Chapter 369: The Southern Conquest and the Northern War (34)
After finding the clue of the Xie family in Yuyao, Mai Xiaoliu immediately mobilized all the Chinese company's spies in Zhejiang and followed the clues to follow the clues to follow the Xie family and Yin Feng's Chinese company have been against each other several times. The last time it was set up in Hangzhou. The company's business information department has laid a lot of undercover spies around the Xie family, but the Xie family has lived in Yuyao for a long time. It has been more than 1,300 years since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the family forces have been scattered all over the eastern Zhejiang province. In addition, several Beijing officials were released in the family, and the government and gentry and businessmen were combined to control local governments and rushing around the countryside. It was really an authentic local snake. Therefore, it was difficult for the Chinese company to lurk within the Xie family, but it was just outside the Xie family. There were detailed works lurking in places like shops, so no small moves were discovered by the Xie family on the training of the new imperial army.
Mai Xiaoliu thought that with the power of the Xie family, it would be impossible to have the ability to buy cannons in Macau. The financial resources needed to be used to train a firearm to transform a new army were not something a wealthy businessman could bear. Yin Feng trained the guards back then. In the early stage, there were only a thousand people, but they had to gather the power of hundreds of merchants who escaped from Manila, plus the efforts of themselves and the Zeng family to almost lose all their money, and the millions of taels of silver obtained by robbing the Japanese red seal ship several times to build it. Get up a firearm unit.
Therefore, Mai Xiaoliu concluded that in addition to the Xie family in Yuyao, there must be other officials, gentry, and wealthy businessmen joining this matter.
He used the company's secret shareholders among Zhejiang businessmen and had good relationships with the Xie family to track down this clue throughout Jiangnan. In recent years, the business model of the money shops and silver accounts founded by Chinese companies has spread all over Jiangnan, and many merchants have been involved in Jiangnan. The large amount of funds circulation is handled through bank accounts of the money shop. Although the money shop directly under the China Company was seized, among the money shops opened by Zhejiang merchants who were jointly organized with the company, there were intelligence personnel from China Company lurking everywhere.
Soon, through a money shop of a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, Mai Xiaoliu found out the large amount of funds from the Xie family, and the sources of funds flowing to the same as the Xie family: Lianghuai salt merchants and Shanxi merchants headed by the Qiao family in Shanxi, and finally, even After discovering some of the funds from Zhejiang businessmen, Mai Xiaoliu then made a detailed work through the Business Information Department of Nanzhili to find out that after some circulation, the funds were finally transferred to the business in the Xie family located in the north of Jinling City and entered the white silver. The treasury of Yingtian Prefecture was nominally donated by the gentry in Jiangnan and was assigned to the Nanjing Ministry of War.
Mai Xiaoliu chased him all the way to Nanjing, and spent a lot of money to bribe a civil servant in the Nanjing Ministry of War, and obtained a list of the treasury handover from him.
The person who finally withdraws this money and transports it to Zhejiang was Xiong Tingbi, the Nanjing garrison manager who was in charge of the new army's military training. The specific person in charge was Yao Zongwen, the servant of the household department, and the person who escorted the money was the Nanjing garrison manager Xiong Tingbi, who was directly under the command of Xiong Tingbi, the Nanjing garrison manager. .
When Mai Xiaoliu arrived in Nanjing, it was a month after he left Zhenjiang. Lin Xiao, who was also pursuing the case, encountered a gentry siege who besieged the Chinese company's store as soon as he arrived in Nanjing. He was frustrated by a group of gentry. Therefore, he was busy mobilizing personnel to evacuate the mall from Nanjing, and he had no time to investigate the matter.
