Chapter 107: The Canal Merchant's Team Fights Back

Life is not a drama, and it can't be coordinated for a lifetime. Some people can arrange their own lives, and their lives are all about their own pursuits. And some people have been groping all their lives, groping and beginning to grope for the ending.

He Li Jiancheng is the kind of person who belongs to the latter, he was born without any mission, that is, if he does not have it, he has no preparation. He doesn't know how many rivers there are in his life, he doesn't know the depth of the water, and he doesn't know how many roads he can explore and how far he can go.

But he has the courage that some people don't have, and he never stops and never shies away from his responsibilities. Everyone has their own persistence, and he, Li Jiancheng, is also moving forward with his own conscience and principles.

There is no benchmark answer in this world, and what Li Jiancheng can bring to history is only what he thinks is correct. As I said before, when we watch a story, we are more often looking at a person.

Li Jiancheng just wants to tell everyone that he wants to be the mayor, but how to be a mayor is also confused.

Of course, the mayor of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was not called the mayor, but was called Shuntianfu Yin. Here is a brief introduction of Shuntianfu Yin is the highest chief executive of public security and government affairs in Beijing, that is, the mayor of modern Beijing, and is a Zheng Sanpin official.

In Beijing, it has almost the same authority as the Yamen of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Infantry Army Commander Yamen, and the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion. Moreover, Suncheonfu is also qualified to undertake complaints from all over the country, which is equivalent to a small criminal department. Although the class of Shuntianfu is not high, it is difficult to make the most decisive decision on many things, but Shuntianfu Yin can directly go to the palace to face the monarch.

The Shuntian Mansion is in charge of Beijing's public security and government affairs, and it is also connected with the six ministries and the upper study. In other words, if the official sitting on the seat of Yin in the Shuntian Mansion is hard enough, he has the ability to pass the emperor to influence, change, and even completely overturn the resolutions of many yamen. With the strength of one position, it is not considered to be overstepping one's authority to be able to meddle in the affairs of many central departments at the same time.

This is also the reason why Li Jiancheng wants to come here, he needs to establish his real power and influence. He is the emperor himself, and he doesn't need any hard bones, and many things can be decided by himself. Another advantage of being a mayor is that he can carry out experimental reforms of the lower social system without facing pressure from the court.

Li Jiancheng was the first to be the mayor, so naturally he wouldn't really go to Shuntian Mansion to change his uniform and start becoming an official! This could not have been done for the sake of the Emperor's safety. In addition to civil servants, the original team was basically unusable except for high-grade officials. Therefore, Li Jiancheng's first order was to build a new municipal government office, which was built in the same area as the State Council, and it was not very far away! At that time, it will not be him, Li Jiancheng will go to Shuntianfu to take office, but the officials of Shuntianfu will come to the general office of the city government to take office.

So recently, Li Jiancheng didn't think about how to be the mayor at all, he is now suffering from a construction illness, and he personally led the construction team to work on the construction of the new government's administrative department. A large number of architectural planners were at his command, Li Jiancheng, and he was doing the planning and design of the new government district.

This time, Li Jiancheng is full of confidence that he will definitely use his modern architectural style to fight here. He wanted to build a building with the heavy style of a modern administrative hall, and in order to have this style, it must first be white.

Speaking of Bai Li Jiancheng, it's a little stuck, and the paint can't be made! Is it directly plastered with plaster powder? Helpless, Li Jiancheng returned to the palace to find a way.

Li Jiancheng's personal official documents in the palace have recently changed from state documents to urban documents, and the original Shuntianfu Yin Lai acted as his assistant to Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng's biggest concern as mayor is of course not that he is busy with urban construction, but that he is most worried about the hundreds of thousands of laborers.

The matter of building the road has been killed by him Li Jiancheng, and the contradictions between him and those merchants of the canal faction are already irreconcilable. With the release of a group of canal bodyguard officials by Li Jiancheng, it made those businessmen feel cold, so the battlefield above the court has been leveled by Li Jiancheng, and the battlefield has been transferred to society.

The merchants valued profits, and interests were their foundation, and Li Jiancheng's cleaning of the canal was tantamount to forcing them to a dead end. Now that the attention of the court has turned to the Congress, there is no one speaking to them.

