Qiming 1158

Chapter 1210 Shu Jin Smuggling Case
On the second day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of Hongwu's reign, before the New Year's holiday in Daming was over, Su Yonglin received news from the Skynet Army in Sichuan and Shu.

The Dali Kingdom is secretly conducting Shu brocade trade with the Chengdu court. The Chengdu Brocade Institute has secretly resumed work and is producing the Shu brocade that the Dali Kingdom needs in large quantities, and a batch of Shu brocades that have been accumulated in the warehouse have been sent to the past.

Both sides are very cautious, and similar things are not publicized at all.

Su Yonglin was not surprised that such a thing would happen.

Because Shu Brocade trade is really profitable, very profitable.

Especially when this ban is in effect, normal channels are blocked, and only abnormal channels can be used. If you can get a batch of Shu Brocade at a lower price and then resell it, it will be hundreds of percent. Profits can definitely make anyone jealous.

As a small border country, Dali country is not very well-off financially. It is normal to want to obtain this part of the income.

However, this became a very good excuse for Su Yonglin, a good excuse to launch an attack on the Dali Kingdom after successfully defeating the Sichuan-Shu Song Army.

If you are young, you are greedy, and if you are big, you have two hearts towards the Central Plains Dynasty, which is an act of rebellion.

Hit you without discussing.

Su Yonglin then ordered the Skynet Army's department responsible for intelligence collection in Dali to launch operations, and at the same time began to plan the establishment of the Dali branch of the Renaissance Society.

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't afford this land, he wanted it, and the Song rulers felt that the land could not make ends meet, he thought it was very good, and the Dadu River could not stop him.

By winning the Dali Kingdom and running the Dali Kingdom, not only can you obtain some local strategic resources, but you can also directly reach out to Southeast Asia and start operations in the Southeast Asian area, which is convenient for further southward travel.

"Dali country dares to ignore Daming's ban and fight against Daming directly. I don't know if they have weighed their own weight and whether they are prepared. If they are not prepared, they dare to do this, it is pure stupidity!"

Su Yonglin issued an edict, asking the Lin'an court to rebuke Dali and order Dali not to do such things again, otherwise the consequences will be at your own risk.

Of course, no matter whether they stop and stop acting at this time, it will not affect Su Yonglin's determination to destroy them.

They have already got on the small books and can't get down.

Originally, Su Yonglin thought that this was the case, but within a few days, Su Yonglin learned about the follow-up of this incident.

They were also secret agents of the Skynet Army in the Sichuan-Shu area. They learned that in addition to a group of Shu Jin heading south to Dali, they also detected a group of Shu Jin heading north to the northern Sichuan area.

They didn't know where these Shu Jin went and didn't catch up, but they suspected that they had something to do with Guanzhong Province, so they secretly contacted the Fourth Action Team of the Skynet Army, which was in charge of intelligence investigation in Guanzhong Province, and asked for their assistance.

The Fourth Action Team of the Skynet Army took it seriously after learning about it. Team leader Xu Xuan personally followed up to investigate the matter. After a period of meticulous action, they found out the matter.

To put it simply, after the trade ban, some people used their positions and power in their hands to secretly organize a team to conduct Shu brocade trade with Sichuan and Shu silk merchants, and then sell them to the grasslands and even Western Liao to make money through channel relationships.

The grassland trade route has long been opened up. As for the trade with Xiliao, it mainly exists among the people in the Kansai region, and the government is not involved.

Jin Guo also tried to crusade the Western Liao and destroy the Western Liao, but it failed in the end, and of course, he would not have any constructive value in business and trade with the Western Liao.

But private commerce is not easy to control.

The perpetrator who was first discovered was Ma Wenxuan, the head of Qingshui County, Qinzhou. After he was interrogated by the local judicial office, he couldn't bear the torture and confessed to some accomplices, such as county officials, such as Yicheng, for example, the main criminal was Qingshui County. Let Han Ming know.

After these people were arraigned by the judicial office, they successively confessed to some accomplices who assisted them in their work, such as Zhou Di, the postmaster of Huaping County, Pingliang Prefecture, Jia Qing, the magistrate of Dongshan County, Zhenrong Prefecture, and the inspector Yu Yu of Heshui County, Qingyang Prefecture. Everyone is waiting.

