"How different are the two of them?"

Fang Wenzhen became interested and asked, "Can Brother Kang talk about it carefully?" ”

"It all starts with the delivery of grain." Kang Wanwan said, "After receiving the letter from Lu Butang, I sent 500,000 stone grain to Shanyang at a price of 1.5 taels of silver per stone......

"1.5 taels per stone to Shanyang?" Fang Wenzhen was stunned, "Then you can't lose money?" ”

"Who's to say it isn't." Kang Million said, "Before I left Yangzhou, I was levied a tax of 3 yuan per stone by Qu Shangzhong, a dog eunuch, counting the labor costs, the depreciation of the grain ship and the storage money of the bad rice, I can't even get back the cost of 9 yuan per stone, this time it is purely to repay the favor of the road department." ”

Fang Wenzhen nodded and said, "Lu Butang is different from those people, he is a real worker. ”

"Not only Lu Butang, but also Yangzhou Prefect Ma Mingluo and Huai'an Prefect Fan Zhongjie are also rare good officials." Kang Million snorted lightly, and then said, "Although the Donglin Party covers the sky with one hand, there are still many officials like Lu Butang, and it is precisely because of people like them that the Ming Dynasty has been able to come to this day." ”

Fang Wenzhen bowed his head and said: "If it weren't for the Lu Butang here, we businessmen would have let those people swallow even the belt bones a long time ago, and there would be no scum left." ”

……

At this time, he was in the doctor's hall of Guozijian.

Zhu Cihong asked Chongzhen: "So, my father specially invited Kang Shaojing and other Yangzhou businessmen to come to Nanjing in the middle of this month, just to let them bid for the arable land of the northern gentry, right?" ”

"Yes, yes." Di Zhen replied ambiguously.

That is the light room is super stunned, and Fang Chaoyun is also sober.

Chongzhen said with a smile: "Father summoned us to Nanjing, because he wanted us to buy land to raise money, but if we also want to buy land, it's that complicated." ”

"Are you looking for us to buy it?" Fang Wenjiong said, "Who is this father going to sell to?" ”

Chongzhen sighed twice and asked his two sons: "Hong'er and Jiong'er, do they think that the richest person in the world is not a salt merchant like Lu Butang?" ”

The monk ancestral hall said: "My father is not rich in the seven seas, and the richest in the world is naturally my father." ”

"Brother Huang, come on, don't say that kind of thing." Fang Chaojiong said with a good air, "My father is so poor that he wants to sell himself, and he is not rich in Nanami, and he is rich without a fart." ”

When the monk temple heard this, he frowned.

The heart said that the eighth brother had not been good with these Yiding for a long time, and his words had become rude.

Chongzhen thought he was angry when he heard it, but he thought he was happy, and laughed and said: "Jiong'er, what he said is wrong, my father is so poor that he is now open the pot, so he can only take his brothers to come to the country to eat outside the prison, how can there be no wealth and no seven seas." ”

Speaking of that, Chongzhen said with a straight face: "To get back to the point, it is wrong to say that Xiao Ming is the richest and not the one is a salt merchant like Lu Butang, those salt merchants are all millions of family assets, and individual salt merchants may not have less than 10 million family assets, because there is no experience of Shen Wanba's rear car, and those merchants are the best at hiding clumsiness." ”

The Seminary nodded and said, "Erchen thinks so too. ”

Chongzhen continued: "But how few are there many rich businessmen like that? ”

The Seminary Temple thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that there will be more than ten rich businessmen like Fang Chaoyun, but the rich businessmen with a family fortune of one million taels should be in the majority, and the number of rich businessmen with a family fortune of one hundred thousand taels is even less. ”

"But no matter how small the number of those rich businessmen is, they are far from being as noble and gentry." Chongzhen said in a deep voice, "It must only compete with the financial resources of a single family, and the noble gentry in Jiangnan may be like salt merchants, but when it comes to competing with the financial resources of the entire group, so Yangzhou salt merchants, Hui merchants and even heavenly merchants are tied together, and they are far from being like noble gentlemen." ”

"Gentleman?" Xiusheng Temple and Fang Wenjiong didn't think about it.

Chongzhen said quietly: "Such as the Duke of Wei, the Duke of Baoguo, the Marquis of Lingbi, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, the False Uncle and other nobles, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty has been heirloom for nearly 800 years, so long ago they say that we have accumulated a lot of wealth? Before the Jiangnan gentry, before the Jiajing Dynasty, the Jiangnan Guantian was eaten up by us, and we made more than 70 million profits every year! It is said that you are poor, so a small amount of land rent has gone into our private pockets, can you be poor? ”

Fang Chaoyun and Fang Wenjiong's faces gradually became solemn.

Chongzhen continued: "That's just the land rent refund, the Jiangnan gentry relied on the fact that there was no one in the court, and they also extended our white hands to the silk, grain, wine, salt, oil and even iron smelting industries, and the gentry who have not yet been involved in the sea trade, the wealth we have accumulated in the past hundred years is something they can imagine." ”

Most of the silver that flowed into the Americas and Japan went to that group.

