"Ying'er, you! Why can't my father understand what you are saying?"
Li Xiongfeng looked at Li Ying in shock and asked.
"Father, don't you understand this?
Grain is hard currency. As long as we sell it, we can sell it quickly. It doesn’t cost much to store grain!"
"Moreover, the purchasing price and selling price of grain are still somewhat volatile. This fluctuation can also allow us to make a small profit."
Li Ying explained.
hiss!
Li Xiongfeng took a breath of air. When he thought about this, it really was true. Li Xiongfeng felt more and more that his son would definitely lead the Li family to a new height.
"Ying'er, you are absolutely right, I will send people to stockpile a large amount of food now!"
Li Xiongfeng said.
However, before he could go out and ask people to stock up on food, a group of royal guards rushed into Li's mansion and captured everyone in their mansion.
When Li Xiongfeng saw the members of the Li family being captured by the Jin Yiwei, not only did he not panic at all, but he said in a cold voice: "How dare you arrest members of the Li family!"
"Do you know that my Li family is a big family in the Ming Dynasty and has many connections in the court. Aren't you afraid of being punished if you dare to be so arrogant?"
Just when Li Xiongfeng scolded Jin Yiwei, Zhu Cijiong walked out from behind Jin Yiwei with a cold smile on his face and said: "Haha! How deep is the relationship between your Li family in the Ming Dynasty?"
"This! His Highness the Third Prince!"
Li Xiongfeng was frightened.
"It seems that you still know that I am a prince. You Li family want to embezzle 10 million taels of silver from my Ming Dynasty. You are really too courageous!"
Zhu Cijiong said coldly.
"This...is nothing! Our Li family's money is gone, and all we have left is Daming coins!"
Li Xiongfeng is stupid.
"Haha! Isn't Li Feng a member of your Li family?
My imperial brother just sold ten warships and earned ten million taels of silver, and Li Feng actually dared to seize them without permission, and he has already been beheaded!"
"My imperial brother has convicted him of the crime of killing nine clans. No one in your Li family will be alive!"
Zhu Cijiong said with a sneer.
What!
Li Feng actually pocketed the money from selling the warship!
wrong!
Those warships were actually sold at such an expensive price, one million taels of silver, but they secretly exchanged more than a hundred of them from the port!
Not only that, they also sold dozens of these warships, but the most expensive one was only sold for one hundred thousand taels of silver. They are just like fools!
Li Xiongfeng really wants to slap himself now for making so little money but taking such big risks!
"Your Highness, Third Prince, those are Li Feng's personal actions and have nothing to do with our Li family! Please show your respect and let us, the Li family, accept the punishment!"
"No matter how much you fine us, we will accept it!"
Li Xiongfeng begged for mercy.
Li Ying knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Your Highness, the Third Prince! Our Li family is a big shipping family. Without us, the flow of materials in the Ming Dynasty will be much slower!"
"Please, let us go, we are willing to pay a fine of one million Ming coins!"
"No! We are willing to pay a fine of 10 million Daming coins!"
Li Xiongfeng said hurriedly.
Zhu Cijiong looked at them with an indifferent smile on his face and said: "Haha! You are really determined not to give up until you reach the Yellow River. Do you think ten million Ming coins can exempt you from punishment?"
"More than a hundred warships were lost at the port, each worth one million taels of silver. They were all exchanged for that Li Feng. Don't tell me that they are not in the Li family!"
After Zhu Cijiong said that, he asked the Jin Yiwei to escort all the children of the Li family out. If Li Xiongfeng and Li Ying answered a question wrong, he would kill one of them!
This is Jin Yiwei. When performing tasks, he must be ruthless!
Gudu!
After hearing this, Li Xiongfeng swallowed a big mouthful of saliva and began to tremble. He looked at Li Ying, who was also trembling, and said: "Your Highness, Third Prince, this matter! This matter has nothing to do with us!"
"Yes! This matter has nothing to do with us. It was all done by Li Feng alone. There are indeed a few of those warships here, but they are only a few!"
"As for the other warships, we don't know where he took them!"
After Li Ying finished speaking, Li Xiongfeng followed.
When Zhu Cijiong saw that the two men refused to tell the truth, he directly ordered the Jin Yiwei to start killing people. The Jin Yiwei raised his knife and fell, and more than a dozen people from the Li family were beheaded.
ah!
The two of them were so frightened that they were trembling, and yellow liquid flowed out of their crotches. The disciples of the Li family also screamed and begged Li Xiongfeng and Li Ying for help.
"You are Jin Yiwei, the guardians of the Ming Dynasty. How can you kill people at will?"
Li Xiongfeng said.
puff!
After a few more blows, more than a dozen disciples of the Li family died. At this time, Li Xiongfeng was too frightened to speak. Li Ying continued: "I say! I say, those battleships were sold by that piece of shit Li Feng."
There are dozens of ships out there, and they are in the hands of major aristocratic families, and His Highness the Prince can find them as long as he goes to check them!"
"As long as His Highness the Prince wants the battleships that our Li family currently owns, we will hand them over!"
"We are really innocent, we just bought some from Li Feng, just for shipping!"
Zhu Cijiong finally heard the answer he wanted, but what Li Ying said was not sincere, and Zhu Cijiong was very dissatisfied with it.
"You are telling the truth, but you are not sincere enough. You obviously want it for yourself, so why do you have to frame others?"
"Kill everyone in the Li family, and confiscate all the Li family's property! All the Li family's businesses will be auctioned directly!"
Zhu Cijiong said coldly.
These are all explained by Lin Fan. The Li family's business is too big and complicated. If it were taken over by the imperial court, it would simply not be able to manage it.
But if the major families take over, it will be much simpler. However, as Li Ying just said, all the major families are involved in the purchase of warships, which is another problem.
"Your Highness, we found an account book in the Li family. It records their income this month, which is as high as seven million taels of silver!"
Jin Yiwei said in shock.
It is generally difficult for those who run the shipping industry to become a famous family, because their profits are not very large, and they also need major families to take care of the business, and their status is much lower than other businesses.
Moreover, if you encounter water bandits and your goods are robbed, you will have to compensate others a lot of money. The fact that the Li family can develop from shipping to one of the top ten aristocratic families shows how big it is.
Nowadays, almost all the shipping routes of the Ming Dynasty are occupied by the Li family. Other aristocratic families have cargo ships, but they only transport their own goods. Most of the goods have to be transported by the Li family.
"Haha! It's very normal for them to own dozens of warships and earn so much money."