The government of Ningbo Prefecture is Yin County, but since Tang Shunzhi was transferred to the prefect of Ningbo, although the government has not changed, the government office has been located in Zhenhai County.

Well, in fact, Tang Shunzhi has not returned to Yin County in the past few months, and has only allowed other officials to take on their duties temporarily, nor has he accepted the staff left by the former prefect, nor has he even transferred the clerks from the sixth room of the government office to Zhenhai.

The temporary government office located in Zhenhai County was in charge of major business affairs. Tang Shunzhi, a twisted old man, did not call on the minor officials of Zhenhai County, but summoned a large number of people through his own connections, and also mobilized some people through Qian Yuan. Among them, there were two Qian family guards who withdrew from the Qian family due to injuries, and several clerks and minor officials from the Thirteenth Qing Lishu Department who retired from the Ministry of Personnel.

Tang Shunzhi himself was as honest as water, but he also understood the principle that water was clear and there was no fish, so he could not help but have a gray income from his subordinates. Of course, this was because there were not many things in business now, so he asked him to nod.

Therefore, in this case, although all the people in the government office are outsiders, some information can still be revealed.

The day after Wang Zhi openly visited Qianzhai, Zhou Fu immediately sprinkled a large sum of silver and finally got some news.

Dragging his heavy steps back home, Zhou Fu waved his hand in a bored mood and asked his servant to retreat.

"There are several more companies today." Zhou Fu sat down tiredly, rubbed his eyebrows and said, "The Liu Juren of Yin County is also on the blacklist, and there are three or four more companies."

There are three other people here, Zhou Fu's younger brother Zhou Feng, Zhang Pu of the Zhang family in Yuyao, and Zhao Sifang of the Zhao family in Songpu. All three are maritime merchants who depend on the Wu family in Fenghua.

Zhao Sifang whispered: "Just heard that the Yuan family in Cixi and Zhao family are also in trouble?"

"I know this." Zhou Feng smiled bitterly: "Yesterday, the Yuan family found the Zhao family and invited Qian Zhan to the banquet to talk to each other. Tsk tsk, okay, not only did not succeed, the Zhao family was also dragged into the water!"

"Yeah." Zhou Fu nodded, "But we can't compare with them... Qian Zhancai is deep in Beijing, so who knows if something is wrong in Beijing."

"A Hanlin Bachelor's degree and a Minister of Works... are not in his eyes, let alone us locals?" Zhang Puleng said: "It seems that there is really nothing we can do."

"I heard a news," Zhao Sifang hesitated for a while before saying, "It seems that the prefect Tang is dissatisfied with our gathering of goods..."

This is a bit tactful. In fact, these companies are not good at receiving goods. They naturally use some insulting means. Just over two months ago, they were still living in the dock because of cotton cloth.

In fact, this is the reason why Qian Yuan proposed that Tang Shunzhi reluctantly nodded. It is okay for these maritime merchants to collect goods and prepare to go to sea, but gathering the goods to set prices, which is unacceptable to both Qian Yuan and Tang Shunzhi.

One of the important reasons for controlling customs in one's own hands rather than being controlled by Wang Zhi is the pricing power.

"Don't think about it. Just after I found out the news, the Qian family also made a move in Haimao." Zhou Fu whispered: "I heard that Qian Zhancai and Wang Wufeng were in harmony, but I didn't expect..."

Qian Yuan and Wang Zhi have a good relationship, which many people can see, and the two of them do not shy away from this matter.

"Black eyes can't stand the silver!" Zhou Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Qian Zhancai is famous all over the world for attacking the Japanese... Could it be that Wang Wufeng is not considered a Japanese pirate?"

It has been nearly three months since then, and the fleets of these eight families were still refused to go to sea by the government office, and there are legitimate reasons... there is no formal law on going to sea. Whether the reasons are just or not is naturally determined by Tang Shun.

Qian Yuan wanted to invite Wang Zhi to the door, with the main purpose of his father and elder brother, but he also stimulated the next week's family.

