The profits in this can only be described in two words: terrifying!

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A bad one can even be compared to the full annual income of the Ming Dynasty today.

Let the national treasury be doubled directly.

After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Da Sun's narration, he felt it was a bit incredible, even false, dreamy, and exaggerated.

After a long while, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Then let's issue the edict directly."

Zhu Ying nodded heavily.

Regarding the buying and selling of Di Bao, who has the biggest profit on the grassland?

That's right, they are Shanxi merchants.

Through their own channel relationships, they began to promote the Capital Palace newspaper to the nobles of various grassland tribes.

Even because of language communication, literate Han people were sent to help recite.

It can be said to be an extremely considerate service.

However, in just half a month, the business has become more and more prosperous, especially the huge profits, which are equivalent to picking up for nothing.

On this day, Shanxi Border Pass.

"Master, master, it's not good, the young master led the team and was arrested."

A servant shouted hurriedly towards the yard.

This is the courtyard of the Hou family.

After hearing this, Mr. Hou walked out in a few steps and grabbed the servant's collar: "Tell me what happened and how could Wen'er be arrested."

The servant trembled and said: "Master, it's the new official. They don't recognize our Hou family at all. The young master brought the caravan over as usual, and was captured directly."

Mr. Hou asked: "On what charges were they arrested?"

The servant quickly replied: "It was said that the sale of newspapers to outsiders was not allowed. There were many newspapers on the young master's carriage, so he was arrested."

Mr. Hou's face was gloomy. He did not expect the court's counterattack to come so quickly.

A large number of the guards here in Shanxi were transferred to the Japanese expedition, and the newly arrived guards were unable to establish communication in a short period of time.

Because no one knows whether there are imperial guards lurking among the officers of these guards.

Now the imperial court's attitude towards Shanxi merchants is very clear, and they are almost rushing to kill them all. Therefore, when contacting them, they have to be much more careful.

At least we have to find out the details clearly.

It is not easy to find out some information. Although there are connections in the military, it takes time to get back and forth.

Now it seems that things may be difficult to handle.

"Let's go, prepare the carriage immediately, I have to go to the magistrate immediately."

Mr. Hou ordered.

It's not that he doesn't want to let go of his son. After all, there are quite a few sons down there, and if one or two die, it's still not unacceptable.

The key is to know the current situation and how the court will conduct the review.

No matter how powerful a businessman is, no matter how much money he has, he still does not have an army that he can directly control.

The eight Shanxi merchant families are indeed powerful, but on the surface, they can be easily slaughtered by any guard.

The reason why they are difficult to deal with now is mainly because of their concealment and the complicated relationships behind them.

Many former tribesmen carried out large-scale immigration due to the arrangements of the imperial court.

I also changed my household registration.

Even if it was found out that it belonged to the Jin Dynasty before, there is nothing to worry about. The scope involved is too wide, and the court cannot target them one by one.

This time, arresting people directly was a bit passive.

This is a small border town, and the entire town has only seven to eight thousand households.

The real core members of the Hou family, one of the eight Shanxi merchant families, are hidden here.

It stands to reason that the sergeants in the city have been transferred. There is no reason that the head of the Hou family here does not know about it.

After getting on the carriage, we hurried to the magistrate's office.

"stop!"

But halfway through, the old man stopped the carriage.

"Master, what are your orders?" the servant asked quickly.

Mr. Hou looked at the somewhat lonely scene in front of him and frowned.

It was no different from usual here, but there was a feeling of joy in his heart.

After pondering for a while, he told the groom: "You continue to drive to the magistrate's office. I will arrive soon."

This place is only a few hundred meters away from the government office, just around two bends.

The groom didn't dare to ask any more questions and just accepted it.

"Drive slowly, don't go too fast."

"Okay sir."

Seeing the carriage start to move, Mr. Hou ordered a man to follow him quickly to check the movement.

It turned out that Mr. Hou's caution saved his life again.

At the corner of the corner, the man sent over seemed to have seen something and waved wildly to signal danger.

"Walk!"

When Mr. Hou saw this, he quickly left without looking back.

And somewhere out of sight, the groom had fallen into a pool of blood.

Even the man following him was killed by several arrows.
Chapter completed!