The Manchu court was busy because of the rebellion of the Yan family, and at the same time, some Manchu magnates and ministers played a game, wanting to raid the big businessmen of the whole country. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If you, a man who claims to be rich and rival the country, dare to rebel, will other wealthy businessmen also rebel?

And the Yan family, who has a wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, actually quickly laid down the four provinces after the rebellion, everyone thinks that it is caused by the large amount of silver held by the Yan family, and a large number of soldiers can be recruited if there is money, although it is now the era of firearms, but an army equipped with cold weapons uses crowd tactics, maybe it is not easy to equip firearms, and the Yan family can't buy firearms? As long as there is money, what will those Western merchants not sell?

Fortunately, the Yan family is inland, only through the Yangtze River and the outside world can be faster, if the Yan family is in the coastal provinces, it is dangerous, you can trade with Western merchants anytime and anywhere, what is lacking to buy anything, now the Yan family is in the inland, even if the Yan army is equipped with firearms, once the imperial court sends sailors to block the Yangtze River, wait for the firearms and ammunition to be gone, see how the Yan family is organized.

However, there is not only one wealthy businessman in the country, the Qiao family of Jin merchants, the Meng family of Shandong (descendants of Yasheng), and the Ye family of Ningbo are all wealthy businessmen with assets of tens of millions.

The Yan family was only a small business family with assets of less than one million before, and in the past ten years, it has developed into a super business family that surpasses the Jin Shang Qiao family, the Shandong Meng family, and the Ningbo Ye family.

If the Jin Shang Qiao family, the Shandong Meng family, and the Ningbo Ye family also rebelled, would they be able to occupy a province in a short period of time, and I shudder to think about it.

In the eyes of the Manchu elites, no matter how rich you are, you are their slaves, your money is theirs, once they want it, you can take it at any time without having to pay it back, isn't Qiao Zhiyong of the Jin merchant Qiao family an example? The court was short of silver, so he asked Qiao Zhiyong, but Qiao Zhiyong didn't dare not give it, and it was for nothing to give.

However, the rebellion of the Yan clan frightened the Manchu elites, what if other wealthy merchants also rebelled? So they demanded that the major wealthy businessmen be confiscated, for fear that there would be another Yan family, and even most of the ministers of military aircraft were in favor of the raid of the wealthy businessmen.

But immediately ushered in the refutation of Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang and others.

In the words of Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and others, those wealthy businessmen originally had no intention of rebelling, but if you want to raid them, they can't sit and wait for you to raid, there is only one way left to rebel, aren't you forcing them to rebel?

There is an example of the Yan family before, the people have not rebelled yet, you are good, but you want to raid the Yan family, the Yan family got the news in advance, and was unwilling to be arrested, so they could only rebel.

Now you still have to raid other wealthy businessmen, you are not afraid that the news will leak out in advance, they will also rebel, one Yan clan has not been destroyed, and there will be a few more big enemies, who can solve it?

After a few words, the Manchu magnates who wanted to confiscate the wealthy merchants were speechless, and finally they could only say dryly: "Just wait until the short-haired thieves are eliminated and then those wealthy merchants will be raided one by one." ”

The matter of the seizure of the wealthy merchants in the imperial court has been put aside for the time being, and perhaps it will be brought up again after the short-haired thieves are destroyed, of course, it is impossible for the short-haired thieves in their mouths to be eliminated.

In fact, long before the imperial court got the news of the Yan family's rebellion and occupation of Siqi, the major wealthy businessmen actually knew the news one step ahead, and the major wealthy businessmen could have such a big family business, and they must have their own channels for quickly transmitting information, and it was not surprising that they could learn in advance of the imperial court.

The Jin merchant Qiao family was one of the first wealthy merchants to learn the news of the Yan rebellion.

After getting the information of the Yan family's rebellion, the housekeeper of the Qiao family was full of cold sweat, as one of the wealthy businessmen, the Yan family rebelled, would the court think that the Qiao family also rebelled and sent troops to raid the house.

The steward didn't dare to stay for a moment, and hurriedly sent the information to Qiao Zhiyong.

After seeing this information, Qiao Zhiyong only spit out four words in his mouth: "The official forces the people to rebel."

From the previous imperial court to seize the Yan family's industry, and now to get the information of the Yan family's rebellion, anyone can come to a conclusion that the officials forced the people to rebel, so what should the Qiao family, who is also a wealthy businessman, do?

Qiao Zhiyong made a decision, that is, to take the initiative to provide grain and grass for the imperial court, and take out three million taels of silver as the military salary for the imperial court to exterminate the Yan family, one million taels more than Zuo Zongtang wanted to cut two million taels from Qiao Zhiyong, and at the same time, Qiao Zhiyong also actively contacted other Jin merchants to raise grain, grass and military salaries for the imperial army.

Most of the wealthy merchants in the Manchu Qing Dynasty made a decision similar to Qiao Zhiyong, showing the imperial court that they were loyal and patriotic and would not rebel, but actively supported the imperial army to exterminate the Yan clan.

The imperial court has not yet received the news of the Yan rebellion, and other wealthy businessmen have actually scraped together tens of millions of taels of soldiers' salaries, I don't know what Zuo Zongtang's expression will be when he gets the news.

Why do these magnates do this?

There are two main reasons, one is the ideological education of Confucianism, and the other is that the rise of these wealthy merchants is inseparable from the imperial court.

An important direction of Confucian ideological education is to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, think about Yan Xueyi's previous life, the Manchu Dynasty was destroyed, and there are a large number of Han people who still have long ugly braids until they died, loyal to their Manchu Dynasty, willing to be a slave of the Manchus for the rest of their lives, Confucian ideological education is not terrible?

For example, Qiao Zhiyong, the root of his business is Confucianism, the so-called Confucian business avenue, one faith, two righteousness, three benefits, that is, to credibility of customers, to treat people with righteousness, faith and righteousness first, profit to the right way.

At the same time, the Confucian idea of "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" was also deeply imprinted in Qiao Zhiyong's mind, so that he could not make a move against the Manchu Dynasty, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty sent Qiao Zhiyong to prison many times and cut the flesh on Qiao's body, Qiao Zhiyong still did not think about rebellion, which shows how powerful Confucianism is in terms of ideological education, so many Han people have been brainwashed to be loyal to a dynasty ruled by the Manchus.

Another is simpler, from ancient times to the present, the status of officials on the land of China is higher than that of merchants, a businessman wants to make more money, first of all, he must consider the problem of officials, otherwise officials can find a reason to do so, they can copy the merchants, do not see that the rise of the Yan family on the road to continue to use interests to buy the Manchu elites, let them become the umbrella of the Yan family, Yan can continue to grow and develop.

These two aspects made the major wealthy businessmen can only support the imperial court to send a large army to exterminate the Yan clan, even if the imperial court wants to raid their homes, they can only sit and wait for death, and will not think about rebellion.

Besides, is it so easy to rebel? If you don't prepare in advance, how can you have the strength to fight against the imperial court in a short period of time?