Yes, Jabs really lost money... He also lost money when he was the governor of Jinyiwei. It was his first job in the Ming Dynasty!
But you have to continue this business even if you lose money!
Otherwise, how about a thousand fine Spanish horses? Let’s not talk about how much it can be sold for when shipped to Beijing. The tax card along the way is enough for Steve Jobs to drink a bottle.
Shipping to Xi'an is a gamble on your brain...
As for transporting it to the southeast, it can be sold at a good price, but the Qing soldiers are very tight in the south, and they might lose both men and horses! Of course, Jabs has a way to get himself out - his status as one of the Nine Imperial Businessmen was given to him by Duduo. But the question is, is it possible to ask Duduo to come forward and find someone with only two or three hundred thousand taels?
So Jabs could only leave these thousand Xifan horses in Luliang Mountain, so he begged for mercy from Fatty Chen for a long time, and finally gave him another thousand taels, for a total of five thousand taels in cash, and three Fifty thousand taels of borrowed tickets.
You can get cash in Qikou Town. Qikou Town is now a commercial center. Many merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi who have left their hometowns gather here. There are a lot of large and small businesses, including those in the silver industry. The number of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands can be completed without leaving Qikou Town.
However, you have to go to Yongning Prefecture City to get the loan ticket, because the palace of His Highness the "Loan King" is in Yongning Prefecture City. This state city is more than seventy miles away from Qikou Town. There are mountains connecting mountains along the way, which is very dangerous. This area is the hinterland of the Luliang Mountains. It is surrounded by high mountains and dense forests, and there are many relatively wealthy valleys. It is a good place for people to gather in the mountains and forests and turn grass into bandits.
When the acting king Zhu Cijiong first came to Luliang Mountain, he did not choose this place. Instead, he "occupied the mountain as the king" in Kelan Prefecture. At that time, the situation on Luliang Mountain was not good, and only a group of White Lotus believers headed by Zhang Xixian were willing to support it.
Therefore, Zhu Cijiong could only huddle in the northern part of Luliang Mountain, relying on the White Lotus cultists and the palace guards brought by Luo Xiu to survive, and lived a precarious period of time. But after Hauge was killed and Dorgon completely kicked off the scholar-bureaucrats and planned to dictate to Tian, the prince's life became easier.
The Shanxi gentry who woke up and found out that Dorgon was going to become "Duo Zuicheng" finally realized their conscience and crawled into the ravines of Luliang Mountain one after another to follow the king to fight against the Qing Dynasty - even if they didn't go up the mountain! As soon as "Duo Zi Cheng" announced the equalization of land, the poor and lower-middle peasants below started to riot!
They don't care about Li Zicheng or Duo Zicheng, as long as they share the land with them, it will be "good for Zicheng"!
And at the same time as "dividing the fields", the trend of taking advantage of the big households and canceling the debts of the King of Hell also started!
Since the Han Army Banner and Xianglv Banner officials sent by "Duo Zicheng" are all going to divide their fields, how can they be expected to make the final decision on loan sharking? And this is not something that can be solved by giving away money - the purpose of "Duozicheng" in implementing land equalization based on population calculation is to collect taxes. How can we allow the rich locals to use usury to drain the farmers dry?
The farmers have been squeezed dry. Who can pay the tax of four liters of flour per acre in the Qing Dynasty? If the tax cannot be collected, "Duo Zi Cheng" will kill people!
In addition, once the officials sent by "Duo Zicheng" do not sit on the side of the gentry, the gentry will become fat sheep. How can eating peasants be as comfortable as eating gentry? Instead of using the gentry's small money to suppress the peasants, it would be better to let the peasants stir up trouble and then swallow up the gentry's family's little extravagant wealth and their young wives and daughters!
Therefore, all kinds of crimes were piled up and placed on the heads of the Shanxi gentry and profiteers, and countless people were ruined in one fell swoop!
Shanxi's gentry and profiteers can always live a happy life if they go to Luliang Mountain, but they can stay in their hometown and wait until they are finished!
Starting from the autumn of the 18th year of Chongzhen's reign, the market prices in Luliang Mountain suddenly increased, and landlords and wealthy people came one after another!
Seeing this situation, people like Zhu Cijiong, Li Jiantai, Wang Yongji, Luo Xiushen, and Zhang Xixian also became excited.
They first launched the business of selling officials and titles - in order to create more official positions for sale, the acting king Zhu Cijiong also set up the Prime Minister's Office and the General's Office, and also appointed the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, and also appointed the Shanxi Governor's Yamen High-level government offices such as the Governor's Office on three sides were opened. Then he sold all the local officials in Shanxi Province.
