Chapter 142: Traitors must be severely punished

This is not the first time Zhang Hongbin has held a so-called public conference, and it will definitely not be the first time.

The sentencing conference, as the name suggests, is naturally related to the sentencing of criminals. It's just that now the Qiao family, the Chang family and the Cao family of the three major chambers of commerce in Shanxi have been sentenced, which is somewhat intriguing. After all, the financial resources of these three are far greater than those of other chambers of commerce, and even the so-called largest chamber of commerce in Shaanxi are not as good as them.

These three merchants, it is better to say that they are merchants, but they are not so much a family of merchants. According to the Donglin Party, it is the Confucian merchants, who have formed a family power.

Not only did these three almost monopolize a large share of trade at the local level, but they also had a place in the imperial court. Whether it is the influence on the people or the influence on the imperial court, it is a force to be reckoned with.

Not to mention, during the lockdown, the transaction volume of the whole Shanxi fell by 50%, more than 35.7% of the people lost their jobs, and even the goods produced were not eaten, and life immediately fell into a difficult situation. Fortunately, Zhang Hongbin had expected it and specially sent people to maintain the operation of these chambers of commerce, so before the official verdict was announced, at least there would be no difficulties in the work of these people.

Why should such a large force be executed?

Some people can't help but wonder: Is it that Zhang Hongbin occupies Shanxi and feels that these three forces threaten him, so he plans to eradicate the troubles? Or if you occupy so many places, the financial expenditure should be very high, so slaughtering fat sheep is obviously the best way to accumulate funds as quickly as possible, and the three fattest sheep in Shanxi are naturally these three major businesses!

With all kinds of thoughts, everyone participated in this sentencing meeting. Everyone wants to know what explanation Zhang Hongbin wants to give!

Or is it still the same charges as published by the weekly?

It is still a familiar place, it is still a familiar podium, and the familiar figure of Zhang Hongbin came to everyone again.

"Ahem, the weather is good today, the wind is beautiful, and it is a good day to pronounce the sentence." Zhang Hongbin first said casually, "I know that many people are watching, many people have doubts in their hearts, and some people even have fear in their hearts. Because this time I won the three largest merchants in Shanxi, many people are wondering, am I slaughtering fat sheep? Since there is a beginning, will it continue to exist in this situation? ”

After Zhang Hongbin finished speaking, his eyes swept through the crowd.

His words caused some commotion and aroused everyone's curiosity, and everyone was looking forward to his next speech.

"How did our Great Qin establish a country? It is the accumulation of my Zhang Chamber of Commerce that has completed the construction of the foundation, and it is because of my efforts of the Daqin Chamber of Commerce that our Daqin's financial income will have such a big tax! It can be said that our Daqin is an industrial and commercial country, since it is an industrial and commercial country, do you think I will be so superficial? Do that thing of killing chickens and taking eggs?

No need! There's no need for that at all! I hope that your business will grow bigger and bigger, and I hope that you will be able to hire more workers to work! Only in this way can we Daqin be able to get more commercial taxes, this long-term source of wealth, do you think I won't calculate? Not to mention that the scale of your workshop will increase, and the number of workers will increase, and the number of workers will increase, and the labor force will be liberated in the fields. In this way, at least my Great Qin will not have a situation where I can't live because I don't have land, and I won't rebel because I don't have land. Zhang Hongbin first set the tone for the whole thing, that is, Daqin would never do such a thing as slaughtering fat sheep.

I have to say that after Zhang Hongbin said that, many people were relieved even if they still had some doubts.

"So, then again, why should I dispose of the three major chambers of commerce in Shanxi? Isn't that a bit untrue? Seriously, if I really did it for their property, then I really dug my own grave, but I didn't take them for it, but for some other reason. The specific reason is for the fact that I, the cabinet elder of Daqin, He Ling, will tell you the truth of the matter! After Zhang Hongbin finished speaking, he motioned to He Ling beside him to come to the stage to speak.

"Everyone, I am He Ling, the new cabinet member, the old cabinet or something, He is deserved at a young age, and I can only thank His Royal Highness King Qin for his love." He Ling is a bureaucrat, and the sentence that came up was to pat Zhang Hongbin's ass.

"Ahem, everyone! Now in my hands is a document, a document of treason. Yes, evidence of the treason of the three major chambers of commerce. And this time, the main reason why we took them down is because of this information.

So, let's find out what they have done in the past few years, and what the three families have done......" He Ling first pointed out the willingness of the three families to be arrested, and then according to the information, he told all the dirty things they had done over the years.

Why could Houjin enter Shanxi, plunder in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and even open the city gate for them internally? Because of Jin Shang!

Why was Hou Jin obviously blocked from border trade, and he was still able to get the materials he needed in the song from afar? Because of Jin Shang!

Why can Jin merchants get richer and richer? Because they smuggled contraband, they gained a lot of benefits from Mongolia and Houjin!

One by one, one by one, He Ling said it for everyone, and some people from Shanxi heard it, and the anger in their hearts was difficult to suppress.

"Zhu Jiu Clan!" I don't know who shouted.

"Punish the nine clans, if you don't do this, you can't be resentful!" Someone else chimed in, and a new slogan was put forward.

"Zhu Jiu Clan! Zhu Jiu Clan! More people participated, and the three families also changed from poor people to perpetrators, from law-abiding businessmen to national scum.

When the hypocritical face is ruthlessly torn apart, revealing the ugly face, perhaps only Zhang Hongbin can understand what the 'ugly face of capitalism' is. Sure enough, when capital came into this world, it was all bloody, and every pore secreted a stench and filthy filth.

"Be quiet, I know everyone's feelings, in fact, I'm also very unhappy!" Zhang Hongbin took the microphone, "So I solemnly announce to the whole world that everyone in my Great Qin has the opportunity to be forgiven." Even if they have been our enemies and have funded our enemies, there is one category of people who can never be forgiven, and that is traitors! Anyone who betrays our Chinese nation and acts as a traitor for foreign Yi will be severely punished by my Great Qin! So I declare that the Qiao family, the Chang family and the Cao family in Shanxi will be punished as traitors and betraying our Chinese nation! ”

Perhaps, many people are still in a hazy state of what nationalism is, or even do not know it at all. They only know that the Houjin Tartars went south to plunder, burn, kill and plunder, and they were heinous people. The people of the Chinese Empire, the people of the Heavenly Empire, how can they allow such a small offense to come to their heads?!

But today, Zhang Hongbin let everyone have a hazy impression of this word, and the smarter ones are afraid that they already know the meaning of this word.

Zhang Hongbin does not want to cultivate a group of ultra-nationalists, but he is very willing to let the whole people develop a sense of nationality and a sense of the country.

After all, before the Great Qin, these two kinds of consciousness were too shallow, and the people had to get by, and they didn't even care who the ruler was, so that the Manchu Qing could ride on the head of the Chinese people for more than 300 years, what a sad thing. At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had only a few million people, but China had a population of 200 million.

No wonder some people say: there is no China after Yashan, and there is no China after the Ming Dynasty.

I hope that this time and space, which has its own involvement, will not repeat the mistakes of the past......