"See the Prime Minister..."

In a luxurious house, two men dressed in businessmen stood in front of Wang Guangyang. These two merchants were representatives of Shanxi merchants. The purpose of coming to Yingtian this time was very simple, which was to punish Zhu Lang.

Some people will definitely be surprised, what did Zhu Lang offend the Shanxi merchants? What would this Shanxi merchants go against Zhu Lang like this?

I wonder if you have heard this saying, "Shut down people's wealth and wealth is like killing their parents, and this hatred is irreconcilable... This sentence does not come from any classic, but it has been passed down for thousands of years. Why... it is because it touches the minds of many people.

Blocking other people's wealth is as hateful as killing parents. No matter what method is used to make money, if you block his wealth, he will definitely hate you.

After Zhu Lang exposed the tea-horse trade to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Shanxi merchants were critically hit. You should know how much wealth the tea-horse trade once brought to the Shanxi merchants. Tea is an important strategic material for the Gentiles. Shanxi merchants transported tea to the Gentiles to make a profit, and from the Gentiles to transport horses to the Ming Dynasty, they made another profit.

Two sums of money will feed Shanxi merchants full.

Among the Shanxi merchants, there was a Kang family... It can be said that it was Ma Dad in the Ming Dynasty... Their family started out through the tea and horse trade. They had an endorsement: "There is the old heaven above and the lower one is the millions. It doesn't rain for three years, and there are tens of thousands of stones of grain."

The most representative of the Kang family is the pawn shop. It is said that the pawn shop opened by the Kang family at that time squeezed out other people's houses and sent someone a daily golden Buddha, with a silver silver 1,000 taels. This sacred book lasted for 90 days. The pawn shop owner was curious about why there were so many golden Buddhas. The man replied, "I still have 410 golden Buddhas like this!"

The pawnshop owner was shocked. Finally, the pawnshop owner found out that the golden Buddha was the Kang family, so he quit the business and begged the Kang family to redeem the golden Buddha again. This shows that the asset strength of the Kang family is indeed not to be underestimated.

After Zhu Lang exposes the tea and horse trade to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang nationalizes the tea and horse trade, and then lets Hui merchants do the tea and horse trade, which directly touches the interests of the Shanxi merchants. You said that these Shanxi merchants can not hate Zhu Lang.

This time, two Shanxi merchants came, Kang Heng... the other one was Qiao Yong... The two came to Yingtian with 150,000 taels of silver. The first thing was to get Zhu Lang to prison, and the second thing was to snatch the tea from the Hui merchants. Although the tea-horse trade has been nationalized, it is like the salt industry. As long as Jia takes the tea in his hands, it is still profitable.

The Shanxi merchant group is a famous group that only recognizes money but not people. Zhu Lang doesn’t like Shanxi merchants very much. Why... Because Shanxi merchants have no national justice, in the late Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants were always involved in the Jurchens. In the trade ban on the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia or Jurchens, there was always a ban on the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia or the Jurchens. That is, selling a hoe to the other party is illegal. In addition, many strategic materials such as grain and salt are also under the ban.

However, the Shanxi merchants never cared about these bans. As long as they could make money, they could sell anything to the Jurchens. Either there was a notorious eight great masters of Shanxi merchants, or the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants transported a steady stream of supplies, weapons, and food to the Jurchens. Otherwise, it would be just a backward small tribe, how could they equip more than 100,000 soldiers with heavy armor, weapons, etc.?

And what is more likely is that these Shanxi merchants were still colluding with the Jurchens. Otherwise, why could the Jurchens accurately grasp the opportunity and avoid heavy troops even if they robbed them (five times before 1644)? It is obviously not accidental. Even the Jurchens entered the pass and attacked many strong cities, and there was a phenomenon of actively opening the city gates, so these eight Shanxi merchants may still be internal roles.

I think... mainly based on the eight major Shanxi merchants, they sell food, weapons, intelligence, and sufficient internal support to the Jurchens to help the Jurchens enter the pass and rob, and then sell the money and figures robbed by the Jurchens to the Shanxi merchants for more materials, thus forming a deformed and bloody trade chain. Every piece of copper that Shanxi merchants earn may be buried with an unjust soul.

The two sides worked closely together to dig deep into the corners of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, in order to commend their outstanding contributions, Shunzhi gave the title of "Eight Great Imperial Merchants" and some privileges. In the Qing Dynasty, the top 16 large consortiums in the country were all in Shanxi, and this phenomenon was not accidental.

Zhu Lang hated Shanxi merchants because of this. At this time, in Wang Guangyang's mansion, the Shanxi merchant representative Kang Heng and Qiao Yong sat quietly on a chair waiting for Wang Guangyang. After a while, Wang Guangyang walked in from outside with a smile.

Kang Heng and Qiao Yong quickly stood up from the chair and bowed to their luggage.

"Sit... sit... there is no need to be too polite... they are all old acquaintances..." Wang Guangyang smiled slightly, and then signaled the two to sit down.

"Thank you, Prime Minister..." Kang Heng and Qiao Yong sat on the chair with a smile.

"The two of you came here this time, probably for tea..." Wang Guangyang spoke first.

