Cangzhou, Nanpi.

Ji Yi, Wu Haowen and Yang Jian, who arrived here, did not go to Tianjin Mansion immediately, but stayed in the pavilion in Nanpi County for many days.

The three of them are not only here to issue an edict, but only to recite a holy decree, and it is enough to have a proclamator. Why send high-ranking officials like Ji Yi and Wu Haowen? And send two at once? These two, at least Ji Yi's purpose is to dig into the corners of the ancient capitalist wall.

In these days when he was in Nanpi, Nanpi Pavilion was like a market, and the people who came and went were rich people in Tianjin. They all came with generous gifts to Ji Yi! The ears and eyes of these capitalists are sensitive, why don't they know that Ji Yi is the next envoy of the sea route market? At that time, all the city's shipping divisions in the world, except for one Jiehe City, will be under the management of others. If you want to trade, can you not deal with him well?

Ji Yi also mingled with these businessmen, he was originally a businessman, and he was in charge of the Jingdong City Shipping Division, and when he was a transfer envoy on Hebian Road before, he sent orders to this group of Tianjin businessmen, and the checkout was refreshing, and he was willing to give more money. But the businessmen of Tianjin have made a lot of money! Even now, the plaster factories, red brick factories, iron-making factories, carpentry factories, shipyards, horse dealers, and Tianjin Ordnance Institute still have a large stack of orders for the Hebian Road Transit Division in their hands.

Moreover, before Ji Yi left the Daimyo's Mansion, Ji Yi transferred more than 50% of the deposit through the Daimyo's Bank of Tianjin and Jingdong Bank.

Just for such a God of Wealth, everyone can't help but come to Nanpi to meet him!

Today has passed Laba, and as the New Year approaches, a large group of wealthy businessmen from Tianjin have arrived. Ji Yi set up a banquet in the hall of the Nanpi Pavilion Station,

The hall where the banquet was held was very spacious, and the incense candles with the thickness of the arms of children produced in Tianjin were placed around, and the room was full of faint fragrance. Dozens of servant envoys brought by Ji Yi's family waited around, serving tea and pouring wine.

Ji Yi did not wear an official uniform, but a brocade dress, and between his gestures, he had the taste of a boundless wealthy businessman, and I didn't know that he thought he was also the head of a wealthy businessman.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the wealthy businessmen in the hall began to discuss the establishment of the Yandi Republic.

At present, the hot spots in the rural areas of Yandi are the division of land and the republican system. In addition to the about 3,000 knight households that already have knight manors in Jiehe County, there are nearly 7,000 knight households that need to be resettled or transferred to the seal (some knights loyal to Wu Haogu have estates on the land of Hejian Province, Cheongju, and Cangzhou, and these manors must be replaced with Yandi). In addition, nearly 20,000 military households also need to be resettled.

Combined, more than 14.5 million acres of land are used. In addition, the land allocated to the officers and the small local tyrants of Yandi properly exceeded 22 million mu. Almost all the farmland and forest land in Yanshan Mansion and Wuqing County have been allocated! Not only was the land originally belonging to the Khitans and the Han bureaucratic landlords loyal to the Great Liao or neutral all distributed, but even many of the estates of Yandi Haoqiang in Yanshan Mansion and Wuqing County who had taken refuge in Wuhaogu were also divided.

In order to compensate for their losses, Wu Haogu also took out the properties that belonged to the Khitan nobles and the Yutian Han family in Tianjin Shang City, which he had purchased at a low price (Tianjin has always adhered to the principle of protecting private property), and allocated them to Yandi Haoqiang, who had lost their land in the land reform.

Although the cost of this feudal land reform is large, the benefits are still obvious. In the shortest possible time, Wu Haogu has created a military group with relatively low maintenance costs and is loyal to himself! At the same time, he also established local forces loyal to himself in Yanshan and Tianjin. Moreover, it also fostered a feudal military group that could check and balance with the Tianjin Haoshang Group.

In fact, the relationship between the military landlords and the industrial and commercial capitalists was not necessarily life-or-death. Although in the textbooks of later generations, the latter will change the life of the former. But in fact, the time of revolution is short, and the time of coexistence and co-prosperity is long. And the result of the revolution was not necessarily the elimination of the military landlords by the bourgeoisie. For example, the Junker landlords in Germany existed until the end of World War II.

However, there are still many wealthy businessmen in Tianjin who are dissatisfied with the republican rules formulated by Wu Haogu, because in the process of formulating the republican rules, Wu Haogu changed the Senate of the Chamber of Commerce in Tianjin into a bicameral council.

The members of the upper house of the Tianjin Municipal Council are no longer recommended by the "initiators" of Tianjin Commercial City, but are recommended by the top 70 commercial houses and families in Tianjin, plus the top 30 academies and schools in Tianjin.

The lower councilors of Tianjin are elected by military officers, taxpayers (who need more than one mercenary) and scholars (doctors, graduates of schools and colleges) and other citizens who have citizenship in Tianjin, and the number of people who are also 100 according to the area in which they have settled.

In addition, because there are no major military affairs to be discussed in the Tianjin Municipal Council, the upper and lower houses of the parliament are only nominally different, and when they meet, they are on the same table, and the voting rights of the members are exactly the same.

In other words, the power of the wealthy businessmen in Tianjin was weakened in this Yandi republican movement! Moreover, a considerable part of the wealthy merchants in Tianjin were derived from the generals of Kaifeng Mansion, how could they support Wu Haogu to confront the Great Song Dynasty?

