Chapter 492 The Unlucky Guy

Sometimes luck comes and nothing can stop it!

Just when Jia Huan was sitting in Fuzhou City and preparing to select a target, a piece of news from the Yuezhou branch made him feel like a pillow was delivered to his door when he was sleepy.

The Liu family, a big family in Huarong, had internal conflicts.

Huarong is located in the hinterland, and the internal conflicts of the local big families should have nothing to do with Jia Huan's desire to find trouble with the big families in the southeast coast.

But the Liu family in Huarong is very unusual!

During the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties, the Liu family in Huarong produced an amazing boss, Liu Dasha, who was praised and criticized in later generations.

This so-called famous minister who had a good reputation during his tenure as an official was sprayed beyond recognition in later generations.

What was most criticized by keyboard warriors in later generations was that when this guy was the Minister of War, he burned all the sea ship manufacturing drawings and related materials kept by the Ming government.

Among them was the treasure ship that Zheng He took on his seven voyages to the West!

As neighbors, the Beggars' Gang naturally knew the Liu family's situation very well.

Before Liu Daxia became rich, the Huarong Liu family could only be regarded as an ordinary gentry. There were five or six families with similar strength in Huarong alone.

But after Liu Daxia became rich, the power of the Huarong Liu family expanded rapidly, and soon became the first gentry in Huarong and the most powerful family in Yuezhou.

What Jia Huan was most ashamed of was that when Liu Daxia was the Minister of War, the Liu family suddenly split off a branch and came to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, took root there and quickly became one of the well-known maritime merchant families.

At that time, it was only 20 to 30 years ago.

And the Quanzhou Liu family is most famous for their shipbuilding workshop, which can produce various types of sea vessels.

Tsk tsk tsk...

If you say there is no trick here, no fool would believe it.

In addition, the Quanzhou Liu family quickly explored several offshore routes, which is one of the reasons why they were able to quickly gain a foothold and develop more and more prosperously.

In this situation, it is hard not to make Jia Huan guess that the Liu family in Quanzhou already has a detailed navigation route map. As for where it came from, is there any need to say more?

According to the information collected by the Fujian branch, the development momentum of the Liu family in Quanzhou in recent decades can really be described as rapid and unparalleled.

In a short period of time, the Liu family in Quanzhou has developed into a medium-sized maritime merchant family!

This is quite remarkable!

You know, there are five or six medium-sized maritime merchant families with similar size and strength as the Liu family in Quanzhou alone, and they have developed for nearly a hundred years to have such strength.

And the Liu family is the best proof of its sudden rise!

Besides, the internal contradictions of the Liu family are very simple, just a struggle for interests.

Because the branch has developed too rapidly and its strength has increased greatly, it has already gotten rid of the control of the main family, and it does not give the main family any chance to continue to suck blood.

In particular, Liu Daxia, the biggest reliance of the Huarong Liu family, died early because he could not survive the officialdom. As a result, the power of the Huarong main family has shrunk greatly. They were quite unhappy with the Quanzhou branch that did not obey their orders.

Without the support of the Quanzhou branch, the amount of money available to the Huarong main family was reduced a lot, and both its momentum and influence were affected.

The main branch naturally disagreed!

How did the Quanzhou branch gain a foothold in the local area and develop better and better? Didn’t they have any idea in their hearts? They wanted to cross the river and demolish the bridge.

If it weren’t for Liu Daxia’s powerful official power, would the Quanzhou branch still want to gain a foothold in Quanzhou easily?

It was also with the help of Liu Daxia that the Quanzhou branch could successfully squeeze into the ranks of the maritime merchant family!

It can be said that without the help of the main branch, the Quanzhou branch would have to struggle for at least 50 years to get to the current situation, and no major setbacks could occur during this period.

Now, with the death of Liu Daxia, the momentum of the Huarong main branch in the officialdom has plummeted.

The family itself has fallen from the most prestigious power in the entire Huguang region, which means that it has maintained the power of Huarong, and it can no longer have the final say in Yuezhou.

Under such circumstances, the support and control of the Quanzhou branch have been weakened a lot.

However, the Quanzhou branch is doing very well. Whether in terms of money income, official connections and strength, it has gradually surpassed the main branch of Huarong.

If the main branch is weak and the branch is strong, something will definitely happen.

The Quanzhou branch is definitely not happy that the main branch continues to suck blood, as they are already strong enough.

The struggle for interests will tear the family apart, not to mention the clan that has been separated for decades.

The main branch of Huarong can't swallow this breath. It turns out that after spending a huge price for decades, it has cultivated a white-eyed wolf?

Not to mention that the Quanzhou branch is now rich and powerful, and even uses the name of the late Liu Daxia to swindle in the officialdom and frantically devour the official connections belonging to the main branch of Huarong.

For such a matter of great interest, the main branch of Huarong must take action.

As a result, the Liu family started to make a commotion.

Originally, such a matter had little to do with the Beggars' Sect!

