Xia Yan planted, and in the competition for the book of the household department in Nanjing, he inexplicably lost to Yangming Yimai.

He really didn't expect that the person recommended by Yan Song to him would be a big corrupt official, and when he built the altar on the outskirts of Beijing, he thought that Liu Boyue was a good talent, and he could do things quickly and well.

Now that I think about it, it's all the effect of silver, it's not at all how strong Liu Boyue's ability is, just kidding, the two altars that can be repaired for a hundred thousand taels, Liu Boyue spent more than 200,000 taels, and if he can't build it well, he will be an idiot.

This time he really threw people to his grandmother's house, Liu Boyue was thrown into prison, not to mention, he was also implicated in this incident, and was severely reprimanded by the emperor, if the emperor didn't know that he was a "big Qing official" with clean sleeves, this time he would probably be finished.

Life is like this, ups and downs, one moment ago, he was still proud of Mao Bowen, Nie Bao and Zhang Shiche, and the next moment, he was almost accompanied by Yang Ming's line and his own people.

Sometimes I mistakenly believe in traitors, it's good not to be trapped, Xia Yan is a typical example, this Liu Boyue is still a small problem, and before he hit the idea on his head, Yan Song behind Liu Boyue is different, that guy can really kill him.

Yan Song didn't expect that Liu Boyue would be planted like this, he had just received Liu Boyue's letter for help, and before he could figure out how to save the goods, the goods were directly put into prison.

This time, Jiajing was really angry, the reason why he quickly promoted Zhang Shiche to the post of Nanjing Hubu Shangshu, and hurriedly ended the secret fight between Xia Yan's party and Yangming's lineage, was to warn Xia Yan not to get too carried away.

Nanjing Hubu Shangshu dared to recommend a corrupt official to such an important position, which is already a bit pampered and arrogant, this is not good, and it must be extinguished with him.

Zhang Shiche successfully ascended to the position in this way, and the share of salt introduction in charge of the Nanjing household department naturally fell into the hands of Yangming Yimai, but there are really no corrupt officials in Yangming Yimai, and they are not competing for the position of Shangshu to make money, but to bring down the price of salt and benefit ordinary people.

Of course, the price of salt is not said to be able to be lowered, there are too many links involved, more interest groups are involved, if you really want to reduce the price of salt, not only the household department of Nanjing must be controlled in your hands, the border generals, the governors of various places, and even the relevant personnel such as the salt imperial history have to be replaced with honest and honest, otherwise, it will be difficult for the salt price to come down.

Yang Ming means that they don't want this salt introduction at all, but Wei Guogong, Dingguo Gong, Jingshan Hou, and Wuding Hou, including Yang Cong and Lu Bing, must reduce the benefit fee asked for when distributing salt by at least half, so that the salt price can almost be reduced.

Yang Cong has no opinion on this, anyway, he only needs a share of one percent, and this share is directly for his father, and there will be no benefit fee in the middle.

Lu Bing is also easy to say, just let him hand over the share of 10% to his father to do, and then directly give him this 10% of the dividend, this dividend must be more than the benefit fee, Lu Bing naturally readily agreed.

As for the Duke of Wei, the Duke of Dingguo, the Marquis of Jingshan and the Marquis of Wuding, Yang Cong proposed to directly let each family take 20%, and this benefit fee would be charged at half of the original amount, so that they would not lose any income, and the price of salt would be reduced.

He had just distributed the share of salt introduction with someone, and the news from his parents' side also came, it turned out that at this time, his parents were collecting grain and grass in the town of Shanxi, and were going to exchange for salt introduction, and they would come to the capital when they exchanged for salt introduction.

What his parents meant, this wedding will be held in the capital, after all, the Lu family and the emperor are both in the capital, they must want Lu Linger and Yang Cong to marry in the capital, as for the Yang family and the Zhang family, compared to the emperor, it is nothing at all, and the emperor's idea must be first.

When Yang Cong received the news, he was really a little excited, after all, he hadn't seen his parents in this life, and he was even going to go to Shanxi Border Town to meet his parents to show his filial piety.

However, before he had time to ask for leave, there was another big incident in the court.

The crown prince and the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Xuan, suddenly fell ill, and his condition was quite serious, and he was about to die.

Yang Cong didn't dare to leave now, because Zhang Xuan fell ill, and the position of the first assistant of the cabinet was vacant, and Jiajing naturally couldn't play anything with others, and he would burp if he played again.

As soon as Zhang Xuan stepped down, I was afraid that the position of the first assistant of the cabinet would fall into the hands of Xia Yan, and then Yan Song would definitely climb up the pole and return to the capital to serve as a scholar of the six ministries and even a cabinet scholar.

This capital officialdom will soon become the world of Xia Yan and Yan Song, and when the time comes, those of them who offend Xia Yan and Yan Song will definitely have no good fruit to eat, what should they do?

Yang Cong hadn't figured out how to deal with it yet, and then another great event happened in the capital, and Wang Guifei actually gave birth to a prince to Jiajing!

This is even more terrible, because Jiajing's fertility is really worrying, he has succeeded to the throne for more than ten years, and in the twelfth year of Jiajing, Yan Guifei gave birth to a prince to him, and this prince died less than three months after he was born.

In the next few years, let alone a son, he couldn't even make a daughter.

Since then, he began to ask the priests to be a dojo, worshipping and cultivating, hoping to have another prince to inherit the throne.

Unexpectedly, it really came true, last year, Wang Guifei and Cao Duanfei became pregnant one after another, and at this time, Wang Guifei directly gave birth to a son to him, and he was naturally happy.

Perhaps, this is the reason why he is superstitious about alchemists.

In fact, this is not a good thing, at least not for the people of the Ming Dynasty, because Jiajing is superstitious about Fangshi, and it is inevitable that he will be bewitched by Fangshi to pursue some ethereal immortality.

If he couldn't give birth to a prince, he might not believe in these monks slowly, but at this time, he gave birth to a prince, and he trusted the monks even more, which laid the groundwork for him to be obsessed with the way of immortality and waste political affairs in the future.

Of course, he didn't realize this at this time, and even in the future, he didn't realize this, he only knew that his worship and cultivation had produced results, and he finally had a back.

The birth of the prince is a major event of the country, to the big one, the prince is the cornerstone of a stable dynasty, because there are too many people who are quite emperors, if there is no prince, many people will have ideas, and if there are many people with ideas, the court will be in chaos, and after having the prince, others basically have nothing to think about.

Such a big happy event, Jiajing naturally wants to celebrate, this sacrifice to the ancestors and ancestors is indispensable, so Jiajing decided to go to worship the imperial tomb, and Yang Cong because of the good writing of green words, and the champion of the new department, was also named by Jiajing must follow.

At this time, Yang Cong had no time to go to the border town to meet his parents.