The search for Fan's family was so full of money that it really surprised the Minister Ebilong, who came to Shanxi on the order of the Empress Dowager.

At the meeting of the princes and ministers, Bumubutai accepted Fan Wencheng's opinion and implemented this strategy of killing chickens and getting eggs, but considering that it could not be too cold, the merchants who served the Qing Dynasty, Bumubutai summoned Ebilong after the meeting, so he chose three or five wealthy families to take action. As long as he could solve the urgent needs of the treasury, he did not have to fish out the waters. After all, the Qing Dynasty still had northern China and southern Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the situation was still stronger than the southern restoration of Ming Dynasty, and was "orthodox", so some things could not be done too much.

Bumu Butai gave the opportunity in person, pointing out that he could not be punished without guilt, and he understood it. After arriving in Shanxi, he immediately put Fan Yongdou, the leader of the eight imperial merchants, on the charge of "outside the Chahar".

The crime of "Waitong Chahar" is quite serious. Now Prince Chahar is Lin Dankhan's second son Abunai. Unlike his brother Ezhe, Abunai was close to the Qing Dynasty. Abunai was resentful of the shame of his ancestors and hated the Qing court even more. Although he was the brother-in-law of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Fulin, he refused to go to Beijing to pay homage to the Qing Dynasty and secretly plotted against the Qing Dynasty. Abunai had two sons, the eldest son Burni and the second son Luo Buzang, and they were all full of hatred for the Qing Dynasty. His son Burni was quite brave and deeply loved by the clan members.

Originally, the Qing court was about to wait for the war in the south to be pacified, so he used troops to force Abnay to come to Beijing and then put him under house arrest. Unexpectedly, the war in the south has been declining in recent years, and the energy of the Qing Dynasty was dragged into the bottomless pit of the war in the south. Even Emperor Fulin led a large army to fight in person. The treasury was empty and he could run away. Naturally, he could not free up his hands to deal with Abnay. He could only block him from trade and weaken Chahar's strength as much as possible.

Now Ebilong is charged with Fan Yongdou with Tong Chahar, which is that he has the intention of circumcising the Fan family from the beginning. After he arrived in Shanxi, local officials have advised the Interior Minister that if the court really needs money in urgent need, he can issue an order for these royal merchants to donate. This will not only get the money, but also avoid doing things that kill chickens and get eggs to get people's hearts. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

Ye Bilong did not dare to tell these Han officials in Shanxi that the Qing Dynasty did not need money urgently, but needed money very much. What they wanted was a small amount of hundreds of thousands or millions, but tens of millions!

The imperial merchants were willing to contribute up to tens of millions of money to the Qing Dynasty? It was definitely impossible, so Ebilong bypassed the Han officials in Shanxi and directly ordered the Manchu soldiers he brought to Zhangjiakou to search the Fan family compound first, and then the Fan family's industries in various places.

After hearing that Fan Yongdou was ordered to be locked up by the imperial envoy, the other emperor merchants were surprised because they had never heard of the Fan family and Chahar, and at most they would secretly sell some supplies to them. This matter was common in the Ming Dynasty and now. Who could have today? Who did not rely on secretly and easily to make a family? In the Qing Dynasty, wasn’t it that they had secretly traded with the royal merchants back then? The Qing Dynasty also rewarded the royal merchants for this. Why did they suddenly arrest Fan Yongdou now?

However, although the royal merchants of the various families were confused, no one stood up to speak for the Fan family, nor did they act for the Fan family. Instead, they were gloating and waiting to see the Fan family's unluckyness. Indeed, they were all imperial merchants enthroned by the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. They joined forces before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, but now, the eight families have not much tolerant.

The mall is like a battlefield.

The Fan family expanded their operations with the privileges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which had long damaged the interests of the other seven families. The seven families wanted the Fan family to dump them, so that the court could drink soup after eating meat. You must know that once the Fan family fell, the empty business would be scary!

Therefore, the Shanxi officialdom and shopping malls remained silent collectively about Fan Yongdou's arrest. Even though they had close relationships with the Fan family, had many interactions, and many officials who had joined the stock market wisely chose to step aside and did not dare to get involved in the Fan family's shame. Several heads of the royal merchants even scolded Fan Yongdou for being in vain for his gratitude, being heartless and tyrannical, and being in Mongolia, and not being able to die well.

Ebilong was naturally happy to see this situation. Although the specific numbers were not found, there were still many land, houses, antique calligraphy and paintings that could not be sold for the time being, but the cash cash from the Fan family compound and various industries of his family was more than 5 million taels!

This huge achievement made Ebilong unstoppable excited. He knew that the Fan family, as the leader of the eight imperial merchants, had contracted all trades between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Mongolia. They had industries in all provinces within the pass, and gold and silver were like flowing water. However, he never thought that the Fan family was really rich and could not match the country!

Like Haitonga, the second-class guard who directly searched the Fan family, Ebilong hated the Fan family, which was rich and could rival the country. When he thought of the other families, he gritted his teeth and felt itchy. So he quickly seized the four royal merchants of Lingshi Wang Dengku, Pingyang Jin Liangyu, Puzhou Wang Dayu, and Yuci Liang Guin for the same crime, and obtained more than 9.6 million taels of cash silver.

This action scared the remaining families very much, but people's selfish nature made them lose the last chance to save themselves. They naively thought that the court would never touch themselves, and the Qing Dynasty would not kill all the royal merchants, and someone would have to work for the Qing Dynasty!

Ebilon didn't think so.

When a large number of silver carts were escorted back to Beijing, Ebilong put two secret letters, one for the Empress Dowager Bumubutai, and the other for the emperor far away in Yangzhou. The secret letter was to ask for continued searching the remaining royal merchants and merchants related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to solve the problem of shortage of money in the treasury. The so-called long pain is worse than short pain.

Bumubutai was also shocked by the huge wealth of Shanxi merchants. The secret decree she replied that only Ebilong "acts carefully". The emperor had no intention to come, but the imperial guards quickly horse brought the emperor's oral order, with only one word "ke".

With the consent of the emperor and the empress dowager, Ebilong became even more unscrupulous. He quickly expanded the house search and continued to encourage him. He successively introduced several Shanxi merchants from Xiutian Shenglan, Taigu Zhaitang, Pingyao Huang Yunfa, Qingyuan Chang family, Qixian Qiao family, Qixian Qu family, and Taigu Cao family, and obtained a total of more than 16 million taels of silver and countless other property.

"At first, when they confiscated the Fan family, I thought it would be beneficial for me to fall, so I didn't speak; then they confiscated the Lingshi Wang family, Pingyang Le family, I thought that the court did not touch my family, and it would be a big use of my family, so I didn't speak; later, they confiscated the Jiexiutian family, Taigu Zhai family, and Pingyao Huang family, because I thought that the eight great imperial merchants would all die, and my Qiao family would become the imperial merchant. What a rare opportunity! Finally, they came to my house, and no one saw my jokes, no one sympathized with my family, and no one spoke for my family. I regret it, but it was too late."
Chapter completed!