At the end of this year, the governing departments of Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan and other places issued orders to search for local Huaxing joint store segments. Since China United Company has business nationwide, the stalls are sold
Too big. Although the company issued a evacuation order in time, many people still fell into the hands of the government. There were more than ten shopkeeper-level figures and more than 100 clerks. The accountant was arrested for various crimes. During the same period, he was involved.
More than ten wealthy businessmen and businessmen in the Huaxing Liancai case were searched, and more than ten Huaxing Liancai staff who came from the imperial examination were stripped of their fame for collusion with traitors.
There are about ten silver accounts, and the money shops are also implicated. However, because the money shops in various places have already deeply involved the family business of officials, businessmen and gentry, only the Huaxing money shop in the capital has been seized. However, because of the money shops,
The main stores of the Silver House are all in Taiwan, and the vaults are also in Taiwan. The income from local governments who searched the money shops is actually very limited.
This year was the 44th year of Wanli, and many literati sighed at the end of this year.
At the beginning of the 44th year of Wanli (1616), Shandong was famined. Zhang Qiyou, a juren from Qingzhou, wrote the "Picture of the Great Famine of the Eastern People", each of which was written by poems, and said "The mother died of her son, and the husband died of his wife." The words "I saw it were sour.
The hungry people were displaced into the Jianghuai area and became a city.
On April 19, Henan Wuyang, Biyang, Suiping and other counties, hundreds of hungry people were uprising. The Henan Governor submitted a report to the court. Shenzong said that the hungry people gathered for a long time, and the local officials hid in disobeyed the order and issued a heavy responsibility.
Civil and military officials defended and suppressed the pacification, and "make sure to extinguish the situation to curb the incest."
In May of the 44th year of Wanli, Jiangbei and Shandong were a large locust, and the land was accumulated by about 300,000 people gathered in Huai. On June 20 of the same year, 3,000 hungry people in Wu'an, Shandong rioted and killed the people who were forced to pay the food.
County chief clerk Sun Guangyao.
On June 28, the Yellow River broke the mouth in Zhujiakou, Xiangfu, Henan Province. Chen, Qi, Sui, and Zhecheng counties were all affected. The main reason for the break was that the water storage dou gate was built in the early Ming Dynasty, and no one had been there for 200 years.
Most of the repairs were damaged, causing disasters to spread.
Originally, under the instigation of Chinese companies' spies, the hungry people in the north could still go to the coast of Shandong to wait for a living. Now the imperial army has set up countless checkpoints in Rizhao, Jugang and other places, cutting off the way for hungry people to go to sea to escape, and even refugees
They gathered in Shandong. The censor, who was responsible for the relief of Shandong refugees, and the governor of Shandong Qian Shiwan, was indeed trying his best to save the famine. Unfortunately, the grain warehouses in various prefectures and counties had been resold by officials and businessmen. Relief of refugees depends on foreign food.
If there is no emergency, countless refugees starve to death, and some hungry people rise up, attack prefectures and counties, and loot the homes of officials, gentry and landlords.
In other places, such as in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, due to the ban on sea, fishermen are not allowed to go into the sea to catch fish, causing conflicts between fishermen and the navy officers and soldiers... The banned ship owners have cut off their livelihoods and simply go out to sea to go to Taiwan's China Company.
Some merchant ships hung blue-bottomed Chinese flags and were equipped with small Flang machines and other firearms provided by China Company, and even opened to confront officers and soldiers at sea.
After Yin Feng received the news that the imperial ban was re-emerged in Nanyang, he couldn't smile bitterly. Sometimes he couldn't figure out what the questions were in the minds of these imperial bureaucrats: the hungry people were not allowed to go to sea, but rather let them riot in the mainland; the fishermen were not allowed to arrest them properly
Fish would rather let them take risks because of their livelihood issues... The court also had a policy of letting fishermen go to cultivate land, but they knew that the land on the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian could not support people, and they still had to let people stay on the land and wait for hunger. This policy
It is impossible to describe it in the word "silly".
Instead of returning from Southeast Asia immediately, he went to Aceh and held a mediation meeting on the issue of the Spice Islands that the Netherlands, Britain, Portugal and Chinese companies participated. The Spice Islands were originally exclusive to Portugal, but later Spain failed to join the competition, and then it was The Netherlands joined the territorial battle game and robbed a lot of places over the years, but because they were wiped out by the Chinese company in the Battle of Java, they were gradually driven out by the Portuguese; recently, the British joined the battle and began to seize spices. The territory of the archipelago; the war affected the business of China United, the largest buyer of the Spice Islands products, so Yin Feng convened all parties to hold a mediation meeting in Aceh.
No one dares to give face to the invitation of the overlords along the coast of Southeast Asia today.
The Netherlands and Britain were allies in the war against Spain. Now that the Netherlands and Spain have signed a peace treaty, the consequence is that the contradiction between the Netherlands and Britain is becoming increasingly prominent, and the two countries have conflicted their colonial interests around the world.
Now Portugal only wants to keep its existing territory. No matter who it is with, the Spice Islands are the money tree they have to keep no matter what.
Yin Feng announced at the meeting that if the Three Kingdoms can no longer have a ceasefire in the Spice Islands, then the Chinese company will intervene fully to protect its commercial interests. In the end, the Three Kingdoms and the Chinese company signed a Spice Islands agreement, and all four parties divided the spices. The archipelago territory: Portugal accounts for half, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom each account for 20%, and Chinese companies account for 10% of the islands, thus officially participating in the international spice trade.
