Zhou Yanru's greed is also very famous in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

Shen Shuren read history in his previous life, and when he read the biographies of some warlords in the late Ming Dynasty, he mentioned:

Later, among the four towns in Jiangbei in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Liu Liangzuo in Huai'an, and Liu Zeqing in Shandong all sent Zhou Yanru a lot of money on the way north for Zhou Yanru's reinstatement.

wanted Zhou Yanru to help mediate, and not let the imperial court transfer them to the forefront of the fight against the Tartars and thieves, which led to the fact that the second general later became one of the four towns in the north of the Nanming River and became a warlord.

Among them, the amount of bribes of Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, is clearly written in the "History of the Ming Dynasty": 20,000 taels of gold.

Shen Shuren opened the perspective in advance, knowing Zhou Yanru's greed, he was also mentally prepared.

Even if he looks down on this villain in his heart, he can only spend some gold and silver to beg the other party to do business and not make trouble for him.

As long as official business is done, the position of Wanfu should be Shen Shuren.

So, how much exactly? Before Shen Shuren came, he had thought about this issue repeatedly.

How much Ruan Dacheng will help Ma Shiying, Shen Shuren doesn't know. But he can refer to Liu Zeqing's offer.

The total army of a province is worth 20,000 taels of gold here in Zhou Yanru. This is not a promotion, but a stay in the same position to ensure that he is not transferred.

The governor of a province must be more valuable than the military power of a province, right?

However, the Shen family's silver is not blown by the wind, it is all earned by hard work.

Hundreds of thousands of taels at every turn, enough to raise 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers and horses for a year's expenses, can you save a little, expand more descendant troops and military production capacity, isn't it fragrant?

So after thinking about it, Shen Shuren finally settled on the idea: try to give antiques that are not easy to realize, and try to give antiques as much as possible. There is really no way to pay cash, so I pay for gold and silver.

At the same time, the part of gold and silver, if you can pay in installments, you can draw a big pie, and if you can draw a big pie, the essence is a procrastination trick anyway.

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After some mutual tentative mediation, Shen Shuren resolutely implemented this tone.

When his father Shen Tingyang discussed with Qiu Weizhen the "seized accounts of the Jiangxi bandit gentry", Shen Shuren just rightly observed the words.

According to Zhou Yanru's hinted vision and interest, he picked out a bunch of the most valuable, but the most difficult to realize. In a way that everyone understands, pick it out from the handed in accounts, and say that it will be packed and sent to the old mansion of Zhou Ge in a while.

It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Yanru's expression completely relaxed.

It seems that the father and son of the Shen family are still on the road, although they have made such a great contribution, they still know that the money that should be spent still needs to be spent, so that the "promotion task reward" corresponding to the meritorious service can be redeemed.

In the Ming Dynasty, all you get for meritorious service is "official position fragments", but you have to pay for the synthesis fee, right?

Only the combination of liver krypton has a future, and those who delusionally want to completely replace krypton with liver will not end well!

After receiving the gift, Zhou Yanru soon felt that there was a fly in the ointment.

The things he took just now were mainly paintings by Tang Yin and Wen Zhengming, and calligraphy by Dong Qichang. There are also some precious jewelry, large pearls, and whole pink South China Sea coral trees.

The reason why there are so many calligraphy and paintings is also related to the source of these things and the income obtained by the Jiangxi gentry who committed the crime. Tang Yin and other literary heroes were summoned to Jiangxi by King Ning to serve as staff members in history, and left many paintings in the local area.

Although these calligraphy and paintings are considered to be the works of this dynasty for the people of the Ming Dynasty, the authors are also ancient people from more than 100 years ago to decades ago, and they are famous artists.

Shen Shuren packed more than a dozen pairs of calligraphy and paintings and dozens of pieces of jewelry at one time, and his face was enough. Take out a pair casually, and it is still possible to make a price of 1,000 to a few thousand taels of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but it is relatively slow to realize, and the transaction volume of this kind of thing is very small.

