Chapter 609: If the emperor is happy, our family will be happy
Shandong mine supervisor Chen Zeng's strength is not as good as others, so he can only compromise and cut meat to feed the eagle.
Those who know the times are Junjie.
Father-in-law Wei admired Father-in-law Chen's decisiveness in his heart.
Of course, if it were him, he would have knelt down and licked it as early as when the cannon sounded.
There are not as many people as each other, and they can't beat each other, so when will they wait if they don't kneel?
How much is face worth?
Besides, they are all from the same unit, people are still old employees, kneeling a few times he has the right to respect his predecessors, anyway, he will not lose a piece of meat or lose a hair, what is there in his heart that can't get by.
To put it bluntly, this matter is a contradiction among the people and can be reconciled.
Anyway, if Gonggong Wei wants to open it, Gonggong Chen will be afraid that he will also want to open it.
Money, but things outside the body.
The so-called stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood.
Grandpa Wei firmly believed that Grandpa Chen must think the same as himself, and he believed that Grandpa Chen's loss would be made up for in the near future.
Where to make it up is none of his business.
He didn't know that Gonggong Chen had already been ashamed and brave, and secretly vowed that even if it cost a big price after he went back, he would integrate the thugs and murderers scattered all over the place, and learn from Gao Huai to get a miner and a tax army.
In this way, who else would dare to threaten him so unscrupulously!
The horse team, the gun team, and the artillery team must be brought out, and the ironclad soldiers must also get a bunch of them, you little bastard will always go back to Beijing when you go south, and at that time, you will look good in this Shandong.
Do you dare not take our family in your eyes, and if you do the first year of junior high school, our family will give you a fifteen!
If you have a thousand, we will make up three thousand.
If you have 3,000 people, we will make 10,000 people!
Let's see whose fists are hard.
After this catastrophe, Gonggong Chen completely understood.
In this world, no matter how high your status is, no matter how much money you have, you don't have military power in your hands, and when you meet those who are bold and reckless, you will eventually make wedding dresses for others.
The more I think about it, the more right it becomes.
Yang Rong of Yunnan and Chen Feng of Huguang, if they have an elite army and horses like Xiao Wang Babastard's subordinates, can they ask the local overlords to kill them, and can they call the local guards to drive them into the Yangtze River.
It's just that it's useless to figure out this knot, and the far water can't save the near fire.
Gonggong Chen's top priority is how to make up the 500,000 taels of silver.
The little bastard is like a plague god, can he walk without the silver?
However, call him the old man for a while and a half to make up 500,000 taels.
Chen Zeng has been an official in Shandong for nearly 20 years, and he has a lot of money, but most of the silver has to be entered into the inner treasury, and the rest has to be taken care of by the large and small yamen in Beijing, and less than 30% of the money really falls into Chen Gonggong's hands.
This thirty percent is one hundred and eighty thousand taels, but it is impossible for him to take out five hundred thousand taels of silver.
Because, most of the money asked him to buy land, buy a business, and the rest is antique calligraphy and painting, and he was asked to pile up 500,000 taels in a hurry, and he couldn't kill Chen Zeng with a knife.
The hundreds of thousands of taels that Cheng Shouxun asked for last time were not all cash silver, but miscellaneous everything. Later, Li Sancai opened his mouth, but it took a lot of effort for Gonggong Chen to collect the money and send it away, and it was safe to buy.
Nowadays, it is naturally extremely difficult to raise money.
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Regarding Gonggong Chen's difficulties, Gonggong Wei understands better than anyone else.
In today's Ming Dynasty, there is a lot of silver, but there is also a lot.
The reason is that silver has never been the official currency of the Ming Dynasty, and the legal tender of the Ming Dynasty has always been treasure money and copper coins.
The minting of copper coins during the Yongle period was quite effective, so that the copper coins could be widely circulated nationwide during the Yongle period. However, after Yongle's death, due to the lack of copper mines, gold and silver resurfaced as a substitute for currency.
In fact, gold and silver gradually replaced copper coins as the main currency in private circulation, even if the official did not admit it, but it was so.
After Jiajing, a large amount of silver in Japan flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and many wealthy families collected silver to preserve its value, in other words, silver in the hands of the rich was equivalent to the foreign exchange of later generations, and the imperial court had no way to do it, nor did it have any outstanding and effective regulatory ability.
After the opening of the sea in Longqing until now, the maritime affairs have been cut off to a certain extent, and a large number of marine profits have been occupied by the coastal gentry, and a large amount of silver obtained from these profits will naturally not be imported into the treasury, nor will it be circulated to the people, therefore, it is clear that the Ming Dynasty now has silver, but it seems that the silver seems to have disappeared.
