The Qingyang Sect's encroachment on the Hongyang Sect in Fuzhou was far beyond imagination. The Hongyang Saint Child had been secretly planning for ten years and had only had time to leave the Ding family's master's victory and defeat. Therefore, it was natural that the order of the Honglian Holy Mother was intercepted and learned.

But what Jiang Wen is sure of is that with Zao Wuji's style of conduct, the focus should not be on Guangzhou City. The purpose of his doing this is just to test Jiang Wen again to see if Jiang's previous feat of holding the sky with one hand in Fuzhou Prefecture was just a kind of luck.

“Interesting, really interesting…”

Jiang Wen smiled slightly, suppressed the guess that he had been peeped around in his heart, and then overturned his previous guess again, simplifying his thinking to the extreme.

Is there a possibility, for example, this is just the fact that the Holy Mother of Red Lotus is careless?

The previous speculations can naturally be true, but the main problem is that Jiang Wen and the others are in Guangzhou now. The content written in "Fengtu Ji" is in Yixing, which is clearly because the donkey's lips are not right. Is there any important content to give, and I should also give "Guangzhou Ji" by Gu Wei in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, right?

Guangzhou is more than a thousand miles away from Yixing, Jiangnan. This is equivalent to your friend knowing that you are going to travel to Texas, so he brought you a trip guide to Shandong. It really makes people wonder what the brain circuit is going on.

"Not good... Could it be that the condition of the Holy Fire Practition worsened and the mind of the Holy Lotus Madonna was completely confused?"

Lei Laohu and Jiang Wen's disciples saw Jiang Wen talking to himself, his expressions sometimes serious and sometimes speechless, and the changes were frighteningly fast.

"Master, what are you thinking?"

Finally, Fu Ningdie asked, letting Jiang Wen walk out of his thoughts.

"It's nothing, I can't even care about the things in front of me, so I don't have time to care about things far away."

Jiang Wen let go of his doubts casually, turned to Lei Laohu and said, "Master Lei, have you ever had a caravan going to Fujian recently? It's OK by water and land, just send me a letter to Quanzhou."

Why do you think so much? Jiang Wen decided to write a letter directly to ask. Even if there are some flaws in the time span, it is still a way to find out the problem.

However, when Lei Laohu heard Jiang Wen's request, he sighed deeply.

"You don't know anything about Master Jiang. I'm afraid you can't get out of Guangzhou City these days."

Jiang Wen said in confusion: "Ah? How can you explain this?"

What's going on? Guangzhou City was really washed into the sea by heavy rain?

Lei Laohu turned the tourmaline bracelet in his hand and summoned the housekeeper in front of him to pass a notice from the Guangzhou government office, and quickly explained.

"The government issued a list this morning. Because the navy of the court was about to set off for war, the sea was banned from fishing from now on. A sail was not allowed to go into the water. If there was any violation, it would be punished as a rioter who would be punished. The whole family would be killed and unpardoned. Several major businesses are now as anxious as ants on a hot pan, but they can't do anything about it."

After saying that, he said with some gloating pleasure, "Fortunately, our family delivered the goods in advance two days ago, so I can kill them this time!"

The Wuyi Sect suddenly realized that this was the case.

As early as in Fuzhou City, Jiang Wen met Dasu, the general of the Southern Expedition. His mission was to assemble cavalry and navy. When the Zheng family suffered losses in Jiangnan and suffered heavy energy, he would remove the Zheng Chenggong forces that disrupted and endangered the coastal areas.

The war is very fast, so it is decided not to disclose the purpose to the outside world in advance. Now the urgent ban on the sea must be for the purpose of cooperating with military operations. Now, the decisive action is first and then the ban on the sea, and the defense of the city can also be taken to inform the city. It can be said that two kills kill two birds with one stone.

"Mr. Lei, if you can't walk on the water, you should still be able to walk on land."

Fu Ningdie poked out his little head and suggested, "Even if the heavy rain has destroyed several official roads in recent days, you can still go on a boat and head west along the Inner River. That's how we came."

Lei Laohu looked at Ningdie and showed a slightly kind smile.

"You are right, little girl, but the eight water and land gates in Guangzhou are now closed down."

"This is too puzzling, right?" Jiang Wen said.

The housekeeper of Lei Mansion replied at this time: "Report to all the masters, the villain happened to find out the reason for the city lockdown today. It is said that a group of Japanese pirates secretly came ashore with an intention to attack Guangzhou City to destroy the plan to suppress bandit suppression. The Prince Pingnan Mansion ordered to stay behind closed doors and wait for the thieves to reveal their flaws."

What? Japanese pirates? There are still Japanese pirates these days?

Jiang Wen almost laughed out loud.

