Zheng Chenggong still has no reservations about Shen Shuren, the eldest brother who covers him all the way. Shen Shuren asked him to bring all the evidence, and he did so in minutes, and immediately asked his subordinates to cross the boat to get it.

Zheng Chenggong didn't think about it at all, "The eldest brother did this, whether he planned to use the deterrent power of the imperial court to seek private interests."

This is not that Zheng Chenggong is disloyal to the Ming Dynasty, but that the Ming bureaucrats he sees now are too rare to be trustworthy.

Zheng Chenggong is only about to be eighteen years old now, and he feels that he has not seen through the essence of people, so the eldest brother said that whoever is a bad person, he will be a bad person.

As for the eldest brother himself, it must be the No. 1 Ming Zhongliang in Tianzi, and helping the eldest brother do things is to be loyal to the court.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Shuren looked at the new materials he had just gotten in his hand and roughly combed them through.

Rao was mentally prepared, and after seeing the details, he couldn't help but be shocked by the seriousness of this matter.

The evidence in Zheng Chenggong's hand can at least prove that involving the four prefectures of Jiujiang Mansion, Nanchang Mansion, Raozhou Mansion, and Yuanzhou Mansion in Jiangxi, at least six or seven local merchants controlled by the wealthy gentry and wang clans are suspected of trading goods with the thieves who have been cultivated by Lin.

And that's just the most recent deal. According to the confessions of Lin Chengcheng's subordinates who were tortured, such transactions continued for at least nearly three years.

The original trading partners were not limited to Lin Yangsheng, but also Liu Xiyao and He Jin, who are now dead.

The transaction time ranged from the eleventh year of Chongzhen, before they were surrendered by Xiong Wencan, to after the surrender, and then to the twelfth year of Chongzhen, when they were coerced by Zhang Xianzhong to rebel again.

Strictly speaking, among these transactions, only the second half of Chongzhen's eleventh year and the first half of Chongzhen's twelfth year are considered legitimate.

Because at that time, Lin Yangcheng and Liu Xiyao had temporarily returned to the imperial court, which was regarded as a whitewashing identity, and they were local generals of the Ming Dynasty who "enclosed the land and defended themselves", and the Ming merchants could certainly do business with them justifiably.

However, before these thieves were edicted and after they were reinstated again, they still maintained material trade with them, which was ironclad and had no way to be washed.

Finally, Zheng Chenggong's evidence also shows that the reason why these Jiangxi gentry and wealthy businessmen took the risk and insisted on trading was basically because they coveted the huge profits in them-

In the past, when Liu Xiyao Lin was still a legitimate Ming general, when they purchased materials in short supply for the winter every year, the price was relatively cheap.

Because it was a legitimate business, the competition was fierce, and there were many people entering the market, and at least twenty or thirty Jiangxi businessmen shared this cake at that time, and the price could not be raised.

After Lin Yangcheng and others rebelled, they became bandits again. If the transaction continues, the risk of the seller will be much greater, so the original twenty or thirty suppliers have been sharply reduced to six or seven of the most powerful ones.

These people often have a hard background, and some people also report when they encounter the imperial court inspection, so they have the courage to -

This is also easy to understand, just like at the beginning of the 21st century, when it was legal to open Internet cafes that allowed minors, there were many people doing this business, and everyone's profits were thin.

When this matter is going to be raided twice in three days, then only the people in the background can do this business. If there are fewer people who roll, they will be able to seek wealth and danger.

To be honest, these acts of bandits and traitors are not written in the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and it is impossible for Shen Shuren to know by relying on the foresight of the traverser.

When he read history in his previous life, he only heard that the "Eight Locust Merchants" of the Jin Merchants at the end of the year were traitors who were traitors to the Tartars, and as for the thieves, they were indeed inconspicuous.

Now that I think about it, it may be that there are too many such people, and there are profiteers in every province who will do whatever it takes to make money, so there is no need for regional discrimination.

Shen Shuren even saw Yuan Jixian's family in the former Huguang army again in the list, and in the list of bandits and wealthy businessmen in Yuanzhou Mansion.

