Chapter 51 Yi Jiu Clan! The house copying must also be rolled up!
Tian Qi hurriedly walked out of the hall to meet Zhang Gui.
"Your Majesty!"
Seeing Tianqi walking towards him with a smile, Zhang Gui also called out.
Tian Qi asked directly: "Did you really steal so much money?"
Zhang Gui nodded, and replied: "Your Majesty, you can go and see for yourself. I have already asked people to carry the money needed to become an official to Xiyuan."
Tianqi really came to the place where the silver was kept. When the servants opened the boxes full of silver ingots to reveal the shining big silver ingots, they were already happy from ear to ear.
He set up the West Factory, and asked Zhang Gui to supervise the West Factory and be responsible for cracking down on profiteers. He just wanted Zhang Gui to have the power to act cheaply without being bullied by civil servants.
But Tianqi didn't expect that this expensive West Factory would be enough for the court to eat for three years once it opened.
Suddenly, Tianqi realized that there was a serious collusion with the enemy and traitorous behavior, so he suddenly asked seriously: "How do these Shanxi merchants have so many properties?"
"Your Majesty does not know that every year after Jiannu plunders a large amount of gold and silver from Liaodong, he will buy food from Shanxi merchants. For so many years, Shanxi merchants have already become rich as an enemy. It is only because Shanxi merchants have deep roots that they have been in Zhangjiakou Fort. The local bureaucrats colluded, and many people in the imperial court covered them, so no one knew about it."
Zhang Gui took out the confession of Fan Yongdou and others: "Your Majesty, this is the confession of profiteers. It confesses in detail how they colluded with powerful bureaucrats, colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country. Please read it."
Tian Qi took it and looked at it seriously.
Zhang Gui continued: "In addition to more than 10 million taels of silver, which will be escorted back to the capital in a mule cart, there are more than 6 million stones of grain, more than 500,000 catties of iron materials, and more than 200,000 catties of gunpowder. Next, Your Majesty Whether it is to raise troops and distribute food, or train troops to build ordnance, it is sufficient."
"My imperial court only collects more than four million stones of grain every year, but these Shanxi merchants send six million stones a year to Jiannu! Dare to say, the imperial court preferentially exempts the officials and gentry from all over the world, so they take all the grain and taxes to nourish Enemy? There are big food households in this world, everyone should be killed!"
Tianqi gritted his teeth and said, he wished to order the killing of all the officials and gentry in the world.
Because Apocalypse knows very well that it is impossible for the common people to sell grain to Shanxi merchants, because the common people don’t have much grain to eat themselves, and the only ones who can sell surplus grain to Jiannu can only be officials and gentry, and there may be people from all over the world. princes.
"Preach the decree! The profiteers found in Xichang belong to the nine tribes of barbarians!"
Apocalypse issued a strict decree at this time.
"Follow the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
At this time, Zhang Gui suggested: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the nine tribes of Yi are not enough. What these profiteers have committed is not only a simple crime of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, but also intends to collude with the establishment of slaves, seize the Ming Dynasty, and enslave the Han people in the world." Their crime is more serious than treason, treason is treason against His Majesty, but they not only betrayed His Majesty, but also the whole Han family! Their crime is not so much treason, but traitor crime. In terms of execution, traitor The crime should be more severe than the crime of treason!"
Although Tianqi is the emperor, he is also a Han Chinese, and he can accept the national thought of the difference between Hua and Barbarians. Now that Zhang Gui is so obedient, he quite agrees:
"You are right. Judging from their confessions, they want to help the Tatars take over our Han family. This is not only against my Zhu family, but also against the whole of China!"
"The former Taizu once said: expel the Tartars, restore China, legislate Chen Gang, and relieve the people, so there is a great cause for the future of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the restoration of our Han family!"
"These profiteers now intend to let the Han family's rivers and mountains be occupied by the Tartars. It is really worse than the rebels! The rebels may be caused by official pressure, but the betrayal of China is undoubtedly broken!"
Zhang Gui was very pleased to see that Tianqi had accepted the "national thought" revealed in his words, and felt that this might make Tianqi gradually realize that the social crisis he was facing was not a crisis of one family, but a crisis of the entire Han Dynasty. family crisis, and gradually raised ZTE Daming to the height of ZTE's entire Han family Huaxia.
"Your Majesty is holy! The old minister believes that in order to warn the world's merchants, to let people know how serious the fate of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country is, and to make the world's Han people begin to have the awareness that Ming's national interests are the most important, these people who betray the world should be let These people will live forever!"
"How can you leave a bad reputation for thousands of years?"
Tian Qi suddenly asked.
"Those like Qin Hui who betrayed the whole world are still cast into white iron kneeling statues and cast aside by thousands of people. They should also be treated like this."
"In addition, cast their kneeling urinals so that they will be polluted by the filth of the world! The imperial court may also build public toilets in various market towns, cities and other crowded places, and use their kneeling urinals as public toilets. This will not only prevent plagues from spreading everywhere, but also let the people of the world be warned at all times, knowing that no matter how bad it is, it can't be so bad as to betray China Yanhuang!"
Zhang Gui replied.
"allow!"
After Tianqi said, he told Wei Zhongxian: "Just follow what Uncle Guo said, and add a new crime in the penal regulations in the future, called the crime of traitor, and those who commit the crime of traitor will be dealt with according to what Uncle Guo said. In addition, the principal offender shall not receive a lighter punishment than the treasonous offender."
