If it weren't for the sake of killing chickens and monkeys, Jia Cong wouldn't have bothered to go through such a big effort, and he specially got a fishing law enforcement for these three goods.

Whether it is the Liao family or Ma Daoyuan, including the dead eunuch, Jia Cong can take out the golden order and directly send a large army to hack things to death under the identity of the minister of the Qin Mission.

He just wanted to borrow the heads of these three people to give a warning to this group of new wealthy families in the south.

At the same time, it can be regarded as a special grass startling snake to see how many snakes, insects, rats and ants can be startled.

In any case, he would never allow capital to control the imperial court in Great Xia.

Business development can be encouraged, and private legal property can be protected.

But as long as the merchants want to seize the power monopoly of the dynasty for personal gain, then I'm sorry, Jia Cong doesn't mind learning from his ancestors and hanging these unscrupulous businessmen on the city wall to dry.

When the dead eunuch and Ma Daoyuan revealed their true colors, the anger in Jia Cong's heart was also suppressed to the extreme.

"Presumptuous!"

"According to Benhou, it's you Ma Daoyuan who is presumptuous!"

The people behind the screen finally walked out with a cold face, Ma Daoyuan had never seen Jia Cong's true face, and Jia Cong did not wear an official robe today, only wearing a Confucian costume into Huai'an City.

Therefore, Ma Daoyuan didn't hear the word Benhou at all in anger, and when he saw that it was a yellow-mouthed kid who dared to scold him, he immediately opened his mouth again in anger.

"Who is so ignorant of the rules of etiquette that he dares to be presumptuous in front of his own officials? Li Xu, this is the Huai'an Mansion, not a place for parenting. Where the imperial court magic weapon is, you can only let a yellow-mouthed child be presumptuous here......"

Puff~

Before Li Xu could speak, Hui E on the side had already widened his eyes in fright, cold sweat broke out, and his legs fell to his knees.

"Hou ...... Marquis...... Hou ......"

"What monkey? Where did the monkeys come from? Hey? Eunuch Hui, what's wrong with you? ”

"The slave maid visits the Marquis of Yongfeng, and the Hou Ye spares his life!"

Hui E came out of the palace, and the chamberlains of the Forbidden City could not know the side branches of the royal family, but they must not know the nobles of Ning Rongjia's family.

Among them, the pardon of the eldest lord and the third master of Cong is the most critical, if you provoke a certain prince, you may still be able to leave a life, and if you provoke these two masters, the mass grave outside the city is the destination.

Even if the lord in front of him doesn't care, the emperor or the crown prince will throw him into the Shen Punishment Division......

Hui E knew Jia Cong's temper too well, and when Yongfeng Hou had a cold face, it was definitely the anger in his heart that could not be suppressed.

Therefore, he didn't think about justifying himself at all, and knelt on the ground directly, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Master Hou spares his life, and the slave is guilty!"

Ma Daoyuan on the side was stupid, how fast Hui E knelt, how frightened he was.

Who was the person he just scolded?

Yongfeng Hou Jia Cong?

It turned out to be that man!

The eunuch's knees are weak, and he is a dignified third-class man......

"Master Hou spares his life!"

Ma Daoyuan's knees are also weak, after all, the person in front of him is the man.

How terrible is the record of the Marquis of Yongfeng, who does not know the civil and military officials in the court?

Of the four kings with different surnames, four of them were all planned and abolished by Jia Cong.

Even the whole family of Nan'an Wangfu was sunk in the canal by this guy with artillery......

Three products?

The three products that died under the knife of Yongfeng Hou were enough for a different kind of palace test.

Maybe with what he has committed, as long as he kneels quickly and confesses his sins quickly, he can still save it......

"Lord Hou spares his life, the lower official is just ...... Xia Guan is just ......"

"Just what?"

Jia Cong sat on the main seat, and deliberately took the coiling dragon golden order on his waist in his hand, and the golden light on it was extremely eye-catching, falling in the eyes of Ma Daoyuan and Hui E, like a deadly sword light.

Ma Daoyuan couldn't find a reason to quibble for a while, but Hui E crawled in a row, climbed in front of Jia Cong, hugged Jia Cong's leg and cried.

"Lord Hou spares his life, the slave and maid are just greedy for some silver, and they have never done anything that harms the interests of the country......"

Hui E is also a person who has served the prince, and he knows that Jia Cong cares about two things most, one is the interests of the people in the world, and the other is the interests of the country.

Unlike those imperial histories, in Jia Cong, being greedy for some silver, as long as things are done well and the interests of the people and the country are not harmed, it is not a big crime.

Hui E pondered in his heart, he sent tax money to the capital on time and in accordance with the amount every quarter, and took some benefit fees, thinking that the Hou Ye would not try his knife...... Right?

"Master Hou, the slave didn't want to come, but Liao Wanyi said that if the slave didn't come, he would stop the tax and silver ...... that he was going to hand over to the city division this year."

