In the Water Transport General Military Mansion, in the meeting hall, gods from all walks of life expressed their worries.
"If they abolish water transportation, our Governor's Mansion and the General Military Mansion will definitely be abolished!" Officials in the two governments were trembling with anger. "It's okay for those of us who are officials. The court has to arrange a place to go. But for the hundreds of thousands of laborers in the Governor's Palace, the tens of thousands of laborers in the General Military Palace, the tens of thousands of craftsmen in Qingjiang Shipyard, and their families, who can To support? The imperial court or the Jiangnan Group?!"
They are definitely the ones who have been hit the hardest and most directly.
"Yes, we states and counties along the river have prospered on the canal for hundreds of years." Officials from Xuzhou and Huai'an, as well as officials from Linqing, Jining, Dezhou and other places in Shandong, also sighed sadly:
"If the water transportation is stopped, the canal will soon become clogged, and our dozen or so state capitals will probably lose their carriages and horses, and all industries will wither. The people's hard days are coming"
The only fly in the ointment is that no officials from Yangzhou came, and none of the officials along the river south of the Yangtze River showed up. It is said that the Jiangnan Group drew up a big pie called the "Jiangnan Economic Mutual Assistance Zone" and bewitched those short-sighted guys.
What a bunch of idiots who only care about their own eyes. Don¡¯t they know that the canal is a hardcore crop that can be eaten by generations?
"What, he is a three-year official?" Well, I hope they are dismissed and investigated soon.
"But what does it mean that Tianjin Bingbei Road Cao Ke not only didn't come in person, but also didn't send a representative?"
¡°Oh, Tianjin Wei is the terminal station for sea transportation. In the future, the grain transported by sea will be transshipped at Dagukou, so Tianjin will be completely prosperous. If he dares to come to join the Cao Cao Alliance, he will be slapped to death by the Tianjin elders when he returns
??Selfish and timid. Ugh, disgusting!
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"Damn it, that boy named Zhao is really bullying people!" After the water transportation and local officials finished complaining, it was the turn of the nobles to give their speeches.
"We, the princes and uncles, enjoy the glory, but the court doesn't treat us as human beings at all. We are not allowed to seize the title when we are twenty-four or five years old. We will fine us and take away our salary for any reason. A family of several hundred people depends on us." Water transportation is subsidized. The person named Zhao wants to take away our little income. This is forcing us to die!" Nan and Bo Fang responded, as if they were mourning their heirs.
"That's right, his Jiangnan Group is so rich that he still wants to take food from our mouths! Could it be that tigers don't bite people, so he thinks that our Nanjing nobles are sick cats?" Uncle Dong Ning, surnamed Jiao and Wenyao, continued angrily.
The Ming Dynasty began transporting grain to the north in the first year of Yongle. The water transport system was established by Xungui and is still in control today.
The first commander-in-chief of water transportation was Chen Xuan, Pingjiang Bo during the Yongle period. He was governor of water transportation for thirty years and single-handedly constructed all aspects of water transportation in the Ming Dynasty. After that, Chen Xuan's children and grandchildren served as commander-in-chief of water transportation for two consecutive terms. Now his seventh-generation grandson, the contemporary Pingjiang Bo Chen Wangmo, also serves as the deputy commander-in-chief of water transportation. After Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Huan retires, it will be his turn to take over.
Before Gu Huan, the general water transport force was also controlled by nobles, or to be precise, Nanjing nobles, without exception.
Because of the Battle of Jingnan, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s noble group was divided into two factions, the North and the South. Most of the northern faction came from Jingnan heroes, and they went to Beijing together after Zhu Di moved the capital.
The Southern faction is mainly composed of those nobles conferred by Taizu who stood by Emperor Jianwen during the crisis. Zhu Di naturally didn't want to see them, but after all, they were also loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and they were all related, so Zhu Laosi couldn't easily kill him.
So after the capital was moved, they were all left in Nanjing, out of sight. This group of Nanjing nobles, headed by the Xu family, Duke of Wei, lived their small lives peacefully in Nanjing. In addition to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion in Nanjing, the Water Transport General Mansion was another piece of private land where the imperial court tacitly allowed them to settle their children and make extra money.
Now that the Jiangnan Group has actually extended its hand into their private land, can you nobles stop jumping? Therefore, as soon as the General Military Mansion sent an invitation, they rushed from Jinling to Huai'an.
"The same fly in the ointment is that my husband Xu Pengju is seriously ill and his son Xu Bangrui refuses to come on the pretext of being sick. This inevitably makes them less confident.
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Fortunately, Eunuch Qiu, the Fengyang garrison eunuch, also came, which completely offset the negative impact of the absence of the Duke of Wei and boosted everyone's morale.
In addition to serving the imperial mausoleum, managing the imperial city of Zhongdu, and training the troops and horses of the eight guards left in Zhongdu, Fengyang garrison eunuchs are also responsible for monitoring military and political affairs within the Fengyang governor's jurisdiction.
Therefore, the Fengyang garrison eunuch also had the responsibility of supervising water transportation for the emperor. Its authority is second only to the Nanjing garrison eunuchs outside the capital.
In fact, like the garrison eunuchs in Nanjing, the garrison eunuchs in Fengyang are also the eunuchs responsible for rituals.?It¡¯s strange to be able to succeed in a business with oligopolistic competition and strong professionalism like a bank.
Thirty years ago, after the Hengtong suffered serious losses, the General of Water Transport and the Governor of Water Transport finally made up their minds and spent a lot of money to recruit Song Xiaoming, the boss of the Huai'an branch of the "Wanyuan" at the time, to take the helm of Hengtong.
This shopkeeper of Song Dynasty is a business wizard who is decisive and decisive. Before taking office, he made three agreements with shareholders.
1. If you don¡¯t like yourself, you can withdraw yourself at any time. But as long as you use yourself for a day, you must give yourself absolute business decision-making power. Including the use of capital and the departure and retention of personnel, there must be no interference.
Second, shareholders cannot borrow money from Hengtongji. Previous borrowings must be converted into loans and settled within one year. After one year, follow the market and collect interest.
Third, the "Third Master" is not allowed to enter Hengtongji to manage affairs. The so-called third master is the ¡®uncle¡¯, ¡®aunt¡¯ and ¡®young master¡¯ of the shareholders. Any business run by a shopkeeper will never be good if these three kinds of people are mixed in.
¡°If he doesn¡¯t agree to these three things, no matter how much money or shares he is given, he will not wade into this muddy water. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com