The so-called Japanese pirates have a relatively complex component, but they generally refer to bandits sent by Japanese feudal princes and Chinese pirates such as Wang Zhi and Xu Hai.

They captured towns and cities along the coast of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, resulting in a major Japanese pirates in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court appointed officials to manage coastal defense many times, but it was difficult to achieve results due to corruption in the government. Until the late Jiajing period, generals Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others successively pacified the Japanese pirates in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and the Japanese pirates were pacified.

The last Japanese pirates recorded in history were invading the coastal areas of Fujian in July of the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624). Subsequently, due to the issuance of the Hachiman Ship ban order (the prohibition of piracy) and the stability of the domestic political situation in Japan, the activities of Japanese pirates began to decrease. It can be said that the Japanese pirates have disappeared for a long time.

Thirty or forty years have passed, and Shang Kexi also said that there were traces of Japanese pirates in Guangdong. Isn’t this just a laughing cry? Isn’t it that the Qing court issued an order to ask him what he was thinking?

The reason why Jiang Wen had the confidence to make a judgment on the Japanese pirates was the change in the current political situation.

Recently, the "mass overlord" Zheng family is the number one pirate on the southeast coast, Taiwan and Japan. The private navy he organized and worked hard to run is strong. Zheng Zhilong even returned triumphantly in the Battle of Luoluo Bay and defeated the Western Maritime Group. Even if Japanese pirates want to rob, they will never be able to use the hated name of "Japanese pirates".

Moreover, Zheng Chenggong, who is in charge of the helm, has a clear distinction between love and hate. Even if the Japanese pirates really want to take action, they can only pretend to be a Han Chinese and come over to steal. Otherwise, where would they want the Zheng family's face to put?

But when Jiang Wen revealed his speculation and basis, the housekeeper of Lei's mansion could only spread his hands innocently.

"I don't know this little bit. I vaguely heard that this group of Japanese pirates had sharp swords and killed many tourists. After hearing the news, Miss Yan in the mansion also left the city in the last wave of time. It is said that what they were taking was the order of Zheng Sen's cousin Zheng Tai, who was intending to harass the army to go on the expedition."

Zheng Tai is currently the second-person of the Zheng family and the main housekeeper of Zheng Chenggong. When Zheng Chenggong led his troops to the expedition, Zheng Tai was often responsible for staying in the base area, cooperating with the inside and the outside.

Jiang Wen had doubts in his heart and didn't say anything else, but he knew that this matter was not that simple.

"Miss Yan is a bit dangerous to leave the city. I hope she can be safe and sound."

Jiang Wen said lightly, falling into thought again.

At this time, the rain was gurgling in the sky hall, and it was gone from far to near. Jiang Wen silently listened to the dripping sound, letting his thoughts flow, watching Lei Laohu talk to the housekeeper about how to do this business to make a fortune, and he also wanted to revenge the grudges that had been excluded by the local business.

"Butler, please go down first. Remember to mark the goods three times the price this time, and you must make it clear if you have a missing tax levy in Guangdong, you can hang yourself at the door of the government."

Lei Laohu said calmly, obviously he had already planned to make a fortune by taking the opportunity, but he kept raising taxes while speaking, which was something Jiang Wen could not imagine.

"Mr. Lei, I didn't expect that you have a strong sense of tax payment." Jiang Wen joked.

Lei Laohu smiled bitterly and said, "You have to be careful. Now the Pingnan Prince's Mansion has investigated the taxation matter. If you are not careful, your home will be confiscated. Their business's property requires 20 taxes. We have 40 taxes for the textile loom. If the ship owner owns a ship that is more than five meters long, they will also have to collect a tax. This is a danger to everyone."

"This is the tax added by the Shang family itself? Who can bear it so high?" Jiang Wen said in surprise.

"A small family, ordinary families, have gone bankrupt and invested in the sea without any hesitation."

Lei Laohu could only say helplessly: "But there is nothing we can do. The Prince Pingnan Mansion opened the Guangdong Campaign in the name of quelling the rebellion and suppressing bandits. He said that there was only one day to fight, and the cost of eating horses and chewing by the Shang family soldiers must be counted on our heads."

"That shouldn't stop everyone from hiding it, right? You just need to save the money in another place and not be found out?" Jiang Wen said with a sudden whim.

"It's not that easy. They have already decided to make a comeback!"

Lei Laohu was also very angry when he said this, "In addition to opening the Guangdong Envoy, the Pingnan Prince's Mansion also opened a lawsuit. Anyone who privately concealed the transfer of property and was reported to the government, half of the money for the search of the house will be returned to the government and half of the person who sued the officials."

There are always superiors and subordinates in business. Once the business happens, it is known to heaven and earth. Unless you are not doing business in Guangzhou City, it will be impossible to stop someone from trying to get rid of the fire and make money. Under the three woods, how can you decide whether the property is really hidden?

