national surname chiming

Chapter 156

Zheng Chenggong still has no reservations about Shen Shuren, the eldest brother who has been covering him all the way.Shen Shuren asked him to bring all the evidence, and he did so within minutes, and immediately asked his subordinates to cross the boat to get it.

Zheng Chenggong didn't even think about "whether my elder brother intends to use the deterrent power of the imperial court to seek personal interests by doing this."

It's not that Zheng Chenggong is not loyal to Daming, but that he sees all the bureaucrats of Ming Dynasty now. It's really rare for a public loyal to the country's character to be trusted.

Zheng Chenggong is just now, and he feels that he has not yet seen through the essence of people, so he will treat whoever is a bad person when his elder brother says that he is a bad person.

As for the eldest brother himself, he must be the No. [-] Da Ming Zhongliang in Tianzi, and helping the eldest brother is to be loyal to the court.

A quarter of an hour later, Shen Shuren looked at the new materials he had just received and sorted them out roughly.

Even if he was mentally prepared, after seeing the details, he couldn't help being surprised by the seriousness of the matter.

The evidence in Zheng Chenggong's hands can at least prove that there are at least six or seven business hotels controlled by local tyrants and prominent families in the four prefectures of Jiujiang, Nanchang, Raozhou, and Yuanzhou in Jiangxi Province. There is a material transaction.

And, that's just the latest deal.According to the confession of Lin Chengcheng's subordinates who were tortured, such transactions lasted for at least three years.

The original trading partners were not limited to Lin Chengcheng, but also Liu Xiyao and He Jin, who are now dead.

The trading time ranged from before they were recruited by Xiong Wencan in the 11th year of Chongzhen, to after the surrender, and then to rebellion again by Zhang Xianzhong in the 12th year of Chongzhen.

Strictly speaking, among these transactions, only the second half of Chongzhen 11 and the first half of Chongzhen 12 were legal.

Because Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao had temporarily surrendered to the imperial court at that time, they were whitewashed identities, and they were the local generals of the Ming Dynasty who "enclosed their territories for self-defense". Of course, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty could do business with them in a legitimate manner.

However, before these thieves were ordered to safety, and after they rebelled again, they still maintained material trade with them.

Finally, the evidence of Zheng Chenggong also shows that the reason why these Jiangxi rich gentry and rich businessmen took risks and persisted in the transaction was basically because they were greedy for the huge profits——

Before Liu Xiyao Lin Cheng was still a legal general of the Ming Dynasty, when they purchased supplies that were in short supply for the winter every year, the price was relatively cheap.

Because it was a legal business, the competition was fierce, and there were many people entering the market. At that time, there were at least [-] or [-] Jiangxi businessmen sharing the cake, and the prices could not be driven up.

After Lin Chengcheng and others rebelled, they became bandits again.Continuing to maintain the transaction, the risk of the seller is much greater, so the original twenty or thirty suppliers have dropped sharply to six or seven of the most powerful.

These people often have a hard background, and when they encounter imperial inspections, they are also tipped off, so they have the courage——

This is also easy to understand, just like in the early 21st century, when opening Internet cafes that allowed minors was a legal business, there were many people doing this business, and everyone’s profits were thin.

When this matter is subject to surprise inspections every three days, only the iron people in the background can do this business.With fewer people rolling, you will be able to seek wealth and wealth.

To be honest, these acts of banditry and profiteering were not written in the "Ming History", and it was impossible for Shen Shuren to know about them relying on the foresight of the traveler.

He studied history in his previous life, and he only heard that there were "Eight Great Locust Merchants" in Shanxi merchants at the end of the Ming Dynasty, who were traitors and traitors who communicated with Tartars. As for those who communicated with thieves, they were really inconspicuous.

Now that I think about it, there may be too many such people. Every province has profiteers who will do anything for money, so there is no need for regional discrimination.

Shen Shuren even saw Yuan Jixian's family in the list of former Huguang soldiers in the list of bandits and rich merchants in Yuanzhou Mansion.

