Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 761

Fang Jun picked Wang Yuan out without saying a word, and the huge sum of 60 taels was shared equally from four families to three families. Wang Yuan was so moved that he almost knelt down to Fang Jun and shouted "Hou! Lord mighty"...

Not only that, because the theft of the navy wood was the result of the discussion of the whole Wang family, Wang Yu'an took the blame for the family, and Fang Jun would definitely not pursue this matter again.What's more, Wang Shangshang attacked Fang Jun's navy before, but now it seems that it is not irreversible.

Wang Yu'an's "abandoning the dark and turning to the bright" can be regarded as a great contribution to the Langya Wang family!
But the other three quit...

Obviously, the four families were arrested together, and more than four families were involved in the incident. They just came forward, and there are more behind the scenes. Why did it become three now?The four families share 60 taels equally, and 15 taels per family is also an astronomical figure, but each family is well-off, so it's not that they can't afford it.Now there are three out of four, and 15 has become 20, and an extra 5 taels has to be taken out of thin air!
5 taels of silver, roughly equivalent to [-] copper coins.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty’s “Zuyong Tiao” system was still used—the land was awarded by the government, and each dynasty received two stones of millet per year, which was only equivalent to the output of one or two mu of land, while each dynasty usually received dozens of acres of land, hundreds of Mu, the tax rate is equivalent to the "Thirty Tax One" in the Han Dynasty, or even lighter.In case of natural disasters, rent adjustment can be reduced or exempted.However, aristocratic families occupy a large amount of land and rent it out. The rent paid by the tenants is several times the tax rate of the imperial court, and sometimes even five times.

In the era when commerce was not booming, this was also the main source of income for the aristocratic family.

However, since the fifth or sixth year of Zhenguan, the rice has been abundant and the grain has been abundant. Although there are occasional disasters, it does not affect the harvest across the country. Therefore, the price of wood is extremely low, and a bucket of rice is only three or four dollars.

How much land rent do you get if you take out [-] guan in vain?

What about 20 guan?
The wealth of aristocratic families relies on the accumulation of generations, and those who get rich overnight are not considered as aristocratic families!

20 is almost the savings of a generation.

This is simply a bloody tear from the heart...

Zhu Qu is the most greedy for money, why would he give away tens of thousands more for the Wang family?Immediately argued: "It is obvious that the four families are together, why is Hou Ye so partial? Could it be that just because this spineless guy is working for you, is he slandering us like this?"

Fang Jun rolled his eyes, thinking, are you stupid?

It's clear that I'm slandering you!
He looked at the fat man, and said lightly: "You mean that the Marquis has falsely accused you? Oh, let the Marquis think about it, the eldest grandson seems to have been with the Marquis just now..."

Zhu Qu's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly shouted: "No! Master Changsun is with us, we are in the same group..."

Now that you have taken Wang Yuan out, four families will become three, and 15 will change to 20. If you take out Changsun Man again, wouldn't it be three to two, 20 to 30?
What a joke!
It would be better to kill him with one knife!
Changsun Man glared at Zhu Qu!

This bastard, betraying his accomplices is so fun, just to save 10 taels of silver?

Simply inhuman!
Fang Jun beckoned, asked the soldiers to bring paper and pens, and said: "Hurry up, it's almost dawn, you all write down the papers first, and then send people home to get the money. When the money arrives, I will send you back immediately. Family."

What is there to say now?

Xiao Ming and his eldest grandson were full of dissatisfaction, but they had to sign and pledge.

Holding a pen, Zhu Qu looked at the white paper in front of him that said "Existing Jiangdong Zhuqu embezzled 20 taels of silver from Fang Jun. What he said is groundless, and this is the evidence", his heart was throbbing. ...

After signing this, 20 pens will be gone.

Zhu Qu was sweating profusely, hesitating and unable to make up his mind, he suddenly raised his head and said, "Master Hou, there are a total of 60 taels of silver in the bottom of your cabin, even those iron ingots... those were embezzled by us, but there is still the top one." One floor is no less than 10 taels, you should let us pay back 50 taels, it shouldn’t be 60 taels..."

The miser!

Fang Jun stared and said, "If the Marquis said that 10 taels of gold were missing, do you believe it?"

Zhu Qu was dumbfounded, how could Shameless be so confident?

But now, he is really afraid that Fang Jun will add another 10 taels of gold... and quickly sign and pledge.

The eldest grandson said disdainfully: "Ignorant idiot! You have a knife on your neck, what else do you have to say? You can write as much as you want. If you offend this stick, you will be escorted to Beijing. You will cry to death." !"

