Li Xi ...... Unruly and reckless, he and the relevant people have an unshirkable responsibility for the Guangzhou Rebellion! ”

Whether he heard or said this name, Yinzhen was churning and nauseated.

But Erchen knew that this person had no more bad deeds except for being very close to the officialdom of Guangdong, relying on his industry of the Beijiang boat industry, and being called Li Sanjiang in Guangdong. Qingpu Cargo Station in the west of Guangzhou City, in the case of the guards of the cargo station resisting the officers and soldiers, some of the boatmen who escorted the ship under his name were also coerced to participate. ”

But in the face of Kangxi's inquiry, Yinzhen still had to protect Li Shi.

Erchen thought that this person was just one of the many Guangdong businessmen involved in the case, and after the incident, he also contributed a lot, focusing on the overall situation of Huang Ama's benevolent rule, and did not deal with him harshly alone, so he didn't know ...... Why did Huang Ama mention him alone? ”

Yin Zhen asked cautiously, Kangxi summoned him into the palace, and specifically asked Li Xianqi, who initially shocked him to death, but now it seems that Kangxi must have gotten some rumors through other channels.

But now, he can only stiffen his neck to help Li Xian cover up, otherwise he will be in big trouble. After saying that, Li Xi is a bastard, but in general, he is still a bastard who can be controlled and subdued by the imperial court, and there is no fundamental harm. If he is really a big bastard, he Yinzhen is at most blinded.

Yinzhen's answer confirmed Kangxi's speculation, or rather, he gave Kangxi the answer he wanted, otherwise, as Lin Tong said, Li Xi colluded inside and outside to secretly dominate Guangdong, then the overall situation of tranquility that he has deliberately maneuvered around in the past few decades will be completely ruined.

"Originally, I thought you were frivolous, but this time I went to Guangdong, and I was anticlimactic, but I didn't expect that you have learned to forbear and weigh and take care of the overall situation, which is very comforting."

Kangxi praised, Yinzhen's face was red, and he knelt down with a bang, thanking him for Lao Tzu's personal praise, which is too rare.

Then Kangxi was still not at ease and asked for many details. For example, the relationship between Sanjiang Ticket House and Li Shi, Yinzhen said that there are countless proprietors of Sanjiang Ticket House, and Li Shi should be just one of them, and the name Sanjiang is like prosperity and abundance, which is not surprising that Guangdong is all over the place.

Yinzhen saw that Kangxi's mind was still calm, and hurriedly reported with indignation that the Guangdong soldiers were really unusable, and the Fubiao military standard, which was dozens of times larger than the enemy, besieged it, but it was a heavy number of casualties, and finally the flag soldiers were dispatched. He implored Kangxi to re-enrich Guangdong's armaments, and it was best to send flag soldiers to Guangzhou again. These are the words he really receives. Although he temporarily "cooperated" with Li Shi, the purpose was to cover up each other, but he naturally did not want Guangdong to really fall into the hands of Li Shi, and strengthening Guangdong's armament was also to contain Li Shi's forces.

Speaking of this, Kangxi became interested, inquired in detail about the topography of Qingpu Cargo Station, and then told Yinzhen in the tone of an old handsome man on the battlefield that the battle of Yaxanibuchu was also like this back then, the terrain was open, and with foreign guns, the battle could only be fought like this. As for the armament of Guangdong, it involves the Eight Banners, and it still needs to be considered in the long run, and the most important thing now is to close the gate of Guangdong.

When Yinzhen left the palace, the spring breeze was blowing, but he only felt a bad cold, and this pass was really dangerous.

As for Guangdong's specific disposal, the first wave of measures was finalized in early April. This wave of measures covers a wide range of aspects, including business, people, officials and foreign, and many of them are also used in Jiangnan.