Zhou Yanru calculated in his heart, the book price of these calligraphy and painting jewelry was at least between five and one hundred thousand taels of silver. However, it is still less than one-fifth of what Ruan Dacheng gave-

The official gold and silver exchange rate of the Ming Dynasty was officially set at 1 tael to 4 taels at the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the exchange rate had long been in line with the market, and in fact, 1 tael to 10 taels were available.

At the same time, the western Britain, the Netherlands and other seafaring colonial countries, the gold and silver ratio once hovered between 1 to 12~14, and the Ming Dynasty only exchanged 10, which was already regarded as the silver standard, which led to the strong silver price.

Zhou Yanru inked for a while, and then pretended to sigh inadvertently: "Alas, this time I went north, and I don't know when I will meet again with the southern capital." When I thought of the old man's two protégés, Tianru (Zhang Pu) and Zhuting (Wu Changshi), I was overwhelmed with emotion.

The bamboo pavilion can also find an opportunity to take it to the capital, entrusted with reuse, Tianru suddenly suffered a catastrophe, suffered such a disaster. Recalling last year, in order to help the old man come back, Tianru and others were also filial piety, and they ran around to raise money, and their family still owed tens of thousands of taels. ”

Zhou Yanru did not say a word outside his words to ask for cash for himself, but he just lamented his protégé Zhang Pu, who had just died violently, saying that he spent a lot of money and owed foreign debts for his comeback.

Therefore, as a teacher, of course, he has the obligation to take care of the family of his deceased protégé.

Speaking of which, everyone is an officialdom, and Shen Tingyang also heard it, this is because he is not satisfied with the slow realization of jewelry, calligraphy and painting, and he has to inject extra gold and silver.

Shen Tingyang had actually been prepared for a long time, and he was going to promise it directly as soon as possible, but he was lightly kicked by his son under the table, suggesting that he was calm, and Shen Tingyang didn't say much.

Shen Shuren brewed a smile full of spring breeze, suggesting that Zhou Yanru would take a step to speak for a while.

Zhou Yanru understood and knew that this was to avoid the landlord Qiu Weizhen, so he chatted privately, so he waited for a while, and then found an excuse, pretending to be particularly interested in one of the calligraphy and paintings he had just received, and wanted to borrow Qiu Weizhen's study to slowly compare and appreciate it.

Qiu Weizhen didn't embarrass them, so he asked people to collect the banquet first, and the servants led Zhou Yanru and Shen Shuren to the study alone.

After entering the study, closing the door, and not saying a word, Shen Shuren proposed a plan.

"I don't know if Zhou Ge Lao has heard that in recent months, the price of silk reeling and cotton yarn on the market in Jiangnan has dropped again?"

Zhou Yanru said disdainfully: "How could the old man know about these businessmen. ”

Shen Shuren smiled indifferently: "It doesn't matter if you don't know, go back and ask the staff of the house, and it will naturally be verified." Xia Guan wants to say that the recent price reduction of cotton yarn and silk reeling is actually because of my Shen family, and I have developed a new spinning wheel, which can be several times faster than the old spinning wheel! The labor used is only a fraction of the original.

Nowadays, the reason why not many people know about it on the market, and everyone just inexplicably found that the price of silk reeling cotton yarn has been reduced, is precisely because our Shen family has blocked the news to prevent others from plagiarizing and copying, so this new spinning wheel, my Shen family only sells it to a wealthy gentry in each house, and it monopolizes the benefits of silk reeling in a house.

Suzhou Mansion is now run by my Shen family, while Songjiang Mansion and Huzhou Mansion have been contracted to allies who know their roots. In the next step, we plan to develop in Jiaxing Mansion and Changzhou Mansion.

