XXII. Choice

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Call the recommended vote again......

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The Jin merchants collaborated with the enemy, which was still a relatively confidential matter at that time, and it was impossible for ordinary people to know about it.

There are some people in high positions who know the inside story, but the relationship is not detailed, and in the late Ming Dynasty, the power of businessmen was blazing, far from being compared with the tragic situation of bullying in the early and middle periods.

Therefore, the Jin merchants who have a unique vision and scheming have taken a fancy to doing business with Dongyu, a good way to make a fortune. For the sake of silver, the merchant really has no homeland......

At the time when the war between the Ming and Qing dynasties was the most fierce and the blockade outside the customs was also the most severe, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were not good at management, or in other words, they did not treat the Han people as human beings, so the production efficiency was low, and the output income could not catch up with the consumption at all.

Coupled with the severe natural disasters during the Xiaoice River period, if it were not for the strong support of the Jin merchants, Jiannu, who was in the bitter cold land of Liaodong, desperately transported grain and cloth into it...... I'm afraid this bandit group would have starved to death long ago.

Of course, the Jin merchants did not give it for nothing, a large number of fur Dongzhu ginseng horses were traded, and the profits were several times and dozens of times higher as soon as they turned over.

After the death of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi also personally summoned the Jin merchants who had made great achievements and gave the imperial merchants a monopoly position......

Hearing that all these grain and cloth were going to be transported to Dongyu, Li Gong's nails were straight into the flesh, Wang Yuan bit his lip desperately, and the blood on his lower lip was dripping from the bite of this thick straight man...... If it weren't for that, I'm afraid he would have jumped half a day high.

The man who fought in Songshan, where can he rub such a large grain of sand in his eyes?

If it weren't for Zhu Cihong's presence, it would be considered a ruined family, and as long as he and this Jin merchant surnamed Fan had a fight into the meat, the white knife went in, and the red knife came out!

If it weren't for that, I am afraid that I would not be able to extinguish the boiling blood in my chest!

The blood of the front was like a river, and how many old men threw their blood between the white mountains and black waters, in order to annihilate the ugly captives and prevent them from committing China and mutilating the people again...... The result? The blood gourd fighting in front is also similar, but the back is in a hurry to betray the country!

"Shameless ugly!"

"Han Annihilation!"

"Bastard bastard!"

While everyone was scolding angrily in their hearts, they walked straight out.

Several men crowded around Zhu Cihong, all of them were pale, their chests were also lying together, their fists were clenched, and when they saw a few deacons coming from afar, they wanted to punch and fight.

"For a while, I've been thinking about weapons, armor, and food." Out of the courtyard gate, Zhu Cihong also let out a long breath. Although he had known it for a long time, he couldn't suppress his anger when he clearly understood that it was happening in front of his eyes.

These Jin businessmen are really damned.

Looking at everyone, Zhu Cihong continued: "Of course, there must be horses. When I thought of buying a horse, I asked someone to inquire. It turned out that the largest one in the horse business in Beijing was the Fan family, a Jin merchant. When I inquired again, they were harvesting grain, cloth, and herbs in the interior, and I wondered what they were doing hoarding tens of thousands of stones. Today, seeing is believing, but it was really sent outside the mouth and sold to Dongyu for huge profits! ”

After that, he took a long breath, and his expression was also depressed.

I didn't care much about it before, but when I saw the appearance of the Fan family, and then looked at so much grain in the warehouse, I thought that the master was a Jin merchant and a grain merchant in Beijing, and then sent grain to Zhangjiakou...... If there are so many clues and you still can't figure out what's going on, then he's a human head and a pig's brain.

"What to do with them?" This question is not only thinking about these military attachés, but also Zhu Cihong.

Obviously, with the current rule of the Ming Dynasty, there are no officials to manage these businessmen, and he is still only the crown prince, that is, the emperor, I am afraid that he will continue to cut off the layers of relationship networks that have been formed over the years!

The factory guards are useless, the army is useless, and the officials are detached.

The businessmen are very difficult to control, they have instigated tens of thousands of people to resist taxes, and they have also done the work of killing the tax supervisors of the imperial court, what else dare not do? Besides, big businessmen and gentry officials and even imperial relatives are inextricably linked, can he Zhu Cihong eradicate all the imperial relatives and gentry of the country?

In the early years, Chongzhen just asked people to raise donations, and the means were a little more intense...... The result? The emperor was defeated and lost, and he was disgraced, and with the help of things, he hastily dealt with it.

Now if Chongzhen is enlightened, Chongzhen's temper will naturally be investigated, but how can Zhu Cihong conclude that there is no emperor to come out to explain and speak, reversing black and white?

How can you conclude that the inner supervisors will not say a word about him, the crown prince, talking nonsense?

Civil officials are swarming out to find trouble, what should they do if they break their boots?

It's true that his father dares to kill people, but he doesn't have the courage to slap the butts of hundreds of officials at once, if Chongzhen had the courage, he wouldn't have beheaded Chen Xinjia......

When the time comes, it is not impossible to fight the tiger, but to be injured by the tiger.

In terms of the actual political situation in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong not only had scruples, but also had a great possibility of making himself disgraced......

But I just got a clue about the escape from the south......

When they arrived at the entrance of the market and returned to the crowded street, everyone had the feeling of a sudden dream.

