Zhu Yijun had a certain expectation that Jiangnan would try his best to evade taxes, and Luzon returned to the Yanwan private market, so he told Zhu Yijun that he must be wary of these guys, they relied on the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and made a lot of money, but they only felt that it was their own hard work, and it was a loss to pay a penny to the imperial court.

Even the tax of six percent of the value of the tax, they felt that the imperial court was too harsh.

Nanya and Zhejiang, the tax law implemented is a whip law, that is, the silver is not paid in kind, and the tax law of the whip law is a monetary tax, not a tax in kind, when the inferior gentry in Jiangnan use the tax in kind, Zhu Yijun immediately became vigilant, today they dare to use the tax in kind, tomorrow they dare to open a private market to escape.

Zhang Juzheng also has this opinion, the overkill must be overdone, so his opinion is to copy the house, and Zhu Yijun thinks that such a trivial matter, the copying of the house is still a bit of a fuss, but he just gave a punishment of removing his fame, which can be regarded as a slight punishment.

This slight punishment is already an unacceptable punishment for the gentry in Jiangnan, three generations are not recorded, whose three generations can't test their fame, and can they still maintain it? Not to mention eating meat, you have to look at other people's faces when you drink soup.

The Ming still needed the luxury households to supplement the weak areas of the Ming rule, and also needed the low moral advantages of the luxury households to carry out inhumane plundering in the open sea.

It is the basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty to return to the land, to return to the public and transform the monopoly class that far exceeds the extravagant family, and to protect the development of industry and commerce.

Sun Kehong's car began to enter the city, this is also an official and a businessman, the ocean merchant general has an extremely terrible prestige in the entire Jiangnan ground, everyone knows that this broken leg of the merchant president, the personality quirk and ruthless, he is the monopoly class born under the Ming Dynasty open sea policy, can mobilize social resources far beyond the class of the wang clan.

When Sun Kehong arrived at Shishi Bridge, Zhang Gaorui's younger brother appeared in front of Sun Kehong.

"Mr. Sun Shang is here, and he is disrespectful, disrespectful." Zhang Gaozhan went out of the house and came to Shishiqiao to greet him, still saying that he was far away, which was respect and fear.

Zhang Gaozhan never expected that Sun Kehong would come.

At the beginning, the Suzhou Zhang family helped Sun Kehong, and Sun Kehong would have repaid this kindness a long time ago, otherwise how could the Zhang family fly fiercely on the tuyere of the open sea?

Therefore, if something happens to the Zhang family, Sun Kehong must know the details, but there is no need to come in person.

And the year before last, when Zhang Gaorui came up with the idea of deducting taxes in kind, Sun Kehong wrote a letter to warn Zhang Gaorui not to violate the laws of the imperial court.

Zhang Gaorui didn't listen, and he became a prophecy.

Zhang Gaozhan dared to have a different mind as a younger brother, wasn't it because Sun Kehong and his brother fell out?

But Sun Kehong came.

"Zhang Gaozhan, you did a good job, your brother didn't know your good intentions until he was dying, tsk." Sun Kehong looked at Zhang Gaozhan and said with a smile.

Without Zhang Gaozhan as an internal ghost, the Zhang family would never have fallen so quickly.

Sun Kehong saw Zhang Gaorui's fate, and somewhat understood why Xu Jie's original temptation was on the verge of death, and finally got himself to be stabbed by the emperor, Xu Jie's had no choice, he could only go one way to the black, to the halfway road, you want to get off the boat, there is only one way to die.

Zhang Gaorui is the end.

Sun Kehong looked at Zhang Gaozhan and said playfully: "Helping outsiders embezzle their own industry, your younger brother is doing well, but also, no matter how big the Zhang family is, it is not yours, it is Zhang Gaorui's, and now the Zhang family is ruined, it is not your brother's, but yours." ”

Zhang Gaozhan's face changed immediately, he gave enough face, and went out of the house to the bridge to greet him, but Sun Kehong refused to give him any face, and directly exposed his behavior in public, making him lose face.

"What, you don't dare me say it?"

