This day, to come to the magistrate Yamen “voluntary” pledge silver government officials in an endless stream, in and out of the carriages and sedan chairs hard to the magistrate Yamen in front of the wide avenue are blocked, a breath of blocked several hundred metres away.
It is rare to see this kind of traffic jam in ancient times, Zhu Pingan has a feeling of dreaming back to modern times.
Yes.
Zhu Pingan also came over, he was followed by Deputy Ambassador Bai, who came to pledge silver on behalf of the Zhejiang Criminal Investigation Department, and Zhu Pingan came to pledge silver on behalf of the Zhejiang Army.
When he came to the door, Zhu Pingan found that not only the magistracy, but also the gentry and rich merchants from Yingtian and the surrounding area had come.
Zhu Pingan found a big-bellied rich merchants to understand the situation, learned that they received a verbal notification of Yingtian Ministry of households, Ministry of Industry and other officials, that is, on behalf of the conveyance of the meaning of Zhao Wenhua, so that they voluntarily raise money to support the sacrifice of the sea.
In front of the Qinzai Yamen, there was an endless stream of cars and horses; inside the Qinzai Yamen, there was an endless stream of cars and horses; inside the Qinzai Yamen, there was an endless stream of cars and horses; inside the Qinzai Yamen, there was an endless stream of people.
The scene was just like a wedding ceremony at the magistrate’s office, five large tables were set up in the courtyard of the magistrate’s office, and behind the tables there were five clerks who were keeping accounts. Under their feet a row of large boxes, boxes full of gold and silver and stacks and stacks of silver checks, piled up like a mountain of gold and silver, the golden light of the people’s eyes are almost blinded by the flash of light.
Officials, squires and wealthy merchants lined up to go forward, reported the name of the government office or the root foot, the silver will be pledged to hand over, the clerk carefully counted to confirm the amount of money is correct, one by one, recorded in the account book.
After Zhu Pingan and Vice-Admiral Bai lined up and handed in their money, they didn’t even get to see Zhao Wenhua.
There were many people who wanted to meet Zhao Wenhua, but only those officials, squires, and rich merchants who had exceeded the amount of silver, or significantly exceeded the amount of silver, were qualified to meet Zhao Wenhua in person.
Zhu Pingan inquired at the scene and said that only those with more than 3,000 taels would have the opportunity to meet Zhao Wenhua.
Is three thousand taels more?
Of course it was, most of the officials in this day and age only had a few dozen taels of salary in a year. However, there were still many people who were willing to pledge more than three thousand taels, mostly squires and wealthy merchants, especially the wealthy merchants were the most numerous.
Zhu Pingan heard that a local rich merchant in Yingtian paid 10,000 taels of silver for the fundraising, and was received by Zhao Wenhua, and was also qualified to have dinner with Zhao Wenhua.
As for the amount of silver to have dinner together, there was no clear standard, it was all determined by Zhao Wenhua himself after being received by Zhao Wenhua. It is said that there are already six people who have obtained the qualification to have dinner together, at least they have pledged six thousand taels of silver, a little bit of Buffett charity dinner that flavour has not.
Zhu Pingan estimated, Zhao Wenhua today conservative can also receive more than 100,000 taels of silver ……
day into the bucket of gold are not enough to describe it, no wonder Zhao Wenhua will rely on the future in Jiangnan so long time.
The richness of the southeastern coast, from this scene, can be seen in one class.
Zhu Pingan circled around in the crowd, and without any trace, he silently wrote down the names of those squires and wealthy merchants who had been received by Zhao Wenhua, especially those who had been qualified to have dinner together.
These people who had transferred large amounts of benefits to Zhao Wenhua had more or less some problems.
Currently, the merchants and businessmen in Southeast who were doing normal business were generally not too willing to send so much silver, and there was no need to put down such a large amount of blood. Of course, some merchants who want to climb the ranks of the powerful and wealthy cannot be excluded, but they are a minority after all.
