Immediately he said: "Mr. Gao Ge, you also know that our Xu family has a large population, so our expenses are huge. It is really difficult to maintain our lives with only the small salary from the court."
Gao Hongtu said: "Wei Guogong, if you have anything to say, please say it directly."
"Okay, I'll tell you the truth." Xu Hongji said solemnly, "My Xu family wants half of the shares of the Stock Exchange and the Ming Dynasty Royal Bank. Is this request not too much?"
Xu Hongji is even more greedy than his younger brother Xu Yaoji.
Xu Yaoji just wanted half of the shares in the exchange.
However, Xu Hongji still wanted half of the shares of Ming Royal Bank.
"What did you say?" Gao Hongtu's face suddenly fell.
This is too much. You and the Xu family are going to take away half of the shares of the Ming Dynasty Royal Bank and the stock exchange. How will we distribute the remaining benefits?
Xu Hongji actually felt a little guilty.
Seeing Gao Hongtu's expression turn serious, he immediately changed his words: "If Mr. Gao Ge thinks it is too much, then reduce it appropriately, but it cannot be less than 40%. 40% is the bottom line!"
"At most 10%!" Gao Hongtu said with a dark face, "No more than that will do."
"What? 10%?!" Xu Hongji said angrily, "Mr. Gao Ge, are you sending a beggar away?"
"Wei Guogong, I advise you not to be too greedy." Gao Hongtu said solemnly, "You know better than I do how much 10% of the shares of the Ming Royal Bank and the Stock Exchange are worth in taels of silver."
At this point, anyone with a discerning eye can see the value of the Ming Dynasty Royal Bank and the exchange.
A conservative estimate is that the combined value of these two institutions exceeds 200 million taels. A 10% share is equivalent to 20 million taels of silver. This is a huge sum of money, equivalent to the annual income of the Ming Dynasty!
[Note: During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a unit of 100 million]
Xu Hongji is naturally aware of this.
After laughing twice, Xu Hongji added: "Then 30%, no more."
"Thirty percent is absolutely impossible!" Gao Hongtu said with a dark face, "At most 15%!"
Xu Hongji originally wanted to counter-offer 20%, but at this moment, Xu Yaoji hurried in and whispered a few words into Xu Hongji's ear, and Xu Hongji's expression suddenly changed.
At that moment, Xu Hongji said: "Then according to Mr. Gao Ge's wishes, 15% of the shares!"
Gao Hongtu was wondering what Xu Yaoji had said to Xu Hongji, but he expected that Xu Hongji wouldn't be able to tell him, so he didn't ask.
So Gao Hongtu said: "In that case, please ask Wei Guogong to mobilize the Beijing troops to control the gates of the inner city of Nanjing as soon as possible, and then mobilize a brigade of Beijing troops to come to Nangong to stabilize the court situation."
Xu Hongji said: "Don't worry, Mr. Gaoge. The gates in the inner city of Nanjing have long been under the control of the Beijing camp troops. In addition, I have already transferred a brigade of the Beijing camp to Gongyuan. With just one order, we can drive to Nangong."
"Then please ask Wei Guogong to mobilize troops as soon as possible." Gao Hongtu said and left.
As soon as Gao Hongtu left, Xu Yinjue and Xu Renjue followed behind.
The four brothers and nephews all celebrated the Xu family's huge profits.
There is no doubt that the Xu family will become the most wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty after today.
On the other side, Gao Hongtu, who had returned to the direct room of the cabinet, was stamping his feet in annoyance.
Because Gao Hongtu had just returned to the cabinet when he received news that Liu Kongzhao had successfully disarmed three thousand cavalry under Jin Xuan. Now even if Wei Guogong Xu Hongji turns to the princelings, the Donglin Party will not be afraid!
Because Wei Guogong Xu Hongji's 20,000-strong capital camp had silver-like wax spear heads and could not defeat Caojiang Town at all.
"Damn it!" Gao Hongtu said bitterly, "Uncle Chengyi, why didn't you send the letter earlier?"
Li Jinglian said: "Teacher, there is nothing wrong with this matter. Let's wait until the new king ascends the throne to discuss everything."
The implication of Li Jinglian's words was that his words were empty words. As long as the new king ascended the throne and the overall situation in the court was stable, Gao Hongtu could completely refuse to admit his guilt. Then Wei Guogong would have nothing to do with him.
"Well, Yizhou is right." Gao Hongtu admired Li Jinglian more and more.
After a pause, he continued: "However, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I would like to ask Uncle Chengyi to dispatch a brigade of Jiang soldiers to come to Nangong to intimidate the court."
"It should be so."
Jiang Yueguang and others also agreed.
They still can't trust Xu Hongji.
At that moment, Gao Hongtu sent people to the Admiral Caojiang's office to mobilize troops.
At the beginning, Liu Kongzhao expected that Liu Kongzhao had received the news, so Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang took Zhang Youyu, Lu Daqi and other Donglin Party officials straight to the Jinluan Hall of Nangong.
This is preparation for a showdown with the princelings.
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Admiral Caojiang's Office.
More precise news has spread from Yangzhou to Nanjing.
Moreover, the person who came to report the news was Li Ruolian, the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
"The assassin was Du Hongyu, a Songjiang guerrilla under the jurisdiction of Admiral Caojiang."
"It's just that Du Hongyu didn't use his subordinate Cao Jiang's model soldiers, but hired pirates who paid a lot of money."
As soon as Li Ruolian finished speaking, Liu Kongzhao continued: "Your Majesty, this person Du Hongyu was originally a pirate off the coast of Songjiang. He made a living by robbing passing merchant ships all year round. It was not until two years ago that he was recruited by me to join the Admiral Caojiang's office.