Yuan Jixian himself and Shen Shuren have always wanted to befriend each other. After all, they are loyal ministers, and they have also been an important arm against Zuo Liangyu in history.

But it can only be said that in the late Ming Dynasty, the families of wealthy gentry and bureaucrats had to maintain their fortunes after they became big. It was too common for them to be greedy for money by any means, and to collude with bandits.

Zhu Dadian, who was killed by Shen Shuren before, can be regarded as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty in terms of his integrity in the future, but he is also greedy for money.

In the scholar-officials in the late Ming Dynasty, greed and loyalty to the national integrity were often not contradictory.

It can almost be said that at least [-] to [-]% of people are greedy, nothing more than greedy and greedy.

And there may be a small half of them, who are greedy and also take into account national integrity.

Most of the rest are greedy and have no national integrity.

……

After Shen Shuren sorted everything out, he put away his things first, considered his coping strategy, and then said to Zheng Chenggong persuasively:

"Damu, I also really want to directly report this matter to Shang Datian, and sweep away the accumulated evils. But the matter is too big, and I offended too many people at once, so I'm afraid it will only cause trouble to the upper body.

We also have to pay attention to a little bit of strategy, try to divide and disintegrate, pull one faction against another, and can't offend all the wealthy families behind these Jiangxi profiteers at the same time. "

Zheng Chenggong didn't quite understand it, but he also knew the virtues of Daming's officialdom today, and he knew what trouble would happen if he made too many enemies at once.

He took a deep breath and said bluntly: "Brother, tell me what to do."

Shen Shuren rubbed his nose: "These confessions should not be false, but they are not detailed enough, so I will ask a few more and use different angles——

For example, ask yourself, among the Jiangxi gentry who colluded with them, which ones originally only took the Huangzhou Prefecture in Huguang and the Qianhe business route in Huangmei County?And which ones went to Anqing Prefecture in South Zhili, Leishui and Malu River in Susong County?
Then, keep those who only went to the Qianhe River in Huangzhou County with relatively minor crimes, and count those who went to the Qianhe River in Huangzhou County and Leishui in Anqing at the same time with more serious crimes. "

After all, Zheng Chenggong didn't understand conspiracy when he was young, so he didn't realize the difference for a while.

Although the crimes of those who have a large number of bandit trade routes must be more serious than those with fewer trade routes, but it shouldn't be enough to accumulate qualitative changes, right?
But he could only agree, saying that today he would go to the urgent torture to catch those Lin Chengyi's secret agents and get the more detailed confession that his elder brother wanted.

And only Shen Shuren himself knew what he wanted to do: he had just improvised and thought of a poisonous plan to suppress political opponents just now.

Now, as the censor of the capital, he is only one step away from officially being granted the title of governor.

When Chongzhen was promoted to Huguang Bingbei Qianshi and Qiandu Yushi, his main task was to ensure that the thieves in the Dabie Mountains were completely wiped out and prevented them from doing harm.That's why Zheng Chenggong came to intercept and block the supplies of the thieves.

Now it has been blocked for more than two months, and several gangsters and profiteers who have provided Lin with supplies from Jiangxi via Huguang have been secretly arranged.

Could it be that there are no profiteers in Jiangxi who passed through Nanzhili and then transferred to Lincheng's territory?
Obviously impossible.

Jiangxi cannot directly reach the Dabie Mountains. To communicate with the thieves in the Dabie Mountains, you only need to exit Poyang Lake from Jiujiang Hukou Town, turn west to Huguang, and turn east to Nanzhili.

Although it is only a few tens of miles from the mouth of Poyang Lake to the mouth of Qianhe River in the county, or from the mouth of Poyang Lake to the mouth of Leishui River.

But these dozens of miles can make a big fuss from a legal point of view.

As long as there are bandits and profiteers who pass through the tens of miles of the Yangtze River, but the regulatory authorities fail to catch them and will be found out in the future, it will be a major dereliction of duty!

This shows that the officials in Nanzhili who collected lijin, levied tariffs, and patrolled the river for anti-smuggling have received benefits from top to bottom, and some people should be held accountable!
Otherwise, why did Zheng Chenggong investigate all those who went to Huguang from Jiangxi, but not a single case from Jiangxi to Nanzhili?

