Gu Tianqiao, eight years ago, was still the tent of the Tieliang Mountain Tea House in Hutang, holding the moon silver to support his family. After entering Jiangning, it was also because Gu Wuchen couldn't find other juniors in the Gu clan who could be promoted. But because the relationship with the Gu family is not as close as Gu Siming, and he is not as good as Gu Siming, he can please Gu Siyuan, the young monarch of the Gu family, and his wife, so he was excluded from the Gu family, but gave him the opportunity to get together with Lin Lian.

The development of the situation in the following years has changed drastically, which is jaw-dropping-

In the eight years of Chongguan, how many people in the world could have thought that Lin Jian would make the world change color with the rise of a small official in prison and Jianghuai?

Gu Tianqiao is no longer the honest shopkeeper of the tea house back then, but a big man with a huge amount of money, who stomps his feet in Jiangning City, and the ground will tremble; After the Jiangning War, grain merchants manipulated the price of grain in Jiangning, headed by Gu Tianqiao.

can only hate Zhang Yubo to be beaten on the head, if Lin Jian didn't finally stand up to mediate, it is difficult to say whether Gu Tianqiao can guarantee his head that time, so that Gu Tianqiao is still angry when he sees Zhang Yubo now.

At this time, Zhang Yubo was serving as an envoy in Jeju, and if it weren't for Lin Lian personally ordering the generals and giving Gu Tianqiao a thousand benefits, he would not be willing to go to Jeju.

Of course, Gu Tianqiao, who has been deeply involved in Haidong's trade over the years, also knows that Jeju is not only not a bitter cold place, but even less prosperous than Jeju in comparison.

In late July, Lin Jian won the title of Jeju Junjun for the eldest daughter Jungjun, and made up his mind to let Jungjun become a domain of Jeju when he grew up, and Gu Tianqiao naturally didn't have so much nonsense to talk about.

Although Gu Tianqiao has been loyal to Lin Tie over the years, the grievances of the Lin and Gu families are indescribable and unclear, and it is not a bad choice to leave Jiangning and take root in Jeju.

On the other hand, even the Jianghuai merchant gentry who formed the backbone of Huaidong no longer supported their normal business and trade activities in China to make excess profits.

In the early years, Zhang Yubo set off a rice price turmoil in Jiangning, and even used Gu Tianqiao to kill chickens and monkeys.

Although the incident finally pressed down on Lin Tie and kept Gu Tianqiao, in the same way, if Lin Tie was not supported behind him, with Zhang Yubo alone, how could he have competed with the Dongyang Township Party that manipulated Jiangning Mi City at that time?

In the past few years, Lin Jian has also focused on breaking down the barriers between regions and industries, forming the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangning into a unified market that is not divided by traditional forces, and never being soft on the crackdown on bullying and dominating the market.

After the implementation of the new tax policy, the demolition tax was replaced by a field tax and a market commercial tax, which in fact directly abolished the traditional sales system. It is no longer possible for the traditional merchant forces engaged in the industries of tea, wine, salt, horse, grain, and salt to make huge profits by taking advantage of the monopoly privilege of the sales system.

When the traditional system of selling land was abolished, and although the new land system did not directly prohibit the sale of land, those who had more than 500 mu of grain would bear a land tax twice as high as the basic land tax, which was also the prelude to the official opening of the restriction on the purchase of land for rentier.

This is still secondary.

After the establishment of the Colonist Yinzhuang, Lin Jian put up to 6 million public grain from Jiangning and other places into the Colonist Yinzhuang, and sold it to the landless and a small number of people in Jianghuai at a very low price, so as to raise the huge principal needed after the establishment of the Yinzhuang. This move directly knocked down half of Jiangning's land price.

On the surface, the decline in land prices is more conducive to the purchase of grain land, but in fact, the combination of leasing and selling of the farmer's Yinzhuang makes the tenant farmers in the Jianghuai area who have no land or little land more willing to rent and buy the grain fields offered by the colonizer Yinzhuang. Even if the large landowners of Jianghuai held a large amount of grain land, they could not hire enough tenant farmers, and they did not dare to pay a single cent of land tax.

