"The surname of the high?"

On the way to the Huxin Pavilion, a fat man dressed in gold and silver, dressed as a wealthy businessman, stopped a man who was looking around.

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting made a lot of efforts to block the fat man who blocked his way, and he was amused in his heart, but he also smiled and said:

"The surname is Sun."

"Hey..., could it be the son of the Sun family in Suzhou Mansion?"

The fat man racked his brains, and he didn't expect that there was a big family surnamed Sun in the local area, but in order to show that he was not unaware, he still made nonsense.

Sun Chuanting didn't see that he made it up, and he was not originally from Jiangnan, and he was not very familiar with the local big families, let alone Sun Gongzi of Suzhou Mansion.

However, after leading the troops for a long time, walking among a large number of families, Sun Chuanting also has a kind of confidence that can be seen at a glance.

Perhaps, this fat man felt that Sun Chuanting was not an idler based on this, so he came to talk to him!

"It's something about it..."

Sun Chuanting smiled, he didn't plan to waste time on this fat man, he didn't come here today to go to a banquet, he came to collect debts!

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting threw down the fat man and walked forward by himself.

Sun Chuanting's attitude made the fat businessman feel that he had guessed eight or nine before, maybe this surnamed Sun was really a child of a big family in Suzhou Mansion.

Otherwise, when you see yourself, it can't be this unreasonable attitude!

He hurriedly took a few steps forward, stopped Sun Chuanting, and said with a smile:

"Don't be in a hurry!"

"Sun Gongzi, dare to ask what your family does, under the surname Chu Mingwei, not to mention that there is a family fortune, there is still a small capital."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting stopped and asked:

"Oh——?"

"Dare to ask what kind of business does Old Master Chu's mansion have?"

Hearing this, Chu Wei smiled, drank all the wine in the cup, but choked and coughed a few times, looked at the Huxin Pavilion, and said:

"Like him, in this year of great disaster, he resold grain from all over the country to the disaster area!"

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting's eyes tightened, his face did not move, but in his heart, he had already scolded these profiteers who had made a fortune and had no concept of home and country in their hearts.

"Nowadays, reselling grain is the most profitable, right?" Sun Chuanting sneered.

"Alas!" Chu Wei didn't pay attention to the mockery in Sun Chuanting's tone, and sighed and said:

"I'm just reselling grain to the disaster area to make a small profit, Sun Gongzi, tell me, this is human nature, right?"

"If we are merchants, we will starve to death if we don't do it for our own pockets."

"But this surnamed Cai is not only that, he sold grain to the customs, and the famine in Liaodi was built in Suiliao, and the surname Cai made a lot of efforts."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting secretly clenched his fists and became murderous.

Since the end of Wanli, all over the country, all kinds of earthquakes, large and small famines have emerged in an endless stream, no matter how fast the imperial court moves, it still can't fight the sky.

The imperial court can deal with a major earthquake in three provinces, but before you can recover from such a big disaster, in the blink of an eye, the Shandong earthquake, the Shaanxi earthquake, and the Shanxi earthquake followed.

The manpower and materials of the imperial court are limited, and after the loss of the three major expeditions in the Wanli year, it is close to the point of exhaustion.

If such natural and man-made disasters do not change in the future, but become more and more serious, Sun Chuanting estimates that in five years at most, there will be a situation of starvation and starvation in all parts of the Central Plains.

The imperial court is now demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall!

The war in eastern Liaodong continues, and the annual loss is immeasurable, and every few months in the Central Plains, there will be a natural and man-made disaster.

If this continues, the officials and the army will be exhausted, and sooner or later they will collapse, and the local government will become in vain, and it will not be able to restrain the localities at all.

Once that point is reached, the people will gather together to rebel!

Compared with these traitors who sent money and grain to the outside of the border, such as Chu Wei, merchants who transported grain at a higher price, still had a trace of conscience, and did not touch the last trace of the bottom line.

The so-called comparison is in front of you.

Now Sun Chuanting, and then look at the round Chu Wei, it is a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Watching Sun Chuanting leave by himself, Chu Wei stretched out his hand and called, "Hey, Sun Gongzi, you haven't told me yet, what kind of business does your mansion do?" ”

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting, who stepped on the pontoon bridge, paused and said:

"Kill people and sell goods!"

Hearing this, the fat man Chu Wei naturally didn't believe it, he just thought it was a joke, how could such a bookish person do that kind of murderous and oversold business...

"What a strange man."

He shook his head, and went to find other rich businessmen to get acquainted with.

......

In the pavilion in the center of the lake, there is a famous piano playing music, and maids and domestic servants come and go to serve.

The five characters who stomped their feet and the entire Hangzhou Mansion were chatting with each other laughing, Lingbi waited for Tang Guozuo to get up and toasted:

"Come, Master Cai's 60th birthday, on behalf of the sons and daughters of the ministers, I would like to toast you!"

Tang Guozuo didn't dare to snub this surnamed Cai.

In the future, if you eat, drink, and have fun everywhere, and rob people's daughters, you will have to rely on big families like Cai Fu to communicate with each other, go up and down, and hide from the world.

The sons and daughters of lords like Tang Guozuo, as well as big wealthy businessmen like Cai Mansion, and representatives of local Shangguan Mansions like He Shibai, the prefect of Yuhang, have long formed an interest group.

These five people at the table are just a small microcosm of the Jiangnan chaebol group.

Each of them has some shady things, and one person can't hold it back, but five powerful people in all aspects get together, which imperial history and officials dare to provoke?

The officials are all sweeping the snow in front of the door, and the small people, even if they pass the pleadings to the prefect's yamen and the governor's yamen, there is no news.

Even, it is possible to find the disaster of killing, this is the power of the chaebol group!

If the government can't move, can the court move them casually?

These people are all involved in the whole body, unless the imperial court ignores the influence, and the emperor himself has great majesty, determination and courage.

There are a few emperors who have nothing to do and want to move these chaebol groups that have long been old, and this bone is not easy to gnaw.

To put it bluntly, if you really do it, few people from all walks of life have clean butts, you can kill one or two, and you can kill them all?

Don't kill them all, but kill those few?

All of them are killed, who will lead the troops, who will maintain basic order in the local area, and even the court will be purged, can the newly appointed officials get started as soon as they come?

Moreover, even if you work hard to eradicate this interest group, in a few years, there will still be a new interest group to replace it, and then it will rot, is it worth it?

From ancient times to the present, has this problem been completely solved?

These are all issues that Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, needs to consider, what he wants is to renew the life of the Ming Dynasty, and even bring the Ming Dynasty to prosperity and strength!

Instead of a meal as fierce as a tiger, let Daming finish the game in advance.

After all, Tang Guozuo was still a minister, and he personally brought the wine, but Master Cai had to drink it, and immediately got up, took it in his hand with a smile, and said:

"Since the marquis has said so, the old man is respectful and might as well obey his fate."

Tang Guozuo nodded, put down the wine glass and was about to sit down, but he sat on the body of a person, he was busy reflexively bounced away, and said angrily:

"Who are you, and how do you sit in your seat?"