"People are naturally robbed by Fengyang, and they are also killed by Fengyang, but the reason is not for the jade tree snow lotus" Zhuge said namelessly, "But if you want to explain the reason, this has to talk about another case, five years ago, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Ni Haoyuan corruption and bribery was exposed, when the house was raided, not to mention the rest of the many treasures, just the cash, there are 100,000 taels of huge storage in the house, Ni Haoyuan is the punishment of the nine clans, but these silver money and stolen goods, the amount is huge, far from the corruption and bribery can be accumulated"

"Your Majesty has long been aware of the clues, and secretly ordered me to investigate the six doors, but Ni Haoyuan is dead, and the rest of the clues are cut off one by one by the mastermind behind the scenes."

"However, the sky net is magnificent but not leaky, Ni Haoyuan was punished by His Majesty for the nine clans, but he unexpectedly left a fish that slipped through the net, and someone came to bring Ni Hezhi up"

Zhuge Wuming's voice fell, and the two head catchers brought a trembling middle-aged man up. "At that time, the case of Ni Haoyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was personally supervised by the official, and his relatives have all been brought to the case, but there is no one named Ni Hezhi, is this person not an impostor?"

"What Lord Shangshu said is also true, but there is another hidden truth in it, this Ni Haoyuan's family was poor in the early years, his parents worked as farmers for a living, after giving birth to Ni Haoyuan, there was a son under his knees, but because the family was unable to raise it, he sent it to others early, this person is this Ni Hezhi"

"This Ni Hezhi was just a scoundrel in his hometown, but he was a little clever, he was good at observing words and feelings, left and right, after Ni Haoyuan won the imperial examination, he came to Linyi City, ready to go to this eldest brother who has been separated since childhood, but this Ni Hezhi came to the door, Ni Haoyuan not only did not recognize each other, but let the left and right fight out, of course, this is just a trick for others on the surface, secretly, the two have already been on the line, Ni Hezhi also began to do things for Ni Haoyuan in secret"

"Next, let this Ni Hezhi tell you what errand he did under Ni Haoyuan. As soon as Zhuge Wuming's words fell, Ni Hezhi's body trembled, and then he couldn't withstand the huge pressure, and poured beans into a bamboo tube to tell his previous experience of working under Ni Haoyuan.

Since ancient times, merchants have always been regarded by the ruling class as opportunistic and non-productive people, so they are still disgusted. Under the influence of the ruling class, running business is regarded as a cheap business, but after Tian Hongyi ascended the throne, things have changed fundamentally

, can only operate a brother to look down on the "cheap industry", to cultivate their own power, because of this matter was not less than a cadre of powerful emperors.

Later, Tian Hongyi's wings were gradually full, the general trend has been achieved, and he ascended the throne and became the ninety-five supreme of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but he did not forget his roots, and set up a banquet in the Taiji Hall to entertain the eight Confucian merchant families, and awarded the official knighthood, and the eight families resigned, so Emperor Tian Hongyi named them "imperial merchants", and they were subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

With the support of Tian Hongyi, the Eight Imperial Merchants monopolized the pillar industries of the Northern Qi Dynasty, such as copper and iron, fur, salt, silk, tea, and herbal medicine, and even the military rations and armaments of the imperial court were also supplied by the Eight Imperial Merchants for a long time, and were appointed by the imperial court to manage ports and shipping, and to preside over trade affairs on behalf of the Northern Qi officials.

However, although the stalls in the hands of the eight imperial merchants are getting bigger and bigger, their minds are more sober than one another, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's minister, the water can carry the boat, and the boat can also carry the boat, so in addition to the benefits of Tian Hongyi's acquiescence, and the light on the surface, the rest of the things dare not touch, the most representative of which is the genus of salt and iron.

Because of the particularity of these two resources, the right to operate them has always been held by successive dynasties in the hands of their own political powers, and they are not allowed to be released, and the income from their operations must also be put into the treasury.

However, although the punishment is heavy, but the successive dynasties have taken risks, and the people who sell the smuggling of salt and iron have been repeatedly banned, and Tian Hongyi's grand prestige in the Northern Qi Dynasty has also been ruthlessly killed, which has deterred Xiaoxiao, and the Northern Qi no longer hears of the matter of smuggling salt and iron.