When Mai Xiaoliu came to Nanjing, the scholars who were clamoring all day long even demonstrated in front of the mansion of Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Nanjing, demanded that he send troops to recover Zhenjiang, Susong and other places and drive away the pirates. These gentry were from Jiangnan. The Chinese military-controlled area escaped and besieged the China Company-Huaxing Lianhao Store in order to retaliate against provocation.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the gentry of Jiangnan was severely taught by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his uncooperative attitude towards Zhu Yuanzhang. He has been honest for many years. Now, the scholars of Jiangnan are competing for requests, and are promising in their behavior, and are very supportive. Public opinion, taking on lawsuits, going out of the public, colluding with clerks, interfering in administration, arbitrary villages, and managing public opinion are their basic social image. Gentlemen even form gangs, and party fight against differences; interfering in administration, controlling villages; invading common people's industries, and rampant Illegal; wantonly enslave villagers; accept offer and acquire slavery to become a trend; extravagant and debauchery, drunk and dreaming of death. Given the bad habits of students, Gu Yanwu, a great scholar in another time and space, even compared students with village officials and officials to "the world The three types of people who are sick of the people, advocate: "Abolish the people in the world and clean governments, abolish the people in the world and the people are trapped in the world, abolish the people in the world and eliminate the habits of the people, abolish the people in the world and eliminate the habits of the people in the world, abolish the people in the world and eliminate the people in the world. And use the world's material,"
Like Dong Qichang, he was a slander, but in fact he was a tyrant of the countryside, who indulged evil servants to do evil, and as a result, he provoked scholars and attacked the people. There was a so-called "people copy Dong Qichang" change, and many slaves in Jiangnan also changed. Officials have the privilege of slaughtering, and the gentry in Jiangnan abused this privilege, which was far beyond the law's provisions to raise slaves. "...There are as many as one or two thousand people in the Wu family," Xu Jie, Dong Fen, and Dong Qichang family ,There are thousands of slaves who defect to the household. The ones who defect to the household are voluntary on the surface, but are mostly because there are many gentry and large families who enjoy privileges and exemptions. The heavy burden of taxes and labor is all on the heads of ordinary people, and the common people are helpless. He had to seek shelter from the powerful family. For example, Dong Qichang was "a fertile hectares, and he lost only three points of taxes, and he had to rely on most of his cruise ships." Dong Qichang's house was burned by villagers and his family's wealth was looted.
(Another time and space, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taicang, Shanghai, Jiading, Kunshan, Shimen, Jintan, Liyang Guang and Susong Changjia, the four prefectures of the four prefectures of Taicang, Shanghai, Jiading, Kunshan, Shimen, Jintan, Liyang Guang and Susong Changjia, and the killing of the lords of Sochi was really a long-term powerhouse for the gentry landlords. The consequences of blessings are caused by one's own fault. The slave transformation in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty was the most intense, and it was the most concentrated in the local wealthy family, the most prosperous trend of slaughtering, and the most harsh under control was inevitable.)
Because the Chinese company was eager to need various labor in its own ruling area, and also had a large number of Japanese people. Spanish, Dutch prisoners of war and indigenous people could be employed at will, there were very few wealthy businessmen who were entrusted with slave labor. Yin Feng was not interested in using slave labor However, given the actual factors, he did not oppose the large-scale use of defeated indigenous peoples and prisoners of war from various countries as coolies. The Chinese company treats the slaves in the Jiangnan family as potential immigrants, and farmers can be exempted from taxes for three years. The policy is in front of you, and those common people do not need to bear heavy taxes and labor, nor do they need to surrender to the officials and gentlemen. As a result, many slave rebellions occurred in the Chinese military ruling areas, and the Chinese military took no action to this. Without asking, the master's house was searched after his death, and the slaves who had murders were arrested and sent to overseas colonies, serving hard labor for several years. The other slaves encouraged them to leave their master's house and go to Taiwan, Ryukyu, Luzon, and Brahma. In the continent, Java, Sumatra and other places, there were large pieces of land waiting for them to farm. There was no other labor except to pay rent to the company. Therefore, a large number of slaves, tenants, and refugees defected to the Chinese army.
