After listening to Zhao Hongyou's complaints, all the local tyrants and inferior gentry complained.

"Isn't it, it is said that the emperor attaches great importance to industry and commerce and treats businessmen preferentially, whether it is the merchants of Guangdong or the Hui merchants of Liangjiang, they have all benefited from the Ming Dynasty, but our Jin merchants in Shanxi are not treated!"

"yes, what are those traders? But it's just guarding the mouth of Guangzhou, acting as an agent for foreign deals? Hui merchants are a little more promising, but the ones who are really big are salt merchants. Is that comparable to our Jin Chamber of Commerce doing business? I think that the eight imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty were all from Shanxi, and there would be no Jin ......merchants in the Qing Dynasty."

This Taigu man, who had a dough dough face and looked like a businessman who Wishing you prosperity for making a fortune, said this, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Now it seems that tomorrow is falling again! The Jin merchants made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, but they were unforgivable to the Ming Dynasty......

Qi Suzao smiled bitterly: "Brother Zhenyu, you still remember Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa and their eight predecessors, I think it was the eight of them who secretly transported military supplies and intelligence to the Qing Dynasty in the name of business, and also provided food and iron tools to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing Dynasty was in the most difficult time, so that the Qing Dynasty turned the corner...... If it weren't for them, Qianming might not have lost the country! Fortunately, these eight families have long been defeated, and the descendants are scattered, otherwise they would have followed in the footsteps of Shi Jinghai's family! ”

This name is "Zhenyu", and Mao Honghui is the most famous ticket number shopkeeper in Shanxi and the head of the Wei brand. The Wei Zihao operated by him and the Rishengchang ticket number operated by Lei Lutai are also the two largest ticket numbers in northern China. However, after the Taiping Rebellion, both ticket numbers have been greatly damaged. After Daming took control of Shanxi, he asked the two to accept the supervision of HSBC. Deposit 25% of your deposit with HSBC. It also ordered the ticket number to immediately stop the issuance of small and medium-denomination bills of exchange with monetary functions. Almost half of the financial road of Shanxi's ticket number was cut off. Coupled with the monopoly of HSBC and Lixin Bank on large-amount exchange business, the survival of Jinshang ticket number is in trouble. Therefore, this Mao Da shopkeeper complained a lot about the policy of "suppressing" Jin merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Qi Suzao's words, everyone present was shocked and discolored, but there was nothing they could do. The legendary deeds of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants were widely spread among the Jin merchants, and the history of the eight Jin merchants did not know how many descendants were inspired to put pen to business, and of course, the Manchu court favored Shanxi merchants.

In the eyes of these Shanxi gentry who grew up in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the actions of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants were not only innocent. And thanks to the state...... But now this country has changed from the Qing Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty!

"The Eight Great Imperial Merchants have already been listed as traitors by the imperial court, probably in the eyes of the emperor, our Jin Merchants are the same as the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, right?"

I don't know who is here again, the faces of the people in the audience are even more ugly, the eight imperial merchants are the idols of the Jin merchants, and their credit to the Qing Dynasty is to blame the Ming Dynasty! They all know that the Ming Dynasty published a book of "The Biography of the Traitor in the History of the King James Dynasty", listing Nurhachi as the first traitor in history! And Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, who made great contributions to the opening of the country in the Qing Dynasty, and Shi Lang, who later recovered Taiwan, are all extremely evil traitors! Among them, there are also the names of the eight imperial merchants......

Someone was upset: "Why! Their Hui merchants and merchants are also working for the Qing Dynasty, why are they all good people, and our Jin merchants are traitors? ”

"Because when the Hui merchants and merchants worked hard for the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had basically lost the country, so they were not considered traitors...... And there are no Hui merchants or merchants. The Qing Dynasty also won the world and sat in the world, without our Jin merchants. 200 years old in the morning! ”

"What can I do then? Our Shanxi has been ruined by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is already dilapidated, and if we want to make the imperial court an alternative again, won't we never have a bright day? ”

"What else do you want to do? It would be nice to be able to keep my current net worth......"

"Being regarded as a traitor by the court still wants to protect his family? It's nice to be able to save your life! ”

A room full of Shanxi tyrants and inferior gentry all lamented. The situation was indeed desperate, and at this time the Chinese merchants were still dependent on the feudal rulers, not the independent bourgeoisie. The Jin merchants were even more so, how could they not know that the attitude of the Lu Dao Imperial Court towards them could directly determine their rise and fall? I think the reason why the eight imperial merchants fell back then was not all because of the change in the attitude of the imperial court?

