Chapter 761: Pay the money with one hand and release the person with the other
Fang Jun picked Wang Yu'an out without saying a word, and the huge sum of 600,000 taels was divided between four families instead of three. Wang Yu'an was so moved that he almost knelt down in front of Fang Jun and shouted, " The Marquis is mighty"...
Wang Yu'an was saved. Not only that, because the theft of navy wood was the result of the Wang family's whole family discussion, Wang Yu'an took the blame for the family, and Fang Jun would definitely not pursue the matter again. Moreover, there was an incident where Wang Shangfang attacked Fang Jun's navy before. Now it seems that it is not irreversible.
Wang Yu'an's "abandoning the dark and turning to the bright" can be regarded as a great contribution to the Langya Wang family!
But the other three stopped...
Obviously four families were arrested together, but there were more than four families involved. They just came forward. There were more hidden behind the scenes. Why did it become three families now? The four families are divided equally between 600,000 taels and 150,000 taels, which is an astronomical figure for each family. However, each family has a strong financial background, so it is not impossible for them to spend it. Now four families have become three, and 150,000 has become 200,000, so we have to spend an extra 50,000 taels out of thin air!
Fifty thousand taels of silver is roughly equivalent to 60,000 copper coins.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty's "renting and transferring" system was still used - the government granted land, and each ding received two shi of millet per year. This was only equivalent to the output of one or two acres of land, while each ding generally received dozens of acres or hundreds of acres of land. Mu, the tax rate is equivalent to the "Thirty-one tax" in the Han Dynasty, or even lighter. In the event of a natural disaster, rent adjustment can be reduced or exempted. When aristocratic families occupied a large amount of land and rented it out, the rent paid by the tenants was several times the court's tax rate, sometimes even five times.
In an era when commerce had not yet emerged, this was also the main source of income for aristocratic families.
However, since the 56th year of Zhenguan, rice has been abundant every year and the grain yield has been abundant. Although there are occasional disasters, it does not affect the harvest nationwide. Therefore, the price of wood is extremely low, and a bucket of rice is only three or four cents.
How much land rent will this cost if you spend an extra 60,000 yuan?
What about 200,000 yuan?
The wealth of aristocratic families relies on the accumulation of generations, and those who get rich overnight are not considered aristocratic families!
Two hundred thousand dollars is almost a generation's savings.
This is simply bloody tearing of flesh from the heart down...
Zhu Qu is the most greedy for money, how can he be willing to spend tens of thousands more for the Wang family for nothing? He immediately argued: "Obviously there are four families together, why does the Marquis show favoritism? Is it because this spineless guy surrendered to you that he framed us like this?"
Fang Jun rolled his eyes and asked, "Are you stupid?"
It’s clear that I’m slandering you!
He looked at the fat man and said calmly: "Are you saying that I have falsely accused you? Oh, let me think about it carefully. Young Master Changsun seemed to have been with me just now..."
Zhu Qu turned pale with fright and quickly shouted: "No, no! Master Changsun is with us, we are in the same group..."
Now that you have taken Wang Yu'an out, four families will become three families, and one hundred and fifty thousand will become two hundred thousand. If you take out Changsun Man again, wouldn't it mean that three families will become two, and two hundred thousand will become three hundred thousand?
What a joke!
It would be better to kill him with one knife!
Chang Sunman glared at Zhu Qu angrily!
This bastard was so happy to betray his accomplices just to save a hundred thousand taels of silver?
Simply unworthy of a man!
Fang Jun waved his hands and asked the soldiers to bring paper and pen, and said: "Hurry up, it's almost dawn. You all write down the documents first, and then send people home to get the money. When the money arrives, I will send you back immediately." Home.”
Now that things have come to this, what else is left to say?
Xiao Ming and Changsun were full of dissatisfaction, but they had to sign and sign.
Zhu Qu held the pen and looked at the white piece of paper in front of him that said, "Zhu Qu from Jiangdong has embezzled two hundred thousand taels of silver from Fang Jun. He said it without proof and established this as evidence." His heart was twitching. It hurts...
If you sign this, the 200,000 yuan will be gone.
Zhu Qu was sweating profusely, hesitating and unable to make up his mind. He suddenly raised his head and said, "Master Marquis, there are a total of 600,000 taels of silver in your bilge. Even those iron ingots... those have been misappropriated by us, but there is still something on top." The first floor is no less than 100,000 taels. You should let us pay back 500,000 taels, not 600,000 taels..."
This miser!
Fang Jun glared and said, "If I say that there are still one hundred thousand taels of gold missing, would you believe it?"
Zhu Qu was dumbfounded. How could he be so shameless and confident?
But now that everyone is a slave and I am a fish, he is really afraid that Fang Jun will add another hundred thousand taels of gold... and quickly signs and pledges.
