Fan Yongdou was ecstatic. If this was true, then the Fan family would be able to soar in the future.
With the current Tian Zi's methods and ruthlessness, no one dared to kill the emperor anymore.
Too ruthless. The death of the Tianqi Emperor had caused the little Emperor to lose the trust he should have in the officials of the court. This was probably the truth.
He had to send out such important information to make Huang Taiji, his father, happy.
Perhaps Huang Taiji, his father, would be happy and reward him handsomely, bringing the Fan family's wealth to another level.
If Tian Ergeng did not know that Zhu Youjian was the current emperor, he would probably believe the emperor's nonsense.
Looking at the smug look in Fan Yongdou's eyes, Tian Ergeng was also mocking and disdainful in his heart.
In this matter, he had personally witnessed how Tian Zi had fooled the old fox Fan Yongdou!
When Fan Yongdou knew that he had been tricked, he would be furious even if he didn't vomit blood.
Zhu Youjian took advantage of the wine to come, as if his previous caution was fake. After opening the chatterbox, Zhu Youjian kept revealing secrets.
"Mr. Fan, it's not appropriate for us to show our faces when you have foreign relations. Don't worry and do it boldly. We'll guarantee all the evidence.”
In order to reveal more secrets, Fan Yongdou pretended to be timid and said,"Young Master, I'm worried that Lu Xiangsheng, that bastard, won't fall for this?
He was the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu Town appointed by the emperor. He was in the emperor's heart!”
"You think too highly of him. If it was just Uncle alone, he might have insisted.
However, with Eunuch Wang from the internal court stepping forward and our help, Lu Xiangsheng has relented and agreed to help once.”
"As long as he agrees this time, there will be a second time," said Tian Ergeng.
No one in this world would go against money. As for the monetary gift, Mr. Fan should know what to do.”
" I understand," Fan Yongdou said happily." As long as Young Master's people recommend you, we will definitely give General Lu a sum of silver to seal his mouth. It won't be less than this amount."”
As he spoke, he raised a finger!
"Ten thousand taels?"
Tian Ergeng looked at Fan Yongdou in shock, feeling that he had given too little.
"Wrong, that's 100,000 taels of silver!" Fan Yongdou said. As long as the ten million dan of grain is true, I can guarantee that I can sell it to Slave Jian for sixteen million taels of silver.”
"What about the 300,000 sets of equipment?" Tian Ergeng asked.”
Fan Yongdou patted his chest and said," If Young Master provides more equipment, the price can still be negotiated. It can even be higher than the market price!"”
Tian Ergeng was like a money-grubber. He helped Zhu Youjian ask," How much is one set? The market price was fifty taels of silver, how could he give seventy taels of silver?”
"No, this lowly one can guarantee that if you take out all the weapons that Great Ming has stored, you can definitely sell them for a hundred silver taels."”
However, he was sneering in his heart, When you sell off all your equipment, my lord will go south next year, and you'll be eating sh * t!”
Tian Ergeng knew this very well, but Zhu Youjian was certain that Fan Yongdou was Slave Jian's loyal servant!
Only loyal slaves would not care about Ming's life and death, so Huang Taiji must have promised him a high position and a high salary.
Zhu Youjian did not expect that he would now lean towards Slave Jian.
Originally, he thought that the traitorous merchants of the Eight Great Families of the Jin merchants would take the risk to betray Da Ming because of their interests.
Now it seemed that Huang Taiji had already promised the eight traitors the treatment of royal merchants. Otherwise, the eight traitors wouldn't have worked so hard.
Merchants had no status in the Ming Dynasty, and their children had no possibility of becoming officials.
Even though it was now the budding period of capital and the various rules of the Ming Dynasty had been broken, among the literati, they still looked down on merchants.
Zhu Youjian felt that this kind of unbalanced social form was very strange.
It was obvious that the children of the nobles and the gentry were extremely greedy, but when it came to treating merchants, they valued using them instead of treating them well.
Now that merchants could create benefits for them, they would protect them.
This was probably the main reason why the eight traitors of the Jin merchants became the most loyal traitors!
"The emperor is currently very strict in organizing the place, and the two cabinet elders are even more laborious. It's really not easy to live in Big Ming."
Fan Yongdou's face was filled with hatred. At the same time, he was hinting at the Emperor's cruelty.
Zhu Youjian chuckled and said,"If the emperor does this, he will lose the support of the gentry!" The foundation of my Ming Dynasty is the gentry of the world. Without the gentry, is it still Ming?”
"Young Master, do you mean that all the gentry in the world are dissatisfied with the Emperor?" Fan Yongdou asked, feigning confusion.”
"That's true. If not for that, uncle wouldn't have had such an opportunity to win over the north…" Zhu Youjian said proudly.
Zhu Youjian sneered." As for those people in the south, they have to be careful.
This time, it's our northern side that's suffering. Next time, the little Emperor will target them.
Hehe, unless they don't cause trouble and obediently follow the emperor's orders, we in the north don't mind going south…"
Fan Yongdou understood. Huang Liji wanted the benefits of the South, and he wanted to destroy the Southern Group even more.
However, it seemed that this matter had not been successful for a hundred years.
The South did not swallow up the interests of the North, and the North did not swallow up the interests of the South either. They each made their own decisions in their own territories.
The imperial court was not really full of fools. There were always a few ministers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor.
"Mr. Fan, you should understand that the South has always controlled the interests of maritime trade.
Although we in the north have some interests in sea trade, most of it has been eaten by those people in the south. We can only get some soup.
If we can convince the little emperor to reorganize the south, then once we finish the south, won't our north…"
Fan Yongdou couldn't help but swallow his saliva. The profits from the ocean trade were definitely better than the northern trade.
As a businessman, he was very well-informed. Unfortunately, they were inland and had no right to participate in the huge slice of the pie of overseas trade.
If the North really could destroy the South and use the name of the Son of Heaven, they might be able to get a share of the benefits.
"I wonder if this lowly one has the chance to follow Young Master and make some money from the sea trade?”
Zhu Youjian patted Fan Yongdou's shoulder and said,""Mr. Fan, since I can tell you this here, it is also because I am interested in your network in the south.
When we destroy the south, Mr. Fan will naturally be one of us. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we share the big cake of sea trade together?”
Tian Ergeng said," Old Master said that we can't monopolize the interests of the world. We must learn to share them. Only in this way can we last forever!"”
"Butler Tian is right!" Fan Yongdou nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Zhu Youjian was laughing in his heart," F * ck, this is just a big cake that I drew for you to mislead Huang Taiji."
Hehe, if not, how could he let Huang Taiji go south next year? If he doesn't go south, how can I teach him how to behave?”
Without the special medicine, Zhu Youjian wouldn't have dared to play like this. The risk was too great.
Especially when Fan Yongdou agreed to a hundred silver taels for a set of equipment without thinking too much about it. It was obvious that Fan Yongdou cared about all the equipment.
This was to prepare for Da Ming to go to the battlefield without any weapons and equipment after Jian Nu went south next year.
He had already made up his mind. After completing this task, Slave Jian would head south and quickly execute these eight traitors.
Under normal circumstances, Zhu Youjian would only kill them if they were not unpardonable and not enough to appease the people.
Zhu Youjian had no intention of killing anyone. His imperial manor needed people to cultivate, and the official roads, canals, and irrigation facilities of the empire needed people to build.
With these criminals, they could save a lot of money for the empire. Moreover, these death row prisoners could work for them until they died.
Zhu Youjian really didn't want to kill them. These criminals were all good labor.
Making them work for the empire for a lifetime was far more valuable than killing them.
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