Although Liu Jin never admitted to his rebellion, because he had all the evidence and evidence, the charge of rebellion was confirmed to him and was finally sentenced to Lingchi. As a result, on the day of the execution, many people who were harmed by Liu Jin rushed to pay for the meat cut off from Liu Jin and then swallowed it alive to relieve the hatred in his heart.

After Liu Jin was lingchi, his gangsters were quickly liquidated. Among them, Sun Cong, Shi Wenyi and others were killed, and Zhang Cai died in prison. Jiao Fang, the former chief minister of the cabinet, was only demoted because he withdrew early, but he saved his life. As for Liu Jin's clan members, most of them were killed, but Liu Jin's children mysteriously disappeared, and no one knew their whereabouts.

After Liu Jin's death, Zhang Yong took over as the chief eunuch in charge of the seal and the military power of the four Teng Guards in the imperial city. It can be said that he was in the limelight for a while. Li Dongyang succeeded to the chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing was appointed as the Minister of Revenue, and was appointed as the Prince's Young Guard in terms of merit. Yang Tinghe was promoted to the second assistant of the cabinet, becoming Li Dongyang's assistant and a capable candidate for the next chief minister of the cabinet.

The Central Plains dynasty has been developing for thousands of years, but it still cannot replace rule of man with the rule of law. After Liu Jin's death, the series of reforms he implemented were abolished, both good and bad, and both official and unofficial history were eliminated very cleanly by Liu Jin's reform content. This was mainly beneficial to Liu Jin's successful reform offends most scholars. Therefore, after Liu Jin's death, all scholars' curses against him increased instead of reducing, which also made Liu Jin's reputation even more messy than before his death.

The Ming scholars were naturally happy about Liu Jin's death, but it did not have much impact on ordinary people. After all, the things in the court were too far away from them. For them, three meals a day were the ones that they cared about the most.

Zhou Chong was originally just an ordinary citizen, but he was different from ordinary citizens because he is now a large smuggling merchant who controls nearly half of the smuggling trade in Shuangyu Port. Therefore, Liu Jin's death not only had an impact on him, but also this impact even concerns the future of the Chamber of Commerce.

In the hall of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, four people sat around a sumptuous banquet. However, the person sitting on the main seat was not Zhou Chong, but a majestic middle-aged man. This person was Xie Lingyun's father Xie Da. On Xie Da's right hand, Zhou Chong had a smile on his face. As for Zhou Chong, opposite Zhou Chong was a middle-aged man younger than Xie Da, and there was also a young man of similar age to Zhou Chong.

Zhou Chong's middle-aged man had a thin face, thin lips, and his narrow eyes were full of shrewdness. He could tell at a glance that he was not a good person. As for the young man of his age, he looked very similar to the middle-aged man next to him. He just looked at Zhou Chong with a little disdain, as if sitting with Zhou Chong was insulting his identity.

"The two uncles Xie, my nephew, are really simple here and there is nothing to entertain everyone. I can only prepare a table of wine. I hope Uncle Xie and Brother Xie don't mind!" Zhou Chong, who was sitting next to Xie Da, smiled and said with a smile. Although the two Xie family members on the opposite side seemed very cold to them, they still had to be polite.

Today, Xie Da suddenly brought the two people opposite him to visit, so Zhou Chong asked someone to prepare a banquet, and everyone talked while eating. Xie Da had introduced Zhou Chong just now. All the two people opposite him were from the Xie family in Yuyao. The middle-aged man was named Xie Cheng, and Xie Da and Xie Qian were brothers of the same clan, while the young man was Xie Cheng's son, named Xie Quan'an.

According to Xie Da's introduction just now, the reason why Xie Cheng and his son came to Shuangyu Port was to follow the instructions of the Xie family to discuss the specific details of the establishment of the Hai Alliance with Zhou Chong. Only from the meeting, Xie Cheng and his son had a neither salty nor light expression, which made Zhou Chong feel a bad premonition.

"The nephew Zhou Xian is too humble. The fifth brother is busy all the way. Before I could greet him, he was in a hurry to come to you, so today I will lend you a drink toast my fifth brother!" Xie Da also realized that Xie Cheng and his son were not very friendly to Zhou Chong, so he hurriedly raised the wine glass and smiled. In his words, he also revealed a message to Zhou Chong, that is, Xie Cheng and his son were sent by the Xie family in Yuyao, and he has not had time to talk to him in detail.

Xie Cheng and his son belong to the core tribe members of the Xie family. In theory, the status is higher than that of Xie Da, but Xie Da is older than Xie Cheng after all, Xie Cheng is older than Xie Cheng. Therefore, Xie Da calls the other party the fifth brother. Xie Cheng and his son naturally have to give Xie Da a little face. Therefore, when he saw him toast, Xie Cheng smiled faintly and said, "Brother of the clan. We are entrusted by our elder brother this time to discuss the establishment of the sea alliance with President Zhou, so we naturally have to put the important matter first!"

