What does "everyone was arrested by me" mean? It seems that "I" is not something everyone can use to call themselves in the Central Plains, right? Who is this "little manager"?
The eight big profiteers were all dumbfounded when they heard what the "little manager" said in Chinese. While they were in a daze, sixteen warriors in front of the tent had already broken in from outside the tent. The leader was Li Zicheng, "the most loyal in the Ming Dynasty".
Sixteen warriors, working in groups of two, caught one profiteer in one group, and captured eight profiteers as if they were catching chickens. They knelt in a line in front of the "little steward", Zhu Youjian, the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youjian smiled and looked at the eight traitorous businessmen he had caught by "fishing", and he felt extremely happy!
To be on the traitor's blacklist, these eight big profiteers must have a net worth of several million, right? How else could he fall into the eyes of Nizi? The expenses for developing Xingzhou, Huizhou and Yingzhou, as well as two 20,000 households in Wuliangha and Duoyan, are all counted on the eight of you.
"Hahaha, I've known for a long time that the eight of you are traitorous businessmen who want to sell my Ming Dynasty to the Jianzhou slave thieves. I couldn't spare the time to catch you before, but now I finally have some time to do it. I'll use a little plan to do it. I’ve taken you away…what else do you have to say?”
After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, the eight future imperial merchants were all shocked! It turns out that the young man in front of me is the legendary young emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was "brave against Lu Bu, as cunning as Zhongda, and as ruthless as Cao Cao"!
But what kind of medicine did the little emperor take wrongly? Instead of staying in the Imperial City of Xuanfu, he went to Xinghe City outside the Great Wall to design small businessmen of his own?
And...why does this little emperor say that we want to sell the Ming Dynasty to the Kingdom of Jin? It’s nothing! What an injustice!
Oh, not all, not all. This is the first year of Chongzhen, not the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. Houjin Kingdom could just barely reach Zhangjiakou. Before that, there was Lindan Batur between Houjin Kingdom and Zhangjiakou. Even if the eight profiteers are willing to betray the country, they have no way of betraying the country. At most, they have some business dealings with Shenyang in a roundabout way. They may be able to communicate with each other, but there is no way to betray the country.
In fact, even if it is Tongfan, the transaction is not very big. Both sides are out of reach, and you have to pass through the Mongolian territory. How much business can you do?
Even in the first year of Chongzhen, only three of them, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and Jin Liangyu, had truly developed into traitors. The remaining five were still wandering between traitors and Tongfan... After all, betraying the country is not selling cabbage, so one must be cautious. !
You have to clearly see the strength and weakness trends between Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty before you can gamble with your wealth and life!
These eight profiteers are all rich, and they don't have millions. But they can get away with their wealth of two to three hundred thousand taels. They were rich in the early years of Chongzhen. How can they gamble their wealth if they can't see the situation clearly?
Before June of the first year of Chongzhen, the trend between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty was still very clear. Da Ming is getting weaker day by day, while Da Jin is thriving. Although it is not certain that the Ming Dynasty will fall and the Jin Dynasty will rise, it is still very promising for the Great Jin Kingdom to reach the level of the former Daliao Kingdom. Under this trend, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and Jin Liangyu would develop from Tongfan to traitor, serving as internal agents of Later Jin and leading the way for Later Jin.
However, after June of the first year of Chongzhen, the situation between Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty suddenly changed. The little emperor of Chongzhen, who had started to hang around after killing Wei Zhongxian with a sword, suddenly broke out and transformed into "the brave rival Lu Bu, the treacherous Zhongda," The ruthless little emperor is as ruthless as a thief... Of course the traitorous business must be slowed down!
Therefore, except for Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and Jin Liangyu who had already boarded the pirate ship, there was nothing they could do. The other five profiteers had already retreated, so they all talked together and did not dare to betray the country.
And even though it's also a serious crime, there are ways to deal with the real big profiteers. Is it possible to become a big profiteer without such connections?
But the problem is, the one who caught them this time was the Little Emperor of Ming Dynasty himself!
It seems that he is the biggest in the Ming Dynasty. If he is caught, is there any way out?
