Chapter 188

In fact, the current situation in Daming is very bad. The Jiangnan area is a little better, but it can only be said to be a mess in the north.

The problem of roving bandits, which has been plaguing the north, has not only continued to suppress them, but has become bigger and bigger, more and more, and has continued for several provinces. It is a great disaster.

Jiaodong Peninsula was originally a solid backing against JianNu. Who knows, this backing was smashed because of a Wuqiao mutiny, and the local erosion was out of control.

Liu Yuanqiao also saw that the whole world was in such chaos. The imperial court was helpless and powerless, which led to the comprehensive transformation of the Liu family.

What is the reason why the imperial court has no ability to relieve the disaster in the essence of the Jiaodong Peninsula? That is because of the chaos in several provinces, and Shanxi has already been in great drought. At the same time, it was also built by many times by the Nu slaves. So there was no energy to treat Jiaodong peninsula at all.

Originally, the imperial court disagreed with Liu Yuanqiao's leapfrog appointment as governor of Laizhou. He was born in a wrong way. He was actually promoted from the seventh master to the fourth governor in a few months. How can such a rocket like speed be convincing?

Finally, after Chen YingYuan wrote, he pointed out that Laizhou disaster relief was inseparable from the words of the Liu family. Even the emperor heard about it and made a statement. Finally, he decided on it.

Otherwise, many people don't want him to sit in this position. Even Wen Tiren doesn't want Liu Yuanqiao to sit in this position because he rises too fast.

This is exactly what Liu Yuanqiao said. The imperial power is declining and local power is growing. Many people see that the Liu family basically broke down to carry out disaster relief. It is estimated that after disaster relief, the Liu family will be finished and will no longer have so much money.

But in the eyes of Liu Yuanqiao's father and son, the account is not so calculated. Their Liu family just turned their silver into military force and territory. Liu Yuanqiao is also an ambitious man, ordering his son and cousin to take charge of the army. On the other hand, he sits on the side of the town. It is estimated that after this winter, he can turn Laizhou into an iron bucket and become his territory.

Now in this troubled world, there are few who can have a foothold and an army. He is sitting on one side and watching the change.

The housekeeper Liu Fuqi kept staring at the money in the account. After November, they finally ran out of cash. He had been waiting for the master's words that the young master would solve it for him. He finally couldn't help looking for Liu Bu, but before he found Liu Bu, Liu Bu had received the news, and the people they sent to Shanxi finally came back.

As early as mid August, Liu Bu ordered his confidant Liu Ning and others to fight qiugu because he was short of money and hated fan yongdou.

After two and a half months, they finally came back. They brought back nearly 800000 liang of gold and silver treasures and a large number of rare antiques. Basically, they uprooted Xiu Jiefan's family, and even fan yongdou was killed by them.

The fan family did business in Zhangjiakou and Mongolia. After seven generations, fan yongdou became a rich Han businessman in Zhangjiakou's trade with Manchuria and Mongolia. At that time, he was called Jia in the border city and lived by faith. At that time, JianNu, who lived in the northeast, began military expansion. Due to the hostile relationship with the Ming Dynasty, the military and living materials they needed could only be obtained through the trade market in Zhangjiakou, that is, they operated based on Zhangjiakou. In the past, fan yongdou and seven other businessmen began to do business in this regard. They spent a long time in faith with liaozuo currency and wealth to earn Jinshan and Yinshan.

Fan yongdou was actually a traitor of Jin merchants. He needed military supplies and wages to build slaves and indirectly led the Qing army to pass. He had always lived in Zhangjiakou and did business, but he made money and was transported back to Xiu Jie's hometown.

This is the basic characteristic of the rich in this era, that is, after making money, they will basically go back to their hometown, store money and silver, or buy fields, land and shops.

This is similar to the Liu family. For example, the Liu family's base camp for making money is in Linqing, but they still return to their hometown of Fushan after making money. This is called wealth without returning home, such as a night trip in royal clothes.

In addition, there is also a saying that the tree is ten thousand feet high and the leaves fall to the roots. No matter how big your business is and how big your officials are, you will eventually fall to the roots when you get old.

Even he Zhizhang of the Tang Dynasty, who had been a senior official for decades, finally returned to his hometown 50 years later.

Contemporary principal officials are no exception. Even if they are ministers or ministers, once they retire, they are bound to return to the countryside.

This is the mainstream of modern times, so is the fan family. After earning money, they always send it to their hometown.

