The commander of the Jiangnan Navy Division was arrested and imprisoned, and the family property was seized, which was a wake-up call for the entire Jiangnan clan, for the new emperor, the clans in Jiangnan had a new understanding, Jiangnan was far away from the Central Plains, and the gentry and officials of the Tiangao Emperor colluded with each other and embezzled on a large scale, but now it is different, now they are under the emperor's nose, and everything has changed.
In the palace of the king of Chang, Jiangning.
"What you said is true, Your Majesty really sent Lord Liu's family to prison," Zhao Hao, the king of Chang, asked a man who looked like a gentry.
The gentry said: "Then there is still a fake, you know best what the Jiangnan Navy Battalion looks like, once Your Majesty finds out about this matter, I'm afraid we will not have a good time." ” "Tell them that they have been carrying their tails between their tails during this time, and this king will enter the palace to probe the emperor's tone."
"Yes, lord."
After the gentry left, Zhao Hao has been wandering around the hall, in fact, a Jiangnan Navy camp is just a small thing, since arriving in Jiangnan, Zhao Hao, the king of Chang, has colluded with the local clans, and every month Zhao Hao has been able to get a large amount of silver from the hands of these clans; The reason why Zhao Hao has a large amount of silver is because Zhao Hao provided them with a lot of convenience in the process of sea smuggling by these big clans, these Jiangnan gentry are headed by Wang, Sun, Huang, Zhou, and Yang, and they control most of the overseas trade in the entire Jiangnan and monopolize the trade rights of tea, spices, porcelain, silk, etc., and each family is rich in flowing oil.
The royal compound of Jiangning Mansion.
After the gentleman came in, he walked to the backyard, and at this time there was an old man in the backyard who was enjoying the massage of the maidservant, and the gentry walked behind the old man and said, "Dad, I have seen His Royal Highness King Chang just now, and His Highness means to let us stop some actions recently." ” The old man nodded and said: "Then stop for a while, the overseas has not been peaceful recently, and several of our trades to the Japanese country have been robbed by some pirates, have you found out about that group of pirates?"
"This is not yet, according to the people who came back, those pirate ships are all flying skull flags, they seem to have made a feud with the Shimazu family, and the two families may have to go to war."
"Recently, the trade to the Wa Kingdom has been stopped, and all of them have turned to the southeast, and we will talk about it when the Wa side is too peaceful; In addition, I told several other companies not to trade with the Japanese country recently, because it was not very peaceful over there."
"Dad, I remember."
"Go ahead, I'm tired, I need to take a break."
This old man is the leader of the Wang family named Wang Lei, and the young man dressed as a gentry is called Wang Hao, is Wang Lei's eldest son and successor, the Wang family is very powerful in Jiangnan, mastering a large number of shipbuilding, textiles, fields and other industries, the whole family can earn huge profits from overseas trade every year, at the same time, the children of the Wang family also enter the court as officials, and the officialdom in Jiangnan is also very powerful, and the whole Wang family is a behemoth; Of course, the same is true of the other four major families, this family has been hidden in the shadows, if you don't investigate carefully, you can't find it at all, their power has extended to all aspects of ordinary people's lives, and the combination of several major families can completely make the economy of the entire Jiangnan collapse in an instant.
Jiangning Imperial Palace.
Zhao Xu asked Tong Guan: "How is the investigation?"
"Your Majesty, this is the result of the investigation."
Tong Guan handed a piece of music to Zhao Xu and said.
After reading it, Zhao Xu frowned and said: "Could it be that Jiangnan has reached such an unbearable point, this Jiangnan gentry really has such a big power as sick." ” "Your Majesty is indeed so, this family controls a large amount of land and overseas trade, and the taxes they pay to the imperial court every year are not even less than one-twentieth of their profits, and since the Great Song Dynasty announced the relocation of the capital to Jiangning, these families have immediately connected with the officials of the imperial court, and the officials and businessmen colluded to make a fortune, and even the construction of the new palace they have embezzled a lot from it" "Tong Guan, you remember this incident as if nothing happened."
Zhao Xu gritted his teeth angrily and said.
"Your Majesty, why is that?"
"I don't have the ability to deal with these clans now, and Jiangnan is the tax-paying land of my Great Song Dynasty, so I don't want any turmoil."
In fact, Zhao Xu has a more important reason that has not been said, that is, in Zhao Xu's hands, there has been no military Li Liangzuo can exterminate the Jiangnan clan, what Zhao Xu needs to do most now is to be patient, and he can't have any rash actions before his fledgling, although the emperor has the supreme authority, but Zhao Xu is still cautious, because this matter is too big, and most of the court officials are involved, which can be said to be a matter of moving the whole body "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Chang asks to see you" "Let him in" "Weichen, see Your Majesty," Zhao Hao said after he came in, saluting Zhao Xu.
"Uncle Huang is exempt, please take a seat" "Weichen heard that His Majesty has sent the commander of the Jiangnan Navy Division to prison," Zhao Hao asked.
"The Commander of the Naval Division has committed an unforgivable crime of embezzling military salaries, and I have decreed that he be executed at noon tomorrow; As for Jiangnan Sailor I have other arrangements, Uncle Huang doesn't have to worry.
Zhao Xu said; After a while, it will be the day to worship the ancestors, and I hope that the imperial uncle can return to the Bianjing Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors instead of me. ” Zhao Hao frowned and said, "Yes, Weichen obeys the order." ” Zhao Xu used the matter of ancestor worship to play Zhao Hao back to Bianjing, although Zhao Hao has no real power, but with Zhao Hao, Zhao Xu always feels that it is in the way, and Zhao Hao is taken away, Zhao Xu can drastically expand the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, and now Zhao Xu is eager to have this power in his hands to protect his own safety.
After Zhao Hao left, Zhao Xu announced Li Bao into the palace, and in Zhao Xu's imperial study, Zhao Xu said to Li Bao: "Li Aiqing, what happened in the past few days has made me feel that the Great Song Dynasty is in danger, although the Great Song Dynasty looks strong on the outside, but the inside has begun to corrode, I need to remove the rotten and smelly part now, do you understand what I mean?"
"The End Will Understand" "Tell me what you think of my Great Song Dynasty sailor and how you plan to build it," Zhao Xu asked.
First of all, the first water division is the Yangtze River Water Division, whose duty is to protect the safety of the Jiangning Mansion of the Beijing Division, and its station can be selected in the Jiangnan Water Division, which is to inspect the entire Yangtze River waterway, which is the last barrier of the Great Song Dynasty; The second naval division is to protect the naval fleet on the southeast coast of our Great Song Dynasty, and the fleet is stationed in Changguo, which is a maritime barrier established by our Great Song Dynasty on the southeast coast, and at the same time shoulders the tasks of anti-smuggling and other tasks, cracking down on piracy and smuggling to protect our Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants, so as to protect the tax revenue of our Great Song Dynasty; The purpose of the third naval division is to prevent the Great Xia naval division from going south and protect the northern maritime frontier of our Great Song Dynasty.
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