please make me king

Chapter 871 Persuasion
Cheng Jia, a salt merchant in Lianghuai, got the support of Cheng Dagong, and immediately rushed to Shexian County, Huizhou Prefecture without stopping.

It is more than [-] miles from Yangzhou to Shexian County.

Cheng Jia first took a boat, went up the Yangtze River, and arrived at Taiping Mansion in Nanzhili, which is near Wuhu in later generations, then abandoned the boat and changed horses, and went south to Shexian County.

It took three to five days to finally get to my hometown in She County.Cheng Jia hurriedly prepared invitations and went to visit the old patriarch Cheng Yandao.

When he arrived at the residence of the patriarch Cheng Yandao, he was directing two apprentices to dry herbs in the yard.

Seeing Cheng Jia, he couldn't help shaking the powder on his body, and said with a smile, "Isn't this Cheng Jia? Now that he's developed, why do you think of me, a bad old man?"

"You're making fun of me, aren't you?" Cheng Jia said with a smile, "I've earned a few things, how can it compare to your merits of hanging the pot to help the world and accumulating virtue and doing good deeds?"

"What's more, you are only a few years older than me, how can you be called a 'bad old man'?"

"With your mouth, you can tell the truth!" Cheng Yandao pointed at him and smiled, "Tell me, what's the matter, it's worth your trip?"

"Patriarch, let's talk in the room!" Cheng Jia looked at the apprentice next to him and said in a low voice.

Cheng Yandao saw that he was mysterious, so he nodded and led him to a secluded place. Then he said with a smile: "What do you want to say? Don't tell me, you want to rebel!"

"Here! Although this remark is not right, it is not far away!" Cheng Jia said with a smile.

scare?Cheng Yandao almost sat down on the ground, and couldn't help cursing: "What nonsense are you talking about, do you want to die?"

"Don't worry, patriarch, let me explain to you in detail." Cheng Jia quickly calmed his excitement, and told him the whole thing.

"Are you, are you going to let our entire clan be wiped out?" Cheng Yandao was about to push him with trembling hands.

"Wealth is sought in danger, fame and fortune come in danger!" Cheng Jia said with a smile, "Don't worry, patriarch, I, Cheng Jia, was just a brat in the past, and I didn't have enough to eat twice a day, how could I earn such a family fortune? "

"Now, if the business isn't too big, I can't eat it by myself, so I only think about our clan. Is there any reason to retreat the wealth we have acquired?"

"This..." Cheng Yandao hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Well, I can't make the decision at this time!"

"If you insist on doing this, I'll call over people with high morals and strength in the family, and you can tell them to listen! If you can persuade them, then it's your skill: if they insist on arresting you and reporting to the police, then you will be blamed." Well, how dare you take such a gamble?"

"Why don't you dare? Please ask the patriarch to arrange it as soon as possible!" Cheng Jia replied firmly.

In fact, Cheng Jia was also quite disturbed.There are many merchants, scholars and famous doctors in the Cheng family, if others really want to blame him, then next year today will be his death day!
It's just that the arrow is on the string now, so I have to send it.If he shrinks back a little at this time, then the work of more than a month, plus the cost of tens of thousands of taels of silver, will all be in vain.

Immediately, Cheng Jia returned to the old house to rest, and the patriarch Cheng Yandao hurriedly notified the famous and powerful people one by one.

Many of them are located in Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places, and suddenly they couldn't gather together.

Fortunately, Shexian County is where the Cheng clan is located, and most people gather here, and some wealthy families also have people who are the masters of the family, and they gather together for a while.

When the big guy was due, the seventh uncle and the eighth uncle slowly sat together.

When the patriarch Cheng Yandao said Cheng Jia's words, everyone immediately became excited: "What are you going to do? You can't destroy the Cheng family if you want to harm us!"

Immediately, everyone accused Cheng Jialai.

Cheng Jia resisted the pressure, stood up and said involuntarily: "Seniors and elders, please be calm and don't be impatient. Listen to me and tell me clearly. I don't know if it will work or not?"

"Impossible!" Cheng Jia hadn't finished speaking when someone said, "Cheng Shi'an dares to tolerate such rebellious words! Quickly tie him up and send him to the court!"

Cheng Jia saw that this matter was difficult to handle, so he couldn't help saying angrily: "You are so courageous, since you are afraid of the swords of officers and soldiers, is it possible that you are not afraid of the sword of King Shun?"

The man couldn't help being stunned, and couldn't help explaining: "The thieves are still thousands of miles away, but the officers and soldiers are at the door of the house, how can we do it!"

"Although the officers and soldiers are prosperous, they don't hear private letters. Who knows? Although King Shun is far away, he only needs to send a team of people to pretend to be ordinary people and come quietly. Who can stop him?" Cheng Jia also asked.

All of a sudden, members of the Cheng family were obedient and dared not speak up.

Now King Shun is in Henan, victorious in every battle, even beheading the governor, even the members of the Cheng family in Shexian County south of the Yangtze River have heard of it for a long time.Now that Cheng Jia's threatening words came out, many people immediately didn't dare to be that early bird.

Then Cheng Jia laughed and said, "I am also a member of the Cheng family, how can I harm each other?"

"I waited for the Lianghuai salt merchants, and after several generations of strength, they overwhelmed the Shanxi border merchants and became rich in the world in one fell swoop! Do you think this will be done once and for all?"

"The profit from selling salt is no more than eleven. I heard that Shanxi merchants are now smuggling with the Tartars and Houjin, selling rice and grain, and the profit is dozens of times!"

"Rice and wheat in the interior are worth one tael of silver. Land prices in the outskirts are high, and the price is only two taels! And the Tartars and Jurchens are constantly famines, and rice is measured by dou. At the highest, the price of a dou of rice was eight taels of silver. In recent years, the price of a dou of rice was one tael of silver. The benefits far exceed the salt industry!"

"What?" The eyes of the major salt merchants who were working were reddened, and they couldn't help shouting, "How dare they do this? Could it be that there is no kingly law!"

"Wang Fa? How did everyone here get rich? Don't you have any ideas?" Cheng Jia laughed.

If it weren't for the fact that the Cheng family had a few Jinshi, and they were able to build up relationships with inspectors of salt, transfer envoys, etc., how could they have squeezed out the powerful Shanshan salt merchants and monopolized the Lianghuai salt industry?

What royal law?Wang Fa is the means by which these salt merchants attack dissidents and grab profits.

Sure enough, after hearing Cheng Jia's words, everyone couldn't help but calm down a lot.Even thinking about it, I couldn't help but think: Since Shanshan and Shanxi salt merchants can turn to smuggling, why can't my Lianghuai salt merchants do it?

At this time, someone asked loudly: "I don't know how much profit can be made by smuggling food and grass to the rebels?"

"But for food, if you make a profit of one qian, you will get more than [-] yuan in profit, and if you make a profit of two qian, you will make a profit of more than [-] yuan!" Cheng Jia sneered, "but that's all, that's all."

"Western Henan has been rich in metals such as gold, silver, copper, iron and tin since ancient times, and there are also specialties such as jade, wood, medicinal materials, mountain treasures, and fur. King Shun promised that if we help him, he will entrust us to manage these things!"

"Ah? There is such a thing!" Suddenly, everyone in the Cheng family became a sensation.

Don't look at the small amount of [-] taels or [-] taels. In fact, due to the sharp drop in silver imports at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a "silver shortage", and its actual value was far higher than the equivalent silver taels in the Qing Dynasty.Coupled with the right to exploit metal mines and special products in western Henan, the Cheng family businessmen who were always vying for pennies and pennies immediately boiled over.

(End of this chapter)