Chapter 20: Undercurrents

Xu Chunshen took a deep breath and said, "Don't dare to be an adult to say this, students just know their duty." ”

"Duty." Chen Yue said: "Yes, it's good to know your duty, I don't want your money in vain, Wang Shu is not something you can do with words, this time the business tax is a joint effort between His Majesty and Han Shoufu, no one can stop it, and I can't stop it, I advise you to do it yourself." ”

Xu Chunshen gritted his teeth slightly and said, "My lord, is there really no way?" ”

Xu Chunshen doesn't necessarily want to pay taxes, but in his position, he has a big wind, and all kinds of greetings have to be called, which seems to be a huge profit from cotton.

The profit of a cotton cloth is more than fifty percent.

After paying the taxes, the Xu family can still live a very nourishing life.

But the real situation is that the Xu family did not take into account the cost of spending money up and down.

He is not Xian Jing, Xian Jing's identity as a colt, coupled with the protection of the prince, he doesn't have to please anyone, but Xu Chunshen can't.

It is difficult to say whether Xu Chunshen's long-sleeved and all-round character is innate, or he has learned it in the business and sea games.

Chen Yue said: "Unless there is a major event that involves today's attention, this thing must be done, after all, after the official law, there has always been a gap in the Ming Dynasty's taxation." The imperial court will not fail to solve it. ”

"Don't worry, I promise you, if you don't want to do it, you can get out of it."

Xu Chunshen laughed secretly in his heart, how could he not know what to retreat without.

At this position, if he can't make money for the people behind him, how can he have any chance to get out, and the people behind him will definitely swallow him even to the bones.

Where is there any chance of getting out of the way.

It's a liar at all.

Chen Yue didn't talk to him much, and after a few words, Xu Chunshen came to the car again.

His face was expressionless, but his heart was full of gloom. But when he met Wang Shu, his face was already full of spring.

As soon as he saw Wang Shu, he saluted and said, "It is really a privilege for students to be able to see the prince. ”

In terms of reputation, Wang Shu's reputation is much better than Chen Yue's.

Wang Shu also opened his mouth without smiling faces, and said, "Xu Sheng is exempt from courtesy." ”

After Xu Chunshen got up, Wang Shu said: "I heard that the guilds in the south of the Yangtze River heard the earthquake in the northwest and were willing to donate money for the imperial court. ”

Xu Chunshen said: "My lord Mingjian, this is our heart to serve the imperial court, the students have been running up and down, and have raised three million taels, and please smile." That's only part of the story. ”

Xu Chunshen took out a stack of silver tickets in his hand, all of which were Shaofu's silver tickets.

A thick stack, most of which are mixed with 1,000 taels of silver tickets and 10,000 taels of silver tickets.

It's not that Xu Chunshen doesn't want to change them all

Ten thousand taels of silver tickets. Moreover, the number of 10,000 taels of silver bills issued by the Shaofu Bank is too small. Because this amount is too large.

On top of these 10,000 taels of silver tickets, many of them are drawn by Xu Chunshen. It's more of a money order than a bearer silver ticket.

Wang Shu glanced at it, even with Wang Shu's cultivation, he lost his mind for a while.

How much is three million taels?

Nearly one-tenth of the annual harvest of the Ming court.

Wang Shu is dozens of years old, and he rarely sees so much money. Even the hands rarely handle so much money.

Daming's financial gap, with these three million taels of silver, is enough to make up for a lot.

It's just that Wang Shu quickly reacted and said, "Do you have any conditions?" ”

Xu Chunshen immediately said: "Please Mingjian, it is really a heavy endowment in Jiangnan, and the people are already overwhelmed, these three million taels have been swept away by all the businessmen in Jiangnan, and please look at the face of the people in Jiangnan, give a grace of one or two, and don't raise taxes in Cui." ”

This sentence is about a look of sadness, relatives and mourning, and an image of asking for the people's life, not hesitating to break the family and give up their wealth.

Wang Shu sighed and said: "I also know the suffering of the people in Jiangnan, but if the people in Jiangnan are bitter, aren't the people in the northwest suffering?" ”

"It's like there are many children in the family, and the younger brother can't afford to eat, Jiang Nan is the eldest brother, shouldn't he share more for the family?"

