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Chapter 2130 Water in Suzhou

Officials such as Lei Li, the Minister of Works, suddenly submitted a memorial to resign inexplicably, but failed to cause any storm. After all, the situation in the court has not been found to have fundamental changes.

Because Xu Jie completely lost control of officials such as Lei Li, his seat among the Nine Ministers was still at a disadvantage, but he was suppressed by the alliance of Guo, Lin and Gao.

Even though Xu Jie firmly occupied the position of the chief minister of the cabinet, as Lin Qingran returned strongly and Gao Gong firmly controlled the Ministry of Personnel, he could only continue to lie dormantly.

The struggles in the court are actually more complicated than imagined, and the time they experience will be longer than imagined.

The struggle between Yan Song and Xia Yan lasted for several years, and Xu Jie endured himself for ten years to defeat Yan Song. Xu Jie, who had been in charge of the chief assistant for more than five years, could not easily lose.

That's why both sides seemed to have stopped and re-imagined their ultimate moves, waiting for the next confrontation until the final decision is made.

Although the Ming Dynasty returned to peace, the place caught a bloody storm.

As several major figures of the dynasty reached a consensus, the two orders were quickly conveyed, and the governor of Yingtian, Lin Run and the left deputy chief censor Wang Bai were like two powerful tools to exert their devils.

Spring goes and autumn comes, and this Suzhou City, with a circumference of 47 miles, highlights a more prosperous appearance and exudes the charm of the thousand-year-old ancient city in the East.

This era is undoubtedly based on agriculture. Suzhou's spring and summer tax grain is the best in the world with 2.5 million stones, which shows its agricultural foundation.

It is precisely based on this strong agricultural heritage that it provides a good stage for the handicraft workshops in Suzhou City. Among them, the silk industry is already ahead of the country and is naturally at the top of the world.

Three or four years ago, United Money House entered Suzhou City with banknotes and huge overseas markets, bringing Suzhou City's silk industry to a higher level.

Thanks to the increase in overseas silk markets, many silk workshops appear like mushrooms after a rain.

In addition to Dongting Silk Workshop, Zhuangyuan Silk Workshop, Gusu Silk Workshop and Lingnan Silk Workshop, there are countless small and medium-sized workshops. Today, Suzhou silk accounts for more than 80% of the country's market and almost monopolizes the overseas market.

The prosperity of the silk industry seems to inject a heart-warming agent into this ancient city. Suzhou City seems to be reviving, and it also drives the rapid development of all walks of life, making all kinds of workshops here appear like mushrooms after a rain.

Generally speaking, local prosperity is often inseparable from a mature consumer market.

Thanks to the good benefits created by the United Money House, female weavers represented by Zhou Hui not only enable their families to live a well-off life through their hard-working hands, but also imitated the trend of female workers in Leizhou United Money House and resolutely became a strong purchasing group in Suzhou City.

It is worth mentioning that although they are not employees of the United Business Group, they cannot escape the shadow of the United Business Group.

The workshops they are in often have shares in United Money Bank, or their workshops are the debtors of United Money Bank, and the products such as perfumes and soaps they are passionate about come from United Business Groups.

Although the United Business Group settled in Suzhou City as a United Money House and had almost no industries under its jurisdiction, they felt that the United Business Group was essentially everywhere.

It is precisely because the United Merchants Group influenced this thousand-year-old ancient city in an indirect way, making Suzhou City the most dazzling ancient city in the southeast.

West of the city, Dongting Silk Workshop.

The familiar sound of weaving came from here. Nearly a thousand female weavers were arranged to weave exquisite silk in various rectangular rooms here. They highlighted the hard work and morality of the Chinese nation.

However, this scene was quickly broken recklessly. Governor Yingtian's servant broke into the gate of Dongting Silk Workshop like a wolf, but announced loudly: "Governor has an order, and you will immediately seal the place, and you will all leave!"

The Governor Yingtian’s Governor’s Office is in charge of the military and political affairs of the nine governments, including Su Songchang, and the taxes in this area account for one-third, so it is known as the No. 1 Governor in the world, and its status is even higher than that of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Lin Run was already the right censor of the Censorate. He was wearing a brand new fourth-rank official robe, a straight national face, sword-browed eyebrows and starry eyes, and an image of an upright official. He walked in with a majestic surrounding a large group of officers.

