The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 238 Lost 500 million in an hour
Good guy, this is Zhu Bajie's defeat, so he beat him up?
The father and son were dumbfounded. Zhang Kejian lost all his business, but he blamed Li Yu and Xia Yuanji instead?
Just as Li Yu was about to speak, Zhang Kejian explained: "Nephew, don't worry, let me explain to you in detail."

"My sister gave me 10 taels of silver to help me start a business and subsidize the Prince's family."

Zhang Kejian carefully looked at the prince. Zhu Gaochi was not angry, but Zhang Yan couldn't help it anymore. He raised his eyebrows coldly and pointed at him: "You prodigal son! I think your skin is itchy..."

"My concubine, don't get angry, just listen to him! Let's see how he gets involved with Zhanji!"

Just now Zhu Gaochi just knew that his brother-in-law lost all the money he had saved for ten years, so he picked up Ruyi and started a fight. He really didn't ask carefully how he paid for it.

"That's right, sister, don't be angry all the time, anger grows old quickly." Zhang Kejian climbed up the pole, and when he saw his sister was about to get angry again, he quickly explained: "Listen to me, this matter is really a big nephew's trick. .”

"Say it! Say it! If you make a mistake, I won't beat you to death!"

"Sister, what do you think, what kind of business can you do in this market without losing money? Salt merchants! My brother-in-law's 10 taels of silver, together with my entire family fortune, totaled 15 taels, and I invested all of it."

"Two months ago, after the autumn harvest, I hired someone, bought grain, and transported it all the way to Datong. Everything went well, but guess what I saw when I got to the saltworks?"

Having said that, Li Yu has already guessed how Zhang Kejian lost the bottom line!

"Snow-white and snow-white salt! It's piled up like a hill!" Without waiting for the prince and his wife to protest, Zhang Kejian gave the answer himself, and was quite heartbroken: "I asked, and this is the new salt made by the saltworks. Sun Yan! He also said that all the salt in Daming will be like this in the future!"

Zhang Kejian glanced at Li Yu resentfully, gritted his teeth and continued, "Of course I took the Yanyin with great joy to extract the salt, but the officer in charge of the salt field saw my Yanyin and refused to give it to me, and even carried out Xia Yuanji." Come and crush me!"

"It is said that my Yanyin is an old model, and I can only take away the old salt, and the new salt can only be taken away with a new Yanyin! And now the new salt has started to be sold in the world, and the price is ten times lower than the bitter old salt. arts!"

"Snow-white and snow-white salt! There is no trace of miscellaneous taste! I mentioned the old bitter salt, who can sell it to!"

"Liubaiyin! I exchanged 15 taels of silver for [-] Yanyin! It's all in vain!"

"Later, I inquired, hehe, big nephew, do you think you tricked me?"

Zhang Kejian sucked his teeth and looked at Li Yu, who smiled noncommittally.

"Uncle, in business, of course there are profits and losses. If you lose this time, you can make it back next time! Hey, do you still have your six hundred quotations? Did you raise salt or not?"

"Hmph! I took Yanyin and went to the household department to look for Xia Yuanji. That old bastard actually said that when I transported the grain, the new salt was not available, so I had to replace it with the old Yanyin! Damn it! I He also said that those civil servants were so angry that they had to sell it! They sold it to a salt merchant named Hao in Yangzhou! Hmph, the salt for 15 taels of silver was finally sold for 3000 taels!" Zhang Kejian said angrily. Straight hum.

"Brother-in-law! Eldest nephew! You guys have to let me decide on this matter!"

This matter is indeed caused by Li Yu and Xia Yuanji's joint efforts.

The account books of the salt issued by the Ministry of Households and the salt taken away by major salt factories over the years are vivid, and it can be known that a large amount of salt is kept in the hands of salt merchants.

As soon as the snow-white new salt comes out, the salt merchants will definitely use the salt to swarm to pick up the salt. Li Yu simply instructed Xia Yuanji to launch a new salt. The new salt can only be picked up with a new type of salt. The date can only be counted after the sales meeting.

There is little difference in the cost of new and old salt, but there is only one more process. The old salt is used to extract new salt without losing money. The boiled salt is changed to sun-dried salt, and the output is fully available. The reason for this loss is entirely Li Yu and Xia. Yuanji was discussing with the gang of salt merchants!

Salt merchants have a large amount of old salt in their hands, and they can take away the old salt hoarded over the years in major saltworks.But as soon as the new salt comes out, the bitter old salt cannot be sold at all. How can the salt merchants smash the salt that has been hard-earned with a huge amount of grain?
They will definitely think of crooked ways!

There is only one process difference between the old and the new salt, and the production method must not be kept secret. Li Yu has never considered keeping it secret. The production method needs to be taught to the salt workers in the major salt farms. If there are too many people who know this, it will not be called a secret.Salt merchants can easily get the method of purifying old salt and new salt from Yanhu with some money!

Therefore, the old salt is the bait released by Li Yu and Xia Yuanji.

