In the mansion next to the Dagongfang in the city of Nanjing, along the living room, the study, the flower hall, after several quiet places, you will enter the garden, there are small bridges and flowing water and many pavilions of high and low, the pond weir is slightly narrow, more than a dozen willow trees are planted all the way, the vermilion railing all the way, enter the three flower halls, separated by yellowed spotted bamboo curtains, and the tables and chairs placed in it are all used for decades. On the left side of the back of the hall, a small door enters, and there are three newly built Nanmu halls, a large courtyard, and a rockery full of Taihu Lake stones. Walk along the rockery to an alley on the left, pass into a garden, but see bamboo trees, pavilions and terraces, there is living water through a very wide pond, which raises hundreds of fish, and there are gold rings hanging on the wings, in order to eat, it is convenient to fish. Next to the pond, there is still a vermilion railing, and there is a corridor between them, and along the corridor, a small moon gate, hidden among a few clumps of bamboo, is extremely difficult to detect. Pushing open the four green golden gates, there are three pavilions, located on the water.

There is a long corridor between the pavilion and the land, but there are a few traps between the corridors that have been taken down by the owner, and this place has become two isolated places, which is the most suitable for secret discussions.

In other words, from the news of the fight against Fujian, several leading figures in Jiangnan Shilin have been meeting here for two days.

The interior furnishings of this Changting are extremely luxurious and gorgeous, the red sacrifice of Jingdezhen, the sprinkling show of the capital, and the goldware of Suzhou, it seems that they do not need money. The gentlemen and gentlemen are also sitting on the Huanghuali official hat chair, the Huanghuali eight-legged round stool, which is covered with millizhou brocade silk, this kind of style, is the cabinet of the cabinet of the elders. And be willing to bow down.

On the wall in front of Changting, there is a huge map of the thirteen prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, from southern Jiangxi to northern Fujian, Quzhou Mansion, Jinhua Mansion and other prefectures, cities and counties, official roads, trade roads, towns and villages, mountains, rivers and passes, all of which are drawn clearly, compared with the Yamen of the Nanjing Military Department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, it is not far behind. And even more.

Lord Qian Qianyi can be regarded as a bull in the officialdom of Jiangnan Shilin's literary circle. But in front of everyone present, he didn't dare to make a mistake at all, holding a cinnabar dish in his hand, holding a wolf's hair in his right hand, carefully outlining the dividing line between Fujian and southern Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other state capitals.

An old man with a long beard took the thin, exquisitely carved glass in his hand. Carefully look through the wall of the cup and observe the superb flag gun that slowly stretches its body inside. The color of the tea soup changes from transparent to slightly yellowish. Sniffing the burst of aroma wafting out of the cup, I couldn't help but praise from the bottom of my heart, "This year's Mingqian tea is really good!" ”

"This tea was ordered by the prince of Hangzhou to lead a group of yellow-haired girls who had never been to the geranium, and they went up the mountain to pick it before dawn. It is stir-fried with dew and processed. A short-haired old man next to him pointed to the cup of tea and boasted with great interest.

"Moreover, they can't use their hands when picking tea, they are only allowed to use their own cherry sips to pull off the tea buds!"

After a few words of gossip, Lord Qian over there also finished outlining the map, and asked the old gentlemen to move to have a look.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see." Not to mention, in addition to the article, Qian Qianyi is also good at Danqing, and he clearly depicts the boundary between Fujian and Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places.

Since Zhang Kentang joined forces with Zhang Xiaohu, the troops of the Nanyue Army quickly took over the defense of various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the name of suppressing bandits and surveying, and controlled the whole of Fujian in their own hands. And those merchants in Nanzhong moved faster than the army and went farther, and some of the Hakka people built in the deep mountains of the walled houses and tulou appeared on the map they depicted.

"Nowadays, in the west of Gannan, in the east of Zhejiang, and the border with Fujian, there are a large number of Nanzhong businessmen activities, from Jingdezhen news, there are Nanzhong businessmen in the imperial kiln factory and several large kilns to put a large amount of silver, in one breath to order their three years of porcelain!"

