Speaking of this, Sima Hong, who was obviously a little unwilling, squeaked his hands together, and said with a somewhat hideous face: "Otherwise, they dare to deduct the money and grain of the kiln workers, but they will never dare to open a private kiln." If this matter is not covered up by a person with eyes and hands, once it is discovered, it will be a death, and it will even cause disaster to the nine clans. ”

"My "Great Qi Law" is clearly customized, and privately creating things for the royal family is tantamount to rebellion. Relying on a single Ministry of Industry Shangshu is absolutely not capable of this. Unless he really doesn't want the whole family's head, he definitely doesn't have the guts. It's just that in the course of the investigation, the old man discovered a strange thing. Although the number of Jun porcelain they privately made in a year is not much, there are still more than 10,000 pieces of utensils. ”

"But on the market, I have never found so many Jun porcelain. Even if the people who bought it knew that these Jun porcelain were all royal things, they carefully hid and tucked them, and did not dare to reveal them. But so much Jun porcelain is circulated, but the price outside has not fallen. ”

"Jun porcelain is expensive, not to mention the homes of ordinary people, even the average rich family can afford to buy it and can't afford it. The Jun porcelain they made privately is still limited in sales. According to common sense, so much private porcelain flows out, and the price of Jun porcelain on the market should fall. But in the same year when he was an official outside, he found that the price of Jun porcelain on the market did not fall penny. ”

"Over the years, where has the Jun porcelain they fired privately gone, this must be investigated. Otherwise, they bite to death these private kilns are the backup kilns of the official kilns. Because the old decay also knows that the collapse of the porcelain kiln is common. Therefore, half of the official kiln has a spare, and the kiln mouth is sealed on weekdays. ”

"In preparation for the great ceremony of the Heavenly Family, the number of porcelain that needs to be fired is high, and the original official kiln cannot be fired for some reasons. If you don't find out where those privately made Jun porcelain go, then the old decay has a thousand mouths, and it can't be explained by relying on the fake account they handed over. When the time comes, they bite back, and then the unlucky one is old. ”

"Fortunately, they were too wary of decay at first. But under the deliberate paralysis of the old decay, he slowly relaxed his vigilance. After a whole year of secret investigation, Lao Yu finally found out the whereabouts of the Jun porcelain they fired. The porcelain they fired privately, the flow was divided into three directions. One is to Dongying and Goryeo, the other is to Northern Liao, and the other is to go south. ”

"At present, Dongying and Northern Liao's extravagance is also flourishing, and the Jun porcelain and Ru porcelain produced in our dynasty are tributes because they were tributes in the former Tang Dynasty, so they are very popular with local princes and nobles in Dongying, Goryeo and Northern Liao. And because Jun porcelain is a royal product, the value is still above Ru porcelain. However, I only found two of the three smuggling channels. ”

"The porcelain they fired privately was loaded at night and transported to Dengzhou and Laizhou on Shandong Road, and then from there they went to sea or east, north, or south. At present, Dongying and Northern Liao have a growing demand for luxury things in this dynasty. The Jun porcelain they shipped out was not directly exchanged for money and goods, but in the form of barter, in exchange for what the dynasty urgently needed and lacked. ”

"They usually have a shipload of Jun porcelain, which can be exchanged for five ships of copper, one ship of silver, or ten ships of folding fans, Japanese knives, and Japanese maids, and Goryeo's Qing cloth, bronze ware, and maidservants, and can be exchanged for the same furs, ginseng, and Dongzhu from Northern Liao. Among these things, the copper that was exchanged was directly sold to the Ministry of Industry to mint money, and the bronze was cast, so there was no need to worry about sales. ”

"Silver, then they melted it into silver ingots, either for reserves, or for storage in Wuwei Money. The furs, ginseng, and Dongzhu exchanged from Northern Liao, and the handicrafts, widows, and Goryeo maids exchanged from Dongying and Goryeo were either sold to the capital or Jiangnan, and even sent to the county palace of the Yuanzhi clan as gifts. ”

Such a reversal can not only avoid those imperial porcelain, which will attract the attention of the imperial court in large numbers on the market, but also have the Ministry of Industry as a guarantee to make a steady profit. Making money at both ends of the price difference can be described as a million profits. Aside from the trouble that may arise from going to sea, there is no need to take any risks at all. ”

"There are many good coastal ports on Shandong Road, and Shandong Road is far away from the sphere of influence of the Guilin County Palace. The Shandong Road Water Division has long been rotten, almost equivalent to a fictitious existence. Shandong Road is also close to Henan Road, which avoids the risk of exposure along the long journey to the south. These people are really well-calculated, and they can be regarded as well-intentioned. ”

"It's just that I found out where I went east and north, but I never found out where I sold it south. And there's one more thing I haven't figured out. It has been several years since the two were transferred to Junyao, and judging from their style, it is no longer a matter of a year or two for them to open a porcelain kiln privately. ”

According to their conservative estimates, there are millions of dollars a year. And that's not even counting the silver they left behind in private. The income in the past few years has been enough for them for a lifetime, or even several lifetimes. Why do they continue to do it at the risk of losing their family's head? Don't they know that this kind of thing can't be hidden? ”

"Until half a year before the incident, the deputy eunuch had a quarrel with the eunuch. ran to find the old man to drink stuffy wine, and the old man only knew after drinking and losing his words. Except for the nearly 100 private kilns around the Jun kiln, except for two of them, a few of the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry, and a few of the Ministry of Industry's Shangshu, the rest are the prince's. ”

"At least sixty percent of the annual income of these private kilns goes into the prince's pocket, and both of them are doing things for the prince and making money for the prince. It turned out that the old man thought that the prince was just the backstage of these two. Only then did I know that the two of them were just people who worked for the prince and showed them to outsiders. The real owner behind those private kilns is the prince.

