Many officials in the DPRK and China were arrested and put in prison, and no one was on duty in the various yamen of Jiankang for a while, and all the official eunuchs in Jiankang had a wait-and-see attitude, and he thought that the yamen were paralyzed, and the emperor should be the most anxious.

And the fact is that, on the contrary, Li Jingfu is not in a hurry at all, and the most anxious should be the criminal officials who have been pampered all their lives, and they are the most sad when they stay in a dark prison.

Thinking about leaving the cell all the time, but there has been no news, who is in a hurry if they are not in a hurry?

In three days, when everyone thought that the emperor would not be able to hold on, Xiang Rongrang found out that Huang Zhongqing, the envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy, had embezzled and accepted bribes.

Lu Yugui, a big salt merchant, would send a large sum of money to Huang Zhongqing every year.

Judging from the account books searched by the Lu family, Lu Yugui will send silver to many officials in the imperial court every year, and the amount varies.

Xiang Rongrang submitted the collected accounts, "The investigation these days has not been in vain, this is evidence collected from a secret room in the Lu family's house, many of our officials in Jiangnan have been bribed, and the amount of silver is recorded on it." ”

When Li Jingfu heard this, he immediately asked Anu to take it, and he opened the account book and read it carefully.

The account book records Lu Yugui's filial piety to Jiangnan officials in the past ten years, "These officials at the bottom don't do anything for a year, and the filial piety that Lu Yugui gives them is enough for their whole family."

This is just the filial piety of a big salt merchant, there are many big salt merchants in the Jianghuai region, is there an unwritten rule for every merchant of salt, and filial piety should be sent to local officials at all levels? ”

Xiang Rongrang snorted coldly, "It can be seen that the salt merchants in the Jianghuai region are not clean, and they must have brought a lot of private salt, otherwise they won't even be able to earn back the money they bribed officials for a year, how can they get rich and enjoy life in luxury!" ”

Salt merchants everywhere are monopolies, and they rely on bribing officials to maintain the salt primers they get every year.

With salt primers, they can blatantly entrain, smuggle salt, and then make huge profits.

The government sells salt to merchants, and there are many hidden dangers, among which the salt is in the hands of merchants, and how much money a pound is in their hands is all up to them, and they control it.

As a result of this malpractice, many people at the bottom cannot afford to eat salt, and even if they buy salt, they have to rely on the little money saved by tightening the belts of the whole family.

This is also why Xia Jing promotes the salt drying method, produces more salt, and directly operates it by herself, but in the areas she rules, snowflake salt is sold for ten yuan a catty, she just wants to break the barrier of the monopoly of the salt industry by big salt merchants.

Let everyone in the world afford to eat salt, and it is also high-quality salt.

Several major salt merchants were imprisoned, and Li Jingfu asked: "How many people can we supply the salt we dry ourselves now?" ”

Xiang Rong was not clear about this question, and he couldn't help but look at Anu who was standing aside.

As the first person beside the emperor, Anu naturally knew all of Li Jingfu's industries along the way.

"The seaside salt pans have been expanding, and after a few years of development, they now supply enough to the area south of the river!"

Li Jingfu said in surprise: "The development is so fast, that is to say, Haiyan can supply half of Dayu!" ”

It's incredible!

Xiang Rongrang comforted: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, when investigating these salt merchants, the minister also found a few salt wells, which I think are the production of these salt merchants' private salt, and now we have found it, once it is recovered, the people's salt does not have to worry at all." ”

"That's good!" Li Jingfu vigorously reformed, but he was afraid that his efforts would be thankless, and in the end he was scolded by Xia Jing for his ineffective work.

Xiang Rongrang thought of the few salt wells that were discovered, and asked: "Your Majesty, the salt frying method that has been used by the craftsmen in the salt wells that have been used by the craftsmen according to the requirements of the salt merchants is too inefficient, should we promote the salt drying method when we reopen the salt wells?" ”

Li Jingfu stroked his beard and agreed: "We must promote the salt drying method, this salt making method was proposed by the queen, and it can be seen that the efficiency is very high through practice, and this method of salt production can at least ensure that more people can eat cheap salt." ”

After chatting about salt politics, Li Jingfu thought of the salt envoy again, as a king, no one likes courtiers to violate laws and disciplines, and take bribes.

He ordered with a calm face: "Huang Zhongqing, the envoy of Lianghuai to salt, is corrupt and bribed, you led the troops to raid his home, I want to see how many silver taels he has received as an official in Lianghuai over the years?" ”

Now the treasury is empty, and the court is even more difficult, but Dayu's officials are all rich, compared to him, the impoverished emperor, it seems that the entire court is serving the officials!

