The eldest son of the red mansion

After the young master thought it over, he immediately asked his housekeeper to take out 500 million pieces of silver from the silver treasury and send them to Wang Yinggeng.

The butler heard this, and the young master ordered him to stand there for a long time without moving.

Seeing the butler standing still, the young master was a little unhappy, "What are you doing standing there? Don't go to work."

After hearing what the young master said, the housekeeper could only say: "Master, we only have more than 600 million taels of silver in our treasury. If we take out another 500 million taels to give to Wang Yinggeng, how can we spend this year?"

After hearing this, the young master also felt annoyed. In the past few years, Qin Keqing's power has developed too fast, and now they can't keep up with the money.

Now that Jia Ke made such a fuss, the situation that could barely be maintained may collapse.

"What else can I do? Temporarily shrink the power, let the people below work hard for a year, and wait until next year."

The steward smiled wryly after hearing this. It is natural for those spies who have been trained since childhood to persist, but for those court ministers who bribed, they will suffer with you. If you don’t give money today, they won’t listen tomorrow Your order is done.

But the matter has come to this point and there is no other way, the old housekeeper reluctantly went to the bank, took out the money and sent it to Wang Yinggeng.

Wang Yinggeng breathed a sigh of relief when he received the greeting. If he didn't settle Jia Ke's affairs this time, he might be missed by Jia Ke.

Wang Yinggeng is now thinking of taking advantage of the sharp rise in salt prices in the north to make a good fortune and make up for this year's shortfall.

But things turned out to be contrary to expectations. This member had just been raised for more than half a month, and suddenly there was a large amount of salt on the market, and the price of these salts was four or five levels lower than that of Wang Yinggeng and the others.This time, Wang Yinggeng's table salt could no longer be sold.

After Wang Yinggeng got the news, he was so angry that all his internal organs were burned. What's the matter?Who is breaking the rules?

In Wang Yinggeng's impression, those who can produce such a large amount of salt are just a few of their big salt merchants.

So Wang Yinggeng sent people to inquire around, and found that the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River did not make any major moves.

Not to mention, these salt merchants were also angry at the sudden appearance of so much table salt in the north.After all, Wang Yinggeng took the lead this time, and they, the salt merchants, could follow behind and drink some soup.

Wang Yinggeng still had some influence in the south of the Yangtze River. Without much effort, he got the news from the salt workers in the salt factory that the salt factory shipped a large amount of table salt directly to the north without going through their salt merchants.

Now it became clear that the salt factory had bypassed their salt merchants and directly participated in the salt trade, which was a bad rule.

So Wang Yinggeng didn't delay, and came to the salt factory aggressively for a few hours to look for Li Yingtai, asking him to give him an explanation.

Li Yingtai didn't care when Wang Yinggeng came to find fault aggressively.He drank a cup of tea slowly, squinted at Wang Yingtai, and said slowly, "Doesn't Mr. Wang really know what's going on?"

Wang Yinggeng said with a livid face, "Please advise me, my lord."

"Hehe, the price of salt in the north has risen so much, Mr. Wang really doesn't know what's going on?"

At this moment, Wang Yinggeng immediately understood that the imperial court was transporting salt to stabilize prices, and it seemed that the imperial court had doubted itself.

Wang Yinggeng did not dare to have any complaints after returning home.After he returned to the mansion, he thought about it and felt that it was better to be honest during this period, otherwise Jia Ke would really miss it, and I am afraid that he would not have a good life.

Therefore, the 500 million taels of silver that Jia Ke asked for was shipped from Jiangnan soon.And half a month later, Jia Ke received 500 million taels of silver from Jiangnan salt merchants.

Jia Ke looked at dozens of boxes placed on the main hall, and the lids of each box were opened. Under the sunlight, these boxes reflected silvery white light.

Li Deshan next to him felt greedy looking at the money, but he didn't dare to show it.

But Jia Ke didn't have any intention of being happy. It seems that because of this, Wang Yinggeng still has some city mansions.

Originally, I wanted to pass this time, take down Wang Yinggeng in one fell swoop, and then take a look at who is behind him, but I didn't expect that he would forcefully scrape together 500 million taels for himself.

But Jia Ke was not discouraged, this year you paid 500 million, next year I will see how you make it up.