In fact, this model has long been used by Huaidong Qianzhuang.

In the early years, Huaidong Qianzhuang took over four or five million mu of grain land from the Song, Chen, and other big clans, and in the end, it was sold to landless or landless peasant households in Jin'an, Quanzhou, Pingjiang, Danjiang and other prefectures and counties at a low price of less than three or five taels of silver per mu. Huaidong Qian Zhuang raised as much as 14 million taels of silver, making the principal of the money bank close to 30 million taels of silver.

The forces of the Lin family, the Sun family and the Zhou family were even more heavily sold off in Jinhai fields long before this.

Although at that time, it was mainly because the situation of Yan Ji and Huaisi was difficult to preserve, so the grain fields in Jinhai, Dongyang and other places were sold off and transferred to Chongzhou to avoid risks. But in fact, in the early days, Lin Jian developed shipbuilding, iron smelting, weaving and dyeing, nest silk, papermaking, mining, sea trade and other industries on a large scale in Chongzhou, and the capital used as high as nearly 10 million taels of silver mainly came from this.

In fact, while developing in a new pattern, it has shaken the foundation of the traditional purchase of land for geographical benefits; The introduction of the new land system and the new tax policy is just a follow-up to the trend.

Gu Tianqiao used to be mainly engaged in the tea and rice industries in Jiangning, and accumulated a net worth of millions.

In addition to buying land and buying houses and enjoying them for his family, Gu Tianqiao did not bury the other silver taels saved from the tea and rice industries in the underground silver cellar, and also spent a huge amount of money outside Jiangning City to buy a grange that occupies thousands of acres of land.

The new land system and the new tax policy, Gu Tianqiao has also been affected a lot, but after all, it is secondary, Gu Tianqiao's greater net worth, like other business gentry forces in Huaidong, has long been rooted in Qianzhuang, sea trade and many emerging industrial and mining industries.

Not to mention the decline of the tea and rice industries, compared with the emerging industries of industry and mining, sea trade and money villages, the ability to make profits has been greatly inferior. Gu Tianqiao's family moved to Jeju this time, although the tea and rice industries that he had operated in Jiangning in the past would not be completely abandoned, there was actually no need to ask Gu Tianqiao to take care of them wholeheartedly.

Of course, Gu Tianqiao went to Jeju, and Lin Jian didn't give additional benefits at all.

The two most critical ones are that Lin Jian directly asked the Privy Council to give Gu Tianqiao two concessions, allowing Gu Tianqiao to gather capital in Jeju and open a money bank and a boat company, and the business authority in the Haidong area is not lower than that of Huaidong Qian Zhuang and Heishui Foreign Boat Company.

Lin Jian also directly pulled out 100,000 silver dollars from the inner government and invested them in the newly established money house and boat club in the name of the eldest daughter Zhengjun, so as to ensure that the newly established money house and boat club would not be suppressed by Huaidong money house and Heishui foreign boat company at least on the surface.

Before moving his family to Jeju in person, Gu Tianqiao had a conversation with Gu Siyuanchang, who was about to leave Jiangning for Guangnan to serve as the prefect of Leizhou.

No matter how long the establishment of a new dynasty will be delayed, Yuan Yue will only be left with a skin, and there is no way to change the general pattern of Huaidong's complete control of the power of Jianghuai's military, government, and financial officials. Similarly, it is inevitable that there will be differences within Huaidong due to different interests, and there will be factional disputes; It is already very conspicuous in the matter of establishing a successor.

The establishment of the heir involves the inheritance of the supreme power of the new dynasty and the new empire, and involves the distribution of the most fundamental interests of the new dynasty.

The harem of the emperor's family is not peaceful, and it is often rooted in this.

the Sun family behind Sun Wenwan; Behind the Su sisters, the old generals of Sumen, and the old Huaisi family behind Liu Miaozhen, the interests of the Su family cannot be completely consistent. Song Jia can't be famous, and it is true that she can't give birth to an heir, but it solves one of the biggest headaches for everyone.

No matter what the intimacy was in the past, because of Gu Junxun's relationship, Gu Tianqiao could only get together with Gu Siyuan.

