Zhang Tuiguan subconsciously wanted people to take Li Hongyu down, but he reacted in an instant, and the entourage he brought had been beaten down by Li Hongyu's people, so he had to swallow back the words that came to his mouth???.

Although the situation is now controlled by Li Hongyu, Zhang Tuiguan is not afraid, after all, this is the boundary of Yangzhou, it is his territory, and now that the precious son of the prefect has been beaten, the reinforcements from the government will arrive soon, and it will be the death of Li Hongyu and others.

Li Hongyu naturally knew Zhang Tuiguan's thoughts, but how could he care about the people in Yangzhou Mansion, and he was hoping that Governor Zhao of Yangzhou would come.

He wanted to ask how the prefect of Zhao disciplined his son, so that he bullied the woman of a good family in public, and how did the subordinates under his control indiscriminately and openly reverse black and white, how could the imperial court hand over Yangzhou Mansion to him?

A guard saw that Li Hongyu had no intention of leaving, so he moved a Taishi chair, and Li Hongyu sat there and shook the folding fan leisurely.

Obviously, Li Hongyu deliberately made a big deal about tonight's incident, not only because Zhao Gongzi bullied people and did evil, but he also wanted to use this to give Zhao Governor's Mansion a dismissal, so that he could understand whose territory Yangzhou was, and don't think that he was a member of the Donglin Party and could act arbitrarily.

Yangzhou Mansion is different from other state capitals, in addition to the government office, there are three other non-subordinate yamen, one is the salt road, the other is the river, and the other is the customs department.

Therefore, although the prefect of Yangzhou is the most noble prefect in the world except for the Shuntian Mansion and the Yingtian Mansion where the two capitals are located, its actions are also subject to many restrictions, and it is unable to manage the affairs of the salt road, the river and the customs department.

In fact, with the continuous improvement of Li Hongyu's official rank, the status of the Yamen of the Customs Department in the officialdom is also increasing day by day, the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture was the largest official in Yangzhou, and the chief official of the Yandao and River Yamen was virtually suppressed in the officialdom, but now he has to succumb to the Yamen of the Customs Department, making the Customs Department the boss of the Yamen in Yangzhou.

Zhao Governor was transferred to Yangzhou Mansion a year ago, and the Governor of Yangzhou Prefecture was a member of the Zhejiang Party, and after the Beijing Inspection, the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang officially lost power in the imperial court, and the Zhejiang Party naturally could not keep the top official position in Yangzhou Governor.

This Zhao Governor's Mansion, like many backbones of the Donglin Party, is also Ye Xianggao's protégé, who turned out to be an imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and after his arrival, he was full of prestige and relied on himself to be an important member of the Donglin Party, acting very domineeringly, wantonly asking for money, destroying the harmony and stability of Yangzhou officialdom, and breaking the rules of officialdom.

Because the background of Governor Zhao's Mansion is very hard, those dignitaries and nobles on the ground in Yangzhou dare not speak out about this, and they should spend money to eliminate disasters, and no one wants to provoke Governor Zhao, after all, his teacher is Ye Xianggao.

Originally, Li Hongyu didn't want to meddle with this kind of idle matter, after all, this was a local affair and had nothing to do with him, but Governor Zhao shouldn't have interfered in the affairs of Daming's overseas trade.

With the opening of overseas trade, the salt business has retreated from the most profitable business in the Ming Dynasty to the second place, and the salt business is basically fixed every year, the scale of overseas trade will continue to expand with the expansion of business and the development of society.

When the first overseas trade brought back huge trade profits, the attention of the Ming government and business circles focused on overseas trade affairs.

Originally, everyone thought that overseas trade was just a way for the imperial court to collect money in disguise, but who would have thought that Li Hongyu would make it a reality in just a few years and become an out-and-out cash cow.

Since the Customs Department was subordinate to the emperor and not subordinate to the yamen of the major ministries, it was difficult for officials in the officialdom to intervene in it.

In addition, although the supreme chief of the Customs Department is Ran Xingrang, those who have sufficient weight in the official and business circles know that the real person in charge of the Customs Department is Li Hongyu, and Ran Xingrang is only the nominal director of the Customs Department, and Li Hongyu, the same knowledge of the Customs Department, controls the power of the Customs Department.

However, Ran Xingrang is not a puppet of the corpse vegetarian meal, his task in the Customs Department is to supervise the tax revenue of the Customs Department, so that the Customs Department can pay enough taxes every year.

After all, Emperor Wanli has rich experience, and he also has the wisdom to know people, and knows that only Li Hongyu can control the emerging affairs of the Customs Department, so he clarified Ran Xingrang's responsibilities and asked Ran Xingrang to assist Li Hongyu to run the Customs Department.

In addition, Emperor Wanli could not have imagined that there were such a big business opportunity in overseas trade, in his opinion, if the Customs Department could hand over two million taels of silver a year is a miracle, it has exceeded the imperial court's annual salt tax, Li Hongyu handed over two million taels of silver is boasting about Haikou, otherwise he will definitely collect more taxes.

As the saying goes, people die for money, birds die for food, and in the face of the temptation of huge amounts of money brought about by overseas trade, there are always those who are greedy and in power who can't hold back the ** in their hearts, and Zhao Zhifu is one of them.

In the past, due to the fierce struggle between the Donglin Party and the Qichu and Zhejiang Parties, neither of them had enough advantages to overwhelm the other, which also made the local officials on both sides dare not act rashly and do anything excessive.

