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Chapter 416 Wang Xuan: My biggest shortcoming is being rich
Wang Xuan pondered for a moment, then looked up at Li Shantang with a smile and said: "Master Li, do you value the position of Minister of the Ministry of War? This is a hot potato, and if it is not handled properly, it will be infamous."

"It's a hot potato, and because of this, no one will target me. As long as it's not a major problem, it's not difficult to gain a foothold. However, I don't know anything about war, and I need Zai's help." Li Shantang put down Teacup, looking at Wang Xuan with piercing eyes.

"The Minister of the Ministry of War is also good. At least in my opinion, it is more useful than the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households. Those guys in Jiangnan think the Ministry of War is a pit, and no one wants to jump into it, but I think it is a good job!"

The corner of Wang Xuan's mouth twitched, and he sneered twice, "A group of short-sighted guys only have one-third of an acre of land in their eyes."

"It's the Minister of the Ministry of War. If there is anything you need to do on my side, just ask. As for things like fighting, don't worry. I will send two staff officers to Sir, so I can give you some advice. In addition, my side also There will be some policies, and once Li Chengliang dies, the Jurchens will jump up."

Li Shantang also nodded, both of them were surnamed Li, and he also admired Li Chengliang.

Among other things, Li Chengliang is really awesome. He joined the army at the age of 40 and became the deputy commander-in-chief in the first year of Longqing (1567) to assist in the defense of Liaoyang.

From then on, it can be said that he was invincible and invincible. The Mongolian Tatars, Jurchens, barbarians, and Duoyan Sanwei were repeatedly defeated in his hands. In the second year of Wanli (1574), Li Chengliang went to suppress Wang Gao. His younger brother Shuerhaqi was captured and taken in by Li Chengliang as a servant.

Until the seventh year of Wanli, the tribes of the grassland entered the bandits more than a dozen times, and they were defeated every time. In the 11th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang killed Nurhachi's father 'Takeshi' and his grandfather 'Juechang'an' again.

In the 19th year of Wanli (1591), other ethnic groups in Liaodong were completely subdued by Li Chengliang, and because of their excessive power, the civil official group was very afraid, and Wanli was a little worried. Later, they were detained as "extremely expensive and arrogant, extravagant". 'Removed on charges.

In a mere place of bitter cold in Liaodong, no matter how "extremely expensive and arrogant, extravagant", compared with Jiangnan, these civil servants who were born in Jiangnan are still no small feats.

As a result, since Li Chengliang left Liaodong, eight coaches have been changed in ten years, and the border defense of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty has been weakened step by step, providing objective conditions for Nurhachi's rise.

As a result, in the 29th year of Wanli (1601), Liaodong Jurchen became a serious problem, and the civil official group had no choice but to use Li Chengliang again. At this time, Li Chengliang was 76 years old.

Li Chengliang cleared the country and immigrated more than 6 people to the interior to hold back the development of the Jurchens. So far, the Jurchens were contained again and were deposed again in the 36th year of Wanli. However, the Li family still controlled the military power in Liaodong until Li Chengliang died. Only then did Nurhachi feel that there was even an opportunity to rebel.

Nurhachi later recognized Li Chengliang as his godfather. When Li Chengliang was alive, he would kneel and kowtow when meeting him.

"However, it is not realistic for me to fight Nurhachi now, but it is easy to cause them some trouble. It is nothing more than spending money. In this world, there is no problem that money cannot solve. If there is, it is because you have not spent enough. many."

"Oh, how to do it?" Li Shantang became interested as soon as he heard it. After all, his border troubles in the Ming Dynasty were Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liaodong and the southern coast.

Now that there is Wang Xuan in the south, naturally he is not afraid. If Wang Xuan can coerce Nurhachi, then he, Minister of the Ministry of War, can be as stable as Mount Tai.

"Xiao Gui, Cao Sui, is still Li Chengliang's old method, to fortify the wall and clear the country."

"Strengthen the wall and clear the country? How do I do this? If I dare to raise it in the court, I will definitely be attacked by a crowd. Those guys...have nothing to do, and they must give me the hat of losing the ancestral territory." Li Shantang frowned. Said.

"I don't need you. Isn't Yang Hao the current Liaodong Economic Strategy? Spend money and buy people. It happens that I need a lot of labor. How many people can there be at the junction with the Jurchens? Is there [-]?"

Wang Xuan curled his lips in disdain, "Fuck me, even if he has 20 people, no matter men, women, old or young, I will pay you five taels of silver."

"Buy as much as you have. It doesn't matter if the people in Liaodong sell out. Let them go to the Jurchens to grab it. A living person is five taels of silver. You can see whether they are careful or not."

"Without the people farming in Liaodong, there is not enough food there. Marching for hundreds of miles is deserted. Just a logistics transportation can kill them. If you don't want to starve to death, you will only go north to beat Duoyan Sanwei. With the Tatars, naturally, they will not have the energy to fight against each other."

Wang Xuan waved his big hands, with a face like a nouveau riche, the corners of Li Shantang's mouth twitched, "Zai Zhi, they may not be willing to sell it."

"What?" Wang Xuan was taken aback.

"The Liaodong side does not pay taxes to the imperial court. The food grown on more than 100 million mu of land is expropriated by the officers of various departments in Liaodong except for the consumption of the people themselves. These people can make a lot of money on this every year. They can Not necessarily willing to give up."

