Although Liu Jin never admitted that he had rebelled, but because of the complete human and material evidence, the most reluctant crime of rebellion was still on his head, and he was sentenced to Ling Chi after the execution, and as a result, on the day of the execution, many people who were harmed by Liu Jin rushed to pay for the meat cut off Liu Jin's body, and then swallowed it alive to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

After Liu Jin was Ling Chi, his henchmen were also quickly liquidated, among which Sun Cong, Shi Wenyi and others were killed, Zhang Cai died in prison, the original cabinet chief assistant Jiao Fang was only degraded because he withdrew early, but he saved his life, as for Liu Jin's clansmen, most of them were also killed, but several children of Liu Jin's eldest brother disappeared mysteriously, and no one knew their whereabouts.

After Liu Jin's death, Zhang Yong took over the throne of the eunuch in charge of the seal, and also took charge of the military power of the four Tengwei guards in the imperial city, which can be said to be in the limelight for a while. Li Dongyang succeeded as the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing worshiped as the secretary of the household department, and Yang Tinghe was promoted to the second assistant of the cabinet, becoming Li Dongyang's assistant and also a competent candidate for the first assistant of the next cabinet.

The Central Plains Dynasty has developed for thousands of years, but it is still unable to realize the rule of law instead of human rule, after Liu Jin's death, he implemented a series of reforms, whether good or bad, all were abolished, and whether it is the official history or the wild history, the content of Liu Jin's reform is very clean, which is mainly beneficial to Liu Jin's reform succeeded in offending the vast majority of scholars, so after Liu Jin's death, all the scholars scolded him but increased, which also made Liu Jin's reputation more disrepute than before his death.

For Liu Jin's death, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were naturally happy, but for ordinary people. It didn't make much of a difference. After all, the affairs of the court are too far away from them. For them, three meals a day is what they care about the most.

Zhou Chong was originally just an ordinary person, but he was different from ordinary people, because he was now a big smuggler, controlling nearly half of the smuggling trade in Shuangyu Port, so Liu Jin's death not only affected him, but also this impact was even related to the future of the Chamber of Commerce.

In the hall of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, four people sat around a sumptuous banquet. However, it is not Zhou Chong who is sitting on the main seat, but a middle-aged man with a majestic appearance, this person is Xie Lingyun's father Xie Da, and on Xie Da's right hand, it is Zhou Chong with a smile on his face, as for Zhou Chong, there is a middle-aged man who is younger than Xie Da, and there is also a young man who is about the same age as Zhou Chong.

The middle-aged man with a thin face, thin lips, and narrow eyes full of shrewdness. At first glance, you can see that Lu Dao is not a good person. As for the young man who was about the same age as him, he looked very similar to the middle-aged man next to him. just looked at Zhou Chong with a little disdain, as if sitting with Zhou Chong would insult his identity.

"Two Uncle Xie, the little nephew is really simple here, and there is nothing to entertain everyone, so I can only prepare a table of thin wine, I hope Uncle Xie and Brother Xie don't mind!" Zhou Chong, who was sitting next to Xie Da, said with a smile, although the two Xie family members opposite seemed to be very cold to him, but he still had to be polite.

Today, Xie Da suddenly brought the two people opposite him to visit, so Zhou Zhong asked people to prepare a banquet, and everyone talked while eating. Xie Da had already introduced Zhou Zhong just now, and the two people opposite him were all from the Yuyao Xie family, among them, the middle-aged man was named Xie Xiao, who was a brother of the same clan as Xie Da and Xie Qian, and the young man was Xie Xiao's son, named Xie Quanan.

According to Xie Da's introduction just now, the reason why Xie Xiao and his son came to Shuangyu Port was because they were instructed by the Xie family to discuss the specific details of the establishment of the Haimeng with Zhou Chong.

"Zhou Xian's nephew is too modest, the fifth brother has been in the dust all the way, I haven't come to pick him up yet, but he is in a hurry to come to you, so today I will borrow your wine here to toast the fifth brother!" Xie Da also saw that Xie Xiao and his son were not very friendly to Zhou Chong at this time, so he hurriedly raised his wine glass and smiled, and he also revealed a message to Zhou Zhong in his words, that is, Xie Xiao and his son were sent by the Xie family in Yuyao, and he still hasn't come to talk to the other party in detail.

Xie Xiao's father and son belong to the core clansmen of the Xie family, and it is said that their status is higher than that of peripheral clansmen like Xie Da, but Xie Da's age is older than Xie Xiao after all, and Xie Xiao is the fifth brother in the family, so Xie Da calls the other party the fifth brother. Xie Xiao's father and son naturally had to give Xie Da some face, so when they saw him toasting, they saw Xie Xiao show a faint smile and said: "Brother is polite, we are entrusted by the eldest brother this time to discuss with President Zhou about the formation of the Haimeng, so everything naturally has to be done first!" ”

The eldest brother in Xie Xiao's mouth is Xie Qian, he is the eldest among the Xie family's peers, and he is also the most promising, he has previously achieved the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, so he has always been the head of the Xie family, before Xie Da passed Zhou Chong's plan to unite the three chambers of commerce to form the Haimeng back to the clan, which immediately attracted Xie Qian's attention, and after a period of weighing, he finally sent Xie Xiao's father and son to discuss the details and conditions of the formation of the Haimeng with Zhou Chong.

