As soon as the little boy finished saying this idea, the butler next to him was frightened.

"Master, we must be cautious about this matter, if any clues leak out, I'm afraid we won't be able to hide it anymore."

"We still have a few ministers in the court, and the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department is also one of our people, I think this matter can be fooled."

This little boy is also holding the idea of what if, as long as he can fool the past this year, it will be easy to say next year.

This time, the salt ship sank, and naturally all the salt on it was lost, and the price of salt in the north naturally went up, so that the extra silver taels could also be given to the stewards of those salt factories to let them settle things.

This order quickly spread from the little prince's mansion to Wang Yinggeng.

After Wang Yinggeng got this order, he was so frightened that he was distracted, to say that this Wang Yinggeng, although he is the money bag of this little boy, he can be regarded as a person with a head and a face, but he is not bold enough to do this.

If this is found out, the whole door will have to be copied, this salt is different from other things, the court is very close, once there is a mistake, it is really difficult to cover up.

Wang Yinggeng thought about it in the study for an afternoon, and finally decided to act according to this little boy's plan, mainly because it was difficult to give up good money, and the money in the court must not be short if he wanted to tide over the difficulties, and he didn't want to take out his old book, so in the end he could only act according to this method.

So soon Wang Yinggeng visited Li Yingtai again, and then first gave Li Yingtai a lot of gifts.

Li Yingtai saw Wang Yinggeng, who was quite polite, so he put down the events of the previous day.

After Wang Yinggeng saw that Li Yingtai was discouraged, he hurriedly told him that he had been blinded by lard some time ago, and his heart had now thought that he would give all the taxes and silver and the profits of various salt factories.

After Li Yingtai listened, he looked Wang Yinggeng up and down, and on the surface he was very satisfied, and talked and laughed with Wang Yinggeng.

But after Li Yingtai sent Wang Yinggeng away, he felt that this was very strange, this amount of silver was not a small amount, and it added up to several million taels in total.

He Wang Yinggeng didn't pay it before, it must have been a problem with his turnover, but now he promised to hand over all the silver, I'm afraid there is something wrong with it.

So Li Yingtai sent out those salt lads under his command, disguised themselves and changed the office to inquire around for news, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the news that the salt boat going north had capsized on the canal, and dozens of boats of salt had all been lost.

After listening to it, Li Yingtai understood what Wang Yinggeng had in mind.

Li Yingtai locked himself in the study, and when he came out again, his eyes were already black and his face was sallow, but his eyes were very bright.

In addition, in the Military Aircraft Department, the first thing to receive is that the salt tax has been greatly reduced this year, and even the profits of a salt factory are less than two-thirds of those of previous years.

Sun Yan, who is the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, has actually gotten the news a long time ago, but now he feels a little headache when he sees the twists, this matter must be suppressed in the Military Aircraft Department, if it is handed to Jia Ke, I am afraid it will be another bloody storm.

But this matter is really not easy to do, the newly appointed head of the household department Shangshu Tian Hui, who turned out to be the servant Shaoqing, had taken refuge in Jia Ke many years ago, it can be said that Jia Ke's hardcore and loyal minister, and this matter happens to be in charge of him, if he doesn't give an explanation, Tian Hui will definitely ask to see Jia Ke alone and stab this matter in front of Jia Ke.

When Sun Yan was worried, another copy was sent to the military aircraft, it turned out that the salt merchants everywhere had promised to make up the tax silver, and now the silver had entered the silver treasury of the salt factories and was waiting for the imperial court to escort it.

Sun Yan was relieved at this time, as long as there was silver, then this matter was nothing, and he could suppress it as the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department.

So Sun Yan pressed down this performance and did not discuss it with everyone in the Military Aircraft Department.

But Sun Yan didn't expect that Jia Ke had already seen the cause and effect of this incident clearly.

It turned out that Jia Ke was not worried about this person under Prince Yizhong at all, and he had already sent someone to monitor him, and he was strict.

At the same time, Li Yingtai's documents were also quietly sent to the capital, it turned out that Li Yingtai was also the manpower of the secret guard, the original managers of these salt factories and salt merchants did not dare to be so arrogant, and the imperial court wanted local stability, so they didn't pay much attention to what Li Yingtai said.

But this time it was different, the salt boat capsized on the canal, which caused the price of salt in the north to rise sharply, and the people were already complaining.

This matter naturally spread to Jia Ke's imperial case, coupled with Li Yingtai's twists and turns, Jia Ke can be regarded as understanding what these salt merchants are doing, this is to make up for their losses.

But Jia Ke didn't just let go of this matter, because he felt very strange.

These salt merchants can be said to be the richest people in the world, they have never been short of silver, why are they thinking about silver now?

And this short is not hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but millions, and these silver taels can do a lot of great things.

Jia Ke paced back and forth in the Heart Cultivation Palace, thinking about what these salt merchants were going to do, if it was a rebellion, Jia Ke didn't believe it.