The eldest brother that Xie Cheng mentioned was Xie Qian. He was the eldest among the Xie family's peers and was the most promising. He had previously been the chief minister of the cabinet, so he has always been the head of the Xie family. After Xie Da passed the Hui tribe that Zhou Chong planned to form a maritime alliance with three chambers of commerce, he immediately attracted Xie Qian's attention. After a period of weighing, he finally sent Xie Cheng and his son to discuss the details and conditions for the formation of a maritime alliance with Zhou Chong.

Although Xie Cheng and his son were polite to Xie Da, they ignored Zhou Chong, who was the master. This made Zhou Chong feel angry. At the same time, they secretly scolded Yuyao Xie family that they were still known as a scholarly family, but they didn't even understand the basic etiquette. It was really hateful. If Xie Da had not let him go here, he would have driven Xie Cheng and his son out long ago!

Fortunately, Xie Da also found that Zhou Chong's expression was wrong at this time. He also knew that the Xie family in Yuyao, as a local prominent family, had always been rude to the first-class merchants, especially Zhou Chong is also a smuggling merchant, who violated the national law. Therefore, Xie Cheng and his son would definitely look down on Zhou Chong even more, so they were so cold.

Thinking of this, Xie Da hurriedly opened his slogan and asked Xie Cheng: "Fifth brother, I wonder what news you have asked you to convey this time. What do you think about the establishment of the Hai Alliance?"

Although Xie Cheng was polite to Xie Da, he actually looked down on Xie Da at all. After all, the other party was just a branch and a businessman, and had no status in the family. Therefore, when he was impatient, he heard the other party ask about his purpose and immediately spoke: "Brother still attaches great importance to your business. After all, this is one of the family's main income. So after the Shaohai Alliance repays the affairs of the Hui clan, the eldest brother discussed with several old men in the clan and finally decided to agree to establish the Hai Alliance!"

After hearing the Xie family agreeing to establish the Haimeng League, Zhou Zhong's anger finally subsided a little. If he united with the two major chambers of commerce of the Xie family and Hong family, and his Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, he would monopolize more than 80% of the smuggling business in the entire Shuangyu Port. At that time, he would standardize various behaviors in smuggling, and at that time he would definitely make the smuggling industry bigger and stronger. With the development of smuggling, he would also become a well-deserved smuggling king.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chong couldn't help but feel a little excited, but before he could say anything, Xie Cheng said again: "But although the Hai Alliance can be established, the eldest brother has put forward two conditions!"

"Condition?" Zhou Chong's eyes narrowed when he heard this, and his bad premonition became stronger. He immediately asked, "Oh, I wonder what conditions Mr. Xie proposed?"

Hearing Zhou Chong's inquiry, Xie Cheng turned his head and looked at him lightly, but did not say anything. Instead, his son Xie Quan'an spoke in a frivolous tone: "The conditions of our Xie family are not difficult for President Zhou. The first is that we plan to merge the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Family Chamber of Commerce into a large chamber of commerce, which will be managed by my father at that time, and Uncle Xie Da will be the vice president, responsible for assisting my father. After this Chamber of Commerce and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce established the Hai League, the entire Hai League will also be managed by my father."

"Bang!" Hearing Xie Quan'an's words, Xie Da was the first to be stunned, and the chopsticks in his hand fell on the table. He really didn't expect that the chamber of commerce that he had worked hard for the Xie family for half his life would be easily taken away by Xie Cheng. Although he had the title of vice president, this position was probably just established by the Xie family to comfort him, and it was impossible to have any real power.

Compared to Xie Da's incompetence, Zhou Chong was also very angry. His fists were clenched tightly, and he wanted to beat Xie Cheng and his son in front of him. It was obvious that the Hai Alliance's outsourcing was made by him, and the strength of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce has been restored to most of its influence, and its influence has exceeded that of the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce and the Hong Family Chamber of Commerce, but now the other party wants to take away the management rights of the Hai Alliance, which is simply a naked robbery.

However, Zhou Chong, who was a human being for two lives, has already understood one thing. It is not possible to rely on fists in this world. He must learn to calm down. So although he was full of anger, he forced himself to resist the urge to hit people. After a while, he spoke calmly: "Mr. Xie is really a good plan. The first thing is that it is so difficult to choose, but I don't know what the second condition is?"

Seeing Zhou Chong holding back the anger in his heart and not daring to ejaculate, Xie Cheng and his son looked at each other proudly. They had known that Zhou Chong would get angry when he heard the first condition, but they were confident that Zhou Chong would not dare to get angry at all, because in their opinion, Zhou Chong was just a small smuggling merchant, and there was no one behind him. It can be said that as long as their Xie family was willing, they could destroy Zhou Chong's Nanyang Chamber of Commerce as long as they moved their little fingers.
Chapter completed!