After learning that the secret messenger of all this was actually the crown prince, the old man was also timid. I thought about going through the door and transferring away, so as to stay away from the place of right and wrong. It happened that the imperial court transferred the old decay to build a palace for King Teng, who was about to become a vassal domain. After receiving the holy decree, the old man thought that he was out of danger. But I thought that King Jing didn't know where to find out about the matter. ”

After King Jing found out about the matter, he directly opened the matter in the name of the old man. I don't know if the prince was implicated, but anyway, all of us are out of luck. The three directors of Junyao lost their heads, and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was also given three feet of white silk. Not to mention that the two servants of the Ministry of Industry were robbed of their homes and given to death, and more than 40 officials of the Ministry of Industry were either killed or exiled. ”

"When I was old, I was less than two years in office. It was also a good official reputation before, so he left a life. He was assigned to Longyou, and he did not affect his family, which is the lightest punishment, and the rest of the lightest was also assigned to West Sichuan Road by the whole family. As for the deputy eunuch and the eunuch, they were executed by Ling Chi. The men of the whole family were beheaded, and the female dependents were assigned to the border army as slaves. ”

After Sima Hong looked at and heard his words, Su Jin, who was dumbfounded, said: "You were just used as a gunman at the beginning. Otherwise, you are a poor Hanlin, how did you know that those people made imperial porcelain and resold it privately. As for me, the prince thinks that I leaked this matter to King Jing, so I was assigned to Longyou. ”

Speaking of this, Sima Hong turned his head to look at Huang Qiong, who was also deep in thought, and sighed: "It only took one month for this case to be set off, to everyone being locked up in Beijing, to being judged. Moreover, everyone's verdicts were hand-picked by the emperor's imperial pen, and they did not go through the Criminal Department, Yushitai and Dali Temple at all. It is the execution, and it is all handed over to the North and South Town Fu Division.

"King Ying, don't you want to think about it, why did the emperor do this, and didn't even give us a chance to make a statement? Unless the emperor has the intention of abolishing the position of the crown prince, as long as the prince reigns for one day, there will be no day when the old man will overturn the case. King Ying, although you are now the disposal envoy of Zhengzhou, you should forget the old case. ”

"If you really have the heart, do something for the potters of Jun Kiln, at least change their situation. As for the old decay, last year, the emperor prayed for Queen Daxing to bless and amnesty the world, and only then did he pick up a life from Longyou and return to his hometown. In the past few years in Longyou, it is already good for the old man to be able to save this life, and he really doesn't want to toss. ”

Sima Hong's words made Huang Qiong sigh slightly in her heart. He knew that the reason why the emperor was so serious and quick about this case was that the emperor was wiping the prince's buttocks, and even killing people. Otherwise, once this case is handed over to the three divisions for trial, even if the emperor is powerful, I am afraid it will be difficult to suppress it. You must know that the Ministry of Industry at that time was all princely party.

But the other departments in the court have their own divisions, but they are not something that the prince can control. Once the news of the prince's private manufacture of royal goods and the sale of fishing profits spread, not to mention other princes, it is strange that the prince's relatives and brothers do not make trouble. And that Concubine De, I'm afraid she will never let go of this opportunity. When the time comes, whether the crown prince, the prince, can still sit still, that's really two words.

Even if it is not in the face of the crown prince, but in the face of Empress Daxing, even if the emperor is angry, he has to suppress the case. Otherwise, as the prince of the current dynasty, he is bent on profiteering for personal use, how should the prince face the subjects of this world? How can you have the face to face the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?

As for this Sima Dujian, it is precisely because he is not the prince's person that the prince thinks that he is the culprit who finally opened the case. At that time, the Ministry of Industry was the prince's money bag, and the money bag was cut off, so I am afraid that the prince swallowed the heart of the capital eunuch alive. Fortunately, although the emperor said that the emperor protected the crown prince in this case, after all, the matter has not been done.

also knew that he had suffered on behalf of his son, and in the end he still saved him. Otherwise, once it is remembered by the prince. Even if he has nine lives, he won't have the opportunity to talk to himself here today. And although it shows that he knows that this person is not wrong, but in order to protect the prince and himself, the emperor still exiled him to Longyou. The sky is high there, and the emperor is far away, and the prince's hand may not be able to reach there.

Although he was somewhat wronged, it could be regarded as indirectly saving his life. Otherwise, after the case is over, whether it is to kill people and kill people, or to hide all the birds. Even if he wasn't the bow, he was unfortunate enough to make that arrow. Whether it is the crown prince who has not yet fallen, or King Jing who has opened all this, or the King of Shu behind him, he will not let go.

Regarding the emperor's style, Huang Qiong was not surprised. But for the miserable situation of the potters in his mouth, Huang Qiong was a little puzzled. It stands to reason that at this time, the government-run workshops, whether in Beijing or outside Beijing, are equivalent to the central enterprises more than a thousand years later. It can be said that the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, and even if they don't earn a penny, they can't delay their salary.

How can these potters with such a workshop and inheritance live a miserable life? You must know that the government-run workshops at this time only serve the heavenly family, and there is no market competition at all. Every month, the imperial court distributes money and food on time, and they can't suffer if they suffer? And these people are all skilled workers, and the people above will not dare to deduct them in order to ensure product quality.