In the palace, after Zhu Cihong finished lunch, he summoned Peng Cheng, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

"Has Ying Longjun arrived in Yangzhou and Suzhou?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Back to the emperor, the Third Army has arrived in Yangzhou and has successfully entered the station, and the Fourth Army still has more than half a day to reach Suzhou." Peng Cheng replied.

"Okay, hehe, when the Fourth Army is also stationed in Suzhou, I will come to the center to bloom and wipe out all the corrupt officials and profiteers!" Zhu Cihong's eyes were full of cold murderous intent.

Zhu Cihong had already set a thunder strategy, and as soon as Ying Longjun, the shareholder, arrived in Yangzhou and Suzhou, he immediately started to act.

Suzhou City has always been one of the most prosperous cities in the south of the Yangtze River, although it is not directly close to the sea, but it is the location of the Jiangnan Salt Administration, and all the salt quotations along the coast of the south of the Yangtze River must be opened here.

Daming has two major salt administrations, one is located in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, in charge of all the sea salt along the Jianghuai coast, and the other is located in Suzhou, located in the south of the Yangtze River, in charge of all the sea salt along the south coast, these two salt administrations are in charge of more than eighty percent of the sea salt in the Ming Dynasty every year.

After the salt introduction was opened by the salt administration departments in Yangzhou and Suzhou, it would go down the Yangtze River waterway and be transported to inland places through the Yangtze River and canals.

It is precisely because of the thousands of merchants who come and go to sell salt that Suzhou and Yangzhou are prosperous.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" There was a burst of shouting and scolding from the streets of Suzhou, and two sturdy knights rode fast horses, brandishing their whips all the way to the city gate, and the originally crowded streets suddenly gave way to a wide passage.

"Hateful!" Some people were whipped with a horsewhip, and they dared not speak in anger, because they knew very well who had been whipped by him, and if he dared to come forward, he would have died inexplicably and tragically in less than three days.

A team of mule carts came slowly, each with no less than 20 sacks, pulled by a mule horse, looking at the hard work of the mule and horse, it can be guessed that the goods on the cart must not be light, at least a thousand catties of weight, that is to say, each bag is not less than 50 catties.

The sack is tightly tied, and it is impossible to see what is inside, but what is it that has such weight, you must know that even the white flour that is ground into fine powder cannot be so heavy, and it will not be filled with sand and mud!

As long as people who have lived in Suzhou for a long time, it is not difficult to guess when they see such a situation, and they must be sure that the sack is filled with salt! Only salt is heavier than white flour and slightly lighter than silt!

There are nearly 80 mule carts in this team, which means that this trip is at least nearly 80,000 catties of salt.

It is said that if there is a wealth of ten thousand taels of silver, one can be called a rich man, even if it is calculated according to four hundred cents per catty of salt, this trip is at least more than thirty thousand taels of silver, which is definitely a big deal.

"Hehe, look at the marks of their clothes and flags, they belong to the king of Chengbei!" In an inconspicuous place, two men in their mid-twenties sat opposite each other, one of whom smiled coldly at the other.

The other person nodded and said: "After being confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief, this batch of salt was transported from Haiyan County on the southeast coast, and the salt introduction is a fake salt quotation that has been issued by the Suzhou Salt Administration Department a long time ago, and this is a batch of private salt!" ”

"Needless to say, have you ever seen Han Wang Xu San's family transport regular official salt?"

"Well, that's not it."

"This is the thirteenth time of the Wang family this month, write it down, and use it as one of the evidences in the future!"

There are three major families in Suzhou, namely the Han family, the Wang family, the Xu family, the three are wealthy businessmen, people with a discerning eye know that they started by selling salt, after nearly a hundred years, and countless officials of all sizes have dealings, the three families are united, can be called the emperor of Suzhou, the power is so strong, even the governor of Suzhou will let them three points, avoid its edge, and easily dare not offend.

Listening to the whispered conversation between the two people, it is not difficult to guess that they are one of the secret agents secretly sent here by Jinyiwei.