As the offending officials were uncovered one by one, a secret Shu brocade sales gang that had existed in the central, western and northern parts of Guan since the fourth year of Hongwu was uncovered.

After Su Yonglin captured Guanzhong, he left behind a lot of old bureaucratic rule, so before the purge, Guanzhong was relatively chaotic. After the purge, a large number of the old bureaucrats in Guanzhong were sacked, and Fuxing members took over one after another and began to take over the administration of Guanzhong.

Guanzhong's official governance has a new look.

However, the number of Fuxing members who could govern the area was insufficient, so a small number of old bureaucrats who did not make mistakes were preserved. Later, some new recruits who were not Fuxing members from the imperial examination were also sent to Guanzhong for administrative work.

Under the circumstance that the number of administrative revival members is small, the court personnel department and the organization department of the revival society give priority to ensuring the local implementation of the judicial department composed of all revival members.

The Guanzhong area has been given special attention. Since the four years since Hongwu, the Guanzhong area has basically realized that every county has a judicial office established, which is responsible for supervising the administrative agencies.

Correspondingly, at the governance level of the county government, there are still a group of old bureaucrats and non-revival member imperial bureaucrats, but the number is no longer the main body.

The Fuxing members have been strengthened and rectified repeatedly by Su Yonglin, and the style of the problem has been corrected to a considerable extent. This is directly reflected in this Shu Brocade smuggling case, and the perpetrators do not have a Fuxing member.

This is also the only place where Su Yonglin feels gratified.

But then again, this incident still happened. Under his strict guard, there were still officials who took advantage of it.

According to the survey results, these guys started to act during the period of Shu brocade trade with Sichuan and Shu that was officially allowed by the Ming Dynasty, because the trade of Shu brocade with the Southern Song Dynasty and the sale to the grasslands required the official license of the Ming state, and the official needed to pass the license. and transactions to tax.

So they used their status and power to engage in transactions, bribed some old bureaucrats and imperial examination bureaucrats, deliberately avoided officials who revived their membership, opened up a business route, and used the power of the official to become second-order dealers, making a lot of money.

And he didn't pay any taxes, all the profits were shared equally, and then he bought all kinds of luxury goods of the Southern Song Dynasty from the land of Sichuan and Shu, and lived a luxurious life in private.

If they had been dormant for a while honestly this time, they might not have been discovered so early, but because of greed, they didn't control their greed, so they couldn't hold on to it for a month or two, and secretly reopened trading.

It is said that due to the official blockade of the Ming and Jiangnan countries, Shu brocade could not come out to Sichuan and Shu in an upright manner, so that the stock price of Shu brocade in the original local area suddenly soared.

Whether in Jiangnan or on the grasslands, the prices of finished Shu brocades began to soar due to the internal demand of the ruling class, and some people even started a business of stockpiling Shu brocades, intending to take this opportunity to make a fortune.

Shu Jin was indeed blocked from the transaction, but the Shu Jin that was originally completed the transaction still exists.

After a hype, these stocks of Shu brocade were even more expensive, and the news from Shibo Division also showed that some foreign businessmen were trying to buy the stock Shu brocade on the market at twice or three times the price.

Under such circumstances, if smuggling did not occur, it would be a strange thing.

It’s just that the transaction mode is relatively primitive in this year, so the transaction still requires physical contact between the two parties. The process of physical contact is very cumbersome and dangerous, which further pushes up the price of Shu Brocade.

And in the Chuan-Shu area, because the Shu brocade transaction was blocked and a large amount of inventory was backlogged, the price of Shu brocade in the Chuan-Shu area could no longer be sold. Even many insiders of the Chengdu court were worried that these inventory would be lost in their hands, so they would rather Also selling at a reduced price.

On the one hand, the price fell, and on the other hand, the price soared. The price of a smuggled Shu brocade went straight to the sky, which was comparable to gold.

The nobles in the grassland tribes also increased their demand for Shu brocade during this period. The heads of Wang Gu and Tatar, who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, very much hoped to get Shu brocade to meet their own demands and women. Our beauty needs.

The huge profits stimulated these officials, and they finally couldn't bear the desire in their hearts and decided to take the risk to restart the trade route.

(End of this chapter)