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In the end, after a series of calculations and frames, Huang Yourong arrested a total of 11 smugglers who were hostile to the "United Boat Company". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Then, Huang Yourong stopped in time very sensibly.

The vast majority of Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen have made profits through smuggling, basically all of them are not clean, but as the so-called "law does not blame the public", if Huang Yourong kills all the Huizhou and Zhejiang businessmen who participated in smuggling and resisted the "joint ship", the entire commercial and trade activities of Nanzhili will be completely paralyzed, and there will be a certain degree of turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Yourong naturally does not dare to bear such a responsibility.

Therefore, Huang Yourong only selectively arrested the eleven smuggling merchants with the strongest financial resources and the greatest influence, which was not enough to shake the business activities of Nanzhili, but after the eleven smuggling merchants were raided and questioned, it was enough to make Huang Yourong make a lot of money.

As for the rest of the smugglers, they can wait until the "United Shipping Company" stabilizes its operation and then slowly clean it up.

After arresting these smugglers, it was naturally a series of raids, and Huang Yourong, as a messenger of the imperial court, also took great pleasure and did it himself, and ran all over the entire Nanzhili again in just over half a month.

However, Huang Yourong's happiness and hardships are all worth it!

Through this series of raids, Huang Yourong has seized an astonishing amount of wealth!

The ready-made gold and silver alone is as high as more than 7.4 million taels!

In addition, the number and scale of the houses, treasures, shops, boat dealers, etc., in the hands of these smugglers, are equally staggering! After the sale, the amount of silver reached more than 12 million taels!

That's a staggering number!

You must know that the income of the Ming Dynasty in recent years is only more than 20 million taels of silver! Everyone in the world says that the merchants of Huihui and Zhejiang are rich and rival the country, and now they look at it, and there is no exaggeration.

In particular, the ships of these smugglers are of immeasurable value! In total, seventeen huge ships of 1,000 stones, 213 large ships of more than 500 stones, 521 medium ships of more than 100 stones, and countless smaller ships of less than 100 stones, in addition to a large number of experienced sailors, who were worth more than gold and silver for Zhao Junchen.

Naturally, it is impossible to hand over all the 12 million taels of silver to the imperial court.

In fact, after careful consideration, Huang Yourong only planned to hand over more than six million taels of silver to the imperial court!

As for the rest of the silver, part of it needs to be used to divide the profits up and down and distribute the profits to the local land snakes; In addition, according to Zhao Junchen's original promise, the Hui and Zhejiang merchants of the "United Ship Company" reported meritorious service and rewarded them with a part, most of which were some homestead shops, and the two parts were worth about three million taels of silver.

For the rest of the silver, Huang Yourong still divided the account in three or seven parts, took one million taels for himself, and gave Zhao Junchen two million taels.

In this way, through two consecutive large-scale raids, in just one and a half months, Huang Yourong gained a total of more than two million taels of silver, basically recovering his losses when he was a servant, and Zhao Junchen's harvest was more than doubled, reaching nearly five million taels!

However, while Huang Yourong was staring at his huge harvest and couldn't help but be overjoyed, Li Chuanwen, Xiao Wenxuan and others had quietly bought all the auctioned shipping houses at low prices, and integrated them into one place to establish "Zhao's Boat Company"!

Because it was a one-size-fits-all shipbuilding that was annexed in one go, even if it was purchased at a low price, it cost Zhao Junchen nearly four million taels of silver! In addition, in order to maintain the operation of this large-scale shipping company, Zhao Junchen invested 500,000 taels of silver again, which can be said to have paid a bloody price.

But it was worth the price, and with a total of seventeen huge ships of a thousand stones, two hundred and thirteen large ships of more than five hundred stones, five hundred and twenty-one medium ships of more than one hundred stones, and countless small boats of less than one hundred stones, and thousands of experienced sailors, it was undoubtedly the largest ship in the Ming Dynasty!

When "Zhao's Ship" joined the "United Ship", it occupied more than one-fifth of the strength of the "United Ship", plus Zhao Junchen himself is the founder of the "United Ship", and the household is the supervisor of the "United Ship", it can be said that Zhao Junchen has the ability to decide the future fate of the behemoth of "United Ship"!

Lin Yunpu, Bai Mingyu, Dai Fengfu and others were naturally dissatisfied with Zhao Junchen's behavior, but after all, Zhao Junchen did not explicitly interfere in the operation of the "United Shipping Company", and Feng Wenzhang, Zhang Jingyu, Jiang Xiaoquan, Kong Huayan, these smuggling predators whose strength was by no means inferior to theirs, were all destroyed by Zhao Junchen's spokesperson Huang Yourong, so they also dared to be angry and did not show their dissatisfaction, and the "United Shipping Company" was still a united scene on the surface.

In fact, after the "United Shipping Company" was officially put into operation, in just half a month, the shipping business of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Yangtze River waterway has undergone earth-shaking changes!

