Cen Xiaonian continued, "Yangzhou Tongju sentenced Wang Wenju to think about it, the rich people fight for wealth, and they don't violate any laws, it's just that the venue for their fight for wealth is on Dongguan Street, which attracts the people in the city to see the excitement.

The prefect sent him to bring people to maintain order, as long as the onlookers on the street honestly watched the excitement and did not make trouble, since Huang Million and Bai Yinhai asked him to be a judge, he agreed.

Then the officials stopped the onlookers on both sides of the street, vacated a long street, and made a special venue for the yellow and white to fight for wealth.

The way that Huang Million and Bai Yinhai agreed to get rich is also very simple, that is, draw a line at one end of Dongguan Street as the starting point, and then the two of them will start paving the ground from the starting line with their own silver bricks.

Silver bricks end to end, limited to a stick of incense, after the incense burns out, see who will spread the silver bricks on the street farther away, who is considered to win, from now on, the loser will be willing to bow down, admit that the winning party is the richest man in Yangzhou.

This method is simple and intuitive, and the onlookers can see it clearly, Wang Wenju thinks it is feasible, so he prepares an incense burner and puts it at the starting point, inserts a long incense stick and lights it, and the competition for the rich begins.

Huang Million and Bai Yinhai had already pulled dozens of truckloads of silver bricks from their homes, and as soon as the competition began, their servants began to put silver bricks on the street.

For a while, it was not lively, dozens of people took turns to take silver bricks from the silver car and put them over, and soon paved a silver brick road.

The common people naturally screamed again and again, and they were addicted, and the silver brick paving road had not been seen since ancient times.

After a fierce competition, Huang Million and Bai Yinhai actually paved a silver brick path dozens of zhang away, the incense burned out, and Wang Wenju announced the end of the competition.

Then Lord Wang ordered the officials in the official palace to measure the length of the silver bricks laid out by the two families, which reached more than 70 zhang away, and finally the silver bricks of the Huang million family were paved by two inches, so as to achieve the final victory and win the position of the richest man in Yangzhou.

In fact, the common people are not concerned about who is richer between Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, they see a road paved with silver bricks more than 70 zhang long, and almost everyone is stupid.

The subordinates calculated an account, and according to the news reported back by the people who sent them, this silver brick road cost about 2,000 taels of silver to pave one zhang, and both families paved more than 70 zhang, that is, nearly 150,000 taels of silver were placed on the street that day. ”

Yang Huairen smiled and said nothing, 150,000 taels of silver, it sounds like an astronomical amount to others, but in his eyes, let alone hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it is a million taels, that's just it, his family property has already been millions of taels.

A person's wealth sometimes does not mean how much money you have, but after the money is just a number in your eyes, you don't care how much you have at all.

It's just that Cen Xiaonian talked about it for a long time, as if he told an interesting story, it sounded funny, but there was nothing about Zhao Xianqiu in this matter, Cen Xiaonian wasted half a day of talking, what was it for?

Cen Xiaonian saw the confusion on Yang Huairen's face, and then explained, "Huang Million and Baiyinhai are rich, and their subordinates originally only thought that the local wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou had nothing to do, and they deliberately made an appointment to show off their wealth in front of the people.

The common people talk about the yellow and white people fighting for wealth, but they only see the surface of the matter, and naturally they will not understand the reason.

After thinking about it, his subordinates felt that the rumors in the market that the Huang and Bai families had a suspicion may be the news that the two of them deliberately released, and as for their fight for wealth, it was actually just a scene for them to act. ”

"Acting?" Yang Huairen was surprised, "How do you say this?" ”

Cen Xiaonian shook his head, "Lord Wang thinks, Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, a rice merchant and a salt merchant, their family can continue to make money and accumulate wealth, in addition to careful management in business, what else do they need to rely on?" ”

Yang Huairen suddenly realized, "You mean that their business needs to be taken care of by the Caoyun Yamen in order for them to make money with peace of mind?" ”

Cen Xiaonian nodded, "What the prince said is good. Huang Wanjia is a rice merchant, and the grain output in the south of the Yangtze River accounts for more than sixty percent of our Great Song Dynasty.

The imperial court levied grain tax in Jiangnan according to one out of ten, not to mention the landlords in Jiangnan, even ordinary people, the grain at home paid taxes, and the rest was still not finished.

Huang Million sent people to various places to collect grain, and the people's surplus grain was willing to sell it to him for cash and save it.

Then Huang Million then used the Grand Canal to transport the grain collected by his family to the north and disperse it to his own rice shops in various places to sell, which was in this way, and the Huang family accumulated millions of dollars of wealth over the past hundred years.

Baiyinhai is the same, the salt produced in his family's salt farm is still handed over to the transfer department, and the court and the Bai family settle the bill, also through the Caoyun Yamen.

In other words, whether it is Huang Million or Bai Yinhai, in a sense, they are pointing to the Caoyun Yamen to make a fortune, Zhao Xianqiu, as the leader of the Caoyun Yamen, can the two of them not try their best to curry favor?

Zhao Xianqiu is a slippery person, can he allow the two richest local families in Yangzhou to really settle grudges? That's simply impossible.

Therefore, there is no contradiction between Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, they fight for wealth, but the two of them made an appointment to deliberately put on a good show, the purpose is to hide people's eyes. ”

Yang Huairen's mind became clearer and clearer, and he said, "Hearing you say this, I began to understand. Zhao Xianqiu acted cautiously, clearly accepting the filial piety of Huang Million and Bai Yinhai, he was afraid that others would say that he was corrupt and perverted the law if they found out.

So I thought of such a way to attract the attention of the people in the city by fighting for wealth, and then secretly collected money from the yellow and white families? ”

Cen Xiaonian flattered, "The prince is really smart, and his subordinates admire him so much." After the matter of Doufu is over, everyone in Yangzhou City is talking about Doufu, where will anyone pay attention to Zhao Xianqiu's side?

According to the report of the people sent to Yangzhou by his subordinates, after Doufu was finished, the Huang and Bai families put away the silver used by Doufu again and loaded it into a truck and transported it home.

It seemed that there was no problem, but the subordinates noticed a strange thing, when the two families brought the silver out of their homes, they filled the boxes to the brim, and the carts carrying the silver were pressed against the dirt road, and they were all deeply rutted.

But afterwards, when the silver was loaded into the cart and transported home, the cart suddenly seemed to be much lighter, and the ruts pressed out on the way back were noticeably shallower.

After that, the subordinates found a similar car at home and did an experiment, and calculated according to the rutting situation recorded at the time, the total amount of silver transported by Huang Million and Bai Yinhai from home was 300,000 taels, but the amount transported back was less than half, only 150,000 taels! ”

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