Changsun Man said disdainfully: "Ignorant idiot! The knife is across your neck, what else can you say? You can write as much as you want. If you offend this stick, I will escort you to Beijing and you won't even have time to cry to death. ! ”
Isn’t that the truth?
The Jiangnan nobles have been softly resisting His Majesty Li Er's intervention in Jiangnan, and they have long made His Majesty Li Er angry. Not long ago, he committed a murderous act in Niuzhuji. His Majesty Li Er was so angry that he even mobilized the Twelve Guards Army guarding the capital to go south to quell the rebellion. At this time, Fang Jun sent him under the nose of His Majesty Li Er. Who could do it? Bear the wrath of an emperor?
This Zhu Qu really fell into the eyes of money and was so stupid that he couldn't see the situation clearly!
Why did you find such a person to partner with in the first place?
I'm really blind...
The vouchers were written down, and each person was asked to write a letter home. Fang Jun sent someone to take them to their respective homes, and asked each family to use money to redeem the person. When the money was available, the person was released and the vouchers were destroyed.
Since he was slaughtered as a fat sheep, Fang Jun naturally did not hesitate to eat some food. All kinds of cakes, seasonal vegetables, fruits and fruits were naturally kept on the battleship, and he was asked to take them out and put them on the table, and greeted the three of them with a smile.
How can the three of them think about eating? Being cheated by Fang Jun, he will definitely become the laughing stock of Jiangnan from now on. Although two hundred thousand dollars is a huge amount of money, it is not impossible for these children of the aristocratic family to take it out. The most important thing is that their face has been stripped clean. Jing felt so depressed that even the delicacies like the Queen Mother's flat peaches were placed in front of her and she had no appetite at all.
Of course, Zhu Qu has completely opposite ideas to Xiao Ming and Changsun Man. In his opinion, face is nothing. Money is the most important thing. He would rather have his face trampled on by Fang Jun and leave the money to him...
The three of them were dejected and sat there without saying a word, greeting all the eighteen generations of Fang Jun's ancestors in their hearts. If there weren't too many soldiers here, they would have wanted to jump up and stab this bastard through with a knife.
Fang Jun was in a good mood. He ate a few cakes with tea, washed his hands and rinsed his mouth. He looked at his eldest grandson and said with a smile: "Xian Zun and Brother Zhu Qu are both local powerful men. They can easily handle hundreds of thousands of dollars, but eldest grandson My family is far away in Chang'an. I wonder where Master Changsun came from to raise this money?"
Chang Sunman snorted and drooped his eyelids: "You don't have to worry about it, I won't be short of your money." After saying that, he closed his eyes and fell asleep, and never talked to Fang Jun again.
Fang Jun was very surprised. Although he knew that the Changsun family had business dealings with the Jiangnan nobles, and that the Changsun family's iron factory had begun to set up operations in Jiangnan, the roots of the Changsun family must be far away in Guanzhong. Could it be that a large amount of money would be transferred to Jiangnan? ?
But he doesn’t really care, as long as Changsunman takes out the money, as for where it comes from, it has nothing to do with him...
At this moment, he was eating cakes and drinking tea leisurely, but he didn't know that the whole Haiyu City had exploded.
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The warehouses of the Zhu family, the Xiao family, and the Changsun family in Jiangnan received letters respectively, saying that two hundred thousand guan of silver would be allocated immediately, and they were immediately shocked.
How could such a good person owe such a huge debt?
However, these families are also shrewd people. If you look at the word "owe" in the letter that seems to contain countless grievances, and then think about the operation of selling wood tonight, and the extremely coincidental amount of "600,000" silver, you will know Something must have gone wrong...
The person was detained in Fang Jun's hands, and the documents had been written down. This debt could not be denied. It's just that each family's cash of 200,000 yuan is not a small amount. For a while, they really couldn't raise enough money, and they were all running around in a hurry.
But every family is holding back their energy, mobilizing cash nearby, transferring it to people with good connections, and even mortgaging their property to banks, desperately trying to raise all the money to redeem their children. Otherwise, if the other two people redeem the person, but the family fails to raise money for a while and the son is detained in Fang Jun's hands, the damage to the family's reputation cannot be underestimated.
Everyone else has raised all the money, but your family doesn’t have it. Is it because your family can’t do it?
The wealth of a noble family that has been established for hundreds of years has long been unfathomable. No one can claim to be better than others, and superficial things have become the key to the fight.
As the timber was escorted by the navy and transported to Huangxiepu, a large number of boatmen returned to the dock. The news that several major families joined forces to steal the navy timber and then failed to sell it, but Fang Jun demanded a huge sum of 600,000 yuan, spread like wings on the sea. Yucheng went crazy...
Still working hard, there will be another update soon.
(End of chapter)