Smuggling Daming

Although Liu Jin never admitted that he was treasonous, but because of all the witnesses and material evidence, the crime of treason was finally settled on his head, and he was finally sentenced to Ling Chi. As a result, on the day of execution, many people who were harmed by Liu Jin The people scrambled to pay for the meat cut from Liu Jin's body, and then swallowed it alive to relieve their hatred.

After Liu Jin was Ling Chi, his party members were also quickly liquidated. Among them, Sun Cong, Shi Wenyi and others were killed, Zhang Cai died in prison, and Jiao Fang, the former chief minister of the cabinet, was only demoted because he quit early. , but saved their lives. As for Liu Jin's family members, most of them were also killed, but a few children of Liu Jin's eldest brother disappeared mysteriously, and no one knew their whereabouts.

After Liu Jin's death, Zhang Yong took over the throne of the eunuch as the supervisor of ceremonies, and at the same time he was in charge of the military power of the four guards of the imperial city.Li Dongyang succeeded as the chief assistant of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing worshiped as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and added meritorious service to the prince Shaobao.

The Central Plains dynasty has developed for thousands of years, but it is still unable to replace the rule of man with the rule of law. After Liu Jin's death, a series of reforms he implemented were abolished, whether it was official history or unofficial history. It was cleaned up very cleanly. This is mainly because Liu Jin's reform successfully offended most of the scholars. Therefore, after Liu Jin's death, all the scholars criticized him instead of decreasing, which also made Liu Jin's reputation even worse. It was even more messy before death.

For Liu Jin's death, the scholars in Daming were naturally rejoiced.But for ordinary people, it doesn't have much impact. After all, the things in the court are too far away from them. For them, three meals a day are what they care most about.

Zhou Zhong was originally just an ordinary citizen, but he is different from ordinary people, because he is now a big smuggler, controlling nearly half of the smuggling trade in Shuangyu Port, so Liu Jin's death not only affected him.And this influence is even related to the future of the chamber of commerce.

In the hall of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, four people sat around a sumptuous banquet, but the one sitting in the main seat was not Zhou Zhong, but a dignified middle-aged man. This man was Xie Lingyun's father, Xie Da. And on Xie Da's right hand side.It was Zhou Zhong who had a smile on his face. As for Zhou Zhong's opposite, there was a middle-aged man who was younger than Xie Da, and there was another young man who was about the same age as Zhou Zhong.

Zhou Zhong's opponent was a middle-aged man with a thin face, thin lips, and shrewdness in his long and narrow eyes.You can tell at a glance that he is not a good person.As for the young man who was about his age, his appearance was very similar to that of the middle-aged man next to him.He just looked at Zhou Zhong with a bit of disdain, as if sitting with Zhou Zhong insulted his identity.

"Uncle Xie, my nephew's place is really simple, and there is nothing to entertain everyone. We can only prepare a table of thin wine. I hope Uncle Xie and Brother Xie don't mind!" Zhou Chong, who was sitting next to Xie Da, laughed. Hehe said, although the two Xie family members on the opposite side seemed to be very indifferent to him.But it should be polite.

Today Xie Da suddenly brought the two people across from him to visit, so Zhou Zhong asked someone to prepare a banquet.We ate and talked.Xie Da had already introduced Zhou Zhong just now. The two people opposite him were all from the Xie family in Yuyao. Xie Cheng's son is named Xie Quan'an.

According to Xie Da's introduction just now, the reason why Xie Zhi and his son came to Shuangyu Port was to follow the instructions of Xie's family to discuss the details of the establishment of the Haimeng with Zhou Zhong. The salty expression gave Zhou Zhong a bad feeling.

"Nephew Zhou Xian is too modest, and the fifth younger brother has been busy all the way. Before I came to catch him, he was in a hurry to come to you, so today I will borrow the wine from you to toast the fifth younger brother!" Xie Da said at this time I also saw that Xie Zhi and his son were not very friendly to Zhou Zhong, so he hurriedly raised his glass and smiled, and he also revealed a message to Zhou Zhong in the words, that is, Xie Zhi and his son were sent by the Xie family in Yuyao. Now I don't have time to talk to the other party in detail.

Xie Zhi and his son belong to the core members of the Xie family, and they are supposed to be higher in status than the peripheral members like Xie Da, but Xie Da is older than Xie Yao after all.Xie Yan and his son naturally wanted to show some face to Xie Da, so when he saw him toast, Xie Yan showed a faint smile and said: "Brother, you are welcome, this time we are entrusted by elder brother to come to meet with Zhou The minister discussed the establishment of the Haimeng, so everything must be done right now!"

