So they look decent, but have no effect at all! They are like the police in movies, they always appear last! They usually show up after something has already happened, or the goods or the store have been destroyed!
Liu Haojia even reported these matters to the court, hoping that the court would come forward and order these officials to cooperate. But his bad relationship with the civil servants made them use various excuses to delay it! Moreover, the salt merchants had given them a lot of benefits in the past, and now it was naturally time to contribute! Coupled with the traditional collusion between officials and officials in the officialdom, they just stood by and watched.
In desperation, Liu Haojia even contacted the health offices in various places through Xungui, hoping to protect the salt roads and shops, but it still had no effect.
The first reason is that the guard troops cannot enter the city, and even if they do, they can only enter in casual clothes. However, the few people sent are useless, and shops will still be attacked. But too many people go there and they can’t afford the expense! After all, it always costs you some money to invite someone over!
But the things inside the city are not settled, and the guards officers still cannot settle the things outside the city! Because outside the city, the established guard soldiers were defeated several times by the salt owl!
The guardsmen of the Ming Dynasty are no longer what they were in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China! Due to the long-term peace in the world, the officers of the guard began to become corrupt! They transferred all the land owned by the guards into private names, turning military households into their own tenant farmers!
Moreover, because of their military status, the military households were unable to move freely and had to accept the exploitation of the officers. In the end, they became like slaves! It is acceptable if you just act like a slave. After all, slaves are the property of the master and should be treated well!
But those military households were tenant farmers and free men! So the officers didn't even have to make excuses, and they weren't even willing to give them food! If the officers don't care about food, how can they organize training? Therefore, except for the servants around the officers, the current guard soldiers have no combat effectiveness at all, and they don't even have complete equipment! So much so that when these officers boasted about being able to escort the merchant capital to Haikou, problems often occurred!
The two sides had the largest number of people fighting in the field. A guard officer organized nearly two hundred soldiers to escort the caravan. Counting the caravan's own guards and attendants, there were almost three hundred people! But the salt lords gathered more than a hundred people and completely defeated them!
Under the guidance of people sent by the salt merchants, these salt lords chose ambush tactics and attacked when the caravan passed through a forest! But because of the officer's arrogance and contempt, coupled with the long-term lack of training of his three hundred men, when the salt owl appeared, they did not make any response!
By the time the Salt Owls rushed forward, it was already too late to organize a defense in a hurry! Moreover, before the two sides could engage in battle, some of the guards soldiers who had never been trained had already dropped their weapons and started running away, which directly caused the morale of the army to be shaken!
At this time, he wanted to lead a few mounted servants to fight back, but he was fired upon by five archers! To be honest, these five archers couldn’t shoot accurately! Three of the five arrows missed the target, and the remaining two arrows all hit the horse. The horse was injured and fell, throwing the officer off the horse!
But the first thing the officer did when he got up from the ground was to get on the servant's horse and run away! So the whole team collapsed completely! The final result was that the Salt Owl was not injured at all, but a total of eleven people from the guard soldiers and caravans died, and there were a lot of injuries! More than 80 truckloads of salt were poured into the ditch on the roadside!
In this way, the stubborn resistance of salt lords and salt merchants made it very difficult to promote low-price salt! In fact, the promotion of low-price salt was promoted by Liu Haojia alone. The nobles in the entire court could not get involved, and the civil servants were watching the joke!
Liu Haojia even came into contact with You Qi once, but he was keenly aware of one thing: Zhang Juzheng might be waiting for him to pick peaches when he couldn't hold on any longer! And I'm afraid he will be blamed for all the chaos caused in the middle! So he decisively cut off contact!
Another thing that worries Liu Haojia is that other business groups are also starting to rise! At the very beginning, in addition to the Liansheng Merchant Group, the Ming Dynasty also had aristocratic merchant groups composed of nobles. But the demonstration effect of these two business groups is extremely powerful!
Officials and businessmen immediately saw how much profit this cooperation could bring, so three more business groups appeared in succession in more than a year! One is the Northwest Business Group. The biggest support point of this business group is trade and food outside the Great Wall.
The other two business groups are known among the people as the Lianghu Business Group and the Zhejiang and Fujian Business Group. Therefore, there are currently five relatively large business groups in the entire Ming Dynasty.
The Liansheng Business Group led by Liu Haojia is known among the people as Liu's Business Group. There are very few officials in this business group, and the participants are basically vassals of the Liu family. The main body is composed of businessmen of all sizes. The aristocratic business group is different. They are all composed of nobles! As for the other three business groups, it's the same. They are all business groups composed of civil servants and the officials and businessmen to whom they belong!
However, Liu Ji Business Group is different from several other business groups. They never seek to monopolize a certain industry. Liu Haojia only enters through various means and uses his foresight to dominate and lead! Because he knows very well that monopoly will only create a stagnant pool of water and will not lead to progress!
And now the world is a time of great strife, and the rise of the West is inevitable! If you create a backwater within the Ming Dynasty, it will be equivalent to reshaping "our Qing Dynasty". In the end, you will not be able to escape the fate of being used to knock on the country's door with strong ships and cannons!
The Xungui Merchant Group was a little better, because Liu Haojia often warned them: "You are nobles and have a salary, so you should eat and look good!" So they were relatively restrained.
But the other three business groups are completely different. They rely entirely on the power of the government to monopolize all industries they can get, and at the same time cruelly squeeze profits in order to maximize profits!
Liu Haojia also understands the psychology of these people very well, that is, they have the right to not use it, and it will become invalid after it expires! These civil servants are different from the nobles, who can always be maintained from generation to generation. When the Liu family was at its lowest, the court would also distribute salaries. Although it did not fall into their hands, it was because someone coveted their yard at that time. And this at least represents the attitude of the court, because the nobles also represent the face of the court!
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