Under the judgment of the Fujian government, the shops, warehouses and other assets of the northern firms in Fujian were accepted by Hongmen Qixintang, and they were accepted openly and confidently, and no one said that they were not coming.

Of course, there is still a gap between these assets and the compensation signed by the northern merchants and the merchants of the West and the East, but Li Tianyang is already very satisfied, at least the biggest purpose of the Hongmen has been achieved, that is, to cut off all the minions of many northern merchants stretching out to the south of the Yangtze River.

And Li Tianyang also knows that there will be a bloody storm on the Jin Shang side next, when the list of account books sent by Hongmen to the central court of the Ming Dynasty is known to Emperor Chongzhen, the high-level officials of the Ming Dynasty, whose treasury has long been in an emergency, will certainly not send this great opportunity to fill the deficit in the treasury and make up for the expenditure of border guards, at least Emperor Chongzhen, who Li Tianyang knows, will never let go of this opportunity.

As for how many people the Ming Dynasty will talk about in the end, the Jin merchants will exterminate the clan, it is not something that Li Tianyang can predict, it depends on whether the bureaucrats of the Jin Party in the center will stay out of the matter, or will they repay the favor and run for it.

Anyway, now on Dayuan Island, it is a moment of jubilation, with the safe return of the soldiers of the special operations battalion scattered in Ningde at the end, Hongmen's design this time can be regarded as drawing an almost successful end.

A few families are happy and a few are worried, but the wealthy businessmen and giants in Shanxi and Jindi are busy working up and down, or moving their clans and fleeing outside the border.

Just as Li Tianyang had predicted, the account books collected by Hongmen's guards for many years about the smuggling and trafficking of various scarce materials by most merchants in the north to Liaodong caused an uproar in the court.

Although Hongmen was not perfect because of the imperfect intelligence organization outside the Jindi and Liaodong Passes, all kinds of information collected were missing, but when this large stack of ledgers was sent to the court, the material data on the account books still shocked the group of bureaucrats in the court, and at the same time made the Chongzhen Yellow Emperor, who was anxious and headache for the Jurchens outside the Liaodong Pass and the lack of money to pay, angry.

The anger of the emperor, the corpses are all over the field, although the private activities of the Jin merchants have been heard of in the court, but because the other party is in place, and the central lords think that it is harmless, and let the other party act again and again.

The bureaucrats and spies at the bottom were either bought by them or framed by them, but those who wanted to report the smuggling of the Jin merchants could not produce sufficient evidence, and at the same time, they could not oppose the powerful Jin merchants.

But now it is different, after Chongzhen's anger, the first thing used to extinguish Chongzhen's fire was the bureaucratic soldiers at the bottom who were bought, and after the heads fell to the ground, they were followed by the Beijing officials who were not less than the Jin merchants in the court who were inextricably linked to their activities.

At this time, in order to clear the relationship with the Jin merchants, as well as the psychology of atonement for their sins, Jin Yiwei and Dongxichang Fanzi went all out, the powerful state machine was running, and there was the account book guidance sent by Hongmen, and these moths that were hidden under the flesh and blood of the Ming Dynasty in the past were excavated one by one and exposed in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

"Catch, all for me!! I'm going to let him, these bastards, never be able to live forever!! ”

An army that was supposed to be used to quell the peasant uprising also temporarily undertook the task of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, and wantonly searched and arrested the Jin merchants and Hui merchants in the Jinzhong and Anhui areas.

For a time, the businessmen in Jinzhong, Anhui and other places were in danger, even if they originally had a big backer behind them, they were not worth it at the moment, and even their backers were questioned by the imperial court before they were questioned and became prisoners of the ranks.

On the contrary, the Jieqiu Fan clan was the luckiest among these Jinzhong merchants, because with the threat given by the Hongmen before, it not only forced them to have trouble with other families, but also sounded the alarm for them.

Before the imperial court could act, Fan Yongdou had already begun to sell their properties in Jieqiu's hometown and various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time quietly transported his family's assets to withdraw outside the Guan.

When the imperial court made a move, about half of the Fan family's property had been sold, and a large amount of money was exchanged for salt, iron, sulfur and other materials that should be in short supply to the Jurchens outside the Guan, and they were continuously sent into the territory of the Qing Dynasty outside the Guanxi by using the smuggling channels that were still relatively safe.

Of course, it is not so easy for a huge family to move away from the old place, and when nearly half of the people of the Fan clan in Jieqiu were still slowly selling their properties and packing their bags, the Jinyi guards of the imperial court who came from the Jingshi in a hurry just happened to arrest this line of Fan clansmen.

A total of 74 Fan children, including Fan Ming's descendants Fan Yudong and Yuliang, were taken down by Jinyiwei on the spot, and at the same time, they also copied Fan's future to be sold and transported to the industry, with a total of more than 1.4 million taels of money and grain.

You must know that this is also the silver money that Fan Yongdou, the main branch of the helicopter can carry away, and even the officials of the six ministries who came to raid the house were shocked, and then they were excited.

The output of such a large windfall just gave a life-saving straw to the Ming Dynasty's hus, which was clumsy and unsustainable.

Subsequently, the Chang family, the Jin family, the Huang family, the Wang family and other major families ushered in their end, and a group of wolf-like tigers of the Ming Dynasty official dogs, as if they smelled fishy, imprisoned these families without asking about the indiscriminate situation, and also confiscated all their properties.

Perhaps some of the Jin merchants suffered an unwarranted disaster, but the vast majority of them must have deserved it, after tasting the first sweetness of Emperor Chongzhen's acquiescence, or even hints, batches of rich tycoons in the Jin Dynasty have fallen, and the charges are naturally for collusion with barbarians, flies and dogs.

Among the Anhui Hui merchants, there are also many merchant families who have been raided, but fortunately, although the Anhui merchants also have their own smuggling channels, but after the Jin merchants have controlled the trade with the Qing people, they naturally control it completely and do not let others intervene.

Therefore, in the end, among the Anhui merchants, the people who were related to the Qing Dynasty took office, but they were much less than the Jin merchants, and they had already messed up a Shanxi, and Chongzhen was not so mediocre that he continued to mess up an Anhui, creating a suitable hotbed for the activities of the thief Li Zicheng and others.

However, the imperial court became the biggest winner in this change, copying all kinds of large and small merchants and landlords in Jinzhong, and finally the silver money reached nearly 20 million taels, which was a life-saving straw for the precarious Ming Dynasty household treasury.

(End of chapter)