But it seems that someone has used a trick to deceive everyone's eyes. In fact, the truth is not as above!
The truth of the matter is: the governor and governor of the rivers and rivers broke the law in order to protect the salt merchants, which led to a large-scale mutiny in the Cao army!
The Chinese officer discovered that he was no longer qualified to reply to Zhao Baihu at this time. The only thing he could do was to quickly turn around and report to the governor!
Yang Junmin, the governor of Fengyang and the governor of Hecao, who was in the sedan chair, was immediately shocked when he heard the report from the military officer.
And I was immersed in the most profound philosophical questions and couldn't extricate myself for a long time.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
When I issued the order just now, I only thought that the people I wanted to arrest were a dozen Suzhou people, and I could follow the clues to find out the shady background of these Suzhou people.
But what I didn't expect was that these dozen people were actually Cao Jun, and I didn't expect that there would be a rapid chain reaction behind it!
After getting off the boat, every step I took was to avoid pitfalls, but unexpectedly, every step I took was to step on pitfalls!
If he had directly accepted Wu Tian's complaint and initiated judicial proceedings, things would not have been so troublesome!
If he had accepted the witnesses provided by more than a dozen Cao troops, it would not have been that troublesome either!
The governor of Hecao triggered a mutiny in the Cao army. Which bastard made up this script?
Governor Yang couldn't sit still any longer. He got out of the sedan chair and looked up and saw Zheng Zhiyan.
He directly expressed his anger and said: "This is the trouble you caused! What do you think we should do now! Can you go and solve the problem?"
Zheng Zhiyan couldn't figure out what he had done wrong.
Big fish eating small fish happens every day, let alone a capital-intensive industry like the salt industry.
If you kill the Wu family yourself, what big deal is that? Why is it so important?
In fact, Zheng Zhiyan's idea is not wrong from the perspective of a large salt merchant. Land annexation is a phenomenon that also occurs in the salt industry.
To give an example from another time and space, why do the great salt merchants of the Qing Dynasty seem to be ten or dozens of times wealthier than the salt merchants of the Ming Dynasty?
In addition to factors such as the increase in population and output, the biggest reason is that the salt industry developed into the Qing Dynasty and became a monopoly.
In the late Ming Dynasty, there were one to two hundred salt merchants in Yangzhou, but by the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Yangzhou salt merchants were monopolized by the Twenty-Four General Merchants, and all other small and medium-sized salt merchants were dependent on the Twenty-Four General Merchants.
Therefore, in this industry with fierce mergers and acquisitions, Zheng Zhiyan, who was determined to consolidate his position as the number one salt merchant, really did not think that getting rid of the Wu family was a big deal, and he never took it seriously.
Even if Wu Tianshi ran into Lin Tailai's house, from Zheng's point of view, it was just a merging of enemies.
But he never expected that someone could use the Wu family's affairs to make such a fancy article!
Such a layout has exceeded his cognitive ability and has also dragged down his most critical backer, the governor.
Now that the governor is directly taking the blame, how should he solve the problem?
The key is who should he talk to? He does not have the ability and prestige to face thousands of "rebellious troops" from other places.
After thinking about it, Zheng Zhiyan cautiously came not far from Zhao Baihu and asked, "Can Mr. Zhao restrain the Suzhou Cao Army?"
Zhao Baihu looked sideways at Zheng Yuanwai and declined, "Even if I am a Baihu official, I can't go against the wishes of all the Cao army brothers and forcibly suppress their anger, right?"
The main reason is that a certain high-ranking official who planned the script only gave him the power of on-site scheduling, but did not give him the power of negotiation and conclusion.
In fact, the relationship between a certain high-ranking official from the mixed society and the Suzhou Guards was just like that. He was hunted down by the officers and soldiers of the Suzhou Guards, and he even beat up the children of military families in the Wu Scholarship Examination.
Zhao Baihu, who transported grain from Suzhou to Yangzhou warehouse, was originally a proud man, but a certain high-ranking official gave him too much.
When he returned to Suzhou City, Jiangnan Governor Zhao Zhigao would petition to promote Zhao Dawu to Deputy Qianhu!
Moreover, Zhao Dawu will be transferred from the Cao Army system, which is hard and tiring, traveling all year round, and easy to take responsibility, to the more relaxed city defense system, or the governor's standard camp, where he can choose freely.
Zhao Baihu could not refuse these conditions, so he took his brothers from the Cao Army to cooperate with Lin Daguan.
Anyway, his military status was under the Suzhou Guard and under the jurisdiction of the Jiangnan governor. The Fengyang governor in the north of the Yangtze River had no authority to punish the military attachés in the south of the Yangtze River.
Just when Zheng Yuanwai was frustrated with Zhao Baihu and didn't know who to talk to, suddenly a tall figure rushed between the mutinous Cao army and the governor's pacesetters, and shouted anxiously:
"They are all hanging out in Jiangzuo. If you don't look down, you don't look up. Don't hurt your harmony. Peace is the most precious thing!"
I have a bit of self-doubt. Is it a good read to explain a lot of chapters like this?
Chapter completed!