On the seventh day after Qin Tai entered Jiangnan, that is, the day after he met with Boss Qi, he who was supposed to stay with Boss Qi disappeared. According to the agreement between Qin Tai and Tan Lun at the beginning, Qin Tai wanted to go to Fujian and Jianquan Prefecture to persuade everyone to borrow grain, and at the same time, he needed these locals to do some work in the same village. It is hoped that the impact of the imperial court's failure to distribute rice, grain, and money for disaster relief this time will be minimized, and it will be for the sake of local peace. But Qin Tai changed his plan, and it was because of Boss Qi.

Boss Qi is the principal of the Jin Chamber of Commerce here, and he can be regarded as the boss of the business community here. Before Qin Tai came, Boss Qi was not smooth. Some local forces tried to win him over and threaten him, but he did not agree to them for various reasons. Later, Boss Du, who had secretly opposed him for a long time, dared to openly oppose him. This time, he also used his subordinate Mr. Bookkeeper to frame and frame himself, forcing him to hand over the position of principal. Just when Boss Qi didn't know how to solve the problem, Qin Tai appeared quietly. Qin Tai not only volunteered to help Boss Qi, but also analyzed the stakes clearly. As a businessman, Boss Qi of course knew that Qin Tai would not help in vain, and Qin Tai also said what he meant, he needed Boss Qi to use the relationship of Jin Shang to help him organize a large amount of grain. Boss Qi was a little hesitant, but Qin Tai simply increased his weight, representing the emperor and the imperial court, and gave Boss Qi and Jin Shang a name. It was a coveted honor for businessmen and merchant organizations, and an opportunity for them to advance their status. Boss Qi agreed to Qin Tai, and while joining forces with Qin Tai to deal with Boss Du, he had already reported the matter to the headquarters. He knew that once this matter was reported to the headquarters, the headquarters would not only agree immediately, but also his position would be more secure. Boss Qi didn't want to be promoted again, with his age and strength, this position was already very good. Coupled with Qin Tai's relationship and the potential business opportunities here, Boss Qi decided to stay here for the rest of his life, even if he couldn't do it himself, he would let his children and grandchildren continue to do it.

Jin Shang is really a huge organization, not only rich and powerful, but also the speed of communication is quite amazing. Qin Tai and Boss Qi met for less than a day and a night, and Boss Qi secretly reported the matter to the headquarters with a private urgent letter. Unexpectedly, a reply has been received, and the headquarters decided to cooperate with Qin Tai secretly, not only secretly but also with all his might. For a long time, although merchants were beautiful, their status was quite low, and officials and scholars looked down on them and treated them as slaves. The common people also despise them, saying that they are the lackeys of the government and the enemies of the common people. As the largest force among merchants, Jin merchants often felt unjust and helpless about their identity. The opportunity given by Qin Tai is not only an opportunity for Jin Shang, but also a great opportunity for the world's inauguration. Businessmen have always sought profit from their own interests, and rarely intervened in and participated in political affairs, so they had no political status. If it is well coordinated this time, it will not only give all the businessmen a long face, but also may make the businessmen participate in political affairs from now on. Therefore, the headquarters of the Jin Merchants not only ordered Boss Qi to fully cooperate with Qin Tai, but also told Qin Tai that the grain Jin Merchants wanted were all covered. The Jin Shang headquarters would call the remaining grain from the northwest and southwest and transport it to Jiangnan overnight, leaving Qin Tai alone to dispatch. The reason why I believe in Qin Tai so much, firstly, is because Qin Tai has a gold medal representing the emperor in his hand, secondly, because Qin Tai has too high prestige here, except for Qin Tai, the common people here will not listen to other people, and thirdly, because Qin Tai is their hometown, Qin Tai's father used to be a Jin merchant, so it can be said that he is his own person.

Boss Qi told Qin Tai that first, all the grain would be transported to Jiangnan within three days, and the fastest batch would be secretly transported to Fujian that night. Second, the headquarters of the Jin Merchants has announced its full support for Qin Tai, and Qin Tai wants money for money, people for people, and food for food. Where there is a business scope of Jin merchants, all industries under the name of Jin merchants unconditionally support Qin Tai. Third, the Jin Shang Headquarters immediately sent people to Jiangnan to help Qin Tai control the prices here and prepare for the dangerous period safely.

With this batch of grain and the full support of the Jin merchants, Qin Tai felt that there was no point in not meeting with the common people, and if Qin Tai met with everyone, he would expose himself too early. Qin Tai decided to go to do more important things first, and then come back to meet everyone after the grain arrived here. What could be more important than that? That is to find someone to contain and spy on each other.

