Yang reform, who has recovered, has returned to the punctuality of work in the 21st century, stepping on the point to go to work every day, getting off work, dreaming back to Baidu every night, searching for how to dry salt, searching for how to deal with salt merchants, salt rats, and preparing to have a fish with salt merchants. People fight for a breath, Buddha fights for a stick of incense, that group of pigs, even if they embezzle silver, they will endure it, and if they are embezzled, they will not count, but they will also show off, and educate themselves to think about problems with pig-like IQ, Yang Reform can't bear it.

To deal with salt merchants, meddle in the salt industry, and thoroughly collect the "salt tax", it still requires strategy, methods, and layouts, and Yang Gai believes that even if he gets some private salt to sell, he will earn more than one million taels of silver every year, so no matter how he gets it, it is better than this result.

In the Qianqing Palace, Yang Reform is working hard, reviewing the recital, the little eunuch is responsible for reading the recital, Yang Reform feels a little impressed, so he asks someone to stay and take a closer look, there is no impression, throw it to the cabinet, the cabinet can't decide, depending on the situation, but or not, the recital will be completed soon. Anyway, these things, no matter what the result is, the impact will be good or bad, and it will not be worse than the Chongzhen in the original history, Yang Gai quickly reviewed the manuscript accumulated over the past few days with peace of mind.

After reviewing the large pile of playbooks accumulated over the past few days, Yang Gengai concentrated on picking up those playbooks that left a little impression on him and looked at them carefully.

"Hey...... Qing Jin Yi Wei treacherous? "This man is not afraid of death! Dare to move the knife on the head of Jinyiwei, and then look at his position, the military department is in the matter, specifically to the military department, the army to give advice, this is a bit interesting, I now want to use Jinyiwei to cut those salt merchants ...... "big companion." Yang Gai immediately called Wang Chengen.

"The slave is here."

"This, pass that Fang Hongzan quickly, I have something to ask him." Yang Reform's impression of Jinyiwei mostly stayed on Fang Hongzan.

"Yes." Wang Chengen went to deliver the decree.

…… Soon, Fang Hongzan arrived at the Qianqing Palace.

"The minister Hongzan knocked to see my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live." Fang Hongzan has been very happy these days, the silver has been moving hard into the inner treasury recently, presumably the emperor is quite satisfied with his work, presumably, this position will also be promoted step by step.

"Fang Hongzan, you have worked hard for this silver matter recently, and you have done a good job." Yang Reform has checked his inner treasury, and the atonement silver in the Wei case is close to five million taels. This credit of Fang Hongzan, Yang Reform will not forget. Give yourself a person who concentrates on doing things, and you can't treat him badly.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is what a courtier should do." Fang Hongzan was very modest on his face, but he was very beautiful in his heart.

"The money in this Wei case is almost over, let's finish it."

"Back to Your Majesty, the silver in the Wei case has been almost collected, only some odds and some that can't be handed over, or are still making up the silver, and the rest have been put into storage." Fang Hongzan participated in the whole process of chasing silver, and naturally knew the progress of chasing silver.

"Well, that's good. I will not forget your merits...... "Yang Gengai pondered, how to use this Fang Hongzan.

"Your Majesty Xie's praise, the ministers ......" Fang Hongzan was very excited, and it could be seen that the emperor was very satisfied with him, and it seemed that he was about to be promoted. I can't stop being excited, I can't stop being humble.

"I have something to tell you......"

"Dare to ask Your Majesty what is the matter?" Fang Hongzan expects the emperor to get him some errand, and turn into a regular commander of the Jinyi Guard?

"Alas! I don't know if I should tell you about this matter, this matter is very dangerous, and I may die. "Yang Reform has sold off the guanzi.

"The minister will definitely do his best to go to the soup for His Majesty, and he will not hesitate."

"Okay, what I want is your words, since you said that you will go to the soup and go to the fire, you will not give up, then this matter, I will agree to it, and it may lead to death in the future, you can think about this clearly, before I tell you about it, you can still excuse yourself, I will not blame you, just as this incident has not happened, there is merit, there is still a reward, once you know this matter, there is no other way than to work forward and fight for me to create a world, if you retreat or are afraid to move forward, I will not spare you, believe, Some people won't spare you. ”

Although Fang Hongzan has achieved the high position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he also felt chills in his heart when he heard the emperor's words, but this Jinyi Guard, who did some dark things, quickly calmed down, and said with a fearless face: "Jinyi Wei is the emperor's pro-army, and what he does is to cut through obstacles for the emperor, and the minister must be desperately loyal to His Majesty and create a world for His Majesty." "Fang Hongzan knows very well that he, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, knows Tongzhi, is there any other way to go except to take over the emperor's work? If you are afraid of things and don't dare to kill for the emperor, then you shouldn't enter the industry of Jinyiwei, and from the first day of being Jinyiwei, you know this result.

