Dayuan Island began to welcome a group of settlers from extraordinary backgrounds, and was even personally greeted by Li Tianyang, the now high-ranking leader.

The comers are a huge group, with a scale of more than 2,000 people, and one of their biggest characteristics is that they all have the same surname - Xu.

The existence that can be greeted by Li Tianyang, the leader, must have outstanding results in a certain aspect, and the existence of this large group surnamed Xu comes from their family, the Xu family of Chongming Island.

The Xu family of Chongming Island, the ancestor was a member of the Daming Cao Gang, and later returned to Chongming Island after old age and established such a business as Defuxuan.

With such a strong background as the Cao Gang, Defuxuan soon grew and developed gradually under the management of the Xu family, and is now one of the top ten businesses in Jiangnan.

Among the top ten businesses in the south of the Yangtze River, the remaining nine either have the background of the emperor's relatives or have a deep connection with the local family of generations of eunuchs.

Of course, Defuxuan was able to jump to the top ten status in Jiangnan, thanks to the fact that he has been behind Hongmen for many years, has obtained extremely lucrative benefits and other benefits, as well as the platform of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, which has reduced a lot of official troubles, has a wider network of contacts, and few people have done anything to such a piece of fat.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages, while the Xu family of Defuxuan followed the Hongmen to divide the interests, although they had carefully sorted out the relationship between themselves and the Hongmen, but in the case of commercial interests, as well as the strong influence and silent penetration of the Hongmen, they finally put on the coat of a member of the Hongmen and became an outlier in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the background of the Xu family on Chongming Island was not deep enough and not strong enough, making them the most likely to become fat sheep in the eyes of other magnates. Fortunately, they have joined the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce over the years, relying on the strong group power of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and the more united style of doing things, coupled with their own cautious behavior, they can also protect themselves in the Ming Dynasty shopping mall.

However, as the true strength of Hongmen is now revealed, people of insight from top to bottom in the Ming Dynasty have begun to resist it, which means that business groups like Defuxuan, who are dressed as allies of Hongmen, are gradually difficult to gain a foothold on the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Directly attacking Hongmen, naturally it will not be a stupid thing that these smart people in the Ming Dynasty officialdom will do, but using Hongmen vassal forces such as Defuxuan and Jirentang as a means to test Hongmen's bottom line, the shrewd eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty are extremely good.

The relationship between his own strength and background, coupled with a huge wealth like fat, made the Xu family of Chongming Island suddenly become a Ming officialdom who moved the capital to Nanjing, and a great magic weapon to test Hongmen.

And this temptation, but also got the support of the emperor Chongzhen, since the last time to clean up several major merchants in Jin, to obtain huge wealth, in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen in addition to the income of taxes, but also from time to time staring at these huge rich families in the shopping mall, in a vain attempt to loot the wealth of these merchants, in order to enrich the treasury and his inner treasury.

The upper side has ideas about a big business like Defuxuan, but the first to act are the officials and officials at the bottom, and it is indispensable to go to the shops of a business like Defuxuan to pick thorns and scavenge for oil and water.

For a time, many businesses of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce led by Defuxuan were more or less greatly affected in the Ming Dynasty, which brought great inconvenience.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and the proprietors and shopkeepers of the businesses that can come to this point are not incompetent, and they have a deep sense of crisis, and they have already noticed it when the wind direction in the Ming Court officialdom began to change.

In order to deal with these troubles from the Ming Court, many members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce now need to make a decision: whether to draw a line with Hongmen on this matter, and rely on their original backers to show loyalty to the Ming Dynasty; still go all the way to the black, hug the thigh of Hongmen tightly, and open up the world that belongs to them.

In fact, everyone knows very well that when Hongmen has shown the momentum of a hegemon, there will inevitably be a world of Hongmen among the major forces on the Central Plains Continent in the future. At that time, it will be absolutely impossible for Hongmen and Daming to maintain peace on the surface as it is now, and they will inevitably face each other.

Maybe now the members and proprietors of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce can still rely on the existing backer background to deal with the difficulties from the Ming Court, but when Hongmen really turns against the Ming Dynasty, they can't even wait for that time, as long as Hongmen has the idea of entering the Central Plains, the representatives of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce have to make a choice.

The truth that long pain is better than short pain, no need for others to say more, the representatives of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce themselves know it well, and with the victory of Hongmen over the Qing Dynasty this time, it means that they have begun to walk on the stage of history, how to develop and operate in the future, as long as many stupid people can probably think clearly.

Many business proprietors have their own opinions on the pros and cons between Hongmen and the Ming Dynasty, but in the end, no one thought that it would be the largest and most powerful Chongzhen Island Xu clan of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce who took the lead.

"Master Li, in the future, the old man and my two thousand children of the Xu family will have to rely on your protection!"

From a steamer flying the flag of Defuxuan, a dying old man who walked down saw Li Tianyang, the leader of the Hongmen standing in front of the port, waiting, and his heart was not only proud, but also a little emotional and flattered.

This old man is deeply aware of the patriarch of the Xu family today, and he is also the real person in charge of the Xu family's huge business name of Defu Xuan - Xu Shilin.

"The old patriarch was able to lead the Xu clan on Chongming Island to make the choice of moving the clan to Dayuan Island, which made the students deeply admired, and in the future, I Hongmen will have to rely on the old patriarch."

Li Tianyang's face was ruddy, and he greeted the arrival of the Xu clan on Chongming Island with an atmospheric face.

Whether it was out of the posture of buying horse bones, or the strength of the Xu clan on Chongming Island, it was enough for that Li Tianyang to personally come to welcome the arrival of the Xu clan, and at the same time personally establish a foundation for them.

Fortunately, there is a lot of land on Dayuan Island, even if the natives of Dayuan Island have raised a lot of people over the years, and have expanded a lot of land in advance, there is still a huge amount of land that has not been developed, and it is abandoned in the jungle, which is enough to accommodate the population of the Xu family.

Even, in order to attract more representatives of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce like the Xu family on Chongming Island to settle down, as the first family to eat crabs, the Xu family obtained a huge piece of land enough to cultivate 30,000 acres of fertile land for free, which was enough for the Xu family to be self-sufficient in production.

Of course, there are still taxes to be paid, and no one or any team is immune.

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