Fan Sanba made a circle to everyone, and said with a smile: "Sanba has seen all the shopkeepers. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The merchants below all returned the courtesy, and many people couldn't help but be surprised in their hearts, and turned their heads and ears.

I have long heard the name of the Fan family in Shanxi, and he traded in Biansai at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and when it was passed to his father Fan Yongdou, he was already a famous businessman in Zhangjiakou. It is also one of the earliest merchants who traded with the Manchurians, and the history records that it "traded with Liaozuo and made money for a long time", and it was also one of the eight imperial merchants of Shunzhi in the early Qing Dynasty.

It is rumored that the Fan family has millions of dollars, and they all operate grain, cotton, salt, cloth, coal, tea, and medicinal materials, especially grain and cotton. There are many talents in the clan, Jincheng, Changzhi, Qixian, Taiyuan, Datong, Zhangjiakou and other places are all set up shops.

Their family is proficient in mathematics, abacus, accounting and other computing skills, as well as a large number of language geniuses, many people in the clan are proficient in the Ming Dynasty, and even after trading with Russia in later generations, a large number of talents proficient in Russian have emerged. Finally, after the trade show arrived in Europe, many people in the tribe were fluent in various Western languages.

In fact, this kind of ability was generally possessed by businessmen from all over Shanxi at that time.

Fan Yongdou is getting old, and most of the business in the clan is in charge of his son Fan Sanba, Fan Yongdou's grandson Fan Yu, although he is young at this time, he also shows extraordinary business acumen.

The name of the eight great merchants on the right side of the mountain, the merchants on the east road are like thunder, the typical official and commercial integration in the late Ming Dynasty, the official is the business, and the clansmen of the merchant are the official. Among the businessmen present, there are Shikun families, official families, and many military general families, but they are still respectful to the arrival of Fan Sanba.

Not to mention that the backstage of the eight major businessmen is deep, the mountain is right, and there are countless officials and generals in Xuanda, that is, there are people in the cabinet. For Da Ming at this time, as long as you have money, what's the difficulty in donating an official body? Just like Wang Pu, the chief military officer of Datong Town, his official position was donated. The Wang family of the Eight Great Merchants also has a close relationship with it.

Fan Sanba greeted everyone kindly, his arrogance was in his bones, and he didn't put on a stand in front of everyone.

After seeing Fan Sanba, Zhang Wanshan smiled again, he and everyone sat down, and Fan Sanba sat on the guest seat.

After everyone sat down, Zhang Wanshan's sharp eyes slowly swept over everyone and said, "Today's high meeting, I think you all understand the meaning. The general of Dingguo wants to collect commercial taxes, and the old man summons everyone to discuss countermeasures......"

He smiled and glanced at Fan Sanba: "It's an honor for the old man to invite Fan to be the shopkeeper, and he is even more powerful." ”

Hearing Zhang Wanshan mention his name, Fan Sanba stood up again and greeted everyone beside him. In fact, the Fan family did not have many shops on East Road, but after Zhang Wanshan invited him, Fan Yongdou summoned his son to discuss, and Fan Sanba personally rushed to Yanqing Prefecture

"When it comes to your business, you can talk about how to deal with it."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Wanshan sat firmly on the seat and drank tea, his eyes seemed to be closed, just peeking on everyone's expressions.

The merchants below exchanged their heads for a while, Wang Dou wanted to collect business taxes, and of course none of the people present were willing. Although they are making money every day, they have to take out a tael of silver from their pockets, and no one is willing to take it out.

In fact, their worries about Wang Dou are not only about the collection of commercial taxes, but also about Wang Dou's decision to strictly inspect the border and prohibit private trade. For everyone, this is more serious than the imposition of a commercial tax. It's just that this one is not good and openly opposed.

After all, since Chongzhen's seventh year after the Ministry of Response returned to Houjin, the Ming Dynasty ordered the closure of the mutual market and strictly prohibited border trade. Despite the ban, smuggling is still rampant in the towns. But Wang Dou is under this banner, but everyone on the surface is not easy to oppose.

But this commercial tax is different, and both the scholar class and the merchant class can strongly resist it under the banner of competing with the people. If Wang Dou can be suppressed, perhaps Wang Dou will not only dare not collect taxes, but will also strictly prohibit the border gates.

After the merchants below exchanged glances with each other, a businessman with a rather elegant appearance stood up, but it was Wu Yue, a clansman of Wu Zhi, the governor of Yanqing Prefecture. After Wu Zhizhou took office in Yanqing Prefecture, the chickens and dogs immediately ascended to heaven, and the children of the family rushed to buy fields, open shops and shops, and they were also not far behind in many "trends" of making money.

