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Luo Mansion.

Luo Xin looked at Lu Yi and said, "You may not be able to move Xu Jie. Your Majesty is afraid of trouble now, so take a step by step. However, it is a good thing for the Lu family to withdraw. The Lu family is at a low point now, so it is better to be low-key, it is nothing more than making less money. Tell Lu Ding not to have other thoughts and be honest."

Lu Yi's heart was filled with a stern heart and nodded, "I understand."

Yuxi Palace.

"Xuan Liu Shouyou."

Two quarters of an hour later, Liu Shouyou came to Yuxi Palace and knelt in front of Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing looked at Liu Shouyou and said:

"Do you know about the Southeast Maritime Bureau?"

"Know!"

"Tell me!"

"Abide by the order!"

Liu Shouyou said the Southeast incident in detail. Emperor Jiajing listened to it and felt that it was no different from what Lu Ding said in his letter, so he nodded and said:

“Did it affect taxes?”

"Not yet, but I am worried that once the Xu Mansion has fully grasped the maritime trade transactions, it will affect the tax revenue of the Maritime Trade Bureau."

"He dares?" Emperor Jiajing said lightly: "Okay, I know. Keep watching the Maritime Department and the Xu family."

"Abide by the order!"

"Go!"

"I'm leaving."

Liu Shouyou retreated, and Huang Jin whispered: "Your Majesty, the Lu family..."

"Hmph!" Emperor Jiajing said lightly: "Even if the Lu family does not have maritime trade transactions, the Lu family will never spend all the money they earn in two lifetimes."

Maritime Department.

The merchants of the vassal state had a flushed face and a thick neck, and they were all quarreled, but Xu Kun and Xu Ying were both old gods.

The reason is very simple. After the five major families withdrew, the Xu family immediately raised the transaction price to the original height, which made the merchants of the vassal state who had tasted cheap suddenly feel unbalanced. They immediately quarreled with the two young masters of the Xu family and threatened that if the Xu family still maintained this price, they would not trade.

Xu Kun and Xu Ying just showed mockery, and finally left. They didn't care about these vassal merchants and never looked down on them. When the Xu family did not participate, these merchants could accept the prices of the five major families, but now they could not accept it?

impossible!

It's just greed.

However, the two brothers believed that this group of merchants from the vassal states could not have bought the ceramics, tea and silk from the Ming Dynasty. If they stayed here for one more day, they would have lost more day. Sooner or later, they would come to beg them, and they would not care about the threats from the merchants from the vassal states.

Of course, they were also wary of those vassal state merchants going to find the five major families to smuggle. Therefore, they were also monitoring. If the five major families dared to smuggle, they would dare to destroy the five major families. Now Lu Bing is dead, the chief minister of the cabinet is their father, and the prefect of Hangzhou is their father's student.

Have the merchants from the vassal states gone to find the five major families?

I must have found it!

However, he didn't even get the sect in, and the heads of the five major aristocratic families did not see them at all. This made Xu Kun and Xu Ying feel regretful, and were also full of disdain for the five major aristocratic families.

Xu Shixing and the Jinyiwei, who secretly monitored the five major families, also breathed a sigh of relief. Especially the Jinyiwei, they were really afraid that something happened to the Lu family.

However, just when Xu Kun and Xu Ying were confidently waiting for the vassal state merchants to come and ask them to ask them to beg for them, but went to find Xu Shixing, begging them to be sold to them at the lowest price last time, otherwise they would rather go back empty ships. Writing Xu Shixing would not understand why the vassal state merchants were like this?

At the price of the five major families, didn’t the merchants of the vassal state make a lot of money?

Later, after Xu Shixing kept asking, the merchants of the vassal states finally revealed the reason. It turned out that they were stopped by a pirate on the way to the Ming Dynasty. These merchants of the vassal states were also armed, and they also had firearms, and even small cannons and Franc cannons on the ship.

However, they did not expect that the pirates' ships were stronger and faster, and they also had more advanced artillery and muskets with extremely fast firing speeds and long range. They were not opponents at all, and they were knocked out after just one encounter and had to surrender.

I originally thought I would be killed or captured as slaves, but what they didn't expect was that the pirates robbed them of nothing, but just told them that after going to the Ming Dynasty, they would hand over half of the goods to provide protection fees for the pirates.

Of course, these merchants from the vassal state agreed. Now that they traded with the Ming Dynasty, the price of goods given by the Ming Dynasty was quite low, and the purchase of goods was still the same as the original price. In this way, even if they paid half of the goods as protection fee, they could make money. They only made very little money.

This has already made them happy. They were not killed by pirates, were not arrested as slaves, and were allowed to make money. What else should they do?

They all thought about it and waited for the Ming Dynasty to join forces to lower the price again, so that they could make more money and compensate for their losses.

However, they did not expect that before they could lower the price, the Ming Dynasty raised the price and mentioned the original price. In this way, they would lose their pants, let alone making money.

Of course they would not agree, so they went to find the five major aristocratic families, but were turned away and waited for them to figure out the reason, and then they realized that the five major aristocratic families had withdrawn from the overseas trade. And their closed-door attitude was telling them that the five major aristocratic families would not smuggle with them. They had to trade with the Xu family.

but……

How can this price be accepted?

Therefore, they found Xu Shixing today and forced them to explain the reason. In the end, they even had a showdown with Xu Shixing. If they did not drop to the original price, they would leave and would never come to the Ming Dynasty again. No one would do a loss-making transaction.

At this moment, Xu Shixing became anxious.

If these merchants from the vassal states never come to the Ming Dynasty again, wouldn’t they not be able to collect a single tax from their Maritime Warehouse?

Then Emperor Jiajing had the heart to eat him!

The key is that Emperor Jiajing didn’t have anything to eat him, wouldn’t he just die?

But Xu Shixing knew that the current Ming Dynasty finance was all directed at the Maritime Administration. If the Maritime Administration could not collect a single cent of taxes, the Ming Dynasty finance would be paralyzed, and the Ming Dynasty would be in chaos again, and he would be guilty of destroying the country.

He was anxious to find Xu Jie's two sons and also called the merchants of the vassal state. Xu Shixing explained the matter clearly with Xu Jie's two sons. In the end, he ordered Xu Jie's two sons to trade with the merchants of the vassal state at the original price, and warned Xu Jie's two sons:

"If they don't do that and Xu Shixing can't complete the tax, he will report the two of them to His Majesty that disrupted the maritime trade. Your Xu family will wait for the house to be searched."

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