Yuan Jixian himself, Shen Shuren has always wanted to befriend, after all, he is a loyal minister, and he is also an important arm in the fight against Zuo Liangyu in history.

But it can only be said that in the late Ming Dynasty, the families of those wealthy gentlemen and doctors, after the family had a big business, they had to maintain it, and it was too common to be greedy for money and unscrupulous means, and to cooperate with Tartars and bandits.

Zhu Dadian, who was killed by Shen Shuren before, would rather die than descend the integrity of the Tartars in the future, he can be regarded as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he is just as greedy for money.

In the late Ming Dynasty, greed and loyalty to the national integrity are often not contradictory.

It can almost be said that at least eighty or ninety percent of people are greedy, nothing more than greedy.

And a small half of them may be greedy, and at the same time take into account national integrity.

The remaining half is greedy and unethical.

……

After Shen Shuren sorted out the whole thing, he put away the things first, considered the coping strategy, and then said to Zheng Chenggong step by step:

"Da Mu, I also want to stab this matter directly to the heavens and sweep away the accumulated shortcomings. But it's too big, and there are too many people to offend at one time, I'm afraid it will only cause trouble.

We have to pay attention to a little strategy, try to divide and disintegrate, pull one faction to fight another, and we can't offend all the wealthy families behind these Jiangxi profiteers at the same time. ”

Zheng Chenggong didn't understand it very well, but he also knew what kind of virtue the Ming officialdom was now, and he knew what trouble would be if he made too many enemies at one time.

He took a deep breath and said bluntly: "Big brother, what do you say." ”

Shen Shuren touched his nose: "These confessions should not be false, but they are not detailed enough, ask a few more copies, and change them from a different angle-

For example, ask me, among these Jiangxi gentry who colluded with them, which of them originally only took the county river trade route in Huguang, Huangzhou Prefecture and Huangmei County? What are the ones that go to Anqing Mansion in Nanzhili and Susong County, and the Thunder Water and Malu River?

Then, leave those who only walked the Qianhe River in Huangzhou County and the crimes were relatively light, and count those who walked in the Qianhe River of Huangzhou County and Leishui in Anqing at the same time and whose crimes were more serious. ”

After all, Zheng Chenggong was young and didn't understand conspiracy, so he didn't realize what the difference was for a while.

Although the crime of a person who has a large number of bandit trade routes is definitely more serious than that of a person with a small number of bandit trade routes, it should not accumulate qualitative changes, right?

But he could only agree, saying that he would go to the urgent torture today to catch those Lin Chengcheng and get a more detailed confession from the eldest brother.

And only Shen Shuren himself knows what he wants to do: he also improvised just now and thought of a poisonous plan to suppress political opponents.

Now, as the imperial history of the capital, he is only one step away from officially adding the title of governor.

When Chongzhen was first promoted to Huguang to prepare for affairs and the imperial history of the capital, his main task was to ensure that the thieves in the Dabie Mountains were completely wiped out and prevented from harming them. That's why Zheng Chenggong came over to intercept and block the supplies of the thieves.

Now it has been blocked for more than two months, and several bandits and profiteers who have given Lin cultivation materials from Jiangxi through Huguang have secretly found out several of them.

Could it be that there is not a single profiteer in Jiangxi through Nanzhili and then to Lin Yangcheng's territory?

Apparently impossible.

Jiangxi can't directly reach the Dabie Mountains, to communicate with the thieves in the Dabie Mountains, as long as you go out of the mouth of Poyang Lake from Jiujiang Lake, turn west to Huguang, and turn east to turn south Zhili.

Although it flows backwards from the mouth of Poyang Lake to the mouth of the Xianqian River, or from the mouth of Poyang Lake to the mouth of the Leishui River, it is only a few dozen miles.

But these dozens of miles can make a big fuss from a legal point of view.

As long as there are bandits and profiteers who pass through the Yangtze River for dozens of miles, and the regulatory authorities fail to catch them, and they will be found out in the future, it will be a major dereliction of duty!

This shows that the officials on the Nanzhili side who collected money, levy tariffs, and inspected the smuggling patrol have received benefits from all over the country, and some people should be held accountable!

