This matter is related to your financial route, you all say, what other way do we have to govern this Shanxi general army. ”

After Fan Ming finished speaking, he coughed lightly twice, leaned back in the chair, and prepared to close his eyes and recuperate.

The merchants in the courtyard exchanged their heads and talked in low voices, for fear that Fan Ming would be woken up if their voices were too high.

The businessmen didn't pay attention to the protection fee collected by Wang Zezhi at all, even if he changed the protection fee to commercial tax, the businessmen would not frown.

The problem was that Wang Zezhi did not allow them to take iron, firearms and grain out of the customs to sell.

You must know that their most profitable business is to bring iron, firearms and grain to Houjin and sell them to Huang Taiji.

Now, Wang Zezhi has cut off their most profitable business.

Forget it if it's broken, and now it's going to be a blatant business tax.

If they don't fight back now, Wang Zezhi will think that they are easy to bully.

When the time comes, they will increase their commercial taxes even more, or completely ban them from private trade, and they will drink the northwest wind.

These people are shrewd people, and they figured out the key in just a few words.

There is also the most important one, when Chongzhen ascended the throne, he did everything he could to reform the rewards of the foreign cities and close the border passage of the mutual market.

Now the only thing they can go is Zhangjiabao and Killing Tiger's Mouth, which Wang Zezhi opened privately.

Originally, when Wang Xiangqian was the governor of Xuanfu, because he was old and sick, he couldn't manage so much, and they could still buy the border soldiers and leave the customs from Zhangjiabao.

Now Geng Ruqi is the governor of Xuanfu, and Wei Yunzhong is the governor of Xuanfu.

These two are upright and upright, and oil and salt do not enter.

They tried their best to open a hole in the hands of the two, and the two of them persistently carried out Chongzhen's orders, unwilling to reopen the mutual market.

As soon as he took office, he began to vigorously rectify military affairs, repairing blocks, repairing fortifications, shoveling mountains and valleys, strictly restraining sergeants, and abiding by military discipline.

On the side of Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, they also touched a nose of ash.

This guy was even more excessive than the other two, and when he arrived, he didn't even go to the banquet where the local gentry and merchants gave him a clean drink.

As for the gifts, goods, gold, silver, jewelry, and other things they sent to the door, he threw them all out.

Originally, they also thought about getting out of the distant Liaodong border pass.

To their despair, Yuan Chonghuan advocated peace by war, and he adopted the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and evacuated all the people outside the border pass to the fort city.

The soldiers in the fort city were even more strictly restrained, and they did not dare to go to Yuan Chonghuan, so they thought of starting from the generals under him.

Na Cheng thought, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was almost beheaded by his generals for treason.

If they didn't have some roots in the court, the merchants who went to find a way might not have come back alive.

So far, the only passages they can take are Xinpingbao and Killing Tiger's Mouth.

Now that these businessmen have gathered, the power they have combined is still very strong.

They just thought about rectifying Wang Zezhi's arrogance.

If Wang Zezhi can be suppressed, not only will the commercial tax be exempted, but Wang Zezhi will even be forced to comply.

Iron, firearms, and grain from which they had sold the gold were no longer seized.

In this way, their way to make money is open again.

If you want to rectify Wang Zezhi, you have to be justified, Emperor Chongzhen has abolished commercial taxes, but your Wang Zezhi wants to collect commercial taxes privately, how can this be done?

Holding this banner, you will definitely be able to gain something.

"Wanli business calamity, endless harm, you all know this matter.

I'm afraid that the Shanxi General Army will collect protection money today, levy commercial taxes tomorrow, increase commercial taxes the day after tomorrow, and start blatant robbery one day after another.

When the time comes, I am afraid that the exile of your family will not be far away.

As far as I know, the Confucian scholars of Shandong have united and will soon arrive in Datong, and they will sit quietly outside the Datong Mansion to protest against the great rebellion of the Shanxi General Army in collecting commercial taxes privately. ”

Fan Yongdou felt that the time was ripe, he bowed his head and asked his father, and Fan Ming raised his hand.

Fan Yongdou stood up and began to speak.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, Mingshenzong appointed a large number of eunuchs to serve as mine supervisors and tax envoys.

These eunuchs created a local mining tax yamen, and they were not only engaged in mining and collecting taxes, but also relied on their power to loot the people's fat and ointment.

They expropriated and oppressed the people.

In order to loot money, they set up clever names, and everywhere they went, there were no taxes on boats, vehicles, houses, rice, grain, livestock, etc.

They brazenly robbed openly, raided homes and demolished houses, and even dug up ancestral graves to search for gold, silver and jewelry.

In order to achieve their goals, the eunuchs used unscrupulous means, often made up accusations out of nothing, and framed Zhongliang.

As a result, both officials and businessmen hate them.

Shandong Confucian scholars advocated the way of Confucius and Mencius, and the way of Confucius and Mencius was an ideological system produced by feudal society.

Confucianism belongs to the doctrine of resting oneself and governing the world, and its ultimate goal is to stabilize society and unite the people.

It has the essence and the dross.

Confucius and Mencius's Confucianism is more concerned with reality and understands people's hearts.

The Lu State has citizens who are enslaved abroad, and the law of the Lu State stipulates that they can be redeemed by the state for reimbursement.

As soon as Confucius was a disciple who was very rich, he spent his own money to redeem some slaves.

After this disciple redeemed, he did not ask Lu Guo for reimbursement, but publicized it.

When Confucius found out, he was not happy at all, but very sad, and he lamented that it would be difficult for anyone to redeem the Lu people in the future.

It is a good thing to help the country redeem its citizens, but when someone becomes a virgin, other people who redeem it are embarrassed to reimburse it, because with such a flaunt, in this way, slowly no one will be willing to spend money to redeem people.

Later, another disciple of Confucius rescued a child who had fallen into the water, and the child's family sent a cow as a token of gratitude.

His disciple did not refuse to accept it, and Confucius was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said happily that the children who fell into the water would be saved in the future.

For such things as the Virgin, Confucius and Mencius were very contemptuous.

It is a pity that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, a group of people colluded with officials and businessmen to become hypocrites who were full of benevolence and morality, and full of male thieves and prostitutes.

Of course, not everyone has become like this, and most Confucian scholars still have a strong sense of justice.

It's just that the wave of people who are close to the government and businessmen has changed, and the group of people who gathered to come to Datong Mansion to protest on hunger strike has changed.

After Fan Yongdou's words were finished, it was like a stone thrown into water, setting off ripples.

All the merchants exclaimed one by one, they were terrible, and the Confucian scholars in Shandong came to protest.

Your Shanxi general soldier has angered the world's corporal and businessmen, see how many days you can jump.

"Ladies and gentlemen, as far as I know, the Shanxi General Army has confiscated the properties of seventy-four merchants in Datong Prefecture, and these industries are managed by him with great success.

At the same time as the action of Shandong Confucianism, I suggest that we join forces to cut off the supply of other industries.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of the Shanxi General Army, and these tens of thousands of people must eat, so we should raise the price of grain so that he cannot afford to buy food.

When his soldiers are screaming with hunger, he will know how powerful we are, and then we will talk to them and express our wishes.

What do you think? ”

This is the practice of giving a slap and then a sweet date.

The Confucian scholars denounced and the merchants excluded, and under this general trend, they did not believe in the king and did not give in.

Hearing this, the merchants nodded their heads in agreement.