Zeng Guangxian nodded, then cheered up: "Your Majesty, the Yang family in Guanzhong, has roughly found something very interesting. Yang Taigong lives alone in a courtyard of the Yang family. He usually lives alone in the Yang family. He usually doesn't see outsiders. He only serves an old servant. Even if there are foreign guests, he will not see him. To the outside world, he just declares that he has some physical discomfort. Besides, he is already introverted and the people in the mansion are already respectful of him, so naturally no one dares to question anything."

"But, in the Yang family, there is a man named Yang Heng. This man is the son of Yang Chen and has a very strong status in the Yang family. At that time, Yang Taigong, at least on the surface, loved him very much. Since then, he has developed his arrogant personality."

"No one can mess with him in the mansion. He likes to be casual and erratic. However, the Jinyiwei got an interesting thing from his mouth. I just said that no one in the Yang Mansion dared to approach the Yang Taigong's courtyard. Only once, Yang Heng casually sneaked in. Originally, he was just a joke, but after entering, he found that there were still people in the Yang Taigong's courtyard..."

"There are still people?" Chen Kaizhi said: "Didn't this Mr. Yang live alone there and only one old servant takes care of him? So, what other outsiders are there?"

Chen Kaizhi suddenly felt that things have become more and more interesting now.

"This is the most strange thing." Zeng Guangxian nodded: "What Yang Heng saw was a Hu man, no, it was more like a Western Region, with yellow hair and blue eyes and black robe. He thought it was interesting, but he was careless and made a sound, which seemed to arouse alertness. So he hurriedly slipped out. But it seemed that Yang Taigong was furious because someone sneaked in, so he ordered the mansion to investigate it very well, and even the mansion was in chaos and several servants were beaten to death. Yang Heng was also scared and did not dare to speak out."

Hu people...yellow hair and blue eyes...

Chen Kaizhi silently remembered it in his heart, but he thought in his heart, if he was just a Hu person, why would he have yellow hair and blue eyes? It would be fine if he had yellow hair and blue eyes. The most important thing is that Yang Taigong closed the door every day and was unwilling to deal with others, so he must plan major events. He even believed such major issues that were fundamental to interests, so why did he believe a yellow hair and blue eyes?

The only possibility is that this person, Yang Taigong believed in him, or that in all the things in the Yang family, this yellow-haired and blue-eyed Hu man was involved.

"In addition..." Zeng Guangxian said: "What's even more interesting is that Yang Taigong is old and originally loved to eat the most was small congee and pastries. But sometimes, when he lived alone in the courtyard, he checked some records of the Yang family's meals, but found that sometimes, he would order people to kill cattle and sheep, cook beef and mutton, and send them to the courtyard."

Chen Kaizhi frowned.

If it was mutton, it would be fine. In this era, Chang'an and Luoyang mostly did not like to eat pork, because the pork was castrated when it was not yet breeded, so there was always a smell. Moreover, iron pots are not popular now. The so-called cooking is more about putting ingredients in a jar and cooking the pork. The taste of the pork is not good.

So whether in Chang'an or Luoyang, they all love to eat sheep.

But this beef is different. Cows are the most important farming and animal husbandry, so under normal circumstances, the court prohibits killing cattle, and most of the cattle that die from old cattle are not delicious in the flesh, so they are not highly praised.

Although for people like the Yang family, even if they eat tender beef, there seems to be no obstacles, the social atmosphere has long been formed, so that everyone will never like beef unless they have special hobbies.

And how could this Yang Taigong accept beef at such an age?

Chen Kaizhi immediately thought of the Hu man and then said, "What business does the Yang family do overseas?"

Zeng Guangxian said: "The Yang family has always done maritime trade. This is from Emperor Wen's strategy of banning the sea two hundred years ago, so ordinary people dare not go out to sea. Therefore, some people from wealthy families can rely on this identity to sail to sea and make huge profits. The Yang family has also accumulated wealth for many years. It is said that decades ago, the Yang family's fleet could make hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a year."

There are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a year...

This is definitely a terrifying number. You know, the Yang family has been in operation for two hundred years.

Zeng Guangxian said again: "But since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, the Yang family decided not to carry out this business. At least on the surface, they no longer did it. The overseas fleet seemed to have nothing to do with the Yang family, so there was no news about the sea trade. The confession of the Yang family was that since the Empress Dowager entered the palace, Yang Taigong believed that since he was a royal relative, how could he resist the ban first? Therefore, he ordered people to sell overseas and leave the Yang family."

Chen Kaizhi sneered: "The money found by the Yang family is only hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?"

"Yes." Zeng Guangxian said: "The specific number needs to be calculated, but it should be this number."

