"Everyone, this is the top priority and the most important thing. ￥f.￥f After you take office, please arrest this matter as soon as possible." Liu Jun sucked a sip of tea and continued, "I believe everyone has heard of it. Deputy General Zheng Zhilong of Fujian, who owns thousands of ships. Since he defeated the Dutch and cleared other pirates on the sea, now in the southeastern sea, all sea merchants have to listen to their words, sailing on the sea, and spend money to buy their flags to ensure safety."

"Everyone, do you know how much money the Zheng family collected for those big merchant ships? The big ships cost 2,000 taels of silver each, and the Zheng family earned tens of millions a year. Do you know how much profit the maritime merchants have? Although they paid the Zheng family two thousand taels of silver protection fee per ship, they made a profit of twenty times the amount they made when they traveled back and forth."

Liu Jun's words made these governors feel itchy.

Everyone here understands the wealth of maritime merchants. These days, the most profitable ones are not salt merchants, but maritime merchants. The most profitable ones are actually those armed maritime merchants, that is, those maritime merchants who are half merchants and half thieves like Zheng's family. A year of income of tens of millions of taels, the court only earns only three million silver dollars a year.

"Everyone, the trade volume of sea trade is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions a year. Even if the court only gets a little profit from it, it is quite amazing. I have always called for a ban on the sea, but in fact, this ban on the sea has no benefit to the court. The ban on the sea only makes the court unable to collect taxes. In fact, it has made corrupt officials and maritime merchants in those places so that they can not pay taxes."

"This is the end of this matter. The Maritime Bureau must be rebuilt and the customs must be established. In the future, the court will no longer prohibit the sea and allow all foreign merchants to come to trade. However, whether it is the dynasty's maritime merchants going to sea or foreign maritime merchants coming to trade, they must pay taxes to the court under the supervision of the court. Of course, after these taxes are collected, they will be divided into three parts, one part will be handed over to the court, one part will be left to the local government, and another part will be used to reorganize and train the new army."

"This time, we are going to declare war on the lawless officials, businessmen and gentry in Jiangnan. This time, I will lead 20,000 new troops south. Whoever dares to obstruct will flatten him!" Liu Jun said very domineeringly. Although he knew that the facts could not achieve this point, now, he might as well call him more high-profile.

Why can the Zheng family make so much money? Because the court completely lost control of the sea tariffs on ports, the Zheng family has strong maritime force, and they charge maritime merchants for protection and provide protection. What they do should have been the responsibility of the court, and the benefits are also the benefits of the court.

To put it bluntly, this result was caused by collusion between local officials and businessmen, who cheated the imperial court for the huge profits of maritime trade.

"My dear sirs, I will still issue bonds this time when I go to Jiangnan. I believe you have heard of this bond. Now it is still in the preparation stage. Next, in order to issue bonds, a bank will be established. In order to better issue bonds, the bank will establish branches in provincial capitals and cities in Jiangnan. I also need to ask all the adults for help in this matter." Liu Jun said for a long time and finally put forward the most important thing.

In fact, the so-called reopening of the Maritime Warehouse Department and setting up customs. Liu Jun did not send much hope. No matter how good things are, it would be in vain if there is no good person to execute them. It is not good to read the good scriptures to the Monk of the Waizui. In Jiangnan, it is not possible to change a few governors and then set up a few customs of the Maritime Warehouse Department. But those are just public tasks. Liu Jun's real purpose this time was to discuss cooperation with Zheng Zhilong to send troops, and the second was this bank.

This new bank was prepared based on the original Jiangnan money house. The new bank was established on the surface to issue bonds, but in fact, Liu Jun wanted to make money. Taking the opportunity of issuing bonds, he set up branches across the country. Then he could connect to the bank to operate money-making businesses such as storage and loan remittance, and issuing bank notes.

Moreover, Liu Jun also planned to take this opportunity to not only issue silver notes that are more convenient than banknotes, but also to mint silver coins. He no longer planned to mint silver coins that had been minted on a small scale before, but to mint silver coins in proportion to nine copper coins, and treat minting coins as a favorable transaction.

Although Silver Nine Copper One is not a sterling silver coin, Liu Jun is actually not worried that the people will not accept the silver coin with a value greater than his own. Because in this era, silver coins became legal currency and were used in large quantities, but there has never been a standard silver coin. When used in normal use, silver not only has various colors, but also weighs, cuts, etc. every time it is used, which is quite troublesome, and it is also quite inconvenient to identify the authenticity.

Different silver coins, each silver coins are only half a tael, and they have patterns and tooth patterns to avoid anti-counterfeiting and scratching. When used, you don’t even have to weigh them, and you don’t have to worry about the problem or even exchange them in the gold and silver shops. You don’t have to identify the ingredients, authenticity, or weigh them, and it will be extremely convenient to use.

As long as the bank can recycle and exchange these silver coins at any time, even the silver coins are not accepted. After all, although the silver traded by the people is weighed, it can be used to identify, measure, cut and exchange, etc., and usually there is a handling fee in the gold and silver shops.

