Others don't know how Wang Wenzheng suddenly came out of nowhere to take over the fat shortage of Changlu Salt Transport from the position of Tongzhi of Shuntianfu, but Wang Wenzheng himself knows his own family affairs and knows very well how he came up. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And he has long known about Lu Shanji, when Lu Shanji served in the household department during the Wanli period, he was already famous in the capital.

At that time, Liaodong was short of salary, the soldiers mutinied, and the military department continued to pay a sum of silver, but the household department did not have silver, just in time for Jiangnan to transport a sum of gold and silver to the emperor.

As the head of the household department, Lu Shanji asked Shangshu at that time to embezzle the silver to save the emergency, but Shangshu did not dare to offend the emperor, but Lu Shanji was not afraid, and gave the silver to Liaodong with a wave of his hand.

In the end, the mutiny was quelled, but Lu Shanji was dismissed from office because he was in charge of spending the silver belonging to the emperor without authorization, and rushed back to his hometown, until the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne and granted amnesty, and then came back to serve as an official under the recommendation of Sun Chengzong.

This matter was known to the officials of the Beijing division back then, so Wang Wenzheng was very afraid of Lu Shanji's "audacity", especially now that Lu Shanji has the name of Qincha, and there is also Shang Fangjian who can be cut first and then played.

Once Lu Shanji knew how he became the Changlu Salt Messenger, no matter whether he was greedy for money or not, Lu Shanji would not let himself go.

It was precisely because he was worried that Wang Wenzheng heard that Qin was sent out of the capital, so he hurriedly sent his henchmen to greet him, hoping to contact him in advance, communicate his feelings, and see if he could do some work.

But what he didn't expect was that this person didn't play cards according to the routine, not only was no one to send him when he left Beijing, but he also didn't play a very majestic guard of honor, and he didn't live in a post station, so as soon as he left Beijing, he disappeared.

A few days have passed, and Wang Wenzheng can only sit in the yamen of the salt transportation department in Cangzhou without his own orders, and do not allow outsiders to snoop on them, let alone those salt-boiling stove households whose lives are as cheap as dogs, and can only sit in the yamen of the salt transportation department in Cangzhou and do things in a hurry.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Wang Wenzheng was a little uneasy about the throne, but he was reluctant to make such a fat shortage of salt transportation, until Wei Zhongxian fell, Wei's family was beheaded, and his family property was confiscated, he began to feel scared, worried about the East Window incident, and panicked all day long.

However, what made him happy was that because Wei Liangqing, the Duke of Ningguo, had only been in prison for a day or two from the time he was imprisoned to the time he was killed, and he died before he could explain any crimes, so he did not confess to a small person like him, and others did not know that he was on this path, so there was no Jinyi guard who came to the door. During this period, I also thought about resigning from the official position many times, but after all, it was still difficult to give up the official position, and the love stack did not go.

From the new emperor's accession to the throne to now, four months have passed in the blink of an eye, Wang Wenzheng thought that this was the past, but he did not expect that the emperor would actually send a minister to rectify the salt affairs.

Back then, seeing so many officials soar because of their refuge in Wei Zhongxian, he also wanted to take a shortcut after many years in Shuntian Mansion, but unfortunately the official was humble and could not be contacted, and later Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing made something and fell into his hands, he helped deal with it, and since then he has been connected to Wei Liangqing's line, first promoted to Shuntianfu Tongzhi, and soon after was promoted to Changlu Salt Envoy, ushering in the peak of his life.

It's a pity that Wang Wenzheng's parachute is of course the pinnacle of his life for himself, but for others, it is bad luck from the sky, such as Yuntong at that time, that is, Feng Xueyi, the same knowledge of the Salt Transport Division.

This Feng Xueyi was not born in Jinshi, starting from the deputy envoy of the salt section of the Tanggu Salt Transportation Division during the Wanli period, and worked until the Apocalypse, and finally became the second-in-command of the Salt Transportation Division.