At present, the most profitable industry in Jiangnan is the sea trade smuggling, especially after the sea ban, the sea trade smuggling profits beyond imagination. Many merchants and local gentry are desperate to participate in smuggling, there are many officials also secretly involved in smuggling.
Currently, although the Europa countries capitalism is developing, but Daming is absolutely deserved the world economic centre and trade centre, overseas markets, including Japan and Franco-European countries such as the demand for Daming’s silk, porcelain, cotton and other commodities is also a spurt of high-speed growth.
However, Da Ming now imposes a sea ban. The official channels of sea trade with Daming are completely interrupted.
However, the huge overseas demand for Daming’s commodities was still there, as long as the silk, porcelain and other commodities were transported to the sea, and traded with the Japanese and Europa countries, they could get ten or a hundred times the profit in return, which was exactly the same as robbing money.
The huge benefits prompted many local gentry and merchants along the coast of Daming to take the risk of extinction for violating the imperial ban and start smuggling. Some officials also secretly participated in the smuggling.
In addition to the risk of court investigation, go overseas smuggling itself is also risky, there are no rules at sea, the weak and the strong, there is a risk of being plundered.
Therefore, group smuggling, armed smuggling prevalent, sometimes smuggling will also be part-time looting, some directly into a big pirate, Wang Zhen is so evolved into a big Japanese pirates, even if they did not become a pirate, they have an unclear relationship with the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese invaders secretly collusion is not uncommon.
In many cases, when the imperial court was fighting against the Japanese, these people were the ones who colluded with the Japanese and tipped off the movements of the government troops to the Japanese.
Combined with the background of Zhao Wenhua’s visit to the sea, Zhu Pingan could almost conclude that most of the merchants, squires, and officials who transferred large amounts of benefits to Zhao Wenhua were smugglers.
Smuggling profiteering, domestic goods transported overseas, the profit is more than ten times, making money with the wind, so they do not hesitate to pay bribes, at present the Yan Party’s main source of bribery is these people in Jiangnan.
With the patronage of Zhao Wenhua and others, they can get special treatment to protect their smuggling business, and can also be spared from the disaster in the Japanese suppression.
Spending money to buy peace, spending money to buy an umbrella, they were happy to pay the silver, and they were eager to do so.
Zhu Pingan will all these people secretly in his mind, following the vine to find the melon, in the future they are not a breakthrough.
Today is considered to be using two hundred taels of silver to buy this information, Zhu Pingan comforted himself.
The endless stream of traffic in front of the magistrate’s office gradually thinned out until dusk.
It was only in the evening that it finally quieted down.
Inside the magistrate’s office, Zhao Wenhua looked at the genus of five boxes of gold and silver as well as a box of silver fruits, the whole person was glowing red, a pair of eyes inside all the bright light, hooked up the corners of the mouth how can not fall down.
A full 120,000 taels of silver ah, Jiangnan ah Jiangnan, worthy of being rich and oil, this time out can really come to the right.
Oh
really happy to miss ah.
However, Zhang Jing is really hateful, stubborn, dead against me! Surprisingly, the person I sent to scolded and drove out, hit the dog but also look at the master it, do not give face at all!
“Have all parties sent the silver?” Zhao Wenhua withdrew his gaze from the silver and asked the beloved bookkeeper he brought from the capital.
“Basically all of them have sent it.” The beloved bookkeeper replied back, “Except for Governor Zhang’s Yamen, Zhejiang Governor Li Tianchou, and Chun’an Magistrate Hai Rui and a handful of other Yamas that didn’t send the silver, all the other Yamas have sent it.”
Zhang Jing in the end still did not send the silver, this is dead set against me! And there’s this old bastard Li Tiancao!
Who is Hai Rui? Where is the name and reputation of the generation, this official note down, wait for it, have your good fruit to eat!
Zhao Wenhua’s face was a bit unhappy, and then confirmed, “Has the silver assigned to the Zhejiang army been sent?”
“Lord Zhu sent it early.” The beloved bookkeeper returned.
“Still quite sensible.” Zhao Wenhua was slightly satisfied for a few moments.
