However, can Chen Cong's 'hope' really come true? Can the families of the noble ministers really be 'safe and sound'? The private force in the hands of each family is not half the excitement.

Soon after, the impact of a sudden event swept through China like a storm......

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The city of Ningbo was lonely, and with the collapse of the Ye family, Ningbo was like being swept away by a winter cold snap in April, and the whole city was silent. The prosperity of the past seems to be yesterday's yellow flowers, and the whole city has almost fallen into a kind of autumn and winter depression.

The Ye family, which has been in charge of the Ningbo business group for more than ten years, has collapsed.

Ye Xinzhi, the old man of the Ye family, was the first Ningbo giant businessman to accept sincerity from the Han army, and in the past few years, the Ye family has always bought large sums of treasury bonds and various land bonds, actively supported a series of policies in Nanjing, and threw less than 2 million taels of silver into the water, but more than 1.5 million taels.

When Ye Xinzhi passed away in the summer of the fourth year, the Ye family was also given a benevolent archway by the Emperor Taishang in recognition of the Ye family's enthusiasm for public welfare and charity in the past years, and closely supported the performance of a series of policies of the imperial court.

At that time, the Ye family could be said to be brilliant to the extreme.

Although Mr. Ye has passed away, the Ye family is still one of the most wealthy businessmen in Ningbo, and still has a great say in the Ningbo business circle.

Who would have thought that such a wealthy family would be cut off overnight?

A group of sapper shovels produced by the Ye family's subordinate iron factory broke out bad news - some products have serious quality problems, and some people have sued the Ye family for tax evasion, tax evasion, and shoddy delivery of many military products in the past, such as compressed dry food, canned seafood, military shoes, military uniforms, etc., and the latter cannot be verified, because these are rapid consumables that have been used for a long time.

However, these things are very reliable and convincing because of the actual existence of the military-industrial shovel incident.

Of course, these can only hit the Ye family hard, and the court cannot wave a butcher's knife at the Ye family because of something without evidence. But these crimes have dealt a heavy blow to the Ye family and ruined the reputation of the Ye family, especially the reputation of the Ye family's iron shop, which has been a high-quality signboard for decades, is absolute.

In addition to the above many crimes, the responsibility for putting the head of the Ye family in prison is still to come.

Just when everyone thought that the affairs of the Ye family were over, there was suddenly a ghost within the Ye family. Someone accused the Ye family of concealing slaves and serving Han as slaves.

This crime is no small matter.

Although this phenomenon is widespread throughout the country, many slaves who have nominally become freemen are still 'hired' in the master's household. Their actual living environment hasn't changed much.

In every family, there are some servants who hold secrets inside and outside the master's house, such people are servants in the past, not only themselves, but also their descendants are held in the hands of the master's family, so some secret masters can rest assured and boldly inform them, and even let them be responsible for dealing with some pickled things. And the heaven and earth have changed, the old rules have changed greatly, and the Han people are no longer slaves, so how should the master target these people?

There are two processing modes.

The first is the public abolition of the deed, but the signing of a harsh treaty that binds life, and the signing of a family is a family, which is called a slave treaty. The Imperial Court is now preparing new legislation to combat this;

The second is to directly hide these people. When these people do not exist, that is, they have not entered the nationality of Chen Han, and they will even 'transform' into foreigners, and their whole lives will be controlled by the master's family.

These two models can be said to be effective, but it also means that they are all illegal, and they are all severely punished by Chen Han's laws, and the principal must go to prison, so it is not a matter of paying a fine to fool the past.

And many families have these things, which is an open secret in the homes of China's old rich and noble.

As long as the master can control the servants below and don't let them open their mouths casually, it will be fine.

But what about the Ye family? The person who came forward to sue the Ye family was one of their hidden servants, so the patriarch of the Ye family, that is, Ye Xinzhi's eldest son Ye Dezhong, must be imprisoned for reform, and at least three years of foundation.

At the same time, there is also a high fine, but this 'high fine' is really too small compared to the impact caused by the disclosure of many internal and external secrets of the Ye family. The latter is all-round to everyone in the Ye family.

Ye Dezhong has also been arrested, and it is estimated that he will be sentenced next month at the most.

The entire Ye family is completely down-branded.

Although the remaining assets of the Ye family are still in operation, although the people of the Ye family do not worry about eating and drinking, compared with the previous momentum of the Ye family, the Ye family is really finished.

The collapse of the Ye family made the merchants of the entire Ningbo aware of the signs of winter.

The Ye family has been operating in Ningbo for nearly 50 years.

Relatives and friends are old and old, all over the class.