But he is a jinshi, and the backer behind him is hard, so he can only stay in the position of Yuntong, but he is collecting the black materials of his boss all the time.

Finally one day, when all the yamen in the world were scrambling to set up an ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian, Wang Wenzheng also found this deputy who he never usually looked for to discuss the matter of repairing the ancestral hall.

Considering that Wei Zhongxian's power was overwhelming, Feng Xueyi extinguished the heart that brought down Wang Wenzheng from then on. But feng shui is really in turn, now Wei Zhongxian is all over the house, and the henchmen are like rats crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, Feng Xueyi wants to seize an opportunity to sue Wang Wenzheng.

When Lu Shanji and his entourage arrived in Tanggu, they went straight to the salt farm. First, he pretended to be a salt merchant and brought salt from the imperial court to buy salt, and on the first day, he entered the salt pan, asked about the yield, and watched the work of the salt farmers from a distance.

Today's northern salt farm, the popular or boiling salt method, generations of craftsmen of the beach households, every family to build a stove, pour sea water into the big iron pot, just boil it raw, wait for the sea water to evaporate dry, what remains in the pot is sea salt, although the process is simple, but the output of each household is limited, and the coastal area is not backed by the mountain, there is no forest, the cost of firewood is relatively high, not to mention the efficiency and benefit of the salt field.

Zhu Daming mentioned to Lu Shanji about the salt drying method, so Lu Shanji also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to rectify the salt business, find a few salt farms to experiment, and if feasible, carry out the salt drying method, so that although it is necessary to open up a large number of salt fields, the cost of fuel is completely saved, and the output will also increase.

Originally, I wanted to go back the next day and talk to the salt farmers in the salt farm, but I couldn't go the next day, and outsiders were not allowed to enter again.

Considering that now is not the time to reveal their identity, Lu Shanji and his party simply continued to go south, and as a result, all the way south, the salt fields belonging to the Changlu Salt Transportation Division were all rumors and strict guards, and there were salt officials and tax collectors staring at them.

In this way, Lu Shanji and Wang Zegu together fully understood that there must be something wrong with this Changlu Salt Transportation Division.

When Lu Shanji and his entourage arrived at the Qinghe Salt Farm, they directly played the banner of the minister of the Qincha and sent Jinyi Wei to report. No one dared to stop me now.

The official messenger of the Qinghe branch hurriedly reported and led the way. But at this time, it was more difficult for Lu Shanji and them to see the problem, so they took a look around, and then rushed directly to Cangzhou.

Since there is a problem, Lu Shanji naturally has a way, he has a brocade guard in his hand, and he has a sword from Shang Fang, so he will take the big and small officials of the Changlu Salt Transport Division Yamen in a pot, as long as the problem is finally found out and enough silver taels are copied, the emperor will not say anything.

After making up their minds, Lu Shanji and his entourage finally arrived in Cangzhou in the evening, and at the north gate of Cangzhou, a group of bureaucrats from the Changlu Salt Transportation Division had been waiting for a long time under the leadership of Wang Wenzheng.

Lu Shanji quietly greeted everyone, and then refused the routine banquet in the officialdom, lived in the hall arranged by the Salt Transportation Division, and simply ate in the yamen of the Salt Transportation Division.

Seeing that the Qin Cha who came from Jingshi was such a style, Wang Wenzheng was even more worried, and Feng Xueyi finally made up his mind.

At around the second watch of the night, Feng Xueyi asked to see Lu Shanji, and Lu Shanji took Wang Zegu and Sun Chan to meet him.

Next, of course, Wang Wenzheng is unlucky. That night, Sun Chan led the Jinyi guards to arrest Wang Wenzheng and all the officials of the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division in Cangzhou City, and imprisoned them in their own cells of the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division.

Then for three consecutive days, Lu Shanji and Wang Zegu announced the new salt policy of the imperial court in the Yamen of the Salt Transportation Division, and in order to appease many salt households, they also made their own decisions to increase the wages of salt in the government-run salt farms, as well as the pricing of the unified purchase of salt.

