Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1524, breaking the monopoly business
As soon as Liu Jin came up, he took Zhou Weilai, Yin Tianfu Yin Zhou Weilai, and killed a chicken for the Jiangnan officials present to see.

There was a sudden silence at the scene, and many officials dared not take a breath, for fear of hitting Liu Jin's knife.

Everyone is very familiar with Liu Jin.

For a long time, the person who Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River most wanted to bring down was actually Liu Jin, and he was naturally the most familiar with Liu Jin.

The lord and the officials from the Jiangnan faction are extremely incompatible, and it is estimated that he has long wanted to find an opportunity to severely suppress the officials of the Jiangnan faction.

Now that the opportunity finally came, how could Liu Jin let go of such a good opportunity?

"Jiangnan River Censor Luo Xi~"

Seeing Zhou Wei being pushed down, Liu Jin called out another name.

"The next official is here~"

When Luo Xi heard this, his whole face turned pale with fright.

He is too aware of the things he has done. Even without the incident in Nanjing, he, Luo Xi, used his position to embezzle and accept bribes. He doesn't know how much money he has. This alone is enough to lose his head.

What's more, he, Luo Xi, has already regarded the flower boat on the Qinhuai River as his own mansion, and everyone in the whole Jiangnan knows about the romantic affairs.

In addition, he is in charge of the Yangtze River and canal channels, as well as the ports of many coastal and riverside cities. The interests involved are too great. In this position, he has often made profits for the family and forces behind him. Secretly supported and did a lot of shady things.

Now that Liu Jin called out his name, the things he had done suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Luo Xi, are you convicted?"

Liu Jin looked at Luo Xi in front of him coldly.

He is a typical official who uses power for personal gain. Using the power in his hands, all business firms that want to do business in the Yangtze River, the Canal, Nanjing, Songhu and other ports, especially those involved in transportation.

Without the consent of Lord Luo Xiluo, there is no way to do business on the water in this area.

The large and small shipping companies of Ming Dynasty can sail across the four seas, but they can't get involved in the business of the Yangtze River and the canal at all.

The Yangtze River is the most important river in Ming Dynasty, especially the section of Nanzhili, which is the estuary of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. I don’t know how many ships are sailing on it at any time. They come from east to west, south to north, and the freight is extremely busy. .

In addition to canals and ports, it can be said that half of the economy of the entire Daming depends on the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the port of Songhu is the most important port of Daming.

I am afraid that no one knows how huge the interests involved in taking charge of such an important river transport.

"The lower official has always been loyal to his duties, self-denying and devoted to his duties, with a clear conscience, and dare not betray the trust of the emperor. The court entrusts him with great trust. I really don't know what crimes I have committed, so that when Liu Gong comes, I will be the one to take the knife?"

Luo Xi's dead duck's mouth was stubborn, and he looked righteous and awe-inspiring.

“Very good~”

"You are still loyal to your duties, self-denying and devoted to public affairs, and you have a breeze in your sleeves~"

"Your devotion to your duty is on the flower boat on the Qinhuai River. Your yamen has already moved to the flower boat, and you are still dedicating to your duty."

"As for self-denial and self-denial, you won't even blush when you say it."

"Let's not talk about where you spent on the flower boat. Just because you are in Songhu and Nanjing, you have a total of 350 properties, more than 50 sets of shops, and three plantations in Nanyang. In addition, there are various Stocks are at least more than two million taels of silver."

"Furthermore, your family, the Luo family, relied on you as the censor of the river transport, holding the jurisdiction over the Yangtze River, canals, and ports in your hands, and established river and sea transport companies to monopolize the transportation of goods in the Yangtze River Basin and make profits from it."

"Even the year before last, in order to fight against competitors, you, the river transport censor, used your power over and over again to deliberately investigate and deal with other river transport companies."

Liu Jin told Luo Xi's affairs like a treasure.

"Ah~"

When Luo Xi heard this, his jaw dropped in shock. Liu Jin seemed to have investigated him too well. He didn't even know how much real estate he owned and how much his stocks were worth.

But on Liu Jin's side, he checked clearly, even better than himself, which is really unbelievable.

"Humph~"

"As an official of the imperial court, guarding the shepherd side for the emperor, he actually corrupted the law, used his power for personal gain, and monopolized the river transportation business."

"Come on, take off his official hat, take off his official uniform, and put him in prison!"