But instead of causing the merchants to relent, this situation accelerated their tendency to remove the laborers.

Li Jiancheng looked at the map of the entire city of Beijing in the palace, and in front of him stood Wei Chao and Li Jinzhong, who were now the heads of the Internal Intelligence Bureau, responsible for monitoring the internal intelligence of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Li Jiancheng asked, "What is the situation of those laborers now?" ”

Li Jiancheng asked Wei Chao to stand up and say: "Back to Your Majesty, according to our inspection in the past few days, the number of idle people in the capital has increased sharply every day, according to statistics, the number of new people has increased to 30,000 in recent days, of which the number of people on the eighth floor is all laborers who have been dismissed by Heyun all the way. ”

Li Jiancheng frowned when he heard this number: "Nearly 30,000 so much? Are you mistaken? What's going on, it's only been a few days? Why are so many people already here! Are they all at the end of their rope? What's going on, have you found out? ”

Li Jiancheng didn't expect that there were so many people at all, how long it would be! The whole thing hasn't arrived for half a month now, and so many people have already started to enter Beijing, you must know that Lu Dao has just begun!

Although it was said that the number of workers who would be dismissed along the canal would reach at least 300,000, it is still an exaggeration to say that millions of families will be cut off from their livelihoods! In fact, how can a family be supported entirely by a single laborer? They must have other ways to live, in the land of China, especially in ancient times, as long as the people still have a livelihood, who is willing to leave their homeland and run thousands of miles away?

People will always find a way to live for themselves nearby, and this era is not as developed as modern transportation, and you can go to work all over the country. Therefore, the estimated 300,000 laborers can have 100,000 people enter Beijing, which is already Li Jiancheng's estimation before! However, the current situation is that the whole thing has not only been half a month, but the number of people entering Beijing has already reached more than 25,000, which greatly exceeds his budget for Li Jiancheng, and this is definitely an abnormal trend.

So Li Jiancheng and loudly asked the Wei Dynasty and other reasons, the Wei Dynasty and Li Jinzhong saw that the emperor was already angry, and the two of them did not dare to hide it, Wei Chao said: "Back to the emperor, the subordinates also felt wrong at first!" Send someone downstream to find out why. Now the news has just come back, it turns out that it is the ghosts of those merchants who are engaged in river transportation, most of these traders dominate the river, and they are either rich and rich on the one side, or they guard the commercial channels of one side. These were very influential people, and they all banded together to secretly spread the word that no one else was allowed to hire the workers who had been dismissed by the river transport, which made them impossible to find work at all. Ordinary shops and shops don't dare to ask these people to do things, which is why so many workers come to the capital so quickly. ”

When Li Jiancheng heard their words, he slammed his fist on the table, startling both Wei Chao and Li Jinzhong.

Li Jiancheng was so angry that he didn't expect these people to do things so desperately, of course, the premise of all this was that he Li Jiancheng did things absolutely nothing. Li Jiancheng was angry that he didn't have any way to do anything about those merchants, this matter was not like he could say a word like he did with Liu Yijing, and he couldn't do anything in the face of these merchants.

The canal is a 2,500-kilometer-long river that was a major economic artery of the Ming Dynasty. This is not what Li Jiancheng can move now, and now he is only harming the interests of this section of the river near the capital to suffer such a big backlash, if he really moves those river transport merchants, then he may have to finish the game, and he can't stand these people giving him a holiday. These businessmen were able to do things like this because he Li Jiancheng completely uncovered their protective umbrella, no wonder they were desperate, if he Li Jiancheng dared to do it, they would dare to close down.

Therefore, at this moment, Li Jiancheng can only be angry but cannot vent, and he cannot deal with this kind of problem related to the social and economic arteries like he did with those officials. No matter how ruthless he is, he also has a personal goal, but when it comes to business and the economy, it is not the same as dealing with one person, but the social impact of the collapse of a whole economic line.

Li Jiancheng does not have the ability to resist the other party's economic offensive at all, especially within the country, it is the people who forcibly fight with those people, and it is not worth it at all to turbulent the society at the least.