On the second day of the first lunar month of the seventh year of Hongwu, before the New Year holiday of the Ming Dynasty was over, Su Yonglin received news from the Skynet Army in the Sichuan-Shu region.
Dali is secretly conducting Shu brocade trade with the Chengdu imperial court. Chengdu Jinyuan has secretly resumed work and is mass-producing the Shu brocade that Dali needs. A batch of Shu brocade that was previously accumulated in the warehouse has been sent out.
Both sides were very cautious and did not publicize similar things at all.
Su Yonglin wouldn't find it strange that something like this would happen.
Because Shu brocade trade is really profitable, very profitable.
Especially during the current period when the ban is in effect, normal channels are blocked, and you can only use abnormal channels. If you can get a batch of Sichuan brocade at a lower price and then resell it, it will be hundreds of percent. Profits can definitely make anyone jealous.
As a small border country, Dali is not very financially wealthy, so it is only natural to want to obtain this part of the income.
However, this became a very good excuse for Su Yonglin, a good excuse to launch an attack on Dali after successfully defeating the Sichuan-Sichuan Song Army.
At a small level, this is greed, at a large level, it is having second thoughts about the Central Plains Dynasty, which is an act of rebellion.
I won’t discuss hitting you.
Su Yonglin then ordered the Tianwang Army's department responsible for Dali intelligence collection to launch operations. At the same time, he also began planning to establish the Dali branch of the Renaissance Society.
Zhao Kuangyin wanted this piece of land that he couldn't afford. The ruler of the Song Dynasty felt that this piece of land could not make ends meet. He thought it was very good, and the Dadu River could not stop him.
By taking over and operating the Dali Kingdom, not only can we obtain some local strategic resources, but we can also directly extend our hands into Southeast Asia and carry out operations in Southeast Asia, so as to facilitate further southward expansion.
"The Dali Kingdom dared to ignore the Ming Dynasty's prohibition and directly confront the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if they have weighed their own weight and whether they are prepared. If they are not prepared and dare to do this, that is pure stupidity!"
Su Yonglin issued an edict, asking the Lin'an court to reprimand Dali and order Dali not to do such things again, otherwise they would bear the consequences.
Of course, no matter whether they stop taking action at this time, it will not affect Su Yonglin's determination to destroy them.
They have already entered the small book and cannot get out.
Originally, Su Yonglin thought that this matter would be like this, but within a few days, Su Yonglin learned about the follow-up to this matter.
They were also secret agents of the Skynet Army in the Sichuan-Shu region. They learned that in addition to a group of Shu brocade heading south to Dali, they also detected a group of Shu brocade moving north to the northern Sichuan region.
They didn't know where these Shu brocades went and didn't catch up with them, but they suspected they were related to Guanzhong Province, so they secretly contacted the Fourth Operation Team of the Skynet Army, which was responsible for the intelligence investigation of Guanzhong Province, and asked for their assistance.
The Fourth Operation Team of the Skynet Army paid great attention to the matter after learning about it. Team leader Xu Xuan personally followed up to investigate the matter. After a careful operation, they found out the matter.
To put it simply, after the trade ban, someone used his position and power to secretly organize a team to trade Shu brocade with Sichuan and Sichuan silk merchants, and then sold it to the grasslands and even Xiliao through channel relationships to make money.
The grassland trade routes have long been opened up. As for the trade with Xiliao, it mainly exists among the people in Kansai, and the government is not involved.
The Jin Kingdom also tried to conquer Xiliao and destroy Xiliao, but they failed in the end. Of course, they would not have any constructive trade relations with Xiliao.
But private commerce is difficult to control.
The first culprit discovered was Ma Wenxuan, the county clerk of Qingshui County in Qinzhou. After he was interrogated by the local judicial office, he could not stand the torture and successively confessed some of his accomplices, such as the county captain and Yi Cheng. For example, the main criminal was Qingshui County. Let Han Ming know.
After these people were interrogated by the judicial office, they successively revealed some of their accomplices who assisted them, such as Zhou Fan, the postmaster of Huaping County, Pingliang Prefecture, Jia Qing, the magistrate of Dongshan County, Zhenrong Prefecture, and Yu, the inspector of Heshui County, Qingyang Prefecture. All waiting for someone.
