Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 119: Shanxi merchants were sold out, and the bloody West Mountain!

Chapter 119: Shanxi merchants were sold out, and the bloody West Mountain!
The Shanxi merchants wanted to sell the Ming Dynasty for a good price.

Wang Chonggu wanted to sell the Shanxi merchants for a good price.

A directory of all the merchants of the Shanxi Merchants Guild.

Shanxi merchants had five grain routes leading to the grasslands.

Wang Chonggu's family was able to get a clear picture of the situation thanks to their status as the financial masters of the Shanxi Merchants Clan.

This is a letter of allegiance.

Even Lu Bing took it very seriously.

But Wang Chonggu's sincerity went far beyond that. He took the initiative to propose to block the roads in and out of Xishan on behalf of the Jinyiwei.

This will allow the Jinyiwei to have sufficient manpower to deal with corruption in the Xishan officialdom and treason among the Shanxi merchants.

Lu Bing was silent.

It was not until the Jinyiwei Tiqi who "escorted" Wang Qian and Wang Zhizhen, father and son, sent back the news that they had left Xishan that Lu Bing chose to accept Wang Chonggu's kindness.

Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and the entire Xishan army, under the order of the governor, set into motion and surrounded Xishan so tightly that not even a fly could fly out.

The corruption among officials in Xishan was just a trick by the Jinyiwei. After the big prey, the Shanxi merchants, appeared, Lu Bing no longer took it seriously.

All the officials of Xishan, both big and small, gathered in the Xishan Governor's Office. Lu Bing ordered Zhu Qi to lead a thousand imperial cavalry to arrest him.

Then, Lu Bing personally went to intercept the five grain routes of the Shanxi Merchants Gang. Grain carts with the Shanxi Merchants Gang's logo stretched for dozens of miles to the grassland. He stabbed the Embroidered Spring Knife into the sacks on the grain carts and pulled them out, and countless pure white japonica rice spilled all over the ground.

There are both witnesses and material evidence.

Lu Bing took out the list of Shanxi merchants given by Wang Chonggu and asked the Jinyiwei to search for the whereabouts of these merchants and then visit them.

Lu Bing soon got the news that today was the day for the Shanxi merchants to worship their ancestors and also the profit distribution meeting of the Shanxi merchants. Most of the names on the list gathered in the Fan family compound of Fan Yongdou, the leader of the Shanxi merchants.

Save yourself the trouble.

Lu Bing headed towards the Fan family compound.

Thousands of brocade-robed messengers behind him all drew their embroidered spring swords and followed with murderous intent.

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Fan Family Courtyard.

Merchants from the Shanxi Merchants Group sat according to their identity and status.

The servants brought buckwheat tea like flowing water, and also left like flowing water.

In the yard, servants carried huge abacuses and placed them on the long table in the middle.

The long table is in a circle, and the abacus is also placed in a circle. The beads on the abacus represent the profit dividends of Shanxi merchants in the past year.

At that time, every time a dividend is paid out, the beads will move accordingly until the beads return to zero, and the dividend meeting will be over.

Everyone is here.

The dividends were also clearly seen by everyone in the gang.

Three-foot-long sandalwood incense was lit and placed in a giant incense burner.

Fan Yongdou, as the leader of the business gang and the owner of this place, came out with six wealthy owners, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan and Huang Yuncai.

The ancestor worship ceremony officially begins.

Fan Yongdou stood in front of the incense burner, holding the incense stick, and said loudly: "Thinking of our ancestors, we look up to the heaven and earth!"

"Sincerity and trustworthiness, great righteousness!"

This is the gang name of the Shanxi merchants that has been passed down for thousands of years.

The six wealthy owners followed Fan Yongdou, following his words one by one, and thousands of Shanxi merchants shouted in unison.

The sound was loud.

The news spread several miles away.

But when people from Xishan hear it, no matter what they are doing, they will stop, spit in the direction of the sound, and then continue with their own business.

Just this bunch of profit-seeking and forgetful bastards dare to look down on the world.

These profit-seeking sons of bitches dare to talk about integrity.

