Chapter 299 Ge Lao vomits blood! I regret pretending to be poor in front of the emperor!

  Kong Zhenyun glanced at the small box of silver ingots in front of him, and then at the silver box that belonged to Chen Zizhuang. He couldn't accept the result for a while: "This, this..."

   "Uncle Da Zong bought 1.38 million taels of shares, so he got 3.45 million taels of silver in dividends."

   "Mr. Ge, you bought two hundred taels of shares, so you get five hundred taels of silver as a dividend."

   "This is the account book. If the two of you think there is no problem, please ask the two of you to pledge for delivery."

  As Bi Zisu spoke, he took out the account books and documents.

"good!"

  Chen Zizhuang agreed, and walked over first. After confirming that it was correct, he made a bet and completed the delivery.

  Kong Zhenyun also made a bet at this time and completed the delivery, but after the delivery, he still looked at the street full of silver ingots that did not belong to him with a complicated expression.

  The other party had thousands of boxes of silver ingots, but I only had one box, and it was half the size of a box.

   Therefore, Kong Zhenyun is in a very uncomfortable mood now.

  This is also human nature.

  When others earn more than themselves, it is easy to feel jealous.

  Kong Zhenyun was not immune either, emotions of jealousy and remorse were intertwined in his heart at this moment.

  He never expected to make such a profit by buying the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine!

"Why is Mr. Ge feeling depressed? You broke your family and took out the only two hundred taels of silver to buy the shares of Maoshan Iron Mine. Now you have made a profit of five hundred taels. It is reasonable to be happy. After all, this makes your The property has more than doubled!"

  Bi Zisu asked Kong Zhenyun with a smile at this time.

  Kong Zhenyun glanced at Bi Zisu angrily: "Why do you ask so much!"

At this time, Bi Zisu took out an imperial decree: "To be honest, I came to ask by order. Your Majesty has been busy building steam engines recently, so I don't have time to go to the court meeting to ask you in person, so let me ask you when I give the bonus. If you have anything to say to him after receiving the royal dividend, let me tell him."

   "In addition, His Majesty also stated in the decree that this is the wealth you have obtained from serving the country, and it is the profit you have taken for your loyalty. Therefore, Your Majesty has to treat it with caution, so as to encourage people in the world to serve the country loyally!"

   "For this reason, His Majesty ordered that this wealth will be specially protected by the court. In the future, unless it is a major crime of treason or other crimes that require family raids, this property will not be confiscated into officials."

   "For this reason, these silver ingots are large silver ingots cast by the king,

   "You should listen to the will."

  As Bi Zisu spoke, he unfolded the imperial decree: "There is a decree."

  Kong Zhenyun and Chen Zizhuang had to issue an edict to listen to the announcement.

  For a while, after listening to the decree, Kong Zhenyun and others also confirmed that the wealth that they profited this time was specially protected, which means that even if the house is raided in the future, this property will not be taken away.

   But because of this, Kong Zhenyun felt even more uncomfortable.

  Because his property, which is specially protected by the emperor's decree, is only five hundred taels! ,

  The Chen family’s price is more than three million taels, the gap is really too big!

  He really regrets it now.

   Regret why you pretended to be poor in the first place!

At this time, Bi Zisu continued to ask Kong Zhenyun: "George, please tell me first, how do you feel about your majesty's grace and the fact that you have gained a lot of money after breaking up your family for the country? Your majesty is waiting to report to you." It’s the last copy of the decree.”

  Kong Zhenyun had to force a laugh: "Naturally, I am grateful for the great grace of the emperor, and tears filled my eyes!"

  Bi Zisu therefore turned around and asked Chen Zizhuang: "Where is Uncle Da Zong?"

  Chen Zizhuang thought for a while and said: "You know, I don't care about money, I have always regarded money as something outside of me!"

  Kong Zhenyun: "..."

   Now he finds Chen Zizhuang's expression of saying that he doesn't love money very annoying.

At this time, Chen Zizhuang continued to speak to Bi Zisu with high spirits: "I didn't tell lies, even if Your Majesty came in person, I would still say the same. Don't say that the court let the minister make money this time, it is that the court made the minister lose everything this time. Let the minister really go bankrupt, but as long as the problem of money and food used by the imperial court for mining is solved, the minister will be happy!"

  Chen Zizhuang looked at his younger brother Chen Zisheng and said, "I teach my family members the same way. A gentleman should value righteousness and despise profit, right, Zisheng?"

  Chen Zisheng echoed: "Yes, brother has always taught us that way."

