The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

"It's not that I underestimated Yan Song!" A scholar said arrogantly: "The time the emperor gave him was only half a year, and three months in winter will be removed. The actual construction time is only three months, and even gods can't complete this big project! "

"That's right! Yan Song is not a god." The other student was also beaming, looking forward to seeing Yan Song's smile: "This time, wait and see Yan Song's smile."

In a brothel in the capital.

Several dignitaries from the imperial court were also mocking Yan Song.

"Second Xue, Yan Song is going to open the sea, are you interested in playing a game?" The speaker is Zhang Ni, the younger brother of Duke Ying, the commander of the hereditary Jinyiwei.

Xue Wu, the second son of Xue Heng, Marquis of Wu'an, who he called Xue Heng, shook his head after hearing this and said contemptuously, "Fart! Even a fool can see that Yan Song is going to be killed this time."

"How did you see it?" Zhang Ni asked with interest, holding a fan in his arms.

"Isn't this the lice on the bald man's head—is it obvious?" Xue Wu sneered, "Then Yan Song is not a god, how could he complete the construction of Tianjin New City and the port within three months? Open the sea as scheduled? That's the idiot Hai Rui , just follow him!"

He lowered his voice: "Recently, the prince's residence has released news that they are desperately advocating for Yan Song."

Zhang Ni was taken aback, but as expected of a child of a noble family, he was well-informed and understood in a blink of an eye: "Oh, the crown prince is going to kill Yan Song. Yan Song made a fool of him, and this time he wants to get back on the spot."

"That's right! I think Yan Song is in danger this time." Xue Wu hugged Sister Yao and laughed loudly:

"The crown prince has already issued an order. Whoever dares to join Yan Song's sea-opening project among the nobles in the capital and the merchants will be his enemy! Without the support of the merchants, even if Yan Song has three heads and six arms, he can't open the sea. "

A flash of shock flashed in Zhang Ni's eyes.

Unexpectedly, the crown prince did such a terrific thing this time, it was to cut off Yan Song's way of life.

He also shook his head, and he was not optimistic about Kai Hai: "I'll go back and order immediately, the children of the family, don't get involved."

In the southeast, not everyone welcomes Kaihai.

In southern Fujian, the largest maritime merchant family, the Sha family.

The Sha family has secretly colluded with many great noble families in the southeast, and is known as the seven great merchant families in Fujian.The most ferocious thing about the Sha family is that they have a deep relationship with tens of thousands of pirates off the coast of Taiwan and Fujian.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Chen Youliang was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang. He led his men to retreat to the coast of Fujian and Taiwan, and stationed on many uninhabited islands.Later, as the Ming regime became more and more consolidated, Chen Youliang's subordinates also gradually changed their identities, from the army to Ming rebels, and started a pirate business without capital.Since there are many uninhabited islands along the coast of Fujian and Taiwan, they have no fixed place to live. They fought guerrilla warfare with the Daming Navy and established a powerful pirate team.

When the Japanese pirates invaded, they transformed themselves into Japanese pirate identities, and ran rampant in Fujian and Zhejiang, robbing everywhere.

The Sha family colluded with these pirates and worked hand in hand. On the one hand, they tipped them off and helped them buy food and weapons, and on the other hand, they provided information, beggar-thy-neighbor, so that the pirates' intelligence was very accurate, and their arrows never missed 697 shots, and they succeeded repeatedly.

And the secret of the Sha family's fortune lies in their smuggling!

Daming's ban on the sea is effective for ordinary law-abiding merchants, but it is completely ignored by those maritime merchant families with pirate power.

They secretly owned a huge fleet, based in Quanzhou, and frequently traveled between the coast of Daming and various places in Southeast Asia.

Hearing the news of Daming Kaihai, the one I hate the most is the Sha family, a maritime merchant family that colluded with Japanese pirates, smuggled wantonly, and made a fortune.

This is to cut off their money and livelihood.

Right now, the Sha family can make a fortune because the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, and foreigners who want to buy things have to go through smuggling families like them.

Once they have mastered the channel, they can make a fortune and make huge profits.For example, the third-class raw silk of Daming is only sold for 20 taels of silver, but as long as it is sold, it can be sold for more than 80 taels of silver.

Expensive for foreigners?Then don't ask for it.

Smuggling, the only one in the family, no one else!

But now everyone knows that once the Ming Dynasty opens the sea, the way of life for these smugglers will be cut off immediately.

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Chapter 448 Thoughts from all sides [5]

It is no wonder that these maritime merchant families are flustered. After all, they have already tarnished the reputation of the trade circle by all kinds of tricks and abductions in the past.Foreigners are not fools either, they have been fooled a lot, and they naturally understand that they have no integrity, but they have no other official channels and can only buy their smuggled goods.

Now, Daming Kaihai, Tianjin and Shanghai two city ship divisions openly buy and sell Daming's first-class goods, which are safe and secure, with guaranteed quality and price. Who would want their smuggled goods out of their minds?

Sha Rui, the Patriarch of the Sha family, looked at the newspaper on the table with stern eyes, and slapped the table viciously!

"Damn it! Damn it!"

At this time, the servant came to report: "There are six masters of the Hou family, the Ruan family, and so on, visiting together."

Sha Rui's eyes flashed.

The Hou family, the Ruan family and his Sha family are all big merchant families, and their businesses are similar, they all rely on pirates and collude with Japanese pirates to do smuggling business.

"Please!"

The heads of the Hou family and the Ruan family came in and sat down without being polite to Sha Rui.

The seven major smuggling families in northern Fujian are all here.

Every patriarch is as cunning as a fox and as cruel as a wolf!

Their hands were all stained with the blood of innocent sea passengers and even their fathers and villagers.

"Damn Yan Song! It really opened the sea!" The Patriarch of the Hou family said viciously: "If we don't mess with him, we will have no way to survive."

"Hmph! So what about Zhu Wan and Zhang Jing? Aren't they all well-known and capable officials? Are they all advocating opening the sea? Are they being fooled by us? Those who lose their official positions lose their officials, and those who lose their lives die!" The head of the Ruan family had a gloomy expression on his face road.

If there are outsiders here, they will be scared out of their wits.

Zhu Wan and Zhang Jing, both of whom were the governors of Zhejiang and Fujian during the Jiajing Dynasty, also advocated opening the sea, but they lost their positions and died for no reason.Who would have thought that Zhu Wan, Zhang Jing and other senior officials of the court from the second rank were all capsized and ruined by the owners of the sea merchants in northern Fujian!

How many conspiracies are involved in this?How many unknown ghost tricks?

"This time is different." Sha Rui shook his head and said, "Yan Song is the chief assistant, not Zhu Wan or Zhang Jing. He saved the life of the emperor, and the emperor's trust in him is extraordinary."