As soon as the counterinsurgency order came out, the Wehrmacht and the Praetorian Guard appeared, so that everyone in Wang Tianer's family completely lost the will to resist and obediently went out and surrendered.

This situation is actually expected, after all, this is a so-called wealthy family, not a destitute rebel who has nothing, so most of his brains are more active, and he will not be so tendonous.

Anyway, for a big family like the Wang family, don't look at the large population, but most of them are family servants, and the imperial law is relatively humane, even if it is beaten into a rebellion, it is mainly to investigate the main culprit and the family of the party, as for the family servants or something, as long as you don't play stupidly and loyally advance and retreat together, there will basically be no problem.

As for those core personnel of the Wang family, although they are the masters, they have the smallest number of people, and once they lose their family servants, especially those who are armed with family guards, they have no ability to resist in the face of a loaded army.

Moreover, even if they could resist, they would not dare to resist, because although the counterinsurgency order seems to bluff people, it is only something used during arrest, just like the arrest warrant usually used by the police, but it is only stronger.

However, in the end, whether you can be beaten as a rebel or not, you have to go through the court, that is, you can go through the trial of the big court, and those who have not been tried are all suspects, and they have not yet been finally determined.

Therefore, they obediently surrendered at this time, and they could only be arrested and taken to the detention center, which can be regarded as a rebellion suspect, and only after being ~ tried and convicted, can they be counted according to the trial of the court.

That is to say, during this period, they still have a certain amount of room to operate, and their master, that is, the pillar of the entire mansion, Wang Tianer, is not here at this time, but went to Shanghai in advance to find the prince. That is, Wang Tian went to intercede again, so this gave them a lot of hope.

It can be said that people from wealthy families like this, whether they are masters or subordinates, absolutely none of them are fools, on the contrary, they know more information than ordinary people. Therefore, they know very well that the current battle is not very sinister, but as long as they are obedient, don't give up their lives because of resistance during the arrest. There is no chance to turn over.

It should be that their ideas are still very good, and this is also in line with the consistent thinking of people in this era, that is, they want to find a relationship with everything, thinking that as long as the relationship is reached, it is not a problem.

If it's something else, maybe it's okay to be accommodating, after all, the Fa is dead, and people are alive. Especially after Shen Shiming became prime minister, he engaged in the so-called humane law enforcement, and many things can be flexible in the law enforcement stage.

Unfortunately, this arrest was not a simple criminal case. Nor is it a simple counterinsurgency incident, in essence, it is a political incident, so to speak. It's a different story.

Sure enough, after all the people in the Wang family compound were arrested, the police were busy sealing the Wang family compound. The people of the joint investigation team quickly isolated all the people up and down the Wang family, and then formed a group of 19 interrogation teams in pairs, and began a series of interrogation operations in the Wang family's compound.

At the same time as the interrogation, a total of 120 auditors took portable calculators and notebooks and began to divide and cooperate, and quickly launched a highly efficient audit business.

Most of the 120 people are young people in their twenties, and they are mainly responsible for scrutinizing the accounts, and when they find out the details, they will be put together and handed over to a core audit team composed of a total of five people, and finally come up with the number they want.

Obviously, with the current situation of the empire, it is absolutely only possible for the central government to make such a big deal, and if it is not premeditated and prepared in advance, it is difficult to come up with this kind of battle, not to mention that there are more than 100 auditors who use calculators.

You must know that portable calculators are still high-end goods in a state of secrecy, and they have not been popularized to the people, so when the people settle accounts, they are still mainly based on abacus.

In addition to the people in the 110 Special Administrative Region and the Praetorian Guard, only the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs have them, and even the very few people in the State Council who use calculators are also in the capacity of internal affairs officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there are people from the Intelligence Bureau who are paying close attention to them.

