The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

Cao Yong once again made an appointment with the big salt merchants: "There is another batch of sea salt, fine salt, isn't it a surprise? Come, let's see how you divide it?"

He is no longer talking about buying and selling, he just divides the goods.

And the attitude is very tough, but they encountered a supply and marketing contract by chance, and if they didn't buy sea salt, he would find someone else to take over the batch of fine salt.

"How many?" Boss Yang no longer had the arrogant and domineering attitude he had before.

"Twice as much as last time." Cao Yong said: "And it's all fine salt, snow white fine salt!"

Boss Yang felt like vomiting blood.

Several other big salt merchants also looked disheveled. They were already hurt, but they still had to swallow this batch of fine salt.

If the first few batches had been fine salt and these batches had been coarse salt, they wouldn't have swallowed it.

But at this moment, if you don't swallow it, you will lose this source of supply, the source of the salt industry that they have grasped for two or three generations.

If the source is lost, they will also lose the power to control the salt industry!

So, they desperately want to swallow the salt.

"Okay!" Boss Yang nodded, and the others also decided to give up.

Then, Cao Yong received another sum of money, and the group of big salt merchants had a small meeting when they went back: "This is not going to work! Even if we can use the money, the warehouse will explode."

The construction of the warehouse of the salt industry is very particular. It must be on a high terrain and have a good waterproof effect, otherwise the salt will melt when it encounters water.

"Yeah, if we continue to accept it like this, we will liquidate our positions, and we won't have much cash left."

"How can there be so much sea salt?"

"Yes!"

A dozen people gathered together, no matter where the big salt merchants were, they were all frowning.

"We can't go on like this, we will be exhausted!" Boss Li suggested: "Why don't you talk to Master Xiao Cao?"

"Don't forget, we signed the contract, and there are fourteen Baylors as guarantors." They can dismiss the Cao family, and even Cao Yong himself, but fourteen Baylors can't do it, and now thirty thousand troops are stationed it's here.

If one is not done well, ruining one's family and property is trivial. If one is reduced to exile for thousands of miles, or even ransacked one's home as a slave, it is really hard to die.

"Nowadays, we can only hold on. I don't believe it. Our salt merchants are so rich that we can't buy so much sea salt. Even if they boil salt day and night, how much sea water can they boil." Boss Yang gritted his teeth: "Wait We bought all the sea salt and see what else they can do to produce salt."

He also thought that sea salt came from the old method of cooking salt by the sea. In fact, the sea salt is not boiled salt, but sun-dried salt.

Cao Yong prepared for two years!

Preparations are made in the first year, salt is produced in the second year, and in the third year, he sells salt here and produces continuously.

He planned to kill the big salt merchants all at once, then the salt merchants, then the small salt merchants, and finally, he simply contacted the salt merchants directly, and the salt price would definitely come down.

If everyone can afford salt, they will have the strength to work and earn more money.

When the big salt merchants were in a state of desperation.On the second day, Cao Yong called them again: "There is still a batch of salt, and it will arrive soon."

"puff!"

"Pfft! Pfft"

"Puff puff!"

Many people sprayed the tea in their mouths.

Not to mention spraying water, several big salt merchants who took the lead were even in the mood of spraying blood: "Why are there another batch?"

"I can't help it. Lord Long Live went to see the navy, and they went crazy. They poured out sea salt to prove that the navy is capable." Cao Yong conveniently threw the scapegoat to the navy.

Anyway, their navy is at sea, and these people can't find it if they want to find it.

"Okay, we'll take it!" Several people had already gritted their teeth.

Several faces turned pale.

In turn, these people began to borrow money from the bank and mortgage their ancestral property.

In fact, they are fields. The fields in the south of the Yangtze River are very valuable. They are all high-quality paddy fields. They produce rice, and they can grow a crop of winter wheat in winter.

In ancient times, only grain was the hard currency for two crops a year, followed by cloth, and finally copper coins, silver and gold.

This is the rule in ordinary people's homes.

The fields owned by the salt merchants are their foundation.

But now they have to mortgage the land they have taken by force.

Cao Yong bought all kinds of properties they sold, but they mortgaged the land to the bank. Cao Yong pressed on every step of the way, and finally they couldn't eat the sea salt. Cao Yong wanted to find salt merchants, but the big salt merchants didn't allow him to do so. , Cao Yong moved out the fourteenth master.

