Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

At the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, in front of Xianhe Gate.

Not far from the royal gardens, there is an elegant house.

Fushui Villa.

This is the private courtyard of Wang Ranming, the leader of Huizhou merchants.

Yesterday evening, Wang Ranming hosted a banquet at Qianhu for Duke Wei Xu Jiujue, Duke Bao Zhu Guobi, Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, bachelor Wang Duo, bachelor Cai Yichen, Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi and others.

Who is Wang Ranming?

This man is the richest man in Huizhou merchants. He has decorated more than a dozen flower boats in a magnificent way, and is known as an outstanding person who "does not tie the garden".

Qian Qianyi, Chen Jiru, Dong Qichang, Wu Weiye, Zhang Dai, Li Yu, Chen Hongshou... a large number of cultural celebrities, from time to time enjoy fine wine and food in "Bu Xiyuan", exchange ideas, and spend the night with beautiful women...

Liu Rushi, Wang Xiuwei, Yang Yunyou, Huang Yuanjie... all fell in love with Jiangnan scholars in Buxie Garden.

It can be said that Wang Ranming was the largest "prostitute and socialite" packaging boss in the late Ming Dynasty.

Wang Ranming came to them for a drink, and a great deal was accomplished in a romantic and romantic period.

Wang Ranming didn't spend a lot of effort, just a meal of wine and a few books, and successfully won a business:

——The tax money of Hongguang Chaotang was transported through Wang Ranming.

In other words, a meal of wine and a group of beauties gave Wang Ranming the right to use tens of millions of taels of silver.

Even if these free money is not used to lay eggs, as long as it is loaned out, it will earn 400 million taels of interest if it changes hands!

When facing these court bosses, drinking is naturally inevitable.

Before Wang Ranming woke up from a hangover, the butler Wang Lunnan came in a hurry.

"Master, it's not good!"

Wang Ranming was hungover and had a splitting headache after being woken up.

The maid who was accompanying him quickly brought some sour plum soup and gave it to Wang Ranming.

After drinking a bowl of the refreshing, sweet and sour plum soup, Wang Ranming felt better.

He waved his servants to leave, while rubbing his temples, he said dissatisfiedly:

"What's the proper way to yell?"

"Master, the news I just received is that Emperor Ming has used more than [-] ships of supplies to compete with us!"

“Three hundred ships?

Ha~! "

Wang Ranming sneered:

"Zhu Youjian has just arrived in Chudi, and he hasn't even stood firm yet. Three hundred ships are broken, why are you panicking?"

The Dog Emperor is quite powerful. Is a boat as valuable as mine?

whispering sound!

It’s just a thing to scare people!

Seeing that the head of the family was not taking it seriously, Wang Lun said anxiously:

"Sir, the boys have investigated clearly. There are more than a dozen ships of sugar alone! The rest are mostly yarn and other items, and the total value is probably in the tens of millions!"

“Young man, I’ve heard that the amount of sugar is said to be as high as 3000 kilograms, and the number of spindles is [-] million!

This is what we have proven. As for the rest, I’m afraid it’s not cheap!

Master, Emperor Ming is coming with great force, and at this juncture, we must be on guard! "

"One hundred thousand pounds of sugar?"

Although one hundred thousand catties of candy is only ten thousand taels of silver, it is not as much as holding an oiran.

However, the level of [-] kilograms is too scary!

The Dog Emperor is coming to cut off his roots!

Just imagine, once the Dog Emperor takes away the sugar market and uses it as a base to gradually advance, then merchants like them will be doomed!

Not to mention, the Dog Emperor came with a yarn spindle!

Hui people spread all over the country, collecting cotton from all over the country and selling it in weaving workshops around Songjiang. This was also a big way to make money.

Around Songjiang, there are large weaving workshops with thousands of people. They have formed a business model in which they do not produce cotton themselves and purchase cotton from other places to weave it into cloth.

Once this road is cut off, the Dog Emperor's hand will definitely go deeper!

For merchants like Huizhou, this was a bolt from the blue!

Huizhou's output is not abundant, and merchants mostly start as second-hand traders. These trade routes are the foundation of Huizhou merchants.

There is no room for error!

The Dog Emperor actually spent 3000 million spindles of cotton yarn?

God!

Wang Ranming sobered up immediately and said anxiously:

"Is the news true?"

Wang Lunnan nodded: "I have confirmed it several times.

These things were originally placed in Wuchang.

Earlier, the news that Xiao Xiao discovered was prepared as supplies to be exchanged for food with Zuo Liangyu.

But I don’t know why, the morning before yesterday, these ships went eastward with the current. "

One hundred thousand kilograms of sugar and 3000 million spindles of cotton yarn!

Wang Ranming frowned.

Last night, the courtiers had informed him of the court's movements.

The Qing Dynasty in the north wanted to take action against Li Zicheng. As long as Li Zicheng died, on the premise of this great achievement, the legitimacy of the Hongguang Dynasty would no longer be questioned.

From this point of view, it is in Jiangnan's interest for the Qing Dynasty to kill Li Zicheng.

In order to gain as much "fame" from it as possible, the imperial court has decided to send Gao Jie out of Henan...

Even if they don't pursue Li Zicheng, they still have to give the illusion that the imperial court is participating in the battle to destroy Shun.

The common people are blind. As long as the publicity is good, when the time comes - the good reputation of avenging the king's father will belong to Jiangnan!

However - Zhu Youjian's existence is the biggest threat.

In order to deal with Zhu Youjian and at Dorgon's request, the courtiers decided to hold Zhu Youjian back and provide Dorgon with a good external environment to destroy Shun.

Under such a plan, various government treasuries sent the tax revenue that had been withheld for many days to Nanjing.

The courtiers prepared to purchase armaments and advance into the Huangzhou area to force Zhu Youjian.

To put it bluntly, what Zhu Youjian took out was just a drop in the bucket for the Jiangnan gentry!

Not to mention the whole of Jiangnan, the Huizhou merchants alone can eat it effortlessly.

but……

Being able to eat it is one thing.

To eat or not to eat is another matter!

Who is willing to use their own money to protect Zhu Yousong from disaster?

Even if he, Wang Ranming, wanted to eat the goods worth tens of millions of dollars, it would be very painful!

You know, net worth is net worth, cash money is cash money!

I'm afraid only a nouveau riche bumpkin from the Zheng family in Fujian could do it without breaking the bank.

Most of their assets are entities...

Let yourself realize your assets and stop Zhu Youjian...

Even though Zhu Youjian was planning to rob the wealthy gentry's base, the Jiangnan market, they were unwilling to...

……

The Jiangnan gentry who made their fortune by harming national interests wanted them to spit out the money they had eaten...

you are dreaming!

Don't forget, Nuo's large northern market only needs to invest tens of millions of taels of food to stabilize it.

The gentry are sitting back and doing nothing, allowing the north to be desolate!

Not to mention the current scene!

……

Wang Ranming became confused.

Before last night, he would have been happy to see the joke.

The two brothers Zhu Youjian and Zhu Yousong fought hard, and maybe he could still benefit from it!

But, it's different now!