These gossips of the Jia family are people's conversations before and after tea, and they will dissipate after a month or two. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and what the people began to talk about later was the matter of mailing letters that the fourth elder brother had proposed at the beginning. Just a few months after the emperor ordered the thirteenth messenger to supervise the matter, the household department successively posted a list to remind the people that everyone could go to the post station to mail cheap letters, and as time grew, the number of routes opened also increased. There are curious people who go to see the price, and there are only a few copper plates, that is, a few buns, so there are also good people with a try-out attitude to take a letter and send it to Jiangnan, spending ten copper plates, and I didn't expect to receive a reply two months later! The letter said that he received the letter ten days after the day he sent the letter, which was much faster than visiting relatives by boat, and for a time people who were in the field and had a little money began to send letters to their relatives and friends, which caused a small upsurge in personnel, but the income was very average, because most of the people who sent the letter were curious, so the mailing were some ordinary letters, and they were all short-distance, and the money earned was enough to send monthly money to the postmen of each line, and there was no balance.

When the postal service was first established, all the officials were holding a wait-and-see attitude, and they were also afraid of what the letter sent to the family would be done, but it was not until the common people had mailed it very hot, and everyone believed that the fourth elder brother really just thought of an idea to benefit the country and the people, so some petty officials also tried to send a letter to the family, and soon received a reply, and it only cost a few copper plates, which was easy to use. Because of this idea, the fourth elder brother's supporters in the court gradually increased, although it was only a low-level petty official, but it couldn't stand up to a large number, and the postal service began to gradually make money to the treasury, the emperor was also very satisfied after hearing about it, and he did not have a good way to recover the arrears of the treasury for the time being.

When the prince heard about this, he became even more irritable because of this. He secretly made an appointment with Eighth Brother again. This time, the place of meeting was secretly placed in a palace with no one in the palace, and the two talked all night, and they went back when it was almost dawn. Thanks to Concubine Zhen helping him cover up, the prince and the eighth elder brother did not return overnight, and the information did not reach the emperor's ears. In fact, the emperor did not focus on the harem, in the past two days, he received a secret fold from the Jiangnan side, which was sent by the salt patrol imperial history that replaced Lin Ruhai, and it mentioned that the Zhen family had privately intercepted the tax and silver in Jiangnan, especially now that he has extended his hand to the salt tax, and the amount is so large that he can no longer deal with it, he said that he has a hunch that if he can't satisfy the Zhen family in the near future, he may be killed. Thinking of Lin Ruhai's previous unexpectedly deaths, the emperor was silent. Originally, the emperor gave the Zhen family the position of Jiangnan weaving, and gave them a transcendent status, that is, he acquiesced in the deficit they took over before the interception of tax and silver subsidies, but the only thing he didn't want the Zhen family to touch was the salt tax. Whether it was because of the huge amount of salt tax or because the profits from selling salt were too high, he didn't want to use these things to test the Zhen family's loyalty to him. Originally, Zhen Yingjia's father Zhen Fei, Xue Cheng's father Xue Ying, and the old Rongguo Gong Jia Yuan also had enough tacit understanding, so he asked Lin Ruhai to do the salt patrol imperial history, first, to protect Lin Ruhai, and secondly, to complete the loyalty of the Zhen family. But their descendants don't seem to be able to inherit the ancestral will~ The Zhen family's heart has been raised! Thinking about the last time Lin Ruhai accepted the upbringing of the old thirteen, he also wanted to show that he couldn't hold on... And what about the others? The emperor couldn't help but order the secret guard to go and investigate several major families in private.

It doesn't matter if you don't check it, after a check, I found out that the four kings and eight princes who swore allegiance to the death had already had a 'second master', but after relying on their own favor and old ministers, they opened the door for their second master. Especially with the Zhen family of the prince, the Zhen family has controlled the entire Jiangnan for ten years! That is to say, how much salt tax the treasury collects in Jiangnan every year, he doesn't count, the Zhen family says it! According to the crude calculation of the salt tax ten years ago and the salt tax in recent years, the Zhen family makes a million taels of money from taxes every year! So why do they cry poor? Not to pay the money owed to the treasury? The emperor couldn't help but think a little deeper, he remembered what the regent had done before he was in power, he was angry, he wanted the Zhen family to feel what the emperor's anger was, but when he just stood up and wanted to operate, he suddenly found one thing, this time is different from the past, since he was in power, he has been recovering military power, and now he has no completely loyal generals on hand, and the eldest prince has always been used to contain the Zhen family for the prince, and it must not be bigger, nor can it be used to deal with the Zhen family... Thinking of this, the old emperor suddenly fell...

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When Xia Liansheng's injury could be alive, it was already about to be the New Year, and when it was completely healed, the imperial doctor didn't need to drink medicine anymore, and it would take more than a year. After he was able to go out, he went to his Baylor Mansion to see, it turned out that at the beginning, in order to make it convenient for Xia Liansheng, the fourth elder brother built his Baylor Mansion not far from the Lin Mansion, and when the eighth elder brother took over, he had already begun to lay the foundation, so he didn't change places. Xia Liansheng has a housekeeper and a guard, and the housekeeper is sent by the fourth elder brother, named Xu Dafu, who is short and fat, and he is very stocky at first glance. Xia Liansheng didn't have anything that the fourth elder brother couldn't know, so he handed over the inventory and other things to the housekeeper to worry about with the thirteen of their shops. The chief of the guard is called Chahar, the origin of this person is very interesting, he is the leader of the group of guards who broke into the Qianqing Palace at night in Xia Liansheng before, because of the experience of 'assassins', although there were no casualties, but they were finally removed as usual. However, this does not mean that they have been degraded, because those who can serve as guards in the Qianqing Palace are generally excellent and motivated children of the Three Banners, and even if there is no Xia Liansheng as a rule, after a while, the emperor will give them a background, as for how many grades they can be official, that is their own problem.

However, this Chahar took the initiative to ask Xia Liansheng to be a guard with several like-minded brothers when the emperor conferred the official, and the emperor appointed him as the chief of the guard, and everyone else followed. This is just like a person who was admitted to Tsinghua University and asked to go to the ordinary three books, which is simply a self-defeating way forward. People outside talked a lot, but Chahar was unmoved, he clearly knew that because of the poverty of his family, he was not recommended to the Qianqing Palace by the clan, but by taking the martial arts examination with those Han people, although it was also through the convenience of being a Manchurian, but there were also reasons for his competitiveness, and he was selected to be promoted to the Qianqing Palace because of the martial arts examination. He saw it more clearly than other guards who felt superior, the prince was definitely not as respectful to the emperor as everyone said before, if he was still in the palace or now entered the court, he was likely to be pulled into the whirlpool of the struggle of several princes, but it was better for him to be obscure now, and when these chaos was settled in the future, it was not too late to make plans, anyway, with his identity, if he wants to get ahead, there are many opportunities.