Win the Ding 1617

After two days and one night of war and turmoil, Nanjing slowly returned to the calm of the past. There are no longer large bundles of silk and satin on the shoulders, and gold rings and bracelets on the arms and arms. Happy to find a place to have a good time The bachelor gangsters who enjoy it are full of soldiers with helmets and armor, each holding a weapon and holding orders, patrolling the streets.The mob who disturbed Liudu is ready to be executed on the spot at any time.

The bustling market in the past has become full of rubble and rubbish, and the ground is full of dilapidated objects. Against the occasional blood stains, it looks even more shocking.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, the Caojiang Yamen, and the Garrison Yamen jointly issued a notice ordering that anyone in the neighborhood who participated in the riots must immediately surrender to the chief of Baojia, etc., otherwise they will be severely punished if they are found out!

On the improvised banner made of yellow silk, the two words "Righteous People" written in cinnabar are more and more aggressive.Under the banner, the two gangs of Yancao, with a team of 30 people, carried sticks in their hands, followed the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion to patrol the streets, and from time to time dragged a few unsightly hooligans into the middle of the street. Greeted with sticks, beating these unlucky bastards who picked up leftovers behind others and rolled on the ground with their heads in their arms.

Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Tang He, and Deng Yu, the four founding fathers of the country, left the names of Changfu Street, Yingfu Street, and Dengfu Lane on the map of Nanjing.And Xu Da's house is the famous Dagongfang, which is located next to Zhanyuan (Ministry of the Interior). Later, Zhonghua Road was built to incorporate Dagongfang into it.Now it has become the main road of urban traffic in Nanjing.

"Da Gong Fang" was built at the intersection on the east and west sides of the mansion, and the archway was engraved with big characters such as "Imperial Decree", "Founding Father", "Zhao Ming Sun and Moon" and "Da Gong".And the inscription "Jingbiao founding of the country, auxiliary movement, sincerity, Xuanli, military minister Guanglu, doctor Zuozhu, Taifu, Zhongshu, right prime minister, Wei Guogong Xu Da".On both sides of the archway is engraved with a couplet bestowed by Emperor Taizu: "The skill of breaking the barbarians and the barbarians is the first in ancient and modern times; the talents of generals and ministers are unparalleled in the world."

In a courtyard next to Dagongfang where the sweet-scented osmanthus blossoms are very luxuriant, there are bursts of noise and quarrels.Compared with Dagongfang, this house looks ordinary on the outside, but inside it has a different world, and every time you go out and in, they are all gorgeously decorated, such as Jingdezhen's sacrificial red, capital's thread-sprinkling show, and Suzhou's goldware, all seem random.In fact, it is very delicately placed.

At this time, it is above the flower hall in the back hall.Facing several Danjiao who are babbling and singing Kunqu opera across a pool of water, the guests around several tables have different expressions, surrounded by densely packed maids and women.All the guests are sitting on huanghuali official hat chairs.Huanghuali eight-legged round stool.It is paved with Haozhou Yijin silk.This kind of style, even the elders of the cabinet will be willing to bow down when they see it.

among these guests.It's either rich or expensive, and many people have various fame and fame, but one thing in common is that they have the same identity and background, and many of them come from the same school.

Qian Qianyi sat on the chief seat, discussed a few words in a low voice with several elders at the same seat, stood up and bowed in circles all around.

"Everyone, all of you present here are all close friends of Qian, whether they are elders or friends in the same society. Several young friends are also friends who have forgotten the year, so Qian is informal. I would like to ask, from yesterday to today, what has happened to you?" How much did you lose in two days and one night?"

His words aroused a lot of sympathy. Immediately, some families in the hall who were engaged in silk, tea, raw silk, tung oil, porcelain and other industries began to sob in a low voice, especially those production-oriented businessmen whose families opened machine rooms near Nanjing, and they cried loudly. The workshops were almost razed to the ground.It's nothing more than the loss of those looms, the big deal is to spend some money and hire someone to make another batch. It's rare for those skilled loom users, many of them are missing the whole family!He even ran away with the wages and debts he owed himself for many years! (Huh? Another strange thing came out! Why do the technical backbone still owe the boss wages?)

