ps: I drank too much wine at the classmate’s reunion yesterday, and today I only had one update, and I had to go to my classmate’s house for dinner tonight. Thank you for your support, and now I will try my best to stabilize the update!&1t;/p>

There are indeed a lot of powerful and gentry involved in the punishment of grain merchants this time. There are a lot of powerful and gentry involved in the entire Nanzhili.&1t;/p>

If there were no army in charge, it would have been turbulent in Nanzhili at this time, because the emperor's trick was too "dirty".&1t;/p>

First, they threw out bait and let them bite the hook, then put their funds in, and then directly checked the food. Not only did they pay all the low-priced food they bought, but they even paid 70,000 stones of food. This was simply a disaster! The funds accumulated over the years were basically all dumped in.&1t;/p>

Moreover, in order to purchase those low-priced grains, the capital chain was very wide, and a lot of money was borrowed.&1t;/p>

What's even more annoying is that the food was checked, and the people who came also caught them. Not long after, they bit each one and led out a large group of people.&1t;/p>

Dongchang and Jinyiwei directly issued huge fines to these grain merchants who manipulated grain prices, with the fewest being 3 ooo yuan, and the highest being 50,000 yuan. Hundreds of grain merchants were arrested, and many of them could no longer afford to pay.&1t;/p>

As the saying goes, the county magistrate who destroyed the family, although this sentence was formed in the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty openly allowed them to embezzle the Han ruling class, so the tricks of seizing the robbery were very common in the Qing Dynasty. This phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty was much better than in the Qing Dynasty, but it was not without it.&1t;/p>

It can be seen that once the official power is used, it is too easy to seize it. However, under normal circumstances, those corrupt officials use this set to deal with the common people. But now the emperor uses this set to deal with these powerful and gentry-backed grain merchants.&1t;/p>

The most tragic thing is that the news of manipulating grain prices was reported, which has aroused strong indignation among the people of Nanzhili. The court announced the punishment of unscrupulous grain merchants, and immediately received the support of the people of Nanzhili. The only way for those powerful gentry members to not want to be killed by the emperor was to rebel and incite the people to cause trouble was impossible. No people would support these grain merchants.&1t;/p>

But if the rebellion is raised, the court has sent a large army to suppress the formation. If anyone jumps out to rebel, his mind will be normal, and he will want to get the final result. That is, the emperor will ruthlessly suppress it. At that time, it will no longer be a point of manipulating the price of food,.2★3.◇o&1t;    s="arn:2p    o      2p    o">&1t;srp    p="/aasrp">s_();&1t;/srp>&1t;/p> The problem is, but a serious crime that is implicated.&1t;/p>

As a result, no one dares to jump out and be the first to be a successful person. Everyone knows that the fate of jump out and be this successful person is the most terrifying.&1t;/p>

As for the emperor's fine, then let's fine!&1t;/p>

Seeing that the arms were twisted and their thighs were not twisted, many grain merchants could only start selling real estate to pay fines. Some sold the land, some sold grain stores, and some sold all the rice processing plants.&1t;/p>

The prices sold by these grain banks and rice processing plants are not very high, because many merchants in Nanzhili have realized a serious problem. After this crackdown, the grain sales industry in Nanzhili may be monopolized by Jimin Grain Bank in the future.&1t;/p>

Because the grain merchants in Nanzhili suffered too serious losses in this attack. Such a huge capital loss cannot be relieved in one or two years. It is impossible to recover in more than ten years. Many merchants have accumulated several generations of capital and are trapped.&1t;/p>

At the same time, Jimin Grain Bank has begun to make arrangements in Huguang area. As soon as these grain merchants fell, Jimin Grain Bank quickly took over the rice processing plants and replaced these grain merchants to become the main force in purchasing commercial grain in Huguang.&1t;/p>

If the food supply of the people is not up, the commercial grain of Huguang cannot be transported to the destination. On the one hand, farmers in Huguang will go bankrupt, and on the other hand, people in coastal provinces will go hungry again, and the grain prices will become very high.&1t;/p>

This is also the result of Jimin Food Business, which is to carry out grain purchase, processing and sales business in the south on a large scale, thereby cutting off the umbilical cords that the Jiangnan chaebols made huge profits through grain supply, thereby reducing the exploitation of ordinary people.&1t;/p>

When the grain merchants paid the fines and were released, the grain market in Nanzhili had undergone earth-shaking changes, both above and downstream. A large number of grain banks went bankrupt, while the grain banks of Jimin quickly opened all over the entire Nanzhili towns.&1t;/p>

The price of grain at Jimin Grain Bank is very stable. The price of ordinary rice for one stone is 2 yuan, which is never a penny or a penny. It also calculates the grain supply based on the local population and begins to establish warehouses in various places. Each region stores grain that can be consumed by the market for 2 to 3 months.&1t;/p>

When the price of grain is too low, purchase grain to ensure the interests of producers.&1t;/p>

Although this kind of business method has no huge profits, its profits are very stable, and it is also very terrifying after the scale has expanded. Cao Jinyu has now become a wealthy businessman and has also obtained a third-rank Minxun, one of the highest among Minxuns. As for the funds of Jimin Grain Bank, there is no need to worry at all. The bank can provide Jimin Grain Bank with sufficient operating funds.&1t;/p>

Especially after the imperial court launched paper money, the funds that the Jimin Food Bank could get were even larger. The operation of bulk commodities such as grain requires a large amount of funds to operate. Because these grains are real things and large in scale.&1t;/p>

