The so-called eight major families of Jin merchants refer to the eight business families that have developed in Datong, Taiyuan, Yuci, Zhangjiakou, Pingyang, Taigu, Jiexiu and other places in Shanxi, and are very strong and famous.

They are the Fan family, the Taiyuan Wang family, the Jin family, the Pingyang Wang family, the Liang family, the Tian family, the Zhai family, and the Huang family.

As for the mistakes made by these eight major business families, and what heinous things they have done, I won't go into too much detail here, anyway, these people who have no national clan in their eyes, only have financial interests, and the crimes they have committed are enough to punish their nine clans!

As far as this Jiannu entry is concerned, the reason why its initial march was extremely rapid caught Daming off guard.

"The Ronin Who Started from Douluo"

It is because of the Great Wall Pass, Dushi Pass, Shangfang Fort, Victory Fort, Dragon Gate and other passes, which should be opened by these merchants.

Datong City was broken by the Houjin army within one day, and it was also a merit that should be made by the merchants in the city.

There is also the supply of grain and grass for the logistics of the Houjin Army.

Provision of armor weapons.

There is also the collection of information from various places.

can see the shadow of the eight Jin merchants behind the scenes.

That's all there is to it.

Regardless of the fact that they have sent a large amount of grain, iron tools, and medicinal materials to the grassland in the past few years, they have given strong support and helped Houjin get rid of the predicament and achieve a rise.

Only this time, as an internal thief, he led the way to the party, guided and helped the Houjin army to enter the customs, causing hundreds of thousands of Ming people to be killed, and the eight families of the Jin merchants were unforgivable and must be thoroughly cleansed!

Perhaps above the Ming Dynasty, many officials who are inextricably linked with the eight families of the Jin Dynasty will deliberately ignore and ignore this matter, hoping to deal with it in a low-key manner, and it is best to deal with it in a low-key manner, so that people can focus on these things, let alone go to an in-depth investigation.

But Xujiazhuang will not let go of this matter, Xujiazhuang's intelligence system, during this time, has also collected enough evidence, obtained a lot of account books, and sorted out a set of clear context, credible data, authoritative, irrefutable conclusive evidence.

When this set of incriminating evidence was placed in front of Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, Qin Liangyu and other court generals.

Originally, they were suspicious of Shi Yong's 'fortune project', and even expressed opposition and direct rejection, but their attitude quickly changed.

He was so angry that he trembled all over, his eyes were blood-red, and he was surging with monstrous anger.

Hong Chengchou patted and said: "Bastards, these bastards, they should be killed, all of them should be killed!" Not a single one can be left. ”

Cao Wenzhao muttered: "The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who have died in the war in Liaodong over the years, millions of innocent people who have been slaughtered, and the people in the customs who have entered the customs twice and countless people who have been killed...... Kill, kill all these profiteers! ”

The female general Qin Liangyu directly shed tears: "In the first year of the Apocalypse, the old brother Bangping and the third brother Minping led five thousand white pole soldiers to participate in the battle of Liaoyang, and did not retreat in the bloody battle by the Hunhe River, giving Houjin a heavy blow, and the elder brother Bangping and three thousand white-pole soldiers died in battle, and the third brother Minping broke out, covered with injuries, but had no regrets, we thought that Houjin was a terrible foreign enemy, as long as they were defeated, the Ming frontier would be peaceful, but I didn't expect that these profiteers, these profiteers ......"

The sixty-year-old general couldn't go any further, and covered her face and began to cry.

Zuo Liangyu felt smacked his tongue and said secretly: "Although I occasionally do some things to kill good people and make meritorious deeds, I haven't lost my heart to this extent. We are fighting hard to kill the enemy on the front line, but these Shanxi businessmen continue to send supplies to Jiannu, making Jiannu stronger and stronger, hateful, hateful! ”

The crowd was excited.

In the face of the conclusive evidence provided by Xu Jiazhuang, these court generals all felt angry and shouted murder.

Even Qin Liangyu, who has always been loyal to the imperial court and never exceeded the rules, also agreed to join the project led by Xu Jiajun to make a fortune in Shanxi, and was willing to participate.

The same is true of Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and others, all of whom share the same hatred.

But!

If you want to completely take down the eight families of the Jin Shang Dynasty, it is not advisable to rely on the army headed by Xu Jiajun alone, and it is necessary to get the most powerful endorsement and authorization, otherwise after the action, it will fall into a lot of passivity, and many officials in the DPRK and China will definitely be crazy to impeach and counterattack.

You have to pull the emperor into this project and bring the emperor to make a fortune together.

So the commercial representative Qi Chunnian went to the palace again and asked to see the emperor.

"No, I don't want to see it!"

Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen waved his hand irritably, and now he had a headache when he heard the name Qi Chunnian, and he felt disgusted and repulsed, and he never wanted to see this bastard thing again.

"Your Majesty!"

After a while, Wang Chengen came back, leaned into Zhu Youzhen's ear and said: "Representative Qi said that he just wanted to talk to His Majesty about business this time, saying that as long as His Majesty nodded something, the royal family would be able to earn at least 3 million taels, and there was no need to sign any agreement and contract, which was equivalent to picking up a lot of money for nothing." ”

"Three million taels, this ......"

Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up, revealing an expression of a wealth fan, this is not a small amount of money.

But thinking of the anger he has suffered these days, the blockages in his heart, and the merciless criticism and slap in the face of that guy in the Jinluan Palace, Zhu Youzhen still said angrily: "No, this time he knelt down and begged me, and I didn't see him, let him find someone else to cooperate!" ”

Zhu Youzhen figured it out, every time Qi Chunnian took the initiative to enter the palace to seek cooperation, in the final analysis, he still asked for him, and took advantage of his Zhu Youzhen's lack of money and the psychology of urgently needing money, but this time he won't take the bait! This guy must be in a hurry, and he must be made to kneel and beg himself.

That's right.

Tsundere, although Chongzhen at this moment is almost a poor bastard, and he is very eager for silver, but in front of this Qi Chunnian, he must be tsundere and save his face.

But it didn't take a while.

"Your Majesty!"

Wang Chengen came back again, leaned into Zhu Youzhen's ear and said: "Your Majesty, Representative Qi said that it will be winter soon, and the New Year will be celebrated in two months, if Your Majesty is unwilling to participate in this project, then you can only wait until next year, or the year after tomorrow, but this year, how does Your Majesty plan to spend it?" ”

Syllable!

Zhu Youzhen was immediately asked.

yes, how should we spend this year?

Is it a fat year or a skinny year?

In fact, at the end of August, when his internal money was so rich that he was about to burst his position, Zhu Youzhen had already made up his mind in advance that he would definitely have a fat year this year.

For example, he has to buy a few more bicycles, including one for himself, because he has learned how to ride a bicycle.

The price has been reduced to a thousand taels of silver (the cost price is lower), and each concubine in the harem should be equipped with one.

There are also gramophones, mechanical watches, tweed windbreakers, soaps, toilet paper, canned food and other goods, some of which are purchased at the end of the year depending on the economic situation, and some of which are used to it (such as soap and toilet paper), and it is impossible to get rid of them, thus constituting a lot of fixed expenses.

and some of the expenses needed to honor the elders.

All in all, if the royal family wants to have a fat year this year, they will have to spend at least 500,000 silver dollars, or even one million silver dollars.

But Jiannu entered the customs, he became a poor egg, with the little money and food left in the current internal money, he can only live back to the days of three or four years ago, the problem is such a thin year, he Zhu Youjian can live by himself, there is no big problem, but do you want to let the imperial sister-in-law, the queen, Tian Guifei, and the old lady Liu suffer together?

You must know that the crown prince Zhu Cihong, but he begged for a long time, hoping to buy him a scooter with a cost price of 300 silver yuan during the New Year, Zhu Youzhen has agreed, as a father, is he willing to see his son's extremely disappointed eyes?

No, no, no!

As a man and a father, Zhu Youzhen never wants his family and lovers to be disappointed in him.

This year's plan remains the same, and we must have a fat year!

"Let Qi Chunnian come over and talk about the project he said."

Zhu Youzhen only got the way.

……

Inside the East Warm Pavilion.

Soon, Qi Chunnian, who was holding a stack of thick materials in his hand, introduced the project about winning the eight masters of the Jin Merchants with the content of these materials.

"Unscrupulous, shameless, inhumane! It's a bunch of beasts! ”

"Heaven is intolerable, heaven is intolerable!"

"Kill, punish the nine clans, this gang of traitors will be killed, and no one will be left!"

Zhu Youzhen was furious.

What the eight Jin Shang families did made him tremble with anger, his eyes turned black, and he almost fainted.

Then there is the monstrous hatred and killing intent, eager to put these profiteers to death one by one and chop them into pulp.

"Your Majesty, just killed them with a knife, but cheapened them, it made them happy, we have a recipe here, that is, try not to kill less, but reduce the entire family of these eight profiteers to mine slaves, and mine in the mine for life, and they will not be pardoned for generations, and they must be mined until they die, so as to warn other profiteers not to take these scum as an example." Qi Chun Nian Road.

"Okay, that's it, that's it!" Zhu Youzhen said without hesitation.

"However, Your Majesty, the eight great families of the Jin Shang Dynasty have deep roots and a huge network of relationships, and the officials who come from the Jin Shang family or have marriages in the DPRK and China include Wang Bo, Zhang Yanyu, Fan Shizeng, ......"