Tea ingestion is the key to selling tea. This method of tea ingestion was actually used as early as the Song Dynasty. Tea is divided into official tea and Shang tea, among which Shang tea implements the method of induction. Gu Ju

The Central Ministry of Revenue will induce tea to be sold in counties and counties.

When a businessman buys tea, he goes to the official office to report the weight of the pounds sold. He pays money to buy tea from tea owners and sells it out of the country. If he sells tea for 100 kilograms of tea, it is less than one kilogram of tea, which is called a kilogram of tea. Another tea is given, and he sends another tea, and he sends sixty kilograms of tea.

The government stipulates the distance and limit of the tea area according to the distance and distance. According to the regulations, the inspection office will be approved and intercepted, and the angle will be cut off. The tea and the tea must be followed by the tea without any entrainment. The tea must be followed by the tea without any entrainment. The crime is punished according to private tea, and people will be arrested. If the tea garden household sells the tea to the merchant without any instructor, the original price will be paid.

Tea entries have a share, but if you get tea entries, you will get the opportunity to make money, so tea entries are very important, just like salt entries. After Wang Guangyang spoke, Kang Heng, who was on the side, also quickly stood up and said, "Prince, you also know that our Shanxi merchants have always been in the business of tea merchants. Now the imperial court has nationalized tea, and we Shanxi merchants have no objection, but no matter what, we cannot beat all our Shanxi merchants with one stick. We don't give us any tea entries, but we gave them all to those Hui merchants.

Thinking back then, our Shanxi merchants also put a lot of effort into His Majesty, but now they have nothing left?"

With a slight smile, Wang Guangyang touched his beard and said, "Do you know who is behind the Hui merchant?"

"Zhu Lang..." Qiao Yong said slightly.

"You know..." Wang Guangyang said: "Zhu Lang is not an ordinary person. He is the first person under His Majesty's favor. The last time the King of Qin did not get any advantage in his hands.

His grandmother is His Majesty’s godmother, his father is His Majesty’s younger brother, and he is the master of Hushan, Huizhuang. With him here, you can’t even get a tea or two.”

"Then let him smell bad and make His Majesty no longer trust him. After all, our Majesty is a suspicious person." Kang Heng said slightly.

"Haha...it's not easy. Now Zhu Lang doesn't know that he has created something called cement. This cement is one-third of the price of Sanhe soil, but it is stronger than Sanhe soil and has a wider use. Your Majesty no longer knows how happy he is, so he directly plans to use cement to build a road. If this road is successfully built, the entire Yingtian will be replaced with cement road in the future.

Your Majesty has praised Zhu Lang in court three times. With such a holy favor, do you want to fight?"

Wang Guangyang smiled, then picked up the tea cup on the side and took a sip of the tea ceremony: "Did you see this tea? It's Zhu Lang's tea brewing. Now it's popular in the Ming Dynasty. Others may not know it, but the true nature knows that Zhu Lang changed the tea brewing because His Majesty hates tea. Because His Majesty hates tea, Zhu Lang made a tea brewing tea. What is this? This is Jian Zai's heart."

"So what about Jian Zai Dixin?" At this moment, Kang Heng patted his hands directly, and then a group of people walked in with five large boxes, and then opened the lid on the box one by one. Two boxes of gold and three boxes of silver, the thickest one is the same, at least 50,000 taels.

Even the knowledgeable Wang Guangyang was shocked by the scene in front of him. Looking at Wang Guangyang's frightened look, Kang Heng showed a smile: "Prince, the so-called money can make the devil push the mill. Our Shanxi merchants have money, even if Jian is in the heart of the emperor, we will smash him away. Moreover, we have received the news that Li Shanchang has already decided to support Wang Xiang to the next level this time.

As long as you can get rid of Zhu Lang, then I, the Shanxi merchant, will help the Prime Minister as the second person in the world at all costs."

At this time, Wang Guangyang began to have a little intention. In fact, Wang Guangyang was definitely one of the most honest people in the Ming Dynasty. He did not provoke anyone, did not form cliques, did not engage in personal gain, was low-key, and never caused trouble.

In the third year of Hongwu, Li Shanchang fell ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang handed over the government to Yang Xian and Wang Guangyang. However, Yang Xian was domineering and often excluded Wang Guangyang. With Wang Guangyang's position at that time, there was no need to be afraid of Yang Xian, but he knew that he had no backstage, so he did not dare to oppose Yang Xian. At that time, Yang Xian's backstage was Zhu Yuanzhang, so old Wang had been enduring Yang Xian's exclusion.

But Yang Xiancai ignored Wang Guangyang's attitude. What he wanted was to get Wang Guangyang out of the center of power. With Yang Xian's efforts, Wang Guangyang was indeed demoted to another place.

After Yang Xian was executed, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Wang Guangyang back and once again asked him to serve as prime minister. This time, the one who worked with him was replaced by Hu Weiyong. Wang Guangyang could not even deal with Yang Xian, let alone Hu Weiyong supported by Li Shanchang, so he now has to watch Hu Weiyong seize his rights. Do you think Wang Guangyang is willing?

In fact, Wang Guangyang was unwilling to accept that why he was beaten by a junior? It was because Wang Guangyang had no background. But now Wang Guangyang's backstage appeared, and the Shanxi merchants who were rich enough to compete with the country. Who doesn't love money in the Ming Dynasty?
Chapter completed!