Wang Zhi's visit gave Zhou Fu a heavy blow, forcing him to think of the cruelest possibility... Qian Yuan and Wang Zhi were not ordinary relationships, but alliances. Even like many coastal officials back then, Qian Yuan had a share of benefits in Wang Zhi's business.

In this case, it is very likely that Wang Zhi borrowed Qian Yuan to exclude the maritime merchants who had been dependent on the Wu family and had a disagreement with Wang Zhi.

If this is the case, the Zhou family is almost impossible to get through the joints. Qian Yuan's bastard collected much money and even collected the house. He still has no right words. Tang Shunzhi... is even harder to deal with, and others refuse to even collect the money!

Thinking of this, Zhou Fu and Zhou Feng sighed and frowned.

Like most of the big families who jumped into the sea trade, the Zhou family was not from a good background. Zhou Fu's grandfather was just a fisherman, with nine sons, and only two survived to adulthood.

In fact, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, smuggling in Ningbo Prefecture has been banned repeatedly. Zhou Fu's father was desperate and had to starve to death. Although he earned some money to support his family, he was just a friend.

But the Zhou family truly became a big family under Zhou Fu. In the 25th year of Jiajing, Zhou Fu, who was only in his twenties, gathered a group of people because of his courage and fierce fighting. He used various means to steal three sea ships and ventured to go out to sea to sell goods. In just two times, he made a foundation.

After Zhu Wan banned the sea and hunted and killed the sea merchants. The Zhou family escaped by chance. After Zhu Wan committed suicide, Zhou Fu intended to reset the market in Shuangyu, but as a result, he had a gap with Wang Zhi, who had established his own door in Ligang.

After paying three lives, Zhou Fu chose to retreat and relied on the Wu family in Fenghua, which had a large number of sea ships.

The Wu family has been smuggled from Xiangshan Port for generations and has great power. Of course, they cannot compete with the thousands of Wufeng ship owners under their command.

Like Zhou Fu, there are many other families who depend on the Wu family, most of which have emerged due to maritime trade in the past decade. This time, the southeast selected Zhenhai Hou Taoshan to conduct business, and these maritime merchants, which have been inactive for many years, have been ready to move.

"Wang Wufeng, Wang Wufeng!" Zhou Fu gritted his teeth. Now that he has been in business for several months, this guy has used methods to make no ship go out to sea in his enemy's family back then.

Well, this is called a slight difference that can lead to a thousand miles of error.

When Wang Zhi heard this sentence, he was so angry that he vomited blood and laughed so hard that he fell... The first condition proposed by Qian Zhancai at that time was that business must be controlled by the government, and you, Wang Wufeng, don't even think about it!

"What should I do?" Zhou Feng's face flushed in an anxious manner, "There are too many goods pressed in the warehouse. If you throw them out in Ningbo Mansion, you will lose at least 30%!"

As early as June, Wang Zhi had just personally visited Zhenhai, Zhou family, Zhao family, and Zhang family from Ligang to join forces, reorganize business networks, and connect them into a whole, advance and retreat together.

Although many evil methods were used, a large amount of money was spent. In the past few years, each family was refining their capital and was forced to donate silver to fight against the Japanese. The silver under the box was crushed on the goods. As a result, the ships failed to go to sea for several months, which made them really unbearable.

Zhao Sifang asked tentatively: "Go to Fenghua?"

"What should I do if I don't go to Fenghua?" Zhang Pu said helplessly: "The sea boats we have registered in the government office. Even if they are lent to others, they can't leave the sea... We can't go to Hangzhou and then go to Jiaxing, right?"

"Impossible!" Zhou Fu shook his head and said, "Other places go to sea... There have been precedents in recent months. Zhapu, Haiyan and Ninghai in Taizhou, Taiping and other places have been detained by the government troops. There are only two places that can easily go to sea, one is Songjiang and the other is Xiangshan."

"Then you can only go to Xiangshan Port."

At this moment, Tang Shunzhi, the government official, looked at Qian Yuan who was calm opposite and asked the same question.

"You forced them to go out to sea?"

"yes."

"What the hell do you want to do?"
Chapter completed!