The eldest son of the red mansion

Thinking of this, Li Deshan suddenly realized another thing, this year's tribute of three or four million taels from the salt merchants has not yet been sent to the palace.

In the past, these silver taels were naturally put into the emperor's internal treasury, but now these silver taels should also be transferred to their master Yan Wang's mansion.

After Li Deshan had this awareness, he immediately reminded Jia Ke, "Master, every year the salt merchants pay 400 taels of silver to the emperor. This year, the silver hasn't been delivered yet."

When Jia Ke heard about it, "When did the money get delivered?"

"If you return to the master, it should be sent here before the Chinese New Year."

After hearing this, Jia Ke showed a sneer on his face, "It seems that these salt merchants don't take me seriously."

Li Deshan had already seen that Jia Ke was very angry, so he stood aside and didn't dare to say a word, he was really afraid that Jia Ke would vent his anger.

"Li Deshan, send someone to tell the salt merchants that last year's tribute increased to 500 million taels, and they will be sent to the capital within a month. If I don't see the silver by then, don't blame me for being rude."

After hearing this, Li Deshan quickly agreed.

"Since salt merchants are filial, are Shanxi and Huizhou merchants filial?"

"Back to the master, this slave has never heard of it."

"Since the salt merchants have made filial piety, we can't favor one another. You ask Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants to give me 200 million taels of silver each from this year."

Li Deshan was also a little startled after hearing this, he didn't understand why Jia Ke wanted so much money every year?

In fact, Jia Ke had some things he couldn't tell Li Deshan. Jia Ke collected these silver taels not for his own enjoyment, but because he wanted to launch the Northern Expedition in a few years and completely defeat the Tatars.

If Jia Ke wanted to realize this wish, at least he would mobilize nearly a million people and various folks, and the silver taels needed from now on would be a sea of ​​money.

It is obviously not enough to rely on the taxes collected every year. Now, after collecting some silver taels from these big businessmen and saving for a few years, everything will come out.

Jia Ke sat on the dragon chair, thought for a while, and felt that the price of salt in the north could not be allowed to rise like this, otherwise, the people's hearts might be lost.

"You go to the salt factory in the south of the Yangtze River and send the salt to the north immediately to stabilize the price of salt. This time, you don't have to go through the salt merchants, and they will be responsible directly. pay for their hard work."

Li Deshan nodded quickly after listening. These salt merchants played too much this time, no wonder their master left them to make their own decisions.

And if it succeeds this time, the court and their masters can share more money, why not do it?

"You go to pass the decree and tell those salt merchants that this year's annual tax cannot be reduced by a cent. If the imperial court's salt tax is shortened, then I can only renew a batch of salt merchants."

This year, Jia Ke not only cannot reduce the salt tax by one point, but also increased a lot of tribute to the court in the past. This is also to give those salt merchants some color, let them know that their arms can't twist their thighs, and be honest. Stay, or you'll all be replaced.

Jia Ke then said to Li Deshan: "I don't think the matter behind this is so simple. The Military Aircraft Department did not report to me for such a big matter. In the future, your people will feel a little bit sad about these memorials, otherwise I will I’m really going to be made deaf and blind by these elders.”

After hearing this, Li Deshan nodded quickly: "Master, today I will replace all the eunuchs serving in the military aircraft department with secret guards."

"In the future, all the memorials of the Military Aircraft Department will be copied by your secret guards, so as to save me from being deceived by these people."

After hearing this, Li Deshan immediately agreed, he was inexplicably surprised, how much more powerful was he now?

Chapter 627 Tribute

Compared with the memorial, Jia Ke was not very worried, because he knew that the ministers were not so courageous now.

Now Jia Ke is most worried about money instead, because it is related to his major event of rectifying the world in the future: "You should pay more attention to the matter of money."

Although Li Deshan didn't know what Jia Ke wanted so much money for, but since the master ordered it, he, a slave, naturally had to fully support it.

Soon Jia Ke's order was passed to the hands of the three business leaders.

After receiving Jia Ke's letter, the Shanxi merchants headed by George Yong immediately summoned the top figures among the Shanxi merchants to gather in Qiao's courtyard.

These bigwigs in the business world sat there asking each other, this time George Yong called everyone over, what is the big deal to discuss.

As a result, one or two of them were really well-informed. As soon as they spread what they knew, like these people, they immediately caused an uproar among the outstanding Shanxi merchants.

In the previous imperial courts, it has never been heard that serious businessmen like them would be asked for money every year, and Jia Ke had set a precedent.

