After two days and one night, Nanjing slowly returned to its former calm, and there were no longer single gangsters on the streets with large bundles of silk on their shoulders and gold bracelets on their hands and arms, happily ready to find a place to enjoy themselves, but soldiers with helmets and armor patrolling the streets. Be ready to bring the mob that disturbed the capital to justice on the spot.

The once bustling street market has become full of rubble and rubbish, and the floor is full of tattered objects, which is even more shocking against the occasional bloodstain.

The Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the Caojiang Yamen, and the Garrison Yamen jointly issued a proclamation, ordering all those in the neighborhood who participated in the disturbance on the streets to immediately surrender to the local security chief and others, otherwise they would be severely punished once discovered!

On the improvised flags made of yellow silk, the words "Righteous People" written in cinnabar became more and more open. Under the banner, the two gangs of Yancao in a team of twenty or thirty people carried sticks in their hands, followed the officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to patrol the streets, and from time to time pulled a few gangsters who were not long-sighted into the middle of the street to greet them with sticks, and beat these unlucky bastards who were picking up some scraps behind others and rolling on the ground with their heads in their hands.

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

At the intersection of the east and west sides of the house, build "Dagong Fang", and engrave the big characters such as "Holy Decree", "Founding Father", "Zhaoming Sun and Moon", "Great Merit" and so on. As well as the inscription of "Biao Founding Auxiliary Transport, Tui Cheng Xuanli, Wuchen Guanglu Doctor, Left Zhu Guo Taifu, Zhongshu Right Prime Minister Wei Guogong Xu Da". On both sides of the archway, the seal is engraved with the couplet of Emperor Taizu: "The first in ancient and modern fame; The general is a talented and unparalleled scholar and martial artist. ”

In a mansion next to Dagongfang, where osmanthus flowers are blooming very luxuriantly, there are bursts of noisy quarrels right now. Compared with the Dagongfang, this house is ordinary in appearance, but there is a different world inside, several out and a few in, all are gorgeously decorated, Jingdezhen's sacrificial red, Beijing's sprinkling show, Suzhou's goldware, seemingly random. In fact, it is very delicately placed.

At this time, the back hall is above the flower hall. Facing a few Danjiao who were babbling and singing Kunqu opera across a pool of water, the guests around a few tables had different expressions, and they were surrounded by dense maids and women waiting. All the guests are sitting in Huanghuali official hat chairs. Huanghuali eight-legged round stool. It is covered with millizhou brocade silk. This kind of style is the cabinet elder who sees it, and he must bow to the wind.

Among these guests. is either rich or expensive, and many people have all kinds of fame on their bodies, but one thing in common is that they have the same identity and background, and many people are still from the same family.

Qian Qianyi sat on the chief, discussed a few words in a low voice with several elders at the same table, stood up and made a circle around.

"Everyone, all of you here are Qian's close friends, or elders, or fellow friends, and several young friends are also friends of the year, so Qian is not formal. I would like to ask, from yesterday to today, how much have you lost in these two days and one night? ”

His words resonated a lot, and some of the people in the family who were engaged in the silk, tea, raw silk, tung oil, porcelain and other industries began to sobbed quietly, especially the production-oriented merchants whose families had opened organic houses near Nanjing, and they cried so loudly that their workshops were almost razed to the ground. It's just the loss of those looms, it's a big deal to spend some money and ask someone to make a batch, it's rare to be those skilled machine owners, many people are missing their families! Even the salary debt that he owes himself for many years has escaped! (Huh?) Something strange is coming out again! Why do the backbone of the technical staff still owe the owner wages? ）

As for those engaged in the trade of tea, porcelain, raw silk and tung oil, it is not much stronger, even the three-legged stool in the business everywhere has been carried away, this time, the people owe people have no accounts, and now it is the delivery date agreed with Shanxi merchants is approaching, and this year's autumn tea tea can not be given to people, this business can still be done?

