Yangzhou City didn't know about the change in Jingshi,

Some fathers-in-law still think that they are really capable.

Until Han Ziren arrived in a hurry.

Luo Chenglin, a thousand households in the internal security office, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the affairs of Yangzhou were seen inside and out, he was a thousand households, and there was still some pressure in his heart when he made decisions on many things.

“…… Is the criminal office normal? ”

Luo Chenglin nodded, "That Ye Kan knew that we were here, so he didn't dare to mess around." But there are people in the palace. ”

"Don't worry, something happened in the palace." Han Ziren stood by the window and held his hand, "Your Majesty bumped into the matter of the minister's involvement in salt, and Your Majesty was furious and cleaned many people at one time. ”

"Does Ye Kan know?"

"Mao language is here." Han Ziren frowned and looked out the window, with some thought in his eyes, "Even if you didn't know before, you will know now." So our information is meaningless. ”

As soon as Mao Yu arrived, he would definitely not let Ye Kan mess around.

Since there is nothing out of the ordinary, there is no point in reporting to the emperor. Instead, it seems that he is looking for trouble.

Luo Chenglin sighed and said something else, "With Your Majesty's mind, there are only Taizu and Emperor Taizong in the Taimiao. ”

If there is no result in this matter, it must not work! This sentence is simple, how many emperors can do it?

In fact, many things are a matter of determination and courage. Many times, the method is set right, that is, the implementation is not resolute, one person must be put here, one person must be put there, and in the end it becomes a stage singing, and the picture looks lively.

"Deputy Envoy Han, what are we going to do next?"

"As usual. There are a lot of people this time, so there must be no chaos. ”

Compared with them, Mao Wenyu and Ye Kan are not so pleasant,

Ye Kan was very worried at first, because he was in contact with the people in the palace, but Ye Qijun's cellar was still empty, and in the end, Ye Qijun was beaten half to death, and he searched everywhere, and only got out more than 200,000 taels of silver in total.

When Mao Wen came to Yangzhou, he saw that it was like this, and his eyes were a little stern when he looked at him.

"What's going on?"

"Ye Qijun is Yongkang Hou's person, Yongkang Hou has sensed the danger since Zou Cheng entered Beijing and Gu Zuo was arrested, so Ye Qijun knew it early, and the cellar was emptied. His subordinates tortured this person repeatedly, but he wanted to live, and refused to tell where the money was, for fear that if he said it, there would be no chance of survival. The same is true of the other two salt merchants on the list. ”

The huge amount of silver, if the criminal office and the internal security office have already arrived in Yangzhou, it will be too late to transport, it can only be before, after all, such a big thing will be found out after a check at the city gate.

"My life is gone, and I still have to keep the money. It's really a matter of asking for money. "This matter is flawed, but now that we need to use people, Mao Yuyu will not do anything about Ye Kan.

And there is a solution to this problem.

Isn't it just that there is less money copied out?

Just find three or two households who are willing to spend money to buy their lives, and add them to him.

The arrival of Mao Wenwen accelerated the action of the criminal office, and in accordance with the principle of arresting anyone involved in smuggling salt, Jin Yiwei went deep into the streets and alleys of Yangzhou City and kicked open the doors of many salt merchants.

Yu Mingquan and the other three major salt merchants, who had tried all kinds of ways to save themselves, have been arrested and imprisoned pending trial, and if it is confirmed that they are not involved in the sale of illicit salt, but only have some other circumstances, then perhaps paying a sum of money can turn a felony into a misdemeanor. If it is involved, then it is necessary to send it to Beijing.

For a time, one family after another in Yangzhou City suffered accidents.

Normal salt sales will inevitably be affected.

Zhao Shen, the imperial historian of the salt patrol, took charge of the stall of the salt envoys of the two Huaidu, on the one hand, reported the situation to the Beijing master, and on the other hand, continued to maintain the production of the salt farm, and the sales of salt in the market entered a trough, and the private salt was even less sold.

Zhao Shen was so busy that he was dizzy, but he could still see some situations clearly,

The disadvantages of salt politics are by no means as simple as private salt.

The price of illicit salt is low and the quality is good, and the imperial court will certainly have some effect on seizing and arresting illicit salt with such force, but in fact it is forcing the people to buy high-priced official salt.

From this point of view, the anti-smuggling is opposed by the people.

This is one of them.

Second, the life of the stove households was already miserable, and the imperial court cracked down on the private salt merchants, resulting in no one daring to buy the surplus salt in their hands, and the price of the surplus salt would also fall sharply.

If you keep doing this, you will starve to death if you drag it out for a while!

It's true that businessmen can't make a big deal, but stove households can!

So his performance is also 800 miles in a hurry. These things are the imperial history of the salt patrol, and he must report them to the Son of Heaven.

In fact, why doesn't Zhu Houzhao know this?

To crack down on smuggling, there must be two tricks, one is to crack down, and the other is to give the stove a way to live.

Otherwise, thousands of stove households will start selling illicit salt themselves.

In addition, he had planned to conduct a saltworks auction, which he thought was a good idea.

Because let Shaofu set up a salt merchant, and then go to the unified purchase and sale of salt, after a long time, it is still the same problem - that is, because of the corruption of officials, there is an administrative cost of official salt, and the price of official salt will be high. As soon as the price difference is generated, it is only a matter of time before the illegal salt is overflowing.

And these administrative costs are borne by the government.

It is better to carry out market-oriented operation. Production and sales were handed over to the merchants, and only the ownership of the salt works was in their hands.