In short, although the portability calculator is inconspicuous, because of its powerful function, it is still not desensitized, it is still a strictly regulated thing, and the level of confidentiality is quite high, so there are so many people who use calculators at once, and it is definitely a high-profile intervention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In fact, if we make an analogy in today's situation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is more like a private company owned by Li Yongji, and the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are the private employees of his private company; The State Council of the Chinese Empire is a joint-stock company controlled by Li Yongji, in which Li Yongji is the chairman, and others can come in to share profits; As for the so-called imperial property under the banner of the imperial family, they are downstream enterprises that depend on Li Yongji's private enterprises for survival.

Among them, although the imperial property has a royal character, in fact, the profits of these industries do not go into Li Yongji's personal pocket, they are just some service downstream industries, and because of historical reasons, they have no obligation to pay taxes to the state, so they are also a group of privileged classes outside the state.

The difference is only that the boss of the property controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the emperor and the chairman of the entire country, while the bosses of those imperial properties are not emperors, they are just downstream industries that are related to the emperor and serve the industries of the internal government.

Because Li Yongji has mastered the space-time trading system, many of the goods produced are high-tech products obtained from modern society, or copycat products made here, so in terms of the technical level of this era, the things that flow out of Li Yongji's hands and control enterprises are all veritable high value-added products, so they occupy a strong position in domestic and international trade.

Like antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs, like high-quality steel, etc., these are bulk hard currency, and in addition, other daily chemical detergents such as self-produced soap, perfume, alabaster cream, laundry detergent, as well as various stainless steel daily necessities, aluminum daily necessities and other luxury goods, are in demand on the market, and the profits are high, just because the overall consumption level of the whole world is there. Therefore, in order to obtain the maximum profit, there is no large-scale shipment, the total amount of these products is small, and the overall trade volume is far less than the hard currency that is just needed such as special drugs and steel.

In addition to these, due to the introduction of modern new silk reeling machines and textile machines and other equipment, the technical content of cotton products and silk fabrics is also getting higher and higher, and the guide zhì is becoming more and more popular in the international market.

Although because of the short time, the domestic production of high-quality cotton is insufficient, the experience of Chinese businessmen is also insufficient, and China's domestic demand is too large. There are other political reasons, etc., China's cost-effective cloth has not yet gone to the world, but by 1864, the entire traditional region of China, plus all of Korea and most of Japan, as well as most of Southeast Asia such as Vietnam and Burma, Chinese cloth has become synonymous with high-end cloth, but British cloth and French cloth are synonymous with inferior cloth.

Other words. In the whole of East Asia, British cloth can only take the low-end route, and sales are also withering day by day, and it is expected to continue. Soon it will be completely excluded from the East Asian market by Chinese cloth.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that China's high-quality cotton production is still too low, the raw materials are insufficient, and there is a shortage of qualified cotton spinning workers. This in turn affects the production of cloth, and in time, it will occupy a dominant position in the East Asian cloth market. Even if it is impossible to dominate the world, this is the advantage of technology.

Cloth, a daily necessities for human beings, is only one of the representatives, and other daily necessities, such as silk fabrics, porcelain, glassware, etc., are all being upgraded in an all-round way due to technological progress, and the output is also increasing.

Coupled with the strong military backing of the empire and the implementation of a free trade policy, China's trade volume has shown explosive development.

With this development process, the state has also taken a lot of benefits, but because the tax policy is still relatively backward, such as not leviing a large number of value-added tax and other taxes, and the tariffs are relatively low, so although the treasury receives more money, it can not completely offset the huge expansion of expenditure.

On the contrary, it is the imperial property under the banner of the royal family, they rely on those competitive products, and because of historical factors, they do not have to pay various taxes to the treasury, and they have made a lot of money in the past two years, which has caused many people's eyes, but they are under the banner of the imperial family, which makes everyone have scruples.

Among them, the Li family is okay, after all, it is the emperor's own family, and the people in their own family are relatively scarce, although Li Zhengxiang later found various Li family members to come over to fill the number, but in the end, it was a little slower, and many cakes could not be shared.

