Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 75 Long Yan's Fury

A few days ago, Fan Sanba had received a letter from his father, Fan Yongdou, saying that his Fan family, a Shanxi merchant, had already surrendered to the Regent, and asked Fan Sanba to sell all the properties in the south as soon as possible, and then quickly evacuate the south and return to Shanxi.

However, Fan Sanba was greedy for short-term profits, so he thought of following the example of the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty to open a bank once, and then withdraw after collecting a wave of gold and silver, so as to make contributions in front of the regent.

Therefore, when Yang Mingshen threatened him, he didn't take it seriously.

"Fan Sanba, don't think that I don't know about the deeds that your Fan family and Jiannu did. They sold iron weapons and gunpowder, and even brought out the blueprints for firearms from Shenjiying. Now they want to take away Daming's money. You guys The Fan family is really a good servant of the Dorgon family!"

After Yang Mingshen said it angrily, Fan Sanba was not angry, but said with a smile: "It's all for making money and eating, your Yang family recognizes the Ming emperor as the master, our Fan family recognizes the regent prince as the master, and Mei Xiang worships the master." , they are all slaves, don’t say anything about anyone.”

"Okay, then don't blame me, Yang, for being rude!"

Yang Mingshen turned around and left as he said that, at this moment, Zhu Guobi, Duke of Baoguo, came out from the inside: "Wait a minute, Master Yang!"

"It turns out that you are here, too." Yang Mingshen had no choice but to restrain his anger and put on a smile.

The Duke of Baoguo, Zhu Guobi, didn't give Yang Ming a deep face, and his words were filled with anger: "Nowadays, you people don't pay attention to us, the royal relatives and relatives, Lu Zhenfei dares to ignore the Duke of the country, you little The little boss can still yell here now, to tell you the truth, half of this Daming Bank is owned by Mr. Fan, and the other half is owned by the government of the country, and your supervisor of ceremonies can open it, so why can’t the country make it public?"

Yang Mingshen didn't expect that the Duke of Bao, Zhu Guobi, had anything to do with the Daming Bank, but seeing that the Duke of Bao was very arrogant to him, Yang Mingshen didn't bother to say anything, he just cupped his hands and said, "It's up to the lower officials to decide whether to open it or not. When the time comes, Grandpa Guo will talk to Eunuch Han, who is in charge of ceremonies."

After saying that, Yang Mingshen left here.

And Baoguogong also shouted quite angrily: "Han Shoujing is a dead eunuch who just climbed up from the guard eunuch in Nanjing. What is my prince afraid of? You can tell him when you go back. His broken bank!"

Zhu Guobi, the Duke of the Baoguo, ignored the government affairs, and Han Shoujing, the supervisor of ceremonies, always took the initiative to reform the currency, so he didn't know that the central bank of the Ming Dynasty was led by the Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty.

But here, Yang Mingshen remembered this sentence.

As soon as Yang Mingshen came out, he saw his confidant running over: "My lord, Jin Yiwei has come to the headquarters of the central bank, should you go there immediately?"

"Jinyiwei!"

Yang Mingshen replied in surprise.

He was already in a bad mood because he was bullied by Zhu Guobi and Fan Sanba, Duke of Baoguo, and now he heard that Jin Yiwei dared to come to find fault, and his mood was even worse:

"These people are really looking for death and don't choose a good day. Even Jin Yiwei came to join in the fun. I really thought that I, Yang, opened this bank alone. Even Eunuch Han, it is impossible to let the Wang family, a giant merchant in Ningbo Mansion, come forward. If you offend His Majesty, let's see how you explain it!"

Yang Mingshen hurried back to the headquarters of the central bank as soon as he said that.

As soon as Yang Mingshen came to the headquarters of the central bank, he saw His Majesty Zhu Youjian sitting upstairs drinking tea in the private room with a solemn expression.