While they were yelling there, George Yong entered the hall from the back house. He was a little displeased with the lively scene below, and patted the guard on the table.

Everyone looked up and saw that George Yong had arrived, so they quickly shut up.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, George Yong sat down on the middle seat, then cupped his hands towards the bottom and said, "It seems that everyone has understood that this time King Yan ordered us to pay 200 million taels of silver every year. What charter do you have?"

The people below were still making noise just now, but now after hearing George Yong's question, no one spoke up. After all, this is not a trivial matter. good.

Seeing that they were silent, George Yong stood up and said, "I know, everyone is reluctant to part with money, but our backers in the court are all fed under Jia Ke's hands, and even they are fed, but they are not given to them." Jia Ke has a little benefit, how can he agree to it."

As soon as Qiao Zhiyong finished speaking, the business leaders below began to discuss. George Yong was right, and there were not a few court officials who had supported him. There is no one tael of silver to pay tribute, and now Jia Ke asks for silver, if they dare not agree, it may be a catastrophe.

Qiao Zhiyong saw that the direction of the wind below had changed, so he said: "I mean, let's just scrape together 200 million taels of silver and give it to him. It can be regarded as spending money to avoid disaster. I don't know what you think."

Although the others were a little reluctant after hearing this, since good fortune is hard to part with, their arms couldn't twist their thighs after all, so they had no choice but to agree.

Qiao Zhiyong was relieved when he agreed, and then said generously: "This time, our Qiao family pays 50 taels of silver every year, which can be considered as a share of everyone's worries, and the rest can't be shared by everyone. How difficult it is."

The merchants below were relieved after hearing this. After all, as the leader of Shanxi Merchants, George Yong got the most money this time.

Seeing these people discussing for a long time, George Yong finally distributed the silver taels that each family had to donate, so he was relieved, and then said: "Everyone will send the silver to my house within three days, and I ordered someone to open the silver taels." Send the ticket to the mansion of King Yan Qiantui, so that King Yan Qiantui can directly pick it up from the ticket number in the capital."

After the Shanxi merchants finished their discussions here, they acted immediately, and within a few days, a silver note of 200 million taels was delivered to Jia Ke's case.

Looking at the banknote in front of him, Jia Ke couldn't help but nodded. This Shanxi merchant is indeed the leader of the three major merchant gangs. He moves quickly and has bright eyes.

Jia Ke took the banknote and said to Li Deshan who was next to him, "You took the banknote to those bank numbers of Shanxi Merchants, bring the money back to me. I'm always worried about putting the money in other people's hands."

After hearing this, Li Deshan quickly took the banknote, and then patted his chest to promise that the silver would be sent to the bank of Yanwang Mansion tonight.

Most of Jia Ke's Yanwang Mansion has been repaired now, and there are still many exquisite buildings that have not been completed. However, such an important position as the Bank has been repaired in advance and has been put into use.

Although Bao Shufang of the Huizhou merchants was much slower than the Shanxi merchants, he finally escorted the silver to the capital and delivered it to Jia Ke.

Seeing that the two big merchant gangs were subdued, Jia Ke focused all her eyes on the salt merchant.

Besides, after Wang Yinggeng got the message from Jia Ke, he jumped up and down anxiously.At first, she thought that the emperor was dead, and the silver taels would not need to be paid as tribute. So some time ago, his master was in urgent need of money, so he sent the silver to the master first. Unexpectedly, Jia Ke thought of this again, which made him How does he scrape together the money.

It is indeed possible to ask him to collect some more silver taels from other salt merchants, but he cannot collect twice for one piece of money. He has already collected the tribute of these salt merchants in the name of the emperor as in previous years. Let's get up, now if he takes him again as the leader of the salt merchants, he will not be able to keep his position as the leader of the salt merchants, and he will be attacked by these salt merchants at that time.

To say that Wang Yinggeng is also rich and powerful, if he is against one or two salt merchants, he is sure to win, but if he is against almost all salt merchants, then he does not have that ability.

Wang Yinggeng couldn't solve it by himself, so he had to go to his master for help.

After receiving Wang Yinggeng's letter, the young master felt his heart beat faster. He had already analyzed from the news that Jia Ke had already doubted Wang Yinggeng. This time, he seemed to want money, but actually It's testing.

That young man was not given for nothing, until now he could only cut off his tail to survive. If he confronted Jia Ke and made Jia Ke angry, I am afraid that some clues would come out and let him find out about himself.

This young man is still not sure about Jia Ke's attitude towards him, so he dare not take any risks.