Chen Wenhui frowned and said: "If it weren't for the holy decree, I would have almost forgotten it, this Suzhou is still a place where salt is produced, this is a lot of money." Maybe you really won't need the bank's money, brother-in-law of the Wang family, you better keep all the money for your sister's family. Uncle Lamb must like you more. ”

Wang Zhicheng was a little embarrassed. Chen Wenhui looked at it and smiled, and began to study the holy decree again. Zhao Chongyi looked at it and hurriedly said beside him: "I haven't talked about this salt merchant before. The salt merchants in Suzhou were mainly concentrated in the city of Yangzhou. Yangzhou City is the seat of the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture, and it is the most prosperous, and there are many large and small salt merchants. There are thirteen of the largest. The first of these is the Ma family. The head of the family's name is Ma Jingren. In addition to this first salt merchant, there are three that are the richest and produce the most salt, that is, the three families that are to be beheaded in the holy decree. These salt merchants are making huge profits, but their hearts are black. These three companies control the price of salt on weekdays, sell official salt on the surface, and sell private salt in private, which is even more profitable. Forget it, the three of them are still used to mixing salt with sand, which is really black-hearted. This time there was a drought, and they took the opportunity to raise the price of salt, because the amount of these three families was very large, and they suddenly raised the price of salt in the entire Great Chu Dynasty, which made the people of the entire Great Chu Dynasty suffer. ”

Liu Yan sneered: "This kind of person deserves to be killed the most." ”

Liu Jingyuan asked: "Is this strange?" The salt of our dynasty is led by salt, and the amount of salt produced in the official salt field in a year will be sent out, and then the salt will be sold to various salt merchants and sold to all parts of the Great Chu Dynasty. If there is no salt to sell salt, it is to sell illicit salt, and they will be put to death, so how can they dare to buy illicit salt? ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "I didn't understand it before, but I inquired about it. Our Great Chu Dynasty used the seawater salt drying method handed down by Emperor Guanglie of the previous dynasty, which is very easy and the cost is very low, so the salt price of this dynasty and the previous dynasty has not been high. But even if it is not high, such a large number of sales, the profit is very large, and it is also an important income of the imperial court. The main thing is that the official salt farms are all from the imperial court. After the salt is dried in seawater, it is sold to the salt merchants as salt with heavy taxes, which is the heavy income. After selling to salt merchants, they have to add another tax to the sale of the salt they buy, so this salt tax is a big income of the dynasty. ”

Liu Jingyuan said: "This is the same thing plus taxes on both sides, or heavy taxes." ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Because of this, many salt merchants bought official salt on the one hand, and bought some private salt privately, and sold it miserably. Where can the officials watch and sell pound by pound. Say. Originally, I bought 10,000 catties of salt. paid 10,000 catties of taxes, and when I sold it, I added 10,000 catties of private salt, who knows, after buying it like this. is to sell 20,000 catties, but only pay 10,000 catties of taxes, isn't this a huge profit? ”

Now everyone understands.

Zhao Chongyi said: "According to the information I heard, in the past, these salt merchants were not just miserable to one, and some even sold a pound of official salt and brought ten catties of private salt. ”

Liu Yan frowned and said, "Isn't this obviously making the imperial court suffer?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "If it's just that, it's nothing, because the price of salt has dropped because of this, because there is more salt sold." Naturally, the price of salt has dropped, so that ordinary people can afford to eat salt, and although the imperial court has less income, the people have benefited, which is also a good thing. Therefore, the officials generally turn a blind eye, as long as they don't go too far. ”

Liu Yan thought about it, so he nodded.

Zhao Chongyi continued: "But these three angry people, such a one-to-ten sale is already a huge profit, and they still have half a pound of sand in a catty, isn't this a pit for the people?" Forget it, they also took the opportunity to raise the price of salt this time, which is really unbearable. I told the fourth child of the news, and the fourth child wrote a memora, just waiting for me to behead the three of them. It can also be regarded as a relief from qi. ”

Chen Wenhui heard this and felt that the TV she had watched before was a little similar, it can be seen that the TV series is not purely deceitful, but this Fusu is too powerful, there are his footprints everywhere, and he is really a talent through his predecessors.

Liu Jingyuan then asked: "However, this year's dry weather is not good for crops, but it is just conducive to drying salt, why has the price of salt increased?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "It's this annoying person, everyone can understand the problem when they think about it, and they still have to make a fuss about it, it's really annoying." In fact, this year's official salt harvest is very good, which is simply great, because the drought is severe. However, as soon as these three families saw that the price of grain had risen, they hurriedly announced that the salt farm had been affected by the disaster, and that there was not much salt produced, and that this year's salt introduction was thirty percent less than last year's, so the price naturally increased. ”

Chen Wenhui was speechless, these three families are really stupid enough, isn't this a challenge to the wisdom of the entire Great Chu Dynasty? Do you think everyone is an idiot?