Wu Yue shook his head and said: "General Dingguo's move is to compete with the people for profit, don't you hear about the disaster of the Wanli Dynasty's commercial taxes?" The envoy of the conquest spine, anxious for the spark, and the order of the search is as dense as a cow's hair. The scoundrel is dead, and the winged tiger wolf is attached. The East Road is already poor, it is not easy for the shopkeeper to do some trading, if the general of Dingguo opens a business tax, only afraid of Longwangshu, today to levy ten Wen, tomorrow to levy a hundred Wen, the day after tomorrow to levy a hundred taels, when you are ruined and die on the same day, this move is absolutely impossible. ”,

The businessmen below agreed, and seeing that everyone affirmed, Wu Yue stopped with a slight humility and signaled to everyone, and then a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes: "After all, General Dingguo is young and vigorous, and he has no thought in handling things, so he has done such a boiling act of public resentment." Hearing that the scholars of the East Road were indignant about the imposition of commercial taxes, they would jointly make a statement to the military constitution and contact Confucianism everywhere in the East Road. Collectively boycott the class to denounce it, in order to show their own intentions! ”

Like a thunderclap, all the merchants present were excitedly exchanging their heads, and the scholars took action, which is a good thing, and as members of their family, they should also express themselves.

Fan Sanba sat upright in his seat, observing everyone's expressions and movements, at this time he smiled and got up, arched his hand to Zhang Wanshan, and then said to everyone: "Everyone, the younger generation has a word, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

Seeing that he was so polite, the businessmen hurriedly said: "Fan Da Shopkeeper, please speak, I will listen to you." ”

Fan Sanba smiled and said: "General Dingguo's name, the younger generation has also heard of it in the right side of the mountain, and it is a good thing that he sits on the East Road and suppresses bandits. The people praise, everyone can also buy and sell with peace of mind, it may be the instigation of the villain, the general of Dingguo was confused for a while, and did such a thing that angered people and resented people! ”

He said: "The full scholar has already acted, and we and other businessmen must not be left behind, for the sake of the peace of the East Road in the future, the younger generation proposes that all merchants collectively boycott the market, in order to show our indignation and condemnation."

Seeing the surging sentiment of the people, General Dingguo will definitely wake up, and the shopkeepers will be able to operate with peace of mind in the future. ”

Everyone applauded, and they all said that the big shopkeeper Fan really became a strategy, and said to them that the businessmen jointly boycotted the market, which was a big killer.

In the Jiajing year, the government had banned the minting of private money everywhere, but as a result, the merchants everywhere jointly boycotted the market, and the goods soared. In the Wanli year, the current Chongzhen year, whenever the government wants to collect taxes from merchants, as long as the merchants strike the market, the government will be helpless.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the industrial and commercial class was already extremely arrogant, the local economy was completely outside the control of the central government, and the government was full of spokesmen for their interests. It can be shown that the central government does not have the slightest financial control over the local economy.

After the defeat of the "Kaizhong Law" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government switched to using silver to recruit troops and pay military salaries.

Having silver does not mean that you can eat and drink, and you also need to buy a large amount of grain and forage. The transportation of grain and forage is monopolized by merchants everywhere, and if the merchants strike the market, the armies will lack food and grass, which will cause extremely great turmoil.

In May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zu Kuan and others joined the reinforcements and horses were stationed in the fork of the East Road, Yulin, Huailong Xiguan and other places by holy order. At that time, Yang Sichang, the governor of Xuanda, specially ordered all soldiers not to harass, and residents not to boycott the market, otherwise they had to be strictly tenacious, which was the power of the merchants' strike.

After the students boycotted the class and the merchants boycotted the market, this huge momentum was created, and Wang Dou was bound to go around without eating, regretting the idea of collecting commercial taxes in the first place.

Zhang Wanshan stood up and said: "Okay, what the shopkeeper Fan said is very reasonable, I will choose a time to strike the market collectively, and all merchants need to work together to tide over the difficulties." During this period, no one is allowed to operate privately, otherwise he will be severely punished by the guild. I hope that after the strike of the city, General Dingguo will hear the voice of the people, and he will be able to turn back to the shore, and turn back to the shore. ”

"There is General Dingguo guarding the East Road, and our merchants are still welcome, and their subordinates are fighting against the shoe captives, and the old decay is also admired......"

Not to mention how Zhang Wanshan and others planned to boycott the market, and how to implement it, at this time, there were also bursts of angry voices in the Guanshan Academy in Yanqing Prefecture: "The harm of commercial taxes, the emperor has undoubtedly shown it, one goods and one person, taxes and taxes, how to ointment the marrow, and the people are unbearable..."

"In the land of the East Road, the land is poor and the people are poor, how can they bear this record of knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow? If this is the case, there will be sparse business difficulties, people's livelihood will wither, and the disaster of Wanli will be in front of you! ”

The one who spoke was a young man dressed as a scholar, dressed in a Confucian shirt, wearing a square scarf, and looking quite handsome, but it was Wu Luo, the son of Wu Zhizhou of Yanqing Prefecture, who had a conflict with Wang Dou in Chongzhen's ten years. His demeanor did not change, but the arrogance on his face disappeared a lot, and was replaced by a look that seemed extremely resentful.

