"Huh? Did they meddle in this? Could it be the idea of the Manchu court? Shi Kefa was extremely surprised.

"That's not it, they don't have such great ability, it's the Fan family who did it themselves." Luo Jian handed the report sent by the Ministry of Security to Shi Kefa.

Fan Yongdou, ancestral home in Jiexiu, Shanxi. Zhangjiakou, who lived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was a representative of the Jin merchants in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The Eight Great Merchants of the Jin Dynasty (that is, the later Eight Imperial Merchants of the Later Dynasty) represented by him, smuggled grain, grass and iron tools and sold looted property on behalf of the Jurchens, which made the blockade policy of the Ming court fail, and he was the traitor of the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, which was really the scum of the Han nation at that time.

The above passage was searched by Luo Jian on the computer, and Shi Kefa of the Fan family in Shanxi had heard of it, but now when he heard Luo Jian say this, anger had erupted from Shi Kefa's eyes.

"In fact, I already knew that the Fan family did business in Yangzhou at the beginning, but they did not violate the law and discipline in Yangzhou, so we never touched them, but I didn't expect them to hit the muzzle of the gun today. When the Jurchens were able to rise, the eight businessmen in Shanxi can be said to have made great contributions. Luo Jian's voice also carried a wave of anger.

"Businessmen value profit over righteousness, but these people in Shanxi don't even want their ancestors anymore, and when they hit Shanxi in the future, they can't let any of them go!" Shi Kefa said hatefully.

"Of course, we must confiscate all the family wealth they obtained by collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and we still have a lot of gains this time to clean up Fan Sanba." Speaking of which, Luo Jian was a little excited.

"Not a small gain? How many? Shi Kefa asked suspiciously.

"Together with the silk factories opened by the Fan family in Yangzhou and Nanjing, plus the silver they used to exchange paper money this time, it is converted into more than three million taels, which is not less." Luo Jian said happily.

"Are there really so many? How can they be so bold? Shi Kefa still couldn't believe it.

"It was about making money. They all dared to trade with Nurhachi, the sworn enemies of the Ming court, and Huang Taiji. Now I see that Yangzhou's industry and commerce are doing well. Overseas trade has gradually developed again, and it is not surprising that the factory is opened to Yangzhou, but they never dreamed that we know them well. ”

"The other people are from Yangzhou and Nanjing, why do they do this?" Shi Kefa looked at the report in his hand and asked.

"With some money in hand, I want to be the same as the money bank in Hangzhou, but before they have time to set up the bank, our bank will be opened. Only then did Fan Sanba's provocation collude with a group of unsuspecting businessmen, and they began to want to run the bank down. Lai Fu has already reported the details of the interrogation to Luo Jian, but there are some things that have not been written into the report.

"Xinghua, what are you going to do with these people?"

"It's really not easy for us to deal with these people, we haven't introduced relevant laws before, and to say that their behavior really doesn't violate all our previous legal provisions. Now we can only punish them for colluding with traitors, and as for the extent of the punishment, let's discuss it again. ”

The arrest of Fan Sanba and several other businessmen caused a great sensation in Nanjing and Yangzhou, and no one went to the bank to rob the bank. This is when the issuance of banknotes really stabilized.

However, all kinds of rumors spread in the two places, and for a time the entire business community began to panic. In the past half a month, the number of businessmen who went to the government to register and set up factories began to drop sharply, and Shi Kefa and Ren Minyu couldn't sit still, and the two of them coincidentally ran to Luo Jian's office.

Luo Jian was writing an article on his desk, Shi Kefa looked at it, picked up the manuscript that Luo Jian had written, and read it out loud.

"Businessmen should also be patriotic, Xinghua, I said you are not in a hurry, it turns out that you have already started to work."

The next day's "China Daily" published an article by Luo Jian, in which Luo Jian made it extremely clear that the eight major businessmen in Shanxi, headed by the Fan family, had colluded with the enemy and capitalized the enemy.

The article pointed out that it was because of the poor handling of these traitorous merchants that the Ming court allowed the Jurchen Tartars to rise smoothly.

In the article, Luo Jian ruthlessly lashed out at these businessmen who disregarded the national righteousness and did not hesitate to betray their ancestors for the sake of profit.

At the end of the article, it is pointed out that businessmen have played an active role in the whole society and are an important class in society, but businessmen now need to re-establish their image, take off the hat of "valuing profit over righteousness" on their heads, and repay the society with the wealth they earn from society.

Merchants also have their own homeland, and without the strong backing of the state, it is impossible for merchants to do business in Japan, the South Seas, and even further afield.

With the publication of Luo Jian's article, the Nanjing government immediately promulgated a series of laws and regulations to regulate the financial market, and with the simultaneous use of public opinion and legal and administrative means, the industrial and commercial circles were finally stabilized.

After finishing this big mess, the time has reached the third day of the lunar month in 1947, and the new year is approaching.

The transformation of the chemical plant's production line has been completed, and Liu Weimin has begun to build a second production line, which will be mainly for the production of chemical fertilizers.

As the weather gets colder, the construction of the railway from Nanjing to Zhenjiang has also stopped, and the construction will not continue until the spring thaws next year.

