The dignified Ming Dynasty was disturbed by more than 100 Japanese people, and there was no face, and it was originally a leper who could not find an itch. This little new branch is equivalent to a jinshi, and suddenly became one of the punching bags for a cadre. As a result, Li Dajinshi's career was also greatly affected, and he almost became the worst starter in the same year.

The blow to Li Wenzao was also quite powerful. Fortunately, his Li family was originally a businessman, and he was used to seeing the ups and downs in the mall. In particular, when you go to the sea to trade, you have to fight against wind and waves, pirates, and officials Lesoo, and disasters from the sky are also the norm. Therefore, after Li Wenzao was reprimanded, he honestly did his work, and by the way, he used his power to engage in a little private business.

Who knew that a few years later, Li Wenzao found that the situation was a little different from his initial judgment. After the official ban was announced, the impact of coastal trade was not as great as he thought, especially the smuggling for profit. The demand of the Japanese people, Nanyang people and Franc Ji people for Tian Dynasty raw silk, tea, and porcelain was not something that could be banned by the imperial court with a ban on the sea. There were more and more armed Japanese boats and smuggling boats in the coastal waters, and local fishermen and salt diners also organized smuggling fleets to trade with these foreigners. Despite nine deaths, he still succeeds one after another. Many times, he dared to fight with the government.

And the Li family relies on the contacts accumulated in Jiangnan for a long time and the familiarity with the coastal sea, and they are even more involved in it. Many local small and medium-sized businessmen have entrusted them to sell special products and purchase goods on their behalf. And the local government, although the investigation is loose and tight for a while, as long as it is handled carefully, most of the time it will turn a blind eye. As a result, in the past few years, the Li family has made several times more money from FEIFA trade in this forbidden sea environment than in the past when there was no sea ban.

At this time, Li Wenzao is no longer the scholar who was full of moral articles. He discovered the secret. In the sauce jar of the Ming Dynasty, you have to be a fly that can drill camp in order to fatten yourself.

So, Li Wenzao started his business. Using the existing human and financial resources, on the one hand, they bribed officials and installed their own eyes and ears in important departments and garrisons, on the other hand, they secretly colluded with coastal merchants to form interest //////groups, and on the other hand, they also secretly corresponded with private businessmen and even pirates who went to sea. Li Wenzao himself is a Jinshi of the National Dynasty, and he can eat very well on the white road. In this way, the Li family has become even more left and right, and gradually confirmed the status of the richest man in Jiangnan.

Li Wenzao reaped the benefits of the sea ban, but he didn't want the imperial court to really implement the sea ban to the end, because if the sea was really peaceful, he would not be able to make a fortune. A few years ago, when Zhu Kun suppressed the Shuangyu merchants, and achieved great victories in Nanji and Zhao'an, he strengthened the investigation and punishment of Tongfan merchants, which made the sea ban strict for a while. At that time, Li Wenzao secretly accepted bribes from private businessmen, colluded with Zhao Wenhua and others of the Yan Party, and gave Zhu Kun a lot of bad medicine, which eventually led to Zhu Kun being cut off from power and dying of hatred.

As for Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng at sea today, Li Wenzao's feelings are very complicated. More than ten years ago, when Wang Zhi was just working as a treasurer for the maritime merchant Xu Dong, Li Wenzao had heard of this person. Later, Wang Zhi served the government and exterminated the pirate Chen Sipan, and Li Wenzao was also able to participate in the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners. It can be said that he watched Wang Zhi grow up step by step.

Li Wenzao admired the talent and courage of this medium-sized, broad-fronted maritime merchant and pirate, but on the other hand, he regarded this maritime leader who crisscrossed the two oceans as his greatest competitor. He colluded with Wang Zhi and secretly asked Wang Zhi to sell goods on behalf of him, buy the goods in his hands at a low price and sell them at a high price, or take bribes from private businessmen who have a relationship with Wang Zhi. But thinking of Wang Zhi's huge power and profits, he couldn't help but envy and hate. If he could find an opportunity to trip Wang Zhi and replace him with his own strength, he would not hesitate.

As for his political stance, Li Wenzao didn't care. He has been an official for decades, and he is accustomed to seeing the replacement of Yang Tinghe, Zhang Xuan, Xia Yan, Yan Song and others in the court. In his opinion, the so-called clear and turbid currents are just a hill of raccoon dogs. At the beginning, I was reckless, and I couldn't ban the sea on the book, but it didn't end up with a clear stream of turbidity. What reputation, what loyalty, a hundred years later, is not a pile of loess? While you have the power in hand, it is serious to get more benefits. Real money is buried at home, and one day, it will definitely become the master of the world.

Therefore, Li Wenzao did not clearly offend all factions in the DPRK and China. When Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua was operating in Jiangnan, Li Wenzao gave him many benefits, and in exchange for Zhao Wenhua's support for him. Zhao Wenhua himself is a native of Cixi, and Li Wenzao also intervened in his family business, so it can be said that they have common interests.

However, Li Wenzao did not want to lose the reputation of being a powerful minister, so while giving benefits in private, he deliberately kept a distance from Yan Song and his party ////// face. In this case, Hu Zongxian, the governor who looked like the Yan Party, got along with him instead of getting along. In particular, Hu Zongxian is also from Jiangnan, but he is not satisfied with taking vested benefits like Zhao Wenhua.

What Hu Zongxian wanted was to use both grace and power, suppress and appease, and solve the maritime and frontier problems that had plagued the Ming Dynasty for many years. But if Hu Zongxian is really allowed to succeed in this step, the chain of interests of Li Wenzao's family for many years will be seriously damaged. Of course, Li Wenzao can't say this explicitly, but it doesn't hurt him to secretly pull Hu Zongxian's hind legs in private. In this way, the contradiction between the two people gradually rose.

