When Zhu Mai heard this, she couldn't help but feel a little curious and asked quickly: "Sir, who is making trouble?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei did not reply immediately. Instead, he said to them: "Follow the news provided by Zhou Wenzhen first and then fill in the news about Shanxi merchants."

As soon as he said this, Zhu Mai naturally understood that the gentleman probably guessed that the Shanxi merchant was making trouble. So she and Fei Zhen'e hurried to search in another pile of information.

After checking, Zhu Mai pointed at some of the contents and said to Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, please see, these Shanxi merchants are indeed purchasing grain and transporting them back to Shanxi."

"I have it here too. Shanxi merchants not only purchased grain from the capital!" Fei Zhen'e also found some information and hurriedly reported.

Afterwards, both of them read the relevant information. After reading it, Fei Zhen'e asked curiously: "What do these Shanxi merchants want so much food? Do they hoard the house?"

At this time, all the grains are purchased and stocked up, and the grain prices rise and sell them again to make more money. Such things are naturally heard of as a palace maid.

Therefore, businessmen generally have a bad reputation. Because they pursue profits, the bigger the better. Few businessmen know how to do charity to change this impression of the world.

Zhu Mai knew more about it. After hearing Fei Zhen'e's words, she asked Zhang Mingwei with some uncertainty: "Sir, should these Shanxi merchants collect grain to be sold to Liaodong?"

When Fei Zhen'e heard this, she was a little surprised: I sold it to Liaodong?

Zhang Mingwei nodded and said with a serious expression: "In the Battle of Songjin, Jianlu used the method of siege, and it was a similar action of the whole country's troops. Then there was no seizure. The war required. At the beginning, they burned all the food and grass of the imperial army. Therefore, they should be in urgent need of supplies, especially food, and they were even more in urgent need. The slave chief Huang Taiji was a capable person, so he naturally would not be stingy with money. Anyway, they all robbed money, so they didn't feel sorry for spending it."

Speaking of this, he paused and said with a little hatred: "The Shanxi merchants naturally understood this, or the Jianlu had already informed the Shanxi merchants. Therefore, they ignored the urgent need for food in the pass, ignored the starvation of the people in the pass, and also wanted to sell the food to Liaodong at a higher price!"

Hearing this, Zhu Mai suddenly realized and said, "It is precisely because these Shanxi merchants often solve these big troubles of the Jianlu of Liaodong that they were named the Eight Great Imperial Merchants?"

She knew a little about the history of later generations, so she connected it.

"That's right!" Zhang Mingwei nodded affirmatively after hearing this, "If it was just a general transaction, it would never be specially named the Eight Great Imperial Merchants! They not only sold grain to the Liaodong Jianlu, but other things that were urgently short of Liaodong Jianlu must also be their reselling examples. They even included various news in the pass!"

Although Fei Zhen'e didn't understand these words very well, such as what happened to the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, she probably understood the situation. She immediately said angrily: "Master, do they only have money in their eyes?"

"At the right point, they really only have money in their eyes!" Zhang Mingwei heard this, pointed his hand at her, and nodded immediately and said, "Businessmen value profit, and are most likely to be expelled by interests! Therefore, in the future, I will suggest that the emperor encourage small merchants to do business, but to limit the expansion of large merchants."

Speaking of this, he said to the two people in front of him: "You check the news about the subway equipment again."

After saying that, Zhang Mingwei started to ponder himself.

If people from this era do not know about the Shanxi merchants, they may be trapped in the fog and cannot unravel the cocoons from so many things and find out the behavior of Shanxi merchants.

However, as a later generation, Zhang Mingwei already knew the result, but instead made the inference, many things were easy to solve. For example, he asked someone to check the price of grain and the sale of iron tools, and found that the Shanxi merchants were doing these things. If it were other people, more than one Shanxi merchants did these things, it would be unlikely that they were collectively enfeoffed.

Now, it can be said that Zhang Mingwei is the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, and the power he holds is incomparable to others. It will naturally be much easier for him to deal with those Shanxi merchants who are still in the dark and do not know that he is targeted.

The detection of grain iron tools is a means. Before, letting the Luo Zujiao from Zhouwen Town go to Shanxi to investigate the news was another means. In addition, Ma Xianglin's Baigang Army, who had arrived in the capital, actually had to deploy means to deal with these Shanxi merchants.

In other words, because we know the result, the net of heaven and earth targeting the Shanxi merchants has actually been spread out. Now, no one except Zhang Mingwei knows it.

Zhu Meiyu and Fei Zhen'e also quickly found out the transaction of iron tools, including agricultural tools, which were indeed purchased by Shanxi merchants.

Hearing their reports, Zhang Mingwei suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Take a two-pronged approach, don't delay, and solve these Ming cancers as soon as possible."