"What's the matter?" The Fourteenth Master looked at the dozen or so big salt merchants who were languishing in front of him, and he no longer had the arrogant look he had at the beginning: "No money? At the beginning, one counted as one, but it was well said Yes, you charge as much salt as you have, and you still say that this amount of salt is fine.”

More than a dozen people were frowning.

"I'm still pulling my grandfather to be a guarantor. My imposing prince elder brother has guaranteed you a group of businessmen. I'm sending someone to get the seal now. What's the matter? Are you playing with me?" Fourteenth Master slapped the table , a dozen people trembled.

The Fourteenth Master brought Wood here today, and the dozen or so powerful eunuchs under Wood, despite wearing eunuch costumes, each of them stood out like a big Han general. The oppressive force is not ordinary.

And this time, he brought Baylor's guard of honor and two hundred guards.

And the Fourteenth Lord came out wearing a Baylor uniform today, and the little bottle even took a sling, and he looked like a little eunuch.

At this time, more than a dozen big salt merchants discovered that this was Fourteen Baylor, a rich man, and a prince elder brother, not an ordinary rich man.

Even though he was young, very young, like 21 years old.

"Master Fourteen Baylor, we did boast about Haikou at the time, but with so much sea salt, we... even if we want to buy it, we have to make room for it!" Boss Yang said softly: "Salt is no better than salt." Other things can’t stand humidity, let alone water, but we will soon have the rainy season here.”

The rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River lasts for a month, and it is rainy and rainy. Although there are lingering sorrows in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, there are also the accompanying dark, hot and humid.

The salt warehouse of their salt gang is not enough.

"Then you can stay there and don't bring it over. The money will be given first, and the salt will be stored for you for free for a period of time." The fourteenth master thought of a way to deal with it in minutes: "My master is here, if you don't believe me, let Xiao Cao Your lord will take you to have a look."

"Yes, I have hundreds of warehouses over there, one can hold a lot, and I'm still building warehouses." Cao Yong immediately said: "It doesn't matter how many, as long as you order the goods quickly."

These people are worried.

Fourteen's identity was there, and they had no choice but to ask Cao Yong in private.

This group of salt merchants was Cao Yin who begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother to stabilize the salt tax. Hexi for 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi!

Now it's their turn to beg Jiangning Weaving Mansion.

Cao Yin was not seen at all, and Kangxi was still living in the weaving mansion in Jiangning, who would dare to intrude?

Not to mention the Jiangning Weaving Mansion, the entire city of Nanjing is on high alert.

In the end, they were finally squeezed out of the salt warehouse, and their property was divided up by creditors, but not many people wanted their salt. The reason is that Cao Yong contacted the salt merchants after they "breached the contract".

The purchasing power of these salt merchants is large enough, and what Cao Yong gave them was fine salt, which cost five Wen a catty, and they were innocent.

When these salt merchants are saturated, the small salt merchants will naturally be moved by the news.

It's like cutting leeks, when the salt dealers from the client side also come here to join in the fun, then the excitement will really increase!

After Kangxi waited for the last large sum of money to arrive, he happily announced that he was leaving for Beijing.

It cost a lot to go out this time, but they didn't use a penny from the user department, and didn't let the Cao family take a penny.

Because he spent all the salt money of these big salt merchants, salt merchants and small salt merchants!

Then with the rest of the money, he returned to the capital leisurely and mightily.

Kangxi's return to Beijing not only represented the emperor's holy car, but also represented that a lot of money had entered the treasury of the household department.

Seeing the large sum of money in the account, Fourth Master happily went back to have a drink with Si Fujin!

"I usually don't drink at all. Is there any happy event?" Seeing him so happy, Si Fujin couldn't help smiling and said, "Is there any good news from an errand?"

"That's right!" Fourth Master didn't tell Si Fujin about the bad things outside, but Fourth Master respected Si Fujin as his first wife: "Sifu went to the south and made a good deal."

Sifujin doesn't know much about the affairs in the court, but she is very interested in Fourteen's business: "The business that can make Fourteen fancy will definitely make a profit without losing money!"

"Yes, you won't lose if you make a sure profit, and you won't lose any money if you make a sure profit!" Fourth Master laughed out loud.

Sifujin didn't know what she said wrong?But seeing fourth master so happy, she didn't care about that anymore.

