My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 626

c618 Reluctant to part with it

Facing the Qingyuan Bo Li family, Li Rubai hesitated again.

Li Wei and his son can be regarded as political allies of their father Li Chengliang to some extent, and the two sides have always maintained a tacit understanding.

Part of the ruling legitimacy of the Ming court came from the young emperor and the Queen Mother Li who listened behind the curtain. This is why Li Wei and his son offered red pills and poisoned the late emperor Longqing to death, but the court did not hold Li and his son accountable.

The young emperor’s grandfather and uncle were the murderers who poisoned the emperor, and the queen mother’s father and brother were the murderers who poisoned the emperor. This would cause huge damage to the legitimacy of the government, so the cause of Emperor Longqing’s death cannot be the Red Pill case.

The Li family and his son have indeed stayed away from politics since the Hongwan case, and have since made peace with themselves in making money in the capital.

Li Rubai said: “Uncle Qingyuan is a relative of the emperor and has always kept a low profile in the court. Will starting from them cause dissatisfaction to the Queen Mother? Mr. Shan, please change the target.”

Shanhao first said: “Major General, this political matter is different from fighting. When fighting, you have to attack a weak army in order to open a hole and let the enemy expose his weaknesses.”

“This is a tough job in politics. If you can’t gnaw off the hardest bones, then others will stare at the court and have no respect for the court’s laws.”

“The Li family’s businesses are all over the capital. If they can’t be allowed to use the new silver coins from the imperial court first, no matter how much they promote it, other businesses won’t use it.”

Li Rubai was still hesitant. He wanted to compete with his eldest brother Li Rusong for favor, and he also needed to win over people in the capital.

Qingyuan Bo Li Wei and his son were very kind to him, and they also gave him many gifts to make friends with him.

Seeing that Li Rubai was still hesitating, Shanhao said anxiously:

“Young General, the most important thing in this political matter is credibility. You must first establish credibility before others will obey. Although the Li family of Qingyuan Bo is a powerful person in the capital, they do not have military power, nor are they like the civil servants. There are officials everywhere, and the businessmen under their command are all gathered around them because of their own interests, but they and their son are the easiest to deal with.”

“We don’t want to arrest the Li family and his son into the sky prison, but we just want them to highlight some interests and not blatantly use the southeastern silver coins and take the lead in using the court’s new coins.”

Li Rubai still shook his head and said: “There are so many unscrupulous businessmen in the capital who do not abide by the laws of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Why do they have to ask Li Guozhang for treatment? If the relationship between Queen Mother Li and his father is shaken because of this incident, won’t his father have to hold him accountable?” I?”

“My father gave me such a task not to cause trouble for him, but to stabilize prices in the capital.”

“So we should start with the unscrupulous businessmen in the capital, and arrest a few unscrupulous businessmen first.”

Shanhao saw Li Rubai like this first, and could only sigh and retreat.

The next day, Li Rubai commanded the Fifth Army Governor’s Office to take over Shuntian Mansion, and let the soldiers of the Fifth Army Governor’s Office serve as yamen and begin to arrest unscrupulous merchants using southeastern currency in several markets in the capital.

These soldiers are different from the government officials of Shuntian Mansion. The businessmen who can still open their doors to do business in the capital now have more or less friendship with Shuntian Mansion.

However, the treatment at the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion was very low. These soldiers had been hungry for a long time. This time they found an opportunity and started to exploit them crazily.

Regardless of whether these shops use Southeast currency or not, as long as the shops are open, the soldiers will rush in, smash and loot, and then “search” for some Southeast silver coins and arrest the boss.

The prisons in Shuntian Mansion were no longer enough, and the barracks in the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion were also transformed into cells to hold these captured businessmen.

Tong An was wearing a military uniform and couldn’t help but feel a little sad looking at the empty streets.

When he first came to study in the capital, the streets of the capital were very prosperous. At that time, there were bustling commercial streets around the Imperial College, where many scholars had banquets. The entire street was full of shops selling pens, inks, papers and inkstones, the four treasures of the study.

Such a commercial street is now closed. Even so, as long as the lights are on in the shops, there are still soldiers rushing into these shops to rob them.

Even if there are people in the shop now, they dare not speak or light a lamp, let alone light a fire to cook and keep warm.

Tong An was walking on the street. Xiangzi followed his advice and had already canceled the lease of the green chartered car. He took all his possessions with him and headed to Dagu. With the letter of introduction from Mr. Wang Shizhen, he went to join the Wang family in Suzhou.

Tong An heard a few days ago that the boss who contracted Xiangzi’s green car was rushed into his home by soldiers from the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion a few days ago and was detained and imprisoned. Now he doesn’t know whether he is alive or dead. All the money earned during the year can be converted into new money before it can be released.

But according to the calculations of the Fifth Army Governor’s Office, this boss would not be able to make so much money even if he sold all his properties, and he would not be able to exchange so many Southeast Silver Dollars.

Tong An has heard many such things. Nowadays, the people in the capital have long been unable to squeeze out money. The bosses who made money by relying on opportunities in the past few years have been targeted by the government and become fat.

The political situation in the capital is turbulent, and many people have lost their backers. Without a backer, holding huge wealth is like a child holding a treasure, and it will naturally arouse the covetousness of others.

Tong An sighed again. This was his last vacation. Because of the emergency of the war, they, the army officers who had just studied for a few months, were sent to the front line in Shanxi.

Tong An has a day off today, just to visit friends in the capital. In three days, he will leave with the army and become a civilian staff officer of the Shanxi New Army Operations Department.

Without the prosperity of the past, Tong An discovered that the streets of the capital were not as long as he remembered. It used to be a long and crowded journey by green charter car, but now he can walk there quickly with his feet.

But the streets in the capital are much wider than in memory. The stalls that were originally placed on the streets have long since disappeared. The huge roads are empty, like a ghost town.

Tong An first went to visit Wang Shizhen. Because there was no place to buy gifts, Tong An brought several ancient books. These were books that Tong An snatched from the library of the Imperial College.

The Imperial College had been evacuated by Su Ze once before. Later, the Ming court collected some books from the private sector and put them in the library.

This time the Imperial College was converted into an army school, and the officers ordered these books to be cleared out. Tong An bribed the officers to retain some of them.

Tong An brought the ancient book to Wang Shizhen’s mansion.

In front of Wang Shizhen’s residence, which was once bustling with traffic, it has long been deserted.

Nowadays, military officials are in power, and civil servants are careful not to make casual friends. Although Wang Shizhen was the emperor at the time, no one invited him to attend literary gatherings.

Tong An knocked on the door, and the old servant of Wang Shizhen’s family opened the door. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Tong An’s military uniform, then recognized Tong An’s face and quickly welcomed him in.