Chapter 409: Grain Dominance
Agreed on the details with Wang Fuzhi, and half a day passed quickly.
At noon, Chongzhen mixed in Yiding's camp to eat lunch.
"Wu handful of charcoal, give me a bowl of haggis soup." Chongzhen handed the pottery bowl to the charcoal.
Back in Huguang, I finally didn't have to be so hard, and the food in the army also improved a lot.
The main thing is that more than 10,000 cattle and more than 100,000 sheep seized from the rebels at the beginning of the year were not handed over to the cabinet for disposal, but directly withheld the materials used for the internal affairs department.
The cabinet did not send anyone to ask for it.
After returning triumphantly this time, Chongzhen asked people to kill sheep to reward the army.
It is not possible to kill cattle, they are all ploughing cattle, and they must be used to plough the land.
Wu took the charcoal and wiped two handfuls on his battle jacket with both hands, picked up an iron spoon and scooped a large spoonful from the steaming clay pot on the bonfire, and filled Chongzhen's clay bowl.
Wu Ladu, who was next to him, handed Chongzhen two freshly baked steamed cakes.
The Yiding had long been accustomed to Chongzhen eating together among them.
For this matter, the Yiding people only have pride in their hearts, and they can't wait to sell their lives to the emperor.
"It's so full for me." Chongzhen smiled and quipped, "Then don't you have to eat less?" ”
"What's this haggis?" Wu said with a smile, "If the saint likes to eat, the minister will pay for him to buy a dozen of him in the bazaar, and ask the saint to eat haggis every day." ”
"Let me eat haggis, and then you eat mutton?" Chongzhen feigned anger.
"Huh?" Wu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed and said, "The mutton is also eaten by the saint, and our old vultures and brothers eat wool, hahaha." ”
Wu Ladu, Wu Keqi and more than a dozen other Yiding also laughed.
When Ran Sanniang was led outside the tent by Gao Qiqian, she happened to see this scene, and she felt a little emotional.
This trip to Yunnan, she can be regarded as an eye-opener, she can march on foot with the soldiers of the three armies and even push the chicken cart to transport heavy supplies together, and she can also follow the soldiers of the three armies to eat wrinkled rice with condiments such as tempeh, coarse salt and vinegar steamed cakes.
There is such an emperor in the Ming Dynasty, why can't he be prosperous?
Therefore, after realizing the inevitability of changing the land and returning to the stream, Ran Sanniang decisively decided to raise the clan to cooperate with the imperial court, she not only cooperated herself, but also tried her best to persuade Tian Xuan and more than a dozen other small toasts.
But this is not unconditional, the exchange condition is that Chongzhen will accept her as the imperial concubine.
Ran Sanniang is actually very sober, she has never fantasized about being made a queen, and she doesn't even expect to be favored, she just wants to share some rain and dew and give birth to a prince.
As long as there is a prince, her position is as stable as a rock.
If her Ran Sanniang's position is stable, she will be able to shelter Shi Nan's family for at least thirty years.
Therefore, politicians are actually quite boring, all they think about is interests, and even the little thing in the bed can be linked to interests and calculations.
"Long live Lord, Lord Ran has arrived." Gao Qi sneaked into the tent.
"Sanniang is here? Come on in. Chongzhen directly beckoned Ran Sanniang to enter the account.
Seeing this, Wu Jiangtan immediately gestured to Wu Lalu and a dozen other Yiding, and dozens of Yiding immediately got up and went out of the tent, and lowered the curtain before sneaking out of the tent.
The light in the tent dimmed.
Chongzhen looked up and saw that Ran Sanniang's delicate beauty was red and simple under the light of the bonfire, and he didn't know if it was for heat, or because of shyness?
"Have you eaten? Would you like to have some? ”
Chongzhen smiled: "Wu handful of charcoal freshly cooked haggis soup." ”
Ran Sanniang lowered her head and didn't say a word, but her two plain hands stretched out to her waist.
Chongzhen's eyes immediately froze when he saw this, and his hands subconsciously clenched the corners of the blanket under his buttocks.
Seeing this, Ran Sanniang burst out laughing, like spring flowers blooming, bright and beautiful.
Then Ran Sanniang said in a low voice: "Shengshang, you don't have to worry, the slave family will not assassinate, besides, Gonggong Gao has already searched his body before he came, and there is no hidden blade on the slave family." ”
"What do you say?" Chongzhen's face darkened, "Did you search for you?" ”
Although Gao Qiqian is an old eunuch, he still can't bear it when he thinks that he has touched Ran Sanniang's whole body.
"Long live the old slave, the old slave was wronged, it was the two personal soldiers of Vice General Li who searched Lord Ran's body." Outside the curtain, a loud and submergible voice suddenly sounded, "The old slave hasn't even touched a finger to Lord Ran." ”
"Get out of here." Chongzhen scolded outside the tent curtain, and his face looked much better.
"Long live the old slave, get out." The sound of high diving accompanied the footsteps.
Ran Sanniang is no longer as restrained as before, and said with a smile: "It seems that being an emperor is not free." ”
"Not free? It's a lot better now. Chongzhen said, "In the past, when I was in Beijing, I was really not free, no matter where I went, there were a large group of people to follow, what I said and done, that is, which concubine I was lucky to be lucky that night, and even how many times I was lucky, I would record it on the living note one by one." ”
"No, someone is watching you do that?"
Speaking of that, Ran Sanniang also blushed a little.
"No, a group of people stared at the bedside with wide eyes."