Before the official signing of the Spice Islands, Yin Feng left Li Lihua to represent him with full authority, and he rushed back to Taiwan on the Sea Soul to participate in the shareholders' meeting at the end of the year.
When he arrived at Taiwan Port, he was greeted by Haicheng's wealthy businessman Luo Xuri, the first major shareholder of the board of directors who was not a "Manila fugitive", and Lin Xiao, Zeng Rui, and Yin Feng, who were worried about him, met him. When both of the intelligence leaders came, they knew that something must have happened.
"What's going on? Why are so many company employees arrested? Didn't they notify them to evacuate in time?" Yin Feng looked at a stack of information in his secret study in his inner house and said to Lin Xiao in anger: "You manage the flying pigeons." The communication line has been around for many years. Is this evacuation notice sent a letter from Fei Ge?”
Lin Xiao nodded helplessly: "Most places are indeed sent by flying pigeons. Sichuan, Hubei and Gansu are too far away. They used to forward them through Jinling Commercial Hall and Hankou Commercial Hall. This time, there was no time to notify them and were not expected. Yes, the imperial court took the action of seizing the company's semicolon this time, and we were very familiar with the layout of our company's semicolons. There is no way to do so. In most places, our company's semicolons have been opened for more than five years and cannot be kept confidential. ”
Yin Feng thought about it and leaned helplessly on the Taishi Chair: According to the current communication conditions, it is impossible to quickly and promptly notify all Chinese company stores across the country. Moreover, with the embarrassing status of Chinese companies in the mainland, it is impossible to establish an ability. A communication channel that matches the imperial court.
He suddenly saw Luo Xuri with a tired face, and suddenly stood up and said, "Old Luo, you must have something to do when you come to see me. Are your family members in Haicheng okay?"
Luo Xuri has recently served as the business manager of Fujian and Guangdong, but his tiredness is not because of work. He stepped forward and bowed deeply to Yin Feng, saying, "My man Luo is here to ask you for help. The ship owner, you must help me save me. People,"
Yin Feng stood up, walked around the table to support Luo Xuri, frowned and said, "What's going on? Are there your children among those who were captured by the government?"
Luo Xuri suddenly burst into tears. Yin Feng quickly helped him sit down. Lin Xiao whispered: "Mr. Luo's nephew was caught by the Jinyiwei in the capital,"
Zeng Rui continued: "When he was arrested, a confidential inner court memorial was found. At the same time, we finally found a secret stake in the palace - an eunuch, was also exposed,"
Yin Feng was surprised. He knew that Zeng Rui and Lin Xiao followed his instructions over the years and vigorously arranged informants and spies to the government officials at all levels of the court. However, he did not expect that the spies from the Military Intelligence Department had developed into eunuchs in the palace. .
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It turned out that on the left side of the imperial city of the capital, on the fourth, fourteenth, and twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, eunuchs in the palace organized a city trade, which was called "inside city". At the end of the 43rd year of Wanli (1615), Zhang After the attack of the police, Liu Tingyuan, the imperial censor, and others submitted a memorial, requesting that the inner city be prohibited from being in order to dispel the disaster. At the same time, the inner city must be inspected when entering and leaving the inner city. The four doors must be opened and closed on time. Anyone Do not use excuses to obstruct.
At the beginning of the 44th year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli issued an edict for this: The access control should be strictly controlled, and the Ministry of War and the City Patrol Department should be ordered to conduct strict investigations at any time. The factory guards and police officers and gatekeepers should closely investigate and capture the traitors. The inner city was in charge. If you have aged, you will help you and need it, but no one is allowed to enter with copper, iron, bows, arrows and other objects. Violators will be punished.
The inner city is actually a place where eunuchs in the palace can accept bribes publicly, and it is also a good opportunity for businesses from all walks of life to get to know eunuchs in the inner court. Therefore, if the inner city is closed, it will harm the interests of too many people. Therefore, in the inner court After the eunuchs persuaded him, Emperor Wanli did not order the closure of the inner city.
Luo Xuri's nephew Luo Jing is a scholar who is conscious of being talented but not appreciative and has low expectations. After failing the imperial examinations many times, he followed his uncle to do business, but making money in business could not satisfy his fame and fortune, so he became Some form of anti-government dissatisfaction is similar to Xu Hongji. After detecting Yin Feng's unusual behavior, he took the initiative to join the Military Intelligence Department. After a short period of training, he sent the Fujian Guild Hall in the capital to lurk as a secret stake. The Chinese company's business in the capital After the museum was investigated and closed, he was not affected. On this day, he took advantage of the opening of the city, and received a secret letter from the Military Information Department from whom he ordered him to go to the inner connector of an eunuch in the city and the palace. , to get a confidential memorial about when the imperial court will take action against Taiwan.
Zeng Rui and Lin Xiao both carried out intelligence work under the guidance of Yin Feng, and Yin Feng is a half-baked intelligence work. He has at most experience in digging insider news. The intelligence network of China Company rebels in recent years for the uprising. The expansion was too rapid and the number of people absorbed was too many and complicated. This time something happened finally.
Luo Jing was a scholar after all, and was not very good at doing things. As a lurking stake, he showed up for the first time to do business. His face was nervous and his hands were trembling. He connected with the inside and got something, but his abnormal performance was guarded by the Jinyiwei. A thousand households noticed it, but he was arrested and imprisoned, implicating the inside line in the palace.
This palace spy case shocked Ju Chao again: the tentacles of the Chinese company have actually reached into the palace, which is simply a sensational event.