Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

Chapter 707 The bottom line of the court

It is said that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, who is in charge of this Ming Dynasty?

As the head of the family, would he tolerate someone "threatening" his status?
Daydream.

When they do business, they don't want competitors that threaten them to appear, let alone the court and the royal family behind the court.

Mr. Sun and others admire Qian Laifu very much. No wonder he can become a "big businessman in the world" and do everything well without attracting the attention of the imperial court. Neither will touch.

A group of businessmen headed by Qian Laifu found an "excuse", saying that they would not "loan money" to the family, but they could help "stock up salt".

In fact, they greeted the imperial court, "stocking up salt" on one side, and secretly returning the bags to the official salt shop on the other side, so that they can continue to "sell".

The money for buying salt is also not needed, it should be "donated" to the court.

After Li Wenchong knew about it, he couldn't laugh or cry.

Qian Laifu was originally his man, so it was normal for him to face the court.

It's just that he didn't expect that before he knew it, he had already attracted so many people, and even set up a "world chamber of commerce".

Anyone who joined the "World Chamber of Commerce" did not listen to him.

I dare not say that all businessmen in the world have joined the "Tianxia Chamber of Commerce", but Gu Qingling holds the "Jinling Investment Club" in his hand, and Qian Laifu holds the "Tianxia Chamber of Commerce" in his hand, which is almost equivalent to holding the "Tianxia Chamber of Commerce" in his hand. , two-thirds of the richest merchant group in that wave.

Two-thirds of the wealthy businessmen were pinched into the hands of the imperial court, so what tricks could the remaining one-third play?

No matter how strong the background of those aristocratic families is, they are all kinds of assets and real estate, and things like "cash flow" seem a little insufficiently prepared.

King Cheng has saved so much snow salt, and he has already emptied the money in the wallets of several aristocratic families after only going out for one-fifth. They want to buy it again, either by selling the real estate and other assets of the family, or It is to find other businessmen to cooperate, borrow money or mobilize them to "hoard salt" with themselves.

In addition to the fact that the salt hoarded by the aristocratic family is really hoarded, the salt bought by other families has returned to the court, and the common people also hoarded a few catties of salt at home. Even if there is no salt in the market for a short period of time, for The daily life of ordinary people is not affected much, so...

The ones who were most affected became the aristocratic family.

All the money in their hands was spent to store salt, but the salt shop had no money to come in, and the running water became stagnant water, and the problem arose.

There are so many people in a family, not to mention other things, just three meals a day need a lot of silver taels, not to mention other daily expenses.

So, not long after, Mrs. Qi came to find Mrs. Qi crying poor.

"Old lady, there is no money in the account at home."

"How come there is no money?" Mrs. Qi was surprised.

"I really have no money. If the old lady doesn't believe it, my daughter-in-law will tell you..." Mrs. Qi directly took the account book and told Mrs. Qi.

It turned out that there were tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Qi family's public account, but because the Qi family wanted to stockpile salt, except for a small amount of silver left for expenses, most of it was taken away.

There seemed to be no problem in a short period of time, but after a month passed, all the major shops of the Qi family had financial problems, and the money could not come in, but the account was "spending money like water", and it was not a shortfall all of a sudden.

Mrs. Qi picked up the account book and couldn't believe it at all: "How is it possible?! The Qi family has other shops besides the salt shop. Don't those shops have money?"

"The Qi family has other shops, but those shops also require deposits and various expenses... Anyway, the shops are managed by men, and the daughter-in-law doesn't know what's going on. The money just came in, and it was transferred within a few days Going out, my daughter-in-law has only received a few hundred taels of silver so far. But what can I do with a few hundred taels of silver? There are hundreds of people in the Qi family, and there is not enough for one meal." Mrs. Qi said cryptically, she turned herself over dowry.

No way, how much is her dowry, there are so many people in the Qi family, and the men spend a lot of money, she can't afford it.

Just as he was talking, Second Madam Qi ran in crying and complained to Madam Qi, saying that Madam Qi had withheld her daily expenses.

"It's just that my sister-in-law is here, so I want to ask, what does sister-in-law mean? I usually cook bird's nest well, why has it become an old product for pigs today?"

"Didn't I say that the family is in short supply recently, so we need to save some money."

As soon as Mrs. Qi finished speaking, Second Mrs. Qi called out: "I'm afraid it was stolen by you, right? You think I don't know. A few days ago, the big maid in your courtyard ransacked your storeroom."

"I..." Mrs. Qi gritted her teeth angrily. She asked the maidservant to search the warehouse. It was to take stock of the money and use her dowry to cover the daily expenses of the Qi family.

How can Second Madam Qi believe it? Before she became a monk, she was also the daughter of a wealthy family. If Madam Qi hadn't married the eldest son, how could she be overwhelmed everywhere?
She was aggrieved and insisted on Mrs. Qi giving an explanation.

This side has not been resolved, and the wives, aunts, young masters, and young ladies from other houses also appeared one after another, expressing that there was a problem with their daily expenses recently.

Mrs. Qi was wronged, why did she want to deduct it, it was clear that all the money in the account was taken away by the men, she had no money to feed everyone, even the dowry was not enough, what could she do?
Mrs. Qi couldn't hold back the noise, so she went straight to Master Qi.

Master Qi has a bad temper, and he made everyone cry, and asked the men in each house to take care of the women and children in each house, and then drove them away.

Mrs. Qi realized that it didn't take a second, and quickly asked Master Qi what happened, why all the money in the family was spent?
She knew about hoarding salt, but how could other shops besides the salt shop be affected? !

Master Qi clutched his chest and gritted his teeth with hatred: "What else could be going on? The court didn't do it."

Originally, he also thought that although their aristocratic family had a lot of resources in their hands, even if the salt shop was closed, it would have little effect on their daily life.But who knows, they spent so much money in it, the salt in the official salt shop is not running low, the more the people buy, the more they feel at ease, and the rumors released are useless at all-the people hold three or two catties of salt in their hands, and see The official salt shop is full of salt, so there is no trouble at all.

They have no choice but to continue to spend money on salt.

More and more money was spent, and when the money in the account was used up, they began to mortgage other stores to borrow money to store salt, or borrow money from other families and exchange resources...

various means.

They have also united with many families and businessmen of all sizes to stockpile salt, and they are doing it almost everywhere, but the official salt shop is like a bottomless pit, with a steady stream of salt coming out.

Ninety-nine steps ahead, it is impossible for Master Qi to stop, and it is impossible for those aristocratic families to stop.

They have no choice but to invest more and more costs, and the battle of hoarding salt is getting deeper and deeper.

In the end, it became what it is today.

Now he can neither advance nor retreat.

"flutter……"

Old man Qi didn't hold back a mouthful of blood, and vomited it out.

"master?!"

Mrs. Qi screamed in fright.

Suddenly, the Qi family fell into chaos.

(End of this chapter)