Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife

Another day passed, the matter of exchanging sediment for salt became more and more uproarious, and even began to talk about the incident to the salt merchants. Rao Wu Minzhi couldn't sit still anymore, and asked people to buy salt from all over the world, hoping to get rid of it as soon as possible. transfer the charge to someone else.

Qi Ming had already sent people to urge him two or three times, but other salt merchants had already heard the news. At this time, they wished Wu Minzhi and others would fall down one after another. Naturally, they would not help, even if they were willing to sell salt to them. , the price is also ridiculously high.

Wu Minzhi dropped the teacup in his hand resentfully: "These treacherous villains, when I get through this crisis safely, I will definitely let them try my tricks."

The other salt merchants sat aside and said nothing: "Even if we want to settle accounts, we have to wait until we get through this crisis..." But this time, they probably won't make it through.

Just when everyone was almost desperate, the person who sent the letter before saying that he had salt in his hand came again.

Looking at the letter sent by the servants, the salt merchants were very excited: "Chief Wu, hurry up and see if the other party is willing to sell us salt?"

Wu Minzhi quickly opened the letter, and the contents inside the envelope were also concise and to the point: "Fifteen million taels of silver!"

"What? What does that mean?"

"The other party offered 15 million taels of silver? This is no longer a lion's big mouth. This is to clean up our family property!"

Wu Minzhi's face was gloomy. Looking at the contents of the letter, the corners of his eyes kept twitching: "Don't you guys think this letter is very strange?"

"strangeness?"

"The other party only offered 15 million taels of silver, but didn't say how much salt they would sell to us, and the timing of the two letters was too coincidental. Don't you think of anything?"

None of the salt merchants here are stupid. Hearing what Wu Minzhi said, his face turned ugly after a little thought: "Boss Wu, what do you mean to say that the person who sent us the letter now is the one who robbed our salt ship before?" people?"

Wu Minzhi nodded: "Extremely possible!"

In the hall, it was as if water droplets had splashed into the hot oil pan, and it exploded into a ball: "Thinking about it, it's really like this. The person who robbed our salt boat clearly wanted to let us sell it at a price that was 50% higher than the market price. Buy your own stuff back!"

"That batch of salt originally belonged to us, let alone being robbed by others, and we were asked to buy the salt back at such a high price. Isn't this deliberately oppressing us?"

"It's really hateful!"

"Boss Wu, do you have a way to deal with it?"

Wu Minzhi closed his eyes slightly and sighed: "Even if you and I know that this person is deliberately oppressing us, but looking at it right now, there is really no other way but to confess."

The salt merchants who were flushed with anger also gradually calmed down: Yes, even if they knew that the other party did this deliberately, is there a way to resist? If you don't buy this batch of salt, according to the current speed of rumors, it won't take long for the censors to report this matter to the emperor, and the emperor will be furious when he hears about it. They can't keep their heads!

"Boss Wu, according to your opinion, we will recognize it like this?"

"What else can I do if I don't recognize it?"

"But the problem now is that we don't have so much silver taels in our hands!" The salt merchants are rich, but there is a limit to their money. The hole in the salt tax was too big before. They filled part of it first, and they couldn't fill it up later It was only in the name of buying official salt that he made the balance, and after that, he spent a lot of money on opening up the upper and lower joints one after another, giving the same name more than 10 million taels of silver. Right now, there is not much left in his hand, so where is the ability to make up for it? Fifteen million taels?

Wu Minzhi was silent for a moment, and then decided: "We have survived the current crisis, and we still have a chance to make a comeback. If we can't survive, our lives will be lost. Which is more important, you can weigh it yourself? According to what we discussed before Yes, the Wu family, the Wei family, and the Cao family each take 20%, and you can find a way to make up for the rest. I would like to advise you, at this time, stop focusing on things outside your body, sell what should be sold, and what should be discounted. Now, let's work together to get through the current crisis."

The other salt merchants nodded their heads, and they recognized it. Even if they didn't recognize it at this time, what can they do?

When the others left, Wei Qi, the head of the Wei family, and Cao Bing, the head of the Cao family, stayed. It was inconvenient to say some things before, but now there are only the three of them left, so they no longer have any scruples.

"Boss Wu, I think you have seen the problem clearly, right?"

Wu Minzhi clenched his hands into fists, and slammed it on the table: "How could I not see clearly! All of this is clearly controlled by the same name, or the eldest prince!"

Cao Bing of the Cao family said: "Oh, such a method is really frightening! First, he dispatched Qiming to infiltrate our salt merchants, took the opportunity to spy on the news, and then robbed our salt boat on the West River according to the news. This news came to scare us, so we panicked and didn't think clearly, so we directly agreed to his previous proposal to fill the salt tax, and then made a fuss about today's... This step by step is intertwined, clearly trying to put us Squeeze out all the oil and water!"

Wei Qi's expression was serious: "The key is that even though we know that this is a trap set by the eldest prince, we can only walk in silently and have no ability to resist!"

Wu Minzhi sighed: "With one careless step, we lost everything. It's also our fault that we were too careless. If we had just filled the hole in the salt tax with silver taels, maybe there would be no disasters later."

Wei Qi shook her head: "Chief Wu, don't need to be too upset. Speaking of which, we have great influence in the south of the Yangtze River, but if we want to fight against someone like the First Prince, it is tantamount to shaking a tree by a mayf! Right now, I am worried that the First Prince will squeeze us out." After cleaning up, we will be eradicated directly, and then we will re-train salt merchants to control Jiangnan's salt administration. In this way, Jiangnan may really become the eldest prince's pocket!"

"We absolutely can't sit still and wait for death. The eldest prince wants to eat us all, so we must be prepared to die!"

Wu Minzhi nodded: "The two brothers are right. I will keep the post that Li Yuan sent to us all at once, as well as the letter that I promised before. We salt merchants will work together to write down the ins and outs of the matter clearly. Put their fingerprints on each of them, attach the account books of each family and the invitations with the seals and other evidence. Then I sent these things to the capital overnight. Kill us and re-cultivate our power, then we will kill each other and bring the evidence to the emperor in one fell swoop, and we will never make it easy for him!"