At the end of the early dynasty, all the Donglin Party officials returned to their respective official offices, and the hall fell silent after several eunuchs closed the door.

The Datong Hall, which is also in the capital, is very unquiet after closing the door.

The bureaucrats and gentry in Miyun County were all killed, and the biggest loss was the Jin merchants, after all, Gubeikou, where Miyun County was located, was one of the main merchants for the Jin merchants to transport goods to the Manchus.

Once Miyun County was really completely mastered by the industrial faction, the five Jin merchants did not know how much silver they would lose every year, and Miyun County was their Tianjin port for the five Jin merchants and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

If someone forcibly took away Zhu Shun's Tianjin Port, Zhu Shun's first reaction was to fight to the death with this person, and the silver was more important than life, and the Jin merchants were even more so.

If it is really tough, it really can't beat Zhu Shun, after all, the border army of the two guards stationed in the north of Miyun County.

And the commander of these two guards is Zhu Shun's nephew Cao Dingjiao, and the border army he led is not a soldier who can't even hold a sword, but an elite border army that is brave and good at fighting and defeating the 200,000 intruders head-on.

You can't be hard-hitting, you can only outwit it.

Since the incident in Miyun County, the five major Jin merchants have been discussing for almost a month, but they have not been able to come up with a countermeasure.

After all, in the face of Zhu Shun's industrial demonism, many strategies made them feel deeply powerless, and they couldn't take advantage of it.

I can only watch the industrial faction's grasp of Miyun County in the Datong Guild Hall, getting closer and closer day by day, and losing control of Gubeikou day by day.

For this kind of thing, it is inconvenient to come forward directly with the identity and status of the five major Jin merchants, and they are all brought forward by their respective big butlers.

said to be the big housekeepers, these big housekeepers who control all the big shopkeepers and countless shopkeepers are actually the second masters in the five Jin merchant mansions.

Although this second master is not the nominal second master, the real power in their hands far exceeds all the ancestral hall relatives of the five major Jin merchants, and even exceeds the eldest son of the long house.

The chief housekeeper of the Fan family put down the Doucai chicken bowl cup in his hand, looked at the other big housekeepers sitting on the rosewood official hat chair next to him, and said with a frown: "Everyone, if it drags on like this, the crown prince Zhu Cihong will completely control Miyun County." ”

"We are about to lose the extremely important business route of fate, the importance of the Gubeikou road, I don't need to say much about it, I think you are very clear."

"This time, we can't lose this business road no matter what, there is really no way, even if we have a hard fight with the crown prince Zhu Cihong, we will not hesitate to do it."

When the other four big housekeepers heard the Wang family's big housekeeper say this, they even said that they were going to have a hard fight, but they didn't feel a trace of shame.

They all laughed and didn't say a word.

What the court didn't know was that it took a lot of hard work to almost take Sun Chuanting's life, and finally extinguished the rogue.

Li Zicheng, the nephew of King Chuang Gao Yingxiang, with the support of the five Jin merchants, has once again raised a large army of King Chuang in the northwest.

With the help of money and food provided by the five major Jin merchants, they are training intensively, striving to train a powerful elite.

There was really no way, they could only expose King Li Zicheng and let him go to Miyun County to kill all the people.

There are no ordinary people, look at how the prince Zhu Cihong still farms the land and how he controls Miyun County.

Thinking of this, the chief housekeeper of the Wang family slowly took a sip of tea and said flatly: "Have you ever noticed one thing, since the beginning of spring, it has not rained. ”

The five Jin merchants have a large number of heaven and earth, and as the great stewards in charge of these fields, they are of course very concerned about the weather of each solar term.

I have long noticed that there has been no rain since the beginning of spring, and I also understand what the big housekeeper of the Wang family means, there must be a big drought this year.

In these years of continuous disasters, it is not uncommon for a major drought to occur, but it is not uncommon for it not to happen.

The big stewards had already known it in their hearts, and they were ready for the failure of the field, but it was not a disaster for the five Jin merchants, but a good opportunity to make a fortune.

Hoarding.

In the year of the disaster, the grain can be sold at a high price, and the grain hoarded by the five major Jin merchants can be exchanged for a large amount of silver at a price much higher than the market price.

This is a very common thing, but now it is taken out by the big housekeeper of the Wang family and said that with his resourcefulness, he will not say this matter for no reason.

The other four Grand Butlers thought for a moment, and they all smiled.

The chief housekeeper of the Wang family also smiled when he saw the expressions on the faces of the other housekeepers: "Your guess is right, this drought is a good opportunity for us to strike at the crown prince Zhu Cihong." ”

"But we have to plan this matter foolproofly, lest Zhu Shun use her magic to make any more moths and ruin our plans."

The other four butlers all nodded in agreement.

The strategy of the Wang family's housekeeper is very simple, and it is precisely with the help of this drought that he uses it to raise the price of grain.

The matter of Prince Zhu Cihong's promotion of 1,000 catties of rice in Miyun County has long been spread, as long as 1,000 catties of rice can be planted so that the people of the county can have enough to eat.

Even if the industrial faction has completely laid a foundation in Miyun County, it has laid a foundation that no one can shake.

The big housekeepers are going to take advantage of this and take advantage of the upcoming drought to pit Miyun County fiercely.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong wanted to buy the hearts of the people of Miyun County, and the big housekeepers decided to start with the hearts of the people.

As long as the food can't be grown, and the people of the whole county are starved to death, the reputation of the prince Zhu Cilang and the industrial faction will be completely stinky.

After the propaganda of the Restoration Society, he became a tyrant and corrupt official who was hated by all the people in the world.

It is not uncommon for a large number of ordinary people to starve to death because of the drought, but if it really dies in the hands of the crown prince Zhu Cilang, the meaning of this will be different.

The chief housekeeper of the Wang family put down the teacup in his hand and said flatly, indifferently ignoring the lives of the people of the entire county: "This matter can just hit the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the industrial faction." ”

"Let's use the forces in the court to help advocate again, presumably the Donglin Party will be happy to help us with this."

"As long as we take advantage of the fact that the crown prince Zhu Cihong still doesn't know, I don't know that we have to calculate him behind his back and buy all the grain in all the granaries of Shuntian Mansion."

"When the drought comes, the people of the county will starve to death, and the prince Zhu Cihong's plan to control Miyun County will be self-defeating."

In addition to the five great housekeepers sitting in the Datong Guild Hall, there are also many powerful big shopkeepers, and when they hear the strategies of the Wang family's big butlers, they all exclaim in their hearts.

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