Isn't that the reason?

The Jiangnan nobles have always resisted His Majesty Li Er's meddling in Jiangnan, and they have already angered His Majesty Li Er.Not long ago, he did a good job in Niuzhuji, and His Majesty Li Er, who was so angry, even wanted to mobilize the twelve guards who defended Gyeonggi to go south to suppress the rebellion. At this time, Fang Jun sent him under the eyes of His Majesty Li Er. Bear the wrath of the emperor?

This Zhu Qu really fell into Qian's eye, stupidly unable to see the situation clearly!

How did you find such a person to partner with in the first place?
Really blind...

After the paper was written, everyone wrote a letter from home. Fang Jun sent people to send it to their respective homes, and asked each family to redeem the person with money. When the money was released, the paper was destroyed.

Since he slaughtered him like a fat sheep, Fang Jun was naturally not stingy with some food. All kinds of pastries, vegetables, melons and fruits were always on the battleship, and people took them out and filled them on the table, and greeted the three of them with a smile on their faces.

How could the three of them have the heart to eat?Being cheated by Fang Jun will definitely become the laughing stock of Jiangnan from now on. Although 20 guan is a huge sum of money, the children of these aristocratic families will not be unable to take it out. The most important face has been stripped clean. I was extremely depressed, even if the peaches of the Queen Mother of Mountain and Sea Delicacy were placed in front of me, I didn't have any appetite.

Of course, Zhu Qu's thoughts are completely opposite to those of Xiao Ming and Changsun Man. In his opinion, face counts as a ball?Money is the most important thing, he would rather have his face trampled on the ground by Fang Jun, and leave the money to him...

The three of them were dejected, and sat there without saying a word, greeting all eighteen generations of Fang Jun's ancestors in their hearts. If there were not too many soldiers here, they would have jumped up and stabbed the bastard with a knife.

Fang Jun, however, was in a good mood. He ate a few pieces of pastries with tea, rinsed his hands, looked at his eldest grandson and said with a smile: "Xiao Xianzun and brother Zhu Qu are both local tyrants, hundreds of thousands are nothing to worry about, but the eldest grandson My family is far away in Chang'an, so I don't know where Young Master Changsun raised the money?"

The eldest grandson Man snorted, drooping his eyelids: "You don't need to worry about it, of course there will be no shortage of your money." After saying that, he closed his eyes and fell asleep, and never talked to Fang Jun again.

Fang Jun was quite surprised. Although he knew that the Changsun family had business dealings with the gentry in Jiangnan, and the Changsun family's iron factory had already begun to deploy Jiangnan, but the foundation of the Changsun family must be far away in Guanzhong. Could it be that such a large sum of money was transferred to Jiangnan ?
But I don't care too much, as long as Zhang Sunman takes out the money, as for where it came from, it has nothing to do with him...

At this moment, he was leisurely eating cakes and drinking tea, but he didn't know that the whole Haiyu City had exploded.

*****
Zhu's, Xiao's, and Changsun's warehouses in the south of the Yangtze River respectively received letters saying that they would immediately transfer 20 guan in silver, and they were shocked.

This is so good, how did he owe such a huge debt?
However, these families are also shrewd people. Look at the word "ow" in the letter that seems to contain countless grievances, and then think about the action of selling wood tonight, and the extremely coincidental amount of "60" silver, you will know this. Something must have gone wrong...

The person was detained in Fang Jun's hands, and the written evidence had already been written, so the debt would definitely not be repudiated.It's just that 20 in cash for each family is not a small amount, and it's really not all raised for a while, and they are all in a hurry.

But every family is holding back their energy, mobilizing cash from the nearest ones, turning over to people with good relationships, and even mortgage their property to the bank, desperately wanting to raise all the money and redeem their children.Otherwise, if the other two ransomed him away, but the family failed to raise money for a while and the children were detained in Fang Jun's hands, the damage to the family's reputation should not be underestimated.

Everyone else has raised all the money, but your family doesn't have it. Could it be that your family can't do it?

The gentry who have been established for hundreds of years have long been unfathomable. No one can make false claims that they are better than others. The superficial things become the key to the battle.

And as the wood was escorted by the navy to Huangxiepu, a large number of boatmen returned to the pier, and several big families joined forces to steal the navy's wood and then failed to sell it. Instead, Fang Jun demanded a huge sum of 60 yuan. The news seems to have grown wings in Haiyu City Crazy rumors...

　Still working hard, there will be another update in a while.

　
(End of this chapter)