"Although Zhang Gaorui is dead, Zhang Gaorui still has a son, the head of this Zhang family is still a big house, and the Sino-Ocean Trading House sent a few shopkeepers to help run it, and when Che'er is an adult, he will return it to him." Sun Kehong announced a decision, Zhang Gaorui died, and his eldest son capsized and sank in the lake, but Zhang Gaorui also had two sons, Zhang Chengche, who was Zhang Gaorui's second son.

Sun Kehong interfered with the position of the head of the Zhang family in Suzhou, which was very rude.

Zhang Gaozhan's face changed greatly, and he said sharply: "Mr. Sun Shang is plotting against my Zhang family's industry, don't be too obvious, say that it is to let the shopkeeper help operate, I am afraid that I will eat people and not spit out bones!" Isn't Sun Shang always afraid? Aren't you afraid that this behavior will attract the jealousy of all families and besiege the Lingsun clan! ”

"Plotting against your Zhang family's estate? The most valuable thing about your Zhang family's property is those boats, and I gave them to your Zhang family, what am I trying to do with your family? Your family doesn't make as much money a year as I donate. Sun Kehong sneered and mocked Zhang Gaozhan, what he was thinking about was not worth mentioning to Sun Kehong.

Sun Kehong is telling the truth, it is not that Zhang Gaorui pulled a hand in the face of his classmates when he was in the most difficult time, and he Sun Kehong was too lazy to take care of this little matter of the Zhang family.

"As for the Jiangnan luxury households you said besieging me, then let's try it." Sun Kehong is extremely arrogant, he is here to show off his might, this is the duty given to him by the imperial court, let him become a monopoly class, that is, let him grind the big villains and the little evildoers, maintain the basic stability between the Jiangnan wang clans, and contribute his own strength to the reform of the Ming Dynasty.

The wicked still need to be grinded by the wicked.

What is inconvenient for the imperial court to do, he Sun Kehong has to do.

Sun Kehong lived in Zhang's mansion and drove out all Zhang Gaozhan's family, without giving Zhang Gaozhan any face, Zhang Gaozhan immediately defected to Dongting Merchant Gang Weng Shaoshan.

Weng Shaoshan, the Dongting merchant gang, was also bold, and dared to accept Zhang Gaozhan's defection.

After asking a little, Sun Kehong completely understood the cause and effect, and began to do something to the Dongting Shang Gang.

This Dongting merchant gang is the main body of Su merchants, named after the east and west mountains of Dongting, the people of the two mountains, good at goods breeding, eight directions and four roads, for the business for Jia, known as the diamond sky business court.

Drilling the Heavenly Business Court, they are used to sharpening their heads to drill the camp, and even the Heavenly Court, where there is no way to go up, they have a way to drill the camp, so they have to be so nicknamed.

The reason why the Dongting Merchant Gang was chosen to kill chickens and monkeys is because the Dongting Merchant Gang is different from other noble clans, this merchant gang has raised a bandit Shui Kou on the mountain, and there is no taboo in doing business, not to buy their cloth, even clothes, bedding can not be made, the mountain owner is named Weng Shaoshan, Suzhou ground, not the cloth of Weng Shaoshan, do not be clothed, do not be clothed.

Sun Kehong wanted to see if without the cloth of his Dongting merchant gang, whether the business of this cloth shop in Suzhou would be done or not.

Sun Kehong went all out, and it only took ten days, and the Dongting merchant gang, which was known as the Heavenly Court could drill camps, immediately couldn't stand it, Weng Shaoshan handed over the post, hoping to talk to Sun Kehong, Sun Kehong didn't choose to see Weng Shaoshan, to this point, it's already a matter of life and death.

Soon, Suzhou Wang's surfaced, and Wang's also handed over the post, but Sun Kehong still ignored it, he is such a person, if he doesn't do it, it's easy to talk about and discuss, once he does, he will never die.

"Luo Tishuai, I haven't seen you for many days, but my demeanor is still the same." Sun Kehong saw another person, Luo Bingliang, Suzhou This matter, after Luo Bingliang knew, he rushed over with his horse, the purpose was naturally to prevent chaos, and similarly, Luo Bingliang was also a rescuer invited by Sun Kehong.

Sun Kehong is a serious businessman and does not raise thieves.

