It is said that at the end of the period, the Jianzhou Jurchen suffered a natural disaster, and the tribe was already in a state of starvation, at this time, in order to make a huge profit, the Jin merchants bought the border guards and then sold the grain outside the customs, and it was precisely because of this batch of grain that the Jianzhou Jurchen escaped the catastrophe.

As for the sale of contraband such as ironware, it is even more so that it is difficult to count, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all of the eight Jin merchants relied on such means to quickly become the leading merchants in the land of China, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, in order to commend the merits of the Jin merchants, several Jin merchants were also named imperial merchants!

Of course, in today's era, the Jin merchants have not lost their hearts to the point of the late Ming Dynasty, but to say that the Jin merchants have not done business with the grassland and have not sold contraband, Zhu Houwei will never believe it.

As for the grassland policy, Zhu Houwei's idea was to win over and divide the army, rotate the garrison, and then encourage trade, but if it didn't work, he could still learn from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, such as reducing the population through killing, and completely curbing the hope of the rise of the grassland.

However, the interest behavior between countries is to comprehensively consider the problem at the level of the state and test its feasibility, while the smuggling of Jin merchants is completely two concepts, they are purely for profit, and for great profit!

As long as there is ten times the profit, then these merchants will definitely do everything they can, willing to risk smuggling all over the house!

"I give the cabinet a face......

Yang Tinghe's spirit was shocked!

"Ome."

"Your Majesty." Ren Xing hurriedly responded.

"Spread my will, deprive Ma Shen of his fame, fight for thirty, send him back to his hometown, and three generations will not be allowed to take the imperial examination!"

Yang Tinghe breathed a sigh of relief, he committed the crime of great disrespect, he could not die and did not affect his relatives, it was enough to show mercy today, and depriving him of his fame was really a light punishment, as for the three generations who were not allowed to take the imperial examination, in fact, it was not a big deal for the rich and noble families, and the lintel of the merchants.

"Go and tell the prisoners who are surrounded by Chengtianmen that those who do not leave within a quarter of an hour will be deprived of their fame and expelled from the country's prison. What does Yang Aiqing think of me handling it like this? ”

Yang Tinghe said solemnly: "Your Majesty's benevolence will inevitably spread all over the world."

Zhu Houwei waved his hand, and Yang Tinghe bowed and retreated.

"Ome." Zhu Houwei suddenly said: "Send factory guards to Shanxi to spy on the ground, but all the big merchants in the Jin Dynasty will be investigated, once it is confirmed that the Jin merchants have access to foreign countries, smuggle for profit, and sell gold, iron, and grain to the grassland, as long as the evidence is conclusive, they will all be taken!"

"Yes!" Ren Xing was shocked!

As the emperor's personal companion and the commander of Dongchang, Dongchang should definitely be a feared existence for the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but this is not the case.

Ren Xing knew very well that the emperor trusted him and he trusted Yan Tianyuan, and then the emperor did not trust Dongchang and Jinyiwei, or he didn't like Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Without the absolute support of the emperor, Dongchang and Jinyiwei would not have much power, and Ren Xing also knew that if he stretched his hand too long, it would definitely cause the emperor's disgust, and in the end the gains outweighed the losses.

Therefore, Ren Xing attaches more importance to his invisible identity, and he is also the commander of Tianyan!

This is an espionage agency made by the emperor himself, and it is responsible for secretly investigating the world, so Ren Xing will only devote all his energy to the layout of Tianyan.

This is not to say that the East Factory is abolished, in fact, in Ren Xing's view, the East Factory is a sword in the hands of the Son of Heaven that may be unsheathed at any time, or it will not come out, and it will definitely see blood when it comes out!

Obviously, the opportunity for the East Factory has come.

It's just that this time I don't know how many Jindi big businessmen will have their heads landed, and how many foreign businessmen will be beheaded!

The Son of Heaven prospered business, and even the royal family had dozens of industries under his name, even if these industries were handed over to the merchants, half of the profits would still flow into the inner treasury after all.

After a long time, it may give the merchants in the world an illusion, this illusion is that the emperor himself encouraged and supported the prosperity of commerce, and wanted to make the business of the Ming Dynasty prosperous, and then let the Ming Dynasty embark on the road of prosperity of the former Song Dynasty.

This point is actually not wrong, but businessmen in the world may also know that there is a prerequisite for the Son of Heaven to prosper business.

The premise of this is that businessmen do business honestly, do not take advantage of the law, do not touch the law, do not take advantage of disasters to make a fortune, and now they have to add a foreign country.

To put it simply, those who do business must be a righteous businessman, and they cannot do anything for the sake of profit, let alone infringe on the interests of the Ming Dynasty to enrich themselves.

If you ignore it for the sake of high profits, or even bend the law to lose the interests of the Ming Dynasty, that is to seek death!

If you don't believe it, you can go and see the big salt merchants who were arrested and finally beheaded or even destroyed, those big salt merchants bribed the government in order to take salt, and in order to make huge profits, they sold illicit salt under the guise of selling official salt, and made the Ming Dynasty suffer a loss of up to 20 million taels of silver every year, so they died......

Ren Xing knows that the Son of Heaven does not let the businessmen in the world have to behave properly, doing business, following the rules, and it is not realistic to follow the rules at all, but ......

In order to do business, the government and businessmen collude, for the sake of profit, they lose their conscience to make the wealth of natural disasters, and for the sake of profiteering, they communicate with foreign countries?

That's looking for death!

This matter is handed over to Dongchang to handle, which shows that the Son of Heaven has decided to put the matter of punishing illegal businessmen on the bright side, and if it is done, it will deter the world's big businessmen!

This time Ma Shen smashed the imperial plaque angrily, it stands to reason that there is no forgiveness, not to mention that he will be beheaded and even killed by the nine clans, at least it is almost inevitable to sentence Ma Shen to a Ling Chi.

However, no, Zhu Houwei naturally could not be under the pressure of the Guozi Prison, just because those prisoners were not enough, as long as he was willing, it was the will of the Son of Heaven to deprive all the fame of those thousands of prisoners!

The students are not allowed to discuss politics, and the prisoners gather at the palace gate, what do you want to do? Forcing the Emperor to submit?

You can casually put on a hat of rebellion, so that those prisoners will never be able to turn over!

However, Zhu Houwei didn't do this, not because he was coerced, but because he wanted the prisoners of Guozijian to see what they were being bewitched by others, and they did not hesitate to fight against the imperial power, and finally defended something!

If the Ma family is an honest businessman and has not done anything lacking in virtue, then not only will the Ma family be safe and sound, but even Ma Shen's fame can be restored, after all, in the era of the imperial examination, it is too difficult to obtain fame, and restoring Ma Shen's fame can also make him die for the royal family!

Then Zhu Houwei can also have one more person in his hands who can be used and trusted.

If it weren't as Zhu Houwei expected, then he would be killed all over the house, and Ma Shen would definitely not be innocent!

No matter which one it is, it is beneficial and harmless for Zhu Houwei......

Zhu Houwei's fingers tapped on the table for a while, and aside from Ma Shen's, his thoughts suddenly drifted to Yenching University......

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