Heiichiro Oda was taken down before he realized the seriousness of the problem, and the next protagonist was the key figure in Zhejiang, Shen Zhengcong, the first salt merchant in Zhejiang.

Shen Zhengcong was a eunuch, and after being arrested and brought to prison, he was tortured, unexpectedly although he was a eunuch, he was surprisingly hard, and he didn't open his mouth to explain his mistakes, which was a hard mouth.

He shouted to see King Han, and said that there must be a misunderstanding, although he didn't let go, but he didn't suffer less, and his originally meticulous hair was scattered at the moment.

So when he saw Zhu Song, he was very happy, although his face was covered with blood and wounds, he still said flatteringly.

"Your Highness, you are finally here, I finally hope for you, Your Highness, all this is a misunderstanding! They were all forced by Zhou Tong and Wu Qian! The grass people are just a businessman, how can the grass people have so much courage, they asked me to do all this, they want to pull me into the water! ”

Zhu Song looked at Shen Zhengcong coldly, at this moment, the eunuch no longer deliberately coarsed his voice, his timbre was extremely sharp, and it only felt like two swords rubbing back and forth together.

It was the first time that Zhu Song had seen this kind of timbre in the sound that people could make, and he had goosebumps all over his body when he heard it, which was really uncomfortable.

"Should this king call you Shopkeeper Shen or Gonggong Shen now?"

Shen Zhengcong said with a smile and flattery: "As long as His Highness is happy, you can call it whatever you want!" Your Highness, I have a way to come up with two Zhejiang salt taxes this year, and I have a way to come up with seven million taels...... No! Eight million taels, I can sell all the land in my name as salt tax, as long as your Highness spares my life!" ”

Zhu Song didn't answer immediately, but sat back, because the eunuch was cut, so there was often a smell of urine on his body, and the strong smell just now was particularly pungent.

Zhu Song stayed away, and then he felt a lot fresher.

"Then I'll call you Shopkeeper Shen, after all, you didn't work in the palace! Shopkeeper Shen, if you commit other things, at this critical moment, you are so talented, this king is a person who cherishes talents, maybe this king may really let you go! ”

"But I can't, this king can't let you go! What if this king lets you go, and you kill hundreds of children? How can their souls be comforted? When I dream back in the middle of the night, I dream of hundreds of children crying and telling me, what heinous things have you done! ”

"So, this king must not let you go, among so many adults present, including Lord Zhou, including Lord Wu, this king may let them go, but you are the only one!"

"As for the salt tax, this king naturally has a way, and the worst thing is to copy and sell all your property, this money should not be out, and it will be out!"

Shen Zhengcong's expression gradually stiffened, he didn't understand, it was just a few hundred children, and none of these hundreds of people were children of a poor family, let alone any background, and there was not even a person in the family who had won fame, they were the lowest pariahs.

Shen Zheng never understood why he only killed a few hundred untouchable children, which made the sanctimonious prince in front of him so angry!

You are a relative of the emperor and the country, what are you pretending to be compassionate here?

"Your Highness, what you said is too much, I earn so much money for the court every year, I don't have enough money to buy my own life? Besides, those are the children of the untouchables, and they can only be untouchables when they grow up! ”

"But if they can cure me, it will be different, I will earn money for the country, I will pay more salt taxes for the country! They grow up to waste only food! ”

Zhu Song looked at Shen Zhengcong as if he was looking at a jackal, he didn't understand how much a person's heart could be twisted and perverted before he could say that the lives of hundreds of children were worthless.

"Shen Zhengcong, you are really not wronged by this knife, in your eyes, you are born into three, six, nine and so on, then you should be the last class, the merchant is the end of the three religions and nine streams, you are a eunuch after being stabbed, in the palace you are a slave who serves the emperor, but out of the palace, what are you, you are not even as good as a businessman!"

"Making money? There are more people who can make money in this world, is it up to you to earn the salt tax in Zhejiang and Huai? Could it be that before you, the two Zhejiang provinces couldn't pay the salt tax? ”

"I keep saying that I have meritorious service to the country and the imperial court, but you break your fingers and calculate how much less the salt tax of the two is compared to before after you come to Hangzhou?"

Shen Zheng lowered his head in shame from what Zhu Song said, Zhu Song said that he had a low status in the front, and he couldn't say what he said, and then Zhu Song put the facts and reasoned and calculated an account, which made him unable to raise his head.

"Your Highness, I admit that you are right. I'm a ghost, but Your Highness don't forget what the purpose of coming to Zhejiang this time is, Your Highness is here for the salt tax, if I die, Your Highness is afraid that the salt tax will never be recovered! ”

"To tell you the truth, I have already sold almost the land in my name, as soon as I die, my family property will immediately become someone else's, and even if the court wants to copy it, it will not be able to copy it!"

"As for the method I came up with to sell salt by sea, there is no salt, I want to ask the imperial court what to sell for money?"

Zhu Song was also stunned when he heard this.

"You can sell five million taels of salt, and this king doesn't believe it, where else can you hide him?"

Shen Zheng smiled wickedly, his voice was gloomy and clear, a bit like the sound of Zhu Song's long fingernails cutting across the blackboard when he was in school before.

"Hehehe, Your Highness is underestimating me, since I dare to say so, it means that I have already hidden those salts, and they are hidden in the city, Your Highness can look for them in Hangzhou City and see where my salt is hidden."

"Your Royal Highness, with your position of power, it's not just a matter of your words if you want to let me go, if you are afraid that the emperor will not be able to explain it to you, you can just find a death row prisoner in the prison to replace me, I must tell you where my family is hidden before I leave!"

"Anyway, I'm going to live with this salt, if you have to force me to death, then I can only hold my salt together, and then you won't be able to pay the emperor's errand, don't forget what I said today!"

"You dare to threaten this king?" Zhu Song was furious!

Shen Zheng looked at Zhu Song without fear: "Your Highness, I'm just threatening you, can't I threaten you even if my life is gone?" If you don't let me go, you'll never want to see that salt! ”