Although he is not a person who believes in the free market, there is no doubt that marketization can indeed bring about efficiency improvements.

But this kind of change needs an opportunity.

This opportunity was to transport salt to the Yamen of the two Huaidu.

This yamen is not a small yamen, in addition to Zou Cheng, the transfer envoy, there are also one Tongzhi and one deputy envoy below, as well as a different number of judges.

In addition, there is also an experience department that is in charge of clerical exchanges, similar to a secretarial office, with official positions such as experience and governor, and there are more than 50 people in total.

Their grades are not high, and the transfer envoys are from the third grade, and the rest are also more than the fifth and sixth grades.

Now Zou Cheng is crazy in Beijing,

Yangzhou City arrested a few more salt merchants and carefully interrogated,

The whole transshipment made the yamen have little connection with the salt merchants who resold the smuggled salt.

The yamen was basically swept away, and when Zhao Shen wanted to do something, he only had a very old experience to transcribe and sort out some documents for him.

Among the young people, there are still six, but they are all minor officials, and their personalities are very eccentric, these people don't even seem to know how to tie up with such big officials as the Salt Patrol Imperial History, so naturally they can't get into that 'circle'.

Zhao Shen sighed in the hall, "There are a total of 53 people from the Yunsi Yamen, and in the end, there are only seven people who have nothing to do with the private salt merchants, which is really ridiculous." This kind of thing is reported to the court, where is the face of the court? ”

Mao Yuyu is not worried, he is worried about what the emperor will find out, and that is the problem.

"Zhao Yansi, the criminal office has not been beaten into a trick, these forty-six people, their families are wealthy, and their case files have been drawn and confessed."

"The deputy envoy misunderstood, Zhao didn't mean that. Zhao sighed that the country is difficult and it is not easy to govern the country. ”

Han Ziren's voice came from outside the house,

"How hard can it be? Originally, when Han was the governor of the county, he said that the people were just giving him a way to live. Now on the one hand, the salt merchants have tens of thousands of assets and live a luxurious life, but on the other hand, the stove households are struggling to survive, and it is difficult to find a full stomach. If it is said that the governance of the country is effective, it is that the silver on these rocks is divided among the stove households, so that the four sides are stable. ”

Mao Yu asked: "The silver of the salt merchant needs to be released from the Jingshi, and Deputy Envoy Han dares to use it?" ”

"If it is to support the daily needs of the stove households, the money will be used."

Han Ziren has known the emperor for many years, and he is confident in this.

"The two of you don't have to be in a hurry, Zhao has already been sent to Beijing for eight hundred miles. I believe that His Majesty will make a decision. The seized salt merchants can also be completed on a person-by-person and day-by-day basis, nothing more than the length of time. The problem now is that this Yunsi Yamen, if it is reported like this, I am afraid that the court will be shaken and His Majesty will be angry. ”

Mao and Han don't care about this.

They are Jinyiwei, not a civilian-bureaucratic group.

Corruption to this extent is none of their business.

However, they also understand that Zhao Shen is the salt patrol after all, although from the actual situation, the things committed by these people have nothing to do with him, but in the final analysis, the salt patrol is responsible for supervising these officials.

Now that such a thing has happened, how to explain it?

Don't think that Zhao Shen is worrying about the sky.

The imperial court and officialdom have never been a place to be reasonable, if the imperial court really thinks that the Yunsi Yamen is very disgraced and wants to find someone to blame for it,

Who will you look for?

Therefore, if you are not careful above the officialdom, it is an abyss, not just talking.

But the joys and sorrows of people are not the same, Han Ziren and Mao are unified in this point, "What it should look like is what it looks like." It's not that the Nanzhen Prefecture Division does not cooperate with Zhao Yansi, the main ...... Nanji is to collect information for His Majesty, and this matter is eye-catching everywhere. There is a hint of concealment, Han's head is about to move. And for Zhao Yansi, it may not be good to report truthfully, some people are messing around, but His Majesty is a reasonable person. ”

Mao Yuyu actually didn't bother to make such an explanation.

arresting, interrogating, and stealing money...... The Crime Office is very busy right now.

Zhao Shen didn't really want to lie, he was thinking about it from another angle,

The Ming Dynasty has not found such a case until now, this is a real nest of corrupt officials, once it is reported, descendants will mention it a hundred years later.

The court and officialdom have become like this, and they don't necessarily have a light on their faces, right?

And His Majesty is a monarch who thinks very highly of himself, so he is not lying, but he is just wondering whether he has not maintained the emperor's face.

Of course, seeing that the emperor's two henchmen had this attitude, the doubts in his heart were also dissipated.

"Since this is the case, then the recital of the Yunsi Yamen will be as it is. When the time comes, all their case files will be attached. It's just that in this way, Yangzhou is really going to be famous. ”

That can't be helped, the imperial court wants to investigate the salt administration, and this must be the result.

In the afternoon, the three members of the Yunsi Yamen received two orders from Beijing in succession.

One is the cabinet to inspect the salt imperial history, which means that the salt class case should be carefully screened and the unjust, false and wrongful cases should be reduced as much as possible.

One is the celebrant to the two deputy envoys of the brocade guard, but the meaning seems to be somewhat opposite, the celebrant emphasized the emperor's meaning, the situation in the palace, so they want to be in Yangzhou, one is not missed!

Despite this, the three of them were not surprised, and the celebrant and the cabinet began to fight again.

(End of chapter)