With its huge scale and preferential policies, "United Shipping Line" has swallowed nearly half of the shipping business of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Yangtze River channel almost instantly, and is still expanding rapidly!

It is foreseeable that the profits of the "United Shipping Company" in the future will be extremely amazing, and the commercial tax revenue of the imperial court will also be fundamentally reversed!

The most important thing is that after owning the gold mine of "Zhao's Boat Company", Zhao Junchen will no longer have to worry about silver for a long time in the future!

After receiving the financial support of the money, the progress of Zhao Junchen's various plans will definitely be further improved!

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However, Zhao Junchen's layout plan in Nanzhili this time is not just for the family property of some corrupt officials and traitors, and to take the opportunity to establish the "Zhao Boat Company"!

In fact, Zhao Junchen has two additional goals!

That is the "Eight Kings Boat Line" and Nanjing Liubu!

At the beginning, the "Eight Kings Boat Line" led the Japanese into Nanzhili, which caused a disaster, and even Suzhou City was almost breached, and finally Zhou Shangjing also lost the position of the first assistant of the cabinet because he secretly sheltered his eldest grandson, Zhou Suhai, the prefect of Suzhou.

It's just that the background of the "Eight Kings Boat Travel" is too complicated, and even Emperor Deqing doesn't dare to deal with it easily.

But Zhao Junchen has coveted the "Eight Kings Boat Line" for a long time.

The reason why Zhao Junchen is eyeing the "Eight Kings Boat Company" is not only because the "Eight Kings Boat Company" is full of evil, but because Zhao Junchen found that the "Eight Kings Boat Company" has been using military towns in various places to cover its smuggling activities, and it already has a certain penetration power for the major military towns, so if Zhao Junchen collapses the "Eight Kings Boat Company", he can try to inherit the penetration power of the "Eight Kings Boat Company" into the major military towns, and he can also grasp the criminal evidence of many military towns. Zhao Junchen's plan to infiltrate the army can be greatly advanced!

As for the Nanjing Sixth Division, especially the Nanjing Household Division, it is the next target of Zhao Junchen's expansion of power!

Although the power and influence of the Nanjing household department was not as great as that of the capital household department, it was also responsible for the collection of taxes and grain from Nanzhili and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang - these four places accounted for almost half of all taxes and grain in the Ming Dynasty - and was also responsible for the collection and management of the Cao Yun, the national salt introduction and survey, and the national enslavement yellow book.

Although all the taxes and grains collected by the Nanjing Household Department will eventually be handed over to the Beijing Household Department, the existence of the Nanjing Household Department is still a great decentralization for Zhao Junchen.

Zhao Junchen has always believed that the embarrassing situation of the treasury money and grain is largely due to the existence of the household department in Nanjing! The Nanjing Household Department was responsible for the taxation of the wealthiest places and industries in the Ming Dynasty, but the annual silver grain handed over to the state treasury was always unsatisfactory.

If the household department of the capital can take the power of the household department of Nanjing into the hands, then Zhao Junchen, as the secretary of the household department, can further control the money and grain finance of the Ming Dynasty, and his status can also be further improved and stabilized, and the benefits can be described as very many.

And this time, taking advantage of the opportunity for smugglers to be convicted and raided one after another, it was a great opportunity for Zhao Junchen to deal with the "Eight Kings Boat Company" and the Nanjing Household Department!

As a result, as the action to punish smugglers came to an end, Gu Quan, Li Chuanwen, Xiao Wenxuan and others also quietly began the next stage of the plan.

And Huang Yourong was busy searching his house during this time, only calculating how much money he had earned, but he didn't notice the small actions of Gu Quan, Li Chuanwen, Xiao Wenxuan and others.

When Huang Yourong finally realized it in hindsight, everything was a foregone conclusion!

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On this day, Wang Baoren, the secretary of Nanjing, left Nanzhili and prepared to go to the capital to take over the official position of the crown prince and prince.

And Huang Yourong, as a minister of the Qincha, saw that Wang Baoren was reused by Emperor Deqing, and he also had a good fate, so he personally saw Wang Baoren off.

When Wang Baoren went to Beijing, by the way, he would also escort Su Changyi and Feng Wenzhang to the capital together, so that they could accept the final trial of the three law divisions in the capital.

By the way, although Huang Yourong has always wanted to secretly kill Su Changyi, so that his corruption when he raided his house will not be easy to be discovered, but Zhao Junchen seems to have another use for Su Changrong, and did not agree with Huang Yourong's suggestion, so Su Changrong temporarily saved his life and did not need to suddenly "die" on the way to Beijing.

Although Huang Yourong was dissatisfied with Zhao Junchen's decision, he did not resist Zhao Junchen's will in the end, and just handed everything over to Zhao Junchen to deal with.

However, he said that after seeing off Wang Baoren, Huang Yourong returned to his official residence in Suzhou, and before he had time to rest, he heard his subordinates come to report the news, saying that it was Gu Quan, the deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, who asked to see him, and there was very important news that needed to be reported to Huang Yourong.

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Well, the first update!

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