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Chapter 884: The world will continue to turn around without anyone else
The smuggling case can be said to have stirred up a thousand waves. After an encirclement and suppression, the entire southeastern coastal area was involved.

First of all, the governor of North Jiangsu County and hundreds of officials under his jurisdiction were all involved. The arrests could be said to have changed the entire top management of North Jiangsu.

Then came the four counties of Sunan, Jianjiang, Haifu, and Lingyue. In the end, these five counties had a total of three county governors, two county magistrates, hundreds of prefects and thousands of other officials all involved. involved in this matter.

And this is just for officials. There are hundreds of maritime merchants involved, two with a net worth of tens of millions, a dozen with a millionaire, and even more merchants with a net worth of hundreds of thousands taels. Reaching nearly a hundred stores,
The combined net worth of these maritime merchants has reached the level of nearly 100 million taels, which is equivalent to one-third of the Song Dynasty's annual tax revenue!
And the maritime trade business they are involved in accounts for the majority of the five counties. It can be said that nearly one-third of the entire five southeastern counties are occupied by them, and the other one-third is owned by Feiyun Trading Company. The remaining one-third was contributed by the rest of the small maritime merchants combined.

As soon as these people were arrested, chaos broke out in varying degrees throughout the five southeastern counties, and there were too many people who relied on them for food.

Once they fall, at least one-tenth of the people in the five counties will lose their livelihood.

These five counties can be said to be the most densely populated places in the entire south, with a total of 70 million people living here.

The chaos of millions of people was about to begin in the five southeastern counties. However, Feiyun Trading Company immediately expanded its scale to capture the extra market share, and then recruited workers aggressively to quickly stabilize the situation in the five counties.

But that's not all. The government also began to frequently meet with local small and medium-sized maritime merchants. Soon these small maritime merchants obtained a large low-interest loan from Feiyun Bank at the most favorable price and began to rapidly expand their industries. The Cloud Chamber of Commerce quickly gave up a certain market share, allowing them to grow rapidly, and continued to provide various kinds of help.

Soon these small and medium-sized maritime merchants who were supported quickly filled the market gap and continued to grow. The chaos caused by the arrest of the maritime merchants in the five counties subsided.

But at this time, in the cell, the merchants who were arrested were very calm, except for some stunned men who were so frightened that they screamed that they were wronged.

"Sir! I am wronged! You villain is wronged! It's all my father! It was my father who was smuggling, I didn't! I didn't!"

"It's unfair! I'm just a playboy. I really never participated in smuggling! It was my uncle who did it! Wuwuwu..."

"I'm wronged! I'm wronged!"

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However, no matter how much they shouted, no one would pay attention to them.

In the evening, perhaps because they were finally tired, these stupid young people all sat back next to their adults.

While eating the food just delivered from the prison, these stupid young people asked their elders in confusion why?
An Jia is like this at this time.

The only son of An Changfu, the head of the An family, is currently asking his father.

Hearing this, An Changfu slowly opened his eyes and explained:

"Of course it's because we are not afraid! Don't look at the government arresting us now. Just wait and see in a while, when the market is no longer in chaos without us, the government will honestly send us back."

An Changfu is very confident. He knows how big the maritime merchants here are, and he has an idea in his heart.

The role they play so far cannot be replaced by others.

Once they are caught for a long time, Haifu County will be in chaos. I don't know how many people rely on their own family's industry to make a living.

If all these people get into chaos by then, it will depend on whether the court can stop them.

If the court couldn't stop them, they would have no choice but to let them out.

After listening to his father explain the cause and effect, the eldest son of the An family, An Changsheng, slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since there was no danger to his life, he didn't need to think so much. The eldest son of the An family immediately found a haystack and fell asleep.

However, what they didn't know was that while they were still in prison, they were thinking that the court would not be able to deal with the extra people without them, and would come to invite them when the time comes.

At this time, the outside world has long been replaced by new people and old ones.

The world will go on the same without everyone, it doesn't have to be them.

In this way, this group of confident businessmen were detained for five full days.

Just when they calculated that they would be able to go out soon, things turned out to be completely different from what they thought. After learning the specific situation from the jailers, these family heads, who were still a little arrogant at first, became as soft as cooked eggplants!

The original confidence disappeared, and the original calmness became a joke.

The original ones were no longer the only ones complaining about injustice, these family heads were now joining in!

It was only then that the Department of National Health finally began to interrogate them.

"life?"

"An Changfu!"

"gender?"

"male!"

"Do you know why you came in?"

"Guan Ye! It's all a misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding! I don't dare to do it anymore! I don't dare to do it anymore! Guan Ye, please let me go!"

"Well, it seems you know it well. In that case, just sign and pledge it!"

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…Sir, I was wronged, I really was wronged!"

These maritime merchants are still making their last efforts, but unfortunately their efforts are of no use. They are still sentenced for as long as they should be.

Soon, these maritime merchants were quickly interrogated.

Regardless of whether they were honest or dishonest, they were all judged in the end.

Those who are honest are fine and answer whatever they ask.

And those who are unwilling to cooperate.

Since the National Security Bureau dared to arrest someone, there was certainly evidence. However, the National Security Bureau did not show the evidence directly. Instead, they gave him a torture package first, and then brought out the evidence to convict him when he couldn't stand it anymore.

I don’t know how many people have suffered terribly from the operation of the National Health Service, but they don’t care. They are all tax evaders.

The way to deal with these maritime merchants is very simple. The principal culprits involved in smuggling must die. This is the tone set by Zhao Jun.

As for others, they will be dealt with at different levels according to the degree of participation.

However, most of the property of these maritime merchants was confiscated.

The Department of National Health directly paid ten times the tax evaded by these maritime merchants in accordance with the penalty of ten for stealing.

This has also caused the wealth of these maritime merchants to shrink significantly, and some of them are not even enough!
This is only for maritime traders.

As for those officials who participated in smuggling, the imperial court had another set of methods to deal with them. These arrested officials had been secretly escorted to Bianjing.

After all, they are the head of a county and other high-ranking officials, and there is no one in this place who can deal with them.

Naturally, they had to be sent to Bianjing for trial.

On the Bianjing side, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Department of National Health will form a three-chamber joint trial to conduct the final trial of these senior officials!

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(End of this chapter)