"The wealthy gentry in Jiangnan are quite terrifying, but they are not without flaws..."
Zhang Mingtu cannot say that he knows the entire Jiangnan area very well, but he does know the three-thirds of an acre of land in Jianyi very clearly.
The Wang and Li families have been married to each other for many years, and their blood lines are intertwined, but this is not the reason why the two are connected by the same body. What really makes them join forces is their interests.
One family is responsible for using the connections of the county magistrate Han Qiong to resell the grain in the grain depot.
Another family uses water transport to distribute the grain and sell it to various places.
The key to gaining trust between them is to resell the weapons in the arsenal.
They vaguely communicate with the outside world and sell corresponding weapons and armors. Such things can affect the whole body and may even lead to the annihilation of life and death.
After this, the entangled interests are truly connected.
Jiangnan is known as the land of fish and rice. According to common sense, there is no shortage of food and the like, and food cannot be sold at high prices here.
But it often goes against common sense. There are many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, water transportation is developed, and there are also many floods.
Once a flood occurs, the grain harvest of that year is likely to be wiped out and people will starve to death. Grain merchants in various places can take the opportunity to increase prices.
Farmers or fishermen who wantonly sell grain and face the earth with their backs to the sky certainly don't have much money to hang on to.
But usually those people who are doing well in business and have a lot of wealth in their families are naturally willing to pay extremely high prices to buy food when they are faced with the dilemma of starving to death.
Moreover, the most ordinary farmers and fishermen do not have any remaining wealth. They can sell themselves and their ancestral fields.
When the ancestral fields were flooded and there was no food or food, of course they would be sold at a low price.
If you lose your ancestral property, you can only sell yourself.
Those who can survive the flood must either be physically strong or have special skills. Landowners are very willing to accept such tenants or long-term workers.
Fishermen and farmers everywhere know that selling oneself to another is a miserable way to drink poison to quench one's thirst, but one is going to die soon and the other is going to die in the future, so they have no choice.
And reselling the food in the treasury is not a completely dead end.
After all, Jiangnan is a land of plenty. When the grain harvest is good, tycoons from all over the country join forces to suppress grain prices, and the grain purchased at low prices can be filled into the national treasury.
Once you come and go, your family property will naturally become rich.
Zhang Mingtu's investigation report was written in quite detail, including all the corresponding methods and strategies.
But even if they knew about the methods of these wealthy businessmen and wealthy gentry, there was nothing they could do about it. They used grand tactics.
Wantlessly making money from the national crisis.
For the major gentry in Jianyi, whether it is a natural disaster or a good harvest, it is a grand carnival for them.
The situation has deteriorated to this point, and it is far from a day's work.
When Zhang Mingtu thinks about the investigation report, he can't help but think of "Let the Bullets Fly".
"We still need to take a long-term view. Their power is too huge. We must learn to divide and disintegrate and find their internal contradictions to fight against them."
Zhang Mingtu thought silently.
It’s not that the imperial court had never thought of solving the problem in the Jiangnan area.
However, most of the land belongs to the wealthy gentry. Ninety-nine percent of the tenants in the entire land south of the Yangtze River are long-term workers. There are not even one person who truly owns the land and ancestral property.
Even if someone takes the initiative to seek justice for this group of people, in court, the bullied shop waiter will only say that he has no eyes and took the initiative to bump into the Wu Juren's fist and dirty the Wu Juren's fist.
After all, the county magistrate has to act in accordance with the rules and laws. You can vent his anger for a while, but waiters, tenants, long-term workers and even more people still have to rely on others to breathe. If you breathe out the breath in your heart, you will have no chance to breathe out and exhale through your nose in the future.
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The silent ones do not really want to be silent, they are not ignorant, but helpless.
The more the wild cow struggles in the swamp, the deeper it sinks and the faster it dies.
The gentry is not invincible. If there is a detailed investigation report, such as Zhang Mingtu's Jianyi investigation report written with blood and family hatred in the future.
As long as there is conclusive evidence submitted, no one can confront a behemoth like the imperial court, and all the monsters and monsters will disappear under the sun.
But who dares to submit this report?
Zhang Mingtu suffered a loss once and was a little hesitant to submit.
Submitting anonymously will have no effect and will attract the attention of these families in advance.
It is only useful if submitted through official channels, but official channels often reveal identities.
"Hey, that's not right either..."
Zhang Mingtu suddenly found that he had fallen into a misunderstanding.
In the beginning, his identity was that of a civilian and he submitted reports in public. Of course, no one knew about it, and the news would be directly suppressed by those who were interested.
Later, he became a Jinyiwei. He also had a strong head. He directly made an investigation report and submitted it as his own identity, which led to the loss of his family and his family. However, all this could actually be avoided.
"I know Jin Yiwei's method of delivering news, I know how to submit reports, and I also know the corresponding passwords..."
"For me now, I can completely hide my identity and submit this report..."
The more Zhang Mingtu thought about it, the more it felt right.
He once served as the commander-in-chief of Jinyiwei of Longxing Prefecture, and he has considerable knowledge of Longxing Prefecture and even the following Jianyi and various districts and counties.
He knew the royal guards in each region very well, and even the secret guards knew it well. After all, he was the face figure used by the imperial court to compete with the wealthy gentry in Longxing Mansion.
Moreover, it took him ten years to prove his ability and hatred towards the Jiangnan gentry.
It can be said that as long as Zhang Mingtu survives, he will have great opportunities in the future. His training and promotion are already underway in all aspects. Unfortunately, the wealthy gentry in Longxing Mansion will move faster.
When he sensed a crisis, he killed him without any hesitation.
"Let me think about it, there are relevant figures in Jianyi, Yuanzhou, and Jiujiang under the Longxing Mansion, but I can put the investigation report on their desks, but they may not dare to hand it over..."
God knows how deep this family, which sells food and weapons, has deep connections in various places.
Jin Yiwei is not a loser. Although many of them have become real wastes after being hereditary, there are still many truly talented people.
But it is precisely because they are talented and can understand this report that they understand how much crisis and risk it contains.
Zhang Mingtu wanted to ask someone else to submit the report for him, but gave up after thinking about it.
For this kind of unknown report, Jinyiwei will not upload it randomly and has to find someone else.
Zhang Mingtu thought for a while and thought of another person.
Ruihai!
The most famous upright official in the imperial court is also a person who is annoying to everyone and is often criticized verbally and written. He is known as the most stubborn person.
"If I remember correctly, he is in the south of the Yangtze River now."