As for those who are engaged in the trade of tea, porcelain, raw silk and tung oil, they are not much better. Even the three-legged stools in various shops have been carried away. It is because the delivery date agreed with the Shanxi businessman is approaching, and this year's autumn tea leaves cannot be given to others. Can this business continue?

Seeing the grief-stricken expressions of these people, the rest of the people, although most of their family business is not in Nanjing City, have escaped a catastrophe, but remembering that they discussed using the magic weapon that everyone is accustomed to to deal with Li Shouhan and Liu Kongzhaolai a few days ago, they feel a little lucky in secret.However, looking at the ransacked friends from the same agency, they were all a little embarrassed.

When discussing and collecting various expenses that day, everyone enthusiastically pledged donations, so that people could incite scholars in the Gongyuan and other places, hire idlers in the market, and prepare to repeat what the predecessors did in Suzhou, like last year with one Like Zhang Liudu's anti-chaos exposing posts and driving away Ruan Dacheng, he made Li Shouhan and Liu Kongzhao, who were involved in the Jianghai joint defense, disgraced, so that nothing happened, and everyone could continue to do business.

But now it's all gone!

"Mu Zhaigong, don't mention it again! Everyone here, who has suffered a heavy loss? Originally thought that the public opinion could be used to drive this group of military officers and nobles to make some crooked ideas about merchants, but who would have thought that the situation would collapse so badly?" Si? What Li lost was just jewelry, cotton cloth, oil, salt and sugar, etc., but our loss is far greater than his several times! Just now someone sent news to the students that the garrison government ordered Shangyuan County and Jiangning County to compensate Li A certain loss!"

"I didn't expect this group of unscrupulous people to succeed more than they failed! After taking our money, they not only robbed the shops of those Nanban merchants, but after they robbed our shops, they also suffered disaster!"

"Dear friends, that day by the Qinhuai River, I clashed with Mr. Hou and others out of righteous indignation against Li, who is good at doing things, and I don't want to be rude by that Li. This person insulted scholars. One too!"

"In the name of Haiphong, he intends to contact the honorable military ministers to raid Jiangnan and restrict me from going to sea to make a living. In this way, how many people in Jiangnan will lose their livelihood?!"

"According to the ministers and informants below, in the area where Mr. Li stole money, all businesses are taxed heavily! What value-added tax, income tax. Tariffs, even the vehicles and ships transporting goods, also have to pay tolls and bridges. Fees and road maintenance fees, think about it, if so many exorbitant taxes are implemented in the south of the Yangtze River, how can we survive?!"

"Also, with the bloody hatred between Li and Dongnu, if he knows that many of the goods I waited for were resold to Dongnu through the hands of Shanxi Xiangyu, is there still a way for us to survive? We must be fined and go bankrupt. A small matter. Seriously, it is a disaster of imprisonment! According to the severe torture laws he formulated, we will either mine in the mines, or log in the old forests, or build bridges and roads to spend the rest of our lives. Dare to ask all the members of the community, But who wants to live like this?"

Ming businessmen.Represented by the so-called Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants.They are all so-called Confucian merchants.He and the scholars are basically one body with two sides.He has been influenced by sage books since he was a child.But obviously, in the face of family interests and national interests, they have made a choice.

Only consider the family.Regardless of the country, it is their commonality.Take the Korean War, one of the three major campaigns in Wanli, as an example. If there were no Huizhou merchants in the south of the Yangtze River who smuggled a large amount of saltpeter to the Toyotomi Hideyoshi shogunate through maritime trade, I am afraid that this man nicknamed Monkey would not be able to support North Korea for eight years anyway.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, rich households would rather die under the knives of thieves and thieves than take some money and food from their rich family properties to contribute to the national treasury.

The transactions between the Shanxi merchants and the Manchus, which have been criticized by countless people, mainly deal in various military supplies such as grain, tea, salt, rifles, ironware, pig iron and gunpowder.The first bucket of gold for many Shanxi merchants was obtained through early smuggling with Mongolia.After the opening of the border market during the Jiajing period, the Jiannu in Liaodong sprang up quietly. From the Jurchen in Jianzhou to the Qing Dynasty, which is now proclaimed emperor, Shanxi merchants used Zhangjiakou and Shahukou as bases to continuously develop with Jiannu. trade smuggling.

