Chapter 127: Xu Qin tightened the noose
Dai Demin suddenly appeared in Yangzhou and came directly to Dai's house.
Wandering around the door of the Dai family's old house, and when the people of the Dai family came out, he spat viciously at the gate.
"A word to Dai Dehai, the fleet is just the beginning, I want to smash the Dai family little by little."
His face was arrogant and ruthless, and the people of the Dai family wanted to take him, but they were stopped by two sergeants.
"He is now protected by the government, what are you going to do?" The sergeant said forcefully.
"Your yamen? He stole the Dai family's things, and I'm going to arrest him now. ”
The Dai family is not only strong but also very smart, and uses lawsuits against officials. No matter what means are used, just leave Demin behind.
In Yangzhou, the family is not a weak chicken.
"Shenji Battalion, you can just try it." The two soldiers said arrogantly.
Since Xu Qin played with the second-grade officers with firearms, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion walked with the wind after they went out.
Now wait for someone to provoke them, Zhang Fu, the prince of Dingguo, is happy and painful in this regard. These soldiers are absolutely screaming now, pointing where to fight and full of energy.
But all of them are like thorns, and no one looks down on them, as if they think that the three major battalions in the capital are the first in the Shenji Battalion.
Now the two sergeants have this attitude.
The people of the Dai family looked at the proud Dai Demin and couldn't wait to eat him alive. But I don't dare.
It's not that the Shenji Battalion has a reputation in Yangzhou. It's that they know that the Shenji Camp has something to do with the little grandfather.
And now the last thing the Dai family can offend is him.
So I could only watch Dai Demin go away, and hurriedly sent someone to deliver the letter to the capital.
At the same time, Dai Deqing was appointed as the director of Qipin, temporarily following Wei Chu, who was in charge of the city.
After coming, he began to deliberately build a relationship, and soon got along with these people in the city.
Xu Qin has been completely lying down recently, and as long as no one is looking for him, he won't go out. When you go out, you can go fishing directly on the boat.
The Great Seal was thrown to Xia Zifu for management, not so much that he was in the Langzhong of the Haifan Division, but that he was Xia Zifu.
Everything was going on in full swing, and slowly everyone got used to not looking for him.
The weather warms up in March, and the mountains are getting greener. Xu Qin took the two maidservants out to go out, and they got along well recently, and the relationship between Guan Guan and Wanwan and him gradually warmed up.
The two identical little beauties understand his temperament more and more, and sometimes deliberately change clothes to let him guess, who is who?
The old lady who was waiting for them also came with the boat. But Xu Qin always had a thorn in his heart, the two brocade guards sat as spies, and it was likely that they were not clear with the Dai family.
If you talk in your sleep, or if you don't say anything, it's also a problem for them to hear it. So I can't help but not break the melon for two people so far.
The excuse is to slowly cultivate the relationship, and the two little beauties will go with the flow. Anyway, there's no one to compete with them right now.
Half a month ago, Shi Wenxin suddenly took a thousand sailors to Poyang Lake for training.
And Hu Ying also pulled 3,000 recruits out of Liujiagang and followed Shi Wenxin to train. Said it was to run in.
Xu Hao transferred 1,000 people from the Chengguan Brigade and sent them to Luo Zhong's military camp for training. The barracks that always maintained Luo Zhong had 1,500 people.
Then another 1,000 chengguan were recruited in the local area, and these people were in the chengguan brigade and first received basic queue training. As a reserve.
Xu Qin's money was spent like flowing water. Zhu Di alone took more than two million taels.
Thousands of soldiers are a big number just for their salaries and provisions, but fortunately, the blood recovery has finally come.
Last year, the ships of the tributary trade came back one after another, and the city began to draw one out of ten, and even some of the goods that were in demand were three out of ten.
Moreover, these goods can only be sold in the places designated by the Haifan Division, and the merchants in Nanjing are now the most blind.
Because of the fleets of the Royal Silver and Enshichang, as soon as the goods landed, they were booked by merchants in Yangzhou and Fujian in the south.
Merchants from all over the country arrived, took them away, and as soon as they changed hands, they were lucrative.
The goods were given to Kanhe and allowed to be resold.
There was no place for the merchants to unload their ships after they docked, and they had no place to stand here. The goods are not landed, and there is no way to sell.
Zhu Fatzi is the only exception.
Both sons worked under Xu Qin. He has the best plot of land next to the docks, and the shop is half-finished according to the design.
Goods returning from overseas get off the ship and go into a huge warehouse. Busy going in and out of business every day.
The merchants of Nanjing's Enshi Farm were embarrassed, they did not dare to sell elsewhere, and if they were caught, they committed a sea ban, but they raided their homes and destroyed their homes.
There are only two ways to go, either bow to Xu Qin.
But you can only bow your head when you see people, and now you can't see Xu Qin at all. How indifferent he was in Nanjing at the beginning, how much price it has now.
At the beginning, Zhu Fatzi invested in Xu Qin, but was collectively squeezed out by Nanjing businessmen, and even couldn't stay in Nanjing, but now people are making money in high spirits, and they are floating on the water and watching.
The businessman was used to discussing, but he didn't expect Xu Qin to hold a grudge and not discuss at all.
They can fight with Xu Qin, but these goods can't wait, looking at the hot pie in their mouths, salivating but they can't eat it.
