And since Emperor Wanli had Liu Haojia to help him make money, both the inner treasury and his own small treasury are very plump, so naturally he will not treat himself badly! Especially the harem concubines everywhere, including the queen and Wan Guifei, have set up small kitchens in their palaces, specially providing some exquisite dishes for Emperor Wanli, hoping that he can stay a few more times, so his taste has also improved rapidly!

And they don't look down on the food in the palace, not because it's not good, but because it's too well-behaved! According to the rules handed down from the palace, the things supplied to the emperor must not violate the season in the first place! This is to prevent the emperor from eating smoothly, and he will eat autumn things in the spring and winter things in the summer! So much so that it costs too much on the place! Another point is that Chinese medicine pays attention to eating at any time to maintain health, so the dishes provided are very limited!

Then there is this kind of dishes made according to the rules should not be too salty, not too sweet, not too spicy, not too light! In short, the stimulation cannot be strong, and it must be neutral and peaceful! In other words, it means bland and tasteless!

Then there's the temperature. These dishes made according to the rules are prepared before the meal, just to prevent the emperor from eating in advance and not preparing them! Therefore, after these dishes are made, they are put in a large pot with hot water and covered, and then taken out and sent over when they are eaten!

And the food boxes carried by those eunuchs are also particular, not like in TV, when you open the lid and see that there is only one plate of dishes in the huge box! In fact, the food box is divided into two layers, the upper layer is for vegetables, and the lower layer is for hot water!

The purpose of this is still to keep the dish from cooling down with hot water. Because the kitchen is often far away from where the emperor is, without this layer of protection, the dishes sent over may be cold before they are eaten! After this treatment, the dish is basically lukewarm when it is served! It's neither hot nor cold, and it's far less comfortable than a hot meal!

And the most annoying thing is that such dishes often show signs of softening after being left for a long time, and finally chew in the mouth without toughness! Leaving it in your mouth for a longer time is like chewing your nose, so that people who like food can eat it!

But fortunately, the mind in the stomach of the master and apprentice is not on eating, so the two of them can only finish lunch hastily. After Zhang Jia sent the tea, the master and apprentice talked about it for a while, and then Emperor Wanli finally got to the point!

He said, "Sir, in fact, I invited him to lunch today, in fact, there are some things I want to tell him, but I haven't figured out how to speak!"

Zhang Juzheng naturally took over the conversation and said, "If Your Majesty has something to order, the old minister should do his best!"

When Emperor Wanli heard him say this, he directly got off the donkey and said, "Since this is the case, then ask Mr. to see something first!"

As soon as he waved his hand, Zhang Jia sent a thick stack of confessions! Zhang Juzheng first saw that the confession was sent, and he thought that the minister had committed another crime, so he thought that if it was harmless, he would follow the emperor's wishes, and it was also the right thing to punish some ministers!

But when he opened the confession, he found that it was wrong, the first one was actually a confession of a water bandit! It details how the salt merchants contacted them and killed the caravan! And the confession later also recorded many cases caused by water bandits doing things for salt merchants! There are also salt merchants who have bought which officials and so on!

At this time, Zhang Juzheng had already understood that Emperor Wanli was ready to attack the salt merchants! It's just that due to the lag of information, he doesn't know that low-priced salt has opened a market in Jiangnan! And annihilated the two main forces of the salt lords! So he felt that Emperor Wanli wanted to ask him to come out!

So he laughed secretly in his heart, and decided to take the credit for the whole matter on his own head and all the civil officials! But when he looked down again, he found that something was getting more and more wrong! Because the time shown on the confession is what happened in the past few days! So he began to sketch the situation in Jiangnan based on the confession on the confession!

So he turned the confession faster and faster, and he literally turned the page at a glance. Zhang Juzheng himself has a talent for reading, and he has been familiar with official documents for many years, and it can be said that these confessions are ten lines at a glance, and they soon turned to the end! It's just that he was already a little surprised at this time!

If the things that are said in the confession are true

Anyway, I'm afraid the low-cost salt market in Jiangnan has been opened! In other words, in addition to the power of those salt merchants to buy the government, the power of other aspects has been greatly weakened, and they can no longer resist the invasion of low-cost salt!

At this time, Zhang Juzheng can assert that it will not be long before low-priced salt will spread in Jiangnan, and then those salt merchants will no longer be able to resist! So now he's starting to wonder if it's too late for him to intervene!

By the time he had read all the confessions and was about to speak, Zhang Jia had already held two more confessions and put them in front of him! Zhang Juzheng glanced at Zhang Jia before slowly picking up the two confessions. ap.

Because he knows that these two confessions are probably not trivial! And he also noticed that all the confessions were signed by Dongchang. And the eunuch in front of him is the person who controls the East Factory, that is to say, these people are already in the hands of the East Factory!

So he opened the confession with mixed thoughts, and the first page of the opening page almost shocked him! Because what is written on the first page is the identity of the confessor, it is Liu Shouyou's personal entourage!

Zhang Juzheng immediately glared at Zhang Jia fiercely, but Zhang Jia always bowed his head in front of him, so he didn't see it at all! The reason why he glared at Zhang Jia was because he felt that Zhang Jia was cooperating with Emperor Wanli to design to capture Liu Shouyou's family, and then bend it into a move!

But after reading these two confessions, he didn't think so! Because these two confessions and all the other confessions are seamlessly connected! And he figured it out too! It is impossible for Liu Shouyou to let the two family members disappear for nearly two months without looking for them, which means that he must have known the whereabouts of these two people! Otherwise, he would have gone looking for it with great fanfare! This can only show one thing, that is, this confession is true, and these two people are in the hands of Dongchang!

At this time, Emperor Wanli saw that Zhang Juzheng had finished reading all the confessions, so he said slowly: "Sir, the promotion of low-cost salt is a good thing that benefits thousands of people! But these people blocked it for their own selfishness, and even colluded with gangsters to fight against the official army! Now that the evidence is conclusive, I want to dispose of them, and by the way, I want to ask Mr. to promote low-cost salt to the whole Ming Dynasty, so that the people of Daming can feel the blessing of the imperial court! And the gentleman is the head of the hundred officials, so this kind of thing should naturally be taken seriously!"