But now it is different, the Donglin Party has beaten Qi, Chuzhe and other factions to the ground with the "support" of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so the officials of the Donglin Party are naturally a little carried away, and their actions have become unscrupulous, and they are more greedy and out of line than the previous officials.

Since Yangzhou was a very important trading market for overseas trade, the prefect of Zhao used his power to interfere in the trade of overseas trade goods, and benefited a lot.

Although Ran Xingrang is in Yangzhou, he is a concubine who can't meddle in local affairs, and besides, Zhao Zhifu still has some scruples about acting now and does not dare to make big moves, so he will turn a blind eye, after all, the Donglin Party is now in power, and it is nothing for Zhao Zhifu to take advantage of it.

Li Hongyu was very annoyed when he knew about this matter, once the Zhao Governor's Mansion opened this bad head, it would definitely make others follow suit, but since the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the Donglin Party were going to have a showdown, he was too lazy to worry about the Zhao Governor's Mansion now, and when the Donglin Party suffered a heavy blow, the Zhao Governor's Mansion would naturally be unlucky.

Perhaps it was Li Hongyu's silence that made the Zhao prefect think that Li Hongyu was jealous of the Donglin Party, so since Li Hongyu came to Jiangnan, the Zhao prefect's interference in overseas trade and business has become more intensified, and he wants to take advantage of the fact that he is in charge of Yangzhou to get more oil and water, which also makes Li Hongyu quite dissatisfied with what he has done.

Now, Governor Zhao's precious son has fallen into the hands of Li Hongyu, Li Hongyu will definitely not let it go easily, and he wants to make Governor Zhao pay the price for what he did before.

At this moment, no one knows Li Hongyu's true intentions, and Li Hongyu wants to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger, so that those who try to get involved in overseas trade will be embarrassed and retreat.

"It's broken, it's broken, how can this be good!"

Just when Li Hongyu was waiting for Governor Zhao's mansion to come in the room, Liu Hongmei, the owner of the Drunken Moon Pavilion, hurriedly led people to the gate of the courtyard, chattering anxiously as she walked.

Liu Hongmei naturally knew that Zhao Gongzi was acting badly to Yiyi, but he was the son of the prefect, and the prefect was a member of the Donglin Party in charge of the government, so even the behind-the-scenes boss of the Drunken Moon Pavilion did not dare to offend Zhao Gongzi.

Therefore, Liu Hongmei had no choice but to let Yiyi greet Zhao Gongzi and secretly find a way to resolve tonight's crisis.

didn't think about it, before Liu Hongmei could come up with an idea, she received the news that Zhao Gongzi was beaten, and hurriedly rushed over to check, this time the matter can be a big problem, you must know that Zhao Zhifu loves this baby son the most on weekdays, how can he give up now.

If there is only one Zhao Governor's Mansion, Liu Hongmei doesn't feel anything, the key is that the Donglin Party behind Zhao Governor's Mansion is not easy to provoke, and even the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang in the court are defeated in a mess, not to mention those local magnates, who dares to provoke the Donglin Party?

Now the only prayer in Liu Hongmei's heart is that Zhao Gongzi is not too seriously injured, in this case, there is still room for maneuver, otherwise the Drunken Moon Pavilion may also be implicated, and it will take a lot of effort to settle things out.

"My master has instructed that except for the Zhao Governor's Mansion, the rest of the people are forbidden to enter."

In front of the gate of the small courtyard, Liu Hongmei and her party were stopped by the guards guarding the door, and the leading guard said with a serious expression.

The reason why Zhang Tuiguan brought more entourage in the living room than Li Hongyu's guards was because Li Hongyu transferred most of the guards to guard the door, and he didn't want unrelated people to come in to watch the excitement, so as not to expose his identity.

As for Liu Hongmei in Zuiyue Tower, he is a person Li Hongyu does not want to see, and he will definitely be able to recognize him with Liu Hongmei's eyesight and experience, and his identity will be exposed at that time.

"This is the boss of the Drunken Moon Pavilion, I have something to see your master." Seeing that Liu Hongmei was stopped, the people behind her hurriedly introduced her identity.

"My master said it, but I saw Zhao Zhifu." The leading guard said expressionlessly, naturally he would not let Liu Hongmei in.

Liu Hongmei frowned slightly when she heard this, and felt quite surprised, as if the people inside were waiting for Zhao Governor's Mansion, was he not afraid of Zhao Governor's revenge?

"How is Zhao Gongzi?"

Seeing that those guards were burly and strong, and they looked like well-trained people, and they didn't know the details of the other party, Liu Hongmei dispelled the thought of rushing in, and asked with a concerned expression after a deep groan.

"Boss Liu doesn't have to worry, it's just a few broken bones, and you can't die."

Hearing this, the leading guard replied, this is also Li Hongyu's order, he wants people to know the fate of offending him, even if Zhao Gongzi also kills Zhao Governor, there is nothing to be done, at that time, Zhao Governor's Mansion is not thinking about how to take revenge but how to protect himself.

Liu Hongmei's face suddenly changed when she heard this, she didn't expect Zhao Gongzi to be so seriously injured, and then she showed a surprised look: When the leading guard spoke, he didn't seem to take this matter to heart at all, which made her feel quite puzzled, could it be that the other party was not afraid of Zhao Zhifu at all?