The officials who stayed in the prison did not expect the emperor to mention people, but waited for another family to suffer and be imprisoned.

When the officers and soldiers left, through the dim light, everyone saw clearly that this so-called new member was actually Huang Zhongqing, the envoy of the two Huai to salt.

"What's going on, how did you get in? And the whole family was locked in, and your house was raided? ”

Everyone is an official in the same dynasty, although they are different yamen, but there is some intersection.

Huang Zhongqing's whole family was imprisoned, his mood was terrible, his heart was haggard, and he didn't want to pay attention to these people at all.

"Phew!" Some people in the prison couldn't get used to Huang Zhongqing's slightly upturned head, and snorted at him, "Do you think this is the court, everything is about official positions?" The phoenix that has lost its hair is not as good as a chicken, what to pretend! ”

The people in prison, although they couldn't get used to Huang Zhongqing's character, but the matter was already hanging high, and those who wanted to reprimand Huang Zhongqing halfway endured.

No matter how much gossip can't get out, it's better for them to tell the story slowly so that they can adapt to the next prison life.

"How long are we going to stay here? Why didn't the emperor let us go back? ”

"This time the emperor has gone too far, a few days have passed, and I don't know what the situation is now?"

As soon as everyone heard this, their eyes fell on the man who said this.

"What's going on outside, didn't you just say that you leaked your mouth? Investigating! ”

"I just don't know how long the investigation will be, we've been here for almost ten days and haven't gone home, and if we don't go back to wash, the whole person stinks!"

The men in prison can't stay, and the people in the provinces can't stay still!

The emperor asked Xiang Rong to arrest the pillars of the family, and some were even the pillars of the family, they were arrested, and the women in the family were even more panicked.

They sent their servants and stewards out to inquire about the news, and they themselves were anxious to wait at home.

Jiankang City first of all, the Marquis of Changping couldn't stay still, raised silver and two to pay the taxes, and Li Chengxian personally went to the prison gate to pick up Marquis Cai.

"Changping Hou!" In the dimly lit prison, the official walked in with a bunch of keys in his hand.

Changping Hou leaned on the fence and asked nervously, "What, what's the matter?" ”

"Our princess still picked you up from prison, hurry up and come over to unlock it!" The official in charge of the prison dragged the chain without gentle movements, opened the door of the cell, and asked Changping Hou out of the cell in a stiff tone.

When the other officials in the cell next to them heard this, they immediately became excited, they lay on the fence and asked eagerly: "Marquis Changping, do you know what to do if you want to go out?" ”

Changping Hou was in a relaxed mood at this time, and after listening to his colleague's question, he shook his head: "I'm locked up here with you, how can I know the news outside!" ”

Hubu Shangshu sat in front of the fence, seeing that the Marquis of Changping was about to walk over, and shouted: "Brother Cai, I'm tired of you going out and sending someone to send a message to my house, so that they can quickly raise silver taels to make up for the taxes, don't drag me back in my career, dig the corner of Dayu!" ”

Changping Hou's steps outside paused slightly, he turned around and nodded: "Lord Zhang, I will definitely bring your words, don't worry, within two days, I believe your family will also raise enough silver to pay the taxes." ”

Seeing this, other officials asked Changping Hou to have a word.

Of course, Changping Hou can't have such a good memory when he is old, and he can remember half of all the people to be considered a good memory.

He nodded haphazardly and followed the servant out of prison.

"Daddy!" At the door of the prison, Li Chengxian endured the smell from the prison and greeted him, "Dad, are you okay?" ”

Marquis Changping swept his eyes across the prison door, and saw that there were only Li Chengxian and her maid, so he asked, "Your mother didn't come?" ”

Li Chengxian waved her hand and asked the maid to go over to help the Marquis of Changping, she nodded to the official and thanked the servant, and walked out together.

"Mother has been sick for a few days because she has been worried about you day and night, and she really can't get up today, otherwise she will definitely come with her daughter-in-law to pick you up."

Marquis Changping was helped into the carriage by the maids, took the wet handkerchiefs from their hands, wiped their faces and hands clean, and took a sip of tea before asking, "Is she sick, is it serious?" ”

Li Chengxian put a few plates of dim sum on the table and said with a smile: "Mother is worried about you, this time you came out, and I want to come to my mother's illness to be cured." ”

Marquis Changping: "."

He is not a panacea, how can he have the effect of curing the disease?

Or is his good wife faking illness?