"In Fujian, Zhejiang, on several big tea mountains, this generation is also extraordinary, either buying green, or buying mountains, but also ordering tea for a few years in one go."

"Now, we only have Su Songtai in Nanzhili, and two pieces of land in Hangjiahu in Zhejiang, the silk tea here is still in your name, and I will gather you here today, that is, I want to take a charter out, Li has taken Fujian, and his three provincial governors Haiphong is already worthy of the name, let's talk about it, we are the first to bear the brunt of Jiangnan, how to deal with it?"

The long-bearded old man twisted his beautiful silver hair and asked everyone present.

These people are the leaders of the Jiangnan Group, since the Wanli period, all kinds of anti-tax and market strikes are operated behind the scenes, that is, the Nanjing incident not long ago, and the boss behind them is also them.

Originally, he planned to use Zheng Zhilong's strength of soldiers and horses to curb Li Shouhan's northward expansion, and then sit down to bargain with him and talk about Jin Dou well, but unexpectedly, Zheng Zhilong was defeated in the water battle first, and then in the land battle.

Since it is not easy to use the traditional magic weapons and knives and guns that they are used to, then everyone must discuss new methods together to deal with the aggressive Nanyue army.

And in the south of the Yangtze River, the nobles of the Nanjing Caojiang Yamen and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, in front of the silver dollars of white flowers, had already joined forces with the Nanyue Army to fight against the wolf. If it had not been for the inconspicuous small flag issued by the Caojiang Yamen tied to the mast, not to mention nine times out of ten, but out of ten out of Wusongkou or Hangzhou Bay, people and ships would have been declared missing.

Anyone with eyes can see that this is a double reed sung by Nanjing's Xungui Group and Nanyue Army, but they are helpless. "At the beginning, we said that the joint defense of the river and the sea was to ensure the interests of everyone, who would have thought that there would be a small man who would obstruct him and force Ning Yuanbo to go south to Guangzhou. Without his powerful sailors, how can the vast Eastern Sea be wiped out? Unless there is a way to make Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao reborn underground! ”

In the private bargaining with the nobles of Nanjing, Wang Yetai, the second son of Xinjian Bo, was ashamed to say the above slap in the face to the broker in the center.

This time is different from the past, and the nobles are not in a hurry. Anyway, the sailors of the Nanyue Army blocked the Wusongkou and the Qiantang River. Your sea boat goes out to try? I'm afraid that as much as I go out, I will have to give it to the Nanyue Army. And the nobles only need to sit in the house and distribute those small flags, and by the way, they will not pay the protection fee, no, it is the situation of the sea ships that the relevant taxes and fees are going to break through and report to the mansion of the Nanyue Army to get a large amount of dividends afterwards, this kind of good thing, why not? They wished that these businessmen and scholars would just keep going with Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army to see who could survive whom.

What's more, the Nanyue Army will seize and confiscate (looted goods?) ), and the nobles sit on the ground to share the spoils, and these goods often go out of Wusongkou with their front feet. Immediately afterwards, he was stopped by the naval division of the Nanyue Army. The hind foot became the goods sold in the pù of the nobles' shop.

Therefore, from the bottom of their hearts, the nobles are happy to see the Jiangnan merchants and the Nanyue army confronting each other like this, which is clearly a boatload of silver into their own treasury!

However, Donglin is also good. Resumption of the Society. Which one is not a character who is more hairy than a monkey? The most is to look at the wind. Cut off the stakes. How should it be good to find that the habitual civil and military forces cannot deal with the Nanyue army in both ways?

Moreover, they were saddened to find. Since the beginning of the Chinese New Year, I don't know when I received a lot of deposits from businesses, a large number of purchases of raw silk, silk, tea, tung oil and other traditional export products, the price is extremely appropriate, although the date of arrival of the goods is paid in full, but by virtue of these deposits can already recover more than eighty percent of the capital. Under such heavy profits, as a result, the entire Nanzhili, from Su Songtai to Hangjiahu, is full of hot production scenes. A load of mulberry leaves has been grabbed by silkworm farmers for the price of a silver dollar.

