Pingxiang County Government Office, Second Hall
Most of the first batch of businessmen who entered the county government were originally from Yunnan, Guangxi. After multiple checks, their backgrounds were not suspicious in any way, and they were only invited to see them.
The three big businessmen headed by them have been rooted here since the Yuan Dynasty. They trade with the chieftains of various countries with products from the Central Plains, and gradually developed to a certain scale and became a strength that cannot be underestimated in the local area.
To put it bluntly, with these three families as representatives, more than 60% of the merchants in the hall relied on smuggling to make their fortune.
After Ming Tai-zu Zhu Yuanzhang established the dynasty, he strictly prohibited northern border trade. How dare you rob it? I'll beat you until you can't take care of yourself! A multi-pronged approach was used to forcibly lower the living standards of the nobles of the Northern Yuan Dynasty by several levels. Naturally, they would not be polite to the chieftains of the southwestern states who were not convinced by the Ming Dynasty.
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