265 Some people want to pay their debts

(Today's chapter is presented, this plot in Yangzhou is coming to an end, this is a big foreshadowing, and it will be used later, so I wrote a little more here, it's a little procrastinating, and the rhythm will speed up later!!) ）

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Li Zixiao was so happy, he stuffed all the Zhuang tickets into his arms, this thing was too convenient to carry.

Li Zixiao guessed that most of these tickets were obtained by the Luo family from those illegal salt dealers who came to share the smuggled salt.

After all, these smugglers can't always carry a large amount of silver with them when they come from afar to buy smuggled salt, and this kind of village ticket is easy to carry and is the most suitable.

controlled the sale of illegal salt in Shao Bozhen, and Luo Youwei, the head of private salt, planted it.

The planted can not be planted again, and the heads are hung directly on the big stone archway in Shao Bo Town, and they are not blind.

After dawn, the news spread quickly like the wind, and soon reached Yangzhou.

No one laughed at the other smugglers in Yangzhou, and they used to fight with Luo Youwei for territory.

But now that Luo Youwei is dead, they can't be happy, they only feel deep fear.

These smugglers are worried about whether they will be next.

Some fierce smugglers have ordered their outlaws to be on guard at all times and strengthen their vigilance.

And some timid guys have even packed up and are ready to run out to avoid the limelight for a while.

There are also some cunning ones, who are ready to run away at any time, and on the other hand, they prepare a generous gift and send people to thousands of homes to inquire about the news.

The smugglers in Yangzhou were shaken, but the government was surprisingly calm.

At the same time, there were thousands of people who were angry.

Wan Hongsheng, the current head of the Wanjia family, when he received a report from his subordinates after dawn, he was drinking soup, and the spoon in his hand fell directly onto the table.

Then, Wan Hongsheng directly threw the dishes and chopsticks, and roared loudly, which frightened the entire Wanfu family and the slaves trembling all morning.

"The husband surnamed Li, the old man and you are incompatible."

Wan Hongsheng's eyes were red, and after he finished yelling, he immediately instructed the family to convene a closed-door meeting with several masters of the Wan family.

"Big brother, this surnamed Li is too presumptuous, how can he do this? He, a military general from outside the world, dared to privately lead soldiers and horses to make trouble in the Yangzhou territory, didn't the prefect surnamed Lin care? ”

Wan Hongshan, the third master of the Wan family, said angrily.

Several masters of the Wan family have all gathered together at this time, and this morning they have also heard the news of Luojiazhuang, and while they are angry, they also feel the coming storm.

"Hmph, it is estimated that the one surnamed Li and the one surnamed Lin have already breathed out of one nostril, and they are not all instructed by King De, this is King De warning us.

Recently, the old man also sent news in the capital, and the situation is not optimistic, and I am afraid that this time the matter will not be so easy to settle.

King De may have received the support of the saint, and it is clear that he wants to be ruthless in the sale of illicit salt, and the real target of King De is actually our Wanjia.

King De had secretly sent someone to talk to the old man, but their appetite was too great to negotiate.

Otherwise, the channels that we have worked so hard to build for two generations of thousands of families will not all fall into the hands of King De.

Now that King De has suddenly come to such a hand, this is forcing us to make a decision! On the other side, another Wan family elder said.

"So what are we going to do now?"

"What else can I do, send someone to contact King De, and talk again, this time our Wan family can only retreat, but this surnamed Li, he waits for the old man."

Wan Hongsheng said with a gloomy face at this time, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

On the other hand, after dawn, Li Zixiao also left the camp outside Yangzhou City and returned to Yangzhou Guanfu.

And Chen Hu didn't take long to come to him, Chen Hu was holding a teacup at this time, gently blowing hot tea, smiling, and in a very good mood.

"Master Li, congratulations, congratulations, a great start." Chen Hu saw Li Zixiao coming over, stood up and arched his hand.

"Haha, Steward Chen, you're polite."

"This time, I came here to congratulate Lord Li on the success of his first operation, and I still came to fulfill our promise at the beginning, which is the reward for my lord's action at this time."

Chen Hu said, took out a silver ticket from his arms, handed it to Li Zixiao, Li Zixiao took it, glanced at it, and put it in his sleeve.

"In addition, I hope that the adults will act a few more times and add a few more fires. By the way, this time the adults should have seized a lot of illicit salt from Luojiazhuang.

According to our agreement, we will buy it back. ”

"No problem, I have my own arrangements for the next action. As for the 50,000 catties of illicit salt seized this time, you can send someone to receive it at any time. ”

Li Zixiao smiled harmlessly and said.

However, Chen Hu, who was opposite, stiffened his face after hearing Li Zixiao's words.

According to the information he received, Luojiazhuang transported nearly 100,000 catties of illicit salt this time.