At that time, the imperial court was only the property of the eight imperial merchants, and now Zhu Datianzi simply dislikes the Jin merchants, is the day when the big guy will be ruined?

Seeing this scene, a hint of a smile appeared on the corner of Qi Suzao's mouth, and then he sighed again: "The reason why Miao Peilin hasn't attacked us now is because we have a group practice in our hands!" If we wait for the imperial court to clean up all our little force, Miao Peilin should ask for a confiscation......"

"Team practice?" Mao Honghui's head shook like a rattle, that bit of force is used by a bird, if Emperor Zhu can't even clean up the Shanxi group exercises, how can he win the world?

"It's better to have a knife in your hand than to use your bare hands." Zhao Hongyou took over the topic, "We don't want to rebel, we just want an explanation, the eight imperial merchants have nothing to do with us, and we have no descendants here, this board shouldn't hit us!" ”

Qi Suzao slapped the table: "Yes!" We all support the emperor and support the Ming Dynasty, and we have no other requirements, just want Shanxi to be the same as the eight southeastern provinces, and the locals are local officials, and we can't stuff seventy or eighty thousand Huai people at once and rob all the officials of our Shanxi people! ”

"Lord Qi, what do you mean......" Mao Honghui asked with some uncertainty.

"Petition the imperial court against the naturalization of the Miao Party...... We are anti-Miao party, not anti-court! ”

"Will this work?"

"Why not?" Qi Suzao raised his eyebrows, "Miao Peilin supports the army and is self-respecting, just like a feudal town, I don't believe that the emperor has no intention of cutting the domain." Our Jin merchants are not good in the eyes of the emperor, and Miao Peilin is even more of a scourge! ”

Zhao Hongyou said: "Lord Qi is reasonable, all dynasties and dynasties have regarded the feudal town as a great harm, maybe the imperial court is waiting for an excuse to clean up Miao Peilin!" He stood up and arched his hand at a room of Shanxi tyrants, "I am not talented, and I am willing to go to Yingtianfu on behalf of the elders of Shanxi Province to petition the son of tomorrow to drive away the seedlings!" If you agree with Zhao, please belong to a name on the petition excerpt, if there can be a joint signature of 10,000 people, Zhao is eighty percent sure that the seedlings can be driven successfully! ”

The atmosphere in the flower hall was loosened, and many local tyrants in Shanxi exchanged hopeful eyes, and Zhao Hongyou's proposal was too tempting for them. Qi Suzao saw that the time was ripe, and decisively slapped the table: "I think it's okay, this is the only way out for us Shanxi people!" ”

Mao Honghui sat on the sidelines, watching coldly, and had nothing to say. Zhao Hongyou's method does sound feasible. Now they, the wealthy businessmen and gentry in Shanxi, have lost their political umbrella, and the businessmen of Liangjiang, Fujian and Guangdong have developed extremely rapidly in recent years, and he knows this very well, and there are no less than 20 banks and money banks with a principal of more than 5 million yuan in the eight southeastern provinces alone, and Shanxi's Weizihao and Rishengchang are nothing compared to them. Now I can only hold on to the trade route from Shanxi to Mongolia, but how many days can I survive? Even if Emperor Zhu would take Miao Peilin off the donkey, he would not tolerate Shanxi's "autonomy", and what Jin people ruled Jin was purely a fool's dream. The reason why the Ming Dynasty allowed the eight southeastern provinces to implement locals as local officials was not because there were too many officials, and it was impossible for all of them to serve in different places.

In fact, there is no autonomy at all, and the power to appoint local county officials is held by the imperial court, and only minor officials below the county level are jointly held by the county, government, and provincial levels. Moreover, the emperor's own consortium also controlled the payment of salaries to local officials, and the management of treasury and tax silver of officials at all levels -- in the eight southeastern provinces, officials at all levels, including the army's account offices, were not allowed to store more than 500 yuan in cash in their cash cabinets, and all the salaries were paid by checks. Where in the local area does it have the strength to compete with the imperial court? Qi Suzao and Zhao Hongyou sang and harmonized, but I am afraid that they didn't have any good intentions, maybe they still have some connection with Kulun and Xining, right? Thinking of this, in the excited eyes of the local tyrants in Shanxi, he also smiled slightly. (To be continued......)