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Chapter 724: Run 4
If Hong Tao were here, he would definitely say that this person is mentally ill. He didn't wear expensive clothes properly, but insisted on imitating European women and playing with the crinoline, making him look neither fish nor fowl, neither male nor female.

In fact, Hong Tao is ignorant. In the eyes of the Ming people, his outfit is not only not out of the ordinary, but also very fashionable. The reason why Hong Tao has not seen it very often can only mean that he rarely goes shopping, or it is not common in Beijing, because if you look closely at this outfit, it is beyond the rules.

The translucent thing wrapped on his turban is called Yunxian, a silk fabric with a very special technique, a bit like the later seersucker. The cloud pattern that is faintly visible on the fabric of the robe is called Yunwen Songjin. Yunxian, Songjin and Yunwen were fabrics and patterns that were banned from use by the court since the Hongwu period.

On the contrary, the thing with ridges on the lower body is not banned. It is called a horsetail skirt, which is woven from horsetail hair and is said to have come from the Korean court. Ming people liked to wear it under their robes, stretching the robes like a skirt, and regarded it as fashionable.

"Why is it him! No wonder, no wonder..." When Uncle Fang saw this person, he was a little surprised at first, but then he seemed to figure it out and said to himself.

"Uncle Fang, who is he?" Lin Liang looked at him intently for a few times and confirmed that he didn't know him.

"The eldest son of the Chen family in Chaozhou, Chen Liangdong. Before the opening of the sea, more than half of the Zhangzhou velvet and Zhangzhou yarn produced in Zhangzhou were smuggled to Siam and Cambodia by his family's fleet. To this day, the Chen family still has an official position in Siam and has great influence.

Unfortunately, the navy destroyed his family's smuggling fleet first, and the new policy encouraged the Hakkas to open up wasteland and build farms in Chaozhou, which hurt their roots. In recent years, they have rarely been heard of going out to sea. But the centipede is still alive, and if we only talk about financial resources, the Chen family is still considered a wealthy family in Chaozhou.

Have you heard about the Guangdong Commander-in-Chief's night raid on Haifeng? The Chenjia Village elder who was arrested at that time, Chen Weize, was his cousin. It seems that he is taking this opportunity to take revenge. Even if he dares not touch the navy and the new policy, he will take it out on the Sun Moon Bank. I just don't know who is behind it, and he was actually dragged into it."

Uncle Fang not only knows everything about the local business world in Zhangzhou, but is also familiar with the anecdotes in Chaozhou, Guangdong next door. He speaks so clearly and logically that it is hard not to believe him.

"I have heard of Chenjia Village in Haifeng..."

On the other hand, although Lin Liang was also a native of Zhangzhou and often traveled on sea voyages, he was far behind in terms of being well-informed. He only knew more about the people and things in several villages near Yuegang.

Two hundred thousand taels of silver were just taken away, and the source was just an unknown little figure in Quanzhou. Now the famous and wealthy eldest son of the Chen family has shown up, and his spending will definitely not be less than that of the Huang family.

If Sun Moon Bank can't take it, then forget about getting a foothold in Zhangzhou in the future. Not only in Zhangzhou, bad news always spreads far and fast, and it won't take more than half a month for Guangzhou to hear about it, and then Sun Moon Bank's branch in Guangzhou will also be in trouble.

Even if it has the support of silver from the customs, navy and government, once it loses its credit among the people and loses its customers from merchants, workshops and factories, how many years can it last?

Chen Liangdong was very satisfied with his appearance. He took out a folding fan from his waist and shook it gently, which immediately attracted a burst of whispers.

Other people's fans are either made of silk or parchment, but his fans are made of brocade. Other people's patterns are painted, but his are woven with gold and silver threads on the brocade, which is not only beautiful but also three-dimensional and lifelike. "Manager Zheng, it's better to come at the right time than to come early. Two days ago, my family reported that they can redeem it today. I wonder if you have prepared everything?"

With this feeling of superiority and self-satisfaction, Chen Liangdong took a few steps and waved his fan at the oncoming manager of Sun Moon Bank as a greeting.

At the same time, he also had a plan in mind. Today he was trying to give some face to the people of Zhangzhou. Even if the Sun Moon Bank could not come up with enough money, at most they would humiliate them verbally and would not take the opportunity to smash up the store.

Of course, I was only giving him face today. If he couldn't produce it tomorrow, he would still have to smash it. If he didn't make the matter known to everyone, he would be sorry for the 300,000 taels of silver he had deposited. He would be even more sorry for his cousin who had held him in his arms since he was a child and who had arranged a marriage for him when he grew up.

What I did today was half to seek justice for my uncle, and the other half to avenge the inconveniences brought to the Chen family by the new policy. After all, it was a well-known family in Guangdong, and every generation had officials in the court, and there were many Jinshi and Juren. Why couldn't they have their say count in their hometown?
Since ancient times, the imperial power has never reached the countryside, only the county magistrate, and the power vacuum left was for the county magistrate and the village elders to flexibly distribute. Giving nothing, just collecting grain taxes every year to feed a large family in the Forbidden City, is not such a cheap thing.

Now you, Emperor Jingyang, insist on changing the ancestral laws that have been passed down through the ages. Your first move is to open the sea, ban smuggling, provide loans to the common people, and allow landless farmers to form groups and run farms. Every move you make is deadly and without mercy. Don't blame your subjects for being ruthless.

We can't beat the navy, let alone the factories and farms, but it doesn't matter. If hard tactics don't work, we'll use soft tactics. We've lived here for generations, and we'll make trouble for you whenever we get a chance. If we can't break you down in ten years, we'll make trouble for you in twenty years, and our descendants will keep doing it for generations. As long as we're not satisfied, we'll make trouble for you, and no one will have a good time.

The manager of the Zhangzhou branch of Sun Moon Bank was a young man in his early twenties, nicknamed Zheng Bugou, from Jingzhi Town, Anqiu, Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong. We went to the local government to investigate and found that he was indeed there, his age and appearance were correct. But if we wanted to investigate further, we found nothing. Both his parents had passed away, and he had gone to live with relatives in another place in his early years.

Zheng Bugou is not the only one like this. In the Sun and Moon Bank, the Navy, the Army, the General Staff, the Machinery Factory, the Customs, etc., there are always such people who are young and hold high positions, but have clear backgrounds and no evidence.

And their names are very distinctive. Those who work in the bank are Zheng Bugou, Hua Buwan and Li Qingbu; those who serve on the warships are Yan Bushi, Miao Buzhun and Qiao Bujian; in the factory there are Han Budong and Che Buzhi; in the general staff there are Bai Buping and Gao Budong; the most speechless one is the new director of the Statistics Department, whose name is Tan Mingbu.

There is no need to ask in detail. Every one of these people is definitely not using their real names, and the aliases are most likely from one person, Hong Tao.

That's right, these people actually all have the surname Zhu, and they all come from the same place, Nanhaizi Haihu Division. All the children who graduated from Haihu Division, no, they are no longer children, they should be called young people.

Before leaving the Haihu Division, they would submit a petition to the emperor to request a name. Names like Zhu Sanshiliu were only used for internal archiving and records, and they had to have a pseudonym for work outside. If they could be granted a name by the emperor, it would be equivalent to being recognized.

(End of this chapter)