But now Li Zixiao only gave them 50,000 catties, and the remaining 50,000 catties, he didn't have to think about it to know that he was privately detained by Li Zixiao.

Chen Hu didn't like Li Zixiao's hand, but at this time, they still needed to rely on Li Zixiao, so they simply didn't say anything.

In the following days, Li Zixiao received several more information from Chen Hu and discovered several dens of smugglers in villages and towns around Yangzhou.

Then, Li Zixiao led people to make a decisive move and pulled it out ruthlessly, without a single failure.

A week later, there was no smuggled salt dealer in the entire Yangzhou area, and he was either pulled out by Li Zixiao or ran away.

On this day, Chen Hu came to find Li Zixiao again, and brought a few fat pigs to the 'Tiger Camp' camp in person.

"Master Li, from today onwards, the transaction between us will also end, and there are quite a few smugglers you have eliminated these days.

These silver tickets are not a tribute, please accept them, these fat pigs are also brought by me to reward the soldiers. ”

Chen Hu walked up to Li Zixiao, stuffed a stack of silver tickets into his hand, and said in a low voice.

After Li Zixiao listened to Chen Hu's words, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said faintly for a long time: "Okay." ”

He knew that most of the Wan families had compromised with King De, so King De would not continue to crack down on those smugglers, after all, those smugglers would have to work for him in the future.

As for the inside story, Li Zixiao guessed it a few days ago by discussing it with the Guan family's father and son.

In this regard, Li Zixiao didn't care, originally the transaction between him and King De was just a relationship of mutual use, and each took what he needed.

These days, by smashing out the five or six smuggling salt dealers, he has seized a total of more than 150,000 taels of property, which is enough for 100,000 taels of cash and village bills alone.

The rest of the valuables such as gold and silver jewelry, grain cloth, antique calligraphy and paintings, all of which were handed over to the Guan family for disposal and exchanged for silver.

Moreover, Li Zixiao has been staying in Yangzhou for half a month, which has far exceeded his scheduled plan, and it is time to leave Yangzhou and go to Jinling.

Li Zixiao then also rewarded the officers and soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp', and the white dragon soldiers did not have a monthly salary of three taels, which was basically the same as the monthly salary of the imperial court.

The White Dragon Army's military salary, although it is not very much, was given to them by Li Zixiao, not by the imperial court, so as to ensure that there will be no deductions in the middle.

The other officers and men are thankful that they can get half a tael of silver after a month, and some officers and soldiers do not bring a single silver salary for half a year.

At this time, with Li Zixiao's previous continuous campaigns, the White Dragon Army's military merit reward system has been very perfect.

The statistics of the merits of the white dragon sergeants after the war will be registered by a special clerk, and Li Zixiao will give the soldiers due rewards according to their military merits after the war.

This operation was a complete victory and a huge harvest, so Li Zixiao was not stingy.

Almost all the 800 soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp' were rewarded, and the least of them was two or three taels of silver, plus two or three buckets of rice, and the most could even get more than a dozen taels of silver.

Even, in view of the fact that Li Zixiao had privately withheld nearly 100,000 catties of private salt in his hands at this time, he also gave each soldier five or six catties of salt, which can be regarded as a small benefit.

This time, their operation is not very dangerous, although the results are rich, but the rewards cannot be too high.

After all, the military merit system formulated by Li Zixiao is to reward the number of enemies killed on the battlefield, or for making special contributions to saving the battle situation.

Like before, when Li Zixiao defeated more than 10,000 officers and soldiers in Fengyang Mansion, the Axis Battalion stood up at a critical moment and blocked the sneak attack officers and soldiers who suddenly came out from behind.

saved the victory of that battle, even if they did not kill the most enemies, but after the war, they were still personally identified by Li Zixiao that the Axis Battalion was the greatest hero of that battle.

After Li Zixiao's battle, every officer and soldier who was alive in the Baggage Battalion was given a reward of at least seven or eight taels, which caught up with their three-month salary, and some could even get more than 20 taels.

As for the soldiers who died in battle, their families will receive double pensions.

It is precisely because Li Zixiao established a military merit system in the White Dragon Army that allowed the White Dragon Army to maintain a strong combat power and truly achieve a style of daring, belligerent and capable of fighting.

In fact, this silver sounds like a lot, but in fact, it is not much, with the real prosperity of the Ming Dynasty at this time, with a soldier's monthly salary of three or four taels.

At this time, Da Ming didn't say that raising tens of millions of troops, it was no problem to raise four or five million.

It's just that the biggest flaw of the Ming Dynasty system is that those squires and wealthy merchants don't pay taxes.

Relying only on the taxes paid by those poor peasants, how much taxes can be collected, at this time, the area south of the Daming River is really rich.