However, now is the time for these people to worry, seeing that the new silk and new tea are about to be taken off the market, and the goods alone cannot be shipped, what should be done?

Although there is no double liquidated damages in this era, it is a shame that the mall has a bad reputation, collects other people's money, and cannot deliver the goods in full!

The merchants of Jiangnan found themselves already riding on the back of a tiger.

If he continues to fight against Li, Li will not be harmed at all, and he will lose money every day. And the only ones who can benefit from it are those old westerners in Shanxi and the nobles in Nanjing. Therefore, in the past few days, the leaders of the Jiangnan Group have at least the purpose of Changxianji, and they have to discuss a countermeasure, what should Li and his Nanyue army do, whether it is war or peace?

"Everyone, tell me about it, what should I do?"

The long-bearded old man retracted his smile and glanced at everyone present with a stern face, hoping to get an answer from these people.

However, everyone was as silent as a sawed gourd, and they were unwilling to be this rafter, in fact, everyone knew very well in their hearts that at this time the strength of the two sides was very different, although they had connections in the DPRK and China, but "there was a lack of murderous knives in their hands". Nowadays, the imperial court has always been appeased by those military generals who can fight, not to mention, it seems that there is no reason or charge to invite the bigwigs of the DPRK and China to come forward to sanction Li Shouhan and the Nanyue Army for this kind of thing.

However, no one is willing to bow to Li from his mouth and obey the words, God knows if he will become the target of Jiangnan Shilin and the business community?

"Mr. Lie."

In the corner on the side, Qian Qianyi, who acted as Mr. Semi-Astronomical Case, opened his mouth softly, lest his words disturb the owners.

"In the humble opinion of the student, I Jiangnan should not compete with him for a short time at the moment. It's about taking a long-term view. Back then, the traitorous minister Yan Song was in power for a while, but what was the final outcome? Aren't you still confused by my predecessor Xu Jie, Xu Xiangguo, in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, with the method of bending to welcome, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and swallowing his anger, and then knocking down the adulterous father and son in one fell swoop? ”

"Therefore, if you endure the anger for a while, you can endure it into gold."

Qian Qianyi mentioned Xu Jiequ's Yishi Yan Song, a classic case in the power scheme, and immediately set up an extremely decent and generous step for everyone. That's right! With Xu Jie's respect as a cabinet scholar, in order to bring down Yan Song, he has to give his granddaughter to others as a concubine, can't we lie down and taste courage and endure humiliation?

After Xu Jie moved Yan Song down, the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and immediately took back the investment of the previous decades and even the principal and interest, not to mention anything else, after he retired and went home, the children of the Xu family were rampant in Songjiang Mansion, buying a large number of fields, covering an area of as much as 240,000 mu, plus his children and domestic slaves committed crimes, resulting in a mountain of papers suing him.

Ying Tianxun Hai Rui and Bing Xian Cai Guoxi handled the case impartially and punished his family. Xu Jie bribed Dai Fengxiang with 30,000 taels of gold. He also ordered Zhang Juzheng to dismiss Hai Rui and Cai Guoxi. Therefore, people at that time called him: "The prime minister of the family can chase the constitution of the court", and some people called him "power traitor".

Thinking about the great achievements of your predecessors, you are just temporarily wronged, and you didn't ask you to give your daughter or concubine to Li Shouhan to sleep?

With these words, Qian Qianyi said that the atmosphere in the pavilion suddenly became much more lively, and everyone present returned to Yang as if they had taken Taishang Laojun's elixir, and began to talk about it.

"It is worthy of being the leader of the Jiangnan literary circle, and these words suddenly woke me up. I wonder what else Mr. Qian has to teach? The short-haired old man also twisted his beard as hard as a steel needle and asked Qian Qianyi with a smile.