"Li Zicheng," Zhu Youjian said to Li Zicheng with a smile, "drug down the traitor named Fan Yongdou, torture him severely, identify his accomplices, and then report to me."
"Got the order!"
Li Zicheng and his eldest nephew Li Jin lost the profiteer they had caught and replaced him with Fan Yongdou, who Zhu Youjian pointed at. They dragged him out to find a place to torture him - Zhu Youjian didn't actually know that this guy had betrayed the country. (It doesn’t mean anything if he brags that he is a relative of Fan Wencheng. Profiteers love to brag!). But he knew that Nizi had specially ordered to capture this guy and go to Lingchi, so he gave Fan Yongdou a special treatment.
Seeing Fan Yongdou being dragged out like this, the remaining seven profiteers were so frightened that they could not speak. Among them, Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu were the two worst offenders. They were all traitorous accomplices of Fan Yongdou! So I was scared to death on the spot...
Smelling the smell of urine, Zhu Youjian glanced at the seven profiteers in front of him with cold eyes, "I know profiteers best, so I know that you all have connections and backing... You need to Otherwise, with the strength of just a few of you, how dare you betray the country? Let’s talk about it, and give all the money you earn to your family?”
What Zhu Youjian said is absolutely true! Although he doesn't know how to do business, he really understands profiteers! The treacherous son is the richest in the Ming Dynasty, the third prince is the king of loans in the Ming Dynasty, the fifth filial son is the king of stocks in the Ming Dynasty, the adopted sixth son is the king of leasing in the Ming Dynasty, and his in-law Zheng Zhilong is also the richest man in the Ming Dynasty... How could he not know about this murderous gang? Where are the profiteers of Qian Dao?
"Wan, Wan, Long Live Lord, I'm so unjust!"
"Long live my lord, I have not betrayed my country, and I have no backing..."
"Long live my lord, I am just a small business owner..."
"Long live my Lord...it's unfair!"
"Forgive me..."
Except for Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, who were already scared to death, the other five profiteers were all pretending to be pitiful and begging for mercy... but refused to explain who was behind them.
Because if you confess, your chance of survival will be gone! If you don't explain... you might be able to save your life.
Zhu Youjian, who knew the most about profiteers, just smiled coldly: "Don't want to confess? Okay, let's wait...wait until Fan Yongdou confesses. If you are the same party as him, then there is nothing to say. You are a traitor to the country." Of course he will be put to death in a cold manner!"
"ah!"
Someone had already screamed and fainted. Zhu Youjian took a look at the person and found that it was Wang Dengku.
"Haha," the little emperor smiled, "It seems that he has a share in Tongfan's betrayal of the country... Okay, let's go back to the road with Fan Yongdou!"
He looked at the remaining six profiteers with a sinister look, and said slowly: "As for you...as long as you are not Fan Yongdou's accomplice, we will not kill you for the time being, but just ransack one's home! You guys rob each other..." .After copying, reconcile the accounts. If the accounts are not correct, you will be beheaded! If you find out what is wrong, you will live! If the accounts can be correct, haha, it depends on how many accomplices and backstage you can explain! If you explain enough, you will survive. , if it’s not enough, I’ll kill your heads!”
How much is enough?
Zhu Youjian won’t tell! How can you behead someone if you tell them? If you don't kill their heads, how can you scare their backers and accomplices?
This Zhu Youjian must be more vicious than his traitor!
He is the original feudal emperor, so of course he is ruthless!
Moreover, he grew up in an imperial family with little humanity. When he was five years old, his own mother was killed by his own father... Now he is most likely the most ruthless in the Ming Dynasty!
Of course, Zhu Youjian would not kill the comrades they confessed to betraying. Because he knows profiteers best and knows that these people will bite randomly in order to survive. If you kill everyone indiscriminately, you will be a fool.
But Zhu Youjian will not let those people go...at least not all of them, because he needs his own imperial business group to operate a huge industry.
Now the internal transportation warehouse is short of cash, but there is no shortage of assets... If various assets can be operated well, it will not be a problem to earn several million a year. That’s a “long-flowing flood”! But now that the traitor has not yet been born, we can only rely on profiteers with a foreign surname to help run the business. But profiteers are treacherous after all, so why don’t they grab some braids and scare them?
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