On the surface, Jiangxia's meritorious service point system is a kind of tolerance for those who commit crimes, but in fact this system is a real weapon of mass murder.

Lin Xiaoyi, Yan Jun, and Li Hanzhong, in order to make meritorious contributions, not only confessed all their assets on the surface or hidden, but at the same time they racked their brains and began to bite people.

Later, even the officials of the Jingshi had already begun to appear in Jiang Xia's list.

Jiang Xia dealt with the three of them differently according to the seriousness of the crime committed by the three of them, and the serious ones were directly arrested and interrogated. If it is not serious, a letter will be sent to allow them to defend themselves. If you can't defend yourself, then take a meritorious service point system home and study it yourself.

There was a rumor in Yangzhou City, and people were panicked. Every official who was summoned to the Yangzhou Mansion was apprehensive, as if they were not going to the Mansion, but to the Hades Palace.

Seeing that the scope of involvement was getting wider and wider, Yang Tinghe finally couldn't see it, and on this day he found Jiang Xia privately, and the two sat down in the room of a small teahouse.

The tea is a very ordinary local tea, and there are only four kinds of pastries, and they are also very ordinary. After such a meal, it may not be more than 30 yuan at most.

Yang Ting and the three dynasties of Lixianzong, Xiaozong, and Wuzong were old courtiers who were highly respected by the Ming Dynasty. Jiang Xia should not be too rude in front of Yang Tinghe, so after the tea was served, Jiang Xia first picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Yang Tinghe, and then poured himself a cup and sat down.

Jiang Xia asked, "I don't know what Lord Yang is looking for?" ”

Yang Tinghe reached out and touched the teacup but didn't pick it up, there was no too much expression on his face, which made people feel that this was a very calm person at a glance.

Yang Tinghe said: "What does the old man mean, I believe you also know that the matter of Yangzhou Salt Administration has arrived, and it may not be appropriate to implicate it again." ”

In fact, Yang Tinghe didn't say that Jiangxia was also ready to stop here, the so-called thousands of miles of officials are only for money, and how many officials in this world are really completely clean. If it continues to be implicated, I am afraid that there will be a large number of officials missing in Yangzhou City and even in the entire Nanzhili, which is not a good thing for civil affairs and public security.

Jiang Xia nodded: "Don't worry, my lord, I am ready to stop here, and I will not continue to implicate myself." ”

Yang Tinghe nodded slightly when he saw that Jiang Xia agreed so simply, he only picked up the tea at this moment and took a sip slightly, and then suddenly asked Jiang Xia: "I don't know Jiang Xia, what do you think of strong literature and weak martial arts?" ”

Jiang Xia was slightly stunned, he couldn't understand why Yang Tinghe would suddenly ask him such a question. At Yang Tinghe's age and experience, he naturally wouldn't ask a meaningless question, so this question must mean something.

Jiang Xia remembered that Yang Tinghe would be in charge of the cabinet next and become the first person among the ministers of the Ming Dynasty. Could it be that the policy he wants to implement next is a strategy of "strengthening the civil and weak the military"?

Jiang Xia pondered a little and then replied: "Chivalry violates the ban with martial arts, and Confucianism uses literature to disrupt the law." Therefore, it is recognized that whether it is civil or military, the two should not have their strengths and weaknesses, so that their balance is the best. If the military is strong, the state is safe, and if the culture is strong, the country is determined. Both are indispensable, and whoever is strong and who is weak has its drawbacks. ”

After hearing this, Yang Tinghe glanced at Jiang Xia deeply, and after a long time, he said again: "Then do you think 'eunuchs interfere in politics' is good or bad?" ”

If Yang Tinghe had asked this question before, I am afraid that Jiang Xia would have said, "Eunuchs interfere in politics and corrupt the dynasty, which is very bad." But now that Jiang Xia learned about Zhu Houzhao's difficulties, he realized in his heart that eunuchs interfering in politics was actually a kind of helplessness.

After the Tumubao Incident, almost all of the Ming military power was in the hands of the civilian group.

The military power around the Beijing division was in the hands of the military department of the civilian clique, and the local army was in the hands of the governor of the civilian clique.

Zhu Houzhao is the emperor but has no military power, and at this moment he pushed out the eunuch group, in fact, it was just for the stability of the imperial power.

There may be many drawbacks in eunuch interference, but in the final analysis, this is also a product of political struggle, and it is not possible to talk about who is right and who is wrong. So Jiang Xia could only answer: "The boy is short-sighted and shallow, and there is really no way to know whether it is good or bad." ”

Yang Tinghe nodded and did not speak again.

The atmosphere in the room became a little awkward for a while, and Jiang Xia couldn't figure out what Yang Tinghe's purpose was in asking these two questions, so he got up and said to Yang Tinghe: "Lord Yang, if there is nothing important to do, I will leave first, and the emperor is still waiting to discuss the matter of the two Huai salt politics." ”

Yang Tinghe nodded, "Then we'll meet again another day." ”

Jiang Xia nodded and clenched his fists: "Farewell." ”

Yang Ting and the jaw head.

When Jiang Xia walked out of the room, Yang Tinghe took another sip of tea with a teacup, and whispered to himself: "The shaft is not enough and the plan is not enough." ”

In the next few days, almost all of the Wenchen teams in Nanjing were transferred to Yangzhou by Zhu Houzhao. For a time, Yangzhou seemed to have become a small imperial court.

