"The hateful Emperor Qianlong, after the disaster relief and relief in Taiyuan Mansion, I finally gained a slightly better reputation in the government and the opposition and among the people, and after these two things, I am afraid that it will be ruined again, maybe it will be worse."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't you want my reputation to improve a little?"

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"However, throughout the ages, it has been a matter of course for courtiers and corrupt officials to apologize for the emperor."

"The actions of Zhao Gao, Qin Hui, Wei Zhongxian and others are certainly calamity to the country and the people, but why is it not the emperor's intention..."

"The final result is usually that the emperor is fine, but they are stinking for eternity and will not die well."

"The emperor is good, but he was bewitched by corrupt officials', throughout the ages, the people's minds are probably like this......"

A few days later.

Ten supervisors, led by He Lin, left the capital and headed towards the Yangzhou area.

Yangzhou is one of the Kyushu prefectures in China, which is equivalent to the south of the Huai River and the Yangtze River Basin, and is a prosperous place in the world.

In particular, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty spent a lot of effort to build the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Yangzhou became more prosperous.

There are clouds in ancient books: "Peng Li is a pig, and a yang bird lives." The three rivers have entered, and the earthquake is stable. Xiao Huang is both dressed, the grass is only dying, and the wood is only Qiao. The soil is only muddy. The field is only under the bottom, and the house is on the top, which is for Yangzhou. ”

The Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties is two or three hundred miles long, making it the longest canal in the world in ancient times.

As far north as Zhuo County in Hebei, Luoyang in the center, and Yuhang in Yangzhou in the south, it connects Yongji Canal, Tongji Canal, Hangou and Jiangnan River, and connects five water systems: Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huai River, Qiantang River and Haihe River.

The Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties has not only become a link between the north and the south in terms of political, economic and cultural ties, but also a hub connecting the "Salt and Iron Road" and the "Silk Road" in China.

The Grand Canal of Sui and Tang Dynasties from Zhuo County in Hebei Province, twists and turns down, during which there is no lack of heaven and earth, a hundred miles of long river advection straight down the beautiful landscape.

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The rapid flow of water from the Grand Canal, especially to the Jiangnan area, is slow due to the flat terrain.

From Huainan to the river is spacious, there are more than ten miles, and the water flow is more stretched, like a docile long dragon, lying quietly in Yangzhou.

And Yangzhou's most famous Qinglou "Heaven and Earth" is located on this section of the river.

Whenever it is night, the painting boats in the south of the Yangtze River are brightly lit, shuttling back and forth in the Yangzhou Canal, flooding on it, the sound of silk and bamboo singing, warbler song and swallow language comes from the painting boat from time to time, looking from the shore, it is like the realm of red dust.

Even, from this derivation of the meaning of Yangzhou thin horse.

Yangzhou Skinny Horse is an insulting word for women, which means that women can be destroyed and ravaged at will, just like the behavior of abusing weak horses!

As for why women are called "skinny horses".

Because, Yagong and Ya Po, who are engaged in cultivating "top beauties", buy young girls from poor families at a low price, and after raising beauties, they sell them at a high price.

This is the same way that merchants buy skinny horses at a low price, raise them, and then sell them to others at a high price, so people call such women "skinny horses".

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"Raising thin horses" is a lucrative business.

Yagong and Ya Po, who are engaged in human trafficking business, first buy back the good-looking girls in poor families, teach them singing and dancing, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and sell them as concubines to rich people or enter brothels, so as to make profits and earn a lot of money.

Because, the women of the poor people's families are so thin and weak, and the name "thin horse" also comes from this.

These tooth fathers and women only pay two or three taels of silver when they buy the young daughters of the common people, and when they get married, they can earn hundreds of taels.

Like the top green building in heaven and earth, in fact, there is no fixed place in Yangzhou.

One after another, the luxurious and extravagant painting boats on the Grand Canal are the location.

Every day at nightfall, officials and businessmen who had made appointments in advance waited at secret stations along the coast, and after a while, an extremely prosperous ship approached the shore, picked up the distinguished guests on board, turned around and sailed leisurely into the depths of the canal, until the early morning of tomorrow, and then sent back to its original place.

And the guests on the big ship will enjoy no less than the imperial treatment, guaranteed to make you fluttering and homesick, I don't know what year it is.

As the tolerance of the household department, the task of supervising the affairs of the salt merchants in Yangzhou is in the body, and the group headed by He Lin was warmly received by the local salt merchants after arriving in Yangzhou.

For more than a month, there are banquets every day, banquets every day, delicious Yangzhou thin horses, warm nephrite beside him, indescribable enjoyment.

Even He Lin, who is proud of the sky, is addicted to the wine pond and meat forest, and can't extricate himself, and his originally thin body has gained a lot of weight.