The big salt merchants who operate the salt industry in all parts of the north have permanent representatives in Cangzhou, and they also came to visit them at this time, and when they saw that the imperial court's plan to restart the salt administration of China and France had been decided, in addition to reciprocating, they were also helpless.

Wang Wenzheng was also quite cooperative, and explained the accounts he gave to Wei Liangqing every year, as well as the small treasury of the Salt Transportation Division, as well as the acts of befriending salt merchants and selling official salt privately.

Representatives of salt merchants from Datong, Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou and other places were also arrested.

After reading Lu Shanji's secret fold on the rectification of the Changlu Salt Transportation Division, Zhu Daming was of course very happy, he did not have a good impression of the vast majority of bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty, and in history, it was this group of large and small moths that brought down the Ming Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

Lu Shanji asked for instructions on how to deal with Wang Wenzheng, a peripheral member of the Wei Party, and a corrupt official to whom he belonged, and also reported Feng Xueyi's merits in it, and asked for instructions on how to reward him.

Lu Shanji suggested that Feng Xueyi take over as Changlu Yanyun's envoy, and Zhu Daming of course agreed, and at the same time, Lu Shanji was ordered to punish Wang Wenzheng and other guilty people in Cangzhou, and they were all beheaded.

Zhu Daming transferred Lu Shanji's secret fold and his own imperial pen instructions to the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet, Shi Fenglai and others were shocked, and what was surprised was not the treatment of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Changlu Salt Transport Division, but the power of Lu Shanji's secret folding.

This kind of secret folding, which did not go through the General Affairs Department, the Military Aircraft Department, and the Cabinet, was the greatest threat to these ministers, and the power of the Cabinet was once again weakened.

However, Shi Fenglai and others felt a little frightened while being faintly uneasy, and in the long run, whether it was the cabinet or the military aircraft department, they would lose the power to influence the government.

However, Shi Fenglai is currently in an embarrassing situation, Li Guowei and Sun Chengzong are not of the same mind as him, he is nominally the first assistant, but he does not have the prestige and power of the first assistant at all, and he is constantly impeached by the original Donglin Party member Yu Shi Yanguan, the reason why he was not dismissed from office is completely because of the emperor's retention and his own cheekiness.

Every time he was impeached, Shi Fenglai would beg to go as usual, and the emperor would quickly order him to stay, so he had come and gone twice.

He was very worried that when he went to the court for the third time, the emperor would not keep him, so although he was constantly impeached, his third request was not up, and the emperor was also very cooperative, and he did not leave any of the notes for impeachment.

As a result, the current cabinet has basically returned to the original position of the emperor's private secretarial institution, and no one is willing or dares to stand up or dare to question the emperor's decision, let alone veto the emperor's decision.

The same is true for the disposal of the Changlu Salt Transport Envoy Division this time.

The emperor transferred Lu Shanji's secret fold and his own will to the cabinet and the military aircraft department, Sun Chengzong saw it, and Shi Fenglai asked the cabinet secretary to draft the decree according to the emperor's will, and then sent it to the emperor to read by the celebrant supervisor, and then the celebrant used the seal, and finally returned to the cabinet to countersign, and then sent it to the world.

Wang Wenzheng and others were beheaded and their homes were confiscated, Feng Xueyi took over as Changlu Salt Transport Envoy, and began to act in accordance with the provisions of the new salt policy, and several implicated salt merchants in Xuanfu, Datong, Zhangjiakou and other places were also beheaded.

In particular, the salt merchant surnamed Fan in Zhangjiakou was found guilty of smuggling salt to various Mongolian ministries and Liaodong Jianguo by Zhangjiakou's Jinyiwei, and was convicted of colluding with Jianjiao.

The new emperor's notoriety for greedy money and love to steal his family naturally spread farther. But Zhu Daming obviously attaches more importance to affordability, and cares more about silver, in front of the more than three million taels of silver copied, that bit of notoriety will be memorized, and it is nothing at all.