To say that Ni Haoyuan studied poetry and books hard, with a poor body, won the imperial examination, and after decades of ups and downs in the Huan Sea, he did all the way to the Ministry of Industry, and it can be regarded as taking advantage of Tian Hongyi's reform and appointing people on the basis of merit.

However, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he actually wanted to dig into the corner of Tian Hongyi's wall in this imperial business. The eight imperial merchants of the Northern Qi Dynasty Internal Affairs Office, the business is very open, the volume is quite huge, the land route is difficult to travel, the natural waterway is used a lot, every day on the dock outside Linyi City, I don't know how many official ships to come and go.

The Ministry of Industry is responsible for repairs, meritorious works, salt ponds, and gardens, as well as the responsibilities of tuntian, engineering, navigation administration, and water conservancy. However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stipulates that no matter what the reason for the DPRK and China passes through the Imperial Merchant, the ship must be inspected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Imperial City Department, and the Imperial Supervision Department before it can be released.

Of course, correspondingly, after the official ship started, it was naturally unimpeded all the way on this river road, and there was no inventory except for the number to be counted and checked again at the destination.

This Ni Haoyuan is also a thoughtful person, knowing that he will definitely not be able to do anything in front of the Internal Affairs Office, the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial Supervision Division, so he put his mind on the river. The Ministry of Industry is the main repair, the matter of the salt pond, the amount of salt and iron is naturally very large, and after the fake public and private interception of a batch, it is divided into two strokes, one is the public use of the eight classics on the surface, and the other is stored in the dark, and the heavy money is enveloped all the way to the water bandits, so that more than a dozen fishing boats are moved to the place where the official ships on the river must pass by using the way that the rats steal the rice warehouse and the ants move.

As soon as the official ship arrived, Ni Haoyuan used the excuse of shipping to carry these disguised things one by one onto the official ship, and on the official ship, in addition to the people from the Ministry of Industry who Ni Haoyuan had already encircled, there were naturally people from the imperial merchant pressing the ship, and they were also quite nervous at first, and every time there was anything on the ship, they were also carefully checked.

But after checking it a few times, it was found that they were all some craftsman tools, mud and earth, and after a long time, they all relaxed their vigilance, and finally simply sold Ni Haoyuan a face, and let those officials of the Ministry of Engineering carry the boxes containing these things.

Carrying private belongings on the official ship, although it is indeed a little unruly, but the left and right are just ordinary things, Ni Haoyuan is a book, for the eight imperial merchants, he deserves a high position, and he is naturally unwilling to hate Ni Haoyuan, an adult, for such a trivial matter.

But this move just hit Ni Haoyuan's plan to capture the old and indulge, and divert the tiger from the mountain, and after some careful arrangement, this batch of refined salt and refined iron carefully selected by Ni Haoyuan finally escaped the investigation on the river, all the way to the Nulong River that runs through the north and south, and then changed from the waterway to the land, and after contacting the Fengyang Bo land near the mountain near the border of Southern Chu, and then sold this batch of stolen goods to the land of Southern Chu.

Although Ni Haoyuan also became rich because of this, he was not carried away by the huge interests at all, he knew that what he was doing was to rob the family and exterminate the clan, and he had always tried to do things safely and secretively, so that in addition to himself, the rest of the people who intervened in it were all like Ni Hezhi, who had nothing to do with Ni Haoyuan in the eyes of outsiders, and each layer was a one-line contact, and they didn't know each other's identities.

After Ni Hezhi finished speaking, everyone present was already shocked, and they didn't expect that these two unrelated cases would secretly have an amazing overlap, and then think of Zhuge Wuming's purpose of piercing this layer of window paper now, and they couldn't help but be a little scared for a while.

"Take it down", after Ni Hezhi explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly, Zhuge shook the feather fan namelessly, and after giving a little command, he continued to speak, "All the princes present are well-informed and extremely intelligent, and when they hear this, they probably understand the reason." ”