A long time ago, Zhu Cihong was ready to rectify the salt administration, and since the re-establishment of Jinyiwei, there have been Jinyiwei secret agents who have been continuously collecting evidence of illegal salt sold by major merchants along the coast, as well as officials accepting bribes.

After several months of collection and verification, Jin Yiwei had already mastered a large amount of evidence, and as soon as Ying Longjun arrived in Suzhou, he immediately took action.

At the same time that the Wang family's batch of private salt was about to be shipped out of Suzhou City, the other two families, the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy of the Jiangnan Salt Administration Department found the Wang family.

"Wang Dongli, did your Wang family transport another batch of salt out of the city just now!" The Salt Administration Secretary Yan Yunenvoy asked angrily.

"I have warned you a long time ago, many unknown people have been haunting one after another recently, suspecting that it is the Jinyi Wei secret agent sent by the emperor, and yesterday there was an official document from the Ministry of War, a Ying Long army will come to Suzhou to garrison, and it will arrive early tomorrow morning at most, at this critical juncture, your Wang family is still doing this, do you want to kill all of us?" The governor of Suzhou was also angry.

"Not only our Suzhou, but Yangzhou also has a Yinglong army stationed, and the emperor seems to be interested in investigating the salt administration!" The Salt Envoy said this, his tone full of fear.

Complacent, fresh defeat, Ying Longjun's prestige is like the sky, and the current Ming Emperor since his accession to the throne, means of iron and blood, this time suddenly sent Ying Longjun to Yangzhou in Jiangbei and Jiangnan Suzhou two major salt administration centers, the emperor has the heart to investigate the probability of salt administration as high as nine out of nine.

As the salt envoy of the salt administration, he knows too well that the salt administration of the Ming Dynasty has almost rotted to the bones, and it has not been investigated at all, but the current emperor's methods are iron-blooded, and he has to be frightened.

The salt envoy only took office in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and in the first year, he accepted bribes totaling nearly 200,000 taels of silver from the three major families, and he had already become a person in the same boat as the three major families.

The situation of the governor of Suzhou is similar to that of the salt transport envoy, but as the supreme governor of Suzhou, the governor of Suzhou received a notice from the military department yesterday that there will be a Yinglong army to be stationed in Suzhou, thinking of those unknown people who often haunt sensitive places are likely to be Jinyi Wei secret agents, although the governor of Suzhou is greedy, but he is more afraid of death, and he is so frightened that he sleeps all night.

"Didn't the Xu family also transport a batch out last night, don't you say, Brother Xu!" Wang Dongli of the Wang family smiled and waved his hand, looking at the head of the Xu family, who didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

"The Han family was also lucky yesterday!" The head of the Xu family glanced at the head of the Han family and said.

"You, you" looked at the three of them who didn't care much, and the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy were so angry that their faces turned blue and white, and they almost didn't just flip the table and turn their faces.

"The two adults are angry, won't Ying Longjun arrive in Suzhou early tomorrow morning, don't worry." Several people were in the same boat, and the three family heads didn't want to offend the two, so they immediately smiled and comforted.

"Hmph, if the emperor catches the handle, none of us can escape, when life and death are at stake, I hope a few of them can be very heavy!" The governor of Suzhou gritted his teeth and said, regretting that he had gotten on a thief ship with a few people back then.

A businessman is a businessman in the end, and he is too selfish!

The governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy as officials of the Ming Dynasty, they undoubtedly know better than the three major families the terrible emperor, this time the emperor even sent the Ying Long army, it must be impossible to be good, one is not careful, all of them will be headed, but at this time, the three major families are still so careless for their own selfish interests, how can the governor of Suzhou and the salt envoy not be angry.

Han, Wang, and Xu glanced at each other, and they all smiled proudly.

The head of the Wang family said: "Hmph, the three of us have been based in Suzhou for hundreds of years, even if the emperor really catches us selling illegal salt, if the emperor wants to move us, we have to weigh whether we can bear that price!" ”

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