Whether merchants are meat on the chopping board is up to debate. At least, for merchants themselves, they do not think they are meat on the chopping board.

Over the years, Lin Chunhong has protected the merchants a lot and gradually made them useless. When he was overseas and within the Ming Dynasty, he sued the Supervisory Office and asked Master Qingtian to take charge.

Merchants are rich in funds, and for some unexplained reasons, merchants' cases are mostly closed by their victory. Therefore, ordinary gentry and lower-level bureaucrats really dare not provoke big merchants.

However, this bad temper is also very limited. For example, when Lin Chunhong ordered the tax to be increased a few years ago, although the merchants complained a lot, they had to pay taxes obediently, and their temper was very good.

As for Dengzhou, Tianjin and Xuanfu, the situation is a bit different from that of Jingzhou's controlled areas.

These three places are indeed good places to make money. Merchants gather in these places like sharks smelling blood, making great profits.

Strictly speaking, the investment environment in these three places is very poor. The public security is very poor, there are many people extorting, and the checkpoint tax is extremely high. Businessmen have long been dissatisfied with the governance of the three places and have always called on the governments of the three places to learn from the experience of Jingzhou in governing the local area and have undergone a thorough reform.

When they heard that the court wanted to increase the tax on checkpoints in three places, they suddenly exploded and gathered in the military and government offices to petition, opposing the tax increase.

The tax on the checkpoint is a big matter. How dare the local officials in Tianjin, Xuanfu and Dengzhou be negligent?

Especially in Dengzhou, there was a mutiny more than ten years ago, and local officials were extremely nervous. They immediately took measures to drive away the merchants, and also searched the whole city to capture the leaders everywhere.

The merchants suddenly exploded.

They were within Lin Chunhong's control and were in good manners and did not dare to do anything randomly. In Dengzhou, they could not bear any grievances.

Given that there have always been many bandits in the north, some large merchants have fully armed guards. What's more fatal is that there are many maritime merchants in Dengzhou, and the sailors on these maritime merchants are all masters who are not afraid of heaven and earth, fearing that the world will not be in chaos.

What's even worse is that even on merchant ships, there are artillery and gunners on the ship.

Local officials Qiangli Town?

??, which caused a violent backlash from the merchants. They led the guards and sailors to gather outside Dengzhou City, trying to coerce Dengzhou Prefecture to cancel the life span.

These guys cannot bear grievances only one of the reasons, or even one of the main reasons. They thought in their hearts that Lin Chunhong had a hard time fighting with the court during this period. Once they made things worse, Lin Chunhong would definitely support them.

I'm afraid this is the most critical reason!

However, they obviously underestimated the strength of the court. Since the Kong Youde Rebellion was put down, the court has stationed heavy troops near Dengzhou, and Chen Hongfan was appointed as the general of Denglai to shock Shandong and Liaodong.

Chen Hongfan was a decisive and decisive master. After receiving a letter of help from Dengzhou Prefecture, he made a quick decision and sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress the mobs of the merchants.

This time, Dengzhou saw blood, and the mobs flocked to the beach and fled to the sea boat.

A group of maritime merchants were very angry. On the one hand, they urgently asked Zhou Linlao in Lushun for help, and on the other hand, they led merchant ships to bombard Dengzhou Water City.

Dengzhou Water City is very strong, and there are cannons on the city, which cannot be shaken by merchant ships.

The merchants gathered at sea to discuss and agreed that they could not bear it. They considered that Dengzhou was very strict and should not be humiliated lightly, so it was better to go to Tianjin to find the bad luck of local officials.

From Dengzhou to Tianjin, the water route is much faster than by land route. When merchants arrived in Tianjin by boat, Tianjin did not know that something had happened in Dengzhou.

Tianjin is not much better than Dengzhou, and it also has sparks everywhere. After the merchants arrived in Tianjin, they were a little furious and Tianjin became excited and Mars turned into a sky-sky fire.

The Tianjin Security Office was caught off guard and was easily captured by merchants, and all local officials became prisoners.

After occupying the entire city, some large merchants learned from their mistakes and pulled out soldiers and officers who had retired from the Jingzhou army from the guards and sailors, and ordered them to reorganize their troops and defend the city to wait for assistance.

After receiving the merchant's request for help, Zhou Linlao immediately led a fleet to Dengzhou. After arriving in Dengzhou, he learned that the merchants had arrived in Tianjin. Zhou Linlao turned the bow of the ship and rushed to Tianjin.

After arriving in Tianjin, Zhou Linlao saw that the merchants had already made a big deal, so he urgently reported to Zheng Fulin and Lin Chunhong. He led a fleet to cruising outside the Tianjin port, waiting for Zheng Fulin's orders.

Zhou Linlao was upset when he watched the court all day long and wanted to make things worse. The northern fleet was cruising outside Tianjin, which of course had the intention of cheering up the merchants.

Tianjin civil unrest!

After receiving the report, almost everyone from Zhu Youjian took a breath. Didn’t the Ming Dynasty court just be disturbed by the civil war and become what it is now? The court is in a difficult situation now. If there is a civil war around Beijing, what should the court do?

Their first reaction was that Zhou Yanru's tax increase policy caused a rebound from merchants and eventually developed into civil unrest.

How could Zhou Yanru accept this responsibility? He tried his best to defend himself, claiming that the merchants were conspiracy of Lin Chunhong. Without Lin Chunhong's support, he gave these merchants a hundred courages to rebel. He also took out Zhou Linlao's fleet to arrive in Dengzhou, and Tianjin's offshore as evidence, trying to make everyone believe that Lin Chunhong led all this.

