PNB Chapter 432 Blackmail
Chapter 432 Blackmail
No one knew how Queen Mother Shan became angry and mad in her own palace, but her order was quickly passed back to Yanzhou.
After receiving the order, Yunniang immediately ordered her men to sneak into Tang Mansion in the middle of the night.
At this time, the Tang Mansion was also in a mess.
Just a day ago, Tang Jian hosted a banquet in his house for several wealthy families in Yanzhou.
These are the families whose wealth was stolen by the thieves as stated in official documents.
When those wealthy families first saw the official document, they were all confused.
How come you didn’t know your house was robbed?
But when they were invited to Tang's house, they already understood most of what was going on.
Tang Jian was actually confused most of the time when he was watching, but fortunately he was thick-skinned enough.
If you are thick-skinned enough, many problems are actually easy to solve.
Just like this time.
Seeing that everyone was present, Tang Jian did not beat around the bush and directly told these wealthy families what he wanted to say.
The main idea is that a big thief came to Yanzhou and stole a lot of property, and even the imperial court's granary was emptied by him.
It is already late autumn. In order to prevent the people of Yanzhou from freezing to death or starving to death, we hope that these wealthy families can donate generously to help the people of Yanzhou survive the coming winter.
After the heads of several wealthy families heard this, they looked at each other but no one spoke first.
But their silence did not stop Tang Jian from talking.
In the end, it became a rigid assignment of tasks.
A total of five wealthy families came, and each donated 30,000 taels of silver to the court.
When the head of the rich family heard this, he was instantly overwhelmed.
Originally, the taxes paid in Yanzhou were higher than those in other places.
If they were not born and raised in Yanzhou, with all their relatives, friends, and business contacts in Yanzhou and could not leave easily, they would have left long ago.
This year's taxes had just been paid, and they were asking for so much money again.
Who can take this out?
But looking at Lord Tang's expression, it would be impossible not to be able to tell the difference.
After the two sides bargained back and forth, they finally decided that each family would come up with 20,000 taels of silver.
The heads of the wealthy families were invited to the party, and they only drank a cup of tea from beginning to end. In the end, they were forced to donate 20,000 taels of silver.
I feel so much hatred in my heart!
But there is no way, when you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
In this way, Tang Jian directly extorted a total of 100,000 taels of silver from several wealthy families.
"Madam, now that we have collected enough silver, are you still selling the grain in the granary?"
Tang Jian is very sure about matters between men and women, but he is always indecisive about other things.
"Sell! Of course we have to sell! Not only that, we have to sell all the grain in the granary!"
In comparison, Tang Liu was much more decisive in doing things.
The official documents have been sent out, but now there is not a single grain of food in the granaries in Yanzhou.
Tang Liushi calculated that if she sold all the grain in the granary at the market price, she would have about 50,000 taels of silver in her hands.
Of course she would not hand over the money honestly. This was a way out for herself.
The disappearance of the gold, silver and jewelry made her alert.
The person who could take away so many things quietly is definitely not an ordinary person.
And this person must have set his sights on her.
Now she wanted to observe for a while. If it really didn't work, she would just take the extra 50,000 taels of silver and escape.
Of course, she would not tell Tang Jian about these thoughts.
When necessary, Tang Jian would have to stand in front of her to fight for a way of survival for her and her child.