Naturally, Yang Sishao didn't know that the eight Shanxi people mentioned by Zhou Zheng were the so-called'eight emperor merchants'.
Zhou Zheng picked up his teacup and drank tea silently.
Yang Sishao gritted his teeth and wrinkled his brows. He had already taken the first step, and he couldn't help him behind.
He also heard what Zhou Zheng meant, that he would continue to stay at Yang's house and listen to these things for him.
It is equivalent to a detailed work!
Yang Sishao was flustered. He knew that it was dangerous for him to do this. He had been in the Yang family for many years and knew that the Yang family didn't know many nasty things. If this was discovered, he would definitely die very miserably!
He looked at Zhou Zheng who was drinking tea calmly in front of him, and his heart suddenly became cold. How could he offend such a deep-minded person!
"Go." Zhou Zheng put down his teacup and said lightly.
Major Yang Si put down the account book, took a deep look at Zhou Zheng, and said, "Yes, the villain says goodbye."
Zhou Zheng looked at his back and shook his head with a smile. Whether it was a trap or Yang Si really wanted to surrender, it was the same. There was no difference. When the time came, even if he was fake, Zhou Zheng could make him real!
Yang Sishao left, Liu Liuzhe walked in, told Zhou Zheng tea, and said, "Second Young Master, it seems that he doesn't want to follow Yang Qishao and Yang Jiushao's back."
Zhou Zheng looked at the account book on the table, and said: "Go and ask people to ask Old Wei to see if the two are dead. If not, let them first see if this thing is true or not."
Both Yang Jiu Shao and Yang Qi Shao were in the hands of Wei Xizhuang, and Wei Xizhuang hated these two people very much. Zhou Zheng didn't care about them and didn't know whether they lived or died.
Liu Liuche responded and said, "Second Young Master, are we really not going to do anything?"
Now the whole capital is full of uproar. One was caused by Zhou Zhengcan’s downfall of Cui Chengxiu, the other was urged by Qian Jiazheng’s impeachment of Wei Zhongxian, one was a castrated party cadre and a heavy court official;
It has only been a month since the new emperor ascended the throne. Everyone is paying attention to the new emperor's movements. With the addition of the castration party, the new party began to fight for power and profit, and it was naturally a lively event.
As one of the parties involved, Zhou Zheng is still in this storm, and Zhou Zheng's name is indispensable for everything.
Recently Zhou Zheng has completely put aside these things and concentrated on doing his things. Liu Liuzhe is not worried about it at all.
Zhou Zheng smiled silently, thinking about it in his heart.
Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne for a month, and he should have almost prepared. Now that he has begun to test Wei Zhongxian, he is afraid that the end of the castrated party is getting closer and closer.
What should be buried has been buried, and I owe this east wind.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Zheng said, "Did you send the gift for Master Cao?"
Zhou Zheng was talking about Zuo Du Yushi, Cao Yubian, the newly appointed Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Liu Liuzhe hurriedly said: "Sent it, but it was rejected. Master Cao's family said, Master Cao refused to accept all gifts."
"Oh?"
Zhou Zheng's eyes were a little strange. Cao Yubian's refusal to accept other people was understandable. Even his rejection was a bit weird. Is this really high-spirited, or is he completely ignorant of Zhou Zheng, even if he has no thought of using it
For a moment, Zhou Zheng said to himself: "It should have met the new emperor, and the new emperor gave him confidence."
Liu Liuzhe listened to Zhou Zheng talking to himself without interruption, and waited quietly.
For a long time, Zhou Zheng looked at Liu Liuzhe and said, "It's okay, don't move, you just need to keep an eye on the direction of public opinion in Beijing."
Seeing that Zhou Zheng was not in a hurry, Liu Liuzhe said, "Well, shall we go back to the house?"
Daddy Zhou, Zhou Fang rarely goes back recently. Zhou Zheng said: "If you don't go back, just stay in Jiujiang Pavilion. I will stare at Jiujiang Pavilion and let Kou Huai and others do it. You still have a good view of Zhou Ji."
Liu Liuzhe is also a lot of things, he is more busy than Zhou Zheng, listening to the sidelines: "Then I will go, the tea house outside the city is being rebuilt, I have to go there tomorrow."