Besides, at this time, Zhu Lin also received orders from their young master, asking her to gain Jia Ke's trust no matter what, even if she lost some contacts for this, she would not hesitate to do so.

Chapter 628

After receiving the order, Zhu Lin only felt that it was difficult. She had already felt it herself, and Jia Ke never believed her.

Moreover, Jia Ke didn't fully believe even the ministers recommended by him.

Zhu Linshi thought about it all night in her room, but in the end she could only think of Qin Keqing.

Although Jia Ke already knew Qin Keqing's identity, his favor for her has not diminished, which shows the weight of Qin Keqing in Jia Ke's heart.

And now Qin Keqing has given birth to a child, and this child is the eldest son, who will inherit Jia Ke's family business in all likelihood in the future.

Now Jia Ke is too powerful to attack. If we can concentrate our energy on this child, when Jia Ke is gone, we can use this child to rule the world, and then repeat Jia Ke’s way of leading the emperor to command the princes. Maybe it will work. .

So Zhu Lin sent his thoughts back to the young master through letters.

The young master read the letter carefully several times, and then thought about it all afternoon in the garden alone, and finally had to admit that Zhu Lin's method was the best way for him to regain his position in the country.

So the young master immediately replied a letter to Zhu Lin, asking him to concentrate on Jia Ke's son, and at the same time, asking Zhu Lin to find a way to make himself the teacher of Jia Ke's son after he was awarded a Jinshi, so that he could always near.

But Zhu Lin didn't expect at all that his actions had already been carefully observed by the hidden guards on the side.

After Jia Ke got the news of the hidden guard, she was furious.

If these people were targeting him, Jia Ke could bear it even though he was annoyed, but he never thought that they would turn their minds on his son.

Jia Ke glanced at the harem with a gloomy face, and immediately wanted to order someone to catch that Zhu Lin immediately and tear her body into pieces.

But after all, he has been in power for so many years, and he will wake up immediately. If he arrests that young master Zhu Lin now, he will be out of his sight again.

And even though Sun Yan had reported that this young master would take part in the imperial examination in a few years, if he was allowed to go on like this in the past few years, I don't know how many troubles would be caused.

Jia Ke finally endured it, and then Jia Ke ordered Li Deshan to strengthen the supervision of Zhu Lin's family and at the same time send more people, it is best to catch him before this young man takes the imperial examination.

After receiving Jia Ke's order, Li Deshan went to make arrangements immediately, adding a few more people to Qin Keqing's side in the harem.

As expected of Zhu Lin who has been engaged in espionage for so many years, she immediately felt that there were more strangers around her, so she immediately hid up and did not make any moves. She just showed her face in front of Qin Keqing every day, and then took care of Jia wholeheartedly. Ke's son, Jia Zhi.

And Qin Keqing is not a fool who has been in charge of Wuyang Hou's Mansion and Yan Guogong Mansion for so many years.She already felt that something was wrong beside her.

Qin Keqing couldn't ask Jia Ke, so she could only keep it in her heart and observe carefully in the future.

Not to mention Zhu Lin's correspondence with that young master, but also Jia Ke's nearly 900 million taels of silver, plus the tens of millions of taels hidden in his mansion, he felt that the time had come to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Since Jia Ke decided to take action, he didn't hesitate, and immediately summoned Zhang Chaoxin, Minister of Industry, Fan Kang, Minister of Rites, and Peng Bi, Minister of Military Affairs, three of his absolute confidants to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

After the three came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, they each greeted Jia Ke, and then Jia Ke asked the eunuchs to prepare chairs for them to sit on.

Seeing that they were done, Jia Ke said straight away, "I've invited you here today because I have a big matter to discuss."

The three people below all looked up at Jia Ke after hearing Jia Ke's words, waiting for his next words.

"The Tatars in the north are a big problem for our court. I repelled them last year, but Arslen Khan was determined and did not settle down like this. Instead, he sent people to harass our border. I watched They are accumulating power in the north, and once they recover, they will definitely go south."

When Jia Ke said this, she looked at the people below, which meant to let them express their opinions.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Peng Bi was most concerned about these matters, so he spoke first: "My lord's words are very true. The Tatars are just white-eyed wolves who are not familiar with it. Going south when the dynasty was in decline caused great harm to us. I think we should focus on eradicating them completely."