Chen Zizhuang glanced at the thousands of boxes of silver ingots that belonged to him all over the street and said: "So, please tell your majesty, these silvers are nothing to me. I am happy that now it seems that the Maoshan Iron Mine has really been solved. The lack of iron mines in the imperial court has also brought huge profits to the imperial court. More importantly, in this way, I have reason to believe that the subjects of the world will be more willing to support the imperial court! It seems that I have seen the hope of the great Ming emperor and ministers uniting in one mind and the world ruled. Please also tell Your Majesty that if the imperial court needs to raise funds next time, my Chen family is still willing to destroy the family for the country, let alone a million-dollar family business, even if there are tens of millions of family businesses in the future, I am willing to destroy the family for the country! I will let them Write the minister's words into the clan motto!"

  Historically, the Chen family did fight for the anti-Qing dynasty.

  Now, what Chen Zizhuang said is indeed from the bottom of his heart.

   It's just that Kong Zhenyun was very upset when he heard it.

  He wished he could go up and slap Chen Zizhuang twice.

   Jealousy almost rushed to his heart.

  Because he felt that Chen Zizhuang was pretending to be coercive, he was mocking himself, and he was not organized enough.

   "Uncle Da Zong is indeed loyal to the country! It also means that your family has made huge profits! However, Wan Sheng heard that Uncle Da Zong broke his family for the country this time and even sold his ancestral land. Is that true?"

   "Yes! In the dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, loyal ministers and good generals should be rich and powerful. Does Da Zongbo have any unique family traditions for the country like this?"

"People say that many people in the world hate the rich, but if the Chen family is rich for the country, who would hate it! Uncle Da Zong, please say a few more words, you really didn't think about breaking the family and buying shares in Maoshan Iron Mine this time. What if the Maoshan Iron Mine loses money?"

At this time, the editors and editors of "Daming Daily", "Dongchang News" and other newspapers appeared here in a swarm, and before Bi Zisu could speak first, after hearing what Chen Zizhuang said, they kept surrounding Chen Zizhuang Asked first.

It turned out that since Zhang Gui asked Xichang to start the "Daming Daily", the newspaper industry in Daming has sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain. Many government-run and private newspapers have emerged in these years, and because of this, there has been a competition between newspapers and periodicals to grab news for sales. Due to competition, many literati who started to devote themselves to the newspaper industry and gave up the imperial examination began to look for news everywhere as editors.

The issue of stocks by the imperial court for the Maoshan Iron Mine naturally attracted the attention of many newspapers and periodicals, and many editors and editors had long been lying in ambush near Chen's house because they knew that Chen Zizhuang was the most ruthless in buying stocks for his family, waiting to dig a new one in the future. When the big news came out, as soon as they learned that the Ministry of Household Affairs was carrying many large boxes to distribute dividends, they suddenly appeared from everywhere, vying to interview Chen Zizhuang.

  Chen Zizhuang had to deal with them one by one.

Kong Zhenyun was very curious because he saw that the editors of these newspapers and periodicals were all interviewing Chen Zizhuang, and he did not mock Chen Zizhuang because of the huge profits he made, but flattered him. I couldn't help asking Bi Zisu: "The same is breaking the family to build the country, why do they only ask Chen Jisheng?"

Bi Zisu saw that he couldn't talk to Chen Zizhuang for a while, so he replied to Kong Zhenyun: "Ge Lao doesn't know something, because they rely on selling newspapers to the people all over the world, so they are asking on behalf of the people all over the world, but the people of the world I am more willing to believe that Uncle Da Zong ruined his family to build the country, and I don’t want to believe that you broke the family to build the country, and even said that you deceived the king and the world, deliberately pretending to be clean!"

   "Why are you pretending, this servant is talking nonsense! These troublemakers really like to spread rumors!"

"Elder Ge, the people really think so. It is said that there will never be an elder who is so clean that he can only eat half a piece of cake for breakfast. On the contrary, Uncle Da Zong took out millions of taels at once, and then really They started to buy new furniture, which made them believe that Uncle Da Zong was a loyal minister and good official, just like when Zhang Jiangling copied hundreds of thousands of taels, the common people didn’t think he was corrupt. The common people have their own opinions. The family will only start to buy utensils after the house is broken down, and the usual ones are half-used, and they don’t want to be like nouveau riche who often change new ones.”

   Poof!

  Kong Zhenyun vomited a mouthful of blood.

  Because Bi Zisu's answer completely broke his defense.

  He pretended to be himself, and the common people didn't believe it at all. Instead, they believed that Chen Zizhuang was the real one, and they were more willing to believe that Chen Zizhuang was a good official.

   And this means that not only did I not make money, but in this era when the newspaper industry has increased the voice of ordinary people, I also did not earn my name.

  Kong Zhenyun couldn't bear it even more for a while, and in a hurry, he vomited blood.

   "Master Ge, this is it!"

  Bi Zisu hurriedly shouted.

  (end of this chapter)