"Wait, hand over the city's tax money? When do they have to pay their own taxes? ”

The tariffs and silver of the city shipping company are all collected according to the total amount of goods imported and exported, varieties, etc., so why do merchants need to pay them themselves?

Jia Cong seemed to have noticed the cattiness in it, and his eyes swept sharply, so frightened that Hui E swallowed the cry back into his stomach.

He seems to have said the wrong thing?

No, I'm not wrong! Dead friends don't die in the poor way, there is no room for sand in the eyes of Yongfeng Hou, how many people can escape the crime in the eyes of Yongfeng Hou?

Hui E poured out everything he knew regardless of it, whether it was Ma Daoyuan or Liao Wanyi, he couldn't stop it at all.

Only then did Jia Cong understand the edict that the emperor gave him before leaving Beijing, and why he wanted him to pay attention to the situation of the major coastal cities.

According to the calculation of Yuan You's eight years, the city paid a total of 27 million taels of silver in taxes in the four quarters, and after Yuan You's ten years soared to 58 million taels, for three consecutive years, the tax silver has been fluctuating around 60 million taels of silver.

Is it normal? It seems normal, but it's actually very abnormal.

Because in the eleventh year of Yuan You, Bactria formally established diplomatic relations with Western countries, and the throughput of goods almost doubled.

According to the calculations of the household department, not to mention the tax and silver exceeding 100 million, it can at least be pushed to the level of about 80 million taels.

However, the throughput of goods has risen, but the tariff and tax silver have always been as stable as an old dog......

The supervising eunuchs and promoters of the major city departments all said that there was no problem, and the officials sent to investigate also said that there was no problem.

It's strange if there is no problem, just as Jia Cong was about to go out of Beijing to avoid the limelight, the emperor threw him an edict.

Jia Cong hadn't paid attention before, he didn't want the blind cat to touch the dead mouse, so he would cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit in Huai'an Mansion, and learned from Hui E the reason why the tariff was as stable as an old dog.

The first batch of people who relied on the opening of the sea and trade to get rich had a big heart!

They even came up with the idea of apportioning the amount of customs duties and taxes, and paying a part of each of them every quarter according to the total amount of taxes and silver of the previous year, so that the total amount of taxes and silver was always at a steady and small level.

In this way, the imperial court can receive good tariffs, and they can divide the part of the increase in cargo throughput and "legally" avoid taxes!

In the eleventh year of Yuan You alone, this group of people swallowed at least 20 million taels of tariff silver from the national dynasty.

This is all the money that the imperial court originally intended to use to exempt the national agricultural tax and increase investment in education.

Jia Cong was furious, the kind of anger burning with anger.

kicked Hui E to the ground, and then snatched the Yanling knife held by the soldiers, and after pulling it out, he used the back of the knife to whip it hard.

"Are you a fucking stupid pig? Twenty or thirty million tax silver has been divided, and you still think that you are very clever and think that the dynasty has nothing to lose......"

Yes, Hui E is so stupid.

He actually thought that this kind of tariff payment according to the share could not only pay the imperial court, but also harvest the "friendship" of this group of maritime merchants.

He himself collected a benefit fee of more than 100,000 taels, and when he retired in old age, he bought a garden in Jiangnan and then received a godson......

Hui E was beaten stupidly by Jia Cong, but he was also glad in his heart that Yongfeng Hou could beat him, which proved that he couldn't die.

If Yongfeng Hou doesn't fight, he will worry about his life, which is the unique wisdom of the inner servant.

The back of the knife in Jia Cong's hand was pumped on Hui E's body, and Hui E was holding his head and lying on the ground, not daring to hide.

It wasn't until Jia Cong was tired that he let his soldiers drag Hui E down......

"Ma Daoyuan, the good things you have done ......"

Maritime merchants evade taxes, and the officials of the city shipping department eat a lot of money one by one, and local officials like Ma Daoyuan are not unimportant among them.

The shrewdness of this group of maritime merchants is to make the accounts almost impeccable, and it is difficult for people who do not understand economic data to see the problem.

Take Nanzhili as an example, the left and right political envoys are not able to understand the way of economy, Ma Daoyuan, the adjutant of the political envoys, took the opportunity to hide the place, and became a bridge between several sea merchants and the city of Nanzhili.

Like Ma Daoyuan, there are many officials from the major yamen, and even Zhu Laisheng, the current prefect of Jinling, is their person.

In just two or three years, this group of maritime merchants took over the original Xilin Party and controlled a large number of Jiangnan officials.

These people may not be of high grade, or even serious officials of the imperial court, but these people are all local snakes and are familiar with every corner of Jiangnan.

Relying on this force, the unscrupulous maritime merchants monopolized most of the channels for goods to go to sea, forcing those handicraftsmen and small merchants to sell their products to large merchants at low prices, and then the maritime merchants took them out to sea and sold them to the Yiren at extremely high prices......