Wang Xuan frowned slightly, then smiled again: "It's nothing, it doesn't mean that there is no other way to make money besides farming, let them do farming, cattle, horses and sheep, I want everything, a few herdsmen can raise a few Bai, this profit is much higher than farming, and it also saves manpower, and when the Jurchen invades, they will run away without any delay."

"In fact, it's not that there is no profit on the grassland, but that the predecessors have not developed it. It may take too long to breed cattle and horses, but you can raise sheep. I collect wool, and the profit is higher than farming."

"Don't worry, as long as you have money, whether it's the Liaodong Army or the Jurchens, I will always have a way to impress them. Money can turn ghosts around."

Li Shantang nodded, he was convinced of this point, he himself was conquered by Wang Xuan with money.

"Okay, then I will fight for the position of Minister of the Ministry of War."

"Don't worry, how much money do you need to come to me." Wang Xuan waved his hand and said in a bold voice: "Money, we have something to do!"

Four days later, the pier.

Li Shantang had to go to the capital himself. His subordinates couldn't handle this kind of thing, and he didn't feel at ease. Besides, it didn't matter whether he was in Fujian or not. Anyway, everything was up to Wang Xuan. He was just a puppet now. This is why he wants to leave Fujian.

He, Li Shantang, is still young and has ambitions, so he doesn't want to be such a puppet.

A separate area on the pier has been emptied, a large ship has already parked, and it is faster to go to the capital by land and sea. If it is by land, Li Shantang will not even think about the capital in two months.

Wang Xuan and Li Shantang boarded the big boat together, "Come here, I'll show you."

As he said that, Wang Xuan pushed open the door of the cabin, and there were boxes piled up in between. Wang Xuan opened one casually, and immediately, an ingot of ingots appeared in front of the two of them. Look at the ingots in the box, and then look at it. With that pile of boxes, Li Shantang felt a little dizzy.

He knew that Wang Xuan would prepare money for him, but he didn't expect to prepare so much, this, this is 50 taels!
This is 50 taels. Since Zhang Juzheng made a whip law, all kinds of taxes have to be converted into silver for calculation, but the treasury can only collect more than 300 million taels of silver a year, but Wang Xuan only gave him sixty thousand taels of activity funds. one-third of the treasury revenue.

This... could be one-sixth of the annual revenue of the Ming treasury, which made his heart beat violently.

"Hahahaha, Master Li, how about it, is it enough, 50 taels, is it enough to make those elders and ministers bow their heads!" Wang Xuan laughed wildly.

"Enough, enough!" Li Shantang supported the warehouse wall, his legs were a little weak.

"Don't worry, there are more!" Wang Xuan grabbed a small box from the side, opened it and put it in front of Li Shantang, and then continued: "There are twenty catties of pearls here, and you can give them away from the palace. If you are favored, give it to her, don't be reluctant, we have something!"

Li Shantang almost choked to death when he heard the words, how many catties does this pearl cost? ?
Pearls, how many are there!
You come up with only twenty catties, do you think this is white rice! ?

Can you maintain the minimum respect for pearls!
Wang Xuan put down the box with a big laugh, and dragged Li Shantang to another cabin again. When he opened the door, he saw corals of different shapes piled up here. Wang Xuan pointed with his big hand and said, "See, Coral, a thousand catties, see who likes it, give it away if you want, damn, aren’t these courtiers greedy for money, then use money to smash them to death!”

Is rich, love whatever, hahahaha!

Seeing Wang Xuan's insolent appearance, Li Shantang leaned against the barn wall, holding his chest with one hand and panting continuously, at least he is in his fifties, his heartbeat is about to jump out of his throat, so calm down...

But your mother, you can't calm down, 50 silver, twenty catties of pearls, and thousands of catties of coral.

What a concept!
You know, the price of Daming pearls is very high, especially the same size and round pearls that Wang Xuan brought out, not to mention corals.

Coral was a real luxury decoration in ancient times, and even in the Qing Dynasty, it was also used for inlays on top-wearing flower feathers.

Of course, the words of white coral are more common, and Wang Xuan can't come up with red coral, but Wang Xuan can fake it, no, it can't be called fake, what a businessman does, how can it be called fake, it's called a copycat... .

Wang Xuan's cottage weighs a thousand catties of pink coral, which is the second most precious coral after red coral. Even in modern society, it is sold by gram. These corals alone are worth millions of taels of silver.

However, Wang Xuan didn't feel sorry for the high-A goods anyway, and threw it to Li Shantang to pretend to be coercive.

After a long time, Li Shantang was able to catch his breath. He was really surprised. There are so many belongings, the total price is no less than 200 million, and he definitely can't spend it. It's just a minister of the Ministry of War, and there are 30 It's over the top.

After all, a Minister of the Ministry of War can't get much money.

(Push a fire book, it's really fire, "I'm Really Immortal", the first love is as bright as a summer flower, and I can't stop reading this guy's book, it's a disaster.

This article tells the story of how an immortal person should live a correct and active life in modern human society under the guidance of socialist core values.

I hope it can serve as a catalyst for the experience of other immortals, people with supernatural powers, immortals, aliens, and non-human beings participating in the country's stable and harmonious life. )
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