"Okay, as long as you don't give up on yourself and don't give up, I won't abandon you. Whatever happens, I'll carry it for you. "Yang Reform wielded the big stick of imperial power, commanded the Jinyi Guard, and was ready to attack the salt merchants.

"Here's a piece of information, top secret, you can take a look at it first."

Wang Chengen hurriedly took it and took the information prepared by Chongzhen to Fang Hongzan.

Fang Hongzan took the "information" given by Wang Chengen, opened it and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the colder his heart became. There is only one thought, the emperor is crazy, he wants to go to war with the salt merchants of the world and with the hundred officials in the salt industry, and the salt merchants and the bureaucrats involved in the entanglement of interests in the salt industry, I don't know how many, the emperor wants to go to war with these people, and the result is ...... What Fang Hongzan did was to kill officials and raid his family, and he was also shocked by this kind of thing, and lacked the courage to face this huge entanglement of interests, these salt merchants, the hundred officials, royal relatives and relatives who profited from the salt industry, I don't know how much, the emperor wants to do something to them? This one...... Sure enough, the emperor was right, this matter needs to fight out a world. Either you die or I live.

In this matter, if the emperor wins, Fang Hongzan may be spared death, if the emperor loses, obviously, the salt merchants, and the officials will not be able to take out the emperor's anger, the emperor has nothing to do, he is still the emperor, and the result is that he will come out of the top tank and be a substitute for the dead.

Fang Hongzan said: "Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty says who to arrest, there is no problem for the minister to go to the ends of the earth." "What Fang Hongzan is doing is this kind of swearing, what he is doing is to eliminate disobedient people for the emperor, since the emperor wants to kill people, then he is the knife, Fang Hongzan is very conscious.

"Well, this matter is top secret, and you have to arrange it secretly, and the secret cannot be revealed to anyone."

"The minister obeyed...... It's not that the ministers don't dare, but the ministers really don't know, once His Majesty announces the exemption of the salt tax, this ...... "Fang Hongzan is really wondering, this emperor is crazy to exempt the world from salt tax, how much salt tax does this court have to lose!" Didn't you say that the hole in the household is very big now? Is this a good thing or a bad thing. The consequences are hard to predict.

"Well, yes, you just know about this, and when the time comes, I will announce the exemption of the world's salt tax......" Jinyiwei is just a knife, not a staff member, Yang Reform felt that this Fang Hongzan asked a little too much.

"Minister...... I really don't know, this exemption from the salt tax in the world is a blessing from God to all the people, why does Your Majesty want the ministers to prepare? Although Fang Hongzan knew that the emperor was going to attack the salt merchants, he felt that the salt tax was exempted, so why bother those salt merchants? Wouldn't those salt merchants be happy if they didn't pay their taxes? Itching if you don't pay taxes? If you don't pay taxes, do you have to have someone whip you?

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair, listening to Fang Hongzan say what else to prepare if he didn't pay taxes, hehe sneered.

"Look at the middle, is there a 'salt' thing?"

Fang Hongzan was reminded by the emperor, so he took a closer look, among them, there was indeed a thing called "drying salt", which he was anxious to see just now, and he didn't pay attention to it carefully.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is indeed salt. It's just that the minister doesn't know, what is this dried salt? ”

"Drying salt is a new technology for salt production, which can be made in large quantities at a very low cost, I first exempted the salt tax in the world, so that all the salt in the world can be distributed at will, produced and sold at will, and there is no longer any shackles, and then use this new salt-making technology to defeat those salt merchants, so, the world's salt production, in my hands, so to speak, the Qing family can understand?"

Yang reform is calculated in this way, first with his new emperor ascending the throne, amnesty to the world, blessings, and the reasons for benefiting the people, the salt tax was completely exempted, the salt road was abolished, the salt policy was no longer withdrawn from the salt tax, so that the salt in the world could be sold and sold at will, presumably those elites were confused, and then they used the salt drying technology to dry salt on a large scale, and the bottom of the kettle was paid, and the salt was dumped to the entire Ming Dynasty on a large scale, completely defeating those salt merchants, and then unifying the salt industry of the Ming Dynasty, and then what price of this salt, they had the final say, I am afraid that the money I get from the salt industry every year will come faster and more than I will open a lot of gold fingers.