Jiang Wen became more and more familiar with him the more he heard it. This set of methods was clearly a copy of the calculation and reward in the early Western Han Dynasty.

The original intention was to wear a rope of copper coins, and later it became a unit of currency. A coin is a coin, a thousand coins. And one count is also a unit, which is 120 coins. In the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of Han accepted the suggestion of the censor Zhang Tang and the Shizhong Sang Hongyang, and ordered the collection of the coin money. The people involved must collect the counting of the coin.

The purpose of complaining is to inform the court, which means that in order to make the trend of complaining prevail, the court gave the informer generous rewards - "If anyone can complain, give half of it."

The profit and damage of this method are the evil policies that have no time in history, and are also directly related to the war between Emperor Wu of Han and the Huns at that time, mainly to fill the bottomless pit of war, which consumes wealth.

"What a vicious trick, who came up with this method?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Jiang Wen suddenly asked.

Lei Laohu thought for a moment, and said unsurely: "The rumors on the market are proposed by Li Xinghe, the celebrity in front of Mr. Shang, but no one has any evidence. But no one can make such a big plan except him."

Is it Li Xinghe, a sorcerer in the martial arts world?

Jiang Wen's impression of him was originally a slightly contradictory feeling. He was extremely cherishing his life and was bold and reckless, and was both submissive and careless. He had intentionally deceived Jiang Wen before, but he didn't know why he said this was the legacy of the Legalist decree?

Under the complexity of various contradictions, this also made his sleek and sophisticated appearance even more confusing. The only thing that remains unchanged is that this person is well versed in the human mind, which has emerged more than enough.

The method of calculating the truth was naturally an irrefutable evil policy, which violated the national policy of resting with the people, resulting in the fact that the people in the country had insufficient food and salary and insufficient clothes to work hard. However, after a thousand years, it would be a different look.

First of all, the Shang family is not a human king landlord. The purpose of the Pingnan Prince Mansion is to rule the place and suppress rebellion. Therefore, it exhausts people's strength and tired places is a policy of ruling that can be chosen.

Secondly, the money collected can effectively support the suppression of Zheng Daye. As long as half of the increased tax is finally used for practice, it will be a surprise to the Qing court. Then it is worthy of the practice of private taxation.

In the end, the Shang family didn't have to care about the people's support. Ten years ago, he brought the iron cavalry and killed people. As long as the mansion was full of swords and guns and soldiers were endless, he would naturally have a place that he could still be happy. This is something that no one can overcome.

But this kind of evil on the surface is too naked, so that Jiang Wen has to sigh that those who can make this claim and implement this policy can be called real and unconcealed villains.

But the most ridiculous thing in the world is here. People like this who absorbed the wealth of the people without any concealment were actually among the Three Feudalists who relied on the city of Gancheng, and had a low degree of threat.

Among the other two vassal kings, Wu Sangui was very powerful and powerful. When he first arrived in Yun and Guizhou, the Qing court granted him the "righteous act", which allowed him to privately assign an official, and he was called "Western election". Therefore, the civil and military officials in the southwest were his confidants, and they were all controlled by him. In a few years, there would be a saying that "the officials in the west were everywhere", which seemed to be a hegemony in the southwest.

If Geng Jingzhong, the second of the Three Feudalists, succeeded in inheriting the position of the vassal king, historical books will also record that he "used taxes to conquer violence in Fujian". Even if his subordinates "sent harsh men to extort silver and rice", they will still say that he gathered "small people" to spread rumors that "the emperor's clone of fire ears" and said that "the fire ears are Geng. There are reasons in the world, and he can succeed by following the Fujian people to make progress." He brazenly tied the people of Fujian to his chariot without saying anything and drove towards destruction.

Compared with their political ambitions, Shang Kexi's private establishment of a city in Guangdong, collecting taxes and opening up foreign trade ports seems less eye-catching. But who knows how many people will end up losing their families and destroying their families when they make profits by the traitors?

What’s even more cruel is that even the only way to retreat after the house was raided and bankrupted was actually in Shang Kexi’s hands...

"It's time to eat!"

Xiao Shitou came to announce the start of dinner. Ningdie and Wen Ding left without any ambiguity. Everyone left from the main hall, leaving only Jiang Wen, holding the bank of the book in his hand, and remained motionless.

Jiang Wen turned his head and smiled as if he was relieved, then continued to look at the sky with regret and said slowly.

"Then wait until the rain passes and the sky clears. Or I will continue to wait, or the sky clears up, there will always be someone who will end first."

Washing hands in a golden basin, the heavy rain has not stopped. When this situation suddenly changes, similar discussions in Guangzhou Prefecture also exist among different people.
Chapter completed!