Chapter 93: The Traitor Marquis Collection
I have long heard of the collusion between Hou Junji and Zaterk, but there has been no evidence, if Hou Junji can be brought down by this, it will be a good thing for Li Xiang.
"Then hurry up and say, there is still a life after I am finished, while I am interested now, tell me everything you know, if I am not interested in waiting for a while, even if you say a king Lao Tzu, you will die today."
Li Xiang said as he wiped the dagger on Zaterk's face, although it did not cause substantial damage, but when the cold and piercing feeling came, Zaterk was terrified to the extreme.
Although this guy was born in a warrior nation, but as a prince, he has also lived in fine clothes and jade food since he was a child, the more such people are afraid of death, although he was very strong before, it was because he did not face death, and when facing death at this moment, this kind of person is the first to defect.
"I have a lot of granges in the whole Datang territory, and there are many shops, all of which I bought to collect rent, and all my property deeds are in the granges outside the city, since I came to Chang'an ten years ago, I have been constantly deducting the money of these merchants, if I don't give me benefits, I will send people to scare them......
This guy trembled and began to explain, it turned out that the money here was only a small part, in the past ten years, in order to be able to accumulate enough wealth, it can be said that he did everything, among the businessmen who were blackmailed by him, some were Tuyuhun businessmen, some were merchants who went to Tuyuhun in the Tang Dynasty, and some Tubo businessmen...
This guy asked his subordinates to collect it while explaining to Li Xiang, but he really didn't see that this kid was really rich.
Li Xiang thought that he was also a landlord, with forty or fifty thousand acres of land in his hands, but this kid was more powerful than himself, he found a lot of people to help him name, according to the regulations of Datang, Hu people could not buy land in Datang, so he began to look for the people of Datang to name himself, just around Chang'an City, this kid bought tens of thousands of acres of land, if you want to count the entire hundreds of thousands of acres of Datang, a proper big landlord.
In addition, there are many shops to buy to collect rent, which can be said to be the safest way to make money in this era, as long as this kid has money in his hands, all of it is invested in the field and shops.
It took more than ten minutes for this guy to explain his assets clearly, and Li Xiang also sighed beside him, ten years ago, this kid was still a child, and he had already begun to think about collecting money at that time, he really had thoughts, but now it's all ours.
"Your Highness, the old slave has roughly estimated that all the assets must add up to at least one and a half million yuan."
According to what this guy explained, Qian Ping started to calculate next to him, he was really capable, and he had accumulated this money in ten years, which was about the same.
"Please spare my life, I'm a rotten life, I've got you all I have, and if it's not enough, I can write back and ask for money."
This guy is like a dog at the moment, he has completely lost the ability he had before, and Li Xiang also understands in his heart that as long as he lets go of that mentality, it will not be so easy to pick it up again.
"Tell me about you and Hou Junji."
The blackmail matter came to an end for the time being, and Li Xiang knew that this kid definitely hadn't fully explained, but Li Xiang was now more curious about Hou Junji.
Because the crown princess Li Xiang has absolutely no way to reconcile with Hou Junji, and the emperor also wants to deal with Hou Junji, but he has never had a chance, and now if he can find news from him, it can be regarded as help in disguise.
"Back then, Hou Junji was stationed on the southwest border, and he had all kinds of trade with us, as long as we gave enough money, we could sell me anything, including salt and iron, ......."
After hearing this, Li Xiang was very angry, according to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, salt and iron belong to important things, and they must not be left outside, especially the surrounding nomads.
Tuyuhun's smelting technology is relatively backward, salt and iron are relatively scarce in the territory, and the Tang Dynasty court only gives them a certain share every year to control the amount they have, which is also a means for the Tang Dynasty to maintain peace on the border, if Hou Junji sells it to them privately and gives them sufficient reserves, then they will dare to have the ability to say no to the Tang Dynasty, which is a capital crime.
"After returning to the capital, Hou Junji still has his minions in the army, and I spent 150,000 yuan to buy a garrison map on the southwest border......"
When he heard this, Li Xiangqi kicked this guy's body, Hou Junji was too much, if he was greedy for money when he bought and sold things before, now he directly told people about the military deployment on the southwest border, fortunately, Tuyuhun's strength is not strong, if Tuyuhun's strength is strong enough, then our southwest border may be broken through at any time.
It was sold for 150,000 yuan......
Hou Junji is really okay......
Of course, Li Xiang doesn't look down on this money, but for Hou Junji, this may be a huge amount of money, but in fact, it is a huge amount of money for all major families.
"All of our goods to Datang, General Hou has to intervene, every time it is to take a cut, this is also General Hou's request, if you don't agree, then you can't get that deployment map......
Li Xiang knew that things were not so simple, in addition to Hou Junji's one-time request for money, the back commission was also a major source of income, and the annual transactions between the two countries were at least millions, even if it was a small part of the money, it was more.
"Your Highness, the expenses of the Hou Mansion are not so high every year, this money ......"
Qian Ping interjected beside him, as the chief eunuch of the East Palace, he used to have frequent contacts with Hou Junji's family, and naturally knew some of the expenses of Hou Junji's family, if this matter was reported, it might implicate the prince, after all, Hou Junji helped the prince to rebel in the past, isn't this money?
Thinking of that cheap dad Li Xiang didn't dare to pack a ticket in his heart, after all, Li Chengqian rebelled in history, and Hou Junji was the main figure, if there was such a thing, maybe he could really be implicated.
Thinking of this, Li Xiang asked Zaterke to take him, as for the rest of the broken building, just burn it down, and then there should be an official messenger, go back and ask Dad first......