However, ten days after Xu Shixing took charge of the city's ship, Xu Ge's two sons, Xu Kun and Xu Ying, found Xu Shixing and said that they wanted to join in and trade with the vassal state. Xu Shixing, according to the rules left by Lord Luo, asked them to find Daming Haimao. After Xu Kun and Xu Ying left, they went to see Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng also shirked at first, but was later called to Xu's mansion by Xu Gelao's mother, and after coming out of Xu's mansion, he went to persuade Xu Shixing. In the end, Xu Shixing also agreed to Xu Fu's participation in the transaction.

However, after the two sons of the Xu family participated, they immediately began to break the rules, and after contacting the merchants of the feudal kingdom, they took the initiative to reduce the price of the transaction, and the merchants of the feudal kingdom were naturally happy, and suppressed the prices of the five great families with the prices of the two sons of the Xu family. As a result, the five great families also had to lower their prices. However, after the five great families lowered their prices, the two sons of the Xu family further lowered their prices. After coming and going, the price reaches a point where it is almost unprofitable.

In the end, the five great families had to withdraw from the sea trade, so that the two sons of Xu Ge Lao completely controlled the sea trade transactions with the feudal states. At this time, the two sons of the Xu family suddenly raised the price to the original price. Of course, the merchants of the vassal kingdom refused, and on the way to Daming, the merchants of the vassal kingdom had encountered a new group of pirates, and those pirates said that they could let the merchants of the vassal country go to Daming to trade, but they would detain half of their goods. In this way, those merchants of the vassal kingdom will not agree to the price raised by the two sons of the Xu family. However, the two sons of the Xu family insisted on not reducing the price. So, those merchants of the vassal kingdom went to find the five great families, but they were closed.

In the end, Xu Ge Lao's two sons reached an agreement with the feudal merchants, asking Hu Zongxian to send a Ming sailor to escort the feudal merchants through the sea area controlled by pirates, so that the feudal merchants agreed to the price proposed by Xu Ge Lao's two sons.

However, Hu Zongxian's sailors were defeated. Moreover, Hu Zongxian was no longer willing to send sailors to clean up the pirates, saying that if the pirates did not go ashore, he would not go to clean them up. In this way, the two sons of Xu Ge Lao were pushed into an embarrassing situation. They only traded with vassal merchants at low prices. However, at this time, several batches of merchants from the vassal kingdom came one after another, and the two sons of Xu Ge Lao did not have so many goods at all. When they wanted to organize the supply of goods again, the small and medium-sized businessmen who had squeezed out the five great families with them, and then followed the two sons of Xu Ge to make a lot of money, stopped doing it. Because they need to organize the supply of goods, they need to go to a farther place, and after counting the various expenses, at the price agreed with the merchants of the vassal country, they will simply lose money, and they will lose a lot.

Xu Luqing, the eldest son of Xu Ge, who had already gone to the southeast, visited Hu Zongxian again with Zhang Juzheng, hoping that Hu Zongxian could send troops, but Hu Zongxian still refused. In this case, Xu Kun and Xu Ying took a risk, colluded with the government, listed crimes, and stole the workshops and goods of some small and medium-sized businessmen. However, even so, it was less than half of the goods needed to trade with the merchants of the feudal kingdoms.

In this way, the transaction volume required by the market will not be met at all, and the market will not be able to collect the tax revenue it should receive. Now the city is paralyzed. Waiting for the Xu Mansion to organize the supply of goods, but the two sons of the Xu Mansion could not organize the supply of goods at all. ”

Xu Jie was already sweating through his clothes at this time, he didn't expect that after Lu Bing's death, Jin Yiwei would still be so efficient and investigate the matter clearly.

"What about the five great families?" Emperor Jiajing asked coldly, "The five great families should have goods, right?" ”

"No more!" Liu Shouyou shook his head and said: "Now the heads of the five great families are no longer in the southeast, they went to the north with their goods, saying that they were going to the north to open a new trade route, and the transaction between the southeast and the vassal kingdom was given to the two sons of Xu Ge Lao." According to their words, who let Lu Dadu die? And the father of the family is the head of the cabinet, so he can't afford to provoke him, so he can afford to hide. ”

"Smack!"

Emperor Jiajing slapped the imperial book case fiercely, his face was blue with anger, at this time, he really missed Lu Bing. When Lu Bing didn't die, then the Lu family and the five major families also made money, but they made money in a proper manner, and they did not share a lot of tariffs from the city.

Look at the Xu family again?

Not to mention the ugly appearance, it also lost the tariffs of the city.

It's still your own small errand that is reassuring!

Emperor Jiajing sighed in his heart, took back his thoughts about missing Lu Bing, and looked at Liu Shouyoudao:

"Liu Shouyou, you know the situation there best now, what do you think should be done about this?"

"This ......" Liu Shouyou hurriedly said: "I don't know." ”

"Xu Jie!"

"Rongchen has some time." Xu Jie said in a trembling voice.

"Allow you a little time, who will let me have a little time? Who's going to have some time? Emperor Jiajing shouted angrily.

Xu Jie felt bad in his heart, knelt on the ground, and trembled.

"High arch!"

"There's no way around it." Gao Gong said with his head down.

"There's no way, what do I want you to do? You can't do it, so you tell me, who has the way? ”

"Maybe ......" Gao Gong raised his head and said: "Maybe Luo Xin will have a way, after all, the City Ship Division was established by him, and when it comes to understanding the southeast, no one knows better than him." ”

"Xuanluoxin!" Emperor Jiajing's heart also moved, and a trace of expectation appeared in his eyes.

In less than three quarters of an hour, Luo Xin came to Yuxi Palace. After meeting Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing said:

"Luo Xin, do you know anything about the southeast?"

Luo Xin shook his head and said, "I don't know, the minister is studying in retreat." ”

"Shut up!" Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but scold, and then said to Liu Shouyou: "Tell him about it." ”

"Yes!"

Liu Shouyou repeated what he had just said again, and then the hall fell silent, and Luo Xin frowned and thought there. Looking at Luo Xin's thoughtful appearance with his brows on his face, although Emperor Jiajing was in a hurry, he could only hold back and wait.

Gao Gong, Huang Jin and Liu Shouyou stood there, not daring to come out, while Xu Jie knelt there with five bodies, motionless. The atmosphere in the main hall was tense to the extreme, and the air seemed to become stagnant, flooding everyone, making people feel suffocated.

Luo Xin's thought was that two quarters of an hour had passed. Emperor Jiajing finally got anxious, and "snapped" the imperial book case and shouted:

"Luo Xin, have you come up with a way?"

Luo Xin raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, now that the southeast has become like this, even if there is a way, it will not be able to solve it in a short time." ”

"Let's talk about it first." Hearing Luo Xin say that there was a way, Emperor Jiajing's tone softened slightly.

"There are three main problems today."

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