Hearing what the maid said, Mrs. Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
Just leave, just leave. If they continue to stay, the roof of the Qi family will be blown off by them.
It was really the first time for Mrs. Qi to know that these people were so difficult to deal with.
In the past, when Mr. Qi was very good, they were all extremely polite. Unexpectedly, they all jumped up one by one when Mr. Qi was unconscious just now.
He was jumping up and down, as if he was trying to kill the Qi family.
Mrs. Qi had no choice but to ask her maid to call her sons over to discuss the matter.
They might have stabilized the situation before Mr. Qi woke up.
However, what Mrs. Qi didn't expect was that the situation was much more serious than she thought - not only did the Qi family have no money in their accounts, but they also owed a large amount of foreign debt, so someone else might come looking for them.
"How could it be like this?!" Mrs. Qi looked shocked.
Uncle Qi looked helpless: "Dad had settled this matter with several nobles from aristocratic families before. It was originally just a temporary turnaround, but no one expected that the official salt shop would have so much salt, and it seemed that there was an endless supply. I couldn't buy it no matter what.
End... And we buy it in bulk. Each pack of salt is 10 copper plates more than the cheap salt. It seems inconspicuous, just 10 copper plates, but if we buy it now... it means that we have to pay more for each pack.
Losing 10 copper coins."
"You have to lose ten barrels for every pack of salt, right?!" Mr. Qi's eyes widened and he was shocked, "Then why does our family store so much money? The more we store, the more we lose?"
Third Master Qi sighed beside him: "Today they originally thought that the official salt shops would not have much salt. As long as we dare to stock up and buy the official salt shops at a loss, then the salt market will still belong to our aristocratic families, but who can
Come to think of it...our family has been emptied out, but there is still a lot of salt in this official salt shop."
Although the Second Master Qi is only a second-generation ancestor and doesn't care much about family affairs, he understood what the Third Master Qi said.
"Then...how much salt is there in the official salt shop now?" Qi Erye asked.
Uncle Qi shook his head: "I don't know. I'm afraid people have observed that basically every day, people bring salt in from outside. Sometimes the volume of goods will be larger, sometimes the volume of goods will be smaller, but no matter it is more or less, the next day
You definitely have salt at the official salt shop."
Originally, they were thinking of buying up the salt in the official salt shops and encouraging the people to cause trouble.
result……
The common people are not fools. They go to buy salt every day and see so much salt in the official salt shops.
You may be fooled at first, but as time goes by, no one will believe you.
The second-rate men they sent out were also arrested by the government officials and were publicized everywhere as role models.
It's simply enough.
How can I deal with this matter after several shots have been used as assists by the opponent?
"Then..." Mr. Qi came up with a bad idea, "Then can we think of a way to rob the official salt that comes in? As long as we rob the salt, the official salt shops will have no salt, and the people will not
Is it just a lie? I don’t believe it anymore. All the salt mines in the world are in the hands of a few of our aristocratic families, and the salt in the hands of the imperial court is really endless, and it will never be finished."
"This..." Uncle Qi was a little unsure.
The salt was escorted by the army, could they really rob it?
But now that we've reached this point, we don't even have any money in our hands, so we can't talk about robbery and there's no other way.
Either life or death, we can only fight for it.
Gritting his teeth, Uncle Qi found someone.
…
The sergeant responsible for escorting the official salt was so happy that he did not expect such a big credit to be given to them.
Without saying a word, they kidnapped everyone and reported it to the court.
Emperor Mingguang kept staring at them. How could he miss such a big deal given to him?
He directly followed the clues and touched the heads of Uncle Qi, Second Master Qi, Third Master Qi and others, and captured them all.
That day, the weather was sunny.
Mr. Qi had just woken up when he heard people coming from below, saying that the Qi family was surrounded by people from the government.
Immediately afterwards, several of his sons were killed in one fell swoop.
Master Qi, who knew what happened, spat out a mouthful of blood, rolled his eyes, and fainted again.
This time, the doctor sighed: "Hey, you guys should prepare for the funeral!"
"master?!"
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Master, why did you go there?!”
"Master, you can't leave us alone! Master..."
…
Mrs. Qi threw herself on the bed and cried, but it was a pity that Mr. Qi never woke up again.
The Qi family, which was once very prosperous and had been passed down for hundreds of years, fell apart like this.
The whole Ming Dynasty was shocked.
Especially those major families who were on good terms with the Qi family couldn't believe it at all.
"What?! The Qi family...that one actually attacked the Qi family?!"
"Alas..." A gentleman looked at his young son, sighed softly, and asked him to sit down, "Why not? The family has controlled resources for many years, and the court can tolerate it for so many years. It is already very tolerant."
"But...but what mistake did the Qi family make? He is so aligned with the family? When he was the emperor, the Qi family made great contributions..."
"What kind of credit? Did you support the emperor of the first dynasty to ascend to the throne?" The old man was a little helpless, "Which of the old and famous families left behind did not support it? Those who did not support it have long since disappeared. Moreover, that person did not act without any reason.
The Qi family has been cleaned up. If that happened, the country would have been in chaos long ago..."
Then, he told people what he had found out about the Qi family's attempt to raise the price of salt and rob official salt.
Not only that, the Qi family usually failed to control their children and grandchildren, and many people had done things like occupying fertile farmland and robbing women from good families.
"It doesn't matter if you don't investigate these murder cases, they will be accurate once you investigate them. The person who didn't investigate before was because he didn't have the confidence to touch the Qi family, and he was afraid that if he did, it would affect the entire Ming Dynasty. But it's different now.
…”
In this battle of salt, the Qi family lost.
If you lose, you have to pay the price in blood.
The old man taught his son the affairs of the Qi family. Whether a family can be passed down for thousands of years depends not only on what you hold in your hands, but also on your sharp eyesight. You must understand the thoughts of the superiors and know which bottom lines cannot be stepped on.
It was obvious that the Qi family, as the backers of "the best salt merchant in the world", were a little complacent.
They only thought that they controlled the salt mines in the world, and even the royal family had to give them three points, but they forgot what the name of the world was.
Dragons have reverse scales, which will kill you if you touch them.
The Li family had endured it for so many years, one emperor after another, and finally they couldn't hold it back anymore, so it's not surprising.
"Then we...our Wei family still holds the imperial court's iron ore, so wouldn't we be more in danger?" The eldest son of Wei frowned slightly, with a worried look on his face.
No matter why the Qi family was punished, one thing is certain, that is, the things in the Qi family's hands are an eyesore to the superiors.
Even the salt has been taken away, so their Wei family's iron mine...
