Chapter 626: Nanjing City

The eunuchs and officials in Nanjing City had two attitudes, the Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch and the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu were both figures who were frustrated in the party struggle between the DPRK and China, but their opinions were more unexpected, both of them were determined to deploy troops to defend the city, and were ready to fight to the death with the Huazhou army.

However, the main battle is only two or three people, and the others, even including the Xu family of Wei Guogong, are either silent, or talk about the strength of the enemy army.

Why don't you keep your voice? Because they are quite clear about the details of Huazhou, especially the Datong Money Village opened by Wei Guogong and several earls and marquises, in recent years, it has been beaten by Sanjiang Commercial Bank and Huazhou Money Bank, in the past, the silver tickets and vouchers of Datong Money Village can be used in the sea trade along the south coast of the Yangtze River, even when it is at sea, and the silver tickets and bills issued by Huazhou Money Village are in parallel.

Now it's different, it can only be when the ship goes ashore, Datong Money Bank redeems these bills from Huazhou Money Bank, at the beginning, the Xu family and the rest of the noble families are also thinking about destroying this money bank and swallowing each other's money, they all have their own information channels, and they naturally have to check it before this.

After the investigation, everyone was in a cold sweat, it turned out that there was such a huge force overseas, and this kind of force was not at all something that their big nobles could fight against.

There are also people who want to go to Jingshi to denounce, but then think about it, if they go to denounce, they are likely to be implicated, this may still be a trivial matter, but the huge business in their hands is afraid that they will also be involved, after operating for so many years, their business has long been too deeply connected with the maritime business, as well as the Huazhou Qianzhuang behind the maritime business.

And even if it is a denunciation, no one dares to say whether they can block Huazhou's revenge, vaguely, they found some clues, more than a dozen appalling homicides that have occurred in Jiangnan in recent years, may have such a relationship with Huazhou, such a monster is still rare.

Since Jiajing came to power, some noble ministers in the north have been ruined in successive storms, and these people in the south have been preserved more because they are less involved in major cases such as the development of land outside the Guan, but the authority they hold is deprived little by little.

Including the military power held by the Xu family, the Duke of Wei, who has been garrisoning Nanjing for generations, Emperor Jiajing's consistent idea is that if a noble has no soldiers and no power, he is a good noble, otherwise it is better to die.

There is no authority in their hands, the oppression of Emperor Jiajing is very great, and these noble and wealthy families are walking on thin ice, for fear that they will be caught by the top and their families will be ruined, so they generally do not ask about political affairs, regardless of their own yamen, and put most of their minds into business.

The aristocratic nature of their bodies is constantly degrading, and the nature of merchants is constantly increasing, you must know that no matter how they are cut in power, these nobles still have privileges that are difficult for commoners and even officials to match, relying on these privileges, and the wealth accumulated by the family for nearly two hundred years.

The nobles of Nanjing soon became the largest businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, and according to the Huazhou Sima Engagement, the real masterminds behind the Thirteen Chambers of Commerce were the Xu family of Wei Guogong and the Liu family of Chengyi Bo.

And everything these nobles did was basically taboo and opposed by Emperor Jiajing, the nobles and the emperor were originally an inseparable whole, the pillar of the Ming Dynasty's rule, but now they are somewhat falling apart.

The ministers of the Eastern Party of the Ming Dynasty, the difference between the nobles is not big, the original scholars who ploughed and read the heirlooms, now their homes are all open yards, shops, unconsciously, they have become the spokesmen of the merchants, no matter what the court does, it costs money.

If you want to spend money, you have to pay taxes, but taxation is equivalent to reducing the profits of the merchants, but the taxes of the imperial court are very heavy, so the ministers of the Eastern Party, who have lost in the political struggle, are also more and more divided with the central government, and they drummer and write articles to ridicule the Beijing division every day.

However, these people did not have any real power in their hands, that is, they just shouted a few words and complained there, and the Huazhou army landed in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and these people said that they were immoral and led to a barbarian invasion, and they should reflect on themselves. The eunuchs guarding Nanjing were furious, and directly mobilized their own soldiers to arrest and put them in prison on charges of arguing about the government, but Nanjing was not as powerful as the Jingshi, and the power of the six ministers of Nanjing was relatively greater.

Seeing that his protégé was locked up, there was an immediate public outcry, and after a period of commotion, he was released again.

Even for the battle of the Huazhou Army in Fujian this time, the opinion of the eunuch guarding the town and the secretary of the military department was originally to reinforce the Beijing division, but the real soldiers in the city were all nobles or military attaches attached to their system, and they all clamored that the reinforcement of the Beijing division was too far, so it was better to cut off the arm of the thief army first.

Fujian's road is extremely close, and it is even more convenient to mobilize southern soldiers and horses, and what Fujian soldiers and horses have recently won a big victory, and the morale of the army is exactly when it is available.

The eunuchs guarding Nanjing and the secretary of the military department could not withstand the pressure of all parties in Nanjing, and they also knew that if they did the opposite, they were afraid that if they mobilized troops and horses, prepared logistics and grain and grass, everything would be delayed to death, but it was better to go to the south to fight in accordance with the will of the people, after all, they were all the so-called Huazhou army, and defeating one team was one team.

And every day, hundreds of miles of urgency continue to come to the news of the defeat in the north, if their side wins, but the capital to get promoted and make a fortune, they are also a little moved......

However, after the news of the collapse of these soldiers and horses between Quanzhou and Zhangzhou and the fall of Fujian reached the city of Nanjing, all the people who called the murderer died down, and the various yamen and academies in the city of Nanjing were very quiet for a few days, and there was a bit of a smell of chickens and eggs.

Next, there was a dark tide in the city, and in the past, Huazhou's spies also distributed leaflets and posts in the city, explaining Huazhou's attitude and policies towards merchants, which were ignored or scoffed at at the time, and now they are all taken up and studied and watched very officially.

In November of the twenty-third year of Jiajing, huge warships appeared on the river outside Nanjing......

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