As a gang, the Beggars' Sect was influenced by traditional thinking and basically had no close relationship with the government and local gentry.

The Liu family of Huarong claimed to be a family of officials, so they naturally looked down on gangs like the Beggars' Sect.

There were few contacts in the past, and there were not many conflicts of interest.

If it was not something that happened in the area under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, there would be no relevant content in the ordinary internal information report, at least the Beggars' Sect brothers who were responsible for intelligence collection would not care.

But in Jia Huan's eyes, isn't this the best breakthrough?

Any Chinese with modern thinking will not have much good feelings towards the top bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty like Liu Daxia, and his actions can even be regarded as despicable.

Where did the shipbuilding technology and sea route map of the Quanzhou Liu family come from?

You know, the geographical location of the Huarong Liu family has nothing to do with the ocean.

It just so happens that the Liu family no longer has a pillar like Liu Daxia in the court, and the Quanzhou Liu family has not been prosperous for a long time, so it is best to attack him.

The key is that the Quanzhou Liu family is quite interested in the land reclaimed by the Beggar Gang in the Yizhou Island stronghold.

The various intelligence collected shows that whether it is a sneak attack on the Yizhou Island stronghold or an interception of the sea fleet, the Quanzhou Liu family has a presence.

What else is there to say?

Jia Huan will not be soft-hearted to the enemy!

He will let those arrogant southeast coastal families know that the public opinion war is powerful.

Soon, the latest issue of "Wulin Monthly" once again made a sensation in the entire martial arts world.

This time, the article compiled by Jia Huan, who had not personally made a move for a long time, did not introduce the magical skills and unique skills in the martial arts world, nor did it mention any magical weapons, nor did it continue to introduce a variety of miraculous elixirs with amazing effects, but instead introduced in detail the secret history of the Liu family in Quanzhou.

It was still the front-page headline, and it was still eye-catching at the beginning.

It was a straightforward introduction that after almost thirty years and less than forty years of development, the Liu family in Quanzhou has now become a wealthy family with a family wealth of more than eight million.

I originally wanted to directly introduce the family wealth of more than ten million, but readers might not believe it.

Although according to the various information collected by the brothers of the Beggar Gang, the total wealth of the Liu family in Quanzhou may really exceed ten million taels of silver.

There is no other reason, in this era, maritime trade is a huge profit!

Jia Huan was not polite at all. He started from the time when Liu Daxia, who was the minister of the Ministry of War and the minister of the court, set fire to the shipbuilding drawings and sea route maps kept by the Ministry of War because of the issue of opening the sea.

The court lost at least tens of millions of taels of silver in that fire!

Those were very valuable shipbuilding drawings and perfect sea route maps!

Jia Huan also introduced the story of Zheng He's voyages to the West during the reign of Emperor Chengzu.

It was also Zheng He's huge fleet that spread the reputation of the Ming Dynasty throughout the Western countries!

The most important thing is that through Zheng He's voyages to the West and trade with various countries, huge profits were earned. At this time, Beijing was built through the profits of maritime trade.

As for why it was not continued later, and even a strict maritime ban policy was implemented?

Jia Huan also explained it quite easily, it was just a dispute over interests.

The huge amount of money Zheng He earned from his seven voyages to the West went into the royal treasury, and had nothing to do with many officials, dignitaries, and powerful aristocratic families.

How could such a situation continue?

Those court officials who contributed and local tyrants would never agree?

Not to mention that interests are attractive!

The court officials and local tyrants must stop the royal family from eating alone.

In addition to various factors, the Ming Dynasty finally adopted a strict maritime ban policy.

But in fact, the local forces on the southeast coast have never been cut off from commercial trade with the open sea.

It’s just that the trade with the open sea is completely monopolized by the local forces on the southeast coast!

Speaking of the Quanzhou Liu family, it was originally a branch of the Huarong Liu family.

They separated from the Huarong Liu family after Liu Daxia burned many sea ship materials of the Ministry of War and came to Quanzhou to establish a foundation.

The foundation of their existence is the manufacturing technology of various types of sea ships and the unique sea route map of the open sea.

With this, in just a few decades, the Liu family of Quanzhou has accumulated more than eight million in wealth!

By the way, Jia Huan also introduced the amazing profits of foreign trade!

As long as the strength of the partners is sufficient, a ship of tea, silk and porcelain will be shipped out, and a ship of silver will be shipped back, and the profit is simply amazing.

Jia Huan said it very bluntly, otherwise the Central Plains Dynasty has always been short of gold and silver, but in the Jiajing period, the amount of silver on the market has increased, and even the silver itself has begun to depreciate slowly.

Why is this so?

It is not that the amount of silver sent from the sea is too much, most of which is earned by the big families on the southeast coast, which shows how rich they are.

Because the Liu family of Quanzhou has mastered the core technology of manufacturing sea ships and has a very secret sea route map, it has developed very rapidly in recent decades, and its family property has approached 10 million taels in a short period of time.