Emperor Chongzhen suddenly spoke: "The people on the left and right are there, and they can't run away." You go for a trip and see what the canal looks like now.

Also, I heard that there are salt gangs selling illegal salt among the people, so you can take a look at me to see if the people spontaneously sell it to eat or exchange it for some money to live, or whether it has become the climate and controls the salt road. ”

After Emperor Chongzhen crossed, he was bored and bitter.

For many things, you only need to move your mouth, and the rest will naturally be handled by the ministers of civil and military affairs.

There are not many opportunities to personally lead troops to the grassland to cut people, and they will become less and less frequent in the future.

The boring and bitter life gave Emperor Chongzhen a lot of time to miss the TV series of later generations.

For example, when Xu Xianchun was about to go to Shandong to find the Mo family, Emperor Chongzhen first remembered "Ink Attack", and then remembered a TV series "Li Wei as an Official" that I didn't know how to evaluate.

The broken TV series is to whitewash Jiannu, which is nothing to say, but there is a plot in it that is the story of Li Wei's little gangster who abandoned the official and mixed into the salt gang, which seems to involve Cao Yun.

As for what the Salt Gang and the Cao Gang did during the Mite Qing Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen didn't know, and even if he knew, most of them would have to praise it.

But now that the Salt Gang and Cao Yun are doing things in Daming, they can't bear it.

Now I just took the opportunity to think about it, so I simply let Xu Xianchun stop by and take a look.

Xu Xianchun bowed down, and then asked: "Your Majesty, if it involves high-ranking officials and dignitaries from all over the world?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen knew what Xu Xianchun was talking about.

High-ranking officials and dignitaries are not the target of Xu Xianchun's concern at all.

To put it bluntly, no matter how high-ranking an official is, when he is approached by Jinyiwei, he has to be like a grandson.

But there were still some vassal kings in various places.

For example, King Zhou, King Lu, King De, King Heng, the fiefdoms of these four guys are in Shandong and Zhejiang.

If these vassal kings are involved, although it is said that according to the temperament of Emperor Chongzhen, they will inevitably be unlucky, but they cannot deal with it directly.

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said, "Write it down first." When the Mo family's affairs are over, it will be their turn. ”

Since the death of King Fu, Emperor Chongzhen has been completely annoyed with the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a Zhu Yujian in front of him who performed well, Emperor Chongzhen would have thought that these vassal kings were all hopeless pigs.

After Xu Xianchun left the palace, he ordered all the people and went straight to Tongzhou on the edge of the Beijing Division.

There were two Tongzhou in the Ming Dynasty, one south and one north.

To the south is Tongzhou, Jiangsu, which is the southern terminus of the canal and is called Nantong Prefecture.

The north side is Tongzhou outside the capital, from the end of the pseudo-Yuan Dynasty Tonghui River opened, Caoyun Daxing, build Tongzhou warehouse, build a fence city on the south bank of Tonghui River, there is the prototype of Tongzhou City.

In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the new city was rebuilt on the basis of the pseudo-Yuan fence city, which was the Tongzhou City of the Ming Dynasty.

The new city is located at the intersection of the Tonghui River and the North Canal: the waterway from Tongzhou to the capital is the Tonghui River, and the waterway from Tongzhou to Tianjin is the North Canal, and Tongzhou has become the last transshipment center on the tail section of the north-south water transport.

Perhaps he had been following Emperor Chongzhen for a long time, Xu Xianchun also fell in love with the game of micro-service, and took a group of businessmen disguised as merchants, and the group took a boat from Tongzhou to Tianjin.

It's just that he just left Tianjin and went south, and he hasn't even arrived in Shandong yet, so Xu Xianchun became very unhappy.

I can't really be happy.

In order to see the real situation of Cao Yun, Xu Xianchun deliberately chose to take the Cao Gang's boat to the south.

Because Xu Xianchun was generous along the way and was happy to give silver, the treatment he received was also quite good - there were fish for a meal, and they were all live fish in the river.

You can move freely – on the tall deck of the boat, you don't have to stay in the cabin all the time.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Xianchun has seen many scenes that he has never seen before.

The Cao Gang is very awesome, and there are some even more awesome existences. The only thing that suffers is the ordinary ships.

Whether it is the boats of the Cao Gang or those boats hanging on such and such a house, just sail on the canal, and as for the people's boats, obediently give way.

