Shen family.

"What are you doing?"

"Why arrest me!"

The official messenger of Suzhou Mansion came to the door and arrested Shen Zhi, the master of the Shen family.

"Master Shen, we are also acting on orders, you can take care of it."

"On whose orders?"

"Naturally, it is the order of His Royal Highness King Wu."

"What crime have I committed?" Shen Zhi was furious.

As the richest family, the richest of the rich, was actually arrested by the messenger!

The officer replied: "It is said that you have avoided the conscription and committed the crime of 'iron foot treachery'. ”

Because of the money, the servants were very polite to the God of Wealth in Suzhou City.

The so-called iron-footed trickery is a means for the rich people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to entrust their land and maternity leave in the name of their relatives and tenants in order to escape from forced labor.

This kind of petty trick that rich people don't want to do in conscription.

In the long run, the differentiation of the two classes has accelerated.

Zhu Yuanzhang once issued an order to rectify and ordered the Zhejiang Political Envoy and the prefectures and counties directly under Suzhou to compile the "Fish Scale Atlas".

Send people to verify the field in person, whose land it is, how big it is, from where it goes, and draw and mark it one by one.

This time, Wu Wang Zhu Yunxi also made a wave.

By suppressing the Shen family, he dealt a severe blow to the crooked trend of "iron-footed treachery" in Suzhou Mansion!

On the other side, all the shops of the Shen family in Suzhou City were seized and sealed, and a large number of children of the Shen family in charge were arrested.

It aroused strong onlookers from the public.

"What's going on?"

"I heard that the Shen Jiaya Bank was suspected of bullying merchants and destroying the market, and was seized by the government, and people were also arrested!"

"Isn't the relationship between the Shen family very hard, how can you say that you will be arrested if you are caught?"

"Hard fart! Dare to go against King Wu, the backers of the Shen family have been pushed! ”

Government notices were posted on the streets of Suzhou.

Zhu Yunxi, the king of Wu, carried out special control against the profiteers who speculated, oppressed the merchants, created a rice shortage, and raised prices.

Especially the dental industry, both official and private teeth have been banned!

The tooth shop, that is, the intermediary of ancient times.

After the imperial court imposed a sea ban, the Shen family's business was mainly tooth shops and rice shops.

Zhu Yunxi's wave directly dried the main artery of the Shen family.

He didn't seal it up at will, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict a few days ago:

"The world's prefectures, prefectures, counties, and towns are not allowed to have official or private teeth, and all merchants should have goods, and after paying taxes as usual, they will obey the sale.

Dare to say that it is an official tooth and a private tooth, and Xu Lin's neighbors will take it to Beijing, so that in addition to being relocated, if it is an official tooth, the whole family of the official will be relocated. ”

Zhu Yunxi cracked down on the tooth shop in Suzhou Prefecture, and all those who raised prices were closed, and the entire intermediary industry was disqualified from operating, and those who should be arrested must be arrested!

Obviously, the industry giant Shen family was unlucky and was severely beaten.

As capitalists, they will be thrown into prison and pursue responsibility!

This wave of industry rectification has undoubtedly caused a typhoon in the business of Suzhou Prefecture.

In the Ming Dynasty, the tooth shop actually covered the dual roles of intermediary and retail, and its status was equivalent to today's agents and supermarket hypermarkets.

Just imagine, in the most prosperous areas of the country, France's Carrefour, the United States Wal-Mart, Wanda Plaza, RT-Mart and other large supermarkets, supermarket chains......

What would be the shock if all of these places were closed overnight?

Suzhou is facing such an impact, and business has been directly hit hard!

I don't know how many wealthy businessmen are in a hurry.

This level is not a day or two, it may be permanent!

The family business is all over!

The bigger the business, the more losses will be!

For ordinary citizens and small businessmen, the impact is not great.

They're even clapping their hands!

Ill-gotten gains are not advisable!

Soon, these merchants seized the market and wholesaled their own goods.