Fang Wenjiong said: "So what my father wants is to let those people buy arable land in the north?" ”

"We're buying arable land." Chongzhen smiled and nodded, and then his smile became hot, "But it's also cultivated land, and one day my father wants us to return all the righteous wealth that we have eaten in the past hundred years!" ”

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "I, I want those silverfish families to die!" ”

The cultivator said: "Father, are rich businessmen like Lu Butang also among the crackdowns?" ”

"Yes, yes." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "You still have to protect the real businessmen, even if we have accumulated a huge amount of wealth, we can also take what we want, and those in lower positions must abide by the rules." ”

"Understood." Fang Wenjiong nodded and said, "These noble gentlemen have saved tens of thousands of family fortunes by stealing and grabbing, and we first obey the rules, so when my father hits us, he also uses the rules to obey, but he must be a rich businessman who abides by the rules, and the Xiao Ming court wants to insult and protect us, is that so?" ”

Chongzhen waved his hand: "Yes, the rules still have to be followed, even if you fight these noble gentlemen, you must use the rules, and you can trample on the rules, and after a while, they will understand that the rules can actually be used, as long as you make good use of the rules, killing people is even sharper than swords!" ”

……

She County Hall, Tianzi number under the room.

Lu Butang said: "You are fortunate to have difficulty sending food to Shanyang, but you were told that Fang Chaoyun was impeached by the official, and when he put himself in prison, your grain can only float under the wharf. ”

Zhu Cizhen said angrily when he heard this: "Can these people really do it? ”

"We don't dare?" Lu Butang snorted and said, "We are the ones who will manage the life and death of the border army of the seventy-four towns on the rear line of Xuzhou and the millions of displaced people, we only know that Zhu Cihong has ruined our good deeds, so we will destroy me!" ”

Zhu Cizhen said with a white face: "The state affairs of the Little Ming Dynasty are bad under the hands of those people, hateful!" ”

Fang Chaoyun sighed and said: "If you let those people mess around again, the Jiangnan trade route will be completely cut off, and you and other businessmen will probably not have a dead end." ”

After talking for a long time, it was still for the benefit of his own class.

That's why I say that the ass determines the head, and I can't do it.

"Off topic, I'm talking about that today." Lu Butang waved his hand, and then continued, "Just when you were about to make trouble and want to put a little pressure on the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, the holy car arrived. ”

"As soon as the Holy Driver made a move, the whole thing was tense and calmed down."

"Zhu Cihong has returned to the yamen to look at things, and the grain has also been bought."

"In order to show gratitude, you grain merchants offered to transport the bad grain to Xuzhou."

"At that time, I suddenly received an edict from the Holy Majesty to summon you to an audience."

Imagining the scene at that time, Zhu Cizhen also said with a light face: "You are also panicked." ”

"It's just a panic, you even wrote the testament." Lu Butang wiped his forehead and said, "Brother Fang, he knows, your sons are all successful, although Xi'er said that her ability is lost to her daughter, but you are a girl's family after all, you were really worried at that time, if you go back, the family business will be ...... Snatched by several brothers. ”

Zhu Cizhen said: "If you do the same, it can be prevented." ”

This, what the two of them said outside is a hidden word, and of course we are guarding against our own brothers.

Lu Butang said: "At that time, you really went with the mood of going to the Dharma field, but before you met the Holy Driver, you found out that this is the case at all, and the Holy Majesty has the intention of raiding the house at all." ”

After saying this, Lu Butang said solemnly: "Your Majesty even asked you, did you not encounter trouble when you were doing business?" Need my help? At that time, you believed at all, thinking that the Holy Majesty was just talking to you politely, since ancient times, you have only heard that there is no emperor to solve problems for Shi Nong, how have you ever heard that there is no emperor to solve problems for industry and commerce? ”

Zhu Cizhen said: "To solve problems is to dare to think, but to make it difficult, we are wrong." ”

"But that's what you think." Lu Butang clapped his hands and said, "But what happened here made you suddenly react, His Majesty was serious at the time, and I was not talking politely, because I only returned the tax and silver that the mine supervisor and tax envoy had collected excessively in the following year, and even removed the garrison eunuchs of Yangzhou Mansion!" ”

"Removed the garrison eunuchs?" Zhu Cizhen's worldview was shattered for the eighth time, "Really? ”

"That's not fake?" Lu Butang said with a smile, "At the moment, if there is any obstacle to your business in Yangzhou Mansion, you will have to pay a penny of tax and silver!" ”

"That's really ......"

Zhu Cizhen was already envious, jealous and hateful in his heart.

"Brother Fang is envious." Lu Butang said with a smile, "Huizhou is very slow to remove the mine tax inspector." ”

Zhu Cizhen sighed: "If His Majesty can really send an edict to remove the mine supervisors and tax envoys of Huizhou Mansion, you and other Huizhou businessmen will have to raise money to give me the old man Jiakang million!" ”

"Kang million is a must." Lu Butang waved his hand.

"Although there is little contact, you can see the character of the saint in a small way."

"That's a man with great talent, he is a heroic master who lost the Tang Sect and Han Wu, I only think of the lack of martial arts, so Brother Fang can't save Kang's millions of money and donate it as a border town salary, if that happens, the Holy Majesty may be even more unhappy."

"Makes sense." Zhu Cizhen said, "If the Holy Majesty really removes the mine supervisor and tax envoy, you will pledge 700,000 yuan!" ”

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