The government of Ningbo Prefecture is Yin County, but since Tang Shunzhi was transferred to the prefect of Ningbo, although the government has not changed, the government has always been located in Zhenhai County.

Well, in fact, Tang Shunzhi has not returned to Yinxian County in the past few months, and has only asked other officials to temporarily take over his duties, nor has he accepted the staff left by the previous prefect, and he has not even transferred the clerks and officials of the sixth room of the government to Zhenhai.

The temporary government office located in Zhenhai County presided over trade affairs, and Tang Shunzhi, a twisted old man, did not call the small officials of the Zhenhai County Ya, but summoned a large number of people through his own connections, and also mobilized some people through Qian Yuan, including two Qian family guards who withdrew due to injury, and several clerks and small officials of the Thirteen Qing Officials Division.

Tang Shunzhi himself is as incorruptible as water, but he also understands the truth that the water is clear and there are no fish, and he can't help the gray income of his subordinates, of course, this is not much because there are not many things in trade now, and he himself has to nod.

Therefore, in this case, although all the people in the government are outsiders, some news can still be revealed.

On the second day after Wang Zhi openly visited the Qian Mansion, Zhou Fu immediately spilled a large sum of silver and finally got some news.

Dragging his heavy steps back home, Zhou Fu waved his hand in a depressed mood to let his subordinates retreat.

"There are several more today." Zhou Fu sat down tiredly, rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Liu Juren of Yinxian County is also on the blacklist, and there are three or four others. ”

There were also three people present, Zhou Fu's younger brother Zhou Feng, Zhang Pu of the Yuyao Zhang family, and Zhao Sifang of the Songpu Zhao family, all three of whom were maritime merchants who were attached to the Fenghua Wu family.

Zhao Sifang whispered: "I just heard that the Yuan family and the Zhao family in Cixi are also unlucky?" ”

"I know that." Zhou Feng smiled bitterly: "Yesterday, the Yuan family found the Zhao family and invited Qian Zhancai to the banquet to say goodbye, tsk, well, not only did it not work out, but the Zhao family was also pulled into the water!" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Fu nodded, "But we can't compare with them...... Qian Zhancai has deep roots in Beijing, who knows if there is something in Beijing. ”

"A bachelor's degree in Hanlin, a scholar in the Ministry of Engineering...... It's not in his eyes, let alone us local goods?! Zhang Pu said coldly: "It seems that there is really no way." ”

"I heard a message." Zhao Sifang hesitated for a moment before saying, "It seems that the Tang Governor is dissatisfied with the ...... because we have gathered the goods."

This is more tactful, in fact, these are not good birds, the receipt of goods is naturally used by some shady means, just more than two months ago, in the dock because of cotton cloth made a fuss.

In fact, this is the reason why Qian Yuan proposed at the beginning, Tang Shunzhi reluctantly nodded, it is okay for these maritime merchants to collect goods and prepare to go to sea, but they gather goods to set prices, which is unacceptable to neither Qian Yuan nor Tang Shunzhi.

One of the most important reasons for controlling customs in his own hands rather than being controlled by Wang Zhi is the pricing power.

"Don't think about it, just found out the news, and the Qian family also intervened in Haimao." Zhou Fu said in a low voice: "I heard that Qian Zhancai and Wang Wufeng were in harmony, but I didn't expect ......."

Qian Yuan and Wang Zhi have a good relationship, which many people can see, and the two of them do not shy away from this matter.

"Black eyes can't see silver!" Zhou Feng smiled bitterly: "Qian Zhancai is famous all over the world for fighting widows...... Could it be that Wang Wufeng is not a widow? ”

It has been nearly three months now, and the fleet of these eight families has still been denied sea by the government government, and there are valid reasons...... There is no formal law for going to sea, and the reason is just illegitimacy, which is naturally determined by Tang Shun.

Qian Yuan deliberately invited Wang Zhi to come to the door, the main purpose was to his father and eldest brother, but he also stimulated the next Zhou family by the way.