"The national policy of this dynasty is to use the wealth of Jiangnan to support the armored soldiers of the northwest, if the northwest is not saved, can Jiangnan be alone? The deep meaning of it, Xu Sheng doesn't need me to say more. ”

"Please rest assured, Xu Sheng, I will urge the officials below to dare to fight for more than one article. These three million taels, you don't have to donate or lose, it's not easy for you, the world is like this, let's get through the difficulties with the imperial court. ”

Wang Shu originally pushed these silver tickets to Xu Chunshen.

Xu Chunshen's doing this today is actually a kind of temptation for Wang Shu.

To test whether Wang Shu is as incorruptible as the legend says, if he collects the money, things will be much easier.

For Xu Chunshen, the most difficult thing to do is not the official who collects the cash, but the official who does not collect the cash.

Xu Chunshen is in business, and bribery is just an investment, and it is an investment that has no losses.

No matter how much he invests, Xu Chunshen definitely has a way to make it.

This is also the reason why Xu Chunshen's family property has increased several times in the past few years.

It's just that he has no way to deal with this kind of clean official who doesn't eat oil and salt.

Xu Chunshen begged a few more times, but Wang Shu was kind and pleasant, but there was no wavering in his mouth.

Xu Chunshen had no choice but to retreat by himself.

After Wang Shu saw Xu Chunshen leave, he let out a long breath and said, "Lord Wang, I almost agreed just now. After all, the imperial court urgently needs this money. ”

The curtain in the middle was raised, and he said, "God."

In the middle of the world, there are not many people who can face so much silver, and there are not many people who do not change their faces, and there is no trace of selfishness in their hearts. ”

It was Wang Yue who came out.

Wang Shu didn't care about Wang Yue's sycophancy, and said: "Our tax rate is not set low. ”

If Xu Chunshen knew that after he showed his white in front of Wang Shu, Wang Shu wanted to do more more, and he didn't know what kind of expression he had.

Wang Yue said: "My lord, the tax reform is a major plan of the imperial court, I would rather slow it down than rush it, collect this amount first, and then talk about the rest." ”

"Don't think that if it's going well today, it'll be going so well in the future."

"Xu Chunshen is famous all over the world, but he is just a character on the surface."

Wang Shu said: "Who is the person behind this? When he was in Nanjing, he had already greeted Wei Guogong, and Wei Guogong would never go through this troubled water. ”

Wang Yue smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, I don't know, after all, I have been away from the business world for several years, and the past few years have been an era of ever-changing dragons and snakes everywhere. ”

"It's changed so much."

It has been almost ten years since Zhu Qizhen approved the private establishment of the factory.

In the past ten years, not only Wang Yue's Shaofu Bank has developed by leaps and bounds, but other industries have been reshuffled on a large scale.

He went ashore after all.

There are some things that his previous connections won't easily talk to him.

But one thing is for sure.

That is, the people who really control the places everywhere are never businessmen.

A simple merchant never makes a fuss, but a lamb to the slaughter.

Perhaps in the future, the merchant class will develop into a huge group that people dare not underestimate, but definitely not now.

It's like in Sanyuan, Shaanxi, that is, Wang Shu's hometown, some major events in his hometown, the Wang family doesn't nod, even if the government does something, it's not too easy to use.

Wang Shu also understands this. He said secretly: "Yes, Xu Chunshen is easy to deal with, but who is the person behind Xu Chunshen?" ”

"Or is it my colleague?"

Wang Shu took out the Suzhou Mansion Jinshi and the family one by one, and slowly deliberated it. Excluded one by one, I want to know who is behind this scene?

At this moment, Xu Shenchun thought about it for a long time, and finally made a decision to travel in the middle of the night and take a small boat. Disappeared into the night.

He's just going to find someone.

A person who can connect with and represent the vast number of Jiangnan gentry. Although he didn't like to see this person much, he had no other way to go at the moment.

If he doesn't go down this path, he can only take a dead end.