Chapter 378: Commercial Affairs Entering the Customs

On the second day of November, Li Meng's army arrived in Jining Prefecture, but this time there were no guests along the way, but instead stationed in the military camp outside Jining City.

Originally, all the big businessmen in the city were going to visit, but beheaded in the streets of Jining’s bustling streets. The bloody thing made everyone silent.

The one who killed was not an outsider, but also a tax officer from the Lijin Bureau of Jiaozhou. If you want to say some official ranks, the best ones were from the Salt Transportation Office. The servants in his family were all rich, but now they are tax officers from the Lijin Bureau. The small tax officers even don’t even sell the face of the governor.

No matter what background a big businessman is, he must be polite in front of these tax officials. The tax officials in the Lijin Bureau are all veterans of Jiaozhou Camp, and they are often only veterans with meritorious status. The salary of a tax official in a year is ten times the salary of the military service, which is higher than the salary of the Jining Prefect. Even if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, it is a first-class and generous income.

Although everyone knows that the reason for these taxes is that the huge Jiaozhou camp stands behind them, you have to sell the account of this kind of power.

However, some active businessmen also came up with some evil ways. No matter how loyal and powerful the tax deputies are, they are still human beings. If they are human beings, they like gold, silver and wealth, so they will give money to bribes, or women's land or other things. Once the tax deputies become their own people, of course, when they estimate the value of the goods, they will show mercy. They can even buy and sell some prohibited materials, which is a huge profit, and the little money bribed is naturally nothing.

Now, the taxpayers who collected money were beheaded and the merchants who gave money had no good ending. Their beheading was the next day, and all their property was confiscated.

Those greedy tax officials, no one begged for mercy before beheading them, were all lying on the ground with shame and did not dare to see anyone. After experiencing the life-and-death battle, they were placed in a good place by the commander, which was considered a reward for their contribution. Who would have thought that they would not be successful, be greedy for money and abuse their power, lose their own people, and lose their local people. And they also implicated their family members and lost their status as military families. This was not his own life alone, but for several lifetimes.

The officers from each army and battalion could not plead even if they wanted to plead. When they heard that their son had broken the rules of Jiaozhou Camp because of small profits, they were too angry, so the thought of pleading was gone.

Looking at these bloody and cruel examples, the big businessmen who were preparing to communicate with each other after Li Meng came to Jining City were afraid that they would not have time to do so, so they put the idea of ​​colluding and pleasing aside for a while.

Some people are wondering if the Grand Marshal is going to kill pigs. Jiningzhou and Jiaozhou City have made a fortune because of the rise of Jiaozhou Camp. Many of the former medium-sized merchants have expanded into large merchants. These merchants are also loyal supporters of Jiaozhou Camp, but merchants are profit-seeking and are naturally closer to interests rather than power.

Seeing such a bloody scene, everyone was frightened and wondered whether the next knife would fall on my neck, whether it would fatten us and then kill us.

This is indeed a measure to kill chickens to warn monkeys in Jiaozhou Camp. After killing people and searching the house, the first chamber of commerce of Wenru Business and Lingshan Business sent a notice to the merchants of various shops. As long as the business is done according to the rules of Jiaozhou Camp, there is no need to worry about everything. If you don’t follow the rules, then the example is right in front of you.

With this notice, the merchants were more at ease. Most of the merchants in Shandong made their fortunes in Jiaozhou Camp. They were pursuing profits, but their roots were in Shandong. They were nothing after they left here. The places where they could do business were nothing in the world were Zhili, Shandong, Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangdong. These Shandong merchants had no way to compete with the Jiangnan rich merchants who had saved hundreds of years after leaving Shandong.

And there is another advantage in Shandong. There is basically no tax. The only fee they paid to the official and Jiaozhou camp is the canal transportation liquor.

The money Li Meng made in Shandong's increasingly prosperous business was also made through business. For example, some monopoly sales of Lingshan Trading Company, such semi-monopoly transactions can definitely guarantee huge profits, and other than that, they did not make anything else from the merchants.

Shandong merchants traded in Shandong, and communicated with merchants from other provinces to sell goods from Lingshan private ports, make the circulation of materials on the Shandong market smooth, and make the people rich. These are enough for Li Meng. He also needs to collect money from merchants. Of course, there is no such status at the moment.

However, when the canal transport lijin was implemented, it gave merchants so many benefits and benefits in the past. Merchants were not necessarily grateful, but instead began to attack and bribe tax officials immediately.

This requires a warning to let them remember this bloody fact.

Li Meng, who came all the way from Jinan City, was a little funny at this time because it was a large army to march south, but not only did it become an armed parade along the way, but he actually had to welcome guests and see them off and handle local government affairs. This was not a great general who led the army to the south. It was clearly the governor who led the ceremonial guard to inspect various places.

