The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 121 If you want the dog to be obedient, you need to feed the bone

Yuan Chonghuan polished it up a bit, coupled with his own contribution to strategizing, and distributed the capital.

He was overjoyed, so he summoned Zhou Xigui, his aide, and asked, "Ding Yi wrote last time, what do you want?"

Zhou Xigui smiled and said, "He wants food as well as money, but the last few times, he always wants craftsmen."

"How much does he want?" Yuan asked.

"He wants a hundred craftsmen." Zhou Xigui shook his head, that's so many.

Yuan thought for a while: "Give him twenty."

Zhou Chang sighed: "My lord really loves him so much."

"Those who are capable should be rewarded."

Yuan Chonghuan thought in his heart that if he wanted the dogs to be obedient, he would naturally give them bones.

On the side of Dengzhou, Ding Yi did things neatly. At noon that day, at the Zhouhui, Wang Qiji and Wang Qiji were killed immediately on the grounds of having an affair with money.

At the same time, more than a dozen confidantes of the two of them, as well as a few small officials of the Salt Division, were killed.

Then arrest a few local salt merchants who have good relations with Wang Qiji of Zhouhui, and directly ransack their homes and interrogate them.

Historically, Hou Jin had a lot of requirements for materials such as salt, iron, and grain. Every year in the Ming Dynasty, I don’t know how many people took risks to do this kind of business.

The most famous ones are of course the Eight Shanxi Merchants.

But Ding Yi can't get there now, and it's beyond his reach. First, he finds an excuse to clean up Dengzhou City.

For a time, Dengzhou City was full of blood and blood, and the entire salt industry was reshuffled.

Many people have paid attention to the name of Ding Yi, the capital of Lushun.

Some smart people have already started to think of ways to get through his back door, because everyone knows that Ding Yi did this to sell salt for himself.

In the afternoon, Zhou Wang's two families took thousands of taels of silver on board and left Dengzhou on the basis of Yunjun.

After this cleansing and ransacking of the house, Ding Yi confiscated a total of 38 taels of bank notes, some other property, and more than 2000 tons of salt.

Among them, only the two kings of Zhou copied more than 20 taels.

In the past few years, the two families have often supplied to the bigwigs in the court, and there are still so many left, which shows the huge profits of salt.

In addition, more than 5000 mu of fertile land was copied from various people's homes, all of which are high-quality fertile fields, with more than 40 shops and houses.

He gave Qin Nan the first place to deal with the shop and residence, and asked Qin Nan to hire tenants to plant the good land, and the tenants handed over half of it, so that he could receive an additional [-] shi every year.

Qin's father said too much at the time, and it is usually good to give tenants two to three.

But Ding Yi thought that the tenants were all poor people, so he decided to make half of them. After all, he could not count on the [-] mu of land in Dengzhou City as his source of grain and rice in the future.

Afterwards, Ding Yi told Liu Tongzhi that he got 18 taels of silver from the house raid.

He gave 14 taels to the prefect Zhu Zhouye, [-] taels to Liu Tongzhi, and [-] taels to himself and the tens of thousands of brothers in the Dongjiang Army. He emphasized the words tens of thousands of brothers and said it many times.

Zhu and Liu thanked each other again and again, and Zhu Zhouye quickly sent Liu Tongzhi over: "The Dongjiang army defends the country against the enemy. It has been stationed on the isolated island all year round and fought bloody battles with the Tartars. It is too hard."

"I mobilize all the gentry in the city to donate [-] shi for the general."

Ding Yi accepted it with a smile, almost pulling Zhifu and Tongzhi into brothers.

The 2 shi of grain was less than 4 taels. The Zhifu and Tongzhi took [-] taels from Ding Yi and mobilized gentry and businessmen to donate grain. .

Ding Yi didn't feel sad either, there must be some money that should be paid out.

With the support of Zhu Zhifu and Liu Tongzhi in Dengzhou City, there is nothing he can't do in the future.

To be honest, originally he really wanted to sell salt.

If Wang Qiye accepts the one-two-one load, there won't be so many things in the future.

Unexpectedly, Wang Qiye angered him, and in a fit of anger, so many things happened.

Right now, he has gone through such a trick, and now he suddenly became rich again, with nearly 50 taels of money in his hand, and an extra [-] shiliang.

On September 9, Yuan Chonghuan's order had already arrived in Dengzhou first.

