The first major event after the Ming Dynasty was the official promulgation by the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty's ban on all trade with the north in border towns.
At first, no one took the imperial court's ban seriously. Just like the imperial court's sea ban, before Longqing opened the sea, it was also a red line that could not be touched. Who dared to cross it, according to the ban
To put it bluntly, beheading and ransacking one's home is a crime worthy of the crime.
But what is the result? The ban on the sea is only for the powerless common people, and the ban is only on the poor fishermen who rely on the sea to find a living. For those with power, this ban on the sea is nothing more than a ban on the sea.
It is a piece of paper, and even these powerful people are the ones who implement the imperial court's sea ban. So, one can only imagine what the sea ban will look like in the end.
Ordinary people are "not allowed to enter the sea!" However, the fleets of the powerful are galloping among the seven seas, and maritime trade is booming.
However, this time the trade ban on the north seems to be slightly different from the sea ban. Even when the sea ban was enforced at its most stringent, the executors were only local governments. But this time, it is not just the local governments, but even the sea ban.
Even Jin Yiwei also participated.
Not only the Qianhu Station and Baihu Station of Jinyiwei stationed in various places were mobilized, and even prevented the people below from carrying them, and were perfunctory, the North and South Town Fusi in the capital also sent a large number of manpower to rush to the Thousand Household Station and Baihu Station in various places.
Household.
The Jinyiwei participated in the enforcement of this ban. They did not check whose business violated the ban or who quietly smuggled Ming's things into the grasslands. They only went to arrest people.
Catch the officials who did nothing, the officials who ignored the imperial ban, even those who resisted, and even those who colluded with merchants to participate in trade.
However, the Jinyiwei who rushed to various places in the capital did not even participate in these matters. They only supervised their colleagues to see if their colleagues dared to violate family laws. No matter which Jinyiwei Baihu Office or even Jinyiwei Qianhu
Therefore, as long as Jinyiwei from the capital is stationed, it must be people from Nanzhen Fusi and Beizhen Fusi who appear at the same time. Once someone within the Jinyiwei is derelict in their duties and bends the law, people from the North and South Town Fusi can verify the truth together and execute the family on the spot.
According to the law, even the previously cumbersome series of procedures such as verification, interrogation, detention and disposal have been greatly simplified.
Suddenly, there was a tremor in all directions, rumors spread everywhere, and people were simply panic-stricken.
Every day, officials would be rushed to their homes by the royal guards and taken away. Officials who were sitting well in the government office, but those who had evil intentions in their hearts, began to worry about whether they would have a chance to return to their homes for dinner at night.
Under Jin Yiwei's aggressive approach, even those who take this matter seriously no longer have to cheer up and take this matter seriously. No one will have anything to do with their official career.
People will find it hard to live with their own glory and wealth. As long as they are not unlucky, then it will be unlucky for others if they are unlucky. It is none of their business.
Compared with these officials, those merchants who used to make a living from border trade were almost immediately plunged into disaster. The officials who had been brothers with them were also as friendly as before and began to use their past to work with them.
Let’s start to sort out the things we have done.
Confiscation, conviction, confiscation, exile.
All the pressure from Beijing was released by local officials on these businessmen. The biggest consequence of this is that whether they are big businessmen or small businessmen, if they do not want their homes to be confiscated and their families to be exterminated,
Then they must immediately cut off their border trade transactions. Even in this situation, if they take a risk once, it can be as good as the profits they made ten or eight times in the past.
But who is not afraid of death?
In just one month, except for a few channels that the government could not temporarily block, all large-scale border trade was stopped.
And whether it was the Mongols or the Jin people, they realized belatedly at this time that not only were the Ming merchants wandering on the grasslands invisible after the New Year, but even the simplest salt and tea in their hands were no longer visible.
, cloth, and medicinal materials, which are almost consumed during the Chinese New Year, can no longer find a place to replenish them.
It seems that even with gold and silver, you can no longer buy these things that are readily available on weekdays. What's more terrible is that the food supply from the Ming Dynasty has also disappeared at the same time.
All kinds of news flew to Shengjing from various channels and to Huang Taiji's desk. Huang Taiji, who was full of ambition after conquering Chahar, fell into a state of anxiety almost instantly.
Of course, Daikin has its own reserves for materials such as salt, tea, cloth, and medicinal materials, especially for strategic materials such as spirits, cloth, medicinal materials, and even ironware that are directly related to Daikin's army. Daikin has never relaxed its reserves.
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However, it is one thing to have reserves. This does not mean that once the Ming Dynasty banned trade, Dajin would have to distribute the wealth accumulated in the past from his own warehouse to the people in the lands he conquered like candy.
The people and materials of Dajin will never be enough for themselves. These conquered places should naturally support Dajin. How can it be the other way around?
It is a pity that what Huang Taiji faced was the simultaneous shortage of materials in various places. If Daikin ignored these requests for assistance, then no matter what changes occurred in the territories he had conquered in the past and the territories he had recently conquered,
They are definitely not developing in this direction that is beneficial to Daikin.
As a ruler, he cannot ignore it.
While he was making people allocate the already tight supplies to solve the urgent needs that had to be solved, he was also sending people to start frantically contacting the great businessmen of the Ming Dynasty who had always been in contact with Daikin.
Just like the Fan family of the Ming Dynasty who transported a large amount of grain to Daijin during the great famine in the second year of Chongzhen to maintain the vitality of Daijin. Of course, in addition to grain, there are also people who specialize in medicinal materials and cloth.
Those big businessmen.
In the past, Huang Taiji felt that these Ming businessmen were just blood-sucking moths clinging to Ming and Dajin. He looked down on these people, but he had to use them. However, if he could really do without these people, he would never do more.
Just look at these people.
He even made a decision in his heart. If he really takes over the Central Plains one day in the future, in addition to using a few rising guys as examples to let the world know that Daikin is not an ungrateful person, other things
Damn it, he will definitely find a reason and slowly become clearer.
These people can eat up the Ming Dynasty, and naturally they can eat away at its great gold. The earlier these people die, the more beneficial it will be to the great gold.
The news from the Ming Dynasty sent shivers down Huang Taiji's spine. The big businessmen of the Ming Dynasty who had been in contact with them had either had their families confiscated and exterminated by the Ming Dynasty, or they had completely defected to the Ming Dynasty.
In the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty, some people even secretly sent people from Da Jin to contact them and reported them to the Ming Dynasty officials.
The three melons and two dates that those small businessmen smuggled through various channels were of no use to a huge khanate like Daijin.