Hai Rui and others believed that Zhang Ping was already weird enough, and he actually specialized in the work of yamen runners in the yamen. Moreover, his master, a second-rank official in the court, actually dealt with such a person!

They all believe in their hearts that they have no prejudice against the common people, and as for their arrogance, there is no way to talk about it. They even think in their hearts that they have the people in the world and want to seek benefits for the people.

These days, scholars usually think so before they become corrupt officials, and some corrupt officials even think so!

They all think that their ideals are noble, and serving the country and the people is their characteristics. However, when facing ordinary people, most of them value their own identity and disdain to join them, as if they are in their identities and status, they should be like nobles.

This is what Yang Cong mentioned, but now Hai Rui and others have not realized that this kind of thought exists in their minds.

The people Yang Cong summoned next became even more bizarre, which simply subverted Hai Rui and others' perceptions of court officials or even scholars.

After Zhang Ping's back disappeared at the door, Yang Cong said aloud to the door: "Tell me that Gu Keqin."

Who is Gu Keqin?

Hai Rui and other disciples were still confused, and they had never heard of this person.

This time, Yang Cong explained in advance: "This Gu Keqin is the cousin of Lord Gu Kexue, the right-hand general of the Tongzheng Department of Tongzheng and Gu Kejiu, the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Criminal Censorate, and the chief manager of the Gu family in Nanzhili."

The disciples finally showed a sudden look on their faces. The Gu family in Nanzhili is a famous family of officials. The two brothers Gu Kexue and Gu Kejiu are quite famous in the court, so everyone has naturally heard of it.

Especially Hai Rui, he showed a little excitement because he and Gu Kejiu still had a little incense source. At the time, Gu Kejiu was hosted by him during the examination. Speaking of which, Gu Kejiu was half of his attendant.

What is Gu Keqin doing? Is it because he welcomed Yang Cong on behalf of the Gu family in Nanzhili?

Although the disciples didn't know what Gu Keqin came to do, most of them came for this person because of officialdom.

Unexpectedly, after Gu Keqin came in, this was not the case at all.

He respectfully bowed to Yang Cong and bowed: "Sir, the production of cloth in Suzhou is increasing day by day. This year, there may be a lot of leftovers for supply to Japan. The shopkeepers of Suzhou's cloth shop are worried. They asked the younger one to beg for them and asked the adults to help them think of a solution."

Upon hearing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but shake his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't you know how to be more at ease? No matter how big the demand is, it will be saturated for a day! Their output is now, and there is too much, I can't do anything about it."

After hearing this, Gu Keqin quickly introduced: "The production of cloth in Suzhou was only about 10,000 pieces per day, which has been the case since the Zhengde period. However, since the adults presided over the business in Japan, demand has increased day by day, as if 20,000 pieces per day is not enough. When they saw that this money is so easy to make, they went crazy to buy looms and hire weaving households, which immediately increased the output to about 50,000 pieces per day."

Damn, the daily output is 50,000, which is more than 18 million horses a year. There are 18 million people in Japan, and even if each person can’t sell it all!

Do these people have brains?

Yang Cong shook his head helplessly and said, "No matter what you make, you can't flock to the top of your money, and make so many things crazy. If you can't sell them, what if you can't sell them? Will there be moldy? As the controller of Nanzhili, your Gu family should also take care of them and cannot let them produce them randomly. If they can't sell them, what a waste would it be?"

Gu Keqin heard this and said ashamed: "The villain understands. The villain has warned them now. They should not expand wildly anymore. However, the amount of 50,000 horses per day cannot be reduced because they have purchased the loom and the weaver has already hired them. Sir, please help me think of a solution. If this cannot be sold, the villain probably probably has most of the cloth shops going to fall. They bought looms, purchased cotton, and hired the weaver."

Yang Cong thought for a while, then nodded slightly and said, "Okay, I'll send someone to talk to Tiezhu and ask him to arrange a ship to transport these distributions to Luzon in batches. However, you have to teach them a lesson. They did this to disrupt my deployment. Do you know? The development of the Southeast is a big game of chess. They can't act randomly and disrupt the chess game. In this way, they seem to have made a lot of money in the short term, but in the long run, they have lost a lot of money. Do you know? Originally, I was thinking of building more large ships and then organizing my own fleet to Mughals, Persia, Dashi, and even the continental places, so that the profit can be guaranteed. I will send it directly to Luzon and sell it to the Spaniards. The profit should be at least half. Do you know?"

Gu Keqin nodded repeatedly and said, "The villain understands that the villain will teach them a lesson."

Upon hearing this, Yang Cong nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Well, okay, if nothing else is going to happen, you can go down."

Upon hearing this, Gu Keqin hurriedly bowed and the disciples in the hall were stunned again.

This, this, this!

What's going on?

They are not stupid people. From the conversation between Yang Cong and Gu Keqin, they can tell that their master is banning from doing maritime business!

Seeing their appearance, Yang Cong couldn't help but smile and said, "What? Do you think it's wrong for your teacher to do this?"

This is indeed wrong. It is a violation of the imperial court's maritime ban!

Of course, as disciples, they cannot criticize the master, so they can only keep silent and treat it as a default.

Yang Cong then explained: "Do you know how much money you will get from doing this for a year? Do you know how many people you can support if you do this?"

The disciples were still speechless, obviously, they didn't know.

Yang Cong didn't expect them to answer, and then he said to the door: "Let the Yang family's shopkeeper and manager come in."

After a while, several Yang family managers and anecdotes came in together. After they respectfully bowed, they began to report one by one.

At this moment, the disciples were so shocked that they almost fell off the chair. My God, how much money can this master's family make in a year?

They originally thought that most of the Yang family's income came from the salt-induced business. It was rumored that the income from the salt-induced business was hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels. In their opinion, it was already astronomical.

I never thought that the salt-induced business was nothing to the Yang family. The benefits of cloth, porcelain, tea, silk, satin, etc. were amazing.

The business that these shopkeepers can manage and report is often hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels, and the total is more than ten million taels!

Of course, these incomes are not from the Yang family, but also from the Lu family, the Gu family, including Wang Zhi, Hong Tiezhu, Li Xixian and others.

However, this number can no longer be described as horror, because the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was only four to five million taels, and the Yang family's business was two to three times that of the Ming Dynasty court!

Since wealth is not enough to match a country, the Yang family has been described as wealthy. What other words can be used to describe it?

After the Yang family's shopkeeper and the manager continued, the disciples were still in a state of confusion. The shock that so much money brought to them was too great.
Chapter completed!