My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 637

c627 Jiajing passed away

Guo Ding’s attitude made Li Rubai angry, but he could only be angry.

He could confiscate the homes of other businessmen, or even torture them to death. These people were just businessmen. Over the course of thousands of years, the status of civil servants and generals may have changed, but businessmen were always only slightly higher than ordinary people.

But Guo Ding is different.

He has mastered the wealth of Shaanxi Governor Guo Pu in the capital. He is the white glove who helps Guo Pu purchase arms in the capital. Although he has no official position, he has great influence.

His father Li Chengliang also brought him a special command. Guo Ding could be arrested, but he could not be tortured. It was best to let him hand over the silver coins on his own initiative.

Li Rubai is not a fool. He understands what his father means. At present, Guo Pu still needs to fight for it. He cannot offend the governor of Shaanxi because of a few silver dollars.

And Guo Ding’s attitude is also very clear. Don’t you want to stabilize the currency value and issue new coins? The Qingyuan Bo Li family was the most arrogant in using southeastern silver coins in the entire capital.

The Li family blatantly exchanged Southeast Silver Dollars in their own banknotes, turning the black market business into a white market business. If you don’t fight such an obvious tiger, then fight yourself, a fly. Isn’t that just bullying the weak and afraid of the strong?

Li Rubai couldn’t do anything about Guo Ding’s questioning.

The Li family of Qingyuan Bo were relatives of the Empress Dowager and allies of his father. They were more important targets than Guo Pu, the governor of Shaanxi, and they were not someone he could offend at all.

Li Rubai also secretly sent a message to his uncle’s family in Qingyuan, hoping that they could restrain themselves when he was hunting tigers and temporarily close his own account for exchanging Southeast Silver Dollars.

Li Wei and his son agreed, but the ticket numbers were still open.

You’re kidding. Nowadays, both the officials and the common people in the capital are frantically exchanging Southeast Silver Dollars. The Li family just lost a large sum of money due to Hou Ping’s investment failure. How can they spit out the benefits now? .

Even if the Li family is not allowed to do it, there are so many black markets in the capital that are exchanging Southeast Silver Dollars. Your court should go and destroy these black markets first!

Of course Li Rubai also wanted to destroy these black markets, but he really didn’t have the ability.

A while ago, in order to stabilize the new currency, Li Chengliang issued an order of the general. Anyone who holds more than fifty Southeast Asian silver coins will be immediately exiled to the frontier.

Anyone who openly exchanges Southeast silver dollars will not only have all their property confiscated, but also beheaded in public.

Those who are able to risk beheading to do this business must have someone behind them. These black markets have also quickly corrupted Li Rubai’s men. Li Rubai has conducted several special operations. These black markets have gotten wind of it in advance, and there is no one. Caught.

The current situation is already embarrassing. Li Rubai can’t clean up the small ones, and can’t move the big ones. And none of the decrees issued have been implemented. The only people who can threaten are ordinary people.

The soldiers of the Fifth Army Governor’s Mansion returned to their old profession as officials in Shuntian Prefecture. They ransacked houses from house to house, rummaged through ordinary people’s homes for Southeast silver coins, and once they caught them, they immediately stuffed them into their own pockets, and then collected them from ordinary people. There is blackmail on him.

However, the people of the capital have been blackmailed countless times, and even those with some wealth in their families have already been blackmailed to the point of being blackmailed.

Those powerful people who did not dare to blackmail, and wealthy people in the capital who were rich but not rich enough, all left the capital and moved to Tianjin.

Today, Tianjin has formed a special no-no zone in the area near the Dagu Fort.

This place is not far from the Dagu Fort, so the Ming Dynasty did not dare to control it, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to enter this area. A market for the distribution of goods in the southeast was first formed here.

As the market expanded, some merchants began to settle nearby. They immediately discovered that they would not be harassed by Ming court officials when they settled here, and if the situation changed, they could immediately seek shelter from the southeastern army of the Dagu Fort. Can be moistened at any time.

The Daku Fort in the southeast is a military building, so the local guard will naturally not have jurisdiction over this area.

This forms a strange phenomenon.

Neither the Southeast nor the Ming Dynasty cared about it. This area developed an autonomous system.

Merchants and ordinary citizens living here also pay taxes. They pay taxes to hire others to maintain market order, ensure public order, and prevent fire and theft.

Because the people who can live here are relatively wealthy, the security team’s equipment is even better than that of the Ming army in Tianjin City, and the surrounding bandits do not dare to rob them.

Zhang Juzheng and Wang Shizhen both chose to live here, and wealthy people in the capital or officials who have lost power will also bring their families to Tianjin.

Originally this was just a small area, but now the area is getting larger and larger, and the number of security team members has also expanded to 300 people.

Li Rubai had been working in the capital for half a month, but the price of the new currency had plummeted, and the depreciation rate was almost catching up with the old currency.

Li Rubai really had no choice but to invite Shanhao to the house again.

Shan Hao first looked at the more prosperous mansion, then just shook his head and walked into the study.

“Mr. Shan, I regret that I didn’t listen to you. Now we are encountering difficulties with the currency reform. Please give me some advice!”

Li Rubai acted like a polite and virtuous corporal, but Shanhao Xian did not take this trick. He just said:

“Arrest Uncle Qingyuan and his son immediately, and check the Li family’s ticket number!”

Li Rubai showed a troubled look again and said, “Mr. Shan, Uncle Qingyuan is a relative of the emperor. Wouldn’t this be too disrespectful to the Queen Mother?”

Shan Hao first said: “Give the Queen Mother face? Can the Queen Mother conjure money?”

“Don’t the people of the capital still know what the Qingyuan Bo Li family has done in the capital?”

“If we don’t punish Qingyuan Bo Li’s family first, how can other businessmen pay taxes obediently!”

“Now that the true record has been published, the court’s prestige is at its lowest. Even if the Li family is punished, Queen Mother Li does not dare to take action rashly. As long as we get the money and Li Wei and his son are released, the matter will be done. It’s not like letting anyone The young general really killed Uncle Qingyuan.”

Li Rubai still couldn’t make up his mind.

At this moment, a guard suddenly stumbled into the study.

“Major General! Major General! The Supreme Emperor! He is dead!”

“What!”

Shanhao stood up first, and the Supreme Emperor was naturally the Jiajing Emperor. The old emperor had lived in the palace for a long time and had long said that his health was not good, but he still managed to survive until now.

But after hearing about Jiajing’s passing, Shanhao’s expression changed: “I’m done with it! God is going to destroy our Ming Dynasty! It’s up to the Emperor to pass away at this time!”

After saying this, Shan Hao ignored Li Rubai, who was still confused, and strode out of Li Rubai’s house.

That night, Ziwei stayed in the well. It was just a coincidence in the starry sky.