After listening to Sun Ning's story, Xiao Qian, who was holding her daughter to sleep, also changed her expression: "These guys are really greedy and lawless!"

"Hmph, a group of stupid people who only see benefits and don't see others, I will make them pay tenfold, a hundred times the price for this!" Sun Ning said coldly.

Xiao Qian naturally had absolute confidence in her husband's determination and means, and nodded lightly. Immediately, she asked curiously, "Is what Ji Yuanshan said true?" Did they really sell the silk of Suzhou and Hangzhou to the Fusang people at a high price?

"As far as I know, the island country of Fuso is not rich, how can it be possible to spend so much silver to buy a huge amount of silk from them?"

"The island country of Fuso is indeed not big, and it was not rich in the past, and it is far from being comparable to the Jiangnan and Central Plains of my Dayue. But that doesn't mean they don't have any money."

Sun Ning's statement made Xiao Qian even more surprised, and she couldn't understand it.

Facing his wife's puzzled eyes, Sun Ning introduced, "It's very simple, because they have found silver mines and even gold mines in the surrounding islands."

Sun Ning's knowledge of ancient history, especially the history of other countries, is really limited, and what he knows about Fusang, its eastern neighbor across the sea, is that they do have a lot of gold and silver mines with amazing yields.

Once these minerals are developed, they will naturally allow the local feudal lords who occupy these mineral islands to acquire a large amount of property. ap.

However, the shortage of goods in Fuso Island itself does not allow them to directly obtain more benefits from this, and the only way is to achieve their goals through trade.

And the closest to them, and at the same time can sell enough materials, is naturally the current Dayue Jiangnan Province.

For the merchants in Jiangnan, precious metals such as gold and silver are what they value. As long as the Fuso people could afford to pay far higher prices than elsewhere, they were naturally willing to sell them all forbidden things such as silk, tea, porcelain, and even grain, ironware, etc.

For these merchants, it doesn't matter if they have milk or mother, whether they buy from home or abroad.

And there is another advantage of doing this, that is, it can completely bypass government taxation. After all, none of these things were sold from the surface, and they had not been cleared by the government, and there were no goods, so the government couldn't ask them for tax money out of nothing, right?

In this way, the profits of these merchants will not only double, but also three or five times.

In the face of such huge profits, how could these guys restrain their greed, naturally they were out of control, and even intensified, using all their means to sell more materials to the Fusang people.

It is precisely because of this that the taxes collected by the imperial court have been sharply reduced recently, which has led to the beginning of attention to the situation in Jiangnan.

At the end of the day, they're just greedy for what they're doing. In the face of huge interests, these businessmen have put any crisis behind them.

Xiao Qian was shocked again, but she didn't suspect that Sun Ning had raised the matter that Fusang had a huge amount of gold and silver, just that this was a secret found by the imperial court or the spies of Wuyisi.

What she cared about was the greed and audacity of the merchants: "They are really completely insane, aren't they afraid that the court will find out the problem and ask them for their crimes?"

"That's why they keep spending money to buy local officials, hoping that they will be united in their efforts to deceive the court. As long as the imperial court can't produce conclusive evidence, they have a way to deny it. After all, the world is not stable at the moment, and the imperial court can't just shoot them indiscriminately." Sun Ning sneered, he had already touched the minds of these guys.

"I still don't understand why those Fusang people are so generous, and they are willing to pay several times the price to buy things from them?" Xiao Qian then asked curiously.

Sun Ning groaned for a moment and said, "I think there should be two reasons. One is that they really need these supplies themselves. As I said earlier, the island country of Fuso is very poor, and the only thing left is gold and silver minerals.

"And these gold and silver cannot be eaten by hunger, nor clothed by cold, nor are they put there like stones. Only when they are spent and turned into silk food and even weapons can they really make them stronger.

"So even that's it

No matter how high the price of the supplies is, they will have to buy them if there is only one seller."

Xiao Qian thought about it carefully for a while before accepting such a statement, and then asked, "What about the second reason?"

"I guess they can get more benefits from these supplies."

"What do you mean?"

"For example, it will be sold at a higher price and then sold to other domestic forces in Fuso." Sun Ning speculated, "As far as I know, Fusang has never had a unified imperial court, which has led to competition between the feudal lords of each of them, just like we did in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in ancient times.

"There was war and trade between them. And as long as you can take out something that others don't have, you can naturally sell it for a sky-high price. Not to mention that the feudal lord who has obtained a large amount of supplies from the Central Plains can also use this to increase his strength and thus annex other forces."

Xiao Qian nodded clearly, if it was from the perspective of the hegemony, it would be more cost-effective for them to buy materials at a high price.

"These three businessmen are bullying and oppressing internally, buying and deceiving their superiors, and externally they are constantly investing in enemies, raising tigers for trouble, which is really damned!" Sun Ning finally gritted his teeth and concluded.

Xiao Qian still thinks deeply of the first two points, but for the last point, she is obviously a little incomprehensible.

There are only a few people in Fusang Island Country, and it can still pose a threat to the Dayue Imperial Court and the Central Plains, and it is still called tiger breeding?

In fact, I am afraid that except for Sun Ning, no one in this world will really take the Fusang island country seriously. A small island, what do you want, but only find a few mineral deposits, what waves can you make?

But Sun Ning knew that it was this island country that had left the entire Chinese nation with profound disasters and crimes in history. Even if everything is different now, there is still a need to be careful.

Therefore, he already has a plan in his heart, and when the major events in the Central Plains are decided, he will attack the overseas Fusang country.

Xiao Qian didn't think much about this matter, but was curious about another point: "Since we already know what they did, why don't you just take down that Ji Yuanshan and use him as a witness to deal with those three? Now I've put him back again......

"Because that's not enough, if I want to convict these three companies and turn the tide of the Gangnam shopping mall, I need to have more evidence, not just one person's words." Sun Ning is colorful.

It's helpless, if it weren't for the emperor, Sun Ning would be able to attack now.

But the identity of the emperor made him have to collect more evidence, so as to confirm the case in an irrefutable way.

This is the biggest difference between an emperor and an ordinary chivalrous man - freedom.