You must know that at this time, the prototype of capitalism had already appeared in Jiangnan, and even the earliest prototype of the factory had appeared.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still quite wealthy, but it was a pity that the landlords, squires, and wealthy businessmen were rich, but the country was poor.

Poor Chongzhen couldn't even afford to pay the salaries of his own army.

When the emperor came to his part, Li Zixiao felt sad for Chongzhen.

Of course, the reward can't just be put on money, these are just Li Zixiao's subordinates to ensure that their families have a living guarantee.

Compared with the reward of money, Li Zixiao attaches more importance to the reward of soldier honor.

Li Zixiao imitated the army of later generations, and also formulated a three-level military merit system in the White Dragon Army, such as first-class merit, second-class merit, and third-class merit.

After the war, they all held a conference to award medals to these meritorious soldiers and cultivate the honor of the White Dragon soldiers.

Even, Li Zixiao stipulated that these meritorious soldiers and soldiers, as long as they wear these military merit medals in the future, they can see the fifth-rank officials and below without kneeling, and only salute the military.

Similarly, Li Zixiao has also formulated a lot of systems for improving the status of soldiers and cultivating soldiers' honor.

However, it is a pity that at this time, Li Zixiao can only implement these systems on his own territory and in the White Dragon Army.

The soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp' were embarrassed to take these rewards, they felt that these actions were too easy, but they took so many rewards, which was not in line with the rules.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao found the Guan family father and son, and in addition to asking him to help sell the seized jewelry and cloth, he also left the 100,000 catties of private salt that he had privately withheld to them.

After all, after a year, they will be able to obtain the right to sell salt in Baoying, and these private salts will not only make five times the profit, after all, these are all robbed by Li Zixiao, and no money has been spent.

In the end, it had to be sold at the price of official salt, of course, more than five times the profit.

Li Zixiao handed over these businesses to the Guan family, and he also took care of the Guan family, and he also allowed the Guan family to benefit from them.

In this way, the Guan family can be regarded as tied to his chariot, and Li Zixiao will still have a lot of places to use them in the future.

Li Zixiao told the Guan family father and son that he would leave Yangzhou and go to Jinling in the near future.

Before leaving, he needed to exchange all the Zhuang tickets and silver tickets in his hand for silver, and sent Li Tianba to take half of the 'Tiger Battalion' soldiers and bring them back to Yongcheng's lair.

Li Zixiao found Guan Daowen and handed him the banker tickets.

"This is 73,000 taels of bank tickets, all of which were issued by several money banks in Yangzhou, and I want to trouble my father-in-law to send someone to redeem the silver.

Then, I will let my men bring them back to Yongcheng, and as for the batch of jewels and cloths that I have entrusted to you to handle with the Guanjia firm.

When you have finished disposing of it, the silver you have obtained will be deposited in your family's bank, and I will purchase goods from your merchant house in the future, and I will pay you with the silver first, which will be regarded as an advance to you. ”

"Ziqian has a heart."

After Guan Daowen listened to Li Zixiao's words, he felt grateful in his heart, and the property that Li Zixiao handed over to them to deal with was worth a lot of money.

Now he has to store it in the Guan family's money bank first, and for the Guan family, he has a lot of working capital and can do a lot of things.

Subsequently, Guan Daowen carefully checked the stack of tickets handed to him by Li Zixiao.

Even if Guan Daowen has seen the world, but at this time, when he saw so many Zhuang tickets at one time, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, these Zhuang tickets are all true.

It was seventy-three thousand taels, which was more than a quarter of his possessions.

"All of this is what you have seized from those smugglers these days?"

Guan Daowen couldn't help but ask, and Li Zixiao nodded with a smile.

Guan Daowen wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he didn't say much.

"Okay, I'll personally take someone to these money houses and exchange the money as soon as possible."

"I'll let the stone send a few guards to keep you safe."

Guan Daowen set off quickly, and overall it was very smooth.

Many money banks are very creditworthy, and they pay immediately at sight, and there is no delay.

However, when Guan Daowen withdrew money from the three big money banks in Yangzhou, 'Yulong Qianzhuang', 'Wande Qianzhuang', and 'Fengtai Qianzhuang', there was an accident.

Among the banker tickets in Li Zixiao's hand, the most of them were 'Wande Qianzhuang', which was 15,000 taels, and there were fifteen cash tickets of 1,000 taels.

There are also 10,000 taels of 'Fengtai Qianzhuang' and 5,000 taels of 'Yulon Qianzhuang', and these three Qianzhuang alone are enough for 30,000 taels, accounting for almost half of Li Zixiao's silver tickets.

Among these three money banks, 'Wande Money Bank' and 'Fengtai Money Bank' are all money banks opened by Wanjia, while 'Yulon Money Bank' is a money bank opened by Yujia.

But when Guan Daowen took the ticket to cash, the shopkeepers of the three money banks refused to pay it.

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