"yes!"
Wei Zhongxian asked himself that he was also a ruthless person, but now he had to admit that this uncle of the country was even more ruthless, and abruptly pulled out a "crime of traitor", exaggerating the seriousness of the crimes committed by these people to more than just betraying the family. The surname of Jiangshan.
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help thinking: "In this way, those literati who have failed in their careers and official careers in our Ming Dynasty and want to go to the Tartars to seek new achievements will have to think more about the consequences of turning to barbarians as ministers."
"There must be many people's financial resources behind these profiteers. Your copy of Xichang can be regarded as cutting off their financial resources."
Tianqi suddenly spoke with some concern for Zhang Gui.
Tianqi nodded and looked at Wei Zhongxian: "Have you heard what Uncle Guo said? He said that you care about the safety of the world, and you are a loyal and patriotic Han Chinese."
Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Slaves dare not lie to the emperor, the uncle of the country understands the slaves, and the servants are indeed what the uncle said, and they are not in harmony with the traitors who betrayed His Majesty and the Han people in the world! The slaves can't wait to eat their meat and drink their meat. blood!"
"Even you, Wei Zhongxian, care about the world so much, many people are not as good as you."
Tianqi said another sentence.
Wei Zhongxian: "..."
"Is the servant girl's morality poor?"
"Although you have blocked their way of making money, they still dare not rebel against the public, but they still have to hurry up and train their troops. Only when the court has enough soldiers and horses can you Xichang continue to handle such big cases and make the bigger one behind your back. More traitors will be captured."
Tian Qi said and looked at the boxes of money again: "Fortunately, you have copied so much money, and the court has enough money for training soldiers."
As he spoke, Tianqi asked Zhang Gui: "How much money do you need for training in the early stage?"
Zhang Gui replied: "It will take about two million taels to reorganize and expand the Beijing camp, build various ordnance and build barracks."
"I'll give you three million taels! If it's not enough, ask Wei Zhongxian for it!"
Tianqi waved his hand and said.
Then, Tian Qi said: "Your West Factory will also have to expand the official school in the future. On the basis of the original share of the West Factory, add another fund. Is two million taels enough?"
Zhang Gui replied: "Thank you Your Majesty, this should be enough!"
Tianqi nodded: "Another one million taels will be added as a reward for you in Xichang, and I will copy more profiteers from you in the future!"
"Follow the order!"
Zhang Gui replied.
Tian Qi laughed, and said in his heart: "It's fun to spend money like this, and it feels much more comfortable than giving money to the outside court before."
Wei Zhongxian watched with eager eyes.
After all, he only copied more than 12 million taels from the East Factory after all his hard work, while the first pen of the West Factory copied more than 18 million taels of cash, not counting other grains and iron materials. The rewards are also more than Dongchang.
This made Wei Zhongxian have to admit that, compared with Uncle Youguo, the west factory, he will be under great pressure to search his home after the east factory.
Moreover, he also knew that his emperor's distribution of money to Xichang meant that he wanted to reuse Xichang.
For this reason, Wei Zhongxian decided to roll it up. After delivering the decree, he did not return to the mansion. He called Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Yang Huan and other people from the Fusi of Dongchang Town to a meeting overnight: "Xichang copied Shanxi merchants You must know about the 18 million taels of silver entering the government, don't tell our family, you are not jealous."
As he spoke, Wei Zhongxian took the initiative to ask: "Tell me, are your eyes hot?"
"Naturally hot-eyed, mother, Xichang has kept five million taels for himself according to the rules, and now the emperor has added another four million taels for Xichang's own use. How much is this score? The key point is that there are not many people in Xichang now."
Tian Ergeng clicked his tongue as he spoke.
Wei Zhongxian saw this and said: "Why, do you want to change the family? Our family can help you, now go to recognize Uncle Guo as a godfather!"
Tian Ergeng, who had already recognized Wei Zhongxian as his godfather, hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Godfather, calm down! My son doesn't mean that, but my son just thinks that he can get so much money with a small number of people in Xichang. We have so many people in Fusi in Dongchang Town , and most of them are veterans of copying houses, they should not lose face in copying houses, as long as they copy with peace of mind, they will definitely copy more than Xichang."
"That's a decent word."
Wei Zhongxian said.
"Godfather, my son also thinks that if we really want to get serious in the East Factory, we may not lose to him in the West Factory. What are a few Shanxi merchants? Can we compare with the corrupt officials in the world?"
"Let's just say that after the levy of Liao's salaries in the past few years, how many of those idiots in the Ministry of War didn't wantonly indulge in ink? I'm afraid they will all be rich! As long as you copy with peace of mind, you may not be able to surpass Xichang. My son has already got the news. Mao Wenlong, General Mao of the island, is very dissatisfied with the fact that the Ministry of War only pays him 10% of the military salary, and intends to report it to the public."
Xu Xianchun followed suit.
"Then let him expose it! Tell him! Our family supports him and must help him clean up this gang of corrupt officials!"
Wei Zhongxian ordered accordingly.
"yes!"
Xu Xianchun agreed.
Wei Zhongxian then said earnestly and earnestly: "You must serve snacks, don't let the emperor think that after the west factory is established, our east factory is dispensable, understand?"
"clear!"
Thank you for the reward of 1500 starting coins on the Soul of Sword platform. Thank you for the reward of 100 starting coins from Xingchen Yuchen
(end of this chapter)