Mingshi

Chapter 888 Angry Jiajing
Emperor Jiajing closed his eyes again, and said coldly, "Read!"

"Observe the order!" Huang Jin picked up the stack of papers and read softly: "In half a year, a total of 32 vassal caravans entered the country, and the total value of the goods they brought was 300 million taels. At that time, another cargo worth 200 million taels was loaded."

Emperor Jiajing opened his eyes, with a slight look of shock in his eyes. He didn't expect the transaction volume to be so large. Compared with those businessmen, he was really poor.Of course, he also knew that this was just the trading volume, so he asked in a concentrated voice:
"How much can Shibo earn?"

"The price of the goods is different in different seasons. We have taken a minimum conservative value, and Shiboshi should earn at least 600 million taels."

"How much?" Emperor Jiajing sat up straight.

"At least 600 million taels."

"600 million taels!" Emperor Jiajing's eyes shot out with anger: "I thought they only swallowed up my 100 million taels, but now they swallowed up my 400 million taels. They took the big head, but gave it to me. , are really my good ministers. How dare they?"

"This..." Huang Jin said softly: "We still need to get rid of the money reserved for the local government and Hu Zongxian. The money needs to be about 80 taels, and the escorts to Beijing should have at least 500 million taels."

"That is to say, I lost 300 million taels?"

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Emperor Jiajing pondered for a while and said, "Could it be wrong? Luo Xin didn't earn so much back then."

"It's not the same!" Huang Jin said: "Luo Xin had just achieved a good situation at the beginning. With Luo Xin's departure, the Shibo Department's reputation has spread far and wide, and more and more businessmen from the feudal kingdoms have come to Daming, so they can earn more."

Emperor Jiajing nodded, and anger shot out from his eyes again: "What about Zhen's silver? What about the three million taels of silver? Why didn't the Shibo Division collect taxes? Why didn't Zhang Shijie's account book?"

"Smuggling!" Huang Jin said softly.

"Smuggling?" Emperor Jiajing raised his eyebrows and said, "That businessman dares to be so bold? Did they forget Shen Wansan?"

"Not a businessman."

"Who is that? Who is so bold?"

"Shiship Secretary!" Huang Jin's voice was even lower: "Hu Zongxian deliberately sent people to monitor the pier every day and recorded the quantity of goods unloaded and loaded by merchants from the vassal state. This is absolutely correct. And The people in Dongchang also secretly contacted some merchants, especially the five great families. All the five great families provided their account books, and their trading volume was indeed much less than the list of goods provided by Hu Zongxian. Moreover, the five great families and many merchants He pointed out that some feudal state merchants were not allowed to board the ships of the merchants. They did not trade with those feudal state merchants, but those feudal state merchants also sold goods and bought goods and left."

"boom!"

Emperor Jiajing threw the teacup on the ground and said angrily, "Go and tell Lu Bing to send someone to capture that Zhang Shijie."

Luofu.

Luo Xin was playing with the child in his arms when he heard Lu Daqing's voice outside the door:
"Your Majesty, we have a visitor."

"Who?"

"Your colleague, Master Ma Qingshan."

"Only him?"

"No, dozens of them, it seems that your colleagues are here."

A smile appeared on Luo Xin's face, and Lu Rudai, who was sitting opposite, turned her nose up and said, "Your scheme has succeeded, why don't you go quickly?"

"How do you talk?" Luo Xin stared.

"Hey hey..." Lu Rudai covered her mouth and chuckled.Then he got up and walked to him, stretched out his hands and said, "Give me the child."

Luo Xin handed the child to Lu Rudai, then walked out of the room and walked towards the hall.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Luo Xin was amused, as Lu Daqing said, all the officials of Zhan Shifu's left concubine were all in order.Seeing Luo Xin come in at this time, they all saluted Luo Xin and said:
"I've seen Mr. Luo."

Luo Xin swept his gaze and saw that chairs had been added in the hall, he returned the courtesy with a smile, went to the upper center seat and sat down, and then invited dozens of officials to take their seats.As soon as he looked at him, a strange emotion appeared in his heart.He felt that if a plaque was hung on the top at this time, with the three characters "Juyi Hall" written on it, he would really want to stay in Liangshan.Holding back a smile, he looked at the crowd and said:
"Everyone, come to the humble house so late, is there something wrong?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Ma Qingshan, Ma Qingshan stood up, bowed deeply to Luo Xin and said:

"Lord Luo, please save us."

"Why did you say that? Could it be that Xu Jie is making things difficult for you again?"

"How can it be so difficult?" Ma Qingshan said with a wry smile: "People from the official department come three times a day and keep a close eye on us. Now our family can't get rid of it. Your lord, you are resourceful, and please point out a clear rule to the humble officials." road."

Luo Xin was silent for a while, and the dozens of officials stood up, bowed deeply to Luo Xin and said:

"Also ask the adults to point out a clear way for me."

Luo Xin was still silent, those officials bent down towards Luo Xin again, and after bending down, they stopped straightening up.Luo Xin sighed and said:

"My colleagues, please rise."

"My lord, for the sake of your colleagues, please save me." Those officials did not get up, but said again in unison.

"This matter... is very embarrassing for me!" Luo Xin's face was filled with sadness.

"My lord, we are all your subordinates. We will do whatever your lord tells us to do. We will follow your lord's lead. We will never go back on our word."

A smile appeared on Luo Xin's face and he said, "Colleagues, please sit down, let's discuss it."

Seeing Luo Xin let go, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Luo Xin is willing to discuss, everything will be fine.Luo Xin's reputation was not given for nothing, it was obtained through victories.Everyone sat down one after another, and Luo Xin asked with a smile:
"Everyone, this is the value and come here?"

"Yes!" Everyone nodded in unison.

"So, haven't you eaten yet?"

"Oh……"

There was embarrassment on everyone's face, where do they still have the mood to eat now?After more than ten days of torment, these people really couldn't bear it any longer, although it wasn't that the family couldn't get rid of the pot, and the family still had some savings.But everyone is very clear in their hearts that as long as this situation continues, it will not be long, as long as half a year, their savings will be empty, and then they will not be able to eat, or in other words, they can only eat chaff and swallow vegetables, and even cultivate them. The money for the next generation is gone.Therefore, they discussed continuously for several days, but they couldn't come up with a good solution, so they made a collective visit to plead with Luo Xin.Once the heart is determined and valued, everyone rushes over, how can they care about eating?

Seeing everyone's embarrassing looks, Luo Xin couldn't help laughing and said: "Then let's have dinner first."

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