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In the twentieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Li Rusong, the chief soldier of Ningxia, led his troops to recruit the Bibai rebels, and the whole army worked together to quell the Bibai rebels in one fell swoop. More than 80 people from Bibai and his family committed suicide, and his son Bi Chengen was escorted to the capital to be dismembered.

"Brother, we killed tens of thousands of people outside Ningxia City? Why don't you even have a speaker who participated in our impeachment? It's not going to trick us all into going to the capital to behead us, right? Holding the information in his hand, Monk Greenqin said in disbelief.

Originally, according to the consistent tradition of the Ming Dynasty, those officials and other officials were a group of mad dogs who saw who bit whom, and they would bite twice in advance before they had anything to do. For example, Li Rusong put down the rebellion in Ningxia and made such a great contribution as fighting the chaos and correcting it, under normal circumstances, the speech officials would not hesitate to flock to the top, and impeachment of Li Rusong for various reasons, the messy reasons can be conjured up to 9981 of them are pediatrics.

You must know that in the battle outside the city of Ningxia, Li Ru breathed a sigh of relief and almost killed the tens of thousands of Hui mobs who launched a riot and threatened him outside the city. It is not an exaggeration to say that the scene of corpses piling up and bleeding and drifting, although the corpses were properly disposed of and buried afterwards, it is impossible to hide from everyone's ears. Li Rusong himself also took the initiative to give Wanli a secret fold afterwards, and told the emperor everything as it was.

Originally, according to the ideas of Ma Gui and others, Li Rusong made great achievements this time. The court backers are hard enough, and the emperor also supports him, and it is inevitable that he will be drowned half to death by the mad dog saliva of the official. There are even many guys who are waiting for the court to ignite the fire, and they will take the opportunity to rush up to deal with Li Rusong.

But now, judging from this information in the hands of Seng Lingqin, not only did no one impeach him, but all the civil and military officials of the government and the opposition unanimously praised him.

"Hehe, brother, tell me what the hell is it for? I can't wait to see the local group of moths in Ningxia who can't govern the country and are corrupt and have a good way to cry and mourn, shouldn't we do something to Ningxia? With a smile, he made a cup of tea with his own hands and handed it to Li Rusong, and Monk Lingqin asked eagerly.

"Hehe, don't be so excited, boy. It's nothing more than the word 'profit'. Although the imperial court opened the sea ban in the first year of Longqing. But before that, my Wufeng fleet had already fought with the gentry of Jiangnan. It has been connected with the imperial court and other nobles, and occupied the hegemony of the entire southeast sea trade during the Jiajing period. Even if the sea trade of the whole country of the Ming Dynasty is now, in addition to the royal tribute, my Wufeng fleet monopolizes eighty percent of the profits," he smiled and held down the monk Lingqin and signaled the latter to be a little restless. Li Rusong said slowly:

"You know the way. That's eighty percent of the profit. It is enough to buy the Jiangnan gentry and Qingliu of the entire Ming Dynasty, as well as almost more than ninety percent of the nobles in the court. And these people are actually the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, if I fall, I can't do it. Hehe, then their huge profits of tens of millions of taels every year will disappear completely. Lao Tzu is not a good money boy! ”

"During the time I was under house arrest in the capital, these people have actually been secretly trying to find a way, wanting to take advantage of my inability to move the place to secretly control the Wufeng fleet, squeeze us out of the city, and seize all the benefits themselves. If it weren't for my eldest brother, Li Yuncong, and Lin Feng, they were clever enough and loyal to me, so they decisively suppressed it, killed many people, and took the initiative to send a fleet to attack the Qingliu gentry in the southeast and killed a lot of people. Hehe, Lao Tzu may not even know how to die when he was in the capital, no wonder it happened so suddenly when he was placed under house arrest in the capital! Speaking of this, Li Rusong's voice obviously became much darker.

"Hmm, Chen Cheng's falcon has carefully investigated this matter. It's the merchant gang that is united by the disgruntled Cantonese merchants and some pirates who are dissatisfied because we occupy the majority of the maritime trade, and these guys don't seem to be very strong at the moment. But the speed of development is very fast, on the surface, it seems to be an ordinary merchant gang, belonging to the private business, but it is also like the Jin merchants who cooperate with us, trying to find a big backer in the DPRK and China" took out an intelligence booklet from his arms and handed it to Li Rusong, Monk Lingqin sat back in the chair and said slowly.

"It's actually a Cantonese businessman, then it's not surprising, these guys are hidden. In fact, there is a lot of energy, but the direction of focus is wrong at the beginning, and there is not such a strong backer as Jin Shang. Speaking of which, these guys used to be our peers and ancestors! With a twitch of his eyebrows, Li Rusong immediately understood why the Cantonese businessmen wanted to get rid of themselves quickly.

When it comes to the history and tradition of commerce, it is difficult to compare the merchants of all parts of China with the Cantonese merchants. As early as the Han Dynasty, Guangdong opened up the Maritime Silk Road with the "convenience of boats" of sea transportation, through the China Sea and the Indian Ocean to the Indian Peninsula and even to Africa, and carried out commercial trade and friendly exchanges with various ethnic groups in the world. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court strictly controlled foreign trade, but Guangdong never stopped commercial exchanges with overseas. Beginning in the late 17th century, the Qing government commissioned the Thirteen Merchants of Guangdong to assist the Guangdong Customs in managing Guangzhou's foreign trade, a semi-official and semi-commercial foreign trade organization that was a miracle in the history of Chinese commerce. During the 85 years from the 22nd year of Qianlong (1757) to the 20th year of Daoguang (1840) of the Qing Dynasty, all foreign ports were closed, and only Guangdong was allowed to "trade with one mouth", which is also unique in Chinese history. The "mercantilist" characteristics of Guangdong culture and the important position of Cantonese businessmen in the business world have also been formed.

