"It doesn't matter."

"I believe that you are all in harmony with me, and now we should discuss how to achieve this goal."

Zhu Yijun opened his mouth at this time, and didn't let the ministers of Suihu fight on this, because he didn't bother to find out the roots.

And after Zhu Yijun said this, Li Chengliang arched his hand at this time and said:

"Your Majesty, as the elder Wang Ge said, the court is not a bandit, and the salt merchants cannot be punished without guilt."

"And the salt merchants have deep roots, the power is complicated, even if it is an offense to the Qin Cha, there are people who are specifically responsible for it, and the minister has also heard that in Yangzhou and other places, there are rich businessmen and giants who specialize in cultivating people who are guilty of sin, and will choose from the adopted children who are sincere and grateful, commonly known as fools, and usually will provide them with good food and drink, and even use their own connections and power to bring glory and wealth to them, but when things are about to take the blame for such fools, even evil things, let such people do it, and there is no adhesion to himself, Therefore, even if the court kills the guilty person and raids the home of the guilty person, it will not cause them the slightest damage. ”

"Generally speaking, if they are generous and let the court copy out a million or even millions of silver coins from the family of the person who is guilty, the court will be very satisfied, and will turn a blind eye to them, treat them as cash cows, and collect a wave when they are short of money, and they will continue to be arrogant."

"Who made them rich?"

"However, Your Majesty is a wise lord, how can he handle it for them?"

"What's more, the imperial court no longer needs to manipulate salt to raise the army, so naturally there is no need to use salt merchants to reduce the benefits of salt for the small people, so there is no need to swallow the salt merchants."

"Therefore, these salt merchants are simply underestimating Your Majesty when they oppose Your Majesty, and they are hitting stones with eggs!"

"Since Your Majesty is determined to collect the world's salt as state-owned, it can be regarded as a strategy to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and completely cut off the roots of the salt merchants, even if they are rich, there are many people who bear the guilt, as long as the roots are broken, they will only decline."

"It's just that at the moment, most of the salt is in their hands, and they have to be careful not to sell salt anymore, so that the people will lack salt, and the army will lack salt, and then cause chaos."

"Salt, although I don't eat much every day, it's really not okay not to eat it."

"Therefore, in the humble opinion of the minister, it is better to control a batch of salt from the imperial court at this time."

After Li Chengliang said, Zhu Yijun nodded.

Then, the head of the household department Pan Jitao said: "Over the years, the household department has received very little salt, and most of the salt in Hedong and Lianghuai has actually become private salt and has been sold. ”

"Such an important material can no longer be controlled in the hands of the imperial court, it can be seen that the salt law has been broken before, and it is completely impossible!"

Zhu Yijun said with a sigh at this time.

He knew that this was related to the fact that the salt mine was still in charge of production, so that the salt mine was still in the hands of the stove households, and the stove households would basically sell the salt privately to the salt merchants for the sake of profit, not to the imperial court.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun said that the salt law of private ownership is completely infeasible.

After Zhu Yijun said this, he said: "Although the salt is not controlled by the imperial court much, it is not all controlled by the salt merchants, or rather, the salt merchants are not so much salt merchants, but also powerful bureaucrats, they are the ones who really control the salt, but Pan Qing did not mention it, and even did not directly say that in addition to the two Huai salts in this world, Sichuan Jing salt and Hedong salt are controlled by the king of Shu and the king of Jin." ”

Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Xun after speaking: "Pan Qing doesn't know or dare not say, save face for me?" ”

"The minister doesn't dare to separate the clan."

Pan Jitao replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "According to the truth, what kind of discord? ”

Pan Jitao said yes.

"I have ordered Jinyiwei to investigate the smuggling of salt in the world, the salt in Hedong and the salt in Sichuan are controlled by the King of Jin and the King of Shu, and now, I am intending to collect their salt."

"But it is easy to be noticed by people to directly collect its salt, so I decided to send troops to Taiyuan and Chengdu to invite them on the grounds of summoning the world's clans to Beijing to discuss the reform of the near domain, and by the way, I took my secret decree to copy their mansions, get their salt, and bring them to the southern capital."

"Chengdu will go from Nanchang Hou, where is your old department, you must ensure that you can copy enough salt."

"Taiyuan will go from the Marquis of Tieling, and I have given him a secret decree."

"Before the salt was copied and transported, we first discussed the matter of reforming the clan, didn't the elder Wang Ge mention this proposal before, and said that the king of the domain should move to the south, just when the feudal lords entered Beijing, this matter was decided."

Zhu Yijun looked at Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue and others when he said this: "Do you have anything to say?" ”

Shen Liyan said: "Your Majesty, in the humble opinion of the ministers, if the vassal king wants to go to the outside of the domain, not only should he move to the south, but it is best to move overseas, so that he can continue the royal bloodline overseas, and he can only let the people of the clan raise the vassal relatives, and the people of the Hui clan can also let the vassal king promote Chinese culture as a nobleman, so that more Fanyi are willing to accept the king, in addition, there is a sea separation, and the giant clan in the country does not practice, even if there is a vassal king is not a minister, it is more difficult to become a trend." ”

"After the feudal lords enter Beijing, Aiqing will remember to mention it."

