"What kind of letter, you should know that Dai Shirong didn't tell you?" Zhang Ben asked rhetorically.

"There's just a blank sheet of paper in there." Jin Chang said, "That waste, it's a fake letter." ”

"Then you should always know who wrote it to whom."

"Whether you know, you don't know, you know, don't I have to die?" Jin Chang said, "Officials and officials protect each other, not military officials, I am just a small person, and I am not just pushed to the table because of a letter." ”

"Oh?"

"Master Zhang, believe me, you know too much, one day you will be like me, become an outcast."

"If that day comes, I should also be called a martyr, and a man like you will be called an outcast." Zhang Ben paused, and then said: "Your righteous son, Dai Shirong, who takes pleasure in voyeurism, must know the secrets of many big people, and now that he is dead, you will become the only one who knows those secrets, right?" ”

Jin Chang smiled bitterly and did not answer.

Zhang Ben didn't care, and continued to say to himself: "You accepted him as a righteous son, and you also took a fancy to his ability, right?" ”

He has always wanted to draw out Jin Chang's true intention of being arrested, as Lin Lanyou said, this arrest operation was too smooth, Jin Chang was too cooperative, and he definitely had other plans.

Jin Chang said at this time: "My hometown, in Xunzhou Mansion, Guangxi, has a small piece of land at home, on the mountain, you can see the Wujiang River......"

"Is it the Wujiang that the overlord of Chu killed himself?" Zhang Ben couldn't help but answer.

"Probably not." Jin Chang said, "The Wujiang River in our hometown has been called this since the ancient Yuan Dynasty, and if I say Datengxia, you should be familiar with it." ”

Of course, it is familiar, almost from the eighth year of Hongwu to the third year of Yongle a few years ago, the place of Datengxia can be said to be a constant uprising of all sizes...... Oh, I'm sorry, in Zhang Ben's tone, it should be a rebellion.

It was constantly suppressed and rebelled repeatedly......

Zhang Ben nodded: "Listening to your accent, it's not like Xunzhou's ......"

"I left my hometown at the age of eleven and was taken into captivity...... I remember very well that year was the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu......"

In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, the Yao and Zhuang tribes in western Guangxi rioted, and the leader Huang Shitie gathered tens of thousands of people, based on the villages of Gengwu, Lianhua, and Dateng, and developed his influence in the nearby capitals of Kangzhou, Xiangwuzhou, Shanglin and other places. The Ming court sent Yang Wen as the general of Zhengnan to garrison the southeast of Fengyizhou, and together with the commander of Guangxi, the army led by Han Guansuo was commanded to suppress the uprising......

In this way, Jin Chang is only twenty-seven years old this year, younger than Zhang Ben.

Looking at his appearance, I thought he was thirty or forty!

Probably because he is often angry, so he looks a little old.

"Do you know why we're revolting?"

"Tusi oppression, corruption in the garrison, collusion between officials and businessmen?"

"You're right about that." "But the main thing is salt. ”

"Our home on the hill is surrounded by bananas, lychees and peaches, and the peaches must be blooming at this time. But when I was a child, my father cut all the peaches and planted bananas instead, because the banana leaves were burned to ashes, which could be used to pickle food and make up for the shortage of salt. ”

The general policy of the "salt administration" of the Ming Dynasty was that the production of salt was monopolized by the imperial court, the transportation was handled by merchants, and the sale was monopolized by licensed merchants, and the system of sales in other places was implemented. The Ming Dynasty set up institutions such as the Salt Envoy Department or the Salt Division to manage the production and sales of salt in various regions.

Guangxi does not produce salt, and relies on Guangdong salt to enter. "Salt" has become a means of control in ethnic minority areas.

Salt is a necessity, and people living in the deep mountains and old forests of Guangxi, such as Miao, Yao, and Zhuang, must overcome difficulties and obstacles to enter the plains and more populated areas, so the amount of salt has become a symbol of wealth in the treacherous areas.

However, Guangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Department and Metropolitan Salt Envoy Department adopted "non-discriminatory" prices and even high prices or even embargoes to deal with it. As long as you are a little dishonest, you will be punished with "salt ban".

"If the salt problem is not solved, the uprising will never stop." "And, I'm sure it's going to get worse." ”

"I can't imagine that you are in prison, and you still care about your hometown fathers." Zhang Ben sighed, "In this way, you are also a poor person, but why did you commit such a vicious deed to those two fans in Nanshi Building, the same hard-working people?" ”

"Evil deeds?" Jin Chang sneered, "In order to please those big shots, learn tricks, learn illusions, change hands several times, and steal your life!" Compared to those big guys, what am I counting? ”

If you guess correctly, Jin Chang has been in correspondence with the thieves in his hometown. The reason why I was nervous and wanted to get the secret letter was because I thought that what fell into Li Rui's hands was their correspondence.

"You went to prison just to tell me about salt?" Zhang Ben said, "You are the right and left hand of Eunuch Hou, and if your father-in-law says a word, you can go up to the heavens to listen, why don't you tell Grandpa Hou?" ”

Jin Chang smiled from time to time, and after listening to Zhang Ben's words, he smiled even more heartily: "This matter cannot be solved by the emperor today." It is precisely your discipline commander who can handle it. ”

Joke! The problem of salt in Guangxi cannot be solved by the all-round man and saint Wang Yangming a hundred years later, and can be solved by a martial arts discipline?

Unless it is to improve the salt-making process so that everyone in the world can afford to eat salt......

The problem is that even if the salt-making process is improved, it is impossible for vested interests to make salt cheaper.

Ji Gang is a vested interest in salt, he has a lot of salt farms, and he has a lot of salt.

"People like us are called real thieves. Ji Gang will not be reversed, because he will not eat without salt, he has a lot of salt. Peacetime. I couldn't have thought of meeting him, but now, I finally have a chance. I want to make a deal with him. Jin Chang said.

"Okay, you tell him!" Zhang Ben stood up, "Maybe he can really help you solve the salt problem." ”

"Don't be ugly than humiliation, and criticize is greater than palace punishment!" Jin Chang shook his head, "Master Zhang, do you think what I told you tonight is just about salt?" ”

"Are you going to have trouble again?" Zhang Ben leaned down, "Which of your Guangxi riots was successful?" ”

"Maybe it will work out this time!" Jin Chang said, "Guess who's in Guangxi now?" ”

There are too many people, how can you guess called Zhang Ben?

Jin Chang smiled proudly: "If you want to know the answer, just come and ask me, of course, this is a deal between you and me." By the way, I still have a deal, I want to talk to your brother, Lin Zongqi, and ask Master Zhang to convey it. ”

"You say?" Zhang Ben felt that he was completely passive now, and he couldn't touch what medicine was sold in Jin Chang's gourd, and it seemed that he had fallen into this kid's trap step by step, what's going on?

"Hasn't he been helping the little lady in the house find a brother? I know his whereabouts. ”

"I don't think I need to convey it, we Jinyiwei are looking for someone, and we don't need you to do it for you!"

Jin Chang said: "It's okay, I still have two deals, and there is always one that makes you reluctant to kill me." ”

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In the first month of the ninth year of Yongle, the former cabinet chief assistant and now the Guangxi senator Xie Jin went to Beijing to report on the Guangxi governor's salary......

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