Luo Bingliang got straight to the point, and said directly without greetings: "Those thieves and water thieves on the mountain, Sun Shang doesn't have to worry, you beat yours, we will suppress ours, and neither will be delayed." ”

"Suzhou is the Suzhou of the Ming Dynasty, not the Suzhou of Weng Shaoshan and Wang."

Sun Kehong's eyes lit up, nodded and said, "It should be so." ”

Sun Kehong is not worried about business at all, this Weng Shaoshan and Suzhou Wang are not his opponents, and Sun Kehong is not dealing with the entire Suzhou Mansion Wang, there must be yin and yang, some people want to evade taxes, some people just want to do business in peace and stability, Sun Kehong only wants to deal with the Dongting Merchant Gang and the Wang family.

But Sun Kehong was also a little worried, this Weng Shaoshan dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and the thieves he raised came down the mountain, which was not easy to deal with, fortunately, he could move the rescuers, and the interest of the Daming Tax Institute in Weng Shaoshan was not a day or two.

Sun Kehong originally planned to set up a banquet to entertain Luo Bingliang, but Luo Bingliang came and left quickly, and left Shishiqiao in a hurry.

Luo Bingliang is a busy life, who let his son Luo Sigong not think about it, do a sparring partner for His Majesty in the palace, and beat His Majesty all day long?

The Suzhou government fully cooperated with the tax inspection institute to clean up the east and west mountains of Dongting, and sent 2,000 officials and 600 horsemen to clean up the bandits in the two mountains of Dongting.

This is not the incompetence of the Suzhou government, the Dongting merchant gang started in the Northern Song Dynasty Yuanfeng period, it has been 500 years, from the mountain people to the Ming Dynasty, the merchant gang in the hands of Wang Weizhen completely bigger and stronger, and this Wang Weizhen's grandson is the Li Xianzong, filial piety, Wuzong three dynasties of the Dongge University scholar Wang Wei, the prime minister of the mountain, since Wang Wei dignitary, Suzhou Wang family has broken away from the Dongting business gang, the business gang handed over to the domestic slave Weng Di.

Weng Shaoshan is the son of Weng Di.

The heads of people were rolling, the blood flowed like rivers, and the entire Dongshan Town and Xishan Town of Wu County, as well as on the mountains, were full of blood, and even the streams of the mountain streams were dyed red.

Ti cavalry with nine pounds of artillery bombarded open the door of the cottage, after several shelling, Ti cavalry began to advance, Ti cavalry a total of 600 people, divided into three rows, in the shooting forward, in the advance of shooting, this is from the first generation of Qianguo Gong Mu Ying firearms application experience.

Three people in a group, first by the front of the musketeers to shoot, after the fight quickly retreat to the rear, concentrate on reloading, the second row of musketeers began to shoot, and so on, in Taixi this is called a three-stage shot, in Daming called the god machine gun beam Wu method.

After the artillery bombarded the infantry and rushed, they couldn't rush up and the artillery bombarded, and they took turns to release guns and advance steadily, which was the common practice of the current Ming Dynasty after occupying the advantage of firepower, and was jokingly called by Zhu Yijun as a queue shooting tactic.

Qi Jiguang once carried out sophisticated tactical deductions around infantry, cavalry, artillery, and car battalions, and showed the results of training for His Majesty, a very powerful variant of the Mandarin Duck Formation, which made Zhu Yijun call the Ming Army God really worthy of the name!

But in actual combat, it was found that the tactic of queuing up to shoot and killing, which does not require close coordination, is more useful.

The Ming Jing camp can skillfully do the five-stage attack, and the Ti cavalry here only uses the three-stage attack, because there is no need to use the five-stage attack, the enemy has not even had a decent resistance, and the camp has been broken by the Ming army.

The haze hovering over the ground in Suzhou has finally dissipated.

Suzhou Mansion also needs a reason to do it, and this time His Majesty has done the reform, and in one fell swoop, more than 13,000 fame, and three generations are not recorded, to thoroughly implement it, it is necessary to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, Suzhou Wang's family, Dongting Merchant Gang, is the best chicken.

"It's really bold, they actually plan to go to Xiaoling to cry the grave, it's really amazing!" Sun Kehong flipped through the case file in his hand, admiring the courage of these people, thanks to the Suzhou Wang family and the Dongting Shang Gang The chicken was strong enough, after killing, the monkeys were so frightened that they didn't dare to move, otherwise it would really make a bad thing about Xiaoling crying graves, Nanya, Zhejiang from top to bottom, couldn't eat and walk.

