Chapter 579 578 Yan's family fortune

Author: Guests in Parallel Space

Chapter 579 578 Yan's family fortune

Gao Gong said there, but Wei Guangde was silently chanting, "Pullidu's family, Portugal."

"Reading through the classics, there is no such so-called Pulidu family. The ministry intends to directly ask the Guangdong town inspector to investigate the matter strictly. If it is entrusted by Folang Ji people, it will be rejected; if there is a Han temptation, it will be ruled by law."

After Gao Gong told their Ministry of Rites' final decision, everyone in the room nodded, thinking that this would be safe to deal with.

Of course, Gao Gong was exposed as late.

It is related to the national sports, so of course, we cannot delay the main business because of the banquet.

"Shandai, what were you just chanting?"

When Wei Guangde heard what Gao Gong said before, he didn't feel anything when he first heard about the "Pullidu family". However, he later mentioned the rich mirror and suspected that these so-called Pulidu family members were the treacherous men of Folang Ji. Naturally, there was some doubt.

There are many differences in Chinese transliteration.

For example, Altan Khan, which is often mentioned in the officialdom of the capital, is often used by the generals of the nine borders, especially those who escape from the grassland.

This Pulidu family may have been translated into Portugal later.

At least Wei Guangde still feels a bit like it when he reads it.

Moreover, Wei Guangde also discovered a problem in the Ming Dynasty. Although he did not talk about the superior country of the Celestial Kingdom all day long like the Qing Dynasty, from the perspective of the king to ministers, to the people below, this is what he thought from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, because of this arrogance, they were unable to raise any interest in the surrounding foreign countries.

Although they can face the skills of the barbarians, they do not pay attention to them. They should think that they are too far away from the Ming Dynasty and don’t know why they are barren.

Until now, the Ming Dynasty officials still turn Westerners into barbarians or Folangji people.

From this, Wei Guangde thought about whether he should teach King Yu another lesson and tell him about the importance of intelligence collection in his relationship with foreign countries, not only for several familiar surrounding countries, but also for the barbarians, it seemed necessary to classify them.

It seems that he himself does not know much about Europe during this period. Spain and Portugal were the first countries to start sailing. He knows that it seemed that it was the Netherlands and finally Britain.

As for other European countries, it seems that they are just making soy sauce.

As for Tsarist Russia in the north, it seems that it will only come over more than a hundred years later.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was gone, and it was Kang Mazi of the Qing Dynasty.

Let’s not talk about the winner or lose. Anyway, it recognizes Tsarist Russia’s control over the northern land, completely locks down the northern border of China’s territory and cannot expand northward.

At this moment, Zhang Juzheng's soft call made Wei Guangde come back to his senses.

After thinking for a while, Wei Guangde replied in a low voice: "I just think this country called Pu Lidu's family will be a citizen of Folang Jiren? You should know that Gao Dadi also said that some of them were suspected to appear in the Fujing."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde paused and said: "I remember when he was talking to Yu Dayou, he mentioned that the Folang Ji people we call did not seem to belong to the same country, because someone had seen two armed sea ships driven by Folang Ji people fighting at sea, and the flags on both sides were different.

Of course, it is not ruled out that it is similar to those bandits in our country.

However, I always feel that we still have too little knowledge of the Florence people and too poor about what they call the country."

"That's how it is."

Zhang Juzheng did not express his opinion, just nodded slightly.

"Brother Uncle knows the firearms used by Folang Jimen. Now our Ming Dynasty has also begun to build such weapons. It can be seen that their domestic strength cannot be underestimated.

You will never be wrong if you know more.”

Wei Guangde felt that it was still necessary to attract the attention of this future imperial prime minister and let him enjoy a little bit of snack on the affairs of the barbarians.

"What you said is that although the Flang machine is poor, they can sail to our Ming Dynasty by boat, which shows that their national strength will not be weak."

Although Zhang Juzheng didn't care much about Folang Jiren, Wei Guangde's words still attracted his attention.

The Zheng He fleet, which was originally formed in the Ming Dynasty, was consumed by the imperial court for this.

Because of the excessive consumption, after the national strength of the Ming Dynasty weakened, the power of the Ming Dynasty began to shrink continuously, not only abandoning Annan, but also the old port.

You should know that even Wei Guangde, who had poor historical knowledge, knew that the location of the old port was later Sumatra Island in Southeast Asia, next to the Golden Waterway Malacca Strait.

It can be seen that Zheng He has a good vision. If he set up this chess piece early, he could block the Strait of Malacca and cut off the ocean passages between the East and the West.

It’s just a pity that the enemy attacked the old port when the Ming Dynasty was at its weakest, and the Ming Dynasty at that time was unable to recover this area.

Of course, if the Ming Dynasty had enough maritime power in the hands of Wei Guangde in the future, it would be easy to find a reason to start a war with the sign of regaining the Xuanwei Department of the Old Port.

However, as far as the current financial dilemma of the Ming Dynasty was concerned, Wei Guangde did not think that the Ming Dynasty was able to send troops.

"The merchants are seeking profits. These Folang Ji people came to my Ming Dynasty. Their purpose was nothing but wealth and business with me. They brought silver to buy our silk, ceramics, and tea.

This shows that this transaction is very profitable, and they will have huge profits when they sell these things back.

However, our Ming Dynasty restricted our merchants from going to sea and gave up such huge profits.

