Chapter 1196 The Nangong family is extremely wealthy
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Xu Changqing breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully.
"I also know that the more than thirty people arrested were directly involved in this case, but this does not mean that these people who came just now are absolutely clean. They have received some benefits in private. Deep down
They are afraid that they will be implicated, so they took the risk to come here this time. On the surface, it is to ask for mercy, but in fact, they want to test my mind and see if this matter can be ended here."
Li Chen said expressionlessly: "The law does not punish the public, and this matter will end here. The benefits they received, but since they did not personally participate in this case, they only received a little silence fee.
The palace should pay them their salaries in advance, but this will not happen next time."
Xu Changqing was frightened when he heard this.
Because Li Chen's words clearly revealed the thoughts of a group of officials.
It was as if Li Chen was standing by and listening while they were discussing, word for word.
The important thing is, why did His Highness the Prince say these words to himself?
With happiness in his heart, Xu Changqing bowed and said: "Wei Chen understands that Wei Chen will also let them all know His Highness's painstaking efforts."
"Um."
Li Chen responded with a sound in his nose, and this matter was completely over.
"One more thing, do you know how many larger merchants and landlords there are in the Gyeonggi region and the south?" Li Chen asked.
Xu Changqing was stunned for a moment, but still replied: "I have some impressions."
"As for the big merchants in the Gyeonggi region, after His Highness's raids on the four major merchant families years ago and this case, basically nothing can be left. The vacated markets are for Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants and other foreign merchants.
The merchants have occupied it, but they operate legally and have not committed crimes, so there is no problem."
"As for Nanfang, the three families of Chen, Wei and Nangong do a lot of business. Among them, the Chen family is the leader of Zhejiang merchants, and the Wei family comes from the southern Fujian line. The Nangong family is a local rise in Jinling and does not belong to Shanxi merchants or Hui merchants.
, Business gangs like Zhejiang merchants are very powerful."
"The above are related to merchants."
"As for the landowners, there are many, and most of these families are also big landowners. The most powerful among them should be the Nangong family. In the autumn of the eighth year of Daxing, the Holy One ordered a census of land ownership across the country. At that time, the Nangong family owned more than 20,000 acres of land.
Three thousand acres, this is still recorded in the books, some are not in the books, and with so many years of accumulation, the real number will probably be even more exaggerated."
Although Li Chen had long been mentally prepared for land annexation in the feudal era, when Li Chen heard the figure of twenty-three thousand acres, he couldn't help but be moved.
"I have seen the data from Daxing's national statistics for eight years. On average, the cultivated land area per capita in the country is only two and a third of acres. His Nangong family has 23,000 acres? The entire capital's farmland is only 20,000 acres.
acres, Nangong’s family owns more land than the entire capital city!?”
Facing Li Chen's question, Xu Changqing smiled bitterly and said: "This is just the land. There are countless other land deeds, shops, house deeds, etc. The real wealth of the Nangong family can only be described as being as rich as the country."
"Okay, okay."
Li Chen narrowed his eyes and said: "Since it comes from Jinling, it has an inseparable relationship with King Wen."
"Come here, order Chen Tong to send people to Jinling immediately and bring the Nangong family to the capital. This time, anyone can be missing, but the Nangong family must come to eat this meal!"