After two days of rest in the Jining military camp, Li Meng led a large army to board the ship at Jining Wharf and headed south to Nanzhili. It was the fourth day of November of the 15th year of Chongzhen.

At night, the accommodation and rest were on the boat, and they could keep moving uninterruptedly on the waterway. After asking for instructions from the Yanzhou Army, Zhang Jiang, got off the ship and landed in and returned to his team.

For the Yanzhou Army, during the southern expedition of the army, he and the Jiaozhou camp directly under Guide Prefecture and those tyrants were also led by the local tyrants to ensure the safety of Yanzhou Prefecture, Guide Prefecture and Xuzhou. If the refugee army enters from the south, they will have to resist at least ten days and wait for the army to return to aid.

Zhao Neng, the Dengzhou Army who was currently entering Jinan Prefecture, did not have corresponding instructions, and the officers and soldiers in Northern Zhili could not pose any threat to Shandong.

Li Meng's ship was not big, and could accommodate about dozens of people. Sun Chuanting, the Southern Expedition, did not follow him. The troops and armed salt deputies left behind in Shandong, as well as various civil affairs offices, were all told that when encountering major and urgent matters, in addition to promptly notifying the general, he must ask the old man in the inner hut and the left-behind Mr. Gongsun before making a decision. Both of them are great talents and enough to make accurate judgments.

The foreigner Oman Garris was also left in Jinan City, and the experimental camp was still in Jinan City. On the one hand, it was to constantly practice and demonstrate the foreigner, and it was used as an elite force to stay and protect the inner house and the center.

"Master General, Governor Yan asks for a visit!"

Yan Jizu had freedom of movement, but he was on another boat. If he wanted to meet, he had to come over in a small boat. He probably came to resign. During the day, he was preparing to elect Yan Jizu as the Minister of War because the situation in Nanzhili was still in a state of uncertainty.

Now that the army is about to enter Nanzhili, the overall situation has been decided. It seems that there is no need to have a close minister of the Ministry of War in the capital court.

"Please come in!"

Li Meng agreed, but thought in his heart that Yan Jizu was quite old and was frightened by the job in Shandong. Since it was not available, he would release him if he should release him. It would be better not to be careful and try to keep him before leaving. Although Governor Yan's home is in Jiangnan, Jining gave him a large village and a sum of gold and silver, which was also a reward.

"Walking on the river in late autumn, it was indeed a cold weather. I couldn't stand it. I'm older and older."

As soon as Yan Jizu entered the door, he sighed like this, but Li Meng was a little surprised, because this manifestation was not Yan Jizu who was usually in daily life. Whether it was public or private, Yan Jizu was respectful when he saw Li Meng. When the governor met the general, the general should hold the courtesy, but he always called the subordinates and everything was humble and careful.

But today's performance is very relaxed. The tone and expression of the conversation are obviously the attitude of treating each other with peers.

This is good, there is no conflict of interest at present, and multiple people who can talk to each other are good, which is better than a submissive slave. Li Meng stood up from his seat and said to the military generals around him:

"Inspecting the camp, setting up alerts. The war is imminent. Everyone should cheer up and go!"

The military generals who were still discussing affairs in the cabin just now stood up, and after saluting, they left with great strides. When they passed by Yan Jizu, they didn't even say hello. If it were normal, Yan Jizu would have a smile on his face and looked like he didn't care, but he would still be very uncomfortable.

But at this time, he completely let go. Han Xiao waited for the generals to go out, and then stepped forward and said:

"Master, before going to bed, I suddenly remembered an important matter and felt that it was undelayed. I came to see Master and asked Master to get a charter."

Seeing Yan Jizu's abnormal behavior, Li Meng was a little stunned and immediately understood. He laughed a few times and said loudly:

"Mr. Yan is his own person, so he can say anything if he has anything to say."

Li Meng welcomes such people to their side, no matter how soon or later.

"General, I am an amateur in leading the troops, but the Ming Dynasty's barrier is right in front of you. You have to prepare anyway!"

The Qing army marched on the grassland outside the pass, Tulichen from the Korqin tribe asked in confusion. In the entire army, he was qualified to ask such words.

Abatai was fine with others, but he wanted to be polite to Tulichen Beile, who had a relationship with the emperor. Hearing the other party's question, he grinned and replied:

"Turichen Beile thought this hard. We followed the emperor and the prince to enter the Ming Dynasty many times. The Han people in the Ming Dynasty dared not fight at all. Seeing our Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, they either knelt down and begged for mercy or fled early..."

While talking, someone shouted from afar:
Chapter completed!