If the ancestor had a spirit, Emperor Taizu Gao knew what His Majesty had done, and he would only applaud if he was afraid.

The gentry of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty, at the beginning of the country, during the Hongwu and Yongle periods, were very honest, until Renzong succeeded to the throne, this long 170 years was 170 years of annexation, tax arrears, and concealment of Dingkou.

This also has a lot to do with the relocation of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the political center, the military center is far away from the economic center, the economic center has a lot of wealth, naturally dissatisfied with the political center's decrees, coupled with the weakening of the administrative force, the decline in organizational scheduling ability, the formation of today's situation.

Sun Kehong sighed, looked at the north, and said helplessly: "Is this a test of whether Your Majesty's knife is sharp?" ”

His Majesty's sword is very sharp, and the Dongting Shang Gang and the Suzhou Wang Clan have already tried the law.

Zhang Gaorui was stripped of his fame and did not dare to take any other actions, because he knew the essential difference between breaking the law and rebelling, there was a law of breaking the law, and rebellion would only usher in artillery and firecrackers, and Zhang Gaorui would rather die than eat flowering bullets.

Although Zhang Gaorui died, his family stayed, although the Dongting merchant gang fell, but Sun Kehong did not eat this, but other wang clans in Suzhou partnered to divide all the shares, Sun Kehong did not want to eat, he really didn't dare, Sun Kehong had finished reading the first volume of the class theory, and he had a very clear insight into his position, the monopoly class above the wang clan.

After Sun Kehong finished dealing with the matter in Suzhou, he rushed back to Songjiang Mansion overnight, because he had a batch of ships to return to Hong Kong tomorrow, and this batch of goods was a big matter.

In the early morning of the next day, the cold wind of late autumn blew across the sea, Sun Kehong dragged his tired body to the tide tower early in the morning, in other places, Sun Kehong always avoided going upstairs, because he went upstairs very undignified and needed to be carried, but this was not the case in Songjiang Mansion, because there was a human ladder, a wooden board with a fence, close the fence, and pull him up through a noose.

Sun Kehong has been looking at the sea, waiting for the moment when the mast appears at sea level, there is a heavy fog lingering in late autumn, the visibility is not high, until noon, the fog dissipates, and in the clairvoyant mirror, a mast finally appeared, the mast slowly lengthened on the sea surface, and the seven-star flag appeared above the sea level.

"It's finally back!" Sun Kehong was pleasantly surprised, this is a horse ship to the Mughal country, a total of seventy-three, two failed to return smoothly, there are war horses of the Mughal country on board, in addition, there are various specialties of the Mughal country.

The berths where the seventy-three horse ships docked were surrounded by the Daming Sailors, unloading the military horses, and it seemed natural for the sailors to go, but in fact, Sun Kehong knew very well that the most important thing in this was the salty sand responsible for ballast.

Salty sand, saltpeter, raw materials of Daming gunpowder, according to the original promise of Shah Maimaiti, these 73 horse boats, loaded with 1.6 million catties of saltpeter, equal to the Ming Dynasty three years of saltpeter production, this is Shah Mamat's method of stealing the day, Daming's horse ships want to cross the Strait of Malacca, to deal with the investigation of the Hongmao Pangoa Governor's Palace, can only choose this method of smuggling.

After an afternoon of unloading and weighing, this horse ship, a total of 1.94 million catties of saltpeter, of which 80,000 catties of saltpeter were left in Manila for the Manila Ordnance Supervision to make gunpowder.

Songjiang Ocean Commercial Bank has made another contribution!

"Mr. Sun Shang has done a very good job, I will definitely go to the court to ask for credit for Mr. Sun Shang." Shen Shixing witnessed the whole process, nearly two million catties of saltpeter, the number is really amazing, these saltpeter will be sent to the Ming and Ming capitals in three to five months to make gunpowder.

Sun Kehong also said with a smile on his face: "The righteousness that should be, the righteousness that should be." ”

Such a big errand is completed, his Sun family can at least survive for another three or five years, and the development of the Yuanxu Islands will also have more redundancy, and when the development of the Yuanxu Islands is increasingly perfected, the Ming court and his Sun family can get decent.

