Luck in the heavens starts from the Red Mansion

In just one year, the whole Fujian Province was in an uproar.

With the cooperation of the Beggars' Gang, the other four sea merchant families, which were similar in size and strength to the Liu family in Quanzhou, were raided.

The cash seized alone reached an astonishing 15 million taels!

The Jinyiwei, who was responsible for the raid, was in a mess.

It was said that the Fujian Provincial Governor's Office and the eunuchs stationed in Nanjing wanted to get involved, but they failed.

As for the other properties, they added up to about 30 million taels, and this was still a lot of water.

The Jinyiwei paid a heavy price, so it was naturally impossible to be so disciplined.

As an auxiliary unit, as far as the Beggars' Gang knew, the amount of property that the Jinyiwei responsible for the action swallowed privately would not be less than 10 million taels

, and this was when the Jinyiwei had a conscience.

What the Beggars' Gang harvested was still sea ships!

The total number of sea ships of the five families reached 16!

Although there is only one thousand-ton ship, the total tonnage of the sixteen ships added up to more than four times that of the fleet of the Beggar Gang before.

In terms of market price alone, it exceeds 1.5 million taels!

The key is that the larger the size of the ship, the harder it is to buy, and even there is no market for it. They are all treasures in the hands of the Southeast Sea Merchants.

If you are not in that circle, you don’t even have the qualifications to buy it.

Unfortunately, the Jinyiwei commander in charge of the operation is not a fool, and did not let the Beggar Gang brothers who participated in the operation have access to the captured ship manufacturing technical drawings and materials.

Of course, a group of low- and middle-level shipbuilding craftsmen who were "rescued" privately were quickly hidden by the Beggar Gang brothers, and the Jinyiwei people in charge of the operation did not pursue them.

Jia Huan’s idea is very simple. With shipbuilding craftsmen in hand, he will start with fishing boats and slowly explore the construction method of sea ships.

With real objects as reference, and the existence of these craftsmen with rich shipbuilding experience, I believe it will not take long to have significant gains.

He knew that as long as a practical reward and punishment mechanism was established, these so-called low- and middle-level craftsmen would definitely burst out with different power.

In the Ming Dynasty, craftsmen were all fixed artisan households, and they had to keep the identity of artisan households for generations, and basically had no chance of turning over.

Jia Huan gave them a chance to turn over. If they didn't know how to seize it, they would be stupid.

Of course, the Jinyiwei and the Beggars' Gang gained a lot, and the losses were naturally not small.

The Jinyiwei troops responsible for the specific affairs of the house seizure, the number of soldiers killed in the battle alone exceeded a thousand, and even more were injured.

Such a scale of loss was a bit strenuous for the Jinyiwei.

You know, the troops responsible for the action this time were all elite, and if they formed a battle formation, they might be able to withstand 5,000 border troops.

Every time they had to attack the sea merchant's nest whose house was seized, they had to engage in fierce street fighting and close combat, so the losses were naturally not small.

The power of the medium-sized sea merchant family should not be underestimated!

When fighting desperately, all kinds of forbidden armor, crossbows, and fire control were directly displayed to start fighting.

In addition, the armed forces in the hands of the sea merchant families were already strong, and the desperate resistance caused great damage to the Jinyiwei.

Especially those guys who were third-rate or even second-rate in the martial arts world, once they fought desperately, they were really human killing weapons.

What's more terrifying is that if the guards and thugs of these sea merchant families were asked to get on the ship or fall into the water, the Jinyiwei would have no way to deal with them unless the environment was special.

Even if they were not careful, the Jinyiwei side could be overturned even though they had an absolute advantage in manpower.

The losses of the Beggar Gang were naturally not so great, but the pressure they could bear was not small at all.

In a way, the existence of Jia Huan, the leader of the Beggar Gang, determined whether the five sea merchant families were completely finished.

For no other reason, when the Jinyiwei started to confiscate the houses, there were more than 30 first-rate masters in the martial arts world who launched a crazy assassination against Jia Huan, who was in the rear, and the Jinyiwei commander Tongzhi.

That's more than 30 top-notch masters in the martial arts world!

And they are all fierce beings who have experienced the baptism of fighting at sea. Each of them is at least as strong as the elder-level masters of the Five Mountains Alliance, and their strength is quite impressive.

Fortunately, they were scattered to assassinate, and the largest group was just over ten, and they were killed on the spot by Jia Huan with the fierce and domineering Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, leaving no trouble.

At the same time, the dozen elite brothers of the Beggar Gang who followed him, all of whom were second-rate in the martial arts world, set up a simple dog-beating formation under Jia Huan's personal guidance, and killed the two top-notch masters of the sea merchant family.

But even so, the loss of the Beggar Gang's troops exceeded 200, and it was helpless to be affected by the fierce fighting.

In the same way, the Jinyiwei did not encounter a large number of snipers from the first-class masters of the martial arts world during the house search, otherwise the loss would be even more severe, and the house search might not be too successful.

Otherwise, how can we say that the Jinyiwei attaches great importance to the assistance of the Beggars' Sect?

Whether it is the timely intelligence information or the presence of Jia Huan, a top-level strongman, it is quite necessary.

There are naturally many masters of the Jinyiwei!

But their most important task is to protect Emperor Jiajing, and most of the masters must be stationed in the capital.

Without knowing the specific gains, the number of Jinyiwei masters who can be sent to participate in the house search is not that large.

There is no problem in protecting the Jinyiwei commander who is in charge of the overall command, but he does not have the strength to truly compare with the high-end military forces in the hands of the five medium-sized maritime merchant families.

Jia Huan's role is similar to Dinghai Shenzhen!

This is also the brilliance of the Jinyiwei commander who is in charge of the command. He knows the great role of the top masters, otherwise the house-confiscation operation will definitely not be so smooth.

Similarly, Jia Huan was not polite at all!

Especially when the role of his Dinghai Shenzhen was brought to the extreme, his voice and influence were incomparable.

With the consent of the Jinyiwei commander, he serialized the house-confiscation operation that lasted for more than a year in the form of text on the front page of "Wulin Monthly".

No one expected that Jia Huan would be so bold.

But when the monthly magazine with detailed records of the house-confiscation was published in most of the Ming Dynasty, it once again caused an earthquake-level sensation.

This time, not only the rivers and lakes were shaken, but also the officialdom and the people were shocked, and they were all attracted by the content in the monthly magazine.

This triggered a surging discussion!

The strength and background of the Southeast Sea Merchants Family, the amazing wealth they hold, and the equally amazing military power!

When the family's top masters were annihilated, they were still able to inflict heavy damage on the Jinyiwei elite. This kind of strength is quite exaggerated. In short, after reading the monthly magazine, it gave readers a great shock.