As far as the business is concerned, it is required to strictly investigate the industrial and commercial affairs of Guangdong, and the existing new things such as pulleys are included in the scope of the control of the imperial court. Industries such as ticket houses must also be reported to the political envoy's yamen, and the accounts must be recorded. In terms of foreign goods, we will strengthen the control of merchants, and if there is an outflow of foreign goods, they will be held accountable as a whole. For markets like Qingpu Cargo Station, the Guangdong Governor agreed on a special management charter and sent personnel to supervise them.

On the civilian side, the whole province searched for foreign objects of unknown origin, such as weapons such as tap firearms, and those who surrendered themselves were not guilty, and those who were found to be privately hidden, with 80 rods and 3,000 miles of exile. Reiterating the prohibition of gathering, anyone who gathers with weapons without official permission and has more than three people will be punished for plotting misdeeds, and more than 10 people will be guilty of rebellion.

On the official side, the household department will take the lead in verifying the silver flow and dissolving the joints, and it is strictly forbidden for people and businesses to intervene. The silver taels that have been included in the private ticket houses must be withdrawn immediately, and if there is such a situation, it will be punished as dereliction of duty. Other clichés, such as strengthening industrial and commercial supervision, are naturally repeated again.

Originally, Li Guangdi and others were very resistant to industries such as ticket shops, and their opinion was to ban them directly, but another wave of ministers, such as Yuda and others, believed that this was a matter of self-interest among the people, which had existed in all dynasties, and the imperial court could not intervene at will. And the imperial merchants from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including the Jin merchants and the Lianghuai salt merchants, as well as the merchants in Jiangnan and other places, also began to try to set up ticket houses, and if they really want to ban them, they will also jump out and make trouble, and this momentum is difficult to suppress. Suzhou weaving Li Xu's performance to Kangxi said very clearly, "The people and merchants are self-consistent, the court stretches out their hands, and the people who handle it are difficult to act thoughtfully, for fear that it will provoke the people and businessmen to gather together to fight each other, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Merchants are grouped together to make money, and the court is not afraid, but in order to fight against the court, this matter is troublesome. Kangxi was very sober and ignored the opinions of Li Guangdi and others, and only asked for strict control of the ticket store and other industries through the reporting and review system.

In mid-April, Li Xi received these news in Yingde, and for him, Kangxi's combination of punches was just a fist style upper body, and it was not realistic at all.

There are two other things that have a real impact.

The Guangzhou Rebellion, the biggest shock to Kangxi, under the deliberate guidance of Li Xian, turned to the Nanyang Outer Ocean, so Kangxi once again mentioned the matter of banning the sea. It's just that this article still needs Guangdong to give specific opinions, but it is not feasible, and what is the specific charter, Guangdong must first give an attitude, so as not to issue a policy and fight between the court and the locality.

There are pros and cons to this matter, Li Xian first handed it over to Peng Xianzhong's commercial relations department for study, and he was more concerned about another matter.

Lin Tong, the magistrate of Nanhai County, Guangdong, slandered Li Shi, the former canonical history of Nanhai County, and his words were absurd and appalling, and the officials were dismissed from their posts pending trial. Li Shi's violations were also arrested and questioned. It was tried by the governor of Guangdong, the envoy of Guangdong, and the prefect of Guangzhou.

"Yo, you still want to take me."

Li Xi couldn't stop laughing, but he was afraid for a while, and the matter really couldn't be hidden. The magistrate of Nanhai County, there was no way to play Kangxi directly, and he didn't dare to go through the official procedure to sue him Li Xi, so he secretly found a relationship and handed over the news. But I didn't expect him to poke things too directly, and Kangxi Lao'er didn't believe it at all. I don't know what kind of intentions this Lin Tong has, so he has to fight against him with his family name. If you think about it carefully, this guy's performance before was not much different from other officials, he was still greedy and corrupt, and he did the same thing.

Regarding the matter of arresting him and asking him for the crime, Li Xian didn't care at all, did Yang Lin dare to come and take him? Anyway, he is not the main offender in this case, and he is even a victim of "false accusations", Yang Lin is pretending at most and letting Yingde County "take care of it on the spot".

