In the brothel that was so noisy just now, everyone stopped and everyone looked over.
"I know who he is!"
Suddenly, Jiang Xuan was beside Liu Zheng and said angrily in a low voice: "Xie Kai, the son of King Wu!"
King Wu?
Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes slightly and almost laughed.
No wonder.
The King of Wu is a relatively special existence in Longyan. Why? Because the King of Wu is in charge of the land of Wu, which is the land of Jiangdong, including Jiangsu and Zhejiang. What is this place? A land of plenty, even in Liu Zheng's previous life, modern times
Society, this is the richest and richest place in the whole of China. Similarly, this is also a place that the scholar-officials group has always controlled. Therefore, the King of Wu should have been a scholar-official.
It is also the source of funding for the entire scholar-bureaucrat group. In the previous life, during the Ming Dynasty, the main financial revenue came from this Jiangsu and Zhejiang area.
Even the fiscal revenue exceeded the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
One can imagine how developed this area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is.
At that time, King Wu and the scholar-bureaucrat group were still in the honeymoon period.
However......
All of this has quietly changed since last year. Why? Because the previous isolation policy and sea ban policy allowed them to conduct various operations behind closed doors. All kinds of smuggling behind the scenes, and even cooperation with Japanese pirates, allowed them to
You can make a lot of money.
However, when Xie Tianyao issued a decree, sea transportation was officially opened.
At this time, King Wu was stunned.
Once shipping opened, what would happen to his smuggling group? Wouldn't these benefits disappear and all be taken over by the court? As the saying goes, it is easy to change from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to change from luxury to frugality. King Wu was used to making a lot of money
, and felt very unhappy. But what could he do? So he started to attack the scholar-bureaucrat group.
Aren’t you scholar-bureaucrats?
Aren’t you in charge of the government?
How can we let the sea freight be opened?
The scholar-bureaucrats were also helpless. Xie Tianyao personally ordered it, and he had to give it this face. So, this affected the whole body, and that was it. Once the shipping was opened, the imperial court established the Shipping Department in Wudi, and suddenly the whole
All over Wu, everyone is jumping around like chickens and dogs.
The distribution of benefits needs to be re-planned.
The power levels of each group must be overthrown and started all over again... The impact of a sea transport on the land of Wu was quite large. And more importantly, it made the King of Wu feel cold towards the scholar-bureaucrat group. This made
He began to want to break away from the scholar-bureaucrats, a power group that had been sucking his blood...
The contradictions began to become complicated and acute.
Even the King of Wu had to follow the decree and start to kill the Japanese pirates who had cooperated with Wu for nearly a hundred years, as well as the fake Japanese groups...
Heartache!
Heartache!
Who wouldn't be heartbroken when so much money is gone in one fell swoop?
All of this, all the spearheads are naturally pointed at Liu Zheng!
What made King Wu collapse even more was.
Tea trade.
In the past, almost all the tea trade in Longyan came from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas... The Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were the largest bases for growing tea, producing tea, and selling tea. But ever since Liu Shilang took the tea trade into his hands,
, actually gave up a lot of tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas!
He promoted the cultivation of tea throughout Longyan!
What about the north, Liangzhou, or even the southern barbarian land...
Only for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, I don’t have too many thoughts!
Angry!
That’s not true!
The unsaleable tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year has caused him to lose profits that ordinary people cannot imagine!
Therefore, King Wu has always held a grudge against Liu Zheng!
This time for the prince's funeral, all the vassal kings from all over the country were present. Liu Zheng, the King of Wu in this procession, did not deliberately observe. Unexpectedly, his son could no longer bear it.
but.
If it were the Liu Zheng before, he would naturally not care about this. The mere King of Wu could do anything he wanted. Whether it was military strength or economic sanctions, he could play all kinds of tricks on the King of Wu.
But now, his thoughts are different...
The death of the old man Xie Tianyao left him with a problem.
A question worthy of his deep thought and study, a method of checks and balances. It is no longer simply about crushing and killing.
This is not the art of the emperor or the art of the king.