After Zhu Yijun said this, he let these ministers retreat.

Soon, the Imperial Chamberlain issued an order and officially issued it to the world, allowing all the feudal domains in the world to enter Beijing.

Liu Wei led his troops to Sichuan the next day, preparing to personally invite the king of Shu to come to the southern capital, of course, in fact, to copy the home of the king of Shu.

Many of these vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were indeed smuggler salt dealers, and some even asked for salt to be sold.

Historically, Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, asked Wanli for 1,300 catties of salt, and for every 400 catties of official salt, 1,300 catties of salt is more than 500,000 catties of salt.

In order to sell his salt, King Fu also forcibly demanded that the people of Henan could only buy his salt to eat, and the Ming Dynasty at that time still relied on salt to raise the army, so King Fu indirectly led to the reduction of the nine-sided side salary.

Like the slaughter of the Qi family army and the mutiny of the Liaodong border army, these incidents caused by lack of pay can be said to be related to the greed of the vassal king.

Of course, there is also the fault of Emperor Wanli in history, if he doesn't nod, King Fu won't be able to get so much salt, and he doesn't dare to ask the people of Henan to buy his salt.

You must know that according to the system, King Fu has no right to monopolize the salt market.

But in history, King Fu did it, which was naturally caused by Wanli's connivance.

The conversation turned back.

Therefore, many times, in an imperial country, if the emperor wants to reform, he will eventually change it to his own people.

The real reason for the rampant salt merchants is actually because they know that their real backers are the imperial relatives.

If the emperor really wants to clean them up, he has to dare to attack the emperor's relatives first.

This is the same as in history, if Yongzheng wants to reform, he has to kill each other.

The real big salt merchant is none other than the emperor's relatives, or even the emperor himself.

Wang Xijue and others all knew this, so they persuaded the emperor to be tolerant of the salt merchants, and also let themselves be tolerant of the salt merchants, after all, as long as the emperor did not take the initiative to say that he wanted to do something to the real big salt merchants, that is, the emperor's relatives and relatives, they would not dare to come up with this idea, and they would not even dare to mention it.

After all, no one knows if mentioning it will be the next mistake.

"Your Majesty is Your Majesty in the end, the real iron-faced selflessness, frankly speaking, Taizu and the previous emperors are inferior!"

Wang Xijue said with admiration after leaving Zhu Yijun's place.

Shen Li also followed: "Yes, Your Majesty really regards the people as more important than his own Zhu family, and he is really people-oriented!" ”

"Do you really think that Your Majesty is people-oriented?"

Li Chengliang asked with a smile at this time.

Wang Xijue, Shen Li and others looked over.

Li Chengliang continued: "Your Majesty is obviously self-oriented, and because of himself-oriented, he has turned a nation into a human being, and then he has made himself comfortable, and the people of his own clan are also comfortable. ”

Li Chengliang said and left with a smile.

"Does that make sense?"

"Who doesn't know that this is achieved through Kuwaiyi?"

"But we people, who eat the king's fortune and are loyal to the king, should naturally use the words of the saint to justify the hearts of the monarch's father, how can there be a reason to disturb people's hearts."

Wang Xijue also said with a smile.

"yes, then isn't it really a rebel and a thief?"

Shen Li also replied.

……

"You rebels and thieves! Dare to bewitch His Majesty to order the Lonely Palace! ”

"Since you want to escort me to Nandu, okay, then I will go to Nandu, go to Xiaoling, cry to Taizu, cry about how you chaotic ministers and thieves divided the clan and instigated the Son of Heaven to kill the clan!"

Taiyuan.

After receiving the secret decree of the urgent delivery, Li Rusong, the Marquis of Tieling, arrived in Taiyuan in the middle of November of the 22nd year of Wanli, and surrounded the palace of the Jin Dynasty in Taiyuan.

And Zhu Minchun, the king of Jin, was so angry that he scolded Li Rusong on the spot after learning that the emperor was going to raid his house because he sold illegal salt and monopolized Hedong salt.

Because Zhu Minchun didn't dare to scold the emperor directly, he could only vent his anger on Li Rusong, the emperor's cronies and ministers.

Li Rusong was not angry, he knew that the King of Jin was not angry with himself, so he still said: "Your Highness can not believe it, but this marquis can't not believe it, and you can't do things according to the order, and since Your Highness is a nobleman of the imperial family, we should also leave dignity for Your Highness, and ask Your Highness to order the palace to open the warehouse, and all go to the front hall to be checked, we don't have to send troops directly to forcibly copy it." ”

Zhu Minchun glanced at the Son of Heaven's pro-army standing like a forest on the snow and snow in front of him, and said with a smile: "Okay, you are ruthless!" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Minchun complied.

It didn't take long for the soldiers brought by Li Rusong to carry out loads of salt and spread them all over the courtyard, as if the snow in the courtyard had been swept up.

Li Rusong walked over, dipped his index finger in it, tasted it, and then said, "There is really so much salt in His Highness's mansion." ”

Zhu Minchun did not speak. (End of chapter)