Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 539 Pretend to be generous, but in fact it is hard to give up good fortune, and the thunderbolt arrests the national traitors and traitors!
After Chen Yu sent people to inform Xu Zhihu and others that they were going to do something, he brought the two officials of the county government office to the courtyard.

The proprietors of dozens of shops got up one after another when they saw them, and after Chen Yu stood still under the eaves, they bowed together and said, "I have seen the old parents of the county!"

Chen Yu smiled and said, "You are all polite, please sit down."

After finishing speaking, sit down on a grand teacher's chair first.

The merchants then took their seats.

Chen Yu said: "Everyone knows that the imperial court has a decree to reopen the mutual market with the northern captives. Although this move can also increase the court's tax revenue, the main thing is to hope that the merchants who are accustomed to doing mutual market business can continue to operate and benefit one side. "

After hearing this, no matter what the businessmen thought in their hearts, they all said yes.

Chen Yu said again: "Zhangjiakou is one of the important places for the exchange of trade between our Ming Dynasty and the northern captives. However, Laiyuan Fort has been established for 200 years, and it has been repeatedly destroyed by wars in recent years.

Therefore, the official hopes to rebuild and expand the scale of the horse market by the way to adapt to the increasingly prosperous business in Zhangjiakou.

This horse market was built for the big guys to do business, and the imperial court asked the big guys to show their hearts, isn't it too much? "

Hearing this, all the merchants breathed a sigh of relief, and thought: Sure enough, it was donated by the loser, so there is no problem.Isn't it just money? We have it, so we just give it away.

"Since it is rebuilding the horse market, I should pay for it."

"Yes, yes, for our good, who will pay if we don't pay?"

"The imperial court is so concerned about me waiting for the merchants in Zhangjiakou, if I don't pay for it, how can I live?"

"···"

For a while, all the businessmen expressed their opinions one after another, as if they were very willing to lose the donation.

Chen Yu smiled unchanged, and said: "Since you are all willing to pay for the rebuilding of the horse market, let's take advantage of the fact that we are all here today, and each report the number, so that I can ask someone to count."

After Chen Yu finished speaking, the first clerk next to him took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as if waiting to record the data.

The businessmen saw it and thought: It's really straightforward.

Immediately, the crowd did not open their mouths to report first, and most of them looked at Fan Yongdou faintly, obviously waiting for Fan Yongdou to report first.

This is the case in any place where the government allows local gentry and wealthy businessmen to lose donations. It is necessary to start with the most prestigious person and set a standard for others.

If other people report first, they may not be able to please the officials, but they will definitely offend the person who should have set the standard.

The Fan family has managed seven or eight generations in Zhangjiakou, and has become the most powerful business in Zhangjiakou, so everyone naturally looks up to him.

Under everyone's gaze, Fan Yongdou smiled slightly and said: "It's only natural for me to wait for the merchants to pay for the rebuilding of the horse market, so Fan asked him to make an example and pay 3000 taels."

After finishing speaking, he made a look of faint heartache.

The rest of the businessmen laughed secretly when they saw it.

Fan's business is now probably earning 10,000+ taels a year, or even tens of millions of taels.Now only 3000 taels have been sold, and you still have to pretend to be heartbroken. It's really... really a model for my generation of businessmen, and it's worth learning!

As a result, the proprietors of the Zhangjiakou business houses broke out in acting skills, showing all kinds of heartache and reluctance.

"Hey, although my family didn't do much business after several wars in the past few years, my old Wang's family must pay for the Jianma City. But my family is not as good as the Fan's family after all, so let's pay 800 taels."

The person who said this was Wang Xinke, the son of Wang Dengku, a shrewd looking fat man.

"My family's business has been losing money for three years, and it makes me cry. My family can only squeeze out 2000 taels of money to rebuild the horse market."

"This year, everyone is having a hard time... My Zhai family will pay 300 taels."

"... My Liang family paid 2000 taels."

"Hey, my Tian's family also gave two thousand... I'll ask someone to sell two shops to make up the money when I go back."

"···"

Seeing the proprietors of all the shops show off and wash their upper body, Chen Yu still smiled lightly, as if he hadn't been cheated, but he didn't care.

He has been in Zhangjiakou for more than a month without doing anything, and has been investigating the details of the merchants.Although I dare not say that I know the bottom line of all merchants now, I do know a lot.