Through his own analysis and the descriptions of Boss Qi and others, Qin Tai basically determined who the other party was. The other party not only has some scum of the Jiangnan local government, but also at least three restless princes, and Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet, participated. As for Tan Lun's teacher, Gao Gong, the second assistant of the cabinet, even if he was not involved in this matter, he was also a person who was implicated. In this way, Qin Tai not only could not ask the court for help, but also had to guard against the people of the court from doing something behind his back. The head of a hundred officials, three powerful princes, and a large group of local officials who are full of food and drink and are unwilling to spit it out, this is no longer something that a Qin Tai drink 1 Tan Lun can deal with. The only way is to use other forces to contain the other party, so that the other party is afraid and does not dare to do things that are too out of line. There are almost no people in Jiangnan who can compete with the three feudal kings and many local officials. But remember, there is almost nothing, not nothing. In order to monitor and supervise local officials nearby, the imperial court not only set up patrol yamen in the local area, that is, in addition to the well-known imperial history, there is also a yamen that is more feared by officials than the imperial history, that is, the yamen of the town guard and the yamen of the supervising army composed of eunuchs. The town guards supervised the local officials, and the yamen supervised the guards. Not only do they have soldiers in their hands, but they also have the authority to deal with emergencies. Although these eunuchs usually embezzle with everyone, and are even more unbearable than ordinary officials, once the imperial court, no, it should be said that the emperor ordered it, they will definitely not betray the imperial order. Because for these poor and angry people, the palace is their home, and the emperor is their master. The emperor is not only their master, but also the parent of all the eunuchs, betraying the emperor is tantamount to them kicking themselves out of the house, who would do that?

Originally, the relationship between Qin Tai and the eunuchs was very bad, and it could almost be said that water and fire were incompatible. There are many eunuchs who have said privately that they will wait for the opportunity to deal with Qin Tai well. But now that the situation is forced, Qin Tai has to go to these eunuchs for help, and only these eunuchs can contain each other. Fortunately, Qin Tai has a gold medal given to him by Emperor Longqing in his hand, and seeing the gold medal is like seeing the current emperor. These eunuchs can show off their might to anyone outside, but when they see their masters, they will behave like domestic puppies and kittens. Qin Tai could use this gold medal to command these eunuchs to deal with each other. Qin Tai finally understood a little, Emperor Longqing may have guessed something, knowing that Qin Tai might have to deal with the royal family or eunuchs, so he handed over this gold medal to Qin Tai for the time being. This gold medal has almost no meaning to the common people. For ordinary officials, it is just a status symbol. It was only for the royal family and eunuchs that this gold medal representing the emperor himself had real significance. For these people, the emperor is not only the master of all eunuchs, but also the patriarch of the imperial family, and has the power of life and death over these family members.

The place where Qin Tai secretly rushed to this time was Nanzhili, and he was not only going to meet the eunuch, but also to meet a very important person. Nanzhili is also the south of Beijing, is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Hong Wuye designated the capital, even if the Chengzu Emperor Zhu Di set the capital of Beijing, here is still the most important place in addition to the capital. Not only did it have an imperial palace and six yamen that were about the same as those in Beijing, but it also had a fairly large army in number and equipment. In order to distinguish them, later generations called the northern capital of the north as the capital and the southern capital as Kyoto. However, this is the private name of the common people, and the official written titles are North Zhili and South Zhili. The army of the Ming Dynasty consisted of guards, one of which had about 10,000 soldiers, and there were seventy-two guards in the country, equivalent to nearly 700,000 standing soldiers. In addition to this, three Mongols formed a guard, a mysterious special guard. The three Mongol guards were established by the Mongols who surrendered after Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di pacified the Mongols. That mysterious guard is the famous Jinyi Guards in Daming, they nominally belong to the management of the army, but in fact, they are directly under the assignment of the current emperor, and are engaged in assassination and suppression of people. In order to facilitate management, Emperor Zhu Di divided the country's army into five parts, namely the front army, the rear army, the left army, the right army, and the middle army. Each command headquarters has a commanding envoy's office, and each commander's envoy's governor's office will have a large governor, who is fully responsible for all military affairs. The former military capital was set up in the south of Beijing, the rear military capital was set up in Beijing, the right army was set up in Shan, Xida, and Shan, Dongdeng, and Zhou, and the Chinese military was set up in Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of An, Huifeng, and Yang. Among them, the responsibility of the former military capital governor's office is to guard the mausoleum of Nanjing and Zhu Yuanzhang, and to control the Yangtze River basin. The Houjun Governor's Mansion was to defend the capital and protect the emperor and the emperor's family. The responsibility of the Right Army Governor's Office was to contain and control the Mongols and guard the northern gate of the country. The responsibility of the Left Military Governor's Office was to guard the northern seas and to monitor the ethnic minorities in the northeast. The main task of the Chinese Military Governor's Mansion is to guard the ancestral tomb and not let the dragon qi be destroyed. Everyone said that Zhu Yuanzhang could win the world because the ancestors of the Zhu family were buried in a place with dragon energy. In order to prevent anyone from sabotage, an army was sent to protect it day and night. In fact, the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di is more than that, they want to use this army to comprehensively contain the Yangtze River valley and cut off the transportation and communication between the north and the south when necessary.