Taiji Palace, Fengyao Palace

"Huh? You said Quyang Huo's ...... Now he is in charge of the Jinyang salt and iron franchise? ”

After hearing this news, Concubine Ji couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and turned around.

"Yes, according to his eldest son Stephen Hawking, it seems that he has been in control for nearly ten years."

Zhao Sheng, who was wearing a crown and a royal robe, seemed to have a little kingly demeanor between his words and deeds.

"It's strange, this Hawking ...... Why did you suddenly climb into this relationship? ”

Concubine Ji Guifei thought quite strangely, after all, in the past, I had never heard that Sheng'er had a good relationship with the children of the Huo family?

She couldn't help but worry in her heart, afraid that someone didn't deliberately instruct her to take the opportunity to get close to Sheng'er in order to seek some ulterior secrets!

"It's such a mother concubine, although this Hawking has no intersection with me, but he has a deep personal relationship with the ninth brother Zhao Zheng, last night I got together with the royal brothers to celebrate, and the ninth brother called this Hawking over with him."

Zhao Sheng chuckled when he heard this, and explained the relationship clearly in a few words.

"Oh? Friends with Zhao Zheng, the Nine Emperor Princes? That's kind of interesting......"

When Ji Guifei heard that it was recommended by Zhao Zheng, the Ninth Emperor Prince, she was relieved at the moment, and instead raised a little interest.

She has a very good impression of Zhao Zheng, the son of the Nine Emperors, not only deeply feeling that he is calm and strategic, but also knows that he and Sheng'er have grown up since childhood, and the relationship is irreversible......

Therefore, among all the princes, she is also the most optimistic about Zhao Zheng, the ninth prince, thinking that he has the potential to be wooed, and he is also the best candidate to become one of the easiest to help Sheng'er!

Therefore, all the news related to Zhao Zheng, the Nine Emperor Princes, she secretly paid attention to it.

"Yes, I think the relationship between the two is by no means ordinary, and the ninth brother is completely in control......"

Zhao Sheng just opened his mouth to add, but Ji Guifei's eyes immediately lit up and blurted out!

"What does Sheng'er mean...... Could it be that after encircling the Nine Emperor Princes, there is still a Huo family as an unexpected joy? ”

Concubine Ji naturally thought of it as a matter of course.

Now that the Nine Emperor Princes, Zhao Zheng, has already enveloped the eldest son of the Huo Clan, it is very likely that he will be able to grasp the power of the Huo Clan in the future, so if Sheng'er draws the Nine Emperor Princes under his command, won't even the forces he has been arranging for a long time be able to take over them all?

As soon as she thought of this, Concubine Ji was a few points higher in her heart for Zhao Zheng, the Nine Emperor Princes!

"Yes, the mother is really smart! It is precisely with this in mind that I would otherwise have the right to monopolize salt and iron in a county...... How could the Huo family rest assured that the ninth brother would come to mediate? ”

Zhao Sheng drew inferences from his mother's disposition of the concubine, and immediately praised it!

When he was drunk last night and had no intention of mentioning it, Zhao Sheng deliberately kept his thoughts.

Although he didn't say much at the time, after returning to the palace, he pondered this matter over and over again in his heart.

The Huo family sent the eldest son to the ninth brother Zhao Zheng to find him, and it happened to be on the day he was crowned king, this action is not unpleasant, and the deep meaning contained in it is ...... Not to be underestimated!

At the very least, it has been made clear that Huo's position is basically inclined to the ninth brother, otherwise, he would never entrust such a major matter to the ninth brother to mediate.

And the reason why the ninth brother responded to this matter was naturally because he had received some promises from the Huo family, and it was not impossible to even take the opportunity to meddle in the matter of the salt and iron franchise.

Otherwise...... Could it be that the ninth brother is willing to pull down his face and be such a lobbyist because he has a very good personal relationship with Hawking?

For a prince who is about to be crowned king, no one will do such an uneconomical deal, not to mention that with the wisdom and wisdom of the ninth brother, the city government strategy has already been in the chest!

And how can it not be ...... The reason why the ninth brother did this was a deliberate gesture of goodwill to himself?

If you help solve this matter yourself, you will undoubtedly get closer to the close relationship with the ninth brother!

By the way, it is enough to tie Quyang Huo's family to his chariot as well!

Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but glance at his mother, but he couldn't help but nod, and saw what he was thinking in the other party's eyes.

"Sheng'er has really grown up...... But from the minutiae, I found the core context of the whole thing, and the truth hidden inside! ”

Concubine Ji couldn't help nodding with relief, but she was finally relieved and let her emperor go to the fiefdom alone.

"It's just a county of salt and iron! But to get the help of the Nine Emperor Princes and the Huo family, it is also cost-effective! ”

For the Ji family, who has a big family, the right to monopolize salt and iron in a mere county is really not a pain in the flesh.

There are 36 counties in the three prefectures of Daqian, and there are more than six counties in Ji's pocket!

Not to mention the intricacies of Ji's firm, the influence not only covers the 36 counties of Daqian, but also includes Kyushu and the land of the Three Kingdoms!

Therefore, in the blink of an eye, Concubine Ji had already made a decision, but she wanted to hand over all the salt and iron franchise of Jinyang County to the Huo family!

"That's true, and the Ji family's influence in Jinyang is limited, but the Huo family has been in business for decades, and has been controlling the salt and iron for nearly ten years, and its influence in Jinyang County is immeasurable!"

Zhao Sheng also nodded again and again when he heard this, and happily praised.

"I'm new here, if I promise this, it will also be of great help to me to govern Jinyang and subdue my subjects!"

Concubine Ji was even more pleased when she heard this, and she couldn't help nodding and sighing, her emperor has really grown up......

"Yes, but you must know that the Huo family is only for extra joy, and this point is undoubtedly in the Nine Emperor Prince Zhao Zheng!"

But then, as if she remembered something again, she hurriedly reminded.

"You must know that the weight of these Nine Emperor Princes is far better than that of the Quyang Huo Clan! This salt and iron franchise wants to let the Nine Emperors accept this favor! I want to continue to hand it over to the Huo family...... But the profits he has obtained must be divided equally with the Nine Emperor Princes! ”

Zhao Sheng was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly realized, and said yes again and again!

In his heart, he was really impressed by the wisdom and strategy of his mother......

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"In the tenth year of Shenwu, the eighth prince Zhao Sheng was crowned the king of Jin and fiefdom Jinyang County.

The mainland of China, the three kingdoms of Kyushu, and the matter of salt and iron all follow the example of the big bank, and hand it over to the people for their own circulation, which is said to be beneficial to the people.

However, with the passage of time, the power of the salt and iron franchise was mostly held by the cronies in power, so the king of Jin was knighted at the beginning, and his mother Ji wanted to control the power of the Jinyang salt and iron franchise.

The king of Jin wanted to allow it, but he was shocked to find that the salt and iron in Jinyang were all held by the Huo family in Quyang, and the eldest son of the Huo family was befriending the ninth brother Zhao Zheng, so he thought in his heart and did not want to act rashly.

When asked about his mother, Ji Shuang sighed and said: "Zhao Zhengqi is really like a holy emperor!" How can you make a war with a county for the benefit of salt and iron? ’

'Today's plan, only by retreating, abandoning the benefits of salt and iron in a county, and gaining the love of Zhao Zhengyi, can we win the first merit from the dragon and ensure that my Ji clan continues without worry! ’

The king of Jin praised it, and then divided the benefits of salt and iron in Jinyang into two and dedicated it to the ninth brother. ”

- "The Secret History of the Great Qian" Zhen Xiang