"Talk to Yang Lin, don't kill that Lin Tong, I want to know what Lin Tong thinks."

Li Shi instructed Liu Xingchun, who is now in charge of the public relations department, is his representative in the official face of Guangdong.

The current situation is still two steps away from the rebellion, the first step is that Kangxi completely sees through him, and the second step is that Kangxi is determined to clean him up completely. It will take a lot of time for Kangxi and the Qing court to take these two steps, so Li Xi calmed down and continued to step up army expansion training.

But at this time, a major event that he had almost ignored finally surfaced.

"No money!"

Guan Xuan, the little tent woman, pouted and screamed.

"I'm really running out of money."

Peng Xianzhong and Gu Xiyi came together and said goodbye.

Eight thousand flintlock muskets, twelve taels of silver each. Eight thousand sets of individual armor, plus helmets and cuirasses, each set of nine taels of silver, adds up to 200,000 taels of silver, which is only a small amount of money. Counting the money spent on the reservists and garrisons, if the establishment is full, Li Shi's army will cost 100,000 taels of silver per month for maintenance alone, not counting the expenses of artillery and navy.

In the past, he would spend 300,000 taels in the next year to pay for the Guangdong officers and soldiers, and in addition to his own armament expenses, Li Xiande would spend nearly 2 million taels of silver in the coming year.

In addition to armaments, the Ministry of General Affairs, schools, medical and health departments, as well as the Department of Commercial Relations and Public Relations are all departments that spend money.

And Li Shi's current income, glass, cement, steel, shipping dealers, department stores, ticket stores and other industries combined, the monthly net profit is only about 100,000 taels, even if the industry expands rapidly in the future, Li Xi will still have half of the financial gap in the next year.

"One and a half million taels of silver, Director-General, you have to fill the gap."

Gu Xiyi was worried.

"The silver invested by Sanjiang is now almost this amount, but it will have to pay 300,000 taels of interest in the next year, and it will also be invested in the two industries of Foshan Iron and Steel and Dongguan Machinery, and there is not much to allocate it."

In addition to studying the conventional response of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, Li Xian's first thought was to borrow money from businessmen and set up a one-year short-term bond business by Sanjiang Investment. Foshan Iron and Steel and Dongguan Machinery are still in the investment period, and the benefits are far from showing.

Peng Xianzhong poured cold water on Li Shi, and his answer involved the general trend in front of him.

"The businessmen don't know exactly what the head office thinks. Before, they were all the head of the department next to the eighth elder brother, just to make money, but now that the head of the department is spreading out, and the military strength is also showing, they are all worried. Guangdong's officialdom, commercial goods and silver circulation channels and other joints are controlled by the general director, and they have to find the general department to do business, but if they want to do long-term business with the general director, this will be troublesome. ”

To put it bluntly, the businessmen do business, but if they want to work together with him, a person who has almost been labeled as an anti-thief, then he can only say sorry, borrow money? No way.

What does Li Xi think?

Isn't that nonsense, rebellion...... The businessman's side hadn't thought through the matter yet, and a few days later, Liu Xingchun came back, and his face was not very good-looking.

"Yang Lin said, he wants to know more, what do you think?"

Well, the Guangdong officials led by Yang Lin are also testing, what is Li Xi's idea of doing business honestly? Who believes? There is a saying that there is no heart for rebellion, only for rebellion. Since you have the strength to fight against the government and the court, if you don't want to rebel, you are either a saint or an idiot.

It's just that the power that Li Xi broke out before was all for self-preservation, and there was still a figure of an eighth elder brother hanging faintly over his head, so Yang Lin and other Guangdong officials dared to cover him up for the time being, believing that he would not rebel now.

But what about later? What do you want to do in the future? Can you give me the answer?

No matter what Li Shi said, Yang Lin and the others naturally wouldn't expect him to tell the truth, but at least from what he said, they could have a judgment.

Businessmen and officials, this is a joint force to force the palace.

"The problem is not how I say it, but how I do it," Li said. ”

(To be continued)