Then these maritime merchants once again started the old way of buying land and property, and quickly filled the power vacuum after the fall of the Xilin Party.

Ma Daoyuan was promoted from a fellow acquaintance of the fifth rank to participate in politics from the south of the third rank in just three years, relying on the strength of these maritime merchants.

Jia Cong is too lazy to listen to Ma Daoyuan's quibbles anymore, since ancient times, Jiangnan has been the hardest hit area of officialdom, and corrupt officials have been stubble after stubble, which is nothing new.

With a direct wave of his hand, four pro-soldiers walked in outside the hall.

"Drag it out, slash!"

"Lord Hou spares his life, the lower official is guilty......"

"Hang the heads of the two on the flagpole, pass through the state, and send them all the way to Jinling City. When Benhou arrived in Jinling City, if there is another official similar to Ma Daoyuan, and an illegal businessman similar to Liao Wanyi, all the officials in Jinling City are ready to go to Taizu Taizong and the saint to ask for guilt! ”

……

Jia Cong's means are very direct, he has the golden order given by the emperor in his hand, and seeing the order is like seeing the Son of Heaven.

To kill a three-grade politician, you don't need to go through the three divisions at all.

As soon as the knife fell, Ma Daoyuan's brain seeds rolled to the ground.

Liao Wanyi also had the same ending, a team of personal soldiers directly hung the heads of the two on the flagpole, starting from Huai'an Mansion, all the way through the state and through the mansion, and even circled around Jinling City, passing Jia Cong's orders to all parts of Nanzhili.

For a while, the wind was loud.

The officials of Nanzhili were stunned, and the maritime merchants were fried.

That kind of hello, hello, everyone's good money-making model seems to have poked a big basket, what should I do if Yongfeng Hou doesn't recognize it?

Not only were the people in Songjiang City panicked, but the news quickly spread all over the southeast, such as Ningbo, Quanzhou and other cities, all of them were panicking and thinking of ways to inquire about the news from Jia Cong.

It's a pity that there is no news from Jia Cong's side at all, and the order he passed to the Nanzhili Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Department is his attitude.

Hui E was beaten half to death, dragging her wounds all over her body and lying on the bed to write about Jia Cong's experience in the past two years.

Including the officials and businessmen he made friends with after taking office, how did those maritime merchants bewitch him, and which officials handed him a message......

In Jia Cong's words, if you are a eunuch who calls the magistrate a brother and sister, and colludes with that group of maritime merchants to settle the emperor's silver, what is it not looking for death?

At the beginning of the Fengtian Palace, the emperor quarreled with the ministers of the court for a whole day before setting the rules for the internal servants to supervise the city's shipping department.

Hui E is good, but he has been played by interest groups in collusion with other officials and businessmen......

"Read more books in the future, if it weren't for the coincidence of Benhou, you haven't committed the unforgivable sin, and your head will be hung on the flagpole and paraded through the streets!"

This idiot is a person from the East Palace, who has the merit of reporting, and he has not done anything to bully men and women or oppress the people in the past two years, so Jia Cong spared his life.

However, capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped......

"When this matter is over, you will go to sea for me and go overseas to expand the territory of the country!"

Jia Cong has already thought about it, since Hui E likes silver, let's go overseas to grab those Xiyi.

Especially in Xiyi's colonies in Africa and the Americas, the imperial court is not easy to rob openly, so let this guy bring a team of naturalized pirates, Japanese people, etc., pretending to be pirates to go for the imperial court.

The pen in Hui E's hand trembled, and he wanted to ask for mercy but was stiffened by Jia Cong's cold eyes.

I only heard Jia Cong continue: "You have to understand, you have smeared His Royal Highness the Prince, and you can live because Benhou remembers the old feelings and favoritism. When you finish writing this, there will be no such person as Hui E in this world. When the time comes, you change your name and go to sea, so that your life can be saved. Otherwise, with those strong orders of the court, your head will sooner or later hang on the city gate tower to dry! ”

This is really not to scare people, even the emperor dares to spray those imperial histories in the court, an inner servant is greedy for more than 100,000 taels of silver, and the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't save his life when he comes.

Hui E finally realized the gravity of his crime, nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and wrote a "memoir" with all his heart.

When the boat arrived at the shore and Jia Cong and his entourage arrived at the Yangzhou wharf, Hui E finally wrote down his experience in the past two years.

Jia Cong took it and flipped it over, it seems that his method of beating a stick to give a sweet jujube is playing well.

This Hui E has sold almost all the "allies" cleanly, and with this "memoir", at least those moths in Nanzhili, he can clean up them.

He put away the "memoir" with satisfaction and nodded to Hui'e.

"Okay, you have been killed by Benhou now, change your clothes and follow my people north, and Dengzhou will prepare a boat for you."

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Thanks to a little orange cat, the fat brother is still so fat for the reward.

That's all for tonight, continue tomorrow, good night!

(End of chapter)