Silver nine copper one, the more silver coins you minted, the higher the profit will be. Liu Jun’s military instrument shop has enough technology, so it will not be very troublesome to start minting silver coins, and the cost is very low, which is really a huge profit.

Liu Jun wanted to take this opportunity to open a bank, especially to Jiangnan, which is extremely prosperous and has a lot of capital.

"With the support of the Guo family, we should work hard." Zhang Guowei, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, said. Although it is conceivable that opening a market and building a customs office would definitely violate the interests of local officials and businessmen, Liu Jun also said in his words just now that the tax collected was only one-third of the time, and the remaining two-thirds were left for the local government.

As a local governor, of course, I also hope that you have money in your hands, so that you can do things with money.

Liu Jun also knew that it was not easy to grab food from powerful people in Jiangnan, so he had no intention of going there this time.

Liu Jun brought his troops there. He was still in the capital, but he had already issued an order to the Jiutou Bird who had retreated to Qihuang to transfer all the troops who had fought in Jiangbei last time to Nanjing to wait for him.

Generally speaking, the troops in various places cannot be mobilized at will, but this time Liu Jun was ordered to go to the southeast to worship the sea god and also to supervise military affairs. He was ordered by the emperor, the cabinet and the Ministry of War.

The emperor also knew that it was not so easy to build a customs office in Jiangnan. If Liu Jun led more than 20,000 troops to go south, he would shock the southeast. If anyone dared not know anything, he would let Liu Jun kill the chicken to warn the monkey.

Chongzhen is now afraid of poverty. When he heard that Zheng could collect 10 million yuan in protection fees a year at sea, he wanted to immediately let Liu Jun take the 50,000 new troops he trained to station directly to Fujian and rob the power to collect protection fees. With the stimulation of that large amount of money, Chongzhen can really do anything now.

In addition to allowing Liu Jun to mobilize the army, Chongzhen also gave Liu Jun great convenience, allowing Cao Huachun and Liu Qiao to send appoint factory guards to accompany Liu Jun to the south and mobilize the factory guards to support Liu Jun at any time.

With the support of the emperor, Liu Jun planned to play the role of the second one.

When the fleet entered Yangzhou, Liu Jun took his cavalry battalion to the dock. The first thing he did after getting ashore was to send his cavalry battalion to take over the Yangzhou city gate. Then, led by Jinyiwei and the people from the East Factory, rushed into the city directly according to a list that had been prepared early, and surrounded the mansions of thirty-six salt merchants.

"Take the people and search the house!"

Liu Jun's actions shocked the governors and governors who followed him off the ship and were stunned.

"Marty, is this?"

Liu Jun chuckled a few times, took out a memorial and handed it to them. "These profitable merchants are mostly illegal, and the court has already found out the evidence."

The evidence Liu Jun has taken out was found by the factory guards. Whoever is the factory guard? They can make you guilty if you are not guilty, let alone those big salt merchants, who are not guilty? They can bribe officials, sell private salt, and even trade with the Later Jin Dynasty. It can be said that you can easily get twenty or thirty evidence of crimes, and they are all serious crimes.

In the past, no one investigated it because they were all incorrectly with officials and even the nobles in the court. But this time, Liu Jun wanted to use them as a warning to the monkey, and no one could save him.

Now, who can compare with Liu Jun in the background?

The emperor's adopted son, the master of the country, the disciple of the prime minister, is still the marquis himself.

Liu Jun selected thirty-six of the fattest and most arrogant salt merchants from the list submitted by the factory guards.

Zheng Jizong, a famous salt merchant in Yanzhou, has a wealth of millions and has always been aroused by the wind and rain in Yangzhou. Basically, people in Yangzhou know that Zheng Hu is so arrogant because his wife Zhou is actually the cousin of the empress of the dynasty, and Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of Jiading, is Zheng Jizong's backstage.

But today, when Zheng Jizong was having sex with the newly acquired twelfth concubine at home, he was taken away from the bed by the Jiutou who broke into the door. He didn't even give him a piece of clothing to make him shy. He just grabbed him out of his home like a pig and took him directly to the most popular pier in Yangzhou.

Thirty-six salt merchants in Yangzhou were tied to the canal dock. Although these were neither all the salt merchants in Yangzhou nor the richest of them, the sudden capture of thirty-six was enough to shock the whole city.

Then the Jinyiwei announced their crimes in public. Liu Jun directly invited Shangfang's sword and executed the thirty-six people on the spot without giving any chance. Then he announced that all the property was confiscated.

Liu Jun's thunder storm scared everyone in Yangzhou City very much.

Just kill someone like this?

Really killed.

At first, everyone came to watch the fun, but after seeing the crowds, those who were not interested in the big deal felt cold. Only then did everyone remember that the adopted son of the current emperor, Guo, had a nickname named Liu Yanwang.

Killing people, raiding the house, Yangzhou City was in chaos for a while! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!