On the contrary, the emperor's mother's family, that is, the Wang family, was different, this family was originally prosperous, and seized the opportunity, and was fully attached to the emperor during the beginning, and became a direct service provider for Li Yongji's bulk goods in the early days.

In this way, with the rise of Li Yongji, this group is getting bigger and bigger, plus the relatives and friends of the Wang family and the community of related interests, the collusion is a terrifying number.

In fact, even Wang Tianzhong himself doesn't know how many people there are in the Wang family now, anyway, there are more than 300 living members of the Wang family recorded in the genealogy, and these 300 people extend out, not to mention 10,000 people.

With so many people, of course, it is impossible for all of them to get the project of serving Li Yongji's personal service, and it is impossible for all of them to get the agency right of those special commodities or the right to purchase tribute (especially modern high-priced items such as jadeite), but because they are related to them, they can also do business in the name of affiliation without paying taxes to the empire.

It's just that you don't pay taxes, plus the identity of an imperial businessman, is a kind of unequal competition in itself, and many of them don't even need capital, as long as you light up this brand, you can get a lot of investment and related projects.

Therefore, it is precisely because these imperial merchants of the Wang family have privileges, and these people are too greedy to indiscriminately issue the qualifications of imperial merchants everywhere, and within two years, the signboards of imperial merchants have spread all over the country, and it is impossible to tell how many businesses under the banner of imperial merchants there are, and these businesses are all privileged merchants who do not need to pay taxes!

Therefore, at the beginning, everyone could tolerate it, but now this group of locust-like guys has made too many people dissatisfied, and Shen Shiming is just worried about financial problems, so he naturally targets this group of guys who are in the name of imperial property, but they are actually a group of locusts.

In fact, even within the Wang family, it is not that no one sees the danger here, and some people have proposed that the internal streamlining should be done first, and some of them should be removed in vain. In fact, the relatives who can't fight with the Wang family, in other words, remove some of the water of the Wang family.

It's a pity that these voices are too small and too weak to become mainstream at all.

The reason is very simple, where is the banner of the imperial merchant so easy to let out, not that you say that you are related to the Wang family, or you are related to the family, in fact, there are so many imperial merchant signs. That is, the so-called royal plum blossom flag, most of them are sold at a clear price, and those who buy them have to take out a part of their income every year and hand it over to the royal family.

In other words, today's Wang family is more like a chain enterprise, they sell royal signboards, that is, plum blossom flags, and buy the names of these plum blossom flags. You can be exempted from paying all kinds of taxes under the banner of imperial property, but you must take out a certain amount of income and hand it over to the general number, that is, the Wang family, that is, Wang Tianzhong's family.

Of course. Taigong Wang Tianzhong is just a superficial figure, the real big backstage, or the real big boss who caused this qiē, is the current queen mother!

That's right. It was at the behest of the Empress Dowager Li Wang that this kind of selling of the royal flag began to spread throughout the country, before that. There is no such act of selling the royal flag at all!

In the past, Li Wang's family didn't want to do this, he just wanted to be his queen mother in peace, but later her husband had a woman outside and a child, and she didn't know what was wrong, and suddenly she began to be keen on money.

Since then, that is, after knowing that her husband had a child with another woman, although she tolerated it on the surface, behind the scenes, she began to slowly meddle in business matters and began to find ways to make money, and the way she came up was to sell the royal flag and then collect the flag fee.

Although the Queen Mother made these things, there is also a set of strict censorship systems, such as not for non-powerful merchants, not for innocent merchants, and not for outsiders who can't fight with the Wang family.

The first two conditions are enough, and the last one is the most important, so many people use various means to find people from the Wang family to intermarry, and many of the Wang family's broken households are shaking.

