At noon, Yang Lin rushed back, and as soon as he sat down, Qian Bangqi asked: "My lord, yesterday you said that you would send troops to attack Hezhou, may I ask if you have sent troops, if there are any problems, let's find a way to solve them together." ”

Taking the teacup from the maid's hand, Yang Lin drank half a bowl violently, and then put it down and said: "Qian Yushi, Qian Jianjun, I am a different person from others, since I accepted it yesterday, how can I delay?"

The military order has been issued, the navy will be able to reach Diaoyu City tomorrow, the cavalry battalion will be about three days later, and the 3rd battalion of the infantry army is now stationed in Dazu County, which is very troublesome to mobilize, but I expect that the division will arrive at the front line in five days to cooperate with the navy to attack the ancient city of Diaoyu.

I have given full authority to the magistrate of Wusheng County, and Chen Huaixi of the water military camp commanded this battle. ”

Qian Bangqi was born as a civil official, although he was appointed as a supervisor of the army, but it was beyond his ability to lead the troops to fight, and now he listened to Yang Lin so refreshingly, and arranged it quietly, except for suggesting that he let his two guards accompany the army, there was nothing else.

Yang Lin looked at the things on everyone's case, and said with a smile: "Although the two adults are not from the army, they are worthy of the official class and have extraordinary knowledge."

The two adults are worried about the use of the military, and in the past few months, the official has often been worried about this.

The Volunteers alone have 5,000 mouths, and if you add ordnance, logistics, and government yamen in various places, so much more. “

The two looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly gave up their hands, indicating that they didn't dare to be.

Yang Lin arched his hand, and said with a serious face: "Two adults, in the past two days, the torture room has found that there is actually a profiteer hiding in my Shunqing Mansion, who should collude with the officials of the imperial court, ostensibly engaged in public salt trading, but in fact engaged in private salt trading.

What is even more odious is that when the two tributaries of Ma Ke and Ma Yuanli invaded my Shunqing Mansion, the profiteer actually funded Ma Ke 5,000 taels of silver and Ma Yuanli 5,000 taels of silver.

Qian Jian Jun is the imperial history of the emperor, and I hope that Qian Yushi can handle it impartially. ”

The expressions of everyone in the entire hall were very different, and Shunqing was shocked with Shi Jinchen, who quickly stood up and asked, "Yang Lin Yang Ruzhen, who are you talking about?" Who colluded with whom, this, this must be made clear. ”

Although Qian Bangxin felt that the problem was serious, punishing evil and promoting good was originally his consistent proposition, and he said that many things became clearer and clearer, and he must not offend Yang Lin because of this.

Yang Lin has already sent troops to attack Hezhou, if it is not in line with Yang Lin's intentions, who knows what will happen?

After thinking about it, Qian Bangxin accepted the case head-on, and Yang Lin arranged for Luo Mengke from the torture room to assist in handling the case on the grounds that he was busy with business.

As for Fan Wenguang, he was asked to go to Guang'an Prefecture to help Li Shikai, the governor of Guang'an, clear the land, check the household registration, and implement the new policy.

At the same time, the wealthy businessman Gou Weiyi's house was raided, Gou Weiyi and his main cronies were locked up in different prisons, and more than ten shops of the Gou family were affixed with official seals.

Qian Bangxin tried several shopkeepers who helped Gou Weiyi take care of his business overnight, and slowly figured out the context of the matter.

Gou Weiyi was born in a wealthy businessman, and his family ran a silk business, and Shunqing Mansion was known as the Silk City in the previous life, which shows the development of the silk industry.

Gou Weiyi was raised in high school ten years ago, and when she went to Beijing to take the exam, she met Shi Jinchen, a governor of Bazhou, and the two became friends.

Six years ago, Shi Jinchen was promoted to the governor of Shunqing Mansion because of his outstanding political achievements, and the Gou family's silk business suffered an accident.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Gou family had more than ten cars of Shu brocade ready to be transported to Guangdong to sell to the Franco machine merchants, but at that time Zhang Xianzhong led the army into Sichuan, and the Gou family's more than ten cars of high-grade Shu brocade were looted by the Liukou.

In ancient times, Shu brocade is one of the four famous brocades in China, and it is also the oldest brocade in China, whether it is the cloud brocade of Nanjing, the Song brocade of Suzhou, or the Zhuang brocade of Guangxi are all developed on the basis of the brocade of Shu, it can be said that the best brocade of Shu is soft gold in ancient times, and its value is very expensive.

In order to revitalize the family business, Gou Weiyi found Shi Jinchen, who was the prefect of Shunqing at the time, hoping to get some salt to sell official salt on the surface and smuggle the salt industry privately.

At this time, although Shi Jinchen's official position was getting bigger and bigger, it was difficult to support his greed by relying on the prefect's annual salary and the filial piety of the officials below, and the two hit it off, Shi Jinchen helped get 200 official salt (300 catties per introduction), and Gou Weiyi has been engaged in illegal salt sales since then.