The carriage moved slowly, and Li Chengxian asked again: "Dad, after you go home, you wash up and sleep well, you haven't slept well in the cell for the past few days, the dark circles under your eyes have come out, and you are also haggard!" ”

Facing his daughter-in-law's words of concern, Marquis Changping shook his head and said: "Don't go home first, go to the palace gate first, I want to thank the emperor at the palace gate and thank him for his forgiveness." ”

In the palace, Li Jingfu heard that the Marquis of Changping had come to thank him, and said to Anu with a sneer: "You say that this person is ridiculous, since you are so grateful, why don't you even take the initiative to pay a little tax?" ”

Saying that, he said to the little eunuch who came in to report: "You go and spread the word, let him go home and raise him with peace of mind, don't come out and wander around if you have nothing to do!" ”

Especially in the palace, this Marquis of Changping relied on him and himself to be in-laws, and often came to the palace, and asked him to explain to him every time, so that in the end, he Changping Marquis was so rich that he was so poor that he tightened his belt to live!

is such a villain, and he deserves to mention the word in-law, which is simply insulting.

"How much materials and money did Huang Zhongqing's family steal from the salt transfer?"

Anu bowed his head and replied: "Back to the emperor, because the forbidden army and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses have been too busy recently, Huang Zhongqing's mansion has been copied, but it has not had time to clean it up, and when it is cleaned up, I will know how the family is doing!" ”

"It's just that we are so aggressive, will it cause a shock in the court and affect the stability of the Dayu government?" Anu thought about it for a long time, but still expressed his worries.

After all, Dayu still has two states occupied by rebels, and there is no peace in the world, and the crisis can be said to break out at any time.

Although Li Jingfu is a well-known gentleman in the capital, others are not stupid, and Jiankang can be said to be less than the capital in control of the world now.

Now that Jiankang does whatever he wants, Xia Jing's capital is shaking, and he is not afraid of anything.

Even if the Jiankang government is paralyzed, the capital city far away can still control the overall situation.

It can even be said that they can build another court in the capital.

"With the prince and the queen in the capital, Jiankang will never be able to make waves. Besides, we didn't have time to deal with them slowly, there were still more than 100,000 rebels in Qingyan Prefecture that had not been pacified, and the coastal foreign Yi were eyeing us, and there were Beidi in the north waiting for an opportunity.

If we don't cut through the chaos in the court, how can we defend the rear when the enemy attacks? ”

Saying that, Li Jingfu sighed, and said with a melancholy face: "Actually, now I want to move back to the capital, I grew up in the capital since I was a child, and suddenly came to live in the south, many places are not used to it, Jiangnan is very good, but it is still not as good as the capital." ”

Anu comforted: "Your Majesty, don't worry, wait for the rebels to calm down, smash the puppet dynasty, and recover the two states of Qingyan, then we will choose an auspicious day and move the imperial capital north." ”

Li Jingfu yearns for this, "If I can move back to the capital in my life, I will not achieve nothing, even if I go underground, I can give an explanation to my ancestors!" ”

The imperial court is making money every day, and Xia Jing, who is in the northern capital, doesn't know about it for the time being.

The Lingnan construction team went to Beijing together, and after going ashore from Jinwei Port, they took a horse-drawn carriage for several days before arriving in Beijing.

Ding Daqiang personally went to the city gate to greet the construction team of Lingnan.

"Welcome, welcome, everyone has worked hard all the way!"

"Steward Ding, long time no see!" Zhu Da got out of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage to clench his fists at Ding Daqiang.

"Shopkeeper Zhu, you've worked hard all the way!"

Zhang Jiusheng, the captain of the other team, got out of the car to greet him: "Steward Ding, I haven't seen you for a long time, I have a treat tonight, please have a drink together." ”

"Shopkeeper Zhang is polite, you have come from afar, it is not your turn to treat, I have already prepared a banquet, everyone has a few drinks tonight, relax and relax, it is not easy to go all the way." Ding Daqiang said with a smile.

Everyone smiled happily and didn't argue with him, and then they were going to stay in the capital for a long time, and they were really not in a hurry to treat him or not.

A total of five construction teams came to Lingnan, Ding Daqiang greeted them, asked everyone to return to the carriage, and led them into the city.

settled this group of people in the hotel, and went into the palace to report to Xia Jing.

Xia Jing listened to Ding Daqiang's words and asked quite unexpectedly: "The construction team in Lingnan voluntarily came to participate in the bidding meeting?" ”

Ding Daqiang grinned: "They are all grateful people, I remember that when you were engaged in construction in Lingnan, you pulled them along, and everyone remembered it. ”

Xia Jing didn't expect this group of rough people to be so cute, and chuckled: "I didn't help anything, but they helped me a lot, and they built Lingnan so well, and their merits are immeasurable!" ”

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