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A big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other hand has always been one of the best means to subdue his subordinates. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen have always been well-informed, and Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan collected all the conclusive evidence of Liu Zhenmin through the franchisees of "United Shipping Company", which is a big stick!

At the same time, taking advantage of the financial crisis in Huai'an Mansion, he handed over part of the profits of the "United Shipping Company" to Liu Zhenmin to make up for part of the losses in Huai'an Mansion, which is a sweet date!

As a result, Liu Zhenmin gave in very easily, and almost without any hesitation, he changed from a "Shen Party" official to Zhao Junchen's friend minion!

It is foreseeable that by using this means, Zhao Junchen can not only control Liu Zhenmin, but also gradually control the entire Huai'an Mansion!

In fact, in Zhao Junchen's plan, Liu Zhenmin is just the entry point for his own control of Huai'an Mansion, and buying the officials of Huai'an Mansion through Liu Zhenmin is Zhao Junchen's real goal!

In this way, no matter who the next Huai'an prefect is, Zhao Junchen will maintain a certain influence on the Huai'an Mansion.

Zhao Junchen was extremely ambitious, and planned to use this means to take advantage of the current situation to control all the local government offices along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Yangtze River waterway, but in order to prevent the Deqing Emperor from further fear, he had to temporarily hide his strength.

Therefore, Liu Zhenmin is still Shen Changmao's doorman on the surface.

After officially taking refuge in Zhao Junchen, Liu Zhenmin, Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan also became "their own people", so Liu Zhenmin's attitude was also very enthusiastic, and invited Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan to stay in Huai'an Mansion to rest overnight.

However, Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan had already booked an inn, but they still politely said goodbye.

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When the two of them left the Huai'an Mansion, Xiao Wenxuan's expression was faintly disdainful, and he said to Li Chuanwen: "This Liu Zhenmin is really a soft bone, and he is so easy to soften, none of the backhands we prepared are used, but compared with Song Zhen, the prefect of Changzhou, it is much easier to deal with...... A few days ago, in order to persuade Song Zhen, the two of us spent a lot of words and means. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Wenxuan pondered for a moment before adding: "Because of this, such a person can't be trusted. ”

During this period of time, in order to realize Zhao Junchen's plan to control the local yamen, Li Chuanwen and Xiao Wenxuan ran around, Huai'an was already their fourth stop, and Liu Zhenmin was also the fourth local official they subdued for Zhao Junchen.

After hearing Xiao Wenxuan's words, Li Chuanwen nodded and said: "Don't worry, buying Liu Zhenmin is just Lord Zhao's expedient measure, Zhao Junchen naturally won't trust him, he just wants to borrow his hand to subdue those officials in Huai'an Mansion!" My dynasty is a liuguan system, this Liu Zhenmin will leave after staying in Huai'an Mansion for a few years, but the officials of Huai'an Mansion have lived here for a long time and have been passed down from generation to generation, as long as we control the financial routes of these officials through the household department and the 'United Boat Company', we are not afraid that they will not listen to Lord Zhao, and at that time, no matter who the prefect of Huai'an Mansion is, Lord Zhao can easily control the situation in Huai'an Mansion! After the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the various governments along the Yangtze River are secretly controlled by Lord Zhao, Lord Zhao's power and influence will be enough to stand side by side with Zhou Shangjing! ”

Speaking of this, Li Chuanwen was faintly excited.

Zhao Junchen is not yet twenty-five years old now, and it has only been four or five years since he entered the officialdom, and the rise of power is only a matter of the past two years, while Zhou Shangjing is already nearly seventy years old, and he has been running the temple for decades, and he is a veteran of the two dynasties, but once Zhao Junchen's plan is carried out smoothly, the power and influence will soon be comparable to Zhou Shangjing.

If Zhao Junchen is forty or fifty years old, what kind of authority will he have?

Li Chuanwen is also used to seeing the world, but after thinking of this scene, he is still faintly in a mood.

Xiao Wenxuan's idea was not as far-reaching as Li Chuanwen's, he just frowned and said: "However, the younger generation still doesn't understand that Lord Zhao founded the 'United Boat Company' to rectify the imperial court's commercial taxes, that is, to weaken the private tax revenue of the local yamen...... In this way, the results of the 'United Ship Trip' have been greatly reduced, and is it not a useless effort? …… Besides, why should someone like Liu Zhenmin give him so much silver? ”

Seeing that Xiao Wenxuan was a little skeptical, obviously not understanding Zhao Junchen's deep considerations, Li Chuanwen couldn't help but shake his head and said slowly: "It seems that you still haven't figured it out...... That's it, take advantage of this opportunity, the old man will explain it to you, of course, Lord Zhao's wisdom is as deep as the sea, and the old man has only figured out part of the intention. ”

Xiao Wenxuan hurriedly said: "Please also ask Senior Li to give advice." ”