Having already had an idea in his heart, he said to the two people in front of him: "It's already late at night now, you're all tired, read other news tomorrow, and you'll have a rest!"

After hearing this, Zhu Mai hurriedly said to Zhang Mingwei: "Sir is the most tiring one."

Zhang Mingwei was really hard, and he was not pretentious. He took a look at the information that he had not read, and didn't care too much. He stood up and stretched and said, "Let's go and rest! Tomorrow will be another lively day."

Among those materials, there is a list of gifts that he came to give when he was not in the capital. These things were placed at the end. If those who gave gifts knew about it, they would probably cry to death.

The next day, it was indeed very lively.

After all, it was already dark when Chen Xinjia's family was arrested yesterday, and the news did not spread in the capital. After dawn, the news really spread.

Some people came to Chen Xinjia's mansion to see the news and found that they were all Jinyiwei, who were searching for property, and even implemented yesterday's news. So they went back to report.

"As soon as the Duke came back yesterday, he searched Chen Xinjia. What was the matter?"

"It's probably the settlement of the matter will begin in the autumn. I think Chen Xinjia, who took the lead in impeaching Duke Xingguo!"

"Why didn't the former Minister of Personnel change?"

"Don't you know? I heard that after hearing the news, I was frightened. Several servants ran away! Think about it, everyone will be arrested and I will not dare to stay again if I want to change it!"

"I think you guessed wrongly. Chen Xinjia must have committed something serious and confiscated his house, right? Otherwise, at most, Chen Xinjia would be arrested!"

"Haha, with the power of Duke Xingguo, I still need to tell you about these things. It must be killing the chicken and scaring the monkey!"

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For a moment, there were all kinds of discussions. Most people thought that Duke Xingguo was killing chickens and scaring monkeys; the other small part felt that there was something else.

Some people sympathize with Chen Xinjia's experience, some people gloat about it, and some people are unrelated to their own affairs. In short, there are all kinds of people.

In the left governor Tian’s mansion, Tian Hongyu, the father of Concubine Tian, ​​naturally heard these rumors and had a deep understanding of Duke Xingguo’s power, no matter what.

So, without saying a word, he immediately took him to search from Jiangnan, thinking that some of the strange goods were resident, so he hurried to Zhang's mansion.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Mingwei was no longer in the mansion.

When Tian Hongyu heard this, he ignored it and forced himself to stay in the Zhang Mansion and wait. On this day, he had to give this "gift" out. If he made friends with Duke Xingguo, it might be helpful to his daughter!

She was the father of Concubine Tian. Unlike ordinary court officials, she insisted on seeing Duke Xingguo and left. She came to give gifts again. Of course, it was not easy to rush him, so she had to entertain him with a cup of tea.

At this time, Zhang Mingwei had already arrived at the Jinyiwei Yamen. After giving instructions, the Jinyiwei's lieutenant took action.

So, Zhou Yanru was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the day after Chen Xinjia was locked up, the Jinyiwei Captain brought him out. What's the situation?

In fact, Chen Xinjia himself was also confused. Therefore, when he saw Zhang Mingwei, he quickly said in a low voice: "Duke, Caomin knew that he was wrong. The Duke is the pillar of my Ming Dynasty. It was Caomin who was confused for a while. Only when the lard was heartbroken would he impeach the Duke. He also asked the Duke not to remember the villain's fault..."

Thinking of Huang Yunfa's words, he quickly expressed his loyalty, wanting to be a dog of Duke Xingguo to protect his glory and wealth!

After hearing this, Zhang Mingwei couldn't help but be surprised by Chen Xinjia's face. Where is the backbone of a literati?

Actually, if you think about it, this guy must have the backbone of a literati and will not collude with Shanxi merchants.

Thinking of this, he shouted coldly: "Songjin's defeat was because you ignored the facts of the military situation and urged the 130,000 army to launch a hasty attack and trigger a great defeat. Can you admit your guilt?"

This is written by him, and it is impossible to deny it.

Chen Xinjia was stunned for this and then quickly explained: "Dude, the Battle of Songjin has been fought for so long. If Jinzhou does not rescue it, it will be in danger! Caomin did that in the first place, it was a forced one!"

Of course he was guilty of this matter, but at most he was to act like an emperor resigning. As the emperor's favorite minister, he would definitely not agree to resign. This matter would probably be passed like this.

Of course, this was the case before Zhang Mingwei appeared. But now, Chen Xinjia couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"Then why did you send someone to discuss peace with Jianlu?"

Chen Xinjia was stunned again when he heard this. He was doing this secretly, so he thought that he could be more confident about mentioning this matter with Emperor Chongzhen.

This kind of thing is also a taboo, especially when he has lost power. Therefore, when he heard it, Chen Xinjia's fear became deeper.
Chapter completed!