473 Economic War (I)
The head of the Zheng family really suffered an unjustified disaster, who made the Xiong family, a family that was vigorously hit by Suning, the tentacle family of the Zheng family? There is also the Zhao family in the three families of Lin Zhou and Zhao, although the status is not high and the strength is not strong, but it can also be regarded as a tentacle family of the Zheng family, as a result, the family Ding was injured by Suning, and the little boy was shot off the horse by Suning, and then he was shot with an arrow.
It can be said that the two tentacle families of the Zheng family who were hit the hardest were the hardest, but the Zheng family himself did not intend to participate in this matter, through this incident, the Zheng family suddenly found that his control of the tentacle family was a little too lax, as the so-called not afraid of a god-like opponent is afraid of a pig-like teammate, and having a pig-like teammate is really much more terrible than having a god-like opponent.
The Zheng family decided to strengthen their own management construction, well, after the second round of storms under Li Er's majesty, before that, it is better to concentrate on dealing with the blows from the emperor...... Compared with the first blow, the second blow was more serious, and the emperor expressed extreme indignation at the book burning, and there was a great intention to compare Qin Shi Huang's book burning and Confucianism with it.
This is a rather dangerous signal, the emperor does not intend to let go easily, he must hold on to it, after disposing of Suning first, he announced that he would punish Cheng Biting Jin and Wei Chigong for three months each, in order to set an example, Suning is a child, even if you two adults are messing around together, it's not like words, punish your Yulu, I hope you can sincerely change!
After giving the culprits three people a painless punishment, this is a posture. The nature of this incident is very bad, and it has alarmed a lot of foreign envoys, and there are even foreign leaders who have sent people to inquire about this matter, and some people even want to lend troops to the Tang Dynasty to quell the rebellion...... This must be ill-intentioned, and the next round of troops will be used against them first!
After dealing with Suning and others, the next thing is to deal with the family's strength, for this incident, Li Er's confidence and appetite brought by the last blow are great. It is no longer possible to settle for a mere symbolic punishment. For the Xiong family, the leader of the book burning, all family property was confiscated directly, and then all family members were exiled to Lingnan for 3,000 miles, which was equivalent to directly sentencing them to death.
And for good reason. Offense first. He even dared to burn books. Causing a very bad impact, extreme disrespect for books and culture, it is reasonable to abolish the Xiong family. So the people of Chang'an praised each other, and they were very happy about the Xiong family's Fufa, and the poor Xiong family also took their so-called noble blood of the Chu royal family, and left Chang'an crying, about three months later, suddenly there was a news that the Xiong family was robbed by robbers on the way to Lingnan, the men died, the women were all taken captive, and even the escort officers and soldiers were killed several times......
This matter later Suning learned that it was indeed an accident, there were too many robbers in the Jiangnan area who did not obey the control, so Li Erma ordered the Xiangyang garrison of 13,000 people to go out in a big area to suppress the bandits, I don't know how many robbers in Lu Dao suffered an unwarranted disaster in this incident, but Suning thought about it carefully, Li Er's Majesty should still be very happy, because this matter is a good thing for Li Er's Majesty, which not only completely eradicated the Xiong family, but also suppressed the bandits by the way, The law and order in Jiangnan have been strengthened.
The development of Jiangnan was also centered on Xiangyang and Jinling, and gradually spread to the periphery, a process that was accompanied by the promotion of high-yield crops and the increase in population, as well as the devastating strangulation of robbers in the mountains, and of course, it was not only the robbers who were destroyed.
The Xiong family is also regarded as retribution, the whole door was exterminated, it is said that those female dependents were rescued by the official army when they committed suicide and died more than half, there are only a few very small daughters who have not survived the robbers, but most of them are also insane, crying and crying, looking very pitiful and pathetic, the soldiers are helpless, the most Xiangyang Taishou reported to the imperial court, asked for a solution, Li Er Majesty waved a big pen, let Xiangyang Taishou talk about meritorious deeds, and reward these women to meritorious soldiers as wives, born in famous families, It is not a mistreatment of the soldiers, and it can be regarded as the mercy of the court.
This is all an afterthought, after the Xiong family was abolished, His Majesty Li Er continued to attack the other three tentacle families, first severely punished the Zhao family, all of them were involved in the burning of books, and all the property was directly confiscated, all family members were never allowed to be officials, all were expelled from Chang'an City, and they were not allowed to enter Chang'an for the rest of their lives.
The Lin family was confiscated of all their property and degraded to a commoner and driven out of Chang'an, and if they want to make a comeback, they have to start from scratch.
Half of the Zhou family's property was confiscated, all the businesses they operated were confiscated, and they were expelled from Chang'an.
The four tentacle families have basically been abolished, Chang'an City has taken a big step forward from being completely controlled by Li Er's majesty, and the influence of the family on the politics of the Tang Dynasty has decreased again, but this is not the end, next, Li Er's majesty began to follow the vine again, and hit the main family of these tentacle families in accordance with the way of sitting, although these families did not intervene when the tentacle family was destroyed, but they still couldn't escape the blow of Li Er's majesty.
The most seriously involved Zheng family was demoted to seven people, seven people who were born in the Zheng family or Zheng's protégé were demoted, and they were not reused for life, and the incumbents on the magistrates were also swept away, and the same as the Lu family, the officials in most of the areas around Xingyang were replaced, and then the garrison was replaced by Zuo Xiaowei in the twelve guards, and the general of Zuo Xiaowei was appointed by Wei Chigong, the number of military governments was greatly increased, the military control was strengthened, and a big change of blood came down, and the political power and military strength of Li Er's majesty further invaded the Shandong family.