As for the places where the ship is not easy to walk, where people need to be used to pull the fiber, ordinary ships need to pay someone to pull the fiber.

But none of the Cao Gang and those ships of such and such a house paid at all.

Taking the opportunity of repairing on the shore, Xu Xianchun sent his Jinyi guards out.

All the way south, all the way, when he arrived in Yangzhou, Xu Xianchun was still accompanied by three or four brocade guards and thousands of households.

After waiting for seven or eight days in Yangzhou, the people sent out along the way slowly gathered.

After several people finished their reports, Xu Xianchun's face became more and more gloomy.

After a long while, Xu Xianchun spoke: "The salt gang in Yangzhou will find a way to touch their bottom, and we will go to Shandong in two days." ”

Recently, Miao Shoumo, who has been quite bullish, was thrown in Shaanxi to act as the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, and Zhu Gang always follows Emperor Chongzhen's side.

Xu Xianchun, who was unwilling to take risks at this time, chose the safest method, and after collecting almost all the news along the way, he first went to get the heirs of the Mo family into the capital.

As for the Cao Gang and the salt lords along the way, just figure out the situation, and the rest will wait for His Majesty the Emperor to decide.

It's just that Xu Xianchun can't imagine how rampant the illegal salt in Yangzhou is.

The Ming Dynasty, like the former Tang Dynasty, was a salt and iron official camp.

However, if there is a monopoly on the salt industry, there must be private salt.

The stricter the monopoly of the salt industry, the easier it is to sell the private salt, and the higher the profit. This is an objective law.

Da Ming also didn't take this rule.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were still Yuan troops stationed outside the northwest, threatening the security of the Central Plains, and the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in that area.

With a garrison, it is necessary to supply grain and grass for a long time, which has become a major burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

As a result, Lao Zhu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, came up with a good way - to open the middle system, and later changed the open middle system to the folding color system - as long as a certain amount of silver taels were paid, merchants in any region could receive salt for trade.

But there's a key problem here – you have to pay for it first!

Originally, it was a good thing for salt dealers to be able to get salt from anyone, but when you count it this way, it doesn't make people so happy.

But as the saying goes, if you have to spend money to get salt, wouldn't it be more beautiful to find a way to spend less, or not to spend money at all to get salt?

There is a way to act, and the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again - the Hui merchants and Jin merchants immediately took action.

If you want to make money, you have to spend money first. Otherwise, how can you enter the market?

But there is also a point in spending money.

Otherwise, if you go up alone, you will send money directly, will the officials dare to accept it-who are you, you will send silver, is the official very familiar with you? I don't know that this official has always regarded money as dung?

Since it can't be done to send money directly, no problem, let's change the routine.

Send calligraphy and paintings, send antiques, and those famous seals or something, in short, what is inconspicuous but valuable, and can also follow the elegance of the side of the things, but the strong send is.

How big does it take to carry a thousand taels of silver to the door? It's just what a system.

But a famous calligraphy and painting may be worth a thousand taels, and it doesn't take up space when rolled up, so you can hold it at hand.

As an official, you can't refuse a guest's gift, right? It's not something valuable, is it?

The lord said that this painting is worth a thousand taels of silver?

Ouch, my Qingtian lord, this is the little one who bought it for five taels of silver from Wang Er Mazi on the street, and I can't appreciate this thing, and I can't tell the good from the bad.

Didn't I hear that you are a master of appreciating calligraphy and painting, so the little one took the liberty to bring this thing to the door to ask for advice?

If the adult also thinks this painting is good, as long as five taels of silver, the villain will resell him to the adult.

What? Adults have a breeze on their sleeves, and they don't have five taels of silver, but they like this painting very much?

Ouch, look, this is the case. I have long heard that you love the people like a child, and now that a large family spends a lot of money, it is really impossible to save that little money.

In this way, this painting, just enlarge the person here, you appreciate and appreciate the villain, let's go to the Red Mansion to get together another day.

Just like that, don't we become friends?

Since we have become friends, it is right for friends to help each other, right?

When things are done, will there be a friendship between friends? Adults and villains are friends, but now that the court is slamming the door, adults are tight, and villains can't look at it!

In this way, there are dozens of taels of silver tickets here, and the adults will take them and use them first.