Qi Chunnian said more than 30 names in a row, including some important ministers and famous ministers, and then said: "Your Majesty, once our side launches, these court officials will definitely plead for mercy and cry out for grievances, and even impeach and attack, forming a lot of public opinion, with the energy of these people, even if the evidence of the crimes of the eight families of Jin Shang is made public, it may not be able to suppress their voices, not to mention that most of them are civil officials, and other civil officials are their allies." ”

"I'll solve it!"

Zhu Youzhen said with a murderous face: "Give me the list, these people dare to jump out of one, I dismissed the official and sent one to prison, see how many people dare to jump out?" Millions of soldiers and people in the Ming Dynasty have been displaced and exposed in the wilderness by these eight profiteers, and they dare to harbor intercessors, and I will never let them go! ”

Chongzhen's words are completely credible, as a young emperor in his twenties, he is very radical in many aspects, and there is no room for sand in his eyes, and sometimes he will kill ministers for a little mistake in principle that is not serious, and a large number of officials have died in his hands in history.

"Good! With His Majesty's words, we are relieved, and we also ask Your Majesty to keep it secret, so as not to startle the snake and cause the eight major merchants to transfer assets. ”

"No problem." Zhu Youzhen nodded.

……

October 18th.

The western suburbs of the capital, the garrison of the Jin Coalition Army, and the tent of the discussion camp.

Except for Shi Yong, the chief general of the Xu family's army.

There were also sixteen court generals in the tent.

They are-

Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, Yang Yufan, Wang Hong, Deng Xi, Zuo Liangyu, Qin Liangyu, Wu Xiang, Zu Dabi, Wang Yinghui, Zuo Guangxian, Li Bei, Ai Wannian, Tang Jiuzhou, Chen Yongfu, Liu Zeqing.

Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, and others were not present (they didn't want to have too much to do with Xujiazhuang, so they deliberately distanced themselves).

Lu Xiangsheng of the Tianxiong Army was also not present, because there were too many seized materials, and he was still in the process of transporting them, so he missed this operation.

Then filter out some of the less powerful armies.

In the end, only these sixteen generals were qualified to join this project, and if they were divided by eight profiteer families, they could just use two armies to deal with one family, and the Xu family army was responsible for coordinating and commanding and providing all kinds of resources.

Before taking action, though.

The crowd first determined the division of the spoils.

After a red-faced quarrel, a set of eucalyptus provided by Xu Jiazhuang's representative Zhang Xianglong was unanimously approved.

The main contents are:

The 16 armies of the imperial court participating in the project mainly divide the property of the eight major families of the Jin merchants, such as gold and silver, land, houses, population, workshops, etc., all of which will be converted into cash and then distributed to each army, following the distribution principle of 30% on-site sharing, 70% handed over to the public treasury, and then distributed according to the merits of each army, so as to ensure that under the premise of fairness, those who contribute more will get more, those who have more merit will get more, and those who are lucky can also get more.

Of the total seizures, 3 million taels will be taken out as a reward for the emperor.

Xujiazhuang does not participate in the division of these properties, but the mines, workshops and captive population (mine slaves) in Shanxi must be handed over to Xujiazhuang, that is, only the mines, workshops, and mine slaves are three things.

It's just that the eight Jin merchants have been in business for one or two hundred years, and the accumulated wealth is estimated to be at least more than 20 million taels.

Isn't this what is wronged?

Is there something wrong with your brain?

Of course, Xujiazhuang will not do loss-making business, but for Xujiazhuang, there is no difference between the silver falling into the hands of others and falling into his own hands.

Because all kinds of commercial goods in Xujiazhuang will be bought immediately, no matter how much silver, after going around outside, it will eventually return to Xujiazhuang, if Xujiazhuang eats alone, greedily collects all the gold and silver, resulting in the rupture of the consumption cycle, Xujiazhuang's business will plummet and fall into the Great Depression.

Therefore, from a financial point of view, the essence of Xujiazhuang's action against the eight major Jin merchants is to inject liquidity into the market, increase the sales of Xujiazhuang's commercial goods, and promote economic prosperity - including lending to Emperor Zhu Youzhen, in fact, there are similar considerations.

Without further ado!

After the spoils of war are divided, the eucalyptus is determined.

October 20th!

A total of 17 armies, with an average of 5,000 people per army, that is, a total of 105,000 people's 'Profiteer Coalition Army', the soldiers were divided into two routes, quickly entered the territory of Shanxi from Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, and then divided into eight routes, heading towards the nests of the eight families of the Jin merchants.

The end of the eight families of the Jin Shang Dynasty is about to befall them.