Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 353 Wu Piao collapses
This time, even people like Zhao Can, who are as stupid as Zhao Can, sensed the great crisis, and the East Palace took the lead in sending people to the streets to seal down other sugar shops for no reason.The King of Wu, Zhao Ling, discussed with several elders until the late afternoon (after three o'clock), and the edict prohibiting the sale of icing sugar was passed down to the Ministry of Education.

However, due to various inexplicable reasons, the edict did not complete the process on the same day.

It was not until noon on the 29th that the edict, which had completed the process, was issued to the governor of Jinling.Reports of selling icing sugar from various places also began to arrive in Jinling.

Moreover, within half a day on the 29th, the Chen family and their allies once again sold 20 catties of icing sugar across the country.

Up to now, the court of Southern Wu knows who sells the icing and who buys it.The Chen family and several other families are selling it, while all the families are taking over the icing.

Xueyi's position is in jeopardy.

Without hesitation, Zhang Zhe took the final blow to Zhao's economic pillar.

Wu tickets were issued by the Wu royal family, and its credit basis is the royal family's exclusive snow industry.

At noon on the 29th, millions of Wu notes were dumped into major banks at a terrifying exchange rate.

One thousand guan Wu tickets are exchanged for one hundred guan Zheng tickets, one thousand guan Wu tickets are exchanged for 150 guan Cai tickets, one thousand guan Wu tickets are exchanged for 130 five guan Lu tickets.

Just when everyone was feeling unbelievable, people who still had Zheng tickets, Cai tickets, Lu tickets, Wei tickets, and Chen tickets in their hands took up the million coins one after another. Do you send money?How could it be possible with an exchange rate of one to six to one to ten.

When many people were still regretting their slow hands, another 300 million Wu votes were thrown out.The lowest exchange rate required by the person who throws Wu tickets is Wu tickets for exchange tickets, 120 Wu tickets for 85 tickets, and the highest exchange rate is Zheng tickets, which are relatively scarce now, and [-] Wu tickets for [-] Zheng tickets.

This time, the number of people rushing to fight for the exchange was reduced by half, and they all felt that this situation was wrong.

When more than 300 million of the 170 million Wu tickets were eaten, another 300 million was thrown out, and 95 Wu tickets were exchanged for [-] tickets.

Many people were silent, the ticket with the lowest reputation in the whole world is actually one to ten for Wu tickets?

Various money shops and aristocratic families hesitated to eat another 200 million. When there were more than 200 million Wu tickets left in the market and no one was redeeming them, a batch of 500 million Wu tickets entered the market again and jumped off the building. The ticket is exchanged for [-] Guan Zheng tickets!

The entire ticket number and money shop in Jinling was dumbfounded. Everyone could guess whose handwriting it was. They never imagined that Darunfa had gathered so many Wu tickets.Along with the end of the 500 million Wu tickets, there is another news that Zhaoyang County provides unlimited icing to all countries in the world!The wholesale price is only one catty!
This made the royal family of Wu, who was still hoping to find the supplier and production place of Chen's icing sugar, as if they had encountered a sap.

Agents of the Chen family and his allies began to join the ranks of selling Wu tickets, and they could exchange them for Wu tickets with anything.The shamelessness of the aristocratic families was fully displayed at this moment. They joined the ranks of selling Wu tickets one after another, but fooled the people all over the city to take over.

All kinds of false news spread all over the streets.The passionate people of Jinling poured into the ticket offices of various companies one after another. Even Darrunfa's 760 million Wu tickets were exchanged by half of the people.

And Zhang Zhe has been paying attention to Zhao's reaction.

The Zhao family also responded quickly, which was in line with the unique way of the royal family and feudal regime.

More than 20 selling agents of the Chen family and its allies were arrested in the bank in Jinling. More than 760 million Wu notes of Darunfa were ordered by the officials not to be sold. In the end, the royal family forcibly exchanged the Wu notes with other countries' official notes. It was set at 85 to 85, that is, one hundred official votes from other countries can only be exchanged for [-] Wu votes.

After hearing the three major moves of the Wu royal family, Zhang Zhe finally smiled.

The court of Wu State, who did not understand the factors of finance and exchange rate, personally destroyed the last support point of Wu Piao.

The credit of the imperial court and the responsibility of the royal family instantly disappeared in the eyes of all the families holding Wu tickets, especially after the royal family forcibly locked the exchange rate and claimed an unlimited supply of low-priced icing sugar in Zhaoyang County, all families realized the importance of Wu tickets. The value will be greatly reduced, but Zhao is thinking of throwing the blame on the people of the whole country.