Zhou Zheng nodded and said, "Remember to go to the Imperial College. After you graduate, I will arrange you some decent positions."
After all, businessmen are'lowly', or in other words, without fame and officialdom, they are all'lowly'.
Liu Liuzhe said twice, "I remember, I will go whenever I have time."
Zhou Zheng looked at his increasingly mature face, a little bit unlike seventeen or eighteen, and said with a smile: "Well, learn to leave things to the next, don't do everything by yourself, go and rest."
"Oh okay." Liu Liuzhe listened to Zhou Zheng's words and turned to go out.
Zhou Zheng then picked up the account book that Yang Sishao had brought and opened it slowly.
Turning pages silently, Zhou Zheng was shocked despite his preparation.
The Yang family’s business is almost all-encompassing. Salt is the most important thing, but rice, noodles, grain, oil, cloth, silk, tea, porcelain, and water transportation are also involved. Overseas, almost all the money is made in the Yang family. Kick!
The Yang family's assets, including fields, gardens, tea hills, shops, etc., in detail, I'm afraid there are three or four million taels!
"Three or four million..."
Zhou Zheng was leaping in his heart, this is really a wealthy country, even richer than Daming's treasury.
If you count other big salt merchants, it's really unimaginable!
Their wealth should actually be the money of the Daming National Treasury, and all the salt tax lost every year goes into their pockets.
I don’t know how many other people like the salt merchants who smoke the blood of Daming!
Zhou Zheng squinted his eyes slightly, watching carefully, and at the same time thinking, how many possessions does the so-called'Eight Emperor Merchants' now have
Nowadays, Shanxi merchants are the richest, and the Yang family is also a Shanxi merchant.
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The opening of Jiujiang Pavilion has attracted unfamiliar scholars who don't know many in the capital.
They are crowded and want to come in, want to read books, copy books, these are very important to them. They used to be in the village, they could only ask those big households, but they often couldn't borrow them.
They can read and copy books for free here, and they can't wait to live here.
The access to Jiujiang Pavilion is still very strict, and the daily reading cards issued are quite limited. Even so, the three open reading rooms have been overcrowded in just a few days.
Kou Huaiyi and the others are busy managing, and they are also planning to open more rooms.
Zhou Zheng has been sitting in Jiujiang Pavilion for the past few days, and rarely pays attention to outside affairs.
The more calm he is, as if he is out of the way, the more someone wants to push him out.
At the end of September, the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervised Yushi, Yang Weiheng finally couldn't help it, openly filed a letter, impeached Wei Zhongxian, enumerated 28 major crimes, and caused a sensation among the ruling and opposition parties.
Yang Weiheng is considered to be Li Guopu's, that is, the current Minister of Etiquette, the new party leader who is expected to join the cabinet next month!
His open letter made many people think that it was Li Guopu's instigation and the New Party's offensive against the eunuch!
Once the emperor and the courtier, this is the truth that everyone knows, and this is also the reason why countless eunuchs are in panic all day long.
Li Guopu finally couldn't bear to make a move, and countless people from the ruling and the opposition were watching and staring at the palace.
But the palace is quiet like a deep pool, invisible, no one knows what's going on inside.
At the beginning of October, the former Shangshu Wang Ji of the Criminal Ministry came to Beijing to see the emperor, and wrote a letter to "review all adverse cases since the three years of Tianqi".
Wang Ji's letter has won the support of many people. There are many "East Forest Remnants" and many speculators.
For example, in his hometown in the south of the Yangtze River, his predecessor Ke Ke wrote a letter to Ruan Dacheng, thinking that his fellow villager Yang Lian was'outright and upright, not counting the baht', and denied him corruption. Yang Lian died unjustly.
This Ruan Dacheng was originally from the Donglin Party. Because of the competition for officials and officials, the Donglin Party arranged for Wei Dazhong. The engineering arrangements for him were all given. Ruan Dacheng was uncomfortable, so he took refuge in Wei Zhongxian and grabbed the officials. In the matter.
At that time, the Donglin Party was in full force, which Wei Zhongxian could contend with. Ruan Dacheng was scared back to his hometown by Donglin after sitting in the office for less than a month.
Such a person suddenly turned the case for Yang Lian from Donglin, and his intentions were very obvious. (End of this chapter)