Fourteen's deal is probably a one-shot deal, and there is no second chance, otherwise, Fourteen won't take it all alone.

He will continue to do it slowly.

There are many people who are also very happy, but at the same time, some people are not happy.

Cheng Baylor is one, and Ba Baylor is another.

Without him, Babeile just had an accident.

Bafujin didn't enter the palace to ask for a beautiful girl, so Babeile had no choice but to raise an outside room. This woman was the last beautiful girl. Because of illness, her marriage was delayed and she didn't give her a marriage proposal. In addition, her natal family had It's a bit troublesome, after Babeile extended a helping hand, this beautiful girl was sent to Babeile's side by her family, and became an inappropriate and not itchy concubine.

This woman's belly is full of anger!

In less than three months with Babeile, she was pregnant with a child, and it was very likely to be a son.

When Bafujin found out about this, he was so angry that he went crazy!

He directly led people to beat up the outer house, beat the outer room to death, the child was gone, and the house was smashed, and now Babeile is in a state of desperation.

Is it easy for him to have a child?He wanted raw rice to be cooked, and he had children, so he had to let them in.

Forcing Bafujin to take a concubine!

In the end, Fujin gave him a trick to kill him!

When this matter was raging, before Babeile could figure out a good way to deal with the aftermath, Kangxi came back.

As soon as Kangxi came back, he had to look over all kinds of things and listen to all kinds of information, and he heard about the good deeds his eighth son had done.

"Eight Fujin didn't enter the palace to beg Gege, and the beautiful concubine Liang didn't send out." Kangxi lowered his head and thought for a while: "Send someone to ask, Concubine Hui and Concubine Yi, anyone can, summon Eight Fortune, and let her Think about it."

With a large income, Kangxi is also willing to worry about the family affairs of his sons, but he is not limited to worrying about his daughter-in-law.

As a result, Li Dequan felt that nothing bothered the two masters, so he went to find Concubine Yi.

When Li Dequan left, Concubine Yi felt a little troubled: "What the hell have I done! I'm still entangled with her, and I sent someone to hand over the sign, saying that I want to see Bafujin, she should have had enough trouble .”

As a result, the eight blessings came soon, and when they saw Yifei, they cried so hard that they couldn't help themselves. The words Yifei wanted to teach others were choked in her throat. , You can also see bags under the eyes.

"I'm doing this for his own good. I'm not afraid that he will be criticized by others. Who knows that he arranged for that woman on purpose? Can't I just bring her into the mansion?" Ba Fujin was still aggrieved.

With such a fiery temper, she heard that someone under her hand gave her innocent daughter to Babeile, and as a result, Babeile was really raised outside and became a concubine.

No wonder she can bear it!

"Then you can't kill people?" Concubine Yi knew that the outer room was dead.

"I didn't kill anyone, it was she who bleeds too much, bled to death!" Bafujin said, "But Lord Belle won't listen to my explanation."

The relationship between the couple is so rigid, Fujin has long regretted it.

But she has a tough temper, and she won't let it go, so she just keeps going.

"Then why don't you hurry up and take a concubine for Babeile, this is the only thing you can do now, remember, you are really angry, but what is angry is that the other party doesn't know what to do, and even gave Babeile something wrong Room? Who should use it as an outer room? You're not being generous." Concubine Yi persuaded her earnestly, with a commanding force, insisting that Fujin Bafujin decide the candidate.

As a result, the eighth Fujin was probably really afraid of being robbed of his favor. After crying for a while, he became stronger: "It's okay if you want to enter the mansion to be a princess, but if you want to have both parents dead, no father, no mother, orphan girl For a better show girl, it is best to have an honest personality and an ordinary appearance, as long as there is no disease or disability."

What you say is so powerful!

Concubine Yi was so angry that she fell on her back!

Is this a draft girl Gege, or a broom star?

Whose girl is like this, the show girl will not be able to pass the first test.

But Ba Fujin insisted on this, so Concubine Yi had no choice but to hold her chest and let someone send her out of the palace, and then she fell ill, and asked the imperial doctor to adjust the Shugan Liqi pill.

This matter was soon known by Kangxi.

"The jealous wife of the old Ba family!" Whenever Kangxi got angry, Ba Fujin would be miserable.

Kangxi pointed Babeile to two princesses to enter the mansion, and made it clear that whoever gave birth to Babeile's eldest son would be the side Fujin.