As the criminal officials were uncovered one by one, a secret Shu brocade selling gang that had existed in the west and north of Guanzhong since the fourth year of Hongwu was uncovered.
After Su Yonglin captured Guanzhong, he left a large number of old bureaucrats ruling the place, so Guanzhong was in chaos before the Great Purge. After the Great Purge was launched, a large number of old Guanzhong bureaucrats were dismissed, and members of the Renaissance came to power one after another and began to take over the administration of Guanzhong.
The official administration in Guanzhong took on a new look.
However, the number of Fuxing members who could govern the local area was insufficient, so a small number of old bureaucrats who had made no mistakes were preserved. Later, some newcomers from the imperial examination who were not Fuxing members were also sent to Guanzhong to engage in administrative work.
In the case where the number of administrative Renaissance members was small, the top priority of the Imperial Staff Department and the Organization Department of the Renaissance Society was to ensure the local implementation of the judiciary composed entirely of Renaissance members.
The Guanzhong area was given priority. From the fourth year of Hongwu onwards, the Guanzhong area basically established a judicial office in every county, responsible for supervising administrative agencies.
Correspondingly, at the county government governance level, there are still a group of old bureaucrats and non-Revival member imperial examination bureaucrats, but they are no longer the majority in number.
After repeated intensification and rectification by Su Yonglin, the style problems of Fuxing members have been corrected to a considerable extent. This is directly reflected in the Shu brocade smuggling case. The perpetrators were not Fuxing members.
This is also the only place where Su Yonglin feels gratified.
But then again, this matter still happened. Under his strict defense, some officials still took advantage of the loophole and profited from it.
According to the investigation results, these guys started taking action during the period when the Ming Dynasty officially allowed the Shu brocade trade with Sichuan and Shu. Because trading Shu brocade with the Southern Song Dynasty and selling it to the grasslands required a license from the Ming Dynasty official, and the official needed a license. and transactions to collect taxes.
Therefore, they used their status and power to engage in transactions, bribed some old bureaucrats and imperial examination bureaucrats, deliberately avoided officials who had restored their membership status, opened up a business route, and used the power of the government to become second-tier dealers, making a lot of money.
Moreover, no taxes were paid, all profits were shared equally by everyone, and then they purchased various Southern Song Dynasty luxuries from Sichuan and Sichuan, and lived a privately extravagant life.
If they had been dormant this time, they might not have been discovered so early. However, because of their greed, they failed to control their greed, so they could no longer hold on after a month or two and secretly reopened the business. trading.
It is said that due to the official blockade of the Ming Dynasty and Jiangnan Kingdom, Shu brocade could not come out of Sichuan and Shu openly, so that the price of the original local Shu brocade inventory suddenly soared.
Whether in Jiangnan Kingdom or on the grasslands, due to the internal demand of the ruling class, the price of finished Shu brocade began to soar. Some people even started a Shu brocade hoarding business, intending to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
The Shu Brocade transaction was indeed blocked, but the original Shu Brocade transaction that was completed still exists.
After a lot of speculation, these Shu brocade stocks were fetched sky-high prices. News from the Shibo Department also showed that some foreign businessmen were trying to buy the Shu brocade stocks on the market at two or three times the price.
Under such circumstances, it would be strange if smuggling did not occur.
It's just that the trading model these days is relatively primitive, so transactions still require physical contact between both parties. This physical contact process is very cumbersome and dangerous, which further pushes up the price of Shu Brocade.
And within the Sichuan-Shu region, because the Shu brocade trade was blocked and a large amount of inventory was backlogged, the Shu brocade could no longer be sold at a price within the Sichuan-Shu region. Even many people within the Chengdu imperial court were worried that these stocks would be lost in their hands, so they would rather Sell even if the price is reduced.
On the one hand, the price is falling, and on the other hand, the price is soaring. One is ebbing and the other is ebbing. The price of a piece of smuggled Shu brocade goes straight up to the sky, comparable to gold.
The demand for Shu brocade among the nobles among the grassland tribes also increased during this period. The leaders of the Wanggu tribe and the Tata tribe who submitted to the Ming Dynasty were very eager to obtain Shu brocade to satisfy their own pretentious needs and women. Our beauty needs.
The huge profits stimulated these officials. They finally couldn't bear their desires and decided to take the risk to restart the trade route.
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