In the past two years, Wu Luo was deeply hit, when he tried to solve the yuan in high school, it was the time of complacency, and he may have been affected by Ji Junjiao's embrace of Wang Doutou, but he failed to be selected in the spring meeting every two years, which was a heavy blow to him who was proud of his talents.

The disappointment of the family, the "rival in love" Wang Dou's rise step by step, smooth sailing, from the integrity of the year to the current position of the general, how can Wu Luo not be jealous? The beauty Ji Xiao and the lady threw themselves into Wang Dou's arms, which made him even more heartbroken. ,

Wu Luo is also married, but the current wife is far from Ji Junjiao in terms of talent and appearance.

Whenever he thought of the person he admired tactfully under Wang Dou's husband, Wu Luo felt angry and hateful in his heart.

Now Wu Luo is very unsatisfactory, thanks to his father's blessing, he sought the position of an instructor in Confucianism in Yanqing Prefecture, in fact, as a lifter, he can let a certain county know outside. However, there is a real shortage of Daming now, and there are many officials, how can it be so easy to seek a real shortage?

His father tried his best, but he could only let Wu Luo wait patiently. The officialdom and the love field were both frustrated, which made Wu Luo complain. He was proud of his talents, and he didn't get along very well with his colleagues in Confucianism, and everyone was polite to him in the face of his father.

But in any case, Wu Luo is the son of Wu Zhi of Zhizhou, and he is still very appealing among the scholars of the East Road, and the same "crisis" has also brought them together recently.

In addition to the scholars, guides and students of Guanshan Academy, there were also scholars from other places on the East Road, instructors and students from various city health schools, and there were almost hundreds of people.

According to the words of Wu Luo and others, Fu Mingqi is a "lackey" of the martial arts, and he is purely a Sven scum, so it is better if he does not come, so as not to "defile" the "holy" gathering and deliberation of the scholars.

Yanqing Prefecture Guanshan Academy's Xuezheng Zeng Youxian, an old prison student, has been in Guanshan Academy for decades, and is considered "highly respected", that is, Wu Zhizhou of Yanqing Prefecture saw him, and he had to respectfully call him "Zeng Weng". His family worked hard to manage and save money, and finally bought a few dumps of fertile land, as well as more than a dozen related shops.

Zeng Jian treated himself harshly on weekdays, trying to save money as much as possible, although the family business accumulated more and more. But he was reluctant to be extravagant. A person like him is harsh on himself and his family, and he is even more reluctant to pay money outside, and when he heard that General Dingguo was going to levy a commercial tax, he was immediately angry.

Wu Luoyi proposed, right in the middle, with his fame, easily recruited the scholars from all over the East Road, and jointly discussed the countermeasures After Wu Luo was impassioned, he also sighed tremblingly: "The disaster of commercial taxes in the Wanli Dynasty, the old man is still fresh in his memory. Thousands of people carry the road, disasters flow all over the world, not trapped businessmen, but trapped people. The sage said that taking the wealth of the people is not the way of cattle wealth. The way to make money, to be born, to be thrifty, is only at both ends. The harm of the increase is not calculated by tax, but the harm of commercial tax is measured in days. The collection of commercial taxes is to rob the people of their wealth, this move is angry and resentful, and there is no light and darkness, and the east road will be destroyed and withered! ”

At this point, he coughed repeatedly.

Everyone present is also a word from you and me, and the words are all heartbroken, all the scholars and students present, which one has not opened a store? Merchants everywhere on the East Road, which one is not a relative of their clan? If Wang Dou wants to collect a commercial tax, he will take food from their mouths, and he will never agree.

Of course, there are also many poor scholars among them, who have no shops in their homes, and Wang Dou set up a tunbao on the East Road, and they also intend to enter the fort to seek a job as a scribe, and they think that Wang Dou's collection of commercial taxes has nothing to do with them.

However, at this time, "the public is angry", how dare they speak for Wang Dou? If this is the case, the evaluation of a Sven scum will definitely be inevitable, and they should not want to mix among the scholars in the future. Therefore, they made up their minds not to help each other, and Wu Luo proposed that the entire Donglu scholars should stop the class, and they could just follow behind, and they should never be the first to come out.

Finally, everyone decided that Wang Dou's move was a bad thing that was angry and unpopular, and that they were scholars and scholars who were full of sages and sages, and the pillars of the imperial court, it was necessary to persuade Wang Dou with practical actions.

This will be a huge action, students boycott classes, businessmen boycott the market, all walks of life have responded, all of them are united, put pressure on the general Wang Dou. In the end, he retracted his wrong move, woke up to his senses, and turned back.