When Zhang Juzheng changed the law, he reformed the tax collection in kind and changed it to advocate the payment of taxes on silver, but the tax in kind was still the majority. And the richer the person, the more inclined they are to pay taxes in kind, especially for the wealthy in Jiangnan. The reason is that in the rich Jiangnan region, the output of grain and silk is high, and there is the convenience of transportation, so it is easy to pay taxes in kind. If you pay silver instead, it will not be as cheap as paying in kind.
The people in the remote areas, because of the scarcity of goods and the lack of goods, had to pay silver to offset their taxes, and the silver was painstakingly recovered, and it did not go to the treasury, but in the hands of landlords and merchants.
The former controlled the grain, while the latter knew how to take advantage of the difference between the price of silver and rice, so they made a lot of money, and in the end, all the silver went into the silver cellar and withdrew from commercial circulation.
There is no hard currency, and copper coins are extremely scarce, and strange phenomena occur from the imperial court to the people.
Poor, all poor.
Only the landlords and merchants in the middle reaches are rich, and the rich are there.
If the court is poor, the border defense will be unfavorable.
When the people are poor, they have to find a way to live.
Under internal and external troubles, the Ming Dynasty collapsed.
Therefore, Wei Gonggong presided over the maritime affairs this time, with one task - to make money, to bring a large amount of silver into the commercial field, into the people, and to do everything possible to make the economy of the Ming Dynasty truly active. At the same time, relying on this silver, a large amount of grain was purchased from overseas, and grain depots were built in Northwest, Liaodong, and Gyeonggi Guangguang to alleviate the impending natural disasters.
This is a huge project, and if you want this project to be effective, you can't do it in 20 years.
This is based on the foundation of the whole situation, and if it is only built on the basis of restoration, it is only necessary to stabilize the south of the Yangtze River.
Of course, there were too many casualties.
Chen Zeng is a eunuch, and there is a common problem of eunuchs, no matter how much money he has, he doesn't like to hold it in his hands, but he has to buy land and buy real estate no matter what.
Eunuchs are not interested in silver cellars.
Fields are the favorite things of fathers-in-law.
Speaking of which, this is also the biggest pain in the hearts of the fathers-in-law.
Why did they become eunuchs, didn't they become poor because they couldn't afford to read?
The root cause of poverty is landlessness.
Therefore, the father-in-law has an unusual love for the field, as long as they have the field, the father-in-law can watch the descendants walk on the path they yearn for the most.
Therefore, Gonggong Wei knew that Chen Zeng would definitely not be able to take out so much money.
However, it is impossible to pay in installments and IOUs, if you do this, he Wei Gonggong will be able to turn his face ruthlessly with his front foot, and Chen Gonggong will be ruthless with his back foot.
At this point, there is nothing more to say.
With a big knife in hand, I have it in the world.
Gripper!
Father-in-law Wei didn't say a word and left the guests, there are many delicious food, drinks and fun on the canal, and there are also good sounds, as long as Gonggong Chen appreciates his face.
Gonggong Chen didn't expect Gonggong Wei to let him go at all, and his face full of smiles froze there.
There was a little embarrassment in the solemn atmosphere, and a little anger in the embarrassment.
In the end, Gonggong Chen's anger did not dare to attack.
People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.
As far as the hundred or so followers he brought, they were far from enough to rescue his father-in-law Chen.
"Grandpa Wei, please!"
"Chen Gong, please!"
The "guest and host" sides talk happily, even if they have their own ghosts, this is also the master's face kung fu.
After getting on the boat, Chen Gonggong received the task order.
Father-in-law Wei asked him to make a list, where there is gold, where there is money, where there is a shop, and who should receive it, all of which are written clearly.
Gonggong Chen understood that this was the way it should be, and if he didn't make up the money, he wouldn't go anywhere.
So, it's very honest, just write it.
After a while, two lists were made.
Father-in-law Wei was watching from the side, he felt that he was like a member of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, and he was supervising Gonggong Chen's declaration of personal family property under the order of the emperor.
In the future, if you can become a big man, you will set up a supervision yamen in the inner court, and you will not observe the external courts, but only count the internal officials.
The wealth of the Shandong bigwig made Wei Gong open his eyes, and a Shandong mine supervisor was like this, not to mention other mine supervisors and tax envoys.
In the world, there are not only these mine supervisors and tax envoys, but also many town guards.
It's just that if you want to count the internal officials, you have to write a lot.
You have to admiral the East Factory.
Otherwise, it would be the prince of Jingguo who fought the tiger in Shanghai.
It's a pity that Gonggong Wei knows that it will be difficult for him to enter the master of ceremonies in his life, because he is not clean.
After Chen Zeng's estimated that the list he opened was enough to make up 500,000 taels of silver, he stopped writing.
Father-in-law Wei hurriedly invited Chen Gong to drink tea and glanced at Xiao Tian, who immediately disembarked with the list and went ashore.
On the shore, there are people at their disposal.
Father-in-law Chen was detained, and his dogs must have to catch people.
Soon, the sound of horses was constant.
From time to time, someone took the list of Pegasus publicly released by Chen Gong to withdraw money.
