I smashed the emperor's daughter

Chapter 89
In the west city of the capital, in the house of Zhang Mingche, Minister of Rites, Zhang Jincai, who is the housekeeper, is walking quickly through the corridor, heading straight for the study of the head of the house.

With the wind blowing under his feet, his face was stern and his spirit was tense, as if he had encountered some difficult problem.

After arriving at the door of the study, the housekeeper took a deep breath before he raised his hand to knock on the door; after hearing the answer from the room, he slowly pushed the door open and entered.

But after entering, before Zhang Jincai could say anything, a young voice sounded in the room first:

"Butler Zhang came back today, much earlier than father expected."

Zhang Mingche sat in front of the desk and ignored his talking son.Instead, he held the tea bowl in his left hand and the bowl cover in his right hand. He scraped the green tea in the bowl with the blue and white bowl cover, took a sip of tea and said:
"Looking at your expression, the matter of coordinating the price of the treasure banknotes should not go smoothly."

Before he finished his words, Zhang Mingche suddenly changed the subject and changed his words to deny his previous judgment:
"I came back in such a hurry, it should not only not be smooth, but I'm afraid that the matter has completely fell through!"

Hearing this, Zhang Jincai showed some shame on his face again, and hurriedly confessed: "My lord, it's my fault in doing things that made the situation irreversible."

"You don't have to take everything on yourself." Zhang Mingche put down the tea bowl unhurriedly, without a hint of anger on his face, "Each family has its own thoughts, how could it be possible to just meet, Will it solve the problem?"

"My lord, during the meeting, not only were there internal strife among the various merchants, but it seemed that there were people who were outside the matter who obstructed this act of sowing dissension." Zhang Jincai saw that the master did not intend to blame him, he felt a little more at ease, and then Tell me everything you know about the meeting.

Zhang Mingche still looked calm, but Zhang Huijue, who was standing beside him, lost his composure after listening to it, and the latter scolded directly: "These silverfish are so stupid that they don't care about the overall situation for a small profit. Pig dog!"

"When a gentleman sees a mountain collapse in front of him, his color doesn't change, and when a deer rises to his left, his eyes don't blink. How can you behave like this?"

Zhang Mingche glanced sideways, and first scolded his son in a low voice, seeing that his son still wanted to argue, he asked a question directly, choking his son's words back:
"I asked you to go to Jingu Guards to do things, how are you doing now?"

Being reprimanded like this, Zhang Huijue didn't dare to disobey his father's wishes, and replied honestly:

"Father asked me to go to Jinguwei to secretly investigate the accounts of foreign barbarians entering and exchanging for our official bank; but the eunuchs in the Jianbo Yamen have changed from their previous corrupt nature and become reclusive instead. Even if the son bribed them with a lot of money, they would not show the account."

"If something is abnormal, there must be a demon." Zhang Mingche murmured thoughtfully in his heart, and then asked urgently, "Apart from this, is there anything abnormal?"

Zhang Huijue shook his head one after another, but he suddenly stopped shaking his head, as if he remembered something, and said immediately: "The people in charge of the prison ship yamen are very tight-knit, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and the gang below are almost nothing. The bluntness of oil and water actually said something abnormal——

According to them, the accounts of the supervisory office should be handed in for inspection on the first day of each month, but the accounts for August were in duplicate and submitted to the Ceremony and Discipline Inspection Department at the end of the month. "

"At the end of the month?"

Zhang Mingche quickly picked out this element, and immediately reacted:

"According to the documents of the host and guest department, the Breti envoy who came to the court is the one who entered the territory of our Han Dynasty at the end of the month——

Among them, there must be something strange! "

"Jianboya is under the jurisdiction of the Ceremony and Disciplinary Inspection Department. What my father means is" halfway through the sentence, Zhang Hui felt that he had come to a conclusion that shocked him, and immediately lowered his voice, "The matter of transferring the accounts in advance may have something to do with the emperor." ?”

"Speak cautiously, if you speak so freely, you will surely invite disaster in the future!"

Zhang Mingche snarled in a rare way, and there was a strong warning in his eyes, and then he analyzed:
"There may be a discrepancy in the accounts, but the discrepancy is caused by corruption in the prison's office, or it was instigated by others; that can't be said for sure!

It would be better if there was internal corruption; but if someone deliberately manipulated Brietti's envoys before and after they entered the country, it would show that Buyi might not have that much money in his hands."

"Father means, God, ah no."

Zhang Huijue was echoing, and when he realized that he had made a mistake, he quickly changed his words, "Someone in the palace changed the accounts, and then instructed Breti's envoys to play a play, so that they would buy low and sell high?"

