The Sima family is a family that has been rooted in Zhenjiang for hundreds of years.

They started trading canals as early as the previous dynasty.

Although the Grand Canal was operating at that time, its scale was far from as large as it is now.

Moreover, when the dynasty changed, there were chaos everywhere, which made their business not dare to grow. At best, they were just a small business.

After Taizu settled the country and Dakang stabilized, the Sima family began to ship the Grand Canal seriously.

After decades of development, the Sima family has finally become one of the best canal transport giants in Zhenjiang.

As we all know, Zhenjiang is a very important hub in the southern section of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, and it is also the location of the Yangtze River waterway.

Therefore, the Sima family's business is very large, with a large share of various passenger and freight transportation.

Of course, it is inevitable that they can develop and develop a good relationship with each governor of the canal transportation.

Zhenjiang is not far from Huai'an, where the Governor's Office of the Governor of the Valley Transportation, under their deliberate maintenance, even Lin Zhenyuan, who had been in the Governor of the Valley Transportation for more than ten years, was impressed by them and gave them a lot of convenience.

Originally, the Sima family was developing smoothly with the big tree Lin Zhenyuan, and even wanted to do something else.

The result was that the situation suddenly changed. Lin Zhenyuan, a governor of the canal transport brand, was surrounded by the imperial guards and escorted directly to the capital.

The moment the news was received, the Sima family knew that Lin Zhenyuan was over.

Just like many governors of the canal transportation, it is impossible for them to return to the governor's palace in Huaiyin.

They were not afraid of anything at first, and were actively exploring who would be the next governor of the canal transport so that they could invest in advance.

After all, cooperation with the Governor of the Cao Transport is just a business, and they will recognize whoever is in this position.

If anyone is not here, they can also give some travel expenses for a good ending, while they will immediately pretend not to know each other if they have bad ending.

But then, Liu Renhuai, the governor of Jiangnan who was responsible for cleaning, killed 257 grain transport officials in one go, exiled more than 900 grain transport officials, arrested the owners of 57 business owners, and confiscated all goods and property, which shocked the entire Jiangnan.

Especially the Sima family.

They are also families with a close relationship with Lin Zhenyuan. Some of them were confiscated and arrested, but their relationship may not be as good as theirs.

So they were all in a panic, but they did not dare to resist or escape.

In Jiangnan, Liu Renhuai is half the sky. Not to mention a mere Sima family, even if the top ten families are combined, they can be killed by Governor Liu with one finger.

No surprise at all.

This panic and hesitation lasted until more than two months later, and another bolt from the blue was added.

The new governor of the canal transportation is named Miao Yan.

Miaoheizi!

One of the most famous officials of the Legalists, he once burned more than 100 people, including his former crown prince's favorite concubine and brother, and even almost beat a prince and a ruthless man to death!

He was not only the governor of the grain transport, but also served as the "temporary imperial envoy to investigate and handle illegal activities", which means that he had more terrifying power than Liu Renhuai.

What is this power used for?

Of course, I am here to continue to clean up the canal transportation yamen and continue to dig out the dark side inside!

The Sima family immediately knelt down.

Their parent Sima Chen immediately went to the governor of the Cao Transportation Office to apologize, but Miao Yan didn't see him.

This has been the case several times in a row.

Three months passed again. Under the gaze of Quan Jiangnan, Miao Yan still did not have any inventory.

On the one hand, he actively cut off the miserable grass lords, and on the other hand, he began to rectify the shipyard of the Governor's Office, and by the way, he stuffed all the 20,000 liberated grass lords into the shipyard.

Then, Miao Yan himself often took a carriage and inspected various canal transport terminals, checkpoints, checkpoints, outposts and other places in the Jiangnan area. He was constantly familiar with each link and greatly adjusted the overall operational organization of the canal transport yamen.

However, the Sima family has never dared to take it lightly.

Just when they were confused and repeatedly devastated, they suddenly heard about the news that King De, Prince Yi, Prince Su County Lord and other royal family members wanted to visit Jiangnan, and immediately seized the opportunity keenly.

If others don’t say anything, just talking about the degree to which this saint admired in the world is favored by the emperor and his intelligence and talent are enough to make the Sima family come to curry favor with him.

More importantly, Miao Yan has nothing to do with others, but he doesn’t know each other without fighting. According to friends in Beijing, their relationship is very good.

He has a background and can talk to Miao Yan, so he doesn’t have to worry about being punished. Such an intermediary is exactly what the Sima family urgently needs!

So once it was confirmed that it was time to get on the line, Sima Jin ran to the boat in person to welcome Liu Mingqi and others to travel to Jiangnan.

...

After listening to Sima Jin's explanation, Liu Mingqi smiled unconsciously: "Young Master Sima, you are honest and are not afraid that I will tell Lord Miao! He had no intention of dealing with you, but because of the evidence I gave, he directly eradicated your family. You would be in trouble at that time!"

"Your Majesty, you are joking." Sima Jin said: "The Prince Yu's Mansion is also a businessman, so he naturally has contacted many business people. With your intelligence, you must know that what way can we, the merchants who have no power and power, have such a powerful governor's mansion to resist?

We don’t want to give it to you, but we want to do business honestly and diligently, but is this possible? Isn’t this the whole world, and even thousands of years?”