JianNu harassed the Shanxi border. The imperial court summoned a large number of troops for defense and maintenance. Hundreds of them sneaked into Jiexiu County, captured the fan family courtyard, looted all their property, killed all the men, women, old and young in the family, and then set a fire.

They robbed a huge amount of gold and silver treasures. They disguised themselves as enemies for robbery and revenge, and were reported by the local government, saying that Jiexiu fan's family had been killed.

The fan family is a large local family. It can be said that they colluded with the local government and officials in the court, so his business is so large that he can also transport a large number of grain and materials to Jianzhou outside the pass and earn a huge amount of gold and silver. If it doesn't matter, it's impossible to do this kind of business, so after the fan family was destroyed, The local government dispatched a large number of officers and soldiers to hunt down Liu Ning and his gang.

Liu Ning and his gang hid the gold and silver pearls they grabbed in a secret place, ambushed the officers and soldiers who chased them, killed one of the other party, suffered heavy casualties, and made the other party dare not chase. Only then did they take the treasure and sneak back to Shandong secretly. Although they took a lot of wronged roads, they basically transported all the stolen treasure back.

How many generations has the fan family done foreign trade? I don't know how much money they made. There must be more than hundreds of thousands of Liang, but they spent a lot of money on buying fields, land and shops. They can't take things like fields and shops, so they had to burn the contract.

This time they looted Jiexiu's Fan family. Originally, the fan family was one of the largest families in the local area. They did a lot of business. Many people depended on them for food. Their fields and shops were the largest in the county and the largest usury creditors. I don't know how much usury they lent and how many people owed them, Even the government often borrows money from them for turnover.

It is said that the heavily guarded Fan family courtyard was broken by robbers. The fan family was killed and the fan family courtyard was set on fire. The first reaction of Jiexiu people was to applaud.

Clap your hands. That's because the local people know what kind of immoral business the fan family does. It's a business where they have no son, so they should be punished sooner or later.

In addition, too many people owe him money and usury. Too many people sell themselves to the fan family and work hard for them. Now, the fan family has been destroyed and the yard has been burned. That is to say, the usury receipts, land deeds and land deeds have disappeared, that is to say, the things of the fan family have become ownerless.

Therefore, after hearing that the fan family courtyard was burned, the local government and the people took action one after another, robbed and divided as much as they could, and joined the feast of dividing up.

After this blow, the fan family is completely finished. They have a strong background. They all want to make a start for the fan family, but all the people of the fan yongdou family are dead. Why not go out and check? I can't find it.

Now the world is in chaos, and the roving bandits have changed from attacking villages and towns to attacking large cities. For the sake of disaster, they put all this on the enemy of the roving bandits, and they did it.

Liu Bu is very pleased. He knows how many things the fan family has done to build slaves, which has killed many people. Now they have sent elite troops to not only destroy them in one fell swoop, but also take back their family property and help them make up for their family.

At this time, the working capital of the Liu family was basically used up, and there was no new gold and silver to buy grain, but after this capital injection, it was different immediately.

Originally, the Liu family always bought grain in the south of the Yangtze River and transported it to the north through their business network. However, since the rogue invaders invaded Huguang, the price of rice soared. They had no choice but to buy grain from Vietnam and Siam farther away.

In the past, if they were in Jiangnan, with their Liu family's reputation and brand, they just made some credit things. The grain merchants in Jiangnan sold their face. After all, they are one of the best buyers and are willing to spend money, but now they are going to buy grain overseas, which means they can only pay real money directly, and it is impossible to pay on credit.

Moreover, they can operate to buy rice overseas, which also depends on the Zheng family's network. They buy rice from Vietnam and Siam through the Zheng family's fleet, transport the rice to Quanzhou, and then transfer it from Quanzhou to Jiaodong Peninsula.

This is their supplementary plan. After rice is expensive in the south of the Yangtze River, they will buy grain from further places in the hope of getting more supplements.

There is chaos in the north and local erosion has become a foregone conclusion. Therefore, if there is food here, there can be soldiers. Being a soldier is eating food. After they buy so much food, they can really do it. If they have food in their hands, they don't panic.

Originally, whether Zhu Dadian or Chen YingYuan, they all had an idea that forcing the Liu family to provide disaster relief can not only benefit the people through their disaster relief, but also weaken their rise. This is a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

Who knows that the Liu family can toss around and get back so much money and so much rice grain. Their so-called plan to weaken them is almost a failure. The key is that the Liu family has Zheng Jiahai's diplomatic department.