The money shops and ticket numbers of ordinary families can only succumb to the majesty of the imperial court, and they are closed today, but the money shops and ticket numbers of those big families don't care about you.The more than 200 million Wu tickets issued by Daren before and the Wu tickets sold by the major families formed a wave of selling more than 500 million Wu tickets in the market.

Among the ticket numbers of the major families, the ratio of Wu tickets to other official tickets has been falling sharply, with 36 for [-] Zheng tickets, and [-] for [-].

The other families saw that the situation was not good, and since their own banknotes could not be traded, they all sent people to squeeze into the banknotes of the big family, and threw out Wu tickets.Then came the small and medium-sized families in Jinling City, then the middle class, and finally ordinary people. Tens of thousands of people inside and outside the major ticket offices surged, crying and cursing one after another.

Prince Wu was the first to respond, and a thousand guards of the Eastern Palace began to drive away the crowd at a certain ticket office. After a while, the Martians were ignited, and the guards of the Eastern Palace began to draw their knives to kill people.

Immediately the Imperial Army began to mobilize.

For the transfer of the forbidden army, the major families are extremely vigilant, no one at this stall will believe Zhao's promise.Because they all knew clearly that the Zhao family could not bear the loss of all the Wu tickets issued to the Land of the Seven Kingdoms.It is not impossible to kill the major families in the city and embezzle their property, this possibility is still very high.

Close the city gate, the army washes the city, and then hangs up an excuse for civil unrest.

Immediately, their private armed forces poured into Jinling City from various manors outside Jinling City, protected their mansions, and confronted the imperial guards faintly.

"The disaster of the family, so you can know!" Outside the water gate in the north of Jinling, several passenger boats were sailing out of the waterway and turned to the river leading to the north.On the bow, Zhang Zhe, Sanqi, and Geng Liang looked at a city gate not far away, and Zhang Zhe sighed.

In the distant city gate, hundreds of private soldiers from various families are confronting more than a hundred city guards.

The city guards who were ordered to close the city gate and the water gate were stopped by private soldiers, and more private soldiers from various families entered Jinling through the city gate one after another.

As early as Zhang Zhe ordered to throw out the 500 million Wu votes, he boarded the passenger ship returning north.

These passenger ships belonging to Zhaoyang County are all elites selected by the Zhaoyang Army, a total of a hundred people, led by Xie Lun and Gao Deshu.They arrived outside Jinling City on June 27 as agreed, and drove into Jinling with the help of the Chen family.

The one who stayed in Jinling Darunfa to preside over the affairs was replaced by Lao Lei who came with the boat.

This was Lao Lei's request after knowing all Zhang Zhe's plans.Staying with Darrunfa to deal with the repayment matters, this is his best step forward!Xiao Zhaoping became a servant of the Zhang family from a slave, which gave Lao Lei hope.He hopes that his grandson will have the same future as Zhao Ping.

When Darunfa chose the site, it chose the Jinling Inner River on the grounds that it was convenient to transport sugar.At this moment, the five passenger ships are all harvested from Zhang Zhe's trip to Jinling.

Zhang Zhe and the others absorbed a total of 500 million guan of wealth, of which 300 million guan Wu votes were exchanged for 900 million guan Zheng tickets. The 400 million Guanwu tickets were all exchanged for gold.These fortunes are all on five ships at the moment.

In Darunfa, Lao Lei still has 130 million Zheng votes and more than 300 million Wu votes.

Zhang Zhe took advantage of the chaos to leave Jinling, and hundreds of imperial guards from Wu Kingdom surrounded Darunfa, and everyone was prohibited from entering or leaving.But they didn't know that the man behind the scenes and most of the wealth had already left Jinling with the boat.

At the end of summer, the southeast wind blew for a few days, and the ships heading northwest moved quickly. On July [-], before the monsoon turned, Zhang Zhe had landed on land.Xu Qian, who had made an appointment with Zhang Zhe earlier, was leading two thousand Zhaoyang soldiers to train here, just as Zhang Zhe and his party returned to the county.

On this day, another conflict broke out in Jinling City, where the atmosphere was extremely tense.This time, it was the angry people who attacked the imperial guards who surrounded Darunfa, because this day was the day for paying interest, but the imperial guards did not allow people to enter Darrunfa at all.

The 300 imperial guards could not withstand the siege of tens of thousands of people. With the mediation of the great families, the royal family temporarily relaxed the restrictions on Darunfa.Lao Lei, who pretended to be the new shopkeeper, sent out the more than [-] million Wu notes in his hand as interest on the second day.