Li Chuanwen asked, "Why is Lord Zhao valued by His Majesty?" Why is he an indispensable minister in the temple? It is because of the difficulty of money and food in the imperial court, only Lord Zhao can maintain the turnover! But have you ever heard of the words 'the bird is hidden'? If the effect of Lord Zhao's commercial tax rectification is too significant, the situation of the imperial court's money and grain will inevitably improve greatly, and at that time, will Your Majesty still attach importance to Lord Zhao? Lord Zhao is still indispensable? Therefore, Lord Zhao simply distributed part of the profits of the 'United Shipping Company' to the local yamen, on the one hand, to appease the grievances of the local yamen, on the other hand, to take the opportunity to infiltrate the local government, and finally to reduce the results of the rectification of commercial taxes and continue to ensure his status...... This is one of them! ”

After a pause, Li Chuanwen said: "In addition, you don't have to worry that the results of the 'United Boat Trip' are not significant enough!" You must understand that before Lord Zhao took action to rectify the commercial tax, the situation of the commercial tax in our dynasty was extremely erosive, and only less than 100,000 taels of silver could be collected every year! As long as the 'United Shipping Company' can provide more than 1 million taels of commercial taxes to the imperial court this year, it will already be an outstanding achievement! In the future, this number will be gradually increased, because there is still a lot of room for improvement, and Lord Zhao will have merit every year, that is, he can be rewarded by the imperial court every year! On the other hand, if all the profits of the 'United Ship Company' were handed over to the imperial court in one go, the future increase would be relatively limited, and Lord Zhao's merits would be reduced...... That's the second one! ”

Speaking of this, Li Chuanwen hesitated for a moment, and then said: "As for the third, the old man estimates that Lord Zhao is worried about the instability of the place!" Do you think, after losing the income from private taxes, in order to make up for their losses, local officials will inevitably further increase taxes and oppress the people, and after the people are oppressed, there will be turmoil among the people, which is what Lord Zhao never wants to see, so he will give local officials a part of the benefits to reduce the oppression of the people...... If you want to benefit the people, you must first benefit the officials, if you want to enrich the people, you must first be rich, you are poor officials, and it is only the people who will suffer in the end, this is an eternal officialdom truth! ”

After hearing Li Chuanwen's explanation, Xiao Wenxuan finally understood part of Zhao Junchen's thoughts, and suddenly said: "I see, Lord Zhao is really well-intentioned!" ”

Li Chuanwen nodded and said: "Many of Lord Zhao's decisions seem unreasonable, but they all have deep considerations, this is the last time the old man will mention you, and you will have to figure it out by yourself in the future!" ”

Xiao Wenxuan nodded seriously and said, "Thank you seniors, juniors understand!" ”

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And when Xiao Wenxuan asked Li Chuanwen for advice, among the nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanfu military town, which was the closest to the capital, was brightly lit and lively that night.

Xuanfu Town is one of the nine border towns established in the early Ming Dynasty, because the town general army stationed in Xuanhua Mansion got the name, the border wall under its jurisdiction starts from the east of Yongguan Sihaizhi, the west reaches the Xiyang River in the northeast of Shanxi, it is an important barrier in the center of the capital to resist the Mongolian threat, has always been the most valued by the imperial court, the general army of Xuanfu Town will also be crowned with the title of "General Zhenshuo", among the nine border towns, only Jizhou Town can be compared with it.

It is precisely because of the importance of the Xuanfu military town that the Xuanfu army has always been the most elite field army of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, although the degree of erosion is not as good as that of Shaanxi and Gansu, the military town of Xuanfu is also erosive enough, and the situation of eating empty salaries, sucking the blood of soldiers, and oppressing military households in the military town is also prevalent, and the soldiers of the military town are also vulnerable! And the strength of Xuanfu Military Town is only because the generals of Xuanfu Military Town have more private soldiers and are stronger.

Today's Xuanfu General Soldier, General Zhenshuo, named Zhao Zicheng, handsome, upright, good at making a rotten silver gun, known as "the Three Kingdoms Zilong, the present world Zicheng", has a great reputation in the army, now he is only thirty-seven years old, he sat in the position of the Xuanfu General Army, in addition to his proficient military strategy, skilled martial arts, but also because of his deep background, exquisite eight-faced.

Zhao Zicheng is from a noble background, his brother Zhao Zishan is a well-connected marquis in the capital, and Zhao Zicheng himself is supported by the Jin merchants, and the two thousand private soldiers in his hands are all well-equipped, largely because of the secret support of the Jin merchants!

In fact, in order to maintain their influence, the Jin merchants have been infiltrating the military towns of Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu for many years. Without the covert support of the Jin merchants, the situation in Xuanfu Military Town would not be much better than that of Shaanxi and Gansu.

However, in the past six months, the Jin merchants have quietly withdrawn from Xuanfu Military Town, and introduced a very mysterious background to Xuanfu Military Town, "Jubao Commercial Bank", which is not only a mysterious background, but also has very rich financial resources, and has greater support for Xuanfu Army, and soon became the God of Wealth of Xuanfu Army.

The big shopkeeper of "Jubao Commercial Bank" is named Zhao An, who is slightly older than Zhao Zicheng, but his appearance is much older, he looks like he is forty or fifty years old, and his personality seems to be kind, but in fact he is shrewd, and no one dares to underestimate him.

And on this night, the reason why Xuanfu Military Town was so lively was precisely because Zhao An came!

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