In the next few days, it will be the palace examination, and as the first scientific examination of the new dynasty, Jia Ke attaches great importance to it.

He came to the Wenhua Hall early, and at this time the Wenhua Hall was ready, Jia Ke sat on the throne, and began to recruit the tribute students into the main hall to salute Jia Ke.

After the ceremony, hundreds of tables were moved on the Wenhua Palace, and these tributes began to sit upright.

After that, Jia Ke took out a sealed bag from the top of the bookcase and handed it to Sun Yan, the chief examiner of the Military Aircraft Department.

Sun Yan opened the bag and took out the exam questions, and then put them on the mat to announce them, and after that, these tribute students began to answer the questions.

And Jia Ke was not idle, his eyes were on these Gongsheng's bodies, and he didn't think that one of these people was that little boy.

According to age, I am afraid that there are more than a dozen people, coupled with Qin Keqing's beauty, I think that this Qin Keqing's younger brother is also a young and handsome scholar.

So Jia Ke looked around the hall, and finally asked him to lock on a few people, all of whom were young talents in the local area.

After Jia Ke finished reading, he said a few words softly to Li Deshan next to him, where Li Deshan's eyes turned around on these people, and then quietly retreated.

After a while, Li Deshan came in with a plate of paper.

Jia Ke took this information from Li Deshan and watched them one by one, and then compared them with these tributes, but found that these people were very innocent, and there was no flaw, which made Jia Ke a little annoyed.

"These people should be monitored and not taken lightly."

Jia Ke can only tell him like this now, he can't arrest everyone for no reason.

After the palace test, it was ranked, and Jia Ke did not interfere these times, and the rankings sent by Sun Yan and Li Wenbin were completely approved.

After the completion of the imperial examination this time, Jia Ke announced his decision to reorganize the imperial court's taxation to the civil and military officials, and immediately these people were in an uproar.

The income of the imperial courts of all dynasties mainly came from the taxes of the peasants, and now Jia Ke has changed his mind to these merchants.

This caused the interests of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to suffer, because none of these officials had a few caravans under them, and none of them received the filial piety of those merchants.

So he knelt down on the top of the Qianqingmen Hall, all of which were admonished to Jia Ke, so that he should not be too eager for quick success.

But Jia Ke is from modern times, so he naturally knows the disadvantages of this ancient world, although he was in power before, but after all, there is another person above, and now he has finally secured this position, so he naturally wants to reform.

So Jia Ke called back all the voices of these exhortations, plus a few of Jia Ke's hardcore henchmen, who came out to speak for Jia Ke and refute these kneeling officials.

This allowed this decree to be reluctantly passed above the court.

When this holy decree was sent from the capital to various places, the merchants of the world began to complain.

From time to time, there were turmoil caused by merchants in various places, but since ancient times, merchants have had no status, and the ranking of Shinong industry and commerce is not just talking.

If the peasants had been taxed, those sons would have jumped out against it in order to gain a good reputation.

However, when they came to the merchants, none of the scholars came out to speak for them, and they were afraid to speak for the merchants, and then their reputation among the scholars was greatly damaged, and they were considered by the other scholars to have a copper smell.

Therefore, although these merchants made a fuss, it was not resolved under the strong policy of the government and the strict preparation of the armies in various places.

The Jin merchants and Hui merchants in the three major merchant gangs did not have any objection to this reform, although they also suffered losses because of this reform, but Jia Ke was already good for them, and the silver that was previously given to Jia Ke was also exempted.

Therefore, with these two major merchant gangs in the north, the commercial tax was implemented smoothly and did not continue to cause waves.

But in the south, it is not so easy to calm down, but fortunately, Zhang Chaoxin is still sitting in the south as a minister.

Since Zhang Chaoxin was ordered by Jia Ke to go to the south to deal with the matter of the scholars' troubles, it can be said that he has been conscientious.

He arrested twelve gentry and wealthy families at once, and he sentenced one or two thousand people to death.

It was under Zhang Chaoxin's high-pressure policy that the southern gentry were honest, and almost all the gentry who were looking forward to the dynasty were disposed of by Zhang Chaoxin, and the rest of the people were all grass on the wall, and they didn't dare to do anything when they saw that the dynasty was stable.

This time, Zhang Chaoxin had not yet returned to the capital, and Jia Ke gave him another order, that is, to suppress those merchants in the south who rose up to stir up trouble.

Zhang Chaoxin is now in the south, it can be said that he can stop the child's night crying, and Jia Ke is still relieved that he will do this. 8090

Besides, the Jiangnan merchant gang is headed by the salt gang, and the salt gang is headed by Wang Yinggeng, this time the imperial court's order has greatly damaged the interests of their salt merchants, and the annual profits have to be paid to the imperial court one-tenth, plus the cost of salt paid when the salt farm is purchased, their interests are lost the most.

And Wang Yinggeng still has an ulterior secret, so this time he can be regarded as jumping up and down, he kept contacting famous businesses in Jiangnan, preparing to strike the market together to fight against the imperial court.