However, the bottom line is that Shanxi does not produce all kinds of materials needed to build slaves, and they still have to purchase them in various places in Daming, especially food.If the businessmen in front of them say they don't know about these inside stories, then they will really see the devil!However, for the sake of the money, they all pretended not to know.Just let Shanxi merchants buy a large number of goods from themselves and act as merchants in the circulation field.

"Then what should we do?! Even the Tartars were defeated by him, and the money in our hands is far less than his! Do you want me to recruit the guardians and merchants to guard the tenants in the village and go to the sea to follow his people?" Sailor desperately, come to be buried in the belly of a fish?"

A big tea merchant with a great reputation shouted in despair.

"Brother Wu Nian, be safe and don't be impatient!"

Qian Qianyi signaled the tea merchant to sit down, exchanged glances with several elders at the same table, and continued his speech.

"Everyone in the south of the Yangtze River is not useless! He has a strong ship and sharp guns, and I have a fair heart! Qian is not talented, and he was once listed as a general in the Donglin by the Eunuch Party! Now my colleagues in Donglin are young Old, but the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the talents of Fushe are also outstanding for a while!"

The merchants seemed to understand Qian Qianyi's intentions, and they wanted to use the invisible and intangible network of Donglin and Fushe to deal with Li Shouhan's Southern Guangdong Army!

"Because Qian has a false reputation, young talents everywhere treat each other as teachers. Among many disciples, Qian is most optimistic about two people!"

"Qian Shilang, can those two talents catch my eye?"

"One is Mr. Hou Fangyu who angrily denounced traitors with Qian Mou on the Qinhuai River that day. You all know his name."

"The other one, you don't know much about it."

"Where is that sacred?"

"Little friend, to be honest, Qian also only exchanges letters with him, and we have been friends for a long time. This person is willing to worship under Qian, and now he is one of my registered disciples."

"who?"

"Nan'an, Fujian, Zheng Sen. This son passed the examination last year as a scholar, and after passing the examination, he became one of the twenty shanshan students in Nan'an County. Now he is a tribute student!"

"Hey! A mere tribute student?! What's the use of it?!"

"That's right! Such a freshman, I'm afraid there are not as many bastards on the Qinhuai River! What's worth it?"

Several people expressed their disdain for the great talent Qian attached to Zheng Sen.

"Slow down! Slow down!"

On the contrary, the eyes of the tea merchant surnamed Zhao were full of joy and excitement, "Brother Qian is talking about the son of Fujian General Zheng Zhilong, Nan'an Zheng Sen?"

"That's right! It's this one!"

Hearing that someone knows the goods, Qian Qianyi immediately put on a proud face, and glanced at the group of fellow workers in front of him who only knew Yinzi, bitch, Yuanzi, and rabbit with smug eyes.

"Brother Zhao, could it be that you are familiar with this person?"

"I can't say I'm familiar with it. It's just that I trade tea and often travel to and from Bamin. I often hear people talking about Zheng Zhilong. This person was originally a seafarer. After he was recruited by Xiong Wencan, he successively defeated Liu Xiang and then He fought against the Dutch Hongmaoyi people in Liuluo Bay, and later wiped out many rebel bandits in Fujian, and made great contributions to the court many times. Now he is the general army of Fujian, with many soldiers, horses and ships under his command, and the momentum is huge."

"It is said that this person still feeds his soldiers, horses, boats and cannons with the proceeds from sea merchants. He has tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of ships."

"I have also heard people in Zhejiang say that Zheng's fleet has made a lot of profits from trading in Fusang, which is far beyond my imagination!"

"However, several Shanxi ministers below have also mentioned it. The Zheng family has a close relationship with the Li family in Nanzhong. The harmonious relationship is far beyond our imagination. Just the army purchased by the Zheng family from Nanzhong every year The profits from reselling utensils, refined iron, grain, oil and salt, etc. to Shanxi merchants are at least millions of silver dollars! Mr. Qian mentioned Zheng Zhilong’s son. Do you want to ask the Zheng family to come out and speak on your behalf?”

All the people present expressed their opinions and understandings about Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhilong behind him. The flower hall was full of excitement, and the voices almost suppressed the singing voices of the dan roles on the opposite side.