Even, almost all the famous businessmen in Ningbo's business district have a deep or shallow relationship with the Ye family.

The Ye family was a wealthy family in Ningbo a hundred years ago, but the real fortune was after the old man Ye Xinzhi took power, and the Ye family's secret to making a fortune has two main points, the first is to be honest and trustworthy, and treat people generously, Ye Xinzhi is known as "the first good person" in Ningbo. In the course of Ye Xinzhi's fortune, his honest and generous personality helped him get a rare opportunity at a critical juncture, and he still moved forward with his head held high in the depression. In the Ningbo merchant gang, the phrase "be a man like Ye Xinzhi" has been circulating.

Merchants in this era must talk about integrity, that is, the family's signboard, the value will be very high, and Ye Xinzhi is not a stupid person, he is honest, but he is also very good at looking at the market trend, and then take it, which made him ascend to the throne of "Zhejiang Iron King" at the age of forty, and the Ye family's business is getting bigger and bigger.

The second secret of the Ye family's fortune is to be kind to others, help the backwards, and carry them together.

As long as the conditions allow, then reach out and pull.

For example, the shopkeeper of the Ye family has saved a little capital for some years and has done some business with an independent portal. The Ye family will never stop them, and will even encourage, fund, and promote each other. Of course, in addition to gratitude, the other party's reward is a part.

In this process, some people fail, and some people succeed.

Losers often return to the Ye family and continue to work hard, so don't say anything. The Ye family may lose a little money, but they will definitely be able to gain a large number of hearts and loyalty;

And the success, the Ye family did not lose money.

The more you earn, the greater the Ye family's income.

The Ye family has close ties with many businessmen who started in Ningbo in the past three or two decades, and the latter is even the wing of the Ye family, and it is also with these people that the Ye family's right to speak in the Ningbo merchant gang has never been left behind, even if the old man Ye Xinzhi died of illness.

And now the Ye family has been caught all of a sudden. The latter has always been doing business in his own right, and the means that the hand behind the scenes can bring down the Ye family should be used on a huge part of the businessmen, and it can also receive the same effect.

As long as a few people are paid off, a batch of qualified products are replaced with inferior and defective products before delivery, and the brand will be smashed. Then make people come forward and bite indiscriminately, involving the attention and energy of the entire family, and privately communicate with those who have 'disappeared', and if they come forward to complain, it is absolutely safe.

This huge business conglomerate collapsed immediately.

Such a trick will wither on anyone, and the mastermind behind the scenes is too ruthless.

The whole Ningbo and even Zhejiang, and even many businessmen in Jiangnan, Fujian, and Guangzhou, all felt a pan-body coldness after the news came into their ears.

They have palpitations, and they are sad when the rabbit dies and the fox dies.

Even people like the Ye family can't escape the devastation of villains, what should they do? Do you really want to honestly follow the policies of the imperial court to do business and make money? That's.

In panic, Ningbo businessmen, in order to protect themselves, have started a self-inspection.

As a result, the whole city of Ningbo was depressed in the opening days of foreign trade in the new year.

Even, the business activities of China as a whole have shrunk very sharply all at once.

Guy is because Ye's problem is very popular among the merchant groups throughout China.

This event made it to newspapers everywhere, and the more people who knew about it, the more influential it became. Even many foreigners at the port have a lot of discussions about this matter, especially the British merchants who have been anchored in the port of Ningbo.

Ningbo Port is a very important port, backed by the rich land of Zhejiang, as well as Jiangxi as an extension, although its domestic and foreign trade volume has been surpassed by Shanghai, but it is also a big port.

For many years, Japanese, Korean, and South Korean merchant ships come here, and in the six months from April to October, more foreigners come, but the latter are mostly British. With the disappearance of the French in China's foreign trade market, the only European merchants who came to Ningbo were the British.

In April, tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, etc., would be shipped to Ningbo by boat.

The entire flood and drought corridor is full of vehicles and boats, and it is crowded, and the economic taxes of the entire Zhejiang will also be on the fast track.

The Ye family alone has 37 large and small workshops and factories, engaged in silk, cotton spinning, hardware, matches, cigarettes, lamp oil, grain, cooking oil, salt and sugar, transportation, department store sales and other industries, the entire business group has hundreds of large and small carriages, dozens of large and small ships, and the entire Ye family needs thousands of workers and security guards to operate.

This is just one Ye family, and there is the entire Ningbo merchant gang behind it, and there are not no giant businessmen comparable to the Ye family in the business gang, and there are newly established construction companies and real estate developers in it, and there are also many employees affected.