"It's good for you to go to Jeju," Gu Siyuan sighed lightly and said, "Except for the old people who don't want to move in Hutang, everything else that can be brought to Jeju should be brought to Jeju......

Lin Jian asked Gu Tianqiao to move his family to Jeju, which actually completely weakened Gu's foundation in Jiangning.

When Yuan Gaozu established Shizong, in order to prevent the Qi clan from controlling the government, he successively killed the Qi clan in Beijing in front of him, paving the way for the inheritance of the imperial throne.

Although the struggle for succession involves the supreme power inheritance of the new empire, it is not so contentious; In particular, Lin Gu had a gap in front, and the eldest daughter of the Gu family who retreated to Jeju and supported Lin Tie to become a hereditary vassal in Jeju may be the best and most practical choice.

Similarly, the two concessions given to Gu Tianqiao by Lin Jian are actually for the Gu family, which will make the Gu family become a prominent family in Jeju that surpasses the Chi family and the Zhou family.

On the one hand, Lin Jian wanted to make the Gu family have the basis of actually supporting the hereditary domain of the eldest daughter Zhengjun in Jeju, and secondly, it could be regarded as Lin Bin's compensation to the Gu family; On the other hand, Gu Siyuan is really interested in doing something in political affairs, and he will be less restrained.

"In the future, the Sun family will almost deal with it like this, right?" Gu Tianqiao is not stupid.

Sun Wenwan gave birth to a son to Lin Lian, and the Sun family is directly a relative family: Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jingtang are the first to participate in political affairs, and the other is to participate in the military, Sun Wenbing was also transferred to the Privy Council, and was Lin Mengde's deputy in the Zhidu Division, Sun Wenyao was also a senior general of the deputy commander, and Yin Lin Jingzhong of Jiangning Mansion was Sun Jingtang's son-in-law - this has not been counted in the old line of the Xihe Society.

"Jing Xuan Gong and Jing Tang Gong are not foolish people," Gu Siyuan said, "The newly established Nanyang Shipping Society and the Lujiadu Governor's Mansion, although Sun Shangwang and Sun Sizong's uncle and nephew preside over it, the Sun family has contributed a lot of money behind the scenes. Especially when the monarch was the lord of Jeju County, and the princes first saw Ni Duan overseas, the thoughts of the Guogong Mansion were almost on the table, how could Jing Xuan Gong and Jing Tang Gong not know each other? Must the Guogong Mansion poke his finger in the face and make everyone ugly? ”

"It seems that if you really want to establish a prince in the future, you can almost only choose between Mrs. Yue'er, Sister Su and Mrs. Qianguo," Gu Tianqiao said with a smile, "It's okay, save ...... toss."

Why is the battle for the crown so bloody? There is another reason why the relatives of other princes and grandsons can get the greatest benefits, even if they are honest and do not fight for anything, they will be strongly suppressed by the new monarch, and even bloody killings.

This kind of tradition of fighting if you want to fight will be big, and if you don't fight, you will lose everything, so why don't the relatives and forces follow to fight?

Although Su Dimei has the support of the old Sumen generals behind her, after all, there is no father and brother.

Even if Lin Wuli, who was born to Mrs. Xiao Su in the future, becomes the prince of the new dynasty, the old generals of Sumen will only hope that the political situation will remain stable, and there will be no other chaotic actions.

The same is true of Liu Miaozhen's situation, although the power of the Huaisi military system is great, but the Liu clan has almost died out in the war. Although Liu Miaozhen has two young nephews to support, she also enjoys wealth and wealth, and the possibility of becoming a big man is extremely small.

Although Liu Yue'er has a father and brother, but the father and brother are too unpopular, as long as they don't toss around, what if they can enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth?

Not tossing and sharing wealth is the situation that everyone wants to see, right?

Over the years, Gu Siyuan's dispute has disappeared: since Lin Jian gave Gu a place to surrender in Jeju, there is really no need to fight for a bloody storm around Lichu; It is also possible to feel that Lin Bin's calculations are deep and painstakingly balancing the interests of the various factions under Huaidong.