"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a top priority and a top priority. After everyone arrives, please arrest this matter as soon as possible. Liu Jun took a sip of tea lightly, and then continued, "Everyone must have heard that Zheng Zhilong, the deputy general of Fujian, has thousands of ships, since he defeated the Dutch and eliminated other sea pirates on the sea, now in the southeast sea, all maritime merchants have to listen to them, and when they sail on the sea, they have to spend money to buy their flags to plant in order to keep safe." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you know how much money the Zheng clan collects for those big merchant ships? The big ship is 2,000 taels of silver per ship, and the Zheng family earns 10 million a year. And do you know how much profit those maritime merchants make? Although they paid Zheng 2,000 taels of silver for each boat, they made a profit of 20 times as much as they made a trip back and forth. ”

Liu Jun's words made the hearts of these governors itch.

As for the wealth of the maritime merchants, everyone here understands. In these years, the most profitable people are not salt merchants, but maritime merchants, and the most profitable maritime merchants are actually those armed maritime merchants, that is, those maritime merchants who are half-merchants and half-thieves like Zheng. Ten million taels of income a year, the imperial court only earns three million silver a year.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the sea trade is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and even if the imperial court only takes a little profit from it, it is quite amazing. In the past, he had been shouting that the sea was forbidden, but in fact, this sea ban did not benefit the imperial court at all, and the ban on the sea only made it impossible for the court to collect taxes, but in fact it fattened those local corrupt officials and maritime merchants, so that they could not pay taxes. ”

"That's the end of it. The city department had to be rebuilt, the customs office had to be established, and the imperial court would no longer ban the sea, and all foreign merchants would be allowed to trade. However, whether it is the maritime merchants of the current dynasty who go to sea or foreign maritime merchants who come to trade, they must be under the supervision of the imperial court. They had to pay taxes to the imperial court. Of course, after these taxes are collected, they will be divided into three, some will be handed over to the imperial court, some will be left to the local yamen, and some will be used to reorganize and train the new army. ”

"This time, we are going to declare war on those lawless officials, businessmen and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, this time, I will take 20,000 new troops to the south, who dares to obstruct it. Whoever will be bulldozed! Liu Jun said quite domineeringly. Although he knew that it was impossible to do this, for now, he might as well shout a little higher.

Why does the Zheng family make so much money? Because the imperial court completely lost control over the port tariffs at sea, the Zheng clan had a strong maritime force, and they collected protection fees from maritime merchants, and at the same time provided protection, which they did should have been the duty of the imperial court, and the benefits were originally the income of the imperial court.

To put it bluntly, this is the result. It was all the collusion of local officials and businessmen to trap the central court for the sake of huge maritime trade interests.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time I'm going to Gangnam. It's still going to issue bonds, and you've probably heard of them. It is still in the preparatory stage, and the next step is to set up a bank for the issuance of bonds. In order to better issue bonds. The bank will set up branches in the provincial capitals of Jiangnan and in Dacheng, and I would like to ask for your help in this matter. Liu Jun said for a long time. Finally, the most important thing was thrown.

In fact, the so-called reopening of the city and the establishment of customs, Liu Jun did not have much hope, no matter how good things are, it is in vain if there are no good people to implement them, and it is not good to read good scriptures to crooked monks. The situation in Jiangnan is not something that can be done by changing a few governors and then setting up a few city and customs offices. But those are just public tasks, and Liu Jun's real purpose for this trip to Jiangnan is only two, one is to talk about cooperation with Zheng Zhilong to send troops, and the second is this bank.

This new bank was prepared on the basis of the original Jiangnan Bank. The establishment of the new bank was ostensibly for the purpose of issuing bonds, but in fact Liu Jun wanted to make money. Taking advantage of the opportunity of issuing bonds, banks can set up branches and outlets throughout the country, and then they can jointly operate money-making businesses such as depositing loans, exchanging foreign exchange, and issuing silver bills.

Moreover, Liu Jun also planned to take this opportunity not only to issue silver tickets that are more convenient than Zhuang tickets, but also to mint silver coins. He no longer intended to mint the sterling silver coins that had been minted on a small scale before, but to mint silver coins in the ratio of nine to one bronze coin, and to make it a profitable deal.

Although it is said that the silver nine bronze one is not a pure silver coin, in fact, Liu Jun is not worried that the people will not accept this kind of silver coin whose value is greater than itself. Because in this era, silver coins became legal tender and were used in large quantities, but there were no standard silver coins for a long time. When silver is usually used, it not only has a variety of different fineness, but also weighs and cuts each time it is used, which is quite troublesome, especially in identifying the authenticity is also quite inconvenient.

The silver coin is different, each silver coin is only half and two, and there are patterns and tooth patterns that can be free of anti-counterfeiting and anti-scratching, and there is no need to weigh it when it is used, and there is no need to go to the gold and silver store to identify or even exchange it, no need to identify the ingredients, authenticity, no need to weigh, and it will be extremely convenient to use.

As long as the bank can collect and exchange these silver coins at any time, then even if it is a silver nine bronze one, there is no need to worry that it will not be accepted. After all, although the silver traded by ordinary people is weighed, it can be used to identify and measure cutting and exchange in the process, and generally charge a handling fee in the gold and silver shops.