Qian Wan's shipping company also entered the Yangtze River water transport market and established a Yangtze River freight company, which is still in partnership with state-owned capital, with Chinese companies accounting for 70% of the shares.&1t;/p>

The Yangtze River Freight Company provides stable transportation conditions for the export of Jimin Grain Bank and other commodities to the Yangtze River Basin, allowing the state-owned capital consortium to transport raw materials and commodities from the Yangtze River Basin and transport goods to the Yangtze River Basin for sale.&1t;/p>

As the grain sales opened up channels, the state-owned capital consortium began to gradually control the grain supply in the Jiangnan region, and also monopolized the supply of steel and salt.&1t;/p>

Grain, steel and salt are all commodities, but they are inconspicuous but large in quantity.&1t;/p>

Steel smelting in the south has continued to decline in the context of the rise of state-owned steel plants in recent years. With higher quality and lower prices, the steel of state-owned steel plants has quickly occupied the commercial steel market in various provinces of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In terms of salt, it has also increased its anti-smuggling efforts in the sixth year of the Tianqi revelation, and the quality of official salt supplied to the market has been continuously improved, especially the sea smell and brine smell of salt are constantly declining. Moreover, the salt induction system has been abolished, and anyone can sell official salt, which has greatly decreased the price of official salt, which has been welcomed and praised by the people.&1t;/p>

The state-owned capital consortium is expanding to the south at this time, and its goal is naturally to not meet this situation. State-owned mining companies and textile companies are expanding to the south.&1t;/p>

First, in terms of coal supply, the northern coal supply began to be provided in Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and provinces in the Yangtze River Basin. Mining companies also began to explore and invest in mining minerals in the south. Coal is also one of the advantageous commodities, because the eastward, the less coal resources the further southward. Many towns in the Jiangnan region are not very sufficient, and most of them are burning wood.&1t;/p>

Because logging costs are higher than coal due to traffic restrictions and resource restrictions. Coal mining is relatively concentrated, transportation can be solved by road construction, and transportation efficiency is also higher than wood. Therefore, coal in the north is also popular in the Jiangnan region.&1t;/p>

Especially for things like honeycomb coal, it only requires a stove, which is very simple to use and is even more popular among the people of Jiangnan.&1t;/p>

At this time, the whaling industry also produced a batch of whale oil. These whale oils began to be imported into the market. Because the output was not too high at the beginning, the price was relatively high. These whale oils were welcomed by the wealthy classes and sold very well. Because the burning of whale oil will not produce black smoke and an unpleasant odor, and the brightness is relatively high.&1t;/p>

Candles made from whale oil are also popular, and lubricating oil is also manufactured after obtaining whale oil, solving the problem of no high-quality lubricating oil, and the performance of the steam engine is further improved.&1t;/p>

In the sixth year of the Tianqi revelation, the state-owned capital consortium also established two textile factories and a silk reel factory in Songjiang, and began to officially enter the textile industry and raw silk industry competition in the Jiangnan region.&1t;/p>

The Jiangnan region is obviously more suitable for light industry, so the scale of the textile industry in Beizhili will not continue to expand too much in the future, and the textile industry center will be transferred to Jiangnan. The establishment of a wire reel factory is to produce and supply the raw silk needed for the northern market, and on the other hand, to supply the raw silk needed for export. This money is easy to make, because it has sales channels and the technology of production equipment can also be developed by yourself.&1t;/p>

State-owned capital consortiums have begun to press forward towards Jiangnan chaebols in various fields. When the interests of these commodities are controlled by the state-owned capital consortium, their channels for obtaining interests will be cut off by more than half.&1t;/p>

In contrast, maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangdong have not had a good time. Since the establishment of customs and the merchant fleet of state-owned capital consortiums began to run around the sea, their profits of maritime trade have dropped sharply. Some maritime merchants tried to collude with pirates, but the pirates have been swept away by the court. Some tried to smuggle at sea, but anti-smuggling ships were everywhere.&1t;/p>

After paying the tariffs obediently, the profit declined very seriously, but in general, business can still be done, but it is so easy to make a lot of money.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao has been scolded by a large number of merchants thousands of times, and various absurd rumors are widely circulated in the market. Although they have been curated by factory guards before, the phenomenon of secretly scolding the emperor behind them is unforbidden.&1t;/p>

Obviously, Zhu Youxiao is not afraid of these businessmen scolding him behind his back. Anyway, he has already obtained the money building. As long as he does not do too much, he will pretend not to know.&1t;/p>

Over the past few quarters, the imperial court's tax revenue has been in a state of rapid growth, especially in new policy areas such as Beizhili. Because a large amount of investment has driven the economy, the scale of commodity consumption has increased significantly.&1t;/p>

This year, the official basically applied the civilian power that can be called to various construction activities, and only maintained it in the military, and significantly increased military expenditure.&1t;/p>

Especially the investment in water conservancy facilities in the new policy areas has greatly improved the agricultural disaster resilience. The resource development in the Northeast, Taiwan and Nanyang, and Australia can provide a large amount of agricultural products in the future.&1t;/p>

The improvement of fiscal revenue and agricultural production finally made Zhu Youxiao feel relieved. No matter what natural disasters arise in the future, he will have enough resources to deal with them. As long as the people are not hungry, there will be no peasant uprisings, and the Ming Dynasty will not perish. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!