Seeing the grief-stricken expressions of these people, although most of the rest of the people were not in Nanjing City, they could be regarded as having escaped a catastrophe, but they remembered that they had discussed a few days ago to deal with Li Shouhan and Liu Kongzhaolai with the magic weapon that everyone was used to boycotting, but they were a little secretly lucky. However, looking at the friends of the same society who had been looted in front of them, they were all a little embarrassed.

On the same day, when discussing the collection of various expenses, everyone enthusiastically pledged donations, so that people could incite scholars in Gongyuan and other places, hire idlers in the market, and prepare to repeat the actions of their predecessors in Suzhou, just like last year's removal of Ruan Dacheng with a post to prevent chaos in the capital, Li Shouhan and Liu Kongzhao, who were disgraced by the joint defense of the river and the sea, so that it will not be over, and everyone can continue to do great business.

But now it's all gone!

"Mu Zhaigong, Hugh has to mention it again! Of the people here, which one is not a heavy loss? originally thought that public opinion could be used to drive this group of military attachés to make some crooked ideas about the matter of businessmen, but who would have thought that the situation would collapse like this? What Li lost was only some jewelry, cotton cloth, oil, salt and sugar, etc., and our loss was far greater than that of him several times! Someone just sent news to the students that the garrison government ordered Shangyuan County and Jiangning County to compensate Li for his losses! ”

"I can't imagine that this group of people is not enough to succeed and more than to lose! After receiving our money, not only did we rob the shops of those Nanban merchants, but after grabbing them, our shops also suffered from the pond fish! ”

"Friends, that day by the Qinhuai River, I clashed with Hou Gongzi and others based on righteous indignation with Li, who was good at Weifu, and I didn't want to be rude to that Li. This person insults the scholar, this is one of them! ”

"In the name of coastal defense, he intends to contact the noble and military ministers to loot Jiangnan and restrict us from going to sea to make a living, so how many people's livelihoods in Jiangnan will be cut off?!"

"According to the following ministers, in the territory where Li stole the territory, all of them are sick businessmen with heavy taxes! What VAT, income tax. Tariffs, that is, the vehicles and ships that transport goods, also have to pay tolls, bridge tolls and road maintenance fees, think about it, so many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, if they are implemented in Jiangnan, how can we live a life of waiting? ! ”

"Also, with the hatred of Li and Dongnu's bloody battles, if he knew that many of our goods were resold to Dongnu through Shanxi Xianghe's hand, would there still be a way for us to live? It is still a trivial matter to be punished for bankruptcy. At worst, it's a prison sentence! According to the torture laws he instituted. We spent the rest of our lives mining in mines, logging in old forests, and building bridges and roads. Dare to ask all the members here, who wants to live like this? ”

A merchant of the Ming Dynasty. Represented by the so-called Jin merchants and Hui merchants. They are all known as Confucian merchants. and scholars are basically two sides of the same coin. Since childhood, he has been influenced by the books of sages. But it is clear that they have made a choice in the face of family interests and national interests.

Only families are considered. Regardless of the country, it is their commonality. Taking the Korean Campaign, one of the three major expeditions of Wanli, as an example, if there was no Jiangnan Hui merchants who smuggled a large amount of saltpeter to the Toyotomi Hideyoshi shogunate through maritime trade, I am afraid that the people of the world, nicknamed Monkey, would not have been able to support Korea for eight years anyway. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, wealthy families in various places would rather die under the swords of thieves and Tartars than take out some money and grain from their rich family property to contribute to the national treasury.

The trade between the Jin merchants and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was criticized by countless people, mainly dealt in various military supplies such as grain, tea, salt, step and ironware, pig iron and gunpowder. The first pot of gold for many Jin merchants was obtained through early smuggling with the Mongols. When the border market was opened in the Jiajing period, the Jiannu in Liaodong quietly rose again, from the Jianzhou Jurchen to the Qing Dynasty, which is now the emperor, the Jin merchants took Zhangjiakou and Kill Hukou as the base, and carried out trade and smuggling activities with the Jiannu in a steady stream.

