"The remnants of Mubang, I implore the kingdom to uphold justice!"

This sentence does not need to be translated, this Ba Dengding is said in Chinese, but he just said such a sentence, or he was waiting for someone else to answer, or he just said a sentence to see if it had any effect, and he didn't speak again.

Hu Guang didn't know where Mu Bang was, literally, it seemed that the vassal state wanted to ask for help, just such a clueless sentence, he couldn't worry about his own affairs, so he didn't pay attention to it, switched to the Dongchang working group, and asked Cao Huachun about the situation in Suzhou.

"Your Majesty, the Ma clan is extremely powerful in Suzhou, and the former Dongchang Fan was accidentally killed by him, and the bones have been found. The Yongchang ticket number semicolon of Jin Shang has its dry shares, and the prefect of Suzhou and the county also have it. The slave maid found that the Ma Fan family cooperated with each other in the ticket number and the salt industry. The slaves and maids brought troops from Yingtianfu, and the relevant people have all been obtained, and they have obtained as much as 11 million taels of silver for the time being, and the rest of the assets such as fields are still being counted......"

The big salt merchant is also a big fat sheep! After Hu Guang read Cao Huachun's proclamation, he couldn't help but sigh. If before, if you had copied the Jin merchants and then the salt merchants, you would have made a fortune!

However, this is only the only way to think about it. If the emperor says that whoever he copies, he will copy whomever he wants, the world will be chaotic, or the world will not be chaotic, and the emperor has been replaced!

The Jin merchants were able to be raided before, but it was because the Jin merchants caused too much public outrage. If you go to raid the Jin merchants before Jianyu invades the land of Gyeonggi, maybe things won't go so smoothly, and there will be many people from all walks of life who will come out to oppose it in a different way!

Even if the Jin merchants harmed the interests of so many people, it still involved the military generals of the Jingshi Wenchen, the imperial family and the nobles, and the matter of confiscation could only be stopped. Min Hongxue's analysis is the best evidence.

And those big salt merchants are different from the Jin merchants, they either have unsightly means in doing business, but they are far less obvious than the harm caused by the captives, and it can even be said that the methods of the big salt merchants are basically not only salt merchants, but also merchants from all walks of life. If you go to a large-scale raid of salt merchants for this reason, it will trigger a backlash from all walks of life far more powerful than Min Hongxue's analysis before, I don't know how many times!

As for Suzhou Ma, he still borrowed the east wind of collusion with Jin merchants, plus Ma Fugui's illegal things confided in the group. Hu Guang believes that many people are staring at Suzhou, and if there is a tendency to expand, even if Cao Huachun, the commander of the East Factory, is in person, he may not be able to suppress it.

Hu Guang was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard that Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, was in a hurry.

The situation in Shaanxi is one of the things he is most concerned about. Therefore, he had previously decreed that the concerts of the governor of Shaanxi and above should be sent directly to the imperial front.

When he heard this, Hu Guang hurriedly asked people to present the recital and watch it.

Yang He mainly talked about five things: First, it is speculated from the current situation that the severe drought in northern Shaanxi will spread to the entire territory of Shaanxi, and the disaster situation is not optimistic.

The second is that the Shaanxi civil uprising has spread with the drought, and there have been many large civil uprisings, and the momentum is very fierce, such as the capture of Fugu County by Fugu Wang Jiayin, etc., these civil uprisings that would have been pacified were originally pacified, because the elite of the border army was transferred to the king of Qin, resulting in a resurgence.

The third is that Yang He clearly said that these civil uprisings were all forced to happen, and the vast majority of people were disaster victims, and none of them survived, only thieves.

Fourth, Yang He advocated appeasement first, and implored the imperial court to allocate money and food to appease him, so as to show the virtue of heaven and the emperor's generosity and benevolence.

Fifth, the governor of Yansui was not ill, and Yang He recommended Hong Chengchou to participate in the politics of the army, and praised Hong Chengchou in his words, and gave an example that although Hong Chengchou was a civilian official, he could lead more than 300 soldiers to repel the thieves who came to attack and so on.

After Hu Guang read it, he frowned, thought for a while, and immediately convened the ministers in the Wenhua Hall to discuss the matter.

He first showed Yang He's recital to the cabinet ministers and the six Shangshu below, and then asked, "What do you think?" ”

"The minister thinks that Governor Yang is reasonable, most of the thieves are disaster victims, and it is advisable to appease them!" The left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Sun Yuanhua, who was temporarily in charge of Shangshu, was the first to bow down and play.

The reason why he is so positive is that he is grateful to the emperor. After all, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi, and after an interview with the emperor, he was promoted without any merit.

When the others heard this, they also echoed it, even if it was the head of the household who was holding the money bag, it was the same.

This is also something that can't be helped, just like a military general must have military merits, a civil servant must be famous. Only in this way can it be possible to stand in officialdom without falling. If the words of the emperor can be passed out, it will only take a little saliva, but it can reap the gratitude of the people of Qindi, such a good thing, why not do it!

Hu Guang saw that the courtiers below all had the same attitude, and couldn't help but wonder a little, didn't later generations explain which minister wrote a poem to condemn those people for not staying at home and starving to death, but to come out to cause chaos in the court?

If you think about it carefully, I guess it's a rumor, or one of the allusions to the later Manchu Qing Dynasty. If it weren't for any minister, he would be so brain-dead!

This idea flashed by, and Hu Guang also agreed with the views of these courtiers below, plus he had confiscated the Jin merchants, and he also had confidence, so he asked again: "How to appease him?" ”

At the specific level, the ministers at the bottom were silent at first, and then their opinions were different.

Some people say that they will directly allocate money and food, and send the imperial history to let the victims receive money and food and return to their hometowns.

This idea was immediately objected, saying that it was too unrealistic for the grain to be transported over, and it could not be consumed on the road.

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Hu Guang listened, his brows furrowed, this thing is really difficult to do!

Surely there is no way to transport the grain, but if the money is distributed, even if it can be easily transported in paper money, the price of goods will skyrocket after the victims receive the money. It was already affected by the disaster, and there was a shortage of materials, and if there was a lot of money, there would be money and no food at that time, so what was the use?

He is troubled here, far away on the Phi Island in the east, a large group of Ming army generals are also troubled, noisy and even very discordant.

When Yuan Chonghuan, the former Jiliao Governor, was good at killing Mao Wenlong, he divided 28,000 Dongjiang soldiers into four associations, and used Wenlongzi Mao Chengzuo to manage one association, and used Xu Fu to play one association, guerrilla Liu Xingzuo, and deputy general Chen Jisheng were in charge of the remaining two associations. Later, Liu Xingzuo went to Guanning, and his association was led by his younger brother Liu Xingzhi.

Yuan Chong's purpose in doing this was to let them contain each other, balance their strength, and not be able to dominate one family, so that he could control it or other purposes.

In this way, the four generals of Dongjiang Town do not obey anyone, they fight with each other in case of trouble, they rush to do good things, and no one wants to do difficult things. 10