"Our Ming dynasty, if there is Sun Shang who is so loyal to the monarch and the country, sharing worries for His Majesty and solving problems for the court, why worry about the Ming Dynasty." Shen Shixing sighed, the behavior of the Suzhou Wang's Dongting merchant gang also made Shen Shixing see the wind power of the 'stop investment' that has become popular since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan to leniency lost the world, Hu Yuan, the whole world is not constrained by any administrative force at all, I Ming gentlemen, no one does not read Hu Yuan's leniency, to the Ming Dynasty but became strict and strict law, stop the dedication, that is, not to contribute to the Ming Emperor's wind power public opinion, in the south of the Ya deep-rooted.

Violence is gunpowder, steel, silver coins, theories, and human hearts.

The Ming Emperor was gradually controlling these violence with the help of Yuansuke, and used it reasonably.

The saltpeter brought back to the Bay of Bengal by horse boat to the Mughal Kingdom was also the first major event that Shen Shixing did when he went to Songjiang Mansion as a second official, and Shen Shixing was fully responsible, and Shen Shixing had a further understanding of Sun Kehong's loyal monarchy.

"Your Majesty has a gentle heart." Sun Kehong stood in the position of the wang clan and said a pertinent word, when he cleaned up the Dongting merchant gang and the Suzhou Wang family, he even scraped three layers of land, and when the Suzhou luxury households carved up the Wang family, even the twelve-year-old girl did not let go.

The Ming Emperor did it, but he would not do it to children under the age of fifteen, but when he did it, he was much more excessive than His Majesty.

Zhu Yijun received Luo Bingliang, Wang Daokun, Shen Shixing and others, for the affairs of Suzhou Prefecture, Zhu Yijun just replied that he knew, for the arrival of salty sand in Hong Kong, Zhu Yijun gave full affirmation, and once again named and praised Sun Kehong and Songjiang Ocean Commercial Bank for their contributions.

"Let the War Bureau make a silver medal with a diameter ruler and send it to Sun Kehong's house in Songjiang Mansion, with loyalty to the monarch and the country written on the front and hairpin on the back." Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to emboss a silver medal with a thickness of two inches and a diameter of one foot and send it to Sun Kehong, which was a silver medal for Sun Kehong's life.

Zhu Yijun is a big boss, even the Queen of England has heard of the emperor's stinginess, and he took out a reward of real money and silver, which represents the saint's favor.

"Obey." Feng Bao bowed to the leader's order.

Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty twisted a pimple in his heart to Suzhou Mansion, this pimple originated from Ma Yilong led the ground displaced people in Suzhou Mansion to reclaim more than 127,000 acres of land, after Ma Yilong's death, the common people could not keep, they were all invaded and annexed, and the weeds were barren after a few months.

He is most concerned about whether the Ming decree has been implemented.

Although these fools go to cry graves, they dare to cry, Zhu Yijun dares to raid the house, they dare to rebel, Zhu Yijun dares to quell the rebellion, and flip the table, who will not be the same.

"It's time for the household department to take account at the end of the year again, and I seem to have heard the sound of abacus in the imperial study of the palace." Zhu Yijun closed the note in his hand, the year-end audit was in full swing again, and the eighth year of Wanli gradually came to an end.

Zhu Yijun slapped his forehead and said: "I forgot that I was busy, I didn't need to calculate this year, I used the addition and subtraction machine instead, and the emperor uncle was tinkering with these great dynasties." ”

"Your Majesty, Ma Ziqiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said that this palace has never had an official name, and it is only called the palace, which is a little out of ceremony, and a few names have been given, please make a decision on your majesty." Feng Bao talked about the naming of the palace, the meaning of the palace is the palace, since His Majesty does not plan to move back to the palace, it is better to set the name.

Zhu Yijun looked at these names, Tonghe, Yanqing, Dashi, Shengping, Tai'an, and Fukang.

"It's called Tonghe Palace, Zhengtonghe." Zhu Yijun chose the election, and finally chose the first plan, political communication and harmony, Tonghe Palace.