Chen Kaizhi said lightly: "For more than two hundred years, all have made huge profits by relying on this. Moreover, the Yang family is a wealthy family in Guanzhong, owning countless land and land, which is enough for their expenses. So where is the silver earned through maritime trade? This is an astronomical figure, at least tens of millions of silver patterns, and it may even be much more than I imagined."

Zeng Guangxian said: "I will continue to investigate, where I am Guanzhong, I..."

Chen Kaizhi shook his head confidently: "It's not in Guanzhong. The so-called cunning rabbit has three holes. What's more, all the world is the king's land, and all the land is the king's minister. Although the Yang family is a wealthy family, they are not stupid. How could they put this egg in a basket? Besides, this is a ill-gotten fortune by relying on the privileges and violations of the ban. How dare they hide it in Guanzhong? Eight out of ten, the silver is all overseas, and the Yang family has countless money overseas.

There are also many direct descendants of the Yang family, and I am afraid that most of them are overseas. There must be a place where they occupy overseas. I am now understanding more and more. Yang Taigong's fraud is dead..." Chen Kaizhi suddenly had a cold light in his eyes: "Take people to Guanzhong immediately, go to the cemetery of the Yang family's heads for generations, and dig out all the tombs of their previous heads. To the outside world, it is said that Yang's rebellion is inevitable, and the deceased will also open the coffin and kill the corpse. You go in person."

Zeng Guangxian was stunned, but hurriedly said, "I obey the order."

He knew that Chen Kaizhi attached great importance to this matter, and did not dare to hesitate, so he immediately said goodbye and left.

Chen Yishou listened, but he did not express any comments until Zeng Guangxian left. Chen Yishou took a look: "Your Majesty, can you get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year with the fleet alone?"

Chen Kaiyi smiled: "I'm afraid this is not just this, but with the Yang family's work, it may be more."

Chen Yishou sighed: "The reason why the sea ban was originally banned was that, the old minister had consulted relevant information in the Hanlin Academy Literature and History Museum. He still remembered that more than two hundred years ago, when Emperor Wen was in power, the left censor Yang Lin found a case of imperial examination. In fact, the Japanese also harassed Da Chen very much. Many Japanese people were entrenched overseas and attacked the sea border of Da Chen. Yang Lin found that many Da Chen's maritime merchants actually colluded with Japanese pirates and gave them funding, causing Shandong and Jiangnan to suffer greatly. Emperor Wen

After learning about it, he was furious and issued seven decrees in succession, ordering the prefectures and governments in various places to investigate and deal with maritime business. Yang Lin took this opportunity to submit a memorial request for maritime ban. At this point, Emperor Wen issued another decree, requiring that the maritime ban be not allowed to go into the sea. After that, the strategy of maritime ban became increasingly strict. The court only allowed the government and the maritime trade business of various countries. For example, in Jibei, his Majesty did not allow private maritime trade, but required the business of the official ships of various countries. Moreover, if His Majesty did not have the privilege of trading with each other, it would be even more impossible."

Chen Kaizhi nodded and said, "I think it's interesting to hear what you said. This Yang Lin is also from the Yang family in Guanzhong. Haha, this person has collected countless evidence and used to collude with Japanese pirates to eliminate all maritime merchants in one fell swoop, causing the court to crack down on maritime merchants. But who would have thought that maritime merchants could no longer go out to sea, but this Guanzhong rich family, disciples and old officials are all over the world, and every now and then, all the Yang family, who have family members, are important officials in the temple or are entrusted with border officials, are like taking over the power to go out to sea."

"At the beginning..." Chen Kaizhi's eyes looked a little mocking: "So I can almost imagine that the so-called maritime ban strategy developed by the Yang family took this opportunity to develop was not the fundamental intention of worrying about the court and wanting to ban maritime merchants who colluded with Japanese pirates, but the fundamental intention was to take this opportunity to eliminate all competitors. Only in this way can the Yang family take this opportunity to implement monopoly. It is really terrible to think about this. After all, the aristocratic families rarely go directly to business, and most of them know nothing about maritime trade. And the Yang family thought they came a long time ago.

, and he had already been involved in the maritime trade, and he knew it well. Although ordinary maritime merchants knew that they could make huge profits in the sea, a secretly led by the Yang family, how many relationships and connections could these maritime merchants use to scatter their homes and go into the sea for profit? The Yang family is familiar with maritime trade, but they also have enough privileges. Even if the local governments know any news, they would not dare to report it. Those people from the maritime inspection department, if they dare to ban the ships of other people, would they dare to ban the Yang family? What is the final result?"
Chapter completed!