If my Ming Massacre could properly utilize the monopoly rights and take away half of this profit, it would be a very huge number, enough to solve the current dilemma of our dynasty."

Wei Guangde whispered again.

"It's difficult. If the profit is not high, the Florians will not come again. Merchants are pursuing profits, not to mention that there will be a lot of opposition."

Zhang Juzheng felt that Wei Guangde wanted to participate in this kind of business through a maritime market.

Although Zhang Juzheng did not say it very bluntly, he believed that Wei Guangde understood.

If you want to share this part of the profit, it is nothing more than a large increase in price based on the domestic commodity prices and then sell it to Folang Jiren.

Of course Zhang Juzheng understood the skills of this businessman who bought low and sold high, and it was too simple.

But there are actually many problems here. The Ming Dynasty did not allow sea trade. In principle, maritime trade was traded between countries and would not trade with foreign merchants.

Second, according to what Wei Guangde said, participating in the sharing of profits is to compete with the people for profit.

Why can't this part of the price increase be given to the people so that they can live a richer life?

In order to solve the financial difficulties, I took the money away, which is by no means an education by a saint.

Wei Guangde looked up at the surroundings, knowing that the occasion was wrong today, and it was not convenient to discuss the matter in depth with Zhang Juzheng, so he whispered: "Brother Uncle, let's find time to talk about this after this matter, and I will go and toast a glass of wine for Lord Gao."

"Go together."

Who knew that when Zhang Juzheng heard Wei Guangde say this, he immediately said.

Gao Gong was promoted to the Minister of Rites, which finally realized his dream. After two months, the court in the Ming Dynasty was still stable. However, as news continued to be heard back by the Yan family in Jiangnan, the attention of all the officials in the court was attracted by this time.

Everyone actually knows that the Yan family is very rich, but after the investigation, the wealth still shocked the officials.

However, by this time, people who were aware of it found it difficult to interfere in it, and the cake seemed to have been divided up.

On August 13, 1944, the inspector Jiangxi Censor Cheng Shoujie submitted a memorial to the capital that Yan Shifan had made a fortune in Jiangxi.

Before, the numbers circulated in the government and the country were finally confirmed by Cheng Guanqi's memorial.

According to Cheng Shou’s rhythm, the Yan family’s wealth has now been counted at 32,960 taels of gold and 2,027,090 taels of silver.

There are more than 6,600 houses, fifty-seven houses, and more than 27,300 acres of fields, mountains and ponds.

There are 857 jade cups, plates, and other items, more than 20 jade belts, more than 120 gold necks, tortoiseshell, and other items, 33 gold necks, pearls, jade belts, belts, and rings, more than 2,80 gold necks, pots, plates, cups, and chopsticks, five dragon egg pots, sixty-three pearls, and other items, and other pearls and gems, and other foreign objects, which is invincible.

In addition, it is subject to more than 188,000 taels of silver due to loans from others.

With such a huge amount of wealth, the first thing that responded was naturally the Ministry of Revenue. Gao Yao and other officials of the Ministry of Revenue wrote memorials overnight and sent them to the palace, so that they naturally wanted to get a piece of the pie.

In recent years, the Ministry of Revenue has accumulated too large deficits. Although the two million taels of entry into the Ministry cannot solve all the holes, it finally makes people see some hope.

In the 43rd year of Jiajing, after a year of careful calculation, the Ministry of Revenue account book had at least 50,000 taels of silver remaining, and finally changed the deficit of more than 100,000 taels of silver every year in previous years.

If this continues, the debts accumulated by the imperial court in the past few years will still have the opportunity to fill them out.

Of course, it is not only the Ministry of Revenue that is interested in this money. Almost all the yamen in the court have more or less holes, that is, the money approved by the court has been unable to be obtained from the Ministry of Revenue.

Now that the court has become rich, all the ministries naturally want to take away their own share first.

For a time, the cabinet and Yongshou Palace were flooded with memorials from various departments for silver.

In the Yu Prince Yu's mansion, Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng had just entered the house when Li Fang stopped him in front of the door.

He pulled the two of them aside and whispered: "Mr. Zhang, Lord Wei, Your Highness has a bad temper today. I want you to come back just to invite the two masters in to persuade him."

"Why did Your Highness get angry?"

Wei Guangde asked in confusion.

"It's not the kind of rhythm that keeps the qualities."

Li Fang said in a low voice.

“Why?”

Zhang Juzheng was not sure if he was confiscating Yan's property, shouldn't King Yu be happy? Why did he still get angry?

"The number is too huge, beyond His Highness's imagination. He has been saying that Yan Shifan is just beheading him, it's too cheap."

Li Fang explained in a low voice, "Anger hurts the liver. Your Highness wants to continue like this, but it will be bad for his health."

Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other, but they didn't expect that King Yu was actually angry about this.

"We understand. My uncle and I will discuss how to persuade Your Highness first."

After knowing the details, Wei Guangde did not immediately enter the hall with Zhang Juzheng to persuade him. He heard the angry scolding of King Yu from time to time and turned a deaf ear to him.

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The land and real estate are sold for silver, and the department will be subject to the jurisdiction of the district."

Finally, Emperor Jiajing said as if he had made up his mind.

Huang Jin looked up at the emperor, knowing that His Majesty has not been completely mad, and at least he also knows to give local officials some sweetness so that they can do their jobs with great care.

It was just that the big one took it away, and the fields and real estate could not satisfy their appetite.
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