These Cantonese merchants were the earliest maritime trade merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and it was they who used smuggling and armed robbery to get out of the germ of China's Ming Dynasty maritime trade. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Cantonese merchants began to conduct maritime trade along the coast of Guangdong. After that, with the rise of Cantonese merchants and the rapid development of maritime trade, Guangzhou became the distribution place of pearls, rhino horns, fruits and cloths in southern China.

It is no exaggeration to say that maritime trade is the foundation of Cantonese businessmen and the root of their life. After Wang Zhi's death, it was originally the best opportunity for Cantonese businessmen to completely dominate the southeast sea trade, but Li Rusong was born after Wang Zhi's death. Inherit the Wufeng fleet and unite with the Jin merchants, and then greatly expand the strength of the Wufeng fleet. The Wufeng fleet, which was already very strong in the Wang Zhi era, has become the strongest trading group in Southeast Asia.

For such a powerful Wufeng fleet, there is nothing else but death, seeing that the sea trade is reduced on a large scale, either join the Wufeng fleet, or be eaten by the other party in one bite, the Cantonese merchants who are unwilling to fail finally chose another way - to defeat the center of the Wufeng fleet!

"Hehe, you can actually find out my existence, it seems that the Wufeng fleet has been nailed by these guys. These guys have a lot of money, and it's impossible to unite anymore. Jin Shang was also unwilling to tolerate another group of people to get a piece of the pie. Then you have to kill them, and if you don't want to be a dog, you can prepare to die! A cold light flashed in his eyes, and Li Rusong said categorically.

"Immediately send a flying letter to the eldest brother, and start clearing the inner ghosts inside the Wufeng fleet. and Cheng Yi's side also started to work in Liaodong. The focus of the two sides is different. All the moths on the side of the Wufeng fleet, no matter how big or small, were cleared. Liaodong just remove the moths in key places" As soon as Li Rusong opened his mouth, Xu Wei, who had been silent just now, had already begun to record quickly.

If you want to say that you hate Cantonese businessmen the most, it is actually not Li Rusong. It was Xu Wei - the promoter behind Wang Bengu, who killed Hu Zongxian, was the Cantonese merchants, and before Li Rusong took charge of the Wufeng fleet, the Cantonese merchants had always been the agents of the Jiangnan gentry Qingliu in maritime trade.

The so-called unjust debtor has killed Wang Bengu, a shameless bastard, Xu Wei has always wanted to kill the real mastermind behind the scenes as soon as possible and comfort Hu Zongxian's spirit in the sky!

As for Li Rusong, he has now controlled the entire Southeast Asia, and the next step is to infiltrate the Ming Nine Sides, taking advantage of the Korean War and the Sichuan Yang Yinglong Rebellion to completely control Ningxia, Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu, Liaodong, Jimen and other key places in the Ming Nine Sides. At this time, he didn't want to leave such a time bomb by his side, knowing that if he didn't die for a day, the Cantonese merchants would not be able to regain control of the Southeast Sea Trade for a day, and they would definitely continue to find ways to harm themselves.

"Hehe, since you plan to be a thief for a thousand days, Uncle Ben doesn't plan to prevent thieves for a thousand days. Zhang Yunling, who told the Jin merchants about this, as long as the Yue merchants were killed, they would have the final say in the southeast, and the remaining Hui merchants would not be afraid" After thinking about it with his beard, Xu Wei slowly expressed his opinion.

"Well, that's fine, but won't this make Jin Shang too big? Previously, Lao Tzu was under house arrest in the capital. Although thanks to their care, but secretly on the side of the Wufeng fleet, these mercenary guys are not a little stumbling block," Li Rusong said with a hint of concern when he heard this, after all, after the Second World War in Europe, the example of capital controlling the country is not a joke.

The current three major opponents of the Jin merchants: Hui merchants, Guangdong merchants, and Zhejiang merchants, are in a state of competition between the four forces, if Li Rusong helps the Jin merchants destroy the Yue merchants. On the surface, it is a three-legged stand, but the Jin merchants must be the Jin State during the Sima Yan period, while the Hui Merchants are just the Wu State of Sun Quan, and the Zhejiang Merchants are the Shu States without Zhuge Kongming, and they are not the opponents of the Jin Merchants at all.

If only the Jin merchants are left in the country, it will not be Li Rusong who controls the Jin merchants, but the Jin merchants who control Li Rusong.

"Hehe, the young general is too worried, the old man's trick to drive the wolf is to let the young general better control the Jin merchants! The major general thinks about it, where is the main business path of Cantonese businessmen? It is the sea trade, and now the sea trade of the entire Ming Dynasty is actually completely in the hands of the Wufeng fleet, and those sailors of the Ming Dynasty are not at all the opponents of the Wufeng fleet, which has 10,000 warships and more than 100,000 heavy artillery. In this way, after the Jin merchants annexed the Cantonese merchants, they would have to deepen and strengthen their alliance with us to gain a larger share of maritime trade. At that time, the Jin merchants may see the stakes clearly, and they are reluctant to accept the huge interests of sea trade, and they are willing to help us swallow the Cantonese merchants. After that, I'm afraid that even if we want to let go, Jin Shang will cry and shout and beg us to unite, right? Xu Wei's tone was full of confidence, his eyes were shining, and Li Rusong even felt that he saw the figure of the first staff member who plotted to break the southeast back then.

"Hey Mr. Xu is reasonable, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, this time we will dig a pit for Jin Shang that has to jump" (to be continued......)