Wang Zhi's visit gave Zhou Fu a heavy blow, and he had to think of the most cruel possibility...... Qian Yuan and Wang Zhi are not ordinary relations, but alliances, and even Qian Yuan, like many coastal officials back then, had a share of interests in Wang Zhi's business.

In this case, it is likely that Wang Zhi borrowed Qian Yuan to exclude them, who were attached to the Wu family and did not agree with Wang Zhi.

If this is the case, it is almost impossible for the Zhou family to open up the joints, how much money did Qian Yuan's bastard collect, even the house, and he still has no accurate words, and Tang Shunzhi ...... It's even more difficult to deal with, and people don't even want to accept money!

Thinking of this, the two brothers Zhou Fu and Zhou Feng sighed and frowned.

Like most of the big families who jumped up with the help of sea trade, the Zhou family was not from a good background, and Zhou Fu's grandfather was just a fisherman, giving birth to nine sons, and only two of them lived to adulthood.

In fact, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, smuggling has been repeatedly banned in Ningbo Prefecture, and Zhou Fu's father has devoted himself to sea trade in a desperate situation, and he can only starve to death if he does not play with his life, although he has earned some money to support his family, but he is just a guy.

But the Zhou family really became a big family, or in the hands of Zhou Fu, Jiajing twenty-five years, Zhou Fu, who was only in his twenties at the time, gathered a group of people because of his bravery, used various means to grab three sea ships, and ventured to the sea to sell goods.

After Zhu Kun committed suicide, Zhou Fu intended to re-establish the commercial market in Shuangyu, and the result was that Wang Zhi, who set up his own door in Ligang, was at odds with Wang Zhi, who was on his own in Ligang.

After paying the price of three lives, Zhou Fu chose to retreat and attached himself to the Fenghua Wu family, which had a large number of sea vessels.

The Wu family has been smuggled out to sea from Xiangshan Port for generations, and their power is not small, of course, they can't compete with the thousands of Wufeng ship owners under their command no matter what.

Like Zhou Fu, there are many people who are attached to the Wu family, most of them are families that have risen due to maritime trade in the past ten years.

"Wang Wufeng, Wang Wufeng!" Zhou Fu gritted his teeth, now that he has been trading for several months, this guy has actually used means to make himself, the enemy of the past, not have a ship to go to sea.

Well, that's what it's called, the difference is a thousand miles.

When Wang Zhi heard this, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and he fell with laughter...... At that time, the first condition put forward by Qian Zhancai was that trade must be in the hands of the government, and you Wang Wufeng didn't even think about it!

"What should I do?" Zhou Feng's face was flushed anxiously, "There are too many goods pressed in the warehouse, if you throw them out of Ningbo Mansion, you will lose at least thirty percent of them!" ”

As early as June, Wang Zhi had just gone to Zhenhai from Ligang, and the Zhou, Zhao, and Zhang, which had been allies at that time, began to increase manpower, reorganize the business network, and form a whole, advancing and retreating together.

Although a lot of damage was used, but also spent a lot of silver, in the past few years, every family was eating the old book, and was forced to donate silver to resist the Japanese, the silver at the bottom of the box was pressed on the goods, and the result was that the ship did not go to sea for several months, which was really unbearable for them.

Zhao Sifang asked tentatively: "Go to Fenghua?" ”

"What if you don't go to Fenghua?" Zhang Pu said helplessly: "The sea ships in our hands have all been registered in the government, even if they are lent to others, they can't go to sea...... You can't go to Hangzhou and go to sea in Jiaxing, right? ”

"Impossible!" Zhou Fu shook his head and said, "Other places go to sea...... In the past few months, there have been precedents, Zhapu, Haiyan and Taizhou's Ninghai and Taiping, which have been detained by officials and soldiers, and there are only two places that can easily go to sea, one is Songjiang, and the other is Xiangshan. ”

"Then we can only go to Xiangshan Port."

At this moment, in the mansion, Tang Shunzhi looked at Qian Yuan, who was calm and composed, and asked the same question.

"You're forcing them to go to sea?"

"Yes."

"What the hell do you want to do?"

Qian Yuan raised his head, his gaze was as cold as frost, sharp as a sword, "They have a way to die." ”