Instead of collecting the one million taels of silver leaked out of the mouths of the salt merchants every year, Yang Gai felt that even if he used Jinyiwei as a salt gang to protect salt, he would make more money every year than this million taels of silver, you know, in the Ming Dynasty, at least more than half of the people ate private salt every year, and there were only ten outlines of the outline, which could only meet the needs of 60 million people to eat salt at most, and the actual population of the Ming Dynasty would at least double, so the profit of this private salt could be imagined. Yang Reform doesn't mind using Jinyiwei as a gang to protect private salt, so his own profit is definitely not the one million taels of silver that the salt merchants picked out between their teeth. You must know that the Song Dynasty, which also had a population of only 60 million, had an annual salt tax of 20 or 30 million taels of silver. This method was used as a last resort, and now, Yang Gai was disgusted by those pig-like teammates, and decided to "die together" with those salt merchants and salt rats recklessly. No matter how bad the Ming Dynasty is, can it still be rotten than it will perish?

Abolish the salt class, which in the eyes of the people, is definitely a great thing, this salt does not pay taxes, there is no such thing as private salt, eating salt must be much cheaper, can save a lot of money every year, this is definitely a great good thing that Emperor Chongzhen did for the people of the world Good governance, this matter comes out, Emperor Chongzhen's reputation, must be as said in the sky.

However, the salt merchants and bureaucrats will definitely be unhappy, desperately fighting back, and will definitely find trouble with the emperor, who will be generous to them, and will lose a large sum of money that should have been "returned" to them every year, and will definitely find all kinds of excuses, what kind of way to live for the salt ding! The way of life of the stove household! and so on, and the emperor called for it. Looking for the trouble of those salt drying plants, at this time, people need to come to see the field, which requires the use of Jinyi Guard, kill the organizers, and gather the salt farmers to re-produce.

Fang Hongzan listened to it, it was like a fantasy, this is a bet on the fortune of the country! Won, the emperor's annual salt income is incalculable, lost, the turmoil in the whole country, the desperate rebound of the officials, the emperor is really crazy. This cut off people's financial routes, such as killing their parents, this time, how many people in the world have been cut off by the emperor! Fang Hongzan felt that he was really a little impatient to take over this job. But what can it be, there is no other choice but to bite the bullet.

In fact, Fang Hongzan still didn't understand, how did this emperor use the new salt-drying technology to defeat those salt merchants, didn't those salt merchants know about using the new salt-drying technology? However, looking at the emperor's face, he didn't seem to be very happy, and he might have asked too much, so he shut up and didn't dare to ask.

"Back to Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty shows it, the minister will definitely kill all the people who can be killed for Your Majesty." Fang Hongzan found that there was only one way for him, and that was to help the emperor kill all the way to the end.

"Well, it's good if you understand, Jinyiwei is the knife in my hand, now, I want to use this knife to cut salt merchants, cut salt industry, you are mentally prepared, I am ready to set up several salt-drying salt farms along the coast, you are in these places, plant secret lines, secretly protect, if necessary, I will authorize you to secondment and command the garrison, and wipe out those who dare to destroy, don't be afraid of bloodshed, this group of moths in the Ming Dynasty, eradicate them, and the Ming Dynasty can live in peace."

Fang Hongzan has a weak heart, in the face of the entanglement of interests in most of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Hongzan doesn't know that his knife, if he can't cut it, if he can't cut it, if he can't cut it, the emperor will want his own life, and if he does, most of the bureaucratic class is his enemy, and it is even more fatal, the work done by this brocade guard is really not a good job!

Just when Fang Hongzan couldn't help but sigh about his fate. The Emperor spoke again.

"Fang Qing's family, you may think that these salt merchants, salt rats are too difficult to deal with, and you are not sure, for fear that they will backlash, right? Hehe, do you know that my Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 10,000 people, and the actual annual salt tax should be more than 25 million taels, but the actual annual levy is only 1 million taels, or the previous emperors have to come up with a little ,...... It is their greed that leads to the lack of food and wages at the border passes, the inability to resist foreign tribes, the loss of teachers and land, and the root causes are all here; Internally, a series of natural disasters are coming, and the imperial court is even more powerless to provide disaster relief. If it is not rectified, it will definitely be a foreign invasion in the future, wantonly killing and humiliating the people of our Heavenly Dynasty, when the time comes, my Huaxia will definitely kill and injure tens of millions of people, and the whole of China will once again become a slave of foreign races, Fang Qing's family, when you have time, you might as well think about these more? I took these salt merchants and salt rats to open the knife, not for me to get a few more silver, I can't eat a few catties of rice every day, I can't sleep in two beds, I can't wear a few sets of clothes, in this way, it is also for the people of the world to fight for a way to live, but also for my Chinese land to fight for a pure land, so that my heavenly kingdom will not become a slave of barbarians. ”

Yang Gengai told Fang Hongzan what he thought in his heart, hoping that these words could move Fang Hongzan and become the strength that he could strengthen his belief when he was hesitating and retreating.

