On the fourth day of the fifth month, in the Guangdong-Guangxi Governor’s yamen in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong.

Governor Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, paced back and forth in the main hall, with an uncontrollable anger on his face.

"Guangzhou or martial law?"

Opposite Ding Kuichu, Guangdong inspector Wang Huacheng was wearing a blue official robe and said in annoyance: "It has been five days, and the governor of Guangzhou Prefecture Lu Yixuan is still unwilling to announce the lifting of the strict rules."

Although Wang Huacheng's official robe was blue, this did not affect his position as the inspector's censor.

During the Ming Dynasty, the system of censors was implemented, with 110 thirteen supervising censors, and then the inspectors were selected from them. The emergence of each inspector censor was first selected by the Censorate, and two candidates were brought to the emperor, and the emperor asked to select one.

The Thirteen Supervisory Censors are usually managed by the Central Censorate, but they are not controlled by the Censorate when performing their functions and are directly responsible to the emperor. The Censors' duty is to conduct inspections on behalf of the emperor, "report on major matters and make decisions on small matters." The Censors' Censors represent the emperor in inspecting the local area, also known as "Censors of the Eight Prefectures", are commonly known as "Censors of the Eight Prefectures". They are specifically responsible for supervision, generally ignore other matters, and have great power.

Although Wang Huacheng was only a small seventh rank official, his actual status was even higher than that of the Censor who was responsible for the punishment of a province, and was equivalent to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in later generations, but the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection sent officials to report to the emperor that officials did not have.

Wang Huacheng is also one of the giants in Guangdong Province.

But Wang Huacheng is also full of fire these days.

Zheng Chenggong's "water thief" is for the people of the world to see. The common people think that it is a real water thief. However, for the senior officials in the officialdom who are well-informed and well-known to the Zheng family's methods, those water thieves are undoubtedly the Zheng family's sailors.

The Fujian general Zheng Zhilong had already integrated all the pirate forces in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang. How could such a large number of pirates occupy outside Guangzhou Prefecture? There would be no three thousand pirates who inexplicably crossed the coastal prefectures and counties to directly attack Guangzhou City. Once martial law is strictly imposed, these pirates will not be able to get anything.

Guangzhou is tall and there are many soldiers guarding the city. It is impossible to capture Guangzhou City with three thousand pirates.

Such a strange pirate, no matter how you look at it, they are all faked by the Zheng family sailors.

But counterfeiting is a counterfeit, and those pirates are under the banner of pirates. Which one has evidence that they are counterfeit?

The problem is that when Lu Zihong of the Lu family moved the spring soft chair shop of Qin Zhao in Xiangshan County, the Zheng family sailors came ashore. As soon as the Zheng family sailors arrived ashore, Qin Zhao of Xiangshan County disappeared with Zheng Zheng Sen, making Lu Yixuan, who was furious in Guangzhou City, unable to catch him.

All the rumors are rumored that although Qin Zhao's transaction of spring soft chairs was invented by Qin Zhao, the Zheng family's shares actually accounted for the majority. Lu Yixuan snatched the transaction of spring soft chairs and directly confronted the Anping Zheng family.

The Zheng family’s strategy is very simple. If you can’t make my spring soft chair, I will let you go to Guangzhou City martial law and directly paralyze it.

Wang Huacheng clapped his hands and said, "Governor, the situation is obvious now. This is the Zheng family fighting with Lu Yixuan!"

Liu Yanguang, the envoy of Guangdong Chengxuan Zheng, was breathing a breath and cursed: "The Guangzhou magistrate and the Zheng family fight, nothing will do to us, but the business we wait for will not be completed."

Chengxuan Zhengzong Department is the highest administrative agency in a province in Guangdong. It has one person in the left and one person in charge of all administrative matters, which is somewhat similar to the provincial government in later generations.

As the left envoy of the governor, Liu Yanguang was in the second rank, and was higher than Ding Kuichu, who was appointed as the Minister of War and served as the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Ding Kuichu's Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was a position of office. Although it was set up for a long time in the late Ming Dynasty, it was still a temporary position in theory and had no rank. The official title that determined Ding Kuichu's ranking was the Minister of War and was a third rank.

Of course, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi has the power to dispatch all the troops, horses, food and grass in Guangdong and Guangxi, and can report them directly to the emperor when encountering major events. The real power is extremely high, which is not enough for the governor.

Moreover, when Ding Kuichu was governor of Henan and Huguang, he was once appointed as the Minister of War. Now he has just been transferred to the position of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and temporarily appointed as the Minister of War, but it is estimated that it will not take long for the court to grant him the title of Second-rank official as the Minister of War.

Although Ding Kuichu had just taken office as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, it was enough to allow many officials to surrender. The civil servants in Guangdong Province were basically headed by Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Guangdong inspectors, and the governors of Guangdong, were declared as giants and constrained each other.

There is another group of military officers, who only follow the lead of civil servants and cling to a real civil servant.

Ding Kuichu and these giants led a group of military officers to form cliques and had a lot of fun fighting.

However, the families of these people all have business in Guangzhou City, and they are all big businesses, monopolizing the various transactions of iron, salt, rice, cloth, etc. in Guangzhou City, and sold goods from Guangzhou City to Guangdong prefectures and even Guangxi. At this time, Lu Yixuan closed the city gates in Guangzhou City, which cut off the financial path of these giants.

He Cunzhi, the right envoy of the Execution Censor, said in annoyance: "The Zheng family has sufficient troops, horses, food and supplies, and it is no problem to move under the city of Guangzhou for a month. However, the business of so many businesses is delayed for a month, and only goes out but doesn't enter a month. Who will compensate him? Did Lu Yixuan think about it?"

The Criminal Inspector was in charge of the criminal name of a province, which was equivalent to a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and a senior political and legal official in later generations, with a high position and a powerful position.

Ding Kuichu frowned and said, "Lu Yixuan declared martial law, which is a gesture of fighting against the Zheng family. The Zheng family is calm and he, Lu Yixuan, put himself on the stove and roasted. Why is Lu Yixuan so amazing this time?"

Liu Yanguang replied: "Isn't this Lu Yixuan's eating look too ugly?"

Everyone looked at Liu Yanguang.

Liu Yanguang said: "The governor first came, but I don't know. Over the years, Lu Yixuan's nephew Lu Zihong was arrogant and domineering, and he participated in other people's business everywhere. The so-called shareholding, where do you really need Lu Zihong to pay for it? The Lu family members liked which family was not strong in the background, so they went up to blackmail. The blackmailed businessmen often could only give the Lu family dry shares."

"If it's a very good deal, Lu Zihong will eat it in one bite and swallow it up."

"In recent years, Guangzhou City has listed Lu Zihong as the leader of the three great princes, saying that he is very good at hand and eyes. The business he blackmailed is not a thousand and eight hundred, which is a powerful one!"

"Now he blackmailed Qin Zhao and kicked the Zheng family's iron plate. Everyone was watching. If he wanted to surrender to the Zheng family this time, everyone would go to the Zheng family to sway their share of their own. Who else would be afraid of Lu Zihong? Lu Yixuan?"

Everyone was silent when they heard Liu Yanguang's words.

Although these officials were plundering in Guangdong and Guangxi, they were from Jinshi and were still a little decent. After monopolizing the most important businesses in Guangzhou, these officials occasionally fought against Qiu Feng, the best businessmen. And a large number of people like Lu Zihong were so unscrupulous that they forced hundreds of merchants to hand over their shares, but the officials here still did not do it.

Ding Kuichu suddenly said coldly: "This Lu Yixuan keeps us in the dark and makes a lot of money!"
Chapter completed!