Jinling Pier.
In the densely populated Jiangnan area, the most important thing is people.
You can often see businessmen traveling from north to south loading and unloading goods at Jinling Wharf, recruiting coolies to work hard.
Since ancient times, Jinling has been prosperous, and Jiangnan has been even more prosperous.
The imperial court imposed many restrictions on the types of goods and geographical areas that merchants could operate.
Small businessmen often do not travel such long distances to do business. Most of them are factions of big businessmen who monopolize a large portion of the profits from trade in various places, and the remaining residue will fall into the mouths of these small businessmen.
Therefore, most of the merchants who can frequently travel to Jinlingfu Pier are big merchants in the business alliance.
For example, there are four famous merchants: Shanxi merchants, Hui merchants, Zhejiang merchants and Guangdong merchants.
Jinling Mansion is the headquarters of Zhejiang merchants.
Therefore, Zhejiang merchants are the most active in this area and are also the main force in business.
In the entire world under the jurisdiction of the country, except for the eastern coastal areas where trade with foreigners is not allowed and no piece of tiles is allowed to enter the sea, and a strict sea ban policy is implemented, there is nothing else.
Jia Yun looked at the bustling Jinling Mansion Pier in front of her, and couldn't help but think about the fight against the chaos in the coastal areas and the business alliances.
These businessmen are extremely courageous. For the sake of high profits, they will not take the court's decrees seriously.
The root cause of maritime unrest lies in smuggling.
Because the imperial court did not allow trading with foreigners by sea.
However, after foreigners discovered the New World, gold and silver production soared.
When foreigners have more money in their hands to buy silk, porcelain, spices and other valuable goods produced by the imperial court, and sell them for secondary sales to earn the price difference from middlemen, then the private smuggling trade will flourish stand up.
In the past, there was the land Silk Road opened by the ancients, leading to the West and doing business with Westerners.
There is a war going on in the West Sea, and trade on land is no longer feasible.
These merchants were forced to use sea transportation.
Especially the implementation of the maritime ban policy has directly turned this underground smuggling road into a golden waterway.
One trade can make many people rich overnight and become rich people from then on.
Crazy profits have caused smuggling crimes in coastal areas to continue to rise.
Moreover, these businessmen have their own interest alliances, buying off local court officials and collaborating with them, which has evolved into an increasingly intensified maritime chaos. Even the pirates on the coast mostly have the economy of coastal smuggling merchants. With support, you can come and go with ease and ease.
If it were not for the support of these coastal merchants, at least a lot of the problems of fighting war in the coastal areas could be eliminated.
However, these matters are all issues that Jia Yun needs to deal with personally after becoming emperor.
Now Jia Yun plans to investigate the smuggling problem in Jinling Mansion and make some money along the way.
Smuggling is a violent industry.
Once so many big families are involved, it is not a problem to confiscate their families and exterminate them, and to get rich overnight. XiuShu.com
Jia Yun doesn't mind her family's wealth.
Compared with the benefits from the hard work of doing business and the confiscation of homes and genocide, it is undoubtedly too slow!
There are gold belts for killing people and setting fires, but there are no corpses for repairing bridges and repairing roads.
As the minister of the military aircraft department of the imperial court, he naturally has the means to make these people confess their crimes and enrich his own treasury.
Another point is that Jia Yun needs to use this action to get a decent bribe money to satisfy the appetite of Emperor Yongtai and the appetite of Queen Dugu in the harem.
Only by satisfying the appetites of these two people could Jia Yun be able to temporarily stabilize the situation in the Jia Mansion, and prevent her from quickly falling out with Emperor Yongtai and others, fighting each other, and causing a mess.
Jia Yun doesn't want to be like Wang Mang.
Peel off the cocoon, kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, confiscate the family and exterminate the clan...
For a while, Jia Yun had various thoughts in her mind and decided to make good use of this opportunity.
Reestablish his own banner in Jinling Mansion to make up for the weakening of power deterrence after the investigation of the Zhen family.
While Jia Yun was thinking about her future plans, Xu Jing, the prefect of Jinling, had already arrived with his people.
Xu Jing looked at the people in front of him, looked at Prince Zhongshun and Jia Yun respectively, saluted and said hello, and said: "Prefect of Jinling, Xu Jing, pay your respects to Prince Zhongshun and Mr. Jia."
The rules of the imperial court are strict, and subordinate officials are not allowed to bite their superiors.
Therefore, Xu Jing kept his eyebrows low and humble in front of Jia Yun, Prince Zhongshun and others, and did not dare to act recklessly.
Jia Yun looked at Xu Jing in front of her and said, "No need! We all work for the imperial court, and we need more cooperation in the future."
After saying that, Jia Yun turned to look at Prince Zhongshun beside her and asked: "Prince Zhongshun, please!"
Prince Zhongshun also smiled and said: "Please!"
Even though both parties were superficial, and privately everyone knew that the relationship between the two parties was not good, but at this moment, no one could tell that the relationship between Jia Yun and Prince Zhongshun was not harmonious.
This is the cultivation of officials.
Even if the person in front of him is an enemy, he still greets him with a smile, a smiling tiger who hides his sword in his smile.
When Jia Yun and others entered the Yamen of Jinling Mansion, everyone in Jinling Mansion was alarmed.
There are no secrets in the yamen. XiuShu.com
There is a network of relationships up and down, and intricate human connections and worldly connections.
Therefore, the Zhen family soon learned of the arrival of Jia Yun, Prince Zhongshun and others.
At this moment, there was a huge quarrel in the Zhen family's house over this matter.
"How about we run away!"
Someone opened his mouth and suggested.
Some people even mocked: "Escape? Where to escape? There is a lot of chaos outside now. There are many robbers and bandits. Without the court as a backer, where do you think we can escape? Ridiculous! Stupid!"
For a time, everyone was talking about it, but no one could convince anyone.
It's just that most people look frightened and uneasy, as if they have a premonition of impending disaster, but there is nothing they can do.
this is life!
The imperial court's sword fell, and unless they moistened it out now, they would not be able to escape, and they would not be able to escape even if they had wings.
However, in the feudal society of this era, it was too difficult to moisten it, and there was almost no possibility.
Especially since they are still in Jinling Mansion.
If you are in a coastal area, you still have the opportunity to escape to the wild areas of the southeast to survive, start anew, and reopen the world.
However, Jinling Mansion is located in the middle, so there is no way to leave.
Therefore, even if the Zhen family wanted to escape, it would be impossible.
At this moment, the wife of the Zhen family stood up, looked at everyone, and said, "I have been to the capital before and also visited the old lady of Rongguo Mansion. Both the old lady and my wife nodded and took our money.
Presumably, they will help us after we are found guilty.
This problem of the imperial court's deficit has been around for a long time, and it is not our family that has this problem.
And this crime is not a capital crime.
I hope Your Majesty will take into account that our Zhen family has served the royal family in the past and will not embarrass us! "