The salt merchants took away a large amount of old salt with old salt leads, but they couldn’t sell it, and they also got a purification method in their hands. What will they do next?It must be to purify all the old salt into new salt!

But these new salts are called private salts!
To lure him with profit is an overt conspiracy, either you throw the old salt in your hands, or you turn it into private salt!Or if you have the ability to transport it to the grassland, you may be able to recover the loss.However, Li Yu also issued an order to let Nine Sides keep an eye on the customs and strictly investigate smuggling!

The Ministry of Household Affairs has made regulations in advance. If you sell private salt, if you find out for the first time, the security deposit will be confiscated, and you will need to pay the agency fee and security deposit again!
Agency fees and security deposits, last time I made 3000 million taels in one wave!

A few days ago, Li Yu had asked Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to investigate the private salt incident quietly, but he did not want to scare the snake for the time being, but just wrote down the list of salt merchants who made private salt.

Don’t worry about this wave, you have to wait until next year or even the next year to harvest. The salt merchants have just been scratched once, so at least a year should be given for them to recover their blood, right?
"Master? What master?" Zhu Gaochi didn't seem to understand. The matter of Xinyan was handled by his son. How could he tear down his family?But he saw a sly smile on his chubby face, and stretched out his hand: "Didn't you sell your Yanyin for 3000 taels? Bring it!"

"Ah?" Zhang Kejian raised his head in confusion, and Li Yu almost laughed.

This dad is so funny!

"Ah, what, 3000 taels, pay back the money! I owe the rest first!"

"No, brother-in-law, you don't do things like this!" Zhang Kejian couldn't believe his ears. Since ancient times, in this business, there have been profits and losses. Of course, the risks are shared, but the prince means that the profits belong to him, and the losses my own?

Is there anyone who bullies my brother-in-law like this!

"Sister! This 3000 taels is all my belongings! If I give it to my brother-in-law, I will have to go to the street to beg for food!"

"No way, the uncle of the grandson of the superintendent of the country, if you go to the street, someone invites you to eat, how can you be hungry." Zhu Gaochi still recognizes the money but does not recognize the person. All the things used by the appreciators are now lost by the brother-in-law, so how can he not be annoyed.

"According to the cost, 3000 taels of the 2000 taels are mine!"

"sister?"

Zhang Yan remained silent, logically speaking, the dignified concubine, the most honorable woman in the Ming Dynasty, would not deduct 2000 taels of silver from her own brother.But if you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive the firewood is. The Prince's Mansion has lost all its property, and now Zhang Yan has no money to reward the servants.

Relying solely on salary, the crown prince would have to starve and lose weight!

If it wasn't for Hu Shangyi's frequent filial piety...but that was also the hard-earned money that the servants paid to Hu Shangyi layer by layer, Zhang Yan couldn't always take it.

"Forget it, father, mother, I still have some money left, let Ma San take it later and send it to the Prince's Mansion."

It's always my uncle, the bones are broken and the tendons are still connected, it's just a lesson to improve the memory, don't threaten too much, and hurt the relationship.

"Where did you get the money? Your grandfather rewarded you? How much?" Zhu Gaochi asked nonchalantly.

Li Yu smiled faintly: "Grandpa rewarded it indeed, not much, only 300 million taels. It's not a treasure, it's cash. Grandpa said that it was my pocket money, and there was an internal money. Turn around and ask Ma Sanzhi to take half of it. It is the filial piety of a son."

"Three, three, three million, two?"

Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened, he tilted his body, and almost slipped off the chair, the two eunuchs at the door hurried over to help him.

Zhu Gaochi shook off the palace man with a wave and sat down again.

"Is your grandfather crazy? Reward you with 300 million taels? Or cash? Does he have so much money in his pocket?"

Zhu Gaochi knew that there was "money" in the internal funds, and the local products brought back by Zheng He had been sold, but most of them were replaced with grain, silk and other materials, and most of them were transported to the north for the Northern Expedition; But he vaguely remembered that there didn't seem to be much cash in it?
"Hehe, the money for the new salt." Li Yu smiled proudly: "Dad, you have ignored state affairs for a long time, so you don't know. A few days ago, the Ministry of Households got the new salt and encircled more than 3000 million taels of silver. According to the agreement made by Shang Shu, half of the money will go to the household department, [-]% will go to internal funds, and the remaining [-]% will be my son’s hard work.”

"Crazy! Really crazy!" Zhu Gaochi was dumbfounded, unable to balance his heart for a long time.

He has seen it for many years, and the money flowing out of his hands is more than hundreds of millions?But it was all the treasury of the Ministry of Households. I saved it for ten years in the prince's mansion, but I only saved 10 yuan, and my brother-in-law lost it all!
The old man sent Zheng He to the West many times, and he got a lot of rewards when he returned. He didn't say reward his sons, but this time, he distributed 300 million taels to his eldest grandson! ?

Three million taels!Enough for a hundred thousand troops to go to the grasslands to beat Alutai for a year!Just give it to a hairy child so lightly?