Zhang Mingche's face changed slightly, he didn't seem to be calm just now, but he sorted out his thoughts and continued to analyze:

"The most likely place is the palace, but Qianqing Palace or Chengqian Palace, which one is right?
When the first emperor passed away, there was a turmoil in the Forbidden City. It is not surprising that the treasures in the inner storage were taken away by one of the two parties;
As for the Ceremony Disciplinary Inspection Department, whether it is now under the order of Qianqing Palace or under the order of Qianqing Palace, this is also unknown to the outer court.

There is even a possibility that the honorable nobles of the Western Army, who hold treasures in their hands, colluded with the prison office and deceived the Ritual Inspection Department above;

Who can say for sure based on a little news? "

Zhang Huijue was in a cloud of mist, and was a little unclear at once; but his father's last words made him startled in a cold sweat:
"But no matter who is setting up the scheme behind the scenes, one thing is almost certain - the Breti envoy probably doesn't have that much money!"

"Buyi doesn't have that much silver, so that means that the price of treasure notes is inflated?" As it concerns the core interests of his family, Zhang Huijue couldn't care less about responding to his father, so he opened his mouth directly, and then urgently asked : "Steward Zhang, how many treasures have been purchased in the Fuzhong, and how much silver did it cost?"

"As of today, the family has purchased 720 six banknotes, and the silver taels spent on them totaled 14 three taels!"

Zhang Jincai's memory seemed to be excellent, and he answered the specific numbers like a few treasures.

The purchase price of these precious banknotes ranges from 10 taels to [-] taels, and on average, it is about [-] taels a piece; if they are sold at the current market price of [-] taels, they can make a profit of nearly [-] taels.

Although Zhang Huijue already had an approximate figure in his heart, when he heard the specific amount, he still couldn't help sighing: "If all the treasures worth more than [-] taels were thrown into his hands, the consequences would be unimaginable..."

These words seemed to have awakened Zhang Mingche. He stood up suddenly, and punched the desk with a fist. His face had long since lost the indifference when he was sitting on the chair at first, but he squeezed some words out of his teeth sullenly. :
"It's such a vicious trick, even if I see something wrong now, I don't dare to tell anyone...

I don't know who set up this game! "

Zhang Huijue is not a stupid person, and immediately reacted:
The buying and selling of precious banknotes by the rich and powerful is generally carried out alternately; of course, some bolder people only buy but do not sell.

Therefore, in the capital today, there are hundreds or eighty rich and powerful hoarding banknotes; the wealth concentrated among them has reached an unimaginable level.

If at this time, if a person pops up and says that the purchase of treasure notes is a scam, there will be two possible situations:
First, just like the rally just now, everyone thought that this was to deceive them into selling valuable money to monopolize the big profits; they would only ridicule and reprimand these well-intentioned words.

Who would do such a thankless task?
In another situation, it is worse than thankless!
That is, after some powerful people believed it, they began to sell the precious banknotes in their hands, and then caused a chain reaction, making everyone feel insecure, and most of the powerful and powerful people rushed to sell the precious banknotes in their hands.

After losing confidence in holding these banknotes, the value of these banknotes will depreciate a lot in an instant; The value of banknotes will drop to the bottom in an instant.

Any dignitaries who do not sell their hands will definitely lose everything!
Now, in Zhang Huijue's eyes, holding precious banknotes has become a crumbling and dangerous building; if his family secretly withdraws his own board, the dangerous building can still be maintained, and his family can avoid losses.

If it spreads, it is very likely that everyone will be crushed to death by the dangerous building.

Everyone knows how to choose.

Dead friends, not dead poor!

He immediately understood why his father said that this was a poisonous plan, because everyone in the world seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, even if a few people see the loopholes in it, they dare not point it out at will.

It is a wise move to be alone!
"However, we may not be able to make a profit!"

After pondering for a while, Zhang Mingche spoke again.

"You take out [-] treasure notes, and from tonight, sell them quietly at the current market price, be careful to dress a little more secretly, and sell them over several days, so that no one will see through them;

In this way, if the 15 taels of silver are returned, my Zhang family can guarantee that it will not lose money!

And the remaining 7000 treasure notes are kept as pure profits. Since they want to make money from the price difference of treasure notes, they will inevitably set a higher price in the short term, and squeeze out a round of money in the end!
At that time, I threw out these more than 7000 banknotes, and I got more than I sold all of them now.

Since you can't save those pig-like officials and gentry, then consider getting another piece of the pie from the person who set up the situation!
When the money comes to us, it is also counted into our own pockets. "

As the butler and his son obeyed, Zhang Mingche had a sinister smile on his lips.

(End of this chapter)