According to the good news, everyone is asking for more rewards, just waiting for the court's approval.

And Ding Yi's acting capital will eventually become the capital, which can be appointed by Yuan. Later, he only needs to report to the court and reward officials with badges.

Because beheading [-] times this time is considered a great victory and has made great achievements. Maybe the magistrate Zhu Zhouye and fellow magistrate Liu Yuan will both be promoted, but this civil servant will be appointed by the court, and it may take some time.

At the same time, a confidant of Liu Tongzhi will replace Zhou Hui as the ambassador of the salt department, and Ruan Siqing will replace Wang Qiji as the salt inspector.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt ambassadors and inspectors were not popular, and they could be called officials, not officials.

In the Qing Dynasty, only the ambassadors had the eighth rank, and the inspectors had the ninth rank, so they could be called officials.

Ruan Siqing was originally a commoner, and was recommended by the prefect's yamen, and was quickly approved by the higher authorities.

When Ruan Wenlong found out later, he was ecstatic that the Ruan family was no longer a lowly businessman at last.

Ding Yi was naturally overjoyed when he became a full-time official, and immediately held a banquet in Dengzhou. That night, Zhang Keda and his concubine Chen Shi, the prefect Zhu Zhouye and his concubine, and the same prefect Liu Yuan and his concubine were present.

Ding Yi laughed when he saw everyone, because everyone brought concubines and no one brought his wife.

And it was Qin Nan who he brought with him that day.

But to be honest, Zhang Keda, Zhu Zhouye are all middle-aged, Liu Yuan is almost 40 years old, and his wife is half an old woman at this age in the Ming Dynasty. The concubine is also in line with everyone's status.

In fact, tomorrow is not like now, even close relatives, family members rarely attend banquets, but Ding Yi invited the wives of all adults in the name of Qin Nan, and they all brought their concubines over in the end.

After arriving at the restaurant, Ding Yi, Zhang Keda and others sat down at the same table, drinking tea and chatting first, and the concubines of the three adults were taken to the next door by Qin Nan.

As soon as he entered, Qin Nan asked the maids to bring three exquisite cloth bags.

This cloth bag is made of exquisite silk cloth, with a pattern on the front and small characters on the back: "Dengzhou Boutique Hypermarket".

The bag is made like a brand-name bag of later generations. It can be opened and closed with a buckle. It is very delicate and beautiful.

Several concubines fell in love with it at first sight, because there was no such bag in the Ming Dynasty.

So it is the nature of women to love bags since ancient times.

Qin Nan demonstrates that the bag can be carried with one hand, or carried on one shoulder.

She has a good figure and temperament, and she wears a bag, which is even more charming. The concubines compete to carry it, and they are full of praise.

But from Ding Yi's point of view, the words engraved on this bag cost a lot and are really ugly.

After opening the bag, the VIP membership cards carved from thin iron sheets inside, from number one to number three, represent the identities of the three adults.

Because of Zhang Ke's straightforward nature and good friendship with Zhu Zhouye, and the fact that he was a nobleman in the Ming Dynasty, the No. [-] obtained by Zhu Zhifu made Liu Yuan's concubine jealous.

There are also a number of goldware, pearls and jade in the bag, all made with ingenuity, as well as rouge and other things that women like.

The girls fiddled with their bags for a while, and were invited to the table by Qin Nan. She spoke softly with a flattering expression: "The grown-ups are discussing state affairs, and we can't make trouble for them. Sisters, let's have fun." Mahjong tiles, right?"

After finishing speaking, let people take out mahjong and put it on the table.

This mahjong is all made of bamboo bones, completely built according to modern mahjong.

When the three concubines saw it, their eyes lit up. They had never seen such a delicate plaything.

"Looks like a horse tag?" Zhang Ke's concubine, Chen Shi, was pleasantly surprised.

It turns out that in the Ming Dynasty, officials and rich people all played horse tags, which is the predecessor of mahjong.

But the horse tag is made of paper, which is completely different from the feel of modern mahjong.

According to what Ding Yi said, Qin Nan led them to play mahjong, the flower mahjong of later generations.

Before playing cards, each of them distributed 100 taels of silver.

At first everyone was unfamiliar with it, but after playing a few games, the concubines liked it more and more.

This thing is much more fun than a horse tag.

When it was time for dinner, they were called to the table, but they all said that they didn't want to eat anymore, and they wanted to fight again, which stunned the adults.

(End of this chapter)