After thinking clearly about the serious consequences there would be, many gentry no longer dared to be so tough.

"Since Longqing, the imperial court has opened the sea in Quanzhou, and hundreds of people have survived because of the profits of sea trade. Those who make more money can carry gold and silver on ships, and those who make less money can also support their families. However, the Quanzhou City Bosi pays only 20,000 taels of treasury tax every year! ”

"The profits of the sea trade are in millions, but the tax silver that goes into the treasury is only a small amount, and most of the rest is in the pockets of you people, hidden deep in the cellars."

"The construction of slaves is raging, the people are in turmoil, the state affairs are like stalks, the tax revenue is less than a year, the treasury is empty, the soldiers at the border gates have no food and clothing, and the people in the north are waiting to be fed."

"You rely on sea trade to earn countless silver taels every year, all of them are rich and rival the country, but you don't have the slightest idea of worrying about the country and bailing out the king? When you read the books of the sages, you are full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, loyalty and patriotism, but they are selfish and shameless! ”

"For the sake of state affairs, His Majesty was sorrowful all day long, and could not sleep at night, but the treasury had no silver and there was no way, so he had to send General Li to Fujian, wanting to build a royal maritime trading firm to trade overseas and earn silver taels to subsidize the treasury. It is not to compete with the people, but to serve the country and the people! ”

"For their own selfishness, they blatantly colluded with the red-haired ghost to attack Ben Port, and colluded with the pirate Li Kuiqi to attack Fuzhou, slaughtered the people and robbed property, and now they want to threaten and incite civil unrest!"

"Do you really think that this Fujian is the world of you, and let you do whatever you want?"

Liu Mao pointed at the noses of these gentry and scolded angrily, turning everything into the open.

The gentry were scolded with extremely ugly faces, but they couldn't refute it, because what Liu Mao said was the truth.

Officialdom has always given face to each other, everyone is hello and I treat each other well, this Liu Mao is so undignified, which makes the gentry also feel surprised.

Everyone knows that you were sent by the emperor, but you are also from Jinshi and a member of Shilin, are you good to everyone like this?

Don't you have a family? Will your family not annex the land, and will not take the people away?

What purity to pretend!

But I can only slander it, I don't dare to say these words, and I don't even dare to push it back.

Although Liu Mao is only a seven-rank patrol, his status in Fujian is only under the governor Xiong Wencan, who dares to directly contradict it? Even Xiong Wencan didn't dare!

"That, Lord Liu is angry for the time being," Taking advantage of Liu Mao's breathing, Xiong Wencan hurriedly interjected and played a round.

"They were probably also frightened by Mr. Li, and they talked nonsense, Lord Liu, don't have anything to know them."

"Yes, yes, we were scared, for fear that Mr. Li would come in chaos, so don't have a meeting with us." The gentry hurriedly followed.

"Humph!" Liu Mao sneered, "You can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, it's really going to lose your head!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The gentry said in unison, wiping the cold sweat from their foreheads one by one.

"Lord Patrol, General Li is killing in Quanzhou, we are really apprehensive, it's not that there is no way, so I asked the governor to get an idea." Lin Rui said with a smile.

Liu Mao said lightly: "Can you collude with the red-haired ghost pirates?" ”

Lin Rui shook his head desperately: "Then how can we, how could we do such a thing?" ”

"If you don't, why worry? Although Li Zongbing is young and vigorous, he will not do it indiscriminately, everyone is famous, and many people even have contacts with the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, Li Zongbing is just a mere general, how dare he offend you? Liu Mao said with a stinging voice.

"Hehe......" Lin Rui laughed awkwardly. The secret passages are about to scare us into peeing, and this is still called not daring to offend us?

However, from Liu Mao's words, Lin Rui and others knew the bottom line of Li Yanzhi and Liu Mao, that is, they would only do something to the Quanzhou merchant gang, and would not deal with other merchant gangs for the time being.

In this case, you can relax for the time being. As for how to deal with Li Yanzhi and how to deal with the Royal Maritime Trade Firm, I will plan slowly in the future.

"The sea is big enough to accommodate the major merchants, and it can also accommodate the Royal Maritime Trade Company." Before leaving, Liu Mao said meaningfully to the gentry.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since Liu Xun said so, General Li shouldn't mess around anymore, so everyone will disperse." Xiong Wencan said with a smile.

It's good that the matter can be solved like this, at least you don't have to sit on wax, as for the competition between the gentry and the royal sea trade firm, it is not the business of the official! Well, we should immediately send someone to find a relationship between the DPRK and China, transfer out of Fujian as soon as possible, and leave this place of right and wrong! Xiong Wencan said secretly.

......

"Guys, can we just settle it like this?" Leaving the governor's yamen, a gentry suddenly said.

"Of course not! Then Li Yanzhi is so arrogant, even if he doesn't move us now, he will do something to us sooner or later. Everyone is already dead to death! Lin Rui said compassionately.

"So what are we going to do?" A gentry asked.

I can't beat it, I can't say it, the patrol is directly Li Yanzhi's accomplice, and the governor Xiong Wencan is also the first rat at both ends, except for inciting civil unrest to make things bigger, everyone has no choice for a while. However, inciting civil unrest is a double-edged sword, and it is very likely to hurt oneself, and no one wants to go that far until it is absolutely necessary.

Lin Rui sneered: "I'm afraid you have forgotten our identity, we are gentry!" Although this world belongs to the emperor of the Zhu family, whether it is the court or the countryside, we are in control, and Li Yanzhi can't help it on the surface, but there are many other methods.

Everyone went back to each other, wrote letters to familiar friends of the same year, or wrote poems and screenplays, or published books to lash out, mobilize public opinion, and tell the world how arrogant and domineering Li Yanzhi is, and what a heinous crime! The emperor appointed such a traitorous minister and set up a trading house to compete with the people for profit, which was to cut off the livelihood of all the coastal people!

first created a momentum among the people, and made Li Yanzhi and the Royal Maritime Trade Company stink, so that everyone saw them like a snake and scorpion!

Then, let's launch an offensive in the court, contact the officials we know well, and impeach!

What colludes with red-haired ghosts to collude with pirates? It is clear that Li Yanzhi wants to do something wrong, secretly cultivating forces in Taiwan, and wants to stand on his own feet overseas! He colluded with red-haired ghosts and tried to deal with his colleagues in the Fujian army. In order to achieve its sinister purpose, it brazenly colluded with the pirate Li Kuiqi to attack Fuzhou, intending to kill the hostile forces in the army by the hands of the pirates!

But he poured sewage on Huang Zheng, a gentry from Quanzhou, and brazenly made a move to destroy the Huang family's wealth!

Li Yanzhi is arrogant, cruel and shameless, and his behavior is outrageous! If he stays in Fujian, I don't know how many people have been killed by him, and I don't know how many good homes have been wiped out!

Lang Lang Qiankun, blue sky and white sun, how can you tolerate this fang so rampant and domineering! ”