Do you know how to write the word "righteousness"?
In the Western Hills, countless curses, countless resentments, and countless dissatisfactions almost solidified into substance and were about to drown the Fan family.

However, merchants never knew what shame was, and their loud shouting was just a way to announce the existence of the Shanxi merchants.

After the sandalwood was put into the furnace, Fan Yongdou stood up and walked towards the main seat. The six treasurers followed closely behind him. The vacant treasurer position was very conspicuous at this time. The shopkeepers from various places also took their seats.

The Fan family accountant served as the master of ceremonies for the ancestor worship and dividend distribution ceremony. He said in a loud voice: "Last year, the total business account of the three items of foreign exchange, storage, and lending of the whole account was 26,153,111 taels. The four verifications are correct!"

Fan Yongdou stood up again and said, "I have 23 branches. The silver I handle each year is equivalent to more than half of the annual revenue of the court. This is all thanks to the hard work of the shopkeepers. Please accept my whole family's greetings!"

Fan Yongdou bowed first.

The six wealthy owners bowed later.

More than a thousand people in the courtyard returned the greeting.

The scene was grand and spectacular, with a sense of the emperor and his subjects in the court. Fan Yongdou enjoyed the feeling very much. He used this energy to vent his anger and said, "For hundreds of years, when we, the merchants of Shanxi, worship our ancestors, basically everyone will be present, except for the wealthy owners and shopkeepers who are far away and can't come back. But this year, some people didn't come, and I won't tell you the reason."

The deeper the water, the slower it flows; the more noble the person, the slower he speaks.

Fan Yongdou only spoke 70% of the words, and the remaining 3% was understood by everyone present who was smart.

The Shanxi merchants have always been headed by eight wealthy families, but in recent years, the Wang family has hardly interfered in the affairs of the merchant group, and correspondingly, the Wang family does not care about the mistakes made by the merchant group.

The grain routes of Xuanfu and Datong were cut off, and the merchants turned to the fierce tiger of the Wang family for help, but he ignored them.

Merchants value profit. Many Shanxi merchants don’t say it on the surface, but they are resentful about it in their hearts.

Seeing that the people in the business group were excited, Fan Yongdou showed a satisfied smile and asked the accountant to continue: "The boss's financial shares are 21 shares, and the dividends for the colleagues' personal shares in this account period are 17 shares, and the average amount of each share is 15,816 taels and 5 yuan."

The Dong family’s financial stocks are fixed.

Each company holds 21 shares, and the eight companies have a total of 168 shares.

Converted into silver, the annual dividend is around two to three million taels of silver.

The rest of the dividends are the shares of these thousands of people.

Along with the sounds from the Fan family's accounting office, the sound of fiddling with the abacus was like firecrackers at the end of the year, crackling and deafening.

But the louder voices were the cheers of thousands of people, finally getting to the point, "Great!"

"The old gang of Dai Ying from Beijing Branch will get 8.5 cents in dividends!"

"Jingu, Liu Shouxi's old gang, 7 cents dividend!"

"Hangzhou, Qiu Taiji's gang, 6.5 cents in dividends!"

"..."

Thousands of merchants, thousands of names.

Each person had several thousand silver coins to his name.

This is the Shanxi merchant!
The dividend money can be cashed at the head office or branch office after the ceremony is completed. The ancestor worship ceremony has basically come to an end.

Abacus withdrawn.

Instead, dozens of sturdy teenagers ran out from the backyard.

These young men are all sons of shopkeepers from various places in Shanxi. They represent the future of the merchant group and are going to perform martial arts here.

"start!"

The coach in charge of teaching martial arts gave the order.

Dozens of young men immediately took up their positions and shouted in unison: "Ha!"

"Come again!"

"what!"

His martial arts skills are very rudimentary.

But everyone was watching with great interest.

"puff!"

An unexpected noise.

It immediately attracted countless attention.

Lu Bing's Embroidered Spring Knife stabbed the Shanxi merchant's chest twice, then pulled it out and the dead body fell to the ground.

"kill!"