Squeezing out the original intermediate link of the tooth shop, people will feel that the price is cheaper than before!

Originally, the wholesale three runs and the retail five runs of things, now the price is two runs.

If you encounter a businessman from another place who is in a hurry to go home to deal with the goods, you can get the goods at a cheaper price!

Jotenji Temple.

It was full of soldiers in the army, and several teams of personal soldiers carried knives and guns, inspecting the posts.

Zhang Luo, the prefect of Suzhou, led the wealthy businessmen from the temple gate to the temple hall with anxiety.

Walking into the temple, I saw Zhu Yunxi, the king of Wu, sitting in front of the statue with angry eyes and majestic eyes.

Beside him stood two generals with long swords hanging from their waists.

"Zhang Luo, the lowly prefect of Suzhou, led his subordinate businessmen to meet His Royal Highness King Wu."

Zhu Yunxi sat intently and didn't say a word.

Shi Li Zhigang, the head of King Wu's mansion, smiled all over his face: "Get up!" Feel free to sit! ”

Governor Zhang led the wealthy businessmen to stand up.

But after looking around, I couldn't find a place to sit.

The temple was empty, and there was not a single chair or stool.

Zhu Yunxi stood up and scolded: "Let you sit down!" What are you doing stunned? ”

Everyone's faces are embarrassed, sitting on the ground in winter?

Everyone eats and drinks spicy food on weekdays, lives in a big house, lies on the soft collapse, and has several women to warm the bed when they sleep.

Now let the dry sit on the dirty hard ground?

"What's the matter, it's useless to talk alone?"

Zhu Yunxi stared coldly at the prefect of Suzhou.

Governor Zhang was rectified by him at his son's wedding banquet, and he was still afraid of it, so he had no choice but to take the lead and sit on the ground.

The wealthy merchants frowned bitterly and sat down on the ground on both sides one by one.

Zhu Yunxi picked up the donation book from the desk in front of him and raised it: "Previously, you 100 people donated a total of 31,250 taels of silver, thank you for being so generous to me!" ”

"Thank you so much!"

With that, the donation book fell down heavily.

The scene was quiet, and Zhu Yunxi began to lecture them.

"You and other rich people are afraid to avoid forced labor, and what kind of iron-footed trickery is there, and now it has become a habit of each other, the township bullies the state and county, and the state and county bully the government, and there are many evils, so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer!"

Zhu Yunxi said bitterly: "Your Majesty loves the people like a son, but you shirk the obligation of forced labor that should be borne by yourself to others in your native hometown, and you can treat the people as human beings?" ”

"Who supported you?"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Luo, the prefect of Suzhou.

Governor Zhang wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and didn't dare to look at it directly.

Standing up, Zhu Yunxi continued: "The people are not as powerful as you, they are afraid of your obscenity, and they dare not speak out.

Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi slapped the table: "But this Suzhou Mansion, it's not you who have the final say!" I know my own law! ”

All the wealthy merchants bowed their heads.

Even the prefect of Suzhou couldn't hold his head up, what did they do to fight with King Wu in their first class of businessmen?

At this time, Changshi Li Zhigang spoke.

With a smile on his face, he picked up the donation book, and said with a smile: "You are all generous people, I think you will share the worries of the court and accumulate blessings for yourself." ”

With that, spread out the book and put it on the table.

"Of course, you will not be forced to donate as much as you want."

But the rich merchants remained as motionless as copper cast in iron.

They are still in the state of "dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water" and refuse to pay for silver.

Zhu Yunxi's face became gloomy, he cleared his throat and continued the topic he had just discussed.

"There are also some businessmen who are unkind to the rich, disrupt the market, speculate, and must be severely punished!"

"Those who have sinned deeply will confiscate their family property to thank the world!"

Hearing King Wu's murderous words, the rich businessmen panicked even more.

King Wu is young, how can his methods be so hard and his heart is so black?

Come up and shout to raid the house?