Chapter 420: Expedited Interception
Chapter 420: Expedited Interception
After Jiang Feng's guards sincerely expressed their goodwill to take Li Liang's wife, wife and son to live in a warm place, Li Liang knew that he had no other choice, of course, there were also fifteen taels of silver every month, which was withdrawn from the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, which also made him quite excited.
The next day, Li Liang still reported to Sima Tai as usual, saying that everything was normal, and the owner of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank was still wandering around the city.
Sima Shilang didn't take this matter too seriously, Jingshi's stalking was just an auxiliary means, if there was any move, he would have to wait for the news of Liaozhen to come back, this was obviously not a problem that could be solved in ten days or twenty days.
Li Liang's judgment that Sima Tai wanted to seize the Sanjiang Commercial Bank can be said to be very accurate, but Jiang Feng will not believe this judgment at all, Jiang Feng's involvement with the household department can be said to be too deep, not to mention the origin of the Su family sisters, whether Liu Jin's treasure is related to Sima Tai alone, this is a big deal.
Jiang Feng is not too worried that he will be discovered in the capital, after all, he has not returned to the capital for ten years, and the changes in his past ten years are always a lot of changes in his appearance, and the impulsiveness and courage of the past year have also become the momentum of the current powerful and reserved superior.
Those who have had a deep relationship with him, or have met, most of the members of Huifeng Lou are either in Huazhou, or in Hangzhou's branch, those officials who were in power that day, after Zhang Yong's death, a group of people left the capital to go to Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, plus the land inspection case some time ago, cleaned up. The current Jiang Feng is a complete stranger in Beijing.
If someone is interested in that treasure, no matter whether Jiang Feng will be noticed because of this, the attention of some forces, even the attention of the Ming court, will be shifted to Huazhou, Jiang Feng knows that the treasure left by the Eight Tigers is too huge, so huge that it will make many people crazy for him, and it is so huge that it may affect Huazhou.
To be honest, Jiang Feng didn't expect that the development of sea trade like this was not to suck the blood of Daming, but to make Daming more prosperous. He didn't expect that although the sea trade was a huge profit, the industry and commerce driven by the sea trade also had profits, and because of the thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, the profits were also not small.
Jiang Feng also thought that setting up all kinds of workshops in Huazhou could be regarded as a one-stop production and marketing plant, and he would catch all the profits in his own hands, but after accounting, he found that the demand from the West, the Japanese Kingdom, the South Seas, and even India and Arabia was very huge, and such a large amount of demand could only be met by the huge production capacity of so many provinces along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and those provinces had enough production experience Ding Zhuang, and if Huazhou did this, it would not even be as good as the taxes they extracted from the fleet at sea.
The two sides are interdependent, Huazhou is stronger, Daming is stronger, Jiang Feng is always worried, if something attracts Daming's attention to himself. Daming's current financial situation, if mobilized, is not something that small Huazhou can compete, not to mention that Huazhou is not ready.
In Jiang Feng's heart, his family was not ready, and if he was ready, he would not rashly come to Daming to investigate talents.
When it comes to Huazhou on the sea now, everyone is naturally in awe, the Jiang army is outside the grassland and in Malacca, which is almost synonymous with invincibility and strength, and even in the West it is known that in addition to the Ming Empire, there is also a rich and powerful Duchy of Huazhou.
The court of the Ming Dynasty did not know, and the yamen of the six departments and three divisions of the Beijing Cabinet did not know, their eyes were all staring at the world of the Ming Dynasty and the vigorous development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty. Maybe some officials know the existence of Huazhou, especially the officials of the six departments of Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yangsong, and the maritime merchants have overt or covert dealings, so they naturally know that there is such a Huazhou, but these people also pretend not to see it, the opening of the sea ban is equivalent to a tax on maritime trade, and taxation is equivalent to a reduction in profits, which is equivalent to a decrease in the money that falls into their pockets, this kind of business that benefits the country and harms themselves, no one wants to do, or you take the initiative to come to Huazhou, the emperor is angry, how many people's heads will be dropped, Why didn't you say it before, watching this kind of power grow.
Since Zheng He went to the West, the eyes of the high-level leaders of the Ming Dynasty have only been limited to the mainland, and they have not seen things outside the Ming Dynasty, and they have become more and more self-aclosed.
Jiang Feng is interested in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but he also reads generally, he can't remember any names, but he has some understanding of the general trend of the world and the regrets of some later historians, so he knows how to develop overseas, and he knows how to vigorously develop the fleet of sea trade and navy.
