, and were equally shocked after hearing what Rwann had to say. The price of rice for one or two silver and one stone is almost ten years old, I haven't seen it for ten years, think about the time when Chongzhen was four years old, it was only four dollars for one stone!
"Master Hou, aren't you worried about some profiteers hostile takeovers, hoarding and selling?" The prefectural ordinance raised its own concerns
"I'm not worried at all. Because I think everyone is afraid of death, the Ming Army has an office in Henan, and is now temporarily stationed in Nanyang, but it does not mean that only Nanyang is checked, once this kind of person is found out, he will definitely die, and I only retail not wholesale, each person is limited to purchase per day! ”
"That's good, it's a pity that Master Hou is like this, there must be countless rice merchants in Henan who want to go bankrupt", the county magistrate sighed, and it could be seen that he was really worried, Lu Wang understands, this person definitely has a stake in a certain rice shop behind him, or has other relationships!
"No," Lu Wang smiled slightly, "They can be merged into my Lu family grain store as my branch!" For specific cooperation matters, people from Nanyang will give them a detailed discussion! ”
Lu Wang's business in Henan has already signed a cooperation agreement with Tang Wang's two younger brothers, and they will act as an agent! Of course, Lu Wang also plans to open a direct sales store by himself, but unfortunately his staff are far away in Hangzhou, and he can't reach here for a while, so he has to give up for the time being!
"Within half a month at the earliest, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, these places will have Lujia rice shops open, I believe that people in these places will give Tang Wang some face, even if you don't give Tang Wang face, you have to give me some face, I think the county magistrate will also take care of my shop here!" Lu Wang's words are very domineering and arrogant, he is a marquis, and he dares to say that he has more face than the Tang King, this is arrogant, but then again, it is the truth, because the prince in Henan is not only the Tang Wang, but also in other people's fiefdom Tang Wangfu to disturb the price of rice, it will inevitably be beaten, because many times those rice shops are the industry of the local princes! And at this time, Rwan's golden signboard is needed to press the position! If you don't accept it, you will be beaten, and the prince will beat it correctly!
Where does the county order dare not do it, Lu Wang's reputation in Henan is too great, in Henan for more than a month, up to the elderly, to the baby who eats milk, who doesn't know his name Lu Wang! Save Nanyang, the thief army, the momentum is unmatched for a while!
Before dark, Lu Wang left Huaiyang City, he left fifty tons of grain in several large courtyards of Xu Jian's house, and hired the soldier Zhao as the security captain, as for the salary, the soldier Zhao didn't know how to calculate, anyway, Lu Wang threw him a hundred taels of silver and said to take it and drink with his brothers!
So much food, so many eyes eyeing at each other, some people made up their minds, but no one dared to do it, because Lu Wang said before leaving, someone will come to take over in three days at the latest, and when there is one less, he slaughtered Huaiyang City, this sentence is calm, but no one from the county order is not afraid, no one thinks Lu Wang is joking, and he does not doubt that he has this strength! So as soon as Lu Wang left, he immediately transferred the troops in the city, and even the Yamen came to be on duty, and surrounded the Xu family's rice shop, by the way, now this is called the Lu family's rice shop!
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