Jinyi Night Walk

Xia Xun left the shogunate in a hurry because something he had been expecting for a long time happened in Hada city: someone made trouble.

Xia Xun had known for a long time that with the prosperity of Hada City and the concentration of wealth, accidents would inevitably happen. He was looking forward to it day and night, and finally he was looking forward to this day.

The cause of the incident is very simple. The Mongolian tribes in Wuri Gengda Lai are a large exporter of commodities. The commodities have to be purchased centrally through Hada City, and then transported to the coast of Jinzhou through Kaiyuan City.The manager of Hada City is Maguerhun of the Jurchen Temur tribe, and Maguerhun is both the manager and the largest operator.

In this way, the people of the Temuer tribe both manage and operate, and must adopt different policies for their own tribe and the merchants of other tribes. Therefore, when collecting "points", the people of the two tribes clashed, and then the two sides Big hit.

The backstage of the Temur tribe is Pei Yishi Temuer, the capital of [-] guards, and the backstage of the Wuri Gengda Lai tribe is Qingertai of Tieling Guard. In terms of power, the Temur tribe has always occupied the management of Hada City. The identity, the strength is stronger.

However, the Temuer tribe manages and operates, and they tend to be partial to their own tribe, which arouses dissatisfaction among other tribes, large and small. On the side of Dala, they denounced the Temur tribe, and some Mongolian tribes directly participated in the war and were involved in this melee. The Jurchen tribes were inherently opposed to the managers because of the status of the managers of the Maguerhun. So there are not many people who directly help him.

The conflict between the two tribes attracted the attention of Tieling Guard and Thirty Thousand Guards, because the soldiers of these two guards are mainly composed of people from these two tribes. How can they give up when their own clansmen are bullied?

Fortunately, today is different from the past. Xia Xun, the governor of Liaodong, is becoming more and more authoritative. Pei Shitmoor and Qing Geertai dare not stroke his beard lightly, so they suppressed his subordinates and sent someone to report to Xia Xun, asking him to uphold justice .In the past, Shen Yong, the capital of Liaodong, had always adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards the Kaiyuan area. The two guards would have directly joined the battle, and the situation would have turned into a big melee among the tribes.

When Xia Xun led his people to Hada City in a hurry, he saw a mess in the street market, many goods were thrown on the ground, and there were many angry people with weapons in their hands. Most of these people were in messy clothes and wounded. Behind them On the ground, there are still some seriously injured or dead clansmen.Qing Getai and Pei Shitmoor led the troops of Tieling Guard and [-] Guards, and used spear arrays to forcefully block these groups of people.

While suppressing the situation, the two pointed at Sang and scolded Wei for hurting each other. Although they were squeezed out by other Han people in the past, they had a good friendship with each other, but their own tribe was bullied by the other's tribe. Not enough to watch.

As soon as Xia Xun arrived, the two parties were greatly relieved, and immediately gathered around a group of people, complaining to Xia Xun.

"Don't be noisy!"

Xia Xun let out a loud roar, and the scene fell silent. Xia Xun swept around and shouted, "Who did it first?"

Ma Gu Erhun immediately said: "It is Wu Ri Geng Da Lai's people!"

Xia Xun turned to Wu Ri Geng Da Lai, and asked, "Why did you beat someone?"

Wu Rigeng Da Lai immediately turned his head and asked the person next to him, "Why did you beat someone?"

When Wu Rigeng Da Lai arrived in a hurry, his clansmen had already started fighting with others. When he saw the emergency, he drew his knife and attacked. He hadn't figured out what was going on. Wuri Geng Da Lai was also a little scared, and hurriedly asked his nephew Amugulang who had been sent to Hada City to buy the goods.

Amu Gulang was stabbed in the arm, and at this moment he had torn some strips of cloth and wrapped it indiscriminately, holding a bloody knife in his hand, and said angrily: "My lord, ask them, how do they draw points? A gelding is six cents of silver, a mink fur is two cents of silver, a catty of ginseng is five cents of silver, honey is one cent of silver, fungus is one cent of silver, a bucket of pine nuts is three cents of silver, mushroom fifteen catties of mushrooms is one cent of silver , one piece of otter skin, two pieces of silver and two hearts

Liaodong does not have the conditions to implement treasure banknotes now. If economic matters are forcibly regulated by the regime, it will be beneficial and harmless. Therefore, Liaodong's current settlement commodities are mainly in kind and silver.This Amu Gulang has been in business for a long time, and he has memorized the percentage of points (taxes) determined by the Ming government by heart.

After finishing speaking, he pointed at the people in Maguerhun, and roared angrily: "The money they demanded from us is more than twice as high as the official draw. What's the reason?" "Hmm ?”

Xia Xun's face darkened again, and he stared coldly at Maguerhun, who quickly complained: "Master, we were appointed by the imperial court to manage Hada City on our behalf, but we have never dared to extort violently. The current situation is , the business of Hada City is booming day by day, many business travelers from far and near come here to trade, some people come from afar and cannot return on the same day, or need to buy a lot of things to go back, so they have to stay here for several days.