When his subordinates were terrified and afraid that Da Ming would be unfavorable to Huazhou, Jiang Feng ordered them to let it go.
Sure enough, until now, the best ships of the Ming Dynasty are still the cargo ships of those maritime merchants, the two sailors are dilapidated, they have not gone to sea for many years, and the shipwrights and shipwrights in various shipyards are controlled by the major merchants. In fact, this matter is also quite interesting, if it weren't for the existence of Jiang Feng, the shores along the coast of Daming are now raging with Japanese invaders, but at this time, the Japanese people who could have been Japanese are honest merchants and trafficking goods.
But now all this is going to be broken by the attention of this Tobe squire?
Sima Tai, the head of the household, didn't expect that he just wanted to rob the other party's property, but Jiang Feng considered such a serious consequence.
Jiang Feng's manpower and Liu Twelve's Sima Cheng who was in charge of the Beijing Division had all taken action, and Sima Shilang didn't expect that the stalking manpower he had arranged had lost its effect, and he was firmly targeted. After all, this is not Hangzhou Mansion or Nanjing, at that time, he was a general of the Ming Dynasty, and he was in the bureau, but there were all kinds of conveniences.
If you do it in Jingshi, you can't control the next situation, and now the power of Jingshi is firmly in the hands of the emperor, if there is a case of this household servant being wiped out at the foot of the Jingshi Emperor, it will definitely be a sensation in the world, I am afraid that this result is completely opposite compared to what Jiang Feng wants.
However, Datong Qianzhuang did not have such a heavy weight, Jiang Feng's guards directly mobilized the manpower placed by Huazhou in Beijing and Tianjin, as long as there was an order, the Jingshi branch of Datong Qianzhuang would not be left behind.
The two sides in Beijing stared at each other, but they were not ready to take any action, Jiang Feng still sat around as usual every day, listening to the reports of the shopkeepers of Beizhili and Shanxi, and at the same time inquiring about celebrities and things in various places.
At this time, the fastest delivery of news is not the flying pigeon, the pigeon receives the weather, birds of prey and other external factors are too affected, the most effective, the fastest is eight hundred miles, five hundred miles and other urgent.
The imperial court arranged post stations on the way between important cities, if there was an emergency, the post guards galloped wildly, and when the horse's strength was exhausted, they changed horses at the post station, and the gallop of a station could also achieve a very fast speed of information transmission, but such a transmission of news required a high cost.
Even the Ming court only used expedited when there were major wars and major political changes, and the official transmission of information was still the same, not to mention those who were private.
The three people sent by Datong Qianzhuang to Liaozhen to inquire about the news had six horses, but they also had to stay in the hotel to rest on the way, and they had to think of going there to rest in advance when they walked for most of the day every day.
Sima Shilang's manpower was a day behind them, but he was more attentive, and on the third day, he had already surpassed the past, although there were many servants under Sima Shilang, there were only a few people who might do these things, and this time four people came out.
No matter who is sent out at the end of the year, the interest will not be too high, especially when there are no other pedestrians in sight on the road, the cold wind is blowing, and even the horses under the crotch are listless.
Sima Shilang's men walked on the road for four days, except for the manpower that exceeded the Chase Money Village, there were only a few scattered pedestrians, but when they were about to reach Liaozhen, they were overtaken by a few fast horses, and a few people on the horse scolded a few words with disdain:
"Isn't the fucking post house, are you going to eat the wind so quickly?"
Calculating the distance, they felt that they should be able to spend the New Year in Liaoyang, at this time Liaoyang is the most prosperous city in the whole Liao Town, with the rise of the reclamation manor outside the Guanwai, the city is more prosperous, and even has the reputation of Yangzhou in the north. I thought that although Liaoyang was in a hurry to rush back, after all, I could rest for a few days, and there were people to entertain him.
There is this prospect there to tempt, and only then did he have some spirit, Sima Shilang's subordinates thought that they could rush to Liaoyang tonight, and followed by the three entourages behind and shouted:
"Let's go quickly, tonight is the hot kang head of soju and fat."
The few people in the back all laughed and agreed, and there was a checkpoint not far away, and there were soldiers waving spears in front of the checkpoint, signaling a few of them to lean over, and they didn't know what they were doing. A few people sent by Sima Shilang did not dismount, but directly rushed over with their horses, and the one led by him shouted arrogantly:
"Blind you dogs, we are the people of Sima Shilang of the Ministry of Officials......"
"That's them, do it!! It's all slaughtered!! ”
They didn't know that Huazhou had set up an 800-mile expedited ...... in the name of carriage and horses between Jingshi and Guanwai
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