"Governor Lin, I wonder what happened to our Dongting Silk Workshop. You actually want to seal it?" Manager Xu hurriedly walked out and immediately questioned Lin Run.

Lin Run looked at the merchant coldly and responded with a smile: "Shopkeeper Xu, your Xu family has an affair with the maritime merchant Xu Dabang, and smuggled silk to Japan through his hand. The official sealed the place in accordance with the imperial court's laws!" As he said that, he waved his hand and said: "You are all standing there, your hands and feet are a little more flexible, and drive them all out!"

"If you want to add a crime, you have no choice! Governor Lin, what is the difference between your sealing of Dongting Silk Workshop and a robber? My Xu family is not convinced!" After hearing this accusation, Shopkeeper Xu responded angrily.

Lin Run looked at Manager Xu contemptuously, but said lightly: "If you don't agree, you can go to the capital to sue the imperial court, but your Xu Mansion... I'm afraid you have been sealed by the Censor Liu at this time!"

After several choices of the list of silk merchants in Suzhou City, he pointed the finger at the Xu family. Not only did he want to seize the Dongting Silk Workshop under the Xu family's name as soon as possible, but he also asked Yushi Liu to cooperate with him to seal the Xu family's residence.

"What? Have you sealed my Xu family?" When Manager Xu heard that Lin Run had attacked their Xu family, he immediately looked at the new governor Yingtian in shock and asked in disbelief.

"Don't worry, not only your Xu family, but all the illegal businessmen who are in the Japanese can't escape!" Lin Run looked at the shocked expression of shopkeeper Xu, but responded jokingly.

In the early years of the Southeast, there were many maritime merchants engaged in smuggling activities. Even if they did not participate in it, they would inevitably have commercial transactions with those maritime merchants, which is undoubtedly a good entry point.

After reading a large number of files, he also sorted out these files with affair, and then conducted a major liquidation on a specific large silk merchant in Suzhou.

That's why he planned to catch a bloody storm in this Suzhou City, search for illegal businessmen to search their homes and imprison them, and then find the evidence of their crimes they wanted.

Manager Xu saw Lin Run so persistent and was aware that his Xu family might be doomed, but he fainted on the spot.

Nearly a thousand Weaver Girls faced the Governor Ying Tian who was like a wolf and a tiger, so they had to simply pack up some things and then left here unwillingly.

Lin Run knew the value of the silk warehouse very well. Not only did he let someone put seals at the door of the warehouse, but he also arranged soldiers to guard them here in case someone took away the silk worth ten thousand gold.

"Is this new governor so blatantly trying to make money?"

"I heard that's not. The Xu family took the silver notes and Governor Yingtian couldn't see anyone at all!"

"This time I'm afraid I'm serious. I've said that the Xu family will be done sooner or later on making so much money over the years!"

...

The news quickly spread throughout Suzhou City, but in the face of this big action in the Governor Yingtian’s yamen, everyone also started to discuss it.

But soon everyone blamed the Xu family for making a lot of money in recent years. It was precisely because of such wealth that they were targeted by the new Governor Ying Tian.

"This is wrong. He searched the Xu family, why did he seal Dongting silk!"

"Yes! Dongting Silk is not just a shareholding system, but a group of people hold stocks!"

"The new official takes office for three reasons. See how he comes. Lin Run cannot become the king of Suzhou City!"

...

Since Dongting Silk Workshop was in stock system at the beginning of its establishment, and then it was circulated through the securities trading counter of the United Money House, it attracted strong attention from the people of Suzhou City, and the people of Suzhou City also talked about this.

As night fell, although a big storm during the day had passed, Suzhou City had already shown the style of an oriental city, and bright lights lit up in the city.

After so many years of hard work, Lin Run finally became a rank-up official, especially when he came to this indulgent Suzhou City, he was already fascinated by the prosperity here.

After handling the official duties of Yingtian Yamen, he first took a hot bath, then changed into a clean casual dress, and immediately took a sedan chair to Yihongyuan to find Miss Ziyun.

Given that behind him is Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the dynasty, as long as he does "reasonable" in Suzhou City, he doesn't have to pay attention to the people behind these merchants.

Starting from a three-level Jinshi, it took only more than ten years to break the ceiling of the prefect and even reach the position of the world's number one governor, and can already see his abilities.