But Wu tickets are worthless!

And in the contract signed with Darunfa, it was written in black and white that they would use Wu tickets to repay their interest and principal.

According to Zhang Zhe's arrangement before he left, Lao Lei immediately expressed that, considering everyone's difficulties, he was willing to help these "investors" exchange part of the Wu tickets, and use Zheng tickets!
And the actual ratio of Wu votes to Zheng votes that day reached an astonishing 55 to [-]. Even at this exchange rate, no one would exchange Wu votes, including Zhao herself.

As soon as the news that Lao Lei agreed to exchange Wu tickets came out, all the monsters and monsters came out.These days, because of the nationwide panic caused by the collapse of Wu votes, many people rushed to Jinling with piles of Wu votes. They all hoped to find a chance to sell in the most prosperous Jinling.

Ever since, Lao Lei, who was considered a bit "stupid", exchanged 120 million Zheng bills for a full 6000 million Wu bills at a fifty-to-one ratio that was slightly higher than the market exchange rate in just one day.

And just a few days later, Lao Lei used the 6000 million Wu notes to return everyone's principal and interest for the last time.Then Lao Lei burned all the books.

Although Lao Lei did not violate the contract, Mrs. Zhao calculated that Darrunfa made at least tens of millions of profits from Jinling.

The Imperial Army searched Darunfa, but found nothing.

Tens of millions of wealth went missing, which made everyone in the state of Wu feel angry.According to Zhang Zhe's instructions, Lao Lei told the officials who came to interrogate directly.

The money has now arrived in Zhaoyang!
It's a pity that Wu Guo didn't have the energy and courage to provoke Da Zheng. Six counties in the two southern provinces of Wu Guo announced their rebellion at the same time. These rebellious families denied the value of Wu votes and joined the Chen family's rebel army.

With the acquiescence or direct arrangements of the major families, civil unrest broke out almost simultaneously in all parts of the Wu Kingdom, and the shadow of separatism has begun to appear.

The Wu court and royal family, which had fallen into financial bankruptcy, were simply unable to deal with these situations.They could only maintain the loyalty of the [-] forbidden soldiers in Beijing. The royal family opened their treasure house and used real silver and gold to appease these forbidden soldiers and generals.

The major families gathered more than [-] private soldiers in Jinling City. This is the overall manifestation of the arrangement of the major families over the years, making the previous "false peace" that was warm and affectionate in the Wu Kingdom a complete joke.

Although the combat power of these private soldiers was somewhat different from that of the Forbidden Army, the Zhao family could no longer tolerate the result that after the collapse of Wu Piao, Jinling City became ruins again.

The two sides were at a stalemate in Jinling, and the Chen family in the south and the "civil unrest" in various places took advantage of the opportunity to develop rapidly.

"Actually, our Dazheng can help your country get out of this predicament!"

Zhang Zhe looked at Shi Qiao on the opposite side with a smile, and what he said was sincere.It is not a good thing for the state of Wu to split up now, for the incapacitated state of Zheng, it will only make Cai Guo and Xi Lu cheaper.

This is the fifth time Shi Qiao has warned himself that he must resist the urge to kill the other party.

At the beginning, Shi Qiao and Tang Bo were planning to go east to Haian and Tuojiang, but they were blocked by Chen Shanhu when they left Zhaoyang. Relying on the desperate resistance of the warriors around them, Shi Qiao and Tang Bo fled back to Zhaoyang with only two people. .

Shi Qiao, who was trapped in Zhaoyang, could not sleep or eat day by day, until he saw with his own eyes the scene of Hecheng officials welcoming Zhang Xinzhi back to Zhaoyang from the south gate.

It was also after Zhang Xinzhi returned to Zhaoyang that the connection between Shi Qiao and Jinling was restored.After Tang Bo's deduction, Shi Qiao came to a conclusion.

It was Zhang Xinzhi who defrauded tens of millions of people from Jinling!

What's more, Zhang Xinzhi also "didn't hide" the wealth he got from Jinling. Xue Xiong took over tens of millions of gold and sent troops to escort him north to Chang'an.

The Zhaoyang Prince's Mansion also announced that tens of millions of official votes were included in the Zhaoyang County Prince's Mansion.

This guy actually took 400 million guan from Jinling!

"I don't know how your lord will help our country?" Under Tang Bo's repeated winks, Shi Qiao finally suppressed his anger and asked the topic he was most concerned about at the moment.