Zhu Houzhao personally sat in the Yangzhou Mansion and issued thirteen holy decrees in five days. The first is that the Nanzhili Lianghuai Salt Envoy Division and the Salt Section Lifting Division were abandoned, and the Lianghuai Salt Administration will be jointly inspected by officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the future, which will be fixed four times a year, during which spot checks can be carried out from time to time.

The second is the establishment of the Lianghuai Salt Bureau, announcing the trial implementation of the "monopoly system" and the "salt price monopoly system". These two systems have been announced, and the entire two Huai salt merchants have suddenly exploded.

The monopoly system is destined to make some salt merchants lose their jobs, but Nan Zhili has just experienced a severe crackdown, and no one dares to jump out against it for the time being, because there are not many people who are really clean in these salt merchants.

Since you can't resist, you can only enjoy it with your eyes closed, as if the principle of strong x is the same. As a result, the two Huai salt merchants all sharpened their heads and wanted to tie up Jiangxia and win the two Huai eighteen "monopoly sales licenses".

If the "monopoly system" remains unchanged, I am afraid that the "monopoly sales license" will be a magic weapon to maintain wealth and prosperity for generations.

However, it is a pity that the 18 "monopoly sales licenses" have already been decided on who will be issued. In addition to the eight powerful families, as well as the seven Ming magnates. The remaining three have been separated by Zhu Houzhao and Jiang Xia.

Although Zhu Houzhao is the emperor who sits on the world, it is not so simple for him to use silver casually, so this is his inner treasury, and it also creates his habit of planning how to earn silver for his inner treasury when he has nothing to do.

Although some people have broken the monopoly sales license of salt merchants, the many official positions in the newly established part of the salt bureau have also attracted the attention of countless people.

During this time, the officials of Nanjing, who were close to the water, befriended Jiang Xia one after another, wanting Jiang Xia to give them an official position. But how could Jiang Xia be so cheap for such a good thing, he told Zhu Houzhao that the Salt Bureau, as a newly established department, must have a new style.

In this way, it is necessary to boldly employ new people, because only newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers have the courage and determination to carry out sharp reforms.

Zhu Houzhao naturally felt that it made sense, so he asked Jiang Xia to draw up a list.

With a stroke of Jiang Xia's pen, all the important official positions of the Salt Bureau were assigned to the people in Tianjiao. In this way, the Lianghuai Salt Government has become Jiangxia's private territory, and the water cannot be poured into the oil.

Nan Zhili made such a big move, and Liu Jin, who was rushing to Yangzhou, naturally received the news. However, now that the overall situation of Yangzhou has been decided, even if he Liu Jin has great ability, he can't make any big waves, but what he needs to worry about now is not the change in Yangzhou's salt administration, but the identity nameplate of Feiying and Silver Hook and the correspondence between him and Lin Xiaoyi falling into the hands of Jiang Xia.

The eighteenth stall of the East Factory has always been very mysterious, so the only thing that can confirm that Flying Eagle and Silver Hook are the people of the East Factory is the identity nameplate of the two of them. And the correspondence between Liu Jin and Lin Xiaoyi is not to mention, once Jiang Xia gets him, Liu Jin will die.

For this reason, Liu Jin didn't even have time to expose Yin Renmian as a fake emperor, and directly left the escort team to Yangzhou.

What Liu Jin is worried about is actually what Jiang Xia is worried about at the moment. Eagle and Silverhook didn't have their identity tag with them on the day they went to assassinate him, it seems that they should have put it somewhere.

And Jiang Xia searched Lin Xiaoyi's mansion and failed to find evidence of Liu Jin's involvement with Lianghuai Yanzheng, he and Lin Xiaoyi grinded for a few days, but Lin Xiaoyi was willing to explain everything, but he didn't dare to say Liu Jin. Even if he died, he admitted it, which shows how scared Liu Jin made him.

However, Jiang Xia was not ready to let Liu Jin go, he had been hunted down and killed since he left Beijing, and Liu Jin was all the ghosts along the way.

Jiang Xia and Liu Jin have now reached a situation where they are not dying, so he asked Bu Jinyun and them to investigate everywhere, in order to find evidence of Lin Xiaoyi and Liu Jin's collusion.

Finally, on this day, Zhong Bin found out a piece of news.

After receiving this news, Jiang Xia immediately rushed to see Lin Xiaoyi.

In the prison, Lin Xiaoyi has long since lost his former demeanor, and the whole person is like an old man who has returned to heaven in his last years. No one can see from him now, a few days ago he was still a member of the Ming Dynasty from the third grade, and he was the head of the two Huai Salt Administration.

Jiang Xia asked Lin Xiaoyi to move a stool, and the wine and food he brought were placed on the small wooden table in the cell.

Jiang Xia said calmly: "I've been with Lord Charin recently, but in fact, I realized that your life is quite legendary. A poor scholar who did not have any power to enter the family of Lin Yizhilin, the former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, became a son-in-law, and then became a member of the Ming Dynasty as a son-in-law, such an experience is admirable.

But I just don't know if Lord Lin still remembers the dregs of your Hunan hometown that was hidden by you? You took her to live in Yangzhou, bought her a mansion and set up a maid and servant, but let her follow you for half her life.

Now that she is raising your son alone, if I send someone to take her house and raid her house, I will inform your original wife of this. With Mrs. Lin's notoriously jealous character, I'm afraid"

Lin Xiaoyi was stunned from the first sentence Jiang Xia said, and at this moment, after Jiang Xia finished speaking, he was stunned for a long time before he spit out a sentence: "You are so despicable." ”