As far as he knows, among these merchants, there are definitely not a few who secretly communicated with Qing captives and northern captives.

In the past times when the Qing and Northern captives invaded, these merchants suffered little damage, even very small.

Because the Jurchens and Mongols also need these merchants to help them deal with some of the property they robbed from the customs in exchange for some of the supplies they need.

Therefore, in the past two or three years, some of these companies may have been negatively affected by the war, but some of them had no bottom line, and they took advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money, earning ten times or a hundred times what they had in the past. money.

The proprietors of the 73 firms present were worth as little as 10 taels of silver, and most of them were worth hundreds of thousands or millions.Among them, such as the Fan family, the Wang family and other big Shanxi merchants, the family assets are likely to be tens of millions.

Although the construction of the horse market is not a big deal, these people first behaved generously, but when it came to paying money, they sold it miserably one by one.

Although the money was more than enough to build a regular horse market, it allowed Chen Yu to fully see the true colors of these merchants in Zhangjiakou-good fortune is hard to give up.

It is the nature of a businessman to seek profit, and he is not surprised.

Therefore, all the proprietors of the businesses reported their numbers, and Chen Yu stood up and bowed to all the proprietors, "As the parent officer of Zhangjiakou, today I will be on behalf of all the people of Zhangjiakou. Thank you all the proprietors for your generosity!"

"The old parents are polite!"

"How dare you be thanked by your old parents."

"This is all the money I should pay..."

For a while, all the proprietors stood up and returned the gift.

Chen Yu didn't sit down, but looked around at the crowd. After all the proprietors quieted down unconsciously, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and his face became serious.

"I believe that most of the merchants in Zhangjiakou are engaged in normal business operations, in order to support their families and even benefit one party. But—"

Seeing that Chen Yu's face changed, and he suddenly said something like this, and still stopped at the word "but", many proprietors suddenly showed nervousness and even panic.

Fan Yongdou also looked surprised, staring at Chen Yu nervously.

"However, some people have lost all conscience and betrayed the country. They not only sold the goods embargoed by me to the northern captives and the Qing captives, but even provided all kinds of information for the Qing captives and invaders. They are no different from traitors!
Everyone, tell me, is such a person worthy of being with you?Or, do they still deserve to live in this world? ! "

As soon as these words came out, it was like trying to see the poor.

Immediately, Fan Yongdou and other eight Shanxi merchants, as well as some business owners related to them, broke out in cold sweat, and even collapsed on the chairs.

While Fan Yongdou was horrified, he immediately gave the old servant who was following him a stern look.

The old servant knew it, and took advantage of Fan Yongdou's position closer to the eaves of the corridor, and suddenly rushed straight to Chen Yu, who was four or five steps away!
Although the old servant looked like he was five or sixty years old with gray hair, he stretched out his hands extremely vigorously, and his strikes were extremely fierce, obviously he was a seasoned man.

However, as soon as he moved, he was targeted by the people who had been staring at Fan Yongdou.

A bang shot.

The old servant froze in the pounce. The next moment, he saw the big bullet hole in his chest, and fell down unwillingly.

At the same time, countless frontier guards rushed in, armed with knives, bows and guns, and shouted——

"Don't move!"

"Move or die!"

"The frontier guards were ordered to arrest the traitors and traitors who were traitorous to the captives! The rest will not be held accountable!"

"···"

When Huang Degong's border guards took control of the scene with lightning speed, Fan Yongdou even wanted to make trouble.

He slammed the teacup at the proprietor of another business not far away, causing him to scream and cause confusion. Then he drew out a dagger and stabbed at Wang Xinke who was closest to him!
Wang Xinke was startled, and sat down on the ground, avoiding the knife instead.

Fan Yongdou wanted to make another move, but Jin Yiwei, who was disguised as Chen Yu's entourage, kicked him from behind and fell to the ground.

Immediately, he was firmly controlled by the Jin Yiwei.

Afterwards, Wang Xinke and other seven young masters of the big Shanxi merchants who cooperated with captives and betrayed the country were also captured one after another.

Those business owners who were related to them, or in other words, helped smuggle and sell stolen goods were no exception, and they were also arrested.

In the end, among the 73 business owners who came to participate in the meeting, only 31 were not arrested, less than half of them!
　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)