The back garden of this piece of the family was torn apart by Li Er's majesty, and several nails were nailed into, and the Xingyang Zheng family was helpless in this regard, so they could only continue to reduce the scope of the family's activities, so as to ensure absolute control over the core area of the family, and several other families and a group of small and medium-sized families also felt extremely dangerous, and spared no effort to help the Zheng family. In the end, after His Majesty Li Er's Majesty completed his political and military intervention in this area, the direct attack stopped.
Just when these families breathed a sigh of relief, they thought that the second round of blows under Li Er's Majesty would also come to an end, who knew that this was just the beginning, and Li Er's Majesty still had a backhand!
That is the Zongheng Division, which has been dormant for a long time and has been silent, and by mastering such a huge money-making machine as the Western Turkic caravan, the Zongheng Division has a strong economic strength and a network of relations outside the country, and has a good relationship with many foreign leaders from all directions. The Western Turkic caravans set up the Tang Dynasty commercial towns around the Western Turkic royal court with great success. Not only did the Western Turks often come here to buy and sell things and even settle down, but it also attracted a large number of ethnic groups who could not trade with the Tang Dynasty.
These ethnic groups either had a bad relationship with the Tang Dynasty, or they were located too far away and inconvenient, so when they heard that the Western Turks and the Tang Dynasty traded with each other. All at once, it rushed over. It's not just the Western Regions. The peoples farther north and east had people to do business, and as a result, the Western Turkic merchant groups, which were in the hands of the blood drops of the Zongheng Division, interacted with the caravan leaders of these peoples through the process of trading.
I said it before. Ethnic minorities and the Han people generally recognize people when doing business, and if they are very happy to do business with a person, they will always do business with this person, they feel that the Han people are very good at deceiving people, so they generally choose the person they believe in the most to do one-line business, and only trade with him, so many shops in the Western Turkic merchant group controlled by the blood drops have a good relationship with these foreigners, and they are familiar with each other.
At the time when His Majesty Li Er was going to further crack down on the big clans, through the incidents of Suning and the Qi family, His Majesty Li Er found that the cost of these big families was very huge, and most of them relied on the tentacle family to do business outside to earn protection fees and the like, and a considerable part of these tentacle families were doing business with foreign clans, and doing business with foreign clans was definitely a huge profit, and only huge profits could support their huge expenses.
His Majesty Li Er realized that before Suning handled the Western Turkic Business Group, these families had already opened up international business routes and walked in the forefront of the times, damn it, why didn't I find out earlier? His Majesty Li Er asked the national policy adviser Su Ning about this, and Suning smiled proudly: "The minister has noticed it a long time ago, and ordered the Zongheng Division to make careful investigations and preparations for this, and when the time comes, you can do it!" ”
Li Erma was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Suning's use of the Western Turkic merchant group was not only to earn a lot of money, nor was it just used to squeeze out the Western Turks and control the Western Turks to fight economic wars, but also to accumulate personal relations with foreign peoples, and used commercial interests to tie the Western Turkic merchant groups and foreigners together, so as to create a rather huge and terrifying commercial chariot, and most importantly, this commercial chariot was completely controlled by the imperial court and the Zongheng Division. A considerable part of them were cultivated by the Zongheng Division - blood droplets!
These blood drops run a business as a businessman, earn a lot of money, and the money is divided equally with the vertical and horizontal division, and the vertical and horizontal division will not worry about these blood drops betraying at all, because their family members are in the hands of the vertical and horizontal division, and they have taken an oath before joining the blood drops, once they join, they cannot quit, and they can retire at the age of sixty, but they are still the people of the blood drops organization, once they quit, it means death.
Blood drops' loyalty to the Tang Dynasty and their responsibilities are quite clear, they are all politically competent and innocent people, they learn the knowledge of business, and then use this knowledge to make a fortune in the Western Turks, establish their own relationships, and gradually grasp the leading power of the Western Turkic Chamber of Commerce.
Once the time is ripe, after the military strength of the Tang Dynasty is occupied, it will establish a fairly sound rule in the shortest possible time, because the local economy is completely controlled by the Tang Dynasty, and after mastering, the local people's livelihood will completely depend on these masters, who occupy it, it is of little significance.
At the same time, in order to strictly monitor whether these blood droplets will be shaken after they have great wealth, they will also plant two groups of extremely secret blood droplets - blood flowers, which are taken from the meaning of blood droplets falling into blood flowers; This is the only person that Suning and Du Ruhui know and control and are specifically responsible for monitoring the inside of the Blood Drop and the business giants of the Western Turkic Merchant Group, and in the event of an accident, the Blood Flower has the right to cut it first.
It is really difficult to do all this, but the effect is very obvious, those foreign caravans and the Western Turkic merchant group cooperated very happily, and at the same time expressed the difficulty of doing business with the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turkic merchant group took the opportunity to say that although the Tang Dynasty did not allow trade, but the Western Turkic merchant group has special powers, and they can trade with them within the scope of the Western Turks, which is not illegal, after the foreign leaders learned the news, there was also the offer of the Western Turkic merchant group, and almost immediately decided to give up the original business ties with the family, Instead, he cooperated with the Western Turkic merchant group, which had great security.
By the time the family found out the seriousness of the problem, it seemed to be a little late...... (To be continued......)