Chapter 293

Chu Zhongtian was not reconciled to this, and hurriedly asked, "brother Wang, can you find a way to get another batch of salt?"

Wang Fu laughed bitterly and shook his head: "if it had been in the past years, it would have been OK, but this year brother Chu also knew that the shangtun of our frontier was robbed by other nationalities and suffered heavy losses. This time, we mobilized surplus grain from warehouses all over the country, and it was very difficult to come up with another batch. There is no way we can do anything about it."

"What about the salt business in the next year?" Chu Zhongtian heavily sat back on the chair, as if the whole person suddenly aged many years.

In fact, it is also clear that most of the time there is no play, just in case of a state of mind asked.

Wang Fu bit his teeth and said, "brother Chu, I have an idea."

"What?" Chu Zhongtian asked in a hurry.

Wang Fu said: "I have controlled all the people who know about the robbery, and I won't admit it if anyone asks me later. We'll use the salt lead of the next year to deal with the emergency. We'll get through this and the weather will be fine."

Salt Merchants Trade on a large scale, and sometimes the amount of salt used in one year is not enough. Therefore, the government has reserved salt for the next three years in case of emergency.

However, it is not without cost to use the salt, but the most intuitive thing is that the cost is much higher.

It costs 1.5 Liang silver for a normal salt introduction, but 2.1 Liang silver is required for the salt introduction in the following years, which is equivalent to the loan interest. The court's action also played a certain role in macro-control, so that salt merchants would not recklessly throw a large amount of salt into the market because of the huge profits of the salt industry.

"But then the cost of salt will be too high." Chuzhongtian frowned and added various kinds of management. The cost was 3 or 4 times of the current cost. It was too expensive.

Next year, I'm going to lead the salt back to fangchu, which means that I'm not going to introduce the salt to fangchu next year. In this way, you and I will be able to solve the urgent need of you and me

Chu Zhongtian's face changed: "never, this is the corner of the imperial court. Once it happens, it's a big crime."

Wang Fu said: "with the contacts of brother Chu in Mingyue city and the management of our Wang family for many years, it is not so easy to happen. In addition, every family has been doing such things in the past years. How many have paid taxes in full? "

Chu Zhongtian said in a deep voice: "but in the past years, it was only a small amount of advance. We just turned a blind eye to it. This is a year's advance for salt. It's too dynamic to believe it, absolutely not."

Wang Fu sighed: "brother Chu, don't blame me for speaking straight. What can we do otherwise?"

"As far as I know, since this year, private salt has become more and more rampant. Many of your Chu family's salt can't be sold?"

"In the past, you could not sell the cost of 1.5 liang of salt, but now it is close to the cost of 4 liang silver, you will not be able to sell it. Moreover, even if it is sold out, how much can the Chu family earn? The Chu family is so big that it consumes a lot of money in all aspects. If there is no income from salt business, I'm afraid it will be in deficit soon. " Wang Fu analyzed.

Chu Zhongtian's face changed, Huoran got up and said: "we Chu family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and this loss is still affordable."

Although it will hurt our muscles and bones, the big deal is to sell some ancestral land.

Just as he was about to get angry, Wang Fu knelt down in front of him, hugged his thigh and said, "brother Chu, you Chu family can afford the great undertaking, but we Wang family can't afford it. Because the frontier business village was robbed before, our Wang family had been shaken by the wind and rain. If the news of the robbery of salt was spread again, our Wang family would be all over. Brother Chu, we've been together for so many years. I've never asked you. Can I ask you this time? "

"Brother Wang, please get up quickly. What are you doing?" Chu Zhongtian helped him up in a hurry. We should know that among the big families, the Chu family and the Wang family are the closest. After decades of contact, they have already regarded each other as friends.

"The Wangs are going to collapse completely. What's the use of my old face?" Wang Fu simply sat down on the ground, dead or alive.

Chu Zhongtian's face was overcast and clear: "let me think about it. It's really a matter of great importance."

Hearing his tone loose, Wang Fu couldn't help but be overjoyed: "thank you, brother Chu. I can't thank you enough for your heart. As for whether you can succeed in the future, I'll leave it to God."