He also received the command of Songjiang Guerrilla, and he has never done any evil since then."
"On the contrary, many pirates were wiped out."
"The great sea pirate Gu San Mazi also suffered great losses at his hands."
After a pause, Liu Kongzhao said again: "This person can be regarded as a strong soldier."
Chongzhen smiled and suddenly asked: "The last time the person who pretended to be Cao Jiang navy to rob the Zhan family's caravan on the river near Dantu was the pirate Du Hongyu was looking for, right?"
"Gah?" Liu Kongzhao was dumbfounded.
Chongzhen asked again: "And the pirates who 'colluded' with Zhan Yangzhi and Ma Mingluan were captured by Du Hongyu from the sea outside Songjiang, right? Those are Gu San Mazi's people, right?"
"This, Your Majesty, your Majesty..." Liu Kongzhao was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat.
Chongzhen added: "But I also know that these have nothing to do with you."
"My Holy Emperor!" Liu Kongzhao almost cried, Your Majesty, you scared me to death.
Li Ruolian on the other side added: "Du Hongyu is extremely greedy for money. He once borrowed a large amount of high-interest usury from various banks to hoard bonds. However, when the bond prices avalanched, he lost all his money. Various banks repeatedly called for debts but failed.
If they get it, they spend money to hire thugs to force them to pay for debts, which leads to the death of Du Hongyu's family. In the end, only an old mother and a young son are left in the family of dozens."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "This makes sense, no wonder they did not hesitate to use so many underwater mines to blow me up." Chongzhen nodded and said, "Did you catch this Du Hongyu?
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"Caught it." Li Ruolian nodded, and then said, "But he bit his tongue and committed suicide."
"Suicide? It seems that you still have some skills." Chongzhen nodded and said, "But it is impossible for them not to leave some traces for such a big thing as regicide. Please let me go free to investigate and investigate the regicide to the end.
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"I accept the decree." Li Ruolian solemnly promised, and the Jin Yiwei had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.
After getting to the bottom of it, it means that as long as regicide is involved, they can even arrest the prince.
But soon, Chongzhen added: "However, it is limited to regicide! It cannot be expanded indefinitely!"
Chongzhen was still very wary of the Jinyiwei secret service. Although this secret service was very useful, its negative effects were immeasurable. In general, it would do more harm than good, and it would have to be abolished sooner or later.
Secret service politics will never come to the fore, and it will never become a big deal.
As soon as Li Ruolian left, Jin Xuan sneaked in with an old man in his arms.
Seeing Chongzhen sitting in the carriage, the old man was stunned for a moment.
"Your Majesty, this person is an old servant of Gao Hongtu, the second assistant to the cabinet." Jin Xuan reported, "On Gao Hongtu's order, I came to Caojiang Admiral's Office to transfer Caojiang's soldiers to Nangong to maintain the court situation."
"It seems that this drama is about to reach its climax."
After saying this, Chongzhen stood up, waved his hand and said, "Let's go to the theater."
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At this time, in the Jinluan Hall of Nangong, the two sides had a showdown.
"Gao Hongtu!" Shi Kefa was so angry that his beard and hair stood out, and he shouted sternly, "Is it possible that you really want to imitate Dong Zhuo, but in the position of a minister, you are good at abolishing and establishing things?"
"What Mr. Shi Ge said is ridiculous," Gao Hongtu said.
"The late emperor has passed away. We will choose one of the princes to inherit the great treasure. Why should we abolish the establishment?"
Lu Zhenfei was furious and said: "The late emperor had a crown prince when he was still alive. Now that the late emperor is Meng, he should support the crown prince to succeed him. However, Mr. Gaoge changed the crown prince for his own selfishness. How is this move different from abolishing the crown prince?"
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"Shut up!" Gao Hongtu said angrily, "I have told you many times that although the late emperor has a prince, the prince and Prince Ding are far away in Xuzhou, and our Ming Dynasty cannot live without a king for a day, so we have no choice but to
Only then did he support King Yong. Besides, King Yong is also the legitimate son of the late emperor, so why not inherit the throne?"
Meng Zhaoxiang also said angrily: "What Mr. Gaoge did is really treasonous and unethical. It cannot be tolerated by national law and etiquette!"
"I'm doing this for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. I will be able to learn from this determination!" Gao Hongtu bowed his hands to the sky outside the hall and said, "I advise you not to make mistakes!"
"Gao Hongtu, what do you want to do?" Shi Kefa scolded sadly, "Is it possible that you still want to kill someone?"
"For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the ancestral temple and the country, why should I bear the infamy?" Gao Hongtu's expression cooled down, and he glanced at the officials standing with His Highness, and then said, "If anyone objects again..."
"Gao Hongtu!" Lu Zhenfei shouted sharply, "Aren't you afraid of being infamy for thousands of years?"
"Lu Zhenfei, it's not for you to judge the merits and demerits." Gao Hongtu said solemnly, "What I do today will be judged by the history books in the future."
After saying this, Gao Hongtu waved his hand again and said: "Here comes someone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of soldiers from the Beijing camp swarmed into the Jinluan Palace carrying swords and spears.
Seeing this, Jie Xuelong also shouted sharply: "Gao Hongtu, it seems you really want to imitate Dong Zhuo!"
"I've said it before. In order to keep the Ming Dynasty forever, there is no need to sacrifice personal reputation." Gao Hongtu paused and said sharply, "I'm asking you again now, do you support the succession of King Yong or the succession of the crown prince?"
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