Although Xie Xiao's father and son were polite to Xie Da, they ignored Zhou Chong as the master, which made Zhou Zhong angry, and at the same time secretly scolded Yuyao Xie's family for being a scholarly family, but they didn't even understand the basic etiquette, which was really hateful, if it wasn't for Xie Da's release here, I'm afraid he would have let Xie Xiao and his son be driven out of Lu a year ago!

Fortunately, Xie Da also found that Zhou Chong's face was wrong at this time, and he also knew that Yuyao Xie's family, as a local famous family, had always been unapologetic about first-class businessmen, especially if Zhou Chong was still a smuggler and a smuggler, he himself violated the law of the country, so Xie Xiao's father and son would definitely look down on Zhou Chong even more, so they would behave so coldly.

Thinking of this, Xie Da hurriedly diverted the conversation and asked Xie Xiao: "Fifth brother, I don't know what news the eldest brother asked you to convey this time, what does the family think about the establishment of the Haimeng?" ”

Although Xie Xiao was polite to Xie Da, he actually looked down on Xie Da at all, after all, the other party was just a branch child, and he was a businessman, and he had no status in the family at all, so when he was feeling impatient, when he heard the other party ask about his purpose, he immediately said: "The eldest brother still attaches great importance to your business, after all, this is one of the most important incomes of the family, so after the matter of Shaohai Alliance was reported back to the clan, the eldest brother discussed it with several old people in the clan, and finally decided to agree to establish Haimeng!" ”

Hearing that the Xie family agreed to set up the Haimeng, the anger in Zhou Zhongzhong finally subsided a little, if the Xie family and the Hong family are united, plus his Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, then he will monopolize more than eighty percent of the smuggling business in the entire Shuangyu Port, and then he will standardize all kinds of behaviors in smuggling, and then he will definitely be able to make the smuggling industry bigger and stronger, and with the development of smuggling, he will also become a well-deserved king of smuggling.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chong couldn't help but be a little excited, but before he could say anything, he heard Xie Xiao speak again: "However, although the Haimeng can be established, the eldest brother has put forward two conditions!" ”

"Conditions?" Zhou Chong's eyes froze when he heard this, and the premonition in his heart was even stronger, and he immediately asked, "Oh, I don't know what kind of conditions Lu Dao Xie Gong proposed?" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's inquiry, Xie Xiao turned his head and glanced at him lightly, but he didn't speak, but his son Xie Quanan said in a frivolous tone: "The conditions of our Xie family are not difficult for President Zhou, the first is that we plan to merge the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and the Hongjia Chamber of Commerce into a large chamber of commerce, which will be managed by my father himself, and Uncle Xie Da is the vice president, responsible for assisting my father, and after this big chamber of commerce and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce establish the Haimeng, the entire Haimeng will also be managed by my father." ”

"Smack!" Hearing Xie Quanan's words, Xie Da was the first to be stunned, and the chopsticks in his hand also fell on the table, he really didn't expect that the Chamber of Commerce that he had worked hard for the Xie family for half his life would be easily taken away by Xie Xiao, although he still had the title of vice president, but this position was probably only set up by the Xie family to comfort him, and it was impossible to have any real power at all.

Compared with Xie Da's gaffe, Zhou Zhong was also furious, his two fists were clenched tightly, and he couldn't wait to swing his fist now and beat Xie Xiao's father and son in front of him. Obviously, he came up with the revelation of the Haimeng, and the strength of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has also recovered most of it, and its influence has surpassed that of the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and the Hongjia Chamber of Commerce, but now the other party wants to take away the management of the Haimeng, which is simply a naked robbery.

However, Zhou Chong, who is a person in two lives, has already understood one thing, in this world it is not enough to rely on his fists alone, he must learn to be calm, so although he is full of anger, he forcibly resists the urge to hit people, and after a while, he said in a calm voice: "Gong Xie is really a good calculation, the first thing is so difficult to choose, but I don't know what the second condition of Lu Dao is?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Chongqiang endured the anger in his heart and did not dare to attack, Xie Xiao's father and son glanced at each other proudly, they had long known that Zhou Chong would be angry when he heard the first condition, but they were confident that Zhou Chong would not dare to be angry at all, because in their opinion, Zhou Chong was just a small smuggler, and there was no support behind him, so it could be said that as long as they were willing to do so, as long as they moved their little fingers, they could destroy Zhou Chong's Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

"As for the second condition, it is also a good thing for President Zhou, because we heard that President Zhou and Uncle Xie Da's daughter, that is, Lingyun's cousin, fell in love at first sight, so our Xie family decided to recruit President Zhou as a son-in-law, that is to say, we will all be a family in the future!" The smug smile on Xie Quanan's face was even bigger, but the condition he said was a great insult to any normal man! (To be continued......)