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The taste of waiting for someone to send money is undoubtedly the most beautiful thing in the world.
Looking at the first batch of boxes of gold and silver, Gonggong Wei's eyes were straight, and people were also stupid.
Sister Xiuzhi is also stupid, she has grown so big, she has never seen so much money.
Luo Luo'er didn't value these things, because she knew that these things were not hers, and if she wanted them, she could only ask for them from the little man Liangchen.
In the past two days, Tong Jiashi has a little regret.
The reason for the regret is that her menstrual affairs are coming again.
After the previous festival for Shulhaqi, Tong Jiashi secretly took the secret recipe of Jianzhou without telling the little man, which was used by shamans to urge women to have children.
However, for some reason, this recipe didn't work on her.
At first, Tong Jiashi only thought that the portion was not enough and the days were not enough, but after a few months, her stomach still did not move at all, which could not help but make her wonder if she could not give birth.
Although the eldest son is already twenty years old, she is only thirty-six herself.
In Jianzhou, a woman of this age can still have children.
Tong Jiashi figured it out, it was impossible for her to meet her children again in this life, and she could only follow this fake eunuch of the Ming Kingdom in this life, so she had to plan for herself.
In particular, the Han woman surnamed Wu always targets her.
Therefore, if she has the flesh and blood of a little man, even if she is old and decrepit, the little man will not ignore her.
Father-in-law Wei didn't know that Jianzhou was familiar and expensive, and he also wanted to inherit the lineage of his old Wei family, which would only be intoxicated by gold and silver treasures.
Fortunately, Shou Ning's death for money was not there, otherwise, a sentence of "You have to support my mother and son" would have knocked out the money that Wei Gonggong had in his hand.
During these days, there was no letter from Shou Ning, so that Gonggong Wei always wondered if this girl was lying to him.
He is also looking forward to it, looking forward to Shou Ning giving birth to the new Ding of his old Wei family.
But just in case, Father-in-law Wei still has to see this little guy with his own eyes in the future, otherwise he will be cheated by Shou Ning and raise a baby for Ran Xing, which is really worse than Lao Wang.
Chen Zeng issued a lot of orders, but the real price of gold and silver shipped over in the end was only more than 200,000 taels. Among them, 60,000 taels of real silver, and the rest are all kinds of silver tickets issued by the silver shop in Shandong.
That's half the story.
Grandpa Wei is not in a hurry, just wait slowly.
Even if he waits for 10,000 taels a day, he is happy.
However, he could not wait for the silver any longer.
Chen Zeng's subordinates successively transported goods.
As a result, the final outcome was that there were dozens of more ships behind Wei Gonggong's fleet.
There are all kinds of goods on the ship, but there are all kinds of things on the market, and they are all on board.
It's all varied, and it's dazzling to look at.
Chen Gonggong and his men did their best.
Within half a month of Chen Zeng's seizure, his subordinates almost emptied Jining City, and not only that, but they also started a forcible buying business on the canal, and even several fleets from the south were called empty, but what they were given was a white slip issued by the Yamen of the Shandong Mine Supervisor.
In this regard, Wei Gonggong turned a blind eye.
As long as he benefits himself, as long as Chen Zeng's people don't kill people, he is happy to see it.
As for how many people Chen Zeng will offend by doing this, it has nothing to do with him.
It's just that then he was worried.
There are a lot of goods, but these things have to be exchanged for money.
Only with money can you buy grain, buy sea boats.
No matter how much you have goods, no one will exchange food or ships for you.
Sell!
Father-in-law Wei patted his head and took out a decision.
A magical scene happened.
The ships passing through the canal were surprised to find that there was a father-in-law with his fleet from the north, which would stop every few dozen miles.
The dock where you stop will be turned into a large bazaar in an instant, and then a group of sergeants will depart from the ship and go about business.
In order to get the cash, Gonggong Wei also used his strength to eat milk and openly connived at the army's business.
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On this day, after setting up another big market not far from Weishan Lake, Sister Xiuzhi went ashore to go shopping.
"Quick, quick!"
Father-in-law Wei was lying on the crack of the door and watching, and as soon as Sister Xiuzhi jumped off the board, he hurriedly pulled Tong Jiashi out of the cabin.
The ship, not moving.
Grandpa Wei didn't have the energy to make the ship shake.
After feeling comfortable, Father-in-law Wei sat alone on the bow of the boat and was very happy to look at the big bazaar on the shore.
And the people rejoiced, and met the great good.
You know, Grandpa Wei is selling good things as cabbage.
In his words, it is also for the benefit of the people along the way, so that they know the immensity of the emperor's grace.
Of course, every time he goes to a place, the situation of selling goods, and the happiness of the people, Father-in-law Wei will enter the palace with a book.
This is called to make the emperor know the happiness of the people.
The emperor knew that the people were happy, and his father-in-law Wei was happy.
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