Chapter 501: Take the horse to the bird
Father-in-law Wei was not a scoundrel, but justifiably demanded this compensation.
Home country country, home in front, country in the back.
What is home, children and grandchildren are home.
If there is no descendant to form a family, how can he come to the country?
Therefore, Gonggong Wei became a eunuch, theoretically cutting off the roots of his descendants, making the most important link in the world missing the family.
This matter, at the very small, is to ruin the father-in-law of Wei personally, and at the largest, it is likely to damage the Ming Dynasty and destroy the foundation of the society.
Without a small family, there is no big country!
I don't know that the descendants of his father-in-law Wei do not have generals, governors, scholars, craftsmen, masters, and prostitutes.
There is no trivial matter in the family and country, and Father-in-law Wei only asks for monetary compensation for practical reasons, which is already reasonable, lawful, and conscience.
Otherwise, if you smash your horse factory and rob you to the bottom, who can help him?
Sue it, you can, all roads lead to the Beijing Division, you just go to sue.
If he wins, he loses.
In the world, there is always a reason.
Without cause, there must be no effect.
Father-in-law Wei came to your horse factory, it is not without cause and effect.
Director Yang was weak, and he was tightly wrapped in the quilt, and it was also cool underneath.
He realized that he was about to face a sky-high bill.
A good leg costs him 5,000 taels, and how much does a lost bird cost?
I can't even think about it!
Looking at the hall, there are all thieves and eunuchs' thugs and accomplices, and none of them are on the side, so I feel that I really have no relatives in the world, and the world is responsible for me.
Repay... Can't afford it.
Director Yang had no other thoughts, his mind was blank, and his body began to shake.
Seeing this, Gonggong Wei couldn't bear it, he was sincere, and he was afraid that Director Yang would be delirious because of too much fear and would not be able to exercise his normal civil ability, so he shouted directly in his ear and gave a hammer price - 10,000 taels.
Not negotiable.
10,000 taels is a lot, it's scary, but the sky is pitiful, 10,000 taels can buy a live bird?
An incomplete man, how big is the wound in his heart, and how can it really be healed by 10,000 taels!
Well, others may not be able to, but Grandpa Wei is really okay.
He likes to use money to solve things.
Provided, of course, that he willingly.
The compensation of 10,000 taels must be far beyond the psychological bottom line of Director Yang, to be honest, although he has been the factory director for 17 years and has made a lot of money, but in terms of the cash flowing in his hands, I am afraid that his family will not add up to more than 10,000 taels. Most of the money he made was told to take it back to his hometown to buy a house and land.
A leg cost him five thousand, and a bird another ten thousand, adding up to fifteen thousand taels, and if he paid according to this amount, he would probably have to sell thousands of acres of land.
Man dies for money, and birds die for food.
Director Yang simply gave up the struggle, and wanted to sit on the ground like a dead fish.
However, he was wrapped in a quilt, and his legs couldn't bend down, so he had to look at the little thief eunuch who didn't want to force his face with painful and stiff eyes.
The attitude is also written on the face - if you don't want money, you want to die.
You horse thief really want Lao Tzu to pay for it, it's a big deal to cut the bird to you!
He can really be so ruthless, he's fifty-two this year anyway, and I'm afraid that thing won't last long.
Although he was reluctant to admit that he was blackmailing Director Yang, Gonggong Wei obviously knew what it was like to be blackmailed.
The two unlucky bastards Hu Guang and Sha Qiandao in front of Zuo'an Gate ruined the dreams of his five copper sisters.
Therefore, seeing Director Yang's expression of whatever you want, he felt that he seemed to have done something too much.
"We know you can't take out 50,000 taels, but it doesn't matter, as long as..."
Just after the New Year's Eve of his bloody lesson, Gonggong Wei couldn't bear to lose the hope of Director Yang's life, thought twice, and pointed out a feasible path for him to pay compensation.
"What? My father-in-law wants my horse? Director Yang was stunned.
"Hmm. Horse. Gonggong Wei nodded, "How about converting it according to the market price?" ”
Director Yang looked hesitant, but instead of worrying about how to give the horses to the thief, he was thinking about how to fold the horses into the 10,000 taels that the thief demanded.
The price of horses is actually not high, and there was a case last year.
It is said that Datong Desheng Fort and Xuanfu Zhangjiakou three mutual markets, a total of 4,089 horses from the Mongols, each horse reported to the imperial court at an average price of seven taels of silver, but in fact only gave the Mongols less than seven taels of trading price.
After that, the officials in charge of the mutual market sold 900 of the horses of slightly inferior quality to the merchants, and each horse was quoted for 93 yuan, making a total profit of nearly 2,000 taels. And the merchant divided the horses to various places and sold them at double the price, making a profit of nearly ten thousand taels. This matter was reported to the imperial court by the Datong Patrol, and the officials of Datong and Xuanfu, who presided over the mutual market, were dismissed for this reason.
During the Jiajing period before Wanli and Longqing, the price of horses reached an average of 15 taels per horse, which indirectly reflected the border defense capability of the Ming Dynasty at that time.
In a word, when the Ming army was strong, the price of horses obtained by Yi Shi was low. On the other hand, when the Mongols are strong, the price of horses is high. In the later Chongzhen period, in order to form the so-called Guanning Iron Cavalry, the price of horses purchased by the Ming Dynasty from the Mongols was almost three times that of the Wanli period. That's it, the Mongols are not happy to sell.
In the mainland, the price of horses is even higher.
As the person in charge of the horse factory, Director Yang understands that the price of horses today is about 20 taels per horse.
If the horses were to be given to the thieves and eunuchs at this price, then the horse factory would have to slaughter 500 horses at a time.
This, he can't bear.
Because, the war horses in the Suning Horse Factory together with the old, weak, sick and disabled are only more than 900.
Fortunately, Gonggong Wei also considered that he could not empty the horse factory, so he gave Director Yang another choice, that is, he could also hire the surplus factory workers of the horse factory to him according to the standard of five horses and one groom.
A groom is calculated according to two years of working hours, not only can Father-in-law Wei give the groom a salary of 30 taels of silver a year, but also the price of 50 taels per person can be used to offset the compensation.
It's a lot easier that way.
In order to send the plague god away as soon as possible, Director Yang reluctantly agreed to the conditions of compensation.
Some of the horse factories were idlers, such as guards, and those horse guards had evolved into generations of horse workers in the early years. The officers and the officials in charge became landlords, and they instinctively earned money by oppressing the horsemen, and drank the blood of the soldiers.
For this reason, many children of horse workers secretly work outside to live, otherwise they will not be able to maintain the life of the family at all.
One person can pay fifty taels of compensation, and he can also give these people an extra way to live, and Director Yang feels that this is also a great good government before he leaves office.
Now, he had no other choice.
If he doesn't agree, he can expect the consequences.
In the end, Gonggong Wei got his wish and received 4,000 taels of silver, 300 war horses, and 60 grooms from Director Yang.
Yinzi, Gonggong Wei is not too concerned, he likes war horses and grooms, especially the latter.
Before leaving, Father-in-law Wei, who was in a good mood, took Director Yang for a walk in the racecourse, leaving a good story under the afterglow of the sunset.