"It's not the official, but the king and the princess!" Zhang Zhe pointed in the direction of the palace, "The skill of icing sugar is the dowry given to the princess by the prince of the county, and the business of snow paper is the bottom of the princess's own box. And the prince of the county There are thousands of glazed orbs in the shop of your royal family. Each of those orbs is the size of a child's fist, and their value is simply incalculable."

"Lord Shi, if the princess announces that she supports your royal family, firstly, suspending the sale of icing sugar, and secondly, guaranteeing Wu tickets with the snow paper business and those glazed pearls worth tens of millions, what will happen to your country's situation? "

Tang Bo got up immediately and answered for Shi Qiao excitedly.

"As long as the princess suspends the sale of icing sugar, the whole country will be grateful. If the princess can really guarantee the royal family, that would be even better!"

Shi Qiao really wanted to say something to Zhang Xinzhi: In fact, the royal family's treasury can also serve as a guarantee for Wu Piao.But he knew very well that he couldn't show his momentum for a while. What Wu country lacked most now was not real money, but the people's confidence in Wu votes.

And this confidence can only be given by Zheng Guo.

Specifically, it is Yang Mingyan, the owner of Wuling County who is about to become the crown princess of the Wu Kingdom. She holds two major sources of income, icing sugar and snow paper.As long as she recognizes the value of Xueyi, Wu Piao will not fall.

"I don't know what the princess wants from her future husband's family?"

Shi Qiao understood that the Princess of Wuling would not do this favor in vain, so she simply made it clear.

"Master Shi is refreshing!" Zhang Zhe spread out the map on the table with a smile. This action made Shi Qiao and Tang Bo look ashamed for a moment.

"Hey, you two, don't treat me as a villain!" Zhang Zhe teased the two of them, but unfortunately, the two of them didn't have the heart to make fun of him at all, and they all had dead faces.

"Here!" Zhang Zhe pointed to the south of Zhaoyang County on the map, about sixty miles to the southwest, "Xinhe County! It's very close to Zhaoyang. The princess lost her parents and family when she was young. At the knees of the king of the county, it is only touching the family relationship in the world, but this is going to marry into your country, no matter how hard it is to be filial to your children. The princess is crying day and night, I just ask your country to allow this county near Zhaoyang to be with the princess , as the permanent residence of the Crown Princess."

"Stop (thinking)..." Shi Qiao was grabbed by Tang Bo before he could speak.

"Hehe, Mr. Shi, there is no need to get excited. Xinhe is a narrow place with few people, and the whole county only has a population of 3000. Your country won't even be reluctant to do this, right? The county king also said that he would send an additional [-] soldiers and horses and the princess Guards don’t need your country’s extravagant expenses. In fact, this is so that the princess can go back to Zhaoyang to fulfill his filial piety. If it’s convenient for your prince, you might as well come to Xinhe for a while.”

Shi Qiao sneered, even the guards of the city belong to your country of Zheng, and the arrival of my prince is not like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger! ?
But after Shi Qiao closed her eyes for a long time, she still agreed with red eyes.

"Rong Qiao rushed back to Jinling immediately, and this matter will definitely be facilitated! It's just something the princess promised to the country, so please implement it quickly."

"Your Majesty Shi, just go to the country. The Prince's family left Chang'an at the end of May, and I think they will soon arrive in Jiangling. If Master Shi travels fast enough and things go smoothly, about the time Master Shi returns from Jinling with the letter, the Prince's family It just happened to be in Zhaoyang. It was just a matter of a proclamation from the princess, and it would be very convenient to have a solid reply from your country."

Shi Qiao saw that Zhang Xinzhi didn't see the rabbit and didn't scatter the eagle, so he could only let out a long sigh and lead Tang Bo away.

After seeing off Shi Qiao, Zhang Zhe rushed to the backyard again.

Zhang Sanqi, Geng Liang, and Xie Lun were all waiting for him.

"Homeowner!"

"I won't talk nonsense!" Zhang Zhe cupped his hands at the three of them, "We got more than 5000 million yuan from Jinling, and we are the only ones who know about it. The imperial court has 300 million yuan of gold and more than 400 million gold coins. The official ticket of another country, the prince has 200 million guan, and the remaining 900 million is the money saved by the labor and capital for Sister Mi! You take the money ticket and go on the road immediately, all the way back to Wuling, and you will stay at home from then on .”

He took another look at Little Zhao Ping, who was also carrying a package.

"Pingzi, take the two of you and go back to Beijing immediately, and ask the eldest lady to find a way to take Miss Mi back to Wuling. Only the eldest lady should know about this matter."

"No!" The four of them bowed their hands in return at the same time.

(End of this chapter)