Yang Yiren and Bao Zhedong desperately refuted Zhou Yanru and presented more evidence to prove that Zhou Yanru's wrong policies led to civil unrest.

Sober people like Chen Qiyu probably don’t know anything about this. They know that Lin Chunhong is busy with local official system reform within the control, and it is basically impossible to cause trouble in Shandong and Northern Zhili.

Moreover, Chen Qiyu believes that even if Lin Chunhong takes over the matter, the court must not speak out. This will completely break up with Lin Chunhong, and the court's situation will be very dangerous.

Chen Qiyu was very angry at Zhou Yanru's lack of knowledge of the general situation, but he was helpless. When he was thinking about how to point out the key points to Zhu Youjian, he didn't expect that Zhu Youjian would directly determine the nature of this matter: "Lin Chunhong is far away in Jingzhou and cannot interfere in this matter, so this should not be mentioned again. As for the riots in Tianjin, they ignore the national laws and must be quelled as soon as possible!"

Chen Qiyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: The emperor still knows the most powerful ones.

However, Chen Qiyu was very disappointed with Zhu Youjian again. Zhou Yanru was so slutty and was not suitable to stay in the position of chief minister, and Zhu Youjian didn't even say a harsh word!

Chen Qiyu suddenly felt a little discouraged: What's the point of staying in such a court? It's better to go back.

When it came to discuss how to quell the Tianjin rebellion, most court officials did not take Tianjin seriously: at best they were just a group of merchants, and they just took a clue when the guards were not paying attention. As long as the imperial army arrived, the thieves in Tianjin would scatter like birds and beasts.

Under the guidance of this idea, Zhu Youjian ordered a unit of the Jingying camp to advance to Tianjin immediately to extinguish the rebellion.

However, what made Zhu Youjian angry was that before the Beijing camp saw the city walls of Tianjin, they were rushed into a mess by the guards who took the initiative and fled back to the capital in a panic.

Everyone in the court was shocked, and some even worried that once the merchants bewitched tens of thousands of wool workers in Tianjin to join the rebellion, it would be a bit dangerous for the capital!

Zhou Yanru considered that the Ji Liao Legion successfully caused tensions between the court and Jingzhou in the early stage. Now that Tianjin's civil unrest is in conflict, the situation is becoming increasingly tense, and it is meaningless to stay in Fengyang. So he asked to immediately transfer back to the Ji Liao Legion from Fengyang to suppress the Tianjin rebellion.

Zhu Youjian approved the report.

After receiving the report from Zhou Linlao, Zheng Fulin was confused as if he was two monks. He asked Zheng Fulin to lead the troops to make a decision. He was not inferior to anyone, but once political strategy was involved, he could not control it.

Zheng Fulin thought about it and ordered Zhou Linlao to continue to roam around Tianjin, waiting for Jingzhou to send someone to deal with it.

By the time Lin Chunhong learned about the Tianjin Incident, the Beijing Camp had been defeated.

Lin Chunhong was very worried about Zhu Youjian, and Zhou Yanru could not see the situation clearly, so he directly identified the matter as his conspiracy.

During this period, Jingzhou was in a critical period of local official system reform, and many things were in a mess. Many rules and regulations had not been sorted out. Once they showed up with the court, the price they paid for would be very high.

Moreover, Lin Chunhong was worried that after fighting with the court, Huang Taiji, who was about to move, would definitely not be lonely and would probably send troops to cause trouble.

However, no matter how the court determines it, once Jingzhou openly intervenes in it, it will eventually be a passive situation.

Lin Chunhong set several principles for solving this matter: the rebel merchants must be protected; Tianjin took the lead in restructuring in the north; and the Qing Tartars must not be given the opportunity to take advantage of.

Lin Chunhong didn't mind forcing the court to show some substantial benefits to the merchants. After all, these merchants held that he was behind the scenes and were not afraid of causing trouble. If the matter came to an end, he would not support him. How sad would these merchants be?

For the sake of emotion and reason, Lin Chunhong must support the businessmen who are causing trouble. Whether to support the businessmen is a scheming, whether to open or secret, it is a skill.

It is common sense to be less skilled than to be absent.

With the principle, the strategy was about to come out. Seeing that Wang Dajun was in Jingzhou, Lin Chunhong entrusted Wang Dajun to Tianjin to solve the problem.

In addition, Lin Chunhong secretly ordered Zheng Fulin to secretly send some officers from the Jinwu Army to Tianjin City to assist in defending the city, and ordered Zhou Linlao to secretly transport some weapons to Tianjin.

Lin Chunhong suddenly discovered that he did not have a rank-level official in the capital. Although Yang Yiren and Bao Zhedong were in the capital, they had a special status and could not plan and command in the center.

These weaknesses caused Jingzhou to react only after so many days of the Tianjin Incident, which was obviously not very adaptable to the changes in the situation.

If you want to say, Lin Chunhong still likes Wang Dajun quite, but I don’t know if Wang Dajun is willing, and Wang Dajun is too old.

After thinking about it, he thought it would be appropriate to let Wang Dajun try the waters first. As long as Wang Dajun is willing, it doesn't matter if he is older. Anyway, it will be a few years since the central government has been completely resolved.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Chunhong received the news that the Jing camp was defeated and the Ji Liao army had set out to the north. Seeing that the progress of the matter was similar to what he inferred, he no longer paid attention to the matter and devoted all his energy to the reform of the local official system.
Chapter completed!