Whether it is Zigong County in southern Sichuan or Tongchuan Prefecture, there are many salt wells, and the government distributes salt according to the number of households on the fish scale book, and the actual number of people in various places is often more than double that of the government fish scale book, plus the profit of smuggling salt is huge

In the feudal dynasties, the huge profits from salt smuggling often attracted many people to take risks and engage in salt smuggling activities.

In the Ming Dynasty, salt was a strategic substance controlled by the government, and the government generally paid 6 yuan and 4 cents of silver, or half a load of grain, to the stove household, in order to buy a guide of salt (about 300 catties), which is called Woben, so the cost of salt purchased by the government from the stove household is only more than 2 cents a catty.

In addition, 3 taels of silver are required for each salt draw, plus 3 taels of minister's silver, so that 6 taels of 6 taels of silver are required for each salt draw, which is apportioned to 2 cents and 2 cents of tax silver per catty (about 22 copper plates)

However, in contrast, the selling price of salt in the market was 1 yuan of silver per catty (60 copper plates in the Song Dynasty), so the price of salt increased 50 times from the stove to the final sales market.

Even after deducting the relevant taxes paid by the government, the price of salt is five times higher.

Illegal salt sales can also buy 60 copper coins in the world, and its price is only 60% of the official salt, but there is also a 200% profit.

Therefore, finding a way to obtain salt has always been the only way for dignitaries and local bureaucrats to make a fortune, as long as there is a way, each salt only needs to pay 6 taels and 6 yuan of silver (300 catties, the average per catty of salt is only 2 copper coins).

Due to the support of Shi Jinchen, Gou Weiyi is engaged in salt sales activities openly, and the salt retailed in various places is sold in the name of official salt, which is not a 200% profit, this is 10 times the profit.

In less than a few years, the Gou family became the largest salt merchant in Shunqing Province, the largest silk merchant, and in just a few years, the Gou family made a profit by smuggling illicit salt at a conservative estimate of more than 200,000 taels of silver.

In order to repay the prefect Shi Jinchen for his support, Gou Weiyi even gave the other party a benefit fee of 100,000 taels of silver.

At the last meeting to elect the prefect, Gou Weiyi forcibly came out, and his various abnormal behaviors attracted Yang Lin's attention, and after confirming that he was the largest illegal salt dealer in Shunqing Mansion, Yang Lin secretly arranged for people to break into the salt shop in the past two months to understand his internal situation.

This time, I saw the imperial historian Qian Bangxin going back and forth to Shunqing Mansion, and took advantage of the situation to let Qian Bangxin come out to conclude the case, which not only dealt a blow to Shi Jinchen and his supporters, avoided the formation of another faction, but more importantly, solved the problem of lack of military supplies and silver in one fell swoop.

Through the first day of observation, it was found that although Qian Bangqi was very annoying, he was still a decent imperial history, and if he found such a big corrupt official and a big profiteer, he would definitely be happy to complete the trial of the case smoothly and avoid hitting the bad reputation of political enemies.

Sure enough, during the trial, Qian Bangxin spared no effort, and in order to show that he was honest and honest, his methods were even more impressive.

This time, more than 10 salt shops and 8 silk shops were sealed, and more than 100,000 taels of silver were confiscated.

Although Shi Jinchen is an honest official on the surface, the 150,000 taels of silver obtained from the raid this time were quite angry when he saw Shi Jinchen hidden in the official office and boxes of silver hidden in his private house.

After the implementation of the new policy, the annual tax revenue of Shunqing Mansion was only 260,000 taels of silver, which was still theoretical, and in fact it was able to collect 200,000 taels of silver.

And the silver confiscated from the historians of the Gou family is more than 250,000 taels, which is really three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and 100,000 snowflakes of silver.

Watching Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi and other prisoners being loaded into a prison car and parade through the streets, I heard Shi Jinchen roaring endlessly, saying that because of different political views, Yang Lin borrowed money to beat himself and slander himself.

It is said that Yang Lin is arrogant and domineering, and his behavior is perverse, even if the rebellion of the Great Western Army is quelled in the future, I am afraid that it will become a disaster for the imperial court.

Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi sat in the prison car and were escorted to the execution ground, seeing the people frantically throwing all kinds of miscellaneous pieces on the prison car, and seeing Shi Jinchen, Gou Weiyi and other prisoners fall to the ground, Yang Lin felt that his palms were sweating.

Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 white silver, what is said is that you are a clean official, but you can also embezzle more than 100,000 taels of white silver in three years.

During the Ming Dynasty, corruption was rampant, just like the corrupt officials in the previous life often calculated hundreds of millions, Shi Jinchen was corrupt, and Gou Weiyi's collusion between officials and businessmen may not be serious, but because of political needs, or because of his rich family background, he was judged, and finally ended up beheaded.

Although according to the laws of this era, Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi deserve their crimes, perhaps according to the laws of this era, Yang Lin did not wronged the other party.

But will the invisible political opponents of the future also pay attention to the rules of the game?

Also, one's words and deeds may have been normal in previous lives, but in this era, is there no problem?

Yang Lin felt so scared, felt that he was in the dark night, and he didn't know where he was coming from?

After Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi subdued the law, Yang Lin initially thought that he would become a little better, but sometimes he felt so cold, and he didn't have the excitement he used to have.