The eldest brother Xie Cheng said is Xie Qian. He is the eldest among the Xie family's peers, and he is also the most promising. Xie Qian immediately paid attention to Zhou Zhong's plan to join the three chambers of commerce to form the Haimeng after passing it back to the family. After a period of weighing, he finally sent Xie Yi and his son to discuss with Zhou Zhong the details and conditions of forming the Haimeng.

Although Xie Cheng and his son were polite to Xie Da, they ignored Zhou Zhong as the master, which made Zhou Zhong angry. But he doesn't even understand the basic etiquette, it's really hateful, if Xie Da hadn't been released here, I'm afraid he would have had Xie Yi and his son kicked out long ago!

Fortunately, Xie Da also found that Zhou Zhong's face was wrong at this time. He also knew that the Xie family in Yuyao, as a famous local family, had always been honest with first-class businessmen, especially Zhou Zhong was a smuggler, and he violated the national law. Therefore, Xie Cheng and his son He will definitely look down on Zhou Zhong even more, that's why he is so indifferent.

Thinking of this, Xie Da hurriedly changed the subject, and asked Xie Yi: "Fifth brother, I don't know what news the elder brother asked you to convey this time. What do you think about the establishment of the Haimeng?"

Although Xie Yan had a few polite words with Xie Da, he actually looked down on Xie Da at all. After all, the other party was just a descendant of a branch line and a businessman who had no status in the family, so when he was feeling impatient, he heard When the other party asked him the purpose of coming, he immediately said: "Brother still values ​​your business very much. After all, it is one of the main income of the family. The elders of the clan discussed it, and finally decided to agree to establish the Haimeng!"

Hearing that the Xie family agreed to establish the Haimeng, Zhou Zhong's anger finally subsided a little. If he unites the two major chambers of commerce, the Xie family and the Hong family, plus his Nanyang chamber of commerce, it will monopolize more than [-]% of the entire Shuangyu port. For the smuggling business, he will standardize all kinds of behaviors in smuggling, and he will definitely be able to make the smuggling industry bigger and stronger. With the development of smuggling, he will also become the well-deserved king of smuggling.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help being a little excited, but before he could say anything, Xie Yan said again: "But although the Haimeng can be established, the eldest brother proposed two conditions!"

"Conditions?" Zhou Zhong's eyes froze when he heard this, and the bad premonition in his heart became stronger, and he asked immediately, "Oh, I don't know what kind of conditions Xie Gong proposed?"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's question, Xie Yan turned his head and glanced at him indifferently, but did not speak. Instead, his son Xie Quan'an said in a frivolous tone: "The conditions of our Xie family are not for President Zhou. It's not difficult. The first is that we plan to merge the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Family Chamber of Commerce into a large chamber of commerce. At that time, my father will manage it himself, and Uncle Xie Da will be the vice president, responsible for assisting my father. After the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce establishes the Haimeng, the entire Haimeng will also be managed by my father."

"Crack!" Hearing Xie Quan'an's words, Xie Da was the first to stand there in a daze, and the chopsticks in his hand fell on the table. He really didn't expect that the chamber of commerce he created for the Xie family would be easily snatched by Xie Yao. Let's go, although he still has the title of vice president, but this position is probably only set up by the Xie family to comfort him, and it is impossible to have any real power at all.

Compared with Xie Da's gaffe, Zhou Zhong was also furious, his fists clenched tightly, wishing he could punch Xie Cheng and his son right now.It is obvious that he came up with the revelation of Haimeng, and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has recovered more than half of its strength, and its influence has surpassed that of Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and Hong Family Chamber of Commerce, but now the other party wants to take away the management rights of Haimeng. It is simply naked robbery.

However, Zhou Zhong, who has been a man in two lifetimes, has already understood one thing. In this world, relying on fists alone is not enough. He must learn to calm down. Therefore, even though he is full of anger, he resists the urge to hit people. After a good time After a while, he said in a calm voice: "Grand Xie really made a good plan. The first thing makes people so difficult to choose, but I don't know what the second condition is?"

Seeing Zhou Zhong holding back the anger in his heart and not daring to explode, Xie Yi and his son looked at each other proudly. They knew that Zhou Zhong would be angry when he heard the first condition, but they were confident that Zhou Zhong didn't dare to get angry at all, because In their view, Zhou Zhong is just a small smuggling businessman, and there is no support behind him. It can be said that as long as their Xie family is willing, Zhou Zhong's Nanyang Chamber of Commerce can be wiped out as long as they move their little fingers.

"As for the second condition, it is also a good thing for President Zhou, because we heard that President Zhou and Uncle Xie Da's daughter, cousin Lingyun, fell in love at first sight, so our Xie family decided to recruit President Zhou to marry us. Being a son-in-law, that is to say, we will be a family in the future!" Xie Quanan's smug smile was even bigger, but the condition he said was a huge insult to any normal man! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)