The steward of a famous Xiang family suddenly slapped the table: "What is the world for the public, it is clearly ill-intentioned, and I want to learn from Li Yuanhao as the emperor!" Afraid that we will oppose it, they are still engaged in the discussion of the two houses in the commercial market, and citizens participate in politics...... Our Daimyo Xiang family will not be in republication with such anti-thieves! ”

"Alas, a good Tianjin city is about to be destroyed! In the past, we were able to make money, wasn't it because the court took care of us? Now Wu Haogu wants to fight against the world in a corner, and he doesn't have to wait for the imperial court to arrive, as long as he has an edict and interrupts trade, he will wait to die of poverty! ”

"Yes, Master Ji, our Pan family's concubine has already spoken, and he doesn't recognize Wu Haogu's son-in-law! The Pan family's industries in Tianjin will all be withdrawn. We will follow the bachelor in the future, is the bachelor going to Xiuzhou? Our Pan family must be with us. ”

"It's better to go to Xiuzhou, the water town in the south of the Yangtze River has been a rich land since ancient times, and now the Central Plains is going to be chaotic, let's go ahead with thirty-six plans!"

Of course, the people who came to shoot Ji Yi's ass today are all businessmen who are preparing to withdraw from Tianjin, even if they are not really retiring, they are also retiring openly and secretly. And everyone is optimistic about Shanghai, which has not yet opened! Just look at the map to see how good that site is. At the mouth of the Yangtze River into the sea, there is also a Wusong River connected to the South Canal. And it is surrounded by the richest land of fish and rice, enough to feed a million-level population.

The most important thing is that Shanghai is far away from the battlefield in the north!

You can do business there with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about the imperial court or the Khitan army suddenly coming in.

Of course, the huge advantages of Shanghai do not mean that Tianjin has no advantages. Fighting a war is also a big deal! Tianjin's advantages in the military, northern goods, cattle and horse markets, woodware, shipbuilding (there is cheap timber around Tianjin), iron smelting, wool spinning and other industries are all difficult for Shanghai to oppose.

However, the biggest advantage of Tianjin over Shanghai is still in the navy!

Not long after Ji Yi arrived in Nanpi, he received a report from Haizhou that the Naval Academy and the Yuntai Academy in Haizhou were being moved! Among them, the Naval Academy will be moved to Suzhou (Dalian) on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Although Ji Yi had instructed his cronies in Haizhou to retain naval talents as much as possible, Wu Haogu had controlled the Hailu City Shipping System and Construction Division for too long, and he was a confidant from top to bottom. In addition, the Haizhou Wu family and the Haizhou Hua family, the two maritime merchant families, did not want to see the Ji family's maritime merchants dominate, so they both chose to support Wu Haogu.

These days, Ji Yi has not seen a single Wu family or Hua family in Nanpi. Therefore, Ji Yi knew that Wu Haogu would almost definitely be able to get most of the naval power of the Sea Route City Ship Control Division!

But Ji Yi will still get the seeds of establishing the "Ji Family Navy"!

When Ji Yi was feeling proud, there was a sudden commotion at the door of the hall, and then he saw Wu Haogu's younger brothers, Wu Haowen and Yang Jian, running in in a panic, with a few armed guards by their side.

"Wangdao, Daguan Yang, you are ......"

"It's broken, it's broken!" Hearing Ji Yi's question, Wu Haowen was about to cry, "My eldest brother is here!" ”

"What?" Ji Yi was stunned, "Your eldest brother?" Wu Chongdao? How can it be? Isn't he afraid that we'll detain him? ”

Yes, this is Nanpi, or the Great Song Dynasty, and there is a forbidden army under Daniel Zhang under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, as well as hundreds of van soldiers, and thousands of utility soldiers.

Well, there are a lot of people, and it's enough to set up a Hongmen banquet.

"Hold up a fart!" Yang Jian, who followed Wu Haowen, cried and said, "Bachelor Ji thinks that Wu Haogu is a fool, will he come here on horseback?" ”

That's right! Ji Yi pressed his forehead, why didn't his mind turn around? Wu Haogu won't come with troops?

"How many people did he bring?"

"I don't know!" Yang Jian said in a trembling voice, "I just know that I can't see the edge at a glance...... All of them are cavalry, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands, right? ”

"What!? Tens of thousands of ......" Ji Yi was also frightened this time, "He, he, he wants to rebel?" Yu Yang Mo came agitatedly? ”

"Probably, probably, right? Brother Yizhi, let's run away, shall we? Wu Haowen cried and said, "What can I do? My family has really become a thief, and I am going to be wiped out......"

Ji Yi glared at him, "What are you panicking about?" He's your own brother......"

Yes, your brother is going to rebel successfully, aren't you the prince? Crying fart? Exterminate the clan or something, the rebellion will be destroyed if it fails! And you are not in Kaifeng Mansion now, and it is also your brother Wu Haode's bad luck to be stabbed!

"Let's go!" Ji Yi said, "Let's go up to the city and take a look!" ”

"No, don't run away?" Yang Jian asked.

In the hall, a group of wealthy businessmen who had just finished saying bad things about Wu Hao Gu also looked at Ji Yi.

"What are you running?" Ji Yi sneered, "Everyone is a cavalryman, can we run?" ”