Zhu Gaochi knew that the old man didn't want to see his three brothers, but he loved his eldest grandson very much, but no matter how much he loved, he never heard of throwing out 300 million taels as pocket money casually?
Listen, pocket money!Is this what people say?
Zhu Gaochi's eyes were red, and his eldest son's eyes were not right.

Envy, jealousy, father, they are all in your blood, why favor one over another!
"Father, dad, you're fine..." Li Yu keenly sensed that the look in his father's eyes was not right. He had just spoken halfway through the question, but he saw his father standing up suddenly. , "Cheetah" rushed in front of him, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Son, daddy treats you well, right?"

"Uh... Dad, what do you want to say, why don't you just say it?" Li Yu suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Son, 300 million taels, 250 million won't be too much for dad, right? There are many expenses in the Prince's Mansion, for example, the chair in dad's study room is missing a leg, and he is not willing to change it..."

You want me to change the chair for 250 million taels?He Shen is not as black as you!
Just say that there is nothing good today, honestly, how good would it be to write in the Hall of Martial Arts?This time I went home, and I was beaten as a local tyrant!
"Okay, Dad, it's not easy for you, 250 million is 250 million!" Li Yu gritted his teeth and agreed.

My father asks for money, how can I refuse?Li Yu doesn't have any big expenses recently. Anyway, he is now in charge of the country, and the old man is not in Yingtian, so it is not difficult to make money by himself.

"Then it's settled!" Zhu Gaochi ordered Feng Xing, fearing that his son would change his mind, he immediately arranged for him: "Ma San, didn't you hear what your grandson said? Go! Bring someone, catch the car, Go to the inner bank and bring the silver back!"

"Go." Li Yu nodded, and Ma San followed the order.

Having taken so much money from his filial eldest son, Zhu Gaochi felt a little embarrassed, thinking about what to reward him for, and rewarding money is definitely not enough. He just asked his son for it, and then rewarded him back?It doesn't make sense.Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw the two daughters standing behind the princess, Hu Shanxiang and Sun Ruowei.

The son likes these two girls, especially Hu Shanxiang, the girl from Hu Shangyi's family. Although her previous background was a bit rough, she grew up in the palace. He has learned a lot from the concubine, and his son has always wanted to make her his concubine, which is good, and the family will be harmonious in the future; but Sun Ruowei, who was born in a reckless family, is the orphan of Jing Nan, and if his son likes it, then he will let him.

If you get the benefits of your son today, why don't you reward them.

Zhu Gaochi thought about it, and at the moment, he opened his mouth to reward Hu Shanxiang with 2 taels of silver and Sun Ruowei with 1 taels of silver, which were kept as rewards for the palace servants.

This operation stunned Li Yu!
250 million taels!Daddy, you just share [-] yuan?Sure enough, it was Taizu who taught him to live carefully and carefully.

Zhu Gaochi also knew that the reward was a little small, but the landlord's family didn't have any food left. He was used to living a hard life, so he had to save some money.Simply, he didn't stay in the front hall anymore, and limped back to the backyard on the pretext of being hungry.

After the father left, Li Yu sighed, pulled his uncle Zhang Kejian, who was still in a state of confusion, to leave, and it happened that he needed a confidant to do some errands recently; Smiling, he took out a roster from his arms.

"Here, here are the grand-grandson's wedding details handed in by Hu Shangyi. There are all kinds of expenses. Since the household department has money and the internal funds also have money, can I trouble His Royal Highness the grandson of the country to approve it?"

"The great-grandson's wedding is a grand national ceremony. The prince's mansion can't afford the expense, right? There has never been such a reason since ancient times."

Li Yu took it, and turned directly to the end to see the total amount of money.

270 taels! ?

I knew that my old lady's snarky words would be no good!

"Mother, this son has to avoid suspicion, right? In the future, my son will ask Xia Shang to write a playbook, and send it to Shuntian quickly, and ask grandpa for instructions? I think there will be no problem."

Zhang Yan nodded, Li Yu pulled Zhang Kejian and ran away.

There are evil spirits in the Prince's Mansion today, but within an hour, they have lost more than five million yuan in wealth. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time!

"Uncle, there is something for you to do to ensure that you can make money..."

North of the Great Wall, on the vast grassland.

There was a heavy snowfall a few days ago, which lasted for a long time; the howling wind was as sharp as a knife, as if it wanted to cut off people's ears.

A cavalry team of more than a thousand people was slowly marching from north to south on the snowy field. Looking closer, this group of people were all dressed in Beiyuan costumes, their bodies were covered with thick fur, and only a pair of eyes were exposed.

The horses carried large and small parcels on their backs, and at the end of the team were driving tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.

"How long will it take to reach the Great Wall?"

In front of the line, a young man took out a water bag from his arms, took a sip of warm liquor, and asked the middle-aged man beside him.

"Hurry up, not far ahead is the Great Wall. After passing the Great Wall, you will be Datong Mansion. Work harder, we can spend the night in Datong tonight!"

"I heard that the great emperor of the Ming Dynasty is now in Dadu. Should we pay tribute this time to Dadu or Jiqing..."

(End of this chapter)