As long as he is given a few more years, he will definitely be able to return to the court with his ability and even become the Minister of State, thus becoming the new leader of Fujian.

When the sedan chair passed through the alley, suddenly the slogan of the followers came from outside, but a young man's voice came from the front and said, "But the Governor's sedan chair?"

Huh?

When Lin Run heard this question, a hint of surprise immediately surged in her heart.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he asked his entourage to be cautious when going out. He also wore casual clothes, but he didn't expect to be on the spot.

It was precisely because he had made up his mind, but no matter who came to plead and how many benefits the other party would give, he would not do anything to destroy his future.

"Yes, wait and make way quickly, otherwise..." The entourage shone at the person coming several meters away with the lantern in his hand, and immediately threatened the authenticity.

But as soon as he finished speaking, a neat footsteps came, and the follower immediately screamed: "Badman! Hurry up, hurry up, protect the master!"

The sedan chair was also slowly put down, and the sedan chair handled the guards to protect Lin Run.

Lin Run's eyes couldn't help but glared slightly. Although he knew that the Southeast thugs were prevalent and that there were many gangs in the dock, he never thought that these people dared to attack the local governor.

"beat!"

A group of masked gangsters surged out of the darkness. Facing the guards and the sedan chairmen, even with a blow of punches and kicks, the person's stick hit the guards hard.

Lin Run's guards were just recruited, and a few of them were old fried dough sticks from Yingtian Yamen. They seemed powerless to face these wolf-like gangsters.

"Come! Come! There are assassins!"

The follower knew that he was no match for the gangsters, so he shouted loudly, but he was quickly knocked to the ground with a stick.

Before Lin Run could fully react, the curtain of the sedan chair had been pulled open and a powerful footboard kicked in. It was about to shake out the power of Governor Ying Tian, ​​but the foot just kicked his nose, and tears burst out from the pain.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The tall young man was not relieved yet, but kicked Lin Run several times, making Lin Run hold his head and protect his body.

Who would have thought that the dignified Governor Ying Tian was actually bullied by a criminal, which was really a shame and humiliation.

"Don't beat him to death, we can't afford to offend!" A mature voice sounded and reminded the young man who was kicking happily.

The young man also knew that the house would be raided when he beat the imperial court to death, so he stopped kicking people, and even planned to leave here quickly.

But he had just taken two steps and found that his companion had not followed. He turned his head and saw his companion take his place with the faint lights on the ground. However, he kicked Lin Run in the sedan chair twice, and his eyes couldn't help but be filled with resentment.

Lin Run thought it was over, but she never thought that it would be another person to kick him hard in the face. She immediately had the desire to die, and she would not humiliate him, Governor Yingtian, like this.

"Who!"

It was at this moment that a constable who inspected the entrance of the tunnel found the movement here and immediately shouted.

"Let's withdraw from King Zhao's people!" Seeing this, the young man in charge wanted to kick Lin Run twice, he immediately issued an order.

The constable who ran in came running in with lanterns. When he learned that the people attacked by the gangsters were actually Governor Ying Tian, ​​he couldn't help but look at each other.

"You send me back home!"

Lin Run's injuries were not serious, but he was very insulting. He no longer planned to go to Yihongyuan with a bruised and swollen face. After learning about the identity of the visitor, he also felt a dull face and gave an order.

The constables from Suzhou Prefecture looked at each other, but they honestly carried the Governor Yingtian to respond to the Governor Tian’s yamen.

Although Lin Run wanted to bring the criminals who beat the imperial officials to justice, he did not catch the person with his own hands, and he could not see who was doing it clearly.

After several weighings, for his own face, he did not intend to let Yingtian Yamen investigate the matter with great fanfare, but instead breathed his anger silently.

Although he failed to catch the criminal, this matter would definitely make the silk merchants in Suzhou unrelated to it. The water in Suzhou City is deeper than he imagined.

There are official forces behind Dongting Silk Workshop, Zhuangyuan Silk Workshop, Gusu Silk Workshop and Lingnan Silk Workshop. Because it is a stock system, the interest relationship here is even more complicated.

This time he punched and kicked him was a warning. If he really put the other party to death, even if he hid honestly in the Governor Yingtian's yamen, he might have life worries.

I thought Governor Yingtian was a good job, but now it seems that this is probably a hot potato.
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