Zhou Zhiruo said deliberately: "Your Majesty is destined to marry many concubines, and I am also quite lonely in the palace. Sister Han is beautiful and gentle, her martial arts are so good, there are few such women in the world! If I were a man, I would definitely marry Sister Han as my wife......" After that, he glanced at Han Feng'er's face lightly, and found that her expression brightened a little, but it quickly dimmed again. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info secretly laughed in her heart: "Sister Han is obviously moved, but she refuses to admit ......"

Han Feng'er smiled awkwardly and diverted the topic: "Queen Mother, don't tease the people's daughter, this is impossible." However, the folk girls can speak, and the teaching of martial arts in the welfare institute is borne by the folk girls. It's just that the folk girl doesn't know many words, and I'm afraid that one will accidentally teach the wrong ......"

Zhou Zhiruo said with a smile: "Let's talk while walking, it's not a matter to stand here." Sister Han, you have to tell me, your martial arts are so powerful, who is the master, and how did you practice it? ”

Han Feng'er smiled bitterly: "The master of the people's daughter, the people's girl has never been allowed to say his name. As for how to practice, the folk girl doesn't know what to say, she can only say that it is not an overnight effort. Queen Mother, if you look at the hands of the people's girls, you won't envy the people's girls......" After that, Han Feng'er generously stretched out her hand, and Zhou Zhiruo noticed that Han Feng'er's hand didn't look like a girl's hand at all, it was even rougher than the hands of some men who did hard work! The slender fingers were full of calluses, especially after the fist was clenched, the calluses on the surface of the fist were as thick as a small stone.

Han Feng'er smiled bitterly and said, "If the queen mother is like a folk girl, it is estimated that Your Majesty will definitely not like it......"

Zhou Zhiruo stuck out her tongue and said, "You have to suffer so much to practice martial arts, Sister Han, then how do you persevere?" When I was a child, I was forced by my father to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I felt very bitter. I didn't expect Sister Han to have a harder life than me......"

The two began to talk about some interesting things from their childhood, and gradually led the topic to the welfare home. Han Feng'er sighed: "Only Your Majesty is kind-hearted and takes in these poor children. Without the welfare home, the women would not dare to imagine these children. What will life be like in the future......"

Zhou Zhiruo said with a smile: "The welfare house is just one of His Majesty's ideas. Your Majesty also wants to open a pharmacy where the poor can afford to get sick, and a nursing home for the elderly! It's a pity that the money and silver in the Huangzhuang are not very sufficient, otherwise it would have been done a long time ago. ”

Han Feng'er's eyes were confused, as if she was thinking about something. He said in a daze: "Yes, Your Majesty is a good emperor......"

The two were discussing Lu Chengqi's goodness hotly, and at this moment, he was listening to Xu Jingchun's report in the Vertical Arch Hall, and suddenly sneezed. Xu Jingchun, who was concentrating on the report, was startled, but Lu Chengqi waved his hand. said: "Go on, I may be infected with the wind cold, and there is no big problem. ”

Xu Jingchun cautiously continued: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter must be inseparable from those family valves. The minister investigated the salt merchants and rich gentry, and inadvertently found that the heads of those families in the previous dynasty seemed to have evaporated from the world and disappeared. If it weren't for them, no one else would have had such a plan. Stirring up so many things? ”

When Lu Chengqi heard this, his eyes flashed, but he was noncommittal. Xu Jingchun, who lowered his head and didn't pay attention to Lu Chengqi's expression, continued: "Your Majesty, these family lords are quite ambitious, and they privately raise armored soldiers with the intention of rebellion. The Overseers were all damaged, but fortunately they were able to escape. They even have crossbow arrows, isn't it a clear rebellion! He said indignantly that the Inspector was just a secret agent, except for the Inspector who was in the open and had a weapon. None of the other agents carried blades. But they are officially equipped, and they are just a simple knife, where is there a bow and crossbow!