Who would have thought that just across such a deep mansion compound, there would be someone openly doing this traitorous deed in the capital division, which is the first good area?

And it is conceivable that there must be more than one or a few businessmen involved, without the participation of local and central officials, the business of the Jin merchants will never be so big!

It's really rotten to the roots......

What is the way to do it...... To care or not...... Zhu Cihong burst into tears...... This multiple-choice question is really difficult to do......

Just when the crown prince was not thinking about it, Wang Yuan stepped forward, pulled his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Master, I'm bumping into this group of artists again." ”

"Strange, why are they scurrying around?" Zhu Cihong also felt strange, and there was a thoughtful look in his eyes. This group of performers has been wandering around from Xuanwumen to Qianmen in the past few days, and they have been bumped into several times.

Wang Yuan said that the group of outsiders who were performing arts, three or four strong young men, some were striking gongs, some were maintaining order, and a big girl was wearing a strong suit, turning her head in the middle of the field surrounded by the crowd.

But seeing that her belt was tight, Xiaoman's waist was less than a hand, but her chest was undulating mountains, turning her head all the way, her face was not red or panting, she hugged her fists, and her face was heroic.

Just speaking with a strong Central Plains accent, but it is also very good, like a yellow warbler out of the valley: "Old and young masters, you are ugly." ”

Amid the applause of the crowd, the girl retreated, and then the old man who led the team came up, and after saying a few words, he began to perform the trick of swallowing the sword in the throat.

Under the eyes of everyone, the old man leaned back and raised his head to the sky, a three-foot-long Longquan sword flashed with cold light, and was slowly inserted into the throat by the old man, the old man moved very slowly, and everyone also saw it clearly, such a long sword, just straight into the mouth, people who watched couldn't help but worry, afraid that the tip of the sword would be inserted from the old man's back.

Finally swallowed it up, the old man still bent down and did not move, the talented girl came out with a plate, and went around the field, some of the spectators turned around and left, and some threw one or two copper coins.

"Thank you, thank you."

The girl didn't seem to care, but when she passed by Zhu Cihong, she couldn't help but glance at a young man like Zhu Cihong, although she was dressed in an ordinary outfit.

Zhu Cihong smiled at her, but the girl's face turned red.

"The girl is from Henan, right? I guess, it's from Xinyang Mansion. ”

Zhu Cihong asked with a smile.

"It's not!" The girl's face was expressionless, and she replied in a very crisp and crisp Beijing accent, and then turned her head and went around again.

"Hey, hey."

Zhu Cihong touched his chin, laughed dryly, and then glanced at Wang Yuan and the others, and planned to leave.

This group of people...... It's not the fucking camp spies who are the hell!

He remembered very well that around the New Year's Festival, Li Zicheng ordered Liu Tichun's little Liu Ying to send a large number of spies to Yanjing City to spread rumors, bribe officials, create public opinion, and threaten and intimidate the people.

The work was done well in advance, so when the army arrived in the city, the people in the city were already panicked, and they were waiting to surrender.

It is not surprising that even Zhang Xianzhong has used such a method to fight Xiangyang. Speaking of the best to build slaves, Fushun, Tieling, Shenyang, are all such means, to take down the method of combining the inside and outside, it is also sad to say, the Ming Dynasty has raised the factory guard for more than 200 years, and the folk mention the color change, but in the Chongzhen period, the factory guard seems to have disappeared......

The group of entertainers in front of him, the business is not tight, the clouds are light and light, five or six people have more than a dozen pairs of eyes, just looking around, all they see are the mansions of the high gates, in addition, they are walking around the city gates...... If it weren't for the spies, it would be a ghost.

It's also interesting to think about, these days out of the palace, touched the door of the traitorous Jin merchants, and found a group of spies who broke into the camp, sure enough, the troubled times are coming, and the demons are dancing......

At the end of the Ming season, the control of the imperial court over the subordinates was really weakened to the extreme, and all kinds of chaotic phenomena were also transparent.

The country is powerless...... In such a situation, what is the difference between the two who do not deviate from morality?

Coming out of the circle of people, Zhu Cihong just walked in front with a blink, and there was a thought in his heart, but it flashed extremely fast, and he couldn't catch it no matter how he caught it.

There seems to be a subtle connection between the matter in front of us, the incident just now...... But when I wanted to catch it, it disappeared in a flash...... Scratch your head......

was thinking about it, but he was also worried about the things in front of him, Zhu Cihong just walked with a sad face, but he didn't watch out, when a sudden explosion sounded in his ears, and someone shouted: "Get out of the way, are you blind!" ”

Zhu Cihong hurriedly let go, and the long whip marks wiped past his ears. When I turned my head, I saw more than a dozen big men dressed in pale heads, all of them tall horses, with the crackling of long whips in their hands, driving pedestrians, and guarding several green cover carts in the middle, all of them were disturbed and headed forward.

"Whose minions and convoy are these, why are they so arrogant."

A few Xiucai were also furious when they saw this, and they rushed forward and scolded non-stop.

The big men were driving people away, and they were also annoyed when they saw that the talents were in trouble, and there was a man who suddenly reined in the horse, and the horse raised his front hooves and was about to turn around, but there was an old woman selling vegetables passing by, and the horse was startled, and a little longitudinal, but the big man fell off the horse.

"Old immortal!" The brocade-robed man got up from the ground, embarrassed, and immediately raised his horsewhip, and whipped it at the old woman.