Being good at observing words and expressions, he naturally guessed that maybe His Majesty already knew about this.

Thinking of the arrogance of Duke Bao Zhu Guobi and Fan Sanba again, Yang Mingshen decided to exaggerate his behavior to make His Majesty Long Yan furious, and he also used this to take revenge on the Fan family.

So Yang Mingshen slapped himself twice on the face with a whip, and then slammed his elbow against the corner of the wall.

The painful Yang Mingshen burst into tears on the spot, and fell to the ground, crawling and walking, crying:
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry for you, the Fan family is too deceitful, relying on the backing of Duke Bao, they opened a bank against their will, and even threatened to smash the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty. This is your Majesty's bank! They don't take you seriously."

Yang Mingshen climbed up, then prostrated himself in front of Zhu Youjian, told Zhu Youjian the arrogance of Fan Sanba and Baoguo Gong Zhu Guobi, and also reported Fan Sanba's crime of building slaves.

Zhu Youjian rubbed his forehead, feeling rather depressed. Once this kind of violation of his will and obvious crime came out, Yang Mingshen actually thought of reasoning instead of reporting to Han Shoujing and himself.

This made Zhu Youjian very speechless to Yang Mingshen: "Have you finished?"

Yang Mingshen nodded.

"Come on, pull it down first, give me thirty lashes!"

Zhu Youjian gave an order.

Li Ruolian hurriedly summoned the captains of the two Jinyis to pull Yang Mingshen down, put him on the ground and started beating.

Yang Ming was stunned for a while, just now he was very excited to beat himself even though it hurt, but now he didn't understand why His Majesty beat him, and screamed in pain.

"You are not the grand lord of your Yang family now, you are the head of the household department, the vice president of the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty, you are an official of my Ming Dynasty, and you are the disciple of the Son of Heaven. What qualifications does he, that bastard Fan Sanba have? Talking to you, if you encounter this matter in the future, you should report it to your superior first. If the matter is urgent, you can go directly to the palace to see me. Who told you to reason with others? You deserve it! I beat you today! !"

As soon as Zhu Youjian finished speaking, Wang Chengen also ran over, panting and said: "My servant has seen Your Majesty!"

"It's the same for you, give yourself thirty slaps, someone is issuing counterfeit money in the market, disrupting the order of my business in Ming Dynasty! What do you do as the admiral of the East Factory?"

Zhu Youjian snorted as he spoke.

"Yes!"

Wang Chengen slapped himself thirty times before prostrating on the ground and explaining:

"The servant girl also just learned that there are many officials and gentry running private banks and minting silver coins privately. The servant girl knew about the matter and prepared to write a document and also serve as the governor of Nanzhili, Mr. Luge, and let him come forward to resolve the matter."

"I don't understand the rules. I have already stated that the Central Bank of Daming is owned by the inner court. And you, Dongchang, are dedicated to the security and stability of Daming territory. Someone disrupted the order of our Daming business and used bad coins to drive out good ones. The Dongchang will kill the bad ones and arrest the bad ones." businessman's responsibility;

In addition, although it is Jinyiwei’s business to eliminate traitors and collect intelligence abroad, it is also your responsibility to eradicate the traitors and traitors in the Ming Dynasty. Since Fan Sanba is the son of Fan Yongdou, and he has long been suspected of being a slave by Li Tong, What are you Dongchang doing to make him arrogant until now!
There is also Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, who is he, a relative of the emperor, does he really think that Nanjing City belongs to him?
Last time Lu Zhenfei mentioned in the court that he served officers and soldiers, you people in the East Factory didn't check it out, it can be seen that you are negligent in your duty!
For the time being, because you have just returned to Nanjing, you will not be sentenced to death;

But in the future, if I see these youngsters disturbing the law and order in Daming, I will chop off your head first and then clean up Dongchang!

Don't think that if you are an old minister who followed me to the south, I won't do anything to you! "

(End of this chapter)