Now because of the Ye family's affairs, the commercial circulation of the entire Zhejiang is going to stagnate, and it also affects the whole world.

The unconsciously behavior of the businessmen made them know for the first time that they also had such power!

Looking at the sluggish situation of Ningbo City, as well as the deserted situation of Zhejiang's waterways and dry roads, countless people's hearts are pounding.

Li Kun's eyes finally released a ray of relief, the emperor did not expect that he would be able to run a big scene in business.

And after countless news was fed back to Nanjing and fed back to the cabinet, Chen Cong couldn't help but break out.

It's obvious that there is a deliberate culprit behind this, and he said not to cause too drastic 'influence', did they listen to it? Isn't that a fierce impact?

"The Ye family can pay two or three million to the state every year, and they can also take out four or five hundred thousand net profits for charity [normal situation], such a benevolent family still has to be engaged, why don't you get this to the Li family?"

Chen Congqi's face turned red.

Affected by this in April, it is really unlikely that taxes will not decline.

You know, this year, the war between Britain and France has become more intense, and the French Indian company in Paris has publicly announced that it will stop trading with China. What's more, to a certain extent, France has already declared war on China.

It is also very likely that the merchant ships of the Netherlands, Sweden and other countries will not be able to reach China, and the impact of the naval blockade by the British is too great.

There was already a bad external environment, and now there are more such things happening on their own, so it's no wonder that the tax data for April can be beautiful.

And in the final analysis, the Ye family's affairs are because in North America, the Ye family is one of the strong supporters of the Shen family [Shen Guozhen], one of the supporters of the Wang family of Wang Huizu, and the Ye family is also an important partner of the Empress Li family.

And besides, Wang Huizu and Shen Guozhen both support Chen Ding, the eldest son of the emperor.

Because both of them are holders of orthodoxy, and Chen Ding is both a grandson and a long, in their opinion, it is natural for Chen Ding to inherit the throne.

"Lord Wang, who is behind the scenes, the lower officials have sent someone to investigate. I'm sure there will be news soon. Chen Guang wiped his forehead, in fact, there was no sweat on his head.

Chen Guang was nervous in the face of Chen Ming, but when he faced Chen Cong, he was average. The national security he led did not have too much direct connection with the cabinet, and as the most important intelligence department in the country, national security has always been in the hands of the emperor.

"Ye Dezhong is going to court, your national security hasn't figured out who is behind the scenes, what is Ningbo's national security doing?"

Chen Cong's annoyance was not fake, if he knew now that it was the one who made this ghost behind his back, he would definitely be ruthless. This incident has affected the economic development of the whole of China, which is too big.

And now Guoan's reply has made him angry, and he doesn't even have a place to sprinkle. This gave Chen Cong the feeling that during the war, the enemy had reached his doorstep, but he didn't even know how many enemies there were and who led the troops.

This matter has a huge influence in China, and many people are pleasantly surprised to see the power of the industrial and commercial class, and many people hate the mastermind behind the scenes on the one hand, and the superintendent of Zhejiang on the other.

The Ye family is now so miserable, and there is definitely the credit of Liu Wenwei, the imperial history of Zhejiang. After the incident broke out, this Liu Wenwei not only didn't think about the influence of the Ye family and raised his noble hand, but how ruthless he was, and made the Ye family dilapidated in one fell swoop. The Ye family is difficult to maintain, and the Ye family has collapsed, and Liu Wenwei has played a key role in this.

When the Ningbo merchant gang, realizing its huge power, continued to maintain the operation of business at a low intensity, intending to use this as a test to see how much pressure it could create on the provincial government, many people also looked at the Hangzhou City Supervision Yuan with gloating.

Liu Wenwei only resigned from Nanjing last autumn and was transferred to Zhejiang to supervise the imperial history.

It's like a child who suddenly gets a powerful weapon, and when a child uses it to threaten people, he will not really realize the far-reaching significance of what he is doing, but will only look at the 'adults' who have 'oppressed' him in the past and tremble in his heart.

This scene in Zhejiang was later written in Chinese history, and was praised as 'the awakening of China's capital power' by history textbooks two hundred years later. It is of extraordinary significance in the development of China's society.

This is their 'coercion' of the provincial government, and the financial tax is an important benchmark for the imperial court to measure the performance of an official. This is like Chen Ming's GPD in his previous life. But this kind of 'coercion' has no effect on Liu Wenwei at all, because Liu Wenwei is an old Confucian. Don't forget that.

As an absolute old Confucian, Liu Wenwei looked at the deserted city of Ningbo, not only did not have any worries, but was quite pleased.

"That's good...... Liu Wenwei was so happy that she almost jumped up.