"Don't lose your composure! Just listen to Mu Zhai!"

Someone among the elders stopped them, and the flower hall fell silent for a while.

Qian Qianyi felt complacent for a while, as if he had made up for his failure in the competition for the first minister of the cabinet in the past, "If this matter is done well, why not recover, it is expected that he will be appointed as the prime minister in the cabinet !"

The merchants in the late Ming Dynasty were actually officials and merchants. Not to mention that the children of many clans were in the palace, which one did not have the support of big forces?People from merchant families even served as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

They have always been arrogant and strange, regardless of academics and military generals, if they want to trouble them, they only need to go on strike. These officials and generals often lose their positions and titles. Abandon the official and the noble.

What's more, the former Donglin and the current Fushe are the tools they use to influence the political situation. If the interests of these businessmen and rich families in Jiangnan can be protected and satisfied, and a mere one of them enters the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, it will be a big deal. What's the problem? !

"Seniors, friends, the same year. I carefully studied Li's official position, and I always felt that there was something strange about it, but I couldn't remember where the key was. Suddenly I remembered that Mr. Yang in the cabinet is also staying here. They have been officials for many years, and there are many relatives and friends in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River. With the character of Yang Gebu, how can we not miss the past? How can we not protect it?"

"Thinking of this, it's like seeing the sun behind the clouds below, and I'm suddenly cheerful! Li's official position, mission, and title are all traps set by the big bosses in the court to keep him in check!"

"Why did Lord Mu Zhai say such a thing?"

"I would like to hear more about it!"

"First of all, this title, Uncle Ningyuan, was granted the title of Uncle Ningyuan according to the system of the country, and Ningyuan is his food town. But now it is an important place for the Guan Ning army. Let me ask, should he go and seal the land, or Don’t go? No matter whether he goes or not, Guan Ningjun has already regarded him as a thorn in his side, and wants to get rid of him as soon as possible!”

In the battle of Jinan, the Shouhan command post defeated the two white flags and wiped out the Coated Niulu formed by the former Guanning Army. Although there was no official article in the Dibao, it had already spread throughout the country.Moreover, the Zu Kuan army, an important general of the ancestral family, was sent to rectify the law. With the kindness of the Guan Ning army and the Liaoxi generals, how could he not hate Li Shouhan?

Thinking of this, the atmosphere in the flower hall suddenly became much happier. It turns out that although this guy is powerful, he has more enemies. If we unite his enemies, why not drive him back to his old lair in Nanzhong? !

"Secondly, it is his errand in charge of the coastal defense of Zhili in the south of Fujian and Guangdong as well as anti-smuggling at sea! Everyone, the sea in Guangdong and Guangxi is already under the control of Li Shouhan, so we don't care about it! But what about the adjacent Fujian sea? That's the source of Zheng Zhilong's food, clothing, and military pay just mentioned below! It can be said that the largest maritime merchant in Fujian is Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian! Think about it, everyone, once Zheng Zhilong receives Li's post as a three-province coastal defense and anti-smuggling mission The official document sent in the name of the government prohibits him from engaging in private business at sea, how can Zheng support the tens of thousands of his subordinates? How can Zheng give up?!"

"Based on Yang Ge's insight into the world, the title and errands assigned to Li are actually finding an opponent for him in the north and the south!"

"Brother Mu Zhai, just say, what should we do?"

"That's right! You are Yan Qing, the ingenious prodigal son of our Donglin people appointed by the eunuchs! You need to work a little harder on this matter of planning and planning!"

"This method is very simple to say. It is to make Li a lone husband and a traitor in the eyes of the world! Everyone in the world wants to punish him!"

Although the consortium under the Donglin Group in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas has a competitive relationship with those Shanxi merchants, because the grain, salt, iron, tea and other materials that can bring huge profits to Shanxi merchants needed in the north, they need to be imported from the south. Therefore, those Shanxi merchants and many financial groups in Jiangnan and Guangdong are competing with each other, and at the same time, they have a cooperative relationship. It can be said that they are in solidarity and support each other.On the point of "competing for profit with the people", their views are the same.

As long as he fiddled with it a little, Li Shouhan was immediately against the interest groups all over the world!And they have already acted. (To be continued..)