Crossing the Swordsman: Lin Pingzhi, the Swordsman of Evil

Chapter 558

Things are like this.

Originally, Yuan Qianhu brought more than 50 people there, just to save face for the new leader, and he had no other intentions.

But as soon as they arrived at the outskirts of Fanji Bank, some people ran away in a hurry.

Out of professional sensitivity, these brocade guards quickly chased after them.

The martial arts of these people are not bad, but the martial arts of the Jinyiwei are even higher, and they arrest these people who escaped for no reason.

But with a hundred secrets and a sparse one, one of them escaped in the end.When they came to Fanji Bank, they saw that Fanji Bank caught fire for no reason.

Then many people started to flee.

Although the group of Jin Yiwei were a little confused, they didn't know what happened.But out of professional sensitivity, they always feel that this Fanji Bank has a ghost in its heart.

After all, people who have no ghosts in their hearts don't need to be so afraid of them.It's fine if there is a whistleblower, but I didn't expect to meet a fire dragon burning the warehouse.

Immediately, Yuan Qianhu rushed into the bank first with a few hundred households who were highly skilled in martial arts.Fortunately, they came quickly, the fire had just ignited, and it was easily extinguished by them.

And what these people ignited was the current accounts of the bank, although some were burned.But most of them have been preserved.

Yuan Qianhu and a few others stayed in the bank to sort out the accounts that were about to be burned, while the other Jin Yiwei began to arrest the people in the bank.

Moreover, Jin Yiwei fired the sounding arrows they carried with them, and they immediately mobilized Shuntian Mansion and Gyeonggi Camp, and immediately blocked the four gates of the capital.

Now the entire capital is only allowed to enter but not to exit.No one is allowed to leave until Beizhen Fusi lifts the blockade.

Yuan Qianhu and the others looked at those accounts, and then couldn't help frowning.

These burned accounts are the details of Fanji Bank's transactions with the Jurchens outside the pass.

This Fanji bank is the bank account of Shanxi merchant Fan's family.

The two richest types of people since ancient times.

Hyundai is a coal boss in Shanxi and a real estate speculator in Wenzhou.

Shanxi Coal Boss and Wenzhou Consortium are the two richest types of people.

But it is similar in this era. One of the richest merchants in the world is a salt merchant in Jianghuai, and the other is a Shanxi merchant.

Although Fuwei Escort is the largest Escort in the world.The Lin family is also quite wealthy, and all the family properties add up to one million 10 taels of silver.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, the Lin family can already be regarded as "a wealthy party".But their Lin family's property is compared with salt merchants and Shanxi merchants.Not even middle class.

After all, the salt merchants in Yangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou have hundreds of people with a family property of millions.

If you talk about the real wealth of the world, it should be Shanxi merchants.

The later generations of Shanxi merchants, the Qiao family, were able to afford the war reparations for the entire country on their own.

And now Shanxi merchants are not giving up too much.

There are eight richest Shanxi merchants in the world, and the first among them is the Fan family, the owner of the bank.

After seeing these accounts, Lin Pingzhi was very happy, but also very angry.

The happy thing is that he can deal with Nurhachi ahead of schedule.What is angry is that these Shanxi merchants are already rich enough to rival the country, but they are still not satisfied. It would be fine if they squeezed and exploited the people.But they are doing all kinds of traitorous activities.

And the targets of their all-out betrayal are Nurhachi outside the pass, Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Dongying, and Yang Yinglong who is rebelling in Banzhou.There are also the Mongols whose rebellion was put down a few years ago.

According to the accounts seized by Yuan Qianhu and others, the eight major Shanxi merchants, including the Fan family, had trade relations with these rebels.

The things they traded were all fine salt, pig iron, feather arrows, brass, and even gunpowder that were banned by the imperial court.

And they can exchange these things from Nurhachi for precious furs, ginseng and other items.Even in addition to transporting these prohibited materials, they also helped Nurhachi bribe court officials to reduce their pressure on Liaodong.

And it opened the door for them to smuggle these prohibited materials.

And the capital transactions of these things are all recorded in these accounts.

And it's the same for Yang Yinglong, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Mongols.

They sent some prohibited materials to these rebels, and exchanged their hands for the gold, silver and jewelry they captured from the city.

And again, it's not just these prohibited materials that they're selling.The most important thing is the intelligence of the Ming army and the deployment of troops.

But this is still not the scariest thing.

The most frightening thing is that these eight Shanxi merchants are currently the largest suppliers of imperial military supplies.They can calculate the actual military strength of the court based on how much supplies the court asks them.

Then they informed the traitors of all the key information and the coordinates of the logistics supply line.

Especially the Banzhou battle that is in full swing right now.

All the materials of the Ming army on the front line were provided by these eight Shanxi merchants.

Moreover, the supplies of the Ming army were robbed several times, and it was they who leaked confidential information to Yang Yinglong.

In exchange, the rebels under Yang Yinglong's command intercepted these materials and returned them to the Shanxi merchants.

Afterwards, these Shanxi merchants changed hands and sold the same batch of materials to the imperial court again, so as to make another sum of money.

Sometimes, even the same batch of supplies was sold to the imperial court five or six times by these Shanxi merchants.It can be described as a windfall.

Because the procurement of the imperial court needs to be approved by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households.

Therefore, although the branch of Fanji Bank in the capital is not very large, it is the most important thing.Therefore, all transactions are basically detailed here.

And the backer of Fanji Bank is the son of a cabinet bureaucrat. The son of this cabinet member gets a bonus of 10,000+ taels of silver from Fanji Bank every year.

Even though Fanji Bank lends money at usurious rates and forces good people to become prostitutes, because there is a yamen from Ge's hometown as the backstage, Shuntianfu and other capital officials dare not ask, let alone control.

After all, in the capital, an official is bigger than Shun Tian Fu Yin.

Shuntian Fu Yin can't afford to offend anyone, and no one dares to offend.Naturally, one thing more is worse than one thing less.Sometimes being a foolish official is at most dereliction of duty and finally being dismissed, and then the black hat on his head is taken off.

But if "nosy" offends someone who shouldn't be offended, maybe it's not just the black hat that's lost, but the head under the black hat.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen.In Dongchang, Jin Yiwei is usually high and high, so naturally he would not pay attention to these businessmen.

This time, if Lin Pingzhi hadn't used Beizhen Fusi's men and horses to go there for convenience, I'm afraid these traitorous bastards would not have been caught.

It's just that this unexpected gain is really too big, and it needs to be interrogated carefully before reporting to Emperor Wanli.

However, the interrogation did not go well, because Beizhen Fusi cracked down on this huge and important case by mistake.

As a result, many people who knew about it were killed or committed suicide.

Right now, those who are being held tightly in Fusi's jail are all small fish and shrimps.The only big fish left right now is the accountant of Fanji Bank.

The accountant was stabbed by a dead man, and his life is hanging by a thread, and he is being rescued by the doctor of the Zhenfu Department.

(End of this chapter)