Fang Hongzan cried, really cried, moved to cry, what a good emperor the emperor is, for the sake of the people, he went out to fight with salt merchants and salt rats, this kind of feeling, touching the heavens and the earth, Fang Hongzan was moved to cry. Tears flowed down: "Your Majesty's heartfelt words, the minister is not very tearful, I know that all this is for the sake of Your Majesty for the dawn of the world, and the minister will swear to follow His Majesty's footsteps,......"

Looking at Fang Hongzan, who was crying in a mess, Yang Gai hoped that he had not seen the wrong person. Said: "In this matter, Fang Aiqing must keep it secret, secretly implement control, and when necessary, suppress the backlash of the salt merchants with a thunderous force, and destroy these salt rats in general." ”

"The minister commands." Fang Hongzan replied.

"Very good, big companion, intended purpose, Fang Hongzan has good conduct, is effective, and can be worthy of heavy responsibilities, remove Fang Hongzan from the post of commander of Jinyiwei, and appoint Fang Hongzan as the commander of Jinyiwei, and lead Jinyiwei, admire." Yang Reform was very "official" and first dismissed Fang Hongzan from the post of commander of the Jinyi Guard, and then "officially" appointed Fang Hongzan as the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Tongzhi is now the meaning of "vice".

After a while, Wang Chengen made the holy decree and said, "Your Majesty, it's written." ”

"Use the seal, Fang Aiqing, now you are the commander of the genuine Jinyi Guard, I hope you will not live up to my expectations, and you can do this with your best efforts, for my thousands of Chinese people, fight for a breath that can survive, and fight for me to conquer the heavens and conquer the kingdom, and kill a piece of the sky."

The official position in the Jinyi Guard is not like other local officials, there are fixed positions, the emperor wants to insert people, but also to strategize, move, see if there is a seat, this Jinyi Guard, is the emperor's private land, you can give it to whoever you want, do whatever you want, and it is not the turn of the foreign minister to interfere, and make a wish to the official, this is the most convenient.

"Thank Your Majesty for your kindness, and you will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations." Fang Hongzan finally turned into a regular commander, although the pressure is extremely heavy, but presumably the emperor will support him, he doesn't need to be too afraid, the emperor will kill whoever he wants, as long as there is the emperor's support, this brocade guard can do it.

"Fang Aiqing, after you go back, take a look at this book, someone suggested that I clear the Jinyiwei's treachery, I am right, you are now the commander of the Jinyiwei, this matter, I will leave it to you, clean up those treacherous books for me, don't stuff any garbage into the Jinyiwei, in addition, select a group of reliable people as the backbone of this matter in the future, understand?" Yang Reform also instructed Fang Hongzan to select candidates and prepare to cut salt merchants in the future, this trick of Qing Jinyiwei is a good excuse to sort out Jinyiwei up and down, and some people in key positions can just be arranged in place.

"Your Ministers obey." Fang Hongzan kowtowed again. Fang Hongzan has learned Emperor Chongzhen's employment criteria, last time, guessed the emperor's thoughts, secretly prepared several names, ready to recommend these people who have a good personal relationship with him to go to the water division, I don't want the emperor to hear it, there will be no follow-up, and then Xu Guangqi recommended it, and it was immediately reused, even those Westerners were reused, Fang Hongzan shouted that it was a pity, he wasted a good opportunity to expand his power, knowing that the emperor wanted the person, must be knowledgeable, capable people, this time should not be mistaken.

"In addition, Daban, a reward of 10,000 taels of silver, as a reward for the meritorious and hard-working personnel of Jinyiwei in this Wei case, will be distributed by the new commander Fang Hongzan." Yang Reform not only made wishes to others and was promoted, but also gave the actual silver, and asked Fang Hongzan to take the silver to take office, win people's hearts, and facilitate things, and he was also generous, giving 10,000 taels at a time.

Fang Hongzan was overjoyed, immediately thanked him, and said: "Thank you for Your Majesty's reward, and the Jinyi Guards will definitely swear to serve and overcome obstacles for Your Majesty." "Fang Hongzan is really a little moved this time, when has the emperor been so generous in rewarding Jinyiwei? Jinyiwei has always been regarded as a dog of the emperor, and now, being able to get a reward of this scale shows that the emperor still values Jinyiwei very much.

(To be continued)