After thinking clearly about how serious the consequences would be, many gentry no longer dared to be so clamoring and tough.

"Since Longqing, the imperial court has opened seas in Quanzhou, and countless people have survived because of sea trade. Those who make more money can carry gold and silver on ships, while those who make less money can also support their families. However, the Quanzhou Maritime Bureau pays only treasury taxes and silver every year.

There are 20,000 to 30,000 taels!"

"The benefits of maritime trade are millions, but there are only a few taxes and silver that enters the treasury. Most of the remaining ones are contained in the pockets of you people, hidden deep in the cellar."

"The Jiannu was raging, civil unrest, state affairs were like worries, but taxes were less than one year, the national treasury was empty, the soldiers on the border had no food and clothing, and the victims in the north were hungry."

"You are making countless silver every year through sea trade, and each one is rich enough to rival a country, but you don't have the idea of ​​sharing the worries and relieving the king's difficulties? You are reading the books of sages, and are full of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty to the king and patriotism, and one by one

But he is selfish and shameless!"

"For the sake of state affairs, Your Majesty is worried all day long and unable to sleep at night. However, the national treasury has no choice but to send General Li to Fujian, hoping to build a royal maritime trade business and trade overseas, and earn silver to subsidize the national treasury. It is not for the people.

Fight for profit, but for the country and the people!"

"For your own selfishness, you have blatantly colluded with the red-haired ghost to attack Bon Port, and colluded with the pirate Li Kuiqi to attack Fuzhou, slaughtered the people and robbed property, and now you are threatening and inciting civil unrest!"

"Do you really think Fujian is the world of you, letting you do whatever you want?"

Liu Mao pointed at the noses of these gentry and cursed angrily, bringing everything out.

The gentry was scolded and looked extremely ugly, but they could not argue because what Liu Mao said was the truth.

In the officialdom, we have always given each other face, and we are very kind to each other, and Liu Mao was so indecent that the gentry was also surprised.

Everyone knows that you were sent by the emperor, but you are also from a Jinshi and a member of the Shilin. Are you good to everyone like this?

Do you have no family? Do your family do not annex the land or exploit the people?

What a purity to pretend!

But I can only complain in my heart. I dare not say these words, and I don’t even dare to push them back.

Although Liu Mao is only a seventh-rank inspector, his status is only under the governor Xiong Wencan in Fujian. Who dares to directly contradict him? Even Xiong Wencan dares not!

"Well, Lord Liu will calm down for the time being," Xiong Wencan quickly interrupted and smoothed out the situation.

"They were probably scared by General Li, and they were so angry that they were talking nonsense. Lord Liu should not have some experience with them."

"Yes, yes, we were scared, afraid that General Li would come to trouble, so the inspector should not have some experience with us." The gentry hurriedly followed.

"Hmph!" Liu Mao sneered, "You can eat randomly, but you can't talk randomly, that's really going to lose your head!"

"Yes, yes, yes." The gentry said repeatedly, wiping the cold sweat on their foreheads one by one.

"Mr. Inspector, General Li started a massacre in Quanzhou. We are really scared. There is no way to do that, so I asked the governor to have an idea." Lin Rui said with a smile.

Liu Mao said lightly: "Can you collude with the Red-haired Ghost Pirate?"

Lin Rui shook his head desperately: "How can we do this? How could we do such a thing?"

"Since there isn't, why worry? Although General Li is young and energetic, he will not do anything randomly. Everyone has fame and fortune. Many people even have contact with the big bosses in the court. General Li is just a mere military general.

How dare you offend me?" Liu Mao said with a stubborn look in his words.

"Haha..." Lin Rui smiled awkwardly. He thought to himself that he almost scared us. Isn't this a dare to offend us?

However, from Liu Mao's words, Lin Rui and others knew the bottom line between Li Yanzhi and Liu Mao, that is, they would only attack Quanzhou Business Gang and would not deal with other business Gangs for the time being.

In this case, you can temporarily rest assured. As for how to deal with Li Yanzhi and how to deal with Royal Marine Trade Bank, you can plan slowly in the future.

"The sea is big enough to accommodate major merchants and royal sea trade business." Before leaving, Liu Mao said meaningfully to the gentry.

"Everyone, since Liu Xun said this, General Li should not do anything more, so let's disperse." Xiong Wencan said with a smile.

It would be better if things could be solved like this, at least you don’t have to sit on wax. As for the gentry’s competition with the Royal Marine Trade Company, it’s not about my official’s business! Well, someone should be sent to the court to find relations and transfer from Fujian as soon as possible.

Leave this place of right and wrong! Xiong Wencan said secretly.

......

"Everyone, can we just let it go?" After leaving the governor's yamen, a gentry suddenly said.

"Of course it can't be counted! Li Yanzhi is so domineering and arrogant. Even if he doesn't move us now, he will attack us sooner or later. Everyone is alive and death!" Lin Rui said sinisterly.

"What should we do?" asked a gentleman.

It is hard to beat it, but it is hard to say it. The inspector and the censor were directly accomplices of Li Yanzhi, and the governor Xiong Wencan was also the one who was on both sides. In addition to inciting the public chaos to make things worse, everyone had no choice. But inciting the public chaos is a good move

A double-edged sword is likely to hurt itself, and no one is willing to go that step unless it is absolutely necessary.

Lin Rui sneered: "You guys may have forgotten our identity. We are gentry! Although the world belongs to the Emperor of Zhu, we are in control of both the court and the countryside. We cannot do anything to Li Yanzhi on the surface.

But there are many other ways.

Everyone went back to write letters to familiar friends of the same year, writing poems and screenwriters, publishing books to whip them, and launching public opinion to tell the world how arrogant Li Yanzhi was and how sinful he was! The emperor appointed such treacherous ministers to set up business and people

Fighting for profit is to cut off the life of all coastal people!

First create momentum among the people, making Li Yanzhi and the Royal Maritime Trade Fair, making everyone feel like they are snakes and scorpions when they see them!

Then, we launch an offensive in the court, contact each of us with familiar officials, and impeachment!

What collude with the red-haired ghost and collude with the pirates? It was clearly that Li Yanzhi wanted to do something wrong, secretly fostered forces in Taiwan and wanted to become independent overseas! He colluded with the red-haired ghost and tried to deal with colleagues in the Fujian army. In order to achieve his sinister goal, he brazenly colluded with the pirates

Li Kuiqi attacked Fuzhou and wanted to use the pirates to kill the hostile forces in the army!

But he poured sewage on Quanzhou gentry Huang Zheng, and made a bold move to destroy the family in order to occupy the wealth of the Huang family!

Li Yanzhi is arrogant, cruel and shameless, and his behavior is both angry with the gods! If he stays in Fujian, he still doesn’t know how many people are killed by him, and how many good families are tragically destroyed!
Chapter completed!