In Wanshou Palace, a faint sandalwood rose from the incense burner, permeating every corner of the hall.

Emperor Jiajing, who was wearing a blue robe, was sitting expressionlessly in front of the desk at this time, and under the hall was Zhu Xiaoxi, who was kneeling on the ground.

Chen Hong, Feng Bao and several other eunuchs knelt beside them and were busy in full swing, but they were checking a list and circled a series of names on it with a red pen.

"Chen Dayong!"

"Sun Zhonggui!"

"Liu Sansi!"

……

After a while, several names rang out in the hall, and they turned out to be from Jiajing's mouth, and every name was accompanied by a trace of anger. When he finished reading the list, he asked in a deep voice, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Your Majesty, there is another one, Chen Hong!" Chen Hongru received a treasure, but at the end of the words, he still responded in a low tone because of this similar name.

Hehe......

Jiajing suddenly laughed, and his face already showed a touch of cruelty.

Chen Hong and the other eunuchs secretly swallowed and foamed, knowing that this was a manifestation of the emperor's anger, so that they no longer dared to face Yu Jiajing, and acted more and more cautiously.

Jiajing was already like an angry tiger, but he looked up at Zhu Xiaoxi, who was still kneeling on the ground, and asked in a deep voice: "Where does this account book come from?" ”

"Linhuai Marquis Mansion!" Chen Xiaoxi's eyes flashed with hesitation, just thinking of his friendship with the Dingguo Mansion, he gritted his teeth and responded.

Jiajing's eyes narrowed slightly, and a fierce light immediately burst out.

In the eleventh year of Jiajing, he re-awarded titles to the descendants of several founding heroes, and the Marquis of Linhuai was one of them.

It's just that he never expected that this Linhuai Marquis Li Yi followed his ancestor Li Jinglong with a virtue, and he turned out to be a two-faced and three-faced person. didn't think about his kindness, and even stole the salt profits of his Zhu family.

Chen Hong will not be afraid of the nobles of Nanjing, and immediately made up the knife and said: "Your Majesty, this Marquis of Linhuai is really bold and reckless, and he dares to organize the smuggling of tens of thousands of stones of salt, which damages the salt profits of my Ming Dynasty, which is really a great crime!" ”

"It's not just him, the names and surnames on this list are all killable and executable!" Jiajing threw the list of accounts on the ground and said with gritted teeth.

He has always been generous to his courtiers, not only to the courtiers and Taoist priests who helped him cultivate his mysteries, but also to capable ministers like Yang Bo and Hu Zongxian, but he hated these maggots the most.

The reason why the salt tax has decreased over the years is of course due to the flight with Yanding and other reasons, but I am afraid that the more important reason is that these smugglers have damaged the salt administration, causing the southeastern salt administration, the richest in the Ming Dynasty, to languish.

Now that the roster of this huge smuggling network has fallen into his hands, he does not relieve his hatred for killing a small Linhuai Marquis, but he wants to kill all the thieves who stole his Zhu family's salt tax.

"Your Majesty, the lowly post has been investigated, and it has been found that most of the people involved in this roster are the official gentry and clan members in the southeast, please think twice!" A look of surprise flashed on Zhu Xiaoxi's face, and he immediately admonished.

Although he also hopes to use this kind of killing to regain his majesty. It's just that after he is the prince of the country, he is loyal to the Ming royal family and does not want to see this kind of behavior that shakes the country's foundation.

Jiajing calmed down a little, glanced at Zhu Xiaoxi approvingly, and responded slightly softly: "I know that I can't kill them all, these people are all local gentry and Confucianism, and your roster can't be used as real evidence!" ”

"Your Majesty, ......the ministers" Zhu Xiaoxi immediately wanted to declare that the roster was not falsified, but Jiajing raised his hand to stop it, pointed to the petition list submitted by Wan Yukai and said: "These people are related to the stability of the southeast, I won't really do anything to all of them?" However, there is a person here who dares to cry out to me, and even reverses right and wrong in order to prevent the imperial court from implementing the Gang Salt Law, and the people on this list will check and kill them! “

Things seem to have magically "bumped" together, but it "saved" Lin Haoran.

Jiajing originally wanted to give Lin Haoran a proper beating, but it turned out that the people who smuggled the salt and the people who petitioned were mostly the same people, but it made him feel a sense of humiliation that he was being played.

If he really believes that Lin Haoran "excluded dissidents" in Yangzhou today because of the petition of these people, then he is the most idiotic emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he will destroy the salt government that was finally reorganized.

It is precisely because of this that his current anger has been diverted, and all of it is directed on this kind of southeastern gentry who dares to cry to him even though he has committed a crime.

"Humble command!" Zhu Xiaoxi knew that he was far from being as favored as Lu Bing, and he was determined to behave well at this moment.

Although he did not dare to arrest all the gentry and Confucian on the list, it was still a very easy matter to investigate and punish some of them.

Chen Hong and the others felt the killing intent on Jiajing's body, but they didn't dare to breathe. They suddenly discovered that the emperor had killed less over the years, not because the emperor was old, but because there was nothing that made the emperor angry who dared to cause the Zuoshunmen bloody case.

Jiajing pressed his hand on the roster, and said with a calm face: "Strictly investigate the Marquis of Linhuai!" ”

If it was Wei Guogong, he might have stopped it, but he was not among the Marquis of Linhuai. He was able to give Li Jinglong's descendants, the Marquis, and naturally he was able to kill or degrade them.

Zhu Xiaoxi knew that there would be no more Linhuai Marquis in Nanjing, so he seriously surrendered his hand and said: "Humble duty!" ”

Chen Hong saw that the timing was good, so he stood up and said: "Your Majesty, what Wan Yukai played is probably not true, this salt introduction is not a fat meat if it is raised by three times, these people clearly intend to plant it!" ”

"Your Majesty, please Rong Chen thoroughly investigate this matter, has Lord Lin overstepped it!" Zhu Xiaoxi's heart moved slightly, and he immediately proposed.

Jiajing's face was slightly cold, and he immediately said, "What are you looking for?" They don't want the court to rectify the salt government, they want to get along with me, how can I listen to his rumors and investigate the meritorious ministers, doesn't this move chill the hearts of the courtiers? ”

When Feng Bao heard this, his hanging heart finally relaxed, and at the same time, he secretly looked at Zhu Xiaoxi, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and found that it was really a wise move to invite this person.

When the outside world was gearing up, I am afraid they never expected that a crisis related to Lin Haoran would be quietly resolved, and the sniper Gangyan method was also asking for trouble.

In just two days, Lin Haoran's recital was sent to the court. What is surprising is that the new salt tax of 600,000 taels is accompanied by this year, but it is the tax and salt revenue of the past year that has been created this year.