Chapter Eighty-Three: Illicit Salt
Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Liu Jin to have such an idea, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is vision, this is strategy, no wonder Liu Jin can be favored.
However, Zhu Houzhao didn't plan to let Liu Jin do anything, Zhu Houzhao had already arranged this matter, but he wouldn't let Liu Jin do it, it was too eye-catching. He is a good prince who is innocent, kind and upright, and he has nothing to do to let the little eunuch who is serving around him run to get some internal factory, which is too damaging to his image.
"You don't care about it!" Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and said, "You can do the things in front of you first!" After speaking, Zhu Houzhao signaled Liu Jin to retreat.
After Liu Jin left, Zhu Houzhao smiled slightly, and then his expression became serious, and he didn't know what was going on in Yangzhou.
Yangzhou, garrison eunuch yamen.
Standing at the door of the garrison eunuch yamen, Yang Bin, a thousand households in Jinyiwei, always felt unsteady in his heart, but the invitation of the garrison eunuch Pang Jin came too suddenly. Regarding the relationship between himself and Pang Jin, Yang Bin has a number in his heart, that is, it is not good, but it is just passable on the surface. Now with such a sudden invitation, how could Yang Bin not be suspicious in his heart?
However, some things can only be kept in the heart, and it is definitely going to come, after cleaning up, Yang Bin turned around and walked inside.
Halfway through, Yang Bin saw Pang Jin walking towards him, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Yang Bin has seen his father-in-law!" ”
Pang Jin hurriedly walked a few steps and stretched out his hand to support Yang Bin, then took Yang Bin's hand, and said with a smile: "Yang Qianhu, you're polite, you're polite, please hurry up, let's have a good talk today, there are just a few friends, introduce Yang Qianhu to know today." ”
Hearing this, Yang Bin understood, sure enough, it wasn't Pang Jin who wanted to see him, so he said that he didn't have such a good relationship with this dead eunuch.
However, Yang Bin is also guessing in his heart, who wants to see him? Not to mention anything else, just letting Pang Jin, a dead eunuch, help, is not a simple character.
The two of them walked into the hall with their own thoughts, and after entering the hall, Yang Bin saw two people, a young demon boy sitting on a chair, and the other was a thin man who looked like a teacher. His eyes swept over the faces of the two people, and Yang Bin found that these two people were very strange, not familiar faces, and they didn't know each other at all.
"Come on, let's introduce you!" Pang Jin said with a smile: "This is Xiao Yang Gonggong, the godson of Gonggong Yang of Dongchang, and this Mr. Zhang of the Hou Mansion of Shouning. ”
Yang Bin listened to Pang Jin's introduction, the expression on his face moved slightly, the origin of these two people is not simple!
One is the godson of Dongchang Factory, and the other is a person from Shouning Houfu, Yang Bin naturally understands what this means, one of these two people represents Dongchang, and the other represents Shouning Houfu, and neither of these two people can afford to offend. Now Yang Bin also understands why Pang Jin has that attitude, and these two people Pang Jin can't afford to provoke, but what are these two people doing in Yangzhou?
Yang Bin was guessing in his heart, but he didn't dare to be the slightest slack in his actions, and hurriedly said: "Yangzhou Jinyi Wei Qianhu Yang Bin has seen Yang Gonggong and Mr. Zhang. ”
"Yang Qianhu, don't be polite, we are all a family, sit down and say!" Yang Lian smiled and arched her hand, and then beckoned Yang Bin to sit down, and when Yang Bin sat down, Yang Lian said: "This time our family came to Yangzhou, in fact, there are some cases in the East Factory that we want to investigate, but the East Factory is not enough in Yangzhou, so our family thought of Jinyiwei, and we want to ask Yang Qianhu to help a little." ”
As soon as he heard this, Yang Bin immediately put his heart in his stomach, it was not good to come to trouble himself, and it was naturally not a problem to help.
"What does Gonggong Yang command, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it!" Saying that, Yang Bin patted his chest with a serious face: "But everything that I Yang can do, I will definitely not be ambiguous." ”
Yang Lian smiled and nodded: "Yang Qianhu is really benevolent and righteous, then our family is not welcome, what Dongchang wants to investigate this time is not a big case, it is to investigate the smuggling of smuggled salt in the Lianghuai Salt Farm, the following officials embezzled salt from the salt farm, turned the official salt into private salt, and sold the private salt as official salt, which is really a great crime, and this time the East Factory is ready to eradicate all these people." ”
Listening to Yang Lian's words, Yang Bin was almost so frightened that he sat on the ground and checked the illegal salt in the salt field? Still thorough? Also eradicated? Are you crazy, or am I crazy?
Do you know who is standing behind the Lianghuai Salt Works? It can be said that the huge network of interests formed around the Lianghuai Salt Farm started from the Lianghuai Salt Farm and spread to the entire Jianghuai and even Jiangnan. There are big people standing behind the big salt merchants, and there are so many officials and nobles who share profits from here that they can't be too many, you actually want to attack the two Huai salt farms? Glancing at Pang Jin and Yang Lian, Yang Bin scolded secretly in his heart, crazy this.
Who would dare to do such a thing? Whoever dares to do it will stab the hornet's nest, and when the time comes, don't say that his life is not guaranteed, his family will be implicated.
Not to mention that Yang Lian and Pang came in to find themselves, it is useless to add a Shouning Marquis Mansion, it is not enough to see at all, even if the emperor decrees, he would rather lose his official position and resign than wade into this troubled water. There is no danger to his life if he loses his official position, at most, he is not an official, and he can continue to be a rich man when he goes back, but if he really wades into this troubled water, he will drown if he can't get in.
"Two, private salt? I don't know what the case is! Yang Bin shook his head directly: "The matter of private salt is not under the control of our Jinyi Guard, I really can't help with this matter." ”
Yang Lian looked at Yang Bin with a smile, and then said: "Our family thinks that Yang Qianhu is not unable to help, but he doesn't want to help!" Saying that, Yang Lian picked up a box, and after opening the lid of the box, Yang Lian smiled and took out a book of accounts: "These are all evidence of Yang Qianhu's smuggling of smuggled salt over the years, Yang Qianhu himself is the person who smuggles smuggled smuggled salt, how can he check others?" ”
Yang Bin looked at the box and evidence in Yang Lian's hand, his face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and he turned his head to look at Pang Jin, it must be this dead eunuch who received his own black material.
Why did Yang Bin guess so? Because he also collected a lot of other people's black materials, not only Pang Jin's, but also other people's, but no one would take this thing out if everyone was fine, after all, no one was clean under their buttocks. Yang Bin looked at Pang Jin, this dead eunuch is really crazy, and he didn't die like this, which made Yang Bin even more determined not to participate in this matter.
"You slander!" Yang Bin said righteously, he made up his mind in his heart, and after he went back, he stopped all the business, no matter what these crazy people wanted to do, they must not implicate themselves.
Yang Lian picked up the teacup and looked at Yang Bin, and smiled coquettishly: "Yang Qianhu, are you sure?" ”