These salt merchants are pampered one by one, where will they do these things, and their heads are pinned to their waists.

"Li Deshan."

Li Deshan, who had been serving Jia Ke next to him, listened to Jia Ke's greeting, and immediately stepped forward to ask his grandson, "The master is calling a slave?" ”

"The salt merchants in Jiangnan, there have been some changes during this time, do you know?"

"Back to the master's words, the slave has already received a small reward, Wang Yinggeng is now vigorously developing private salt, and there is very little salt for the salt factory, so this year's salt tax and the profit of the salt factory are not guaranteed, but some time ago Wang Yingtai suddenly made up all the money."

"He is a salt merchant, and he is so short of money every day?"

"Back to the master, Wang Yinggeng himself is not different from before."

"Then you send your fan out to investigate, I think there must be something unspeakable."

After hearing this, Li Deshan hurriedly promised that he was not a fool, and he also felt a strong smell of conspiracy in this matter.

If you want to say that this salt merchant, not to mention that they sell private salt in private every year, just the salt purchased through serious channels, the annual profit is more than 20 million taels, in addition to the millions of taxes, there are three or four million taels of tribute to the emperor every year, and the remaining 10 million cars are divided by these salt merchants, and everyone in the world may be short of money, only they are never short of money.

Thinking of this, Li Deshan suddenly realized one more thing, this year's salt merchant's three or four million taels of filial piety have not yet been sent to the palace.

To say that in the past, these silver taels naturally went into the emperor's inner treasury, but now these silver should also be transferred to the palace of their master, King Yan.

After Li Deshan had this awareness, he immediately reminded Jia Ke, "Master, every year the salt merchant has to give the emperor three or four million taels of silver, and this year's silver has not been sent yet. ”

When Jia Ke heard about it, "When did you send this silver before?" ”

"If you go back to your master, you should have sent it before the Chinese New Year."

After hearing this, Jia Ke had a sneer on his face, "It seems that these salt merchants don't take me seriously." ”

Li Deshan had already seen that Jia Ke was already very angry, so he stood aside and didn't dare to say a word, really afraid that Jia Ke would be angry.

"Li Deshan, you send someone to tell those salt merchants that last year's filial piety was increased to 5 million taels, and it will be sent to the capital within a month, if I don't see the silver by then, don't blame me for being rude."

Li Deshan listened and hurriedly agreed.

"Since the salt merchants have filial piety, do the Jin merchants and Hui merchants have filial piety?"

"Back to my master, this slave has never heard of it."

"Since the salt merchants have filial piety, we can't favor one over the other, you let the Jin merchants and Hui merchants send me 2 million taels of silver from this year onwards."

Li Deshan was also a little shocked after hearing this, he didn't understand what Jia Ke was doing with so much silver every year?

In fact, Jia Ke had some things that he couldn't say to Li Deshan, Jia Ke didn't collect these silver taels for his own enjoyment, but wanted to wave the Northern Expedition in a few years and completely defeat the Tatars.

If Jia Ke wants to realize this wish, then at least mobilize nearly a million people and all kinds of people, and the silver taels needed from now on will be the sea.

It is obviously not enough to collect those taxes every year, and now collect some silver taels from the hands of these big merchants, save up for a few years, and everything comes out.

Jia Ke sat on the dragon chair, thought about it, and felt that he couldn't let the price of salt in the north go up like this, otherwise, I was afraid that the people's hearts would be lost.

"You go to the salt factory in Jiangnan and immediately transport salt to the north to stabilize the price of salt, this time you don't have to go through those salt merchants, they are directly responsible, and the silver obtained from selling salt is divided into two, one part will be given to the imperial court, and the other part will be paid for their hard work."

After listening to this, Li Deshan hurriedly nodded, this time these salt merchants played too much, no wonder their master put them aside to make their own decisions.

And if this time is successful, the court and their master can share some more silver, why not?

"You go and pass the decree again, tell those salt merchants that this year's annual tax must not be less, if the salt tax of the imperial court is short, then I can only change a batch of salt merchants in a broken boat."

Jia Ke This is not only this year, the salt tax cannot be less, but also the filial piety to the imperial court has increased a lot, this is also to give those salt merchants a little color, let them know that their arms can't twist their thighs, let me stay honest, otherwise I will change you all.

Jia Ke then said to Li Deshan: "I don't think the things behind this are so simple. For such a big matter, the Military Aircraft Department did not report to me, and your people will be a little sad about these twists and turns in the future, otherwise I will really be deaf and blind by these big men. ”

Li Deshan listened and nodded hurriedly: "Master, I will replace all the eunuchs in the Military Aircraft Department with the secret guards today." ”

"In the future, all the twists and turns of the Military Aircraft Department, you secret guards will have to copy a copy of the file, and I am deceived by these people in the province."

Li Deshan immediately agreed after hearing this, he was inexplicably surprised in his heart, how much more power did he have now?

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