The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 627 Tribute
Compared with the memorial, Jia Ke was not very worried, because he knew that the ministers were not so courageous now.

Now Jia Ke is most worried about money instead, because it is related to his major event of rectifying the world in the future: "You should pay more attention to the matter of money."

Although Li Deshan didn't know what Jia Ke wanted so much money for, but since the master ordered it, he, a slave, naturally had to fully support it.

Soon Jia Ke's order was passed to the hands of the three business leaders.

After receiving Jia Ke's letter, the Shanxi merchants headed by George Yong immediately summoned the top figures among the Shanxi merchants to gather in Qiao's courtyard.

These bigwigs in the business world sat there asking each other, this time George Yong called everyone over, what is the big deal to discuss.

As a result, one or two of them were really well-informed. As soon as they spread what they knew, like these people, they immediately caused an uproar among the outstanding Shanxi merchants.

In the previous imperial courts, it has never been heard that serious businessmen like them were asked for money every year, and Jia Ke set a precedent.

While they were yelling there, George Yong entered the hall from the back house. He was a little displeased with the lively scene below, and patted the guard on the table.

Everyone looked up and saw that George Yong had arrived, so they quickly shut up.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, George Yong sat down on the middle seat, then cupped his hands towards the bottom and said, "It seems that everyone has understood that this time King Yan ordered us to pay 200 million taels of silver every year. What charter do you have?"

The people below were still making noise just now, but now after hearing George Yong's question, no one spoke up. After all, this is not a trivial matter. good.

Seeing that they were silent, George Yong stood up and said, "I know, everyone is reluctant to part with money, but our patrons in the court all eat under Jia Ke's hands, and even they are fed, but they are not given to them." Jia Ke has a little benefit, how can he agree to it."

As soon as Qiao Zhiyong finished speaking, the business leaders below began to discuss. George Yong was right, and there were not a few court officials who had supported him. There is no one tael of silver to pay tribute, and now Jia Ke asks for silver, if they dare not agree, it may be a catastrophe.

Qiao Zhiyong saw that the direction of the wind below had changed, so he said: "I mean, let's just scrape together 200 million taels of silver and give it to him. It can be regarded as spending money to avoid disaster. I don't know what you think."

Although the others were a little reluctant after hearing this, since good fortune is hard to part with, their arms couldn't twist their thighs after all, so they had no choice but to agree.

Qiao Zhiyong was relieved when he agreed, and then said generously: "This time, our Qiao family pays 50 taels of silver every year, which can be considered as a share of everyone's worries, and the rest can't be shared by everyone. How difficult it is."

The merchants below were relieved after hearing this. After all, as the leader of Shanxi Merchants, George Yong got the most money this time.

Seeing these people discussing for a long time, George Yong finally distributed the silver taels that each family had to donate, so he was relieved, and then said: "Everyone will send the silver to my house within three days, and I ordered someone to open the silver taels." Send the ticket to the mansion of King Yan Qiantui, so that King Yan Qiantui can directly pick it up from the ticket number in the capital."

After the Shanxi merchants finished their discussions here, they acted immediately, and within a few days, a silver note of 200 million taels was delivered to Jia Ke's case.

Looking at the banknote in front of him, Jia Ke couldn't help but nodded. This Shanxi merchant is indeed the leader of the three major merchant gangs. He moves quickly and has bright eyes.

Jia Ke took the banknote and said to Li Deshan who was next to him, "You took the banknote to those bank numbers of Shanxi Merchants, bring the money back to me. I'm always worried about putting the money in other people's hands."

After hearing this, Li Deshan quickly took the banknote, and then patted his chest to promise that the silver would be sent to the bank of Yanwang Mansion tonight.

Most of Jia Ke's Yanwang Mansion has been repaired now, and there are still many exquisite buildings that have not been completed. However, such an important position as the Bank has been repaired in advance and has been put into use.

Although Bao Shufang of the Huizhou merchants was much slower than the Shanxi merchants, he finally escorted the silver to the capital and delivered it to Jia Ke.

Seeing that the two big merchant gangs were subdued, Jia Ke focused all her eyes on the salt merchant.

Besides, after Wang Yinggeng got the message from Jia Ke, he jumped up and down anxiously.At first, she thought that the emperor was dead, and the silver taels would not need to be paid as tribute. So some time ago, his master was in urgent need of money, so he sent the silver to the master first. Unexpectedly, Jia Ke thought of this again, which made him How does he scrape together the money.

It is indeed possible to ask him to collect some more silver taels from other salt merchants, but he cannot collect twice for one piece of money. He has already collected the tribute of these salt merchants in the name of the emperor as in previous years. Let's get up, now if he takes him again as the leader of the salt merchants, he will not be able to keep his position as the leader of the salt merchants, and he will be attacked by these salt merchants at that time.

To say that Wang Yinggeng is also rich and powerful, if he is against one or two salt merchants, he is sure to win, but if he is against almost all salt merchants, then he does not have that ability.