Liu Jin didn't bother to look at this kind of person again. In later generations, there are many such officials. As the saying goes, the father is an official and the son is a businessman. As long as the father is still in the position, all of them are elites in the business world. I can't get along anymore.

"Liu Jin, you also have a lot of property under your command. The money you earn a year is calculated in billions. If you want to talk about using power for personal gain and monopolizing business, you, Liu Jin, should be the first one. I'm just learning from you."

While struggling, Luo Xi shouted out with all his might.

"Good~"

"I have a lot of industries under my command, but I have never used my power to seek personal gain for my industry, suppressed competitors, nor monopolized, and I have never made things difficult for other people who enter the industry."

"If your family is operating normally and competing reasonably, I won't say anything."

"But your Luo family's Yangtze river shipping company also transports a ship of goods. The price of your company is several times that of other places, and if you want to do business on the Yangtze River, you must hand over a certain share of the goods to your company. The business will be transported, am I right?"

"Out of the Yangtze River, can your business make a whole boat sale?"

Liu Jin stopped the soldier who dragged him down and replied.

Luo Xi is actually a typical salt merchant's style of work. He uses his power to monopolize sales. He does not want to improve shipping technology or reduce transportation costs to gain a competitive advantage.

Instead, it is very simple and rude to use the power in hand to conduct monopoly transactions. Monopoly will naturally bring huge profits. In fact, they are playing things without any technical skills, and it just hinders the normal and orderly survival of other commercial firms.

The same is true for the salt merchants in the past. They held the salt field in their own hands, and all the salt from the salt field was under their control. Let those salt merchants become rich one by one.

The principles are the same, and so are the practices.

"I, I'm not like you Liu Jin. I have strong capital and can do anything. I can only rely on this method to start my own business."

Luo Xi immediately had nothing to say, and could only defend himself in this way.

"Humph~"

"Pull it down, seal up the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and seal up the Luo family!"

Liu Jin looked at the other party and sneered, and ordered again.

"Liu Jin, Liu Jin, you won't end well~"

Luo Xi roared angrily while being dragged down.

Zhou Wei and Luo Xi were dealt with, and all the officials at the scene were in panic all day long.

In Jiangnan, there are too many things like Luo Xi.

Almost every official is using the power in his hands to seek benefits for the family and forces behind him.

Officials in charge of Hodao use their power to obtain the monopoly business of Hodao for the family behind them.

The officials in charge of a state and a government provide a monopoly for their family to do business in this state capital. Those who have tea will monopolize tea, and those who produce grain will monopolize grain production and trading.

In the entire Jiangnan area, all walks of life and fields are almost monopolized by big and small families, gentry, big businessmen, etc., and outsiders can't get in at all.

The capitalists in the north want to do business in the south, but they can’t do it at all. If you have money and want to set up factories here, it’s hard to get your land. Even if you have land, it’s hard to recruit workers. It is difficult for workers to buy raw materials, and it is even difficult to transport goods.

This is the situation in the land of Jiangnan.

The entire south of the Yangtze River is like an extremely solid layer of ice, tightly blocking everything, and all interests are monopolized by families, gentry, and big businessmen.

Relying on monopoly to make huge profits, they will not pursue technological innovation, nor will they pursue innovation, cost reduction or the like.

The only thing they need to do is to continuously cultivate more children of their own family to study and become officials, so that they can gain more power, monopolize and master more business, and then give back to their family , to build private schools and academies, and train more children to take the imperial examinations and become officials.

Liu Jin is well aware that under such a model, the whole society is like a pool of stagnant water, lifeless, and no progress. The backwardness of China in history actually stems from this.

The traditional stereotyped imperial examination restricts people's ability to innovate to the greatest extent, and binds the smartest and most powerful people to the game of stereotyped essays. Generations of people are just repeating yesterday's stories. There is always no progress and development.

In the end, with the increasing concentration of land and resources annexation, when it becomes more and more difficult for the people at the bottom to survive, as long as there is a slight famine, it will inevitably be the time for wars and a change of dynasty.

Therefore, it is necessary to break the business of these monopoly clans, break through this pool of stagnant water, and completely liberate the land in the south of the Yangtze River, the richest and most populous place in Ming Dynasty, so that the entire Ming Dynasty will usher in a moment of real rapid development.

(End of this chapter)