Chapter 544
Chen Zhaohong is old and is already at the age of enjoying peace and prosperity, but now he has to rebel with his family.
If you are in the world, how can you not be stabbed?
I will pay it back sooner or later if I come out.
The Chen family is a big family in Lingnan. People have been officials throughout the ages. After hundreds of years of accumulation, they are deeply rooted in Guangzhou.
This family is different from the traditional big families in the Central Plains, because they are close to the sea and the blood flows with commercial ideas.
The biggest difference between business ideas and agriculture is that one knows how to judge the situation and adapt to the situation in order to survive, and the other is stable, but conservative and stubborn.
When the big families in the Central Plains were opposing the emperor's new policy ten years ago, Chen sold all the fertile land at a low price, winning the favor and strong support of local governments.
Taking advantage of the favorable and strong support of local governments, Chen invested a lot of money in shipbuilding and sailing.
Starting from Guangzhou, a dense sea transportation channel is woven in the South China Sea.
At the same time, Chen's trading company is also one of the trading companies in Guangzhou that has frequent contacts with Zhunian and Dashi.
It can be said that in the first ten years of Jingkang, the Chen family was the lucky one of this era.
They seized the new policy of the court, took off the robes of the past local gentry, transformed themselves into businessmen who responded to the court's call, and became upstarts.
No one outside knows how much assets the Chen family has. In short, it is well known that the Chen family is the richest family in Lingnan.
The growth of a family is like a person.
At the beginning, when facing new things, I was careful and walking on thin ice, and I was afraid of getting a boxed lunch in advance.
But as you become stronger and external resources continue to tilt towards you, your own random words can have a great impact.
Standing in the center of the stage and facing countless flowers and applause, people will easily float.
When a person floats up, he will easily expand.
This expansion begins to do things beyond your ability.
For example, using money to bribe imperial officials.
For example, infiltrate the local wing army and climb on to take over the old man.
For example, buying an official, using a lot of money to compete for big business opportunities, crushing competitors with price wars, and forming a monopoly.
Ten years ago, Chen Zhaohong's eldest son Chen Jialuo walked on the street and had to be careful, fearing that he would reveal his identity, so as not to be implicated in the new policy storm.
Ten years later, when Chen Jialuo walked to Guangzhou Street again, countless people would line up to watch.
Even Zheng Zeping, the former governor of Guangzhou Prefecture, had to ask the Chen family when making many decisions, otherwise half of them would not be able to continue to implement them.
Logically speaking, no matter how much the Chen family has expanded, it should be satisfied.
But the Chen family's hands were not clean.
If someone blocked the bribery of officials, the Chen family would not take risks.
The most important thing is that Chen Jia privately raised warriors, privately hid muskets, and privately hid muskets to create drawings was leaked.
How did it leak?
At the beginning of the year, the emperor was busy with the Northern Expedition, and the group of people in the Jin Kingdom were beaten to death by Zhao Huan.
Yu Yunwen, who had just gained a foothold in the center, thought of taking Quanzhou from King Kang, and preferably assigning it to the South China Sea, so he had the idea of Quanzhou.
So I checked the taxes in Quanzhou.
I want to pull Cai Yongling off the stage and change to his own people.
Sure enough, Quanzhou's tax accounts were very chaotic, and the matter quickly rose to the intervention of the Inspectorate.
Liu Yanzong likes to do this trick the most. If you find something, you can go to the emperor to seek credit.
So, he was full of motivation and soon mastered the fact that Cai Yongling made fake accounts.
So he checked the trading companies that evaded taxes one by one, and he didn't know if they didn't check it, and he was shocked when he checked it.
Among them, among the tax evasion, the fifteen families were all under the name of one man named Li San.
This fake identity that Li San was carefully created was investigated by the Imperial City Guard for two months, and finally found Cai Yongling's head.
Before the matter was over, Li San immediately involved Chen Abao, the fake identity of Su Yuanqing, the transferee of Fuzhou.
This is a great discovery since the New Deal.
So he followed the clues and touched the Chen family.
It turns out that these trading companies of Su Yuanqing have close ties with the Chen trading company.
Among them, it also involves firearm transactions, private armed forces, and drawing transactions of the third generation of firearms in the Song Dynasty!
In order not to alert the enemy, this matter has been suppressed.
However, the Chen family was also very real and soon realized that they were targeted by the inspector.
Chen Zhaohong immediately knew that his shameful things had been exposed.
The case of the Zheng family in Yingtian Prefecture had just passed last year. The Dazai of the current dynasty was demoted, and the entire Zheng family was exiled to the frontier, and at least half of them died tragically.
This incident has always been a nightmare in Chen Zhaohong's heart. He was afraid that one day the Chen family would end up like this.
But I didn't expect it to be so fast.
This would not have made Chen Zhaohong rebel immediately.
After all, he voluntarily surrendered, and he was able to say good things because the Chen family gave money to the court. The worst result was that the house was confiscated and the whole family was sent to Qiongdao.
So what's the matter? Now the Song Dynasty is building everywhere and there are business opportunities everywhere.
One thing that made Chen Zhaohong rebel was that he and Alibaba jointly established a textile factory. All 300 workers were beaten to death by Alibaba because of asking for wages.
This matter was discovered by Huang Huan, the commander-in-chief of the General Administration of the Imperial City Department of Guangzhou Prefecture. The Imperial City Department has a very tough style of investigation, and a new magistrate He Yongfu investigated it strictly.
This matter soon turned into a conflict between the private armed forces of the Chen family and the government.
By the way, the warriors in the Chen family were not easy to say. They knew that the government was not easy to mess with and dared not go too far, but the barbarians were different.
The total population of Guangzhou Prefecture was more than 100,000 in the first year of Jingkang, and by the tenth year of Jingkang, the total population had reached one million.
Among them, the total number of barbarians is 160,000.
Kunlun slaves, Persians, are mostly veterinarians.
These barbarians lived on their own for a long time and were reluctant to communicate with the Han people. They always thought that the Han people would persecute them.
In fact, in order to open up business roads, the imperial court also took good care of the barbarians and merchants, and at least gave a lot of policies to make money.
Therefore, there was an article in the Great Song Dynasty's Mansion Report very angrily accusing some barbarians: barbarians are not humans! The dignified etiquette of China is a country that inherits the education of saints and is kind to others. Guangzhou barbarians will repay their kindness with enemies, but what is different from animals!
When the conflict involves the barbarians and the government, the government in Guangzhou doesn’t matter where you come from, and then arrest them first.
This hurt the hearts of countless people, and a large-scale riot broke out!
In many ways, the Chen family, which had no way out, also raised the flag of rebellion.
The riot was beyond everyone's expectations, and the rebels quickly assembled, and they slaughtered civilians on the streets,
The 10,000-box army in Guangzhou was defeated and the entire army was wiped out.
All the imperial guards died in their country.
Guangzhou City, the first city in Lingnan, is the Nandu, which Zhao Huan built for ten years. The city that carries his dream of sailing has become a hell on earth within a month.
Chapter completed!