"I can make it up, I can definitely make it up!"

Wang Yan lay on the ground and wept bitterly, feeling that he was about to collapse.

Three million taels of silver, really as he said, you have to smash the pot and sell the iron to get it together.

Although he is a member of the eunuch party, and he is also the head of the household department, the second-in-command of the finance of the Ming Empire, but the silver he has made in the past few years, excluding the ones supplied to Wei Zhongxian, what he has saved is just one million taels of silver.

As for the remaining shortfall, he can only sell his property by himself and find a way to make it up!

"My lord, three million taels of silver is not a small amount, my Wang family is in the capital, and for a while, there is not so much money. You have a lot of them, can you forgive them for a while?"

Lu Fan smiled and said nothing, the officials in the capital at the end of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a clean breeze on their sleeves, but in fact, most of them had industries, shops, and a large number of merged fields in their ancestral land.

However, these are all real estate, and it does take a long time to sell them for cash.

Lu Fan didn't speak, Shen Lian naturally couldn't be idle, and asked at the moment: "Then Lord Wang thinks that how much time is appropriate?"

"How about three months?" Wang Yan replied tentatively, "My Wang family is in Hebei's hometown, and there are still some shops and fields. But as you know, at this time, it is not easy to sell a large number of industries, and it is still a conservative estimate in three months. ”

Lu Fan was silent for a moment, then got up.

"Lord Lu's hometown is in Hebei?"

"It's in Hebei, my lord, they are all businessmen, I cling to the eunuchs, they really don't know anything!" Wang Yan was terrified, this Lu Heixin, wouldn't even the property in his hometown be stripped of nothing, right?

"In Suning County, Hebei Province, there is a Yang Ji grain store, do you know?"

"Suning County?" Wang Yan was stunned, but still shook his head, "I have served in Beijing for many years, and I haven't returned to my hometown for more than two years, and the affairs of Suning County are really not very clear!"

"It's okay!"

Lu Fan waved his hand and said, "You might as well tell Lord Wang that the Yang Ji Grain Store is an industry that the official is supporting behind the scenes, I wonder if Lord Wang is interested in joining the next share?"

"Stake?"

Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, then turned overjoyed, and nodded again and again, "Yes, yes! Thank you, my lord!"

Investing in Jinyiwei's industry, regardless of how many shares you can get, but at least it is bound to Jinyiwei, in other words, as long as Lu Fan does not fall, he will extend his life, even if he is saved.

"That being the case, then the three million taels of silver, you will be sent to the Yang family's grain shop one after another after the year, how about counting your shares?"

"No problem, no problem, don't worry, my lord, this matter will be done!"

Wang Yan's mood instantly relaxed at this moment, although three million taels still had to be spent, but it was completely different from the previous mentality of cutting meat.

was directly blackmailed before, and the stake in the Yang family's grain shop, in Wang Yan's view, is already a large investment, although this investment may make the Wang family's vitality greatly damaged, but the follow-up benefits are absolutely obvious.

The Wang family also belongs to the head snake in the Hebei region, with him as a household servant as a backer, the local officials have to give three points of thin noodles, and there is a brocade guard behind the back, it is foreseeable that in the near future, the so-called Yang family grain shop can definitely grow into a behemoth in the entire Hebei territory.

As a shareholder of the Yang family's grain store, the Wang family will only become stronger in the future, and it will not decline at all because of this investment of three million!

Lu Fan nodded with satisfaction and instructed Shen Lian: "You are responsible for the follow-up matters, and the Wang family and the Yang family will arrange for someone to make contact." ”

Also, in the future, the Yangjia grain shop was renamed Suning Chamber of Commerce, and the grain, cloth, horses, salt and iron industries were all involved. In a word, in the future, in the entire Hebei territory, in terms of business, I hope to hear only one voice!"

Hearing this, Wang Yan showed a trace of worry at the right time, "My lord, other industries are easy to say, but most of the industries such as horses, salt and iron have a monopoly on the Jin merchants' side, and if we intervene rashly, it is likely to be against that side." ”

These industries belong to the industries that are forbidden by the laws of the Ming Dynasty to get involved in the people, and of course, in this era, almost no one takes these laws seriously.

Especially the Jin merchants, the relationship with the important ministers of the court is too deep, and the chain of interests almost radiates from Shanxi to half of the northern region, even if it is an upright smuggling of salt, iron, and war horses, no one dares to come forward to impeach and sanction.

Think about the so-called Great Qing Kingdom, from the black mountain and white water, one poor and two white, step by step development and growth, weapons, armor and war horses are all excellent, and even in the later period, far beyond the border army of the Guanning defense line.

Among them, those so-called Jin merchants have made great efforts!

"It's okay, those guys, the follow-up official will take care of it, the weather will get warmer after the year, you just put up the shelves of the Chamber of Commerce, everything is difficult at the beginning, these things need to be handled by your Wang family!"

"Don't worry, my lord, my Wang family is the best at these things...... It's just that I'm still involved in the crime of clinging to the eunuchs, and I'm afraid that those people in Donglin will ...... in the future."

"You don't have to worry about this!" Before Wang Yan finished speaking, Lu Fan interrupted him very casually.

"Are you guilty or not, what they said doesn't count, but what I said in Beizhen Fusi!"

"As for the evidence of your clinging to the eunuchs, Beizhen Fusi will deal with it for you, in this regard, Lord Wang shouldn't doubt their professional ability, right?"

"No, no! The adults have said so, and the lower officials are naturally very relieved!"

Wang Yan is a third-rank real power official, but he claims to be a subordinate official to Lu Fan, who is a self-proclaimed subordinate official from the fourth grade, and I have to say that he is really in awe of this young adult.

Even if he has now become a shareholder, he can be regarded as standing on the side of the North Town Fusi, but even so, he is a little puzzled about what this young town envoy is thinking in his head.

But this is not a bad thing after all, the deeper Lu Fan is in the city, the more humble the possibility of downfall will become, and with the back of the foreign aid of Beizhen Fusi, he Wang Yan can definitely mix well in the court.

Thinking about it like this, Wang Yan suddenly felt that the three million taels of silver were too worthwhile, not only hugged the thigh of the soothing envoy, but also eliminated the evidence of his crime of clinging to the eunuch party back then, which can be regarded as a complete worry!

Even, turning his head to look out of the hall, looking at the court officials who were arrested from time to time and ready to be taken to prison, Wang Yan's heart faintly rose a trace of longing.

If so, the Hubu Shangshu is also sent to prison, is it possible for him to fight for the vacated position, from the second-in-command of the household, to the first-in-command?