Commercial guilds were already common in the late Ming Dynasty.

For example, tooth row, cloth row, rice row, etc.

It is an institution established by most merchants in a certain industry for monopoly pricing, information exchange and other purposes. For example, the dentistry is an organization that monopolizes population trading and labor employment. In ancient times, there was a bid to sell the first place, and people had to sell themselves and a straw was inserted behind their necks. But it was not possible at this time. If you want to sell yourself, you must go through the dentistry, otherwise it will not be said whether you can sell it. If you insert a bid on the street and you are seen by the dentistry, the titsman in the dentistry is not a vegetarian. Similarly, for example, a hiring worker must go to the dentistry and get a job through the dentistry agency.

Business in this era is not as simple as imagined. Business guilds have a very powerful force and even raise a large number of thugs. Those who do not obey them will be retaliated.

Kaifeng is a city with a huge city in the Central Plains, and the business here is extremely developed. Therefore, various commercial guilds are everywhere, monopolizing more than 70% of the city's main industries.

Sun Xiucai was the commander of the Imperial Law, and was ordered by Ying Yi to kill fat pigs. His main goal was actually related to the commercial guild.

Not only because the wealthy and nobles are mostly members of commercial guilds, but also because these guilds have their own armed organizations.

For Ying Yi, his rule did not require a local emperor.

The commercial guild is a veritable local emperor - they are extremely powerful and closely connected with officials and nobles. When Kaifeng was besieged, Gao Mingheng tried his best to save Kaifeng, but it had nothing to do with them. The thugs of the commercial guild never went to the city wall to defend the enemy. This is not counting. Although Kaifeng had no ammunition and food, the people could not afford to eat. Instead, these commercial guilds raised prices. Regardless of the price of grain or cloth prices, the prices of materials involved in survival soared, without any scruples and unscrupulousness.

The national crisis makes money feel at ease, but the darkness of his heart is unparalleled.

Whether it is Gao Mingheng or King Zhou, they can't do anything to them. Because they connected most of the wealthy and nobles in Kaifeng, Gao Mingheng could not afford to offend him, and King Zhou did not dare to provoke him. Even they themselves were involved in it.

If they provoke them, it is not the thieves who break the city, but these people.

"There are more than ten types of commercial banks in Kaifeng, involving all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. More than 80% of the wealthy and nobles are all one of them."

After several days of investigation, Sun Xiucai came to meet Ying Yi with a detailed list.

"There are the most thugs in the tia shop, and there are at least 3,000 thugs in the tia shop, and there are more than 5,000 thugs in the tia shop, and there are more than 5,000 thugs in the tia shop. Other commercial guilds are more or less, and there are more than 1,000."

Ying Yi knew it in his heart and said, "What's going on in the past few days?"

Sun Xiucai said: "A few days ago, there were members of the business bank and nobles who went to Zhu's house to ask for a meeting, but they were all turned away."

Ying Yi nodded slightly.

To talk about the local emperor, alone, the largest local emperor in Kaifeng is the King of Zhou. Of course, under Ying Yi's rule, King of Zhou is no longer the King of Zhou, and even the plaque of the mansion has been changed.

Ying Yi went to see the King of Zhou, which was well known. He also sent troops to siege him, and was even more in front of everyone. But in the end, the King of Zhou seemed to have nothing to do except take off the plaque.

No one knows what kind of person Ying Yi is, what plans will be for Kaifeng, and what impact it will have on them. The King of Zhou had seen Ying Yi, so naturally these people wanted to ask the King of Zhou for some information.

Now it seems that the King of Zhou is still cautious and has not seen these people. Of course, if this is the case on the surface, I don’t know how Ying Yi secretly does it.

But Ying Yi didn't care.

He said, "Since you have found out, let go. If you don't move, you will be like thunder. You know which ones should die and which ones should be killed."

Sun Xiucai stood up and bowed, "Yes, lord."

Turning around and leaving immediately.

This time, there will be bloody storms.

Those damn black-hearted ghosts thought Ying Yi would be tolerant and win over them like the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't expect that after a few days of silence, they would be the butcher knife.

Although the merchants have their own armed forces, how can the Tuji Wagou mobs stop the elite soldiers who have been accused of power and attacking for a long time?

Wang Yisheng cooperated with Sun Xiucai to raise the butcher knife, and solved the yarn and horse chariots that night. The next day, he kept pushing the rest of the business on the list.

When the city reacted, it was already settled.

There were more than ten trading companies, more than 15,000 killed, and seven or eight thousand captured. Just sealing the shops and more than 500 warehouses, and the huge materials collected were all amazed - the food alone was more than 3.8 million stones!

This number is shocking.

Kaifeng has no ammunition and food, and the people can't afford to eat, but there is still so much grain stored in warehouses of major commercial banks. There are millions of households in Kaifeng, and even if they are divided equally, each household can still be divided into three or four stones!

However, when Ying Yi entered the city, the price of grain in Kaifeng had soared to thirty taels of silver per stone. It can be seen that it is vicious!

After the involved business, shops and warehouses were sealed, Sun Xiucai was searching his home in the following days.

The wealthy and noble members involved in the business are the target. After 3.8 million stones of grain, Ying Yi once again harvested in just five or six days - the food he received was more than before, with 4.5 million stones!

All of these foods are grains buried in their own cellars and are unwilling to take them out even if they get moldy.

In this way, a single grain, Kaifeng City, was seized for 8.3 million stones!

How terrifying?!

And this is just grain, such as cloth, iron, etc., which are also a huge number. For example, iron, there are 20 to 3 million kilograms!

In addition, the silver winter melon, gold bricks worth 40 million taels of silver, and antique calligraphy and paintings worth 10 million taels of jewelry, jade, and antique calligraphy and paintings worth 10 million taels, Ying Yi only had a full meal in one breath.

If you count hundreds of shops, the hundreds of thousands of hectares of land obtained after the house search are invaluable.

Not to mention the gold, silver, land, etc. that cannot be used immediately, but after the inspection of basic materials such as grain, they were immediately used by the provincial government office.

After Zheng Yunzhi was massacred, the remaining small number of merchants who were obedient and nobles gathered together. In their fear, they announced the handling method and asked them to open the business immediately. They also sold all the shops that were searched to these merchants.

The requirement for businessmen to open business, to sturdyly stabilize prices, and to stabilize Kaifeng order is the first thing the provincial governor’s yamen needs to do while recruiting officials.

Because of the first thing to do with merchants, the first department established under the provincial government office was the Commercial Department. The pricing of basic materials required by the Civilians was the first policy issued by the Commercial Department.
Chapter completed!