I can't help but say that the Queen Mother's method is actually a stupid trick, and people of insight can see the danger here, but unfortunately the Queen Mother was born in a small family after all, and her knowledge is short, but her current identity is there, once she does this, before the emperor speaks, no one can help but give face.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, the accommodation in all aspects, the emperor didn't say anything, I don't know why, he actually acquiesced to her doing this, and Shen Shiming actually acquiesced to her practice, without any stop at all, and even didn't complain to the emperor.

That's right, for so many years, Li Yongji has been kept in the dark, even if he has so many intelligence officers, no one has reported this matter to him, plus Li Yongji has been in North America these days, his mind is not in China, and he always asks about some national affairs when he asks about domestic affairs, so that this matter has slowly become like this.

Even, when Shen Shiming decided to do something to this group of imperial relatives, he only said something about Li Yongji lightly, and did not say the inside story, nor did he say that many of these imperial relatives were fake royal relatives who were sold at a real price!

It's not that Shen Shiming doesn't want to say it early, but he wants to wait until he does it before explaining this to the emperor, so that he can regard these as news that he only learned after the investigation, not early on.

In this way, in the end, Li Yongji knew the result, Shen Shiming was at most a crime that was not investigated, on the contrary, if Shen Shiming told all the masterminds behind the scenes before he started, it means that you knew the inside story in advance, but now that the matter is bigger, it is ill-intentioned.

In fact, it is not only Shen Shiming, as Li Yongji's wife, the daughter-in-law of the Queen Mother, and Yin Susu, the acting controller of the Internal Affairs Office, also occupies a very important role in this, without her consent, it is impossible for the Intelligence Bureau controlled by the Internal Affairs Government not to report the situation to Li Yongji. She didn't even need to be reported by someone from the Intelligence Bureau, every time Li Yongji called to chat with her, she could tell Li Yongji the truth by saying a few words casually.

However, every time she talked to Li Yongji on the phone, Yin Susu just said that her parents were short and how her child Li Qing was, but she didn't mention any of these things.

Therefore, the success of the Empress Dowager's wanton resale of the royal flag is not only due to the situation, but also the joint force of many forces, otherwise, with the current situation within the empire, it is absolutely impossible not to let the emperor know.

In addition, it can be seen from this incident that even if there is radio communication, even if Li Yongji thinks that his authority is monstrous, in fact, he cannot really cover the sky with one hand, and it is impossible to know everything about many things. In the final analysis, Li Yongji is still a person, not a god, he still needs subordinates to do things, and he needs subordinates to rule the country instead of him, and it is impossible to really control everything in his own hands.

Not to mention him, even in the 21st century, when the Internet is so developed, it is impossible for senior leaders to know the situation of all the officials below, let alone in this era.

All in all, the vicious incident of Wang Tianer's family killing the tax officials of the State Council was only a fuse that started the action to rectify the imperial businessmen, and behind this fuse was an outright conspiracy.

Or it can be said that it is in the interests of many people to attack the Wang family, Shen Shiming is just a guide due to the situation, in the final analysis, it was the Queen Mother herself who made a big stupid move, which not only provoked the anger of the public, but also gave others a handle!

Now, cracking down on Wang Tianer's family is just the beginning, even if their accounts are innocent, even if they have a general relationship with the Wang family, they can slowly pull out the entire Wang family behind them along this path, and then catch them all!

This is the so-called political struggle, which is to play with the city government and power schemes, and to play with the trade-offs and trade-offs of interests, and it is not that you can completely avoid it if your status is high enough.

For example, in this matter, in fact, even Li Yongji, who is far away in North America, has actually been calculated, so in terms of strategy, Li Yongji still has too much to learn.

Of course, Li Yongji may be kept in the dark at first, but as long as things happen, slowly, he will eventually understand what is going on, and when the time comes, he doesn't need to think about it himself, there will be too many people rushing to talk to him.

At that time, he will understand that being a high-ranking dictator is not just about mastering money and force, and people's hearts and powers are also the basic skills necessary for the emperor. (To be continued......) R1292