But these civil servants don't have to take that into account at all! In their opinion, when they are in this position, they naturally have rights, and once they step down and lose their rights, then there is nothing! So they strive to control the merchants, squeeze the merchants, and carry out predatory operations on the whole industry during their tenure!

Now the base camp of these three business groups, especially in the northwest, except for a few small businesses that they don't look down on, some industries have been completely monopolized by them! Even so, those small businesses have to accept their exploitation to a certain extent!

For example, after these trade associations set up guilds, they will use the power of the government to force all practitioners to join the guilds, and they have to pay a certain amount of dues every year! This is a means of extracting people's money! And there are many homicide cases that have occurred among them! As for smashing people's shops, beating up employees is simply commonplace! It's just that all of this is covered up by the government!

The most critical point is that if one day they are not satisfied, they can paralyze an industry in an instant! And this is exactly what Liu Haojia can't tolerate! What he needs is a vibrant country, not a backwater!

But now he is very angry in the face of this situation, but he can't reach it! What he can do now is to influence the Xungui business group as much as possible and suppress the northwest business group, and he can only watch the Lianghu business group and the Zhejiang and Fujian business group gradually grow. The locations of these two merchant groups were the strongholds of civilian officials, and their local strength was so powerful that there was nothing he could do about it!

However, Liu Haojia did not watch them grow bigger, so he decided to solve the problem of low-cost salt first. As for the few merchant groups that have not yet fully formed the climate, the guests will let it go first. However, he has been collecting evidence of their crimes, and when he wields more power in the future, he will naturally destroy them in one fell swoop!

Today is a day off, and Liu Haojia rarely did not go out to do errands, but stayed at home. It was the time of the summer heat, and he was taking a nap in the big tree in the yard.

But when he was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt an itchy nose! I grabbed a handful and opened my eyes, and I was greeted by two smiling faces like flowers! Looking at the hair in Tan Cuiying's hand again, you know that she is making trouble! So Liu Haojia smiled and said, "It's just that you are naughty, why, can't you sleep?"

At this time, the maid had already brought a chair for the two of them to sit down, but Tan Cuiying did not sit, but first helped Zhang Peijia to sit down, and then glanced at her lower abdomen enviously, and then quietly rubbed her lower abdomen before sitting aside. That's right, Zhang Peijia is six months pregnant!

Although Liu Haojia is both wet and rainy with his wife and concubine, it really depends on luck to have a child! Zhang Peijia has lived a stable life since she was a child and was speechless for a while, so there is no problem with her body. And Tan Cuiying's family was ruined when she was young, and there was a period of life that was more difficult, so Lang concluded that she was cold and needed to recuperate. So I can't conceive a child for a while.

After sitting down, Zhang Peijia enjoyed the maid fanning the fan and said helplessly: "This ghost weather is too hot, even if you hold Mrs. Zhu, you can't stand it!"

Tan Cuiying also said: "Yes, even I can't stand it anymore, not to mention that my sister is pregnant, and I can't even put ice in the room, it's uncomfortable!"

The Mrs. Reading Bamboo they are talking about is actually a thick bamboo with holes at both ends! When in use, one end is placed outside the window and the other end is placed on the bed in the room. In this way, as long as the wind blows outside, the wind will be channeled in, and people holding Mrs. Bamboo can play a role in cooling down from the heat! ap.

Some particular people even put ice cubes in the bamboo to make it air conditioning! But Zhang Peijia is pregnant now, and she can't even put an ice basin in the house, and it is difficult to survive this summer with Mrs. Zhu!

Liu Haojia looked at Zhang Peijia, whose lower abdomen was already bulging, and said gently, "The lady is really hard!"

Tan Cuiying pouted when she heard the words and said, "Sister is hard, isn't it hard for me? I can't even use ice on such a hot day!"

Without waiting for Liu Haojia to speak, Zhang Peijia said with a smile: "You are also hard! You've worked hard too! Come, good sister, please eat some grapes!"

Zhang Peijia couldn't use ice in the room because she was pregnant, so Tan Cuiying didn't use ice in the room in order to show that she shared the joys and sorrows, so she praised her for her hard work

Makes sense! So the two girls giggled for a while, and finally turned their attention to Liu Haojia.

Zhang Peijia said: "It's rare for my lord to be at home today, so it's better to let the kitchen cook a few good dishes at night and let my sister drink two cups with you!"

Liu Haojia shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work today! I made an appointment to drink at night, and when I came back, I was afraid that I would get drunk again!"

Zhang Peijia said dissatisfiedly, "Who is so bold as to dare to get you drunk!"

Liu Haojia said: "I made an appointment with a few sailors to come over, and these water men can drink wine one by one, and it is very troublesome!"

Zhang Peijia and the others knew that since Liu Haojia had made an appointment, he must have something to do, so he stopped talking, turned around and said that many parents had spent a hot summer afternoon in a rare peace!

In the evening, Liu Haojia packed up and put on the robe on behalf of the Hou Ye and led the people to set off. The reason why he put on the robe of the Hou Ye was to make it easier for him to speak.

Now Liu Haojia has many identities, so he needs to show different identities on different occasions, and even the title is different. Today he is going to have a banquet for three sailor generals, and he is also a general in the Beijing camp. In this case, Liu Haojia is going to show the identity of the Hou Ye! It is important to be superior in officialdom!

When he arrived on the third floor of Shiweizhai, he pushed open the room specially reserved for him, and there were already three people waiting for him drinking tea. All three of them were the generals of the river division.

The person in the middle is named Zuo Liqiu, who is responsible for guarding the section of the river at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Because it was an economically developed and densely populated area, he had the most powerful troops under his command. The person on his left hand is called Zhang Tiefu. It is the Yangtze River that guards the middle section of the Yangtze River, and its strength is second only to Zuo Liqiu. As for the one on the right, Sun Zhongxin, who was guarding the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, was the least of the three with the least troops.

As soon as the three of them saw Liu Haojia coming in, they immediately got up and arched their hands and said, "Xia Guan has seen Master Hou!"

Liu Haojia smiled and said politely, "They are all their own brothers, you're welcome! Sit down, sit down!"

Liu Haojia said that his own brother is really not a kind word! Because the navy was originally split from the inland water division, of which the Yangtze River and the Yellow River accounted for the majority. Therefore, the relationship between the navy and the inland water division is basically a relationship between bones and tendons, and the personnel on both sides are very familiar!