The old man of the pavilion is not doing business, but it is a little difficult to do, I originally planned that if the old man of the pavilion can become me to become the Anhui Mansion, the new spinning wheel business of the Changzhou Mansion will be supplied to the old house of the pavilion at the cost price monopoly -

Songjiang Xu Ge's hometown, but every year we have to provide two or three hundred thousand taels of silver to buy more than a machine. Although this time is not much, it is a trickle of long-term income, and it is beneficial every year. ”

Zhou Yanru didn't know much about business, but when he listened, he was also short of breath, and slowly came back to his senses.

Shen Shuren gave him this advice, although it didn't sound very clear, but he understood the general idea, it was nothing more than entering a perennial dry stock in a long-term lucrative business, and he would make profits every year.

The silver that Ruan Dacheng gave him, although it was claimed to be 50,000 gold, could cash in 500,000 silver in an instant.

And Shen Shuren may give him only 100,000 yuan, but this money is equivalent to giving it every year! (The textile market in Changzhou is much smaller than that in Songjiang Prefecture, so it is certainly not as valuable as the Xu family, not even half)

Of course, Zhou Yanru is also an old man, and he quickly thought of a problem: the cadre shares given every year, he has to be the first assistant of the cabinet, at least he is also the real power of the DPRK and the central government, and Shen Shucai will always give it.

If he loses power in any year, Shen Shuren will definitely turn his face faster than turning a book, and when the time comes, he will go directly to the tea and cool, and he still wants to continue to take the silver?

Is it enough to catch at once, or is it a long stream? The key to earning depends on how long you can hold the power.

Shen Shuren is betting with him about his tenure!

"The virtuous nephew doesn't seem to be optimistic about the old man's comeback this time. Does this mean that the old man has risen and fallen twice, and the saint is unstable? "Anyway, there is no one else in the house, Zhou Yanru thought of this, and he didn't hide it, he just made it clear.

Shen Shuren thought about it quickly, he knew that if he blindly said good things at this time, the other party would not believe it, so it was better to be pragmatic.

He changed his words and said: "How dare you, Xia Guan believes that the situation in the imperial court has reached this point, and if Your Majesty does not rely on the elder of the pavilion, there is really no one to rely on."

Xiaguan met with Yang Ge Lao several times last year, although Yang Ge Lao is still alive, but he is worried day and night, I am afraid that it will not last long. Hong Chengchou was in Liaodong, although he was still alive, and was surrounded in Songshan City. But everyone in the world knows that the imperial court is powerless to rescue and relieve the siege.

If Yang Ge Lao and Hong Chengchou are gone, who else can Your Majesty rely on? No matter how suspicious Your Majesty is, you can only reuse the old man. Xia Guan admired the loyalty of the elder of the pavilion very much, and to this day, he still has the courage to go to the capital to carry this heavy burden.

If the lower officials, father and son and others have long been disheartened, they just want to keep their hometown from being harassed by thieves, and they don't dare to have a long-term plan for the world. ”

Zhou Yanru's nasolabial folds twitched slightly, but he was also excited by Shen Shuren's courage and vision.

It can be heard that even if Shen Shuren wants to gamble, he is not betting that his Zhou Yanru's personal official fortune will not be long, but he feels that His Majesty is doing this, and there is no one available.

Does he think Beijing will be lost?!

But even if Beijing will be lost, Your Majesty can be fortunate in the south, and if it is not good, there is still the prince who can protect him!

Today, there has not been an incident of "Chen Xinjia was killed for persuading Chongzhen to negotiate peace", so Zhou Yanru believes that at that moment, there will be people who are willing to persuade His Majesty to go south, or at least send the prince south.

Even so, as long as Chongzhen has no one available, he will always be the first assistant!

If the Shen family wants to give him a long-term source of wealth and give 100,000 taels a year to form a long-term good fate, then come on.

"The virtuous nephew is pragmatic, so it seems that if you are the servant of Wanfu, you can indeed protect the peace around Nanzhili."

Shen Shuren hurriedly thanked him, but he looked at Zhou Yanru in his heart as if he were a dead man.

This is 100,000 taels a year, and you will take it for a year.

If you delay the payment for next year until the end of the year, according to the original progress of history, you may not have the life to get it alive!