When Chu Zhongtian went back to talk to Qin Wanru about this matter, Qin Wanru was pale: "of course not, my husband, how can you be so confused and promise such a thing!"

Chu Zhongtian sighed: "I don't know it's very dangerous, but Wang Fu's point is not unreasonable. If you pay advance silver for every salt lead, the cost of official salt will be too high, and no ordinary people will buy it."

Qin Wanru said in a hurry: "even if we don't buy it, we Chu family can afford to lose one year's income. Now the court has sent Sang Hong to watch us. We really need to do something. Once he detects it, it will be a big trouble. "

"The situation of the Chu family is not as good as you think," Chu Zhongtian said in a deep voice. "A few years ago, we lost money every year. After Yan appeared at the beginning of the year, the situation changed a little, but we couldn't stand such a big loss."In fact, the reason why we didn't want to make money was that we didn't want to make money? Why do you lose money every year? "

"I didn't want to hide it from you, but you didn't ask about it because you were worried too much," Chu explained. "You should know that it's all transferred to the salt transportation department?"

"Nature knows that." Qin Wanru replied.

Chu Zhongtian then told the whole story.

Because of the huge profits of salt, all the dynasties set up such a department to supervise the production, transportation and sale of salt, and suppress smuggling.

It is Linchuan county that supervises Mingyue city.

Among them, the chief salt transportation envoy is the fat and vacancy among the fat and the positions that countless officials are fascinated by.

However, since the Chu family has been in charge of the salt industry in Mingyue city for thousands of years, the approval of the Chu family is generally required to become the salt transportation envoy.

To some extent, these salt envoys were from the Chu family, or people close to the Chu family.

But there are few officials who are not greedy.

Every salt transport envoy and the group of deputies and junior officials under their command will more or less make a profit from it.

The masters of the Chu family of all dynasties could only turn a blind eye to this. First, they were officials close to the Chu family. Second, this was also the hidden rule of the officialdom, such as the salt transportation department and other departments.

In addition, after leaving their posts, the officials at all levels of the salt transportation department were promoted to the central court, or transferred to the local government to become senior officials. A huge net has been formed in the imperial court, which leads to the movement of the whole body.

If the Chu family dares to say anything, it will offend an extremely terrifying force.

In this way, over the course of hundreds of years, the actual deficit in the treasurer's room due to salt transportation has reached an astronomical figure.

In the past, we could rely on various accounts to hide the past, but by the generation of Chu Zhongtian, the number was too big to hide.

"So all the money made by the Chu family over the years is making up for the deficit accumulated by the Treasury house of salt transportation for hundreds of years?" The blood color of Qin Wanru's delicate cheeks faded away.

Chu Zhongtian bitter smile: "good."

"By what!" Qin Wanru's face was full of anger, "why should the money embezzled by successive salt officials ask our Chu family to make up for the deficit?"

Chu Zhongtian said in a deep voice: "just because our Chu family has been able to occupy the salt and iron rich fiefdom of Mingyue City, do you think that the Chu family can sit still with such a fat piece of meat, relying on the merits of our ancestors alone? It's not because of the help of those officials that our Chu family has always had such a place. "

"I didn't have to be so troublesome in the past, but in recent years I felt that the emperor seemed to be ready to attack our Chu family. I had to prepare for a rainy day and make up for the deficit of the salt transportation department's storehouse. At least I could muddle through the account, so that I could withstand the investigation of the imperial court."

Chu Zhongtian stopped and continued: "this is why I have the courage to stand up to the pressure of the emperor and the king of Qi to remain neutral, because there are countless officials of the imperial court behind us! The last thing they want is something wrong with the Chu family. Otherwise, none of them will want to run away! "

Qin Wanru suddenly moved in his mind: "the account book that you solemnly handed over to Chu Yan last time, at that time, said it was the current account with business partners. Now, I'm afraid it is the criminal evidence of corruption of those officials in the salt transportation department of all dynasties."

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "yes, as long as the account book is not lost, no matter the emperor or the king of Qi, no matter how you want to deal with our Chu family, we will not have anything wrong with Chu family!"

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