However, in the final analysis, Shanxi does not produce all kinds of materials needed to build slaves, and they still have to purchase them in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, especially grain. These insiders, if these businessmen in front of them say that they don't know the way, then they are really a ghost! However, for the sake of the white flowers, they all pretended not to know. Just let the Jin merchants buy a large number of goods from their own hands and act as merchants in the field of circulation.

"So what are we going to do?! Even the Tartars have been defeated by him, and we have far less money than he has! Do you want me to recruit the tenants in the village to guard the tenants in the village, and go to the sea to fight with his sailors, and die in the belly of the fish? ”

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

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

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

"I, the people in Jiangnan, are not useless! He has strong ships and cannons, and I have justice and people's hearts! Qian is not talented, and he was once listed by the eunuch party as a person who will be recorded in Donglin Point! Now although my colleagues in Donglin are old, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and all the talents of the Restoration Society are also outstanding people! ”

The businessmen seem to understand Qian Qianyi's intentions, and they want to use the invisible and intangible interpersonal network of Donglin and Fushe to deal with Li Shouhan's Nanyue army!

"Because Qian has a false reputation, young talents everywhere treat each other with teacher courtesy. Among the many disciples, Qian is the most optimistic about Lu but two! ”

"Qian Shilang, can those two talented men get into the eyes of the old man?"

"One, that is, the Hou Fangyu Hou Gongzi who angrily denounced the power traitor with Qian on the Qinhuai River that day, this person's name is already known."

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

"Where is that sacred?"

"This little friend, to be honest, Qian Mou only writes back to him, and he has 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 was admitted to Xiucai last year, and became one of the 20 students in Nan'an County. Now it is considered a tribute status! ”

"Bah! Just a tribute?! What's the use?! ”

"That's it! Such a student, I'm afraid that there is no more than Wang Ba on the Qinhuai River! What is it worth? ”

Several people expressed disdain for Qian Dacaizi's attention to Zheng Sen.

"Slow down! Slow down! ”

However, the eyes of the tea merchant surnamed Zhao were full of joy and excitement, "What Brother Qian said is the son of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, Nan'an Zheng Sen?" ”

"Not bad! That's it! ”

Hearing that someone knew the goods, Qian Qianyi immediately looked proud, and glanced at the group of people in the society in front of him who only knew silver, bitch, garden, and rabbit with smug eyes.

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

"Familiarity is not enough. It's just that they often travel to and from Fujian in the lower part of the trafficking of tea. I often hear people talking about Zheng Zhilong. This person was originally a career at sea, and after being appeased in the hands of Xiong Wencan, he successively defeated Liu Xiang, and fought with the Dutch Hongmaoyi people in Liuluo Bay, and then exterminated many anti-thieves and mountain bandits in Fujian, and repeatedly made great contributions to the imperial court. Now it is the general army of Fujian, and there are many soldiers, horses and ships under his command, and the momentum is huge. ”

"It is said. This man still feeds his soldiers, horses, ships and cannons with the proceeds of maritime trafficking. There were tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of ships. ”

"I have also heard people in Zhejiang that the Zheng fleet has made a lot of profits from the Fusang trade, which is far from our imagination!"

"But. In the following several Shanxi ministers have also been mentioned. The Zheng family had a close relationship with the Li family in Nanzhong. The harmony of the relationship is far from what we can imagine. Every year alone, the profits from the weapons, refined iron, grain, oil and salt purchased by the Zheng family from Nanzhong and sold to Shanxi merchants amounted to at least millions of silver dollars! Lord Qian mentioned Zheng Zhilong's son. Do you have to ask the Zheng family to come out and speak on your behalf? ”

Everyone present expressed their opinions and understandings about Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhilong behind him for a while, and the flower hall was very lively, and the voice almost suppressed the singing voices of several Danjiao opposite.

"Don't be so gaffe! Let's listen to Mu Zhai! ”

One of the elders spoke out to stop it, and the flower hall was silent for a while.