Some people want to stay and do business as brokers, and they can't even linger.Who will take care of these people?Those who drink and make trouble, fight, steal, and molested women are unbearably disturbing.I have no choice but to hire some people to clean up and maintain order. Naturally, these people also need to be paid for their work, so where does the money come from? "

Xia Xun rubbed his nose, smiled at Wu Rigeng Dalu Lai and said, "Da Lai, what Maguerhun said is also reasonable. Since you need to hire someone to manage it, you need to pay some wages. Everyone comes here to trade. The money Naturally everyone comes out.

Wu Ri Geng Da Lai said: "Minister, you don't know how much goods come in and out of Hada City every day. With such a large amount, you only need to draw a little, which is enough to pay the wages. Why do you need so much? The Temuer tribe People who come here collect more taxes and taxes, and take part of the extra money for themselves. If the ministers don't believe it, just ask these many low-level people, is this true?"

The tribes around responded one after another. Of course, it is impossible for the managers of the Temuer tribe to have such a high level of ideological awareness. The power of the husband is in their own hands. In fact, the taxes that should be collected from their own people are actually not collected. For other tribes, sometimes it is more than a point. With a [-]% increase, there are a lot of people pocketing their own pockets, but very few people are honest and self-reliant.

In the past, the business here was not prosperous, so the extra taxes were not much, and everyone could bear it. Now the business is getting more and more prosperous, and their greed is getting bigger and bigger. The throughput of goods is large, and each shipment is more expensive. With a few percentage points, the total amount has reached an astonishing level. Who would be willing to hand over so much wealth to others?

Xia Xun listened to his son, turned to Maguerhun again, and said with a downcast face: "All the tribes are saying the same thing, Maguerhun, is there such a thing?"

Maguer was flustered, and one of his clansmen rushed to help when he saw this, and said indiscriminately: "Lord Ministry, we can't get more points! Now that there are more people selling goods, the branch merchants in Kaiyuan will Take the opportunity to lower the price and buy goods from them at a low price! There are also guards along the way, asking for bribes, if he is not satisfied with the answer, the door will either not be opened, or it will be opened later, and the incoming and outgoing goods will be rummaged, messed up, and cannot be delivered. We We have no choice but to delete us."

Xia Xun smiled inwardly: "That's right, more and more people are getting involved."

He turned to Zhang Jun, commander of the Liao capital, and said in a deep voice, "Zhang Jun, are there any incidents of extortion and bribery among the guards?"

Zhang Jun jumped out immediately, with plausible arguments, and his own explanation. Ma Guerhun couldn't stop him just now. His own people had already told the story of the Han officials asking for bribes. , Each of them insisted on his words, and the quarrel was so red that the ears were red, and the quarrel was repeated, and the Han merchant who was in charge of the transportation operation from Kaiyuan to Jinzhou was pulled out.

Han merchants have a Tang shop in Hada City, which is similar to an agency office. The owner of this shop is watching the fun happily, and accidentally drags him into it.

These Han merchants are composed of rich families from all over Liaodong and the family members of Liaodong generals. They have a strong background and lack of supervision. How can they be so conscious and willing to operate in accordance with the law? Anyway, the sales channels are in their hands. It often happens that expensive things are sold.

However, it is not true that the high bribes that the people of the Temuer tribe forcibly collected from other tribes were all to pass on the losses they used to bribe and lower the price of the Han merchants. So he also argued hard and quarreled with others.

This hoop frame is like the inexplicable and indisputable triangular debt. The various tribes quarreled like a revolving lantern in front of Xia Xun, each with their own faults. After arguing, everyone's buttocks are not clean, and the dung is getting more and more stinky up.

"Shut up, all!"

Xia Xun roared again, and shouted in a deep voice: "The governor has already understood this matter. You all have your own problems. It seems that you have to deal with it. Otherwise, the good situation created by the governor will be destroyed sooner or later." to be destroyed in your hands.

Xia Xun pointed at the Han merchant, and said in a stern voice: "The reason why you can lower prices arbitrarily, buy cheap and sell dear is because you buy, sell and supply. Without you, no matter how much goods there are in Hada City, it won't be able to become a department." The materials and property you want, so you are unscrupulous! It is easy to solve this problem. From now on, cancel your unified purchase and sales privileges, and the ministries can hand over the goods to you for sale, or you can transport the goods to Jinzhou by yourself. Looking for export merchants, everyone will eat according to their abilities!"

Xia Xun changed the tone, and said again: "Of course, since your privilege of unified purchase and sales has been cancelled, you can also collect goods from other tribes by yourself, and then transfer them for sale."

The Han businessman was startled at first, but after hearing Xia Xun's second sentence, his mind turned back: "The guards along the way are all our troops, and they have an innate advantage over them in transportation. You don’t need to go through Hada City to buy goods, and maybe the benefits will be even greater, so why are you afraid of him?” So he readily nodded in agreement.

Xia Xun said to Ma Guerhun again: "Your department is both operating and managing, and it is inevitable to use power for personal gain. It is no wonder that you will be criticized by all the departments. Now I give you a choice, or your clan voluntarily gives up Hada The right to manage the city, and focus on management in the future, or give up the right to manage and focus on management, which one do you choose?"