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Chapter 45: Defeating Magic with Magic

045 Defeat magic with magic

Zhou Yanru is very anxious, he needs a good idea to appease the emperor who has been overshadowed by his own strategy.

"Urgent, in the winter of 1627, how to reform the salt system, several places selling illegal salt are princesses, horses, and vassal kings, what should I do? online, etc. ”

Zhu Youzhen knows that there is nothing that can be done in the current Ming Dynasty, because you are facing several problems at the same time.

A person has only two hands, and the result is often to press the gourd to float the scoop.

So what Zhou Yanru didn't know was that even if he dared to make a bold move, Zhu Youzhen wouldn't dare.

What Zhou Yanru didn't know was that Zhu Youzhen just wanted to know that he was stuck there, forcing him to tell the truth. Having a cabinet that is honest, relatively objective, and free from self-interest is the long-term goal he wants to wait for.

The two of them had their own thoughts, and they drank a lot of wine unconsciously. Zhou Yanru was still restrained, eating less food and drinking more, and soon became a little drunk.

Feeling that this wine tasted very similar to the red taste of Sihai's daughter, he drank another glass and smashed his mouth. Regardless of whether he has money or not, Sihai is a place he wants to go but doesn't dare to go, and the last time he invited Han Shoufu through a Fujian businessman, he got a little light on the way.

"Huh? The whole world. Zhou Yanru seemed to have caught something.

"Your Majesty, the trouble of salt politics is in private salt, and the trouble of private salt is in Xungui."

A simple sentence made Zhou Yanru sweat all over. In fact, everyone in the court knows that no one is willing to pierce this layer of window paper. At the beginning of the Apocalypse, and even in the late Wanli period, the nobles could no longer bear to just make the difference in salt or make money in salt classes.

These are all too slow to come in, especially the salt tax, which is actually a way to make money from the treasury. After the salt department of several provinces was checked, although it was said that it could make millions of taels, it was helpless to hand over the bulk to the household department. Not to mention, it also left iron-clad evidence for later people to trace.

As a result, these nobles were no longer satisfied with reselling salt and embezzling salt taxes, but turned to large-scale illegal salt sales.

Why didn't Zhou Yanru or anyone in the court dare to say this?

Illicit salt involves private arming.

To be honest, during this period of the Ming Dynasty, salt was actually the equivalent currency. It is also a currency with high liquidity, high demand, and better storage. So in this case, the Ming Dynasty appeared in the border grain salt introduction, over-issued salt introduction, false salt introduction and private salt mixed together.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't have any big reaction, Zhou Yanru had no choice but to continue:

"Regarding the matter of salt, the minister is still Meng Lang."

Zhu Youzhen saw that in the end, he didn't say the names of those noble vassal kings, and it was not easy to persecute him anymore. So he nodded:

"Jade Rope can say this step, I am very pleased. The cabinet is not a minister, but must have its own vision and responsibility. If it is not a big problem, the six ministries will not hand over the problem to the cabinet. After a pause, Zhu Youzhen continued:

"The most important competence and quality of the cabinet is to put issues on the table, not hide them. Once the situation is incomplete, Zhou Xianggong knows what will happen. I don't want to say next time."

After speaking, he threw Zhou Yanru's recital on salt politics to him, "Complete the situation of private salt and nobles and hand it over." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has a way of thinking about the matter of private salt." Now that the truth of the Xungui vassal king's control of private salt and salt nests has been unraveled, and all this has been spread out in front of the emperor, the emperor can still maintain a peaceful attitude, and Zhou Yanru has also relaxed a lot.

With this relaxation, he seems to have opened a new door.

"My main thing was to control the salt factory, and to let the transportation and sale of salt to the merchants. On a small scale, can the imperial court take the sales in its arms. In this way, it can completely break up the private salt as a whole. On the other hand, we can also rely on profits to gradually complete the realization of the early salt introduction, and at the same time, the size of the situation is also controllable.

Zhu Youzhen listened to this paragraph and found that as Zhou Yanru said, there was still a lot to be done in this matter. As long as the court is shameless, what is Xungui? You can only use magic to defeat other people's magic.

"Cheng, you have figured out how to operate it, don't send it to the cabinet, use the secret fold to send it to me."

After Zhou Yanru left, Zhu Youzhen clapped his hands on the wall, and a brown shadow appeared in front of him.

"Wei Zhongxian, I will issue an edict tomorrow to remove you from the position of Dongchang, have you ever thought about it?"

"The old slave listens to the Holy Lord's arrangement."

Ever since he dealt with Jinyiwei, Wei Zhongxian already knew that the emperor had little time left for him. He used to be high-spirited and felt that there were countless ways out of his life, but when it came to this day, he felt that he was the fish on the board, just waiting for the day when the knife fell.

He also saved himself, and once found Xu Yingyuan, the most trusted eunuch around the emperor.

Unexpectedly, when the emperor killed three eunuchs who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and continued to communicate with foreign ministers, Xu Yingyuan's legs suddenly weakened. At that moment, he piled up all the things that Wei Zhongxian said to himself and the gifts he gave in front of the emperor. knelt outside the main hall, cried with snot and tears for a night, and finally hugged his life and the position in the palace.

That night, the emperor beckoned him to the palace, and lying next to him was Xu Yingyuan, who had been beaten for thirty boards and did not dare to call, and the bodies of two little eunuchs who obeyed the arrangement of the Ke family and were ready to hide in the earth dragon to burn incense.

The emperor seemed to be impatient, and directly asked him if he wanted to live or die.

Wei Zhongxian is illiterate, and his biggest hobby is listening to people's stories, what Yue Fei and Water Margin. When he heard that the hero looked at death as if he were going home, Gonggong Wei was also enthusiastic. However, that night, looking at the Han generals and Jinyi guards holding knives around him, Gonggong Wei chose to steal his life, and he chose it thoroughly.

In the past, Father-in-law Wei led a team to raid other people's homes, and in the middle of the night that day, Father-in-law Wei led a team to raid his own house.

He has already survived the catastrophe of life and death, and he takes the life and death of others very lightly.

Wei Liangqing split it with one sword, and the others threw a few ropes and hung the beam by themselves. Father-in-law Wei wants to use the blood of these others to say goodbye to his past.

"The king of Chu is restless."

The emperor looked at Wei Zhongxian, who was dressed in black, and even wrapped his face in black yarn, claiming that he was dead yesterday and had lived under the Wenhua Hall since then, which was a little funny. If I hadn't wanted to use the eyeliner you had buried around the princes, nobles, and vassal kings during the years of the Apocalypse, would I have been able to keep you?

"I want to know everything about the king of Chu, how much money, how much land, how many sons, how many grandsons, and who he loves the most. Every move recently, who you have seen and what you have said. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and continued:

"And there's"

"If I kill him, who can be an obedient Fu King and who needs to get rid of the palace in order not to show his stuffing."