You must know that the bow and crossbow are absolutely forbidden weapons in Dashun. Private individuals cannot have anything but the military. These lingering family gatekeepers, under the guise of being salt merchants and rich gentry, are secretly raising private soldiers and preparing to rebel?

For such a sensitive event, any emperor will not let go of the mistake. Lu Chengqi is naturally no exception. It's just how to kill, there is no evidence and no evidence, and when he knocks on the door, he is guilty of hurting the innocent, and Lu Chengqi will also change from a Ming monarch to a tyrant. This kind of business cannot be done.

"It's a headache, these families, I know they won't be so simple. It's good not to make trouble, but if they do, it's no more dangerous than any peasant uprising. Lu Chengqi only felt that his head was big for a while, and he was quite a bit of a mouse pulling a turtle, and he had nowhere to start.

Of course, these inner activities cannot be known to Xu Jingchun. Lu Chengqi listened for a long time before asking, "Does Xu Qing have a plan?" ”

Xu Jingchun only had a loud mouth, and he really didn't have a strategy. In his opinion, it's just a matter of knocking on the door, can some fallen family gate valves still be able to withstand a Dashun court! Can you carry an army of 100,000!

But the reality is that without charges and evidence, it is probably counterproductive to rush into arrests. No matter how stupid Xu Jingchun is, he understands this truth. He was silent for a moment and said, "The minister has no choice, but the minister also knows that these families have colluded with the dealers who sold illicit salt before......"

Selling illicit salt, for Lu Chengqi from later generations, this is a distant word. He actually heard this word again, which also proved how profitable the ancient salt profits were under the official camp, so that some people disregarded their lives and committed crimes against the wind and sold illicit salt.

After Lu Chengqi opened the salt farm, the price of salt fell again and again, and there was still not enough salt to sell. The reason for this, in addition to the difficulty of the road and the high cost of freight, is more because of the large number of thieves on the way. These thieves may be smugglers.

Lu Chengqi had already received the secret report from the inspectors, and there were many armed smugglers of salt along the coast of Dashun. They generally did nothing to the people, but only sold salt, which was only half of the official salt before.

The salt trafficking gangs along the coasts of Liangzhejiang East and West Road, Lin'an Mansion, Pingjiang Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Yidu Mansion and other places are even more arrogant, and even have formed an operation system of production, trafficking, distribution, supply and security, and the entire scale covers the surroundings of Taiyuan Prefecture. The first is that the coastal salt farmers will provide them with cheap salt products, and then the salt will be sailed offshore by sea vessels to other coastal areas. There are also small boats prepared at the mouth of the river, which are responsible for river transportation and terminal sales, and then the money obtained is handed over and distributed by the gangs. These salt-trafficking gangs even set up their own production and living bases on the coastal islands, and engaged in armed confrontation with the Dashunxiang army for many years.

In response to this rampant situation of illegal salt trafficking, the imperial court also issued many edicts requiring local officials to eradicate it. Even the emperor announced that any official who exterminated the smuggling salt gang and obtained more than 10,000 catties of salt at one time could be promoted immediately. But these officials are not stupid, first, these smugglers are outlaws, and the result of extermination may be a lose-lose situation. Second, if left unchecked, they will only sell salt for profit, and will not disturb social order too much. Third, there is no oil and water in catching "salt", it is purely a chore -- if you don't offend "salt", the whole family will not survive! In view of this, no official dared to really suppress the bandits.

Most of these smugglers were secretly supported by the family, and they controlled both the official salt trade and the smuggling salt trade, forming an unprecedented monopoly. It can be said that an invisible salt empire has been established. If it weren't for Lu Chengqi's broken wrist, I don't know how long this situation would last.

But now the problem lies precisely in this place, these families do not sell salt, and the supply of salt in the market has immediately dropped by as much as ninety. No matter how low the price of salt is, the people can't buy it! Now it depends on whether Lu Chengqi has the determination and courage to uproot these family valves. (To be continued.) )