Chapter Ninety-Five: Yangzhou's Big Loan

Although the war for several days has caused many rich and noble people to flee Yangzhou, many people can run away from the monk and can't run the temple. The family business is in Yangzhou, and you have to run if you want to. Zhang Xuan sent someone to visit, no matter who it was, he didn't dare to slack off.

For a time, Shanxi dialect was full of government officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt merchants in Shanxi had the most people, and they were all panicked, and they were not the backbone of the family at the moment, but they were just in charge, and they were just the children of the side branches.

Don't dare to come, but don't dare not come, this is the mentality of these salt merchants at this moment.

"Lord Zhang, the commander of King Wu's right army, is here in -----," he shouted with a long tail.

Zhang Xuan walked around from the back hall and sat on the main seat.

"Meet Master Zhang." For a while, the people below bowed down one after another.

Zhang Xuan said: "You are exempt. ”

"When I know that Lord Zhang has worked hard, I specially sent a congratulatory ceremony, and asked my lord to smile." An old man said, and then handed a gift slip to him.

He Hutou took it and sent it to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan looked at it, his eyes suddenly lit up, the gift list was very long, what pearls and gems in front of him, all kinds of antiques, naturally Yangzhou thin horses and the like. However, Zhang Xuan turned directly to the back, but saw that it was written with 100,000 taels of silver.

Don't watch a lot of TV dramas that move hundreds of thousands of taels, millions of taels, and tens of millions of taels, you think that the number of 100,000 taels is very small, but it is actually very big. In many provinces, the annual harvest is only a hundred thousand taels.

Of course, excluding Nanzhili, and Zhejiang.

It should be said that 100,000 taels of silver is already a lot, not to mention that there are so many valuable things in front of it.

The total value of this gift list is about 200,000 taels.

"Is there any Qin Huai Bayan?" Zhang Xuan said with a smile.

"This ---" The people below didn't know how to answer for a while.

Zhang Xuan put the gift list on the table and said: "Everyone, please rest assured, King Wu has ambitions in the world, how can he do such a thing of plundering people's wealth, the Ming court government bribes, so that the jackal is in charge, and the world is not as good as a day, so the new dynasty will not be like the Ming court." ”

Zhang Xuan said righteous words, but the people below listened with fear.

They have seen too many people, they have never seen a person who does not love silver, this generous gift, but also all the salt merchants in Yangzhou City made up, did not dare to give too much, afraid of feeding too much to let the lion on Liukou's side open his mouth, and did not dare to give less, afraid that it was too little, but angered Liukou.

That's the number.

But looking at the current situation, these salt merchants looked at each other, and a thought came to their minds, that is, to give less.

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Xuan didn't wait for them to say anything, and said: "But everyone also has a heart, now that the founding of the country is prosperous, it is difficult to use it everywhere, and there are also some people, since everyone is so patriotic and patriotic, I am not good at brushing off everyone's good intentions, so I want to borrow a little money on behalf of King Wu, I want to come, you will not give King Wu face." ”

Immediately clapped his hands, and immediately someone presented the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Zhang Xuan said: "I naturally don't mean to force it, please write a number, more or less, but everyone should also think about it." ”

Zhang Xuan pressed an accent on the four words "think about it", these people are all clever people, how can they not understand the threat hidden behind Zhang Xuan at this moment.

Looking at the white paper in front of me for a while, as if I had seen a ghost, I lifted the pen, my hand trembled, and the ink dripped on the paper, leaving a lot of ink, but I still didn't dare to put down the pen.

Zhang Xuan drank tea in a good way.

Zhang Xuan was not embarrassed at all about exploiting these salt merchants. After all, when people are starving to death every day in Henan, these salt merchants have so much wealth, which is the original sin in itself. If you want Zhang Xuan's original intention, I can't wait to learn from Li Zicheng, and torture this salt merchant with an ancient brain, thinking that he can make a lot of silver. Even if there were as many as 10 million taels, Zhang Xuan would not be too surprised.

However, Zhang Xuan is still sensible.

Know that there are some things that can't be done.