Wang Yinggeng couldn't solve it by himself, so he had to go to his master for help.

After receiving Wang Yinggeng's letter, the young master felt his heart beat faster. He had already analyzed from the news that Jia Ke had already doubted Wang Yinggeng. This time, he seemed to want money, but actually It's testing.

That young man was not given for nothing, until now he could only cut off his tail to survive. If he confronted Jia Ke and made Jia Ke angry, I am afraid that some clues would come out and let him find out about himself.

This young man is still not sure about Jia Ke's attitude towards him, so he dare not take any risks.

After the young master thought it over, he immediately asked his housekeeper to take out 500 million pieces of silver from the silver treasury and send them to Wang Yinggeng.

The butler heard this, and the young master ordered him to stand there for a long time without moving.

Seeing the butler standing still, the young master was a little unhappy, "What are you doing standing there? Don't go to work."

After hearing what the young master said, the housekeeper could only say: "Master, we only have more than 600 million taels of silver in our treasury. If we take out another 500 million taels to give to Wang Yinggeng, how can we spend this year?"

After hearing this, the young master also felt annoyed. In the past few years, Qin Keqing's power has developed too fast, and now they can't keep up with the money.

Now that Jia Ke made such a fuss, the situation that could barely be maintained may collapse.

"What else can I do? Temporarily shrink the power, let the people below work hard for a year, and wait until next year."

The steward smiled wryly after hearing this. It is natural for those spies who have been trained since childhood to persist, but for those court ministers who bribed, they will suffer with you. If you don’t give money today, they won’t listen tomorrow Your order is done.

But the matter has come to this point and there is no other way, the old housekeeper reluctantly went to the bank, took out the money and sent it to Wang Yinggeng.

Wang Yinggeng breathed a sigh of relief when he received the greeting. If he didn't settle Jia Ke's affairs this time, he might be missed by Jia Ke.

Wang Yinggeng is now thinking of taking advantage of the sharp rise in salt prices in the north to make a good fortune and make up for this year's shortfall.

But things turned out to be contrary to expectations. This member had just been raised for more than half a month, and suddenly there was a large amount of salt on the market, and the price of these salts was four or five levels lower than that of Wang Yinggeng and the others.This time, Wang Yinggeng's table salt could no longer be sold.

After Wang Yinggeng got the news, he was so angry that all his internal organs were burned. What's the matter?Who is breaking the rules?
In Wang Yinggeng's impression, those who can produce such a large amount of salt are just a few of their big salt merchants.

So Wang Yinggeng sent people to inquire around, and found that the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River did not make any major moves.

Not to mention, these salt merchants were also angry at the sudden appearance of so much table salt in the north.After all, Wang Yinggeng took the lead this time, and they, the salt merchants, could follow behind and drink some soup.

Wang Yinggeng still had some influence in the south of the Yangtze River. Without much effort, he got the news from the salt workers in the salt factory that the salt factory shipped a large amount of table salt directly to the north without going through their salt merchants.

Now it became clear that the salt factory had bypassed their salt merchants and directly participated in the salt trade, which was a bad rule.

So Wang Yinggeng didn't delay, and came to the salt factory aggressively for a few hours to look for Li Yingtai, asking him to give him an explanation.

Li Yingtai didn't care when Wang Yinggeng came to find fault aggressively.He drank a cup of tea slowly, squinted at Wang Yingtai, and said slowly, "Doesn't Mr. Wang really know what's going on?"

Wang Yinggeng said with a livid face, "Please advise me, my lord."

"Hehe, the price of salt in the north has risen so much, Mr. Wang really doesn't know what's going on?"

At this moment, Wang Yinggeng immediately understood that the imperial court was transporting salt to stabilize prices, and it seemed that the imperial court had doubted itself.

Wang Yinggeng did not dare to have any complaints after returning home.After he returned to the mansion, he thought about it and felt that it was better to be honest during this period, otherwise Jia Ke would really miss it, and I am afraid that he would not have a good life.

Therefore, the 500 million taels of silver that Jia Ke asked for was shipped from Jiangnan soon.And half a month later, Jia Ke received 500 million taels of silver from Jiangnan salt merchants.

Jia Ke looked at dozens of boxes placed on the main hall, and the lids of each box were opened. Under the sunlight, these boxes reflected silvery white light.

Li Deshan next to him felt greedy looking at the money, but he didn't dare to show it.

But Jia Ke didn't have any intention of being happy. It seems that because of this, Wang Yinggeng still has some city mansions.

Originally, I wanted to pass this time, take down Wang Yinggeng in one fell swoop, and then take a look at who is behind him, but I didn't expect that he would forcefully scrape together 500 million taels for himself.

But Jia Ke was not discouraged, this year you paid 500 million, next year I will see how you make it up.

Besides, at this time, Zhu Lin also received orders from their young master, asking her to gain Jia Ke's trust no matter what, even if she lost some contacts for this, she would not hesitate to do so.

(End of this chapter)