But as soon as he made a move, he was probed by the secret guards, and it was clear, and then the information was sent to Zhang Chaoxin's desk.

After Zhang Chaoxin read this information, he sneered, this Wang Yinggeng embarrassed the emperor who was still King Yan at the time last time, and now he is stirring up trouble again, it seems that his retribution has arrived.

So Zhang Chaoxin immediately wrote a secret order, which was sent to the capital in an expedited manner of 800 miles.

When Jia Ke received this secret fold, it was already three days later.

After Jia Ke watched Zhang Chaoxin's recital, his face was sneering, and he said to Li Deshan who was standing aside: "Do you say that this salt merchant has made too much money and has burned out his brain?" Wang Yinggeng dared to jump out and go against me. ”

After hearing this, Li Deshan hurriedly said: "Long live Lord, although this Wang Yinggeng gets a lot of silver every year, but his expenses are even more, the slave monitored Wang Yinggeng during this time and found that he didn't know where to go with a large amount of silver every year. And the consumption of his mansion does not need that money, and it is not even as good as some ordinary salt merchants. ”

After Jia Ke heard this, he immediately became vigilant, this Wang Yinggeng gets silver a year, but if it is more than one million taels, it is a huge wealth to whoever these silver are sent to, and if it is used for plotting against him, then it is a huge capital.

Jia Ke knocked on the table with a gloomy face, thinking in his heart that no matter what this Wang Yinggeng did with all this silver, as long as it was not on the surface, it would be a huge hidden danger, and it seemed that this time was just right, except for him.

So Jia Ke immediately wrote a holy decree and ordered it to be sent to Zhang Chaoxin's hands, the content of this holy decree is to let Zhang Chaoxin act cheaply, and there is no need to have any scruples about Wang Yinggeng?

After Zhang Chaoxin received this holy decree, he immediately put down the stone in his heart, with this holy decree, Wang Yinggeng bought many officials, and he couldn't escape a retribution.

So Zhang Chaoxin immediately called Wei Kun over, and the two of them discussed, and finally decided that Wei Kun would send secret agents to investigate who Wang Yinggeng contacted in Jiangnan? Have these people write their confessions.

And Zhang Chaoxin also acted after getting these confessions.

The secret guards under the command of Wei Kun have been eating this bowl of rice for several lifetimes, and their infiltration of Jiangnan has reached the point of pervasiveness, and sure enough, it didn't take a few days to find out the information of the rich people who Wang Yinggeng contacted.

After that, Wei Kun personally brought people to the door one by one, these rich people, in fact, are all soft eggs, and when they saw that the secret agents of the imperial court came to the door, they were naturally frightened.

So without waiting for Wei Kun to interrogate these people, he told everything he knew, and at the same time sold Wang Yinggeng completely.

After Wei Kun got these confessions, he did not continue to embarrass these merchants, but only let them write a letter of repentance and promise to pay taxes to the court on time in the future.

After Zhang Chaoxin received Wei Kun's intelligence and evidence, he was stable.

On the second day, Zhang Chaoxin beat out all the honor guards of the Qincha and went straight to Yangzhou with his men and horses.

After arriving outside the city of Yangzhou, the prefect of Yangzhou was already waiting there.

Zhang Chaoxin did not immediately rest with the payment process, because he knew that Wang Yinggeng's power in Yangzhou City was very large, and if it was such a process, I was afraid that he would jump off the wall in the end.

Zhang Chaoxin was outside Yangzhou City, using the gold medal of the minister of Qincha, fishing for 3,000 troops outside Yangzhou, and entered Yangzhou with him.

Then he didn't rest, he came directly to the outside of Wang Yinggeng's house, and then asked the soldiers to surround this place.

And on this day, Wang Yinggeng happened not to go out, and heard the housekeeper report that the house had been surrounded by officers and soldiers.

Wang Yinggeng was immediately frightened, he had already expected it, I am afraid that the court had seen his flaws, but now he can only hold on.

So Wang Yinggeng came to the door with the housekeeper and the housekeeper, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw a sea of soldiers outside, and a large sedan chair was parked outside the gate of the house.

Wang Yinggen didn't dare to slack off, took three steps and made two steps to the big sedan chair, knelt on the ground, and arched his hand upwards and said: "Grass people Wang Yinggeng, I have seen Lord Qincha. ”

As soon as Wang Yinggeng finished speaking, the sedan curtain of the sedan chair was opened by the small servant next to him, and he saw a middle-aged official sitting inside, who glanced at Wang Yinggeng, and then said with disdain: "You are Wang Yinggeng, the head of the salt merchants." ”

"The grass people are Wang Yinggeng."

Zhang Chaoxin had already walked out of the sedan chair at this time, and he came to the kneeling Wang Yinggeng and asked, "You don't do your business well, why do you want to do wrong?" ”

"The grass people are wronged, and the grass people have great courage, and they dare not oppose the court."

Zhang Chaoxin listened to his words, and he didn't know if it was okay, but he just ordered the soldiers next to him: "Pass my order, raid Wang's mansion, and all men, women, and children will be imprisoned in a centralized manner, and no one can get away." ”