It's just that how these dozens of taels became hundreds of thousands of taels, this matter may have been a mistake on the Qian Zhuang's side.

……

Facts have proved that the officials of the Ming Dynasty don't care about principles or unprinciples at all, and no one takes the Daming Law thing seriously - there are very few fools like Hai Rui after all.

Just like in order to put an end to the problem of private salt, the Ming Dynasty specially set up the history of the two Huai salt transportation and the two Huai salt transportation imperial history in Yangzhou.

However, the largest private salt lord Lin Weifeng is also fucking in Yangzhou.

And Lin Weifeng, who is a Hui merchant, is different from those old men of Jin Shang.

In other words, the Hui merchant group does not look down on the old Jin merchants.

What do you do when you have money?

If you have money, you have to enjoy life, don't you?

Look at what those old picks from the northwest do?

The house that was repaired was imposing and sturdy, but it was not good-looking, gray, and depressing when it looked at.

As for the old pickers themselves, they still like to wear old sheepskin robes, eat steamed buns, and sandwich green onions and garlic, and leave a big box of ingots in the cellar after they die, but they are only willing to spend two taels of silver to buy a coffin for themselves.

Our Hui merchants are not as low-level as them, vulgar!

Look at the house of our Hui merchants, relaxed, open, and pleasant, with aesthetic taste, it dissolves the strictness of power and hierarchy in the courtyard of those old picks, how good.

As for the usual, eat well, live well, use well, this is life, isn't it?

We Hui businessmen can't be full of warm thoughts**, this is not what we should do.

In addition to building bridges and paving roads to help those poor people, we also need to study.

Lin Weifeng thinks so and does so.

Since his successful three-year apprenticeship, Lin Weifeng began his business career.

First, I borrowed the capital from the lender, and then took this little capital and began to sell some small things, and slowly came into contact with the business of private salt, and then plunged into it and was reluctant to come out.

But in Xu Xianchun's view, this Lin Weifeng himself is very contradictory.

From one point of view, this guy should be cut with a thousand knives and can't understand his hatred - Yangzhou's private salt, six or seven out of ten is flowing out of this guy's hands.

But six or seven out of ten of the smuggling salt that this guy had gone out of his way was sold to the poor, even though most of them were his fellow villagers.

Although the remaining private salt still makes him a lot of money, this guy always uses money to do some good deeds of repairing bridges and paving roads, and supporting the elderly and children.

And this guy is not simply inviting to buy fame for show, but taking real money out.

If you want to be a good person, you should stop studying and become an official, okay?

But this guy is not biased, while making the smuggler of salt prosperous, and on the other hand, he is a good person, and he can't let go of his hands every day.

The only good news may be that the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have not come out to engage in any demon moths.

In other words, those hands and feet that are not clean have been washed early, and they don't touch these messy things.

Although it was a little unexpected by himself, Xu Xianchun could also guess a few reasons.

Since Emperor Chongzhen first revealed that he allowed the vassal kings to go overseas to open the country and become a powerful king, these vassal kings have been intentionally or unintentionally stopping.

After Emperor Chongzhen sent his Fu King Zhu Changxun and his family to see Emperor Taizu Gao, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were even more well-behaved - that was the emperor's own uncle, who said that if he died, he would be killed, and these vassal kings who were farther away were not honest?

After Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and King Qing of Qin, recruited exiles in Shaanxi to prepare for the sea, these vassal kings simply cut down all those messy businesses.

Since you have the opportunity to go to sea to be a local emperor and be at ease, there is no need to make trouble for yourself now - it is true that those messy businesses can make money, but if the emperor is unhappy, he will be removed from the knighthood before he goes to sea to build a country, where can he reason with himself?

As for the founding of the country at sea, as a vassal king like a soil emperor, he didn't want to do what he wanted? It's time to play with the disaster of the overseas feudal kingdoms, and it's okay to run back to Daming to continue to be a pig.

Xu Xianchun had a gloomy face, and snorted coldly: "Don't worry about him, let's set off for Shandong, as for the up and down of Yangzhou, we will talk about it later." ”

By the time Xu Xianchun and his entourage arrived in Tai'an, Shandong Province from Yangzhou, the time was already close to night.

Xu Xianchun touched a sign on his waist and ordered: "Go first to Tai'an and rest for one night, and Ming'er will go directly to the back of Mount Tai to find someone." ”