And other salt merchants and gentry shivered because of this.

Ye Qixian couldn't help but shouted in a trembling voice: "My emperor is wise! Thunder eliminates greed, I admire you! I am willing to offer another 500,000 taels of silver!"

Originally, Ye Qixian and other salt merchants planned to use 100,000 taels to send the emperor.

After all, taking too much can easily reveal your wealth, and they really can't do so much magnanimity.

But now, the East Factory has been reviewed, and even Li Qiao, a salt road official, can get bribes of 800,000 taels. It is indeed a bit unreasonable for those of his salt merchants to offer only 100,000 taels to the emperor. Therefore, Ye Qixian immediately added the amount of silver donations with tactfulness.

Zhu Youxiao just gave Ye Qixian a blank look.

He really didn't know whether these salt merchants were really ignorant or were really stingy, so he thought that he could try his best to get the money and not take it out.

As the emperor, I want you to pay for how much money you have. When will it be up to you? Isn’t it that I have the final say? Isn’t it that I say I will take as much as I want?

I just got it all, can you still have any opinions?

Don't talk about money, you can't refuse to take your life.

It’s me who holds the knife, not you salt merchant.

But Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to be as knowledgeable as these salt merchants. After all, although these salt merchants are rich, they can escape even if they can escape the salt tax of only 2 million taels a year. If they really get angry with them, they will be too angry.

"Take them to watch the punishment first! Then, bring them to Ye Qixian's family to see me and pass an order. Since the salt merchant Ye Qixian is so loyal and willing to offer silver to me, I must not help but show grace. Next, I will stay in his mansion as a temporary palace."

Zhu Youxiao was the first to be a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and his mansions were more luxurious than the other, and even far superior to the royal gardens.

So, Zhu Youxiao issued an order and looked at Ye Qixian: "Ye Qixian, what do you think?"

Ye Qixian dared not refuse, and hurriedly said, "It is the blessing of the Ye family that your Majesty can come to the humble house. I thank Your Majesty for your grace."

"Okay, then please send someone to lead the way. You should go and watch the execution first, just like other salt merchants."

Zhu Youxiao said.

"yes!"

Ye Qixianqiang replied with a smile.

So, the sage of Zhu Youxiao went to Yejia Shouzhi Garden, the predecessor of Geyuan.

And here, Ye Qixian and other salt merchants came to the execution ground and began to observe the execution.

Huang Zongke, Xu Shaocheng and other imperial prisoners had been put on a wooden frame. When Xiong Tingbi began to order the execution, the medical soldiers began to take out various small knives and move the swords on these people.

"ah!"

When the medical soldiers had just cut the first knife, Huang Zongke and others screamed.

The salt merchants watching the punishment couldn't help but tremble, and even had incontinence.

"prick!"

At the same time, the salt Ding, who followed Huang Zongke and others to prevent the Saint Carriage from entering the city, was also hit and executed.

When the military officer gave the order, the new recruits responsible for executing the salt dice immediately took their spears and stabbed them in, stabbing them to death one by one on the spot.

The salt diced dice poured one after another.

The entire execution ground was filled with corpses.

The salt merchants became even more courageous and began to realize how miserable the emperor would be.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao came to Ye Qixian's mansion, he was shocked by the living environment of this big salt merchant.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao felt very hurt again.

He had to admit that not only Li Sancai, who was both a wealthy businessman and a senior civil servant, lived better than the emperor, but the living environment of the big salt merchant in Yangzhou also defeated his internal living conditions in the Qianqing Palace.

There are even many over-order decorations.

Zhu Youxiao Yue found out why so many people didn't want him to go to Jiangnan since he left Beijing.

"Report to Your Majesty, the salt merchants have arrived!"

At this time, Han Dong walked in and replied.

"Let them all come here to listen to my instructions."

Zhu Youxiao ordered.

Not long after, Ye Qixian and other salt merchants came to Zhu Youxiao and knelt honestly in front of Zhu Youxiao.

"Let's just flat!"

Zhu Youxiao said something first.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

These salt merchants then stood up honestly, not daring to breathe.

"I am very disappointed with you. I will not talk about anything else. I will humiliate me with 100,000 taels. Is I lack 100,000 taels?! What I lack is sincerity and loyalty. Besides, you are all dead people in Yangzhou City. Do you think I am a three-year-old child? The prefect has been held hostage by the traitors, and you are just watching such a thing happen. The safety of Yangzhou City has nothing to do with you? Also, why don't you go out of the city to welcome the sage? But I am too lazy to count these things with you. Now I just want to figure out whether you are loyal to me or not. Since you want to offer silver, each of you will offer 20% of your property, one by one, one by one, and one by one, use it to repair Yangzhou City!"

Zhu Youxiao said.

At this time, the salt merchant who called Yao Sunju couldn't help but say "ah".

"What, don't you?"

Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Grab people, grass people."

Yao Sunju stuttered.

"You can't help but be willing or not. All the world is kingdom. All the world belongs to me! I want you how much money, or even your life, is it your own decision?!"

Zhu Youxiao asked loudly indifferently.

Then, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Wei Zhongxian, take the prepared teams of the East Factory and the inner court supervisors to check the property of these salt merchants, and start with the Ye family."

As Zhu Youxiao said that, he looked at Ye Qixian, who had already shown pain: "Ye Qixian, I just saw it. I know that you are the Minister of Revenue Ye Qi of Xiaomiao Court. After your ancestor changed the opening of China and France, you didn't expect that your family would become a big salt merchant!"

Ye Qixian knelt down at this time: "Your Majesty! I don't have much money at home. The 500,000 taels I offer is almost all the family business! Please ask Your Majesty for your kindness and collect 10% less, even half a profit!"

"You think this is a business, and you have the qualifications to bargain? I don't want it all, it's already a blessing!"

Zhu Youxiao started talking.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian came and said, "Emperor, the Ye family has not collected much cash."

Zhu Youxiao glanced at him: "How many times have you been chasing your home in the East Factory? Don't you know that they like to hide the silver? Go and take the sticks in the magistrate's yamen and the Yandao Yamen prison, and ask them where the silver is! If you dare to be honest, then everyone will want this salt benefit!"

Zhu Youxiao continued to ask Ye Qixian: "Ye Qixian, tell me the truth, how much property does your Ye family have and how much cash is?"

"Your Majesty is kind to you, I really don't have much property!"

Ye Qixian started crying.

Zhu Youxiao snorted.

Half an hour later, Wei Zhongxian asked the Dongchang Banner School of Suihu to bring a stick, and first clamped Ye Qixian.

Ye Qixian struggled constantly at the beginning, refusing to put his gloves into the clamping stick. In the end, he was forcibly trapped by the flag school of the East Factory, and then he was grabbed by the people of the East Factory.

"ah!"

Ye Qixian suddenly felt very painful.

"Tell me quickly how much property your family has and how much cash there is."

Zhu Youxiao asked.

Ye Qixian endured the pain and shouted: "

"Put it again! Increase your strength," Zhu Youxiao ordered.

So, the people from the East Factory continued to clamp up, and Ye Qixian was sweating profusely, and couldn't help but scream: "Behind the ancestral hall! In the secret room behind the ancestral hall! Just turn the candlestick! It hurts so much, it hurts. Please beg your Majesty to be kind, don't let them clamp it again!"
Chapter completed!