As for the lifting of the maritime ban, Li Wenzao's stance is completely different from that of Hu Zongxian. He hoped that, in time, in five or ten years, when the Li family further expanded its power in the business world and on the sea, and annexed most of the private merchants and pirates represented by Wang Zhi, the matter of lifting the sea ban and legalizing trade would be mentioned. At that time, the entire trade in Xiahai will be completely controlled by the Li family. He Li Wenzao can also become the emperor /////////// emperor in coastal commerce.

And now, if the lifting of the sea ban is realized immediately, the various competitions faced by the Li family may not be able to earn profits so comfortably. And he may not be able to compete for Wang Zhi. Even Yan Song, Yan Shifan, father and son, who were the ///// factions in the court, could kick him away and make money directly through the line of Hu Zongxian to Xu Hai or Wang Zhi. At this time, Li Wenzao and the entire Li family were either reduced to vassals of the powerful in the DPRK and China, or they were kicked away as a stumbling block, and their interests were much damaged. Therefore, Li Wenzao's stance is completely different from that of 30 years ago. He hopes to maintain the current situation of being illegal and not really strictly prohibited, so that he can continue to reap the benefits. As to whether this would cause more trouble and make the coastal merchants suffer, he was not very concerned.

If the attitude towards the sea ban and the Japanese is the root of the contradiction between Hu Zongxian and Li Wenzao, then the direct fuse is Xu Hai. Over the years, Li Wenzao has been cracking down on and exploiting all kinds of pirates, private businessmen, and pirates. Only Xu Hai never bought his account.

Although relying on Wang Zhi's entrapment and collusion with Chen Dong and Ye Ma, Li Wenzao barely prevented Xu Hai from chasing and killing his family's fleet, but this officialdom who has been rolling for thirty years knows that because of Wang Cuiqiao's existence, Xu Hai is probably his only mortal enemy on this ocean.

Some time ago, when Hu Zongxian began to use discordant tactics to provoke Xu Hai, Chen Dong, and Ye Ma, Li Wenzao secretly supported Chen Dong and Ye Ma and launched two surprise attacks on Xu Hai, but unfortunately the effect was not great, and Wang Zhi was there to suppress the overall situation, and it could not evolve into a war of annihilation against Xu Hai's power. Hu Zongxian finally focused his appeasement on Xu Hai, and finally let Xu Hai go ashore. In this way, the governor and the prefect finally formed a situation of "incompatibility" for Xu Hai. In Li Wenzao's plan, Xu Hai had to die. As soon as Xu Hai died, Hu Zongxian's ambitions went bankrupt, and the Li family's illegal business could continue.

While maintaining a relationship with Yan Songyi and /////// party without getting too close, Li Wenzao also secretly colluded with other forces in the DPRK and China. After all, he was the same year as Zheng Xiao, Zhou Yan, and Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet. Although he did not give him any face in the same year on the issue of the sea ban at the beginning, Li Wenzao wanted to obtain a stable income from smuggling in Jiangnan for a long time, so he naturally had to have a relationship with his peers.

A few months ago, he saw Zheng Xiaozhishi's incident from the Di newspaper, but this old prefect who was bent on having vested interests and building a memorial arch was greatly surprised. AFTER ALL, ZHENG DUTANG IS A FAMOUS PREDECESSOR IN THE SHILIN QINGLIU, AND HIS SON ZHENG GUOQI KILLED NOTHING MORE THAN A YINDANG UNCHASTE WOMAN, AND BOTH OF THEM ENDED UP IN SUCH A DISMAL END, DISMISSED FROM OFFICE, AND HIS SON WAS KILLED IN PUBLIC.

How wrong you think about this. The Yan family's methods of political struggle are too poisonous. What kind of signal is this, could it be that Yan Song and Yan Shifan finally want to eradicate the dissident forces in the DPRK and China? Li Wenzao couldn't help but think of the lack of morality he did after he was developed. If you compare Zheng Xiao's fate, wouldn't it be ten times more miserable for yourself? Thinking of this, Li Wenzao's instinct for self-preservation came into being. He secretly strengthened his private contacts with Zhou Yan, the general constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Xu Jie, the deputy assistant of the cabinet. In case there is a delay, you can also pull assistance from these forces.

As a result, less than two months later, news came from Yu Deshui's side, saying that the envoy sent by Lu Bing, the governor of Jinyi Wei, went south to handle Xu Hai's case, and the leader was actually Sun Yanhong, the governor of Yan's mansion who handled Zheng Guoqi's case.

Hearing this news, I heard that it was this gentleman who took the lead in Shaoxing this time, and Li Wenzao's thoughts were also quite complicated. On the one hand, he knew that the rescuers who Wang Cuiqiao moved north at this time mostly wanted to save Xu Hai's life. This made him can't help but have the idea of taking the opportunity to avenge his old comrades. Although he doesn't have any feelings for Zheng Xiao, if he can really bring Yan Hong down, maybe he can strengthen his relationship with Zhou Yan and Xu Jie.

Especially from the news that came from his eyes in various counties in the south of the Yangtze River, Yan Hong's gang was uninhibited along the way, and he had a hot fight with Xu Hai's pregnant wife Wang Cuiqiao. Ahem, this little slut is indeed beautiful. I heard that after a few years of watering in the green building, compared to the astringent little girl back then, it is even more charming. If I knew about the latter things, I shouldn't have sold this little /// slut to the /////// building on a whim. How beautiful is it to be a female NU in the back house of the Li family? Thinking of this, Li Wenzao couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement, and quickly calmed down, still pondering the big thing in front of him.