"Your Majesty." Feng Bao received His Majesty's Zhu Approval, called Xiao Huangmen to send the seal and ribbon prison, His Majesty has officially set the name, and the number of cards leaving the palace needs to be replaced, and they need to be changed in the official documents in the future, and they must be announced to the world.

After Wang Daokun returned to Beijing, Guo Chaobin could go to Xitucheng to recuperate.

Ma Ziqiang, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, is also in Zhishi, Ma Ziqiang is not in good health, and suffered a serious illness in October of the sixth year of Wanli.

Zhu Yijun approved Ma Ziqiang's performance and settled them in Xitucheng.

"Dragon and Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master Zhang Guoxiang mentioned that the matter of restoring the title of a real person, what is the opinion of the Ministry of Rites?" Zhu Yijun inquired about the title of the real person in Longhu Mountain.

Dao Ye burned and cultivated, and paid special attention to the preferential treatment of Zhang Zhenren in Longhu Mountain, but in the first year of Longqing, Emperor Muzong issued an order to seize Zhang Zhenren's real title, and changed it to Shangqing Guan Tidian, the full name of the real person is very long, it is the second product, and the Shangqing Guan Tidian is only the fifth grade.

The title of the real person is set by the ancestors, Zhu Yuanzhang, and the old Zhu family is also known as the reincarnation of the Zhenwu Emperor.

There are also benefits to this title, if the real person title is restored, Jiangxi will send 30,000 silver to Qingguan every year, if it is just Shangqingguan to mention points, there is no such treatment.

"The Captain of the Horse Commander Xie Zhao played the request to restore the old number, but the Ministry of Rites refused, and the Ministry of Household said that if the Captain of the Horse Mansion was willing to give this money, the Ministry of Household would not object, and the matter would be over." Feng Bao told the emperor what was going on.

"Since no one is willing to pay this money, forget it." Zhu Yijun drew a big × on the recital, which can be regarded as a reply.

Longhu Mountain Zhang Tianshi since Jiajing 19 years, has moved to Beijing to live, unlike Yanzhou Confucius in the place refused to move into Beijing, Zhang Tianshi has been in Beijing, the current Longhu Mountain Heavenly Master Zhang Guoxiang also lived in Beijing for a long time, Wanli five years after the throne, back to Longhu Mountain on Qingguan, the following year returned to Beijing in Beijing responsible for the compilation of "Wanli Continuation of the Daozang".

The real title of Emperor Longqing Ge Zhang Tianshi is actually for the 30,000 taels of silver; Zhu Yijun refused to return to the old number, also for the 30,000 taels of silver.

Compared with Yanzhou Confucius, Zhang Tianshi's family has been living a tight life since Longqing.

After Zhu Yijun reviewed the recital, he picked up the "Overseas Fanguo Chronicles" in his hand, and the lack of staff in the Ministry of Industry has already been selected, that is, Wang Daokun, and the candidate for the Ministry of Rites and Rites needs to be pushed, in fact, the most suitable candidate is known to everyone, it is Wan Shihe.

The fourth volume of the Overseas Chronicles is about the Inca country, with the Maule River as the axis, a country with a total length of 9,600 miles, the Inca Kingdom, and the current Viceroyalty of Peru.

According to the Ming Dynasty's understanding of the Inca Kingdom, the Inca Kingdom was about 300 years old, with 12 generations and 13 kings.

The medical skills of the Inca Kingdom are very amazing, there is a terrifying craniopuncture, the Ming Dynasty medical officer Chen Shigong has conducted several experiments in the Xie Yuan, but has failed to penetrate the skull, and the Inca also has ayahuasca, a strong hallucinogenic inhibitory anesthetic, and cinchona quinine, which is very effective for high fever, quinine is a highly effective antimalarial drug, and has an excellent effect on malaria raging in the tropical rainforest.

In the Chronicles, Wanshi analyzed the root of Tessie's ability to stabilize his rule over the Inca Kingdom, or the New World, by isolating iron ore.

As long as the iron ore is isolated, the development of the local indigenous people can be completely locked, and the Inca still uses bronze tools, and there is no resistance in the face of the colonists with long guns and short cannons, which is the colonial experience of Tessie.

Zhu Yijun's reply is for reference.

If we lock up minerals, we can lock up civilization and development, and then take them away.

(End of chapter)