But these civil servants don’t have to take this into consideration at all! In their view, they naturally have rights when they are in this position. Once they step down and lose their rights, they will have nothing! Therefore, they worked hard to control businessmen, squeeze them, and conduct predatory operations on the entire industry during their term of office!
Now the headquarters of these three business groups are located, especially in the northwest. Except for a few small businesses that they look down upon, certain industries have been completely monopolized by them! Even so, those small businesses still have to accept a certain degree of exploitation from them!
For example, after these business groups establish guilds, they will use the power of the government to force all employees to join the guild and pay a certain amount of membership fees every year! This is a way to extract people's wealth! And there are not a few human life cases among them! As for smashing people's shops and beating employees, it is simply commonplace! It’s just that all this has been covered up by the government!
The most critical point is that if one day they are dissatisfied, they can paralyze an industry in an instant! And this is exactly what Liu Haojia cannot tolerate! What he needs is a country full of vitality, not a stagnant water!
But now he is very angry when facing this situation, but he is beyond his reach! What he can do now is to influence the Honorable Business Group as much as possible and suppress the Northwest Business Group. He can only watch the Lianghu Business Group and the Zhejiang and Fujian Business Group gradually grow in size. The locations of these two business groups are the headquarters of civil servants. Their local strength is so outrageous that there is nothing he can do!
However, Liu Haojia did not just watch them grow, so he decided to solve the problem of low-priced salt first. As for those business groups that haven't fully matured yet, the guests can let them go for now. However, he has been collecting evidence of their crimes. When he gains greater power in the future, he will naturally destroy them in one fell swoop!
Today is a holiday, and Liu Haojia rarely went out to do errands, but stayed at home. It was the scorching summer heat, and he was taking a nap under the big tree in the yard.
But when he was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt his nose itching! I grabbed a handful and opened my eyes, and what I saw were two flowery smiling faces! One look at the hair in Tan Cuiying's hands and I knew it was her who was causing trouble! So Liu Haojia smiled and said, "You are just naughty, why can't you sleep?"
At this time, the maid had brought chairs for the two of them to sit down, but Tan Cuiying did not sit down. Instead, she helped Zhang Peijia to sit down first, then glanced at her belly with envy, and then quietly rubbed her own belly before sitting down. aside. That's right, Zhang Peijia is already six months pregnant!
Although it is said that Liu Haojia loves his wife and concubine equally, giving birth to a child really depends on luck! Zhang Peijia has lived a stable life since she was a child and was speechless for a while, so she has no health problems. Tan Cuiying's family was broken up when she was young, and her life was relatively difficult for a period of time, so the doctor concluded that her palace was cold and she needed to be nursed back to health. So I can't conceive a child for a while.
After sitting down, Zhang Peijia enjoyed the maid fanning and said helplessly: "The weather is too hot. I can't stand it even holding Mrs. Zhu!"
Tan Cuiying also said: "Yeah, even I can't bear it anymore, let alone my sister who is pregnant and can't even put ice in the room. It's very uncomfortable!"
The Mrs. Reading Bamboo they call is actually a thick bamboo with holes punched in both ends! When in use, place one end outside the window and the other end on the bed inside the room. In this way, whenever there is wind blowing outside, it will be guided in, and people holding Mrs. Bamboo can play a role in avoiding the heat and cooling down! ap.
Some discerning people even put ice cubes inside moso bamboo to have an air-conditioning effect! But Zhang Peijia is pregnant now, and she doesn't even have an ice basin in the house. It's hard for her to survive the summer relying on Mrs. Zhu!
Liu Haojia looked at Zhang Peijia, whose belly was already swollen, and said softly: "My wife, you have really worked hard!"
Tan Cuiying pouted when she heard this and said: "My sister has worked hard, shouldn't it be hard for me? In such a hot day, I can't even use ice!"
Before Liu Haojia could speak, Zhang Peijia said with a smile: "You have worked hard too! You have worked hard too! Come on, good sister, I will treat you to a grape!"
Because Zhang Peijia was pregnant, she could not use ice in the room, so Tan Cuiying did not use ice in the room to show that she shared the joys and sorrows, so she really praised her for her hard work.
It makes sense! So the two women chatted about this matter for a while, and finally turned their attention to Liu Haojia.
Zhang Peijia said, "It's rare for me to be at home today. Why don't you let the kitchen cook some good dishes tonight and let my girl have a drink with you?"
Liu Haojia shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to do it today! I have a date with someone for a drink tonight, and I'm afraid I'll be drunk again when I come back!"
Zhang Peijia said dissatisfied: "Who is so bold as to get you drunk?"
Liu Haojia said: "I have invited several naval officers to come over. These men on the water are all very good at drinking. They are very troublesome!"
Zhang Peijia and Zhang Peijia knew that since Liu Haojia had made an appointment, they must have something serious to do, so they stopped talking and turned around to talk about their parents' quarrels. They spent a rare and peaceful afternoon in the hot summer!
In the evening, Liu Haojia packed up, put on the robe representing the Marquis and set off with others. The reason why he put on the robe of the Marquis was to make it easier to speak.
Now Liu Haojia has many identities, so he needs to show different identities on different occasions, and even his titles are different. Today he was hosting a banquet for three navy commanders, and he also held the title of commander in the capital camp. In this case, Liu Haojia will assume the identity of the Marquis! It is important to be superior to others in officialdom!
When he arrived at the third floor of Shiweizhai and pushed open the room reserved for him, there were already three people inside drinking tea and waiting for him. These three people are all generals of the Inland River Navy.
The man in the middle is named Zuo Liqiu, and he is responsible for guarding the section of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River that leaves the sea. Because it is an economically developed and densely populated area, his troops are the strongest. The man on his left is named Zhang Tiefu. It guards the middle section of the Yangtze River, and its military strength is second only to Zuo Liqiu. As for the one on the right, Sun Zhongxin was guarding the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Among the three, he had the smallest number of troops.
As soon as the three of them saw Liu Haojia come in, they immediately stood up and raised their hands and said, "I have seen the Marquis before!"
Liu Haojia smiled and returned the courtesy and said, "We are all brothers, you are welcome! Everyone, sit down, sit down!"
What Liu Haojia said about his brothers was really not a polite word! This is because the navy was originally split from the inland river navy, with naval personnel from the Yangtze River and Yellow River accounting for the majority. Therefore, the Navy and the River Navy are basically connected by bones and tendons, and the personnel on both sides are very familiar with each other!