Sima Jin spoke a little bitterly and a little sad.

If others were here, they might be infected by him and think that the Sima family is indeed not easy.

But Liu Mingqi did not sympathize with the Sima family.

I sympathize with you, a wealthy family worth millions of taels?

I really ate too much!

You said you are innocent, how could that be possible?

None of the things that can be found in the business world are not old silver coins, and no one is white lotus.

Even in our Prince Yu’s Mansion, in order to prevent the secret recipe from leaking, hasn’t it used countless methods and strategies?

But Liu Mingqi did not say that she would not help.

But it was not for the Sima family, but for Miao Heizi.

Liu Mingqi knew very well why Miao Heizi did not touch the Sima family.

The most important thing in the canal transportation yamen now is to ensure the smooth progress of canal transportation.

Then it removes the burden on the canal transport, and can increase the hematopoietic function of the canal transport yamen, making the canal transport yamen rich, and no longer have to make money subsidies on the canal transport.

Most of the businesses that were confiscated had big mistakes in the canal transportation, including smuggling, robbing, killing, etc.

Miao Yan can't take care of the Sima family who paid tribute to the Cao Transport Yamen and Lin Zhenyuan to maintain his business.

When he is empty, he will definitely clean up some, but he will definitely not be so cruel as before.

But there are many ways to deal with this group of merchants, and they are treated differently.

In Miao Yan's eyes, the Sima family, one of the best wealthiest in Zhenjiang, can naturally be regarded as an ATM. If you don't beat them up, you will be sorry for the official position of "temporarily receiving the imperial envoy."

The canal transportation yamen is so big and there are so many things that are in charge of. You have to eat tens of thousands of mouths. No matter how much money is, it is not enough.

But on the other hand, if Miao Yan was asked to do it himself, everyone would think that his appearance was too ugly - although Miao Yan himself never cared about face.

However, Liu Mingqi felt that the Sima family, whom she delivered to her, would take the initiative to pay the fine, which would have a better lead.

To put it bluntly, in Liu Mingqi's eyes, the Sima family is a child caregiver.

Miao Yan will be the prime minister in the future.

If you have a bad reputation in Jiangnan, it will be bad in the future.

Where thoughts pass.

Liu Mingqi said quietly: "So you just asked me to tell Lord Miao that you had no choice but to force him, and then he would smile and let you go?"

Sima Jin was still a little uncomfortable with Liu Mingqi's blunt words.

After a while, he smiled embarrassedly: "Prince, we naturally cannot be so idiotic. We want to ask you if you can ask Lord Miao, how he is going to deal with us? Then what place can we serve? If you want money and goods, the Sima family didn't frown! Of course, we also know that Lord Miao's integrity is that this money and goods must be used in the yamen."

"Mr. Sima, your situation is smaller!" Liu Mingqi shook his head and sighed, "Why should I wait until Lord Miao asks for investigation? You can just take out the money and transport it directly to the Governor's Office in Jiangnan. Wouldn't that be fine?"

"ah!?"

Sima Jin said in horror: "So direct? Lord Miao dares to collect it?"

"Nonsense! You all know that he didn't collect it for himself, of course he is not afraid of rumors." Liu Mingqi said, "Besides, you are not giving gifts! This is the fine paid for business violations of the law and business! This is called self-inspection, which is an active cooperation with Lord Miao's work. Isn't this a good thing?"

"This...will you be too thick-skinned?" Sima Jin said.

"If you are not shameless, then take the initiative to reconcile with Lord Miao?" Liu Mingqi tempted, "Although this is a bit embarrassing, you can get benefits! Lord Miao has been in Jiangnan for so long, and you must be the first one to deliver it to your door automatically.

First, you can play a good leading role, and second, you can also gain his appreciation for it, and by the way, you can rely on this big ship!

Master Sima, I believe I don’t need to say more. You all should know that Lord Miao’s ship is completely different from Lin Zhenyuan’s broken ship!

This is a serious future prime minister, the absolute candidate for prime minister, at least one deputy prime minister! Such a person, even if he is not favored, as long as he does not target you, wouldn’t that be a good result?"

"Well……"

It was obviously the first time Sima Jin heard such a theory. At first I thought it was absurd, but after careful consideration, I felt it made sense.

Liu Mingqi stood up and patted his shoulder, "In fact, what is important is not whether you should be punished, but that you should turn passive into initiative, take the initiative to seize this opportunity, and join Master Miao! Do you think anyone can get the appreciation of Master Miao? If someone is taken first, do you think there will be such an opportunity?"

Sima Jin agrees with these words very much.

Of course, people who do business know the importance of seizing opportunities.

Liu Mingqi is right.

If you take the initiative, you will definitely be ridiculed as timid, but this can resolve many problems.

Especially when you face a super big boss, you should not take it lightly, you should actively approach him.

With Liu Mingqi, a person who knows Miao Yan, the analytical words spoken by Liu Mingqi, which had troubled Sima Jin for a long time, there was finally a sign of breaking through the darkness!

Turn passive into activeness!

Tsk tsk, King De is worthy of being a saint. It is so appropriate and thought-provoking to say such a word!

This time, the Sima family chose to pay him a lot of money, which was indeed the right decision!

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Chapter completed!