Otherwise, why did everyone in Jiangxi go to Huguang and be investigated by Zheng Chenggong, but Jiangxi went to the south and Zhili but didn't have a single case?

This is a question that cannot be pondered.

When the problem is not exposed, hello, hello, hello, everyone, but once Zheng Chenggong, the thorn, picks out the problem and puts it in broad daylight.

A comparison of peers can immediately bring out the incompetence and corruption of the relevant personnel on the side of Nanzhili!

It's all up to your peers.

Then, Shen Shuren will be able to take advantage of this return to Nanjing, cuddle the grass and beat the rabbits, and hold the right to inspect the military on the river between Nanzhili and Jiangxi, and the supervision power of the levy of the centigold, in his own hands!

It's really not impossible to do this, because the "governor" official function of the late Ming Dynasty was to "care" those prefectures, which were not strictly in accordance with the provincial boundaries.

When Shi Kefa took office as the "Governor of Anlu" or commonly known as "Wanfu" five years ago, he actually inspected the four prefectures of "Anlu Chitai" in Nanzhili, plus Jiujiang Prefecture in the northernmost part of Jiangxi, because the imperial court believed that these five prefectures were related to the scourge of thieves in the fifth camp of Gezuo.

If the thief situation is assessed relatively weakly now, when Shen Shuren takes over the position of governor that once belonged to Shi Kefa next year, it is difficult to say whether Chizhou and Taiping Mansion (Wuhu and Ma'anshan, both near the upper reaches of Nanjing) on the south bank of the Yangtze River can be included in his scope of governorship.

After all, Shen Shuren is different from Shi Kefa, he started in Huguang, and now he still has the Xiangyang-Wuchang line as his core sphere of influence.

If when he is promoted to governor, the original core sphere of influence will remain unchanged, and he will be added to other prefectures in the Dabie Mountains north of the Yangtze River, then the territory will already be not small, and the jurisdiction of a governor is completely qualified. If you want to add Jiujiang, Chizhou, and Taipingfu, it is difficult to do it without some reason.

Even if it has been Chongzhen for fifteen years, the officialdom is extremely erosive, and you can do a lot of things if you are willing to spend money, you have to be famous.

Now, Zheng Chenggong took the lid and beat the rabbit with grass, proving that there are at least some thieves and some dereliction of duty in Jiujiang Mansion in Jiangxi Province and Chizhou Mansion in Nanzhili.

Moreover, Shen Shuren controlled the evidence in his hand and divided those sinners into two waves:

One wave is at the junction of Jiangxi and Huguang, and the junction of Jiangxi and Nanzhili, and there are illegal trade routes.

The other wave is only at the junction of Jiangxi and Huguang, there are illegal trade routes, and there is no energy to get to the junction of Jiangxi and Nanzhili.

Shen Shuren only stared at the first wave of heavier crimes, but co-opted and stabilized the later wave of relatively minor crimes, and at the same time thought of a clever plan to hint at them: as long as they help Shen Shuren to fight the first wave of gentry with more serious crimes, then they can turn a blind eye to their own problems.

Shen Shuren's promise, under normal circumstances, no one may dare to believe it, and people with a little brain will worry that this is just Shen Shuren's delaying tactic, and they will be eaten by this handle for a lifetime in the future.

But the problem is that Shen Shuren still has a backhand - he is sure that he will make a complete forced landing in Lin Cultivation.

After Lin Yang** Zhao'an surrendered, some things should be exposed.

Lin Chengcheng is all whitewashed, and the people who have done business with Lin Chengcheng are not good to hold on to completely, right? Otherwise, doesn't this stimulate the cultivation of the cocoin? Aren't you afraid of Lin cultivating a third rebellion?

Therefore, Shen Shuren's threatening materials for those who were threatened by him have a shelf life.

Shen Shuren can't rely on this deterrence to eat people for a lifetime, he can only choose to either change some officialdom chips before Lin Yangcheng surrenders, or detonate it directly.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't give Shen Shuren benefits, then he will definitely choose to detonate, and this deterrent is still guaranteed.

If the benefits are given, get through this time, and it will pass.