Chapter 731

"Obediently, this salt lake is really not small...... Wang Yang reined in his horse's head on the high slope, looked at the land surrounded by pure white and deep blue, smelled the salty smell blowing with the strong wind, and couldn't help but smash his tongue.

And when you look closely, you will feel that it is not appropriate to describe it as white, and it seems to be a bit dark and greenish. And here, it is the salt pond known as the black pond, the salt taste of this pond is salty and fresh, and the color is green, it is praised as the best of salt, and it is praised as green salt by the world.

"There are 21 large and small salt ponds in Yanzhou, among them, Wuchi, which is rich in green salt, and Baichi, which produces white salt, have the largest output and the best quality. The annual output of the two ponds is about 50,000 stone (quintals), accounting for a quarter of the total. ”

"Now, because of the war, many salt ponds in Yanzhou have been suspended for nearly two months...... "Wang Yang's side is the general judge of Yanzhou.

Looking at these few people, Nuo Da is next to a black pool. Although there are still a lot of courtyards and residences, as well as many salt-making tools, the building has already been empty, and it looks very withered, which makes Gao Yu feel distressed. "It's been a two-month shutdown, how much money does it cost......"

"It's a lot, the important thing is salt, Wang Mou made a guarantee to His Majesty, Yanzhou's green salt, except for one-tenth of Yanzhou's retained for self-sale, the rest of the green salt will be escorted to Beijing, in addition, Yanzhou also needs to ensure that all the salt used in my Song Shaanxi Road and Jingzhaofu and other places is ......" Wang Yang was also helpless, but what he paid attention to was not money, but salt.

The salt production of Yanzhou, unlike Shuzhong, relies on digging wells to cook salt, these natural salt ponds here, the labor and cost are surprisingly low, and the important thing is that its salt production and quality are very good.

In the past, seven or eight out of ten of the salt produced in Yanzhou would become smuggled goods, flowing into the Great Song Dynasty to obtain huge profits from the wealthy class of the Song Dynasty.

But now, with the control of Yanzhou by the Great Song Dynasty, and these salt ponds, naturally became the Great Song Dynasty, according to the past practice, the production of salt industry is generally not controlled by the local government, but by the direct management of the court.

However, now the court has been looking for an official suitable to go to Yanzhou to be in charge of the salt works in Yanzhou. But the question is, does anyone dare to come? Wang Yang's famous reputation is so bad that he never cares about the identity of the other party.

This gives the courtiers an impression that this guy can only get along with those generals, or with those officials with strange tempers, as for ordinary officials, hehe......

He will not abide by the rules of officialdom, let alone acquiesce to the unspoken rules of officialdom. None of the merchants who were trapped in Yanzhou because Yanzhou was captured by the Great Song Dynasty was captured by the Great Song Dynasty were able to escape.

But the problem is that in this era of official position, which powerless businessman dares to do large-scale smuggling business, and can sell Qingyan from Yanzhou to Jingzhao Mansion or even Bianliang, Tokyo.

Therefore, because Wang Yang's sense of justice is violent, he not only stabbed Su Dongpo, the Shaanxi Road Transit Envoy. even stabbed the matter directly in front of Zhao Xu, the young son of heaven.

After reading Wang Yang's letter, he strictly ordered to go straight to Shaanxi Road and demanded a thorough investigation, and the background of all smuggling merchants must be found out and severely punished.

Before that, the young son of heaven Zhao Xu decided to continue to forbear, in order to see how many officials were secretly involved.

Scholar Su has always been a loyal and honest gentleman who is jealous and hateful, but when it comes to interrogation, he is very self-aware and decides to hand over this important task to Wang Yang, a young talent who is full of bad water.

Under the interrogation of Wang Daguanren's elegant and noble methods of torture from the 21st century that do not cause harm to the human body.

No smuggler was able to support him for more than three and a half days under the interrogation and interrogation of the gang of torture masters taught by Master Wang.

Soon, as these businessmen poured beans into their respective informants or backstage ones one by one, they also confessed their smuggling careers, as well as their smuggling channels, as well as the identities, ranks, and positions of officials they bought.

As the businessmen confessed, there were more and more officials on the list, and even Wang Daguan himself felt a toothache and had to ask Su Dongpo, the old driver, for instructions.

After Su Dongpo saw it, he continued to order Wang Yang to continue to strictly investigate, and began to think about twists and turns, and after the final interrogation, the total number of officials involved reached 137, including 64 officials from Shaanxi Road, 38 from Jingzhao Mansion, and although there were only 19 Beijing officials, there were as many as 14 high-ranking officials above the fifth grade.

And Su Dongpo is really a very good map cannon master who has never taken any care into account, so he directly handed the song to Bianliang, Tokyo along with the charges, and as for these businessmen, they were all escorted to the prison in Huanzhou, waiting to be disposed of.

With 137 officials involved in this major case of smugglers in Yanzhou, coupled with the deliberate non-concealment and intentional connivance of the Son of Heaven.

It is definitely a shock in the world, sensational, and it can be described as the most influential smuggling case in the history of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty.

And among them, there are also a large number of capable officials who are well-known in the circle of people and officials on weekdays, or they seem to be loyal and upright, as if they are loyal ministers reincarnated by Wei Zheng in the former Tang Dynasty......

In short, they have become notorious, and even the mansions of many officials in Beijing have been splashed with feces by some troublemakers.

Although less than one-tenth of the officials involved in the court are among the important officials of the court, the problem is that it is only such a case. Just so much is enough to prove that you guys are not much better.

It can be said that the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty all felt the extremely heavy pressure brought by the eyes and discussions of those people.

And this kind of pressure has prompted Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the Yushitai to dare not slack off in the slightest, let alone show favoritism, because in that case, it is very likely that they will also be treated as the same party.

No one dared to do anything inappropriate in this extraordinary period, even if many of the officials who were detained in the Bianliang prison in Tokyo were indirectly related to the salt smugglers and wanted to survive.

And those officials who are directly related to salt smuggling merchants, and can even say that their family members or domestic slaves are involved in the salt smuggling profiteering industry, are directly like ashes and heartbroken.

On the second day after they were imprisoned, three officials wanted to hang themselves, but fortunately, at the beginning of the trial, the three divisions had already expected such an emergency.