What? Got rich? Am you afraid that the earl has lost his mind and gone crazy? Everyone looked at the uncle who had issued an order in a serious and orderly manner just now, and suddenly Le's teacup was unstable, and they were all startled.

Well, Liu Hongjian is also a little embarrassed, it's okay to talk to these warriors about the experience of killing the enemy, if you talk about politics, economy, and development, it's better to play the piano to the cow.

The Ming Dynasty naturally wants to pay you military salaries and distribute grain and grass, which is a matter of course, no one can deny it, but very few people think about it, why is the court always so poor?

Isn't there a tax in the imperial court? Why can't they even afford their little salary? Still a year in arrears?

Everyone, including Emperor Chongzhen, didn't know that the Ming Dynasty had never been short of silver, even if the sea ban policy had been down for nearly two hundred years.

For the whole of Europe and West Asia, the Ming Dynasty has three treasures, porcelain, silk and tea, which is a luxury and a hard currency.

Whether it was the proboscis monster to buy, or the Ming people led by the Zheng group, who were also merchants and thieves, sent merchant ships to the west to sell, they were all more than ten times the income, it can be said that before the Opium War, silver was flowing into China in an uproar.

This is true even during the sea ban, if you are not of my race, you don't want to take away my Ming's silver!

There are more and more silver in the Ming Dynasty, why is the treasury of the Ming Dynasty getting more and more empty, and in the end, even the rats are not waiting to be seen?

If Emperor Chongzhen knew the reason, he was afraid that he would slap his thigh again and shout: 'The ministers misunderstood me!' ’。

As we all know, from the most basic point of view of economics, money can only play its role when it is circulated, and it has a dire use in the home, and money, which is silver, is piled up at home and not spent, it is a pile of metal.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the silver was hidden in the corrupt officials and gentry, especially the latter, which led to the failure of the silver to circulate, and the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty and its extinction.

I am a big country in China, and there are countless virtues that I have inherited, and liking to hide money is 'one of them'.

You go to a friend to borrow money, I'm sorry, I really don't, you see that there is only one living expenses left in the card, alas, it's really poor and didn't lie to you.

Then, as long as they see that the purchase of the house is restricted and the price is reduced, people will immediately get a set of 100,200,000 yuan and wait for the price to increase and collect the money, without blinking their eyes.

After all, wealth is not exposed, at this point, the humerus of the Chongzhen Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty was also very good, the clothes that went out were often patched, and the petite was often the most humble two-lift Jiao, for fear that others would not know that they were poor and did not know that they had a clean breeze on their sleeves.

But what about the real situation? Let's just say that Li Jiantai, the right attendant of the former ministry, Chongzhen asked him to donate silver to Liaodong to pay the army, and this guy donated three hundred taels in a patched official uniform with a buttoned rope, and he couldn't wait to take out his trouser pocket to let people know how poor he was.

However, this guy has more than 50 concubines, and you have no money? Who's talking to you bad old man on the ondol!

Ahem~ Off topic!

Liu Hong coughed twice to hide his embarrassment and excitement in his heart.

"Guess what fortune those eight profiteers have?"

Before going to Datong, Liu Hong gradually sent troops with Wei Penghong to surround the mansions of the eight major profiteers, and now Shanxi has recovered, and it is time to gather wool.

It turns out that the adults are fighting the idea of those old miscellaneous hairs! Wei Penghong rubbed his hands and realized a little.

"Uncle, I heard that those eight people are very rich in their families, I'm afraid they have to have millions of taels!" Wei Penghong stretched out a finger and widened his eyes in surprise at his bold guess.

Wei Penghong was a martial artist, although he was promoted to the general army because of his meritorious service in defending the city, but in addition to knowing that the generals had to be loyal to the imperial court, he didn't know anything about other miscellaneous matters and didn't care.

He only knew that he could receive a reward of about seventy-two taels or one million taels of silver issued by the imperial court every month? Don't dare to think, don't dare to think, isn't it serious? Wei Penghong thought about it again and was annoyed by his sloppiness.

"Hahaha, Lord Wei, you also underestimate them too much, do you know how much silver our uncle copied the homes of those corrupt officials in Beijing?"

Zu Qiuqing laughed and said, although from the perspective of military businessmen, he is only a hundred households, but he has the title of baron, and in terms of rank, he is only slightly lower than the general soldier.

"How much?" Wei Penghong asked.

Zu Qiuqing didn't say anything, and stretched out three fingers

"Three million taels?" Wei Penghong was shocked!

"Little Ancestor, Lord Wei is guarding the border passes, and he doesn't know much about the affairs of the court, don't make fun of it!" Chang Yu was a little older, and he couldn't bear Wei Penghong being slammed, so he turned his head to Wei Penghong after speaking.

"Lord Wei, it's 30 million taels."

Wei Penghong's eyes widened: ......

"I see, these eight profiteers must have at least 10 million taels!" Long Live Mountain, 1000 households, 100 households, official punishment mountain clapper road.

Liu Hong gradually smiled and said nothing.

"Hmph, old criminal, dare you bet that the eight old miscellaneous Mao families will have more than 20 million taels!" Yue Chengze, who escaped from Liaodong with Xingshan, secretly glanced at Liu Hongjian and guessed.

Liu Hongjian still smiled and did not speak.

"It can't be that these eight people's family assets are more than so many big officials in Beijing! That doesn't make sense, sir. ”

Li Baida is illiterate, and he feels that he is a person with developed limbs, and he is afraid of making a fool of himself in meetings, so he never speaks.

But this time he really couldn't help it, with his understanding, how could these eight white-bearded old men be comparable to being officials.

Liu Hongjian still smiled and said nothing, he was afraid that he would scare these people when he said it, when he was a librarian in his previous life, he had read relevant materials, and the top ten major consortia in the Qing Dynasty were all in Shanxi.

According to statistics, just adding up the family property of wealthy families in several counties in Shanxi, the amount exceeded 100 million taels of silver, of course, that was in the Qing Dynasty, but even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the wealth of these birdmen was immeasurable.

After all, they have been making war fortunes for decades, and they have made fortunes on both sides, buying low and selling grain to the Ming people, and smuggling pig iron, grain, and all other things that nomads lack from the Mongolian people and the Jurchens.

Of course, the nomads had little money, so they had to graze their cattle and sheep in exchange for what the profiteers needed.

But they lack too many things, there is no way, they don't know anything except grazing and killing, from weapons and blades to iron pots and cloths, and they often encounter natural disasters, what if the cattle and sheep themselves are not enough to eat?

Rob the Mingren! The food was snatched and eaten directly, but the jade, calligraphy and paintings, bracelets and other things that were robbed were neat, and they couldn't be eaten.

Give it to the eight profiteers, the eight profiteers have a way to help them sell to the corrupt officials of the Ming people, take a kickback or something, and then hand over the silver to the tartars, who want to buy grain to eat, and the silver will naturally return to the merchants.

So many twists and turns, layers of exploitation, and finally all into the merchants' pockets, plus the identity of the Ming Dynasty merchants, go south and north to be well-informed, and occasionally sell to the Tartars for information or something, all silver!

As for how much, Liu Hongjian also has a question mark in his heart.

"It's dawn, if you want to go with Ben Bo to raid the house, please raise your hand!"