Qian Qianyi's heart was full of ambition for a while, as if the shortcomings of the failure to compete for the first assistant of the cabinet were made up for on this occasion today, "If this matter is done well, why can't you recover, it is expected to enter the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister!" ”

The businessmen at the end of the Ming Dynasty were actually officials and businessmen, and many of the children of the clan were not to mention the palace, and which one did not have the support of the general trend? There are even people who come from merchant families who have become the head of the cabinet.

They have always been arrogant and strange, not only the official generals, but those who want to trouble them, only need to strike the market, these officials and generals often lose their officials and abandon their knights, and they are sent out in the background to impeach them like clouds, and those officials and generals are the same as losing their officials and abandoning their knights.

What's more, the previous Donglin and the current Fushe are the tools they use to influence the political pattern, if the interests of these businessmen and wealthy families in Jiangnan can be safeguarded and satisfied, why is it difficult for just one to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister? !

"Seniors, friends, the same year. After carefully studying Li's official errand, I always felt that there was something strange in it, but for a while I couldn't remember where the key was. Suddenly, I remembered that now the cabinet Lord Yang has also been an official in the capital for many years, and there are many relatives and friends in various parts of the Yangtze River. How can you not protect it? ”

Thinking of this, I saw the sun like a cloud below, and I was suddenly cheerful! Li's official position, envoy, and title are all traps set by the bigwigs in the DPRK and China in order to restrain him! ”

"Why did Mu Zhai Gong say this?"

"I wish to hear about it!"

"First, the title of this fang, Uncle Ning Yuan, with the system of the national dynasty, sealed Uncle Ning Yuan, and Ning Yuan is where his food is located. But now it is the important place of the Guan Ning army, let me ask, will he go to the fiefdom or not? Whether he goes or not, Guan Ningjun, the old hatred, has already regarded him as a thorn in his side, and he can't wait to get rid of it as soon as possible! ”

In the Battle of Jinan, the Shouhan Command Post Department defeated the two white flags and killed the Baoyi Niu Lu composed of the original Guanning Army. Moreover, the important general of the ancestral family, Zu Kuanjun, was in front of the law, with the kind of mind of Guan Ningjun and 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 strong, but there are more enemies, if we unite his enemies, why can't we drive him back to Nanzhong's lair?!

"The second is his errand of managing the coastal defense of southern Fujian and Guangdong and the anti-smuggling at sea! Ladies and gentlemen, the sea surface of Guangdong and Guangxi is already the forbidden territory of his Li Shouhan, let's not care about it! But what about the adjacent Fujian Sea? There is the source of Zheng Zhilong's food, clothing, and military salaries that were only mentioned below! It can be said that the biggest maritime merchant in Fujian is Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian! Think about it, once Zheng Zhilong received an official letter sent by Li in the name of the three provinces of coastal defense and anti-smuggling envoys, ordering him to no longer engage in private business at sea, how could Zheng support his subordinates tens of thousands of horses? How can Zheng give up?! ”

"With Yang Gebu's insight into world affairs, the titles and errands given to Li are actually for him to find a counterpart in the north and south!"

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

"That's it! You are the prodigal son of Tianqiao Star among our Donglin people determined by the eunuchs! This is a matter of planning, and you need to work a little harder! ”

"It's easy to say. It is to make Li a lone man and a thief in the eyes of the world! Everyone in the world is talking about it! ”

Although the Donglin consortium in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has a competitive relationship with those Jin merchants, because the grain, salt, iron, tea and other materials that can bring huge profits to the Jin merchants in the north need to be imported from the south, so those Jin merchants, and many consortia in Jiangnan and Guangdong, are competing with each other at the same time, and there is a cooperative relationship, which can be described as the same breath and mutual support. On the point of "competing with the people", they are unanimous.

As long as he plays with it a little, Li Shouhan will immediately oppose the interest groups all over the world! And they've already acted. (To be continued......)