Silver nine bronze one, the more silver coins minted, the higher the profit will be. Liu Jun's armory workshop has enough technology, and it will not be very troublesome to mint silver coins, and the cost is very low, and it is really a profitable business.

Liu Jun wants to take this opportunity to open a bank, especially to Jiangnan, which is extremely prosperous and has a lot of capital.

"With the support of the country's surname, we should work hard." Zhang Guowei, the governor of Liangguang, said that although it is conceivable that the opening of the market and the construction of customs will definitely violate the interests of those local officials and businessmen, Liu Jun also said in what he said just now that the imperial court only needs one-third of the taxes collected, and the remaining two-thirds are reserved for the local government.

As a local governor, of course, I also hope to have money in my hands, and it is easy to do things when I have money.

Liu Jun also knew that it was not easy to snatch food from the powerful in these places in Jiangnan, so he didn't plan to go over like this this time.

Liu Jun went with his troops, and the others were still in Beijing, but he had already sent an order to the nine-headed bird who had returned to Qihuang and was stationed, and transferred all the soldiers and horses who went to Jiangbei last time to Nanjing to wait for him.

Under normal circumstances, soldiers and horses from all over the country cannot be transferred at will, but Liu Jun was ordered to go to the southeast to worship the god of the sea this time, and also to supervise military affairs.

The emperor also knew that it was not so easy to open a city in the south of the Yangtze River to build a customs office, and let Liu Jun go south with more than 20,000 men and horses to deter the southeast. If anyone dares not to open his mind, he must let Liu Jun kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey.

Chongzhen is now poor and afraid, as soon as he heard that the Zheng family can collect 10 million protection fees a year at sea, he can't wait to immediately let Liu Jun take the 50,000 new troops he trained to be stationed directly in Fujian, and snatch the power to collect protection money. With the stimulation of that large sum of silver, Chongzhen can really do everything now.

In addition to allowing Liu Jun to mobilize the army, Chongzhen also gave Liu Jun a lot of convenience, and asked Cao Huachun and Liu Qiao to send a batch of factory guards to accompany Liu Jun to the south, and mobilize factory guards to support Liu Jun at any time.

With the support of the emperor, Liu Jun plans to play the second horizontal.

When the fleet entered Yangzhou, Liu Jun took his cavalry battalion to the dock, and the first thing he did after going ashore was to send his own cavalry battalion to directly take over the Yangzhou city gate, and then led by Jinyiwei and Dongchang's people, according to a list that had been prepared earlier, rushed directly into the city, and surrounded the mansions of 36 salt merchants.

"Take people, raid the house!"

Liu Jun's actions stunned the supervisors who followed off the boat.

"Master Hou, what is this?"

Liu Jun chuckled a few times, took out a fold and handed it to them. "These profiteers are lawless, and the court has already ascertained the evidence."

The evidence that Liu Jun took out was all searched by the factory guards. What kind of person is the factory guard, they can make you guilty if they are not guilty, not to mention those big salt merchants, which one is not guilty? There are any bribes to officials, trafficking in illicit salt, and even trading with Houjin, so to speak, you can casually get twenty or thirty pieces of criminal evidence, and they are all serious crimes.

In the past, no one investigated, and that was because they were all intertwined with officials and even the nobles of the court, and colluded with each other. But this time, Liu Jun wanted to use them as monkey chickens, and no one could save him.

Now, compared to the backstage, who has compared Liu Jun?

The emperor's righteous son, surnamed Ye, the prime minister's protégé, is still the Hou Ye.

Liu Jun selected 36 of the fattest and most arrogant salt merchants from the list submitted by the factory guard.

Zheng Jizong, a famous salt merchant in Yanzhou, has a family fortune of millions, and he has always called for wind and rain in Yangzhou, basically Yangzhou people know that this Zheng beard is so arrogant, it is because his wife Zhou is actually the cousin of the queen of the dynasty, and the abbot Jiading Bo Zhou Kui is Zheng Jizong's big backstage.

But today, when Zheng Jizong was at home with the newly acquired twelfth concubine, he was taken away from the bed by the nine-headed bird who broke in, and he didn't even give him a piece of clothing to shame, so he was caught from home like a bare pig and taken directly to the hottest dock in Yangzhou.

Thirty-six salt merchants in Yangzhou were tied up on the canal wharf, and although these were neither all the salt merchants in Yangzhou, nor the richest among them, the arrest of thirty-six at once was enough to shock the whole city.

Then Jin Yiwei announced their guilt in public. Liu Jun directly invited Shang Fang's sword and beheaded the thirty-six people on the spot, without giving them the slightest chance. Then it was announced that all the family property would be confiscated.

Liu Jun's thunderous storm scared the people of the entire Yangzhou City.

Just kill someone?

Really killed.

At first glance, everyone came to see the excitement, and it can be seen that after the crowd is rolling, those who are not too big to watch the popularity feel cold in their hearts. Only then did everyone remember that the current emperor's righteous son surnamed Ye also had a nickname, Liu Yanwang.

Killing, raiding homes, Yangzhou City for a while, chickens and dogs jump! (To be continued......)

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