This question cannot be pondered deeply.

When the problem was not exposed, hello, hello, hello everyone, but once Zheng Chenggong, the thorny head, pointed out the problem and put it in broad daylight.

Comparing with the peers, the incompetence and corruption of the relevant personnel in Nanzhili can be brought out immediately!
It's all set off by peers.

Then, Shen Shuren could use this time to return to Nanjing, hug the grass and beat the rabbits, and hold the military patrol power on the river between Nanzhili and Jiangxi, and the supervision power of lijin collection in his own hands!
This is really not impossible, because the function of the "governor" official in the late Ming Dynasty to "govern" those prefectures was not strictly in accordance with the provincial boundaries.

When Shi Kefa took office as "Governor of Anlu" or commonly known as "Governor of Wan" five years ago, he actually governed the four prefectures of "Anlu Chitai" in the territory of Nanzhili, plus Jiujiang Mansion in the northernmost part of Jiangxi. These five prefectures are all related to the bandit-infested area of ​​Gezuo Fifth Battalion.

If the evaluation of thieves is relatively weak now, when Shen Shuren takes over the position of governor who once belonged to Shi Kefa next year, can he include Chizhou and Taiping Mansion on the south bank of the Yangtze River (Wuhu and Ma'anshan are all near the upper reaches of Nanjing)? It's hard to say the scope of the governor.

After all, Shen Shuren is different from Shi Kefa. He started from Huguang, and now he still has the Xiangyang-Wuchang line as his core sphere of influence.

If when he was promoted to governor, the original core sphere of influence would remain unchanged, and other prefectures in the Dabie Mountains north of the Yangtze River would be added to him, then the territory would already be quite large, and it would be fully qualified as a governor's jurisdiction.If you want to add Jiujiang, Chizhou, and Taipingfu, it will be difficult to do it without any reason.

Even if it has been Chongzhen for 15 years, the officialdom is extremely corrupt, and you can do a lot of things if you are willing to spend money, you still have to be famous.

Now, Zheng Chenggong took the cover and beat the rabbit with grass, which proves that at least there are people in Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province and Chizhou Prefecture in Nanzhili Province who are colluding with thieves and dereliction of duty.

Moreover, Shen Shuren controlled the evidence in his hands and divided those sinners into two waves:

The first wave is at the junction of Jiangxi and Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili at the same time, and there are illegal business routes.

The other wave is that there are only illegal trade routes at the junction of Jiangxi and Huguang, and they have no energy to get to the junction of Jiangxi and Nanzhili.

Shen Shuren only focused on the first wave of beatings with more serious crimes, but managed to win over the second wave of relatively light crimes. At the same time, he thought of a clever trick to hint to them: as long as they help Shen Shuren, beat the first wave of gentry with more serious crimes , then they can turn a blind eye to their own problems.

Under normal circumstances, no one would dare to believe Shen Shuren's promise. Anyone with a little brain would worry that this was just a plan to delay the attack by Shen Shuren, and he would be caught by this trick for the rest of his life in the future.

But the problem is, Shen Shuren still has a backup - he is sure to make Lin Cheng a complete forced landing.

After Lin Yang's wife Zhao'an surrendered, some things should be revealed as soon as they should be revealed.

Lin Chengcheng has been cleansed, and people who have done business with Lin Chengcheng can't be caught completely, right?Otherwise, wouldn't this stimulate Lin's development?Isn't he afraid of Lin Chenggong's third rebellion?
Therefore, Shen Shuren has a shelf life for the threat materials of those threatened by him.

Shen Shuren couldn't rely on this deterrence to eat people for the rest of his life, he had no choice but to either exchange some official bargaining chips before Lin Chengcheng surrendered, or directly detonate.

Anyway, as long as Shen Shuren is not benefited, he will definitely choose to detonate it, and this deterrent effect is still guaranteed.

If benefits are given, if you survive this period of time, it will pass.

(End of this chapter)