Cheng Xiaolian looked bitter: "Madam really wronged me, I don't dare to test you if I have a few more guts, besides, if even you have to doubt, what is the point of living in this world." ”

Wen Duruo laughed: "Okay, okay, I know that you have us in your heart, Sister Ruoling is joking with you, there has just been such a big mess in the city, and there are still many things waiting for you to calm down, don't waste all your time here." ”

On this day, the three third-grade officials of Chengdu Mansion and the seventeen third-grade and below the imperial court officials hung seals and sealed gold, hanging from the beams, and their families were also far away from the countryside.

Originally, Confucius meant that rebellion is a major crime of the nine clans, and the families of these people can not let go, but Cheng Xiaolian rejected this suggestion, these people no matter what, in the process of Daming City, they can be regarded as making great contributions, the early Ming Dynasty did not have the legacy of the ancestors, these people can do the three products, and they have a certain contribution to the Ming Dynasty, maybe they are confused for a while, just leave Chengdu Mansion with their families, there is no need to kill them all.

Of course, there are also a few petty officials of the sixth or seventh grade who heard about these things, and found their own brothers to hang themselves instead, ready to steal beams and change pillars to avoid death, but unfortunately there is no impermeable wall in the world, especially with the unremitting efforts of Jinyiwei, these people can be regarded as chickens and dogs at home.

Cheng Xiaolian's idea is very simple, if you make a mistake, you have to bear the consequences of your mistake, if you don't even dare to bear this, then you can only repay it twice.

In one day, the officials in the imperial court who participated in the rebellion of King Qi were cleaned up, and then there were those merchants, it can be said that without these merchants, King Qi might not be able to become such a big climate.

However, because the imperial court appointed the Tao family to become the only imperial merchant of the Ming Dynasty, it is understandable that those people are dissatisfied and want to overthrow Cheng Xiaolian.

For these families, Cheng Xiaolian's punishment is to confiscate all the family property from the state treasury, and kill the current head of the family, and ignore the rest. But the Tao family has to beat it up, the court has given your family so much convenience, and when the court encounters something, not only can it not help the court, but your family will also add to the chaos.

And through this incident, Cheng Xiaolian can be regarded as understanding a truth, a person can never fight a group of people, even if this person is strong, he will be consumed by a group of people, the best seems to be to turn most of the people in a group of people into his own people, that is, to become the second Chengdu Shangtang, so that the status is much more stable.

At the same time as reprimanding the Tao family, the imperial court issued a decree that the number of imperial merchants was scarce, and the imperial court felt that its ability was limited, so it intended to select six imperial merchants, and invited aspiring merchants in Chengdu to prepare to participate in the selection of imperial merchants.

It can be said that in the past, the Tao family in Chengdu could go sideways, they wanted to do tea business, others could not do tea business, not to mention anything else, people did not need to pay the business tax of one out of ten, and there was a natural advantage in price, how do you compete with others?

The commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was set by Cheng Xiaolian himself, and the commercial tax set during the Hongwu period was one of thirty, that is, the merchant earned thirty taels of silver and had to pay a tax of one or two silver. But later, the commercial tax existed in name only, and the businessmen who had the ability did not have to pay taxes at all, and the businessmen who did not have the ability could not earn much silver at all, and whether the commercial taxes were paid or not had little impact on the national treasury.

Although the commercial tax set by Cheng Xiaolian sounds very high, after paying the commercial tax, the government will not ask for silver under other names, and if a certain amount of commercial tax is paid, even the field tax of immediate family members does not have to be paid, and in general, the merchants can still accept it.

So I heard that the imperial court recruited imperial merchants, those families are all ready to fight for an imperial businessman, thinking of this, these people are very happy, at the beginning of the people of other families pulled them to do this fateful business, they immediately refused, since ancient times the people do not fight with the officials, if they do it, there is a danger of being raided and exterminated, if they don't do it, no matter how bad the business is, the family's capital can at least let them spend decades, and I don't believe that the family will always be suppressed.

Now it seems that they are right, the court not only sanctioned those families who participated in the rebellion, but even the Tao family was implicated, but this is also deserved in everyone's opinion, your Tao family is the first imperial businessman in the Ming Dynasty, and if something happens, he will not protect his master, but go to hug other thighs, and he deserves to be disliked by his master.

Tao Li heard the news and smiled helplessly at home, he gambled on the Tao family's dominant position in the Ming family in exchange for the family, but he didn't expect to be defeated by his younger brothers and uncles so quickly. At this time, he suddenly remembered his father's dying words: "It is not a good thing for a family to be alone, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." Remember, remember. ”

Thinking of this, he suddenly realized that eating meat alone is easy to make people jealous, since he can't eat alone, he must get the leading position in this group of meat eaters, so that the Tao family will be stable.

Thinking of this, Tao Li immediately shouted: "Prepare the sedan chair, I want to go to the emperor's mansion." ”

The old housekeeper in the house was startled when he heard this: "Master, by all means, we can't twist our arms around our thighs, and besides, we have a handle in the hands of others, what people say, let's just do it." ”

Tao Li laughed: "Don't worry, I'm not arguing about the first emperor of our Tao family, I know all these things." ”

The old housekeeper saw that his master was still sober, and hurriedly arranged for someone to prepare a sedan chair: "Master, when you see the emperor, you must admit your mistakes, our family unfortunately has those scum, and we can no longer rely on the previous merits to put forward any conditions that should not be there, and now the Tao family is already very good." ”

Tao Li nodded: "Uncle Feng, don't worry, I know it all in my heart." ”

The sedan chair arrived at the door of Cheng Xiaolian's mansion but was closed: "The emperor said that the people of the Tao family are here." ”

Tao Li smiled bitterly: "Go home and come back tomorrow." ”

After three days, Cheng Xiaolian finally met Tao Li. Seeing Cheng Xiaolian, Tao Li hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The grass people knock to see the emperor." ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "They are all old acquaintances, what are you doing with these false courtesies, stand up and speak." ”

Tao Li stood up and scolded in his heart: "They are all old acquaintances, so why bother me for so many days." ”

Cheng Xiaolian didn't mean to make things difficult for him, he didn't know about the situation of the merchants in Chengdu at first, and he couldn't see Tao Li at that time, and if he didn't handle it well, he would have to have an ungrateful reputation.

"Your Majesty, according to our previous agreement, the Tao family is the only emperor of the Ming Dynasty, why did I hear that the imperial court began to recruit new imperial merchants two days ago?"

Cheng Xiaolian pretended to be angry: "You are indeed the only imperial merchant of the Ming Dynasty, but look at how you reported me?" There was a mess in Chengdu Mansion, and the first person to jump out to respond was the Tao family, if it weren't for the previous feelings, I would have to wipe out the Tao family! ”

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