He is still restrained, after all, he was born in the Niu Colu family, and he is the younger brother of He Shen, he has seen the world, and he has expectations for the future in the officialdom.

It's okay to drink and play with women, but it's never a verbal promise.

He Lin can do this, in addition to being really firm in willpower, but also because the guards around him are all Heshen's people, and his every move, don't want to hide it from his brother and Shen's eyes, if he really does something foolish, he will have to suffer when he returns to the capital in the future.

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Of course, this more than a month of drunken life and death also made him see the magnanimity of Yangzhou salt merchants, who are simply squandering gold like dirt, not treating silver as silver, which is jaw-dropping.

He can be regarded as having seen the world, but he is also shocked by the heroic methods of these big salt merchants.

The salt merchants held a frame of gold leaves, let He Lin and others, stand by the river, and when the waves were fluttering, they threw gold leaves into the river, commonly known as "silver waves drifting gold".

It's as simple as not taking money as money.

He Lin, who is crazy about spending the salt merchants' money, is very strange in her heart.

The handwriting of the salt merchants in Yangzhou is so amazing, it only takes a few days to spend the tax and silver to make up the money, and I don't know how they thought of it, but they want to work against the court, that is, they sprinkle all the gold in the water, and they are not willing to give it to the court...

He Lin's side, for various reasons, can still hold on, but the Hou supervisors who came with him have long been unable to hold on, but in just a few days, they all fell, indulging in wine and wealth, or were co-opted by a certain big salt merchant and became their dogs.

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When He Lin took the stack of elite guards around him, which came from the information about the other nine colleagues around him, his face suddenly turned blue with anger, his hands trembled, his heart was cold, and a sense of powerlessness came like a tide.

After getting this information, he realized how powerful the salt merchants in Yangzhou were, and directly smashed them with silver, and smashed the few alternate officials who had passed away.

After getting the actual news, He Lin, who finally couldn't sit still, showed with practical actions that he didn't come to Yangzhou to eat, drink and have fun, and spend money to play women......

He Lin understood the current situation in Yangzhou and knew that the benefit of a hundred times the private salt was the crux of the whole chaos, so he began to act as a special commissioner of Chaoyan.

On Helin's side, he ordered a group of elite guards to forcibly pull away several drunken companions from the gentle township, and then patrolled the salt fields everywhere in Yangzhou without avoiding the scorching wind and rain.

This time, the salt merchants in Yangzhou were not happy, spending our silver, and demolishing our platform.

This is not possible!

This move by He Lin and others has the meaning of representing the household department, and even the entire Chaoyan, once this matter is really qualified, in the future, the household department can send people to supervise the management of the salt farm at any time, which is not what Yangzhou private salt merchants are willing to see.

Fighting against local officials in Yangzhou and going against one of the six departments are completely different things!

The local officials in Yangzhou have changed every year in the past, and the longest term is only three years, and the rest of the salt inspectors rarely have a good end during their tenure.

No, corrupt officials were directly beheaded because of corruption and perversion of the law, or Qing officials died unintentionally for no reason, and there are many ways to die.

The magistrate of Yangzhou seems to be rich in oil and water, but in fact, he gives people the impression that he is not a corrupt official but is better than a corrupt official.

Even if the local officials in Yangzhou suddenly died unexpectedly, it would not cause much reaction from the court and the people.

But the household department is different, this is one of the six central departments of Chaoyan, and it is not a local wealthy businessman who is willing to provoke.

However, He Lin's current behavior is against their interests, so it is obviously his best choice to do it before He Lin has made a name for himself.

So, when He Lin was very sad to inspect a salt factory, he was suddenly attacked by bandits.

Looking at the robbers who were holding long knives and full of murderous and abnormal aura, the official was directly frightened and scattered.

If it weren't for the fact that He Lin was surrounded by many loyal guards, He Lin would have confessed on the spot.

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The strength of these robbers is not bad, they will have some martial arts at hand, and the leader has reached the level of first-class masters in the rivers and lakes, coupled with the fierce momentum of not afraid of death, a team of guards may not be able to defeat them.

It's a pity......

The guards around Helin are stronger.

After a deathmatch, He Lin did not stay on the salt field for long, and left in a hurry with his blood-stained guards.

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Seven days later, He Lin's report had been put on the imperial case of Emperor Qianlong.

Emperor Qianlong was furious, and swept all the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the case to the ground.

"Quickly pass on, the left side of the household department will wait for Lang to see you!"

Barely suppressing the monstrous anger in his heart, Emperor Qianlong's face was gloomy, and he commanded Li Dequan, the chief eunuch beside him, with a cold flicker in his eyes, which frightened Li Dequan into a cold sweat, but he didn't dare to have the slightest abnormality......

When the Son of Heaven is angry, the world shook!

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