"Li is now in the midst of a holy family, and he has a heavy army. We should not go toe-to-toe with him. He can only wait for his holy favor to decay before slowly concocting him. But. In the humble opinion of the students. We can't sit still, some things still have to be done quietly. ”

"In the end, it's my Donglin's Tianqiao Star! Please give me a lesson or two. ”

"What Li relied on was nothing more than money and food in one hand and soldiers and horses in the other. Money and food. I have a wide range of Jiangnan. But. But there is a lack of strong soldiers, so they will be slaughtered at will! ”

"The students thought that at the moment, the general of the Ping Thief Zuo Kunshan. It is the time when the soldiers are strong and strong, and they have a relationship with my Donglin. We might as well secretly subsidize him with money, food, and weapons in private, help him succeed, and help him train his troops. After a long time, it may not be impossible to refine an army that can compete with Li's army! ”

Qian Qianyi's words were like a bucket of ice water pouring down on their heads, making the adults and gentlemen present wake up like a dream.

The literary style in the Jiangnan region is prosperous, and for many years, Donglin and Jiangnan businessmen have been two sides of the same coin.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, they began to lay out, vigorously cultivating the children of the clan to study and become officials, even if they do not go to be officials, at least they have become famous articles and romantic figures in various places.

They also vigorously make friends with powerful people from all over the world, the means can be described as moisturizing things silently, these businessmen are quite smart, before they make friends, it is not naked, splitting the face of the power and money transaction, but to take another form of long-term cultivation, not seeking short-term returns, silent dedication.

Which official wants to buy the land, they don't say a word, they secretly send the land deed, which official will have a difficult life for the children of the family, they secretly send money, and which academy has too many poor scholars, and the anointing silver is insufficient, so they quietly either add anointing silver to the academy, or simply buy the fields near the academy, and secretly hand over the land deed to the head of the academy, as a long-term fixed income of the academy, so as to ensure that those poor scholars who rely on the so-called anointing silver to support their families and subsidize their families, In the process, there is no mention of one's own requirements.

For so many years, decades and days, people with iron hearts have been moved, such a righteous businessman, who does not support it?

Just say a few good words at a critical moment, or make it convenient, and there will be a steady stream of benefits to send, without expense, who doesn't want to?

They also vigorously subsidized the poor and the poor, and vigorously funded the education of all places, and in addition to not paying a penny of taxes to the state, they could be described as the spokesmen of the perfect person, occupying the moral high ground. When it comes to these righteous businessmen, who doesn't give a thumbs up and praise: "Okay? ”

However, the world has changed over time, and now this world is no longer an era when literati can point out the country with a pen, but relying on the soldiers, horses, swords, and guns in the hands of martial artists.

Back then, Gu Xiancheng casually summoned a group of scholars in Wuxi to talk about the Donglin Academy, scolded a certain minister of the DPRK and China who they did not like, and then organized party members to launch a public opinion offensive, which could make the court and the cabinet change their original intentions and directly decide on the promotion and dismissal of a certain official, which is long gone. You don't see, Yang Sichang suppressed thieves in Huguang and Sichuan, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Fierce Tiger and others disobeyed Yang and refused to carry out military orders.

There is no knife in his hand, and the plan to force a minister like Zhu Kun to commit suicide just by relying on his connections and verbal criticism will not work now.

"What do you mean?"

Everyone pondered and tasted Qian Qianyi's words, since ancient times, those who have written affairs must have military equipment, but for many years, the Chinese dynasty is noble and martial, and military officials are not valuable, so they have not invested too much money in military generals.

"Seniors, gentlemen, Qian has a foolish opinion, just for you to see." Qian Qianyi is also a figure who knows how to advance and retreat, and knows that he has a few catties and a few taels, on this occasion, it is good to have him to speak, what courage does he have to make decisions for the Jiangnan bigwigs?

Cultivating and supporting Zuo Liangyu as Donglin's army agent is a big matter, so it is natural to think about it in the long run. However, in front of him, it is necessary to discuss how to deal with the Nanyue army.

"If we don't pay taxes, we can't go to sea with our goods, and we can't afford to rely on land and water transportation alone."

"That's it! Now the Cao Gang is up and down, and the Nanyue Army is secretly eye-to-eye, our goods are handed over to them, and I am afraid that they will steal from them! (To be continued......)

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