Don't look at the fact that it is easy for the army to capture Jiangnan, but it is not so easy to make the people of Jiangnan honestly obey the people. Unless he kills people like the Qing court, this Jiangnan gentry is not easy to deal with.

Zhang Xuan didn't know what Luo Rucai thought, but he wanted to leave a step ahead first.

In any case, Zhang Xuan is just borrowing money today, not robbing money.

"My lord, we are not the masters of the family, can we go back and discuss?" Finally, a young man couldn't help but stand up and said.

"Okay, that's right." Zhang Xuan said: "Within three days, give me a reply, and it will not wait for the expiration date." ”

Then they departed as if they had been pardoned.

It's just that after leaving, this matter doesn't mean it's over.

Yangzhou is a big city, although Zhang Xuan has set up cards everywhere, but if someone wants to escape, they can still go, but it is impossible for the team to leave, so all the remaining salt merchants gathered in the salt chamber of commerce to discuss how to deal with this matter.

Everyone talked and said everything, but at last the amount was set, one million taels of silver.

Zhang Xuan said that it was borrowed, but none of these salt merchants dared to say that they were borrowed, anyway, they had served Beijing before, and it was also two or three million taels of silver a year, so they would send one million taels at this moment, and then test Zhang Xuan's appetite at this moment.

If a million taels of silver could

It's good to fill it up, and if you can't say anything else.

"That's right. Qin Huai Bayan, Zhang Thief said Qin Huai Bayan, I remember that Dong Xiaowan was impersonating, right. And take this woman and dedicate it to Zhang Thief, so that she can save a decent step and speak in the future. As soon as these words came out, all the salt merchants nodded their heads.

Regardless of Qin Huai Bayan's reputation in later generations, she was just a prostitute at that time. Even if she marries into the family, she is just a concubine, and it is common to give it away. They didn't feel anything wrong with it.

After this decision was settled, he immediately sent someone to find the impostor.

Mao is a descendant of Genghis Khan, is the Yuan Dynasty Zhennan King Tuhuan descendants, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered, all kinds of people should use Han surnames, so the surname was changed to Mao.

The Mao family is actually not in Yangzhou, but in Taizhou, but Taizhou and Yangzhou are not far away, and the ancestors of the Mao family are also from the Yamen of the salt transport envoys, and then they are very rich, and the relationship with the salt merchants is inextricably linked.

No one can get rid of anyone at all.

At this moment, so many salt merchants spoke together, and the impostor family did not dare to offend so many people because of just one Dong Xiaowan.

Mao Bijiang's father, Mao Qizong, received a letter from a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and cried a lot, he was not for Dong Xiaowan, but for Shi Kefa.

He and Shi Kefa are from the same list of Jinshi, and the relationship between them is also very close, although he has heard the news of Yangzhou before, but there is no exact news of Shi Kefa, today he got the news of Shi Kefa's death, and couldn't help crying.

In fact, he only came back from Xiangyang this year, before he was also in Xiangyang to supervise the grain road, under the command of Yang Sichang, he saw that he couldn't do anything, and found a way to get out, but it was not two months after he got out, and Xiangyang fell.

At this moment, the flames of war burned to his hometown, which made him feel great grief.

"What should I do about the letters?" Mrs. Ma saw that her husband was so sad, and when she took the letter, she saw that she was different from her husband and had no friendship with the Shi family. What she cares about is the next thing, and she wants Mao Bijiang to give up Dong Xiaowan. This matter has dragged her favorite son.

"I'm in chaos, you can deal with this matter yourself." Mao Qizong closed his eyes and said, "The state is like this, but the princes are thinking of currying favor with thieves for a woman. Hum. ”

"In this way, it would be nice to be alive to protect the family business." Mrs. Ma said, "Master, let's have a good rest." I'll leave this to me. ”

Mao Qizong closed his eyes and snorted, even if he agreed.

In fact, what Mrs. Ma will do, Mao Qizong knows. Mrs. Ma was determined not to let the imposter take risks for a woman, and even before this woman, she thought it was good and liked it. It's just that Mao Qizong is not, it's just that he doesn't want to open this mouth, otherwise it will spread out, wouldn't it be that the Mao family has no face.

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