Chen Wenlin said: "Brother Yi, you have inquired about the news very well, do you know all these inside stories?" Could it be that the Lan family has such a great ability in Suzhou? ”

Liu Yan said: "At that time, the time was urgent, and I also had doubts in my heart, it is impossible for you to know so many inside stories in such a short time?" ”

This Chen Wenhui also suspected it just now, these insiders are left in the previous life of advanced science and technology, and they will have to investigate for a few years and send a few undercover agents to know, right? Why did Zhao Chongyi know it so lightly?

Zhao Chongyi grinned and said, "Originally, it was absolutely impossible for me to know this. Do you think, if anyone in a teahouse knows about these news, is it still called an insider? ”

Everyone was hung up by Zhao Chongyi, waiting for him to continue.

Zhao Chongyi hated to like the way everyone looked at him like this, waiting for him to continue, especially the person in his heart, who was staring at him with a pair of watery eyes, which made him even more useful.

He hurriedly said: "Because I have received the help of a very capable landlord, and he provided all this information." ”

Liu Jingyuan hit Zhao Chongyi and said, "You kid is weird and sturdy, and you haven't shown your mouth all the time?" ”

Zhao Chongyi smiled bitterly and said: "It's really that I promised that person at the beginning, and I can't tell others that he gave the news until the holy decree comes down." ”

At this moment, Liu Yan was also strange: "Who gave you the news?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Actually, I have already said his name before. ”

Liu Yan suddenly understood: "Is it Ma Jingren?" ”

Everyone was very strange, Chen Wenlin said: "Fourth brother, how did you guess? Brother Yi, is the fourth brother right? ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "The fourth child is smart, and he is indeed Ma Jingren." You don't know this person, but the fourth child was born in the palace, so of course he knows this person. ”

At this moment, Chen Wenhui was also strange: "Is this salt merchant from the palace?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Sister Hui'er really guessed correctly, it was really from the palace, but he was a servant in the palace, and when he came out, he was out of slavery." The person who let him out of the country is none other than the current emperor. ”

Everyone was even more surprised at this moment, and Liu Yan said coldly: "Ayi, don't sell Guanzi." To put it simply, this person is the grandfather's brother. ”

Now everyone understands, it turns out that Zhao Chongyi has gone around in such a big circle, and Liu Yan finished it in one sentence.

Zhao Chongyi didn't want Liu Yan to be so boring, so he said: "What I'm talking about is addictive, and it doesn't make any sense to give you this cold sentence." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Brother Yi, hurry up, I'm still waiting to hear it?" ”

This "Brother Yi" suddenly made Zhao Chongyi's body crisp half, and with the encouragement of his sweetheart, Zhao Chongyi hurriedly continued: "I originally followed the Lan family to inquire about the news in Suzhou, but in the middle of the night, I was led to a place, I thought I was exposed, but when I saw it, it was Ma Jingren there." He invited me to tea and gave me all the information about the whole of Suzhou, which he had already collected, including the news of corrupt officials, grain merchants, and silk merchants, including the news of salt merchants. Later, I confirmed the news I got and the news I got, and found that it was true, so I gave the news to the fourth child. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "I understand, this Ma Jingren is the nail planted by the emperor in Yangzhou." ”

Liu Yan said: "Ma Jingren is his father's brother, this is not a secret, he is making money for his father, after all, salt merchants are the most profitable, and everyone in the world knows it." ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Ma Jingren has always been the first salt merchant by relying on the emperor. It's ridiculous that the three salt merchants want to challenge Ma Jingren, can the emperor not behead his family? ”

Chen Wenlin asked: "Don't these three salt merchants know Ma Jingren's background?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "Just as the fourth child said, Ma Jingren is the emperor's milk brother, this is something that the entire officialdom and the entire Xungui family know, and he is one of the emperor's most trusted people." Those three will not know? ”

Chen Wenlin said: "That's strange, since you know that you dare to offend Ma Jingren, these three are really confused." ”

Liu Yan sneered and said, "It's not that the brain is confused, it's that I thought that the people behind them could jump the war horse Jingren." ”

Chen Wenhui asked: "What is the background of these three?" ”

Zhao Chongyi said: "These three families have people from the Wang family, people from the Li family, and people from Wan Zhaoyi. ”

Chen Wenlin smiled: "This Wang family, the Li family is just that, they have always been above the top, it is not surprising that they dare to challenge the emperor, let alone challenge the emperor's milk brother, but this Wan Zhaoyi's person is strange, a person who favors the concubine also dares to challenge the emperor's milk brother, I am afraid that Wan Zhaoyi himself does not have a milk brother in the emperor's mind." ”

Liu Yan said: "This is true, the emperor trusts his grandmother brother the most." Ma Jingren has always helped his father make money. Now I see, in addition to helping his father make money, Ma Jingren is also responsible for supervising the entire Jiangnan for the emperor, no wonder my father's news is so well-informed, and no wonder I gave the emperor this time, the emperor so happily convicted and beheaded these people, it turned out that he had already gotten the news of Ma Jingren, it seems that my father is not because he trusts me, but because he trusts his brother. ”

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