Although news of victories continued to come from various battlefields, Shi Kefa was at this time in the Nanjing government office with a monstrous rage.

Shi Kefa is not a good man with no temper, but although the Nanjing government has encountered many difficulties in various constructions in recent years, it has finally survived, and Shi Kefa has always been in a good mood.

But today's Shi Kefa seems to be different from the past, at this moment Shi Kefa is slapping the table in the office and scolding, looking at him angrily blowing his beard and glaring, if it is still like in the early years, maybe he will let him cut people.

"It's all Xinghua's stinky rules, why is it not allowed to kill people without trial? Where is the need to judge such scum? Shi Kefa slapped the table and shouted, Lai Fu stood next to him and didn't dare to come out.

"You security departments are all rubbish, too! I didn't hear anything about such a big thing beforehand? All day long, I only know to stare at my own people! Do you have to wait for these moths to sell all the Nanjing government short before you find out? Shi Kefa pointed at Lai Fu and said coldly.

Lai Fu didn't dare to say anything at all, only lowered his head and looked at his toes.

Several big businessmen in Nanjing and Hangzhou celebrated the recent big deal at the Yangzhou restaurant in Nanjing, and it happened that the Yangzhou restaurant was opened by the Ministry of Security in order to find out the news, although these people were very careful and did not want the people of the restaurant to serve at all, but the people of the Ministry of Security still heard a very shocking news through the copper pipe that had been buried in the house for a long time.

More than a dozen ships of supplies embargoed by the Nanjing government to the Manchus entered the Manchus through Korea, and many of them had already been transported to Beijing.

These dozen ships of supplies include more than a dozen steam engines and 100,000 stone of grain that the Nanjing government had long banned from selling to the Manchus, and even 10,000 catties of pig iron.

The Manchu court did not have cash to pay for these materials, but Dolgon actually asked the little emperor to take out a lot of treasures from the former Ming Dynasty from the palace in exchange for these materials, and Dolgon obtained these materials. The treasures of the imperial palace were exchanged for cash at a very low price, and these merchants, in order to be greedy, actually agreed, and in this way these dozen or so ships of supplies flowed into Beijing.

Shi Kefa was deeply disgusted by the behavior of the merchants' enemies after hearing Luo Jian talk about the great harm of Shanxi's "Eight Imperial Merchants", and since then. He has always fully supported Luo Jian's policy of implementing an economic blockade against the Manchus, and now at the juncture of the decisive battle, this kind of thing has happened, how can he not be angry?

However, Shi Kefa learned a lesson this time, and after being angry at Lai Fu, he did not publicize the matter, but while asking Lai Fu to continue to investigate thoroughly, he gathered the cabinet members at home and quietly held a meeting, at which Shi Kefa reported the matter.

"A bunch of things that have forgotten their ancestors. I don't think it's enough to be angry if you don't kill it! Lu Zhenfei, who had the hottest temper, slapped the table hard, and his voice was almost roaring.

"Yes, now Xinghua has won a great victory on the battlefield, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty seems to have reached the point of exhaustion, and it seems that they are about to hit the city of Beijing, but this kind of thing has happened at this time, how can we explain to Xinghua?" Yuan Jixian also sighed deeply and said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, aren't these supplies banned by the government from going to sea? What's going on with your customs? Didn't even notice this? Shi Kefa seemed to remember something. Zhu Yujian, who is still the director of customs, asked.

"These things didn't go through customs at all, if so many supplies were going to sea. It must be approved by me, but I am not impressed. "Zhu Yujian is a little aggrieved, since he became the director of customs, he has never had a problem on this, and now it is such a big problem, how can he not be annoyed?

"I think these people have tasted the sweetness. They're definitely not going to stop, and they're going to do it next. Ren Minyu calmly analyzed.

"If they continue to do it, they will sell you, you, me, and him to the Manchu court!" Shi Kefa pointed angrily at everyone and said.

Liu Weimin sat at the table and looked at the report of the Ministry of Security, but he did not speak, and he did not participate in many such cabinet meetings, except for the scientific and technological aspects. He seldom spoke, but today he paid great attention to the matter.

"Supervisor, everyone, you don't have to be so angry, although the amount of these materials is not small, it still has little impact on the current situation, and it will not affect the process of our recovery of the whole country. It's just that there are so many materials, I'm afraid it won't be something that individual businessmen can do, will there be a shadow of the Chamber of Commerce behind this? If there is a chamber of commerce involved, we have to deal with it carefully. Liu Weimin calmly analyzed.

"Why be cautious? I think they just think that our government is too weak, which is why they are so unscrupulous and bold! Profiteers, no traitors, no businessmen! Lu Zhenfei was a little dissatisfied with Liu Weimin's caution.

Liu Weimin glanced at Lu Zhenfei and understood in his heart that everyone, including Shi Kefa, still had not fundamentally changed their views on the merchant class. Although what happened this time was extremely bad, after all, it was only done by a very small number of people, and no matter how much people disliked them, the group of businessmen would eventually go to the stage of history and even decide the fate of the country.

Liu Weimin was born in a merchant family, and his family used to be engaged in both industry and trade, and he himself wanted to do industry, which is why he chose to study technology instead of economic management when he was in college.