Luo Jian hadn't been to the military factory outside the city for a while, and today was idle, and Luo Jian went out of the city with the guards.

In fact, Luo Jian wanted to see how Chen Zilong's bullet production line was doing, although he had made one out before, it was indeed too simple, and more procedures still had to be completed manually, after the war stopped, Chen Zilong was seizing all the time to transform the original production line.

The current military factory is no longer as simple as it was in Guazhou, the three-meter-high wall made of red walls completely isolates the bullet production factory from the outside, except for the two gates have set up watchtowers, and there are patrols around at any time, and the technology here is also one of the core of the entire military technology.

The guards at the door went in and called Chen Zilong to the reception room outside the factory, this is not because even Luo Jian can't go in, but for the sake of safety, after all, there are a lot of ****** stored in the factory, and this thing is not less powerful than other zha medicines.

"Xinghua, why are you here?" Chen Zilong is still very haggard, but he is in good spirits, his face is quite clean today, and his beard has only been shaved for a short time.

"Brother Mao, I'm just here to see how your production line is doing, if you go well here, we will have a new plan when spring starts tomorrow." Luo Jian didn't hide his intentions from Chen Zilong, and asked directly.

"Xinghua, you came just in time today, we finally drummed up another set of equipment, now it is much more convenient than before, and the efficiency has also improved a lot, of course, you have to allocate some more money, and when this production line is perfected, it should not be a big problem to protect 100,000 people, but there are not so many rifles now, right?" Chen Zilong looked a little excited.

"There is definitely no problem if you need money, we will try our best to ensure it, if the money can be in time, can you give a specific time?" Luo Jian nodded and said.

"Give me three months, and production will be on the right track, and then I'll see how long the Manchu Tartars can last!" Chen Zilong gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, when you say that, I have the bottom in my heart. But this year, you have to go back and rest for a few days, but you can't break your body. Luo Jian looked at the thin Chen Zilong, quite worried about his body.

"Let's talk about this then, I said Xinghua, you are not allowed to send someone to take me back again." Chen Zilong said with fear.

After leaving Chen Zilong, Luo Jian went to the ordnance factory to learn more about the situation, the rifle production line has been relatively perfect, and there is an output of about 500 pieces per month, and Luo Jian feels quite satisfied.

If the transformation of the production line for the Yangzhou Type 1 rifle is completed, the monthly output will be about 1,500 by then, but it will take about two months for the transformation of these three production lines.

On the way back to the city, Luo Jian kept thinking about whether to transfer Liu Zhaoji's first army back and change its clothes first, if the first army was transferred back from Hunan, Li Chengdong's second army would be able to reach it, and it should not be a big problem to defend the troops only on this line.

It's just that there are nearly 40,000 people in the first army, and it will take a long time to change all of them, Luo Jiansi thought about it, whether to give priority to all of Wang Qiang's seven divisions, or change a part of each unit first, which made him feel a little dilemma.

When he walked to the gate of the Dadu Governor, Luo Jian still made up his mind to equip Wang Qiang's Seventh Division first.

The first regiment of the Seventh Division lost more than half of the city in Jinan, but the loss of rifles was not large, and after the soldiers finished their bullets, they all sent their rifles to the city wall, and finally the whole regiment lost only a dozen pieces.

The first regiment was supplemented by soldiers drawn from other units of the division, and Luo Jian selected more than 2,000 people from the Nanjing garrison division to replenish all the other troops of the seventh division.

The output of the new zha medicine has stabilized, and by the beginning of spring next year, Luo Jian estimates that it should not be a problem to support several major battles, and Luo Jian wants to use the Seventh Division as the sharp knife of the whole army to start advancing towards Beijing.

If the first army is equipped first, the other troops will definitely have great opinions, but it is estimated that the problem of equipping the seventh division will not be big. Putting aside Wang Qiang's identity, even the great results achieved by the Seventh Division and the First Regiment in Jinan can also keep other troops from making trouble.

Luo Jian thought as he walked, and when he walked into the hall, he found Zhu Yujian sitting on the sofa drinking water.

"Governor, you're back, I'll be waiting for you for a while." Seeing Luo Jian coming back, Zhu Yujian quickly stood up and said hello.

"Brother Changshou (Zhu Yujian), why did you have time to come to me today? Is there something going on at customs? Luo Jian said hello as he walked to the sofa and sat down.

Since Zhu Yujian was pulled into the main leaders of the government, Zhu Yujian's performance really made Luo Jian a little impressed, not to mention anything else, as far as the customs he was responsible for, he basically didn't let Luo Jian and Shi Kefa worry about it, for most of the past six months, the income of the customs has been steadily increasing, and the materials prohibited by the government from being exported have never been lost.

"Hehe, Xinghua, you just remember that I am the director of the General Administration of Customs, and you have forgotten that I am still the foreign minister, right? I'm not here for customs, but because I, the foreign minister, have something to do with it. Zhu Yujian also sat down, and when he saw Luo Jian open his mouth to ask him, he replied with a smile.

Hearing Zhu Yujian's words, Luo Jian was a little strange, the Nanjing government currently has no dealings with other countries, and neighboring Korea has already been subjugated by the Manchus, and Luo Jian is a little confused about which country he still has dealings with. (To be continued.) )