Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"Haha, Mr. Lin is so polite, he always does this every time he comes..."

After a few words of politeness with the Prime Minister, Lin Wenyuan sat down firmly again.

Glancing out of the corner of his eye, he saw Fan Yongdou walking towards this side. Beside him, there were a few businessmen again, all of whom were dressed richly and luxuriously, with luxurious faces.

Since meeting here, Lin Wenyuan has also dealt with Fan Yongdou several times.However, he was cautious by nature. After these days, he knew that Fan Yongdou was not simple, and his business was not as orderly as it appeared on the surface. Because he was afraid of causing trouble for Zhang Shouren, he held his own and did not dare to get too close to the Fan family.

Reunited here at this time, Lin Wenyuan also felt that there is no encounter in life, seeing this person when he came, and seeing him when he went, such a coincidence, it really feels like a coincidence. [

Looking at Fan Yongdou's identity, Lin Wenyuan felt familiar. He knew that these people were all Shanxi merchants, and they were big merchants. When the last fat man entered the door, he finally remembered.

"Isn't this the young proprietor of the Kang family?"

The Fan family is a big merchant among Shanxi merchants, but compared with the Kang family, it is far behind.

Whether it's wealth status or the long-sleeved and skillful business methods, there is a distance between the two families, and the local power of the Kang family and the close relationship with officials are also higher than the Fan family.

People from the Kang family, in particular, seem to have a natural affinity. Although they are businessmen, they still have the taste of a benevolent gentleman. Lin Wenyuan had a drink with the eldest son of the Kang family, and the other party did not underestimate Lin Wenyuan because of his humble status. The room is very friendly, and there is no airs of a rich businessman.

According to rumors, the Kang family has over a thousand houses in their hometown of Pingyang, and his family accounts for at least half of the food supply in northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi.

These days, the richest people in the southeast are sea merchants, who rely on the sale of raw silk porcelain, and the richest people in the Jianghuai area are salt merchants, who rely on the seawater with particularly rich salt content in the Haizhou area to be used as salt ponds, and the salt is monopolized.In the Jiangnan area, silk, mulberry, cloth, and many other specialties are very expensive, and there are also sea trade, so Jiangnan is the richest.

But the real big businessmen are these Shanxi old men.

These days, controlling the sales of well salt and grain at the same time is all-encompassing in the north, and the money is stuffed in their arms, not out of their hands.

Both the Kang family and the Fan family have licenses to sell salt, plus they sell grain, so their profits are extremely high, and their net worth is in the millions. The wealth of the Kang family is probably in the tens of millions.

It's funny to say that the emperor Chongzhen couldn't even spend 10 taels. The gold flowers and silver that were supplied to the royal family every year were used to support military officials and supplement the treasury.

Later generations compiled Chongzhen, saying that Li Zicheng raised tens of millions of silver from his internal treasury, which is also pure nonsense.Chongzhen is not the King of Fortune, and if the money is moldy and not used, then the IQ is too high. If Chongzhen had money, the Ming Dynasty would not be unable to survive.Li Zicheng's money was obtained by pinching sticks from the relatives of the capital, eunuchs, wealthy businessmen and civil officials, and the total number should indeed be tens of millions.

Later, he fled hastily and left Beijing with thousands of healthy mules and camels. The Qing army pursued him all the way. When he arrived in Shanxi, according to the rumors, he gave the Kang family a lot of gold and silver for his collection, which made the Kang family even richer... Such rumors It is not very credible, and it is not very possible to verify how it is.