In the past few years in this time and space, although Luo Jian was very supportive of the development of industry and commerce, Liu Weimin knew that Luo Jian only considered it from the needs of social development, and he himself did not have a good impression of businessmen from the bones.

Judging from Luo Jian's ban on businessmen from entering the railroad and steelmaking, which are related to the lifeblood of the country's economy, he still has a deep wariness of businessmen, and he does not want businessmen to control the country.

But Liu Weimin knows the extreme importance of trade to a country and society, and what he is worried about now is that this matter will cause great prejudice against businessmen who do trade among cabinet members, and he is not worried that Luo Jian will do something more extreme, after all, although Luo Jian does not like it, at least he knows the priority of the matter.

Liu Weimin did not argue with Lu Zhenfei, he knew that some of his ideas would not be accepted by Lu Zhenfei, and what he was worried about now was that the Nanjing government would expand its handling of this matter, and once the attack was too widespread, it would inevitably have a negative impact on the development of industry and commerce.

Because the matter has not been thoroughly investigated, and today's meeting has not reached a specific conclusion or solution, everyone has to wait patiently for the final investigation results of the Ministry of Security.

After the meeting, Liu Weimin went to Luo Jian's mansion, and he wanted to discuss it with Liu Lan.

"How did this happen again?" Liu Lan also felt a little incredible, after the incident of the Fan family last time, the Nanjing government's handling was not insignificant, and these people directly did the things of the enemy for the sake of interests.

"I think it may have something to do with the fact that since the beginning of this year, our energy has basically been focused on the last battle against the Manchus, ignoring the development of trade?" Liu Weimin analyzed that since the second half of last year, the Nanjing government began to plan for the final battle against the Manchus, and the focus of all work has been on this, and there are far fewer overseas trade organizations.

"Then you can't do this for the sake of profit, Xinghua doesn't know about this yet, right?" Liu Lan was still a little angry.

"The chief probably doesn't know about this, does he? Lai Fu found out about this in Nanjing, and judging from the time, he didn't have time to report it to the chief. Liu Weimin said.

While the two were talking, Zhang Cheng came in and said that Lai Fu was here.

Steward Luo is no longer working in Luo Jian's Mansion now, Liu Lan saw that he was really capable, and handed over the newly built bicycle factory to him to manage, he is doing very well now, and only Zhang Cheng is left as the housekeeper in Luo Jian's Mansion.

"Lai Fu, how are you doing on this matter?" Liu Lan knew that Lai Fu came to her today for this matter, so she asked him bluntly.

"Madam, it's not difficult to find out about this, and now we've found out." Lai Fu bowed to Liu Lan and Liu Weimin and hugged his fists and saluted, and then spoke.

It turned out that this batch of materials was originally intended to be sent to Sulfur Ball Island, and the materials sent to Sulfur Ball were of course not considered sea trade materials, and the customs recorded them, but they were not treated as sea trade materials.

Before the materials were shipped, a North Korean businessman found a businessman surnamed Li in Hangzhou, who was planning this trade, and was willing to pay double the price to buy this batch of materials, and the businessman surnamed Li gathered more than a dozen owners of this batch of goods to discuss, and everyone agreed that the profit of shipping to the sulfur ball was too low, and it was more cost-effective to sell it to North Korea.

Although these materials became overseas trade when they arrived in North Korea, the people who had been blinded by the double price could no longer take care of so much, anyway, the ship would have to change its direction after going to sea.

Who knew that after the fleet arrived in Korea, it was not the Koreans who wanted to accept the materials, but the Manchu court sent people to contact them, which made the merchant surnamed Li afraid.

In the end, the seven or eight merchants who went with the fleet were still dazzled by the treasures of the imperial palace, and agreed that the Manchu court would exchange the palace treasures for these dozen ships of supplies, and they discussed with the people sent by the Manchu court to organize a batch of goods to be transported to Korea as soon as they returned to Hangzhou.

Lai Fu said that six of the dozen or so businessmen are from Nanjing, the rest are from Hangzhou, and two of the six Nanjing businessmen are still serving as directors of the Chamber of Commerce.

I have to say that the Ministry of Security later did a very detailed investigation and investigated the matter clearly without alarming these businessmen.

Although Liu Lan was very concerned about this matter, she did not go directly to Shi Kefa, after all, she did not hold a clear position in the Nanjing government, and Lai Fulai told her that it was out of instinctive trust, but it did not conform to the work procedures.

Once the matter is investigated, it is not difficult to deal with it. Liu Lan and Liu Weimin felt that Shi Kefa and other members of the cabinet would not let go of this matter easily, but they did not expect that Shi Kefa and the cabinet would make such a big determination that they would attack the entire business community.

What Liu Weimin feared really became a reality.

"It's not that we don't teach and punish us, we dealt with similar incidents a few years ago, and these people don't even attract lessons, they are to blame!" Shi Kefa's words were resounding.

After arresting these dozen businessmen, the first thing the Nanjing government did was to dissolve the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce, and then began a thorough investigation of the industrial and commercial circles. (To be continued.) )