In the early days when the Chinese army entered the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry were suppressed by their force. Later, they found that these pirates were thinking about recruiting peace and did not kill people indiscriminately. So they plucked up their courage to go to the Chinese army for their own interests and local interests. However, the Chinese army did not rely on local gentry administration to rely on local gentry governments. They paid attention to governing the people by law, and there was no privileges for the gentry. The tax payment of officials, gentry and people is the basic policy of the company, and business must be done. Like small vendors, they must be punished by law when they have murder cases. There is no human relationship. All the gentry who made trouble were too out of order were confiscated by the Chinese army, which shocked the officials and gentlemen of all families to stay in their doors, and even if they were officials The gentry will stop the market, close business, and resist the administrative measures of the garrison. The Chinese army soldiers in black will come to solve the problem with force: the Chinese army and the garrison will not need the financial resources and strength of the gentry to implement their own government in the local area. Measures: If officials and gentry resist with force, it will be useless. The force of the Chinese army and the ability to mobilize middle and lower-class people can easily submerge the resistance of officials and gentry in a pool of blood.
After Chen Zhongji came to the Jiangnan Governor's Palace, he also used powerful means to implement a policy of not disturbing the people but not tolerating crimes. He also took out a little Huluo to win over the gentry of Jiangnan: those who obey the Chinese military ruler can enter the custody office, and can At the open meeting of the Board of Directors, the gentry's eloquence and literary talent can express opinions on anything, and the auditors can be elected to verify the officials of the garrison. Moreover, all Board of Directors can accuse officials, but there must be evidence and no evidence. The guardians will ignore it.
The gentry in Jiangnan was mixed and colluded with each other, and the forces that colluded with each other were completely meaningless in the face of effective administrative agencies based on government violence.
Therefore, these gentry did not dare to cause trouble in the Chinese military ruling area, but fled to Nanjing, which was ruled by the Ming Dynasty, to cause trouble.
Moreover, Mai Xiaoliu found a list of officials, gentry and wealthy businessmen in Suzhou, Songjiang, Zhenjiang and other places through his trip to Zhejiang: these people paid money to donate military salaries to help the court train new troops.
Mai Xiaoliu saw the chaos in Nanjing and also saw Lin Xiao organizing company personnel to evacuate Nanjing. He believed that his mission did not include helping Lin Xiao handle trivial matters, so he left Nanjing first and returned to Zhenjiang. Lin Xiao only took three days later. He listened to Mai Xiaoliu's investigation report in Zhenjiang, and Chen Zhongji was also present. He learned about Mai Xiaoliu's investigation results three days ago.
Lin Xiao listened to Mai Xiaoliu's report very jealously, but there was no expression on his face, and said coldly: "It seems that the military pay for the new army was raised by officials, merchants, gentry, salt merchants, and Shanxi merchants. The main investors are the officials and businessmen in Jiangnan, and the initiator is the Xie family in Yuyao. It is understandable that the officials and gentry in Jiangnan do this. This Hui merchant and Jin merchant have close business dealings with our company. Damn, this is obvious. Are you walking on two boats?”
Mai Xiaoliu nodded: "These officials, businessmen and businessmen have joined forces, and their power should not be underestimated. When I found out that they raised as much as one million taels of military pay, I have used the pigeons from the Ministry of Commerce to give the ship owner and the king. The investigation report was sent, and the detailed report was also sent to Taiwan Port by the Sea Breeze yesterday.”
Lin Xiao's face turned dark, lowered his head and remained silent. He was very dissatisfied with Mai Xiaoliu's random use of the carrier pigeons in the Ministry of Commerce under his jurisdiction. Due to Chen Zhongji's presence, he tried his best to suppress his anger. He coughed a few times, lowered his head and did not look at Mai. Xiao Liu: "Haha, the king has had an order. Just find out the source of the new army's funds. There is no further instructions for action. What should we do now?"
As the chief supervisor of the Jiangnan garrison office, Chen Zhongji also manages military, government and civil affairs, he considered it more comprehensively. He said slowly: "This matter should not be too hasty. I think His Highness Jinghai will not attack the new army immediately. The first thing he has to solve is the Shanxi merchants.
, those in Huizhou businessmen who violated the secret shareholder agreement, "