But official positions are always limited, and they can't be sold at a good price - Zhu Cijiong is not an emperor after all, and the officials he sells are always a bit empty.
And he has a big heart, and he always feels that he should do something big, at least to take back all the Datong Mansion where Prince Dai's Mansion is located, right? To accomplish this, you have to recruit troops and build equipment, and the money is thrown away like water!
So when he saw that it was difficult to sell his official position, Zhu Cijiong began to borrow money at usury...
Alas, loan sharking harms the king!
Zhu Cijiong is only sixteen years old this year. In future generations, before he reaches adulthood, he already owes three to four million in loan sharks!
You must know that Emperor Chongzhen's annual income was only one million taels of silver. He had to go without food or drink for three or four years to repay his son's principal. What should he do with the interest? Thirty-six percent high interest rate per year! They were really going to force Chongzhen and Queen Zhou to sell their houses to pay off their son's debts...but to whom would the palace where the Supreme Emperor retire be sold?
What's even more frightening is that Zhu Cijiong borrowed three to four million in usury loans not to squander it, but to recruit soldiers, buy horses, build weapons, build castles, and save military supplies... This was to start a war!
By the time the big creditor Jiabusjia was brought to Yongning Prefecture by Fatty Chen, Zhu Cijiong had more than 30,000 elite soldiers. Yongning Prefecture City, where the royal palace is located, was built into Jintang City. It was not an isolated city, but a three-dimensional defense system with the main city of Yongning Prefecture City as the core and surrounded by eight villages.
"Your Majesty, General Shang Chen has brought a Malaysian dealer and wants you to sign an IOU of thirty-five thousand taels..."
When Prince Ji Shucheng quickly walked into the hall and informed Zhu Cijiong that a new creditor was coming, King Loan of the Ming Dynasty and General Luo Xiu Shen of the Prince's Palace were frowning together as they listened to the report of the situation in Datong Palace by the brave general Wang Fuchen who came out of Datong City - The situation is very bad, Datong Mansion is running out of food!
Commander-in-Chief Jiang Yu is desperate and is ready to eat human flesh!
Now it depends on the 30,000 elite soldiers recruited by the "Loan King" with loan sharks to rescue Datong...
"Thirty-five thousand taels?" Zhu Cijiong, who was almost the same mold as Zhu Cixiang, raised his head and looked at Yu Chenglong and Yu Jishan, who were about thirty years old and handsome, "Why so many?"
This Yu Chenglong is a native of Yongning Prefecture, with a reputation as a scholar. He took part in the imperial examination in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, but failed. It is said that he failed to pass the examination because the examiner accepted bribes and cheated. However, historically, he later passed the imperial examination. After several years of cram school, I failed the exam again in the eighth year of Shunzhi. It was not until I was forty-four that I sneaked into the Imperial College to study... In the end, I didn't even graduate from the Imperial College, so I found a job as a county magistrate in a remote rural area. See He doesn't look like a top student!
But in this time and space, he is lucky and does not need to take the imperial examination, because there is no imperial examination for him in Shanxi. To be an official of the Qing Dynasty, he must first surrender to the flag... first become a flag slave, letting his wife and daughter serve the Nine Flags Master, and then he has the opportunity to climb up the ladder step by step.
But it is much easier to become an official of the "Loan King" of the Ming Dynasty, just spend money to buy one!
So Yu Shihuang, Yu's father, who hoped that his son would become a success, simply sold some real estate and land in his family and scraped together some money for Yu Chenglong to buy an official position. The original purchase was from Wutai County Magistrate, but Wutai County did not take it back. Therefore, in the early 20th year of Chongzhen, Yu's father spent money to help his son buy Prince Ji Shan, who was Zhu Cijiong's follower, just in case " When the "Loan King" becomes prosperous in the future, he will make money.
"Your Majesty," Yu Chenglong said with a happy face, "General Shang Chen has bought a thousand Xifan horses!"
"A thousand horses?" Luo Xiushen on the side also became happy, "Now our cavalry is not short of horses!"
Zhu Cijiong nodded: "With the cavalry, we will be more confident in overcoming the siege of Datong!"
"Your Highness, do you really want to send troops?" Luo Xiushen was a little scared again and looked at the young prince, waiting for his decision.
"Gamble!" Zhu Cijiong said, "Let's surround Wei and rescue Zhao, go to Luliang, and attack Taiyuan Fucheng!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of Wang Yongji, the governor of the three sides, came from outside the main hall of the palace: "Your Majesty, I am so happy, so happy... The Tatar Regent promised to enlarge a way out for the soldiers and civilians! He will be released on the fifth day of June. They came south to Luliang Mountain!"
Zhu Cijiong slapped the table: "Okay! Our opportunity has come!"