Chongzhen smiled: "But now this bad rule has been abolished by me. ”
Ran Sanniang chuckled lightly twice after eating, and gently pulled the belt with her bare hand, and the robe covering her body fell to the ground, and she didn't wear anything under the burqa, she was really naked.
Chongzhen's eyes fell straight at once, this figure is really superb.
Ran Sanniang's posture is slightly inferior to Li Xiangjun, but her figure is obviously three points better than Li Xiangjun, Li Xiangjun's figure is actually very good, but it is still a little worse than Ran Sanniang.
"Come and sit." Chongzhen patted his thigh and said with a smile.
Ran Sanniang didn't squirm, she came over and sat on Chongzhen's lap, Chongzhen couldn't help but be interested, this chassis is really big, round, and stable!
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Let's go back to Wang Fuzhi.
After receiving the will, he went straight to Changsha.
In Changsha Mansion, Wang Fuzhi met his brother who was engaged in the grain business, Wang Guizhi.
Wang Guizhi's grain business is quite large, and his net worth is also quite rich, at least one million taels, which can be regarded as the most powerful grain merchant in Changsha City, and there are ten rice shops alone.
After receiving Wang Fuzhi, Wang Guizhi changed the law to be hospitable.
As a businessman, Wang Guizhi still has some eyesight, and he can see that this clan brother has become a climate.
In the spring of this year, Wang Fuzhi returned to Changsha Mansion with a team of officers and soldiers, and arrested and beheaded the two gentry in Xiangtan County without saying a word, and the Changsha prefect didn't even dare to let out a fart.
Since then, the prefect of Changsha has been respectful to his royal rules.
It is precisely because of this that Wang Guizhi misestimated his strength, thinking that he could walk sideways in Changsha, and then he wanted to peck food from the mouth of the Internal Affairs Office without knowing whether he was alive or dead, but this time he caused a disaster of breaking the family.
Looking at the diligent brothers, Wang Fu's heart did not soften in the slightest.
Whether it is brainwashing or ideals, Wang Fuzhi's ideological realm has been purified and sublimated in the midst of the controversy with other scholars on the way to that tribulation march.
Family interests and even family affection are no longer the fetters of Wang Fuzhi.
We must admit that there are really noble moral characters in this world, such as Wang Fuzhi and Huang Zongxi, whose ideological realm has transcended mortals, and they are really practicing the three immortals of Confucianism.
After a feast, Wang Guizhi asked in a low voice: "And the farmer, what does the Holy Lord have to say about the grain trade in Huguang?" ”
Although things have been done, although Wang Fuzhi is the backer, Wang Guizhi is still a little weak-hearted, after all, this is pecking from the mouth of the Internal Affairs Office, not a trivial matter.
"Brother don't worry." Wang Fuzhi smiled and said, "The ban of the Internal Affairs Office is aimed at other grain merchants, and our Wang family's business name is not among them, after all, my junior brother is also on an errand in the Internal Affairs Office." ”
"That's the reason." One of the Wang Gui patted his thigh and smiled, "Our Wang family business is an exception. ”
The other businessmen who accompanied him looked at Wang Guizhi with envy, and said in their hearts that the Wang family had really become a climate this time, and within ten years, the Wang family would become the most powerful family in Hunan.
Wang Fuzhi asked again: "Brother, how much new grain have you purchased in total?" ”
"I only bought more than 500,000 stones, and I could have bought more, but a few days ago, the government suddenly issued an official document that the people were not allowed to sell grain without permission. Wang Guizhi said this, and suddenly said, "And Nong, you say hello to the prefect of Changsha and let our Wang family business continue to buy grain." ”
"The little brother turned around and said hello to Changsha Mansion." Wang Fuzhi agreed, and said, "But it's not much fun to just buy hundreds of thousands of stone grain, let's do a big deal." ”
"Do a big deal." Wang Guizhi was stunned and said, "How big is it?" ”
"Eat all the surplus grain in the whole Huguang." The way of the king.
"What?" Wang Guizhi asked dumbfounded, "And Nong, do you know how much surplus grain there is in Huguang this year?" Not to mention that there are seventy or eighty million stones, and if you want to eat all the surplus grain in Huguang, you will have to pay more than 10 million taels of silver! ”
"Isn't it more than 10 million taels of silver?" Wang Fuzhi said, "Our family doesn't have so much, so let's find other families to do it together, and if it's not enough, we can borrow the water conservancy grain silver number!" I don't dare to say that I can still borrow seven or eight million taels of silver, but of course I have to use grain as collateral, and it is impossible to lend it to me for nothing. ”
"Can it really work?" Wang Guizhi's eyes lit up suddenly.
If this vote is done, it will make a profit of tens of millions of taels, to say the least.
10 million taels, even if the 20 grain merchants divide it equally, each family will have 500,000 taels!
"What's wrong with that?" Wang Fuzhi said, "The Internal Affairs Office is not doing business by itself, and it is not handed over to other grain merchants to do business, others can do it, why can't our Wang family do it." ”
"Done!" Wang Guizhi said, "For my brother, I'll go to the big grain merchants in other provinces." ”
"Hey, why don't you go find someone else, we'll do it." The businessmen present hurriedly recommended themselves.
"Needless to say, everyone here will participate in the shares." "But it's still not enough, this time you have to gather at least 15 million taels to eat all the surplus food and make it a hegemony." ”
"Grain hegemony!" The businessmen celebrated.
We're going to make a fortune this time.
(End of chapter)