For businessmen, profit is life, and now Xu Qin is asking for their lives.
That is the second way, which is to sell the goods directly to Yangzhou and Fujian merchants. But they were even more reluctant.
Why bow to them, you obviously seized the opportunity. Why should they share it in one bite?
But now they are not the only ones who have sea goods, because there is no restriction on tribute, and the overseas countries that have come back with the ship have brought more sea goods.
These people don't know much about the Ming market, and they are easy to deceive. In particular, there are some small countries that have come to the new scene.
Merchants such as Yangzhou and Fujian have opened their fangs and mouths for these goods. The merchants of Nanjing can only be greedy, and if they can't go ashore, everything is in vain.
This is not the end, Xu Qin threw out a second noose.
The Haifan Division also issued a decree that in the future, no matter whether the goods were exported or imported, they were not allowed to trade in gold, silver and copper coins.
You can only use the silver ticket of the Ming Royal Silver Account, that is to say, if you want to trade, you must deposit real money into the Royal Silver Account, and then trade with the silver ticket.
When the transaction is finished, if you want to take the silver, you can directly take the silver ticket and exchange it.
Only then did Zhu Fatzi remember that when Xu Qin gave him the Ming royal silver tickets, he said that no one would give these silver tickets.
It turned out that it was arranged for today, and the little grandfather was so interesting. Then he would be a fool if he didn't know how to do it.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he took the opportunity to eat the goods of several ships with the silver ticket in his hand.
Merchants from Yangzhou and southern merchants such as Fujian heard the wind and deposited a total of more than three million taels of gold and silver in the Ming Imperial Silver in one day.
Not only do they want to swallow these seafoods. Even waiting for the Nanjing businessman to be sent to the door in desperation.
On the shore of Hai Fan Si were merchants holding silver tickets to buy seafood, and the goods of Nanjing merchants were floating on the water.
It is as if the merchants of Nanjing are already lambs to the slaughter.
On a large ship, all the merchants who had opened a business gathered here, all with sad faces.
"Xu Qin is too much, anything can be discussed, why is he so ruthless?" The silk merchant slapped the table angrily.
He didn't have the confidence to say this, when he was in Nanjing, he didn't think about discussing it when Xu Qinhao spoke.
"This man is a stone in a pit, smelly and hard. He really dared to offend the adults of the Manchu Dynasty and lived as a lonely husband! Sooner or later, it will not be good to die. ”
The spice merchant said through gritted teeth.
Those who used money to feed the land and the central backers were not silent, but His Majesty did not let go, and Xu Qin ignored it and was useless.
"Without him Xu Butcher, we would not be able to eat hairy pigs, forcing me to transport these goods to the south......"
One of the iron dealers said angrily.
When he said a word, everyone automatically distanced themselves from him. It's like he's got shit on him.
The Ironsmith immediately realizes that he has said the wrong thing, raising suspicions that he is connected to the smuggler. In the south, it was the territory of smugglers.
"Wrong words, wrong words, am I not in a hurry? We are serious businessmen and big businessmen, how can we do illegal and forbidden things. ”
The ironsmith hastened to explain.
"To tell you from the heart, how is Xu Qin doing to us?" One of the two-whiskered merchants said.
Everyone present was silent. The greed of the wolf's heart and dog's lungs is not uncountable. On the contrary, everyone has a mirror in their hearts.
It's just that the saints don't want to listen to the words of the heart. Not to mention these profit-seeking merchants.
"What do you want to say, let us repent? Or can it solve the problem at hand? The silk merchant had a cold face and an unkind tone.
The two-handed, squirrel-bearded merchant turned a blind eye to his inadequacy.
"I have carefully read Xu Qin's design drawings, and I have also walked through Liujiagang in the past few days. One of the areas has not been sold yet, and it must have been set aside on purpose. ”
The two-handkered merchant said.
"You mean, he gave us a place, so why didn't he see us?"
The ironsmith asked eagerly, and the others looked at each other, not noticing the matter, and couldn't help but be interested.
"The noble man has a big temper, but he is not angry. Xu Qin often relies on personal preferences to do things, and sometimes he doesn't care about the consequences at all.
So it can be left for us or it may not be. It's up to us to do it. ”
The two-handkered merchant said.
"You're still talking nonsense, he doesn't see us, how can you make him angry? Isn't this a deliberate problem? ”
The spice merchant said angrily.
"If he doesn't see us, are we going to do nothing? If you want to solve this matter, it's not impossible, it's up to you to decide whether you want to or not. ”
The two-bearded merchant stroked his beard and said thoughtfully.
"This old man, it's all on fire, what are you selling. Let's talk about it. "The ironsmith is most anxious.
The others chimed in, wanting to see what he could do.
"First, save money into the Ming Royal Silver Account to exchange for silver tickets, although Xu Qin introduced this rule, although I can't understand it, but it is definitely right to save money. This is the attitude we have stated.
Second, Xu Qin doesn't see us, he lives as a single husband, I don't believe that the people around him will be like this? smashed Wei Chu and Hu Ying with women and silver. ”
The two-handkered merchant said.
"But what if the money goes in and out?" A businessman asked.
"No, first, where is the royal reputation, Xu Qin doesn't dare to do this. Second, the silver ticket can be used for sea trading, anyway, we have to do business, sooner or later. ”
The silk merchant spoke.